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kang··on Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT
Your excitement will turn to anxiety as millions other propose similar TV, amongst the billion entries to production, only differentiated by upload speed. Like cloths, every single person has hundreds of personalized TV shows, but unlike a fashion style, they are never seen by anyone else.

Better hurry, and capture what you can before fellow humans are bored of it & find novelty in originality again.

kang··on Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT
1. The amount of experienced programmers believing this is real makes me think most people will be out of job in future. If you are doing something really original, likes of which does not exist, try getting AI to generate it, you can't cause that's how it works.

Any AI on its own is incapable of doing any unknown computation, including current GPT. Try writing anything original, on the bleeding edge (likes of something that isn't available online), like writing contracts in bitcoin simplicity etc. AI is just replicating what the answer would look like, based on what it has seen.

2. Think of why is chatGPT making news? With copilot, chatGPT, instructGPT etc., openAI will simply copy your idea using their AI API if it is mildly successful, and launch it themselves. You really either don't wanna be using openAI API or must race against them.

kang··on Puter
Seems like this doesn't work on firefox
kang··on Puter
replit.com competitor, where user don't have to learn any UI?
kang··on After Delhi High Court ruling, Telegram discloses personal details of users
> DIY filter bubbles each of a unique configuration

Wdym, can you please explain? Decoupling is the only way to be sure of what?

kang··on The Need to Read
If one learns to write by reading, one would learn to 'upload' by 'downloading'. The method of knowing is not dependent on the medium. I can present the steps in knowing to demonstrate it, but I have already made my point.
kang··on Photoshop for Text
Only if the image is small(within the viewspan). If the image was huge, the brain needs to hold context while you finish seeing it, similar to how brain needs to hold context while you finish reading the comprehension to derive meaning. (This is called sphota theory of grammer as given by ancient sanskrit scholar Bhartihari). Reading is zoomed out seeing. (Edit: Abhinavagupt further showed that sound naturally works on this principle, where the meaning of a word is concluded as the sounds finish hitting the eardrums.)
kang··on The Alternative Genesis Block of Bitcoin
The original thread is more interesting: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=382374.msg4108815#ms...

...& bitcointalk has many more ideas OP might wanna fill his blog with

kang··on The art of sharpening pencils (2007)
I use the normal point. When it blunts out a few mm, it forms a round ballpoint pen like surface that can be sustained for a long time.
kang··on Religion as an Ego-modulator
Religion is more of an attention modulator
kang··on From Cyberpunk to Solarpunk: Technics and the Cities of the Future
anything to stay away from sustainable tech
kang··on Show HN: hue.tools – open-source toolbox for colors
Minor bug: backspacing. Eg, edit some value, type "1", now backspace changes text to "NaN" instead of expected "". To make it a bit worse, users can't even do "01", now backspace changes to "" instead of expected "0". Both should be fixed imo.
kang··on Love is biological bribery?
> Love is chemicals & emotions

No, love is not chemicals & emotions but the state of chemicals & emotions that is cause-effect for inter-human attraction/stable togetherness.

Wow! IMAGINE THINKING LOVE EVOLVED at some point in time. There are other issues as well.

To start off if I defined love minimally as that which is the cause of attraction then,

--- What is the cause of attraction between poles of a magnet? * Using the socratic method, the concept of an "ideal North Pole" is inseparable from the "ideal South Pole", their togetherness is eternal and when they are not together they are attracted to be together, when they are together it is sustainable, so much so that the reason for their creation is for the other to exist.

Why do they behave so though? Because they are "circular". No they are not circular jk but because they have a "natural configuration" or simply put its their "nature". Nature of circles is to roll, similarly, what is an object that has nature is to be attracted to this subject. ---

Love itself, is eternal, and has no origin. It is name for a "thing"(conceptual, abstract, but a noun), like a circle.

We say one's mind is in prayer but technically whole of their "natural configuration" is praying. Similarly, we say someone's body is in the game, but their whole self is involved. Similarly thus, heart is in love but their "whole configuration" is in the act of active loving, during their existence.

At the very least it must NOT be taken for granted that a common subset of such configuration exists for all humans. Nature of their lover is subjective to lovers.

Furthermore, to end, when you study the properties of theos and of love, they turn out to be same 'things'; god is love and love is god. OP needs to read about what they are writing.

kang··on Bitcoin Blockchain Visualization
The headline should be "cool js" because although this visualization uses bitcoin data, it doesn't help see anything about bitcoin.

Blocks are an abstract entity relative to mempool

kang··on Children Playing Blockchain
Basically this.

You, a mathematician, walk into the class to purchase a brick to label.

The first class has solved sudokus with deterministic difficulty to prove they did work to build the structure, whereas in the second class you have just dice sums & have to trust them telling you they rolled the diced only every fixed interval etc. It's distributed but not decentralized.

kang··on Children Playing Blockchain
Funny.

The first class was a public class & anybody could join in at any time. The second class had reserved early seats based on the initial supply of the dices; without investment in the initial dices the game doesnt start, whereas sudoku generation is free.

kang··on Open Sustainable Technology
PhotoVoltaics are not sustainable.
kang··on Jugaad, an Indian Delivery Methodology
Jugaad is just hindi for hack.
kang··on Show HN: My GitHub Readme Is Interactive
It's a script pressing the buttons cause the text has a pattern. Humans cannot use this demo at this moment.
kang··on Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misreading them as dates
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24070913
kang··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)
Either float the "more" button or bring it to the top, and put a top at the bottom.
kang··on You advocate a ________ approach to calendar reform (2013)
If one combines theory of evolution and biological rhythms, then planetary scale engineering would be a drastic health effect.
kang··on Teach Yourself Computer Science
Without formal language study, how is this computer science?

This is computer engineering. Please fix the title atleast on HN.

kang··on If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs
Its better in a way. Stupidity rejects you and you end up being in a happy place where you dont have to bend your mind.
kang··on CHURP: Dynamic-Committee Proactive Secret Sharing
This paper relies on an assumption: At a given time, either there exists a blockchain, by virtue of which participants can talk freely or everyone knows everyone.
kang··on It's Never Too Late to Be Successful and Happy
Exactly. Once you stop comparing, how can one be but successful, in being themselves?
kang··on Pi-Hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements
How pi-hole works and what is FTLDNS, if anyone is interested: https://pi-hole.net/2018/06/09/ftldns-and-unbound-combined-f...
kang··on Artificial intelligence, algorithmic pricing, and collusion
Even without agency, for e.g. fees determination during a blocks duration in bitcoin. It seems as though it is another name for 'free market'??
kang··on The world is losing the war against climate change
solar mining in space and beaming the results to earth https://twitter.com/peterktodd/status/897631806899597312
kang··on Tesla plans China factory that can make 500,000 vehicles a year
India would be a really poor choice compared to china due to corruption externalized costs
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