#PDF of #Von-Neumann #paper from 01956 on reliable computing with unreliable components: “Probabilistic logics and the synthesis of reliable organisms from unreliable components”. 56 pages.
Electrostimulation of a superficial skin wound with molybdenum foil makes it heal 30% faster, maybe useful for #diabetes sores. #health
Git repositories for "Archer", initrd's #e-ink libre autarkic laptop
initrd's project page on their #e-ink libre autarkic laptop #Archer
"PotatoP", a Zorzpad-like project by #andreer using a #memory-LCD and an #Ambiq Apollo3 microcontroller, with a Lisp editor
#paper from 02006 on foaming soda-lime glass into an 0.35 g/cc #glass-ceramic foam at 750° after hydrating the #glass powder (half less than 138 μm, a third less than 63 μm) in hot water at 200° for six hours. DOI 10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2005.07.041. #foam #materials
"Kleptoparasitism" is living by theft.
What is #altruism? Does altruism exist? Self and others: some radical metaphysical alternatives. Why care about others? Kant on sympathy and duty. Sentimentalism revisited. #ethics #moral #philosophy
Negative #utilitarianism #moral #philosophy. #ethics
Popper on Negative #utilitarianism. #moral #philosophy #ethics
#Utilitarianism in Spanish. #moral #philosophy #ethics
Comments on Hillel Wayne's comments on #ChatGPT. #AGI #neural-networks
Bertrand Meyer’s commentary on #ChatGPT where he misses glaring bugs in code it produces. #AGI #neural-networks
Hillel Wayne’s comments on #ChatGPT, worrying that it will produce lots of wrong code. #AGI #neural-networks
#USA #politics #California #housing #zoning apocalypse, profiling HN user Sasha Zbrozek. #Housing-Accountability-Act
“The origin of the ‘MIT License’”, by Jerry Saltzer, from November 02020; basically they were copying the CACM’s 01984 #licensing wording and tweaking it. DOI 10.1109/MAHC.2020.3020234. #history #PDF
more skeptical discussion of #ChatGPT from February 02022. #AGI #neural-networks
discussion of how John Carmack learned about #neural-networks
The #Agoric SDK has a super-turn called a Crank, during which time you can keep resolving promises, enqueuing their handlers. 'Each Crank is initiated by a message delivery from the kernel.' Among other things, Cranks are #transactional units.
The controversial #RAND research report "Extending Russia" from 02019 to the #USA Army, in which proposes ways to weaken #Russia in international #politics.
#RAND's summary of the #Extending-Russia report and the controversy over it. #Russia #USA #politics
#USA #politics: “Connecticut parents arrested for letting kids walk to Dunkin' Donuts”
#USA #politics: apparently now software development in the US is always characterized as research and development and must be amortized over 5 years?
St. John's College's "Great Books" curriculum. #education
“On 11 May 2022 the #EU Commission made a second legislative proposal, which is to force all providers of email, messaging and chat services to comprehensively search all private messages in the absence of any suspicion.” #privacy #politics
A nascent run on #Silicon-Valley-Bank, probably due to #SBF's #FTX
A commenter (“cj”, with a 14-year-old HN account purporting to be bp@brandonpaton.com) reports that #Silicon-Valley-Bank will have a run tomorrow morning at 8:30.
discussion of which #DNS #registrars to switch to now that #Gandi has been bought by slimeballs
Indian Crab syndrome led Subhash Mukhopadhyay to commit suicide after serious harassment by authorities in #India
#reproducible-builds in #F-droid will allow you to “update the app from the main repository even if you installed it from another one”. #Android #security
#ChatGPT is being used by StarRocks to improve the testing of their #SQL database. #AGI #databases