Hacker News: vippy

New comment by vippy in "The effect of deactivating Facebook and Instagram on users' emotional state"

vippy — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 05:30:02 +0000

^^^^^^^^^^^^^ this right here ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

New comment by vippy in "Brood War Korean Translations"

vippy — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 19:12:44 +0000

ok but where are the vods?

New comment by vippy in "A Japanese hikikomori released a game after 6 years of development [video]"

vippy — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 04:50:40 +0000

Dude's English is solid for a shut-in. Wonder if he studies online. Fun game idea, though. Basically Home Alone.

New comment by vippy in "The ten year anniversary of the Healthcare.gov rescue"

vippy — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 17:20:27 +0000

As a civic technologist currently contracting, I feel like more Americans should know that procurement rules all but prevent federal offices from doing their own software development and that most of it is, as you wrote, subsubsubcontracted.

New comment by vippy in "LabelContactRelationYoungerCousinMothersSiblingsDaughterOrFathersSistersDaughter"

vippy — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 21:05:31 +0000

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New comment by vippy in "Are any words the same in all languages?"

vippy — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 04:18:22 +0000

re: the Nahuatl origin of chocolate, my money is obviously on xocolatl.

New comment by vippy in "I don’t want to grow my freelance design studio into an agency"

vippy — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 01:07:53 +0000

Then don't

New comment by vippy in "Clone-a-Lisa"

vippy — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 22:43:15 +0000

Whoa, nearly 70% on my first try! https://imgur.com/a/6ZmDqXU

New comment by vippy in "It's 2023, so of course I'm learning Common Lisp"

vippy — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 05:07:32 +0000

It took me a while to grok monads, and the IO monad, and longer still to figure out how to compose them in safe ways, and manipulate execution order, etc. But: now I can write typesafe applications, and I produce fewer bugs when I work in non-FP languages (I get paid to write Java.) Lisp is a starting point. Haskell is where it's at. I recommend learning the style, even if you never produce production code in it.

New comment by vippy in "xAI"

vippy — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 17:43:57 +0000

That is, indeed, an observed phenomenon. I work in human behavior in Washington, D.C., in a position where I am paid to think about the causes of harassment, discrimination, and violence, and how we, if we believe it is valuable or necessary to reduce these behaviors, how they come into existence, arrange human affairs such that their costs are minimized. I am not some random left-wing hack for whom fascism is anything to the right of Stalin. Musk is definitely on the fascist spectrum.

New comment by vippy in "xAI"

vippy — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 17:13:29 +0000

Слава Україні, орк.

New comment by vippy in "xAI"

vippy — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 17:12:05 +0000

The 10 kids while repping on his $44 billion dollar Titanic transphobes, homophobes, etc. I'm not talking about fascism as in "kill all of the people of a certain ethnic group," but there are, if you're in the study of ideology, politics, moral epistemology, etc., smaller, lower-case fascisms before people start calling you "Fuhrer." There is something in Elon's behavior and signaled preferences that very much comes across as a bio-Darwinistic, egoistic, self-maximizing project, e.g. a fascism.

New comment by vippy in "xAI"

vippy — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 16:48:29 +0000

Yeah, I'm not going anywhere near this. Musk had the world beating a path to his door, until he outed himself as a petulant man-child and a fascist.

New comment by vippy in "The student loan pause has made borrowers worse off"

vippy — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 12:37:54 +0000

I don't expect anything but anti-government propaganda from Reason.

New comment by vippy in "The tiny corp raised $5.1M"

vippy — Thu, 25 May 2023 18:23:05 +0000

Define "fix." Twitter is a tool used by extremists to reach massive audiences. Some of those extremists have socially destructive and violent objectives. Responding to harassment and hate speech involves understanding the psychology of harassers and racists so that incentives can be designed not to reward those behaviors. IMO, "fixing" Twitter isn't just about fail whales and 500 errors.

New comment by vippy in "The tiny corp raised $5.1M"

vippy — Thu, 25 May 2023 04:15:12 +0000

That wasn't precisely by choice though, IIRC.

New comment by vippy in "The tiny corp raised $5.1M"

vippy — Thu, 25 May 2023 03:58:13 +0000

This is the George Hotz MO: I trust him to create a lot less than I trust him to optimize, and I trust him with optimization only in a very narrow technical sense. "Optimizing" Twitter by reducing headcount to 50, regardless of the social or revenue consequences, is actually stupid. Optimizing a whole mess of software that exists between your tensor and the hardware is a decent idea.

New comment by vippy in "The tiny corp raised $5.1M"

vippy — Thu, 25 May 2023 01:05:08 +0000

The math isn't super difficult. Some books will try to throw a mess of differential equations at you, but some simple calculus is all you need for backpropagation.

New comment by vippy in "The tiny corp raised $5.1M"

vippy — Thu, 25 May 2023 01:03:18 +0000

George Hotz is a talented engineer but he absolutely does not have the social science background to "fix" Twitter.

New comment by vippy in "Jeff Bezos announces $3.4B NASA contract to land astronauts on lunar surface"

vippy — Fri, 19 May 2023 17:11:35 +0000

It is painfully clear that Musk isn't the brains of the operation, but the showman.