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by amatecha | 2025-10-15 15:21:18+00:00
My layman thought about that is that, with consciousness, the medium IS the consciousness -- the actual intelligence is in the tangible material of the "circuitry" of the brain. What we call consciousness is an emergent property of an unbelievably complex organ (that we will probably never fully understand or be able to precisely model). Any models that attempt to replicate those phenomena will be of lower fidelity and/or breadth than "true intelligence" (though intelligence is quite variable, of course)... But you get what I mean, right? Our software/hardware models will always be orders of magnitude less precise or exhaustive than what already happens organically in the brain of an intelligent life form. I don't think AGI is strictly impossible, but it will always be a subset or abstraction of "real"/natural intelligence.
by ViktorRay | 2025-10-15 15:21:30+00:00
I think it is partially true. The vast majority of human beings don’t act like that. But it seems the ones in power or close proximity to power do.

This is why it is important to have societies where various forms of power are managed carefully. Limited constitutional government with guaranteed freedoms and checks and balances for example. Regulations placed on mega corporations is another example. Restrictions to prevent the powerful in government or business (or both!) from messing around with the rest of us…
by omnicognate | 2025-10-15 15:21:32+00:00
If you genuinely want the strongest statement of it, read The Emperor's New Mind followed by Shadows of the Mind, both by Roger Penrose.

These books often get shallowly dismissed in terms that imply he made some elementary error in his reasoning, but that's not the case. The dispute is more about the assumptions on which his argument rests, which go beyond mathematical axioms and include statements about the nature of human perception of mathematical truth. That makes it a philosophical debate more than a mathematical one.

Personally, I strongly agree with the non-mathematical assumptions he makes, and am therefore persuaded by his argument. It leads to a very different way of thinking about many aspects of maths, physics and computing than the one I acquired by default from my schooling. It's a perspective that I've become increasingly convinced by over the 30+ years since I first read his books, and one that I think acquires greater urgency as computing becomes an ever larger part of our lives.
by dylan604 | 2025-10-15 15:21:45+00:00
It shouldn't be the user's responsibility to know what architecture the software uses to then need to go look at upgrading them. Upstream comments blaming Apple for this for "not testing Electron apps internally", but I don't expect Apple to test every single app ever released for regression testing. Apple releases betas, and the software devs are expected to test their app against it. The problem comes from the app devs using a bit of private code where it is suggested to not do that for this very reason. Even if Apple did test and find the result, it would still be the app dev that would need to fix it. Maybe the thought is that an email from Apple to the dev saying fix your code would more compelling???
by guywithahat | 2025-10-15 15:21:46+00:00
I derived my opinion by reading the article, noticing there was no description of the burn, and then noticing the incredibly small fine and relatively relaxed attitude by regulators. If you'd read my comment again I didn't say it was a cement burn, just that that is an example of a mild burn. The real irony is if it was just a curing accelerant, then it was an incredibly mild burn, and you're still wrong.
by jll29 | 2025-10-15 15:22:24+00:00
Algorithm R (Rich).

1. Play the lottery. [not recommended, but shown for completeness]

2. Invest in crypto currencies (we are just after a craw; excellent time to buy).

3. Trade FX/shares/derivatives.

4. Write and sell some software (sell it to a software company or deploy it yourself via SAAS and earn money yourself from end users).

5. Make an invention and patent it; live from the license royalties.

6. Compose a song (either a summer hit or a Christmas song); live from the license royalties.

7. Work (in some capacity), buy a property, fix it up/wait and sell it for more to buy another one, and then several ones (traditional property ladder).

8. Sell something (food, drinks, shoes, ...). One of the richest people I ever met sold sports shoes from the trunk of his car and became a billionaire.

You will not need $100M; $20M-$50M should do (you being slightly less rich avoids some specific kinds of trouble). The question is not so much how to get rich (hard work), but to do it the most fun, elegant, ethical way.
by gwbas1c | 2025-10-15 15:22:33+00:00
Oh no, I'm directly criticizing C/C++/Java/C#:

The heavyweight framework (and startup cost) that comes with Java and C# makes them challenging for widely-adopted lightweight command-line tools. (Although I love C# as a language, I find the Rust toolchain much simpler and easier to work with than modern dotnet.)

Building C (and C++) is often a nightmare.
by seanwilson | 2025-10-15 15:23:15+00:00
Reds people choose are usually between dark and light, which doesn't contrast particularly well on anything because for good contrast you need a dark color vs a light color.

Green, yellow, red or whatever hue is fine, as long as it's dark or light enough. Colorblind and non-colorblind people can see how dark or light a color is (luminance), but they might not agree on the hue. That's why WCAG contrast checks require luminance contrast and not hue contrast.

It's best to use a contrast checker because it's not always intuitive how dark or light a color is e.g. yellow and lime are almost as light as white.
by 0xfaded | 2025-10-15 15:23:24+00:00
To any Linux users, I recently bought a fully loaded M4 MacBook pro to replace my aging Lenovo and strongly regret it. I thought I would use it for playing with LLMs, but local dev on a Mac is not fun and I still don't have it fully set up. I'll probably replace it with a framework at some point in the near future.

Edit: okay, that garnered more attention than I expected, I guess I owe a qualification.

1. Everything is just slightly different. I had to split all my dot files into common/Linux/Mac specific sections. Don't expect to be able to clone and build any random C++ project unless someone in the project is specifically targeting Mac.

2. Not everything is supported natively on arm64. I had an idea and wanted to spin up a project using DynamoRIO, but wasn't supported. Others have mentioned the docker quirks.

3. The window manager. I'm not a fan of all the animations and needing to gester between screens (and yes, I've been down the hotkeys rabbit hole). To install a 3rd party window manager you need to disable some security setting because appearantly they work by injecting into the display manager and calling private APIs.

So my person takeaway was that I took the openness of the Linux ecosystem for granted (I've always had a local checkout of the kernel so I can grep an error message if needed). Losing that for me felt like wearing a straightjacket. Ironically I have a MBP at work, but spend my day ssh'd into a Linux box. It's a great machine for running a web browser and terminal emulator.
by ohman876 | 2025-10-15 15:23:26+00:00
I never used Android Auto, always navigated my car with phone on a phone holder :)) thanks for Organic Maps suggestion! I always felt Google did very god work on Google Maps and felt alternatives like Osmand are not as good... until recently- seeing gmaps picking weird routes for no reason, but maybe it' just my bubble.. I'll definitely give Organic Maps a try!

Also observing new apps showing up on my phone after Android update without me ever installing them made me so angry that I stopped updating my phone, you know- apps that cannot be removed or disabled.. it constantly makes me wonder what really is running in the background- I don't even have a way to reliably list those things. I'm going to sit through the list you provided and push myself to go through the last mile to actually make the move.
by snovymgodym | 2025-10-15 15:23:57+00:00
The same "millions of years of evolution" resulted in both intelligent humans and brainless jellyfish.

Evolution isn't an intentional force that's gradually pushing organisms towards higher and higher intelligence. Evolution maximizes reproducing before dying - that's it.

Sure, it usually results in organisms adapting to their environment over time and often has emergent second-order effects, but at its core it's a dirt-simple process.

Evolution isn't driven to create intelligence any more so than erosion is driven to create specific rock formations.
by p0w3n3d | 2025-10-15 15:24:10+00:00
It's quite funny, because this page accidentally serves as a list of open source ports for gaming on Linux too. I used to look for ports of games I had played as a child (even for windows, because they sometimes no longer work there), and never got any global headquarters on games' ports (like the winehq db for example, which is another chapter of pain and sorrow to run them on linux)
by array_key_first | 2025-10-15 15:24:23+00:00
IMO:

1. There's actual value in getting used to things. Part of the reason older people can't use computers well and get scammed is because trendy software companies constantly reshuffle the same stuff and they can't keep up.

2. A lot of UI progression is objectively worse, and I do mean objectively. Less legibility, more clicks to do the same actions, etc. We just get used to back software.

iOS 26 is bad software. We might get used to it being bad one day. It's still bad.

Similarly, Windows 8 was bad software. We actually undid that one.
by kbelder | 2025-10-15 15:24:55+00:00
Direct experiences are unfiltered. Statistics are often used to lie and deceive.

It's not a dig against math or statistics. It's a dig against the people using statistics. What do you do when, statistically, the majority of statistics you're given are lies, wrong, irrelevant, misleading, or out of context? You ground yourself in direct experience.
by prewett | 2025-10-15 15:25:44+00:00
Feelings are uncorrelated with accuracy. Last year, the US revenue was $4.7 billion [1]. The US population is estimated to be 342 million [2]. If we had no government, we could UBI everyone $13,742/year. This is the maximum we could UBI, and it is not enough to live on. But if you want roads, enforcement of food and drug safety, some sort of law enforcement system, national parks, at least enough military to prevent Canada or Mexico from waltzing in and annexing us, support for research grants, etc. then it's going to be substantially less than that.

[1] https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/gover...

[2] https://www.census.gov/popclock/
by PaulHoule | 2025-10-15 15:26:07+00:00
Playing Beat Saber on the MQ3 I meet people who are enthusiastic about VR, who share immersive content (pano video shot with https://www.kandaovr.com/qoocam-3) and there are plenty of games in the store... compared to other gaming platforms where I meet a lot of younger people, I find there are a lot of older and retired people using VR, which is not what Meta is looking for for a Facebook replacement.

My take is the MQ3 is pretty good for UX. I regularly use my image sorter and RSS reader in a web browser with a huge number of windows open, bringing my click targets up to the WCAG AAA standards made them very usable in this environment. The Apple Magic Keyboard pairs perfectly, as does a mouse. The controller work great for games and other immersive applications.

I'd say though that my game backlog on the MQ3 is long as is my game backlog in Steam, and there is just a huge amount of competition from flat content so I don't play as many VR games as I could.
by input_sh | 2025-10-15 15:26:11+00:00
You just verify that you have access to an email address that belongs to a company (@example.com) by entering a six digit code they send to your work email. This in theory verifies that you work there, but obviously nothing else like your actual position at the company.

From an attacker standpoint, if an attacker gains access to any email address with @example.com, they could pretend to be the CEO of example.com even if they compromised the lowest level employee.
by pixelpoet | 2025-10-15 15:26:26+00:00
I'm saying this is pretty weaksauce for AI-anything in 2025, especially considering the price tag. Sure, there will be later models with more memory and bandwidth (no doubt at eye-watering prices), but with 32 GB this model isn't it.

I'm sure it's a perfectly fine daily driver, but you have to appreciate the irony of a massive chip loaded to the gills with matrix multiplication units, marketed as an amazing AI machine, and yet so hobbled by mem capacity and bandwidth.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-10-15 15:26:55+00:00
> - Finder is very mediocre comparing to even File explorer in Windows

It really is awful. Why the hell is there no key to delete a file? Where's the "cut" option for moving a file? Why is there no option for showing ALL folders (ie, /bin, /etc) without having to memorize some esoteric key combination?

For fuck's sake, even my home directory is hidden by default.

> - Scrollbar and other UI issues

Disappearing scrollbars make sense on mobile where screen real estate is at a premium and people don't typically interact with them. It does not make sense on any screen that you'd use a mouse to navigate.

For years, you couldn't even disable mouse acceleration without either an esoteric command line or using 3rd party software. Even now, you can't disable scroll wheel acceleration. I hate that I can't just make a consistent "one click = ~2 lines of text" behavior.

I could go on and on about the just outright dumb decisions regarding UX in MacOS. So many things just don't make sense, and I feel like they were done for the sole purpose of being different from everyone else, rather than because of a sense of being better.
by ascagnel_ | 2025-10-15 15:26:57+00:00
Apex Legends is an interesting case because EA/Respawn initially shipped with first-class support for the Steam Deck (going as far as to make changes to the game client so it would get a "Verified" badge from Valve) -- including "check[ing] the box that allows it to work". However, the observation was that the anti-cheat code on Linux wasn't as effective, so they eventually dropped support for it.

https://forums.ea.com/blog/apex-legends-game-info-hub-en/dev...
by sofixa | 2025-10-15 15:27:37+00:00
> You often don't have to rebuild or redeploy your software if you are using the included batteries as intended

Instead, your software's lifecycle is entirely dependent on the OS' lifecycle. That seems worse.

And for what it's worth, it would be exactly the same with any "interpreted"/VM-based language - Java and family friends, Python, Ruby, etc. Just update the VM/interpreter and restart (the service though, not the whole server).

It's for compiled languages like Go or C/C++ or Rust that you would need to recompile. I prefer it because it ensures the lifecycle only depends on you and you aren't bound by OS versions and OS updates to be able to update/downgrade library/framework/language versions.
by WolfeReader | 2025-10-15 15:28:24+00:00
You know what, I'm not even gonna wait for your reply. I'll come out and say it:

You want a culture of literary snobbishness. You want to look down at people who don't read "complex" literature, where "complex" is in the eye of the beholder, and the beholder is you.

You think books that are recent, easy to comprehend, and entertaining are "slop" - a word used to describe pig food; you can't stop yourself from using it.

A lot of people don't actually want to look down on others in the way you're doing! If being a serious reader means looking down on others and calling their books "slop", you're going to drive people away.

Books should be for everybody. The full-time worker who wants to kick back at the end of the day and read some romance or fantasy (or romantasy :) ) is doing more for their literacy and empathy than any social media use would accomplish. By discouraging this - and you are, every time you call it "slop" - you are contributing to illiteracy.
by hypeatei | 2025-10-15 15:28:42+00:00
> The heavyweight framework

Do you mean the VM/runtime? If so, you might be able to eliminate that with an AOT build.

> I find the Rust toolchain much simpler and easier to work with than modern dotnet

What part of the toolchain? I find them pretty similar with the only difference being the way you install them (with dotnet coming from a distro package and Rust from rustup)
by specialist | 2025-10-15 15:28:53+00:00
IIRC, Apple M4's 10-core GPU supports three 6K 60mhz displays. Enough for each eye and 1 virtual desktop.

Vision Pro M5 PR says something about 120mhz. So the M5's "40% faster GPUs" is being used to double the frame rate?

Being noob, I'm guessing each desktop requires 3 additional cores and 16Gb VRAM.

Of course, we can think of many strategies (using current hardware) to support additional desktops, spaces, windows, etc. If Apple really wanted to.
by ErikCorry | 2025-10-15 15:29:06+00:00
Are you sure?

> Despite campaigning for more data center development two years ago, not much has come to fruition in Scotland. In December of 2021, Oracle closed the Sun Microsystems data center in Linlithgow, Scotland. DataVita has opened a new data center in Glasgow in its parent company’s office development, as well as expanding its Fortis data center in August 2022. No major construction projects have been announced since the campaign began. https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/scotland-continue...

Why would you open a datacenter in Scotland when the UK rules mean the electricity price is the same throughout the UK, regardless of supply and demand? This is precisely the issue that OP highlights - the UK electricity auction is at a national level, but transmission is limited and the actual supply and demand is not evenly distributed, causing huge curtailment payments to have to be made.
by walkabout | 2025-10-15 15:29:07+00:00
Yeah the nice thing about (non-cellular) iPads vs. the competition (including Android tablets last time I tried them, but maybe they've gotten a ton better since then) is that you can leave them in a drawer for a couple weeks, take them out, they'll wake up ~instantly, and still have a useful amount of charge. x86 laptops and (again, last I tried) Android tablets always gave me "where's the nearest outlet?!" anxiety, or were just dead when I picked them up to use them. iPads are chill.
by theptip | 2025-10-15 15:29:13+00:00
Is there a market for a distributed audit infra with attestations? If I can have ChatGPT audit a file (content hash) with a known-good prompt, and then share the link as proof of the full conversation, would this be useful evidence to de-risk?

If each developer can audit some portion of their dep tree and reuse prior cached audits, maybe it’s tractable to actually get “eyeballs” on every bit of code?

Not as good as human audit of course, but could improve the Pareto-frontier for cost/effectiveness (ie make the average web dev no-friction usecase safer).
by ThrowawayR2 | 2025-10-15 15:29:22+00:00
A computing device named M5 with highly advanced AI capabilities meant for enterprise (or Enterprise) computing environments? Uh-oh, I think I'll pass; I saw this episode of Star Trek (TOS: The Ultimate Computer) before. Hope the owner's manual comes with a warning not to wear a red shirt anywhere near it, dohohoho.

(Perhaps it would be safer to wait for The Next Generation?)
by giobox | 2025-10-15 15:29:30+00:00
Sim racing has been default better in VR for the last few years IMO if you have decent spec computer that can sustain good frame rates. Especially since the release of the Quest 3 with its really nice lenses (huge "sweet spot"), 110 degree FoV and 25 PPD for 500 bucks. The ability to look into a corner the way you do on an actual track, by turning your head and looking towards the apex etc, is just a complete game changer. I don't think anyone in the sim racing community really feels latency is an issue anymore on modern hardware.

The biggest issues left in VR sim racing are still arguably comfort and weight in longer races, but even that is getting solved now with really compact new headsets like the Big Screen Beyond 2 etc.
by torginus | 2025-10-15 15:29:32+00:00
While I'm not ideologically opposed to GC in Rust I have to note:

- the syntax is hella ugly

- GC needs some compiler machinery, like precise GC root tracking with stack maps, space for tracking visted objects, type infos, read/write barriers etc. I don't know how would you retrofit this into Rust without doing heavy duty brain surgery on the compiler. You can do conservative GC without that, but that's kinda lame.
by grmatelich | 2025-10-15 15:29:39+00:00
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by zevon | 2025-10-15 15:29:44+00:00
Why do you insist on saying that I "don't believe" in genetic components when I've literally said the opposite? The people who wrote the stuff on the Wikipedia site I was provided with and their (researcher-)sources seem to try to tell you and me both "hey, this is an interesting field of study but it's very complicated, many genes are involved, we are far from understanding them or being able to model them, be very careful with interpreting correlations and for (m)any practical purposes (such as thinking about how to structure educational environments), you really should consider quite a lot of things not directly related to genetics." What's so controversial about that and what overwhelming evidence does that go against?

edit: Sorry, to clarify, you are saying that "Two parents of higher IQ are much more likely to produce an offspring of higher IQ than median" because of genetics as the main determining factor?
by Geee | 2025-10-15 15:30:02+00:00
If that's true, it's the stupidest thing they've ever done. To start competing in a product category invented by Eric Schmidt and Mark Zuckerberg. This might be the final point on the story of how Tim Cook destroyed Apple.

Eyeglasses with a HUD is the stupidest product category ever invented, and that's why no one wants them, which has been proven again and again in the marketplace.
by eibrahim | 2025-10-15 15:30:17+00:00
I am a hobbyist woodworker and have been writing software for 25 plus and I love both. But I also love the final product and “shipping” if a CNC machine gets me there faster then I will use it. If AI gets me there faster then I will use it. I still have the option to hand code or hand cut a piece of wood and once in a while I do.

For the new generation, I am not sure how it will pan out for them.

I am really enjoying building with AI eand seeing the app I am building taking shape in hours not weeks.
by chris_wot | 2025-10-15 15:30:23+00:00
John Cerrone, Afghanistan veteran was knocked to the ground after doing nothing wrong, detained unlawfully for nine hours in a blood and mucus encrusted cell whilst being taunted by ICE agents.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPEpsthDYC8/?igsh=MTF1YmN6NGg...

US marine corps veteran Daryn Herzberg II, who served in Afghanistan, is seeking $150,000 in damages after he was hospitalized after being tackled from behind by Ice agents while protesting outside a federal facility in Portland on 13 August.

https://www.koin.com/news/oregon/video-shows-marine-veteran-...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/13/us-veterans-...

In case you’ve forgotten, ICE shackled a bunch of Korean workers who were legally in the U.S. - they’ve all gone home now and won’t be coming back. Cost you fools billions.