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> Do you suspect there is some as yet undiscovered fundamental quantity of the universe which lay dormant for billions of years until the human form evolved to make use of it?

No idea. That's not what I'm discussing here.

The gap is the fact that I indisputably experience things that happen to me. I feel them. There is an "I" to talk about that has genuine meaning in a way that it wouldn't do if a fictional character or a computer programming used the word.

It's possible to imagine a form of life as complex as ours with functioning societies where non of the lifeforms experienced the world as an "I". Maybe ants don't have an "I". NPCs in a video game or GPT3 almost certainly don't. At some point GPTx or video game NPCs might become as complex or behaviourly rich as a real person but still lack an "I".

This is a p-zombie. The "gap" I'm referring to is the difference beween similar entities, one of which experiences qualia when the other doesn't.
I learnt a similar lesson about teachers early on at school and extended it to all classes of authorities through life. See also Are Experts Real?[1]

[1]: https://fantasticanachronism.com/2021/01/11/are-experts-real...
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clearly that not what they said.
That's a holdout from 1998. Can't go changing things up after all that time, can we?

I imagine today I would have built the whole thing in canvas. But it's cool how quick you can get something up and running if you let the browser do most of the work.
FSF GNAT hasn't been MGPL for years, not even sure which version, but I think it's before 4.9.4. FSF GNAT is GPLv3 with linking exception.
We communists are famous for organising trade unions, so kind of.
No, WASM gets compiled to native code
> If it is an Ada implementation, why wouldn't they call it Ada rather than alang?

A serious lack of imagination, re clang, flang, etc.
Map with Driving Route from a to B
> this stretches the meaning of "truphy" and "falsy", which was invented to describe the extra coercions to true/false

Do you have a citation for this? I’m looking for a source which doesn’t consider true to be truthy, or false to be falsy, and I’m not finding one.
You can have love without attachment. “Getting over it” means overcoming attachment, regret, and loss. It doesn’t mean forgetting or loss of significance.

Similar to how with things in the future or present, you can care without worrying.
Oh god, what a beautiful machine. I desire it greatly.
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Back when I started out fifteen years ago, programming was a fairly uncommon activity. There was little in the way of bootcamps, so your competition was mostly other self-taught teenagers. Now, these days, you're competing withe a huge amount of people who've skilled up in good practises from the get-go, and there's also much more competition from outsourced tech-shops in places like Eastern Europe who have a far better reputation than more old school progammer mills.

I have a smart friend here in the UK who's been working in technical support, re-skilled at a bootcamp, seems to know what he's doing, but finding a job now things are hyper-competitive is proving really difficult. He managed to bag one job but the COO basically unfortunately pushed him towards running their support department so he didn't get as much experience coding as he'd have liked. What best avenues would he have for finding an actual programmer job?
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I just use regular rss. thankfully there is still some content out there which uses rss. I like the fact that anyone can put uo their own rss feed with whatever they want without needing to be "curated" or "evaluated against terms of service" of some central system
It's just vanilla javascript, html and css. Pull up dev tools and notice this in the css:

img {
image-rendering: pixelated;
}

Lop that off (or uncheck it in dev tools) and you can have things as blurry as you please.
I'm British but when I am drunk people think I'm Australian.
Don't worry, I am overstating it a bit. But even more don't say that in Poland.
I guess the ugly look is part of it... "we set up wellness booths but they don't get used very often, it means our employees are happy!".

God damn, it must be like the Stanford prison there, with the white collar workers not treating the blue collar ones as humans any more. But maybe I'm extrapolating from a conjecture.
I tried following the webdev topic and it's just interaction-baiting bullshit. Like loops vs reduce. Or "offend a webdev with 3 words".
I guess everyone with significant investment in ruby codebases can just "choose" to rewrite everything in another language.

Whilst they are doing their multiyear rewrites, it would be nice if someone could optimise the ruby runtime a bit for them.
Consciousness is not observable. Gravity is.
That made me smile honestly :D
One can readily find persuasive critiques of Chalmers' theories by professional philosophers. Book length even.
As well as everybody who is not currently in traffic that also gets to 'enjoy' your loud exhaust. And needlessly revving the engine when standing still is also probably in some way related to traffic safety.
This is one incident among many, but it has less to do with indigenous children as it does with any system wherein the accounting of "disconnected" children is left to that system. Tuam, County Galway ... eight hundred infants with missing graves. St Mary's Cemetery in Lanark, four hundred left in a single mass grave. In Germany, nuns pimping out orphans. The Sisters of Mercy scandal. I could go on.

Bluntly put, when an institution is given power over children, more than that of a family, and the auditing is lax, you're gonna get maltreatment, and from there unmarked graves. Indigenous, orphans, those "born out of wedlock" in the old days, any child prised loose from the family is at tremendous risk of physical abuse, sexual molestation, death, and discarding.

I'm not sure what it says about the human race in general but it isn't very cheery.
These shouldnt be called residential schools because they werent schools and there was nothing residential about them despite the racist myths. Their primary purpose was not the assimilation of Indigenous children. Their primary purpose was a tool in the war of destruction against all Indigenous peoples -- the only rightful owners of the land illegally occupied by the canadian settler state and its illegal citizens.

These were concentration and extermination camps for Indigeouns children.
This is a very strange justification for having an obnoxiously loud vehicle.

If you want to be seen wearing bright leds.
Science answers "why" questions all the time.

We know the answer to why uniform radiation propagates due to an inverse square law. We know when and why conservation laws exist. The are many, many examples of this.

Examples like these refute your claim about the limits of science.

Claims like yours are common, though - you're probably just repeating what someone else has told you, perhaps without thinking very deeply about it.

This position seems to have arisen as a result of some of the limits of science that were encountered last century. The "shut up and calculate" mentality was a kind of reaction to the philosophical problems with quantum mechanics. But the defensive reaction that "science is just about theories that make predictions" is incoherent.

If it were really true, then science would be utterly dependent on philosophy to come up with new theories, because a prediction-generating machine isn't going to help you with that.

Ironically, the very people who make these claims would be the last to accept that progress in science is utterly dependent on philosophy - but that's the consequence of their own attempt to make a sharp delineation between, essentially, thinking and just crunching numbers.
In what sense do you consider SHA-256 superior to SHA-1?

If you're looking for preimage resistance, unless your passwords contain more than 128 bits of entropy, I suspect bruit forcing your password is still faster than a preimage attack on SHA-1, and will probably remain so for at least a decade. Collision attacks aren't useful for passwords (attacker chooses two passwords such that they have the same hash... I can't imagine a threat model under which this is useful to the attacker if that hash doesn't match any target's password hash. Maybe there is such a threat model, but it has to be a very outside-the-box attack.)

If you're worried about effort needed to bruit-force the password, use Argon2 or another memory-hard password hash/KDF.
Java bytecode got translated to native too

Think we've just got better at runtimes over time (JIT, intermediate formats etc.) and WASM was designed to be good for this rather than needed to work with an already exising bytecode
This is unbelievably shocking. Why is this not front page new across the world? Or at least the west? Good god, it’s unbelievable. The doctors should be instantly arrested, why haven’t they been arrested? This isn’t a law suit it’s a criminal investigation. I’ve not heard anything so absolutely disgusting about a first world country in quite some time.
I just looked through the pictures from the walks on the front page. What a dismal built environment. Do people not realise how poor it is?
To me the sound of those big bikes is a form of terrorism. They rise my blood pressure, increase stress levels and make me hate. Try living somewhere where every 20 minutes such bikes make the windows of your flat shake and you can't hear your TV or your partner talking until the bike is gone. Why do I have to suffer this every day of my life? I can't wait until the ICE is part of our primitive past.
TB is also one of the diseases brought to north america by europeans, so there is less or no natural immunity which comes from thousands of years of exposure, presumably this increased risk from “foreign” diseases still exists to an extent in indigenous populations on top of the other factors which put populations at higher risk.
The accusative case in guteN indeed comes from wishing it for the other (English is grammatically not expressive enough here).

This is the same BTW in Hungarian. Even better, in HU we still have the form of "I wish (you) a good{Acc} morning", however a bit less formal way you can say just "a good{Acc} morning"

This simplification happened to German earlier too. In fact, my German old lady neighbor still to this day says every time: "Ich wünsche Ihnen einen guten Morgen / schönen Tag, Herr kmarc"
It's written in the blog that fbi is only providing breach datasets not getting them. Through every dataset in HIBP is public already
I'd love a silent bike with tons of torque. I'm not looking forward to the day where my bike phones home to the manufacturer, isn't repairable by an amateur in a garage, or comes with DRM.

Unfortunately I think both those are inevitable. For now I'll keep riding my 15-year old carburetor bike with no rider aids.

Speaking of rider aids, I sometimes wonder where the balance is between safety and fun. I think the sport is only interesting if it's challenging, so a self driving motorcycle doesn't seem like it's good for anything other than transportation. What about TCS? ABS? Slipper clutches?
IMO, that's whataboutism.

The topic at hand is "we are dumping money into the economy, how to do it." The curious point is that "give it to people" is an exceedingly rare solution. The primary recipients are banks (2009), large firms... occasionally public works and small businesses.

This was the case in europe and the US, but this time, unusually, a portion of the whole did go to people. In the EU, none did. It wasn't even considered.

The way health or education work is another matter, and it is not a decision Dutch parliamentarians of the current generation made.
A contemporary broadband connection can manage way more than 100 simultaneous characters.

You only need to send an updated position and direction on every frame, which can fit in 10 bytes (16-bit screen space fixed point coordinates, 3 position coordinates + 1 orientation + one 16-bit animation/action ID).

With a 100mbps connection you can send 160 KB per frame at 60fps and thus support 16K characters.
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The GP comment was specifically talking about the "hard problem." That's hardly "Chalmer's theory," although he did name it.

There are critiques of the hard problem, like eliminativism. I'm not aware of any that are "persuasive," though. Do you have any recommendations?
Personally, I'd say yes. Maybe a shorter overall vesting schedule, but at least a one year cliff.
Wait... Did you not read the comment? It's talking about American culture...
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Astronomers have created the largest ever map of dark matter
What is the Boko Haram fighting for? Know the Reason why on this article
Maybe this is some kind of anti forensics because this is so hard?
Philosophy isn't science.
I really enjoyed the previous, more Macintosh-like Serenity design with the global menu.

I had genuinely freaked out when I rebuilt the system just after Andreas moved it to be more Windows-like: I ran Serenity browser and in the first moment it looked eerily like an old-school Internet Explorer.
Why is it always Google-engineer? Does Google pay better than FB, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft? Apple and Microsoft do better as companies, IIRC, do they still pay less? Or do Google engineers brag more?
YC never claimed to have a perfect selection process. I wouldn’t hold them accountable for the teams they pick based on a business plan and a 10 min discussion. Its just a good guess.

If they doubled down on the team after demo day, then I am with you.

Compare this with hiring. I have heard successful people say they do get 1 in 5 hires wrong, even after a process which is 10x more thorough.
100mbps is much much faster than a the majority of consumer broadband connections, I don’t think that’s a particularly realistic figure. Don’t these games have to support a lowest common denominator type speed rather than a fantastic one? I’m not in game dev so not sure if there’s ways to get around things like that
You seem to extrapolate from a single sample that the probabilities of an “I” experience differs between individuals based on how similar they are to you.

I would say that if you can imagine other complex life forms without that experience it must be equally valid to assume the same can be true for everyone around you. Perhaps it’s only you.
adversarial collaboration rests on identifying the most diagnostic points of divergence between competing theories, reaching agreement on precisely what they predict, and then designing experiments that directly test those diverging predictions.

omg why has no-one thought of doing this before
This is very true. We had a $1m/year customer that dragged us down. I went over the development costs that were exclusive to that client. It was not worth the money. We were developing custom features. They since had to dump a lot of their locations which were picked up by another of our clients but maintained the entitlement.
> An alternative which is more in keeping with the spirit is to just make a new account every now and then.

This is what I do. I wish HN allowed you to have your username redacted automatically from all messages older than 6 months, so I wouldn't need to.

The idea is that the text of all your comments remains, but the username changes to [redacted] once the comment is six months old. All six-month-old comments by all users who have enabled this feature all appear to have come from one huge account called "[redacted]". This would preserve the discussions, while removing attribution and linkability between comments. There's really no need for abuse/spam management on six-month-old posts (if it wasn't flagged in six months it doesn't need to be flagged).

Probably the only downside is that up/downvotes to ancient posts couldn't affect the post-owner's super-important InternetPoints(tm) count, since if they did it would be possible to wiggle the upvote on a comment and then scan to see which account got a point-bump. So [redacted]'s comments wouldn't have up/down-vote arrows.
The last Yamaha I had tried to kill me constantly, it was brilliant.

My modern BMW is the opposite, but this Yamaha looks like a T1000 on a mission to kill me again.
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Didn’t Ellison have a house built in Japan, disassembled and rebuilt in America for him? Hardly Home Depot craftsmanship…
Not strictly related to the article, but I’ve yet to be convinced that most of the talk around this supposed “hard problem” is anything more than an attempt to reintroduce Cartesian dualism in more scientific sounding terms. “Quantum consciousness” and whatnot.
Your article references what’s happening in Saskatoon which is not in Alberta?

And the claim is coerced sterilization.
I would love to work in European international corporation acknowledging and respecting different introvert/extrovert personality levels, countless languages, completely different approaches in handling problems and challenges determined by one's origin and upbringing, different needs in socializing, e.g. Nokia at its peak. I dislike the American corporate environment, their soulless "corporate culture" media materials. There is this one American school of "how to become successful" and that's it. Productivity of a generation of Europeans is getting wasted on following some motivational bollocks by people after dozen of plastic surgeries and living in Florida or California.
Big Yamaha fan here. Learnt riding a motorcycle on one of their old 2 stroke models when I was 11 years old! Have been thinking about buying an MT3 for casual riding. This is so futuristic. I'm sure it needs a lot more testing before public release. Even though I'll not be buying one when it's available, it's just too beautiful to ignore!
I don't get the loud exhausts and I don't get the community either. I've been riding bikes all my life and I've never felt attached to any "community" of bikers.
There's an obvious explanation for the differences in perspective, which is covered by the title of this paper:

https://philarchive.org/archive/KEACDD
It's convenient to directly open a notebook from a browser download or a slack message without having to fire up jupyter in a terminal and navigate it to that temp file.
I understand that performance engines need unobstructed exhausts up to a certain point, but pipes tuned to amplify this sound is distracting at best, damaging your ears at worst. I don't like them.

They become hazardous in tunnels, underpasses and other closed spaces. Ultra loud pipes kill my ears' locating capabilities and I can't mentally place the motorcycle to the correct place so I won't unintentionally endanger it.

The place I live has many more motorcycles in recent years and they drive dangerously to save time (delivery guys), and it makes my life as a car driver much more harder.

If you always drive in my blind spots and have loud pipes to blind my ears, I cannot see you, even if I very hard to try. So please be a little more considerate.
People who were on Twitter in the early days are definitely not typical.
Why would I need more information?

A guy was putting his hand on his co-workers' knees! Often enough that people scurried from him! It's clear the implication is made that this is just a "Hindu" thing.

That's wrong. It's not a Hindu thing. It's offensive to say it is. And the idea that my comments saying so are being flagged is also offensive.

Comments like Eh... Can't we just bomb them as usual? ;-) are the ones that violate HN guidelines and should be flagged.
https://archive.is/DcSAD
Interesting. To each his own, of course - but in this one particular video, the print-debugging he does, might have been quicker and easier in a debugger (or perhaps with a core dump?). Then again, maybe not in c++.

I admit, I work mostly with ruby these days, which of course has a quite decent repl and debug experience (still whish it had full smalltalk style crash(missing method) > debugger > fix/add method > resume). Apparently someone did try that with python/rpython in the "topaz" ruby vm, but it seems abandoned. Maybe we'll get it for more languages via graal vm at some point?).
Death is a shock to the system, even if it is expected. My mother slowly passed, and her last 6 weeks it was obvious.

Now is too soon to think of 'How do I cope' It is a day to day thing. The funeral will bring it all up again. I was grateful for friends who acted as chauffeurs and managers at my mothers funeral.

If you can, write or record on a phone all the stories you can remember. Then in a year or two put them together. Which I need to do myself for my mother and aunts.

I also need to spend some time with my dad and record his stories. I think I will go in 5 year increments. I also need to do this for my wife and myself. Although typing it out sounds good, I think at the least try to get an audio recording, better is to tie in video.
You should be treating people like people-not limited terms like “liberal“, “conservative”, or anything else. People are people. Ends unto themselves. Not means to an end, such as whatever calling someone liberal allows you to do and feel.
The problem is not that other people have political thoughts, it's that this despicable platform constantly tries to push them in your face even if you're not interested in them with things like the algorithmic timeline (that "accidentally" re-enables itself every so often) and showing tweets from people you don't follow.
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A pessimist is a realistic optimist.
This is just a statistical tendency. It doesn’t license the inference that any given long word is rarely used.
The article we are both commenting on is in a scientific journal and is concerned with scientific research into consciousness.

I think it’s appropriate to talk about scientific results here.
See also the English upper-class ritual introductory exchange:

How do you do?

To which the correct response is:

How do you do?
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I think you’re ignoring the concept of it being marginal, it’s marginal because they’re on the margin of choosing to mine or to turn up the heating. Those other activities aren’t marginal you need to cook, you need to drive, etc.
Requirements are still a bit vague but I would probably start with a simple python script to process the text file and output the result. That can already be used on computers on the command line.

Then you could wrap it up in a website using django or another small web framework with an html form to upload the text file, process it using the same script and output the result as html. Then it becomes available on all devices with a web browser.
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