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It didn't, it's ugly because of backwards compatibility. It was cheap(transistor and engineering-wise) for Intel to add instructions in the 80's to 90's timeframe since it reduced instruction size, so they added a tonne of them. Now it looks ugly, but Intel can't reduce it because some obscure program may break.
This doesn't seem to open in Firefox on OSX for me. Anyone else facing an issue?
> NIMBYism

Do you mean NIH syndrome?
Did you tell them? Did you ask them to stop? Did they ignored your wish?
Clickbait is whenever your title has less information than your article.
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> EDIT: Ah, it seems going on record is necessary to actually bring charges to someone.

This is an interesting comment and sheds some light on what is happening here.

There is no need to be publicly named in a news article to bring charges in a court of law; but in a court of law there is a clear and regular process for evaluating charges; and one does actually submit to the possibility of retaliation in a limited form: false accusations carry punishments of their own.

Justin has already quit. In some sense, charges were brought in the court of public opinion -- and for these to have any weight, there must be some element of credibility attached to them. Journalists are not cops and just quoting "unnamed sources" is not enough to substantiate the idea that someone should lose their job, in part because unnamed sources accept no scrutiny and no risk. Attaching one's name to something like this is the only way to lend any weight to it, in the absence of any judicial process.
It's sort-of a staging, sort-of production environment :)

I'm working on desktop software, and this happens to builds that are full production builds, but that don't go to stable. So a very small subset of our users - who has agreed to being guinea pigs - occasionally gets these.

It also helps that we have a clear policy that assertions can only fire in cases that truly would be a bug in the wild - you can't assert and handle the issue. Either you think it might happen, then you handle it - or you state an invariant, in which case there's no reason to handle it being false. In other words, the only price you pay is that your build is slower - any assertion that fires would've been a silent bug before anyways. And, to be as close to non-debug as possible, any assertion firing merely creates a crash dump, it doesn't actually crash the executable.

And finally, we simply need to do it in the wild because many of our bugs are simply due to the staggering number of environments desktop software encounters.
Which is its own form of complexity.

All these cloud offerings are priced so complex you can pretty much expect some nasty gotcha unless you spend an inordinate amount of time modeling your workload and traffic patterns.

And if something changes you can do it all over again.
Even though they've given some people's info away already to at least the US government?

That just seems silly
I too found that particular set of frames quite interesting. So the last telemetry had stage 1 at 5700 km/sec and 22.3 km in altitude (so about 13 seconds from impact). The landing burn starts and at 24:55 "something" impacts the water really hard next to the barge. The announcer calls "landing burn has started" but you don't see any change in the telemetry (altitude or velocity) so its safe to say the downlink is still not functioning at that point). Then at 25:41 (about a minute later) we see the stage sitting on the drone ship. So once again I'm really surprised they haven't figured done something to stabilize video. Even it it were a 'drone dinghy' 500 yards off to the side holding a steady lock on a satellite or an aerial drone.

The other interesting bit is at 23:42 where we see one of the grid fins in the process of burning off the side of the rocket. Then we lose downlink video from that point on with the stage. It is flying at nearly 4,000 mph at an altitude of 87,000 feet. The SR-71 goes half that fast at that altitude and experiences significant heating on its skin, since drag is proportional to the square of the velocity you're taking 4x the heating.

It has to be a very fine line between burning these things up vs landing them. And clearly the more 'abuse' they will tolerate during re-entry the more fuel you can use toward lift mass. Still, I'm always surprised that they don't use more rocket power to slow down while above 100,000' to avoid the high speed re-entry and then use streamers or drogue chutes rather than RP1 to slow down in the thicker atmosphere.
Spending trillions if dollars on weapons and soldiers help the US maintain it's chokehold on the world. It's working pretty damn well. Why should they change anything? Because random citizens don't feel good about it?
Hmm, from [1]:

> US authorities issued a federal order to Rackspace’s office in the US ... Indymedia’s hardware located in London ... Rackspace complied, without first notifying Indymedia, and turned over Indymedia’s server in the UK

So is the main difference here just that Microsoft was not willing to just immediately comply with the order from the US government? Or are there additional differences as well?

[1]: https://citizenlab.org/2004/10/fbi-seizes-imc-servers-in-the...
Is there any reason not to use a decibel meter to set up volumes. And perhaps to use computer assistance to balance instrument volumes and profile the sound. Seems like a couple of mics around a room and you could adjust to get the best sound for the whole room rather than [just] the sound desk? I'd guess they're doing that already at big concerts.

It seems very like colour profiling to me. Graphic designers seem to match to objective standards though, whilst sound techs seem instead to use their own perception at the time?
Sure but I bet all the fiddly bits of an ICE car take as much CO2 as the battery. Not only that, manufacturing thse batteries at scale is a relatively new process that's bound to improve with time. Mechanical engines, not so much.
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I'll get to it soonish. Apologies, been busy this summer. :)
> " Why do not these processes take place "in the dark," without any accompanying states of experience? This is the central mystery of consciousness."

> -- Because each information processing system only processes its own information? It only "sees" its input, not some other system's input.

That's not the issue. The issue is why experiences are associated with the processing of input. A computer program represents "green" as some combination of bits, but most people don't believe it has an experience of greenness beyond the mechanistic processing of some bit sequence through its predefined rules.

Even if our minds are "merely" a set of rules processing information, there's still an extra element we experience that we currently can't satisfactorily explain.

> A sophisticated information processing system could be expected to have observations on its internal processes too - just a server might have logs, processed logs and what-not.

Good example - do you believe that a computer program that produces and analyzes logs of its internal processes has a conscious experience, analogous to ours?

A process that analyzes logs is still a process like any other. There's nothing special about it that would lead us to believe that suddenly experience arises in that process, where it hasn't arisen in all the lower-level processes.

This is why one "solution" to the problem of consciousness is to claim that even e.g. thermostats have some degree of consciousness. By claiming all processes are conscious to some degree, you don't have to explain the leap to consciousness.

But if you don't accept that solution, then the information processing model only underscores the problem.
Meh, people do that here, not sure why. But to answer your question: no, there's not.

Google has already secretly given people's info away. They've admitted to getting and complying with NSL's already.
> Apple Computers is a famous example: it was founded by (mostly Republican) computer engineers who broke from IBM in Silicon Valley in the 1980s, forming little democratic circles of twenty to forty people with their laptops in each other's garages

Umm...Apple was found in '77. Laptops didn't exist then. Steve Wozniak worked for HP and Steve Jobs worked for Atari when Apple was founded. And IBM didn't even have a facility in Silicon Valley back then. Am I missing something?
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> But with the ability to reason about our self

The ability to reason about ourselves does not automatically imply consciousness. Programs can be written that reason about themselves, but we have very little reason to believe they are conscious.
> Where do you put a breakpoint in such a template?

Just use chrome. It will show compiled template that look much like jsx.
Not everyone hates x86.

I had lots of fun coding for with, initially with as86 and then TASM.

The only thing I hated with the x86 was trying to use AT&T syntax a few decades later.

I also coded for Z80, 68000 and MIPS.
And the US and it's citizens should not react with shock when they are seen as a hostile entity. The US is arrogant, history has a lot to say on the topic.
I think blockchain technologies have the potential to disrupt whole industries and I'm glad to see that students at world renowned universities are backing it up.
There's a student group from MIT that works on something mysterious related to litecoin: http://litecoin.mit.edu
I fully agree with you!! I'm going to a new job in scala in a few weeks, what would you wish me? :)
This is really a curious instance. Those people whose savings have been wiped out have been hit so hard because they had stop orders, not limit orders. The main difference is that once the stop point has been reached, a stop order becomes a market order and then is filled at market rate. So yes, a stop order at, e.g., 300$ turns into a market order for 300$ and it may be that you are filled at 1$ if there is huge market movement downwards.

Moral of the story: even if you do not grasp basic financial instruments, in cryptocurrency you can still be saved because of reputation.
I don't think your comments really answer the questions that are being asked. The question, as far as I understand it, is why humans can't operate exactly as they do now, but without the sensation of consciousness.

I don't think the question is "hard", I think it simply does not have a good solution. Science can explain how things work, but not why. One day, we may even be able to have an empirical theory of consciousness, e.g., how manipulating various parts of the brain affect how we are conscious, what physical structures are needed to generate consciousness (or at least, beings that act as if they are conscious), etc., but we can never explain why we are conscious, i.e., why we have experience.
And https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/05/02/title-ix-case... presents evidence of people accused but not convicted of sexual assault of committing suicide in response.

The analogy remains accurate.

Should you doubt the analogy, I strongly recommend reading http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/03/14/when-kids-are-a... to see how the modern "sexual assault equivalent of the communist blacklist catches children in its net, and what the impact is. Do you think that this is rare? Read https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/ojjdp/227763.pdf for evidence that 1/4 of registered sex offenders were themselves juveniles at the time of the offense.
I had exactly this problem when listening to music on my phone using cheap, low-impedance earbuds! I searched for audio player apps that offer some equalizer controls. One option is to lower all the sliders equally across the different frequencies, but it's easier to get an app that also has a single "preamp" slider which affects the signal across all frequencies. I settled on Poweramp [0], which has a two week free trial. I bought the full version (4 USD) after confirming that it did what I wanted.

I agree with the other answers about getting an in-line volume control -- if you're using wired headphones. They're also great on airplanes: turn the provided entertainment up to maximum volume with the buttons on the armrest or wherever; turn the volume on the in-line attenuator down to nearly zero; listen in comfort. I noticed that whenever an announcement is made in the cabin, it seems to disregard your volume setting on the entertainment and just blasts your ears at 100%. If you've already set your in-line attenuator to deal with movies at 100%, then the announcement doesn't hurt your eardrums. I bought this one because it doesn't add a lot of extra length to the cable [1].

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.maxmpz.aud...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008DJTB32
Not understanding why this comment needs a throwaway account?
What I always want for is a compressor control. The volume range in movies is never right and I hate fiddling with the volume all the time.

I'd expect that sort of thing would be a default in audio players and TVs but at my price level I never see it anywhere.

I just want to hear the whispers without being discombobulated by the louder parts.
ProtonMail does not yet have IMAP support (it's in beta after more than two years of requests). So if you ever get tired of ProtonMail and want to move to some other provider, your only option is to save each mail or print it out - one by one. There is no bulk mail export option. Unless one is super confident of staying happy with ProtonMail for at least a year or two (by when I expect IMAP to be publicly available on the platform), I'd stay away from it for any serious use.

Leaving this aside, other factors do favor ProtonMail. The people who run it seem to have their minds and hearts in the right place as far as privacy is concerned.
So, if I'm following this correctly, you'd need to start a new connection with the end-users credentials? Which would be slow and rule out connection pooling and other such niceties?
Yep, I was talking about a point in the future when their first stages have all seen significant reuse.
I like to see some evidence of this claim. Certainly Alibaba.com is not built with Vue.
Completely missed that post!

I don't know if I would even try to frame having such a foundation as needing hope.

I think that the means to have information accessible easily are increasingly upon us if not here already (commodification of hardware/software, incentives for orgs/people to collect/sample/leverage data from such, with all the messy details that come into existence because of such), whether the few or masses like it or not (or choose to become distracted by some forms of it instead of using it to pursue some greater means), its only becoming more pervasive. Not going to really comment on accurate or not, since the value of such is dependent on what it can be use for (which is not always in a known state of <good| or |bad>, or rather often in the superposition of such where we only can see some magnitude of the combination: <good|bad>); Even "accurate" information could be relatively meaningless for achieving some ends.

All of this is undeniably changing the power dynamics everywhere. Government's and entrenched orgs will do all that they can to mask/veil what is going on (if they cannot adapt), but ultimately it will be futile. Many of us may die in the meantime (as has always been the case). But as relatively technical individual (and US pseudo-expat), its kind of freeing to being able to pit n number of different nations/transnational organizations polices/diktats agaisnt each other and exploit/live in the loopholes without resorting to overt technical subversion. Though plenty of media content on what the latter could look like ;)
The reason they don't use chutes is that the stated long term goal is refuel and refly from the pad with the BFS.

Chutes have to be repacked, means it's a no-go. Powered landing is where it's at for true reusability.
Can you maybe recall exactly what u did to stop your computer to automatically shutdown(and up)?

I "resolved" the issue by dual booting. The second os(prev ubuntu, going to deb) changes something that takes away win ability to automagicly turn on my machine for updates.
Haha, yeah, not really any big deal. I mean they're only the only company among all companies and/or nation states with launch capabilities who have ever done it in the history of space travel.
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I'd recommend Posteo [1] and Mailbox [2] to people mainly for the costs. They're cheap and are a lot more flexible in pricing as your needs grow.

Fastmail becomes terribly expensive once you realize you need multiple accounts (not just aliases) for different people in the family. At least for me, paying a few hundred dollars on Fastmail (or anywhere else) for email is really way too expensive. I've also written to Fastmail asking for flexible pricing options, but they responded that they're not even considering any changes on pricing/flexibility for the near future.

Edit: If one doesn't need custom domains and office suites, I'd recommend only Posteo! That company is way ahead of others in being better for all humans (read on their website about all the things they do).

[1]: https://www.posteo.de

[2]: https://www.mailbox.org
Does sending dick-pics or beefcake shots actually work? Especially if you keep getting rejection?

What prompts this kind of mentality?
From what I picked up, their fuel budget for the landing was borderline, as this satellite mission didn't leave them much. This means, they had to go in very fast, and also use a 3 engine landing burn instead of the usual 1 engine. So it was more a test whether they still can land the rocket rather than a proper landing. For that, it performed well.
I wonder if shell corporations that license a tech stack from a company in the US, but are administratively 'their own' company entirely incorporated within another country, are the way around this...
The next exciting headline will be when the reused rockets start being reused again.
My recommendations for cheaper, more flexible and privacy respecting services are Posteo (no custom domains) and Mailbox (allows custom domains). See my comment above at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14624624
Umm - you should avoid getting information because it might influence you to buy things?

UMMMMMMmmmmm - yes?

Obviously?

If you wouldn't let a salesperson barge into your house, interrupt your reading to try and convince you to get discount eye surgery, why would you let that happen in visual form?

in an ideal world ads would be just that - informing the customer about your product

This is not anything like an 'ideal' world. One human has such limited attention, that you could spend every second of your lifetime attending to a different product and do nothing else, and you still wouldn't cover them all. And companies still wouldn't be happy with this ridiculous limit case, they'd still want a greater share of your attention and wallet. You, us, individually, mean nothing except a source of coins.

If we want to mean anything to ourselves, defence against the dark arts is necessary.

The psychological marketing tricks to make a thing more attractive is also a value add.

The psychological marketing tricks to make a thing more attractive is abusive and parasitic. Ideal brains would search for what they need, and buy the most fitting thing. Human brains which can be manipulated are a weakness we all share - and we should all be kind enough not to abuse this fact of each other any more than we have to.
https://medium.com/the-vue-point/the-state-of-vue-1655e10a34...

Doesn't say anything about being sponsored by Alibaba, but Evan does indicate adoption there.
If the title contains all the information in the article, that's a pretty bad article.
Is there any way to access the Deep Root data to see what it says about me? Has anybody posted it online in a searchable format?
The database/sql package is just bad anyway. The idea is sound but the execution is catastrophic and not many thought went into the design of this package. This is especially true with Postgresql where you are kind of forced to use db.Query instead of db.Exec on inserts or updates. Go std lib have a lot of issues like these. On the top of my head the log package and the flags package are pretty useless in real world apps.
My approach to solving that problem in software was to play music through an app with an equalizer where I could cut several dB across all frequencies (see my other post above). Now I can use much more of the system volume range with the rocker buttons before I reach a painful volume.

If you're listening to something like YouTube, or streaming audio through a web browser, then a music player app isn't going to cut it for you. There are some systemwide EQ apps, but I think they didn't work well (or maybe at all) on my 2014 Moto X, so I can't recommend any specific one.
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That's a weird criticism to read when most of the time people moan about the Go compiler being too strict for failing to compile code with errors that other compilers might only warn or even if ignore.

Go does already have one of the strictest compilers (by default) out there. But it is pretty typical for a great many language frameworks to support optional additional strictness. Eg "use strict" in Perl or the gcc flags of which I cannot recall off hand. I see God's vet as akin to those. ie there when you need it but keeps out of your way when you just need to get some prototyping done.
This is the basic definition of moral hazard. If the exchange had reason to believe a trader didn't even know the basic characteristics of the orders they were placing what business have they engaging with them at all?
It's not precision loss, it's that when you DFT you choose an interval. If you choose a short interval you are less certain about frequencies while if you choose a long interval you are less certain about time domain changes (i.e, changes in the signal over your time period).

Funnily enough this is similar to heisenberg's uncertainty principle, you can read about it here: http://fourier.eng.hmc.edu/e101/lectures/Fourier_Analysis/no...
> - But internal representation of phenomena by the brains of humans certainly seems like it can be explained by biology, physics and general common sense.

Yes, it can. Computer programs have internal representation of phenomena, and so do brains/minds. This doesn't address the problem of consciousness, though.

> That the brain produces internal processes when it receives external stimuli - how hard is that?

Again, no mystery there - we make machines that produce internal processes when they receive external stimuli, and we understand pretty well how they work.

But that's the problem, because that understanding doesn't imply anything that resembles consciousness, and no-one knows how to make that leap other than either claiming consciousness is just a property of all processes, or claiming that the problem doesn't exist.

What stops you from writing a conscious computer program?
You have to use hydroflouric acid. No thanks, I'm out

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2004/03/03/thi...
That's a legit question (especially out of curiosity) but one that takes a surprising amount of energy to answer precisely. I might be able to do that tomorrow, but in the meantime here are some answers in the same vein. It's all the same principle, but the details vary.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=...

Edit: I wrote some more downthread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14627388, if anyone wants more to read about how we approach this.
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