jbpetersen's comments

On: A few words on Doug Engelbart (2013)

[jbpetersen]

Tlon's Urbit is probably the best all-fronts attack on the problem I've seen.

Honorable mentions for tackling part of the problem go to IPFS and Scuttlebutt.

There's a lot of people who understand the larger vision around the decentralization crowd if you can find them in the haystack of hypesters.

On: Ask HN: Amazon software engineers, how is the work culture now?

[jbpetersen]

You could always move to where things are booming and see your salary double overnight.

On: How to Get Paid for Open Source

[jbpetersen]

Spamming at least one private telegram channel for upvotes without contributing anything.

On: Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)

[jbpetersen]

You might try looking here: https://intelligence.org/all-publications/

On: Freedom of Speech Isn't About Speech

[jbpetersen]

There does need to be some sort of sane standard for determining whether something counts as a threat/incitement if they're not going to be permitted.

Say I'm very popular on twitter, and say I don't like somebody for whatever reason. If there's a reasonable expectation that this will result in them being mobbed by my less personable followers, does that count as incitement?

Or at what point does aggressive banter in good faith become an actual threat in [favorite multiplayer video game]?

[s73ver_ → jbpetersen]

I think we're not even at that point, yet. On Twitter, there are lots of people who receive violent threats, and they're told by Twitter that those are not a violation of the ToS.

On: How Tesla Will Change the World (2015)

[jbpetersen]

On the other hand, targeted subsidies can push economies of scale to tipping points of self-sustainability.

If there's lots of low hanging fruit then a broad tax/subsidy makes sense, but if you need high levels of investment into specific things to make a difference, then use the tool for the job.

Which end of the spectrum incentivizing green behavior/tech mainly lies towards is left as an exercise for the reader.

On: Intro to Graph APIs

[jbpetersen]

Having played around with building exactly that, the conclusion I came to is that REST is nice for not having the additional setup step of establishing a websocket connection as well as having the considerably better support for simultaneous http requests over rebuilding that part of the networking stack once again and layering it on top of everything else.

For real-time subscriptions though, websockets (pardon my grammar) are wonderful. Hence why all the above will probably be ignored as they become a trend and people at large learn the sensible limits of what to use them for.

[martindale → jbpetersen]

Neat! I'd love to see your work, as I'm working on something very similar right now. Maybe we can collaborate?

On: Bancor Is Flawed

[jbpetersen]

Good luck making those ERC20 compliant.

[dullgiulio → jbpetersen]

Is that a prerequisite for funding a company? I wonder how the economy worked so far without a blockchain...

[ivanbakel → dullgiulio]

Well, there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth, from what I gather.

[tootie → jbpetersen]

I'm pretty sure I could write code that implements that interface and still steals all your money.

On: Show HN: Pay with life – converts prices to time it takes you to earn the money

[jbpetersen]

Tried this on coinmarketcap.com and it broke horribly.

You've got some bugs to work out but this is a very fun and useful idea.

[vertigolimbo → jbpetersen]

Thanks for spotting! Finding currency on a page has proven to be the most challenging part of this work.

On: First draft of the new Artificial Intelligence and Games textbook available now

[jbpetersen]

Now you've got me curious how much people have experimented with making AIs play "incremental" games where there's literally nothing but build order planning.