blake8086 | 4 months ago | on: Show HN: Together, a no-signup chat and universal comment/discussion tool (beta)
An interesting idea!
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blake8086 | 4 months ago | on: Show HN: Together, a no-signup chat and universal comment/discussion tool (beta)
Welp, had to take it down. I'll be back later.
blake8086 | 1 year ago | on: OpenAI Threatening to Ban Users for Asking Strawberry About Its Reasoning
Perhaps controlling AI is harder than people thought.
They could "just" make it not reveal its reasoning process, but they don't know how. But, they're pretty sure they can keep AI from doing anything bad, because... well, just because, ok?
blake8086 | 4 years ago | on: Chrome will soon warn you when you might not want to trust an extension
Looking forward to:
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blake8086 | 4 years ago | on: Text editing hates you too (2019)
You're a genius.
blake8086 | 5 years ago | on: US central bank payment system down for 'hours'
How much energy does the US central bank system use in a year?
blake8086 | 5 years ago | on: Infinitely zooming botanical floral paradise painting
Sounds like https://www.ice.org/tiles/
blake8086 | 5 years ago | on: Drone Footage of Arecibo Observatory Collapse
I always think it's funny when people use large planes as a reference for heavy weights, since they're designed to be as light as possible for the volume.
blake8086 | 5 years ago | on: Tracking Mixed Bitcoins
blake8086 | 7 years ago | on: South Korea and Sweden are the most innovative countries in the world
Why aren't I using tons of amazing South Korean and Swedish-designed products in my daily life if this is the case? (or jealous of all the great products they seem to have that I don't have access to?)
blake8086 | 7 years ago | on: Automatic categorization of text is a core tool now
Are there any companies working on personalized text categorization?
blake8086 | 7 years ago | on: Novogratz's Crypto Trading Desk Lost $136M in Nine Months
And dot-coms! And real estate! Hmm.
blake8086 | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: Domain-tailored CRDTs for collaboration without server involvement
I suspect you could build such a thing if you could more rigidly define edit operations on source code files. The way we edit code now is roughly "insert/edit/delete string <x> at position <y>", which doesn't really carry enough context to auto-merge.
If edits carried all the semantic information of what they were doing to the source: "rename symbol <x> to <y> everywhere" "perform step <x> after step <y>", then we could probably build a zero-maintenance revision-control system.
blake8086 | 8 years ago | on: Parsing: a timeline
You will probably be interested in this explanation of how xi-editor does it: https://google.github.io/xi-editor/docs/rope_science_11.html
blake8086 | 8 years ago | on: Utility poles
A friend and I have a podcast at https://www.youtube.com/fungineering
blake8086 | 8 years ago | on: Message decontamination is impossible. Alien message should be destroyed
I beat the authors of this paper by a few months in my podcast: https://youtu.be/s0jD4IMaHHs?t=1h3m54s
blake8086 | 8 years ago | on: Cryonics Myths
I did a podcast with a friend covering a lot of these points here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ffQEoSJW4w
I think a big myth people need dispelled is that cryonics is really expensive. It's not a very expensive gamble to take, and it's pretty easy to see that it's worthwhile for many people.
blake8086 | 8 years ago | on: The purpose of Tesla is not to make money
From what I've seen, the point of Tesla is to burn money as fast as possible. I have two episodes of a podcast with a friend about exactly this topic:
First episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bQW1fEUsbk
Most recent episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXyIriINVK0
I highly recommend them if you're interested in investing in Tesla (long or short)
blake8086 | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: How much you want for reviewing 200 lines of the code as an expert?
I could do $50.
blake8086 | 9 years ago | on: Prettier 1.0
I think this is because you view yourself as more of a code author, and people excited for this announcement more frequently find themselves in the role of a code reader.
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