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Thanks for clarifying things to me, I didn't even know the "Analytic Philosophers" term exists.

> They haven't made a ton of progress

But they progress is what should be provable and repeatable, like the real science requires? So probably, this kind of progress is the only real one in the field?
Nothing wrong with a personal tone, it has clearly made a lot of people read it.
NYT has always been a tool of the political establishment.
Can you provide some particularly egregious examples?

From what I've seen his guests seem to run the entire spectrum: martial artists, military veterans, comedians, physicists, journalists, etc. Sure he's had crackpot Alex Jones on, but he's also had Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk, and Gary Johnson.
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series in the works at Hulu
But I had exposure to math functions much earlier. And I never liked their syntax. I did understood the math, but the math language made it harder for me.

And null pointer exceptions? They only happen to me very rarely, when I quickly hack something together and then it is a "oh forgot - and fixed" problem. The problems I do struggle with are non reproducable race condition fun etc. and I doubt haskell could help me with them.
Or I struggle, because I do not really understand my problem, or a certain libary ... or, because I misunderstood existing code.

So how on earth are correct programms orthogonal to how easy it is to read and write them?!? Did you ever had to use someone else code?
Or your own that you wrote 5 years ago (or sometimes 5 days)?

With any bigger project it is all about how easy it is to read and write them.
> we have to know what the bad guys are saying in order to be able to protect the public

Why do you think that?
Above you wrote:

>The mistake is to think that something/someone could very convincingly _seem_ to be conscious but somehow not actually be conscious.

The puppet very convincingly seems to be conscious, but you yourself admit the puppet is not conscious.
>Wage theft

Does this qualify as wage theft? Per US tipping laws, this is how tipping normally works.
Coda itself wasn't original either. It just had a high degree of polish and integration.
Meh, I'm no fan of Erdogan, but statistics like that should be used with caution. This precipitous decline does not show what you imply it shows. This is what happens when your currency tanks, numbers like "GDP in USD" get all out of whack. Compare and contrast with GDP per capita PPP[1]

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/turkey/gdp-per-capita-ppp
Which book did you read?
I can tell when I don't truly understand something by my ability to disagree, or make counter arguments. In this case it sounds reasonable -- that the probability distributions of the quantum scale somehow cohere because of a Darwinian mechanism. But if you told me, oh, actually the center of mass of the probability distributions is perceived as the real location, that makes sense too.
Then maybe we aren't talking about the same thing. When I added an employee in Washington, I had to apply online and then call them directly to get the employee set up. One of the things I had to do was buy Worker's Comp insurance through the State of Washington, because no one else will sell it. Also, I had to get my UBI number from them.

Ideally I would tell you guys "I have a new employee in Washington!" and that would be the end of the story, you'd do all the rest. That's what I'm hoping you can get to at least!

(To be clear, the part you can do today is already amazing and super helpful, I'm just being greedy because I'd rather spend time on product than on calling the State of Washington
Christof Koch on consciousness
https://youtu.be/piHkfmeU7Wo
Damn I feel stupid.
Author's point about Google Maps being bloated and slow is 100% true. I use that app every day and I just recalled today when I first started using Google Maps in 2009 on my good old Nokia E63 phone it was fast and so great and then since last few years the app's design keep changing (at least on Android) and it is hard to keep up with these design changes and worst of all...every design change makes the app even slower. :(
You forgot the profit layer providing motive. This is one the layman is aware he is being left out of.
I cannot stand Alex Stamos takes on all of this.

He WAS the CISO for Facebook during all the biggest scandals. He WAS the person responsible for overseeing all of this.

He decided conveniently to exit Facebook once the bad press came over and now he is trying to play the "expert card" on everything related to security and democracy. It's really a shame that we don't keep him more accountable.
I don't work for Z2I (I run Space Bandits) but that's a good point and definitely would have been worth including in the interview.

I found this explanation in their payload user guide of an example flight profile (excerpt):

The first stage burns for 110 seconds, upon which the vehicle reaches an altitude of 80 km and an inertial speed of 2.3 km/s. After ejecting the first stage, the vehicle reaches 400 km and 4.4 km/s in 230 seconds. Upon third and final stage separation, the third stage performs multiple firings, the first one lasting 340 seconds and reaching 600 km of altitude while still slightly below the target orbital speed. Then, after coasting and later finalizing the orbit, the payload is released.

See page 23: http://www.zero2infinity.space/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Z2...

Thanks for raising that :)
Although the BBC produces a lot of rubbish, it also produces high quality drama, comedies and documentaries. People watch these not simply because they are in English.

People will watch quality programming regardless of the language. Just witness the popularity of Scandinavian dramas that have won audiences across the world. Although Germany dubs foreign-language programmes (badly), lots of other countries are happy to watch with subtitles.
I think you have to go deeper and ask yourself the timescale and extent of "happiness". Because a different definition may mean actually "fulfilled" rather than "happy".

And it's different for different people (and at different stages of life).

Some people are optimizing for physical and mental happiness hour by hour. Sometimes, that produces good short term outcomes, but you may have self-gratified at the expense of not achieving long term things (which often require being momentarily unhappy). An example might be: I want to live in a Sprinter van and see the US in my 20s, work itinerant jobs, and experience amazing sunrises, sunsets -- versus my sad friends who are slave to the corporate finance life.

Others put long term fulfillment above momentary happiness, find themselves hour by hour sometimes miserable, but suffering through it to achieve some goal that fulfills them deeper than a momentary dopamine fix. The corporate finance drone sits through a "boring" job, but maybe gets the option to maximize "moments" later in life, having postponed gratification.

I'm sure for everyone it's a weighted combination of these, depending on their inclination and upbringing.

I also suspect that it's generally people who grew up relatively privileged who tend to view optimizing happiness as a choice or option.
I'm not moving the goal posts. I've never seen free alcohol on domestic flights, and I don't see why I should restrict comparisons with international airlines to international flights with domestic carriers. A flight is a flight.

As for hot towels, you'll have to do a lot better than a Youtube video with quizzical comments because apparently none of those people have ever seen it either. In fact, if it were so common, why would someone bother to post a short Youtube video of this? Obviously, given the focus of the short video and its title, the fact that they're handing out these towels is new and novel. And as I've said, I've flown domestically countless times, since the 1980s, and I've never seen this, ever. They would almost certainly do it for flights to/from Asia because it's normal there, but Americans aren't used to hot towels. After all, they never serve them in restaurants either.
> you can't trust the government regardless of whether they have a warrant

If they have a warrant, what exactly is it that you think I need to trust them about at that point?
In theory, yes that's a big part of the problem. In practice, however, once the gov charges you, you're effectively guilty-until-proven-innocent because your court-appointed public defender is likely not going to be trained or equipped to provide a logical defense, much less hire an expert witness in computer forensics. Plus the gov will approach you with a plea "deal" : you can plead guilty to one charge of illegal encrypted data, pay $20k and 2 years' probation, or else risk going to the slammer for decades on the stacked charges with a maximum sentence of 3 years per file, times the 10 files they were "unable to decrypt" on your system.

> arrest me, scan my file system and find something named "plan.txt" which is just a bunch of gibberish... what do you do?

well, start by scanning every executable binary on your system. If they find a custom-rolled program that doesn't impregnate the encrypted files with known headers (for contrast, openssl ads the prefix "Salted_" to any file it encrypts) they can allege that you're using a clandestine encryption scheme and that "plan.txt" is one of the files. So again, the burden of proof would be on you to explain what that file was for, which can come at tremendous legal cost.
Gone....like tears in the rain.

RIP
I just don't buy that argument. If the evidence is mere hearsay, then how could it be good enough for compelling him to testify against himself?

It isn't hearsay in this case though. Hearsay is when
Alice testifies that Bob told her he witnessed Charlie viewing child porn. Generally it should not be considered as fact that Bob witnessed this.

It's not hearsay if Alice testifies that she witnessed Charlie viewing child porn, which seems to be the case here. This kind of testimony is direct evidence.

Then there is the circumstantial evidence: The prosecution can show these encrypted drives exist, belong to the defendant, that he knows how to decrypt them and refused, etc.

I just don't see how it's reasonable to claim that isn't good enough for a jury to decide who to believe. They should just try him, or let him go.
Out of curiosity, what do you think will make then not viable economically? There's a lot of advantages they have compared to rockets, particularly for smallsats.
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It's down for everyone
I've had several experiences lately where the tip dialog only offered 15/20/25% or "other" (which could be used as "none")
What part of subjective experience exactly do you think that evolutionary theory fails to explain? I study evolution quite a bit and, while there are many details about behavior and learning that are still missing, AFAICT it seems to explain consciousness and subjectivity pretty well.
Ok, I see where you are coming from, but as far as I can tell for the majority of cases it seems that uber/lyft drivers are effectively running small businesses (notwithstanding the PR efforts to convince people it is "on the side"). So the realistic comparison is what other earning can I do in that time, not "sit on the couch", so the TCO comes in.
Perhaps, but the DNS translations to the underlying servers hosting those spamURLs as well as the host header can't possibly be that varied. At the end of the day, you can have infinite URLs but you can't have infinite servers.
> because there is a fundamental difference between a private entity (corporate or living person) and a government (only one has a monopoly on violence).

Only works for private entities in markets with a lot of competition and no dominance. Otherwise there is no difference whether a government does it or a private entity under pressure.
Does anybody know why libebml wasn't fixed yet in Stretch?
It was very unethical. Calling something a tip implies a lot in the US and in most other industries the tip legally can't be taken by the employer and compensation has to at least total to the minimum wage.
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So, if Boeing kills of the 737, and Airbus can’t ramp up production of its plane in that class, who’s going to build them? Seems like a perfect opportunity for a Chinese manufacturer.
Sounds like a broken terminal configuration. Try running python at the standard terminal and see what it does.
The human error minefield in the life sciences industry
Is it possible that the 10-15k figure includes a different way of counting? Pedestrians and bikes etc?

It would be good to see a source.
Ask HN: I hate to work with my colleague what shall I do?
My colleague is a guy that make a lot pressure and everything is bad - he has a pessimist way of see everything
He looks at each opportunity to make me feel bad and make fun of me.
Every meeting with him is demotivating. I am loosing my patience. I don't know what to do... I'm an easy guy who loves what he does. Don't feel like arguing with him is the solution.
I have to agree, those were getting kind of repetitive and annoying.
Yeah, like I said, it works at a standard terminal, not in the VS Code integrated terminal.
The Consequences of Rubber's Toxic Past
'No doubt left' about scientific consensus on global warming, say experts
> Significantly more arbitrary middlemen making their way into the process because of "let the market figure it out" does, in fact, create some process inefficiencies in supply chains and contract pipelines. Few countries are as aggressively market-based for things meant for public good as the US.

It's kind of disingenuous to blame "let the market figure it out" for government contracting problems that are attributable almost entirely to political corruption.

Governments buy a million things from the private sector using contract bidding with reasonable requirements, and then the low bidding napkin vendor turns out to be Walmart or some direct napkin producer in the midwest, the state spends 0% of its overall budget on napkins, and nobody pays any attention to the successful process because it's 0% of the overall budget and there is nothing to complain about.

The problem is that it's all too easy for a corrupt politician to purposely add a contract requirement that only a specific contractor can satisfy, with the predictable consequences for the level of competitive bidding and the contract price. But that's not fundamentally any different than politicians pandering to government workers unions by "creating jobs" supervising people who are digging holes and filling them back in, even if they're all direct government employees.

The people receiving the money have a much larger incentive to spend their influence on that specific project than the average taxpayer, because it constitutes 100% of their income rather than 0.5% of their tax dollars, only then there are a hundred such projects and it looks like half the budget is waste (because it is).

The problem is probably made worse by the separation between revenue and spending. We have one institution in charge of generating money (tax collector) and then a hundred separate ones in charge of spending it, but the spenders aren't accountable for the money and there is a lot of buffer because the government as a whole can just spend more than it collects and issue debt to make up the rest of it. Which means there is nobody really in charge of making sure the taxpayer is getting good value for money in any given project.

What we could do is to elect the heads of the various government departments (e.g. transportation, education, law enforcement) and have them pull revenue from the same source (e.g. sales or income tax), but the tax rate is set directly based on how much money they actually spend. In other words, they set their own individual budgets, but they also have to individually directly answer to taxpayers. But the general legislature still has to approve the overall budget to keep any of them from getting out of hand.

Then if the head of transportation doubles the transportation budget to spend it on corruption and waste, leading directly to a 2% increase in the sales tax (and doesn't get vetoed by the general legislature), he's out on his butt in two years, and is more likely to actually end up in jail because now more people are paying attention.
As other respondents have said, a good journalist does not rely on a single expert. Good reporting cross-checks multiple sources, often seeking out conflicting ones, and trying to form a coherent story out of that.

Unfortunately, that often leads to false dichotomy. It's not sufficient to seek out a contradictory source... especially if that contradictory source is not credible. But it's very exciting journalism to say, "We spoke to X and Y, who bitterly disagree with each other. We'll gloss over the fact that X has a PhD and the support of the entire community, while Y is funded by motivated donors and has been repeatedly debunked. We'll go to Y every single time because they only fund the one."

So yeah, journalism is in trouble. Not for reliance on experts, but for failing to rely on themselves when a story seems fishy... and for relying on the public to care about whether they have or not.
Ask HN: What Was NASA817 Up to over California?
It looks like some kind of a search pattern [1], but I can't think of a good reason to do that in a DC-8.

[1] https://flightaware.com/live/flight/NASA817/history/20190722/1800Z/KPMD/KBOI
It’s not obvious to me. I don’t see any evidence that favors it over the alternative.

Why assume that they are conscious, over the simpler hypothesis (fewer assumptions) that they aren’t?
University courses must require students to actually write code as part of their assignments. I've worked at universities where the program structure allowed students to finish with little to no coding skills and the the lower tier students from that program were abysmally bad.

A university CS program should force the students to deal with many languages and - importantly - their concepts. A single implementation language for all courses is certainly too little. Show them what it means to dereference a pointer in C, how to write a loop and a function call in assembler, what smalltalk objects can do by passing messages instad of calling methods etc. But I think that having a main language in a CS program is a good idea becaue it allows the teachers to pose more interesting implementation excercises if the students don't have to spend time to learn yet another language while trying to solve a problem.
This "problem" is mainly a symptom of religious worldviews that are still holding out deep inside some heads.
And MVs are generally the best way to separate support for infrequent reports or ETL jobs from support from common CRUD operations.
Ok, I believe we are in the middle of arguing OP's point about how the pro-gun people are wrong when using the argument "only the criminals will own them", and how the pro-encryption people are right when using the same argument about encryption.

And, I think what you're adding here is that I've got an error in my statement that both parties will happily build their own firearms/encryption because the physical gun is harder to distribute than a copy of software.

And I agree in principle with this, until I realize that broad distribution of an encryption mechanism is exactly what a bad-acting government would want... crack once and everyone is compromised.

So, no, I think I would argue that its easier to distribute weapons than good, bespoke encryption.

And further, I would argue that if it is true for encryption, it is also true for firearms... that if they are outlawed, the power shifts to criminals as they will still use them.
Counter example, Washington state doesn't allow tips to be counted towards employee's wage (https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/washington-laws-tipp...)
The full quote is worse ... he's essentially saying to the base that all experts always get it wrong.
There really is no comparison to this program and it's a shame that it doesn't get more attention and support. I used to use it all the time when I worked at a planetarium giving free form tours of the universe with just a joystick and a microphone. It is the closest I will ever get to exploring the universe, and I've found no better tool for showing others the cosmic perspective.
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Exactly, thanks for spelling it all out. Back to your original point then. Banning specific types of property is one thing, but this isn't that. It's banning all forms of property, and as you say, whitelisting acceptable ones. This seems extremely dubious, and unconstitutional (just guessing).

As someone who likes to be free to use the computers I own, this scares the shit out of me.
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More concisely, culpability
Really good article but I’m unconvinced about those pointer states. The classicly observed values simply have overwhelmingly higher probability.
Not the OP you're replying to but you're right! I'll try to get more information on this and update once I do. Thanks!
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Lots of people get rich in China and the railways, roads, and buildings get built. In the US people just take the money and don't build anything in a lot of corrupt states. In some states there is less obvious corruption and things get built more quickly. New York City and State are simply unusually corrupt by US standards and corrupt by global first world standards.
The article did not say anything about its performance. It was under-powered although not to 'Spruce Goose' levels of barely getting off the ground.

If you ignore the performance then it seems like a nice posh plane, throw in some commercial acumen and knowledge of flight and the plane was an obvious lemon.

But at least they tried. Plus so much came out of Filton over the years - Concorde being the example - that this public works programme can be considered to have given the taxpayer value for money.

As per your original comment, putting more seats in was a non-starter. The plane took considerably longer to travel distance so it needed ocean liner rather than Ryan Air comfort extras. Other planes, e.g. from Pan Am, also had the luxury features and there was no down-market in the early days of aviation.
What was the point of redacting the name of the operator in Annex A "for privacy" and then linking to a blog post that clearly states the author's name saying "the same operator made this blog post while we were talking"?
Instead of carefully investigate which fields should have an index (all fields used for joins) the brute strategy is to index them all :P
You can can't have 300 million best people. You can't even have 100 million.

And once someone acquires citizenship, their descendants can't lose it, provided it's their only citizenship.
Will it be as good as the US version of Red Dwarf?
Oh, gosh. Since when it's without a maintainer? I would think it's quite an important piece of most embedded Linux projects. Those companies really should sponsor someone to take care of it.

My personal project also depends on squashfs. Are there any other options for read-only compressed rootfs?

Squashfs-tools are a bit rough around the edges that's for sure. I patched in ability to produce an image without root for my use, but I think it would be generally useful. Sort list file format is funky. It's: "filename_string priority_integer", so it will not work for files with spaces. Also new lines, but that's far less common. It was not yet a problem for me and I can always patch it more and one can say, that people having files with spaces deserve it, though it's entirely different issue.
Hopefully hackernews is a better starting point for a conversation?

For what's its worth. Its a totally new startup. This is my first (failed?) attempt at finding partners online?

Maybe we are like Robinhood? Paying millennials a higher interest rate AND giving them zero-commision stock trades :)