Community weekend plans
Community members shared varied weekend plans: migrating a hosted Mastodon server to NetBSD, experimenting with NixOS and Forgejo, playing Untitled Goose Game, and developing the Duel Chronicle browser game. lobste.rs
Damage at U.S. Middle East bases
Never-before-seen images show damage at U.S. military bases in the Middle East. meidasnews.com
Instrumental convergence lacks coherent definition
Instrumental convergence lacks a coherent, testable definition. Seminal accounts by Nick Bostrom, Stephen Omohundro, and Carlsmith provide no method to identify which systems 'have goals', and the Hugging Face incident is discussed when assessing its predictive value. lesswrong.com
Roc-deflate approaches C performance
Roc's pure-functional roc-deflate recorded median slowdowns versus libdeflate of 8.9% on a Ryzen 9 3900X and 2.6% on an M1 MacBook Pro, while outperforming libdeflate on some inputs. rtfeldman.com
Northern Hemisphere stars and constellations
Florian Winkler’s stereographic map charts Northern Hemisphere stars, Messier objects, and constellations using Stellarium, the HYG Database, and W. H. Finlay’s Concise Catalog, with Polaris placed at the center. maps.com
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