skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure why being reminded of the horrors of the past would make you feel guilty.
This not only does not require a GPU, but also works on 1-4 CPU threads (!):

- 8 kHz, 1 thread 15-25, 4 threads 30 - 60
- 24 kHz, 1 thread 10, 4 threads 15 - 20
- 48 kHz, 1 thread 5, 4 threads 10

the numbers are seconds of audio generated per second
There's now a desktop application for Whatsapp (at least on Windows). It claims to support ee2e, and the sync is instant.
I don't get this either. I used to think about these experiments and my conclusions are completely opposite. Any physical medium that runs the right program would be conscious. And the right program is probably a very broad category.

>It already seems implausible to me that a vast desert of rocks being manipulated into various patterns is conscious. What exactly is conscious here? What happens if I accidentally kick a rock to the side — have I killed whatever ghostly being inhabits these rocks?

If you kick a rock to the side it's probably analogous to making someone's neuron misfire. If the pebble computer is as sturdy as a human brain then there would be probably no noticeable effect.
If true it means there is a fundamental limit of science to understand the nature of the
universe.

Because if we can unify a theory of physics, we can build a simulation on a computer, which could simulate us.

The get out might be that the energy required to run a computer that can simulate us is more than the energy in the universe and so is practically impossible.
It's like 100+ on ebay, it's kind of rare now. Classic tho. Harder and harder to find working playstation 2 consoles as well. Those games genuinely freaked the shit out of us.

When I was a teenager there was this abandoned Catholic girls school in our neighborhood which we used to go exploring in dodging the security guard and etc. It had this huge hole in the gym floor completely filled with desks JUST LIKE IN THE GAME so that was a lot of fun to bring friends who had played silent hill to come and check out.
.NET Framework 4.8 will start being legacy, when Forms and WPF finally work end to end on Core runtime.

Heck the designer still has issues to render most stuff on .NET 6.
> One nice thing with Ada is how easily it binds to C, and that just got some improvements.

This is an excellent point and will probably keep lots of similar languages out there viable for a bit longer.

For example, I wouldn't start a serious project in Prolog either, but if there's a really good use case for it and there's a way to integrate it with other languages/runtimes, be it C/C++ or anything else, then I might consider it.

> FWIW, in my brief dalliance with Pascal, I got the impression it's a good bit more, uh, fossilized than Ada.

It depends. It's still a good option for various native GUI software and the occasional bit of number crunching/utilities, especially when used with Lazarus: https://www.lazarus-ide.org/

That said, it's definitely showing its age and the whole Delphi/Pascal divide isn't helping much either. Generally .NET and Go do most of the things I would have considered it for 5-10 years ago, though, maybe only the GUI part isn't entirely solved just yet.

I'm not sure why, but most of the newer runtimes/languages don't really have strong built in GUI options, perhaps because developing those and supporting multiple platforms takes a lot of time. I can't stop wishing for something that's as stable as Java Swing or even OpenJFX for something like .NET: Avalonia UI seems like a third party project and using something like Qt/GTK binds isn't always easy to pull off.

Just give me a simple and easy to use language that has built in packages for doing most of the common stuff (working with different data formats, network interaction etc.) and has a built in cross platform GUI library, with an IDE that lets you use a designer with drag & drop functionality for laying stuff out, before you connect all of the components in code. Somehow the wisdom of RAD (rapid application development) seems to have waned in the last decade.
Yes, with stake-weighted tx bandwidth.

I think if QUIC (node to node handshake) was in place, Solend would have no excuse to do this vote as there would be very little risk of the network going down.
At the scale of hot annealing atoms one second is a stupendous amount of time. There's no way a single consistent mapping would hold in a reasonably sized volume for even microseconds.

This whole argument is exactly a rephrasing of the Boltzmann's Brain proposition. But even if we suppose an infinite universe for eternity, sure that means consciousnesses randomly manifest and then disperse. That's vaguely horrific but it doesn't explain or refute anything. So what?
It’s really not fair to take an example of one unethical dentist and sell the story as “the truth about dentistry”.
Even earlier, the Technet tools for it were introduced in Windows 2000.
A New Book: Data Member Initialization in Modern C++
It sounds like a joke that such topic needs a dedicated book. :)
magic-wormhole would be a better alternative

it's durable (as long as the process is still running it will keep sending on reconnection) and more private
That the UK government basically knew what they were doing may have been true 5 years ago. Today, not so much.
It’s pretty much non-news to anybody who isn’t invested in Solend.
> It is a stack machine, no registers; instructions generally push and pop 32/64-bit ints and floats onto that stack.

One thing to note here is that WebAssembly is not just a stack machine but a stack machine encoding of an instruction tree. You can still execute it as like a stack machine but it doesn't look like a typical stack machine. In particular there are no generic stack manipulation operations at all (`drop` is the sole exception), so it is trivial to convert this encoding back to the instruction tree. This greatly simplifies the validation step.

(Edited to clarify that WebAssembly is still a stack machine, just that it lacks usual stack operations.)
Features and containers have been deprecated before. Could it be an option to deprecate only the complexity requirements on some of the operations on std::unordered_map, so that we don't need a whole new container and standard library implementers get the option to use open addressing?
"Why does confrontation with horror make you feel uneasy?"

...
It's a working hypothesis where the element of "HOW does consciousness emerge out of computation" remains unanswered, but you could argue that you shouldn't assume the hypothesis is insufficient until it's shown that the question is not answerable without adding extra assertions (that there is something beyond computation).

Just like we stick to the "planetary orbits are only shaped by gravitational interactions" hypothesis, and if we observe deviations, we try to exhaust all possible explanations that remain gravity based before introducing the possibility of other forces at work.
I see, you meant HASHrates not prices.

I expect that in the "hope dies last" spirit some of the miners will double down, to get higher share of the fees. Whether that's going to be enough to carry through till the network algorithm adapts.. I don't know but wouldn't underestimate the zeal.
You are literally saying: don’t trust this guys experience, my girlfriend is a doctor. I don’t think it’s as strong a point as you think it is.
weird that Facebook would say that
As an Australian, visiting Mauthausen - or indeed any of the preserved concentration camps of the past - was particularly humbling. It really highlighted to me that a society that gets honest with itself, improves - and those who don't, just continue to commit the same atrocities.

We Australians don't have the courage that Austrians do, when it comes to acknowledging the criminal actions of our past society. Alas, the struggle for acknowledgement is real. A lot of it has to do with the fact that Australias concentration camps and genocide programs were performed in seriously remote locations, far far away from any civil population - so its a lot easier to hide.

The camp at Mauthausen can be seen from the local countryside and is clearly maintained to be a visible reminder of extremist totalitarian/authoritarianism to the children who visit it, regularly, as part of their education. That courage is something for which the Austrian people should be proud.
I wanted to chime in as I relate a lot to your points but coming from the other side of the globe: Brazil.

I grew up in a lower middle class family, which in Brazil means that we had enough money to not get desperate about feeding our family and having a roof over our heads. No other luxuries, we never travelled as a family, my parents never really took vacations, etc. Still, it was a pretty comfortable life compared to the really poor people (50+% of society). I was just lucky to have programming as a hobby since I was a kid and lucking out getting a job early in life (15-16 years old).

I feel so much better living in Sweden while donating to good charity projects in Brazil, helping my family however I can financially and living a decent life, seeing my tax money being well invested in public goods, etc.

I absolutely support all of your points, they helped me fight this inner struggle of not feeling I deserved to be so well paid in a society that is generally so poor. I felt guilty a lot of times and at the same time frustrated with so many aspects of Brazilian society, I had to move out.
The problem is that these messengers don't encourage it.
People are more likely to do verification if the app has an inbuilt process giving visual incentives for verification, see Element and Threema.
Thanks. This is exactly the kind of thing I’m talking about.

I don’t have a strong opinion about LaMDA’s consciousness but I sure wish we could see the unedited text.

As I said elsewhere, we can’t say that LaMDA is not conscious until we’ve proven that LaMDA’s construction is incompatible with consciousness, and we have not done that yet.
Only for Java, for C++, .NET and GPGPU programming? Not really.

And even Java it is debatable, since JetBrains would rather sell CLion licenses than support some of the stuff Netbeans and Eclipse have been doing for 15 years regarding mixing Java and C++ development on the same source base.

When is InteliJ going to have an incremental Java compiler by the way?
After experiencing this first hand in the US it was really nice to return back to Europe where in my opinion unnecessary operations and active selling of special cleaning procedures are somewhat more rare.

I just had my yearly checkup and the dentist again noticed few small inactive cavities and said we should just monitor them like last year.
I don't think running a business is anything like kicking penalties. So many more variables and unknowns.
I was living in Budapest in a house marked with one of the plaques, and I never had a similar thought. What's the mental process that makes you uneasy with them?

Very interesting, but puzzling comment. It reality makes me understand how reality can be perceived in wildly different ways. Thank you for it.
> Unfortunately, this seems to be a common line of thinking, not least within the EU corridors of power themselves: Instead of nurturing competition and their own tech industry or create an environment where such an industry can thrive, they somehow try to regulate it into being.

Then why haven't "vendors [..] capable of producing decent hardware to run Linux on" sprung up in the unfettered entrepreneurial utopias of Shenzhen or SV?

This has nothing to do with Europe's (very real) difficulties in establishing a local tech industry. The OP wished for the EU to enforce the opening of phone hardware because he does not see any path for this to happen organically anywhere, and the EU happens to be the only entity that might be both capable and willing to knock down technological moats.
This happens in Divinity 2 as an elf. If you eat the body of someone you flash back into their life.
I did mention "the last 5 years". Search is from 20 years ago.

Pixel is just another phone. Fitbit, Deepmind, YouTube and Nest are not Google's. They were bought. And YouTube is a net negative impact.

Android was also acquired, and that was purely to get more control over the user and their data, as was Google Docs and Gmail. Google's management of Android is frankly horrid. Their security update policy? Buy a new phone, loser, and agree to our new terms of use!

Chrome isn't even an original Google project, but forked from WebKit, again with the intention to control the user and their data, and preferably wall them in.

No, Google has had a negative impact on the world over the last years, and they will have it as long as they dominate the markets. And the people that work on it can see it.
guilty != uneasy

Don't argue like that. It is very disingenuous.
At least they didn't choose France.
That's when "you don't know what you are doing" that you can do your best work.
If you know what you are doing all of the time, it means you are not learning new things.
“I sold the social network before realising I could use it to topple governments and now I want back in”.

Now, it’s easy to assume sinister reasons, but maybe it’s just that he wants to build something that’s less of a toxic cesspool like Facebook and Twitter.

I have good memories of Orkut - it outed me and my current wife to each other thanks to the crush list feature. Not every match was this lucky, but this one really was.
Yes, but you will need to install an alternative firmware, eg https://mrchromebox.tech/
Writing one sentence per line
Yes. If I remember correctly the email sending server try up to 4 days to deliver the emails to you (retrying) so a couple of hours, even a day of downtime, will be fine.
Nowadays we just send out the poor and desperate. I've always felt conscription was better. How many military interventions would the Pentagon be allowed to sign off on if Wallstreet bankers had to serve in the front lines? Can you imagine the SHIT STORM about burn pits if it involved a billionaire's son...

In ancient Rome everyone in the elite had to serve a few years as an officer in a legion.
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Where are the great C++ WASM frameworks ? Rust is Ruling the Roost here. Has Figma open-sourced anything yet ?
> The damage is done. The contract is not immutable.

It never was immutable, and generally, that's fine - contract upgrades by DAO vote are pretty normal and hard to avoid for complex projects. On Ethereum, you need a proxy contract to implement it, on Solana, there's a native loader that can set an upgrade authority and which works similarly. Either way, working as advertised.

What appears to be utterly broken is Solend's DAO governance process, which apparently allows a single whale account to approve changes. There is nothing decentralized about that!

> Squirting UDP packets until you see your tx pop up in a block turned out to be a risky design choice.

Yes, but how is that related to Solend's (!= Solana) governance?

(Solana is fixing this by moving the transaction ingress stage to QUIC with proper flow control - it won't be throttling by stake, but have guaranteed minimum allocations for staked nodes)
Note that the vw unit is broken by design because it includes the viewport scrollbar, so that 100vw may be more than 100% of the effective viewport width—100vw is always wrong. There are some situations where the imprecision is acceptable, but there are almost always better solutions these days.
No doubt the crypto fanatics also get off on believing in the superiority and 100x growth of cryptos then.
So, an operating system whose governance isn't against the user's interests (that means free software) - but an Android environment aboard too...
Redis can do 1M or even 2M requests per second on a decent box.
What payload are you using?
Can we see the script you are using to generate the traffic and measure the performance?
A case of the pot calling the kettle black. It takes one to know one. Those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
Apple ascension has to do with satisfying customers' demands. Intervention the way Facebook seems to be promoting is crony capitalism, and is powers of magnitude more powerful than that... and in a very grim way.
> "they worked hard"

they weren't good at it or successful at it. they just worked hard.
Show HN: Telosys code generator (2022 – OW2 conference)
I find the many angles and spins commenters here gave this thesis a remarkable consolidation of the reasons behind the idea of mobile first.

I might add, that there were tables and WAP before and finally the iPhone on the demand side gave rise to the mobile revolution. Or put another way: before iPhone there wasn't really a reason to design for mobile, only desktop.

Also in the beginning dev and designers focussed on landing pages and websites, not complex SaaS applications, to be mobile first.

For example, in the beginning it was coined "responsive web design": https://alistapart.com/article/responsive-web-design/

I always rejected responsive web design, because it was in my point of view - lacking browser support of flex/grid! - an overly theoretical approach without any practical merits. Data on projects I worked showed, that a hybrid approach with some responsive sugar for edge cases did the deal way better (hybrid approach).

I remember, when Smashing Magazine went on the hype train and redesigned their website to be responsive, the goal was that it would react to every pixel change in the browser with a consistent layout - a task so tough and so irrelevant, even the designer afterwards conceded. (diminishing returns)

Even today, I prefer to think in views instead of "mobile first". It is not about adding or substracting features depending on the screen size, it is more about fulfilling tasks given a certain screen resolution. Some SaaS apps do not make sense on a phone. That's why I rejected the term "mobile first" in the first place.

Nevertheless, I recognize all the hard work by all devs and designers they pure in developing apps for different screen (re)solutions. No matter what you call the paradigm, it is tough and challenging. Keeping an eye on the user and the data, helped me stay sane.
Survivors guilt can be severely debilitating for some people.

I can also see folks who are severely depressed, bipolar, or other conditions that involve irrationally strong responses to negative stimulus would be impacted by a constant reminder of horror.

I think I agree with the author here - I don’t know I would appreciate my home being marked as the site of an atrocity. Our homes are for the living and the future. It’s good to be aware, and I’m not diminishing the tragedy or the need to keep the memory of it alive to prevent it happening again and to remember the victims. But it feels an awful lot like turning your community into a cemetery, instead of having a cemetery for your community.
ok, but so what? sometimes memory has to be painful, it means it feels real, alive. public spaces are naturally a container of public memory, traumas, joy etc.

it makes me feel connected with the history of the place, i don't see it as an "affront". And affront to whom??
Solend != Solana
I assume what you’re feeling is true but it’s a pretty unusual read on the memorial and I’m sure you’re right it is not a popular way to look at it. I suspect that’s why some people jump to assuming there’s some kind of secret agenda - actual anti-Semites use those sorts of arguments as well because they know they can’t say what they really think, and they are surely more common than people who feel guilty about living when forced to see memorials.
Well good thing you don't have to choose either of them...
Both Apple and Google have successfully “owned the platform” they rely on for revenue, Google with Chrome, Apple with iOS. Facebook have tried but never succeeded in owning the platform, it’s the biggest risk to their position.

Their strategy to owning the platform now seems to me not to be “owning” the legislative and political platform through lobbying. If they can’t own the OS/Browser they are running on, then they want to “own” the legislation that governs it.

If your competitors own the platform better to leapfrog them and attempt to gain control though lobbying for legislative limitations.

Having your no2/3 in the company being a former Deputy British Prime Minister, only shows how important the political and legislative situation is to the long term stability of them as a company.
Any physical system with a component that you can throw away to make the system a more reliable computer is not a feasible implementation of an abstract computation. If you replace the iron bar with a quartz generator, reliability will increase by ten to the power of, say, quadrillion.
A human mind runs only on 12 watts of power. Even if simulation is billion times more inefficient, it's only 12 gigawatts of power, obtainable even today for state actors and large companies.

Not saying it's possible, just that on power requirements alone it should be feasible.
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Every corporation that gets too much unchecked power will eventually abuse it. Why should Apple get a free pass?
Apple is way too powerful. Not that Facebook is any better, but Facebook is not the gatekeeper for millions of peoples lives. When Apple boots you as a customer, you most likely will lose everything about your digital life.

If you lose your Facebook account, it's annoying but recoverable.

Apple has control over your phone, your passwords, your photos, your music, your emails, your credit cards/payment methods. And you can backup nothing of it in a usable way.
Without a working Apple account any iPhone is as good as a brick.
Singapore is 48.25% women in STEM vs 28% globally. https://www.ntu.edu.sg/docs/default-source/default-document-...

However that number drops after graduation until it reaches a low 13.1 percent in management. The fact of the matter is that it isn't the lack of jobs or role models etc that's causing the issue, its the fact that females are worse at handling acute stress which is associated with STEM related jobs. Women require alot more emotional support that would simply be unavailable during a "facts only" argument or discussion. This is also partly why there are so little women in very early stage startups.

That being said, women are well suited for companies that have already gone past the initial growth stage, so instead of fighting against how different gender works, it may be better for everyone to focus on what they do best.
That is an interesting thought.

It might depend on how you define "person". When I look around, I see distinct human bodies. When I wake up, I'm in the same body as when I went to sleep, so in that sense I'm the same person.
Thank you, that means a lot to me.
As a meta comment, this sort of verbal judo to put words in peoples mouths is really becoming common. Whenever I see a comment start with something like “It sounds like you are saying” I know I’m in for a wild ride.
I had a different idea based on Google’s App Engine - you’d run your feed (for any reasonable use, it’d fall under the free tier) on their servers and rely on an API spec to move information between the feeds. Some security issues were a bit hard to solve (you’d be able to DoS someone if you wanted to)