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dekervinon Why I’m betting on Nostr

For all the talk about nostr, I recently discovered it's actually a tenth of the size of mastodon[0]. The hype-to-actual-activity is through the rough with this one.

[0] https://datum.alwaysdata.net/?explorer_view=quest&quest_id=q...

dekervinon The global trading system is starting to rearrange itself

You too can do add data on vaguely ideological articles using datapeek[0] ! I think it's perfectly relevant here.

[0] https://datum.alwaysdata.net/

dekervinon Ask HN: Why did Python win?

I'd argue that better relative ergonomics had diddly squat effect on Python's current position.

And you'd be wrong.

I can confidently say that since I fully expecteded python to win over ruby and it did. Every time I used to hear hipsters dev being all the rage about ruby, I knew they implicitly discounted the cognitive load that goes with learning ruby.

The path from pseudo code to working python code was ( is? ) straight forward and ruby doesn't bring anything in term of paradigm over python that justifies foregoing that advantage.

So everytime a bright mind wanted to implement a library in her field of expertise, python was her tool of choice. And that's how python conquered field after field.

dekervinon Ask HN: Post Your Startup

datapeek - https://datum.alwaysdata.net/

Improve online debates with data. Identify unsourced quantitative statements on site like hacker news and find data that validates or contradicts them.

It's great to find unorthodox ideas for investments.

dekervinon Conferences are inadvertently excluding many attendees from foreign countries

Did something like gather.town had any usefulness or staying power with conference organisers?

I thought its stated goal was to create a virtual environment more conductive to the very useful small talk between presentations.

dekervinon Conferences are inadvertently excluding many attendees from foreign countries

I am also interested if someone can chimenin. What's the current status regarding remote?

dekervinon Show HN: ChainForge, a visual tool for prompt engineering and LLM evaluation

May I ask, how was it useful ? I find it cool but I have a hard time justifying using it.

dekervinon South America is living one of the climate extreme events

It's a simple google search away [0]. There was a heatwave like 2 weeks ago.

[0] https://www-huffingtonpost-fr.translate.goog/france/article/...

dekervinon Remote work on HN: Who is hiring? – 69% jobs in 2023 are remote

A related submission I made yesterday [0]: Ask HN: Should employers pay a fine for superfluous work-from-office policies?

I think some single purpose poltical party or political action committee should take that issue and run with it. It's a worthy goal.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36852462

dekervinon Remote work on HN: Who is hiring? – 69% jobs in 2023 are remote

But the relative variation might still carry some information , right ?

dekervinon Ask HN: Should employers pay a fine for superfluous work-from-office policies?

Maybe. It's worth entertaining. But even then the discussion should take everything into account. I take the position that housing need to be built either way. But do all offices building need to be built?

If at any given time half or two third of your work force could stay at home. It means there is less office capacity that need to be built.

In any case, I welcome the debate.

dekervinon Ask HN: Should employers pay a fine for superfluous work-from-office policies?

Depending on the work, depending on the tool it's a discussion worth having. With parameters of the discussion set by the law.

dekervinon 50 Years of Text Games parses the rich history of a foundational genre

I am hacking with others on a game that is part simulation, part narrative. It sets in the music industry.

Here is the link. I would love some feedback while we are ironing it out. https://quantico.alwaysdata.net/static/game_text/game/index_...

Ps: not mobile friendly yet and there are english errors to be corrected.

dekervinon ‘World of Warcraft’ players trick AI-scraping website into publishing nonsense

I use google out of habit. Bing is better and always find the exact result I was searching on google.

dekervinon Kelly Rowland couldn't have used the =HYPERLINK() function to message Nelly

How can you be so blind to the worldview of people outside your bubble and be so proud of it ?

Exactly yesterday,I was helping a friend at the end of a workshop on accounting for entrepreneurs in social sectors.

To wrap up the two days class, he asked them what they had learned.

To my surprise a good number of them said they had learned making a simple formula in excel cells. ( white , 20-something , males, just in case you were wondering ).

There is a big world out there full of normal people that don't have the faintest idea about things you consider basic skills.

dekervinon The hottest new perk in tech is freedom

I tought that idea had legs. Just looked at the price of carbon credits. It's around $ 15.0/tCO2e [0]. And on average a commuting employee emits around 4.96kg of C02.

The price is so low it's clear the market is underpricing the externalities massively. I have to admit, the market is the wrong instrument for this problem.

[0] https://carboncredits.com/how-to-calculate-carbon-credits/ [1] https://www.climatepartner.com/en/news/how-sustainable-commu....

dekervinon The hottest new perk in tech is freedom

I would love to have that argument with higher-ups. In fact I would love to have them state their facts on public record. Just so historians have a paper trail to follow when they will try to answer the question , "what were they thining?" .

dekervinon The hottest new perk in tech is freedom

The standard argument from now on should be... think of the planet and the massive savings in transportation induced greenhouse gases.

dekervinon Discord monetization: microtransaction stores and paid 'exclusive memes'

I see this touted around the web. And yet it's obvious why it works for end-users.

Being hard-to-index gives credibility to the pretense of being a pseudo-annonymous, "hidden" from public eyes platform. It encourages people to be laid back, to speak more freely and form social bonds, faster than on "open" web forums.

Discord is a night club, web forums are public square. And it occupied an extremely useful, and big niche.

dekervinon Meta to Buy Almost 7M Carbon Credits

I just dig a study done for a joint article by The Guardian and Die Zeit , using different data sources [0], that concludes as much as 90% of carbon credits might be worthless.

[0]: https://datum.alwaysdata.net/?explorer_view=quest&quest_id=q...

dekervinon Show HN: Smallville – Create generative agents for simulations and games

I love to see how things progress over time. Any chance you could post a link to your 2021 project ?

dekervinon Ask HN: What site do you use that kept an old design?

It's nice on the eyes and as an added bonus, it's uncluterred by ads ( which was my expectation for politics oriented sites ). I just took a peek at the american conservative for comparison (https://www.theamericanconservative.com/). The sticky menu and the bottom advertising bar make the site so noisy, it's painful.

dekervinon Ask HN: What site do you use that kept an old design?

For space jam it's a good design choice. Although, they could make without the landing video.

dekervinon Ask HN: What site do you use that kept an old design?

It's clean, straight to the point ! And even perfect for your category because I subconsciously transfer those qualities to the software that is displayed on stand. I just bookmarked it with a note to testdrive cctime asap!

dekervinon A morale crisis after multiple Meta layoffs

That's the thing I am aghast it has not yet percolated through the tech commentorship. The AI advances of yesterday completely have turned upside down the VR/AR/XR equation. (Note the use of past tense)

dekervinon The UK will spend £100M to develop its own 'sovereign' AI

Your username is awesome. Also what made you go to the US? I am just curious

dekervinon Nostr (“Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays”) – An Introduction

It's way better than snort. Do you have an email somewhere? I would like to send you issues that will be shared with me.

dekervinon Nostr (“Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays”) – An Introduction

Nice to meet you. First time I hear about coracle.social . The main issue I had with snort is that it takes a lot of time before taking an action into account. It's a non starter for non-geeky people.

dekervinon Nostr (“Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays”) – An Introduction

I've tried using snort.social , dog testing it with the intent of recommanding it, but it's basically unusable. Would someone have a good web interface to recommand?

dekervinon Bing AI can't be trusted

I have bookmarked your comment and I hope to have the discipline to come back to it every 3 months or so for the next couple of years. Because I think you are right but I didn't noticed it before. When the real things cole, we will probably be blindsided.