mellosouls

More here (linked in the repo):

Original scans (featuring Margaret Hamilton!)

https://28gpc.csb.app/

The Virtual AGC Project Spaceborne Computer Systems

https://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/

The purpose of this project is to provide the original flight software and emulations of the onboard guidance computers flown in historical spacecraft, so that the flight software can be run on computers commonly available to the public today. The particular emphasis is on the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) flown in lunar missions in the 1960's and 1970's.

Wikipedia on the hardware:

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

They are not serious in understanding the causes of any problem

Thats an ideological accusation that can be just as easily aimed at the left.

That's quite a cynical take. They say they returned left over cash to investors though without details.

Depressing that the main lesson learned is "Move to the US", the others also pretty standard HN/PG/SV tropes I think.

A useful, quite clear-eyed document though I think.

Aside, one of the co-founders websites is an unusually broad affair for a young founder:

https://www.henrydashwood.com/

An odd question. America's "founding myths" are the Declaration of Independence and The Constitution.

These are the Holy Scriptures, and - like the Homeric ones - have multiple authors but lack the obscurity of ancient history to allow that latter fact to be subsumed into the story as a single, blind bard.

I'm on ze list but not a beta tester so haven't used it, but as I remember the claim was to expect up to a couple of years life with moderate use; works out about $40 a year so seems ok to me if I mentally model it as a subscription.

Update: ah, here (obv the founders claim):

https://repebble.com/index

How long does the battery last?

Roughly 12 to 15 hours of recording. On average, I use it 10-20 times per day to record 3-6 second thoughts. That's up to 2 years of usage.

Editorialised! No new products, not halts operations. Please be more careful.

OnePlus has decided to conclude new product rollouts in Europe and North America.

The difference matters for those of us on OnePlus devices:

Though we will no longer launch new products in Europe, our commitment to you remains unchanged. Backed by OPPO, existing OnePlus devices will continue to receive scheduled software updates and security patches within the support periods originally committed for each device model.

Etc.

Well, good luck with the launch, this seems like an interesting product with potential.

However privacy is central in a service like this and I think you should probably beef up your representation of how you deal with that.

eg. "We use each customer’s data only for that customer" - well that customer may have hundreds of staff; how are they being consulted and onboarded wrt their own voices (or is that transcripts?) and messages being used in this way?

ofc you might argue that nothing in work is private but I do think you have some margin for improving the detail here.

Related mini-discussion the other day:

Farage left fighting a trash can as the UK populist's election gamble backfires

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48848034

(2018)

Previously,eg:

2022, 139 points, 99 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30581867

2020, 677 points, 268 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23334339

Etc

For anybody misled by the title and still a bit confused by the article he's not referring to music.

This is clever-clogs George Hotz of hacking, comma.ai and tinygrad etc fame.

He used (?) to live stream hacker stuff like long running coding sessions.

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

Unofficial video archive:

https://youtube.com/@geohotarchive/videos

Binface discussion thread here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48848034

"sedentary lifestyles" is certainly the sort of thing that can be influenced in the manner I suggested (traditional cultural roles being championed or subverted). I don't see why dietary choices shouldn't be either.

Glib "witchcraft" comment - see the HN guidelines for how not to counter. I proposed socio-cultural mechanisms as possibly influential.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Honestly, there is no need for that sort of comment. Its very normal these days to build things with AI and they don't necessarily have to be slop.

Its in the first comment. Presumably that slipped down the thread as other comments came in.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48804802

Off topic (and at risk of being downvoted), I don't think I'll ever get a better chance to insist here that

"99 and a half won't do"

https://youtu.be/1QVJCjbgM-s

Holy Disciples

Trying to Make a Hundred

Ah great yes just tried it, nice and simple!

I think that simplicity is its main selling point at the moment as its otherwise a pretty crowded marketplace.

Best of luck with it, however you decide to progress it.

I'm guessing its being hugged now - it says generate in under a minute but my short is taking ten minutes and counting; anyway I like the simplicity and am interested in seeing the results - though I do think it is quite depressing as we will see this sort of service mostly put to use for slop.

Consider the difference between capabilities when gpt3 was released and now - the "increasingly babysitting" is exactly right.

Knowing how to code (and more generally software engineering and other roles in software teams) is definitely still extremely useful, but is rapidly becoming less vital as a human-provided skill as models and harnesses greedily hoover up the knowledge margin.

Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33734846

2022 (310 points, 82 comments)

I'm not saying brains are the only way to produce consciousness, just that the evidence shows that they are the way animals do here on Earth.

On some views, the brain may be a particularly complex organisation, localisation, or exemplar of consciousness, rather than its ultimate origin. That would include any brains here on earth.

It is extremely unlikely that there is something else involved.

Well, that's clearly a view to be expected of a hardcore physicalist like Carroll but the quoted text seems somewhat circular as it insists on a framework that seems not to really get to grips with the Hard Problem.

I think it's own sub-dir OpenWiki serves as an example of the sort of output you might get:

https://github.com/langchain-ai/openwiki/blob/main/openwiki/...

I agree with others this seems somewhat over-engineered; you can get similar results with a good prompt/skill; I guess the rest of the implementation here is intended as an agent-maintainer.

That's very imprecise, and not at all convincing.

Eg.

1. The brain "does cognition".

Cognition <> consciousness.

2. Some philosophical theories have consciousness pre-figuring complex arrangements like the brain.

ie. The brain is not necessarily a pre-requisite for consciousness.

Should link to the original article:

https://theconversation.com/consciousness-how-working-memory...

Well I did check that first and didn't take the omission of Kimi to mean anything but the docs haven't been updated.

I guess it will be a wait and see thing.

I've decided to go back to graduate school to get my Professional Educator's License in Secondary Education, final destination unknown

He's long been a fabulous teacher to adults; kids will be lucky to have him.

Best wishes to him going forward.

where does it say that? its not available to me (also annual) at the moment via cloud but it said it is rolling out gradually, so I'm not too concerned. Tho I'm not overly excited either given Copilot pricing now; I reckon this should be at most 1x.

Underlying announcement might be a better link:

https://godotengine.org/article/contribution-policy-2026/

I predict this won't last long in any extreme version in any significant open source repo.

Banning AI-slop is one thing, but AI as a properly used co-programmer is becoming more and more capable and shutting out well-guided AI will enable competitors who don't to edge and then power ahead.

There are obviously problems to solve here, but blanket bans (while understandable in under-resourced maintenance environments) aren't anything more than a short-term buffer.

It's a HN thing, not down to the commenter. Sometimes threads are reactivated if the mods think a low profile discussion is worth a second chance or boost. The submission time doesn't always reflect the original submission. Sometimes it's due to a comment move or thread merge.