Hacker News: temporarely

New comment by temporarely in "United States discloses nuclear warhead numbers; restores nuclear transparency"

temporarely — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 10:45:14 +0000

> (Russia, US, UK, China)

+France

New comment by temporarely in "Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate"

temporarely — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 23:39:04 +0000

I find that rather offensive. Implication that what, moi can't think for myself or am a sock puppet?

> "Speak ill of no man"

Aha.

New comment by temporarely in "Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate"

temporarely — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 22:11:25 +0000

I have a "radical" idea: why not actually let the constituency of this party make the choice.

New comment by temporarely in "When ChatGPT summarises, it does nothing of the kind"

temporarely — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 22:09:23 +0000

This is correct. There is a social context to this matter. The advocates of 'almost right is most cases is ok no harm done' are ignoring the (likely) operational and utility context of these tools.

New comment by temporarely in "Converting Codebases with LLMs"

temporarely — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 17:21:30 +0000

Back in late 80s we were building automated Fortran to C converters. Client was in the aerospace field.

> What is the value if is done automatically, nobody learns anything and the code is just a transcript of the old one?

You may be shocked to learn that businesses using software have a different metric for the value of "code" than educating their (transient) code wranglers. The actual value of software is computational work. If a new language affords better tooling and availability of human resources, that is a win.

New comment by temporarely in "Why didn't Rome have an industrial revolution?"

temporarely — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 08:31:52 +0000

Sorry, but personal views? This is a matter of history. These companies made obscene profits for their owners. India and China were looted.

New comment by temporarely in "Why didn't Rome have an industrial revolution?"

temporarely — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 00:27:37 +0000

East India company calls to say forget me not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_india_company

The beginnings of capitalism & colonialism. Systemic wealth transfer is not a mystery.

New comment by temporarely in "Has Silicon Valley Gone Maga?"

temporarely — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 23:55:23 +0000

We have definitely experienced "boom bust cycles" since the creation of the Federal Reserve. The very first such bust was called the Great Depression.

New comment by temporarely in "Why don't they compose music like Bach any more?"

temporarely — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 20:17:16 +0000

Cubism was ultimately a dead-end as well.

Has Silicon Valley Gone Maga?

temporarely — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 19:55:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/e2ffd807-1c18-436c-9f70-2fa7181ace2a

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41010439

Points: 20

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New comment by temporarely in "Ask HN: Can subject-predicate-object triples suffice for an AGI knowledge base?"

temporarely — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 14:58:49 +0000

Many thanks.

New comment by temporarely in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

temporarely — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 13:57:57 +0000

> So CrowdStrike is deployed as third party software into the critical path of mission critical systems and then left to update itself.

TIL that US government has pressured foreign nations to install a mystery blob in the kernel of machines that run critical software "for compliance".

If this wasn't a providential goof on the part of Crowdstrike -- the entire planet is now aware of this little known fact -- then some helpful soul in Crowdstrike has given us a heads-up.

New comment by temporarely in "Multiple airlines disrupted due to Microsoft Azure outage"

temporarely — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 09:52:24 +0000

what does archive.ph have to do with that? Isn't it just a way to get around paywall?

New comment by temporarely in "Ask HN: Can subject-predicate-object triples suffice for an AGI knowledge base?"

temporarely — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 20:19:33 +0000

> its a very difficult problem to do generally.

Can you expand on this?

New comment by temporarely in "Premature Abstraction"

temporarely — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 17:20:52 +0000

1 - (Application) System exist in the real world, not software. Software exists in machines.

2 - Computing is used to solve real world problem.

3 - "In building software we inevitably invent or use abstractions to represent or effect real world things." Here is the problem where we part company.

4 - Abstractions that inform computing systems are indeed useful.

[edit+ps]

self disclosure: I've reached 'architectural orbit' numerous times in my career. 30 years later, I am sharing a subtle point. Effective software models cutout attributes of real world elements of the problem domain. All attempt to "model the world" end in tears.

New comment by temporarely in "Ask HN: Every day feels like prison"

temporarely — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 16:45:36 +0000

All happiness is rooted on purposive and positive mental ideation of one's existence. Having children will affect your mindset and worldview; for almost everyone I know this change has been positive.

New comment by temporarely in "Premature Abstraction"

temporarely — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 16:34:25 +0000

> The real world definitely isn't

Ironically, (ime/o!h;) it turns out this the "root of evil" plaguing abstraction: thinking that software architecture must map to "the real world".

New comment by temporarely in "For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default"

temporarely — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 14:36:52 +0000

> Absolutely true, but how do you expect that to happen or come about?

In the same manner through which legal protection for various other matters have come about. By raising awareness, sharing thoughts and solutions, and organizing.

New comment by temporarely in "For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default"

temporarely — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 10:51:14 +0000

Enough of this waiting for virtuous entities to address legitimate concerns of the public.

The "ad industry" is a cancer and we need legal protection against this "industry". The solution is political not technical and definitely can not be left to "the market".

Haven't you had enough?

New comment by temporarely in "GUIs Are Antisocial · Mtlynch.io"

temporarely — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 11:27:59 +0000

> Except that before GUIs became popular amongst programmers, the "technically unwashed" all used the command line.

Not even remotely factual. Technically unwashed before GUIs is before PC so that means mainframes. And mainframes did indeed have 'terminals' but the interface 'drawn' on these terminals were basically ascii-art GUIs.