jonstaab

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by jonstaab 5y ago
Broaden your historical context, and Keynes becomes the junior developer who thinks he can elegantly fix everything.
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by jonstaab 5y ago
Great essay, but I think fundamentally wrong. There are some important distributed systems he overlooks: the ones found in nature. Gas Laws, photosynthesis, and radiant energy are pretty great, it means I always have air to breathe. No one
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by jonstaab 5y ago
This is exactly the kind of thing a software developer would say.
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by jonstaab 5y ago
Because the only way to fight slavery is with more slavery, obviously.
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Ask HN: Anyone else tired of all your music?
5 points by jonstaab 5y ago|6 comments
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by jonstaab 5y ago
For those of you downvoting me: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)... - https://www.thoughtco.com/communist-countries-overview-14351... UBI isn't communist, it's s
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by jonstaab 5y ago
On the other hand, communism generally results in parents spending less on their kids.
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by jonstaab 5y ago
It's like naming boats after women. A recognition of the distinct nobility and beauty of women our culture has lost track of.
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by jonstaab 5y ago
Feeling quite smug about switching to CalyxOS earlier this week.
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by jonstaab 5y ago
Anti vaccine content is just posting pro-vaccine content from six months ago next to pro-vaccine content from today.
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by jonstaab 5y ago
Who said anything about a virus?
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by jonstaab 5y ago
They still do, and should. Your personal health is none of the government's business. The whole process for how we got where we are with mandatory seatbelt laws is insane. This could have gone very differently. Once again, ancient Hebr
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by jonstaab 5y ago
I wasn't aware of that, I'd love a link to learn more about it. But anyway, the architecture supports a totally decentralized network; Manyverse supports p2p gossip, I think across a LAN, and maybe bluetooth as well?
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by jonstaab 5y ago
Reading the Urbit documentation now, it's melting my face.
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by jonstaab 5y ago
The problem here is how SSB is used in practice; most content is not passed p2p, but through a single hub. This isn't part of the design, it just happens to be how they're bootstrapping right now. But it does mean that number of h
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by jonstaab 5y ago
Yes, I think the current central hub has around 30GB or more of data. In my mind, this is the key limitation of Scuttlebutt, and I'm not sure it's fixable. Scuttlebutt is still worth learning from though.
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by jonstaab 5y ago
I think "offline" is sort of a smell test for decentralized. The problem isn't cell coverage, it's resilience. Centralized networks can implement censorship, get hacked, lose your data, become unavailable, and have to be
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by jonstaab 5y ago
Last I checked (almost a year ago fwiw) you had blocks, mutes, and the ability to specify for your node how much you gossip in terms of how many hops you are away from the source. What I'm interested in is something like the ability to
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by jonstaab 5y ago
Maybe I'm getting some semantic distinction wrong. Each user's thread is essentially a cryptographically linked list. It differs from Bitcoin for example in that there's no change of ownership, and so no forking or input&#x2F
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by jonstaab 5y ago
Scuttlebutt (the underlying protocol of Manyverse) is the best decentralized social network I've found so far. It takes a much more radical approach than that of federation ala Mastadon, which is just centralization in miniature. Under
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by jonstaab 5y ago
I probably won't do a good job, as I'm still wrapping my head around it, but here goes: The first thing to note is that there is no "big conspiracy". There are conspiracies, but the driving force is that global economy g
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by jonstaab 5y ago
Did I not hedge enough? Two years ago I was a happy, contented liberal raising a family and working at my job. I still am, but I believe some quite different things about what is happening in the world, which old me would have dismissed out
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by jonstaab 5y ago
The crux of his argument, and its downfall, at least in the short term is: > All to say: discussions about controlling or stopping AI research should be deontological—an actual moral theory or stance is needed I don't see this happe
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by jonstaab 5y ago
Nope, they explicitly note that the GPL showed up 700k times in the training data: https://twitter.com/eevee/status/1410067860299255810
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by jonstaab 5y ago
Both things are well understood by the bitcoin community, at least. Bitcoin's utility doesn't depend solely on inflation or replacing the dollar as the global reserve currency, though that's a popular topic, since the collaps
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by jonstaab 5y ago
What is your setup like? I was just messing around with it just now using homebrew's gnu-apl package, and it just seems like a toy language, for example scripting mode is sort of bolted on top of interactive mode, since you have to add
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by jonstaab 5y ago
Autosuggestions would simply read "who's to say?" It would be a fork bomb, each process of which would kill a random pid in an effort to "subvert structures of systemic hegemony". It would just display its own sourc
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by jonstaab 5y ago
I just went through the same 2012 Air -> 2020 Air process last week. I gave in after spending two weeks trying to get Ubuntu working on a Dell XPS 13 with bluetooth, my dock, wifi, a retina display, USB, etc, etc. I gave up when connecti
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Show HN: Cateract, an interactive CLI file viewer(github.com)
1 points by jonstaab 5y ago|0 comments
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by jonstaab 6y ago
In the graph you can see a 3% drop in the last year or two alone. And the fallout from covid probably hasn't reached membership rolls yet. Culture shift aside, we will likely see a big drop this year as well, since faith needs to be cu

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