skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't matter how I conceive of anything. They existed for billions of years before I came around.

Even if, like, I take a solipsistic approach to life, objective reality has a sort of object permanence to it that's more stable than e.g. my dreams. So even if everything is a hallucination, the mechanism for preserving the information is the closest to "real" I can identify.

And from studying the things we call real, we understand physics. And from physics, I see nowhere that necessitates consciousness at a super low level.

Care to cite and explain the specific mechanisms that I'm not aware of that do necessitate it?
You won’t get around fees paid in the certified compiler world. If you want someone to sign, stamp and deliver paperwork proving that a compiler upholds a standard and likely also take liability for it, you’ll need to pay. Few organizations will take on liability for free.

But you can get pretty close, at least in some spaces. Self-certification is always an option. Aerospace will be harder, automotive is annoying but feasible.

Ferrocene for one is entirely 100% compatible with the equivalent rust compiler, in fact it is the rust compiler built, qualify-tested, packages and delivered without any significant (1) patches. As such, it’s entirely feasible to use “I’ll just use open source rustc” as an escape hatch. Not a pretty one, self certification is quite a bit of effort, but a bounded one. There’s no magic in what we did, most of it is legwork.

We even open sourced the spec that the certification is based on, so you’ll have to do less legwork than we did.

This has in fact been a design goal and a requirement of our early customers.

I can’t speak to Adacores plans regarding upstream compatibility, I have no insight other than their public statements and they’ve been silent on that matter.

(1) a few lines, mostly target support for stuff rustc doesn’t offer in tree

Disclosure: I’m one of the founders of Ferrous.
This is a great suggestion and likely not that hard for GitHub to implement. I am surprised this isn’t updated more than it is.
I once read an interesting idea that communism could have worked if implemented with modern information technology. Or at least the supermarkets wouldn't have been empty.
It’s a decision all of us have to make individually.

My only suggestion is try to consider what you may want at 50, 60, 70 and how you have a short window in your 20s and 30s to have children.
There are plenty of companies on the planet who know how to build solid roads. And I doubt they would refuse to bid on California road projects - including training and importing their own workforce if it came to that. They are used to building through the middle of nowhere. But yeah, it's up to California (for example) to refuse to consider such solutions.
I don't understand, Bitcoin has gone up in value much more than any currency you must be referring to.
> they like their technobabble because it makes it seem more interesting than it actually is

Yeah cults love their lingo, that's how you can tell they're cults. All this overspecialised vocabulary, and of course a massive reliance on endless recruiting which crypto achieves through FOMO and stuff like 'ngmi', 'stay poor' and all the usual BS that cults use.

Bitcoin, I think, achieved a purpose. The latter cryptos... I mean, when you look at some of the stuff they're including and their complexity, they seem to have been written entirely for the purposes of scamming people and obfuscating the fact they're being scammed.
Having started music production only in the late 2010s, I was honestly shocked to see just how similar DAWs from even the 90s were to the current existing workflows. It feels like you could teleport a producer from a few decades ago into the modern day music software iteration and they would figure things out pretty quickly.

Of course things are far, far more convenient and faster nowadays, but the fundamental paradigms are mostly the same.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OaBkvwx7Hw
Yes, Standard Oil is another classic case, with much the same results after the breakup: higher prices and smaller quantities available to customers.
Now that Typst exists is pure LaTeX necessary anymore?
Where are you getting that quote? The article seems to contradict that:

"Alongside the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the company now seeks to remedy the products after four known death cases — three without a helmet — between 2019 and 2021."
I was using 10 K$ as the baseline.

Junior devs make 100-200 K$/yr in salary. The fully burdened cost including overhead and benefits is usually around double that at around 200-300 K$ (higher base compensation usually results in lower proportional overhead). In the US there are ~2000 working hours a year, so that amounts to 100-150 $/hr.

There are 8 hours per dev-day, so 96 dev-hours. At 100-150 $/hr that is 9600–14400 $.

If you are really obstinate about 20 K$, then just double it and call it 25 junior-dev days. Whoopie, still only 10% of the yearly cost of a junior-dev. Yeah, developers are really expensive. So back to the original question, just minimally changed to account for irrelevant factors of two.

Do you think having 10% more junior devs on your team is better than having better tooling for the other 90% of the team?
lol. There is a technical manual openly published by the US Dept of the army in 1969, freely downloadable online, and for sale in military surplus stores that is a better source for that. I guess you could fine tune it on the manual? TBF many of the procedures in the manual are extremely dangerous if not done exactly right, and still very dangerous if you do.

The purpose of the manual was basically, if your choice is make this or be shot for sure, maybe give it a whirl lol.
They must've done that intentionally. You can't tell me he wouldn't have been able to communicate through drawing, writing or some sort of made up sign language that he's hungarian or that he's mentally well.
Doesn't he do just that?

> They're already a well-explored user experience problem in existing products like Gerrit and Phabricator.
I say it is good if people with bad intentions blow themselves up from following questionable instructions, and also good to keep them paranoid about it.
You don't just learn a language by osmosis. You need resources, and people to work with you.
It's not entirely clear if this is physical space or effective space (available after raid and parity).
Is reading a crime novel harmful? Yet it discusses these things. It might even include characters who think that murder is OK!
>You can't do that in RAM, and it's better if it is in the same file.

No, that's a setting for the config file, or per machine by default in the settings, but never in the media itself.

The old media should be pristine. If the user mangles some media because it attached some cd image as an RP disk under a Vax, it's his issue, is not an issue of the emulator.
I like this idea. The inventor should also have to use the jurisdiction in which their company was registered or they lived. Also, I think software patents should be not be granted, period. But if they are they should be for no longer than 10 years. This 20 year catch-all is nonsense.
Really??? Uh, it's probably my fault but as a hobbyist composer (day job software engineer) I can personally say that tools I use absolutely and utterly suck. They're immensely buggy. My workflow includes:

- LilyPond for writing the final notation

- MuseScore 4 for playing around, MuseScore 3 for playing MIDI

- REAPER as DAW, SFZ plugin for midi soundfonts

- Audacity for processing WAV files

- music21 python lib if I need to programmatically process MIDI (which I commonly do). My scripts using this lib.

- Kdenlive for video processing

- Most importantly: my piano Roland FP-30X

Now among these the only one I don't hate is FP-30X. That piano is fucking amazing, it sounds and feels great.

Kdenlive is also not terrible but I don't do a lot of video processing. Just basic notation videos for YouTube.

Everything else is incredibly, incredibly buggy. MuseScore 4 is thrash, almost every interaction I have with it exposes some bug. REAPER is usually fine but there are pretty annoying bugs when it comes to MIDI import/export that involves time signature change.

My workflow is so dogshit that last month I decided either I'll write my minimalist tiny notation/DAW tool or reconsider this hobby. So far haven't been able to do anything major but I'm confident I'll invest some time into developing my own tools in late 2023 or early 2024.

I'm glad people like their workflow. Unfortunately my own experience with Linux audio processing has been nothing other than encountering one bug after the other one.

EDIT: Whoops, don't know why I said Ardour. I never used it, I actually meant REAPER. Fixed now.
Even storing everything in 100 Gigabyte “8k Blu-ray quality chunks”, you would have to be storing 10 Million Movies and TV shows to reach 1 exabyte worth of storage. At an average of 30 minutes each, that would take something like 500 years to watch all of 24/7.

And that’s 1/18th the total space a 64 bit number could address. So yeah, 64 bits should be enough.
Middle easterners and Muslims in general have a lot of kids.
The way to remember justify is that in flex-row, justify is along the horizontal axis. And, in word processors like msword, you can set the text to "justify" which gives you clean edges on each side. I don't know the history of the word `justify` in flexbox but I would imagine it came from here. So since you know how it works in flex-row, then you know it's primary axis in both.

For items vs content: You always have items no matter what. But you don't need to do anything to the entire content besides justify/align until you have multiple rows with flex-wrap. There's simply no effect that align-content could possibly have here. So items is for individual children, and content is for entire rows.

So tldr: Justify is like the "justify" option in word processors, and align is the opposite one; you always have items, but aligning the content won't change anything until you have 2 rows/cols.

Remember these 2 things and you probably won't forget which is which ever again.

(That said, I do often forget if flex starts out row or column, but that's relatively unimportant to know, because the way I get around this is by always adding the direction when I say "display:flex".)
Islam will not take over France.
It's the most detailed open source community of people that are working together to come up with a solution.

I haven't dedicated any consistent time/effort towards it, but I developed a much deeper understanding of stages you progress through as you develop your mind's eye.

I'm at 3% from 0%, with 100% being able to visualize things with ease like a HUD of sort. 3% is going from complete darkness to just beginning to be able to manipulate small stimulus (while eyes closed) into something bigger / more vivid.
Do blind people have this same issue?
Just because it has IR in the name doesn't mean there's any connection. If you want to emit MLIR using nim you can already do this using MLIR's C API, if you want to map nim ast to to existing MLIR IR you can already do this if you provide the necessary control flow analysis, if you want to map nim ir to MLIR you will still need a lowering or nim dialect.
There are plenty of reasons to believe it's physical. I mean, in some ways I can't believe I'm having to write "there are no ghosts" to a technically minded community.

If consciousness was not physical then where is it? Why would it switch on and off with physical changes to brains? Why would you be able to get altered states of consciousness with chemicals, disease and age? Why would be be able to marry some conscious activity with MRI scans?

There's quite a few bits of evidence to suggest it's physical even if we don't know how it works. There doesn't appear to be any evidence of another... what is a non physical process anyway? Surely there's only two options: the physics we know and the physics we don't know?
I like links like this because I like discussions on programming languages which are just on the periphery of mainstream. Nim, dlang, Odin, Zig, etc
I work for a low code vendor, and use that ikea example quite a lot. Fact is, most people can’t or won’t afford a carpenter but would rather save time and money by using ikea furniture. I believe there’s a market for ikea software and I believe that there are many organizations that would rather spend money on ikea software than on expensive, slow and scarce software carpenters. And we’re software engineers building the low code platform, so we understand the value of version control, testing, automated deployments and apis…
As a counterpoint, every 1500kms I've had a fall, though usually from bad road, not knowing where the curb cut was, inattentiveness and asphalt bumps, and once, the scooter's folding latch was too loose and the scooter folded while I was riding (at low speeds).

I can definitely recommend falling on grass or mud rather than concrete or asphalt. ;-) And if you can't run off the scooter, rolling sometimes helps.

Even after my experiences crashing on a scooter, I still love riding them. Suspension can help you keep your balance a bit better, but there's always a failure point that's possible to hit if you're not ready for it.

I suspect e-bikes are a bit more stable than scooters, especially with bigger, fatter wheels, but then, you can stick a leg out or run off a scooter, whereas doing either of those things at speed is a bit harder sitting on a bike. And it's a different feel for the road/sidewalk.
> You don't leave MIT for a chaired professorship at Duke unless ...

Or maybe he was kicked out of MIT? ;)
While wearing a skate helmet I guess the full helmet meant a real integral one.
I feel like in our modern discourse, the types of people that will read and understand this article, are already following this social guideline.
Good thoughts nonetheless, especially with the advent of LLMs.
I’ve been contemplating pulling the trigger on this one myself. I’m pretty much sold on it. I’ve been on board with squash merging for years. Best thing I’ve ever done for our project. I eventually came to the realisation that the majority of people who were against it were so because some purist greybeard had beat it into them.
On Changing Often
Ah, sorry, accidentally replied in a wrong thread.
Fake recruiter lured aerospace employee with trojanized coding challenge
Nobody really cares as everybody else is using DVB-T.

Only the US and Canada bothered with the abomination that is ATSC.
>I loved Byte. I was a subscriber to the bitter end. I learned C from Byte, which lead me to developing a C compiler (also from a Byte article series) in 6502.

I hope you meant the processor, not the year ;)

I loved BYTE too. And congrats on creating a compiler.
You're going to have to be more specific as to what you call a failure... Closing the Fessenheim plant even though it was in perfect condition, safe, and very useful, just for base politician reasons... is this maybe what you mean?
If you count the MWh/€, the excellent safety records, it's hard to see the failure. Maybe the slow production of an EPR reactor, the giving up on efforts towards 4th-gen reactors?
I'm fairly sure I'm aphantasic. When I try to imagine something I don't get any visuals, even the visual processing equivalent of subvocalization. Sometimes I can get a flicker of an outline or something but I can't hold the concept and it'll dissolve inside a second. I used to be a pretty good artist working from photos, but I can't compose in my head. At all.

But I do also know what familiar things look like more or less, and I can easily imagine layouts of buildings I know really well. I can explain those things verbally fine.

But it registers more in the way you might expect if you were encountering the object in darkness, or became blind after thoroughly learning the object as a sighted person. I imagine aspects of the object or scene in relationship to each other, sort of feeling over it with my mind, and cross-referencing with facts I remember about it. I'm wondering if that's what you're talking about--being able to conceptualize it rather than visualize it.

I did manage to imagine "blue" once during meditation, though, and that was pretty cool. I really saw it when I did--my whole visual field behind my closed eyes seemed sky blue. Normally I just see clouds of purplish dots on a black field, if there's no light shining through my eyelids, and it's been that way all my life. That experience, more than anything, convinced me people who say they "see" stuff in their mind's eye really do see stuff.

I'm definitely going to check out the linked technique. Maybe it's snake oil but doesn't seem likely to hurt to try. That blue experience was pretty compelling.
Right.

But if you’re mature enough to debate the pros and cons of having children, you hopefully won’t be a bad parent if you do choose have kids.
A question for anyone that has tried this model: what has performance been like? I'm using an old CPU but llama2-13b performs around twice as fast as mistral-7b for some reason, and I'm not sure why.
Islam is all about growing the percentage of people that follow the religion. Having lived in the Middle East for the first half of my life I can report that this idea is baser level, seamlessly incorporated into every person in the population. I’m honestly not concerned about them though, what I am concerned about it sub Saharan Africa because they can’t seem to take care of the people they already have.
this is exactly the correct comparison. LLMs are just highly inclusive cultural information tomes (including a great deal of inferred, non-explicit knowledge as well), searchable in a conversational style.
Who needs to consider the opinion of the majority? We have direct evidence that these questions have already been answered: the creators of LLMs censor whatever they want without asking the majority (just preemptively reacting to a potential blowback).
Charlotte Corday? Idk? What even are you talking about?
Does this enable you to hate people more efficiently, or...?
> The average bike commuter probably has a much higher chance of injury in a solo crash than someone who's skated for decades on a onewheel

what of the average onewheel commuter?
Cool!

Although I sweat so much that I'd destroy that thing in one evening.
AKA how to train a generative image model on a biological neural net. Listening to him do it sounds a lot like a description of a diffusion model generating an image from the initial static--surreal.
Why do you think that? I literally just wrote an app to do this. From my notes:

> Android 13 still requires `ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION` to call `startScan()` and `getScanResults()` - `NEARBY_WIFI_DEVICES` is not sufficient

See here: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/wifi/Wif...()

I tried getting by without it, but it was required.
The same thing appears in the Bible so forgive my skepticism that Muslims will be unique among followers of Abrahamic religions in not facing the same pressures of the modern world everyone else does.
This frames it as an anti-repair thing.

A more honest phrasing would be “if the factories are stealing their IP and profiting off selling the screens on the black market”
A proper review tool such as reviewable.io (which is on top of Github) addresses all points in his "problems" list.
I always use chrome inspector to define my css for an element. It has a nice flexbox editor. Just play around. Copy css and paste in your project.
Same thing with electric scooters, they need to have their speed limited to that of a bicycle's and
with better safety software and pothole detection.
That's definitely a possible strategy, I was (naively) considering a situation where they didn't add a lot of value on top of it.
Compare any full face helmet (a motorcycle one for example) with whatever people wear for these (or for bicycles) to know why that would help.
> All of our infrastructure was build in constant growth.

And the demand for that infrastructure also comes from growth. It's not the landmass that needs roads and schools.
Apparently degrowth is the new trend this year. Hype Society in a hurry for the next disaster debate.
Constellation: An Atlas of 15,821 Large Language Models
PC Magazine was good for a while too, before it became ad-enshittified.

I particularly liked the Utilities series in it.
I don't think fertility rate is something good or bad, I think people are very conservative (beyond its political sympathy) because change opens for uncertainty. It does not matter if it is about drugs, fertility, AI or diversity. Ergo, in many societies we live thinking that we are always progressing towards positive outcomes when the long term reality is more random.
And it does so with three links across three paragraphs.

From the QuestDB article:

> First, I found the Double Instance Locking[1] pattern at the amazing Concurrency Freaks blog[2]. This pattern is very similar to the one I described here. It also uses 2 internals structures and readers are alternating between them. It uses a read-write lock to protect the map being mutated. Given there is only a single writer then at any given time there is at least one internal map which is available for reading. This gives readers lock freedom.

> It's fair to say that the Double Instance Locking pattern is simpler to reason about. It decomposes the problem better. But I'd still argue my contribution is the trick with delayed replay of the last operation - if writers are sufficiently rare, then writers won't be blocked at all.

> The same blog also links to the paper Left-Right: A Concurrency Control Technique with Wait-Free Population Oblivious Reads[3] which on the surface also looks similar. It claims not only Lock-Freedom, but also Wait-Freedom. I have yet to deep dive into it.

[1] http://concurrencyfreaks.blogspot.com/2013/11/double-instanc...

[2] http://concurrencyfreaks.blogspot.com/

[3] https://master.dl.sourceforge.net/project/ccfreaks/papers/Le...
I think the neuroscientists who question why a first-person-perspective happens in the brain generally assume it comes about from the physical formation of electromagnetic fields. Most don’t believe there’s some unexplored part of the universe that forms it, just that its something to do with the structure. So its still physics, just not pseudoscience.

I am certainly not well versed on the field though and have only read a paper on the topic, and it could have been bad science, but I did find it informative when I read it.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2022.7676...
The issue with gaming on Linux was the typical chicken or egg. Why would companies make games for Linux if no one plays on Linux and why gamers would use Linux if no games are being made for it.

Between wine/proton and more engine OS cross compatibility in general this is starting to become a non issue.
Not that hard anymore to find someone who plays exclusively on Linux and if some game is not there it's not going to buy it.
Similarly, I used to see these a lot last year, but I've only seen one person near me riding a one-wheel recently. Sadly, he was riding it with what looked like his 3 year old daughter holding on to his knees for dear life. I wanted to say something, but I assumed they're just going "to the store" nearby. But still... hurting yourself is one thing, but riding an e-scooter or one-wheel with young children seems like quite another...
You've just demonstrated the anthropic principle. Intelligent contemplation requires a lot of things so we will see them and can see them as fundamental, but they might be obscure in the universe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle
Except your injecting all this into the conversation right ? I never said it’s “wrong” for anyone to build a dam. I’m saying I’d like to see a world without mega dams, is that ok ?

I blasphemed against modernity…
Sorry but i see a very cost efficient waste of money
It seems like sadly he got very little social interaction in the hospital.