skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found the paper very interesting and thought provoking. But I wonder, as a practical matter, whether the heavy reliance placed upon the von Neumann architecture as providing a distinction between a conscious and non-conscious intelligence is meaningful. It seems like most modern computer architecture (and GPU architecture, in particular) doesn't easily fit clean definitions of von Neumann architecture. Does this mean that a machine learning model trained on GPUs might be conscious? The paper's explanation of what exactly is meant by unmediated causal flow is quite murky here.

But I appreciated the author's careful definition of the FEP and its use in his framework.
The planet will be fine and people will adapt
Article title: NASA’s Perseverance Rover Scientists Find Intriguing Mars Rock (please use the original title) https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Discussion (186 points, 8 days ago, 100 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41006552
and since i dont trust windows to host my work os securely, and performance of games would be abysmal with the hosting roles reversed, what i really need is 2 boxes and a kvm switch!. the question now becomes, are there physical systems that turn on and off at the same time... i.e. share a psu but host different os's!

suppose i could build my own

am i looking at building a rack mounted system? heh, think i just found a project for myself.

1 psu, 1 gpu (for gaming), 1 kb/monitor, 2 hdd, 2 motherboards, 1 kvm switch, build my own rack out of wood, done! so the only extra cost really should be the 2nd motherboard and the kvm switch.
Interesting, that's a requirement for an out of band tailing tool.

Maybe a user defined function bound to an INSERT trigger. But I believe that functions are also connection specific which is fine for the tail tool, but what happens when the user defined function connection goes away.
> Yes, Bedrock is not mod friendly like Java

It's getting there, though. They recently introduced the framework for more advanced mods. Heck, Create Mod is even available on Bedrock now.
Thanks for broadening my horizon, esp. that first link was extremely interesting!

I guess my mental model on this was just lacking/simply wrong.
Thumb-2, Neon, VFPv4-D16, VFPv4 are mandatory instruction extension sets for ARM64, but there are also optional, widely implemented extensions like AES and SVE. Ain't nothing "reduced" about the ARM CPUs' instruction sets anymore.

> In contrast, pretty much everything on ARM64 integer spec is going to execute in just a cycle or two.

integer spec is the keyword here. ARM CPUs these days implement much more than integer spec. "If I ignore everything else, it's RISC" is not a good argument IMHO.
This is surprisingly fast. A really impressive showcase of the design philosophy of Svelte. Even loads and renders fast on mobile!

DOM Loaded: 134ms

FCP/FP: 163ms

LCP: 218ms

TTI: 1826ms
same with third-party App Stores or any other thing like that
Until they make model much better than competitors to actually start capitalizing on it
What would be the point of a "crypto stockpile"?

If we agree to use bitcoin as money, that's like sitting on a pile of cash. That's a well-known financial blunder.

If we agree to use bitcoin as an investment instrument, then we're never realizing any gains, which would make it pointless.

Somebody help me out here, what am I not understanding?
I gather that you have defined math completely differently than me, or at least defined it in a way that gives computers primacy over every other form of math.

> The puzzles Bach was working out had more to do with the theory than the math and we can support this, the math aspect is more interesting conjecture than something we can demonstrate, at least from what I have read on the subject which tends to be filled with assumptions and generalizations.

This sentence structure is very much beyond me, but from what I gathered, you do not consider propositional logic as created by harmony/counterpoint to be "math" and you believe that those rules are arbitrary and not based on math at all. That is sort of a fringe view that is facially false. Around the world, rules of harmony have a lot to do with the harmonic series, scales, tunings, and other building blocks that are hugely based on math. A lot of that was actually up to the composers and producers of music in the 19th century and earlier (around the world).

> We don't really see math literal in music until the rise of computer music and they are often doing things more than just seeing what the math results in.

I see that you have defined "math as math" in terms of the totality of the math involved in the process of composition. Most 21st century composers and producers I know do absolutely no math (defined in any way) when writing music. I will also say that the producers of computer music absolutely do not throw away "traditional ideas of orchestration and form" unless they are lazy or bad. Many of them very clearly understand that stuff and riff on it in ways that can only be done when you combine a deep artistic instinct (0 math) with a computer (that does all the math for you).
I don't know what GitHub projects uses but we have ~200 tickets in it and it absolutely chugs. Even typing text into new entries will regularly hang for multiple seconds every few words.
For the uninitiated, Plan 9 lives on as the filesystem network interface that allows Windows and Windows Subsystem for Linux cross-platform access to your C drive. Via "https://nelsonslog.wordpress.com/2019/06/01/wsl-access-to-li...":

Plan 9’s filesystem is a very simple network filesystem protocol to share files between systems. They are specifically using 9P2000.L.
They considered using Samba and SMB instead but can’t rely on Samba being installed and usable in the Linux guest OS and didn’t want to ship it because Samba is GPL licensed.
They picked Plan 9 because it’s much simpler to implement. Also Microsoft already had Plan 9 server code for some other Linux container project they’d done.
The \\wsl$\ path is handled in the Windows system by the MUP, an existing hook for network-like filesystems. They added a new one for Plan 9.
The $ is in the name so that it can’t be confused with a computer whose hostname is wsl.
The Plan 9 server in Linux communicates with the Windows Plan 9 client via a Unix socket. (Windows supports Unix sockets; who knew?)
Windows can access your Linux files even if no Linux is instance is running. There’s a new Windows service called LXSManagerUser that mediates user identity and permissions.
Discussion (49 points, 13 days ago, 22 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40962626
> Programmers and designers keep trying to rebuild instagram in every domain, pretty UIs, regular UIs, "simple" UIs.

Well, Instagram is basically the only application people use, along with e-mail, YouTube and TikTok. Some people use Spotify, and fortunately no one is trying to copy its design, so I feel like the programmers and designers are onto something.
DIY Intel Fix? Intel 13/14th Crashing Issues and Undervolting
Discovering a New Neolithic World
Yes, parameterisation is incredibly important. The classic recent example from academia that heavily features in PyBaMM is Chen2020 which is a very thorough case study of collecting data. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1149/1945-7111/ab9050 There has also been a subsequent review article on the subject https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2516-1083/ac692c/.... If you are looking for a more hands on guide then there are also open-source tools for parameterizing models https://github.com/pybop-team/PyBOP and https://github.com/paramm-team/pybamm-param
It really matters very little that RK3588 has 8 cores, because the Cortex-A55 cores are very weak.

The reason why RK3588 may beat N100 in multi-threaded benchmarks is that the latter has a very low base clock frequency, due to the higher power consumption when all the cores are active. N100 needs a better cooling than RK3588 in order to reach its maximum possible multi-threaded speed. With good enough cooling that will prevent the drop in clock frequency, N100 will beat easily RK3588 in any benchmark, because the Intel Gracemont cores have a speed similar to the Arm Cortex-A78 cores and much greater than the Cortex-A76 cores of RK3588.

It should be noted that Radxa X4, due to the constraints of the credit card size, has only a 32-bit DRAM interface. So its -4800 memory is equivalent with a -2400 memory of the bigger N100 boards, which use a 64-bit DRAM interface. The good RK3588 boards also use a 64-bit DRAM interface (with a somewhat lower speed, e.g. -4267), so they may win in benchmarks that are limited by memory bandwidth.

However in the applications in which I am interested for such a small board like Radxa X4 (like a network router/firewall or a controller for some custom hardware) the performance is almost always limited by the speed of the peripheral interfaces, so Radxa X4 will be better than any existing Arm-based SBC.
Lovely guy, thanks for sharing

> In 1991, Cooper wrote in Guns & Ammo magazine that "no more than five to ten people in a hundred who die by gunfire in Los Angeles are any loss to society. These people fight small wars amongst themselves. It would seem a valid social service to keep them well-supplied with ammunition."[27][28] In 1994, Cooper said "Los Angeles and Ho Chi Minh City have declared themselves sister cities. It makes sense: they are both Third World metropolises formerly occupied by Americans."[29]
Top pilots' union sounds alarm as regulators consider smaller crew sizes
That's super cool. Love the visualizations!
While I'm not discounting your experience, American PhD students are burning out at a very high rate

Funding is probably higher in the US and of course if they drop out getting a job I'd usually easier than in Europe.
Why did this no-comment post get re-upped when there was a perfectly good dupe with plenty of comments? Thanks for coming to my Ted talk. ;)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41067616
> who made the choice to be come the primary carer for a parent like this

Heh. It's a looong way from that yet; I largely do what I've always done, save now I'm mostly based at my fathers house (well, the house that he built, that I recently bought and stuck in a trust for my grandson).

I spend about ten hours a week plus|minus being a trade assistant to his projects: building bridges for walking tracks, restoring an old Toyato rodeo, converting an ex AU military truck to a five tonne water tank off road truck for the local fire crew, replacing water heaters, dropping trees at his church, puting up fences, being a co-driver fo vaious 500km+ road trips about the state.

He enjoys the company and I catch the creeping errors in planning and forgetting to turn the oven off.

I have, as a result, veered more into rural IT support (smart farm networks | drone footage storage & processing) and less geophysics .. but that's life, always new things.

Thanks for the thumbs up though, appreciated.
Now this is the part I take issue with

Most likely their discussion were over zoom while scribbling over a blackboard.
Two identical business models (software) should either both be supported or both be rejected. They are pretty clearly playing favourites with their VC funded friends.
> I had originally intended to spend this trip operating FT8 and CW, but for some reason I found myself really enjoying FT4 (a mode I had never used before), so I spent most of my day camped out on 14080Kc, and then shifted to 10136 and 7074 in the evening.

As a non-radio enthusiast, I was following along until this sentence.
It’s just strategy.

If I have a penalty kick and you’re the keeper, I want to know if you know where I kick the ball most often. If I know that you know, I will kick somewhere else.

So if you’re the keeper and you know my habits, you have a slight advantage if I don’t know that you know. So you would hide the list.

Easy hey?
I can vividly recall visiting Prague in the Communist era and was amazed to see no billboards, it was like stepping back in time.

What amplified the effect for me was that the Communists had done very little development since they'd come to power which meant that not only the old centre of the city but also some of its suburburban parts had remained essentially unaltered since the 18th Century.

No doubt, those who lived there would have noticed changes but to my jaded eyes the city was a time capsule.

It seems I wasn't alone thinking that, the producers of the 1984 movie version of Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus used Prague as a backdrop because it was historically 'pristine' in that it had not been spoiled by ads.

When I returned some years later after the fall of Communism things were very different, there were ads and billboards everywhere. I was both shocked and saddened at what had happened, the billboards had visually polluted the city.

I'd love to see billboards removed but I can't see it happening in the major centers of capitalism anytime soon.
Why would anyone use a VPN service provided by Facebook?
not everywhere. different strokes for different folks, I guess. in fact, that would be more the case where I am from, India, where people in general seem to have thinner skins, compare to the US at least. I know this because I have a background of both places. and also, a senior software architect from a US company where I once worked (in the Indian branch, he was in the US) came on a visit once, and told me personally (I was a dev manager in the Indian branch) that if our US colleagues sometimes seemed to talk a bit roughly, in our conference calls, it was not intentional, but just in the spirit of getting into the topic, making their views felt, and with the goal of coming to a good outcome. and I understood that point and had no issues with it.

in any case, i had no intention of insulting you, sorry if you felt that way.

maybe I was talking in the same way as that architect described, possibly due to having picked up on that trend, after having worked in that company.
One insight is — characters remain the same when they move into a diagonal position. So if you want F, e.g., look for Fs on the diagonal, or Es 1 unit dist. Left/above from the diagonal or Gs 1 unit dist. To the right, etc.
Now we have Image Cache uses IndexedDB
IndexedDB do have ability to save blob data, don't see any package/lib using IndexedDB as the image cache.

So I write it, and published.

Pros:

* No localStorage 5Mb size limit

* Keep the cache as long as you want

* Better for some expensive action cache (download/alogrithm calculated)
They do this on my work laptop. Zscaler
A Cursed Ship and the Fate of Its Sunken Gold
Language Barrier
Can we have a moderator flag this, please?
https://www.naag.org/find-my-ag/

https://www.consumerresources.org/file-a-complaint/
There's also some 15W Ryzens for mobile, https://www.extremetech.com/computing/amds-15w-ryzen-7-7840u... & https://cwwk.net/products/amd-ryzen-r5-5600u-r7-5800u-r7-582...
This was my favorite reply to the question. Music theory is great, and it really can be helpful with composition. But I've also found that what I'm really looking for when trying to improvise, or perform, is having studied and worked on the theory - specifically on the ear training and the process of connecting that to my fingers - to the point where I don't have to think about it any more.

The composition vs performance framing is very useful I think. Some musicians might just want to do composition, and can spend a little more time between the notes figuring out what ought to come next. (Although even in this case, it's easy to get bogged down in analysis and forget about what feels right). But a lot of musicians want to be able to improvise - and the difference is like being able to write down a compelling argument vs being able to make a compelling "speech" off the cuff.

Yeah, in both cases, you're going to need a good understanding of grammar and vocabulary - but when you're trying to make that speech (or improvise a solo), you're just not going to have the time to think about "the sound I want to hear next is the sound of the 5th of the chord the band is implying." All our practice and theory homework is in service of the fingers just doing what's in our heads automatically - and sometimes, even surprising ourselves with what comes out.
I wonder if I could run OpenBSD on this.
I didn’t downvote you for “spirit of the games” but I did downvote you because you don’t seem to know much about sports. Practices are not always full speed, they don’t necessarily include players playing as opposition and are often times to make small adjustments for the next opponent.

In this case, Canada was spying on New Zealand while they were doing set plays. It’s quite common to make adjustments to set plays to counter something an opponent is particularly good at.

If I watch a game, I can see how that team prepares for another team. If I watch them practice, I can see how they prepare for my team. That gives me time to adjust before the game as opposed to trying to make adjustments from the sidelines. And it gives me and my team a tremendous advantage.

So yes, if you are the kind of person who wants to win at all costs, spying on practices would be smart. I ride or die with your teammates but not with people who do that. Winning is nice, but sports are about being the best not the least ethical.
> Luckily, executives have a habit of occasionally putting their blatantly illegal deals in writing

This is the weirdest way to have laws though. It strongly implies that the person putting it in writing didn't know it was illegal, because otherwise they wouldn't have put it in writing. But then you're never enforcing the law against people knowingly breaking the law, you can only ever enforce it against people who didn't realize it was illegal.

That seems like a bad design. In particular, it rewards a corporation the more evil it is, because the ones who know they're breaking the law are the ones who get away with it.

> Beyond a certain size, it becomes hard to pretend you're doing it for one reason while actually doing it for another. Especially if it becomes a pattern.

The pattern thing also doesn't really work.

Suppose some of your stores are in high crime areas and keep getting knocked off. The employees in those stores don't like the risk and form a union so they can demand bulletproof glass and hazard pay. The company looks at those stores and the insurance cost is getting out of hand and shrinkage is high and the stores just aren't profitable. So they close the stores.

Now you have a strong correlation between the stores that form a union and the stores that close, but it's because union formation and store closures are both caused by high crime, not because the company is purposely closing the stores that form a union.
JSON Input for Medical Calculators
I don't like dictating. Clicking and moving the mouse take my attention away from the patient. Just updating the JSON items is faster and I can save the JSON in the patient note and it will be faster the next time I see them. All information stays on local computer (HIPAA). Simple HTML calcs can be used offline. All code is public on GitHub.
Unit tests, functional tests, automated CI/CD, etc all apply when building utilities or system software.

Things like the DORA metrics are very often applied to “things where if they break they break in a big way” - to help teams design toward having the confidence to deploy without causing outages and to have limited impact when something does fail, and faster recovery etc.
Cloudflare DNS + Malware Blocking
Just to save people some time, since it’s halfway through: the article is about The Life of the Mind. It’s an incredible work - cannot recommend it enough! The completion of Kant’s project, in her own way.
But those don't do ECC.
Agreed. It is a tour de force.
The irony is that Acorn's RISC OS arguably came the closest to this ideal with any pragmatism. The way that file choosers worked effectively allowed one to pipe a saved file from one application to another and then do it again through the same workflow in the next application and so on.
The bread and circus scam has always existed to grift tax money. It’s all one big money grab that people for some reason watch and get emotionally invested in.
When possible, you should not use IAM user long-term credentials.

Inside AWS, temporary security credentials via STS should be used.

Outside AWS, OIDC federation should be used.

Users should use SSO.
The crypto bros love it because it lets them pretend crypto is useful for something other than scams!
> Victims that were being paid to participate

I believe you might be referring to what happened in 2019? [1]
This is a separate issue. [2]

I do clarify this in the blog post, although it might be better to move the relevant text near the introduction rather then in the middle of the post.

EDIT: I have also added a remark to the post that it is not clear if all users were MITM'd or just a subset

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-sn...
That's clearly not what was meant
The similarities between semgrep and the linked tool start and end with the name.
The law prevent businesses from boycotting Israel, they don't say anything about divestment.
Would you trust cloudflare to direct your traffic through their dns? I certainly don't. They have enough monopoly on the internet
The C# grates on my eyes, since the V7 tritone substitute is IIb7. However, preserving the F and the B notation emphasizes the tritone interval that is inverted and shared with the substitute.
I've never had any issues pulling up to a curbside spot and ordering there, and have the food brought to my car (Houston area - not sure if it's common elsewhere)
Neilson does something similar with TV where they install capture boxes in people’s houses to determine what they’re watching for their panels: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/3194414/2022/03/22/the-ulti...

I hope they were upfront about what they were collecting. The article didn’t show what the consent screen was before installing the proxy.
This is a lovely and positive post. Thank you.
I transcribed the music on the ghost ship in Monkey Island 1, which features a lot of chords in the background involving fourths, fifths, and whatever we want to call the half-step in between fa and so.

Working with a MIDI file and without much grounding in music theory, I had and have no real way of determining whether to represent notes flat or sharp. I consulted several people and generally got a response of "Oh, interesting stuff! It's not clear how you should transcribe that."

I'm still interested in opinions! If you want to check it out, the score is here: https://musescore.com/user/36584999/scores/7810499
Doesn't change anything, consent and whether you own the device is everything.

The comparison with VPNs doesn't hold either, because for all their faults VPNs do not decrypt traffic going through them.
It's a thing of beauty
Literally how would anyone get started? No docs or even usage examples, for a new language?
C'mon now, crypto farms make great space heaters.
https://bivacor.com/
Discussion (20 points, 10 hours ago, 44 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41088548
How much does your company pay IC8 or equivalent per year? $2M liquid? $3M? Hard for anyone to feel moral qualms when they’re earning generational wealth.
This is why we should be doing dual-server-client TLS certificate exchange before stuffing damaging info over Internet. But, alas, nooooooooo.
Odroid H4+ ($140 for the SBC, $10 for a case; extra cost for memories) is an example of a cheap passively cooled version. It can also use a fan, but the fan is optional and not required.

There is an even cheaper version Odroid H4, at $100, which has a single 2.5 Gb/s port instead of two and it lacks SATA ports for HDDs (the fewer peripheral controllers also lead to a lower idle power consumption).
Would you expect SQLite performance to degrade per insert once a table is very large (in a way that, say, an append-only log file wouldn’t)?