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Retina 2012 MBP but the battery is practically dead and the monitor seems to be not bright as it used to be. I wouldn’t mind a CPU/RAM upgrade.
Can you provide a citation? If they make their 5k/week production target by the end of this month (which it looks like they will), they’re on their way to being cash flow positive, and also not needing another capital raise in the near term.

Challenges for sure, but “downward spiral”? Hyperbole.
Incorrect. Oftentimes the satire is born from taking rhetoric specifically made to appeal to a particular audience and placing it but naked in the light of truth for everyone else.

There is a danger inherent to small subsets of the population acting as policymakers. It is much easier to craft rationalizations that can get past some of the people all time. The fact that policymaker's rationalizations often fall apart when challenged from someone outside the apparatus is what makes Satire both comedic and horrifying at the same time.
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Not sure about Qualia, but for free will it seems like everyone with an opinion on this defines free and will differently.

For example from my point of view, for a decision to be mine it absolutely has to depend on my own mental state prior to and while making it. If it doesn’t it might be free, but it isn’t mine. The less deterministic my decisions are and the less determined by my mental state (memories, opinions, etc) a decision is, the less it’s mine.

So at that level I’m really not worried by determinism or theoretical predictability, in fact I embrace them, because without them there is no responsibility or agency or self. This seems fundamentally at odds with some other people’s definition of free will which to me seem perplexingly ephemeral and indistinct.
Hmm, should've specified better. It reminds me of those webpages professors have in the website of the university, for which they write the HTML themselves, and they always use Times New Roman with some horrible colour scheme, heh
I think it's actually that the particles are forced to collide at relatively high speed due to the pressure behind the small opening. A mesh could eventually get clogged with minerals or debris, but this approach leaves less room for failure. Basically you're just ripping the fluid into mist with high pressure.
>Two problems with this argument. You're blaming the military for decisions made by civilian leadership.

We have a volunteer army and have been engaging in "adventures" as far back as Vietnam. No one goes in not knowing what they'll be asked to do.
I assume it's because it's fully in HTML, no external images or scripts to load, so you don't need to worry about your user's IP's being collected in someone's log files.
I feel like this is missing from many of the most important projects (especially big government projects, e.g. war on drugs, war on poverty, war on terror, inner city education). I’d like to see an honest application on these points. Especially,

> What are the mid-term and final “exams” to check for success?
Pretty old rumor
Doesn’t “consent” (point a) supersede all the rest? Looking at how people have been conditioned to so easily click on "I agree", that will be the most obvious thing to pursue for most companies.
This comment breaks the HN guidelines, which ask you not to insinuate astroturfing or shillage without evidence. Internet users are too quick to do this and it poisons threads.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
A little weird that he glosses over the fact there was another popular special-effects-driven SF movie out in 1977.
> You can't please everyone but I think gnome is the right answer for most people. Don't like something? Come join the discussion at https://gitlab.gnome.org (I hope I got that right)

The problem is I think the deep issues I have with Gnome are not things which are easily fixed, e.g. "stop leaking memory", "don't be a single-threaded Javascript process", "allow me to control workspaces independently on each monitor/screen", &c. &c.

I would love to see Gnome improve though, even if I never end up using it, but I am not currently seeing any obvious signs that this will occur.
On one hand it's cool to have more effort into desktop CPUs (ie high single thread perf) that are not x86.

On the other hand, although the ISA is public, I'm guessing the whole boot-process & platform will become more and more closed as apple moves towards custom chips all the way down.

Is there any chance you can still run linux on mac hardware in 5 years ?
sorry about that, just downloaded firefox on android and for me it does render the fretboard but it only takes like 1/3 of the screen. Will look into it asap.
Happy to take any questions, by the way!
If you looked at the trend lines, Mobile was definitely growing in 1997 (https://www.statista.com/statistics/203688/handset-penetrati...)

I was working at Radio Shack in 1995-1996 and mobile phones were definitely starting to grow in popularity. By then, you already had subsidized “free” phones and mobile plans were around $35 a month.
Don't know if you'll get much of a cpu upgrade these days but ram definitely helps. I got mine with 16GB of ram to be future proof since I saw that ram tends to be a major cause for slowdowns as developers constantly eat up more as computers get better. This seems especially brilliant in hindsight considering top of the lines are still at 16GB.
> It would be really interesting to read a theologians view of AI,

Best I can do, is this guy. Paper in the middle of the page, not without a lot of controversy

http://www.ctmu.net/

also on a side note, in my opinion all AI will inherently be bad and psychopathic. You got Teslas killing about one person a week, evil laughing Echo's, microsoft chatbots going full racist/pro-Hitler, AI creating flash crashes, etc, etc. When ever I read an article framing AI positively, I am aware that they are aware that they know this and preemptively dictate a counternarrative.
The only way is to have confidence in you. No one is perfect everyone learns by trial and errors. You become perfect via practice
I can't even imagine a 10 hour coding session without breaks.

The longest I did was 5 hours for ACM ICPC kind of stuff, but that left me wasted.
> If you want good performance, then, for non-trivial sites, you cannot afford to spawn the interpeter on each request, so you have to use some asynchronous tooling.

Which Python framework is spawning one interpreter on each request? Most frameworks rely on WSGI where requests are served from a fixed number of interpreters. This approach achieves some honest performance. See for example https://klen.github.io/py-frameworks-bench/.

> At work, we used fabric for this, and it blew up in our face at scale, and we had to rewrite.

What is fabric? In Python, this is an automation tool for SSH. Unlikely to solve the problem of serving web requests.
> It's less a publicly traded stock and more a long term investment

I thought that was kind of the original point of stock.
I have an older X200 which does lack a trackpad. I'm currently using a X230 which does have a trackpad, but I ended up physically disabling it (and the finger-print reader) simply by unplugging them, so when the Microsoft-powered 'teaching interface' in my own class failed (well, actually lots of times, but memorably – in two different semesters – when the students were giving presentations) I had to put my own machine in service as the 'projector driver', almost of the students were flummoxed by the TrackPoint (since the TrackPad obviously won't work, being unplugged), despite being business students who (I thought) should be familiar with ThinkPad and their TrackPoints.
Could be why they renamed iBooks to Apple Books at WWDC.
Since we asked you to stop using HN to prosecute agendas about Google and you've posted dozens of comments since then doing exactly what we asked you not to do, I've banned this account.

Obviously there's nothing wrong with saying nice or critical things about $Bigco on Hacker News, be it Google or anyone else. But when it becomes both predictable and proliferating, it stops serving intellectual curiosity and that violates the purpose of this site. You crossed that line a long time ago, unfortunately.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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One of my favorite things about the GitHub editors by far is easy image embedding. You can drag an image file into the textarea and it handles uploading it, and then puts in the correct markdown code for embedding that image. In fact, I consider that single feature the differentiator of Github's markdown editor. I use it all the time at work when wanting to post a screenshot to describe my issue, etc. It was actually the first thing I tried when loading up devpen.io. :)

I realize that feature alone might be costly to build. You'd need somewhere to upload images to, maybe an S3 bucket, and maybe add a CDN, etc. Then you have to deal with abuse/have code to prevent infinitely large uploads, etc. It's not an easy feature, but thought I'd point it out as a potential thing to build. :)
And in what way is the Linux kernel the "fundamental principle" or "foundation" of Android? How is it so important that you can rip it out and replace with something totally different without much change to the applications running on top?
it also exposes confirmation/cognitive biases apparently even if you don't even know you had one or still deny it
Since you seem to have a strong understanding of both JVM and CLR, do you know if it would be feasible to translate CIL bytecode to JVM bytecode without having terrible performance in the translated code? In particular, I wonder if Xamarin.Android could do this (of course, in that case the JVM bytecode would be further translated to Dex), to provide an alternative to the current hairy interop situation with JNI and two GCs.
Please can someone help me understand how placing a link on a webpage got to page 1 on hacker news?
Probably because it was done in plain sight and anybody could have worked through the implications then but nobody cared?

"I didn't realize that one day the media would convince me that this was a really bad thing" is not Facebook's fault.

Most people actually don't care if apps get their "data" and their friend list. But the media worked up a frenzy by vaguely connecting it to the Trump campaign (reminder that nobody blinked when Facebook openly gave everything to the Obama campaign), and now everyone has "realized" that Facebook is to blame for their problems.
unfortunately, not at the moment. I think with some code "flipping" it would be easy to support. I;ll look into it.
If you do code reviews and your code reviewers take thier role seriously, and so will push back with comments like “this is hard to read, consider breaking it into two lines” then you don’t need automated enforcement. But if code reviewers look for sufficient units tests, obvious errors, and then dash off a LGTM, software style enforcement is second best.
Oh no. The trouble with “chat app with weapons sales feature” is that it is illegal to buy or sell weapons (online or offline) without specific licenses.

Now If I made a “communication tool” exclusively for registered gun dealers and people with valid (and verified) hunting licenses, it would in fact be perfectly legal. Similarly, if the tool were for use by government agencies and defense contractors or registered weapons manufacturers, it would also be legit.

In the context of “chat tool with personalized ads on the side” - there is nothing specifically illegal about “personalized ads”. Is there? (As long as there is user consent of course). So what’s the specific legal hurdle? Which paragraph of the GDPR prevents this?
We can only speculate, but in my mind, to "be" the one that observes does not preclude from there being something in my brain that observes, which in turn, unconsciously, becomes part of what I call my identity and self. At the end of the day, to the best of our knowledge, living beings are made of the same atoms and chemical reactions as inanimate objects. So, yes, I would speculate that it's all a question of complexity.
maybe it's narrow minded, but for me, investing is all about giving a company mid- to longterm support so that they can expand their business. shorting is none of that. it doesn't create any value for society at large. if anything, it is, imv, close to professional gambling. but even gambling isn't this destructive. that's why i have zero empathy for those who lose money from shorting.
You can't claim that CPUs or humans have or do not have consciousness. You can only prove that you yourself have consciousness--every other instance of consciousness is essentially an unfalsifiable assumption on your part. This might seem pedantic but if you want to be scientific it's absolutely crucial to ruthlessly separate conjecture from evidence.

It may seem solipsist, but if you want to make a rigorous reproducible experiment with empirical observations, we have just as much reason to assume a CPU has some form of animal sentience as we do with an insect or a bird which reacts in simple ways to external stimuli. As of yet there's no compelling reason to believe this is either correct or incorrect.

Occam's razor doesn't even work very well here. Does it require fewer assumptions to say that a machine that reacts to external stimuli is less conscious than an equivalent animal, or does it require fewer assumptions to say that this behavior indicates consciousness regardless of the media it operates on?

We have no idea if something is really different. We only have assumptions.
I am not sure why you think it's likely they'll hit 5k/week by the end of the month, considering Musk has been promising that for the better part of a year now. I admittedly do not know enough about the financials to know if that will truly make them cash flow positive, but even if it does they still have to pay back over $1 billion in debt at the beginning of 2019.

Tesla is going to need to raise more money in less than a year (probably less than 6 months). If you truly don't believe that, I will happily take a bet.
Sure but as I mentioned, I've been practicing for about 20 years. Somehow things are not sticking and I'm looking for more actionable advice.
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This seems like a god of the gaps kind of argument. As we learn more about biology and neuroscience people who believe consciousness and the mind exist outside of the brain will be forced to make increasingly specific claims. They will eventually have to explain the physical process that allows the mind to not be some reflection of the brain. Over time I expect the scope of “and something magic-like happens here” to be reduced.
Yep. I think this is it.
Perhaps counterintuitively (in British English at least) the noun news is uncountable (e.g. referring to a mass rather than something that can be counted), and is singular in grammatical construction (so cannot be pluralised).

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/unc...
How to respond to recruiter's spam emails? (After GDPR?)
Even after GDPR I'm still getting emails from recruiters who somehow have my CV on record and want to ask me about jobs which are vaguely related to my skills and most of the time in different cities or even different countries.

Isn't this no longer allowed under GDPR? What is the best way to reply to a recruiter in order to get them to stop doing this?
One way valves are basically diodes, but for fluids rather than electrons. You can also make logic gates out of just diodes (or one way valves).

Imagine writing software for a hydraulic computer!
Purchasing common stock after an offering (I.e. on the open market) doesn’t do anything to support a company, either. It’s essentially just paper being traded back and forth.
> Uber loses money, at most you could argue that it is law breaking AND VC money.

I don't follow the logic. Many companies have negative cash flow while they invest in growth. What is "it" in your sentence? If you're saying there are only two possible factors for the relatively low ride fares, I think you're forgetting the reduction of transaction costs.

Hailing a cab on the street is frustrating. Hailing a cab by phone call even more frustrating and uncertain. Decreasing the transaction cost increases demand, which encourages supply, which lowers cost, which ... Anyway, there's a new equilibrium price.
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This is exactly what I'm expecting too. It's more practical than replacing the entire keyboard, and it would allow them to maintain their current strategy of avoiding touchscreens on the screen itself.
It creates a lot of value when short sellers discover that businesses are lying or cooking the books, see enron, worldcom, etc.
Maybe approach the discussion as not requiring the outcome of one person convincing another but simply gaining a deeper understanding of each other to increase intimacy.
So when is Incognito mode coming to Steam? IIRC you can’t set visibility on an app level and I don’t think people would like showcasing that they are playing Sexy Nurses VR to their friends list.
The quality of the tool chain absolutely has bearing. You are essentially locked into using using the FPGA vendor's tools. And its not like there is much choice in FPGAs anyway. You have Xilinx, Altera, Lattice, and MicroSemi. In a small company with a low volume product, the engineer working with the FPGA has a ton of other duties. The speed with which you can knock out the FPGA is huge and the tools and available documentation play a large part in that.
What if people are giving out of a genuine desire to do good?
> this is why Network Kernel Extensions (NKEs) are deprecated (which started last year). I wouldn't be surprised if macOS uses the user-space stack starting next year and NKEs are fully gone (this also corresponds with 32-bit processes being gone)

AHA, so this is why I had to hit the Google cache for that documentation. I wanted to write an NKE as a side-project but they just blackholed all the docs, this is the first I'm seeing about deprecation.
Buying stock on the market doesn't really support the company. After the initial sell of the stock it's just casino.
I hope this might help (I am not very good at explaining it):
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Do not bet against Tesla unless you are a professional. Tesla has incredible PR and Finance departments with background proponents holding enough capital to help them through rough patches. Side note, their Q2 2013 is still one of my favorite Finance/PR plays in recent memory.
I could see them going Intel for pro and ARM for consumer.
> We have a volunteer army and have been engaging in "adventures" as far back as Vietnam. No one goes in not knowing what they'll be asked to do.

Vietnam prominently featured draftees, and in post-9/11 America the public was heavily led to believe that Iraq was somehow responsible or related to the 9/11 attacks such that one would have not reasonably known what they were signing up for.
In my anecdotal experience, people in Eastern Europe (former Warsaw Pact countries) are extremely cynical towards politicians and the political system while Scandinavians in general have a lot of trust in the system even if they mistrust some individual politicians.

In the approach towards regulation, I think the major difference compared to the US is that Europeans mistrust businesses just as much as politicians. GDPR is a result of mistrust in businesses. Stating that politicians are corrupt, as Americans are wont to do, is not really an argument against regulation like GDPR unless you believe businesses never act against the interests of the public.
>Agreed, I've also opted for the pat-down every time, and have had only neutral-to-positive interactions and never hostility. Maybe it's worse in other cities?

To be fair, I had good experiences flying out of IAD and DCA. I think they're either better trained, mindful that the person they're abusing may have some power, or a combination of the two.

Other airports though, the TSOs seem to take it personally if you opt out, and then everything else (asking not to re-use gloves, insisting on keeping baggage in your sightline etc)is you being "difficult".

No choice of words / tone can overcome the fact that these people find someone "challenging" them in any way shape or form as an affront.

(I don't come at it like some sort of sovereign citizen and try to smile/be polite. This works ~60% of the time)
It's like trying to change prior probability of one, using Bayesian updates. You can try it, but it is pointless and causes frustration.

It works other way around too. You can't Bayesian update prior probability in (0, 1) range into 0 or 1.
Short sellers are acting on data and a worldview that is also how the long buyers are thinking of.
short sellers are always going to completely tank. And there's a reasonable chance that things will.

Regardless, there is a pretty strong argument to make that shorting is actually healthy for the economy because it leads to creative destruction
>Chopra just excels in saying some unnecessarily terse and ambiguous statement that will naturally appeal to one's pareidolia, causing people to think it's some incredibly deep and multifaceted wisdom when in fact it can be replicated with a random word bank: http://www.wisdomofchopra.com

This is a very astute observation and very true of similar “guru” types like Jordan Peterson. They use tricks of language and presentation to exploit how people parse ambiguity and make themselves seem “wise.”
Actually, the Iraqi people were happy we freed them from the iron-grip of Saddam -- we unfortunately over stayed our welcome. For a while I was seeing a banner on an overpass: "thank you for our freedom, now go home".

I kind of think they expected it to be a repeat of Panama with a quick game of "capture the dictator" followed by installing a puppet government but the general level of incompetence (i.e. de-Ba'athification of the government) didn't let that happen.

And, yes, I do kind of consider myself a pacifist who just happened to have gone down to Panama and was involved in both Iraq invasions.
> "after looking at blue British detector paint in the early 1940s"

It is odd that the article doesn't delve into that point more. In the early stages of the war, actually from mid-1938 onwards, British aircraft and vehicles had 'gas detector' panels which were squares paper soaked in the detection paint and taped-on. It was usually yellowish with one on the wing or the fuselage-spine of aircraft:

https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/attachments/a380efa1d53530a5-j...

Those fell out of use from late 1940 due to the low risk of gas attack and production ended in 1943. Just as the USA was starting production of its M5 paint!
Reminds me of Steve Yegge's introduction of js2-mode, a new JavaScript mode for Emacs, and how hard it was to get its indentation right:

Amazingly, surprisingly, counterintuitively, the indentation problem is almost totally orthogonal to parsing and syntax validation. I'd never have guessed it. But for indentation you care about totally different things that don't matter at all to parsers. Say you have a JavaScript argument list: it's just (blah, blah, blah): a paren-delimited, comma-separated, possibly empty list of identifiers. Parsing that is pretty easy. But for indentation purposes, that list is rife with possibility!

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/js2-mode-new-javascr...
> ARM itself is not very nice design from contemporary point of view. I expressed my dissatisfaction with ARM ISA many times here and just let me start with two points: 1) ARM is not RISC (multiregister load/store execute in several clocks) and 2) too much of initial design of first ARM (which was not planned for longterm evolution) is visible in ISA.

Found the guy who took his first computer architecture course and now thinks everyone at Intel, amd, ARM, etc is stupid for not going full on RISC.