<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: michael_j_ward</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=michael_j_ward</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 23:16:04 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=michael_j_ward" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by michael_j_ward in "Video generation models as world simulators"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Who is "we"?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:55:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39397840</link><dc:creator>michael_j_ward</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39397840</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39397840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by michael_j_ward in "Is something bugging you?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Dealing with every possible source of non-determinism, re-writing services to be testable/sans-IO [2], etc. takes a lot of engineering effort.<p>Are there public examples of what such a re-write looks like?<p>Also, are you working at a rust shop that's developing this way?<p>Final Note, TigerBeetle is another product that was written this way.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2024 14:59:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39358183</link><dc:creator>michael_j_ward</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39358183</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39358183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by michael_j_ward in "Living Papers: A Language Toolkit for Augmented Scholarly Communication"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>From the abstract, it sounds more like a toolkit for "Interactive / Hypermedia" papers. The paper itself is still dead.<p>I was hoping more for "Living" as in "active, uncertain, will grow over time".<p>A toolkit for expressing the research from beginning to the end - the state of the world as you understand it, highlighting the key uncertainties and experiments, and mechanisms for viewing the history.<p>As a motivating example for the type of "living research paper" that I'm thinking of, think of long-running software design decisions a la the implementation of `async/await` in rust.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2023 00:15:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38020051</link><dc:creator>michael_j_ward</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38020051</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38020051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by michael_j_ward in "Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And in the context of discussing "whole word" vs "phonetic" systems of learning the English language, it seems like outright deception.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2023 13:42:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35613879</link><dc:creator>michael_j_ward</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35613879</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35613879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by michael_j_ward in "RedPajama: Reproduction of LLaMA with friendly license"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My kids love that book, and my oldest had me read it to his preschool class earlier this year.<p>Here is a much more creative reading by Ludacris [0]<p>[0] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFtHeo7oMSU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFtHeo7oMSU</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Apr 2023 15:45:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35602438</link><dc:creator>michael_j_ward</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35602438</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35602438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by michael_j_ward in "Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Pointing out a few outliers in such a large system like the English Language and using them to justify reclassifying the entire thing is braindead.</p>
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<p>It's an alphabetic writing system where the letters largely correspond to sounds, in contrast to logographic writing system where the symbol corresponds to the entire word (like Chinese or Japan).<p>Yes, there are special rules and outliers that you need to learn in English, but it seems absurd to not classify it as phonetic because it's not <i>purely</i> phonetic. This is doubly so when discussing phonetic vs whole-word learning systems, as is the topic with "Sold a Story".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Apr 2023 15:05:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35601895</link><dc:creator>michael_j_ward</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35601895</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35601895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by michael_j_ward in "Create optimal conditions for lucky things to happen to you (2020)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I highly recommend famed computer scientist Richard Hamming's "You and Your Research" [0] which covers "creating luck" from a researchers perspective.<p>[0]: <a href="https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2023 12:50:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34426055</link><dc:creator>michael_j_ward</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34426055</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34426055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by michael_j_ward in "Calculus they won't teach you [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you don't mind sharing, what grade-level, decade, location were you taught this?<p>The key part about the pizza example is the demonstration of mathematical thinking <i>completely disparate</i> from what I experienced at a Catholic high-school in Chicago during the 2000s.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2023 18:16:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34249246</link><dc:creator>michael_j_ward</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34249246</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34249246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by michael_j_ward in "Open Source SMT Pick and Place Hardware and Software"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>TIL what an "SMT Pick and Place" [0][1] machine is.<p>Summary: $1000 and with open source hardware and tools, I can make custom computing hardware for your projects.<p>Seems pretty cool.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFJrbRKUXdc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFJrbRKUXdc</a>
[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick-and-place_machine" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick-and-place_machine</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2022 20:30:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34165543</link><dc:creator>michael_j_ward</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34165543</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34165543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by michael_j_ward in "Solar furnace to melt steel at 2000°C for Swiss recycler"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do I have this Napkin math correct?<p>400 tons produced per year (original article)<p>$1000 per ton (generous [0], current index at $770)<p>$400k per year revenue (calculated)<p>$25M Euro investment (original article)<p>~63 years payback on *revenue* (being generous again with EURSD=$1)<p>Do I have that right?<p>[0] <a href="https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/metals/ferrous/hrc-steel.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/metals/ferrous/hrc-steel.ht...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2022 21:13:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33990664</link><dc:creator>michael_j_ward</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33990664</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33990664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by michael_j_ward in "The silent struggles of workers with ADHD"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Despite seeing myself almost precisely described in that video and the original article, and despite having been diagnosed with ADHD as a college student...<p>It's hard for me to believe that there exists persons that won't / don't identify with that description, and thus the cause of my executive dysfunction isn't ADHD, but just a failure to cultivate habits of discipline.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2022 21:44:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33960861</link><dc:creator>michael_j_ward</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33960861</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33960861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by michael_j_ward in "A Vim Guide for Advanced Users"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Having suffered through learning highly configurable software tools independently enough times, I agree completely with "digesting one or few commands" at a time works better for me too.<p>Spitballing:<p>We could probably make a general solution for organically producing "learning guide" if power users 1) share their custom configurations and share the frequencies of commands they use.<p>Start with the general configuration, knowing nothing about the commands the tool offers. The learning guide is just a queue of "here's the most common config edit that you don't have" and "here's the most common command that you don't know about."<p>We are already share configs with eachother via the dotfiles pattern. We somewhat share command patterns via coding streams. Seems doable.<p>(In general, making it easier to learn new tech and for devs to share / refresh the learning material for a new tech seem underdeveloped.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2022 16:12:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33818245</link><dc:creator>michael_j_ward</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33818245</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33818245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by michael_j_ward in "D2, a diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams, is now open source"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is Ilograph open source?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2022 13:57:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33705803</link><dc:creator>michael_j_ward</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33705803</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33705803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by michael_j_ward in "Crypto trading firm Alameda Research might be insolvent"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>heh - you're obviously correct and now I'm kicking myself for forgetting the #1 difference.<p>FTT does not offer any sort of interest like Terra did. The benefits of holding are strictly discounted use of the FTX platform [0]<p>[0] <a href="https://help.ftx.com/hc/en-us/articles/360052410392-FTT-Staking" rel="nofollow">https://help.ftx.com/hc/en-us/articles/360052410392-FTT-Stak...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2022 14:33:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33467362</link><dc:creator>michael_j_ward</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33467362</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33467362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by michael_j_ward in "Crypto trading firm Alameda Research might be insolvent"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What the argument misses / why FTT is different than Terra<p>1) Alameda Research owns FTX, one of the largest and arguably most important crypto exchanges.<p>2) FTX offers fee discounts to FTT-stakers and additional discounts if you <i>pay</i> in FTT. [0]<p>3) Trading volume on FTX thus creates an organic demand cycle for FTT. The large firms will buy, stake, and then continuously refresh their supply.<p>4) The vast majority of the volume at FTT will be in margined accounts at FTX. I am uncertain if the volume analysis would capture FTT movements in (3).<p>Now, there's clearly financial alchemy going (giving away real economic value to boost an asset that you can then get leverage on) but that'd be better for Matt Levine or someone to flesh out.<p>[0] <a href="https://help.ftx.com/hc/en-us/articles/360024479432-Fees" rel="nofollow">https://help.ftx.com/hc/en-us/articles/360024479432-Fees</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2022 13:27:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33466309</link><dc:creator>michael_j_ward</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33466309</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33466309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by michael_j_ward in "IOx: InfluxData’s New Storage Engine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just want to say congratulations to the team!<p>2 years and 9,500+ commits is a hell of a feat.<p><a href="https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb_iox" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb_iox</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2022 15:58:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33345645</link><dc:creator>michael_j_ward</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33345645</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33345645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by michael_j_ward in "MagicDNS is generally available"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> (1) I can have multiple domains for the same device, say gitea.mytsnetwork.com and netxcloud.mytsnetwork.com can go to the same device<p>I tried setting up caddy on a machine and then using caddy to reverse-proxy requests to each service i.e. `grafana.my-machine.tail-hex.ts.net` and `controller.my-machine.tail-hex.ts`<p>Obviously, `caddy` has no problem with the reverse proxy bit, but I did fail at being able to point multiple routes or subnet routes at the same machine via tailscle / magic-dns.<p>I'm sharing because it feels like something I <i>should</i> be able to do, and feel dumb not being able to figure it out.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2022 18:02:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33278368</link><dc:creator>michael_j_ward</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33278368</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33278368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by michael_j_ward in "The Framework Laptop Chromebook Edition"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think you underestimate the selling power of "Green" options, particularly among those with dollars to spend.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2022 16:35:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32927630</link><dc:creator>michael_j_ward</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32927630</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32927630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by michael_j_ward in "The Framework Laptop Chromebook Edition"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I bet lots of schools would pay up for "sustainable" laptops, actually.</p>
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