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jkman

44 karma · joined December 4, 2023

meet.hn/city/ca-Old-Toronto

Interests: AI/ML, DevOps, Mobile Development, Web Development

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jkman··on One Oakland police officer made $490k in overtime
Do they need to spell it out for you? 'Defund the Police' mentality in politicians means they don't try to improve police staffing -> number of police stays stagnant, even while population is increasing, crime may be increasing w/ the population -> the work doesn't magically disappear, each cop works more hours -> higher pay per-cop, especially with overtime rates Sure, you can dislike the specific numbers here in the bay area (your OP didn't say anything specifically about that btw), but the general principle is very easy to understand
jkman··on AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?
Until the VC subsidies stop and the human devs are half the cost of the claude tokens lol
jkman··on Gallium: Why the US Cannot Produce Precision Missiles and Fully-Functional F-35s
Jesus this is terribly written by AI, what is the point of putting out this slop?
jkman··on The AI Aesthetic
Seconding the other comment, that second one is by far my favorite
jkman··on Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench
Remember https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal? It's completely believable that benchmark-resembling requests are routes in a favorable manner.
jkman··on The Strongest El Niño Ever
Then what was the point of your comment
jkman··on Advertise in ChatGPT
How do you know that only a consumer that wants what an advertiser is selling would receive an ad for that product?
jkman··on Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team
Plexamp is still head and shoulders above anything comparable on the jellyfin side.
jkman··on Trump Media to sell instant access to 'market-moving' social posts
lmao what point are you even trying to make
jkman··on Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
But surely that's completely different, no? It seems that there are major differences between OSes and LLMs that preclude this comparison, in that an LLM is truly 'just' a tool. You can slot in another to replace it, IDEs and harnesses can handle basically any provider out the box, etc. An OS is not just a tool, its success depends on things like power management/general hardware interaction (requires collaboration with consumer computer manufacturers), what applications are available for it (dependent on third party devs), etc. It does seem that all the LLMs are substitute goods in a way that OSes are not at all.
jkman··on Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
Lmao if only one could pay lawyers in equity and promissory notes
jkman··on Cloudflare Drop
>"everyone is doing it so stop complaining bro!!!!"
jkman··on Chatto is now open source
What does implementing soft-delete have to do with data storage though? If you just set up an S3-compatible backend like the docs offer you then have data persistence out of the box, no?
jkman··on Chatto is now Open Source
Off the bat, it seems that campfire doesn't support voice/video calls. So no, not at all
jkman··on "Can We Make the Villain a White Guy?"
> "But casting <a> heterosexual white man is representative of the real world. <Who> has all the power in the real world?"

The original comment obviously did in fact try to make a point about heterosexual white men in general. No mention was made of how few there might be, you're in fact the one interjecting new content from somewhere.

jkman··on Sick leave: Germany rising but not the worst in Europe
How do you figure?
jkman··on The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party
Even if one agreed with that statement, so what?
jkman··on Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads
Check costco/another third party, they still have yesterday's pricing right now
jkman··on Launch HN: TesterArmy (YC P26) – Agents that test web and mobile apps
Jesus man, stop spamming your project in this thread
jkman··on Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants
>'taylor-made' Says it all, doesn't it
jkman··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
Great work man! Will be testing this one out right away
jkman··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
Can an admin handle this spam? I can't flag yet.
jkman··on Apple Core AI Framework
You've already been able to do that once you convert your model to CoreML, it's only MLX that's never been able to use the ANE.
jkman··on Apple Core AI Framework
This view is a bit off. First, keep in mind that MLX was and will not be able to access the ANE, so it's a total non-starter for anything user-facing. Based on updates to coreml docs, they're trying to sell CoreML as the tool for tabular or domain-specific applications and CoreAI for NNs moving forward.
jkman··on The SpaceX IPO Will Be the Theft of the Century
That'd be a valid response if NASDAQ hadn't changed the rules and let SpaceX sidestep previous index inclusion criteria.
jkman··on Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore
Like what?
jkman··on Magnifica Humanitas
hyuk hyuk kyuk, man you are hilarious!!! Take my updoot good sir
jkman··on Apple unveils new accessibility features
Your work is incredible, best of luck going forward!
jkman··on Apple unveils new accessibility features
That still doesn't make sense. "improvements... would likely be required before this could ship to larger populations" so what? Are they claiming that everyone everywhere should use this immediately?

"possibility of an accessibility affordance" what do you mean possibility, that is literally the case. Even if it's not perfect (which nothing truly is, obviously), it is undeniably a novel control system for its target audience.

"doesn’t feel right" So your point is simply that your subjective opinion is that it 'doesn't feel right'? What does that even mean? I'm not saying, and the announcement is not saying, that this is some platonic ideal of accessibility controls. Not sure what you are getting at at all.

jkman··on Apple unveils new accessibility features
Your concerns are completely nonsensical. It's clearly being marketed as a healthcare tool for people with debilitating injuries that preclude the use of hand-powered wheelchair controls, severe situations where there's no neck-down control and users would be limited to controls like head-tilt or mouth actuated systems. These people obviously require daily care to simply get them out of bed and into the chair and back again every single day - their nurse could just put on their Vision Pro for them! This seems like an incredible leap forward for people in this situation, if they iterate on this and it gets better then this could be a very viable wheelchair control system in the future.
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