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jbpetersen commented on A few words on Doug Engelbart (2013)   worrydream.com/Engelbart/... · Posted by u/mpweiher
walterbell · 7 years ago
> A revolution in computing is in the offing: one that is centered around users, their data, and their interactions with each other. Information is the privileged and important asset; not the APIs of the hardware that runs the compute. The topology of human interaction and human groups around that information system is far, far more important than the hardware network topology, which should be an irrelevant detail of routing.

Which researchers or companies are working on this architecture, other than the negative examples of socialmedia/adtech, WeChat and China’s social credit system?

jbpetersen · 7 years ago
Tlon's Urbit is probably the best all-fronts attack on the problem I've seen.

Honorable mentions for tackling part of the problem go to IPFS and Scuttlebutt.

There's a lot of people who understand the larger vision around the decentralization crowd if you can find them in the haystack of hypesters.

jbpetersen commented on Ask HN: Amazon software engineers, how is the work culture now?    · Posted by u/tinderliker
naikrovek · 7 years ago
It is a lot. You don't have to live in the most expensive house you can find within 10 minutes of work.

I am a US citizen and I didn't go to college. I live near Chicago.

jbpetersen · 7 years ago
You could always move to where things are booming and see your salary double overnight.
jbpetersen commented on How to Get Paid for Open Source   hackernoon.com/how-to-get... · Posted by u/tosh
jbpetersen · 8 years ago
Spamming at least one private telegram channel for upvotes without contributing anything.
jbpetersen commented on Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)   johnsalvatier.org/blog/20... · Posted by u/rgun
k__ · 8 years ago
Didn't he promise some AI stuff and never delivered?
jbpetersen · 8 years ago
You might try looking here: https://intelligence.org/all-publications/
jbpetersen commented on Freedom of Speech Isn't About Speech   geoff.greer.fm/2017/10/05... · Posted by u/exolymph
ggreer · 8 years ago
You misunderstand me. I thought it was clear that I was talking about ideas, not threats or inciting mobs. You'll have a hard time finding any self-described free speech absolutist who thinks those should be permitted.
jbpetersen · 8 years ago
There does need to be some sort of sane standard for determining whether something counts as a threat/incitement if they're not going to be permitted.

Say I'm very popular on twitter, and say I don't like somebody for whatever reason. If there's a reasonable expectation that this will result in them being mobbed by my less personable followers, does that count as incitement?

Or at what point does aggressive banter in good faith become an actual threat in [favorite multiplayer video game]?

jbpetersen commented on How Tesla Will Change the World (2015)   waitbutwhy.com/2015/06/ho... · Posted by u/doener
zzzzzzzza · 8 years ago
A carbon tax would have been a more efficient way of nudging the economy towards green behavior than subsidizing the development of electric sportscars for people who already have car(s). It's hard to consumerism your way to ecological friendliness.
jbpetersen · 8 years ago
On the other hand, targeted subsidies can push economies of scale to tipping points of self-sustainability.

If there's lots of low hanging fruit then a broad tax/subsidy makes sense, but if you need high levels of investment into specific things to make a difference, then use the tool for the job.

Which end of the spectrum incentivizing green behavior/tech mainly lies towards is left as an exercise for the reader.

jbpetersen commented on Intro to Graph APIs   zapier.com/engineering/gr... · Posted by u/brian_cooksey
jondubois · 8 years ago
GraphQL is an incremental improvement over REST. The next big thing will be REST over WebSockets with single-field granularity and real-time subscriptions for field value changes.
jbpetersen · 8 years ago
Having played around with building exactly that, the conclusion I came to is that REST is nice for not having the additional setup step of establishing a websocket connection as well as having the considerably better support for simultaneous http requests over rebuilding that part of the networking stack once again and layering it on top of everything else.

For real-time subscriptions though, websockets (pardon my grammar) are wonderful. Hence why all the above will probably be ignored as they become a trend and people at large learn the sensible limits of what to use them for.

jbpetersen commented on Bancor Is Flawed   hackingdistributed.com/20... · Posted by u/sidko
tootie · 8 years ago
> There already exists a common currency through which we can trade. It's called ether

Also, dollars.

jbpetersen · 8 years ago
Good luck making those ERC20 compliant.
jbpetersen commented on Show HN: Pay with life – converts prices to time it takes you to earn the money   chrome.google.com/webstor... · Posted by u/vertigolimbo
jbpetersen · 8 years ago
Tried this on coinmarketcap.com and it broke horribly.

You've got some bugs to work out but this is a very fun and useful idea.

jbpetersen commented on First draft of the new Artificial Intelligence and Games textbook available now   gameaibook.org/... · Posted by u/togelius
jonbaer · 8 years ago
I would like to find books which pertain to just this problem alone (build order planning) ...

"Another sub-problem of the wider StarCraft (Blizzard Entertainment, 1998) playing problem is build order planning. The problem here is in which order to build certain improvements to the player’s base and in which order to research certain technology, a complex planning problem at a considerably higher level of abstraction than micro-battles. Here, Weber et al have data-mined logs of existing StarCraft (Blizzard Entertainment, 1998) matches to find successful build orders that can be applied in games played by agents."

jbpetersen · 8 years ago
Now you've got me curious how much people have experimented with making AIs play "incremental" games where there's literally nothing but build order planning.

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