noam87

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by noam87 8y ago
Don't read it end-to-end like a novel. It's a great book to keep around. Open it, every once in a while (even at a random page), read a passage or two, think about it, and go on with your day. Over time the ideas seep in and reall
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by noam87 8y ago
What do you use? -- I've tried with lynx and its ilk but I find that too many websites these days are completely broken without javascript, and the layout often unreadable without CSS.
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by noam87 8y ago
I've been a (paying) user of NewsBlur ( https://newsblur.com/ ) since Google Reader shut down and haven't looked back. p.s: In HN spirit, it also happens to be one developer's side-project-turned-profitable-bu
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by noam87 8y ago
Perfect time to start moving (and contributing) to decentralized services. I've been following the development of https://beakerbrowser.com and I really hope it captures wider attention. -- It's not just super user fri
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by noam87 8y ago
Idris? It can compile small enough to run on an Arduino: https://github.com/stepcut/idris-blink
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by noam87 9y ago
> "really understanding" is just something a computer program thinks it can do once it gets complex enough to be conscious. At the same time, consciousness might not be a requisite of higher intelligence at all; it could merely
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by noam87 9y ago
considering YouTube makes me watch 25 seconds of advertising for a 40 second video... could be a lot.
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by noam87 9y ago
Anecdotal: nothing helped my IBS. Dietary changes, exercise, nothing. Drs said nothing looked wrong. By the time I was 26, it was so bad I would stay home and not socialize often. I would need immodium like candy just to get through a soc
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by noam87 9y ago
This article has too many holes to count and reads more like someone in denial. --- BUT, as an aside: I think a decent argument exists for the non-certainty of intelligence explosion. The argument goes like this: it takes an intelligence of
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by noam87 9y ago
> Brutal? Sounds like a regular blue collar job. Which is to say: brutality is regular. While of course the current move towards exposing harassment in the office is important, I don't hear much recognition that the people getting t
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by noam87 9y ago
There's no denying they promote a certain narrative in their PR, but are there known examples of leaks withheld by Wiki Leaks, where the whistleblower had to go elsewhere?
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by noam87 9y ago
Eve looks interesting, thanks I'll try it out. (And the detailed response.) Most of my programming is in the domain of "take some data, do stuff to it, produce an output" and my experience with Idris so far is very positive -
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by noam87 9y ago
Pron, what are the better alternatives / more promising lines of research you keep referring to?
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by noam87 9y ago
Heh, I've had the same thought ( https://noamswebsite.com/r/books/ ). We are physical beings after all; at the end of the day our nervous system evolved for the sole purpose of helping our bodies do stuff withi
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by noam87 9y ago
I've noticed it too with a friend's TV. Some shows / movies become unwatchable because it's so distracting. -- I think part of it is that many of the artificialities of the screen become too obvious: the lighting, the ma
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by noam87 9y ago
I have, but I'm no security expert so perhaps I'm not seeing something obvious. -- Do you have a specific attack in mind? Is it an insurmountable vulnerability? If so you can just explain it (or report it).
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by noam87 9y ago
I don't know the internals of IPFS DHT implementation, but the whitepaper mentions Kadmelia and Coral. Coral tries to optimize for ping latency (you're not literally fetching from nearest geographical neighbor, I simplified to mak
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by noam87 9y ago
> Last I checked IPFS will not tolerate minute long latencies and requires a bandwidth above several kilobits per second. [...] It isn't hosted unless atleast one person keeps a copy online. And the vacuum tubes in my Colossus might
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by noam87 9y ago
If data isn't embarrassingly cheap before mid-century we did something terribly wrong. Ditto electricity / battery life by the end of century. (and again: content-addressing could drastically reduce data usage anyway.)
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by noam87 9y ago
- Even assuming all this, a hybrid approach of HTTP + IPFS (or DAT) is still better than what we have now, since IPFS is essentially a worldwide CDN for static files.(Sorry: an inter-planetary one.) - The content-addressing aspect makes it
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by noam87 9y ago
This is silly. Just because most people spend their time on the same handful of platforms, doesn't mean there's not plenty of traffic going to smaller websites. (In fact, in absolute terms, more traffic than ever.) Nobody today is
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by noam87 9y ago
I've been thinking recently that there is exists a completely unxplored market in tech. Local shops based around FOSS / open hardware where designers, hardware and software people work together to build custom projects for their c
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by noam87 9y ago
Synthetic biology.
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by noam87 9y ago
Reminds of what the people of Red lang are trying to achieve: http://www.red-lang.org/p/about.html?m=1 Maybe I'll finally give it a try! Every once in a while I daydream about a sort of "distributed app platf
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by noam87 9y ago
What field?
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by noam87 9y ago
The level of ignorance and /r/iamverysmart-worthy pontificating that's on display in this thread is truly embarrassing. Worse than embarrassing, it's the embodiment of banal evil; because it's precisely this ignoran
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by noam87 9y ago
Yes, this thread is a fucking embarrassment.
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by noam87 9y ago
> And they've already had multiple generations to assimilate. And choose not to. They understand perfectly well what our culture has to offer, and want no part in it. Get it?
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by noam87 9y ago
What are some good readings / places to start on this topic?
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by noam87 9y ago
This week has really lowered my opinion of this industry and its members (and people in general, once again). From the flimsy and arrogant arguments presented on one side, to the inexcusable hysteria and verbal abuse coming from the other.

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