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by syawaworht | 2025-11-21 17:52:00+00:00
It isn't surprising that "phenomenal consciousness" is the thing everyone gets hung about, after all we are all immersed in this water. The puzzle seems intractable but only because everyone is accepting the priors and not looking more carefully at it.

This is the endpoint of meditation, and the observation behind some religious traditions, which is look carefully and see that there was never phenomenal consciousness where we are a solid subject to begin with. If we can observe that behavior clearly, then we can remove the confusion in this search.
by Orphis | 2025-11-21 17:52:54+00:00
But it is still more performant to do so in general. There are more image corrections of great quality happening than just background removal nowadays, like lighting improvements or sometimes upscaling, and you wouldn't want to do all that on the CPU.

But also, HW encoding of some codecs is not always of great quality and doesn't support the advanced features required for RTC, so the CPU encoding code-path is sometimes even forced! While it doesn't necessarily apply to HEVC as you'd need a license for it (and almost all apps rely on the system having one), it's happening for VP9 or AV1 occasionally more frequently.
by jakelazaroff | 2025-11-21 17:53:03+00:00
> And what of the martian who uses a very powerful telescope to record public activities of earthlings - do our laws extend to her? Do we own the photons that bounce off of our skin unto the ends of reality? Obviously, totally not. That's not how any of this works.

Martians don't exist, so yeah, of course that's not how anything works!
by jawilson2 | 2025-11-21 17:53:30+00:00
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by prewett | 2025-11-21 17:53:31+00:00
A dividend is one mechanism for financial rigor and focus, since shareholders don't like dividends being cut. Having large piles of cash lying around is a temptation to use it for sub-optimal returns, or even worse, empire-building.

Another reason is that the shareholder functions more like an owner. Without a dividend the managers have a less clear responsibility to the shareholders. Maybe they act wisely, maybe not, but there is no real constraints on their behavior. The stock then acts more like a lottery ticket than owning a business, because you don't get anything out until you sell. Whereas, if the company pays you something because you own shares and therefore you own a piece of the profits, the ownership structure and the management structures line up better.
by yannyu | 2025-11-21 17:53:39+00:00
Okay, so you're talking about LLMs specifically in the context of a ChatGPT, Claude, or pick-your-preferred-chatbot. Which isn't just an LLM, but also a UI, a memory manager, a prompt builder, a vectorDB, a system prompt, and everything else that goes into making it feel like a person.

Let's work with that.

In a given context window or conversation, yes, you can have a very human-like conversation and the chatbot will give the feeling of understanding your world and what it's like. But this still isn't a real world, and the chatbot isn't really forming hypotheses that can be disproven. At best, it's a D&D style tabletop roleplaying game with you as the DM. You are the human arbiter of what is true and what is not for this chatbot, and the world it inhabits is the one you provide it. You tell it what you want, you tell it what to do, and it responds purely to you. That isn't a real world, it's just a narrative based on your words.
by the_snooze | 2025-11-21 17:53:39+00:00
They will go out of business, in the long-term. What PE does is hot potato: they "trim the fat" off an existing business to goose up margins in the short-term, unload it to someone else, and that someone else is stuck with a business that's unsustainable long-term because that "fat" was actually resilience.

Sometimes, these buyouts are leveraged, with the company itself taking on the debt the PE firm used to buy it, so the PE's own risk is minimal.
by _djo_ | 2025-11-21 17:54:19+00:00
There was no such promise. Everyone who was actually in the room during those talks, including Premier Gorbachev, has denied it.

Nor was Ukraine anywhere close to joining NATO. It’s application had effectively been frozen in 2008, and it was not even being offered a MAP which is about step 1 on a 20 step ladder of actions to take before joining.

It’s a red herring being used to justify Russia’s territorial and imperial ambitions.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/did-nato-promise-not-to-e...

https://hls.harvard.edu/today/there-was-no-promise-not-to-en...
by saurik | 2025-11-21 17:55:01+00:00
But you could have made those changes incrementally in a way that more cleanly worked across both Python 2 (which already had this split: the default type was just wrong; all of my code, for instance, worked great!... it was just super awkward, as it had tons of u's thrown all over the place). Where they ended up with the language (after, like, 3.7) was much more incremental from Python 2 than the early path to how they got there. To be explicit: it isn't about having to put in upgrade effort, it is about upgrade discontinuity.
by iamnothere | 2025-11-21 17:55:01+00:00
Movie ratings are not mandatory, at least not in free countries. MPAA ratings like “R” and “PG” are a voluntary classification system and films are free to opt out, though many theater chains may be less likely to show your film. But small theaters and streaming platforms don’t usually care.

Authoritarian states like China and the UK do require classification/certification of films before release. Imagine requiring a painter to have their paintings reviewed by the state before exhibition!
by jsheard | 2025-11-21 17:55:07+00:00
It could output analogue 720p and 1080i for sure, but the CPU had a hard time keeping up with HD video decoding. It was only a 733mhz Pentium 3 after all.

Although to go on a tangent, it turned out that you could swap the soldered BGA processor for a socketed 1.4ghz Pentium meant for a desktop PC, using an incredibly cursed interposer setup to redirect the CPU pins to the right BGA pads, and it somehow actually worked.
by ahazred8ta | 2025-11-21 17:55:44+00:00
tldr - Anatolian/Danubian farmers settled central europe from the black sea to Paris. (The LBK pottery culture) About 5000BC a subculture developed that raided distant villages, brought people to central locations, killed and dismembered them in conjunction with ceremonial feasting. Although the LBK culture continued for several generations after that.
by Sanzig | 2025-11-21 17:56:26+00:00
I managed to get a fully working XBMC+Samba setup back when I was probably 13 or 14 in the mid-2000s. Echoing the sentiment that it really was far ahead of its time. I'd torrent a movie or show, it'd appear on the network share, and then I could watch it immediately in the living room in glorious 480p on a tube TV.

This was before Netflix instant watch existed, truly felt like something from the future.
by estearum | 2025-11-21 17:56:47+00:00
I see this comment nearly every time consciousness is brought up here and I’m pretty sure this is a misunderstanding of contemplative practices.

Are you a practitioner who has arrived at this understanding, or is it possible you are misremembering a common contemplative “breakthrough” that the self (as separate from consciousness) is illusory, and you’re mistakenly remembering this as saying consciousness itself is illusory?

Consciousness is the only thing we can be absolutely certain does actually exist.
by yunyu | 2025-11-21 17:57:03+00:00
>A conscious textual agent would need something like a unified narrative environment with real feedback: symbols that maintain identity over time, a stable substrate where “being someone” is definable, the ability to form and test a hypothesis, and experience the consequences. LLMs don’t have that. They exist in a shifting cloud of possibilities with no single consistent reality to anchor self-maintaining loops. They can generate pockets of local coherence, but they can’t accumulate global coherence across time.

These exist? Companies are making billions of dollars selling persistent environments to the labs. Huge amounts of inference dollars are going into coding agents which live in persistent environments with internal dynamics. LLMs definitely can live in a world, and what this world is and whether it's persistent lie outside the LLM.
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-21 17:57:40+00:00
> As a European, who created this situation? Russia?

Russia. After the US completely rolled over for their demands not to provide NATO membership action plans to Georgia and Ukraine in 2008, because, as Russia claimed, that would be destabilizing. Which Russia followed immediately with an invasion of Georgia in 2008. Then, as soon as Ukraine threw off the Russian-aligned government that had taken power while that was going on, Ukraine in 2014, taking Crimea and invading parts of Eastern Ukraine with both Russian reular forces and Russia-paid mercenaries, which is what turned Ukraine back to seeking NATO membership.
by boilerupnc | 2025-11-21 17:58:00+00:00
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[1] https://www.xbox-scene.info/forums/topic/657-list-of-all-og-...
by DaveZale | 2025-11-21 17:58:13+00:00
PQQ is another "maybe" vitamin. It participates oxidation and reduction and is found in trace amounts in whiskey (it leaches from the charred oak) and other foods, and often formulated together with coQ10.

PQQ was almost declared a vitamin a decade or two ago.

If you have the pure crystals, drop just a tiny one into a glass of water and watch it dissolve as it sinks. Beautiful show! Also, you'll see it changes color with pH.
by tracker1 | 2025-11-21 17:58:19+00:00
Start introducing it where you are. I was an early advocate for the use of WSL2/Docker and along with that a push towards deploying to Linux initially as a cost saving as projects started shifting away from .Net Framework and into .Net Core and Node that were actually easier to deploy to Linux... WSL/Docker became a natural fit as it was "closer to production" for the development workflow.

It's not always possible, but there are definitely selling points that can help you introduce these things. Hell, scripting out the onboarding chores from a clean windows install (powershell to bootstrap in windows, then bash, etc for the WSL environment) with only 3-4 manual steps... and you get a new dev onboarded in a couple hours with a fully working environment and software stack, including an initialized database... You can raise some eyebrows.

Do the same for automated deployments on your existing projects... shift the testing environments to Linux as a "test" or "experiment" ... you can eat away at both directions.

Before you know it, developers can choose windows or mac instead of one or the other, and can use whatever editor they like. Maybe still stuck with C# or MS-SQL, maybe PostgreSQL for green projects.
by wrathofmonads | 2025-11-21 17:58:20+00:00
In simulations or in game dev, the practice is to use an SoA data layout to avoid aliasing entirely. Job systems or actors are used for handling multithreading. In machine learning, most parallelism is achieved through GPU offloading or CPU intrinsics. I agree in principle with everything you’re saying, but that doesn’t mean the ecosystem isn’t creative when it comes to working around these hiccups.
by TrainedMonkey | 2025-11-21 17:58:27+00:00
I noticed that people love pointing how far AI field has advanced in a few years and extrapolate next few years. While at the same time being dismissive of Chinese semiconductor manufacturing process. In similar vein I also remember claims that TSMC Fab in Arizona can never work, and yet it does. So I don't know man, I wouldn't underestimate what a billion of enterprising people can do. Especially when paired with the system that has a pipeline of funneling smart people into elite schools.
by walterbell | 2025-11-21 17:58:42+00:00
Local strategies, "The Cameras Tracking You Are a Security Nightmare" (90 comments), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45945960#45947911

"Find Nearby Automated License Plate Readers (ALPR)" (70 comments), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45487452

Adversarial computer vision and DIY OSS $250 RPi Hailo ALPR (2M views), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQ

"Tire Pressure Sensor IDs: Why, Where and When (2015)" (30 comments), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45490202
by jcalvinowens | 2025-11-21 17:59:00+00:00
> You're correct, because it's completely neurotic to worry about phantom bugs that have no actual presence of mind but must absolutely positively be resolved as soon as a candidate fix has been pushed.

Well, I've made a whole career out of fixing bugs like that. Just because you don't see them doesn't mean they don't exist.

It is shockingly common to see systems bugs that don't trigger for a long time by luck, and then suddenly trigger out of the blue everywhere at once. Typically it's caused by innocuous changes in unrelated code, which is what makes it so nefarious.

The most recent example I can think of was an uninitialized variable in some kernel code: hundreds of devices ran that code reliably for a year, but an innocuous change in the userland application made the device crash on startup almost 100% of the time.

The fix had been in stable for months, they just hadn't bothered to upgrade. If they had upgraded, they'd have never known the bug existed :)

I can tell dozens of stories like that, which is why I feel so strongly about this.
by joshstrange | 2025-11-21 17:59:06+00:00
Clickable link: https://ynab.com

I'm a huge fan of You Need A Budget, it was instrumental in giving me control over my finances. It feels like a superpower to see all my money in one place and not care which bank account the dollars actually reside. Also makes it easier to take advantage of various offers (Credit card or things like HYSA) since I know all the records will live in YNAB and I have full control there, even if the individual banks I use have terrible UIs.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-11-21 17:59:08+00:00
I would frame it differently. Due to advances in communication and automation with the use of software, business owners can market the business to a far larger group of buyers, and business buyers can buy from a much larger pool of businesses.

Everybody likes seeing those 10%+ annual returns in their 401K (or their local government's taxpayer funded defined benefit pension plan), but no one likes how the sausage is made.
by paxys | 2025-11-21 17:59:16+00:00
> Wealthfolio does not currently support integration with online brokers or aggregators. Data must be imported from CSV files or by manually entering transactions.

This is unfortunately going to be the deal breaker for wide adoption. Self hosting is great, but manually importing data from dozens of accounts every day and entering every single transaction as you make it is simply too much of a burden.
by tokai | 2025-11-21 17:59:34+00:00
Russia's advanced SAMs and radars are getting clapped by one of the poorest nations in Europe. We're at almost four years of full scale war and the worlds no. 2 military has not been able to get air superiority over a small airforce of cold war left overs. Just the airforces of the Nordic countries alone would run rings around the russian airforce and their air defence.
by idiotsecant | 2025-11-21 17:59:38+00:00
How to loudly announce you've never been in a union.

I am an engineer in a unionized workplace. It's great. I make a ton of money, management is respectful, and work life balance is not based on the whims of whoever has a self-imposed emergency this week. My work is satisfying, and I have an avenue for resolving any complaints I might have with management.

Nobody tells me 'what I can't do' like some kind of anti-union cartoon that some people seem to think represents reality.

Unions aren't for coal miners. They are for anyone who cares about not being abused by the power imbalance inherent to the relationship between owners and laborers.

You are not a temporarily embarrassed billionaire. You have more in common with the steelworkers you seem to disdain so much than you do with them.
by FireBeyond | 2025-11-21 17:59:50+00:00
Because people are human beings and not property? They're your spouse, not your possession, and still possess free agency.

Which is one of the reasons why (simplifying) we don't legislate morality, and it's not illegal to be an asshole.

What about divorce? The logical conclusion of your scenario is that divorce should be illegal too, as you made a huge commitment to your partner, and now you want to break it?
by estearum | 2025-11-21 17:59:51+00:00
> Any conscious agent, textual or physical, has to inhabit a world whose structure is stable, self-consistent, and rich enough to support persistent internal dynamics. Even a purely symbolic mind would still need a coherent symbolic universe. And this is precisely where LLMs fall short, through no fault of their own. The universe they operate in isn’t a world—it’s a superposition of countless incompatible snippets of text.

The consistency and coherence of LLM outputs, assembled from an imperfectly coherent mess of symbols is an empirical proof that the mess of symbols is in fact quite coherent.

The physical world is largely incoherent to human consciousnesses too, and we emerged just fine.
by frmersdog | 2025-11-21 17:59:52+00:00
I think you misunderstood. I was pointing out that, in the country which came into being (twice) through a war fought principally to preserve rich, slave-holding landowners' right to hold or gain further land and slaves, it's going to be difficult to find a period in which corrupt dealings and amoral excesses weren't present. George Washington was Bill Gates with some martial chutzpah, and he sent thousands of men to bloody deaths over stated, explicit ideals that he purposely refused to fully execute on because it would have devalued his estate.

We can be better than that, it's just no surprise when we're not, because we historically have not been.
by colonwqbang | 2025-11-21 18:00:08+00:00
Your post could be (uncharitably) paraphrased as: "once you have written correct C++ code, the drawbacks of C++ are not relevant". That is true, and the same is true of C. But it's not really a counterargument to Rust. It doesn't much help those us who have to deliver that correct code in the first place.
by smaudet | 2025-11-21 18:00:29+00:00
If you mean operating system code, that is generally opaque, and not quite what the article is talking about (you don't use a dependency manager to install code that you have reviewed to perform operating system updates - you can, and that is fantastic for you, but not I imagine what you mean).

Although, even for Operating Systems, cooldown periods on patches are not only a good thing, but something that e.g. a large org that can't afford downtime will employ (managing windows or linux software patches, e.g.). The reasoning is the same - updates have just as much chance to introduce bugs as fix them, and although you hope your OS vendor does adequate testing, especially in the case where you cannot audit their code, you have to wait so that either some 3rd party security vendor can assess system safety, or you are able to perform adequate testing yourself.
by ksaj | 2025-11-21 18:01:04+00:00
The article mentions creatine in passing. But in what it says, I'm surprised the writer didn't add it to the list.

Besides what it already (sort of) says, creatine also helps curb muscle aches caused by the type of temporary tissue damage working out and age-related muscle wasting causes. People who will be bed-ridden for a while can certainly benefit from it, as well as anyone advancing through the aging process.

The article also hints at pigments by including Astaxanthin. Some of the other natural pigments also have similar health benefits. You've certainly heard of beta carotine in this capacity.

Good article. I think most people who are active about their health would agree with most of what is included.
by michaelmrose | 2025-11-21 18:01:53+00:00
An example

>The job market for junior software engineers is in turmoil: the AIs can do everything taught by a CS degree, but people who know how to manage and quality-control teams of AIs are making a killing.

AI doesn't look like a competition for a junior engineer and many of the people using not "managing" AI are going to be juniors in fact increasing what a junior can do and learn more quickly looks like one of the biggest potentials if they don't use it entirely as a crunch.

Meanwhile, it suggests leading-edge research into AI itself will proceed fully 50% faster than research not without AI but those using 6 months behind cutting edge. This appears hopelessly optimistic as does the idea that it will grow the US economy 30% in 2026 whereas a crash seems more likely.

Also it assumes that more compute will continue to be wildly more effective in short order assuming its possible to spend the money for magnitudes more compute. Either or both could easily fail to work out to plan.
by Orphis | 2025-11-21 18:02:20+00:00
HEVC is far from being the most popular codec on the planet in the context of video conferencing. Most implementations are using WebRTC and as it is unevenly supported and AV1 support is becoming more prominent and stable, most implementations are going from H264/VP8 -> VP9 -> AV1 and skip HEVC entirely.

Each new codec to support is adding a lot of complexity to the stack (negotiation issues, SFU implementation, quality tuning, dealing with non conformant implementations...), so it's never quite as easy as toggling a switch to enable them.
by idiotsecant | 2025-11-21 18:03:12+00:00
'union people' - you mean people who collectively bargain their labor? Do you honestly these people who organize with co-workers to equalize the power imbalance between them and management are a certain kind of 'people'?

Are you one of those people who clutches their pearls and tells on your co-worker to management for discussing how much money they make?

Those are definitely a kind of 'people'.
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