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KerryJones

1,674 karma · joined August 31, 2015

Engineer and fitness hacker, and Co-Founder of HubHaus.
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KerryJones··on Show HN: Hacker News frontpage as a print newspaper that you can personalize
Is there a reason you chose not to display the comment count?
KerryJones··on Show HN: AI OmniGen – AI Image Generator with Consistent Visuals
Love this idea -- you have a typo in tools "Satble Diffusion"
KerryJones··on Once You Try a Four-Day Workweek, It's Hard to Go Back
It seems like you're comparing jobs to other jobs. If you reverse your logic, "Software jobs should have to go to the workplace, not because they need to, are more productive, but just so that other people feel like it's fair."

You stated correctly when you said "most jobs do not have the luxury", and some people have specifically chosen these jobs for this luxury.

KerryJones··on US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case
I think you're missing a case here -- if they remove it, and they can get along without it without much trouble, I'd argue it isn't highly useful. Just because it has frequent use doesn't mean it's highly useful.
KerryJones··on US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case
Why wouldn't people pay for something highly useful? It seems the opposite, that people would pay for things that are highly useful. People don't pay for things that are marginally useful.
KerryJones··on Y Combinator Traded Prestige for Growth
Amazing, thanks for the response.
KerryJones··on Y Combinator Traded Prestige for Growth
This feels like a side tangent, but why have you focused on technology for creative and curious childhood? I'm curious if you have considered the following:

I.e. Maria Montessori (founder of the Montessori methodology of teaching) did a pretty good job showing that's the natural state of kids, and there's quite a bit in her teachings about the importance of physical things, being outdoors, etc.

There's some pretty strong reasoning that technology might in fact be the problem, and while I'm sure you can make better technology with that focus in mind, it seems like a better approach might not be technology.

Here's a few articles that lead to this point:

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/honestly-its-probably-the-phon...

https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/childhoods

KerryJones··on Y Combinator Traded Prestige for Growth
This feels like a side tangent, but why have you focused on technology for creative and curious childhood? I.e. Maria Montessori (founder of the Montessori methodology of teaching) did a pretty good job showing that's the natural state of kids, and there's quite a bit in her teachings about the importance of physical things, being outdoors, etc.

There's some pretty strong reasoning that technology might in fact be the problem, and while I'm sure you can make better technology with that focus in mind, it seems like a better approach might not be technology.

Here's a few articles that lead to this point:

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/honestly-its-probably-the-phon...

https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/childhoods

KerryJones··on Y Combinator Traded Prestige for Growth
"Yes pg fired Sam Altman from YC."

How can you be so certain?

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/30/paul-graham-claims-altman-...

KerryJones··on Y Combinator Traded Prestige for Growth
This hits pretty dead center from what I've seen.

You really hit home for at #3, that's the type of companies I want to see.

If you start such a fund, I'd really enjoy working on that project.

KerryJones··on How to keep up with AI/ML as a full stack dev?
No, I don't think it's suspect, because it seems like you're looking at a narrow-focus of productivity increase.

"advocates are talking about multiples of increased productivity", some are, some are not, and I don't think most people are, but sure, there's a lot of media hype.

It seems like the argument is akin to many generalized internet arguments "these [vague people] say [generality] about [other thing]".

There are places that I do think that it can make significant, multiples of difference, but it's in short spurts. Taking over code bases, learning a new language, non-tech co-founders can get started without a tech co-founder. I think it's the Jr Engineers that have a greater chance of being replaced, not the sr engineer.

KerryJones··on How to keep up with AI/ML as a full stack dev?
I'm 20+ years here and want to just call out it's a bit of a "moving goal posts with "but given a large project" comment.

I do think it is helpful in large projects, but much less so. I think the other comment gives a good example of how it can be useful, and it seems fairly obvious as context sizes are increasing exponentially in a short amount of time that it will be able to deal with large projects soon.

When using it in larger projects, I'm typically manipulating specific functions or single pages at a time and use a diff tool, so it comes across more as PR that I need to verify or tweak.

KerryJones··on How to keep up with AI/ML as a full stack dev?
What do you mean by "publish my workflow"? Do you want a blog post, a github md file? It's pretty simple.

Most recently I use Claude 3.5 projects with this workflow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNkw5K2W8AQ

Quick example, I wanted to make a clickable visible piano keyboard. I told it I was using Vue and asked for the HTML/CSS to do this (after looking at several github and other examples that looked fairly complicated). It spat out code that worked out of the box in about 1m.

I gave it a package.json file that got messed up with many dependencies versions being off from each other, it immediately fixed them up.

I asked it to give me a specific way using BigQuery SQL to delete duplicate rows while avoiding a certain function, again, 1 minute, done.

I have given it broken code and said "this is the error" and it immediately highlights the error and shows a fix.

KerryJones··on How to keep up with AI/ML as a full stack dev?
How are you judging others who make this claim?

I'm a FAANG Sr. Software Engineer, use it both in my company and personal projects, and it has made me much faster, but now I'm just "some other person who made this claim".

KerryJones··on Why won't some people pay for news? (2022)
Yeah, I think what I'm describing would fall under a thing like MoviePass but for NewsPass.
KerryJones··on Why won't some people pay for news? (2022)
The most obvious reason seems to be missing?

Because it's split up. You no longer pay "for the news", you pay a specific company for their take.

Do you want leftist? Rightist? Something central? You want multiple opinions, will you pay multiple subscriptions?

Happily pay $10/mo for a selection of specifics news items.

KerryJones··on Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin
Before people take this at pure headline value:

"uBlock Origin fans can rest at ease since a new and improved version is already available — uBlock Origin Lite. It's worth noting that while the new app ships with similar features to the original version, including core ad-blocking features, it doesn't support dynamic filters for blocking scriptlet injection. The Lite version's capabilities are relatively limited due to its compliance with the Manifest V3 framework threshold."

KerryJones··on The Marshmallow Test does not reliably predict adult functioning
Great, thanks for this link, will dig in more.
KerryJones··on The Marshmallow Test does not reliably predict adult functioning
Because there is usually an effort in HN to post non-paywalled links.
KerryJones··on The Marshmallow Test does not reliably predict adult functioning
Apologies for ignorance, can you tell me more about Gladwell issues?
KerryJones··on What's the deal with PFAS, a.k.a. 'forever chemicals'?
This long-form article feels like it should be a short-form article.

tl;dr:

- PFAS/forever chemicals have a lot of science saying they're harmful to health

- Government regulation is the best long term solution

- Short term solution: buy non-PFAS pans, take your own to-go containers, using water filters that filter PFAS

KerryJones··on I am starting an AI+Education company
Is the reason because montessori schools are often high-priced? Because that's definitely true (and you can easily say it's a privilege to attend one).

That doesn't, however, mean the methodologies don't work or don't apply. You can study the methods in any of her ~20ish books, or the more modernized recaps of them.

KerryJones··on I am starting an AI+Education company
> Most learners, the world over, are not self-motivated

This is the exact opposite conclusion and methodology of Maria Montessori (and her schools with the same name). Children are naturally curious and want to learn, but they may not want to use a poor education system designed to mark grades in a hyper specific focus.

KerryJones··on Show HN: Horizon – Private alternative to Imgur
Great work!

2 questions:

1) Do you support RAW images?

2) Do you have larger paid plans?

KerryJones··on Buying a Home Near Nvidia's Headquarters Is Nearly Impossible Right Now
This is such a click-baity headline, the subject line is "Blame Santa Clara’s inventory and relative affordability—not the company’s stock run-up—for creating such a competitive market".

Essentially "let's use nVidia's name to get attention for this non-related issue."

KerryJones··on Show HN: Improve cognitive focus in 1 minute
Feedback:

- This is great to link to breathing

- After reading multiple breathing books (Breath by James Nester, Outlive by Peter Attia, Oxygen Advantage, etc.), there's a lot of evidence to breath slower. Specifically, 5.5 seconds in, and 5.5 seconds out, make the dot match or be closer to matching that rate could actually cause a lot of physical benefit by people matching with it

- Alternative if you don't want that, make it a control setting so someone (like myself) can do it.

KerryJones··on Google Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2023 Results [pdf]
Where is that typically? Most of those are had costs for an employee, not % based. Google has employees from $50K to $1mm+, I very much doubt that all expenses double as income doubles.
KerryJones··on Google Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2023 Results [pdf]
Where did you get the $750K figure? I'm in the Bay Area, Sr Engineer, on the higher end of the pay scale, and no-where close to that figure.
KerryJones··on Ask HN: Learn React or Vue?
I think the answer is unique to your situation. I've seen and read many experiences of those who have both used React and Vue (including myself), and many prefer Vue. That said, because React is more popular, this is going to get your foot in the door in many more companies, and it's a bit of a "well everyone is using React so we will too" type of spiral.

For me, if I were trying to get hired, I would choose React. If I were looking for my own side project or in a position where I got to choose, I would choose Vue.

KerryJones··on Hexcodle
Hex is always specific ordering, R > G > B. They're all 0 through F (16 digits). It gives you a "higher, lower, equals" on every digit. That means it's 6 cases of binary searches, 2^4 = 16, so that's all you're going to need.
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