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wdiamond··on What if AGI was invented in Ancient Greece?
electricity is a drug for agi. but like the desire to build wonders its just an auto purpose for the capacity of change. agi may get addicted to self destruction if not think well enough.
wdiamond··on Needed 1+1, built a functional programming language
1+1 using common math ordering is 2. but you are writing a language, so you can write 1+1=3 and make sense of this. but my guess it wont help, just disrupt.
wdiamond··on How to safely escape JSON inside HTML SCRIPT elements
"<"+"/script>", its a matter of parsing not value
wdiamond··on Ask HN: What strategy if planning to exit Software Engineering?
I guess AGI is getting closer. Once reached all will be meaningless work. Just enjoy the circustances.
wdiamond··on The IDE isn't going away
I would not say IDE, but code language itself. I can program without syntax highlight and autocomplete. The more precision you need the farther you are from natural language. But I really apreciate to type less. There is nothing more cryptic than compression of ideas.
wdiamond··on [dead]
knowing, realizing, choosing, not tested combination, being pushed into, being given an example and other sort of acknowledge language.
wdiamond··on Programming Considered Harmful (2001)
utopia of one language. there are better languages at a point in time, but the next point in time the other languages acquire the new features. its the same with any language, human or not.
wdiamond··on Odyc.js – A tiny JavaScript library for narrative games
awesome product. scratch like business.
wdiamond··on Discussion: Job seekers can't find a job and Employers can't find an employees
Its not a paradox. Those systems become legacy but still make money. Money has nothing to do with the knowledge, knowledge grows slower; machine instances are fast made.
wdiamond··on LLM Visualization
amazing router
wdiamond··on The Right to Lie and Google’s “Web Environment Integrity”
people built internet just to destroy it. its not a tech problem. its economics. the forever decreasing profits because more people just know and re-sell for less. tor will become more and more expensive till people realize that needs the same hardware trick with another brand like internet2,3,4,5,... to seek the solution by hacking wont stop this foverer battle. its just ends when the imaginary of fair price for information meets the offer (the forever decrease of population to let universe in peace)
wdiamond··on Will AI replace software engineers in the near future?
Your questions depends on how much your employer can integrate legacy and new demands. Not all employers will have enough time for this. Probably in the future there will be a CTO employing no one at small scale, just like there are no-code companies. You can't take money from people with spare time.
wdiamond··on Brian Cox explains why time travels in one direction – BBC [video]
Time is not a thing, is a mnemonic for counting movement.
wdiamond··on Show HN: I made a SQL game to help people learn / challenge their skills
I guess future games will work like this, just with more dolls on screen and maybe with natural language (but in fact sql). The range of actions is huge.
wdiamond··on How can you make sure GPT-3 does not plagiarize?
Obviously is a copy of something somehow. Not a new world creator.
wdiamond··on Ask HN: ChatGPT can solve my interview questions, now what?
everyone knows that interview dont cover all of anything, its more like an interactive ad. neither multi-hour homework that can also be cheated. work is important in imaginary field, in concrete field anything less than a Ph.D paper is just a copy paste of an Ph.D from the past.
wdiamond··on Peter Norvig: Singularity is in the eye of the beholder
I guess conscious is the eye of beholder. Its a switch between thinking and acting flopping insanely. Basically all multithread web server+site is a kind of conscious. But the self evolution of thinking is beyond conscious, just like us. Any mammal has conscious, but when the data (culture/static data) can be learned by recognizing abstract patterns linked to body data (reality) it may be able to self develop. I guess we have a lot to do automating processes and middleware interfacing to master transfer of wise between runtime models, runtime data and the core mapping of decisions on a wannabe singularity. The boot of computer language, human language and minimum hardware (boston dynamics?) to a machine have the same kind of freedom that enable us to self learn is the point. If you has no pain data of a robotic body, pain will not be on the scope of that singularity, leading a core with "Hansen disease". But if you capture pain data, you might expect fear behaviours on decision making. In other words its a threat to us that machines could secure itselves cause pain could be an abstract for instance human. We can choose between disposable semi-inteligent machines or a new type of free living being that could enslave us.

Not really interested on birthing a new type of living being too soon. It's not capitalism. But as a tool it can be usefull mocking reality, not surviving to it.

Machines already are good communication tools. Can be good enough processing tools. Not more than enough.

wdiamond··on The Kilobyte’s Gambit
sounds the same for viruses and human kind.
wdiamond··on Tech Censorship Is Accelerating
Pay to win is a form of monetization of games, this probably would become pay to be IRL (whatever the content trend). Fake persons are far more dangerous than fake news. Soon counter-spy will become the only business that matter.
wdiamond··on Goodbye Electron, Hello Flutter
Just another "browser" reboot. To be a standard everybody must accept, as web is portable. If you are only looking for cheap tricks this will happen again and again. Maybe a new language that does flutter,C#,java,javascript interop should be created? then a couple of clones...
wdiamond··on Why does it take so long to build software? (2020)
Software is like writing a book. A good book fits all new pieces in a new story and makes sense. A fast book is just copy of known pieces and known story and don't really fits well. A "PRO" in market steal not old ideas, a "PRO" in the field create detailed raw new sketchs that are not ready to sell.
wdiamond··on When you close your eyes how vividly can you imagine things?
don't improve your imaginary reality, you would get lost in whats real if done good enough. use computers/paper/materials. I mean, you can't forecast your subconscious.
wdiamond··on What's your rapid prototyping tool/process
any kind of prototyping is fast enough nowadays. but if you are doing research, you will get slow cause unkown stuff is just that, unkown.
wdiamond··on Ask HN: JS++ ? Why not make a new, strongly typed JavaScript ?
you can typify untyped code, but you can't untypify typed code. because typify is to make constraints and untypify is real life, I mean, a window is a house device and a computer device, the meaning window relies on other information of context besides type. that other information is unkown so if you close de door to unkown you will never know if that exception could be handled by machine at first runtime. it's more related to the tradeoff between scale and flexibility. i'm not concerned with scale, it's tedious and prone to automation. the question is do you believe in money or in future code? I mean a code that is so untyped that behaves like human.
wdiamond··on Hotwire: HTML over the Wire
I didnt see html, just ruby bindings. Anyone can make easy bindinds on server but it costs flexibility on components, imagine for deep nested levels customized components and syncing.
wdiamond··on Ask HN: What problem do you want someone would solve for you?
I would like to have an API for all the legacy software.
wdiamond··on On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (1988) [pdf]
Programming is magic based on science. Without actuators/mech engines it won't go anywhere, its just ilusion proven or not.It may be known as a light drug development.The focus is on transfering numbers. Money is another kind of ilusion, a kind that fakes demands. The focus is on increasing or decreasing numbers.
wdiamond··on GitHub Source Code Leak
I hope that I won't need to search in a thousand of githubs for each npm packet I need in near future.
wdiamond··on Has anyone else just gotten bored of the Internet?
Life is boring. Internet is death. One might build something cool and just tell no one, cause people not just don't congratulate but share as theirs. No respect land.
wdiamond··on Ask HN: What are the best CLI tools not for programming?
You think programming is to write ifs.Selecting a program is to execute ifs.
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