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I have no problem with agreeing that computation can emerge from neurons. For example, one can show how different neural configurations correspond to logic gates, persistent memory (this requires recurrence) and so on. This is precisely what I mean by valid emergentist models. No magic steps, just complexity.

The problem is that you start by stating that "consciousness is a computation", but I don't know if this is true, and neither do you.

> Is the problem that you don't believe that consciousness can emerge from elementary computation, or you believe that it is possible but we have no proof of it?

My problem is that your hypothesis that "consciousness is a computation" is not testable, and so it does not count as a scientific theory (according to the standard Popperian falsifiability criterion).

Unless/until we have a scientific instrument that measures consciousness, we are just assuming things. I assume that other humans are conscious (by analogy), but I don't know it to be true in a scientific sense.

So it's not a matter of what I believe or not, it's a matter of what science can investigate or not. So far, it looks like the phenomenon of consciousness is beyond its grasp.
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Irreducibility may be a thing, e.g. turbulence. For example, we can easily make an ML model that recognizes an image or speech and we can explain every little detail about how it works, but we can't explain the high level emergent dynamics of this model and thus can't really explain how it works. I believe we'll build a real AI soon, it'll exceed all expectations, and we still be puzzled by the complexity of it's turbulent emergent dynamics. In other words, if we could ask an oracle how cognition works, he would write a bunch of diff equations followed by a million volumes of hard math theorems and the complexity will be so irreducible that by the time we start reading volume 2, we'd forget volume 1. Yet another way to look at it. We can imagine a square because it's a simple object. However we can't imagine a 10 dimensional calabi yau manifold no matter how hard we try: it has more complexity that fits into our brains. If the theory behind cognition is as irreducible as that manifold, well never "get" it, even though we'll be able to describe all its local properties.
Tender price submissions should be weighted by previous estimates vs reality.
I'm not sure why you would believe Musk's grandiose proposals at this point given his abysmal success rate (Tesla vs every other promised "breakthrough").
Absolutely, there's no intellectual process to get there. [0] Rather it requires a lifelong immersion in "news" media
committed to minimizing USA war crimes, coupled with an aggressively jingoistic ignorance of history.

[0] that is, one brutally murdered innocent child of innocent parents is not really different than some other brutally murdered innocent child of innocent parents.
Thank you for posting this! Me too! I was at a local arcade and came across a real/original spaceinvader cabinet and I was floored at how much of the experience is not captured by an emulator on a laptop. The silvered screen layer is very eye catching and the sound - so much bass really adds to the experience of the dropping invaders.
The specific bindings vary by person and hardly matters, but having an extra modifier in the Command key is invaluable. It lets you properly "namespace" key binds (ctrl and meta for emacs commands, CMD for global) and prevents hacks like copying text in terminal being different from copying text anywhere else (ctrl-c vs ctrl-shift-c in windows and linux, always CMD-c in macos).
Can you point me to an example of this?
Isn't this basically just a threat to do exactly what you're saying?
> Yes, who cares about the forced labor camps and suicide nets around factories.

Nobody really cares, except for those directly involved. Sad but true, nobody will ever go to war for that, for foreign citizens.

> I want my cheap plastic consumer devices!!

People do actually want that. And their cheap shoes and clothes and...
Occasions where men need to look good
Shoutout to http://blank.org

Used to have this set as my homepage.
It might not be. Does that mean we can't decry both?
>"...the desire to have someone force these companies to remove hate speech or misinformation can backfire. To see how, we need look no further than Singapore’s new “fake news” law, which has already been used to force an opposition politician to modify a Facebook post to include the government’s position on the topic he mentioned in his post, along with a large banner across the original saying “False.”

This is so obvious, it's disheartening to me that people are trying to give the US government power to do this.
Decades of productivity of improvements make higher labor costs completely bearable. In fact, one might say that is the fundamental basis of advancing civilization.
It worked for electricity.
Even when governments don’t limit freedom of expression we do it to ourselves as can be seen with all the Twitter mobs.
I honestly have no idea where NPM pulls its audit numbers from. If I open up npmjs.com right now, it says there's 1,153,926 packages in total on NPM. While CRA does have a bunch of transitive dependencies, I can guarantee that CRA does _not_ depend on 83% of the entire NPM registry :)
Is there anyway to do multiple profiles on iOS firefox or any non-chrome browsers? That is one feature I will miss from Chrome on iOS.

And honestly, the profile manager on Firefox is annoying, since you have to start from command line to access and it can't run multiple instances/profiles in parallel.
Then please enlighten us and share with us what is wrong.
I guess it would depend, I do understand that they could build a 4G tower near everyone that serves well and has no datacaps...but what happens when people clog up the tower? Wireless has a lot of problems landlines (generally) don't have. I guess OTA would be fine, if the telecom could prove that it could handle over a certain amount of traffic without throttling (this is generally why throttling exists.)
A foot in the door
editors solved the problem of parens way back in 80s.
Specifically mentions the post office. I've always thought that they (the USPS) have a constitutional mandate to handle interstate communication.
Minified JS (even with single letter variables and all) is still a high level language which is much easier for humans to follow than bytecode.
That was only an example of it being a valid concern.
I actually love WASM (specially the s-exp representation) and have implemented a compiler that compiles to it, but it's important to listen to valid concerns even if we really like a technology.
Shouldn't they have instructions on how send a pull request without a GitHub account? I'm already boycotting for an unrelated reason.
In addition to government interference in free speech, all actions/words that offend have potentially life devastating consequences in this age of the digital permanent record. Suppose you slap someone in a moment of uncontrolled anger. If someone records that, posts it on the internet, and it goes viral, you then become the mad slapper in the eyes of the world. If someone googles your name, they will see you slapping someone. Even a single slap can potentially destroy your life. Not only do we have draconian laws, but also draconian self-regulation fueled by a vicious mob that demands political correctness.

People are angry. Everyone that steps out of line is now a target for that anger. It's a sad and scary state of affairs.
you don't remember M-expressions?

>S-expressions were originally intended only for data to be manipulated by M-expressions, but the first implementation of Lisp was an interpreter of S-expression encodings of M-expressions, and Lisp programmers soon became accustomed to using S-expressions for both code and data.

— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-expression#Use_in_Lisp

now, i won't say that i don't enjoy S-expressions, because i do. i do think there is some value in creating ..less intimidating front-ends to lisp-fam languages. one of the things that i love about racket is their focus on alternative syntax. i love that. everyone knows that lisp is capable of creating new syntax, but most of the time that ability is not used to its fullest extent. some standardization is needed, but it would be really cool to have a way to create compilers for arbitrary languages using advanced syntax macros. especially if the lisp representation is callable from other lisp programs AND other languages. JVM and BEAM have this, why not lisp?

personally i'm very interested in creating an elm compiler using chicken scheme. it is a little bit outside of the C-like comfort zone, but it is made to be very beginner friendly which i appreciate.
> Go to your senators. Go out and vote. Go protest.

This is the protest. This is one form of how protest looks like.
Yes, I'm not sure what the future holds for HTML but I'm confident the ultimate goal of webassembly is to make the browser a secure place to run full native like apps. That suggests some apps will not use HTML and just render everything themselves

There's some incentive to use HTML as it's indexable but it doesn't seem to be affecting mobile, although maybe mobile is in large part successful because of the web? Like the fact that you can post a tweet or a facebook post or a youtube video everywhere. Not sure that HTML is required for that and if it's not then it seems at least possible HTML will die.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-announces-ze...

To act like nothing has changed under Trump is ignorant. To pretend that it would matter is disingenuous.

No administration is called out in this repository. Saying "Well, it's too late, because you didn't complain about it under the last administration" is meaningless.
Because the market is a cartel with no incentive in this case.
How's the DOM manipulation coming along?
Reminds me of isitwhite.com

Also, anyone donate to Wikipedia?
It’s a bad render target, and it’s only half the story. It’s html + css that’s the render target.

Separation of concerns happens because the render target is a over complicated mess. So separate the good parts out of the mess as much as possible but the mess is still there.
Just take a look at Blazor for education-by-example. It's a framework like React&friends, but in C#, running in the browser via wasm. Build a SPA in C# - as practical as you can get.
> Probably worth thinking through why this isn't done already: firstly it's a lot of work, and secondly the cross-network accountability is very short on choices. After a certain point you have to decide whether you want to cut off a majority of the internet or put up with it.

It also requires de-anonymisation (so you can identify who the bad actor actually is!) - you wouldn't be allowed a Tor exit node on this network, for example.

I think that "because it is a lot of work" can't be a reason for not taking preventative measures against something you own that is performing harm on another party.

As far as available technologies, "it isn't perfect" does not mean it isn't better.

If an automated ride-sharing service has customers who are shooting guns out their windows and damaging property, then maintaining the anonymity of the attackers is not a reason to permit them to engage in this behavior.

If Tor is permitting criminals to use the Tor tool, itself, to do harm to others, then it is up to the Tor project to remedy this. If I, as a network operator, do not want them damaging my network, then that is my choice. If I, as a customer of a network operator inform the network operator that I am willing to accept Tor and all liability, then this exception can be written into a contract.
The only comparable example to rail networks are rail networks in other wealthy countries, which are great, heavily used systems (barring maybe the UK, where conservatives intentionally sabotaged the system through a badly-implemented privatization scheme).
Sometimes you can, but sometimes you want something that can be called as a function.

And there's no PREPARE IF NOT EXISTS, so you either have to track yourself whether you've already done it or grub around in pg_prepared_statements.
I have to respectfully disagree with the user that suggested calming music (although it may be great advice for your case, it's terrible for mine).

I also disagree with advice that you should not be medicated. Ritalin provides a 200% productivity bump for me, allowing me to decide what I want to focus on, instead of my natural "most interesting thing wins". The organizational and focus adaptations you made to survive before you were medicated become extra advantages once you are medicated and don't require them.

I have a rule never to visit entertainment or social websites at work. Hackernews is the furthest I'll allow myself to stray in that direction. Entertainment sites will feed your distraction and we want that to starve.

This is the list I am listening to currently: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7wwb18SxFVP9XYqxL09dDw?si=...

I look for music that will keep my heart rate high and isn't created to evoke an emotional response. My aim is to be voracious in the office when it comes to completing tasks. I average 5 times the daily throughput of my coworkers. When I run out of new tasks, I set myself on building alternate versions of existing code to see if I can improve on core metrics or malleability until new work arrives. The best version goes to production. I never stop moving.

I am a software architect and lead dev, I field on average 4 "gotcha" technical questions an hour, while working on the high risk tasks within the application. ADHD (if yours is like mine) provides you the ability to context switch with much less of an issue than others (even when medicated). It also allows you to more rapidly switch between a micro and macro perspective than others; although this is a skill you'll have to train in. Also train in communicating well. Err on the side of over-communication if you're going to work on tasks you weren't assigned when you run out of work; with practice, this will keep you from stepping on other's toes.

I grew up playing multiplayer twitch arena FPS and FPSZ games (quake, tribes) and competitive fighting games (street fighter). Fast paced strategy, adaptation, execution precision, and rapid skill improvement are my comfort zone. You can approach professional programming the same way. You improve by doing; so do a lot and you'll improve rapidly.

I wind down in the evenings reading documentation and decompiling/poring over the code of programmers I admire and researching why they did what they did.

I have worked with a lot of programmers I can see ADHD symptoms in who try to mask them and fit in with the norm. They slow themselves down. I say you were born an outlier; make it work for you. Speed up until you're not distracted anymore. Push and refine what makes you special. Automate busywork (busywork is your worst enemy; but automating it is fun). Our industry is as ADHD friendly as it gets; your work time can be play time. Just make sure you never give a coworker an opportunity to say you are reckless (or God forbid, and opportunity to prove it).
There could be some hidden complex series of pained logic to justify destruction of evidence, so I am hesitant to judge on the matter.
Your parents almost certainly have access to satellite broadband
The article is mostly a rehash of the critiques of Shekhar Kirani's cringe-worth "clues to identifying 10x engineers".

Confusingly though, the article states that successful tech entrepreneurs like Zuckerberg are the very definition of 10x engineers. Zuckerberg is not a 10x engineer, but a 10x (god-mode x) entrepreneur.

If you want an icon for a 10x engineer, I offer John Carmack as an alternative.
So presumably you have evidence of most countries trading with each other while going to war with each other?
Can you draw plausible cause and effect lines from regulations to lower quality and higher costs? (If it's higher costs enforcing higher quality, arguably the regulations are working as desired.)

Are there examples of countries with high quality outcomes and low costs where those industries are deregulated?

I would add the Republican party in the US is so incompetent and dysfunctional, they are unable to create concrete policy proposals or pass legislation, even when they had full control of the federal government. What concrete steps did they take to fix fundamentally broken industries like health care and higher education?

So I find myself drawn to Democrats like Bernie and Warren, at least they have plans to address these issues, and the status quo is unacceptable.
What is the criticism exactly? Saying WASM is worse than minified JS is factually wrong.

We can debate about minified JS if you so desire but its a different debate.
That is McDonald's problem.

They may need to look at the business and franchise model. They have a fubar business with hundreds of SKUs. 5 Guys is able to make money on a freshly cooked burger, higher standards for quality and higher cost. Make a "McDonald's Classic" concept that cooks real food at higher prices.

Again, McDonald's makes a business decision to have a system that encourages franchisees to utilize labor at the lowest cost possible because it is the lowest risk decision for them. For the larger company, the profitability struggles of the operators aren't a world-ending problem -- they own the real estate assets, and get to be an exclusive supplier and pull their percentage of gross sales first.

From my POV, I don't care a whit about McDonald's -- as a human it's awful that people are treated the way that they are, and as a taxpayer it's awful that society as a whole gets to pick up the pieces when hard working people fail and end up dependent on social services for survival. If McDonald's business can't deliver, that's their problem. The demand for food isn't going anywhere and a competitor will fill the void.
I guarantee you no SBCL devs have one of those.
I don't know whether we do increase in intelligence anymore there are problems that increase in the most intelligent populations that might put a limit on it. As to whether some part of intelligence can be accounted for with epigenetics I'd bet on it as it's a complex trait but you'd have to ask a researcher.
While I agree access to the wealth of information on the internet should be a right, I don't think it's necessary to require every household to have gaming level latency. OTA latency is generally good enough for doing what really matters on the internet.
Sounds like a great time to start your own woke git service. So you have maybe 10-15 open source packages in your product, at a minimum. I guess we're at such an intolerant point now that all 10-15 of those companies political policies and viewpoints must align with your own - to use their software/service.

I guess we've politicized code now. Has anyone looked at the political system of discourse lately? Keep that shit out of code, or we're doomed as a profession.
MS SQL Server hashes all incoming statements and looks them up in global shared cache, essentially doing what Redis does without having to deal with the hash directly.

The cache will get evicted based on time with no use and memory pressure etc.

I am actually kind of surprised to find that Postgresql doesn't do this also, wow, I thought pretty much every modern RDBMS did this.
One example might be medicaid - given it's in an incredibly barbaric and stressful way of exhausting your finances first, then trying to get onto the program all while fighting the illness.
The CMD key is much better utilized by MacOS than the windows/super key is by windows/linux. Most OS-level things are under command, and I'm free to use readline/emacs bindings in any text inputs across the whole OS and never have them conflict with global bindings.

Windows/linux still defaults to many OS commands being in the ctrl space (like ctrl-c for copy, not windows-c) which causes clobbering in the terminal, forcing people to use ctrl-shift-c, for instance.
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Name one substantive piece of legislation that passed that was written by him during his entire time in the senate.

I'll wait.
This is a great alternative to Google Analytics. It's free and it works as soon as you activate the plugin.

Most bloggers set up Google Analytics without thinking too much but never use much of the data it collects and tracks.

This plugin has all the basics that the average bloggers cares about and it does it without adding extra load and without collecting intrusive and behavioral data.
So how does a k8s engineer retire a node? This recently fooked up our cluster and it came down to a DNS issue... I don't see how that is "managed by a machine" am I missing something?
No one is subverting the legal system lol what the fuck "go protest" what do you think you're reading?
MAD and the cold war prevented war between countries on either side of the iron curtain, sure.

But then you go on to claim that war among countries on the Western side was prevented by memories of war and not the EEC, without any reasoning as to why. I don't buy it. The first World War was already terrible, yet these countries were at each others' throats only a few decades later.
More and more "the people" want corporations to do the policing. Everyone cheers when someone controversial is booted from Twitter, but suddenly it'ss a problem when the NBA and Blizzard censored people, albeit for less defensible reasons.
Increasingly people (esp. Millennials) consider ethics and values toward the top when deciding whether to purchase or use a product.

Why wouldn't they get together and shame a company when that company acts against their own moral values? Is the best possible solution to wait until the first Tuesday in November and hope for the best? I am sure many will also vote, call their elected officials, go to a protest. They'll also sign online petitions.
Add to that the fact that sourdough contains no live cultures, and you have not only a bad study, but a bad research question.
> behave as if the value of their time is zero

I see this in my home kitchen and it has come to drive me batty. I think it's related to general innumeracy. Maybe the fear of numbering thing.

In the kitchen I've seen people saving butter wrappers to use the little scraps of butter on them to grease up pots and pans for cooking. That couldn't be a tenth of a cents worth of butter. Same with sauces and leaving only the last little table spoon in them. Why not use it all up and get a new one? I think it's also an inherited behavior back from Depression era days. Shrug.
It's the goal.

Those seeking it would be advised to consider whether it's a power they really want Trump to have, or his successor, but there's a lot of people who seem to operate on the presumption that in the long term, their side is going to have complete control of the government indefinitely and the fact that some people they disagree with has some control at the moment is a momentary aberration. I would suggest history does not favor this viewpoint.
Isn't this the firewall itself rewriting request responses that happen to be from http://baidu.com? How is Baidu infected in this case, and what can they do to prevent this on their aside aside from strict HTTPS upgrades?
Yes. I don't think a team leader should be regarded as a control freak for wanting to encourage team cohesion and collaboration even if (or especially if) team members spend a lot of their days working independently.

I get that some people--perhaps especially engineers--would rather just be left in their cave to communicate asynchronously if and when they want to. But I don't blame managers/leaders for considering that a suboptimal practice taken to an extreme.

Personally, I mostly work fairly independently on a day-to-day basis but I also work with both formal and informal broader teams and it definitely helps to know the people I work with as something other than a nickname on chat.