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>This equivocation between consciousness and meta-consciousness is so widespread that a plethora of books, which are seemingly dedicated to the project of "explaining consciousness", instead spend their entire contents explaining some hypothesis involving meta-consciousness and then proceed to declare victory without ever touching consciousness itself

I think this trend is bound up inextricably with our efforts to distinguish ourselves from "lesser" animals. A monkey may be able to reason intelligently, but it cannot communicate to us whether it is aware of itself doing so. We therefore lack evidence of meta-consciousness in animals and tend to attach out-sized significance to it as a potential mark of human superiority. Even though absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence.

From an evolutionary perspective, consciousness seems to derive from the same mental equipment pre-human hominids developed for handling social interactions. The ability to model and predict the mental states of other hominids provided a survival advantage. Once sufficiently developed, this ability can be applied to itself, so that the hominid is modeling its own thought processes and mental states.

To me, this doesn't seem like some sort of deeper, insoluble mystery, but rather the symptom of an unsatisfactorily detailed model of that mental equipment. I think the problem loses its peculiar appeal when we can identify with a reasonable degree of certainty that what we experience as consciousness corresponds to specific neural pathways and configurations. Right now, the philosophical arguments are too abstract to be convincing and the science is too immature to discourage all the useless theorizing.
This is a pretty boring bug. Is the subtext of the post that any bug ESR finds and writes up justify his team's hostile fork of NTP? NTP is, as he says, a "hairball", but it's that architecturally, and "NTPsec" isn't changing that, but instead mostly just changing who gets compensated for working on it.
I strongly suspect that Y-ovums would not be viable at all. There's a lot on the X chromosome that is pretty vital. How Y-spermatozoons get away with it I'm not quite sure.
A breakthrough came when I saw a naturopathic doctor for my stiff muscles and she advised me to take Epsom salt baths.

How much of that is due to the magnesium vs. the heat of the bath? Metal ions don't penetrate the skin very well.
It's important to remember that you're only temporarily able bodied.

Sure you're able bodied today. But if you're lucky enough to live to an old age, your body won't be what it was. And you could be hit by a car tomorrow and paralyzed.
I think the more interesting point goes unspoken: nothing short of appropriation is big enough to be a touchpoint for rejecting a run-of-the-mill Valley product.

even just the startup's name "Bodega" told us locals and natives -- the involuntary first-wave recipients of Silicon Valley's fucked up experiments with our lives -- all we needed to know.

FIRST wave? You think this is first? The fact the battle is over branding at all is the biggest sign the war is already over regarding "Silicon Valley's fucked up experiments with our lives."

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There is nothing new about saying the Valley's products are out of touch, or positioned to change the physical landscape of society in a destructive way, or replacing personal interaction with web forms and call trees, or do damage to user's psyche just to maximize engagement and ARPU. Likewise there is nothing new about "internet threatens mom & pop business model." And in the grand scheme of things, bodeags are of the category "mom and pop".

Has everyone become this accustomed and propagandized to the inevitability of business models crushing unnecessary positive aspects of the end user's experience/culture in the name of profit? Where the "we'll do it cheaper, so just forget everything you loose in the process" idea is so ingrained that the only thing that can light up anyone's brain anymore is crossing into the hot political topic of appropriation?
It is great indeed, but operationally, dynamic libraries have their own problems and horrors.
They could advertise support for the Bose/Sony/Apple/whatever premium entertainment system; a standard - even a very basic one - might also reduce development work, as you can use preexisting connectors etc.

And, at least for me, if I would buy a new car, repairability and replaceability or parts is a consideration. And if I had $1000 to spare, I'd buy a hifi unit from a dedicated manufacturer - and would prefer a car vendor that makes that easy. I've never heard the entertainment system be the decisive factor in choosing a car - but I know people who put off buying an e-mobile because they usually have annoying computers built in.

Finally, I don't think the car vendors would neccessarily do this. You'd probably have third party vendors selling adapters. Crazy cable tree in, nice plug out.
To be honest, I cheat a little bit - after having a kid I started getting groceries delivered.

Regardless, though, I think a lot of my family (obviously a small sample size) just don't really think it's possible. They're so used to everything being a barren asphalt landscape that it just isn't possible to conceive of a practical place where you don't need to drive. I don't even blame them; I lived in it for 30 years and had a hard time imagining anything different myself (though when I did experience it, I desperately wanted to live in it and worked hard to make it happen).
Can someone describe the other benefits of a Garmin over an Apple Watch for jogging? I use my Watch for light jogging, monitoring heart rate, pace, and distance.

Recently, I’ve been trying to increase days, and will up my mileage in a couple months, after I lose a little more weight.
How do you manage 100+ screens?

I started building a react native app but decided against it because switching activities seemed to be very hacky compared to native development. Seemed like it'd really get out of hand with 10+ screens.

Wix's "React Native Navigation" was too opinionated / inflexible.
Yes, yes and yes. Though some extensions do not work, uBlock works and it's a life savior.
Except that's reductionist and silly.

Things tend to happen for a reason. Why green? has the world gone mad? We're actually subservient to our genetics much more to our culture. Maybe green gets those people more mates, thus its been standardized. Maybe greeting others in a friendly matter means a larger social circle and more dates.

We're not terribly removed from animals and the mechanics of evolution control our culture, just like we see with animals. There's some wiggle room but for the most part is not arbitrary nonsense.

The same way many cultures, even ones with no connection, have standardized dresses for women, typically. A dress is a clever garment. Varying the hem determines how revealing and sexy it is thus a young woman would have a short hem and an older one not looking for a mate might not. On top of the design naturally showcasing the bust and the ability to trivially modify it to show more arms, back, and cleavage.
Maybe although from a passing look at the markets their price swings (after a couple of days after the initial split) don't seem to correlate...
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The problem is that you'd want to have desktop apps for some parts and you'd then probably end up with some Electron app which looks nice but is slower than a 20yr old programme with the same function. Esp where hardware needs to be integrated (e.g. taking fingerprints), I imagine it's not easy to create platform independent applications.
Why not multiple channels?
Shouldn't we be looking at the task at hand and picking the best tool for the job though?

Using a framework because it happened to work last time isn't a good criteria for selection. More and more I'm seeing over-engineered projects that took longer to build than they needed to and are currently harder to support than necessary, all because someone wanted to use their favorite tool.
This is a really solid answer. The point about ProGuard can especially bite you if you are adding React Native to an existing application.

Also, upgrading native dependencies in React Native is a really big pain point. The quality of Native modules also varies enormously.

An example react-native-camera:

https://github.com/lwansbrough/react-native-camera

Works well on iOS but has all sorts of performance problems on Android devices. Even newer ones.

One question I have is why did you prefer Typescript over flow? I have just started using the latter and I would be curious to hear your thoughts on the matter.

I'd also love to hear why ReasonML is good.
But the CPU can't support the "LP-ness" of it.
> Can a Coffee Lake CPU work on a Kaby Lake / Skylake motherboard?

No. Although the socket has the same number of pins it is not compatible with Skylake/Kaby Lake. The socket will probably be called LGA 1151-v2 to distinguish it from the earlier socket.
This is absolutely amazing. If I could use this with a more intelligent search (pub / bar return different things, for instance - whereas I want to search for "places I can get a beer"), this would be fantastic.
I have a theory.

Any theory about consciousness that does not include learning is at best incomplete, but more likely just wrong.

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Our brains create models of the world. They are constantly predicting, making choices. And on surprise, looking back to see where it went wrong. On reward, reinforcing the behavior leading up to it.

In a way, our brains are observers of our environment, our bodies, and itself.
He's referring to 'bacha bazi', which as you point out is a cultural construct.
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Despite its flaws I tend to stick with Backbone whenever I need to do anything sufficiently complex on the frontend, and jQuery if it's any simpler. When writing software for money I've always found it pays to take a conservative approach.
Sometimes that will work, but often the phone won't even respond to my swiping it. I really wish iOS had a way to activate the camera from the buttons.
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Dealing with potential road rage, distracted drivers running right into you, and the legal risk all seem pretty daunting to me.
And it will also mean accessible for robots before too long.
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But land does matter! We aren't nearly so homogeneous a country as we like to pretend. We've lost sight of the fact that each state should be its own experiment in democracy, and each state has a unique culture, economy, and climate, requiring a unique set of laws.

The problem is that people feel so helpless in politics that getting them to care about their mostly invisible state legislature, never mind the Federal, is a Sisyphian task.
Who would host the index? You can't contact one million peers to run a search, so fanout-on-read doesn't work. If the index is also distributed (by search term?), then the search+indexing nodes will need to fanout-on-write, which is less latency-sensitive but still pretty onerous.
Those are individual 32 Gb (gigabit) ICs for use on memory modules (which contain an array of such ICs).
I prefer to measure success in network size rather than price, and Bitcoin ABC (the only available node for BCH) seems to be comparable to Bitcoin Classic, which had 2,000 full nodes running at its height, yet still seems to have fizzled out.
Open-source maintainers should totally leverage this opportunity to make their projects sustainable. Sell your backports. Enterprises want them.
Boxart rendering shows it requires new 300 series motherboards.
http://www.legitreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/intel...
>putting off drinking is likely a combination of consumer education and the difficulty in getting alcohol pre-21

Not quite.. the US is one of the few countries with the highest drinking age in the world. The majority of countries allow teenagers to drink, and you still see the same patterns.
I tried loading redis.io and got the network error. I thought it was just their site but looks like a bigger issue with .io.
And this is not a corporation. We're talking about public services that faced huge budget cuts. A business can be convinced to upgrade if this increases profits in the long run. Public services have yearly budgets, investments in infrastructure are hard to justify and next to impossible in times of austerity.
While we were building the MVP for https://pupkeep.com/ we decided to try and not automate anything that we didn't have to so we can ship core features faster.

For instance I was going to build a complicated job system to handle payouts to different company locations, but I realized that until we get thousands of customers I can just send the payouts manually by clicking some buttons in Stripe. A bit tedious but instead of building and debugging that we now have another full feature built out improves our users experience.
The original title on the website does not do much to reveal the content, but in short, the book is about a new "theory of the brain" (new as in the past 10 years), based on predictive processing.

The post itself, and the follow-up posts about predictive processing on the above blog are probably the easiest way to get into the subject, and it's an insanely interesting subject.

The core of the idea is written a bit into the blogpost: "The key insight: the brain is a multi-layer prediction machine. All neural processing consists of two streams: a bottom-up stream of sense data, and a top-down stream of predictions. These streams interface at each level of processing, comparing themselves to each other and adjusting themselves as necessary."

Deeper into the post, there's a breakdown of how this theory fits into various areas of research in novel ways (autism and schizophrenia among them), and I strongly suggest reading through at least that.
That's what I'm thinking. I've bought 2 Chromebooks, most recently I bought a 2013 Chromebook Pixel new-in-box in 2017. I don't know where it sat all those years but for $300 it was an amazing deal and I've come to appreciate the amazing build quality. When I first heard rumors of a new Chromebook Pixel the rumored price was $799. At that price it'd still be the top-of-line for Chromebooks - the nearest "premium" one would be a Samsung Chromebook Plus for $499 and my first was a $249 Asus Flip. But at $799 I wouldn't also have to consider whether I'd be better off getting a Macbook.

I guess what I can infer from that is there is no way to make a premium build (strong metal body and hinges, keyboard that feels nice, good screen) for a lower price even with an OS that allows you to skimp on more of the internals (slower processor, less ram, less storage).
I totally agree with the sentiment. While others tend to use SPAs with their complex build system and lifecycle for everything, I follow principles of ROCA [1]. I don't understand why people think it is better and faster to make complex clients that include logic, that has to be verified on the server anyway. Everything I saw / see in the enterprise world is reinvented for client-side development again.

[1] http://roca-style.org/
Yeah, and if she got up on a debate stage, her party would be forced to ditch her and form a real left-wing party.
Don't roll your own crypto, er, I mean legal.
Seems to be fixed now
How do these cases prove that – a genetically male person feeling like a male, proving that the exact opposite is true? That conclusion has absolutely no substance if you give it any thought at all.
I see PC as a way to spread and to communicate empathy: Using words and phrases that don't paint a false picture of reality (and don't trigger prejudices) is IMHO a good start to get to talk with people more openly.

Of course, PC only works if you are doing it on your own, not if you impose it on the people you are trying to convince.
I added bangs to google by defining custom search engines with a one or two letter prefix in chrome://settings/searchEngines

Now if I type "h my-search" into the omnibar, it goes to google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+my-search which gives me only Google search results from HN.

This is using google's algorithm (not the search bar built into whichever website like DDG) which is still the best, especially if you constrain it to one domain name. I also don't have to type the "!"

The prefix messes up google's text prediction. I guess no one from the chromium team is using this feature, since it would be trivial to fix.
> Do you think Roberto Ierusalimschy is confused about that ?

No, of course not. I think you are. You are clearly misinterpreting his words. I will repeat, (PUC)Lua is not compiled to machine code, but to an intermediate bytecode form. Those are completely different things, and what I said does not come in conflict at all with the quote you took from PiL, so I don't know what you are confronting me about.
> I'm not going to use UEFI if it's avoidable.

... why? normalizing hardware quirks, better HW support from Linux, direct Linux kernel boot support, a sane, documented way for OSes to interact with the boot manager... there are a lot of good reasons to use UEFI and I've yet to hear a compelling reason not to.
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Github is fairly aggressive these days about alerting you to put a standard license in your repository.

But they still remain with the problem that most folks choose the user-friendly MIT (I would, and 9 out of 10 of the top projects do). This leaves them with an issue: It's not clear that contributions submitted to an MIT project grant permission to incorporate those contributions under the same terms. We understand it socially, but it's not legally explicit.

Github has been trying to address this in their Terms of Service, by saying that simply by using the site, you agree that "inbound=outbound": https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service/#6-...

But the Github TOS isn't really the right place to be legislating that. For more, see: https://writing.kemitchell.com/2017/02/16/Against-Legislatin...
That is the single most important metric when you want to create an alert.
Yeah, the goodness or badness of those numbers really depends on what Google's intent is in selling them directly. Is it really trying to get into the business of selling phones for profit? If that's the primary goal, then 1-2mm is pretty 'meh' in terms of making a dent in the global high end phone market.

Without knowing what their intent is, the goodness or badness of it can only be speculation. Which won't stop people from stating either position as fact.
This magnesium spray works for me and has high ratings on Amazon, see: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B010V8TPU6/ref=oh_aui_sear...
Most Trump supporters would suggest they are the moderates when it comes to military intervention, and the McCain traditionalists are the hawks.
Even if you have a tech literate home secretary that won't help you much. Telling the public that police presence has to be reduced because the police needs to upgrade to Windows 10/Linux can cost you the next election. Especially in times when people are very concerned about the security situation.
"distribute and sell": but what if I just want to distribute?

Oxford commas are important.

See: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/16/us/oxford-comma-lawsuit.h...
I think the actual railgun that the navy is developing also use thungsten projectiles.
You WILL pay a grand for the iPhone X
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Agree. Magnesium Glycinate made a world of difference in calming my nerves.
https://www.amazon.com/KAL-Magnesium-Glycinate-400-tablets/d...

Also, L-Theanine is incredibly calming as well.
https://www.amazon.com/NOW-L-Theanine-200-120-Capsules/dp/B0...
> And some things like Thunderbolt might not work at all without Intel’s help.

If my memory is correct, Thunderbolt is mostly an Intel invention, hence they likely own the patents, and as such I wouldn't expect it to work without their support.
That one seems down at the moment, at least for me. List of instances:

http://stats.searx.oe5tpo.com/
If you have to ask questions like this, you haven’t been working in the industry long enough.
For us too, but not everyone. Seems like they're rolling out some kind of fix.
You just made me wanna try it. And it worked
Fair enough, the point I was trying to make is that it's more than just Merkel + some lobbying, and that this article is badly written and mostly rubbish.
In the US, health insurance and dental insurance are very different things.
Something in this article really jumped out at me:

"...plus only 16.9 percent of Atlanta households have no vehicle..."

Really? "Only" 16.9%? If I told a product manager that "only" 17% of people use iOS 9, so we don't need to support it, I'd get laughed out of the meeting.
> Permission is hereby granted by the authors of this software, (...) and including usage rights to any patents the authors may hold on it, (...)

But what if the source code is modified? Will the users still get the usage right of the patents? And what if the source code is modified so much that the original code is barely recognizable? It seems to me that using this license means you're giving away your patents for free.
This is actually a good reason to go with a 3rd-party manufacturer. Almost all non-Google Chromebooks include microSD card slots, so you can get another 128GB of persistently-mounted executable flash for large builds and similar.

Google does not want you to use microSD cards. Google wants you to use Google Drive.
Is there any real technical reason to have soldered RAM and storage ? A well built $1200 linux laptop would still be OK if it weren't artificially gimped. M.2 ssds are already quite thin. So the form factor argument doesn't hold. The storage markup on these devices is huge considering that a 1 TB nvme pcie m.2 ssd goes for under $350 (even less during sales).
I don't doubt that if you tried to convert all BCH to Fiat it wouldn't fly, but surely a lot of people have made money by transferring BCH at one nominal value to other crypto currencies.

Now it probably is all a shell game ultimately, but the longer it persists the more hopeful speculators will use fiat cash to buy into crypto currencies, letting crypto currency holders "cash out"...
> You just need to make them properly the first time and keep people from...

Surely you see the comedy in that statement? I don't think anything happens right the first time. And preventing people from doing anything is pretty tough as well!
Once you're language is old enough you're probably much safer. Finding a hacker who understands how to find weaknesses in a system from the 70s will be harder than someone who knows how to exploit Win XP.
I prefer the zero clause BSD license because it gets rid of the annoying requirement to keep the copyright notice around.

Any arguments against?
Sadly, yes, you are right.
You also have compulsory voting, yes?

Can you explicitly vote for nobody?
They're right about confusions, bitcoin cash is simple enough to understand if you've been in this for a while but it's very confusing sometimes.

Some people think they're buying one when it's the other.
Others have lost money trying to set bitcoin from one branch to another.

These is also an argument that making the blocks bigger wont actually make a difference.

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

Sidechains will happen regardless.
Having access isn't by itself compelling enough. The Apple Watch still isn't a camera and is still worse than my 935 for running. And I'm even doubtful about using it for emergencies: the cell signal in many of the places I run is weak.
They can be glitchy(in the sense they are not supported) in my experience not to mention the Page Down doesn't work in Android applications on a Chromebook(unless the app has implemented it which is incredibly rare). I'm just trying to say they aren't useful for many people but just not for me.