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Why is this a HN post? And why did someone ask for "code examples"? I am so confused.

dang 3y ago
HN is for anything intellectually interesting, especially if it's uncorrelated with other topics. This seems to me to fit fine. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- standardly 3y ago
  Fair enough, I certainly find it interesting. I guess I have no complaint, it was just a bit out-of-place seeming. HN didn't seem like the kind of crowd to be into superstitous practices, but I obviously read the room wrong. Third or fourth occult-related posted I've seen this week. Stuff is interesting but also really popular with paranoid schitzophrenics, q-anons, and such, so I wonder if it's a bit unhealthy for the mind.
  - dang 3y ago
    > Fair enough, I certainly find it interesting I rest my case! :) - it's actually surprisingly common for people to see things that they personally find interesting but which they feel don't 'belong' on HN - but if it's personally genuinely interesting, that's the essence of what belongs on HN! Of course tastes vary dramatically from person to person, but hopefully there's a wide and unpredictable range of something for everybody. > Third or fourth occult-related posted I've seen this week That's almost certainly one of those random subsequences that doesn't feel random - they happen all the time. There has always been an occasional trickle of such posts to HN, and that's fine. More than that would not be fine, of course.
userbinator 3y ago
Does it not remind you of a certain computer science concept that maps strings to (possibly identical) numbers?
- standardly 3y ago
  I'm not a computer scientist or a cryptographer but I assume you mean a hash table? Enlighten me :) edit- or something related to LLM tokens?
  - standardly 3y ago
    oh was it compression? i think thats the most technically apt comparison?

dang 3y ago

HN is for anything intellectually interesting, especially if it's uncorrelated with other topics. This seems to me to fit fine. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

standardly 3y ago
Fair enough, I certainly find it interesting. I guess I have no complaint, it was just a bit out-of-place seeming. HN didn't seem like the kind of crowd to be into superstitous practices, but I obviously read the room wrong. Third or fourth occult-related posted I've seen this week. Stuff is interesting but also really popular with paranoid schitzophrenics, q-anons, and such, so I wonder if it's a bit unhealthy for the mind.
- dang 3y ago
  > Fair enough, I certainly find it interesting I rest my case! :) - it's actually surprisingly common for people to see things that they personally find interesting but which they feel don't 'belong' on HN - but if it's personally genuinely interesting, that's the essence of what belongs on HN! Of course tastes vary dramatically from person to person, but hopefully there's a wide and unpredictable range of something for everybody. > Third or fourth occult-related posted I've seen this week That's almost certainly one of those random subsequences that doesn't feel random - they happen all the time. There has always been an occasional trickle of such posts to HN, and that's fine. More than that would not be fine, of course.

userbinator 3y ago

Does it not remind you of a certain computer science concept that maps strings to (possibly identical) numbers?

standardly 3y ago
I'm not a computer scientist or a cryptographer but I assume you mean a hash table? Enlighten me :) edit- or something related to LLM tokens?
- standardly 3y ago
  oh was it compression? i think thats the most technically apt comparison?