Hacker News: jw_mc

New comment by jw_mc in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)"

jw_mc — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 01:32:46 +0000

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New comment by jw_mc in "Nothing left to solve"

jw_mc — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 22:36:09 +0000

Source availability doesn't really feel relevant to a discussion about why most people don't use it. Most people don't know anything about open source.

AMIE: A research AI system for diagnostic medical reasoning and conversations

jw_mc — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 01:13:18 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.research.google/2024/01/amie-research-ai-system-for-diagnostic_12.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38976364

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

RT-2: New model translates vision and language into action

jw_mc — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 03:55:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.deepmind.com/blog/rt-2-new-model-translates-vision-and-language-into-action

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36916718

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by jw_mc in "Five ways to soothe a mind overstimulated by anxiety, stress and information"

jw_mc — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 00:57:49 +0000

Stress, anxiety, excessive worrying, etc all have reasons and causes you could use to justify them. Mindfulness is really just a deeper state of awareness and introspection. Observing your mind and beginning to see the patterns of thought and behavior that cause you unnecessary pain and suffering, and experimenting to find healthy solutions that work for you.

Artificial neural networks are making strides towards consciousness

jw_mc — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 00:23:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2022/06/09/artificial-neural-networks-are-making-strides-towards-consciousness-according-to-blaise-aguera-y-arcas

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31688594

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by jw_mc in "Singleton Is a Bad Idea"

jw_mc — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 19:19:24 +0000

I'm interested in this critique. Could be beneficial to others here on HN. Care to elaborate or were you just venting?

New comment by jw_mc in "Cosmonauts arrive at space station in yellow and blue"

jw_mc — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 17:33:51 +0000

When the cosmonauts were able to talk to family back on Earth, Artemyev was asked about the suits. He said every crew chooses their own.

“It became our turn to pick a color. But in fact, we had accumulated a lot of yellow material so we needed to use it. So that's why we had to wear yellow,” he said.

Building continuous integration and delivery for autonomous vehicles on GCP

jw_mc — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 21:35:48 +0000

Article URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/how-cruise-tests-its-avs-on-a-google-cloud-platform

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30727856

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by jw_mc in "California bill would let parents sue social media companies for addicting kids"

jw_mc — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 13:25:22 +0000

Sorry, Walter, I don't recall comic book companies hiring legions of psychologists, behavioral economists, and data scientists in order to optimize engagement metrics by exploiting evolutionary bugs built into our brains. This is fundamentally different technology, but nice try. I don't necessarily think that this law is the solution, but I'm glad not everyone is as laissez faire about it as yourself.

New comment by jw_mc in "California bill would let parents sue social media companies for addicting kids"

jw_mc — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 13:15:49 +0000

Exactly. We don't live in a vacuum. So many people saying just take some personal responsibility. But when you see the effects on society at large, you have to acknowledge that maybe it's something about our genetics / psychology that's being exploited unfairly.

New comment by jw_mc in "Leaving Google"

jw_mc — Sat, 23 Oct 2021 11:50:47 +0000

Netflix is known for having all-cash offers.

New comment by jw_mc in "Unix shell programming: the next 50 years"

jw_mc — Sat, 21 Aug 2021 00:05:42 +0000

Pretty sure they mean as a research topic. Like, it's not being actively researched or improved by academia or industry.

New comment by jw_mc in "Top Paying Tech Companies by SWE Level"

jw_mc — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 11:55:42 +0000

It's harder, but not impossible to get this sort of compensation in a remote gig. I recently went through a similar process, needing to move from Seattle to central MD for family reasons, and not wanting a lifestyle-altering commute. E.g. Stripe is high on this list and is very remote friendly.

AI learned to use tools after nearly 500M games of hide and seek

jw_mc — Tue, 17 Sep 2019 22:11:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614325/open-ai-algorithms-learned-tool-use-and-cooperation-after-hide-and-seek-games/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21000599

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by jw_mc in "Using spaced repetition systems to see through a piece of mathematics"

jw_mc — Wed, 16 Jan 2019 04:50:23 +0000

I have this at the bottom of my card templates. Works on desktop and Android: https://pastebin.com/uqUrJBdZ