Hacker News: artifact_44

New comment by artifact_44 in "Tempest vs. Tempest: The Making and Remaking of Atari's Iconic Video Game"

artifact_44 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 03:12:30 +0000

Same. Super down to earth. We had our office next to his company that was making a graphics processing tool called Debabelizer. We used it heavily in our games workflow, and would occasionally find bugs... more than once, Dave came over to our office and debugged it on his laptop right in front of us. Truly inspirational dude.

New comment by artifact_44 in "Richard Feynman's blackboard at the time of his death (1988)"

artifact_44 — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 19:08:58 +0000

Because she thoroughly de-articulates the fabricated mystique around Feynman, and openly discusses the toxic effect his legacy has had on science. (Including the fact that a lot of his legacy was fabricated by people that either admired him, or wished to capitalize on that legacy.) Her video on Feynman is long and detailed, and very sobering. I highly recommend it. It absolutely/expertly challenged everything I thought I knew about him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwKpj2ISQAc

New comment by artifact_44 in "I accidentally Blender VSE"

artifact_44 — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 12:17:49 +0000

As a blender user, I am soooo grateful to OP. I think blender is one of if not the most important/impressive open project ever.

New comment by artifact_44 in "Kiwi Farms is down across all domains as DDoS-Guard terminates service"

artifact_44 — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 00:23:31 +0000

I Keffals broke the law, then that is a matter for law enforcement. It's not the purview of an internet hate mob acting as judge, jury, and executioner. Every defense I've seen of kiwifarms is exactly like yours. Some insinuations about how "distasteful" an individual is, and then an implied "Can you really blame them for going after him/her?"

New comment by artifact_44 in "Chimpanzees have diverse vocal sequences with ordered recombinatorial properties"

artifact_44 — Tue, 24 May 2022 14:53:44 +0000

Do you know of any projects using automated transcription and machine learning to analyze hominid speech? I ask because I remember reading about google translate effectively learning how to translate languages purely through machine learning and a large corpus of transcribed speech.

New comment by artifact_44 in "Why I quit this battle"

artifact_44 — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 03:48:05 +0000

I disagree. That text doesn't sound psychotic to me.. bitter, yes.. but I think HN users are all too familiar with being passionate about an issue at the expense of personal time and other pursuits, and I respect that.

New comment by artifact_44 in "The idea of uploading consciousness is misdirected narcissism"

artifact_44 — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 15:37:19 +0000

People are already effectively playing as NPCs in popular videogames. They're called gold farmers.

If you gave me the option as I got closer to 70, that I could be uploaded, and take up zero physical space, and live forever, I would jump at the chance. I don't think it's narcissistic at all. Imagine being able to communicate with your ancestors.. the opportunities for preserving knowledge and ending physical suffering, including the impact of humans living on the planet. Maybe we all just live forever until we run out of disk space. Maybe eventually we can have a lottery/queue where people take turns getting decanted for some IRL living.

New comment by artifact_44 in "Lawsuit filed alleging Google is paying Apple to stay out of the search business"

artifact_44 — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 12:35:36 +0000

One incentive for them doing this is that they have to provide support and if they let everyone use random search engines that deliver malware etc. They end up having to pay their "geniuses" more to un-crud peoples infested machines.

New comment by artifact_44 in "Ask HN: Have you found something you love to do? If yes how?"

artifact_44 — Sun, 26 Dec 2021 06:06:41 +0000

3d graphics and simulations. It's kike infinite Legos.

New comment by artifact_44 in "Don't soften feedback"

artifact_44 — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 20:59:58 +0000

Tldr.. fonts suck. Article could have been 5 sentences and been more digestible.

New comment by artifact_44 in "Open-source automated insulin delivery system given approval by team of experts"

artifact_44 — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 23:32:08 +0000

So grateful for the engine of capitalism/free market, that has people 3d printing insulin pumps for themselves.

New comment by artifact_44 in "Ask HN: Do You Use a Debugger?"

artifact_44 — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 10:48:01 +0000

I use the chrome debugger as my IDE. I have been using it to edit/run/debug javascript for years now.

My entire development stack is installed on any machine that runs chrome. It's awesome.

New comment by artifact_44 in "‘Ten years ago this was science fiction’: the rise of weedkilling robots"

artifact_44 — Sun, 15 Aug 2021 08:56:17 +0000

I too have seen the. Classic robot dystopia film Runaway.

New comment by artifact_44 in "‘Ten years ago this was science fiction’: the rise of weedkilling robots"

artifact_44 — Sun, 15 Aug 2021 08:55:49 +0000

I too have seen the. Lassic robot dystopia film Runaway.

New comment by artifact_44 in "An Open Letter Against Apple's Privacy-Invasive Content Scanning Technology"

artifact_44 — Fri, 06 Aug 2021 12:32:51 +0000

Why are they telling everyone and not just doing it? Seems like aiding and abetting, if you've already dismissed the privacy aspect...

New comment by artifact_44 in "Time to assume that health research is fraudulent until proven otherwise?"

artifact_44 — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 18:32:17 +0000

That was my first thought as well. Casting doubt, and then in a few days we'll see this opinion piece references by some right wing politician who is vaccinated but "can understand their constituents hesitency to trust the medical establishment".

Also I haven't seen anyone bring up the perverse incentive of capitalism in this thread. Like.. let's just pretend this is moral failing rather than the literal race to the bottom of capitalism.

New comment by artifact_44 in "Ask HN: Reinforcement learning for single, lower end graphic cards?"

artifact_44 — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 00:18:43 +0000

Check out Andrej karpathys convnet.js and deepq learning web apps.

New comment by artifact_44 in "Facebook will start putting ads in Oculus Quest apps"

artifact_44 — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 00:20:01 +0000

Also, Palmer Luckey is a weird libertarian/asshole, so who knows.. FB acquisition might have been a net benefit.

New comment by artifact_44 in "DeepMind says reinforcement learning is ‘enough’ to reach general AI"

artifact_44 — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 02:53:24 +0000

Anthropic principle

New comment by artifact_44 in "Why Can't Computing at the Heart of Bitcoin Be More Useful?"

artifact_44 — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 18:23:45 +0000

So.. somehow the heat output of a mining computer just disappears? Oh wait that's nonsense, because your CPU is literally a heat pump.