Hacker News: jxcole

New comment by jxcole in "StarFighter 16-Inch"

jxcole — Wed, 06 May 2026 02:38:56 +0000

Have you tried it out?

https://askubuntu.com/questions/629632/can-you-boot-ubuntu-s...

New comment by jxcole in "Claude Code runs Git reset –hard origin/main against project repo every 10 mins"

jxcole — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:45:04 +0000

The obvious solution is to just copy paste it into Claude itself and ask it to fix. Works for almost any Claude problem

New comment by jxcole in "Claude Cowork exfiltrates files"

jxcole — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 02:54:59 +0000

A better analogy would be to compare it to being able to install anything from online vs only installing from an app store. If you wouldn't trust an exe from bad adhacker.com you probably shouldn't trust a skill from there either.

New comment by jxcole in "Show HN: AI Baby Monitor – local Video-LLM that beeps when safety rules break"

jxcole — Sun, 25 May 2025 13:53:47 +0000

IANAL but I would be scared of getting sued. For example, if I try to give a perfectly good car seat to good will they refuse to take it for liability reasons. Baby safety is serious business.

New comment by jxcole in "The future of Boeing's crewed spaceflight program muddy after Starliner's return"

jxcole — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 13:55:02 +0000

He would need to fire at least 30% of the staff to make a difference. You can't fix the rot that started with the McDonald Douglas purchase by changing one person.

New comment by jxcole in "Researchers build a solar-powered hovering drone that weighs only 9 mg"

jxcole — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 22:19:57 +0000

If you look carefully you see that they actually started with a much bigger drone and then shrunk it down. The minimum is 9 mg (that they could build) but it sounds like the design can be expanded to almost any size. A more obvious question would be is there any functional difference between this and a balloon.

New comment by jxcole in "Both pilots of an A320 fell asleep in the cockpit for 28 minutes"

jxcole — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 01:20:03 +0000

Each pilot can have a button they must always press, if both are released loud tritones alarms and flashing will fill the cockpit, something no one can sleep to.

New comment by jxcole in "Llama 2"

jxcole — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 20:17:11 +0000

Surely any one with 700 million users could just build their own?

New comment by jxcole in "Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit"

jxcole — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 16:57:02 +0000

I disagree completely. Facebook was just Myspace without the terrible UX. Google was just Yahoo but better. Tech businesses can easily move in over each other if there is a way to make it noticeably better.

New comment by jxcole in "Copyright Registration Guidance: Works containing material generated by AI"

jxcole — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 02:18:49 +0000

I think it's possible that some generous person determines a sequence of prompts that generate, say novels, and then pipes these prompts into a program causing thousands or even millions of wholly varied novels to be generated in the public domain. I imagine this is what the OP meant.

New comment by jxcole in "Loss of epigenetic information as a cause of mammalian aging"

jxcole — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 15:26:06 +0000

Why would that make it less reversible? Honestly it's not like it was ever easy to reverse DNA damage. Reversing other kinds of damage might be harder, but unless you have more information it's not clear that it _must_ be.

New comment by jxcole in "Geoffrey Hinton publishes new deep learning algorithm"

jxcole — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 18:19:20 +0000

This seems to be Hinton's MO though. A few years back he ripped out convolutions for capsules and while he claims it's better and some people might claim it "has potential", no one really uses it for much because, as with this, the actual numerical performance is worse on the tests people care about (e.g. imagenet accuracy).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsule_neural_network

New comment by jxcole in "I am not a supplier"

jxcole — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 02:23:51 +0000

"everyone depends on their particular bolt, and we are all screwed."

I love clever puns.

New comment by jxcole in "Search over 5M+ Stable Diffusion images and prompts"

jxcole — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 14:27:45 +0000

For the curious: it's not intentionally NSFW but the filters aren't very good (if there are any) so you do see occasionally inappropriate images.

New comment by jxcole in "Ask HN: DALL-E was trained on watermarked stock images?"

jxcole — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 03:29:52 +0000

Really?

https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/andy-warhol-campbel...

(Yes I get it's not technically a watermark, but it certainly qualifies as a trade mark in a similar fashion)

New comment by jxcole in "AirTag leads to arrest of airline worker accused of stealing from luggage"

jxcole — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 02:33:46 +0000

Apple's stance on air tags is ridiculous. For one thing, you will only know if someone is criminally tracking you if you are an apple user. Android users have no luck.

Secondly if this is true and you stole a bag, all you need to find the air tag would be to hold an iphone close to it for a few minutes. So what's the point of it then?

New comment by jxcole in "By 1995, it'll be evident that the Internet means as little as fax (1998)"

jxcole — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 17:03:38 +0000

This article misses the point completely. Fundamentally the question is, if some technology has made us twice as productive, why don't we work half as much? This will never happen because capitalism and economics are completely psychological. You could look at any period of history and see some invention that caused a 2x increase in productivity. Inventions like farminng, the electric or gas powered motor, etc. Humans will always fill the void left by their extra productivity with more work.

We have the technology _today_ for the average work week to be about 5 hours we just choose not to do this as a society.

New comment by jxcole in "Jury finds former CIA programmer guilty of leaking CIA hacking materials"

jxcole — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 13:57:42 +0000

I bet it was a co worker who wanted to leak but also didn't want to be blamed. Or maybe even a coworker who had a grudge against the defendant and didn't care about the leaks at all.

It would be pretty easy to set up. If you work in the same room or building as a coworker how hard is it to set up a camera or a physical key logger to steal their password? Once you have someone's username and password you can make it look like they did anything. You could even do something nefarious on their computer when they went home for the evening.

You may think that as security professionals they would definitely notice a key logger, but do you honestly think _anyone_ checks the back of their computer every time they come back from a lunch break?

New comment by jxcole in "Jury finds former CIA programmer guilty of leaking CIA hacking materials"

jxcole — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 13:49:55 +0000

Having been on a jury in the US one time (attempted murder), the purpose of this system is probably not at all obvious. The idea is to put 12 people in a room and force them to agree to the same thing. You can deliberate almost any amount of time you want. If you try to tell the judge after a single day of delibrations that you are a hung jury, the judge will force you to stay longer. Only in extreme cases where the jury has been hung for a very long time does the judge allow a mistrial.

So the idea is to force 12 people to convince each other of one idea or the other.

New comment by jxcole in "Checkbox Olympics"

jxcole — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 02:42:08 +0000

If you're going to cheat why not all the way:

    document.querySelector(".time").innerHTML = 'Time: 0.0001';
    Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(".theSport input[type='checkbox']"))
      .forEach(e => { e.disabled = false; e.checked = true; });