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my first child was born last year, and although its been hard its also really awesome.

Most new parents seem to be perpetually short of sleep and exhausted for the first two years. Being exhausted can make intellectually challenging things just too hard to cope with.

I will suggest that it is possible you are just tired and should consider finding employment that is less mentally taxing for now. Consider the possibility that when things settle down, you may want to go back to coding.
No the feeling may have been evolutionarily conserved because it had that benefit. But that doesn’t mean that the feeling is driven by some kind of idea of a trade. The feeling can be pure, the future benefits a side effect, that side effect being what causes it to be retained evolutionary.
I've taken to extended breaks in my career, reduced my expenses to dollars a month and pretty much focused on something else entirely. The first time it was learning taijiquan and reconnecting with my body through walking and physical labor. The second time is was to play video games and build a community. At the end of both sessions my energy was revitalized around software engineering because in each instance i came back around to using the computer to solve the actual problems I wanted to solve for my real goal. Each time I needed to relearn the tools which was also a nice experience as it allowed me to fix lingering problems. I highly recommend these types of breaks, especially if you have a first principals understanding of computers, as that's critical for saying, "I know this is a problem I can solve with math and computers."
Not quite right.

The expression "CAST('321a' AS INTEGER)" will do as you suggest and ignore the trailing 'a' character, yielding an integer 123 result. But that only happens for an explicit CAST. Automatic type conversions must be reversible. That means that '321a' is inserted as a string in an INTEGER column, but '321' (without the trailing 'a') will be converted into an integer 123.

PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQL Server do exactly the same thing for the '321' case. For the '321a' case, the other three throw an error whereas SQLite just cancels the type conversion and inserts the original string.
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When I think of my mother (e.g. how she would react when I tell her something), that's basically a simulation of her running in my head. Is this simulation self-aware? If not, then that's one way to imagine two identically behaving beings, one with consciousness (my actual mother) and one without (my brain's simulation of her).

(For the sake of argument, I assume that I know my mother so well that her behavior will be indistinguishable for all intents and purposes from my simulation of her in my head.)
>My personal experience with people has led me to believe that nihilism and hedonism are common outcomes for most people when they lose their religion and I believe both are generally harmful to people and/or society in the long run.

My personal experience is that the loss of religion can cause one to value life and humanity more deeply, because one realizes that life is truly finite and fragile, and that there is no framework of justice or ethics other than what we, humans, choose to create. Religion, meanwhile, seems to lead many people to disregard the value of the temporal for the sake of the perceived eternal.

I know quite a few atheists and I wouldn't describe them as necessarily nihilistic or hedonistic - that seems to be more of a stereotype born from the common religious belief that morality itself derives explicitly from belief in the divine, and often the result of turning to atheism as a form of rebellion, which (at the risk of running into a "no true atheist" fallacy) is no more genuine than the person who turns to extreme ascetic religion for similar reasons.

>My lack of religion was not and is not a political decision for me; and therefore you cannot speak for me in any matters concerning politics.

Fair enough but... I don't think I mentioned politics?
What if I consider my feelings of free(ish) will observational evidence? This argument is hashed out in detail here: http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/Searle

In particular:

> I observe that I choose freely, at least sometimes; and if you introspect, you will see it too. There is no reason to assume that these observations are illusory, any more than there is reason to assume that vision or hearing is illusory. I frequently hear scientists declare that real science (as opposed to bogus Aristotelian science) rests on observation; that is, they take the observed facts as a given, and work from there. The insistence that free will does not exist has more in common with the worst a priori scholasticism than with modern science. The latter demanded that the facts fit the theory, while the essence of science is supposed to be that we make our theories fit the observed facts. […] Any argument for doubting our observations of our mental states would ipso facto be an argument to doubt the observations that confirmed atomic theory. […]

> This doesn’t mean that I am sure that no explanation is possible; maybe one day someone will show that this “brute fact” is not a brute fact at all, but one capable of a simple explanation. The point is that we don’t need to wait for this explanation before we can accept my view. We can gather all of the needed evidence for that if we merely turn inwards and observe.
> While the pre-processor seems basic, compared with real macros, you can still be very creative with it

That sounds like a benefit, not a downside. See, for instance, http://libcello.org/
I think I'm pretty left-wing, and I agree with software freedom as a general rule - but I don't really understand the venom over the subject. We live in a world where people of all ages regularly die because basic necessities are non-free. Software freedom is nice, but compared to every other political problem, kind of boring.

In the end, the entire development of computers has been underwritten by massive corporations, the military-industrial complex, and to a large extent, the surveilance/telecoms hybrid that spawned companies like AT&T. I don't really see where being extremely punctilious about software freedom wins you in this context. There's no such thing as a free computer - the concept is borderline absurd, and even if it was possible, you're still using a free computer in a world that's largely characterized by tyranny, which is also absurd.
Unisys still sells ClearPath MCP mainframes, which descend from Burroughs B5000, developed in 1961 using a variant from Algol (ESPOL) as safe systems programming.

Zero Assembly, ESPOL exposed all required hardware features as intrisics.

https://www.cs.uaf.edu/2010/fall/cs441/proj1/b5000/

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

Based on feedback they rebooted ESPOL as NEWP, which is still the systems programming language from ClearPath MCP.

Not only it was already a kind of safe systems programming language, 10 years older than C, it already had the notion of unsafe code via unsafe modules.

https://www.unisys.com/offerings/clearpath-forward/clearpath...

Here is a PR leaflet about NEWP and safety on modern versions of ClearPath

https://assets.unisys.com/Documents/Global/WhitePapers/WP_17...

NEWP programming manual

https://public.support.unisys.com/aseries/docs/clearpath-mcp...

The computing world would have turned out much different if AT&T had been allowed to sell UNIX right from the beginning.
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Good done for some community/charity/etc. in the name of religion, almost certainly. And I don't doubt the reported psychological benefits for addicts, impoverished, and other such downtrodden types.

Yet, religion in general tends to inspire a certain selflessness, as a cost of this mental-stability.

I have to consider: would improving solely my mental health, be worth the time, effort and resources that I would only find reason to expend (in service of some "good that is done in the name of [my] religion") if I were to become religious?

And while I might have thought differently last month, when I was a futureless undergraduate student ... I'm now fairly certain that the answer is "no". Analogously: why should I purchase a diamond-covered crutch, when I already have four good limbs?

So while I don't necessarily criticize the religious - there indubitably exist people who are better off by being that way - I do criticize religion itself.
Please, GOD, no mailing lists. The irony of Stallman's irrelevant comment is multiplied by the use of a mailing list.
neighbor said Thailand and a few other asian countries are cash first too.
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I still don't get why do Autocrasher systems think it's better to ignore stationary objects even whey it's driving towards it at a high speed!

Sure, slamming in the brakes is a bad idea. This doesn't mean the system can't start to slow down or change the direction of the car.
Ask HN: Biggest Investment Before Realizing Noone Wanted to Use Your Product?
Common scenario is making something.. before seeing if anyone wants to use it.

Curious what projects you guys have built before realizing the demand wasn't there. Any learnings?
Maybe, but it seems more likely this isn't due to malice but just stupidity/apathy. Maybe most companies just aren't aware of this technology, or they don't want to implement something new because of uncertainty about the potential problems with the new technology. For example, maybe 1 out of a 100 of these bottles gets completely clogged and won't dispense anything at all. That looks bad for the company and maybe even requires a recall. It's easier to just stick with what they are doing and no-one is complaining loudly about the small bit of wasted product.
Actually, my personal view is that in general more diverse views are better. My assumption is the places I mentioned could benefit from more diverse views. Maybe partly why cosmopolitan cities tend to be more liberal.
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Why is that a bad thing? Every single race or culture has a right to want to preserve itself. Maybe you have some personal issues you need to work out before you go off projecting self hatred onto other cultures.
> Perhaps anecdotes, in large enough numbers, are data.

This was actually the original gist of that famous quote!

http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2011/04/the-plural-of-an...
Will Tarreau of haproxy has written an insightful post on the same topic:

"Truly Seamless Reloads with HAProxy – No More Hacks!"

https://www.haproxy.com/blog/truly-seamless-reloads-with-hap...
It can be quite intimidating at first I guess.
It makes (starts to make) sense once you turn off some shapes and start connecting them together one by one.

I am not sure if you had a look at the "pentanizer" parts, but that one is even worse at first sight,
but once you isolate certain parts I think (very subjective) it becomes helpful if you study interval parts.
I also think people living in liberal bubbles could benefit from understanding conservative views and appreciate some of their rationale.
Another reference project: https://github.com/facebookgo/grace
Good call! You're right that "continue straight" might not be the best wording, as they aren't aligned on the map. In real life, they're also not perfectly aligned, but the entrance area to the tunnel is much wider than appears on the map, meaning they can take a slight right to continue down the tunnel. My bet is I was thinking about roads in terms of Boston roads, where going straight is often more of an abstract concept than a true direction.

Here's a streetview with Bennett Alley on the right and the bus tunnel on the left if you want to get a feel for the turn:

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3731803,-71.1223078,3a,75y,1...

Unfortunately you can't see through to the tunnel from the other side of Bennett [0], but the good news is you can see the 3 buses in action!

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3725618,-71.1225705,3a,85.4y...
What is a race?
It is hard to know for dogs since they lack the language necessary to ponder. But if we have an intelligence with the necessary language to ponder, and we see that it doesn't, then I think it is reasonable to assume that it doesn't.

There's an interesting book that uses this argument to advance the idea that consciousness as we understand it now emerged 3000 years ago, as it was only then that humans started to make artworks about pondering on consciousness. (The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind)
That’s a good point. I wonder if that’s been considered as part of vision zero.
could you be any more constructive, I mean, which parts are confusing / none intuitive?
C# has value types, you can't set structs to null.
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Or maybe you substitute her consciousness with your own.
Not surprised, this is what happens when you "close" off immigration, aging population, have a decrease in new births, restrict most immigrant workers/immigrants to temporary visas/temporary work terms despite length of stay and have a politically conservative mentality towards immigrants.

You either invest into more technologies that allow for less labour input or you basically have to somehow increase labour input.

Moreover, Japan's mentality against foreign trainees/interns have led to criticisms from U.S. State Department's Trafficking in Persons because they are essentially being used as unofficial farm workers despite advertising it as a technical (technical as in dealing with machines) training or internship program without real oversight into working conditions and overwork without pay: https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics-Economy/Economy/Abuses-ramp...
Yup.

Business benefit supersedes customer benefit. Always.
The key thing seems to be that the automatic breaking system has a group of systems each designed to satisfy multiple constraints and these systems aren't particularly well integrated.

This seems like how I would imagine a "dumb" system would be designed. One would imagine a "artificial intelligence" (of any sort at all) would find a way to smoothly integrate all these system. The problem is end-to-end neural nets or similar devices intended for such integration don't seem ready for prime time.
$5 says they won't prosecute him. The only example the article gives of someone going to prison for this is Reagan's national security advisor, not some billionaire.
Ask HN: What's the most productive development environment you've used?
And what do you attribute that environment's productivity to?
There are so many FSM implementations. The problem is when you want to implement something like this in different platforms, one has to "change the engine" along with all the connectors. Why not to use something standard like BPMN as the base?
TFA has a figure showing that just over half is China + Korea + Vietnam.

Brazil + Peru are about 11%, it would indeed be interesting to know the breakdown there.

Amused by the line "No party has embraced xenophobia", used here to mean, apparently, that all parties agree on policies which would be sufficient to get you branded as xenophobes in the west. Or rather, to mean that there's no shouting match over the issue.
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What is so hard about it?

At my university it was common to teach C++ and Pascal during the first year, to both CS and EE degrees.
I'm pleased that you can afford a newspaper. And that you've been educated in how to critically study media.

It must be nice to have good eyesight. Or to be able to afford glasses.

I wish everyone had your good fortune.
It looks like this is just temporary until the feature is no longer experimental so they can modify the standard library.
That. Chalmers claims that he can easily imagine p-zombie, which doesn't experience anything, and it doesn't feel like a big stretch on a first glance. But if you try to imagine a being, which is physically identical to you, but with no experience of, say, red color, you'll have a hard time arguing that you can.
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Ask HN: Which GPU to Get for Deep Learning in June 2018?
It has been over a year since Tim Dettmers' excellent blog post on the subject[0] was last updated, and six months since he declared that Deep Learning was in a "hardware limbo"[1].

Can anyone recommend similar resources that are up to date, or post current analysis and recommendations here (even if just the equivalent of the TL/DR section)?

[0] http://timdettmers.com/2017/04/09/which-gpu-for-deep-learning/

[1] http://timdettmers.com/2017/12/21/deep-learning-hardware-limbo/
A friend attended UC Berkeley (long ago) and said the first semester language was Scheme and the second semester language was assembly. Subsequent classes used C/C++. That sounded like a useful round trip from high-level algorithms to the metal and back to a practical language in between.
> To answer your first question: I believe in puzzles, not mysteries. When we don't know how something works (like a spray bottle), we call it a puzzle, unless it challenges some sacred theological or humanist tenets, in which case we call it a mystery.

Rather than the boundary between the biological and "non-biological" brain, I am interested in the notion or aspect of consciousness that relates to why people behave the way they do, think the way they think, and are not only largely oblivious to it (the idea of examining behavior and the ~motivations behind it) but commonly hostile to it, sometimes extremely so. Or even more interestingly, the ability to easily notice the behavior in others, but utterly incapable of seeing the same thing in oneself.

For someone that has no background in the subject, would Dennett be a good place to start, or could you suggest any other names?

> "Consciousness" and "feeling" and "experience" are folk terms with neither a precise definition nor a clear process for arriving at a precise definition.

I agree, but I "feel" like this is where progress can be made (unless, it already has and I'm simply not aware of it).

An attempt to give a hint at the aspects that I'm thinking of: reality, at least as far as humans perceive it, consists of observations of physical events, or at least we know that much for sure. One thing that the layman overlooks is that there are far more observable dimensions involved in reality than are commonly discussed, some of which I suspect are easily observable to some people, but practically invisible to others (a terrible analogy might be how humans can see one segment of the light spectrum, while other mammals can see others, and machines can see more). Similar to the formerly "invisible" portions of the light spectrum, are there other "dimensions" (for lack of not knowing a more proper term) that we can't currently observe, but with the proper experiments, consistently and with decent accuracy "detect", which might lead us in more specific directions when studying the mind? For example, if we can identify a highly reproducible but currently completely unexplained phenomenon (behavior, reaction, etc) common across large quantities of people (but perhaps not among other groups), might ML algorithms run on brain scans of subjects under these conditions find anything interesting? (Possibly relevant: Moran Cerf: "Decoding Thoughts and Dreams Using In-Brain Electrodes" | Talks at Google https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVj3sU37gdI)

I also realize this may very well be a very stupid idea, so anything substantiating that possibility is also welcome.

EDIT: Or, another different way of thinking about it is, an attempt to form an aggregate (across all people & cultures) definition/enumeration of self-awareness.
Yeah, I've always been skeptical of people who say they've been making a killing with their genius proprietary trading algo's. You can't predict the price movements which are directly attributable to external news influences. And these types of events have such a direct effect on price.
From the article, systems in most cars aren't currently connected in a way that would allow them to do these things.
It's not companies like Tesla. As far as I can tell, it's just Tesla.
I too love the constant change its exciting.

But you can't live like that forever. Things need to remain constant so you can work on difficult business logic instead of changing how you do standard things.
Based on previous discussions Teslas cannot do what you are asking for without LIDAR, Musk would have to admit he made a mistake on not using LIDAR and invalidate the sensor suite on all Teslas on the road.
How so?

These examples share a huge number of common traits with (fundamentalist) religion.
> There will always be an unproven next step.

This makes no sense in a trading environment. The reason that shortsellers are hovering is because Tesla is trading at aggressive multiples with aggressive business goals they show signs of missing. I'd like to see your "clear conclusions" that the model 3 is succeeding.

> I never said (nor do I think) that the stock is traded on fundamentals.

Semantics at this point.
This chronic downvoting on HN is getting boring.

This is an excellent comment because it explains Stallman's accuracy (vs his opponents) not in terms of the fundamentals of their reasoning but in terms of their heuristics for judging motivations.
> When I use a Coke machines, I don’t care if that system is proprietary: I just want my Coke.

How is this in any way relevant to the discussion? It's really bad form to pick a random activity, stuff the word "proprietary" in there, and use it as an example of how you think rms would regard it, and then rail against that.

> If he had his way, there would be no restaurants unless they all provided recipes

What do you think "his way" entails exactly? And what makes you feel confident this projection is accurate, especially in the light of apparently being largely unfamiliar with his person or his ideas?
Other than the formation of city states and nation states after the rise of agriculture, what new social structures formed with each technological revolution?
Teslas already have emergency braking and lane departure warning...
C# is not like Java.

struct Vector
{
int x, y;
}

public class Program
{
public static void Main()
{
Vector v = null;
}
}

Also does not compile:

"Cannot convert null to 'Vector' because it is a non-nullable value type"
I agree that all mainstream media, no matter if it's on the right, the left, center, government owned or not -- it's all full of bias to push the narrative each organization cares about.

Maybe 5% of the news reported is worth paying attention to, the rest may as well be garbage.
Sounds more like sarcasm than anything else.