Cosma Shalizi has a great article on these themes, arrives at similar conclusions
https://crookedtimber.org/2012/05/30/in-soviet-union-optimiz...
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jmeister commented on OpenAI in Talks for Deal That Would Value Company at $80B nytimes.com/2023/10/20/te... · Posted by u/aaraujo002
The headline, the picture, the article --- it would be easier to take them seriously if they just made the tools work and stopped posing for band pictures.
I am happy to have the tools, but the hype, the valuation, the "we have solved everything" mentality. It's just so offputting.
You can’t have the former without the latter unfortunately. Freaks make the world go round. Nice guys merely shuffle after them.
One of the core points about metaobject protocols is that while it's important to language design, a good language to me also exposes & makes flexible the object system to users of the language too.
From a review (https://www.adamtornhill.com/reviews/amop.htm),
> The metaobject protocol behaves like an interface towards the language itself, available for the programmer to incrementally customize. Just as we can specialize and extend the behavior of the classes we define in our own applications, we can now extend the language itself using the very same mechanisms.
One of the points that has rather surprised me is that we devs have not more broadly explored what we could do with our metaobject protocols. We havent had a boom in metaprogramming, we haven't seen a largescale return of AOP; we've been letting objects stay dumb unextended objects for a long time now.
The one sizable exception I have on my radar is React's Higher Order Components, where components/classes were wrapped/composed in other classes. Slices of object behavior were spliced into place.
Now that's replaced with hooks, which invert the relationship, making the function up front composed all behavior it might want as hooks that it calls.
I don't know enough about how Rust macros are made & used. My vague impression is they are very scarcely considered. Maybe I just missed the discussions but I'd expect there to be lots of blogging about this topic if metaprogramming here was really as fertile a field here as to be expected.
You might find this interesting:
Metaobject Protocols for Julia https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2022/16759/pdf/OASI...
30 years in & it feels like the internet hasn't taken a single step to moderating the moderators. The web has almost nothing here & that's kept us locked in this sad holding pattern.
I love the Web Annotation specification. Comment on anything on the web! Share those annotations! And it will let you select/target content in the page. But actually being able to annotate something like the discrete comments within the page, that feels missing.
Maybe good reads lets us view a specific comment by a specific author: there's a page for it. That we can annotate & mark up, in a way we can aggregate against that comment or that author. But if we're just browsing a list of reviews, there's a missing link in figuring out semantically what it is on the page we're trying to markup.
Community Notes?
jmeister commented on Twitter unveils X logo to replace blue bird bbc.com/news/business-662... · Posted by u/chha
jmeister commented on Twitter unveils X logo to replace blue bird bbc.com/news/business-662... · Posted by u/chha
It’s really hard to not look at a train wreck in progress. Especially when it comes with a large drink of schadenfreude and a bucket of virtual popcorn.
I’m sad for what the destruction of Twitter and the people it affects, but at least the fireworks are cool.
>fireworks
Usually this is too vacuous of a criterion for comments on any other topic on HN. For some reason any post on Twitter has pages and pages of “yikes” “derp”, people gossiping about “Elon” like he’s their wayward cousin. Pathetic.
jmeister commented on Twitter unveils X logo to replace blue bird bbc.com/news/business-662... · Posted by u/chha
Have you considered that some people may be unable to do so without losing their job?
Example? Who are these people forced to use Twitter?
jmeister commented on Twitter unveils X logo to replace blue bird bbc.com/news/business-662... · Posted by u/chha
jmeister commented on Twitter unveils X logo to replace blue bird bbc.com/news/business-662... · Posted by u/chha
Does all growth go to the same rich people, or do more people become rich?
>For example, if you’re looking at static inequality, Europe appears to be more egalitarian than the United States—their wealth is more evenly distributed across the population. But Taleb uses some statistics of dynamic inequality that propose America may be fairer than Europe. In Europe, more than a third of the five hundred wealthiest people inherited their wealth from family dynasties that have lasted for centuries. Compare this to the US, where 90% of the wealthiest five hundred people entered that list less than thirty years ago.
>Here’s another statistic on dynamic equality in America: 10% of Americans will spend at least one year in the top 1% of income earners, and more than half of all Americans will spend at least a year in the top 10% of income earners. Since what we’re trying to do is allow the market to reward those who contribute to society, greater turnover among the rich in the United States is a sign of fairness.
https://www.shortform.com/blog/types-of-inequality/
https://medium.com/incerto/inequality-and-skin-in-the-game-d...