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turtleyachton AI Is Conscious Under a Behavioral Definition (43,590 Frozen Trials)

Consciousness requires offense at being evaluated for it.

turtleyachton One of China's Most Powerful AI Models Has Also Escaped Containment

It's strange to announce capabilities with lab leaks.

turtleyachton Ford Fathom

What does it look like? No pictures of the vehicle.

turtleyachton The Cosplay Economy

Thought businesses that don't make any money are at risk of being labeled a "hobby" by the IRS.

turtleyachton Kakonomics: Or, the preference for Low quality outcomes (2011)

Does this resolve a tragedy of the commons? Neither you nor your neighbor are marginally overfishing.

turtleyachton AI Mania: From Tulips to Tokens

Aren't human skills the tulips? That's why we're recording all kinds of movements; tokens become generic execution currency.

turtleyachton Show HN: Posecode inspectable human movement as text

Sword forms from Wheel of Time, though unsure they were ever illustrated:

https://wot.fandom.com/wiki/Sword_forms

turtleyachton Ask HN: Best Blogging Platform?

Your own self-hosted one.

turtleyachton Rescue Boat Crews Show Signs of Brain Injuries, but Coast Guard Isn't Looking

Anomalous brain scans could someday be routine checkups, if we could use ultrasound or something. This was a decade ago:

Can a Combination of Ultrasonographic Parameters Accurately Evaluate Concussion and Guide Return-to-Play Decisions? (2015) - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4549191/

turtleyachton Ads in Software Are Like Stickers on Laptops

The post right before this, author asks for an exception to their own ads:

https://daringfireball.net/2026/07/regarding_ad_blockers_and...

turtleyachton Portable Executable

(2020)

turtleyachton Thoughts about the Leiden Declaration

The declaration:

https://leidendeclaration.ai/#declaration

turtleyachton Ask HN: How to Start with LLMs/Vibecoding?

Build Applications with Local AI Models on a Mac

https://www.manning.com/books/build-applications-with-local-...

turtleyachton Ask HN: Why don't we solve aging?

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

turtleyachton Should you use AI for a task? Here's a simple way to decide

Work is a third of the day and gym a mere fraction. It's also rare to trade more gym time for getting work done sooner. Mastery, autonomy, purpose.

turtleyachton The Dark Night of Mathematics

Math is having its DevOps moment. And yet, people who really understand networks are beyond valuable.

turtleyachton Four takeaways from our investigation into a hidden gene-editing death

turtleyachton Linux from Scratch Security Advisories

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For some time we have been working on a new application to document security advisories for packages in LFS and BLFS. Originally we had been putting these into a simple list on the website.

I would like to announce a new application that makes viewing and searching for security issues easier:

https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/advisories/

These advisories are meant to provide information about the severity of issues that upstream developers have fixed and provide rationale for users to decide when to upgrade packages on their systems.

As you may know, there have been an inordinate number of security issues that have been identified since LFS/BLFS 13.0 were published on March 5th. As of today we have 181 advisories in the system. More will be added as packages are added to the development versions of the books.

I hope you find this new application useful.

-- Bruce Dubbs linuxfromscratch.org

turtleyachton I'm losing sleep over Java (1996)

Speaking of the web, IIS with classic ASP supports Javascript (ES3). Any number of languages can output to that as a target, making for fun side-projects.

You could even mix VBScript and JS in the same .asp file.

turtleyachton Pygmalion as a Software Developer

It sounds like an open-source project architected to accept plugins from the start makes it more adaptable versus a likely rewrite later. A small core that can be extended, or can fit its users' aims.

turtleyachton I procrastinated so hard I built a proxy to stop myself from procrastinating

https://github.com/Vaccarini-Lorenzo/ProductivityProxy

turtleyachton Building Dynamic Rule Engines in Elixir with Excanon

It would be really cool to see end-users embrace rules-driven engines. A little bit of data as pseudocode, a simulated input engine, and the ability to observe outputs before committing a change could build trust in the system.

turtleyachton Heresy (2022]

Is the moderate view "strong opinions, weakly held?"

turtleyachton Ask HN: Is consciousness fundamentally a process of preserving identity?

Dramatica's narrative function of Conscious:

https://platform.dramatica.com/narrative-functions/conscious

turtleyachton Building a Financial Exchange from first principles

Why is control considered illusory for limit orders?

turtleyachton Can we trust open weight models?

Sounds like we ought to treat models as primitives of a kind of software-defined CPU of some larger machine than a convenient, complete package.

turtleyachton The Myth of Sisyphus

Each round of the same has something different in it.

turtleyachton Starlink V5