<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: zyxzevn</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=zyxzevn</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:21:52 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=zyxzevn" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zyxzevn in "Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Because of the excessive growing corruption in the EU, their politicians have decided to restrict all opposition. This corruption is hidden behind double-speak, demonization and censorship. Even putting people in prison who talk about the crimes that they endured.<p>Instead of using the criticism to improve the system, the corrupt system starts to attack and forbid the criticism.</p>
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<p>I see a lot of complaining from small companies and startups. The taxing system is slowly becoming communism (I have no better word). And they also are stopping farming, based on bad ideas.<p>I tried to get into fundamental research, but disliked the burocratic approach in Dutch universities.</p>
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<p>Big Brother is always right!</p>
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<p>Why is this a question on Hacker News? Are many people struggling with this?</p>
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<p>The problem is when certain (mental) models are important to a community or science specialization. When these models fail, the community will often enforce the model and censor the opposing facts. I have encountered several such conflicts.<p>Scientists are still humans. Individual people may be curious and be open to some questioning. But thy find it difficult to discuss such things in the open. It is like a religious dogma.<p>One example is the model of "colliding magnetic field lines", which is a concept not possible in electron-magnetism (my own expertise). But astronomers use this concept to describe plasma lines that collide with each other on the sun. They call it "magnetic reconnection".   
I can discuss this problem within communities that know electromagnetism, but not with astronomers.
The confusion comes from their model (magnetohydrodynamics) that plasma always follows magnetic field lines. And if plasma collides, so must also the field lines. But in reality (and according tot he inventor of the model, Alphen) the model describes a very special case.</p>
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<p>Here is the mythical programming language C@  
It is programming humor with cats.  
<a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/C_AT" rel="nofollow">http://www.reddit.com/r/C_AT</a></p>
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<p>With a language like Forth, you know that you can use a stack for data and apply functions on that data. With currying it you put functions on a stack instead. This makes it weird. But you also obscure the dataflow.<p>With the most successful functional programing language Excel, the dataflow is fully exposed. Which makes it easy.<p>Certain functional programming languages prefer the passing of just one data-item from one function to the next. One parameter in and one parameter out. And for this to work with more values, it needs to use functions as an output.  
It is unnecessary cognitive burden. And APL programmers would love it.<p>Let's make an apple pie as an example.  
You give the apple and butter and flour to the cook.  
The cursed curry version would be "use knife for cutting, add cutting board, add apple, stand near table, use hand. Bowl, add table, put, flour, mix, cut, knife butter, mixer, put, press, shape, cut_apple." etc..</p>
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<p>Physics is needed to fully understand the demolition of 3 towers..</p>
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<p>While skeptical, he did not have much skepticism against mainstream theories.<p>I think it needs another item in the list:  
For any theory/ hypothesis: how well does it stand against the null-hypothesis?   
For example: How much physical evidence is there really for the string-theory?<p>And I would upgrade this one:  
If there’s a chain of physical evidence (was argument), every link in the chain must work (including the premise) — not just most of them<p>And when breaking these items do not mean that something is false. It means that the arguments and evidence is incomplete. Don't jump to conclusions when you think that the arguments or evidence is invalid (that is how some people even think that the moonlanding was a hoax).</p>
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<p>"The oil must flow"</p>
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<p>what about a smart lamp?</p>
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<p>The older construction is also very easy to distinguish from the Inca construction. And the Inca themselves know this history in their community.   
Brien Foerster has a lot about the Inca culture.  
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/@brienfoerster/search?query=inca" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/@brienfoerster/search?query=inca</a><p>The older construction is made of very big stones of hard granite, that fit perfectly together. Assuming they had some concrete, it is easy how they were able to make them fit so perfectly. If you have a source of materials, concrete is not difficult to make. See <a href="https://www.geopolymer.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.geopolymer.org/</a><p>People were not stupid, and technologies were invented and forgotten. And just like Roman technologies were lost in the middle ages, this building technology was lost to the Incas.<p>The Incas build their houses and temples on top of the existing ones. They used smaller stones that did not fit well together. Still a great culture, but with different technologies.<p>South America has a lot of cultures that disappeared. They had no written history and a lot of stuff was destroyed by later cultures (including the Spanish). So it is impossible for historians to get it right.<p>For example there were also people with elongated skulls and red hair in Peru. Could be a result of inbreeding as they also had some other physiological differences. Maybe exterminated by another tribe. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dfpLN3FbQs" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dfpLN3FbQs</a><p>History is often full with conflicts, but presented as if it is all known. There are often conflicts with engineers who point out different technologies used for buildings and such. These technologies do not fit in the simplified timeline of mainstream history.<p>This difference in technology is obvious regarding the extremely accurate Egyptian granite vases <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BlmFKSGBzI" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BlmFKSGBzI</a> and granite boxes.</p>
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<p>I used "Open Recursion" in many large (ObjectPascal / C++) projects. With simple interfaces, a large project becomes a collection of smaller components. I noticed many programmers do not understand it. Pure OOP languages (like Smalltalk or Ruby or Scala) are the best languages to understand how it could work. They usually have closures where other languages would have "patterns".<p>The problem is that the components are often connected to different interfaces/graphs. Components can never be fully separated due to debug, visualization and storage requirements.<p>In non-OOP systems the interfaces are closed or absent, so you get huge debug, visualization and storage functions that do everything. On addition to the other functionality. And these functions need to be updated for each different type of data. The complexity moves to a different part. But most importantly, any new type requires changes to many functions. This affects a team and well tested code. If your product is used by different companies with different requirements (different data types), your functions become overly complex.</p>
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<p>3Blue1Brown has a very good explanation of how light works as a wave
And the barber pole effect shows how matter (sugar) rotates light
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCX62YJCmGk" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCX62YJCmGk</a><p>There is also evidence that "photons" are just thresholds in the material that is used to detect light. The atoms vibrate with the EM-wave and at a certain threshold they switch to a higher vibration state that can release an electron.  
If the starting state is random, the release of an electron will often coincide with the light that is transmitted from just one atom.<p>This threshold means that one "photon" can cause zero or multiple detections. This was tested by Eric Reiter in many experiments and he saw that this variation indeed happens. Especially when the experiment is tuned to reveal this. By using high frequency light for example. It happens also in experiments done by others, but they disregarded the zero or multiple detections as noise. I think the double detection effect was discovered when he worked in the laboratory with ultraviolet light.<p>Here is a paper about Eric Reiter's work: <a href="https://progress-in-physics.com/2014/PP-37-06.PDF" rel="nofollow">https://progress-in-physics.com/2014/PP-37-06.PDF</a> And here is his book. <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BlY5IeTNdu1X6pRA5dnJvRq3ip6cRKTg/view" rel="nofollow">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BlY5IeTNdu1X6pRA5dnJvRq3ip6...</a></p>
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<p>Check out Transputers, that were programmed via Occam. They do most of the stuff that the article desires. Though its hardware is restricted to a matrix orientation.<p>Another option is Erlang. On the top level it is organized with micro-services instead of functions.<p>None of them are system languages. The old hardware had weird data and memory formats. With C a lot of assembler could be avoided to program this hardware. It came as a default with Unix and some other operating systems. Fortran and Pascal were kind of similar.<p>The most used default languages on most systems were for interpreters. So you got LISP and BASIC. There is no fast hardware for that. To get stuff fast, one needed to program assembler, unless there was a C-compiler available.</p>
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<p>during the night</p>
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<p>Looking forward for a new break-through.
Will they find another Nobel-prize winning medicine? Like the very cheap Ivermectin that saved so many people from blindness (and various other diseases).</p>
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<p>I am thinking of some moderation systems that focuses on categorization instead of censorship.<p>There will be a bias in moderation, but that will have less of an effect when there is no deletion. If possible, the user could choose their preferred style (or bias) of moderation. If you want full freedom, you can let users select "super-users" to moderate/categorize for them.<p>Emotional responses and troll jokes could be a separate categories as long they do not call for violence and or break other laws.<p>Consensus is still group-think. I think it is destructive without any clear view where it stands within other options or other ideas. Like: "why exactly is earth not the center". A lot of consensus is also artificial due to biased reporting, biased censorship and biased sponsorship. During discussions, people within a consensus tend to use logical fallacies. Like portraying the opposition as idiots, or avoiding any valid points that the opposition bring into the discussion.<p>I think that people have becomes less intelligent due to one-sided reporting of information. With extra information, people will become smarter and more understanding of how other (smart) people think.</p>
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<p>The problem with social media (and all media) is opinion-based censorship, causing group-think. And the chaos of replies that are uncategorized.<p>Different opinions do matter. But due to the algorithms, the most emotional responses are promoted. There is no way to promote facts or what people think are facts.<p>So most discussion will be extremely emotional and not based on facts and their value. This is even true in scientific discussions.<p>Combined with group-think, these emotions can grow and lead to catastrophic outcomes.</p>
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<p>There was a CMOVE architecture around 1990 (Israel), I think. It was very similar. Could not find it on internet, sadly.<p>The MOVE architectures may work best with digital signal processors, because the data-flow is almost constant in such processors.<p>I invented my own version of the move only architecture (around 1992), but focused on speed. So here is my idea below.<p>1. The CPU only moves within the CPU, like from one register to the other. So all moves are extremely fast.<p>2. The CPU is separated in different units that can do work separately. Each unit has different input and output ports. The ports and registers are connected via a bus.<p>3. The CPU can have more buses and thus do more moves at the same time. If an output-data is not ready, the instruction will wait.<p>Example instruction: OUT1 -> IN1, OUT2 -> IN2  
With 32 bits it would give give 8 units with 32 ports each.<p>Example of some set of units and ports.  
Control unit: (JUMP_to_address, CALL_to_address, RETURN_with_value, +conditionals)
Memory unit: (STORE_Address, STORE_Value, READ_Address, READ_Value), 
Computation unit: (Start_Value, ADD_Value, SUB_Value, MUL_Value, DIV_Value, Result_Value)
Value unit: (Value_from_next_instruction, ZERO, ONE)
Register unit: (R0 ... R31)<p>It is extremely flexible. I also came up with a minimalist 8 bit version. One could even "plug-in" different units for different systems. Certain problems could be solved with adding special ports, which would work like a special instruction.<p>I did not continue the project due to people not understanding the bus architecture (like a PCI-bus). If you try to present it in a logical-gate architecture (like in the article), the units make the architecture more complicated than it actually is.</p>
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