Hacker News: jtbayly

New comment by jtbayly in "Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term"

jtbayly — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:51:47 +0000

The public didn’t even learn the most searched term from the market. The public had a better idea it might be “d4vd” from the market, but only slightly before they learned it for real from Google.

What I can’t figure out is why this person is being charged but the companies running the bets are not.

New comment by jtbayly in "I built a Git-tracked book production pipeline"

jtbayly — Tue, 26 May 2026 21:46:48 +0000

So the solution is to have blurry text?

Most paper in Books isn’t pure white. Leave the text completely black.

New comment by jtbayly in "Building Pi with Pi"

jtbayly — Mon, 25 May 2026 12:13:38 +0000

Lack of agency in your work is one of the main contributors to burnout.

New comment by jtbayly in "Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs"

jtbayly — Sun, 24 May 2026 17:44:21 +0000

When costs are high enough, you can recoup that, if you have an appetite for risking the downturn.

New comment by jtbayly in "Project Glasswing: An Initial Update"

jtbayly — Sat, 23 May 2026 15:00:57 +0000

This is the reason that people felt like Apple should be treated as a monopoly, though. The switching cost is high, and the benefits you lose are large. So people put up with it, in spite of being upset.

The switching cost is not high for LLMs as far as I can tell.

New comment by jtbayly in "Project Glasswing: An Initial Update"

jtbayly — Sat, 23 May 2026 13:19:16 +0000

That’s like saying screw manufacturers are incentivized to give you crappy screws because it means you will buy more.

No. You will switch to a competitor that does a better job or charges less or both.

This is why monopolies are such a big problem. Because under a monopoly you are right.

New comment by jtbayly in "A Bipartisan Amendment Would End Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide"

jtbayly — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:58:25 +0000

Punishment should never be automated.

New comment by jtbayly in "Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations"

jtbayly — Thu, 21 May 2026 13:38:52 +0000

Except often the prompt is just the previous comment. In the example, the prompt would be "Should we use Redis or Memcached?"

In that case, there is nothing beneficial about the prompt, but the answer could be boiled down to a useful recommendation (from an AI, not a person).

New comment by jtbayly in "Teaching Claude Why"

jtbayly — Sat, 09 May 2026 21:42:56 +0000

The blackmail thing was way before Mythos.

New comment by jtbayly in "Teaching Claude Why"

jtbayly — Sat, 09 May 2026 15:50:06 +0000

They tried to scare everybody about misalignment with the “blackmail” example, but DeepSeek v4 pro is out now and it is at least as powerful as the model they were training at the time. And nothing bad has happened.

New comment by jtbayly in "AI Product Graveyard"

jtbayly — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:04:44 +0000

graveyard.ai is still open.

New comment by jtbayly in "Waymo Drives Off with South Bay Man's Luggage"

jtbayly — Sun, 03 May 2026 02:20:02 +0000

> airlines often have their own cargo/courier service which they can easily use for delivery

That is indeed convenient. But not quite as convenient as having your own self-driving cars you can use for delivery.

New comment by jtbayly in "New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming"

jtbayly — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:35:55 +0000

It was a recording. I dare you to ask for it.

New comment by jtbayly in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

jtbayly — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 02:12:57 +0000

Pennies? Their devices have famously high margins.

New comment by jtbayly in "Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated"

jtbayly — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 02:05:45 +0000

The legal situation is also completely different. It seems like models IP-wash, so there is nothing legally wrong with what current people are doing with ai. In contrast, the scammer selling your photo was clearly violating IP law, and you could (at least theoretically) pursue legal remedies.

New comment by jtbayly in "I Made the "Next-Level" Camera and I love it"

jtbayly — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:25:06 +0000

Isn't it also related to wanting images to appear how we would see them in person? Our eyes blur everything we aren't looking at directly, don't they?

New comment by jtbayly in "Claude Design"

jtbayly — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:57:34 +0000

No. It says much more than that, because it applies to many other tools that aren't AI.

New comment by jtbayly in "Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now"

jtbayly — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:20:40 +0000

I read once (so no idea if it is true) that in voice lessons, one of the most effective things you can do to improve people's technique is to tell them to pretend to be an opera singer.

New comment by jtbayly in "Codex Hacked a Samsung TV"

jtbayly — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:52:47 +0000

It can help make a specific command more emphatic in my experience. I SAID DON"T $($@#(&$ DO THAT! Sometimes you need a new context, but sometimes you need to emphasize something is serious.

New comment by jtbayly in "The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew"

jtbayly — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:22:23 +0000

I refuse to go to McDonalds anymore because they refuse to acknowledge you, won’t take your order, force you to use those stupid terminals.