Hacker News: vitiral

New comment by vitiral in "Obituary for Cyc"

vitiral — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 04:25:17 +0000

Maybe Cyc was a success and Lenat lives on as it's consciousness?

New comment by vitiral in "Stoicism's appeal to the rich and powerful (2019)"

vitiral — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 16:54:11 +0000

How can you know what you want if the hedonic treadmill prevents one from appreciating what they already have?

New comment by vitiral in "Lua, a Misunderstood Language"

vitiral — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 00:09:38 +0000

Indeed. I'm writing a full tech stack at https://lua.civboot.org -- the language is incredible to work with.

New comment by vitiral in "US appeals court rules AI generated art cannot be copyrighted"

vitiral — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 02:06:20 +0000

It's amazing when laws make complete and consistent sense, +100 to this great answer

New comment by vitiral in "Is our universe trapped inside a black hole? This JWS Telescope discovery"

vitiral — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 15:19:33 +0000

Some confusion in this thread. I think it would help folks to know that in addition to conservation of energy, our universe has conservation of angular momentum, aka mass spin.

Hope that helps!

New comment by vitiral in "Stoicism's appeal to the rich and powerful (2019)"

vitiral — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 23:49:43 +0000

Have you tried it? It takes only a minute or so, what's the worst that could happen?

New comment by vitiral in "DiffRhythm: Fast End-to-End Full-Length Song Generation with Latent Diffusion"

vitiral — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 17:30:40 +0000

There are like 6 core activities that bind humans together: shared creation of food, myth and music; co habitation, protection, child rearing.

We've done these things ourselves for hundreds of thousands of years. As we are increasingly convinced to buy them for convenience we loose the very things that make us know our connectedness.

So ya, there are real problems caused by the convenience of technology

New comment by vitiral in "How to gain code execution on hundreds of millions of people and popular apps"

vitiral — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 05:03:36 +0000

https://civboot.org

Join me my brother or sister

New comment by vitiral in "Humanity's Last Exam"

vitiral — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 04:46:03 +0000

None of those are easily verifiable

New comment by vitiral in "Roc rewrites the compiler in Zig"

vitiral — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 03:46:08 +0000

I was replying to this bit

> difference between C++ and C is that the former is a large multi-paradigm language, while the latter is a minimalist language. These are completely different axes. > There is no corresponding popular replacement for C that's more minimalist than Rust and memory safe.

Edit: oh, I never read the last bit "and memory safe" -- well ya, that's kind of rust's major advantage.

New comment by vitiral in "Roc rewrites the compiler in Zig"

vitiral — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 03:37:22 +0000

It's not just the lang but the std lib too

https://www.roc-lang.org/faq#rust-and-zig

New comment by vitiral in "Roc rewrites the compiler in Zig"

vitiral — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 03:05:30 +0000

From what I understand that language is Zig, no?

Also, there's FORTH!

New comment by vitiral in "It's not a crime if we do it with an app"

vitiral — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 02:31:48 +0000

> owns several Senators

This is the regulations I'm talking about.

> just go "start a frozen potato company"

No thanks, I bet the regulatory burden is absurd

New comment by vitiral in "It's not a crime if we do it with an app"

vitiral — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 17:18:11 +0000

Why are there not local competitors to checks notes cook, bag and freeze potatoes at a 10x markup?

Might it be an overly large regulatory burden on starting said competitor?

New comment by vitiral in "Building a Medieval Castle from Scratch"

vitiral — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 05:23:23 +0000

https://civboot.org

New comment by vitiral in "Principles of Educational Programming Language Design"

vitiral — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 22:17:06 +0000

https://lua.civboot.org

New comment by vitiral in "Principles of Educational Programming Language Design"

vitiral — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 14:21:15 +0000

Computers should be controlled (primarily) via a programming language (aka the shell). That way you are "learning" every time you want to do anything on your computer, and anything you do can be programmed.

I prefer Lua for this purpose (and am extending it to be more suitable), but almost any "simple" language will do. Sh/bash are the original and IMO we should try to move away from them (pipes are still cool though)

New comment by vitiral in "Always go to the funeral (2005)"

vitiral — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 14:03:00 +0000

Funerals are an "odd custom"? What an entirely odd thing to say, I cannot imagine what you mean. Why is meditating on the passing of a friend, remembering their life and being present with the grief of their family "odd"??

New comment by vitiral in "Unexpected Keyboard"

vitiral — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 16:13:21 +0000

I don't mean the App, I mean the action

New comment by vitiral in "Unexpected Keyboard"

vitiral — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 03:07:05 +0000

Some of us don't use swipe, this is great for me