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You sound very enthusiastic. I hope my response does not negatively impact your enthusiasm.

As soon as I started reading the book, I knew it was way beyond my depth. I was taken by all the news praising Linux and the developers who were changing the world for the better. I too wanted to be part of that story and contribute to FOSS. I was so naive and got deceived by own magical thinking. I got laid off from my first job around that time. I looked for Linux jobs but soon realized that when normal companies put ads for dev jobs on Linux platform, they were mostly for web based java applications running on Jboss or Websphere. I was so dumb that I did not know this simple fact when I bought that book. I lacked mentors and with my social anxiety did not have friends who could advice me. Anyway. After a year at the second job, I got laid off again. One day I came back home and my wife complained about all the fat books I strew around for the umpteenth time. That was the last straw that broke my resolve. In a fit of rage and depression I threw all my books in the dumpster. I should have focused more on Java but I was too dump to realize that C and C++ native applications were on the wane (I used to be a windows developer) and Java based web applications were on the rise. Now I work as a production app support engineer where my coding skills don't count for much. If there is an issue, I have to call different teams like network, dev team and get the issue fixed. I weep sometimes at how my career has turned out. I realized I can't code anymore. When I sit to write code I am overcome by anxiety and can't complete the task for weeks. I am middle aged now in my mid forties.

Don't let my experience dampen your spirit. Go on and change the world.
I would be very surprised if they didn't use any pieces used by Edge (how else would they render css?). A quick search of their code though and I couldn't find it. Perhaps I assumed too much
Wow, that React Native dep graph is crazy!

But as I browse it, most of the dependencies seem to be build-time, not runtime dependencies (i.e. it seems like most of them are related to Babel). The React comparison doesn't include dev dependencies.

While react-native does have more dependencies than vanilla react, on first glance the list doesn't seem too crazy https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/master/package...
I think they mean stuff like XAML islands in Win32.
> everyone’s choices impact everyone else in serious, often fatal, ways

No, some people's choices impact some other people in serious, often fatal ways.

My wife and I started taking precautions more than two months ago. We have drastically cut down the number of shopping trips we make--one of us used to go to the grocery store, drugstore, or whatever every other day or so, now it's about once every 10 days, and we make sure to stock up so we don't have to go more often. We wear mask and gloves whenever we do go to the store or any other public place where we can't reliably social distance. When we walk our dogs, we stay well away from anyone else.

How have our choices impacted anyone else negatively?
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Relying to myself rather than replying to three people: this would be a good question on the RFC, but I would imagine that this would be possible, just not super useful. Usually inline asm is useful for doing stuff you cannot do in the higher level language, but wasm doesn’t have anything like that currently. I would imagine that it would be a fairly straightforward extension though.
Up-voted. That would really make sense and be extremely useful but I don't see anything related to that.
Cubase would likely gain more market share I’d bet.
I mean... it kinda is. Not only is textile design difficult in and of itself (my mom is a very very good hobbyist seamstress, and it takes a lot of work to make even simple garments that work well and feel good), but getting the supply chain running is very difficult and beyond both the skill and patience of most people. You have to be comfortable with not only sewing, but also factory machinery. My mother wanted to make clothes at one point in her life but decided she couldn't scale because she was not comfortable with the large textile die cutting machines that she would have to use to scale.

I dunno who Wyatt Koch is, but if he has designed a shirt and managed to produce it in such volume and with such materials as to be attractive to men (I assume) with money who want to be comfortable, he should be commended. That is very difficult.
Yes, that's the one. I have responded to Whytaka.
I like his idea that consciousness requires a high degree of interconnectivity. I also disagree with his assertion that standard computers can't achieve consciousness. While a von Neumann machine doesn't typically have the high degree of physical interconnectivity that Koch and Tononi say is required, it has the potential through programming to have a high degree of virtual interconnectivity. I don't see why there is a need to differentiate between physical and virtual interconnectivity.

To be fair to the authors, I have only read this article and the IEEE Spectrum article linked from the original. Maybe they go into more depth in their book.
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As far as I understand it, the "hard problem of consciousness" is the claim that consciousness is something absolutely separate, that there is a jump between constructive processes that make up the informal view of consciousness and the full formal, philosophical view. That approach always seemed like a complete dead end.

I mean, "philosophical zombie" construct would seem to experience "Colors, tastes, feelings" and whatever concrete, they just would lack the ineffable quality of (philosophical, formal) consciousness - you could brain pattern akin to color sensation for example. This final view is kind of meaningless and I think people are attracted to the view by misunderstanding, by thinking something concrete is involved here.
A big difference is that Libra is supposed to have stable value while TON Grams were explicitly designed to appreciate (3x IIRC). Of course, no one is interested in pre-buying a stablecoin years before launch so you can't fund development that way.
Sure it can, because there's different dimensions of the gaussian distribution. Maybe it takes being in the top 1% on 4 different dimensions to amass over $10bn. Using the population of Earth, that means that on average only 90 such individuals exist who are in the 1% on all 4 dimensions. No one believes that intelligence is the only factor in outsized wealth accumulation.

It's clear to me though that outsized individual wealth is derivative of a myriad of different factors.
In which ecosystem? If you mean desktop apps in general, then there are many other options. Qt and wxWidgets, to name a couple of popular ones that have been around for a very long time.
Certainly nothing can ever be conclusively proven. I might be a brain in a vat that has had a fictional reality fed to me for my entire life. Such arguments may be interesting in some venues, but is HN really that venue?

> To conclude that it happened randomly seems as naive as to conclude it happened purposefully.

I strongly disagree. You aren't saying that both outcomes are possible (I'd agree with that), but they are equally likely, a much, much stronger claim. The sun might go on shining tomorrow, or it might collapse due to some unforeseen physical process. Both have non-zero probabilities, but it is the person who claims they are equally likely who is the naive one.

As for not defined so let's interpret "miracle" to mean highly unlikely events, they happen millions of times day, and we rarely notice. The bill I received in tender has the serial number MF53610716D. What are the odds of that? If you limit "miracle" to be highly unlikely events that most people would also notice, it would be strange if they weren't happening all the time. Every person who wins a lottery (and there are thousands every day), the person who is told by their doctor their cancer is terminal but then it goes into remission has a "miracle", the guy who loses his job and is about to be evicted then gets a job callback for an application he sent in months ago and forgot about experiences a "miracle."
I do remember them coming out, I believe at the time ARM was unfamiliar to me so that half was too much to learn simultaneously and I was worried about being unable to meaningfully use it. They look more interesting now, thanks for the reminder.
Yes there are laws about disadvantaged Castes I believe and caste discrimination goes on amongst communities outside India.
> Does it make sense that someone can amass as wealth 50,000 years of brain surgeon economic output ($100bn)? If the distribution of human endowments is Gaussian, as it likely is, this level of wealth accumulation cannot be explained by superior productivity alone.

Well, yeah, if someone figured out how to operate an 10000 brains at once, then all of a sudden one would think that he ought to make 50000 years worth of brain surgeon economic output in five years.
Thank you, that means a lot - you are right there are still some small errors that I need to go through and I'd be very grateful if you let me know of any more you find
I work with applications that generate windows and manage their lifetimes independently of whatever is inside the window. afaict, most web/mobile UI frameworks assume they're the only thing in the universe, whereas on desktop there's a complex application managing zero or more rendering surfaces and portions of the code only know about the one that they're supposed to target.

It's a hairier problem than you'd expect it to be. I'm not an expert but my understanding is that it's tricky to deal with the event loops when you're not the master of your domain, at least in a platform agnostic way. The workaround is usually to spawn multiple processes, but then the management of app state has to have an IPC layer underneath the internal APIs and there needs to be a master daemon running somewhere.

In keeping with front page posts, the plugin API for Apple's Logic Pro (audio units) is an example of that. You are handed an NSView* and need to render on it, but you don't create it.
It's fun to think of what a good name for it might be. The word "exalt" occurred to me at one point.
Over here on the East coast of the US we're looking at Cali and saying "they did it right." "People" are blaming NY on the fact that a lot of people arrive their from foreign ports (air and other)- completely oblivious to the fact that if you are coming from China SF and LA are also destinations-and maybe preferable for flights.

It's really a case that because they contained it so well it looks like they didn't need to. Kudos.
> diagram.codes

looks fascinating. is this closed source?

Can I run this over an API or a local container?
It... depends. Remember Silverlight?
The longer you do #2, the less you need #3, if the goal of #2 is to keep hospitals being utilized at the highest sustainable capacity with whatever safety margins are required.

As more people become immune, the spread naturally gets slower, reducing the likelihood of hospitals being overwhelmed in the first place and thus reducing the desire to maintain stricter control. The individual risk of any given social interaction is reduced.

Conversely, the more infected, the more dead, meaning the number of life-years that would be saved via a stricter lockdown until a vaccine or effective treatment gets developed gets smaller and smaller.

I believe the shortest time it has taken to develop a new vaccine is the 5 years it took to develop one for Ebola, so I don't think one will be available in any meaningful way for this pandemic, though I'd love to be wrong.
Does it include children? How many is considered dignified? Some people have to have 3 just to keep the population steady.

If so, is it appropriate for a childless 18-year-old on minimum wage to earn that much (he could probably lease a Ferrari or retire at 38)

Is it appropriate for a company to pay a childless person less than a person with children? Why? What if he’s sterile?

Seems very tricky to me.
They are low paid because in most times anyone can and would be willing to do them. Now, no one wants to do them, so pay will increase if the lockdowns continue.
But we understand tons of things without simulating them.
Only for its marketplace app
You have voluntarily restricted your own freedoms, so I’m not sure what we’re arguing about.
I welcome more non-American owned or hosted companies in this space but going from practically zero to take on AWS is a heck of a long way to go,and would require enormous amounts of capital.

Hopefully, they can stat out with offerings that are especially attractive for European retailers or something like that.
I’ve just finished updating a site, like tonight, which I previously created in Gatsby to webflow and would never go back (for now at least).
Look, webflow not free, and sometimes free makes sense. But if you have to get non-technical people to put together content for a site go with webflow. If you need to get seo right with minimal effort, go for webflow. The cms is great and flexible.

If you like super fancy js css stuff Gatsby rocks. However that is n rabbit hole from which you will not return. So ask yourself, should I be doing other things with my time than coding this website, if the answer is yes - you should probably use webflow and not spend two hours to center that div. I’m sure there is other cases where webflow is not the tool, if you selling stuff go with Shopify. Also I spent hours to get the Gatsby site on Netlify above 90 on google page speed test, with webflow it was 98 on the first go...

So from someone who would rather spend all his time solving complicated web app problems than shifting a flavour of our company page - go for webflow.
And if it’s something you can solve with a reasonable webflow temple also do it.
Nebraska's not a hot spot. Another poster put data and references down supporting this.

The reason you have a few hot spots WITHIN Nebraska is due to 4 different meat processing plants in 4 different counties. The worst hit county, Dakota County, is home to a massive Tyson facility.
PlantUML and Mermaid have really been very useful to me.
One thing I wonder is how well limiting certain things people can do will work. For example, if only the beach or parks are open, will you actually have a higher concentration of people showing up there that normally wouldn't because it's one of only several choices for things to do? Even if retail is limited to like 50% capacity, will you just have the people waiting to go in the store pile up into a crowd outside waiting to go in? I doubt the stores will be able or want to enforce distancing outside their location. It is going to be interesting to see how this plays out.
seasonal farming is not poorly paid: https://money.cnn.com/2012/11/27/news/economy/farming/index....
AI will be conscious when it'll be smart enough to romantically reject a stereotypical incel that is hitting on it.
just ship everything with sqlite :) it'll be fine
> Let's imagine that we simulate the brain in all biological details on a supercomputer. Will that supercomputer be conscious?

> No. It doesn't matter whether the Von Neumann machine is running a weather simulation, playing poker, or simulating the human brain; its integrated information is minute. Consciousness is not about computation; it's a causal power associated with the physics of the system.

Can someone shine some light one what this might mean? I can't wrap my head around what's different about a physical system vs. a sufficiently powerful simulation. I can see an argument that there might be some complexity that is too difficult to compute, but just saying "nope, has to have complex physical connections" seems arbitrary?

Edit: Ah, I missed the discussion further down the thread. Deferring to there.
https://covid19-projections.com/us-ne

and

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/nebraska-coronav...

are the two I count on the most. I don't really trust any of the confirmed case counts to matter much since testing isn't consistent. In most parts of the state you can't get tested unless you're exhibiting symptoms.

One of the local hospitals reported that they're currently at 50% ICU capacity just with COVID-19 patients.
That's probably where Blazor is eventually heading to?

There seems to be some preview on the mobile native, though, it's probably not strictly a WASM as it provides binding through Xamarin...[0]

[0]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/aspnet/mobile-blazor-bindings...
The M&A book-talking will continue until asset prices drop below purchase triggers.
You mean has Google ever lost data? I'm sure it has.

Has Google ever "undertargeted" ads? Obviously yes. Every single outage in an ads system makes it target less well, basically.

And there was that time Ads preferences for basically everyone seemed to indicate that I (along with everyone I knew) was interested in "Raggeaton", whatever that is.
no, it wasn't. i have responded to your previous question.
Worked on XenServer for Citrix (XenSource) for a couple of years (fun ride), I was told / also discovered that most XenServer pools were used to run Windows infra to support XenDesktop / ICA based remote access;-)

Now Linux has won over 50% of server market share in MicroSoft Azure, where I believe Hyper-V running on Windows is the hypervisor (Hyper-V is closely related to Xen).

- Linux has won (in the cloud).

- No one has ever thought one can use Linux desktop on windows via WSL one day.

- The best tool (distro, etc.)is the one that does what you need at the best cost ;-)

As a long term Linux desktop user (since Fedora Core 1 Yarrow), MicroSoft used to be the public enemy of open source, used to disgust me, now (after vs code, WSL, GitHub, showed genuine love to Linux and the community, etc.) I turn neutral (AFAIR - unless that was a daydream, Linus said similar thing).
Yeah definitely click baity.
Systems programming with bash and Python 3
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I think it means using the same process to control multiple windows simultaneously. You can do it with various C/C++ libraries and .NET, but IIRC not Electron, which leads to the question: can you do it with React Native?
But in the end it is reality. The question is who is actually in a position to be able to modify it? Because, this rate was reached by the cummulative effects of many many individuals optimizing their decisions for their own particular situation.
> You can replace "India" with literally any country in the world. Managers and bosses always are and always have been held in more esteem than leaf node workers

This is true to a much greater or lesser degree depending on country, though. Here in the US you can be a really senior leaf node software engineer with fancy titles like "Staff" or "Senior Staff" or "Distinguished Fellow" and command tremendous respect and compensation.

That doesn't exist in some other countries. I was talking with an Italian friend once who works at a bank over there as a programmer, and seniority was exactly the same as how many people you manage. It was a contradiction in terms as far as he was concerned to be a senior software engineer if you weren't at least managing a team. The first question he asked when I was talking about my job was "How many people do you manage?", and when I responded zero, he immediately thought I was low level (I was not). Everyone aspires to be a manager over there.

My anecdote isn't exactly the opposite of yours, because in mine it's programmers themselves that are assigning status based on how many people you manage, whereas in your anecdote it's someone in an outgroup.
You're assuming that the returns to talent are linear, when they are not.

Let's say you're hiring a new CEO for Apple; how much is a 0.1% more talented CEO worth? My math says that 0.1% is worth 260 million per year.

Even though the 'best' CEO might only be a tiny bit better than the runner-up, the 'best' runs a much larger company, and makes far more money.

From this, you can see that the returns to the most talented CEOs and executives are more proportional to the scale of the largest enterprises than to the individual's talent.
Exactly. PlantUML and Mermaid have really been very useful to me.
Planet Money, not RadioLab, but still, good episode.
Like the Russian hoax?
The package.json file hasn't been remotely close to representative of the actual dependency count of a JS project for years.
If you think you understand something, write a simulation which you expect to work based on that understanding, and it doesn't work - did you really understand it?
yeah I'd say the track record of ex-Netflix'ers, the comp they say they pay (top of market for your individual skillset), and supporting evidence seems to indicate they walk the talk.

Not for everyone though.
On the one hand I like seeing behavioral trends feed back into the software. On the other hand, there needs to be tighter acceptance standards, and more effort to minimize the disruption to established rules. That's probably much harder to do on Linux than BSD (windows & macos have no excuse, they control everything!). Linus T. really exemplifies that with the KERNEL, it is the OS that is suffering.
I disagree with the idea that an employer can demand information that the state does not require. If an employer asks for salary history, a candidate can simply tactfully say "no," and walk away if necessary. Saying no doesn't preclude working there (except in how it may agitate the negotiator). Where a candidate lives is not something you can convince the employer to negotiate without, because the state requires that information. You cannot have the job without revealing it. So I still think it's different.
This (from the top Level 5 down) is one of the arguments proposed by the thermostats-are-conscious people, an argument that often leads to panexperientialism and related theories. Most famously espoused by Chalmers in his classic division of philosophy of mind into hard (consciousness) and "easy" (cognition, etc) problems.

http://www.eoht.info/page/panexperientialism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness
Speaking of trusting trust, I think I'd love for Node¹ to support something like OpenBSD pledge (2) and unveil (2) for imports, where once you enter into a particular package certain capabilities are disabled. I would like to be able to assert that when I import some package, it and all of the packages it recursively includes do not perform network requests, do not use the filesystem outside of some folder, and so on.

A fine grained capability system for packages would dramatically improve the safety profile, and if this were built into package.json and the lockfile we could do the following:

1. Packages advertise what their default capabilities should be limited to
2. Changes in those capabilities are encoded in the package lock file, and can't be changed without the user explicitly affirming them

¹ and other langs with extensive use of package managers and micro-packages
Yes, that is an important distinction I glossed over. Thanks for adding that.
I really like Proxmox, except for one glaring issue: dealign with storage. It is all command line for anything else but local storage. Trying to set up iSCSI can be frustrating. I hope 7.0 adds that feature.

I used Proxmox in production on a decently sized ecommerce site, and it worked well otherwise.
This feels like a positive story for Twitter. Especially with the early action in March and the $1000 equipment stipend to help home workers get set up, in addition to their regular IT equipment.

It’s odd therefore to see this announcement come via Buzzfeed.