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New comment by infinite8s in "US defense official overseeing AI reaped millions selling xAI stock"

infinite8s — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:47:35 +0000

The opposite - the incumbent party is destroying America.

New comment by infinite8s in "Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world"

infinite8s — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 23:50:24 +0000

Is this like some scale-independent version of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle?

New comment by infinite8s in "America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shocks"

infinite8s — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:30:47 +0000

There are definite costs to this in terms of continued US taxation as an expat, especially if there isn't a tax treaty in place.

The Housing Crisis as a Land Crisis

infinite8s — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:31:17 +0000

Article URL: https://progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/the-housing-crisis-as-a-land-crisis

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46963503

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New comment by infinite8s in "Hacking Moltbook"

infinite8s — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:36:14 +0000

Who's legally responsible once someone's agent decides to SWAT someone else because they got into an argument with that person's agent?

New comment by infinite8s in "Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires"

infinite8s — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 17:24:11 +0000

Those poor people voted for something for which they were explicitly mislead. The results of Brexit have in no ways made their lives better.

New comment by infinite8s in "Lording it, over: A new history of the modern British aristocracy"

infinite8s — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 20:33:34 +0000

Binding people to a shared worldview due to a fear of an unsuccessful afterlife?

New comment by infinite8s in "Why Is SQLite Coded In C"

infinite8s — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 15:14:58 +0000

As someone coming back to C++ after more than a decade away, do you have any recommended resources on C++20 or open source projects you've seen that utilize the language this way?

New comment by infinite8s in "Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit"

infinite8s — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 02:36:55 +0000

Would you have gone to the streets for it?

New comment by infinite8s in "Trumpcard (Official US Government Website)"

infinite8s — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 02:24:34 +0000

He's been talking about doing it since he was inaugurated.

New comment by infinite8s in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

infinite8s — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 01:25:38 +0000

Don't be so sure of that. Network effects are still subject to tipping points.

New comment by infinite8s in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

infinite8s — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 01:00:08 +0000

The economic benefits are clear - what social costs are you taking about?

New comment by infinite8s in "Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores""

infinite8s — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 13:08:46 +0000

In what other country does a jail sentence mean you get sent to another country to serve the sentence? (Except maybe the US now with detained immigrants)

New comment by infinite8s in "Intel's retreat is unlike anything it's done before in Oregon"

infinite8s — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 16:03:34 +0000

Did you study chemical engineering knowing it's applicability to software engineering?

Your observation is interesting because early ideas in object oriented design were likewise inspired by biological robustness in the face of a non-zero background error rate (see any of Alan Kay's early writings, and his Turing lecture). I wonder if half of a CS degree shouldn't also involve basic chemeng and bioeng.

New comment by infinite8s in "What is Realtalk’s relationship to AI? (2024)"

infinite8s — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 22:46:34 +0000

Folk.computer (https://folk.computer) is an open source version of DL-like system, and even though the code uses TCL it's pretty easy to reimplement any bits you see in the DynamicLand archives (I've done this). For example, the code in the video here https://dynamicland.org/archive/2022/Knobs can be 1-1 translated into TCL and it works the same.

If you really wanted to play around with similar ideas it doesn't take a needing to do a full reimplemention of the reactive engine.

New comment by infinite8s in "OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats"

infinite8s — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 20:39:22 +0000

I think you and the GP are probably talking about different scale orders of magnitude.

New comment by infinite8s in "Inventing the Adventure Game (1984)"

infinite8s — Mon, 12 May 2025 15:11:07 +0000

Hi Don, do you know if this ever happened (I think it's from the 2007 email - but tough to say for sure given above formatting)?

> (BTW, Etoys is kind of an OO event-driven Logo (not an accident), and the next version of it has as a goal to be able to do Robot Odyssey in a reasonable way. This got delayed because of funding problems but we now have funding and are really going to do it this year. Want to help design and build it?)

New comment by infinite8s in "You can't git clone a team"

infinite8s — Mon, 12 May 2025 13:38:02 +0000

From a purely humanity-improving perspective this lack of dissemination is quite sad.

> No one writes it down because it sort of feels wrong to claim second-hand knowledge of unknown origin as your own, or to even lead people to assume as much.

Wouldn't it be possible to publish informally (say in a blog post) while fully disclaiming first-authorship or invention?

New comment by infinite8s in "Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences"

infinite8s — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 22:49:38 +0000

I love histogram sliders! I think they were originally developed by Chris Ahlberg in Ben Shneiderman's group, and were later commercialized in Spotfire (I have yet to see them in any other infoviz system except Panopticon - https://www.perceptualedge.com/blog/?p=965). Jeff Heer did some work a few decades to generalize into 'scented widget' (http://vis.stanford.edu/papers/scented-widgets). With systems like DuckDB it's now even easier to implement them into various visual analytic systems.

New comment by infinite8s in "Advanced Civilizations Could Be Indistinguishable from Nature"

infinite8s — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 14:21:38 +0000

Pushing atoms around by mechanical means only seems plausible if you've never really studied molecular chemistry - see the Drexler/Smalley debate - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drexler%E2%80%93Smalley_debate...