Hacker News: TristanDaCunha

New comment by TristanDaCunha in "Vim 9.2"

TristanDaCunha — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:01:15 +0000

Should stop and help with neovim

New comment by TristanDaCunha in "Git Diagramming "The Weave""

TristanDaCunha — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 08:25:45 +0000

Same result on Firefox mobile

New comment by TristanDaCunha in "Caching is an abstraction, not an optimization"

TristanDaCunha — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 23:45:55 +0000

This whole discussion on caching and abstraction was completely befuddling to me.

New comment by TristanDaCunha in "Musk's Riot Tweets Spur UK to Seek Tougher Online Rules"

TristanDaCunha — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 22:19:33 +0000

> The vast majority of the criminal activity has been on the "counter-protesters" who actually showed up.

Your source supports the notion that the counter-protests were better attended, but I can't see how it supports your assertion that they outdid the protests for criminal activity.

New comment by TristanDaCunha in "Xonsh: Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell"

TristanDaCunha — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 13:01:32 +0000

This reply doesn't help me at all

New comment by TristanDaCunha in "Statement on AI Risk"

TristanDaCunha — Tue, 30 May 2023 13:31:51 +0000

You have it totally backwards. It's a much bigger catastrophe if we over-focus on "safety" as avoiding sexism and so on, and then everyone dies.

New comment by TristanDaCunha in "Statement on AI Risk"

TristanDaCunha — Tue, 30 May 2023 13:30:19 +0000

> AI can only be as destructive as the users let it.

Not really, I suppose you aren't familiar with AI alignment.

New comment by TristanDaCunha in "Statement on AI Risk"

TristanDaCunha — Tue, 30 May 2023 13:29:28 +0000

Many of the signatories aren't associated with any corporation.

New comment by TristanDaCunha in "We're improving search results when you use quotes"

TristanDaCunha — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 10:57:24 +0000

Well this is a more complex case which includes combining negation with quotation and punctuation marks. I'll bet those factors explain why it didn't work.

New comment by TristanDaCunha in "Functools – The Power of Higher-Order Functions in Python"

TristanDaCunha — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 08:56:21 +0000

> Using @cached_property feels like a bad code smell and it’s a controversial design decision

Why?

New comment by TristanDaCunha in "Ask HN: Has anyone tried to use AI to generate an emergent programming language?"

TristanDaCunha — Sun, 18 Oct 2020 12:59:38 +0000

What methodology do you envision for this project?

New comment by TristanDaCunha in "If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future"

TristanDaCunha — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 19:56:01 +0000

Well I'm not willing to provide any proof of my identity, so you have no reason to take what I say as legitimate. Indeed, I've seen lengthy posts of utter nonsense from others who claimed to work at CA.

Usually, even the generally available facts are a lot better than most people's understandings of the situation. For example, most people seem to think that this scandal proved that Facebook sell their user data, whereas it actually is alleged that CA took advantage of the well-documented public API that Facebook used to have, where any app vendor could download data on friends of friends who had given permissions to the app.

If you have specific questions, I would be happy to point you in the right direction.

New comment by TristanDaCunha in "If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future"

TristanDaCunha — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 18:44:26 +0000

Disclosure: I worked at Cambridge Analytica.

Cambridge Analytica were accused of taking data mainly on what pages users 'Liked' - not private messages or news feed. (Unless you have a source?)

Obama campaign boasted about having access to the entire friends network. In other words, they know who each person was and what the connections between them were. Facebook openly said that they helped the Obama campaign get and utilise 100% of the friends network data on Facebook.

New comment by TristanDaCunha in "U.S. tech stocks are now worth more than the entire European stock market"

TristanDaCunha — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 17:26:33 +0000

> Google "European growth stocks".

This short sentence contains irony.

New comment by TristanDaCunha in "Oatly: The New Coke?"

TristanDaCunha — Sat, 08 Aug 2020 11:32:17 +0000

I was looking for a second opinion, and found the comment by Glenn in that article was a good counterpoint. I won't repeat it here, but another point that comes to mind is that one may use a very small amount of milk-substitute in your hot drink, compared to drinking a much larger amount of coke. So it's not perfectly comparable, even if they were equally bad.

New comment by TristanDaCunha in "How Inuit parents teach kids to control their anger (2019)"

TristanDaCunha — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 18:40:57 +0000

Highly counterinuitive.

New comment by TristanDaCunha in "Head asleep, body awake"

TristanDaCunha — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 11:39:34 +0000

I gratefully accept the information of your post, but I don't think it manages to make the intended point. Notice how many times you used the word "should", which was never a consideration in my post.

We could talk about should. As a starting point, it would seem to me most useful to preserve meaningful distinctions which convey information, and otherwise make language as fluid and relaxed as possible. But I'm not expert.

New comment by TristanDaCunha in "Head asleep, body awake"

TristanDaCunha — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 10:26:55 +0000

So weird -- when did we all decide to start saying "I was laying in bed" instead of "I was lying in bed"? I have noticed this shift over the past few years.

Laying has always been past tense "That day I lay in bed for hours" or transitive "I lay the books down". Chickens also could be laying in bed, if eggs are coming out of them. Lying has always been intransitive "I was lying in bed". But nowadays, "I was laying in bed" is almost all I see.

New comment by TristanDaCunha in "Merge tag 'inclusive-terminology' into Linux kernel"

TristanDaCunha — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 18:59:38 +0000

> Slavery was long gone and finished when master/slave began being used in computer science.

I don't disagree with your conclusion, but this is such an America-centric statement. Slavery is alive and well today. There are more slaves now than at any past time.

New comment by TristanDaCunha in "Cache Oblivious Algorithms"

TristanDaCunha — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 18:59:46 +0000

I think there might be a mistake in this article, or at least something requiring clarification.

> For convenience, suppose the binary tree is complete and has height H=2^K.

What is K? It's never stated. I'd usually assume H = log N, if N is the number of nodes in a balanced tree.