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Re: Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of?

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Post by boole1854 »

meadhbh-hamrick wrote: post #24
chc4 wrote: post #5

- Programming Language dev: I think compilers and VM runtimes are neat, and like talking to people in the space on twitter or reading new papers that come out about it. The /r/ProgrammingLanguage discord server is a great place to hang out, with lots of interesting and competent people working on sideprojects simply because they like the topic. - Urbit: I got into Urbit years ago, and still think it's really interest…

Meh. Urbit. That's not a weird technical scene, that's a lightning-rod for arguments about code of conduct at conferences and whether you're a fan of Bergson / Popper-esque Open Societies [cf. "The Open Society and Its Enemies" and "The Two Sources of Morality and Religion" vs. J. S. Mill "On Liberty"]

> that's a lightning-rod for arguments about code of conduct at conferences and whether you're a fan of Bergson / Popper-esque Open Societies [cf. "The Open Society and Its Enemies" and "The Two Sources of Morality and Religion" vs. J. S. Mill "On Liberty"]

I'm out of the loop but intrigued.

Can you explain what the controversy is? In what way are Bergson / Popper and Mill said to disagreed and what does it have to do with (Urbit?) conference codes of conduct?

Re: Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of?

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Post by lucasgonze »

bckr wrote: post #4

I'm in the deep learning music scene, which is due for its stable diffusion moment in the next year or two. The (primarily) timbre transfer system called RAVE is where I'm starting, and my contribution is to optimize the system to improve training time. [] https://github.com/acids-ircam/RAVE/tree/master/rave

I was hunting around for such a scene. Thanks for getting me connected.

Re: Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of?

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Post by wrycoder »

meadhbh-hamrick wrote: post #14
LAC-Tech wrote: post #10

- Systems that work offline. Partly for practical reasons due to my background working in Agtech companies, as well as logistics in developing countries. But also it's just technically and socially fascinating. How do you detect conflicts? How do you decide what one is? To what extent - if any - can it be resolved automatically? Revisions, event sourcing, CRDTs... there's no one size fits all industry solution and no…

I'm a fan of FORTH, but absolutely second your motion that Joy is worth investigating. It has a FORTH "feel" but feels like you can more easily do more advanced things with it.

Joy appears even more “write-only” than Forth.

Half the skill in the art of programming is choosing good names, but Joy lacks names for arguments and locals.

Otherwise, it looks interesting. But, I think I’ll stick to lisp.

Re: Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of?

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Post by wwilim »

grepLeigh wrote: post #15
LAC-Tech wrote: post #10

- Systems that work offline. Partly for practical reasons due to my background working in Agtech companies, as well as logistics in developing countries. But also it's just technically and socially fascinating. How do you detect conflicts? How do you decide what one is? To what extent - if any - can it be resolved automatically? Revisions, event sourcing, CRDTs... there's no one size fits all industry solution and no…

Where do you go to chat with offline / air-gapped systems enthusiasts? I've been obsessed with machine learning for embedded systems for years! So many practices around ML assume constant network connection and/or that your service runs in a data-center. I'm an ex-SRE and love building reliable offline computer vision things!

> Where do you go to chat with offline / air-gapped systems enthusiasts?

Presumably not online

Re: Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of?

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Post by phkahler »

zh3 wrote: post #6

Laser galvo's. Fast flicking mirrors drawing patterns on the walls and ceiling. Use a UV laser and draw crazy glowing shapes on luminous paint (ever shone a UV laser at something luminous?)

I've wanted in for a long time. I think it would be cool to add export to synfig studio or even blender to make animations.

Re: Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of?

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Post by sph »

meadhbh-hamrick wrote: post #24
chc4 wrote: post #5

- Programming Language dev: I think compilers and VM runtimes are neat, and like talking to people in the space on twitter or reading new papers that come out about it. The /r/ProgrammingLanguage discord server is a great place to hang out, with lots of interesting and competent people working on sideprojects simply because they like the topic. - Urbit: I got into Urbit years ago, and still think it's really interest…

Meh. Urbit. That's not a weird technical scene, that's a lightning-rod for arguments about code of conduct at conferences and whether you're a fan of Bergson / Popper-esque Open Societies [cf. "The Open Society and Its Enemies" and "The Two Sources of Morality and Religion" vs. J. S. Mill "On Liberty"]

> that's a lightning-rod for argument

Then you must be the lightning itself, creating an account to ionise and electrically charge the thread I guess.

Re: Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of?

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Post by jcims »

adamredwoods wrote: post #43

I'm fond of any scene that minimizes code: https://js13kgames.com/ https://js10k.com/ (gone) https://the5k.org/ http://www.message.sk/web4096/ https://js1024.fun/ https://js1k.com/2019-x/ websites: https://1kb.club/ https://aem1k.com/world/ https://jeremiepat.github.io/svg1k (256b) http://wildmag.de/compo/ (140 characters) https://www.dwitter.net/ https://www.reddit.com/r/tinycode/

This is one where I'm just a happy spectator. For some reason I have no desire to try to do it myself but sit in slackjawed amazement at what others can do.
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