skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been on the same trip as this guy for the last couple of decades. I haven't tried to write it up as scientific papers, but I've been actively looking for refutation of some of the key insights that lead down this path of thinking and haven't found any yet.

I think that the key premise here is assuming that consciousness can be a feature of a turing machine. If you accept that premise then all objections to reality being purely mathematical fall away, and Conway's Game of Life (GoL) provides a perfect substrate for thought experiments around this. Because we know that GoL is turing complete, and GoL is obviously purely mathematical... its phenomena exist without our simulating them, simply because they are mathematically possible. We simulate them in order to help us discover their existence, but their existence is "Platonic", independent of our simulations. So if consciousness can be a feature of any turing complete system, then an infinitude of consciousnesses exist in the space of GoL phenomena; consciousnesses from whose perspective their respective (from our perspective purely mathematical) GoL Universes are "material".

The main obstacle to accepting this view is insisting on dualism between the material and the purely mathematical, giving a special status to materialism. But materialism also tends to lead one to accept that consciousness can be a property of turing machines, which would then imply a mathematical reality. I call this paradox "the poverty of materialism", and I'd love to see a convincing refutation.
I'll be recommending this for page one of the hymnal.
I’ve seen a couple videos of Dave Plummer and they were fun. Gave some insight to internals of Windows etc. I even followed him on YT back then.

But lately it feels like I see him all the time and there is something off with the guy. Can’t name what it is. Feels like he’s trying to milk whatever fame he got around the nerd circles as much as possible.
Even if up to 30% of casualties were civilian this would still be quite a surgical strike in my opinion. At 50% I would not say so anymore. Nobody knows yet anyways.
We’re all buying Chinese tech one way or the other.
It reduces the memory capacity and the memory performance, in comparison with real ECC.

Nevertheless, this will rarely matter for the kind of applications typically run on small computers with Atom CPUs, which are rarely more demanding than a router/firewall or a network-attached storage server.

You can see examples of performance decrease with IBECC here:

https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/05/26/odroid-h4-plus-revie...

For most applications the performance decrease should be less than 10%. The Intel IBECC controller includes a special cache memory, to decrease the number of additional memory accesses required by IBECC. Otherwise the memory performance would have been halved.
I know a few accountants that have worked for EY etc... it is often toxic. but after their "indenture" and have moved on they dont seem to regret it.. its a weird accountant culture thing.
Haha, correct
Maybe stop doing stupid shit that will legally require you to inform users that you're about to sell/share everything you know about them to 3rd parties?

I fail to understand companies that display page after page of cookies and tracking stuff for you to approve don't see the issue with their actions or the insanity of "allow us to share data with our 1500 partners". Does no one in these business look at this and go: "Hey, why do we need 50 different tracking tools" or "Why do we share customer data with over a thousand other businesses?".

When you actually read what these pop-ups says, then you understand why they are there, and why the problem with the laws isn't that it's annoying, but that it is not much more restrictive.
> Now, what can the US government actually do to you while you're no longer a citizen depends a lot where you live and whether you care traveling or doing business with the US again

In most western country anything involving a (even local) bank will be a headache already when you're an American citizen. I can't imagine it would be easier if you're a former American citizen with a large debt towards the US.
I don't like their chances. When has Oracle done anything that doesn't make them money?
I agree with all of your questions. But covert organizations fall victims for this type of vulnerability all the time. Operation Trojan Shield and the ANOM network is one example. Operation Firewall and the ShadowCrew takedown was another. I believe LulzSec was taken down by bad opsec in the internal IRC channel as well. Bin Laden wasn't able to mix up his use of couriers and locations enough to stay hidden forever. It's easy for us to see the mistakes and point out that the criminals should have been more diligent or mixed up their operations more, but that would take more effort than anyone can consistently give over time.

Operational security is really hard and requires constant dedication which most organizations can't keep up over time. Eventually the most professional organizations will slip up and make some of the mistakes you point out above. It's very likely that someone has spies or informants inside organizations such as Hizbollah and Hamas. But this can also have been a lapse in standard operations that was finally detected and exploited by Mossad after actively watching for a long time.
> Tracking is plainly not permitted without consent.

According to some poorly thought out law in certain territories, sure.

In practice, however, there is no technical mechanism by which users, or anyone else for that matter, can detect whether they're being tracked or consent to it. There are browser extensions conscious users can install to block certain browser features, but these are not infallible, and they're constantly playing a cat and mouse game with trackers.

The cookie policy only applies for cookies, not for general tracking. And even with it, companies loophole their way by claiming "legitimate interest". Many popular websites show cookie consent forms with upwards of a thousand of these companies, and deliberately use dark patterns to make it impossible to deny all of them. It's absolute insanity.

But in general, cookies are a red herring. They're used as sacrificial offering aimed at governments and the public to show that a company really cares about user privacy by not using them. When in reality they've been relying on far more sophisticated tracking methods for many years which are technically impossible for the public to even comprehend.

And let's not forget about the shady data broker market, where our data is perpetually transacted against our will or knowledge, let alone benefit.

We need far more technical experts in governments to pass strict regulation against this nonsense, in a way that it actually benefits the public. But I'm not holding my breath that this will ever happen, considering the corporatocracy we're living in.
A preference based system would be almost impossible to maintain considering the literal infinite number of type faces out there (thousands plus more built every week).

Add to that, this feature also needs to be understandable for non-technical people who might never have view a page source in their lives.

Much as a granular system would be more powerful and preferable for the HN community, having a dumb toggle makes a lot more sense from Firefox’s perspective.
The request headers are already there. It's the DoNotTrack header.
No, mach is a microkernel, like L5. It was developed for the purpose of replacing the BSD kernel, by having a small amount of functionality in the kernel itself, and the rest of the BSD-compatibility layer implemented in user space. macOS' frameworks are then a layer on top of that.
To be fair, this also happened when Graal was released for Java. Give it another go in 3-6 months, the Graal team will have improved interoperability massively.

It is a chicken (interpreter) and egg (dependencies) problem. You cannot fix the dependency problems without the interpreter. Neither can you release an interpreter with full dependency support.
Pretty sure it's just fantasy, it's easy to find his book from his comments. He has <5k followers and minimal engagement on any social media platform, his book does not have great reviews nor many of them on goodreads(150 reviews for a book that would have had to sell almost 25k copies in a month to get those numbers).

Any conversation I've found in related subreddits seems negative.
>Manufacturing is the core example of path-dependent advantages, because (unlike what any econ 101 textbook teaches), marginal costs decline with increasing production quantity in the manufacturing sector. This means the more you make, the better you are at making more things!

Looking at how Apple said it would be impossible to get US chips, so much this. It needed a lot of investment to onshore chip production again. And we should onshore more high value manufacturing to keep the supply chain working in one place.

The EU has been better at keeping manufacturing competence, but I see a lot of these short term comparative advantage econ 101 ideas taking over in the EU as well.
Isn't the bulk of Apple Intelligence processing on-device? You want to have powerful chipsets for local, more privacy-friendly processing.
The Do Not Track header was immediately used by the industry to fingerprint and track users.

GDPR isn't about cookies, or browsers.
Why would you even say 'please' in a prompt ?
Things standing on the shoulders of proprietary giants shouldn't claim to be free software/open source.
Im just interested in, how do you imagine such interface to look like? This seems like inherently difficult problem just because of the nature of logs - lot of text, yes structured, but still
It was based on Embedded C++. Definitely inspired by Objective-C but I believe they wanted to avoid dynamic dispatch in the kernel.
Not once did I mention unit testing.

What I mentioned was an adapter and port. If you can only run against a postgres database, your integration test is going to require setup and be slow. If you can easily swap the postgres adapter out for sqlite or in memory, the same test will be practically instantaneous and self contained. The same test can be occasionally run against a postgres database (like once a night), to ensure there are no postgres specific idiosyncracies.

Thus I started by saying how you can integration test quickly without mocks (sometimes it would be called a fake, but using a different db is something else) on real routes.
The URLs for the generated articles are unique and persistent.
Why would they stop?

Most users are now giving explicit consent to be tracked! What a dream! Before, they had to worry about legal grey areas!

Now the legislation says it's fine, as long as they click "OK". Which almost every user does because they are tired and annoyed by the pop ups.

Thank you legislators!
Seems like an accurate set of experiences of a 10-20 years long career.
Hi there! My name is Kristofer, one of the authors of this research note. I also wrote the script. We were notified via email about this comment. Please see below for our response. Thank you for your interest in our research! (I'm removing the sender's name to respect their privacy)

"""
Dear XXXX,

MY name is Kristofer, I’m one of the co-authors for the GPT paper. I also wrote the script for the data collection. Jutta forwarded your email regarding the possible bug.

First of all, let me apologise for the late response. Apparently your email made its way to the spam folder, which of course is regrettable.
I would also like to thank you for reaching out to us. We are pleased to see the interest of the HN community in transparent and reliable research.

We looked at the comment and the concern around the bug. We’d like to point out that the original commenter was right in saying “it does seem like something they would catch when manually reviewing the papers”. We in fact reviewed the output manually and carefully for any potential errors. In other words, we opened and searched for the query string manually, which also helped determine whether the use of LLMs was declared in some form or other. This is of course a sensitive topic and we took great care to be thorough.

Nevertheless, we once more did a manual review of the code and the data, in light of this potential bug, and we’re glad to say no row-column mismatch is present. You can find the data here: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/WUVD8X

Please don’t hesitate if you have any more questions.

All the best,
Kristofer
"""
What if the pockets of IRA members had exploded (yes, I know. Say 40 years ago when they were doing their share of bombing)? Does anyone seriously dispute that Hezbollah is a proxy army for Iran?

I think your comparison stops holding wage as,soon as you mention the Conservative Party. They just aren’t the same thing as Hezbollah.
Thanks.. will have to keep an eye for the next one. Had never heard of Brickfest
You don't need invasive and pervasive tracking to display ads. Google became an ad behemoth with contextual ads
Orthogonal : I have to say I really dislike the cookie permissions dialog El Reg now use.

The first page is shows you with the "reject all" is only for the page of options you're on to start with - the "legitimate uses" page has a ton of stuff opted-in by default, and to turn those off, you have to click on every company, one by one.

Also, once you've hit "reject all", I can find no way to get that permissions dialog back again.

It's a deliberate UI approach to trick you into accepting a ton of cookies without knowing you've done so.
Neither "graduates" nor "engineers" are responsible for any website functionality. They simply do the work that the management requested them to do.
> Enact a law that requires a service to respect the do not track signal from a browser (currently entirely voluntary), and not store any tracking cookies, clear gifs or other trackers – and require that a site not “discriminate” against users who elect no tracking – basically – provide all functions to users whether they consent or do not consent.

This is indeed the obvious solution. I don't understand why the EU didn't mandate the do not track flag to be obeyed. I know some browsers already removed it but that was because nobody bothered to obey it. As soon as it can be mandated it will be useful and come back quickly.

Also, there was criticism from the advertising industry that the do not track was on by default but that's how tracking should work in the EU anyway: opt in.

By not doing this the EU keeps getting flak for the many cookie walls.
The combination of LLM's and Robotics is interesting.
For projects using GraalPy, I'd wager that most would vendor all their dependencies at the start of the project and upgrade along the way. I have shipped a couple products with Jython, and very little 3rd party code was used and almost none of the standard library, it was all driving Java from the same project.

So it does have to do with scale but in the opposite direction. Big long projects will want to adopt something like GraalPy because of how long the project will take.
Snowden will disagree with you
> Isn't China the one country that actively sets up their own police forces all over the world?

The US does the same thing and worse, just look for the very long arm of their FBI and Secret Service when it comes to what they allege to be “cyber-crime”. A decade or so ago I was visiting my company’s ISP one morning when I manage to stumble just as some US federal agents were doing their thing among the server racks. I live in Bucharest, Romania.
They probably still track you even if you paid money, so that makes paying less enticing. And it's prudent to assume so unless they clearly state otherwise
Yeah but there's the rub. Asking Google to take analytics away just isn't going to happen. It makes them billions.

And marketeers want this data because sales data only tells them where they succeeded. Not where they failed to sell, which is more interesting to them because that's where the growth is found.

It'll be really hard to wean them off this.
>Are delay slots unique to mips?

No, several other architectures of that period have delay slots (80s/90s), and modern VLIWs/DSPs still often have them. Sometimes the slots longer than a single instruction.
GDPR is general regulation that doesn't even talk about cookies or browsers.

The obnoxious cookie popups is the industry's malicious and calculated response.
Very true, let's look at some of the strategic partners of the US: Saudi Arabia, an absolute monarchy, Israel, a state currently committing genocide.
I meant the article headline, sorry
Unfortunately that (quoted) line is incorrect see this page by the dutch privacy authority: https://www.autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/en/themes/internet...
It is based on this 2019 ruling also by this same authority (unfortunately only available in dutch) https://www.autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/documenten/normuit...

While this ruling does not specifically only use the ePrivacy directive (it is instead based in GDPR), laws do not exist in a vacuum.
EY is pretty bad in the U.S. as well. They're Big 4 in terms of revenue but they haven't been Big 4 in terms of industry reputation for years.

What little reputation EY had left was basically set on fire when their very-hyped "Project Everest" restructuring abysmally failed over basic issues that should have been addressed in the beginning. EY spent a fair amount to plan the restructuring and took on a fair amount of debt to pair for it (and of course it did this before bothering to make sure the stakeholders would actually go through with the plan)...

Clients began to wonder why they should trust EY with their restructuring/business planning/etc if EY couldn't even handle its own. This resulted in a pretty significant outflow of clients in the consulting and tax groups.

The debt service and loss of revenue led to several rounds of layoffs (in the U.S., and overseas), frozen promotions, etc. PwC and Deloitte were the major benefactors, but a lot of the Next 20 firms also scooped up former EY employees and clients. (Unfortunately for the remaining EY employees, like the woman in the reddit link, this led to severe overwork.)
GDPR is general regulation that doesn't even talk about cookies or browsers.

The obnoxious cookie popups is the industry's malicious and calculated response.

This is a good sibling comment about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41576346
While Intel QuickSync remains faster in CPUs of the same generation with AMD, the AMD laptop CPUs starting with Phoenix (Ryzen 7440/7540/7640/7840/7940) have made a great jump in the video encoding/decoding speed, exceeding the older Intel CPUs, and they should be suitable for any such application.

There are a huge number of models of cheap small NUC-like computers with AMD Phoenix or Hawk Point (Ryzen 8000 series) CPUs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Insurance_Fund
The afore-alluded to severance packages and unemployment insurance increases. Those insisting on WFH are apparently going to help mitigate those costs.
the rotation would only happened once and would then have been written to the device context. once its in a DC you can manipulate it with memcpy. A device context is a pointer to the window "surface" and maps a memory area.

I write this from memory so its possible that i misremember :)
Probably trying to bury bad SEO.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=1GeF9AjlqP8
Thanks, that's the goal. One place for all podcasts, regardless of what network they are on.
If they used their own products to do this then yes. If not then no.

Is that what happened?
> If you’re going to treat the software development like a factory, you must assign and manage work like a factory.

What you described above is more like kindergarten, which is why any sufficiently seasoned developer hates Scrum with all the passion they have. It is mostly belittling, humiliating, and not even very productive at the end.

Interestingly, Scrum almost always ends up like being in the kindergarten, instead of addressing the real pain points, as it should be (eg. involve the business in the development process). But that takes real effort, which is hard, and therefore no PM or manager is interested in.
> They (AMD/Sony) shoehorned the RDNA 3/3.5 GPU architecture onto an older Zen 2 core

The original core was already a custom configuration. I don't see why it seems odd that the new version would be a custom configuration based on the previous one.

> with a different process node

This doesn't apply to the PS5 SoC, but is general to AMD's methodology.

AMD has been using an off-chip interposer setup for multiple generations now. They did this specifically to allow for different process nodes for different chips.

It's cheaper (and there are more fab options) to produce chips at a lower process node. If there's no reason to update the CPU, it would make sense to keep it on the cheaper option.

In regards to the PS5 and Xbox SoCs, specifically.

The entirety of the SoC is fabbed at the same process node. A core designed for a 14nm process node and then fabbed at 7nm (assuming drastic changes weren't needed to make it function at the lower node) is going to be much smaller and run cooler on that node size. This is cheaper and leaves more space in the total footprint for the GPU-specific and auxiliary logic cores. Same rule applies above, why use more if it's not needed.

> they felt like making a frankenAPU

All of the game console chips are "frankenAPUs".

> Especially since the APUs are usually monolithic (vs chiplet) in design and share a memory controller.

"Monolithic" vs "chiplet" is an arbitrary distinction, in this case. The individual logic cores are still independent and joined together with interposers and glue logic. This is clear from the die shots:

https://videocardz.com/newz/sony-playstation-5-soc-die-pictu...

To return to the previous point, look at the space dedicated to the CCXs. The Zen2 has ~1.9bln transistors, the Zen3 ~4.1bln, the Zen4 ~6.6bln, etc. To use a newer core would double or triple that space. Increasing the total die size, making it more expensive per chip and increasing the defect rate.

> Surely it would have been easier/cheaper to put in 8 zen 4c/5c cores and call it a day.

Definitely not.

> I'm pretty sure I'm just missing something obvious...

Nothing about chip design is obvious.
Tell that to Russia, its economy is - military production aside - in shambles due to Western sanctions and especially the brain drain.

The idea of economically enforced peace only works for democratic countries where the government has to show at least a bare minimum of respect towards its citizens, but not in countries that follow the whims of their respective Dear Leader.
Hey now, don't have too much fun without the rest of us
For a more accurate analogy, imagine if Conservative Party were a terrorist organization with its own military, took direct orders from Iran, had claimed for itself all of Wales, and had been firing thousands of missiles into France without cooperating in any way with either the British government or army.

Then imagine that France predictably shoots back, and takes great care to specifically target members of that terrorist group.

In this more accurate analogy, would you still say that France declared open war on Britain? I would say no - that the terrorist group is the one that declared war; and that France is clearly engaging in acts of war against that terrorist group, which happens to be embedded in a host country, like a parasite.
> I think data-breaches could carry the death penalty for companies.

The ironic thing is: why pay for their data now when it's out there already?

Sounds like they played themselves