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ethanwillis

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news.ycombinator.com 20d ago

Ask HN: Who is quitting? (July 2026)

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www.cs.utexas.edu 1mo ago

EWD 1041: By Way of Introduction (Science is hated)

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www.youtube.com 3mo ago

Y Combinator lets you cross the line [video]

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www.businessinsider.com 10mo ago

The guy who shorted Enron has a warning about the AI boom

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www.businessinsider.com 10mo ago

Goldman Sachs says AI still not showing up in companies' bottom lines

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: What are Mark Zuckerberg's principles?

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: How does Spotify select songs for auto generated playlists?

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tchayen.com 2y ago

Drawing Text in WebGPU Using Just the Font File

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

The Craft of Writing Effectively [video]

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www.cs.utexas.edu 2y ago

Why American Computing Science seems incurable

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www.greenarraychips.com 2y ago

Ultra-low-powered multi-computer chips with integrated peripherals

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golem.ph.utexas.edu 3y ago

PGP Signed Comments

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optidash.ai 3y ago

The Case of the Missing SIMD Code

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scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu 3y ago

Concurrency Oriented Programming in Termite Scheme [pdf]

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dl.acm.org 3y ago

Aesthetics and the Human Factor in Programming – A.P. Ershov (1972)

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people.idsia.ch 4y ago

Gödel Machine

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: What has to change? I'm sick of it

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gitlab.com 4y ago

Why won't Gitlab support monthly billing?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Recommended OAuth scopes for GitHub personal access tokens

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: What are possible images you can think of?

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dl.acm.org 4y ago

Aesthetics and the Human Factor in Programming (1972)

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ershov.iis.nsk.su 4y ago

The Archive of A. Ershov

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medium.com 4y ago

Reverse Engineering Discord Voice/Video Calls

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Does your job matter and is your company a net positive for the world?

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github.com 4y ago

One line of code to support php8 on Azure

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www.thedrive.com 5y ago

YouTube auto moderation pulls videos critical of Tesla

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ericweinhoffer.com 5y ago

The Whitworth Three Plates Method (2017)

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twitter.com 5y ago

Scientist allegedly creates sockpuppet account to fake Covid death

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www.econometrics-with-r.org 6y ago

Introduction to Econometrics with R

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www.getmyeidlgrant.com 6y ago

Show HN: GetMyEIDLGrant – Send Requests to the SBA for EIDL Advances

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I have a family member who has been a butcher for nearly 40 years.. if you'd want some tips on this to try it again I'm sure he'd be willing to tell you how to go about it properly.

You're simply wrong. I say this as a computer scientist who ended up studying and working in bioinformatics for a period of time.

The reason I don't now? It's that people don't understand biology enough to understand the currently untapped potential and definitely not the advances that have happened. So they allocate money to yet another todo app, food delivery app, crypto wallet, or yet another finetune of a model to talk like a caveman.

I have also developed a similar system not focused on the exploratory refinement of prompt(s). But more focused on feedback loops cybernetic style, so focused on the maintaining of stability of the prompt outputs by a growing library of deterministic checks and autofixes. Anything that is a "problem" which isn't covered by that library is surfaced to the human driving the process.

I'm sure people will take this the wrong way, but a lot of the people who are on HN and who orbit technology circles in SF are really just not actually intellectually curious people.

They might like to think they are, they might try to pretend they are, but when pushed they're simply not.

Look at all of the groupthink that is perpetuated nonstop while they also proclaim they're creating, investing in, etc. so many unique ideas. Yet year after year it's the same thing in a different color.

What they actually are is interested in money and prestige. So give it a little time and they'll learn enough about biology to try and get some validation from their peers with comments. If money actually pours into bio that is.

  a scientific engine for prediction, design, and discovery that can map proteins across the tree of life, predict their structures, and design new protein binders that function in laboratory experiments. 
So, my issue with this is just like in a lot of the other areas of bio we're not able to explore outside the semantics of what is "known." Even a simpler task of just doing proper assembly is plagued by this. De Novo assembly of an alien/novel organism mixed with samples from other alien organisms would be impossible with what we can do today. Even with things that we're familiar we struggle with metagenomic assembly.
Magnifica Humanitas 2 months ago

but I think we still have it a whole lot better than a century ago (by and large).

Worse, they won't even give you the dignity of a claim to contribution to society. Then the lack of contribution is weaponized against you.

You're the one who inserted yourself in the discussion when I clarified my question. I wasn't dragging the discussion away from your preferred path any more than others were dragging it away from mine.

If you don't want to engage in political arguments then don't involve yourself in a subthread that wasn't even flagged.

In either case i'll leave and let you keep your echo chamber.

Right so then that answers my question. Violence is okay as long as it is directed outwards and said to be defensive, thank you for answering.

I'll remember this when my country of which i'm a citizen uses these same defensive weapons to secure any mineral wealth in Australia.

So if it's not guillotines and instead massed autonomous attack drones that would be an acceptable way to discuss violence?

Just want to make sure I understand you fully.

Just so people know since the user above wanted to edit their comment away to hide how they really see things. It was this:

"They also pay the social security and Medicare taxes so listless rednecks can collect SSDI for being unable to work."

What we need is a capabilities based security system. It could write all the python, asm, whatever it wants and it wouldn't matter at all if it was never given a reference to use something it shouldn't.

Okay assuming you're right that society can offset this bad parenting.

Maybe a more prudent first step is giving these kids free breakfast, lunch, and dinner before putting state mandated age verification on a computer.