skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. Consciousness is the waking self, the ability to perceive at all in a sober and non-dreaming fashion. With regard to consciousness the ability to perceive at all is sufficient regardless of whether that perceptive ability is limited to yourself, a narrow subject, or details around you. The oppose is unconsciousness, which is typically thought of as the sleeping mind.

Conscientiousness is more distinct, a subset. It is the fine detail by which a person can perceive dates, times, and schedules. Other facets of conscientiousness include social intelligence, empathy, organizational capacity, cleanliness/orderliness, details about nature, comparisons and measures, and more.

Low conscientious people struggle to think beyond themselves and struggle to find the energy to perform tasks not considered immediately pleasurable or self-rewarding. That is what makes the costs of abstract task completion so very expensive, because the effort required is beyond consideration. For example a simple task like cleaning your room or waking early without an alarm clock is an impossibility for some people and for others it is as effortless as getting dressed. For people who struggle with these they appear more comfortable with complexity or disorderly, which is a false conclusion. These disordered result may be very stressful and perhaps over stimulating, but the effort to correct for it is too expensive to resolve. That is why some programmers can seem to build anything and refactor large applications in a few hours while other developers struggle to merely formulate a starting idea in that time and an equivalent refactor would take weeks to accomplish.

Extremely low conscientiousness is linked to a variety of mental and behavioral health disorders because it is so completely detrimental to standards of living and real world performance. Extremely high conscientiousness is linked to perfectionism, OCD, and anxiety in a world of disordered imperfections.
I don’t really understand why I, as a European (from a country other than Denmark), should care about the affairs of the USA, Canada, or Greenland. And vice versa - why should those countries be concerned with the issues of my country? As a consumer, their internal conflicts have no relevance to me at all.
Alone at Sea for 95 Days, a Peruvian Fisherman Clung to Hope
Tim's problem is that he has a bad manager. One of a manager's core jobs is to communicate upwards the value that each team member is providing (or not providing). His job was to ensure that Tim's contribution were reflected and visible.
>> someone who gives kingdoms

The article doesn't claim that so it seems your Christian sensitivities have skewed your reading comprehension.

It's referencing a Forbes article using the term to distinguish between thoughtless arbitrary giving vs. giving with purpose:

"Even the most generous Christian philanthropists often don't see the purpose of their giving," says Dr. Mark Rutland, the new ORU president and founder of the Global Servants evangelical ministry. "There are impulse givers, people who give to their alma mater or their church or some particular ministry with which they become familiar—but the Greens are Kingdom givers. ... They consider it an honor; they consider it a mission."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kerryadolan/2023/02/13/this-bil...
You're likely great at remembering multiple candidates' faces, as the hiring process often spans weeks or even months, with several candidates interviewing for the same position. Having a picture attached to a resume can be really helpful, much like how a LinkedIn profile picture adds value.
an awful lot of human history can be reduced to "fuck you, pay me -- or else"
Well, visit British Museum, you will learn what is professional looting (a.k.a. robbery), not some amateurish second hand purchases done by those hobbyists.
The problem is that in the 70's when conservative/libertarian economics and the religious right had a shotgun marriage which spawned Reagan and most of the "government is the enemy" schtick, usually the former group actually was driving the agenda, using a carrot of "we'll get rid of abortion" to lead the latter.

The problem is that this almighty dollar worship is far more corrosive and destructive to society and ethics of everyone involved, and ends up eroding any sort of moral high ground that the cojoined group has.
https://archive.ph/X8LOg
When the development of the innovation requires a bunch of up-front capital.
The argument during COVID wasn't that it was "perfectly safe", but that it was better than the alternative of leaving all the people living paycheck to paycheck get laid off and starve.

People just have short memories and see the bad outcome we did get (high inflation) and not the bad outcomes we avoided (unmitigated COVID, economic collapse).
TIL this, thank you! I'm italian and only knew about the do re mi fa sol la si do :D

From ChatGPT:

The choice between using letter names (C, D, E, etc.) and solfege (do, re, mi, etc.) largely comes down to tradition and purpose:
• Historical Convention: In Western music, the letter system has been the standard for centuries. It provides a clear, concise way to notate specific pitches on a staff, which is especially useful for instruments like the piano or guitar.
• Clarity in Notation: Letters denote fixed pitches, making it easier to communicate musical ideas in written form. This helps performers quickly identify which keys or notes to play without additional context.
• Educational Focus: Solfege is typically used as a tool for vocal training and ear development. It emphasizes the relationship between pitches (intervals) and is often taught using a movable system (where “do” represents the tonic of any given scale) or a fixed system (where “do” is always C). This system helps singers internalize pitch relationships and improve sight-singing.
• Different Purposes: Essentially, the letter system is more suited to the precision required in written music scores, while solfege is more about developing a musician’s internal sense of pitch and harmony.

In short, both systems have their place in music, with letters serving as the backbone of Western musical notation and solfege acting as an invaluable educational tool.
I can't speak for this implementation, but on MacOS, the beamforming is amazing. When used in a noise office or cafe environment it eliminates background noise to an extent I can always tell if a colleague is using it or their worse headphone mic.
blog post with the background story why this was created: https://asahilinux.org/2025/03/progress-report-6-14/#is-this...
Amazon Bedrock: A Practical Guide for Developers and DevOps Engineers
This comment is sadly wrong, like saying "the sky is green". I recommend you talk to chatGPT (4o+) and learn something. Nordic countries combine high taxes and spending with competitive, open economies. Denmark and Sweden have high labor productivity and GDP per capita, etc. These societies are no longer homogeneous.

Talk to the bot. Ask open-ended questions, ask for sources, read those sources. I don't have the patience to work with blind ideological bias. Like I said before, usually the only thing that helps Americans snap out of it is intense economic pain, which should happen between 2025-2035 with high cost of living, social safety net collapse, climate disasters, and maybe even AI job displacement at scale.
Show HN: Connect macOS to WiFi by scanning QR code
I frequently travel and work remotely. Every new place—cafes, hotels, coworking spaces—requires manually connecting both my Android phone and Mac to WiFi. Unfortunately, macOS doesn't sync WiFi credentials with Android phones nor does it connect to WiFi through QR codes.

So I built WiFi QR Go, a macOS app that connects to WiFi networks by scanning standard WiFi QR codes.

Now I can connect my Pixel to WiFi, then use WiFi QR Go on my Mac to scan the QR code displayed on my phone, instantly connecting my Mac without retyping passwords.

App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/app/wifi-qr-go/id6743514951

Previously, I shared my Android app Wify, which scans printed WiFi credentials. It complements this workflow but isn't required:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43379129

I'd appreciate your feedback or suggestions!
You could be inspired by FORTH and not have an AST at all ..
Results from the inSight Mars mission do not require a water-saturated mid crust
You could put it anywhere you like; our ability to forecast the future has been rubbish for thousands of years. Some of my favorites: 2019, 2000, 1992, 1969, 1928, 1900, mid 1700s, ~400 BCE, ~5000 BP, ~11000 BPE.
Because that use case feels pretty far from the typical one for a public GitHub repo. Even when it was intended, having reliable metadata indicating that fact would be nice.
> Or is this shower-type thought safe to chuck in the receptacle of non-sensical but good sounding ideas

Regardless of veracity, having an answer is reductive beyond the point of utility.

Like, yeah, it's reasonable to infer that someone who has chosen a career in programming might enjoy a nice game of Factorio. But beyond that, what is actionable or predictive about knowing?

It's worse than that. People will start making the hidden little assumption that the complexity of a deliverable is strongly correlated with the practitioner's propensity for complexity.

It's just blaming developers for bad software with extra steps. Instead of considering the dozen bigger factors that lead to shipping imperfection, we just have another reason to pull out the tired old excuse of blaming the programmers and their broken nerd brains that focused too hard on nerding instead of delivering business value.
Yes, but a lab leak conspiracy theory lets him off the hook - how could he anticipate such a heinous act? Republicans will use a lab leak to memory-hole Trump's magical thinking about the pandemic.
The images do resize and reflow, to adapt to the viewing context. My phone is an iPhone Mini, and I use that as a lowest common denominator, although I do test with an original SE.

But if there's a place where the text doesn't separate (and flow below), that's a bug, so I'll review.
Ask HN: Quantum Entanglement
If all particles were entangled at the beginning of the universe (say, at t=0, the moment of the Big Bang), it could mean that the universe maintains some kind of deep, underlying connectivity. Quantum entanglement suggests that measuring one particle affects its entangled partner instantaneously, no matter how far apart they are. If everything was once entangled, then in some sense, everything remains fundamentally linked.

Could this also mean that there is a probaility that there is a god particle that can influence the entire universe?
Apple did it as a software function so it's not in hardware, hence this implementation for people wanting to run (presumably) Asahi Linux.
Sure, but once soundness starts trading off other properties that may be important even for that kind of correctness, it is not necessarily the best approach. You don't care what the cause of the exploitable remote execution vulnerability is, and remote code execution is a real vulnerability even in fully memory-safe languages.

If you look at MITRE's CWE Top 25 [1], #2 (Out-of-bounds Write) and #6 (Out-of-bounds Read) are soundly eliminated by both Zig and Rust. It is only when it comes to #8 (Use After Free) that Rust's additional soundness comes into play. But because it comes at a cost, the question is to what extent eliminating #8 adversely impacts the other top vulnerabilities, including those higher on the list. It may be the case that eliminating the eighth most dangerous vulnerability through sound language guarantees may end up being worse overall even if we're only concerned with security (and it isn't the only concern). We can only try to assess that through empirical study.

[1]: https://cwe.mitre.org/top25/archive/2024/2024_cwe_top25.html
The timeline is way too suspicious and the wording too broad.
The encrypted container was decrypted only 8 days after the server was "imaged".

The term cryptanalysis is very, very broad, it could be anything.

The Freedom Hosting operator was in the process of moving his servers away from OVH, and they somehow found the last server remaining at OVH.
oopsie?

https://archive.md/DYkOq
Then we need a moral belief system to determine what improvement is and isn’t. This will eventually lead to a codified set of beliefs that look a lot like religion. And I don’t really like most of the moral statements I’ve heard from self proclaimed transhumanists. That’s why I’m not a one of them, even though I wear glasses.
It’s one thing to say “most of us don’t believe the extreme worldview those few crackpot members of our community are spewing, transhumanism is actually… <proceed to refute the whackos>”

It’s another thing to tacitly agree with the crackpots but deceptively present a more moderate stance to keep people naïve and initiate new members using an attenuated worldview.

Let’s hear it, “what does a typical transhumanist think?”
ed: or did you omit a "not" as in "not just busywork"?

> application architecture,

I think you got carried away with your analogy there, because I can assure you that if the LLM generates kafkaClient.sendMessage everywhere for latency sensitive apps, that's not gonna go well, or similar for httpClient.post for high throughput cases
https://www.nasa.gov/stem-content/guide-to-smartphone-astron...
Fair point. I've been an interviewer with a fixed set of questions myself - mostly so the company can demonstrate an impartial hiring process.
There are obviously external forces that contribute to anyone’s circumstances rich or poor.

But, ultimately, you can only spend as much as you make in income, or go bankrupt. Choosing to tack on an interest payment to your costs is often an unnecessary additional cost for people. That’s true if you’re poor buying a rudimentary TV or rich maxing out credit cards to furnish your mansion.
And this is just the start.
Cloudflare Security Week
As much as I loved matrix I still can't bend the spoon or be my own boss.
Not believing something without evidence is not the same as believing something despite the lack of evidence.
I'm going to disagree. Moving to x86 moved to native windows compatibility speeds and was a massive boon to our security team. We could interact with everything in our Windows environment, use FOSS tools natively, and the support for battery and power management was streets ahead of our Dell laptops.

x86 -at the time- was the right things to do, because IBM wasn't going to get them there...moving to NeXT's underpinnings also opened the door to a TON of pre-existing code.
I am often baffled by how some people are able to articulate how a specific pain feels or even where exactly the pain is. Describing pain intensity is hard beyond "not very painful" and "very painful". But adding a dimension of pain type is something I struggle with. Sour pain makes as much sense to me as piercing pain, which is to say: no sense at all.

I've been pierced (not for fun or aesthetics) by large nails in an accident, and it felt nothing like the icepick headaches I get, which my doctor tells me are a piercing pain.

Human internal experience is weird as fuck. If it can help diagnostics in any way, I'm all for more precise pain measurements. But I'm sure someone will abuse that research for torture.
Thanks very much for your initial post, very interesting data indeed. My Sony PRS-T1 has been in non-stop daily use since I bought it new in early 2012. It shows no significant signs of tiredness, even the battery is still decent. I've managed to live completely smartphone-etc free thus far and it is the only tablet-like device I have ever owned.

The UI could be better; over time, I have tried out several of the PRS-T1 hacks found on the MobileRead wiki, including rooting it and installing Android. Eventually, though, I always switched back to the default UI, and my preferred way of reading articles, blog posts, forum/HN discussions on it is 1) piping the URL through the Links text-only web browser and 2) saving that rendered page as a .txt file (with Links' screen margins set to a size that is suitable for the PRS-T1). It works really great 98% of the time, so even though I would prefer a more hackable e-reader, the PRS-T1 is my main reading device.

Strangely, to escape information overload, I've started to weigh the arguments for actually subscribing to a paper-printed quality daily. The web is becoming a tiring mess, and with the AI explosion, I expect this to only go worse. In our country, my favorite printed daily decided to go web-only last year or so, but another decent one is still alive, so I'm seriously considering going that route recently. Strange times.
It's few seconds usually. Traefik is not a bottleneck after system start, most time takes containers startup.
For the software to perform beamforming it must be provided the discrete microphone inputs, as opposed to being provided some sort of pre-mixed feed. As such, why is Apple "trying way too hard to be fancy here" if you can just use one of those mics? Or is the alternative that they do the "beamforming" in hardware regardless of the OS?
Ask HN: Is there a "VCR" app? I may want to release one
I'm a busy person who signed up for an online livestreaming event, which promises a lot of benefits etc. They have no replays, or might charge for them etc.

There are apps that can record my screen, or particular parts, or a window. What I am looking for is a "VCR" type app, that works like a VCR would 20 years ago. I may want to build one, for the Mac and Windows.

This app would do one thing: be ready to record on a schedule, from time X to time Y. It might use Apple's Automator for example, to navigate the browser to a specific URL, size it, open zoom, etc. before recording.

My questions are to the law-minded people here, from a legal and regulations point of view:

1. When it comes to "two-party consent" laws, isn't it totally legal in all 50 states to record livestreams that have been made public, or even livestreams that have been made accessible to a large number of people? How about in Europe, countries in Oceania, Asia, etc.

2. When it comes to "copyright" laws, thanks to court cases involving the VCR, isn't it also legal to record a copy of a transmission for yourself? Whether you redistribute it or not is up to you and your local case, we wouldn't be providing or encouraging this functionality in the app, only saving a file.
Indeed. As someone who worked in small and embedded systems, I can't help but think that many people have no idea what "bricked" actually means (or at least, meant for it's first many years of life).
European Threat To End-To-End Encryption Would Invade Phones

https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/05/07/europ...

European Police Chiefs call for industry and governments to take action against end-to-end encryption roll-out

https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/euro...

Norwegian actress Tonje Gjevjon faces up to 3 years in prison for saying men cannot be lesbians

https://nypost.com/2022/12/15/tonje-gjevjon-faces-up-to-3-ye...

British Man Convicted of Criminal Charges for Praying Silently Near Abortion Clinic

https://reason.com/2024/10/17/british-man-convicted-of-crimi...
This is what I believe your pal Scott calls a "motte-and-bailey argument."
Having read Eric Berger's Reentry about SpaceX and having a few friends who work at Tesla, my impression is that those organizations are not too dissimilar. They are also populated largely by millenial and gen Z people because older workers can't/won't deal with the hours and other working conditions.

Furthermore I think most blue collar American workers, and many white collar workers, are used to the concept of sudden and arbitrary termination.
It’s pretty easy to find/replace everywhere that needs it.

In my experience the reason people don’t is that it offends their aesthetics.

Which I understand. But personally I don’t program for aesthetics.
Another option is Settings & Privacy > Preferred Feed View > Most recent posts.
Is it just me or has HN as a whole become... more Christian lately? A lot more defensive comments here than I would've expected, and I've seen in other threads people actually openly recommending religion/Christianity specifically as something that solved their problems. What's the deal here? I would've thought this would be a relatively atheist/agnostic community, if not one that eschews discussion of religion entirely.
The systems we're talking about don't use SQL to communicate. They use data structures in a wire format of some sort because they are embedded systems. Don't pretend like we're talking about web development here, because we're not.

The other guy mentioned phones, which run UNIX clones. It is fairly obvious that we were talking about computing in general, which includes all of the things you claim to be out of scope.

SeL4 is designed for hard real time embedded systems and uses formal methods, which have and continue to be a mainstay approach in places which value security and reliability.

Most embedded systems (e.g. the RP2040, the MSP430, etcetera) do not even have virtual memory protection, which makes seL4 a non option for them. When seL4 is an option, it is a tiny fraction of the code needed for the machine. All of that other code matters, especially since it is where the attack surface area is. seL4 on such machines is like the admin account in this picture; compromising what actually matters does not require compromising seL4:

https://xkcd.com/1200/

While seL4 is good at what it does, what seL4 does is extremely minimal and it is increasingly obvious that a vocal minority overrates it. Using seL4 is not going to stop vulnerabilities in userspace or even in drivers that were previously in kernel space, or in VMs running on top of it, but people who claim systems are insecure without seL4 insinuate that it will. They are like the Apple Store employee who once suggested to me that if I run Windows on Apple hardware, it will have none of the problems Windows normally has.
Great presentation. I like that both buy links actually link to Tesco. The illusion of choice!
Good guess, but the comment hit +3 at one point.

The project cannot take tips in this area because it's geared towards programming vintage hardware. It first has to add hardware models which have more advanced sequencing. See sibling comment.
I’m still not following you. The commenter said that they got an offer at a FAANG because of a blog.

That’s just not how things work at FAANG. There is a regimented process with multiple interviews and then after the interviews, all of the interviewers enter their notes and discuss. I can’t imagine anyone in the loop saying “I read their blog post and they should be hired”.

Hiring is completely about some combination of how the candidate did on coding, system design and behavioral interviews.

In 2010 (15 years ago), all of the current FAANG companies were already large except Meta and it was growing rapidly.

In 2005 (20 years ago), how many people were blogging? 20 years ago, the interview process was even more esoteric than it is today at least at Google. I haven’t heard stories about any of the others

Yes I was around back then.
Show HN: The Journal You Write Once a Year
Create a personal time capsule that unlocks on your birthday connecting your past reflections with future aspirations in one magical message.
Appreciate the informative replies and citations. So, I'm a bit of a n00b in such matters so will politely ask how this situation (how to get ill-gotten artifacts of great anthropological value back into the public domain) typically gets resolved.

The idea cited in a reply that such purchases are funding ISIS (chilling to say the least) kind of implies that ISIS (or a stooge acting on their behalf) is the seller so a trace on the transaction should lead investigators to their door where the items can be confiscated and returned to the museum or public collection from which they were plundered.

I'm probably being too naive about how all this works. But I certainly understand the article much better now thanks to the informative replies.