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P-zombies, conceptually, actually have no ghost in the machine, but are indistinguishable from sentient beings. Sentience and free will are two different things.

> they may have measurable effects in our physical reality

If there’s something external that interfaces with the physical universe, such an externality could be observed. It’s strange that we haven’t found such a force. But if it were to exist, in some parallel universe, that external force would have its own mechanics and its own chain of causality – its own physics so to speak. Dualism doesn’t get you to free will, it just means there’s physics we can’t observe. (Or perhaps there’s some superset universe that interfaces with that universe, and then it’s still determinism or stochastic processes all the way down.)
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What information did they reveal that was sensitive? The strikes had already taken place and so nothing they shared had any strategic value after the fact, other than to confirm the validity. To be clear it is utterly fucking insane (borderline "Russian bot" talking point) that you are entertaining this line of reasoning and I feel dirty for even engaging you.
From what I’ve heard, Nim is being successfully used on microcontrollers.
> This story seems to completely discount any "lost confidence" as a made up story.

The "lost confidence" angle would be discarded if it was just made-up nonsense. It is also a convenient angle to pin the blame on a scapegoat who was proven to have zero blame or responsibility.

One can only imagine what would have been written on the guy if he crashed and went down with the plane. Certainly we would be reading about human errors and failures in judgement and lack of training and reckless behavior.

This is what mid/upper management types do in large organizations to cover their ass.

I recall a story about a high-speed train accident in Spain where the conductor was found to be the sole responsible due to speeding, and it took an investigator from the European Union to call out the company's managers for unexplainably failing to implement and run a pretty standard traffic control system on that track section whose basic features include automatically enforcing speed limits. The system would render impossible that sort of failure and, in spite of having been installed, it was unexplainably disconnected. But it was human error, of course.
If we follow your logic, they would still want the orders ; they would simply look for ways to avoid fulfilling them.
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The F-35B entered service ten years ago, in 2015. But there have been continuous upgrades to it, and given that the 2023 incident described in the article started with the HUD (apparently) crashing 3 times in a row, there's plenty of room for improvement.
They mention about $50m coming in annually, I assume that's from film and tv rights. What does big tech have to do with that?
I’ll take a SIGSEGV bug any day over working on memory corruption issues. I have some nasty battle scars in that area.
Yeah, it is something different, but this is a story about a guy who dedicated his life to something, and then lost everything he worked for.

I think the question about “is that something anyone should be working for?” is just as important as “was it fair to the one so working?”.
I’ll use it!
Probably the worst thing you could ask to help you understand a topic you yourself don't understand and are encountering for the first time.
They had one short sentence in there that he still had a tiny alternate primary flight display. Still had control surfaces. He knew he was descending and his authorized air space. Pull up, look at the pfd, do some resets, follow helmet malfunction protocols.

There was very little about a devils advocate side to the story.

I could imagine others joking about ejecting for minor warnings or trolling him. Especially in the marines.

Do a FOIA on all ejections because his is just one. He had a good 27 year career and ended as a colonel with retirement benefits.
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The only reason for lack of concrete statements on the 0.7 level was a lack of data, owing largely to US political culture (1.5 is the World Health Organization 'safe' limit). Not long ago fluoride stuff was considered a 'conspiracy theory' which greatly deters meaningful scientific research on the topic. This is in part because of social reasons (most people don't want to be perceived as 'fringe') and in part because it results in funding for such research drying up. For that matter even IQ studies themselves are borderline given the US political culture.

So for instance of the 19 low risk-of-bias studies, exactly 0 came from the US. 10 were in China, 3 were in Mexico, 2 in Canada, 3 in India, and 1 in Iran. 18 of those 19 studies found a significant reduction in IQ that corresponds strongly with increases in fluoride (the outlier was in Mexico). With the current administration we'll certainly be seeing funding for such studies in the US and so there should be much more high quality data on the 0.7 level forthcoming. But in general this is a major problem that needs solving. Exploring the breadths of science, including the fringes, should not require an activist political administration.
The problem isn't that the current US administration is seen as a good protector of freedom of speech. It is that its opposition dropped the ball on it so massively.

With support of the now decried platforms, the slogan "there is no freedom of speech without consequences" comes to mind. Helping corporations "clean house" against all the undesirables, people that "hate".

This again points at the Trump administration and how bad it would be. That isn't really a convincing message, it is that it opposition needs to rethink some arguments of the past.
I don't know why americans have this strange idea, but the first university in italy was created to learn law, which lead to a very well remunerated job.

So it's in no way a new thing.
> Approximately 7% of Chinese people are registered CCP members

so in a rough estimate, if you have 10 chinese coworkers around you, there is over a 50% probability that CCP is watching you
> Can another drone grab the fiber and walk back to your base?

Can not grab, it will get caught by branch trees and debris. The launch site is not where operators are located, most often it is well hidden, somewhat protected and hundreds of meters away.

> Can you use the fiber to a master drone which acts as a repeater/controller for normal RF drones?

Battery is the bottleneck, master drone has to stay long enough in the air for all drone to hit their targets.

> How much power can these types of fiber optic cable carry?

can't use it that way.
You don't grade your company's C Suite on their ability to learn from your presentation. Do you really think a Professor in college should just facilitate the students to not come to class and take notes??
There is a whole book written on the corrosive nature of the Israeli lobby on US foreign policy by Stephen Walt and John J. Mearsheimer. A shorter working paper version of it is . "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy." KSG Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP06-011, March 2006.

As for Adelson, just look up her Wikipedia... she owns Israel Hayom, Israel's largest newspaper, and is a major supporter of current Israeli government and has advocated for explosion of Palestinians from Gaza, annexation of WestBank and paid for expansion of illegal Settlements. She conditioned her financial support of Trump on moving US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

Covering up for war crimes and war criminals never ends well, either.
Inspired by the Dobble card game, a friend and I built an iOS version where the symbols are emojis! You can customize the difficulty with options like “only green emojis” or other themed sets.

We don’t want to put ads in the game, but we’re exploring ways to add non-free features to make a little money from it. Has anyone done something similar? Any insights or past experiences with monetizing a casual mobile game would be really helpful!
Cynical take would be it is a free soldier behind enemy lines.
Fucking hell, these are some dire articles
Neat. Will try :)
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Lana swung for the fences but struck out. It felt like an M. Night Shyamalan letdown.

I still don’t know why she even agreed. The pay check?

If they wanted to bring it back, they should have discarded all the previous stuff besides the basic premise. The original movie even had this whole thing about Neo being the sixth “The One”.

That’s 5 prequels right there. And the obvious exploration of what happened after the reboot.

Trying to bring back the cast except as a way to hand over the franchise (by dying) is almost always going to be stupid.
Probably 2nd Amendment. Democrats do push a pretty tortured interpretation of 2A, it's true.
My impression (as an observer since before YC started) is that some of PG's early writings were very influential on the startup scene -- separate from his obviously very influential doings through YC over the years.

Nowadays, I skim PG articles when they hit HN, for maybe roughly 3 reasons:

1. To see if there's anything interesting to me.

2. Curiosity about what the writing says about him, or what he might be doing. (Why did he choose this topic, how is he thinking, what messages is he trying to send, why, does this hint at some other actions he's taking with his influence and resources, etc.)

3. As background for skimming HN comments. (Mainly, what's the gist of the sentiment of various HN demographics, when prompted by the PG post. Lately, I think my intent is mostly hopeful or curious, not seeking out something to be angry about.)
I’d check this out
And this is reason why "Ah" unit is stupid and meaningless
The F-35 was designed for export. The F-22 wasn’t and I suspect the F-47 is not either. There are different objectives at work here.

The F-35 is technically capable but even that is subject to export controls despite being purpose-built for export. A lot of European companies have a large stake in the success of the F-35 in its various versions because they are building it for European customers.
Power over fiber is absolutely a thing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-over-fiber
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I don't think it fits completely, but for the sake of it, I am a free speech absolutist. I live in Europe for context.

Your insinuations isn't really a good faith argument either but I gladly join that group of "these sorts of people" because they are obviously more sensible than the others.
.NET was always fast. I remember in the .NET framework 2.0 days, .NET's JIT for derived from the Microsoft C++ compiler, with some of the more expensive optimizations (like loop hoisting) removed and general optimization effort pared back.

But If you knew what you were doing, for certain kinds of math heavy code, and aggressive use of low level features (like raw pointers) you could get within 10% of C++ code, with the general case being that garden variety non super optimized code being half as fast as equivalent C++ code.

I think this ratio has remained pretty consistent over the years.
tracing the drone operators just by a single optical fiber might be difficult but tracing their logistic is not.
I have a good understanding of how to create likely-correct software: https://www.osequi.com/studies/list/list.html

Now I'm learning AI/LLMs from the perspective of correctness. So far I have two 'maxims' to guide me:

- AI shines where humans struggle (for prompt engineering)

- An LLM is nothing but an API call (for software engineering with AI)
Money is above human life at some point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life

But in this situation it sounds like the plane was highly likely to crash anyway so the estimated value you would save by potentially sacrificing him is low. Also I think the calculation is probably quite different in this situation compared to e.g. paying for safety measures in advance.
The default setup on startup is 4 cycles for ROM access as you mention, but with system control registers you can control how fast the memory is - apparently current ROM has 3/1 wait states (first/sequential) access for 16 Bit access. There’s also a prefetch queue instructions. I understand this means when running THUMB code from ROM, non-branching instructions can also run at full speed.

https://problemkaputt.de/gbatek.htm#gbasystemcontrol
There was also some talk of feeling like he was falling but of course with no vision you will have no idea what way you are going based on you senses.

Don't these planes have the basic instruments as a backup to the helmet display?
> Are they progressing quickly?

Thia might appear to ba a shallow answer but I do not think it is. AI has taken a very long road from early conceptions, by Turing and others, to a tool whose value we can argue about, but which is getting attention and use everywhere.

The mere fact that "are they progressing rapidly" is a question, is a testament to an incredible uptick in speed of progression.

"Is AI progressing quickly?" is the new "Are we there yet?"
The predecessors of agentic AI, humans, have figured this out. They use this thing called user interfaces to do computing. If agentic AI can't use UIs like humans, why bother calling them agents?

I feel like there is momentum around this idea that all of computing needs to be re-invented (e.g. MCP, "agentic AI needs its TCP/IP moment") to address the deficiencies of agentic AI when what really should be addressed is their inability to be true agents for humans, using the tools humans already use.

Using UIs doesn't even have to be visual. Visually impaired users regularly use computers as well. Since UI for the visually impaired is all text based, it seems reasonable for LLMs to start there.
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Even if true this is irrelevant, the first amendment is agnostic to truth or good propriety.
https://www.zona-militar.com/en/2025/03/10/the-u-s-has-repor...

One of many.
https://www.zona-militar.com/en/2025/03/10/the-u-s-has-repor...
> China threatening, blackmailing and disappearing Chinese ethic people (and/or their children)

that's true, so be careful, the child of your chinese coworker is likely kidnapped by CCP so that the chinese coworker has no other choice but to work for the CCP
Linux can be easily and simply modified by anyone to suit their needs; Win98 cannot. You are comparing apples to oranges.
Tomato tomato, they disabled features the allies relied on, so in practice it is a kind of kill switch.
Probably not at the moment.

_Software Counter mode_ rr requires robust support for debuginfod in your Linux distribution.

NixOS to my knowledge does not provide debuginfo via a dedicated debuginfod server for all packages so this will make things unreliable for debugging via _Software Counters mode_ rr for packages for which debuginfo is not available via debuginfod.

I recently learned about https://github.com/symphorien/nixseparatedebuginfod for nix (note: I haven't used this so I don't know how reliable or good this is). Anyways, this project requires setting `separateDebuginfo = true;` for the derivation for the debuginfo to be available via debuginfod. This is an opt in approach but we need pervasive support like it exists in Fedora (and some others).
It's amazing, as a kid I always wondered how fascism could take hold in a country, in history books they seemed to lay out the steps so clearly it should be easy to see and coming and stop it. Now that it's happening here, I now wonder how countries ever managed to keep fascism at bay. All it really takes is an unscrupulous public in love with its own opinions, and someone with a big voice who will tell them comforting fictions.
I feel that the word conspiracy is not helping to bring clarity to the discussion. Covert operations are by definition conspirations but that's not what people generally mean when they use the word conspiracy so let's just avoid using a word that might muddy the discourse unnecessary.

Both the Chinese and USA governments engaged (or have been accused of engaging) in unlawful kidnapping of their own (and foreign) nationals from foreign countries over the last decades.

So I'm not sure how one can dismiss the possibility that this is indeed one of such cases.
There'd be a fair bit of noise if the Holocaust was happening today. It'd be more like Guantanamo Bay or the US's international program of black-bag kidnappings. You don't expect to know exactly what is going on but there is a wiki page [0] and regular leaks [1] even if only a relatively small number of people involved. Something like the holocaust couldn't fly under the radar in the age of the internet; there'd be leaks like no-one's business. They could get away with more radio silence in the 1950s by not having social media.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guant%C3%A1namo_Bay_files_leak
I think this was just a story, less an investigation. It's basically his view, the lack of closure, and the result.
Yes. There is a finite $ value on a human life from a government point of view.

For your loved ones it is infinite.

But for a government with X funds and Y lives to save, there has to be a price.

If someone ejects on every little problem, you spend billions more on that and billions less on some other life saving initiatives.

Putting aside the bad ejection survival stats.
There are many examples of this out in the wild already working, eg. https://github.com/openai/swarm
What european companies built the F35? Especially what part of the software is from Europe ?
Ins’t accelerated S3 just a CDN?
Do you mean academic Marxists or something?

Their impact outside of minor student circles has been 0. And for sure none of those are MAGA or Le Pen or AfD voters...
I'm still working on Habitat. It's a free and open source, self-hosted social platform for local communities.
The plan is for it to be federated, but that's a while off yet.

I finally cracked ansible/docker-compose provisioning on Ubuntu and plan to expand that out to support Debian also. The groundwork is there. I can finally see an official release in the distant horizon, I just need to put those quality of life features in now, like the ability to delete your own account, change your email address, notifications on comments and all that stuff.

- The idea: https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/location-based-social-net...

- A build update and plan: https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/building-habitat/

- The repository: https://github.com/carlnewton/habitat

- The project board: https://github.com/users/carlnewton/projects/2
I wonder if PG feels a pang of regret since he joined the cause to elect Trump 2.0. Does he think his anti wokeness contributions helped make the world a better place? Thanks for making the world better PG.
Nah, University is too late to fix this. But clearly kids aren’t fully “passing” their high school and probably middle school skills.

Mass failings while satisfying has an air of “pull yourself up by your bootstraps”. As a parent I can see the mass pull towards phones, practically impossible to disentangle save for simple surgical regulation.

No one should be allowed to have phones in class. That’s it.
One fun thing about “too big” projects like the F-35 is that the project management overheads cause a kind of recursive overhead, like the rocket equation, but applied to technical outcomes instead of orbital velocity. Any change isn’t “just” the change, it now has to got through review boards, subcontractors, liaisons, integration reviews, etc…

The result is that the F-35 computers are being “upgraded” (lol) to the same compute power as a first-gen Apple Watch… starting this year and finishing who-knows-when.

Meanwhile the F-16 which is “not as important” has already been upgraded with the same kind of chips as modern GPUs and has orders of magnitude more performance than the “flying computer” the the F-35 was supposed to be.

Weep for the poor C++ developers forced to shoehorn modern software into a computer that isn’t yet as powerful as a battery-powered consumer device most people have upgraded three times already.
> I’m genuinely surprised there are still Chinese professors not leaving or preparing to leave US

You hit the nail on the head. they clearly knew they shouldn't stay, but chose to remain here — most likely because they were on a secret mission
Why Norway is edging towards a fresh EU membership bid
> with a custom data packing method that is optimized for streaming directly from CD to the hard disk without any seeking

This is nice. I've always wondered why they don't do this with the core parts of the os and then only extract additional components and drivers. But maybe back then the core was only a few MB and it wouldn't have helped so much...

I remember the setup taking ages. With 9x I don't think any install ever lasted longer than a year, so I did this a lot. :)
When i try this I get:

> Sorry! Fandom isn't allowing BreezeWiki to show pages right now.

Personally I think it should be illegal for webshites to use any legal or technical means to block people from deshitifying their webshites.
> We might be highly rated on the international index of democracies or whatever

The USA is not highly rated in the democracy index relative to what should be its peers, always hovering between 20th-30th position depending on the index. Uruguay and Costa Rica ranks higher as a full democracy than the USA.