Hacker News: antisemiotic

New comment by antisemiotic in "John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general intelligence"

antisemiotic — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 08:41:12 +0000

I wonder what would happen if Carmack teamed up with Yudkowsky and his cult; Carmack's practicality with the imagination of people who non-facetiously talk about acausal deals with mulitiversal AIs could be a match made in heaven.

New comment by antisemiotic in "Browsh for text-based internet browsing (2018)"

antisemiotic — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 18:58:12 +0000

There are extensions (at least for Firefox, but I think Chrome has those too) to always redirect to old reddit.

New comment by antisemiotic in "Async-await on stable Rust"

antisemiotic — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 14:57:35 +0000

That's just the "Pin" type, which is heavily used in async code behind (and occasionally in front) the scenes, but is by no means restricted to it.

New comment by antisemiotic in "Facebook Libra Is Architecturally Unsound"

antisemiotic — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 13:30:32 +0000

I used to think that Libra is just an attempt to combine the transaction speed of blockchain with the trustlessness of fiat, I didn't expect the rabbit hole to go so deep.

New comment by antisemiotic in "Undercover reporter reveals life in a Polish troll farm"

antisemiotic — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 07:35:19 +0000

Good old "anyone ineptly arguing against my core beliefs must be a paid troll": https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Shill_gambit

New comment by antisemiotic in "3D graphics rendering pipeline. Implemented in JavaScript. Run in a terminal"

antisemiotic — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 11:28:03 +0000

>A compiler pass is not a compiler.

What is the difference, if there's one well-defined language before the pass and another after it?

>A non-optimising C to assembly compiler is not compiling to the same level of abstraction.

Neither are "transpilers", otherwise they'd be quite useless. Abstraction isn't a linear hirerarchy, in any case.

New comment by antisemiotic in "3D graphics rendering pipeline. Implemented in JavaScript. Run in a terminal"

antisemiotic — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 07:03:17 +0000

In that case surely you'd agree that there are hardly any compilers in wide use these days - more often than not the first step of a modern compiler is translation into a similar but less expressive intermediate language.

Or does it only count as "transpilation" if the intermediate representation is an already existing language, thus making the distincion purely based on the history of a language, not the implementation?

New comment by antisemiotic in "3D graphics rendering pipeline. Implemented in JavaScript. Run in a terminal"

antisemiotic — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 05:37:32 +0000

Fine, but by that logic, gcc with -O0 is a transpiler, and becomes a compiler again with -O2. Similarly, TS transpiles to JS, but, say, ClojureScript compiles to JS. And if a compiler is built with something like Nanopass, it's a sequence of transpilers that somehow become a compiler along the way.

New comment by antisemiotic in "3D graphics rendering pipeline. Implemented in JavaScript. Run in a terminal"

antisemiotic — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 23:15:28 +0000

"Transpilation" and "compilation" describe the exact same concept. From user's perspective, readable code is translated into runnable code. From theoretical perspective, code in a more complex language is translated into a less complex language while preserving semantics. From a compiler writer's perspective, it's a totem pole of compilers, with at least one middle-level language usually. Plenty of people use the term "compiles to JavaScript" to describe languages like TS or Elm. It's just some overly pedantic people insist on the term "transpile" when the target is also, in a completely unrelated way, used to write code directly by a significant number of contemporary programmers.

New comment by antisemiotic in "3D graphics rendering pipeline. Implemented in JavaScript. Run in a terminal"

antisemiotic — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 22:38:37 +0000

It's always "from one language to another", sometimes the destination is machine language. The output is generally not meant to be meant to be human-readable in any case. "Transpile" is an ugly and unnecessary word, please don't push it as "more correct".

New comment by antisemiotic in "Tor Browser 9.0"

antisemiotic — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 11:27:12 +0000

The emphasis was on "why Facebook", not "why Tor".

New comment by antisemiotic in "Tor Browser 9.0"

antisemiotic — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 08:08:26 +0000

What are the use cases for browsing Facebook through Tor? For me it sounds kind of like asking a prostitute for a hug.

New comment by antisemiotic in "Sudo vulnerability"

antisemiotic — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 06:58:14 +0000

Unless "user that was created with admin rights which were later taken away" counts as admin, then no. I always set up a separate admin account and hardly ever have to log into it to do admin stuff.

New comment by antisemiotic in "Gitlab ‘rethinking’ third-party telemetry"

antisemiotic — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 13:28:19 +0000

DNT is pretty much the reverse of the evil bit (RFC 3514), but supposedly not meant as a joke.

New comment by antisemiotic in "Gitlab ‘rethinking’ third-party telemetry"

antisemiotic — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 13:07:29 +0000

Twelve thumbs down and one middle finger. (I'm not a native speaker of emoji and I'm not sure what the 8 ball means). These are from employees?

New comment by antisemiotic in "Stealing Ur Feelings"

antisemiotic — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 07:44:34 +0000

Every educated AI knows that the best way to spot a criminal is too look for people staring directly at the camera, with a white rectangle below their face.

New comment by antisemiotic in "Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on?"

antisemiotic — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 20:05:10 +0000

>An example might be in store retail analytics- a set up with a bunch of cameras that can detect what people are touching or otherwise interested in.

Because the one thing desperately needed in this world is even more surveillance?

New comment by antisemiotic in "Typography of Neon Genesis Evangelion"

antisemiotic — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 16:24:24 +0000

>writers eventually admit

Excuse me sir, do you have a moment to talk about or lord and saviour, Death of the Author?

New comment by antisemiotic in "Faces of Open Source"

antisemiotic — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 13:05:50 +0000

I heard he got axed while he was on a business trip to Mexico.

New comment by antisemiotic in "NordVPN confirms it was hacked"

antisemiotic — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 07:04:37 +0000

IPv6 VPN is available for free from https://ungleich.ch/ipv6/vpn/ if you buy a VM from them.

Haven't tested it, just rembered datacenterlight from a HN thread about buying a mainframe.