skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AIs have self-concept, but I don't think you'd describe them as conscious. Likewise many animals do not recognise themselves in mirrors but still seem to experience the world.

> If you consider consciousness an emergent property of sufficiently organized matter, then a world you describe is literally impossible.

You are applying the word "impossible" to reject a perfectly valid consideration. It seems to be the case that in our universe, sufficiently organised matter can become conscious, but we can easily imagine one without this property. If you imagine a universe that only follows the laws of physics as we currently understand them, then it would not be the case. The universe would just be atoms bouncing off eachother. The idea that these atoms can come together to produce something which is more than a soulless automaton is an addition you are making to the laws of physics, not something present within them. We can imagine a world without this addition, just as we can imagine a world where gravity repels instead of attracting. We can see examples all over the place of things which act to approximate consciousness but are not conscious. It is no stretch to imagine a universe where this is a continuous scale, and consciousness doesn't magically emerge at some point along it.

There is a good reason why most people consider consciousness arising from the laws of physics as we currently understand them to be totally untenable. According to the known physics, the human mind is essentially just an advanced computer. To say that consciousness arises in any advanced computer is highly problematic. Take for instance this[1] popular comic. Do you honestly believe that this endless field of rocks could experience the world as you do if a man were to move them around in the right way?

[1] https://xkcd.com/505/
Wouldn't even need to offer me a discount if I was in that boat ...
The Logitech G15 keyboard which has about 2 major versions, is capable of some nifty keystroke / macro functionality too. I have one of them somewhere.

Extensive amount of G-keys :)

here is the pop-up version https://www.trustedreviews.com/reviews/logitech-g15-gaming-k...

and here is the fixed display version https://www.amitbhawani.com/blog/logitech-g15-gaming-keyboar...

Am not connected to either of these sites.
> nuclear weapons (some sort of extreme taboo based on a historical event IIRC? it's been a while..)

They have them.

But there's a moral taboo and a practical MAD one.
Broadcom Patches 3 VMware Zero-Days Exploited in the Wild
What are the results from running smallpond and 3fs?

Are claims valid for <10TB, 10TB -> 1PB and over 1PB?
A better question is how do we not have a dark mode/system settings for HN?
Other than sugar none of those are spices used for food.

And even sugar became much less commonly used to in Europe.
This is one of the three main factions in StarCraft. Think hiveminds and bugs.
Is this one of these stealth advertisements where cyber security companies teach you how to operate better malware under the pretense of warning the public?

Key takeaways from the article: Prospero is a Russian hoster trusted by top cybercrime groups. Especially popular is their bearhost brand, which provides great service since 2019 and openly invites you to operate botnets, brute-force attacks or phishing websites on their hosting service.

Kaspersky by contrast is barely mentioned in the original portion of the article, it's only the later updates that go into detail here

Edit: maybe stealth advertisement isn't quite the right word. I'm not implying monetary compensation or any business relation, only that better malware provides job security for the cyber security sector
I have two questions:

1. Good overview of the technologies you are using, but what product are you planning on building or have built? I understand what you are doing and it's "extra safety over existing systems" but how does it work for the end user? Is the end user an ATC or a pilot?

2. You will find that introducing new systems into this very conservative field is hard. I've built avionics and ATC electronics. The problem isn't normally technology, it's the paperwork. How do you plan on handling this?
> nuclear weapons (some sort of extreme taboo based on a historical event IIRC? it's been a while..)

They have them ("atomics"). If bored into the planet, they are powerful enough to split it.

The Great Convention (akin the Geneva convention) prohibited the use of atomics. A convention that...well, no spoilers.
Can we / will be ever be able to grow bioengineered coral at an accelerated rate with a desired growth structure/direction in space?
> You stand for Ukraine, and against Russia's current politics. You do not support the US government's recent moves and want no part in it.

Is this discrimination?
Being unfamiliar with DCS' architecture, I expected this repo to be in Lua or something. I was surprised to find a very polished, neatly structured, well-documented Go service, haha. Very cool!
I think the microwave ones are useful even if they are just presets for time and power.

With a new bike, you can get a feel very quickly for what "5th gear" works well for and experiment with it and get immediate feedback and try other options pretty much no downside.

With a microwave, I don't necessarily want that level fine grain control. I probably just want to eat and not ruin my food and I certainly don't want to spend time running experiments. Having a preset at least gets you in the ballpark.
I don't think this is a real issue. Online services are temporary. Eventually they will evolve in a direction that makes them unsuitable for your purposes, if the developers don't abandon them first. But meanwhile, we may get a few years of value.
You beat me to it. One of those brilliant “obvious in hindsight” articles. Quote it all the time.
Related. Others?

The Inspection Paradox is Everywhere: a surprising statistical illusion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20665234 - Aug 2019 (4 comments)

Inspection Paradox (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18342560 - Oct 2018 (13 comments)
> tabs for indentation

I don’t know a single Python project that does it. You can’t mix space and tabs for indentation.

4 spaces is the default for Python formatters like black, ruff (not sure whether it is configurable—never tried to change).

Big indent is a feature—deep nesting is a code smell.
I'm so happy to live in the US, a country without ceaseless propaganda about how our way of life is the best and our democracy is the best and our freedom is the only way and there is no alternative to unfettered capitalism.
They also removed subpixel antialiasing several years ago. Since then, “1x” screens (i.e. ~110ppi or lower) have looked like shit on macOS compared to the same display driven by Windows or Linux.
Great work! Maybe in the next iteration try adding a lite haptic tracking device(or similar) on the inner sides.
Would you consider Canadian applicants?
Does anyone have blogs with benchmarks to show the performance of running smallpond let alone 3fs + smallpond?

A lot of blogs praise these new systems, but don't really provide any numbers :/
I think the poster is referring to "Brand Indicators for Message Identification[1]". A new(ish) protocol to display branded avatars for messages in email clients.

1. https://bimigroup.org
Judges to put in place injunctions and fines?

The govt can say, make these lands available for logging, but cannot do it themselves. Do the companies want to risk big legal bills and fines?
My point being that 1) the UK continued to import luxury consumables and 2) probably maintained spice imports, though I don't have hard data.

If you have data to bring to the discussion I'd be interested in seeing it.

Sugar is included in what were termed spices, FWIW:

In the medieval and early modern periods, ‘spice’ was a term liberally applied to all kinds of exotic natural products from pepper to sugar, herbs to animal secretions.

<https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1777/the-spice-trade--t...>

From the sources I'm finding (relatively few and vague, granted), my interpretation is less that total trade in spices (however construed) fell in absolute tonnage than that the per-tonne value dropped as the goods fell in price and were consumed by far greater shares of the population. It wasn't that spices were less a part of culinary culture, but that because they were so common (both senses of the word) they became less significant. Total tonnage and likely overall value were all but certainly increasing, but the importance attached to formerly exotic goods (pepper, ginger, cinnamon, etc.) fell as anybody could attain these.

Look to the history of the pineapple (of which there were once temples built in its honor in Europe) from exotic to highly mundane fruit for another example:

<https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-53432877>
Interesting. I'm not sure I'd use the term "Platonic" here, because that tends to have implications of mathematical perfection / timelessness / etc. But I do think that the corpuses of human language that we've been feeding to these models contain within them a lot of real information about the objective world (in a statistical, context-dependent way as opposed to a mathematically precise one), and the AIs are surfacing this information.

To put this another way, I think that you can say that much of our own intelligence as humans is embedded in the sum total of the language that we have produced. So the intelligence of LLMs is really our own intelligence reflected back at us (with all the potential for mistakes and biases that we ourselves contain).

Edit: I fed Claude this paper, and "he" pointed out to me that there are several examples of humans developing accurate conceptions of things they could never experience based on language alone. Most readers here are likely familiar with Helen Keller, who became an accomplished thinker and writer in spite of being blind and deaf from infancy (Anne Sullivan taught her language despite great difficulty, and this Keller's main window to the world). You could also look at the story of Eşref Armağan, a Turkish painter who was blind from birth – he creates recognizable depictions of a world that he learned about through language and non-visual senses).
Those F35s are a security risk at this point. Better migrate to Typhoons, Rafales and Gripens etc and have some unified research re radars and missiles to split costs.
Yeah I was not exposed to camera gear at that time but seeing the NEX series with the tiny body and massive lens, I wanted it.

I know there are better cameras in the Alpha line but yeah, I had an R3 at one point which was wasted on me as an amateur.
Very cool! One question: how do you handle permissions?

Different apps have different permissions models, not everyone is allowed to see everything. Do you attempt to model this complexity at all or normalize it to some general permissions model?
Don't worry guys, its all part of the plan.
Short term pain, for no term gain.
Could be the development of this attitude is part of the point.
Ask DOGE ;)
I can't remember the source (xkcd?) that drew any individual scientist's contribution as a tiny little bump on the edge of a huge circle.

It's not talked about it much outside of research groups, but for any field, there is a small number of people who are currently pushing the boundaries, and they all read each other's papers and have a good idea of what the next question to ask is. It can often be a race to engineer an experiment that convinces the reviewers that your article should be published first. It's a sort of cooperation/competition that moves the field forward faster. These areas often move so fast that nobody even bothers to write down the current problems, it's just sort of talked about in person.

Put another way, the successful discoverers are the ones looking for their keys at the end of the streetlight: "Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that's where the light is. It has no other choice." (Chomsky). Few if anybody looking where there is no light discovers anything (even if it's sitting there in the dark), or at least, nobody believes them unless they provide significant evidence (like building a new lamp)
Balanced poverty lol. And it isn't "accepted", the EU is having a meltdown about how they're becoming less and less competitive vs EU. No politicians has ever said "yep, all the policies we support are the reason you're falling behind, and that's a good thing!"

(And I'm British, so this isn't some pro American rant)

The UK's pathetic growth, bad under the previous government, now even worse under a new leftist government that is bringing in continental style employment regulations etc, is the main topic of national debate right now
As an American, (and lower income by HN standards), I don't want Ukraine's money, or resources. I want them to beat Russia.
His blog was the first page I "surfed". Talking about duke3d map editor and his big project using voxels.
Starcraft is a real-time strategy game, and Zerg is one of three factions you can play in the game. Zerg units are individually weak but cheap compared to the other factions, so Zerg players typically compose swarms of disposable units when staging and conducting attacks. It’s also quicker to make large swarms, since there isn’t a sequential build queue for Zerg unit construction. It makes for a pretty interesting switch in mindset compared to the other sides, where there is much more emphasis on preserving one’s units. Some of the more obnoxious strategies, like the Zerg rush, have become memes among gamers.
> Since late 2022, Russia is fighting with freshly mobilized troops that go from being civilians to dying in a meat attack

The frontline troops - sure, but officers and up?

Now think if the Chinese will be willing to take part in a meat-grinder war?

> 1960s tanks from Soviet stockpiles.

You mean in a battle-tested equipment. China got some-quality modernised soviet equipment with operators that never took part in any operations.

China has certainly a weaker military than Russia before the war. And a society that might not be willing to die in millions to occupy a small island where their fellow people live, for no good reason other than political.
I guess I should have added some context. I have been (and keep swinging between) ic and management roles (including managers) regularly. I love coding and try to sneak in some when I have time (as a manager).

But that a manager should always code is not something i found helping the team or the manager - all the time. One size does not fit all. In startups yes frankly there is hardly a need for a manager and it is TL, TPM, EM role combined into one.

In larger cos though a most managers are innundated with all kinds of non technical work (meetings, alignment, perf management, product discussions etc). While having coded before is a great thing keeping uptodate is actually robbing the manager of time for all other things on the plate (and those actually benefit the team beyond what meets the eye).

Besides at large orgs there is also so much technical (think large scale design and integrations) knowledge that a manager needs to keep track of which also needs time investment.

Then there are various level/career related things that necessitate one or more TLs a manager needs to work with or manage and coding often gets seen as a manager "not doing their job" or worse stealing a junior engineers opportunities.

There's a lot more that is very environmental but hope sets some context.
What's interesting is every time I suggest American taxpayer mustn't pay for Ukraine, this is the rabbit hole those of your opinion seem to go down.

What's more likely if aid stops to ukraine is that US taxpayers stop paying and life goes on. My opinion on other taxes notwithstanding, this rabbit hole of cell phones and modern society falling apart and my wife being raped (seriously wtf) because I didn't spend jonnies Christmas money on Ukraine is unraveling. This is why Trump won, and the aid will end. We're done being blackmailed with apocolyptic threats, and the false dichotomies.
>Based, bro.

Soyed, bro.

>Now educate yourself about RAND policy papers on US influence in the Caspian sea and the Black sea.

Ah yes, papers that incorrectly judged the energy landscape of the future and the hilarious inaction of Europe.

>Educate yourself on the perennial desire of the US to weaken Russia and keep Germany down.

Germany has done enough self-owning to keep themselves down. Don't worry though, they'll just import a few million more third-worlders! That'll do the trick!

>Educate yourself about Nuland's involvement in the Maidan revolution.

As stated by another commenter, overwhelming support from Germany, France, and the EU.

>Watch Lindsey Graham on YouTube giving militaristic pep talk speeches to Ukrainian soldiers way before 2022.

Immaterial.

>But it is easier to rewrite the narrative after Trump's win and downvote dissenters.

It's not rewriting, it's a retelling of facts.

>you need rockets, let German scientists build them.

Or Elon Musk LOL!

>If you need LLMs, let Russian developers build them.

Russians are a non-player in the LLM space.
While doing some searching in conjunction with a recent front-page thread about using SQLite for hyper-scaling (one database per user or product), I bumped into this blog entry that got very few eyeballs when it was initially posted.

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43244307
The projector lens's optics (coatings, materials, etc.) will have been designed and engineered to have a specified contrast ratio.

So yes, if the internal light engine of the DLP truly reflected all light away,
then, if it outputs zero photons for full-screen black, you could say the projector outputs zero photons.

However, the DLP is not 100% effective; the interesting images will have a mix of bright and dark areas, and the lens and software image processing will raise the black levels above zero.

Source: I worked at BrightSide Technologies before and after the acquisition by Dolby Laboratories and learned about DLP lens limitations from the engineer working on DLP+LCD based HDR displays.
> The pretraining is the knowledge, not the intelligence.

I thought the knowledge is the training set and the intelligence is the emergent/side effect of reproducing that knowledge by making sure the reproduction is not rote memorisation?
True but still a massive net gain for America. The irony is, as the Founders knew, America can actually afford to basically not even have a standing army, it's a massive, heavily civilian armed continental sized country with weak neighbours and an ocean either side. So logically Europe should have a far larger defence budget than America.
Seems like a viable name for this data structure could have been “Thing”.
Totally agree. Great product. I wish I could feed in internal company meeting recordings though.
Me at the end of a contentious code review: "TURN YOUR KEY SENIOR!"

https://youtu.be/rLMCjuge6oE
They cannot because they have already added 4 new regions into the Constitution. And it doesn't allow removing.
Thanks for the fantastic explanation for how ints are handled in OCaml, but I've got to say that having the low bit be the flag is a strange design decision, IMO, but I understand that aligning the pointers will make the low bit or two irrelevant for them. But, oh!, the poor ints.

All this said, thanks for putting to bed, once and for all, any notion anyone should have that OCaml can be used as a systems language. Yikes!

> Doesn't this mean that C can't be used for systems programming? You don't know the size of `int` there, either.

You know that at compile time, surely, when you set the build target, no? Even the pointer sizes. Besides, after years of C programming, I got to where I never used the nonspecific versions; if I wanted 64-bits unsigned, I would specifically typedef them at the top, and then there's no ambiguity because I specifically declared all vars. (You can see how I did the same thing in F# at the bottom of this reply.)

It makes working with printf much less problematic, where things can easily go awry. Anyway, I want my semantics to percolate down pyramid-style from a small set of definitions into larger and larger areas of dependence, but cleanly and clearly.

Sure, DEFINEs can let you do transparent multi-targetting, but it ends up being very brittle, and the bugs are insidious.

Thanks for your excellence. It's been a joy learning from you here.

---

As an aside, here's a small part of my defs section from the final iteration of my F# base libs, where I created an alias for the various .NET types for standard use in my code:

type tI4s = System.Int32
type tI1s = System.SByte
type tI2s = System.Int16
type tI8s = System.Int64

type tI1u = System.Byte
type tI2u = System.UInt16
type tI4u = System.UInt32
type tI8u = System.UInt64

Why risk relying on implicit definitions (or inconsistent F# team alias naming conventions) when, instead, everything can be explicity declared and thus unambiguous? (It's really helpful for syscall interop declarations, as I remember it from so many years ago). Plus, it's far more terse, and .NET not being able to compile to a 64-bit executable (IIRC) made it simpler than C/C++'s two kinds of executable targets.
and don't forget to re-synchronize the audio!
>Heck yeah bro, we're owning the Europeans!

Not at all, we're just giving them what they've asked for for decades.

>What a win for the USA!

What a win for the EU! The militaristic "world police" oppressors are leaving!

>Love basing our geopolitical policy, and breaking our honor in keeping commitments on that.

We're being honorable by finally giving Europeans what they've asked for.

So much losing!
> The MPV patch of v0.1 is without a doubt build 36 (e16bab8). The "Cripy optimization" turns status bar percentage rendering into a noop if they have not changed. This prevents rendering to a scrap buffer and blitting to the screen for a total of 2 fps boost. At first I could not believe it. I assume my toolchain had a bug. But cherry-picking this patch on PCDOOMv2 confirmed the tremendous speed gain.

Good example of how the bottlenecks are often not where you think they are, and why you have to profile & measure (which I assume Viti95 did in order to find that speedup so early on). The status bar percentage?! Maybe there's something about the Doom arch which makes that relatively obvious to experts, but I certainly would've never guessed that was a bottleneck a priori.
But we have to code it if it’s done with transistors. We get it free with neurons.
> Also this isn't exclusive to conservatives:

You link aside, I think the obvious evidence is that that behavior is significantly more common in conservatives. Literally the most basic of facts get denied in bulk. I don't understand how you could make any argument that any other major political affiliation engages in the same behavior to a comparable extent.
Plus, the propaganda also strongly paints fact checking as a mere ploy by other_team to try to cheat and win. So even if the community notes get to them, they will chalk it up to "liberals trying to hide the real truth."
> may be Russia see NATO + US as a much bigger threat than how NATO see Russia as a threat

Or maybe Russia see eastern and central Europe as their sphere of influence, which they lost. And now they're using any excuse to try to re-establish that.

What kind of NATO danger did they expect from Georgia?

Russia had zero reason to see de-militarised Europe as a threat.