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I love this project.

I've been feeling lately that as computers have become more advanced and software has become more inscrutable, our relationship with our computers has changed, for the worse. This essay hit home for me: https://explaining.software/archive/transparent-like-frosted...

These old-school computers viewed their users as creators, as developers. Modern computers (read: smartphones) _are_ the users, and the "used" are just ad-watching revenue cows. I passionately hate this arrangement.

When I have children, I want them to know what computing should feel like---empowering, creative and stimulating, not controlled, consumptive, compulsive and mindless. I want to give them a computer that builds up their spirit, rather than grinding it down.

I think this computer should have several qualities:

0. The computer should be about _creation_ and not consumption.

1. The computer should be _local_, not global. Intranet should be prioritized over Internet.

1.5 A corollary, the computer should be _personal_. It should encourage and reward in-person interaction, physical sharing of information and programs, and short-range connection between computers.

2. The computer should be _limited_. Because the medium is the message, we have to restrict the capabilities of our media to better promote the messages we value.

2.5. A corollary, the computer should be _text-oriented_. Graphics shouldn't be impossible, but text should be primary. The computer should cultivate a typographic mind, not a graphic mind (in Marshall McLuhan's terminology).

3. The computer should be _focused_. It should never distract you from what you want to work on.

4. The computer should be _reactive_, not proactive. It should never give you a notification. You should be in charge of retrieving all information yourself, like a library, not a call center.

5. The computer should be _physical_. It should be oriented around physical media.

6. The computer should be _modifiable_. It should encourage and reward inspection into its internals, and be easy to change.

7. The computer should be _simple_, understandable by a single person in its entirety with time and study.

The Mega65 is amazing and checks these boxes, but unfortunately it's a tad expensive for me. What other machines are out there like this?
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60 billion is a beautiful payday. That's now clean (hopeully), he can now start something else.
This shit should be a crime. Imagine how many person-hours and how much money has been wasted.
Short answer to the question suggested by the title: The neuron density (TND) is reduced relative to non-autistic subjects. But of course the full story is much more complex and nuanced than that one measure.
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There are several Multi-Paxos papers (some of them dating before Raft) that are intended as guidance for implementers:

https://paper-notes.zhjwpku.com/assets/pdfs/paxos_for_system...

https://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/rvr/Paxos/paxos.pdf

https://www.scs.stanford.edu/~dm/home/papers/paxos.pdf
Far more likely he was at the (a?) satellite camp at Lompoc. Minimum security satellite camps share a small percentage of their facilities with a nearby low or medium:

R&D (that's Receiving & Discharge to you), warehouse, mail center.

FYI, Lompoc is pronounced Lom-poke to the townies. Not sure how the inmates pronounce it.
Interesting. How many MEGA65 units exist out there?
"Nobody is ever responsible for their own actions. Economics predicting the existence of bad actors makes them not actually bad."
I’m not sure there are any rational arguments for Christianity. I say that as a practicing Christian. Either it meets a spiritual need in you, or it’s not very valuable. I imagine that belief in a God who punishes evildoers has kept some people honest throughout history, but the value of that is surely outweighed by the evil done in the name of that God.

I also don’t believe Christian societies are more honest than others. Every religion I know of teaches honesty, as does every non-religious ethical framework I can think of.
Is there something like this but without concurrency? I don't need concurrency or multithreading, and most of my pain with Rust has come from the fact that it prevents me from doing things that I know are correct because it thinks my code will run in a multithreaded environment (it will not).

It seems like Yao's whole project is solving the concurrency problem.

I'm like, why not drop it entirely (if performance isn't one of the language's top priorities anyway)? What does keeping it gain that's so important? (Context: I don't understand concurrency and multithreading.)
Underlying study: https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/ajpendo.000...
To be fair, some of these criticisms are a few years old. Which normally would be fair game, but the progress in AI has been breakneck. Criticism of other AI tech from 2021 or 2022 are pretty dated today.
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Thanks for being available.
I hate the thought that researchers and drug developers may have wasted their effort and dollars developing drugs based on one extremely selfish person's bogus results.
Such as they even have a policy position, Just Stop Oil is advocating that governments ban all oil and gas contracts without a referendum or popular vote or even any elected officials.

Ostensibly the organization is about political mobilization. But they haven't actually endorsed a candidate or secured a referendum or achieved anything vaguely democratic. Which I am not saying they have to do. But claiming they are on democracy's side seems a bit premature.
Eventually AI will also be able to reliably audit papers and report on fraud.

There may be newer AI methods of fraud, but it will only buy you time. As both progress, committing to record a fraud generated by technology will almost certainly be detected by a later technology.

I would guess that we're within 10 years of being able to automatically audit the majority of papers currently published. That thought must give the authors of fraudulent papers the heebee jeebies.
> It's certainly worth having the discussion about whether people should be able to run a train through their life and the lives of their families via app.

Even if you’ve convinced yourself that being able to ruin one’s own life is a sign of a society with Great Freedom, you might be willing to oppose other people profiting from urging people to ruin their lives.
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Idea: we should make sure we keep track of what the human created content is, so that we don’t get confused by AI edits of everything in the future.

For ex, calculate the hash of all important books, and publish that as the “historical authenticity” check. Put the hashes on some important blockchain so we know it’s unchanged over time.
Big boots to fill if they go ahead with the Harry Potter TV series.
AFAIK, there is no connection between b2/cafelog and Movable Type, other than that they were both self-hostable blogging software. Completely different core architecture. MT built static HTML pages using Perl CGI scripts, while b2 was dynamic PHP.

Disclosures: I worked for Six Apart (makers of MT) although my employment was a while after all this; and later I worked for Tumblr, but well before Automattic acquired them.
Good question. I will add that.

It means that users' convenience comes before my convenience. (I am the programmer in question.)

This means that if there is something I could do to make things easier on users, I do it, even if it is a lot more work for me.

An example is https://git.yzena.com/Yzena/Yc/commit/c9086af225d42b2f125959... . Comments in Yao do not use the `#` character, but I added the shebang to the parser specially so that scripts could be run just like any others scripts.
I am excited about Rust browsers, but I haven't gotten past the tagline.

Please please please pick something that doesn't fit the format "Make <thing> <adjective> again"!
I have always needed to walk to think things through properly. Got into trouble in some jobs, as they would ask why I frequently wasn't at my desk. Because sitting at a desk means you are working or something.
> "... brimming with Staphylococcus bacteria, a bacteria commonly found on human skin."

On our skin?!! The horror!

>"Although most species of staphylococcus are benign,..."

Fearmongering intensifies.

>"In 2013, American bed company Amerisleep claimed they took swabs from a pillowcase that hadn't been washed in a week. The pillowcase contained around three million bacteria per square inch – about 17,000 times more than the average toilet seat."

Unsubstantiated and clinically irrelevant industry conflationism presented uncritically.

>"while 99.9% of individuals with a healthy immune system can easily cope with inhaling A. fumigatus fungal spores..."

Maybe we should be 1/1000 scared then.
YouTuber Tom Nicholas made a sort of "behind the scenes" video that explores their methods and motivations.

https://youtu.be/0v0dYQ9t5WU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question I actually had no idea about that distinction, appreciate it.

Noun gender makes a lot of sense.
Ok. Bad example using Shell, but the point is that Industry scientists do not have publication in journals as a primary incentive.

A scientist can work in industry research and NEVER publish, and still have a career where they make money, and don't worry about losing their job.
Proof of stake is superior. The downside others are saying has been proven false time after time but bitcoiners continue to spread the misinformation because Bitcoin relies on people not understanding it's downside.

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2020/11/06/pos2020.html
I agree. I think getting provability right would bring reliability along with it.
That's not necessarily my position. I think laws can evolve, but they need to be applied fairly. In this case, it's heading in a direction where only the blessed will be able to compete.
Do you have any examples you know of or can share? I am curious this
The flipside to that metaphor is that high-end CG productions never stopped growing in scope to fill bigger and better hardware - yes you can easily render CG from back in the day on a shoestring budget now, but rendering Avatar 2 a couple of years ago still required a cluster with tens of thousands of CPU cores. Unless there's a plateau in the amount of compute you can usefully pour into training a model, those with big money to spend are always going to be several steps ahead of what us mere mortals can do.
"Paxos Made Moderately Complex" by Robert van Renesse and Deniz Altinbuken: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs7412/2011sp/paxos.pdf is a great starting point for implementing multi-paxos. The authors also provide a working python implementation.
I think there are more factors at play in this situation.

This is a case where even if you wanted to pay money to continue or start playing a game, you can't because someone else simply doesn't want you to.

This is a consumer-hostile shift from earlier days where if you owned the disk, disc or cartridge and a computer that could play it, you could play the game, no questions asked. I think it's always worth fighting against consumer hostile shifts.

Some people are collectors as much as they are gamers. A license (or whatever) is less valuable to a collector than a game.
Click bait on Youtube? You won't believe what happened next!

In seriousness, posting the original title is consistent with HN guidelines.

Philosophically, people can only judge the merits of something once they are aware of it. Awareness comes first. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/01/20/spell-name/
That isn't generally true, what real world autocratic regime do you have experience with? You can have less government theft than in more democratic countries, because favorable economic conditions are one way of buying compliance. Take the largest dictatorship in the world: China. The CCP does not take "what they can". The tax burden is much lower than basically in any liberal democracy in the West. A lot of taxes that you may think are normal simply do not exist, property tax for example is not a thing. They have heavy foreign exchange restrictions, to keep money in the country. Many people working in China are able to save a lot more of their income than they would if they were in Europe or North America. The catch is you can't freely use all manners of currency, you can't even easily exchange to USD as a Chinese. Foreign stock ownership is restricted. Cryptocurrency is banned. It's basically the complete opposite of what you described.
Can we detect the effects of racial violence on patenting? Replicating Cook
_Sports_ is not some basic fact, moral good in the world. It's just games. If you want to argue against something you need to find some other reason than it's inconvenient to professional sports.
I can't parse what you are saying, but there's a difference between EM radiation and a magnetic field (and the resulting locally induced currents).
Think in terms of an MRI machine: it puts you in a giant magnet (causing the various nuclear spins to align with the field) and then sends a bunch of EM radiation (radiofrequency). The former is a magnetic field, not EM radiation.
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I agree. The problem isn't drunk driving. The problem is drunk crashing.
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> that language is coming into existence right now! It is called Yao.

Wasn't it called Mojo? It's been a while since I saw traction of that new language over here.

Anyhow, it is interesting how many new languages are appearing every day. The bar is indeed constantly moving upwards.
Tcl is yesterday's news. Hip crowd moved to artisanal ASM.
The arxiv paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.12315
Maybe it depends where you live and what you're looking for in a gym.

I used to do BJJ, which is a popular adult sport. I just googled: london bjj

My top hit was for Roger Gracie, which costs £179/month.
I agree.

Signal I think is very good with the two major exceptions:

- AFAIK they don't publish reproducible builds

- They've (IIRC and AFAIK) at times had lower quality when it came to the non cryptographic parts.

So if someones lives depend on e2e-encryption Signal is the only recommended messenger IMO.

For following public news channels from Ukraine and the Middle East there is no alternative to Telegram.

And if I have to organize something and not everyone is ready to install Signal (i.e. all the time around here) I try to use Telegram. That way I'm at least not spoonfeeding Google and Meta at the same time.

If FSB sits on my weekend plans that is annoying but no big deal.

(I was however rather annoyed when I realized local police used Telegram a while ago. I think that was very irresponsible.)
There absolutely exist skilled scientists that would happily make a living unglamorously replicating studies, if the money was there.

Prestige is a nice motivator, but making a living at all is always the baseline, and is often sufficient.
I come to HM for technology matters, but I am genuinely interested to see that
the many geeks here from hardware nerd over full-stack developer to investor or founder are all also human beings that have ordinary lives and ordinary problems.

It is valuable content to read on HN how fellow geeks see other spheres of life.
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Mark Lemley's Terms of Use paper (2006) outlines how property law/right (rights of us citizens) have been eroded steadily by contract law (what other people say they can do to us). It's so sad for technology to be so very strongly affiliated with such a critical defilement of the human spirit as this. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=917926

It's so sad that there have been so very few legal efforts to bolster property rights, to reassert some sovereign claim over the things we have about us & that fill our homes. In fact, the opposite keeps happening: anti-circumvention laws spread like the plague they are, making any attempt to exercise one's property right a felony offense.

This is murdering the human spirit. Man the toolmaker's god-granted rare ability to understand the world about us, to model & learn, and then to adapt & alter is trapped in an infernal legal hell. What's happening is against my spiritual beliefs & is so terrible to suffer, is such high tragedy.
this is beautiful, thanks for sharing.
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They are referring to no-resale and no-third party repair clauses, and the like.
Good question.

Yao's concurrency will be explicit. You will not get concurrency unless you open a threadset and spawn threads. Yao scripts run in a single thread by default.

I focused on solving the concurrency problem because if it is solved, single thread code is solved as well.
Good.

My problem with Just Stop Oil is all their activism is just targeting people that have nothing to do with oil. They could be much more productive if they petitioned governments or people in power to change energy policy but no all they do is make the lives of people that have nothing to do with it miserable.

Their logic goes something like: "if I splash paint on this painting or block traffic, people will see our message and that will motivate them to join our cause". But in reality those people aren't going to be motivated to join your cause, they will just think you are a giant asshat.
> Weschler says that he used to buy beaten-down bonds of companies that were in less dire straits than they seemed to be

Anyone knows how to see and buy publicly traded bonds?
EDIT: If Google decides to ever remove this useful feature as well, here's an archive link showing what the results used to look like at the time of posting: https://archive.is/5KwA6.
How does this work for things like COVID vaccines, where waiting for a reproduction study would leave hundreds of thousands dead? Ultimately there needs to be some level of trust in scientific institutions as well. I do think placing higher value on reproducibility studies might help the issue somewhat, but I think there also needs to be a larger culture shift of accountability and a higher purpose than profit.
I'm a little more concerned about the withholding food from a child
because they couldn't throw a ball well enough
When I was in my doctoral program I had some pretty promising early results applying network analysis to metabolic networks. My lab boss/PI was happy to advertise my work and scheduled a cross-departmental talk to present my research in front of ~100 professors or so. While I was making a last-minute slide for my presentation I realized one chart looked a little off and I started looking into the raw data. I soon realized that I had a bug in my code that invalidated the last 12 months of calculations run on our HPC cluster. My conclusions were flat out wrong and there was nothing to salvage from the data. I went to my lab boss the night before the talk and told him to cancel it and he just told me to lie and present it anyways. I didn't think that was moral or scientifically sound and I refused. It permanently damaged my professional relationship with him.

No one else I talked to seemed particularly concerned about this, and I realized that a lot of people around me were bowing to pressure to fudge results here and there to keep up the cycle of publicity, results, and funding that the entire academic enterprise relied upon. It broke a lot of the faith I had been carrying in science as an institution, at least as far as it is practiced in major American research universities.
Good point. However my mind is drawn back to the fact that the USG licenses the patents to ASML. A tweak or change of that licensing model could suddenly make TSMC's cost basis rise and Intel's drop. We are after all talking about US national security interests as the backdrop - the usual market rules may not apply so cleanly.
Yes, global banks also fall under US control if they want to transact with anything in the US financial system. Less so if they don’t have American customers, but they still do have to follow American laws.

For example several very old Swiss banks have been shut down by US regulators because they were doing business in the US with US citizens and their secrecy was being used to break US law by Americans.
I actually do think this is a legitimate concern, but at the same time I feel like when higher-level languages were introduced people likely experienced a similar dilemma: you just let the compiler generate the code for you without actually knowing what you're running on the CPU?

Definitely something to tread carefully with, but it's also likely an inevitable aspect of progressing software development capabilities.
Programs written in Yao.
I stand corrected then, thanks :)
How does this discount efficient market hypothesis? You can find plenty of examples of people buying 2$ lottery tickets and becoming millionaires.
You seem to think that I have said there is a marginal reduction in theft due to carrier locks. I do not think that is the case at all, and I have said so.

I am arguing that the reduction in theft due to carrier locks is 0. You are arguing that it is small (marginal).

I am saying that no matter what, the actual cost of the carrier lock to the consumer (as demonstrated by used phone values on eBay), is far higher than whatever marginal benefit you are arguing for.

It is a massive net loss to the consumer, and the only guaranteed beneficiary is the wireless carrier.
NanoPi Zero2 is a tiny PC with GigE and M.2 2230 connector for $18 and up
Related. Others?

Minix development has been abandoned? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36064961 - May 2023 (109 comments)

Ask HN: Is Minix dead? No commits since 2018 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26451540 - March 2021 (142 comments)

Minix 3.3.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8324578 - Sept 2014 (172 comments)

Minix 3.2.1 Released - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5272980 - Feb 2013 (24 comments)
Valve doesn't refund you if the company shuts down their game servers, afaik.
Oh, pish posh. Oil policy has never been set by democratic methods. It's been decided through backroom deals and corruption at the highest levels around the world. Unlike most conspiracy theories, this is extremely well-documented and public opinion has been significantly swayed by fraudulent misinformation, spin campaigns, and cynical policy written with the express intent to entrench the oil industry. Tricking voters through lies and corruption is not democracy.