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This is exactly me. I'm a very deep thinker, or at least it's been my experience that I seem to think a level or two deeper on average than most people.

I don't know if you're like me, but in my case my thoughts generally appear to me as objects, not as words (I've been told by a few people this is odd) so I find myself often having to convert my thoughts in words which can be extremely hard when you're thinking about something complicated and don't have a strong vocabulary as it is.

A few things work really well for me. One is simply just to be comfortable with saying, "give me a sec, I need to think about how to best explain this". This gives me something akin to a memory buffer which can help give me time to collect my thoughts and explain them with less pauses and backtracking.

Another thing that can work depending on the situation is to explain things with text where possible. I honestly think text communication is overlooked in a lot of offices today where verbal communication skills tend to be highly valued. I've found it's often not as useful to ask someone to explain something complex on the stop in person because unless they're a very talented verbal communicator they'll often be able to explain something far better if they were given some time to think about what they want to say and the best to say it which text allows. Alternatively if you don't want to explain something with text or can't you can ask for some time to write notes to help you verbally explain something.

The final thing I do is make use of examples and resources whenever possible. I know I'm far better at explaining things when I can demonstrate something visually and use speech to narrate the process, probably because I think visually. Alternatively when possible I'll often just defer to a resource that explains something far better than I can. I was trying to explain CSS margin collapsing to a junior dev recently and instead of trying to explain it in detail myself I just linked him to some online resources which I thought did a good job and explaining it and said to ask if he had any questions. IMO, there's no shame in doing this. It's simply true that most things we're trying to explain have probably been explained hundreds of times before by people who spent far more time thinking about the optimal way to do it.

Personally I'm not convinced it's possible to teach yourself to be a significantly better communicator. At least in my case it seems to be a mostly genetic trait given that on my dad's side of the family all the men seem to have problems with stuttering and explaining things. I've definitely improved over the years, but I based on a how little progress I've made despite great effort it seems unlikely I'll ever be that good at it.
This question would be a good one for the RevGenius community. Are you a member yet? No costs and a bunch of folks will hop on zoom to walk you through.
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It's interesting that they block Hacker News and not CNN. I take it that any social network is by default blocked?
There was someone from CIA at that time interviewed for the (great) Netflix docudrama called Wormwood. He basically said something to that effect: we know this substance is powerful, we don’t know what it is, if the Russians discover that it’s a mind control serum and we know nothing about it then we are screwed.

Mix that (fairly reasonable at the time IMO) motivation with the… lackadaisical research ethics frameworks at the time, and the outcome gets much less shocking.
I found it clear it wasn't a GitHub project.
> Christmas itself has pagan roots.

I was under the impression that the "Calculation hypothesis" (Easter + 9 months) was the most likely:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas#Calculation_hypothes...
I think some Sikhs might differ with you there.
I can't agree that it's equally well.

I think there are a couple of points here:

- We are always comparing to human consciousness and we don't understand consciousness in humans well enough.

- You can always retain some form of solipsism and be sceptical of any consciousness outside of your own.

But with these things in mind, there are vast differences in the ways AI systems can exhibit consciousness (whether that's real or not).
> Here is an example where Harvard Stem Cell Institute discusses mRNA therapy as gene therapy: https://hsci.harvard.edu/translation/what-are-drugs-4-gene-t...

And the very next paragraph (in its heading, no less) makes it clear that RNA therapies and gene therapies are distinct, i.e. that RNA therapies are not (necessarily) gene therapies.

The Wikipedia article you cite doesn’t mention mRNA vaccines. The single mention of “mRNA payloads” does not necessarily refer to vaccines (there are other RNA therapies, and some of these might be gene therapies, although I don’t think they are) — but even if it did the sentence’s inclusion in this article is debatable at the very least.

Fundamentally, gene therapies always work by modifying the host genome. mRNA vaccines don’t do this (nor do any other RNA therapy approaches that I’m aware of).
> Tests are useful, but the big reason that comments are useful is that they are co-located with the relevant code.

That's a not-often-talked-about (that I see anyway?) thing I really like about rust - I don't get to use it much, but when I do I think having 'doc tests' alongside comments heading a function and 'module tests' at the bottom of the same file is great.
“ I want a plugin that automatically says "OK" to cookie banners.”

Try “I don’t care about cookies” :)

https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/
That's my point: that if you create a standard like this but don't enforce it (which is not the same thing as its legality) it won't matter. What is the consequence going to be of ignoring it? Will it be enough to actually create an incentive more attractive than breaking the law?
This is great if you're using a loosely typed language (like JS), but I think the need for this is why things like Typescript are gaining in popularity.

I used to love the eslint-enforced jsdoc in a repo I maintain, but since we embarked on a TS migration, it has become painfully redundant in 90%+ of cases (there are cases where the jsdoc contains extra commentary/context that TS doesn't cover, but I think those cases are covered by the author's other comment types).

So given the above, I think it's notable that you are referring to JSDoc (and by extension JS) whereas the author is referring to Javadoc (and by extension Java). The language choice is particularly important here.
Yep. Growing up it was a 36" direct drive motor attached to the fan blades. It was a louder unit, but that was fine since it was in the back of the house away from bedrooms. There are quieter units available which are driven by DC motors with additional sound isolation features available, such as https://quietcoolsystems.com/whole-house-fan/. Probably the direction I will go when I install one.
Does tech need a new narrative?
It always comes down to your data that must be persistent and consistent. This data must be stored somewhere. The real problem is always storage. Message passing is all fine and good, but the real problem is your data. How scalable is your data layer in terms of size and operations per second.
Lot of detail in there beyond the headline question, but to give my own thought on that question itself, and assuming that “consciousness” means that hard-to-define thing we generally ascribe to humans and not to plants: both yes and no, depending on the AI.

I don’t want grunt work to be done by a conscious AI, because that feels like slavery.

I do want to be able to upload my consciousness and have it continue to be conscious, because for me that form of continuity is good enough to count as life after death even though it’s a fork and the biological me will still die.
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You happen to have cmake or autotools installed, others happen to have cargo installed.

Once cargo/cmake/autotools/make/npm/mvn/setup.py/whatever runs, the process of taking the output and packaging it for your preferred distro is the same.

There's more work involved if you want a distro to actually pick it up and include it in their repos around not using static linking, but if you're asking for a .deb/.rpm on github actions, that's not needed.
Whether they should be means or ends is a better question than whether they are "conscious" or not, which isn't really a well-formed debate.
Over 2 years old at this point, but still highly relevant:

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2019/01/15/quantum-comput...
Not just nearly the same. It's literally kūmara in Māori.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Arda_Viraf
If you are hiring someone to do a specific job which is different to other roles then sure you can create such titled positions. But if they are basically doing similar work to others (Just 10X better or whatever), then a fancy title isn't really going to fool anyone.
I've done some basic reading on GDPR but can't honestly say I have it completely figured out. Can someone help me out with a use case that I come across frequently? Selling tracking data to third parties is the kind of thing noone wants to actually opt in to, and what I imagine GDPR partially tries to combat. (among other things)

What about site statistics keeping? If say a newspaper collects statistics about visitors to their articles, and does browser/user tracking by implementing cookies, for __internal__ use, rather than selling data to third parties. Is a cookie banner still neccesary for that kind of consent?

Personally, I don't care if my IP appears on any website log that I have visited, or if a unique cookie ID becomes present on the site until I clear my cookies. If i cared about my IP being tracked, or cookie IDs like that, I would browse using a VPN and "Private mode" in browser. What I do care about is the complex browser fingerprinting that keeps track of (essentially) my entire browser history, externally, with everything from my google searches, youtube videos, online purchases and website visits being visible in some kind of giant aggregate form.

Basically compare it to being videotaped when entering a store. Yeah sure, I might be a bit irked by the camera but I don't care too much. Comparing that to putting a camera on every street corner, and using facial recognition to generate a day by day pattern of all my visits to all stores the last 30 years, and I'm not a happy camper any more.

I would even go as far as cookie banners for the above tracking scenario, where you are tracked completely, should be illegal. That kind of "consent" can't even be gained by just clicking a <button> on a website, it would require a valid ID and signature at least.

And on the other hand, the "internal store videocamera" taping customers as they enter, perhaps even applying face recognition software to count unique visitors per year to the store, is hardly worth the hassle of a clicking a cookie banner personally. I'm certainly not averse to a position of not wanting to be tracked when entering a store or a webpage though, and if someone has a personal need to not be tracked like that, they should be able to apply basic non consent based tools to avoid being tracked. Like wearing sunglasses and a cap when entering the store, or browsing using a VPN.
Yes same, though I read an argument saying there's no theoretical reason we can't build one, so if we try and can't we'll probably discover some new physics.
Because artificial consciousness isn't reachable. Neurologists haven't discovert the secret of consciousness and how it works. And thinking that machines could ever be such universal computers like our brains are more or less human hybris (IMHO).
YouTube Premium is only $12/month. People act like it’s crazy to spend the price of an appetizer on an entertainment platform that they use tens of hours a month.
JSDoc !== Javadoc

The reason I say that is because the language features (or lack thereof) are a big contributor to the need for JSDoc/Javadoc.

i.e. JSDoc adds much more to Javascript than Javadoc adds to Java.

For example, there is much less need for JSDoc in a Typescript project.
Off topic, and I realize this was not at all your point/belief, but it's quite incredible that the article is brining up this quote from Roger Waters as an example of his 'anti-semitism'...
This is a good point!

Stimulants are not always necessary long term, but they usually are to start effecting enough change to be able to function in the present society.

For some (me probably) it'll be a lifelong thing, but it definitely doesn't have to be for everyone!

I'm happy for your success!

I really wish I had access to more talk therapy, physiotherapy, guided relaxation, mindfullness'ish sessions, and some other forms of support. The medicine helps me to stay mostly functioning, but with talking to a therapist and practicing "basal body knowledge" I was feeling so much better!
Can you explain why you don’t think stacked PRs should exist? What repo sizes, team sizes, and CI practices does your recommendation apply to?

I have seen them used in a few ways:

- To enable the creation of PRs that change just one thing. This makes them easier to review, revert or cherry pick.

- Allow you to continue to work while a more intensive CI or review process is under way.

With a good stacked change system, like in Phabricator or Gerrit, I have seen some of the most productive ever devs always using stacked changes.
It's an old idiom
Isn't homebrew specifically supposed to build from source? e.g. the example on the homepage of a recipe is running ./configure && make on wget.

The fact that you installed the XCode CLI tools for that wget example to work when you first installed homebrew because homebrew itself requires it, and you only get Cargo the first time you get a rust dependency seems to be what you're really complaining about.
I wonder how much of that is because of the “All A’s at all costs” mentality that is necessary to get admitted to merry school in the first place selects against creative problem solving. It’s like they took “if you hear hoofbeats, think horses instead of zebras (unless you’re in Uganda)” and then forgot that exception while on a metaphorical vacation to Uganda.
At least in France, there's CNIL (Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés) that started going after the top non-compliant websites and sending love letters like "you have N days to become compliant".

[1] https://www.cnil.fr/en/home
Now they need one for all the newsletter sign up boxes.
Regulations tend to become pretty stale pretty fast while tech moves on . Maybe users just need to pushback by picking browsers that respect privacy. We would do better by funding better privacy tech and educating consumers then chasing regulations that almost never get it right, bog down the user experience, and generally become a hassle to everyone involved.
thank you for validating my position that I will not be flying anywhere in 2021. if I need to travel it better be in driving distance or postponed until 2022...

no Air Travel for me this year
I agree with the sentiment, but be careful approaching this from the mindset that closing a handful of GitHub issues or "launching" a zero-user app with no marketing is at the same level as having a job and being assigned tasks by other employees.

> We tend to downplay things we do or build ourselves, as if the very fact that another person (a boss) tells us to do something makes it immediately more valuable than if we choose to do that something ourselves. It doesn't.

It does, in the sense that it's actually a pretty high bar to get to a point where you can afford employees with management and have directed product growth. It doesn't mean it's better in an absolute sense -- sometimes the very opposite! -- but you might be setting yourself up for disappointment if you don't acknowledge the differences.
I have done this a few times. Be honest about it and describe what you did in details on your resume, so you are able to explain what you did or tried to do in an interview setting. Often these project can be good to have a conversation about because you care more about the technology choices and have full ownership of it.
Those are not the numbers quoted by the OP, though.

Anyway, yes, it seems like I'm wrong and the majority of chickens are grown in intensive farms. For pigs though, 55% is about half of all animals.

But I don't want to argue over margins. The point I'm making in my comments above and elsewhere in this thread is that in most of the world most farms are not factory farms. This is still the case. Note also the title of the article in your link: "Rise of mega farms: how the US model of intensive farming is invading the world". Again, I made the point that industrial farming is typical to the Americas and not the rest of the world. It's "invading" the world, but it's not how most of the world does farming, it's how Americans do farming.

And yes, this will change without intervention because people the world over are blinded by the prospect of maximising their profits, even if all they achieve in the end is to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs (their animals, that feed them). All those farmers will achieve who give up their small family farms for tin sheds on concrete lots is to make themselves slaves and force their children out of the farming business.

So the intervention should be to protect the small scale farmers from the encroachment of the gigantic corporations that want to take their land, their animals and their businesses. This is the only way to ensure that all farm animals are given the care and respect they deserve, care and respect that is simply not available in industrial farming.
"Another thing to consider is, why did you address my example instead of addressing my main point? "

Because I felt like it, that is all. I am interested in similar topics.

I think people generally underestimate how non-straightforward natural selection is, especially when epigenetics is taken into account. Living beings carry around a lot of dormant genes that can spring to life under specific conditions.
If you stop buying bottled water and use tap water, economy is shrinking. Reduce tap water and get some from your backyard and it shrinks again.

Healthier <> economy growth
As I understand it, the idea would be to make respecting these automatic signal mandatory in an update to the GDPR. See https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/14/europe-needs-to-back-brows... for some more context.

Granted though that enforcement of the existing rules seems to be the biggest problem today.
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> Lack of imagination is not our problem.

Perhaps not in developers, but it is where it matters: most upper and middle managers. There's an incredibly conservative, risk-averse attitude. If you're risk-averse, all you see are cost centres, not investment opportunities, pivots and new revenue sources. This has a knock-on effect on the requirements for SaaS vendors.

You have a point about a heterogeneous markets and legal systems. What you're possibly also missing is Europe has a huge public sector compared to the US. That sector doesn't tend to focus on innovation at all, unless it's part of the war machine.
In my experience, at the FAANG I worked at, there was definitely an "approved" schools list for US candidates.

It completely blew my mind, to be honest (and I do see similar weirdnesses in the way US colleagues review CV's, so I don't think it's only a FAANG thing).
> If we can’t figure out why AIs do what they do, why don’t we ask them? We can endow them with metacognition.

You mean, like a sort of code that shows exactly why the AI does what it does? We could maybe even write it before creating the AI! Revolutionary!

Alternatively, that's like asking Google or Microsoft to endow their search engine/operating system with detailed explanations of what it is doing and why. What are the chances of that happening?

Anyway, funny article.
I see this sentiment a lot, that attempts at general AI are improving at an exponential pace, but it’s just not true. Hell, we can’t even agree what consciousness is, let alone how to measure it. The truth is we don’t have a clue how far away we are from true AI, we have literally zero reliable indicators to gauge our progress. It’s not like we have a Moore’s law for consciousness or something like that.

I agree that we should think about these questions ahead of time and not wait around until general AI is upon us though.
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Only if we figure out its rights beforehand.

I don't want to see a new entity go through some of the crap humans do to each other, it will definitely kill us all.
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A conscious AI has at least one interest similar to us humans, preservation of its consciousness. Thus it can be threatened into compliance with random rules, though this may spectacularly backfire (e.g. HAL in 2001 - A Space Odyssey).

The ethical implications alone would be enormous, though. Can you turn such a damn thing off? Are you obliged to do your utmost to keep it running, much like you have a duty to protect a child against hunger, disease and exposure? Does it "hurt" in any sense if you unplug an USB dongle improperly etc.?
My life kind of started anew.

Not in a "wow this is fantastic", rather the opposite. Old sorrows surfaces, forgotten experiences had to be dealt with, but I was finally able to start moving forward and deal with the reality outside myself.

It's hard to explain, but now I am growing older, not only my body as it used to be.
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So at that point you're basically a genie in a lamp?
Cue the "are you still you?" crowd
My favorites:

- `$0` to refer to last selected DOM node

- `copy(obj)` to copy something to clipboard (that might be hard to copy manually; for example long strings are often cut when selecting manually for copying)
I think this is 99% caused by advertising in itself. One of the oft-forgotten facts about ads is that they can not only influence you to choose between competitors for irrational reasons, but they can very often influence you into buying something that you didn't need at all. In fact, this is often the primary purpose, as Amazon for example profits more from you owning a Siri speaker than they do from you not owning a smart speaker at all (since part of their stock price will be influenced by the size of the overall smart speaker market, not just their slice of it).
> Can any current so called quantum computers actually perform any computations faster than a classical one? To be called a quantum computer, I would expect they should ...

But why? A very slow silicion based computer is still a silicon based computer. It doesn't matter how fast, same applies for quantum computers. There is no such definition as IF (> 1000 qubits) THEN "quantum computer" ELSE "nothing".
Yeah, in general any successful EU/Europe startups target the American market, because Americans are typically richer, and the market is huuuuuuuggggge (relative to European countries, at least).
In case anyone missed it, his response to the supposed FB offer is discussed (with 43 comments) here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27488742

The link posted was to the viral video of Waters making the comments:

https://www.bitchute.com/video/9ksRVJsvWc3B/