Hacker News: blonde_ocean

New comment by blonde_ocean in "Facebook approves alcohol, vaping and gambling ads targeting 13-17 year olds"

blonde_ocean — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 02:28:36 +0000

How in the hell can you expect advertisement in the 21st century to not reach minors? We might as well legislate that all minors must wear blindfolds at all times, or be blinded as they’re born.

New comment by blonde_ocean in "Phones and apps reduce your ability to focus even when they don’t distract you"

blonde_ocean — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 21:39:45 +0000

Not who, but what: work.

New comment by blonde_ocean in "Dogs orient and move in synchrony with family members"

blonde_ocean — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 13:31:16 +0000

Anecdotally, my cat definitely responds to his name being called. Often around feeding time

New comment by blonde_ocean in "Why inflation is not a threat"

blonde_ocean — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 00:38:59 +0000

So how are you hedging?

New comment by blonde_ocean in "Chomsky – The Machine, the Ghost and the Limits of Understanding (2012) [video]"

blonde_ocean — Sun, 14 Mar 2021 09:34:39 +0000

Hey, can I connect with you 1-1 to discuss your post-grad work? I’ve been playing around with the idea of getting a graduate degree in linguistics, but with a CS-focus. Would love to hear from someone who’s been through it.

New comment by blonde_ocean in "China’s Bitcoin miners flee Inner Mongolia ahead of crypto mining ban"

blonde_ocean — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 17:27:00 +0000

Can we stop calling everything a “black swan?” This would not be a black swan; nation states should be expected to have the ability to find a vulnerability in an application such as coinbase.

Now, if you were to say a nation state decides to hack the blockchain, well, I’d call that a black swan.

New comment by blonde_ocean in "Superintelligence cannot be contained: Lessons from Computability Theory"

blonde_ocean — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 05:04:47 +0000

How else do you prove something using the halting problem other than a proof of contradiction?

New comment by blonde_ocean in "Facebook senior software engineer interview"

blonde_ocean — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 15:37:45 +0000

The article doesn’t but I think OP’s point was that relying on knowledge / algorithms designed and provided by others would mean an immediate fail in a FAANG interview, but it’s exactly what successful engineers do when employed at FAANGs.

New comment by blonde_ocean in "EU leaders agree to cut emissions by at least 55% by end of decade"

blonde_ocean — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 18:23:01 +0000

I would argue that raising GDP indirectly allows easier access to clean water, food, solid housing, vaccines, etc. All of those things allow for better quality of life. Where I agree with you is in the spiritual or philosophical sense of “quality of life”—aka happiness or fulfillment. At a certain point, no, money does not increase happiness or fulfillment. But it does increase quality of life.

New comment by blonde_ocean in "Contested Legacy of the Conquistadors"

blonde_ocean — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 18:19:53 +0000

Still paywalled ;-;

New comment by blonde_ocean in "Far Cry: How the Fire Burns and Spreads (2012)"

blonde_ocean — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 14:36:55 +0000

It’s the experience of doing it that makes it special. There’s no good way to put that into words.

New comment by blonde_ocean in "EU leaders agree to cut emissions by at least 55% by end of decade"

blonde_ocean — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 13:41:39 +0000

Yeah the difficult thing about industrialization is that the cat’s out of the bag in 2 ways.

1) we recognize the positive impacts that industrialization brings, directly and indirectly. Directly raising GDP has an indirect, positive net effect on quality of life (not spiritually or philosophically, though, I might argue; although, I only think of these things because I live in an industrialized, developed, “rich” nation).

2) we recognize the horrible impact that industrialization has on our world.

The industrialized nations are the ones leading the charge in saying, “hey, wait a minute, industrialization is bad! It’s wrecking our world and we will die a horrible death as a species if we continue at this rate so slow down!” But those nations who are just hitting their stride, so to speak, aren’t gonna stop. That’s totally unfair. They think, “what the fuck am I supposed to do? Just sit here and play with sticks? I want the money, I want the goods, I want to be a rich, developed nation.” And so they keep burning, and will keep burning, unless (IMO) the already rich and developed nations somehow help them to develop in the cleanest way possible.

New comment by blonde_ocean in "Common Expression Language"

blonde_ocean — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 00:39:52 +0000

How do you mean sub-Turing languages don’t allow recursion? Aren’t context-free languages, for example, literally recursive?

New comment by blonde_ocean in "EU pushes for 'right to disconnect' from work at home"

blonde_ocean — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 15:45:03 +0000

From a US Constitutional perspective, rights are inherent, and the Bill of Rights protects citizens from laws that infringe on those rights. Rights are not given by the government via laws, they are inherent protections from invasive laws set by government.

New comment by blonde_ocean in "Psiloscoby: Psilocybin Brewed by Kombucha"

blonde_ocean — Fri, 27 Nov 2020 13:27:21 +0000

I exited out when the authors claimed that “kombucha provides good set and setting.”

New comment by blonde_ocean in "Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert"

blonde_ocean — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 17:08:08 +0000

I mean, it’s pretty cool. There’s that fact. But my guess it’s probably being drive to top due to the parallels to 2001. I’d imagine there’s a large Kubrick fanbase on HN, if not just a 2001 fanbase.

New comment by blonde_ocean in "For Alaska shipwreck survivor, losing everything has been ‘sort of liberating’"

blonde_ocean — Sat, 21 Nov 2020 03:10:13 +0000

> Brodersen, the survivor, was fortunate to get to Ketchikan’s PeaceHealth Medical Center when he did. He’d had a heart attack, and was suffering from hypothermia and cold-induced rhabdomyolysis — a kind of muscle death.

Disagree. This is near-death for anyone, especially a 70-year-old.

New comment by blonde_ocean in "South Park creators have new political satire series with AI-generated deepfakes"

blonde_ocean — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 15:57:57 +0000

The toughest issue here, IMO, is being able to sign and authenticate a document without proprietary DRM. Been thinking about this a lot.

New comment by blonde_ocean in "I am an Uighur who faced China’s concentration camps"

blonde_ocean — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 03:55:41 +0000

Why not?

New comment by blonde_ocean in "'Zoom towns' are exploding in the West"

blonde_ocean — Fri, 23 Oct 2020 02:15:13 +0000

Right here with you. I don’t even know when I’m supposed to go back into the office, but I definitely thought about taking out an AirBnB for a couple months in somewhere like Provo.