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It doesn't help that quantum computers can be simulated with standard transistors (albeit much slower). Are we really arguing that speed of computation is now a pre-requisite for consciousness?
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what an awesome idea. wonder if someone has done it for other areas
The pandemic finally broke my online food ordering habit, which was getting ridiculously expensive over the past year. Along those lines, I refuse to support Uber in any way as I loathe Uber's company culture. So Seamless (GrubHub) will be an instant uninstall if they are unfortunately bought by Uber. Which will continue to help curb my bad habits.

So bad things can be good, I guess...
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> Also don't discount the target audience for these pages might not be the average developer / nh reader. Also don't discount the

the what? They got to him, the food bloggers did.

WHAT WERE YOU TRYING TO TELL US
I have worked remotely (from home) for several years now. Almost everyone I work with also work remotely.

While companies can save money with smaller offices by allowing working from home the biggest factor imho is you open the potential employee pool to the whole country, if not the content or the world.

You are no longer restricted to the best person you can get within an hour or two commute of an office.

Find someone perfect for the role who lives 5 hours away? It doesn't matter anymore!

You no longer have to convince them to relocate (and put forward cash to cover the relocation as a condition of the contract).

You don't have to throw away the perfect candidate because a decade ago your company decided this is where you office should be but now you can't find local talent.

I hope when my son starts working (if he works in an office) he says to me "Dad, did you seriously have to go to the same place an hour away every day to sit at a desk and do the same work you can do on any computer with an internet connection? That's crazy!"

So much needless commuting could end if more companies embraced remote working. Not being forced to live within commuting distance of an office would mean more people can live further from "the office" easing pressure on housing, roads, public transport systems, save energy (fuel), reduce commuter accidents (vehicular and public transport), reduce pollution and give everyone more time in their day not mindlessly traveling from A to B back to A again every day.
Were the submariners fresh recruits or long-time personnel practiced at (acclimated to) operating in a high-CO2 environment?

Is a submarine’s ratio of O2 to CO2 maintained at a normal fresh air ratio at its higher absolute CO2 level?

etc.
https://archive.md/CytY7
The stock market is not the economy. Also you can't selectively choose to only open certain businesses because they're all connected. Tesla alone has thousands of vendors and suppliers affecting hundreds of thousands of jobs.

I'm a startup founder who has lost major revenue. I personally know dozens who have lost their businesses and jobs and a few who have gotten sick. More aid is not going to make any difference and the economic disaster is going to cause much more suffering and death. Supporting family isn't free. These are known effects and must be balanced against the new data we have about covid19.

But now you're resorting to baseless accusations and personal attacks so let's end it here.
> is happening

What is different this time?

The Fed has participated in just about every financial bailout since it was founded in the 1910s. Even before the USA moved from gold-backed-bucks to fiat currency, there were rumors that there wasn't enough gold to back all of those promises.

> Nobody sees any issues

I'm sure lots of people are concerned, but that isn't the question. The question is what can be done and I think at this point everyone s paralyzed with indecision.
It's also terrifying that it's possible we could create a godlike AI that is entirely unconscious.
Every science degree studies algebra in their first course, it should be regarded as something pretty basic. How comes people are still talking about this?
I can count on one hand the number of actual friendships I formed with coworkers. I mean relationships that continue past the time where we literally shared an office.

Most of the people I work with are highly ambitious and globally mobile. Our average tenure is something like a year. People who have been at the company for two years are veterans. Forming friendships in that situation is difficult because at this point many of those people have moved away for greener pastures.

Most of my friends are people I met trough my extracurricular social circles. Personally I like that almost all of my friends have different jobs in different fields. There's never work talk in social settings and I get a more diverse perspective on the world.
Somehow the G-droid dev doesn't like some decisions the F-droid team makes, and paints them in a fairly bad light.

What's going on here is that F-droid always links to the source code, which will typically lands you on the readme of the github repo. Adding a link as 'website' to the same location was deemed redundant, so the links were removed.
Can anyone recommend good selfhosted alternatives to Google Play Music?
> In the U.S. the legal field has been saturated for years and I'm not aware of any law schools closing.

There have been several mergers (I'm personally aware of one in my area), and it sounds like some schools have closed as well:

https://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/urge-to-merge-la...
Rumor is that the Directors of Martix were so influenced by this book that every Cast member was supposed to read it.
> Real families don't work that way.

I dunno, mine certainly does. My family extends only to where they're no longer toxic in my life. When they intrude and become a negative influence, I cut them out.

My gripe with the antagonistic "work is not your family" approach is it sends the signal that the people I meet at work will never be my family. That kind of sucks. Sure, corporations cutting people out aren't very familial, but there are other humans at the core and some of those coworkers do care if I get fired or am having personal issues. Unilaterally casting them out as a machine to further my personal interests is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/emanuelabarbiroglio/2020/04/23/...

> COVID-19 will double the number of people suffering from a food crisis, pushing it to 265 million, estimates the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP).

You can read the report to see the effects of policy versus the effects of the burden of disease.

I don't need to cite anything regarding the other claims. The people who have assaulted human dignity by putting half of humanity under house arrest are the ones who need to prove that this draconian intervention will result in a net benefit, vis a vis the concerns I've pointed out. Cite your sources that it will -- I'm sure to hear crickets chirping on that one.
You have a "virtual" unit of account which has an exchange rate to the local currency. The value is updated daily and is tied to the consumer price index, basically it gets inflation adjusted.

Whenever you take out a loan, at the moment of signing the contract the value is converted from the local currency to the unit of account. Loan payments are then made in the unit of account, every month this fixed value is converted back to the local currency according to the current exchange rate. This way loan payments get inflation adjusted.

The idea is that banks and foreign investors have no inflation risk, companies and consumers take all risk.
I've extracted the oneliner command that runs this into a gist of a simple bash script. I don't want to send my PDFs to an unknown server. Also modified a bit (density and output compression) to reduce file size. https://gist.github.com/jduckles/29a7c5b0b8f91530af5ca3c22b8...
I do not trust people when they use culture as a selling point. I made the mistake once, and did meet some great people, but I don't see a single one of them regularly. We ended up having a temporary job and basically just shared mutual trauma. I tried to stay up with the escapee Slack channel, but, it feels more like a support group for people who fled the same cult.

With that being said, I've made some of my best friends in boring coding jobs that only promised me money in exchange for work. It's funny now that people I'm friends from other jobs have met and mixed, that I don't even remember who I worked with where or what the hell we even did.
> I imported a new logging mechanism and called a specific method from it in one of my class's methods. Repeat for four similar classes.

How would an IDE know the local variable you've declared, that is a suitable match to the logging method's parameter?
If you have wine in your production stack you gotta be doing something wrong.
I did have some reporting tools run in Dosbox though as we couldn’t get the printer working without it. And it printed the reports and OCR’d them in because every time someone tried to rewrite that reporting tool they never got the same numbers and nobody wanted to be the one who answered the question as to “well whose right”
You my friend, are a genius!

Darwin and innocuous sarcasm rarely line up this well.
It would be the best privacy invading tool you could come up with :)
It is easier than ever before to go out and meet people with similar interests to you. In many places, even relatively small ones, clubs exist for climbing, sailing, all sorts of tech, chess, reading, photography etc. I don't buy the idea that people are so feeble that they can't make friends outside work.
All this might change if there are enough candidates that have become suitable now there is a WFH policy in place.
I believe rconti was not talking about the duration of COVID19 issues, nor the duration of WFH. Rather, the evolution of economic norms given the assumption of sustained normalization of remote work.
okay Buggery Yorkshire, not here to bruise any egos
Is the US effectively pushing their dept to other nations? Unlike any other currencies were it would just inflate it appears the rest of the world's central banks keep buying more and more dollars to keep the exchange rates stable enogh against their own.

At the enormous amount of money being created I would assume Simbabwe or German like inflation but I don't see it happening. Exchange rates are more or less the same as a year ago.
I find that digital books are simply too perfect. There should be pdf fonts where there are maybe 10 incantations of each character, and the display:

1. picks one incantation randomly for each display
2. slightly and randomly alters the position/rotation of each character
3. adds a tiny blotch now and then

Like the print in a real book, especially ones printed before 1970.

I also suggest that the background be an actual scanned image of a blank piece of paper. Those "paper color" backgrounds are too perfect. Take some blank pages out of an older book sometime and scan them, and you'll see what I mean.
It moves around as well. There's a huge distinction between Linux _as a kernel_ and "Linux" _as an operating system_. The kernel has the same layout across all the distributions / operating systems, but everything else is up to the particular stack that distro chose. Gentoo is different from Redhat which is different from Debian, etc.

You can do what you describe without changing the kernel, but you would need to modify the userspace environment. One of my toy projects has been trying to run all "user" applications in filesystem sandboxes because I'm sick of how many random "dot-files/directories" get created in my home folder.
This might be a workable visualization.

As physics it's wrong. There is an existing QM explanation for current flow in solids, attributed to Bloch and dating back to the late 1920s. It doesn't work like this visualization. For example in this visualization the electrons aren't transported anywhere, they just sit in place and rotate. That's misleading. In fact charge flows.

I worry about using an incorrect physical picture to visualize physics.
See also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16548684 (2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6417319 (2013)

Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4158865
The way I've heard it is 90% of the job can be done in 10 hours, the next 9% in 100, the next 0.9% in 1000, the last 0.1% in 10,000 hours

I'd hazard a guess that hours is replaceable with millions of dollars for a rough gauge.
> Edit: And I think you meant "veneer of monetary policy"? The argument would be that it's being framed as monetary policy even though it's substantively a fiscal policy, something the Fed is supposed to stay away from.

That's exactly what I meant. Fixed my comment, thanks.
If you use rhel the guarantees are also very strong though it requires some extra steps to package and distribute your own software. Ubuntu on the other hand I've found breaks stuff often enough to be a nuisance.
See standards proposals for various next gen links.

https://www.openfabrics.org/images/eventpresos/2017presentat...
I've heard they are actually closer to production, but yeah.. HAMR's been "a couple years away" for over a decade at this point, I think.
This is the most powerful snitch energy I've ever seen.
> I don't know, do you think that Google Maps and Google Search (and all of its contribution to QoL improvements) have been brought to you by way of exploitation of people?

Unequivocally yes.

> Which people?

The users. Most of whom have no idea that their personal information, browsing history, and spending habits are being harvested and monetized.
somehow I feel like these two examples are not equivalent...
"We are a family" is bullshit. You need to be a pretty egregious repeat offender to be ostracized from a real family. A company can fire you on a whim, simply because someone with a business degree sorted a spreadsheet with salaries in descending order, and you were in the top 20.

The more correct analogy is a sports team. Everyone works well together to win the medal, but it's much more pragmatic in that sense.

Perhaps back in the age of B&W TV, when people could spend their entire life with a company, it was sort of more true. You had that one job, you had your pension. It was really like a second family, an getting let go was like death.

I am beginning to see that nowadays, even full time jobs are becoming essentially contract gigs with better benefits. You should treat it as such anyway. Be professional, be good at what you do, but also be detached and non-emotional about it. It can end at any second.

What you take from a job is not that you were "like a family". What you take from it is the experience, what you have learned from your own mistakes, and most importantly - friendships. The rest is ephemeral like a docker container. Be ready for it to go POOF.
Yeah, he does two big database classes, and the last couple years of each are online with slides, youtube of the lectures, etc. Just click on the schedule for each class. They're amazing resources for learning the state of the art.
I love AutoHotkey, and it works wonderfully in the niche of writing a bunch of tiny UI- and workflow-smoothing functions, like how an Emacs user gradually builds up tweaks in their config file. The one time I tried to use it for scripting that required more than the most basic logic, I ran screaming back to Python. Over a decade of well-meaning development and reasonable design choices have resulted in AHK growing a syntax Frankensteined together from Basic, JavaScript, and batch script. Thankfully the upcoming AHK 2 is cleaning up a lot of the mess.

https://www.autohotkey.com/v2/v2-changes.htm
Taking a picture of a monitor with a will usually result in a Moire pattern[1] since the image sensors is a grid and the display pixels are grid.

Just tried this. Orienting your phone at 45 degrees to the monitor can mostly reduce them, but that's not really that useful.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moir%C3%A9_pattern
It wasn't the same demo: the first time, it was a roller coaster (a really dumb demo!!), the second time walking on a roof and falling (interesting that it created some fear of heights, but I didn't expect to nearly fall for real during the virtual fall due to the change of POV)
I'd also imagine remote employees are cheaper anyways because they don't require office space.
There are contradictory criteria here:

"The theory has given rise to the construction of a consciousness-meter that is being tested in various clinics in the U.S. and in Europe. The idea is to detect whether seriously brain-injured patients are conscious, or whether truly no one is home... but the consciousness-meter tells us that about a fifth of them remain conscious, in line with brain-imaging experiments."

The consciousness-meter observes the system they are trying to make an inference on - but as others have pointed out, is not categorically different than brain scans [1]. Further it's worth making a distinction between medical consciousness and the Qualia kind of consciousness - which I think this conflates. Largely because nobody knows how to measure the latter, and we are barely able to measure the former with "Level of Consciousness" and Grady Coma Scale being the standard. [2]

"Our theory says that if we want to decide whether or not a machine is conscious, we shouldn't look at the behavior of the machine, but at the actual substrate that has causal power"

This seems to only address the medical form of consciousness and does not tie it to the philosophical concept in any concrete way - while also contradicting the concept that observation is the key. It kicks the can and doesn't address the "Qualia" kind of consciousness, which in my opinion isn't something we have conceptualized how to measure.

I wrote a bit about this in the past [3]

I think what they are getting at is "don't look qualitatively at how the arms move, or the speaker/text generator outputs something" but rather, what are the mechanisms causing those actions. This I am in agreement with generally, but again, we don't really know if that maps to the qualia kind of "hard problem of consciousness" or not. I would argue it is impossible to actually measure whether a system has Qualia, it is inherently subjective - so it's possible that they are simplifying without stating that directly.

I'd go further and ask, does it matter if it does? I have yet to see a compelling materialist argument that mandates the existence of qualia in any debate, ethics or otherwise. At a certain point people in these kinds of debates I've found that people start discussing non-material "souls" and at that point all bets are off.

[1] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/can-integra...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK380/

[3] https://kemendo.com/intelligent-systems
At least those things are part of the curriculum of a STEM degree, but they aren't for a non-STEM degree.
As a childless person with a great home office, this is exactly how I felt being forced to work in an open floor plan office. There was no time to concentrate on my work unless I got in early or stayed late. There were constant distractions from the crush of people around me. I would take the distraction of a couple of children over 100s of my colleagues elbow-to-elbow any day.
Ignoring the appeal to nature, the tech industry has been extremely volatile for several decades. We're in the middle of a dot-com bust equivalent for the entire economy, because of natural forces, and it's not beneficial.
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As a counterpoint: Capture One is not a direct Photoshop competitor, yet it became very popular among photographers.
The problem is only a small fraction of society can have "freedom of association" without R_0 getting out of control. We have decided to allocate fraction to essential workers, which is probably not the worst possible decision.
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"if the world is going to be dominated by big tech, it'd better be by an AMERICAN company, not some CHINESE!!"
Most Microsoft technology is completely free for non professionals. PC came with a Windows CD or the OS was per-installed already. You could install IIS (ASP server, l.limited to 5 users) from the Windows CD. I used the classic notepad.exe to code. It was kinda standard to buy the Office package, which came with a file based database. There where plenty of free tutorials on the web, and IIS also had some examples. And there where services that would host your web app for free.
If you wanted to do "real" programming you had to buy books and a compiler which was super expensive.

Moving to Linux was a new world opening, that I had only seen glimpses of before. Using apt-get to install an app was mind blowing. Getting used to the command line took a while, but now I do everything from the terminal, except some GUI apps and the browser. Still have to look up most commands and read man pages though.
Not all work is equally valuable. Not all work is equally doable. Some work requires decades patience and sacrifice before one is competent enough to perform it. Some work is physically or cognitively beyond the vast majority of the population.

It doesn't make sense to expect all jobs to have all the same benefits and privelegdes. Even if we pretend that all humans are fundamentally equal in ability, inequality will always exist, so long as humans are free to make choices in a world of finite resources and time.

Moreso, inequality is not intrinsically bad, for it is a great motivator for the kind of innovation that raises the common floor, which is the more important measure.

If you're able to eat, drink, and shelter during a global pandemic, while your entire country is on lockdown, and your economy has crawled to a standstill, then you're in a pretty good place.
I just gave it a shot and it was pretty tasty, but i wonder if it's stable enough to be strained like yogurt. Might give that a shot next time.
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Is this some kind of new-age philosophy? Show me the part of the brain that doesn't work based on physical properties. If you can't, then we have to agree that the brain is just operating on mathematics.

Computers can do math too. QED: your argument makes no sense.
It's out there. One website that always impresses me with its extreme speed is McMaster-Carr. Their Server header also claims they're using IIS.
Long before machines become conscious, they will become self-sustaining, self-replicating, and self-interested.

Think about it, consciousness did not come about until way after cells and multicellular life.

With machines, it may happen much faster. Look for those three pre-requisites before looking for consciousness.
It's illegal as soon as you stop paying the tax man.
freedom in America usually means freedom of the elite to do whatever they want, and freedom of the workers from being protected
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Were they exposed to out in the woods situations with conflicting goals and outcomes, or mainly just following routine and script?
Smells like the Soviet 5 year plan. Except no plan. Is it Agile Planned Economy?
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Entire graph embedding means that you have a lot of smaller graphs (e.g. molecules, transactions, threads) and you want to classify them. We created this package which covers these methods:

https://github.com/benedekrozemberczki/karateclub