Hacker News: wdiamond

New comment by wdiamond in "How to safely escape JSON inside HTML SCRIPT elements"

wdiamond — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 00:24:44 +0000

"<"+"/script>", its a matter of parsing not value

New comment by wdiamond in "Ask HN: What strategy if planning to exit Software Engineering?"

wdiamond — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 00:21:29 +0000

I guess AGI is getting closer. Once reached all will be meaningless work. Just enjoy the circustances.

New comment by wdiamond in "The IDE isn't going away"

wdiamond — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 23:56:01 +0000

I would not say IDE, but code language itself. I can program without syntax highlight and autocomplete. The more precision you need the farther you are from natural language. But I really apreciate to type less. There is nothing more cryptic than compression of ideas.

New comment by wdiamond in "[dead]"

wdiamond — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 22:39:57 +0000

knowing, realizing, choosing, not tested combination, being pushed into, being given an example and other sort of acknowledge language.

New comment by wdiamond in "Programming Considered Harmful (2001)"

wdiamond — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 02:59:13 +0000

utopia of one language. there are better languages at a point in time, but the next point in time the other languages acquire the new features. its the same with any language, human or not.

New comment by wdiamond in "Odyc.js – A tiny JavaScript library for narrative games"

wdiamond — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 23:16:13 +0000

awesome product. scratch like business.

New comment by wdiamond in "Discussion: Job seekers can't find a job and Employers can't find an employees"

wdiamond — Mon, 20 May 2024 15:13:10 +0000

Its not a paradox. Those systems become legacy but still make money. Money has nothing to do with the knowledge, knowledge grows slower; machine instances are fast made.

New comment by wdiamond in "LLM Visualization"

wdiamond — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 02:02:22 +0000

amazing router

New comment by wdiamond in "The Right to Lie and Google’s “Web Environment Integrity”"

wdiamond — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 03:13:35 +0000

people built internet just to destroy it. its not a tech problem. its economics. the forever decreasing profits because more people just know and re-sell for less. tor will become more and more expensive till people realize that needs the same hardware trick with another brand like internet2,3,4,5,... to seek the solution by hacking wont stop this foverer battle. its just ends when the imaginary of fair price for information meets the offer (the forever decrease of population to let universe in peace)

New comment by wdiamond in "Will AI replace software engineers in the near future?"

wdiamond — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 23:31:56 +0000

Your questions depends on how much your employer can integrate legacy and new demands. Not all employers will have enough time for this. Probably in the future there will be a CTO employing no one at small scale, just like there are no-code companies. You can't take money from people with spare time.

New comment by wdiamond in "Brian Cox explains why time travels in one direction – BBC [video]"

wdiamond — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 00:40:34 +0000

Time is not a thing, is a mnemonic for counting movement.

New comment by wdiamond in "Show HN: I made a SQL game to help people learn / challenge their skills"

wdiamond — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 19:21:52 +0000

I guess future games will work like this, just with more dolls on screen and maybe with natural language (but in fact sql). The range of actions is huge.

New comment by wdiamond in "How can you make sure GPT-3 does not plagiarize?"

wdiamond — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 23:41:07 +0000

Obviously is a copy of something somehow. Not a new world creator.

New comment by wdiamond in "Ask HN: ChatGPT can solve my interview questions, now what?"

wdiamond — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 21:37:33 +0000

everyone knows that interview dont cover all of anything, its more like an interactive ad. neither multi-hour homework that can also be cheated. work is important in imaginary field, in concrete field anything less than a Ph.D paper is just a copy paste of an Ph.D from the past.

New comment by wdiamond in "Peter Norvig: Singularity is in the eye of the beholder"

wdiamond — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 15:01:38 +0000

I guess conscious is the eye of beholder. Its a switch between thinking and acting flopping insanely. Basically all multithread web server+site is a kind of conscious. But the self evolution of thinking is beyond conscious, just like us. Any mammal has conscious, but when the data (culture/static data) can be learned by recognizing abstract patterns linked to body data (reality) it may be able to self develop. I guess we have a lot to do automating processes and middleware interfacing to master transfer of wise between runtime models, runtime data and the core mapping of decisions on a wannabe singularity. The boot of computer language, human language and minimum hardware (boston dynamics?) to a machine have the same kind of freedom that enable us to self learn is the point. If you has no pain data of a robotic body, pain will not be on the scope of that singularity, leading a core with "Hansen disease". But if you capture pain data, you might expect fear behaviours on decision making. In other words its a threat to us that machines could secure itselves cause pain could be an abstract for instance human. We can choose between disposable semi-inteligent machines or a new type of free living being that could enslave us.

Not really interested on birthing a new type of living being too soon. It's not capitalism. But as a tool it can be usefull mocking reality, not surviving to it.

Machines already are good communication tools. Can be good enough processing tools. Not more than enough.

New comment by wdiamond in "The Kilobyte’s Gambit"

wdiamond — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 14:54:20 +0000

sounds the same for viruses and human kind.

New comment by wdiamond in "Tech Censorship Is Accelerating"

wdiamond — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 00:06:27 +0000

Pay to win is a form of monetization of games, this probably would become pay to be IRL (whatever the content trend). Fake persons are far more dangerous than fake news. Soon counter-spy will become the only business that matter.

New comment by wdiamond in "Goodbye Electron, Hello Flutter"

wdiamond — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 03:13:16 +0000

Just another "browser" reboot. To be a standard everybody must accept, as web is portable. If you are only looking for cheap tricks this will happen again and again. Maybe a new language that does flutter,C#,java,javascript interop should be created? then a couple of clones...

New comment by wdiamond in "Why does it take so long to build software? (2020)"

wdiamond — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 12:41:43 +0000

Software is like writing a book. A good book fits all new pieces in a new story and makes sense. A fast book is just copy of known pieces and known story and don't really fits well. A "PRO" in market steal not old ideas, a "PRO" in the field create detailed raw new sketchs that are not ready to sell.

New comment by wdiamond in "When you close your eyes how vividly can you imagine things?"

wdiamond — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 17:32:15 +0000

don't improve your imaginary reality, you would get lost in whats real if done good enough. use computers/paper/materials. I mean, you can't forecast your subconscious.