I own the 'if' package on npm, which I wrote to be functions that can replace the if keyword, making no use of the if keyword in its definition.
Readit Newsmappum commented on When if is just a function ryelang.org/blog/posts/if... · Posted by u/soheilpro
mappum commented on Genetic Algorithms for Evolution of QWOP Gaits arxiv.org/abs/2311.09234... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
Missed out on an opportunity to name it "QWOPtimizer"
mappum commented on India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps techcrunch.com/2020/06/29... · Posted by u/samdung
This is fascinating - I have been quantitatively tracking TikTok trends and Indian songs consistently top the charts on TikTok by view counts. This will displace many Indian TikTok users and either a new platform will spring up, or Indians will get slightly better at using VPNs (just like internet users in China).
(For the curious, my TikTok data is shared here: https://tiktometer.com)
Amazing, this is clearly a glimpse into a future of internet content being less like a document and more like a virtual world.
Suggestion: the enter key should focus the chat box (like a FPS game) so you don't have to hit escape then click on it.
mappum commented on How to Sustain Bitcoin Without Fees or Inflation mappum.com/2019/03/23/how... · Posted by u/mappum
You still need fees or inflation because you can't force everyone to install a miner-heater. Some people will refuse. Some people will not upgrade it after 5 years. Some people will want to mine in another fork / altcoin.
So the fee/inflation is important to pay the additional cost of the miner-heater, and to encourage people to upgrade it.
I've seen a few similar projects before. For example https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/08/qarnot-unveils-a-cryptocur...
Why would you force anyone?
They are incentivized to buy a miner-heater because as long as it earns something, they are essentially just paying less for heating.
mappum commented on Filecoin Breaks Record for ICO Funding coindesk.com/257-million-... · Posted by u/imartin2k
If it's scrambled by the miner's public key, why can't the miner un-scramble it?
They can, the idea is that they can mine more efficiently by storing the scrambled version rather than storing it unscrambled and re-scrambling when they need to generate a mining proof.
mappum commented on A social coding experiment that updates its own code democratically github.com/chaosbot/chaos... · Posted by u/qznc
Very cool, I really like this idea of Nomic-style open-source code governance. I previously built a similar project: https://github.com/botwillacceptanything/botwillacceptanythi...
mappum commented on Teechan: Payment Channels Using Trusted Execution Environments [pdf] cs.cornell.edu/People/egs... · Posted by u/mrb
Unfortunately, SGX is not open for public use yet. You currently need special permission from Intel to access it.
mappum commented on Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making? · Posted by u/shovel
What's a better alternative?
You could use hashpipe (https://github.com/jbenet/hashpipe), from Juan Benet (the author of IPFS). It simply checks that the input to the command matches a given hash, so you can do `curl <url> | hashpipe <hash> | sh`, and if the output of the curl command is different than expected it won't be passed in to `sh`.