jones1618

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by jones1618 21d ago
Tangential thought: In the early 90s there was cutting edge image compression method called Iterated Fractal System (IFS) that was kind of like what you are talking about but for 2D. It achieved impressive image compression and since compre
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by jones1618 2mo ago
At least 3 times a week, someone on the r/Collatz sub-reddit says: "I came up with a proof for Collatz and had ChatGPT/Claude verify it and it thinks I'm a genius." It's so common, the community barely comments
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by jones1618 3mo ago
Lack of versioning in workspaces. Multiple times I've been "vibe coding" my way happily through adding feature after feature until ... the chatbot goes off the rails and breaks stuff. No amount of additional prompting will fi
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by jones1618 3mo ago
Also, the repo doesn't say what it is good for or provide a preview of the syntax beyond show("hello world"). How about putting all that "learn" and "getting started" HTML on a website? Lastly, there'
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by jones1618 3mo ago
The death of entry-level math and CS jobs is greatly exaggerated, I believe. First, costs and ROI of AI are on a collision course and companies are finding they can't simply lay off smart people and replace them with "vibe-working
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by jones1618 4mo ago
Things I teach my children (and parents): 1. AI/ML is not an oracle. It is neither wise nor omniscient. Never rely on AI for advice (I tell them the pizza glue story). Never rely on AI for opinion (because if you ask for a different op
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by jones1618 4mo ago
I like your argument, not because it is a good analogy for AI but because it is a good contrast. Copyright isn't a guarantee or magic force field blocking fair competition. It is a permeable buffer against lazy knockoffs and time-boxed
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by jones1618 5mo ago
Does he WANT worldwide eternal Jihad against the US/West? If there's a better use for "Some people just want to watch the world burn" in the history of the world, I can't think of one. He's always been a toddle
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by jones1618 6mo ago
That's brilliant. Very intuitive and useful. - I'd like to see this as a hosted app versus something that has to be "installed" in a chatbot. - It needs a text search feature for both the outline and full text. That woul
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by jones1618 7mo ago
At minimum, you have to provide a snapshot/example of what you're building. I'm most intrigued by your comment pile digestor. I've often wanted something like that while cruising the Internet but I'm not sure how&#x
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by jones1618 8mo ago
I agree with you this would be valuable, mostly for persuading the general public. The skepticism you're getting amounts to "biased people/government won't care no matter what" and "fancy tech makes the evidenc
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by jones1618 8mo ago
Right, the analogy would be "What does being a builder mean if carpenters are swinging the hammers?" We'll have to be software "Foremen" who develop plans and know enough algorithms, data structures and architecture
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by jones1618 8mo ago
I'm intrigued and might need something like this but... Your splash page doesn't give much of an idea of what this app does (far less than what you said in the comment above). IMO, I shouldn't have to create an account to see
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by jones1618 9mo ago
Asking or just forgot a link?
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by jones1618 9mo ago
What's the link? Or is this a joke about Hacker News' comment section being a "simple text editing tool"?
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by jones1618 10mo ago
OP's math checks out: "Steam has generated $16B+ in revenue" Valve employs "between 325 and 375 employees" $16B / 350 = $45.7M per employee According to Google "Valve Makes More Money Per Employee Than App
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by jones1618 10mo ago
Your only operative complaint is "confused." What are you confused about? The high-level goals and requirements? Your own approach and criteria for success? Structuring your time/effort? Without knowing what you are asking ex
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by jones1618 11mo ago
You still haven't described fully what the user sees before and after a step.
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by jones1618 11mo ago
The rule that stops this cold for me is: "Note that the distinct numbers being sorted would be hidden. That is, all the nodes in the partial order would look the same." So, you point to two random nodes and watch them sort? Do you
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by jones1618 11mo ago
Love this idea! This could also be a way for social discovery that studios could promote: Imagine a rack of album cards at Target where each costs a $1 and lets you play samples of all the tracks on the album (read lyrics and liner notes, e
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by jones1618 1y ago
Even if your observations/findings are brilliant, you can't be taken seriously unless you're published in an academic journal and you can't do that "cold." Basically, the prerequisites are: 1) You have to speak
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by jones1618 1y ago
Sounds good! My only observation is that, wherever possible, make it easier to see/scan-for text content. So my text gets lost a bit in: @a-bunch-of-markup My Text is here@ Maybe add a visual delimiter, so: @a-bunch-of-markup:My Text i
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by jones1618 1y ago
True. Wide-adoption makes markdown hard to beat. However, I _would_ like to see a better alternative. My #1 feature request would be simple styling (beyond bold, italic, etc.) Specifically, some way to compactly color and highlight text. So
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by jones1618 1y ago
Suggestion: Describe what your app actually does and what value it brings instead of relying on people being aware of an obscure app (I've never heard of it) like OpusClip by name alone. Here's my parody of a bad Show HN post: I&#
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by jones1618 1y ago
I agree with this. Create a MVP for a side business, build your email list of users, and iterate, iterate, iterate with improvements until people are beating your door down to pay for specific pro features. Offer to put people on a pro-vers
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by jones1618 1y ago
Two suggestions: 1) Your site is very wordy. It comes across a lot more "tell" than "show." How about _showing_ QR code links, _showing_ form/survey links, _showing_ analytics, _showing_ the difference between regul
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by jones1618 1y ago
Impossible prompts: A black doctor treating a white female patient An wide shot of a train on a horizontal track running left to right on a flat plain. I heard about the first when AI image generators were new as proof that the datasets hav
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by jones1618 1y ago
Cliche answer: "If it was easy, everyone would do it." Best answer I've gleaned from HN and elsewhere: 1. Develop a concept you think will get traction 2. Create a splash page and announce it (to collect emails) 3. If it attr
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by jones1618 2y ago
I think a better idea is a "funnel blog", where the community rates articles. Your feed always consists of current top-rated articles so far PLUS "random" submitted articles for you to rate. Those community ratings cause
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by jones1618 2y ago
Sure. It used to be standard-operating-procedure in the old "Waterfall" development days (pre-Agile). Of course, easily half of the fixed delivery projects I worked on for the first 15 years of my career failed, utterly. Still, I

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