jhayward (u/jhayward)

jhayward commented on NASA's WB-57 crash lands at Houston arstechnica.com/space/202... · Posted by u/verzali

dylan604 · a month ago

How long of an exposure do you think they would be taking?

jhayward · a month ago

It's not uncommon for older aerial photos to be single-pixel lines that the film is moved past. The motion of the film is correlated with the motion across the ground, so you can reconstruct a 2nd axis from the exposure.

There's no shutter speed, it's continuous.

jhayward commented on Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming? · Posted by u/lemonlime227

Bombthecat · 3 months ago

I don't think that long, but yeah, I give it five years.

Two years and 3/4 will be not needed anymore

jhayward · 3 months ago

I don't know, I go back and forth a bit. The thing that makes me skeptical is this: where is the training data that contains the experiences and thought processes that senior developers, architects, and engineering managers go through to gain the insight they hold?

jhayward commented on Apple Notes Will Gain Markdown Export at WWDC, and, I Have Thoughts daringfireball.net/linked... · Posted by u/robenkleene

msgodel · 9 months ago

I take my notes in INI format with a lose schema, as I accumulate data I tend to move towards something more concrete and write tools for it. I think this is the absolute best compromise between some kind of formal personal ERP-like (PRP?) system and something super loose like Markdown or org mode.

Of course doing this on an iPhone is an absolute nightmare because everything has to be blessed by Apple and you can't just do one-off ad-hoc automations or usefully compose tooling that touches the filesystem. Everything has to be canned and sharecropped (at best) so them adding Markdown to the only text editor that supports fast, energy efficient background sync is a huge deal.

When I had an iPhone I did try doing some server-side automation with the SGML-like (can't remember if it was actual HTML or not) format notes used. Like most of those sorts of things it was a miserable uphill fight to get value out of the thing. I've been so happy ever since I've completely given up on anything smartphone related.

jhayward · 9 months ago

Did you ever test drive the Drafts app? It is remarkably easy to build customized workflows, both editing and document processing, and is built to be glue between different document/message apps.

jhayward commented on OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/minimaxir

Jackson__ · 10 months ago

They've already claimed that there will be no "GPT-5" LLM, and that instead what they want to call "GPT-5" is a fusion of their various models like 4o, dalle, their video model, etc. That in and of itself is a move that makes it quite clear to me they've hit a wall on the intelligence side.

Add these purchases, and it seems like they are extremely desperate.

jhayward · 10 months ago

I don't think your conclusion of "hitting the wall on intelligence" is warranted.

It makes more sense to believe that scaling has hit the wall on available text data to train on, and that to continue scaling, along with whatever emergent properties arise they need much more data than exists as text.

There are orders of magnitude more data as video, audio, and images and this is what they intend to use to continue scaling.

jhayward commented on What Is "Induced Atmospheric Vibration"? physics.stackexchange.com... · Posted by u/belter

kazinator · 10 months ago

Accepted answer posits that this may be due to a mistranslation from Spanish, or someone's misunderstanding of an explanation, or both.

In other words, the phenomenon is another "vegetative electron microscopy".

jhayward · 10 months ago

That answer has 4 upvotes. A much more electrically literate answer above it, with 35 upvotes, explains in detail that it is a real thing.

jhayward commented on The Tcl Programming Language magicsplat.com/ttpl/index... · Posted by u/teleforce

bigbuppo · a year ago

I know in the late 90s, early 2000s they were Vignette shop, back when it was a Tcl application. Can only imagine their relief getting to carry over their tcl knowledge while no longer having to suffer with Vignette. I don't think I've ever heard anyone that actually liked Vignette.

jhayward · a year ago

I don't recall any groups using Vignette at AOL during that time. It may be that one of the acquisitions used it prior to being acquired, but again, I never heard about it.

jhayward commented on The Tcl Programming Language magicsplat.com/ttpl/index... · Posted by u/teleforce

VWWHFSfQ · a year ago

> this immensely flexible and versatile language

I would be interested to know if anyone ever built anything non-trivial that didn't turn into a complete mess due to TCL's general type-flimsyness and "everything is a string" philosophy.

jhayward · a year ago

For many years every web page at CNN and all web email at AOL was hosted by AOLserver and coded in TCL. It was not a mess.

jhayward commented on Gemma 3 Technical Report [pdf] storage.googleapis.com/de... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

klysm · a year ago

I don't see how this actually matters - who cares if it it's different top level domains?

jhayward · a year ago

Two reasons it matters:

1) Discoverability

2) "System structure mirrors organization". I.E., it's an indicator of a fragmented and disorganized structure that's not likely to produce cohesive product results.

jhayward commented on Effect of chewing hard material on enhancing cognitive function frontiersin.org/journals/... · Posted by u/_DeadFred_

jhayward · a year ago

As someone who's spouse is currently in their 3rd year of rehabilitation after TMJ (tempo-mandibular joint) reconstruction, let me warn you against any kind of chewing activity that involves either high direct pressures (ice, hard things that "crack", anything that resists biting down very much), or strong lateral forces (bagels, pizza crust).

We're about $60K in to her treatment. She's had the meniscus of the joints on both sides of her jaw surgically repaired and now is undergoing orthodontia to permit her jaw to safely re-align.

This after a year of excruciating pain (the TMJ was bone to bone contact), and a year of painful muscular rehab. Unless you are a maxillofacial surgeon or perhaps a particular specialty of orthodontia you are probably unaware of just how many muscles in the head have to re-learn how to work after TMJ problems.

The "straw that broke the camel's back" in her case?

A pistachio nut.