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> it would be analogous to setting up a two-slit experiment where the photon is capable of freely choosing to go through the left slit every time

Not what I meant though. What I meant was that free will / consciousness (not sure if they're two separate things or aspects of the same thing) is an emergent property of quantum fluctuations, similar to wetness being an emergent property of the H2O molecule. It's a bit hand-wavy yes (if it weren't, I'd be publishing a paper right now).

The hypothesis (and it's just a hypothesis) is that if quantum fluctuations are all entirely independent, then there is no chance of any emergent properties. But if fluctuations do interact (i.e. proximity in space and/or time affects each other's probabilities), then properties can emerge. Perhaps what we perceive as consciousness / free will is just one such property.
Because speed to market equals speed to market dominance.
I use "virtue signaling" for something like:

3. Advocacy that mainly serves to make the advocate sound virtuous rather than substantively address the difficult aspects of a difficult tradeoff or help to wisely deploy resources in a way that will make progress on a problem.

It's distinct from your 1 in that it accepts that people can exist who legitimately care about improving the world.

It's distinct from your 2 in that it doesn't assert the person's advocacy is dishonest (or otherwise not heartfelt), only that their specific contributions are unhelpful or present a bad framing.

Example of a useful difference that 3 highlights:

Virtue signaling: "I just think we should help everyone wherever we can." -> suggests that the speaker is particularly noble while also setting a herculean standard for how to live one's life. (Really? Every single moment?)

Not virtue signaling: "As a rule of thumb, you should give about 10% of your net income to charitable causes, since this is historically feasible, and mainly would force you to cut back in ways that have disproportionately high utility for others. Any more than that is nice, but is more than I can legitimately ask." -> recognizes upper bounds in what they expect out of others, and what might be feasible or excessive.

Naturally, most advocacy lasts more than two sentences, but that gives the general idea.
Putting aside the reasoning, I still think this information is useful. Changing the name of a branch can get pretty messy if you do it wrong.
Having not lived through it, but having seen a glimpse of its aftermath living in Berlin a few years, it was very interesting to see the contrasts between the Ossis and Wessis (at least ones that were say, at least 18 in 1989). In general, I found the Ossis to be more friendly and open and fun loving. For example, an Ossi party would usually be louder, messier, and have worse food, but everyone would be laughing and a guitar might come out at some point. The typical Wessi party I experienced was perfectly catered, everyone was perfectly dressed, and it was in a perfect house, but people weren't necessarily having that much fun.

Now this is different in other parts of Germany, but it's an interesting natural experiment, because these guys were literally in the same city.
I've worked in these types of organizations before, and it's always counter-productive to making positive changes in the environment. You as an SRE can either make it better, or find an environment that's conducive to positive changes.

If you'd like an outside resource to suggest or read up on better postmortem practices, the Google SRE Book has a chapter [0] on postmortem culture. It's an amazing change of pace and a huge stress level improvement for us SREs.

[0] https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/chapters/postmortem-...
Filming criminals hasn't stopped them either. Actually the ACLU is determined to now suppress a lot of body cam footage that they originally demanded. Maybe the public should see how terrible their peers are and take a lesson.

Instead the video is suppressesd A LOT. You've seen a handful of body cam footage, a handful of proofs of the thousands of calls in every city every day.

Think about that.
There's a lot of "can you imagine [..]" going on with these things. The question is, does this actually happen? Because if it doesn't then the entire point is moot.

I've read through a lot of these kind of discussions in the last week, and one thing that really strikes me is that they consist almost entirely of white people discussing this. This seems a bit odd to me because there are plenty of non-white programmers as well (especially if you look beyond the Silicon Valley bubble). I'd like to think that these people are more than articulate enough to raise these kind of issues themselves if they want to. In general, it seems to me that black people are not so fragile that they will be scared at the first sight of the word "master", especially when it has no direct relationship to slavery (it's a common word in quite a few different contexts).

Quite frankly, the entire thing has more than a bit of a "white saviour" smell to it and comes off as rather patronising.

I suspect one reason this is happening is that many people feel powerless to change the status quo – a frustration I share – so they do stuff like this because, well, have to do something, and this is where they do have the power to influence things. Another commenter called this "virtue signaliging", but I think that's a bit ungenerous; I think by and large people are actually looking for ways to make a difference, which is great but ... it also doesn't mean you actually are making a difference. All of this strikes me as the programmer equivalent of "slacktivism".
Also the search index has not been updated in 8 months so it doesn't include the several recent articles. Which can be confusing, since those articles are right next to the search box when you're at the homepage. I opened a github issue for him.
What about Master Masons (term in freemasonry) ? We don't imply the existence of Slave Masons...
The developers of this program are asking windows users to install proprietary freeware from anonymous developers. This exemplifies Windows software culture, the very same culture that made Windows users compliant enough to tolerate Windows 10 in the first place. The developers of this software, in choosing to make it proprietary freeware, are reinforcing this culture.
If these anti-nuclear activists live in coal-burning countries, and they protest nuclear power until it shuts down, and they do not protest coal power until it shuts down, then for all practical purposes, they are supporting coal.
In Christopher McDougall's book about running, which I think launched the chia pudding trend, he has a story about a researcher whose theory is that bipedal motion separates breathing rhythm from gait when running. A quadruped has to breathe in time with their gait, because internal organs push forward into the diaphragm when the front feet land. According to the researcher, this is my jogging humans can stay cool while chasing quadruped prey, which are pushed to overheating and exhaustion.
Is there any blog/video discussing architecture of VSCode. From my limited understanding it seems to have made some brilliant choices, but don't have enough time(skills?) to go through the code. Someone discussing arch, various choices and implication would be really neat.
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That wasn't a war, just a single one-off attack, and the attackers lost to the US in the end anyway.
How does it compare with flexsearch? It claims to be the fastest, smallest, prettiest search library in town.
https://github.com/nextapps-de/flexsearch
In the mid-twentieth century (IIRC) there was a "paradox" observed that the US was capital-rich but its exports were labour-intensive. Is this situation still true?
No i'm comparing it to "os engineers hooked up to a pipeline of infinite money" :)
It doesn't seem like you are objecting to the term so much as the idea it represents. If the original poster instead substituted in the meaning of that term, e.g. if they said instead "This is taking insincerly aligning yourself with socially progressive causes in a trivial fashion in order to gain social standing while avoiding taking a stand on things that matter,to an extreme"* I assume you would still want to object? If so you should object to what they are saying not how.

*The term virtue signaling seems to be used differently by different people, so not sure if that was a fair substitution of definition.
Honestly, who the f cares. Stop looking for blame
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Nowadays many people are referencing quantum mechanics when they try to explain some elusive and fuzzy notions like free will, consciousness, afterlife, mysticism, religious beliefs etc.

This is such a bullshit.

In fact, quantum mechanics is so bizarre, it can't even explain what is objective reality from the macroscopic point of view. The only thing it explains for us, classical creatures, is that our world is much more "complex" than we could imagine. Pun intended.
Most coursework is (implicitly) proprietary, and that's not a problem, so I wouldn't expect an issue there. I suspect the key issue here is that the students are unlikely to be copying the material at a level which would qualify as a derivative work.
Honestly I think the real chilling effect is from internet people patrolling an monitoring everyone's use of language and making sure people are only saying the "correct" words and ideas.
How is cloud ERP helps SME
Maybe you don't want to leave any log traces, kernel mods etc behind yet before getting instructions from your c&c or waiting until a set time when some other coordinated action (or a weekend) happens.
The Amish have built a prosperous life for themselves selling their brand of "quaintness" to Goldman Sachs traders buying curio cabinets and porch swings for their place in Sag Harbor.
> what is the probability of getting exactly the lowest two white balls?

It depends on how you choose your numbers. We can assume the numbers drawn in the lottery are random, but the odds of you correctly getting exactly the two smaller numbers and no others depends on how you have selected the numbers against which you are matching those drawn.
I also used the AS/400 / System i / IBM i, back when it was called the System/38.

The feature I most miss is command prompting. Type a command name, press F4, and fill in the blanks for the parameters. If a parameter takes enumerated values, type in a question mark (?) and get a list of the allowed values.

That was great for productivity.
What benefits do you see in fish when compared to zsh?
The article reads like sour grapes about an article that didn't get as much attention as the author believed it should, and yeah, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
I'd love to actually read the paper to see if it is reasonable. Anybody have a link? Having said that (and keep in mind that I'm in favour of wearing masks and wear one myself when I go out in public), I think it's pretty clear (as indicated in the article) that masks alone won't bring the R value below 1.

The article says, "He [Richard Stutt, who co-led the study] said the findings showed that if widespread mask use were combined with social distancing and some lockdown measures, this could be 'an acceptable way of managing the pandemic and re-opening economic activity' long before the development and public availability of an effective vaccine against COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the coronavirus." (emphasis mine)

Anecdotally, in Japan (where I live) there seems to be a much higher than 50% use rate and there is still need for lockdowns. However, as the article suggests, it appears that the severity and length of the lockdowns might be reduced.

The question I have, though, is if the sheer number of people with the disease in the US and UK may be an issue. In South Korea, Taiwan and Japan, the total number of active cases never really got above 10K -- so the chances of meeting someone with the disease is really quite small. Potentially (as seems to be the case in Japan) you can get away with just dealing with cluster cases and let the stragglers go -- as long as the masks are effective enough to keep transmission rates low in those situations. But if you have millions of people with the disease, many of them in large cities, I wonder if it will be as effective.
How about ElasticSearch? Kafka? Neo4J? Btw, I'm your first Twitter follower! ;-D
Actions are fine, words aren't often worth the paper they're written on... And if it's in an advertisement, even less so.
Interesting! Thanks for adding that; I have to admit that makes the proposition much better.
While commendable, I don’t think this approach is useful. I also had a professor that only wanted to use FOSS for its students but the reality is that university should prepare - at least to a certain degree - for work.

The radicalization of this approach leads to students that land their first job without knowing how enterprise commercial software work lacking therefore a very useful entry level skill.
I don't think that no-holds-barred capitalism is the likeliest outcome for a superintelligent AI, but it is the one we need to be the most vigilant of. The abstract mathematician AI could just be allowed to live out its peaceful life proving ever-more-obscure theorems.
I don't think that's true. Then you would just be explaining to new team members why you are not using master. You can explain to someone who doesn't know in one sentence where the term comes from.
This kind of thinking though leads inadvertently to doublespeak. You end up avoiding saying so much you can't say anything.
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Otherwise +1, but a masterpiece is what the apprentice would create in a bid to demonstrate that they're ready to be a master. Think of it as the hands-on version of a MSc thesis.
Chatbots are only good when staffed with a competent backing crew, and only offered to the user when those agents are online. But most companies invest the minimum in the chatbot experience so it blows.
I'm pretty sure the Ruwandan Uprising were different tribes of black people, so how does a internal conflict among people of the same race even weigh in to the conversation?

That'd be more like the war w/ North and South Korea...

I'm just fixating on the crimes of police, I could care less about other caucasians, I'm worried about police. Even blacks are more likely to kill blacks if they're wearing the blue uniform because of their indoctrination. The blue brotherhood becomes everything. What happens if a political ideology you don't agree w/ decides they want to be the police so they start getting jobs and become the police, maybe they start doing to white people what cops are doing to black people.

What would you do if whites were treated 100% equal to blacks by police but not in a good way, still they sit on your neck, they just stop caring whether you're black or white. Get pulled over for speeding get out, and have a 50% chance of survival?
To me, writing off a stance as "virtue signaling" is the same kind of laziness as writing off a stance as coming from a "position of privilege": it may well be true, but rational debate requires assuming your debate partners came to their position through reasoned thought and honestly hold it.
Who is projecting their feelings onto others?

Americans Strongly Dislike PC Culture

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/large-majo...

' a full 80 percent believe that “political correctness is a problem in our country.” '

And no, "Youth isn’t a good proxy for support of political correctness, and race isn’t either."

Yes, the dislike is lowest among African Americans, but still at a whopping 75%.

So who supports PC? The only group is progressive activists. What do they look like, demographically? Rich, white, educated.

The author additionally ran a twitter poll: "Nearly all of my followers underestimated the extent to which most Americans reject political correctness. Only 6 percent gave the right answer. (When I asked them how people of color regard political correctness, their guesses were, unsurprisingly, even more wildly off.)"
One thing you can do is make the data itself more concise:

- Stripping all whitespace from formatted JSON can make a huge difference

- Making property names shorter (these get repeated for every element in a large dataset!)

- If your data is relatively flat, you could replace an array of objects with an array of arrays

Or you could go all the way and serve data in CSV format, which is very space-efficient and has the neat property of being tolerant of being broken up into pieces. Though it may not parse as quickly, since JSON has native parsing support from the browser.
> How long did mechanical looms need to show they wouldn't become sentient?

They didn't become sentient, but at the time how the Quality distinguished themselves from the rabble was through art, literacy, and music, all of which were achievable (to some degree) by mechanical loomwork substituting brass for brains.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8u93VQfHmw
It’s basically modified Parkinson’s law at play - work will expand to most available workforce.

With increased automation, either new jobs are created(thereby increasing the overall output of the economy) OR expectation for individual productivity is reduced, decreasing individual stress.

History is your proof. Automation has been constantly increasing forever and there’s no job loss en masse because of that. Empirically speaking there are almost always more jobs created.

Not saying anything about quality of life.
IPFS was designed to solve this problem of the impermanence of the current web.

This article kind of says it all: "The InterPlanetary File System Wants to Create a Permanent Web"—https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/78xgaq/the-interplanetary...
The job of Ramses was diverting colossal resources for decades to make the whole thing possible, and give all these brilliant engineers and artists the medium that will withstand millenia.

Maybe it's not the most beautiful job, but still important and not necessarily easy.

By that way, the pyramid also embodies work of all the stone cutters, animal drivers, all the way to peasants who produced food to feed all them. It was an effort of an entire country.
I don’t understand the value of container tech (unless dealing with legacy code).

Serverless seems better and cheaper (lambda, GC Functions, Azure Functions). Pay as you go with no overhead costs. In many cases usage may never exceed the free credits.

For the database and persistent storage, you need a cloud native service like S3 and Postgres RDS. (Running a database in a container is asking for complete data loss from what I understand.) This is the primary cost for my tech stack and for lite loads $15 is about as minimal as possible.

So I don’t see how using containers could be cheaper unless you are keeping the data in the container, which is a bad idea since containers are supposed to be stateless.

So serverless cloud native tech seems better by far from everything I’ve experienced.

Also when using a tool like serverless framework, deploying an entire stack of serverless resources is dead simple.

I’ve tried a few times to see the value of containers, but I just don’t get it.
> About Scott

> [...] He is a failed standup comic [...]

That explains a lot.
Loved the idea, With everything so fast, I forget when & which movies release. This will help me stay up to date.
It’s not deep historical context. It’s a contemporary, widespread usage of master to refer to an original or an exemplar. In the rare case an adult doesn’t know this, they can catch up in seconds.
All this speech-policing is only empowering the wrong kind of people. Personally I never even made a connection to race when using words like 'blacklist'. Allowing activists to decide which words are improper or not-inclusive makes communication like walking through a minefield. I live in Germany, public communication in Academia has become unreadable at times with application of 'inclusive' speech and 'proper' pronouns.

Remember this story?

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/how-dongle-jokes...

It won't stop with 'blacklist' or 'whitelist'. How many people stopped contributing to open source projects because the "Code of Conduct"-politicos (on a powertrip) started to politicize everything and harassing anyone that is not 100% politically aligned until they left?
Next up we can get rid of the word "Mister" (or Mr.) which derives from the word master.

I believe in that case master actually is (or was) used in the sense of a master/servant relationship.
Not surprising given the product... Almost all analytical tracking/telemertry will be blocked, Google Analytics etc.
The article mentions several times that it only matches on whole words
I must be doing something wrong, because all of my work over the past decade was done using mostly (like 95%) free software. And as a hiring manager I cared not at all if my hires know about "enterprise commercial software". In fact, I'd also add that the time I spent learning commercial dev tools (Microsoft stack) turned out to be absolutely useless in the long term. Worse than useless, in fact, because I could have spent that time learning tools and libraries on which some commercial company doesn't pull the rug from underneath me every 2-3 years, like Microsoft has a habit to do, to force upgrades.
Ethics are already predetermined, though. There is no need for error theory or any moral or ethical theory in a predetermined world - none of it matters. Arguments for determinism always have these "answers" to morality, but the only convincing one is moral nihilism.
The instructor is also one of the authors of SICP.
There is another benefit from using the fastutil library, decreased memory usage, which in some cases very significant depending of course on your data structures.
The idea that a city council can make a rash decision that will drastically impact the safety of citizens, I'm sorry requires a vote.

This is virtue signalling based on terrible statistics and it's also an invitiation to harm citizens and businesses.

Every council person's competience is called into question at this point.
This is the same argument that is often put forward in relation to accident rates for self driving vehicles. ML only needs to outperform humans.

The problem with this argument is it glosses over that fact that in the tail, where the ML is making a wrong decision, sometimes a catastrophic one, the behaviour of the ML algorithm is not well understood. How can we deploy something in such safety critical applications that we do not fully understand?