<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: _nalply</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=_nalply</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 22:04:23 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=_nalply" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by _nalply in "Humans haven't stopped evolving"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think the possiblities that a minority can leave the group is an important escape valve for them. Now assume that in the future they are going to be not such a minority anymore like today, then what happens? Maybe some oscillation like for Lotka-Volterra situation, perhaps a bit different?</p>
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<p>I found grandparent's post still useful because it caused something to click in my head. I then researched and found that threads and processes share a lot of functionality. In the kernel both processes and threads are represented by `task_struct` instances.<p>So, respectfully, you shouldn't dismiss grandparent with "This isn't really true".</p>
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<p>Lipreading Deaf here.<p>I tried to lipread the Inauguration, and where it was successful I did read the same nonsense, but often it wasn't possible because they weren't looking at the camera or the microphone was in the way.<p>The Seagulls, however, the only thing I could read was amm-amm-ammmmm-am-am-aaaammm. Nothing else. Of course, the doll has very simple mouth mechanics.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 15:04:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48785922</link><dc:creator>_nalply</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48785922</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48785922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by _nalply in "Study reveals what people see when they read lips"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am Deaf. I lipread German, but rarely lipread English and was successful with lipreading people speaking English as not their native language, namely Greek, Estonian and Marathi but never from the Anglophone world. Turning older, my lipreading competence declines, and I prefer talking in my local Signed Language.<p>What this article is missing, I think, is that lipreading is not replacing auditory input with visual input because there are too many, let's just call them homophones. I find the word "visemes" a bit too cute. You need a lot of context. So I always struggle if someone asks me a very short question, because I don't know what it's about. Someone comes to me, says hello, and asks the question, and I don't have an idea what they want to know.<p>Re gameplays, the context is special, because you can assume that the football coach is not shouting "HAKUNA MATATA" over the field. This simplifies lipreading during gameplays. Essentially it devolves into something like a set of radio buttons.</p>
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<p>How do you manage zone 5 cardio 4x a week without PEM?<p>I thought up to 3x a week and never consecutive days is the maximum.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://smoas.bearblog.dev/reverse-socratic/">https://smoas.bearblog.dev/reverse-socratic/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192648">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192648</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
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<p>Have some air at the top of the top reservoir, assuming that the top reservoir is at most about 10 m deep in water (to avoid damage from storms). Or have the air in separate chambers fixed to the top reservoir.</p>
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<p>Ah, so you meant UB = unspecified behavior, not UB = undefined behavior.<p>Maybe. Bugs that come from spooky behavior at a distance are notoriously hard to debug, especially in production, and it's worthwile to pay for it to avoid that.</p>
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<p>It's WASM. WASM runs in a sandbox and you can't have UB on the hardware level. Imagine someone exploiting the behavior of some browser when UB is triggered. Except that the programmer is not having nasal demons [1] but some poor user, like a mom of four children in Abraska running a website on her cell phone.<p>[1]: <a href="http://catb.org/jargon/html/N/nasal-demons.html" rel="nofollow">http://catb.org/jargon/html/N/nasal-demons.html</a></p>
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<p>I thought so, but "Copyright" is always the same? Haha, that's dangerously clever or cleverly dangerous.</p>
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<p>That's Henry George.<p>I don't understand all consequences yet, except one, that the wealthy and powerful object to it because it hurts them and so the Land Value Tax is rarely introduced. Even if it gets introduced, it will abolished soon thereafter.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2025 08:34:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44692449</link><dc:creator>_nalply</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44692449</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44692449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by _nalply in "AI is killing the web – can anything save it?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>AI is one sharp tool cutting slices from the old internet. But perpetrators have used different tools from the start: SEO spam, algorithmic feeds, embrace/extend/extinguish, building moats, the attention economy, and many others. AI is just the next newfangled sharp tool.<p>In other words, I don't think that AI is killing the web.<p>It's being profit-oriented and running amok in an unleashed way. It's prisoner's dilemma. You know, if you don't do it then someone else will do it and you lose. Enshittification is one consequence. The internet experienced it from the beginning. But only about fifteen years ago companies learnt how to squeeze the last drop out and, like in the tragedy of the commons, everybody is worse off.<p>And what's the most catastrophic? People are confused. They look at the tools but not at some famous people behind these rampages. Of course as leaders they just optimize the hell out of the internet with the target that their companies thrive. But in doing so they cause heavy damage.</p>
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<p>Maybe. Maybe not. Given the human material (yes I know a dehumanizing formulation, but that's what Corporate does) it seems it's better not to step on anybody's toes except if it's abundantly clear that the person doesn't have a voice in things, but even then it's risky. Corporate is self-selecting: companies that don't generate profit die off sooner or later. Therefore we can conclude (if a bit shakily) from the norm in Corporate not to insult anybody that internal strife has been very damaging and therefore that Corporate self-selects in an evolutionary manner to avoid anything that leads to internal strife.</p>
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<p>Or add spirits.<p>Another way: Let ferment it to the max. If fermentation doesn't consume all the sugar, then it's somewhat stable.<p>Ancient wines also had resins added. Today these would probably have tasted almost medicinal, but often they are diluted before serving. Wine dilution is still a custom in some parts of Italy. I was invited to a party in Tuscany and they served a lot of Lambrusco amabile and for the children they diluted it and because Lambrusco amabile is rather sweet it was a little bit an oldfashioned soft drink. I tried it, too, and it's refreshing. I don't know whether it's sacrilegous but as one says, in Rome do as Romans do.</p>
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<p>It's a font that morphes the text fragment "am-" into the curly dash using a ligature.<p><a href="https://chriscoyier.net/2025/05/10/the-am-dash/" rel="nofollow">https://chriscoyier.net/2025/05/10/the-am-dash/</a><p>But that won't help for long. If the Amdash becomes popular, then AI will pick it up, because "am-" is just a text fragment and AI can learn to produce it.<p>Even worse if a future version of Unicode adopts the Amdash, then nothing will stop AI.<p>Or the opposite happens as one already said here: Nobody will use the Amdash.</p>
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<p>Yes because "pics or it didn't happen"</p>
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<p>Autism is seen as a large and wide spectrum of many different symptoms all called "autism". Using terms like "high functioning autism" is probably not a helpful way to talk about some color on the spectrum, however.<p>Source: I am the parent of a child with autism.</p>
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<p>Perhaps unsigned could help here with understanding.<p>unsigned means, don't use of an integer MSB as sign bit. __nonstring means, the byte array might not be terminated with a NUL byte.<p>So what happens if you use integers instead of byte arrays? I mean cast away unsigned or add unsigned. Of course these two areas are different, but one could try to design such features that they behave in similar ways where it makes sense.<p>I am unsure but it seems, if you cast to a different type you lose the conditions of the previous type. And "should this be legal", you can cast away a lot of things and it's legal. That's C.<p>But whatever because it's not implemented. This all is hypothetical. I understand GCC that they took the easier way. Type strictness is not C's forte.</p>
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<p>True.<p>This would be only useful in typedefs. An API could declare some byte arrays not strings. But again, whatever.</p>
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<p>I do understand.<p>I imagine that it could work a little bit like unsigned: a modifier to integer types that tells that an integer's MSB is not to be used as a sign bit.<p>__nonstring__ tells that the last byte of a byte sequence doesn't need to be NUL.<p>I would find it sensible allowing putting the attribute to a type, but whatever.</p>
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