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oh i am definitely going to have to finish reading this as I am certainly an avid fan of the concept of consciousness itself being the substrate of reality. that being said, i don't necessarily viewing it through a panpsychist lens is entirely accurate as that perspective more or less tends to assume consciousness as some base aspect of material reality, and as such a base unit, but my own personal spiritual experiences and development in that regard have shown me that it is rather the other way around, that consciousness is the core metaphor, the non deterministic field of probability that constitutes reality, and more emergent and highly complex life forms also gained with their development a more strict set of deterministic rules to follow (instincts, genetics and such), and as such it would be more apt to suggest that material reality through the "objective" lens we (seek to) perceive it through is just the net output of running that core algorithm of iterate over time

propagating some aspect of your essence, ideally in a stochastic system that allows for novelty to form, as really the pursuit of novelty is the only underlying force that, to me, can explain the wondered emergent forms that reality is known to take. not to mention the amazing correspondences between micro and macro scale experiences despite appearing to (which is likely in all reality illusory) be two separate connected-but-not-directly-related constructs.

in any case i just always feel compelled to ramble when it comes to consciousness and the nature of reality. i should probably read the rest of the article now. sorry if my delivery or communication was not quite clear, that's a known pain point and something I have been attempting to address ever since back around 1991 when I, having caught the big dumb, evidently never got the memo on reasonable social interaction lol
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How many transient backpackers actually work for these companies to fund their immediate journeys and what do they have to do with a debate on localized externalities that they never experience?
there are a lot more people now than in the 1950's too.

As a proportion, is the poverty rate higher today than before? Are the currently poor today better off than the same relative level of poor in the 1950s?
> That’s what is so odd to me about third-party delivery platforms. The business of food delivery clearly is not intrinsically a loser. Domino’s figured it out. Every Chinese restaurant in New York City seemed to have it figured out long before any platform came along. My friend is figuring it out.

Domino's and Chinese are very specific high-margin businesses. Basically the highest-margin restaurant businesses.

That doesn't, in any way, prove that food delivery in general is not a loser. In fact, if you have to specifically pick the two highest-margin examples as your examples... maybe the industry in general isn't all that sustainable.
I work on a legacy CouchDB application and the same problem exists in that area. CouchDB is actually really amazing and is wonderful for some types of applications. It really sucks if you want a relational DB.

Keep in mind that I don't know anything about Kafka, but it seems like the same kind of thinking. You can think about your data as a log of events. Since you can always build the current state from the log of events, then you might as well just save the log. This works incredibly well when you treat your data as immutable and need to be able to see all of your history, or you want to be able to revert data to previous states. It also solves all sorts of problems when you want to do things in a distributed fashion.

The application which fits this model well and that almost every develop is familiar with is source control (and specifically git). If that is the kind of thing that you want to do with your data, then it can be truly wonderful. If it's not what you want to do, then it will be the lodestone that drags you underwater to your death.

The legacy application I work on is a sales system and actually it's not a bad area for this kind of data. You enter data. Modifications are essentially diffs. You can go back and forth through the DB to see how things have changed, when they were changed and often why they were changed. In many ways it is ideal for accounting data.

But as you say, if you want a full fledged DBMS, this should not be your primary data store. It can act at the frontend for the data store -- with an eventually consistent DB that you use for querying (and you really have to be OK with that "eventually consistent" thing). But you don't want to build your entire app around it.
Facebook is not worth 33B (2010)
Why Dairy Sector Important
Creature raising is viewed as a partner business with agrarian exercises in rustic India. Creature farming is a fundamental segment of Indian agribusiness, supporting employment of practically 55% of the rustic populace. India is the most elevated animal proprietor of the world.

The domesticated animal division alone contributes about 25.6% of the estimation of yield at current costs of complete estimation of yield in farming, angling, and ranger service segment. The general commitment of domesticated animal division in complete GDP is about 4.11% at current costs during 2012-13, according to the nineteenth domesticated animal statistics of 2012.

The target of creature raising is to make the domesticated animals helpful for people for an assortment of purposes, a significant number of which have a financial worth. In this manner, it has a major potential for giving non-ranch work and salary in rustic regions.

Capability of the Sector

The Indian dairy industry is relied upon to enlist 15 percent aggravated yearly development till 2020 and rise as Rs 9.4-lakh crore industry.

Dairy items are a significant wellspring of modest and nutritious food to a huge number of individuals in India and the main satisfactory wellspring of creature protein for an enormous vegan fragment of the Indian populace.

Increment in salary and rising way of life has prompted developing interest for dairy items like margarine, cheddar, paneer, yogurt, dessert, and so forth.

The developing interest for dairy items additionally raises the possibilities for related businesses like milk preparing, bundling, coordinations, cafés and restaurants, and fares.

Dairy cultivating is a feasible and gainful choice to trim creation in downpour took care of and dry season regions which are a continuous element in India attributable to environmental change.

Sorted out dairies are probably going to see spending of Rs 140-billion throughout the following three.
That last bit only applies in dense downtowns. In the Bay Area, if I'm hungry right now and that happens to be roughly dinner time, I'm waiting 50-70 minutes for a food delivery.
> The site is extremely simple and something that could be replicated in a couple of days at most by most engineers.

I'm a little skeptical of this. Don't get me wrong, I understand that it's not going to win any ACM awards for innovation in web development - it's a simple web app. I know this. But I think it's well beyond the 2-day prototype mark.

Because I know what a cheapo off-the-shelf, 2-day-product or PHP forum feels like, and Hacker News doesn't feel like that. It's a little more fine-grained and thoughtful than that.

The design, and probably countless little feature improvements that take time to make: I think these have accreted over time, a tiny bit at a time. And for what it's worth, getting comments to nest (stored in DB, parent, child, child of child etc.) and then to show that correctly in the UI isn't quite as easy as people who haven't attempted it might think.

And then things like downvoted comments being faded, next page loading at screen bottom, setting up the API... it all adds up.
I always thought that enforcing IP rights overseas was a pipe dream. Amazing.
Microsoft is doing this as well. I google something in english, find an english MSDN entry with english title and preview, but when I click on the link, the language changes to German. I'm a native German speaker but having read about technical topics almost exclusively in english for years, I'm just much more comfortable in english now.

What makes it even worse is that often it's not properly translated, but just Microsoft's translation machine applied to the English version. The result isn't very good. And even if it were manually translated, the result would likely end up a mixture of english and German. German is a very nice language, as is english, but what I absolutely hate is the mix of the two, also called denglisch.
I love this story, especially about ordering dough pizzas.

It reminded me of this twitter thread: https://twitter.com/meslin/status/1225834920611848192?lang=e...

In which the author tries to order the Uline "box of boxes", a box of twenty-five (25) 6" x 9" x 6" boxes, only to have Amazon deliver a 6" x 9" x 6" box containing some random product. The collection product from Uline has the same bar code as the box itself, so the pick up robot would scan the shelf for the box, find something that SOME OTHER VENDOR had put into a 6x9x6 Uline box, and pick that to satisfy the query.

Adding automation to a process that any human with visibility to the whole process would say, "Wait, that can't be right." ends up in misbehavior.
> My advice to people who feel that math is a pointless imposition on your time, you're going to pay for not learning it. And you'll never realize you're being rooked.

I really hope that's not what you took away from my comment.
No, parent poster is correct. World Gini coefficient has been consistently dropping since hitting its peak of 0.80 in 1988:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient#World_income_... (see second chart)

This is also reflected in one of the graphs ("The Global 1% Captured Twice as Much Growth as the Bottom Half") from your link, with the decline in the top 1% since 2009 and the slow increase in the bottom 50% since 2002.

The graphs you show are largely broken down by country, and reflect an instance of Simpson's Paradox. [1] Within each individual country, income inequality is rising. However, globally income inequality is falling, because an increasing share of global income is moving from rich countries to poor countries. The super-rich in the U.S. are rapidly outpacing the poor in the U.S., and the super-rich in the China are rapidly outpacing the poor in China, but a large fraction of the huge number of poor people in China are rapidly approaching the middle-class standard of living formerly reserved for the U.S, much more than the number of people that have fallen out of the U.S. middle class.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox
The quote you quoted literally does not exist in any source.

In other words, you made it up, and put quote marks around it. That's not a super great way of conducting a conversation. OK.

Even so, I think the state should have the power to make that determination, if it's being asked to hand you a check.

But they consider factors like family risk and childcare needs, and they have interviews to go over details of specific cases.

So I think you're too easily making up stuff here and not grasping what the real facts are.
I'm surprised a guy in finance can't see the potential efficiency gains and economies of scale a delivery company could have over all restaurants having to operate their own delivery service. I don't know about DoorDash specifically (not in the US) but it seems obvious to me that those services are here to stay and they can be run profitably.
I wonder to what extent the back end software supporting this is identical to, or similar to, what Moviepass created.
Didn't it basically turn into a hookup app at some point?
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Without having used Zoom much I can't definitively say how it works, but I've used BlueJeans quite a bit and noticed compression artifacts in various parts of the UI (e.g. text underneath each video source). That means BlueJeans is definitely muxing video sources and it really does not have a noticeable delay when changing the view. Since each video is already so compressed I think they can get away with sending you really low bitrate streams during the transition and you'll barely notice.
Bro.. you gotta pay $15 a year. That's $1.25/month.

I would like to see you make a website like Couchsurfing that can operate for free forever.

Just pay the $buck 25 and keep using the site and go on with your life. This is not a Capitalist Conspiracy to rob you of your hard-earned $dollars
Usually gets your Uber account terminated or not able to sign up in the first place with a prepaid.
Sure, but when the astronaut application job posting recently came up, I was super excited. I would leave my technical job in a heartbeat to be an astronaut. But, the qualifications specifically needed specific things. Like, iirc, degrees in hard engineering disciplines. Otherwise it was a clear "No." I would expect them to mention things like really, really needing a hard engineering masters (at least, if not PhD) to even not get weeded out at resume review stage.

Also, I know two astronauts relatively well and they say the same thing when the topic has come up. One took a non traditional approach to being an astronaut, applying many times over years, but still had a hard science advanced degree. It's literally a requirement in the application.

To my chagrin, I will never be an astronaut.
I've been trying to formulate thoughts I have on consciousness that make sense in my head, but I haven't been able to communicate it effectively.

Basically, why is consciousness always attached to the same physical body? Why can't I ever wake up in someone else's consciousness? How does "my" consciousness know to come back into "my" brain whenever I lose it (through sleep or injury, etc).

The answer that I lean toward is that there is no such thing as you or me. There is only one consciousness and it is merely being filtered through each living (or perhaps nonliving) being in containerized modules.

So, to "me", it feels like I'm experiencing my own consciousness but in reality everyone is the same "me". You are me, I am you, etc, we are simply filtering consciousness through different atomic arrangements.

For example, let's say you read about a criminal who does a terrible thing and you can't imagine yourself ever doing that. But in reality, it is the same "you", only that your consciousness has been filtered through a different arragement of atoms that has caused that "module" to act that way. It is the same YOU who committed that crime, all it took was a different filtering device to make you act that way.

Anyway, that's kind of what I'm thinking. I'm sure it's not an original thought, but I don't know what kind of philosophy this is called other than "one consciosness".
I don't know that it will create or destroy any jobs, and if it does I suppose those would be very few. But I suppose it will cause an increase in personal shopper type jobs, and maybe that increase will stick around.

If you are a person that is really good at controlling how often they touch their face, and have a lifetime habit of strenuously following good hygiene procedures when in public to minimize chance of infection (there are people who have better hygiene than others, probably partially due to better body self-awareness) you might also make a good shopper for people who can't go out.
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Just to add a counter-point to the readily expressed opinion here on HN that the web is terrible and we should all go back to programming Coltran; the only place for desktop apps is testing new APIs for new technologies which the Web can adopt once they've stabilized. So if your phone gets some new breathalyzer sensor or something, and you can't interact with it via WebUSB or WebBT then yeah, you're gonna have to drop down to the OS runtime to play with that until the standards bodies finish arguing about what WebBreathalyzer API should look like. Or more likely, that never happens because it turns out that few people need a phone with a breathalyzer. The web is the common denominator, the platform that runs on the most devices supporting their most common features. That makes it clearly superior for applications which need to reach the broadest audience. That only grows as more and different platforms emerge. But there's always going to be something new to play with, and that's fine too.
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1000% agree. Former employer had a proprietary app scheduler that worked like this. We would frequently tell users to request as little CPU as possible. Extra CPU would be shared, but if you made an unreasonable request you’d never get scheduled in the shared environment.
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>Inequality is rapidly increasing, and the speed of the spread is accelerating.

Inequality within countries is rising (in some countries), but the average standard of living between countries is converging.

That aside wealth inequality isn't a good measure for economic equality in a meaningful sense . Take a look at life expectancy and education gaps, urbanisation, female participation in the workforce and absolute poverty, there has been an undeniable convergence over the last few decades[1]

If wealth inequality wood be a good measure of economic prosperity then Sweden would be one of the world's worst places to live.

[1] section: Global divergence followed by convergence
Just because you’re not using it directly doesn’t mean that you’re not benefiting from those optimization in those layers you are depending on.
I personally think the land value tax has a lot going for it, in contrast to a property tax. Social benefits are great.

But that has nothing to do with land value tax being the distortion-minimizing solution for optimal taxation -- which it isn't -- and is what I was originally responding to.

So I'm not sure you're even disagreeing with me.
Majority of the liquor ordered using a phished account goes here – so sketchy: https://www.google.com/maps/place/101+bowery+st/@40.7176021,...
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Escalation between the US and China is inevitable.

China is fundamentally opposed to everything the US and Democracies around the world stand for politically. Likewise, the US and friends are fundamentally opposed to everything China stands for politically. There is no Universe in which two diametrically opposed juggernauts do not come into conflict. Conflict is simply inevitable when the stakes are this high and there is no greater power able to force deescalation.

Either China converts to Democracy or the US and friends adopt Chinese style authoritarianism, or one of the two belligerents collapses either on its own in the manner of the Soviet Union, or by force.
Mine has been excellent apart from the daily limit and merchants that don't accept their cards like cloud providers. Takes a bit of regular activity before support will raise the limit but the fact that Privacy.com cards show up as prepaid (try it out with the Stripe api, for example) is a show stopper for some narrow use cases - which overlap almost perfectly with spammers so who can blame the merchants.
"CISA's Identifying Critical Infrastructure During COVID-19 guidance and accompanying list are intended to support state, local, and industry partners in identifying the critical infrastructure sectors and the essential workers."

Not even recommended guidance, just advisory. AKA "Here's a one size fits all list we expect you to tailor to your particular situation."
From what I can gather, it is a ring of people behind this operation likely getting a commission for each 'drop' back at base

https://www.google.com/maps/place/101+bowery+st/@40.7176021,...
We are entering the world of shadowrun. Not good.
> Our healthcare is among the best but at a cost

You might want to check the numbers on that.

The US is at or very near the worst among OECD countries in: infant mortality, life expectancy at birth, healthy life expectancy, rate of obesity, disability-adjusted life years, doctors per 1000 people, deaths from treatable conditions, rate of mental health disorders, rate of drug abuse & rate of prescription drug use

https://data.oecd.org/
This is amazing thinking. I follow what you're saying but you seem to be pretending that there is no risk in simply living when not going to work. There is plenty of risk, whether people go to work or not. Giving you the benefit of the doubt, maybe you are saying there is more risk by working. Sure. There are risks from commuting as well. There is differential risk, additive, which means your risk is greater by working than by not working, absolutely. But, this is real life. This is the real world we live in. We need to deal with it at some point.

There is even risks from being born, but we still encourage it.
It's more of a general comment to people who justify cheating, complain about math requirements, and/or look for ways to avoid dealing with math.

It's relevant to why learn the mechanics when a computer can do it for you.
I love this mindset. I think as engineers we often get discouraged when we feel like our own implementation of something could never be as good as what's already out there (at least, I do). But the question that should be asked is: "Would it make me happy to do it myself?" If so, then who cares! Hobby projects are about making yourself happy. There's nothing wrong with doing something purely for fun.
Middle-class in developed countries, and largely specific to the United States. The Chinese middle class grew from 29M (2% of population) to 531M (39% of population, and almost double the total population of the U.S.) between 2000 and now.
The cost for a taxi is way less reliable, and harder to dispute. It's a common but unpleasant way to arrive to a new city to realise you've been shafted on the taxi fare.
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>Saying things like "Consciousness is emergent" or "Consciousness is just a side effect of information processing" seems to miss the point.

On the contrary, I feel like those who think we need some fundamental consciousness property is missing the point. We expect to find some objective third-person property that is the substrate of consciousness because a phenomenon that seems so unlike every other property should have a fundamental basis. But the mistake is expecting to analyze consciousness in the same way we can analyze other objective properties of physics.

The only things we know to be conscious are complex macro-scale objects with highly complex and rare internal organizations. In fact, the only things we truly know to be conscious are ourselves. It seems to be fundamentally subjective; it is not something to be directly witnessed as a third-person observer. So our investigation should start there. What we want is a theory for deriving organizational subjectivity from a non-subjective substrate. What might this look like? A system with subjectivity will need to recognize the external from the internal. It needs an egocentric mode of representation with the ability to represent itself and its dispositions and intentional stances, as well as states to represent the external world. My intuition tells me such a system has a non-zero "inner life", i.e. there is something it is like to be it. But I see no reason to think "fundamental" subjectivity, whatever that is, could do any explanatory work here. The causal and representative power is in the organization.
> Normal people can't resell liquor, nor resell takeout food from a licensed restaurant

That's actually good and a bit surprising. I find it quite disingenuous that DoorDash lists restaurants that haven't agreed to do take-out or delivery. Not only that by having a call center call into a restaurant it's just making the experience more expensive.

There is one restaurant in SF that was going to push for legal action. https://www.eater.com/2020/1/29/21113416/grubhub-seamless-ki...
Can you not start lower then raise it later where people on the lower price keep the same price? Not sure what the issue is that way around.