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>Very well, I shall look again, but color me (extremely) skeptical.

That's awesome, thank you! Ultimately it's beneficial to keep an open mind on things about which one is skeptical or even convinced the idea is rubbish (well, some are of course).

>Are you able to propose a mechanism by which quantum mechanics can explain qualia? Again, I don't (yet?) see how any mechanistic explanation can explain this.

No, I'm not that smart, by far (hehe). You're way too far up the explanatory hierarchy. A starting point are rather the laws of nature, of which Roger Penrose makes a good point that they are not enough understood to make inroads to an understanding of consciousness. At the beginning, consciousness and qualia must be based upon something mechanistic. Penrose argues that QM is incomplete (a non-computational component most likely), I would add that not only GR and QM should be unified (we need to find out where both are wrong), but the triad of Information theory (which I consider the most fundamental), GR and QM should be unified. Maybe this would leed us to conclude (proto-)consciousness is pervasively embedded at the most fundamental level of nature. I think it must be. So why wouldn't a rock be conscious? Maybe because its composition and arrangement of atoms doesn't allow it to be a facilitator to quantum information processing like neurons. Maybe neurons - in their composition and arrangement of atoms and biochemical state and interconnectedness - are especially apt acting as a facilitator harboring microtubules that store and process qubits. In any case, i haven't and can't answer your question, sorry.

>I've also given up on proving the existence of God!

I agree the non-existence of god can't be proven, and is not provable even in theory. But I've worked around it by arguing that the soul can't exist, considering the theory of evolution. At what point of the evolution exactly would god have turned us human by magically inserting a soul? And if this principal instrument of god doesn't exist, maybe the idea of god is also a bit nonsensical. Good enough for me! (And as I always joke, Thumbs up if you believe you have a soul).

>However, I don't think science (or philosophy for that matter) currently has the ability to propose an explanation for how some process p implements qualia.

Agree completely on that one.

>QM argument really does seem like the pituitary gland of the 21st century.

Eesh, not that again ... :)

>Respectfully, have you considered the possibility that your ideas just don't add up?

I actually consider this the most likely possibility, yes.

>(links welcome)

Already mentioned in my original post. Enjoy diving deep in the rabbit hole of Orch OR! If you got heaps of time, watch a few youtube videos of Penrose (and Hammeroff) explaining the concept. It's really inspiring watching the most eminent scientist currently on the planet (imsvho).
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article is from 2018
AFAIK that's right, it would be very unlikely to generalize on random labels, which is why I read the comment as suggesting the network shouldn't have low training loss in that situation.
It's tolerant of random failure of individual components, yes, but the entire spar could fail under an overload condition. For this failure mode, the only way to ensure a suitably low failure rate is by setting an appropriate safety factor.
Likelihood of confusion is not an immensely high bar for nationally/internationally-known brands (or ones that wish to be nationally-known )in the age of the Internet. Your restaurant gets a string of negative BBB reviews that feature prominently on Google that were actually aimed at someone's product? That's actual harm you can point to. If Alinea were just a local restaurant instead of an internationally-known institution, it'd be one thing, but If I were the YC company I'd take the opportunity to rebrand.
Given that the only thing like evidence available to the public regarding how Facebook thinks and operates is the outcomes, and any insider knowledge is, by nature, rife with conflict of interest, I don’t think you could expect anyone to assume benevolent intentions.

Not to mention I don’t know what would be effective work toward positive change from an outsider when the decisions made for and by the company are (completely reasonably) made internal to the company.

I kind of agree that the Facebook boogeyman stuff is played out, but it’s not like there’s much of an alternative to discuss.
What you said. Nobody is complacent. Anyone who thinks the Linux or OpenBSD (etc.) kernel developers take the lazy way out is talking about a thing they know little about. I do think better languages than C exist and maybe could even be used as a basis for new systems. But I have yet to see a mature OS that’s as secure and as performant as these. Closest might be the chips I’ve seen that have an embedded Java byte code interpreter.
The society as a whole seems to be as300's idea - which, in practice, means the government. If parents give up 10% of their career in order to give their kids a better childhood, are we willing to pay to make it up to them? My money is on "no way".

If not that, the only other answer is the parents. Are you as parents willing to give your kids a better childhood at the price of throwing away 10% of your career, with no (monetary) compensation? I suspect, very few. (More will do so with only one parent giving up the years.)

"You can have it all" is a lie. You can't both have a wonderful career, a great marriage, and give your kids all they need from their parents. You can't. What we really need is for people to stop believing that "having it all" is possible, and therefore expecting that someone owes it to them. Instead, people need to prioritize and choose what they want out of the tradeoffs that reality imposes.
> Only the most recent edit of the photo is transferred and not the original version. Duplicates appear as just one photo.

This is actually a dealbreaker. When I edit a photo, I expect the service to store both the original and the edited version, so that I can revert the edit or just look at the original version straight from the camera at any time. I have actually went back and looked at old edited photos I took, and found the edits to be way too heavy handed (too much contrast, too much saturation, etc) than I'd prefer today. One's taste as a photographer grows and changes.
As someone who used to live in Texas, I certainly would.
Your comment would be a lot more effective if it didn't suggest that women's rights activists only care about landing jobs at Google and are "absolutely corrupt". The sentences linking identical twins to "twisted and toxic" are also weird.

There are some kernels of insight there, but this is not a remotely accurate characterization of any of the women's rights activists I have ever met, and it largely comes across to me as paternalistic victim-blaming.

20-something feminist activists have limited power and influence, and are not responsible for toxic workplace culture in industries dominated by middle-aged men.
Because individual libraries choosing to change quickly is comparable to language stability how? The relevant comparison would be "run a 3y old react app (or a 20 year old website using JS) in a modern browser or interpreter"
Found some more info. They're using ICER for lossless, like you say. They're also using LOCO for lossless compression. For lossy compression, the JPEG encoding was inherited from the Mars Insight lander (in 2018).

Page 36 from the PDF: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-020-00765-9
Compensation as a Reflection of Values
Hydro dams and flood dams are different. I really do not understand the point you are making. I want to highlight that the fear around nuclear is not rational since you need to compare the risk profile of the alternatives and it seems some people completely fail to do so.
On the other side, if you release the software more often, there is an higher probability for a bug to end up in the hands of the users instead of being found internally.
Given that most people won't ever report a bug, do like firefox and give to willing people a nightly/developer/preview edition and to regular people something released less often.
Here, I'll come up with a proposal. If Congress is serious about climate change, then they can ask (and allocate the budget) the Department of Energy to procure and operate a bunch of naval nuclear reactors. With whatever internal regulations they have, the US Navy has not had a single incident in their entire history of operating nuclear reactors. They are also quite cost effective, for example the cost of the 2 reactors A1B [1] that power a Gerald Ford carrier is about $1 BN. That comes to about $2BN/GW, which is about a tenth of what a civilian reactor costs. The US Navy builds about 1 carrier every 4 years so that comes to 1 reactor every other year. If the DoE gets the Congressional mandate to procure a few reactors per year, the cost is going to surely come down. Also these reactors don't need refueling for about 2 decades, while civilian reactors are refueled every 1.5 years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A1B_reactor
Throttle the developers' connection to the staging and production servers down to 25/3 and you'll get very fast sites for everybody ;-)
Why test on Breitbart.com?
I think the big three C compilers have pragma's that you can tag printf/scanf with that will cause the compiler to verify the argument list.
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If you have healthcare, please try to connect with a psychologist or other form of councilor. They can help, though it sometimes can take a few tries to find one you click with.

Mental health is tricky. I can offer ideas, but it’s hard to know what will help you. Throwing various ideas out there:

Exercise helps.

If you’re not getting enough sleep get more. Meds can help in the short term if your mental health is interfering with sleep. You can also look into melatonin (helps for some) if it’s falling asleep (vs staying asleep).

You can try various meditation apps as well as activities that let you get out or at least people watch (nature walk, hanging out at a busier park/cafe, etc.)

Would a more hands on activity or screen free hobby help? Maybe volunteering at an animal shelter, or other similar org.

I’m not sure where you are located or your finances but are there absolutely no other housing options? (Shelter, friend, Airbnb room).

Would a short getaway help? Camping is cheap if that’s your thing.
Ask HN: C programmers, aren't the footguns obvious, or am I missing something?
Dipping my toe into C after a quarter century when I was a full-time C/C++ programmer. Am slightly unnerved by articles like the Git list of banned C functions [0] because... I don't know what the ruckus is?

Even back in the day, I regarded unsafe functions such as strcpy() as nothing more than courtesies by the stdlib providers. I assumed it was up to me to write my own libraries for strings, linked lists, concurrency and so on precisely because they weren't reentrant or memory-safe.

Fast forward to today. Has anything changed? If I decide to use C89 or C11 for a project, aren't I still responsible for my own string allocation/comparison duties, etc.? Aren't I just going to roll my own string structure type with its own size_t length value along with a terminating 0 byte for compat and invent or find a Unicode library?

In other words, are all these complaints people have just nature of C, or is there something about C development that's changed fundamentally in the last couple of decades?

[0]: https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/banned.h
No, you are not. A substantial majority of people consider this foolish

Just think of it as a weird entertainment show that doesn’t have to be rational. There are crazies in all historical eras; the various social justice people are ours :)
So tired of this arms race. The Web is an absolute joke.
Not if your SSD delivers data at more than 2500MB/sec, as the one in the MacBook Air with M1 does. SHA256 calculation can probably be performed at that speed as well, thanks to dedicated silicon, so even a large 250MB binary (haven't seen those in any other use case than browsers) would be hashed in a tenth of a second. Not noticeable at all, if it's just once, at startup.
Sounds like we jumped the gun a bit on that? Maybe we should have "changed" people's minds and values regarding gender first before we shoved everyone into a conforming box, and then wondered about the "consequences" and their unwillingness to play along.
if you build something nobody else had built, wouldn't that mean there is no competition?
Similar tool for "RSS from any page": https://github.com/taroved/pol#readme

Not sure what are the differences though
Without making any drastic changes to my browser to intentionally inhibit fingerprinting, I already have a unique fingerprint according to https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/, so this honestly doesn't signal a change to me at all. I just run uBlock Origin to block trackers/ads.
You have found the answer - strlcpy is not a replacement for strncpy at all (it's arguably a safer version of strcpy), and git people didn't invent this, it's the existing BSD strlcpy interface.
Addiction has levels to it, and any one addiction isn't going to be identical to others. Caffeine addiction is a very real thing, as is heroin addiction. Just because the latter can be much stronger and more harmful doesn't mean the former can't exist.
It’s a fairly obvious distinction considering that you’re dealing with a system that was initially designed for one way communication. The cable system is not an Ethernet network with multiple pairs of conductors for each direction, all hooked up to a switch. It’s effectively a single shared bus, which back in the day was shared between hundreds of houses. Remember, it was initially designed to just get OTA signals into TVs over cable.
So? Does that make it bad advice?
that the two genders have different strengths and capabilities

Even the concept of two genders is under attack, let alone whether they have categorical behavior patterns.
Strangely there is no mention of strtok which has a similar issue.
https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid
Why can't men write about it?
Well, shit. Got me there.
I feel like I'm a similar boat as you. I came into the ASIC world from the EE side of things: digital design, VLSI layout and traditional HDLs. I never learned functional programming so the entire paradigm of FP is opaque to me. Verilog and VHDL have their problems but at least I can get somewhere with them. It's up to me to learn these new HDL technologies because it appears this is where the industry is headed. I think starting with programming language theory and going from there will help with getting my head around technologies like Chisel and Clash.
That would be sweet.

I'll mention that with the Synology app, you can have your photos be automatically copied to your Synology. I've been doing that since I got an iPhone, so I don't have the need to download from iCloud. Actually, I don't sync my photos to iCloud since I have my local copy.
> It would have been nice if the popular press had been a little more honest about the biology

You are not alone with this sentiment.

Some years ago, in my 20s/early 30s-something friend groups, any time the topic of declining female fertility with age came up, it was basically attacked as fake news and a conspiracy by older, conservative family members to get them to breed.

Moreover, sex education in school was 110% about all the wonderful ways you can avoid getting pregnant.

As I reflect back on it, no one calmly, but firmly gave the message that female fertility (in particular) is neither a given nor to be taken for granted, and that sooner than you expect it drops to zero. Beyond that point, it can only be extended by extremely expensive, painful medical procedures, and even then there is no guarantee.

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Edit: Another thing that comes to mind is that women have it really tough, in a lot of ways, and this one feels the most relevant.

I think for women, people close to you and people who you don't even know seem to take particular interest in the choices you make with your body: How you dress, how you do your makeup, who you sleep with, who you date, what you do for work, etc etc etc. Infinitely more so than with men. I think with all that going on, for young women, discussions of female fertility just feel like yet another way people are sticking their noses in her business while telling her whats best and sapping her autonomy. And I think that's why to lots of friends groups with lots of 20-something women this all feels like fake news and sinister.
Edge is chromium so you're SOL anyways haha. I don't see why uBlock Origin or another addon couldn't do this for you though.
> I don't know why this construct is uncommon in the USA.

In the US we use a comma. Buffalo, NY - as opposed to Buffalo in any other state. (MN, TX, and WI each have a city of buffalo - perhaps more, that is where I stopped searching). States in the US tend to be very careful about not allowing duplication of names so this is enough for the most part.
Let's talk about taxing the 'user engagement' companies similar to what is done with cigarettes and alcohol.

Mess with their money.
The irony is that the people I see complaining about are usually very pro market forces and let businesses do what they want type people.
Anecdotally, I switched to FF after the manifest v3 changes were announced.
The systems only exists because people continue to prop them up though, which often does require explicit racist intent. This is why I say that your point is more modern than post-modern. It’s placing humans external to the systems they create and maintain.

I agree that systems can have a racist effect without the participants realizing it. Progressivism is in large part creating awareness of these systems so people can actively realize their own role in perpetuating them. I don’t think we’re actually disagreeing on much other than degree of implicit vs explicit participation in systems.
Facebook employees want you to be a happy, healthy Facebook Family of Apps™ user. But Facebook as an emergent entity of its own has "wants" which can be hard to see from the inside. Facebook employees don't actually know what happens between each individual user and their Facebook account. You can do user studies, or gather aggregate metrics, but any technique you might use will obscure what's really happening in one way or another. And the whole internal idea of what is happening will naturally be bent toward what helps Facebook survive. In particular, it's very important that what Facebook employees are encouraged to imagine as positive change is not damaging to Facebook itself, or the company will eventually die.
So, how do you plan on making money?
Um, there isn't a backup if the backup isn't operable before you take off.
When you’re talking about subsidies, cable companies are in a totally different boat than phone companies, because they’re regulated under an entirely different section of the communications act. It wasn’t until the Obama administration that broadband even came within the ambit of federal subsidies. Until then, the money was just for phone.
Meh, most of us understood the sharp edges of strings pretty well. Before, we'd check the len of strings before strcpy, strncpy let us do it without doing that, and just slap a 0 in if needed. Safe? No. Better? A bit. Do I ever want to do string manipulation again with C? Nope.
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> But after skimming this source code, my initial thought is that I hope Haskell doesn't take off. This is extremely difficult to read.

> Maybe I just don't know Haskell well enough, though.

Speaking as someone who knows Haskell fairly well (and likes it), and has used Verilog at least a bit, I agree - it looks like they took all the worst parts of Verilog (especially the procedural parts), translated them into Haskell, and abandoned the occasional redeeming qualities.

(I suspect it's possible to shoehorn a decent (though not great) HDL into a Haskell DSL, but I've yet to see it actually done.)
This is largely due to the abstract nature of fossil fuel deaths. With the exception of an oil spill these take place over large areas and over longer periods of time. Whereas nuclear accidents are localized both geographically and temporally, even if their death rates (or even death per energy rate) is magnitudes below that of other sources.

What I think needs to happen is that these technologies need to be put on even playing fields. Nuclear has most of its costs built in: decommissioning, health, storage, etc. But a carbon tax and environmental health tax would largely put technologies on at least an even playing ground. These issues are essentially a tragedy of the commons issue, where we share resources. There's an economic cost to polluting a lake and if that is not built in to the market then it isn't fair or helpful to the population. We can argue about free markets and stuff, but this makes it more free as certain sectors can't skirt by this and it is unreasonable to expect the population to be well informed (nobody can be an expert in nuclear physics, coal, oil, solar, electrodynamics, mechanical engineering, hydrology, etc, the burden is too high). A major problem is that many sectors are getting major discounts because their costs are much harder to see. It isn't only "first order" costs that matter, especially when second and third order are so expensive (i.e. climate and health). I'm not saying we should reduce scrutiny of nuclear, but rather that the other technologies deserve the same level.
> When society is perfected and true communism is achieved, the state is unnecessary.

I mean, "the public" still has to make decisions on the allocation of resources, goods, etc. Is the idea that every little decision is put before the whole community to vote on? Everyone spends all day voting on everything? Even assuming the Magic Wand of Communism absolves us of our selfish tendencies, is it also going to make us all experts in medicine, energy, engineering, etc? Or do we regress to agrarianism or worse? If the answer is "we elect people to manage our medicine, energy, engineering, etc", how does that differ from a state?

I understand this isn't your idea to defend, but I think there are problems with the idea of "statelessness" even if people are cured of all selfishness.