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Sigh. My statement of impossibility was understanding the brain understanding the brain as a whole. This is the only part that is IMPOSSIBLE.

Your statement of modularizing portions of understanding into pieces to deal with complexity is isomorphic to my statement that we can only hope to understand A representation of the brain as a simplification.

The chemists who understand molecules Understand the atom of the as a symbolic representation. The physicist understands the atom in a more detailed manner and sees the molecule as a symbolic representation.

In short each human as individuals CAN ONLY understand the BRAIN as a symbolic simplification. This is the BEST possible outcome. What you are SAYING is the EXACT same thing I am SAYING.

The one difference is... I am taking it ONE STEP further with a speculation on the nature of intelligence.

There exists concepts in this world that are fundamental and cannot be modularized. It is a very reasonable speculation that the understanding of consciousness itself cannot be further modularized or subdivided. I am saying that in order to understand consciousness it may very well be, that we have to understand consciousness as a complex whole and this complexity may be too big for us to hold in our heads.

This IS a realistic possibility. We are already seeing the limits to this with the black box nature of the neural nets we are generating. A possible future simulation of Consciousness may very well be encoded in the same blackbox that our deep fakes are also trapped in.

Either way this was a speculation. You (and many others) completely misunderstanding and taking it the wrong way.
I think one reason why it doesn't make sense to a lot of people is that when doing long division, it is taught with notational shortcuts that obscure what the student is really doing.

Eg, say you are dividing 76543 by 5. The normal procedure is to say something like:

- 5 goes into 7 once. The first quotient digit is 1.

- 1 times 5 is 5, write that under the 7, and draw a short line under the five

- 7 minus 5 is 2; write that under the line you just drew

- the next digit is 6, so write that next to the 2 you just drew, ie, 26

- 5 goes into 26 five times; put that up in the quotient, etc

That minimizing the writing, but it hides what is really happening.

Really what is going on is this. How many times can you subtract 5 from 76543? One procedure would be to subtract five over and over until the remainder is less than five. The number of times you subtracted is the quotient. But in this example you'd have to subtract more than 15000 times. Instead of subtracting 5 at a time and incrementing a count, it would be faster to subtract 50 at a time and increment your quotient by 10 until the result is less than 50, and then switch to subtracting by 5s and incrementing by 1 as before. If you can see why that works, then you realize it would be even faster to subtract by 500 at a time and increment by 100, then switch to subtracting 50 at a time and increment by 10, then subtract 5 at a time and increment by 1. Etc.

So rather than minimizing the amount of digit copying, it would be better at first to write everything out. In this particular case:

- write the dividend: 76543

- remove groups of 50000. we can see we can subtract 50000 from this once; the leading digit of the quotient is 1

- write 50000 (150000) under the 76543

- subtract, writing 26543 (this is the current remainder)

- remove groups of 5000. now we see we can subtract 25000 from this, so the next digit of the quotient is 5.

- write 25000 (55000) under the 26543

- subtract, writing 1543 (current remainder)

- remove groups of 500. 500 goes into that 3 times, so the next digit of the quotient is 3

- write 1500 (3500) under 1543

- subtract, writing 43 (current remainder)

- remove groups of 50. it is larger than the current remainder, so the next digit of the quotient is 0.

- remove groups of 5. 5 goes into 43 eight times, so the next quotient digit is 8

- write 40 (85) under the 43

- subtract. the final remainder is 3.

The sequence of quotient digits was 15308.

The standard way long division is taught, the child skips writing down all the digits of the remainder and it is confusing as to why this all works.
Was evicted once from the class by a teacher that said 5^0=0 and I proved on board it was =1.
As far as I know, Germany's minimum auto liability is 7.5M EUR. After 15 years of no claims, the liability premium on our 2009 Ford Fiesta is about 400 EUR/yr. It would be higher if we had, say, an Audi Q7, because larger, more powerful vehicles can cause more damage (nevermind that we'd also be more likely to want collision/comprehensive on a vehicle that expensive)

So a Cybertruck owner would probably be up for some spectacular liability premiums, presuming that the vehicle was approved for registration in Germany in the first place.
People said literally the same things about bebop in the 40s. Complex reharmonizations with wild new ideas over well known pop songs. But now that Charlie Parker's ideas have become integrated into the norm it doesn't seem adventurous or sacrificing soul for complexity.

Collier will be the same in 50 years.
Hmm, yeah now that I think about it more I agree.
> Nobody cares about the guy earning 250k/y.
It goes beyond hashtags. I was speaking more to the structure of discourse. Even people who are used to speaking in public, on record, in front of cameras, frequently fail to engage with others properly on Twitter. That’s pretty intimidating to me. There just seems to be so much nervous energy on that platform. You could enjoy your day, write one tweet just to express your thoughts on something before going to sleep, then have people halfway across the world jump down your throat and wake up to a nasty surprise.
No, because it’s easier to go after and strong-arm or pass legislation against a guy earning 250k than a guy earning 250mm.
You can talk about both.

Also, if it's not just painting, but actually unfair, then it's up to the reader to have an emotional reaction or not.
I'm not sure wtf they were expecting when they did QE, and kept it running for so long. It's literally cause and effect.
> I just don't understand how anyone comes to buy things shown in ads.

What is so different about seeing something you are interested in from an ad or from a website you clicked through to yourself?

> Are ads really effective? I don't buy advertised products.

Do you buy many products online at all? If you don't, then they probably won't be useful as you aren't someone who spends much money online for anything. However, there are many people who do. For example, my girlfriend and many other women I know spend tons of money on clothes/shoes/jewelry online and a decent amount of the products they find out about and like come from advertisements.

To give you an example of the scale, I spent over $1,200 dollars online yesterday during black friday on clothes, shoes, and jewelry for her. While I don't know how many of those products got sourced from advertisements, I'm sure some of them were because most were from a doc she has been using to keep track of things she wants and she likely saw them first on an advertisement.
The Fair Tax plan was a neat idea. Tax everyone at X percent, while giving everyone back Y dollars per month as a form of UBI. The values of X and Y are chosen so those below the poverty line gain more money than they are taxed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairTax
Crime through the roof? People who live in actual high crime areas would like a word with you.

It sounds like you've experienced more than your fair share of crime since moving to the BA, but calling it high crime is beyond a stretch.
So, I'm not an expert, and haven't read the paper linked to in the article yet, but I think this is an opioid that doesn't recruit beta-arrestin?

If so, that's not really a new class of drug - it's still an opioid, albeit one with less side effects. It will still induce euphoria and have abuse potential; perhaps even more abuse potential, as the risk of dying from respiratory depression is much lower.

It's also not the first opioid having this property - mitragynine and 7-OH-mitragynine the main opioid alkaloids in kratom) also don't recruit beta-arrestin.
Well for starters, such a curve would be fundamentally impossible. You draw such a curve by sorting the data points from wealthiest to least.

But I suppose, adding no additional logic you could have one half of a normal distribution, normalized by multiplying everything by 2 to account for that.

However, that doesn't strike me as a very natural distribution for a self-organized system with some randomness, and exponential growth. Power and wealth always seems to find its way to some type of power law distribution. You could only enforce such a distribution by concentrating power to the most extreme limit of a power distribution to exert control over the rest. And it's likely that for any definition of wealth you could come up with, people would just find a proxy for wealth that isn't counted by which they could start to exert more control.
Depends on the kind of system obviously.

Power law is reasonably easy to get. Even with identical starting wealth just having chance + compound interest is enough to produce it. No need for anything more complex than that.
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Yeah, I really don’t understand why the bracket of “extreme wealth” is $250k? I’d be all for adding some bracket for earners over $1MM or over a certain amount of capital gains tax. However, a lot of people rely on capital gains for their retirement, so a tax on that money would negatively affect anyone who puts money in the stock market for retirement...

Taxing the super rich is a great idea, but at the end of the day the govt just needs to spend less money on programs that don’t work or aren’t needed.
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> Oh yes, those baby clicks on YouTube.

A friend's toddler was watching a cartoon with songs on YouTube, and they were deeply focused on it when an ad popped in their face. They didn't stop crying for an hour.

By excluding channels for kids from your ad campaign you can both save money and avoid scaring children, so go for it. :)
Yeah, unfortunately this is a sad truth.
No game engine does that and they don't face an "impossible" amount of data. A game designer may choose to spread work over several frames, but that is done on purpose by the developer.

And frustum culling has nothing to do with this nor it reduces any amount of updates.
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"evenly" is not the same as "fairly".

If you take 10% from someone making $1000/month, they can't pay their electric bills.

If you take 10% from someone making 1,000,000/month, they have to wait a little longer to buy their third superyacht.
As someone who has studied improv for three years, and read both of Keith Johnstone's books numerous times, I highly recommend reading Johnstone's books specifically, rather than this. It's true that improv is immensely useful in the workplace. However, this article has very little that references Johnstone; it seems to be taking the high level, general understanding of improv as a jumping off point for their own advice. Their chapters to follow do reflect some of the topics Johnstone covers, but again, I highly recommend just reading Impro and/or taking a couple improv classes at your local school if you can. Getting it straight from the source will be incredibly helpful in your work and personal life.
I’d love to see an analysis of who the top 0.01% are, in terms of income.

My guess is the people who make the list this year, drop off the next and never end up on it again.

The top people (again income) are the folks that sell their company or equity stake. It’s a huge windfall, but they never make that much again.
You are right. What some people want is to punish your success by arbitrarily deciding how much money is “too much” and using taxes to take away what they think you should not have.
If the exodus goes from a trickle to a torrent, the city budget propped up by property taxes is going to crater. Whatever problems there are now with homelessness, imagine what it will be like when social services can no longer be provided for them. San Francisco is a ship that lost power to its engines while coasting towards an iceberg.
No, it’s not. Rage removes the ability to discuss anything and fuels the “us vs them” mentality which has been proven time and time again to be unhealthy and NOT productive.
That’s an obvious option.
It’s not more complicated. The same flawed intelligence apparatus which provided the lists of people to capture and interrogate during the Bush administration also compiled Obama’s kill list.

Neither method really provides any useful intelligence. The difference is victims of torture can go on ‘60 Minutes’, victims of targeted drone strikes can’t.
What "Service" does Bill Gates provide? He hasn't worked in 15 years, but his net worth has more than doubled.
The author of this article is a researcher in cognitive psychology specializing in education. He wrote a pop-sci book detailing how cognitive science explains what's wrong with school, and it's very much worth a read if you're at all interested in the topic. Link is https://www.amazon.com/Why-Dont-Students-Like-School/dp/0470....
Yes my college had a math for educators degree. https://www.bsu.edu/academics/collegesanddepartments/math/ac...
I was a math education minor and I had to take 9 classes (3 credit hours each) including 2 on teaching math. It didn't seem very much like a "fake math degree" to me.
Never once did I say 2^64 ought to be enough for anybody, so how about stop being a jerk?

Try reading what you quoted again, nobody is running out yet.

There are a lot of intermediate steps between 2^64 and 2^128! ;)
I guess you should define what exact mechanism you’re describing when you use the term ‘group selection’. Richard Dawkins would describe the phenomena you mention (multi-cellular organisms and eusocial insects) as cases of the genes which create those complex phenotypes being selected.
Welcome to the Lone Star State! Cheap real estate and friendly folks. And BBQ, metric tons of BBQ...
>I'm more intelligent than someone with Downs Syndrome, but that doesn't mean their life is less valuable does it?

That depends on who you ask, actually.
Sound similar to the proxy network [1] Luminati, which use an SDK which developers get paid to embed in their Apps, in order to route proxy traffic through... Kind of like a Tor network...

[1] https://luminati.io/proxy-networks/mobile-ips
I mean the peninsula is mostly a dump but even historically “bad” neighborhoods like Richmond and Oakland are miles away from where they were 10-20 years ago. The East Bay and Silicon Valley proper are downright decent places to live.
Can you do this on the command line with regular graphviz?
fair enough, 'bout what I was thinking.

Anyway good job, it certainly maximises usefulness for the complexity. Especially good call on using the codemirror editor, I'd have not thought of it but it makes the thing much nicer to use.
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Do international sanctions apply to individuals?

Even otherwise also there might be conscientious reasons for doing something that a government might find objectionable. Like people going to Iraq during the war, to act as human shields, in an attempt to stop war.
Not with graphviz but it calls to a Perl package called graph-easy which provides a command-line utility. So you could install and use that.
Unfortunately that's not always the case. Living in Germany, I've heard and read (good example /de/ subreddit) loads of hate against middle and upper-middle class people. People who are nowhere near close to being rich. This is also a group that's being taxed as much as the actual rich, or in practice even more, because the rich can afford to "optimise" their taxes.

There's a sizeable group of people that just cannot stand someone working hard and reaping the fruits. Again I'm not talking about Lambo-driving, yacht owners but an average doctor, small business owner or an engineer for that matter.

Per the old meme, success breeds jealousy, but unfortunately recently it breeds hate and violence.
I really, really hope nobody writes games in React.

It is such a bad fit for games and it is very disrespectful of the environment and your users' battery.
It actually does come about ”naturally”. You just need compound interest and bit of randomness. See https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

This does not mean it’s good. The source even presents some methods of avoiding it.

But the key point is that it doesn’t need some sort of conspiracy of the rich to happen. It will happen inevitably without being anyones fault if steps are not taken to address it.
Sad to hear that!

Related viewpoint from a contemporary: Greenspun's "Reinventing professionalism for software engineers" https://philip.greenspun.com/ancient-history/professionalism...
The executive is not choosing their own pay. The CEO's "boss" is generally a board representing the owners of the company.
Alcohol by far.

Also cocaine.

MDMA.

Sugar.

Develop software skills a tiny bit in a bunch of languages and areas without becoming an expert at anything or finishing projects.
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Rage is a tool for the destruction of polity and the elimination of power to help /anyone /, much less those who need it most. Rage deals more long-lasting damage in its application than it does mobilization. The bitterness and wrath remain kindled long after the desired short-term outcomes have been achieved.
Proven when? Proven how?

You think that the ultra-rich don't have an "us-vs-them" mentality? You think that they aren't lobbying and fighting and advertising and campaigning to keep their unearned wealth and power for themselves?
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>Smith, Yagan, Zidar, and Zwick find that the 1 percent’s income is being driven by owner-managers, mostly of small and medium-sized companies—specifically S corporations, partnerships, and limited liability companies. These are talented managers: the researchers find that profits of companies run by these 1 percent-ers are far higher than those of businesses owned by people in the top 5-–10 percent

>“The demand for top skill has outpaced its supply, with the returns to top skill increasingly taking the form of business income.”

This really doesn't come off as a problem that needs solving and instead sounds like a purely political war cry. These aren't lords abusing powerless peasants, they're contributing members of society being disproportionately rewarded for their disproportionate contributions. Wealth inequality needs to be considered in the context of overall prosperity and despite the fearmongering you see online, most Americans are doing well. Even our poor have modern conveniences, access to emergency healthcare, generally safe food and infrastructure - eating the evil rich and redistributing their wealth is unlikely to solve any of the major issues in the country, as we're already throwing tons of money at schooling and healthcare and the like.
With you on the first sentence, it is written poorly. It came off as smug and trying to be a scientific explanation for an opinion.

On your second sentence, I have no idea what you are talking about. Right wing talking points? Leave your politics at the door sometimes.
I'm fine with changing the alpha value, and finding an optimal alpha value is actually what we should be doing IMO. But we can't act like it's not gonna still be close to some type of power law distribution at the end of the day.
My guess is the opposite. The top people are the owners of very large, very often inherited, fortunes. Few people leave that group and few people enter it.
And this is exactly why the 99% campaign was stupid and destructive. The world isn't being screwed over by the professional class. It's being screwed over by the population of a midsized town with more money then sense.
Right. I'm on HN. I'm probably a programmer. Completely forgot about abstraction because as a programmer I absolutely never dealt with this concept ever....

Of course you completely missed the point. All I am saying is that this may not be possible. This is 100% what I am saying.

Let me give you a concrete example: A visual recognition algorithm. Currently the way we do this is with a trained neural net.

Can a large crack team of humans reproduce the logic of this neural net in a way where it isn't a black box? Perhaps we can use abstraction and subdivide the logic into modular pieces and have different teams of people handle different components....

Currently the second method is not possible. We do not have the ability to subdivide the problem into smaller units of complexity. We do not yet know how to "abstract" components of a neural net.

What I am saying is that the "abstraction" part may not ever be possible. It MAY very well be that a neural net of 1000 nodes can only be understood by understanding all 1000 nodes AT THE SAME TIME. It may very well be that you cannot find 200 nodes in the network and give it to a small team to handle and find another 300 nodes to give to another team...

Not saying it's impossible in the near or far future. I'm saying I fear it MAY be Impossible.

What is impossible is understanding all 1000 nodes at the same time. This is ALL that I am saying. Sheesh.

If consciousness is a neural net.... It may suffer from the same problem. Understand?

Leave it to the internet to read a comment and take it the wrong way.
Define: dumb.
There were some interesting suggestions along these lines in the "12 factor CLI" piece previously linked at HN, in sections 6 and 7:

https://medium.com/@jdxcode/12-factor-cli-apps-dd3c227a0e46#...
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The distribution looks like it does because you often can't substitute quality with quantity, so the money gets dis-proportionally funneled to the top few. So for example if we in the future figure out good ways to collaborate so ten average people can replace a top CEO then you'd see CEO pay go down the drain.
I've read your post about a brief history select(2) and kind of tried to go down with archaeology as to how the BSD sockets API came to be the way it is (struct sockaddr before struct sockaddr_storage, connect and bind being separate states, read/write v. recv/send), but it's been very hard trying to get complete documentation on the evolution since the first BBN drafts.

Food for extra thought I suppose; there's probably a lot of knowledge and trivia to be gleaned from the historical evolution of the interfaces, and I'd imagine you're in a better position to actually sink your fangs into this.

Incidentally, your post is time travelling and claims being from Dec 6, 2019.
To where in Texas are they moving? The non-paid version of the WSJ article doesn’t say. I keep hearing that in massive influx of tech companies to the Austin area has driven up housing rates and congestion to absurd levels. Probably won’t be long before tech companies skip Austin for cities like Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio.
Me too, it tries to redirect me through "guce.advertising.com" because I have enabled the list "Peter Lowe’s Ad and tracking server list".

You don't actually need to click, this is a preview:

https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1199446847560880128/pho...
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> you can use Android's binder, which is already in mainline

This sounds interesting, and as a regular Linux dev, I’ve never heard of it. Is there a tutorial for this that doesn’t assume you’re coming from an Android background?
On the contrary: you always target exactly "the guy earning 250k/y". Because people earning a lot of money but still earning through work are the easiest to target, since they can not just move somewhere else easily.