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pygy_on 12,000-year-old Göbeklitepe burials explain scattered bones

That was more likely a protection racket.

The neolithic revolution also caused a bottleneck in the diversity of the Y chromosomes.

9 out of ten men at the time didn't have the opportunity to reproduce, while the happy fews were highly polygynous.

This can't have happened peacefully.

pygy_on Samsung accidentally freezes its smart fridges with a software update

No, it’s because it can’t print the yellow dots watermark for tracking.

That "feature" and incompetence at The Intercept leaked the identity of Reality Winner.

pygy_on One Year of Sponsored Servo Development

Churn makes it impossible to keep up a fork, Google weaponizes its manpower, making the "open source" argument moot.

pygy_on Anthropic researcher believes more than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans'

Let's just hope it doesn't decide to get rid of atmospheric oxygen as a rust prevention strategy.

pygy_on The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment

I thought they were alternative domains for the same service...

Regardless, I'm stuck in captcha hell whenever I try to reach them (I've tried switching browsers and DNS servers, no luck).

pygy_on The true power of regular expressions (2012)

This is by design, the regexp syntax has been invented for write-only programming at the CLI, and graduated to ubiguitous programming language syntax because worse is better.

The regular formalism is all about composability, and most languages don't offer a way to compose regexps, which is a real shame IMO.

pygy_on Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2

I'll add that, unlike what your parent wrote, asset reuse will be minimal, in adventure games, one of the reward for solving puzzles is unlocking access to new locations and thus new art.

In this case, they may reuse some of the sprites for the main characters (default animations). Most of the animations are custom and can't be reused.

Likewise for the voice acting (I'd expect them to start from scratch here, the mood of the games may be a bit different).

pygy_on What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph

I've had my share of battles on WP to preserve content that was dismissed as fringe by people who didn't understand what they were looking at (see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Files_for_deletion/2...).

The author you mentioned may not have met the inclusion criteria at the time, or maybe you had the misfortune to fall on a zealous admin who gets dopamine kicks from that kind of behavior. That being said, if a cursory Google search was enough to establish notability, it shouldn't have taken much time and effort to add links to reliable sources and save the article.

WP is very sensitive regarding inclusion criteria for biographies of living persons, because of the flood of vanity submission they have to filter out. The notability criteria are not perfect, but the provide a good enough balance to limit the spam (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(people)#...).

In my experience, toxic behavior isn't as rewarded as it was on SO, and there are venues to discuss issues.

pygy_on Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now

v1.4 hasn't been tagged... No idea what the shipped binary corresponds to.

pygy_on Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now

Does `bun upgrade` provide the source code?

pygy_on What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph

> The same thing is happening to Wikipedia, BTW, which is also aggressively moderated

[citation needed]

Well here it is, and you're wrong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Statistics

The article creation and edits curves are stable. The former growing at a slightly declining pace, which is expected since the amount of knowledge is finite. The latter is literally flat.

The monthly page views are in decline on mobile (from ~5.7 billions at the peak in 2024 to 4.5 billions currently). They are stable YoY on desktop at ~3.7 billions, and have been rising in the recent months.

StackOverflow is dead, the WP community is thriving, even if the page views have declined a bit.

SO had a moat because of its mass, but the place was a cesspool.

pygy_on What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph

I remember having to fight a mod for him to restore a reply penned by Mike Pall, to a LuaJIT question.

Mike Pall is the author of LuaJIT.

The reply had been either deleted or edited to the point of being wrong (memory is foggy), because Mike Pall wasn't an expert at SO, and had somehow not used the site exactly as intended. The mod was very dismissive and patronizing.

pygy_on The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting

Not lazy enough to keep quiet rather than spreading FUD.

pygy_on I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis

Pseudo-exhaustive knowledge disorder (PEKnoD) is a meta-psychosis that afflicts most medical professionals. It's a plague.

pygy_on I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis

Psychiatrists are tourist guides for the Paris catacombs who try to get around using an underground map.

When you do cluster analysis of the symptoms of psychiatric patients, the empirical clusters don't match the DSM entries.

Schizophrenia is at least 8 distinct diseases (see GWAS), so orphaned that they don't have a name.

Psychiatry is an epistemic mess, and medicine uses it as a garbage bin for the patients it doesn't understand (because blissful ignorance is the norm over there).

pygy_on It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness

Are you saying that you are a literal philosophical zombie?

Do you understand the difference between feeling the pain in your toes when you shoot in a door frame and what you experience when you see someone else do the same.

Also not everyone can relate to these sensations, it is not universal. Some people don't feel any pain in their body (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_insensitivity_to_pa...).

See also colorblindness as a common example, or tetrachromacy, which is posited in some individuals with at least two X chromosomes, and the norm in several species of birds.

Their color space has four dimensions.

People who lose parts of their brains can lose the ability to conceptualize the ability encoded by the region they lost.

pygy_on It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness

Re. color and wavelength, some of the colors one can experience are only accessible in after-images, not through direct retina stimulation.

pygy_on It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness

Color perception has nothing to do with light wavelength. Color is a subjective perceptual space.

If you zap your occipital cortex with electromagnetic pulses, you'll experience color flashes (phosphenes).

If a blind person who can read baille does the same, they'll experience tingling sensations in their fingers [1].

People can have visual experiences through somesthesic stimuli (you can give muddy waters divers sonar-based sight by stimulating their skin with an electrode array).

AFAIK, it is not however know whether someone who was blind at birth and whose brain didn't learn to see could have such experiences.

1. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00221-007-1091-0 full text: https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/50371662/s00221-007-10...

pygy_on It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness

And even then, in different contexts, a major chord can sound jarring and a minor one satisfying.

That being said the nature/culture duality is often not the right way to frame these issues. It's both, intertwined.

pygy_on It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness

What is it like to experience synesthesia :-)

These are very good analogies (and possibly experiences for those who are natural synesthetes), but even then, that won't make the who doesn't have the corresponding perceptual modality person experience that exact sensation.

pygy_on It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness

Indeed, I didn't remember that Chamlers was literally building his argument around the "why?"... But he does.

This reduces to the intractable mystery of existence. A more interesting question would be, as usual "how".

There are serious attempts at this, coming from both neuroscience and physics (e.g. for the latter https://pubs.aip.org/aip/adv/article/15/11/115319/3372193/Un... )

pygy_on It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness

FTA:

> Then he declared that there is another distinct problem — why the brain’s behavior is accompanied by experience at all — which he christened the “hard” problem of consciousness.

The hard problem isn't about "why", it's about "what it's like".

Try to explain what it's like to hear a major and a chord to a deaf person, or what it's like to see magenta to someone who's blind.

None of the things you say, sign or write will make them experience these sensations.

Ultimately no one but you can know what it's like to be you.

This doesn't mean that subjective experience can't be modeled. but the caveats that apply to models in general are relevant here too: none are correct, some are useful.

Dualism doesn't necessarily means that subjectivity is ineffable. Mind and matter could work like mathematical duals: platonic solids (cube vs octahedron, dodecahedron vs icosahedron, tetrahedron vs itself), Voronoi diagrams and Delaunay triangulations, etc... These are intimately linked, and you can generate one from the other and inversely, yet they have their own distinct properties.

pygy_on Brain scans reveal 3 ADHD subtypes

> Some physicians and researchers have argued for years that emotional dysregulation is not peripheral to ADHD but a central, overlooked part of the condition. Yet this symptom does not appear in the formal diagnostic criteria for ADHD in the manual that doctors use to classify mental disorders. That gap has left clinicians without a clear way to categorize what they’re seeing: Are these children best understood as having severe anxiety, as being on the autism spectrum, or as something else entirely? Or does ADHD itself need to be more broadly defined?

Again and again and again. Psychiatry is an epistemic mess.

Psychiatrists are touristic guides of the Paris catacombs that orient themselves with a map of the subway.

pygy_on Signals, the push-pull based algorithm

Batching isn't just an optimisation, not having transactional semantics can cause bugs.

pygy_on Zig – io_uring and Grand Central Dispatch std.Io implementations landed

I wouldn't have expected graphic sex slang to be acceptable as a NH user name.

This would translate as ~"eats pussy", where "broûter" is a verb reserved for animals feeding on grass, implying a hefty bush.

pygy_on Show HN: Elysia JIT "Compiler", why it's one of the fastest JavaScript framework

Yup, this is a one-time, startup operation, using a proper parser would make it more robust at no runtime cost.

pygy_on GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client

It is the same thing, just emphasizing that the OS is more than the kernel, and than the userland comes from the GNU project.

The latter had been designed to be a full OS but didn't have a functional kernel when Linux was released, and Torvalds adopted the GNU userland for his project.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Hurd

pygy_on Show HN: Xoscript

But by doing this, you limit your talent pool to folks who accept to associate with hateful folks.

pygy_on Show HN: Xoscript

You've put it on a forge with issues and PRs open, which implies you expect external contributions.

I'm trying to warn you about the implicit message your copy sends.

It will chase away the folks I mentioned, and some day you'll discover that one of your non-political core contributors goes by @zyklon1488 on twitter.

pygy_on Show HN: Xoscript

    - Why did you close your eyes ?
    - So that the room will be empty.

Your copy reads as "I'm a radical centrist and will die trying to preserve the status quo".

As it usually goes you'd then tolerate hateful, bigoted folks in the name of openness and Free Speech Absolutism™ (which is totally non-political /s) and chase away women, minorities and folks who care about them.

If this isn't your intention, a CoC is the way to go.

You regrettably can't make hate disappear by pretending it doesn't exist.