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>close to the cold extermination machine and bureaucracy employed by nazis against Jews, Poles, Homosexuals, etc.

I don't understand where do you see any difference. Russia methodically conducts genocide and ethnic cleansing of Ukrainians that Putin announced in his original war speech. Russia has unleashed total terror on Ukrainians on occupied territories - anybody showing any Ukrainian ethnical or political allegiance or having even just former association with Ukrainian armed forces or government is arrested/kidnapped (and some of them are already known to have been tortured, killed while for many nothing is known) by the Russian SS force "Russian Guard". And for bureaucracy - the "Russian Guard" has been disappearing a lot of those people according to the already prepared lists. And that given that 12 million of Ukrainians have already been forced to run away by the bombings and the threat of occupation to Europe and West Ukraine (including many LGBT people who didn't risk to get the Russian, in particular Chechen - as there is large Chechen mercenary force fighting on the Russian side - treatment).

And i don't see any difference here from the German Nazi actions on the occupied USSR territories back then. And Russia doesn't do such things in Ukraine today for the first time - just look up for example USSR in Poland in 1939.
You really could read up on some historical facts. They are not jealously guarded anymore, and can in fact be found via simple automated search services. You might even know of one such.

Ignorance, today, is a choice. You may dispense with it anytime you like. Or not; "nescio id quod sciam," as it were.
I do use torrents daily, and I don't use private trackers because I subscribe to the idea of shared content available to everyone if the cost is nil. There definitively is spam, but it's not kazaa- or emule-level of spams: it's easy to find correct content as soon as it's not too obscure. With a fast enough connection, you can have a >1 ratio in a matter of hours at most, so your visibility is not very long. YMMV, of course.
No one knows what's going to happen, it's basically gambling.
No. In fact, most Jews I know are intensely critical of Israel's policies and recent actions.

Unfortunately, there is a degree to which antisemitism is disguised behind disproportionate criticism of Israel and the Israeli people, and it's impossible to know, at an individual level, why people hold their opinions.

Does Israel's government do awful things for questionable reasons (like most, if not all, national governments)? Yes. Is Israel the worst government in the Middle East? Far from it. To be honest, it's probably the least repressive, racist, or otherwise obnoxious government in the region (that's not setting a high bar). Israeli Arabs (especially women) have more freedoms in Israel than they would in any of the neighboring countries. Should Israel do better? Of course. It's absurd, though, that there's such a strong interest in BDS while the continuing consumption of Saudi oil goes unquestioned by most.

Also: why is it that the behavior of Israel's government comes up in a discussion about memorializing people who were murdered before the state of Israel even existed? I have Irish (American) ancestry, but no one has ever asked me to answer for the Irish government (or connected me to it in any way, seeing as my Irish ancestors came over in the early 19th century). It's deeply weird that some people are so quick to connect anything having to do with Jews or Judaism with the conduct of one government in particular, which is thousands of miles away from where many Jews live.
It was over so fast that I didn't have time to get scared. There are quite a few of them in that area (~50) and I know it well so I'm somewhat prepared but normally you see them coming from some distance away, this one (a pretty beefy male) just sauntered out from between a bunch of trees very close to the bike trail.
Nobody in germany generally calls them "polish death camps" and nobody thinks poles are in any way to blame. Even if you called them polish deaths camps, people would assume you mean the Nazi concentration camps on occupied polish land.
Who cares what the chuckleheads are saying? Better to ignore them and focus on substantive criticism. Attempting to divine the motives of morons is a waste of time and it distracts from issues that really do matter (of course, for some, that's exactly the point of focusing on the stupidities of extreme positions—they divert attention from genuine problems).
I think what I was getting at is that it may be impossible to tell from the outside if something is conscious or not. If I can't even prove to myself that another person is conscious, I might have a hard time proving that a computer is conscious.
A "back door" would by definition be systemic, so the initial comment's statement that the government could compel backdoors is FUD.

But yes, targeted attacks are permitted, but only so long as they don't cause any collateral damage.

Making encryption systemically less secure is forbidden by 317ZG paragraph 3.
> I don't think decentralized indexing is a solvable problem. There's too much crap, and too little in the way of useful signal to tell it apart.

I've been using decentralized indexing for more than a year and I haven't needed to go back to ad- and malware-ridden search sites. I find the number of seeders a good enough indicator of quality, but of course that only works for popular content.

EDIT: thanks for formatting, I always forget this double linefeed rule
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The future TV will ship with an embedded SIM card…
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Same here: Used my Sony A7III with USB and their software as an excellent webcam and since I bought the new Sony A7IV, all my client always ask in video calls, what Webcam that is. At my new employer I had several coworkers asking me how the heck I did the insane background blur. (They didn't know it was a mirrorless)

If you have an old DSLR or a modern camera, you can use a 20USD Chinese HDMI Capture stick and get the best webcam on the planet.
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I feel like most of the older languages are a bit difficult to use in a modern setting.

For example, consider how Pascal/Lazarus (a different language, sure, but in similar circumstances to Ada) support MySQL 5.7 at the latest (TMySQL57Connection) and might have certain challenges when you attempt to use them for web development or anything of the sort (REST, SOAP, gRPC, connecting to RabbitMQ etc.).

A brief search doesn't turn up any gRPC support for Ada, it feels like using something like Go for components that connect over the network and Ada for actual data processing with interop inbetween might actually be a better setup. It might also just be an uphill battle outside of niche domains where Ada (or even Pascal/Delphi) are established.
For what it's worth if I left a reply and received an upvote for it, I wouldn't think "they saw my reply". I would think "someone appreciated my comment".
Its amateur hour.

Currently governance projects have no bylaws to constrict the nature of a proposal, and they have no continuity between proposals to restrict future proposals, and there is no arbiter, and proposal outcomes mostly have to be coded by the original team so people are trusting them, and there is no agreed upon compensation path for a third party implementation team.
Future of Matrimonial Industry
There's an interesting thought experiment that goes the other way. What if we replace a single neuron in a conscious person's brain by a properly connected real-time neuron simulator? Would that affect the person's consciousness? What about two neurons? Etc etc. At what point, if ever, would a progressively more simulated brain no longer be the original consciousness?
Could you elaborate what your intended meaning was? It felt to me like you were singeling out 'rationals' as not being the same number set. Maybe we also think of something different when talking about 'rationals'?

Maybe I also missed something obvious, so I'd like to satisfy my curiosity!
> non-wealthy countries were internet access is slow and expensive

I’m not sure many people could afford a PS5 in places such as this. And in most ‘second world’ where people have a but more money internet is generally cheap and fast especially compared so countries like US or Canada.
Even worse (for me), is the fact that there aren't any decent and affordable microscope/desktop cameras for home/semiprofessional use. Unless you shell out a few thousand dollars, you get the same crappy camera modules that webcams use.
Turing's original paper is worth a read here. He already pre-empted a lot of the objections back then. You are right that Turing's original test is much harder than just passing a few shallow softball questions.

See https://academic.oup.com/mind/article/LIX/236/433/986238 for the original paper.

However, I do count responding well to softball questions as important markers of our progress. Ten years ago, no one was able to pass even this mark.

(And from a commercial point of view, good enough 'understanding' and responses might be good enough for many tasks.

For example, I am a native German speaker, but I found that Google Translate often already does a better job of translating English to German than I could do, unless I spent unreasonable amounts of time on the task.

At the moment the most efficient way for me to produce a translation is to let Google Translate do the work, and then proof-read to spot cases were the machine didn't have enough context to resolve an ambiguity the right way.)
> they are designed to turn the only external source of energy our planet receives (sun light) into heat and other forms of energy that will eventually become heat

How does a steam turbine work? By heat: we burn things to get heat, and use steam to turn it into work which..turns it into heat.

Your own statement is arguing against using energy in the first place, yet trying to frame it as a "renewable energy" problem as though the 60% of energy in gasoline isn't being thrown off into the environment, and 30-50% of energy in coal isn't the same, or as if literally every last bit of that - all of it because of the laws of thermodynamics - isn't eventually turned into heat.

Total estimate energy consumption per year [1] is about 14420 TWh as of 2021. The total solar energy we would've received in that same year [2] is 1,515,480,000 TWh. Or 0.00095%.

The amount of thermal emission from human activity on Earth is negligible. The idea that the amount of solar panels to power human civilization would have any non-local effect on the temperature of the planet is absurd.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_supply_and_consum...

[2] https://news.mit.edu/2011/energy-scale-part3-1026
I'm not sure about mobile, but on desktop the site is wonderfully performant and usable!

Plus the idea itself is immensely cool, so props to the author!

One thing I find myself wondering about is older looking fonts, with modern character set support (at least extended latin). Something like GNU Unifont https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Unifont but a bit more readable, say, for usage in an IDE.
Did you try

chromium —enable-features=UseOzonePlatform —ozone-platform=wayland

I’ve seen this work brilliantly on some GPUs and segfault at start with some.
it is far more cost effective for everyone to mandatorily pay into a collective budget which the state can spend with healthcare providers.
55 votes and no comments. Looks like a lot of people are interested in WASM but no one has anything to say about it.
I believe that the research paper that the paradox is from expressed it the other way around:

It's more like the more oppressive a country is, the more likely women will enter STEM.

The reasoning is that in harsher places, women will try to maximize benefits for themselves and family and enter STEM fields.
I'd say most people get discouraged by downvotes, except for trolls maybe, but I have no data to support it.

I'd request that you don't downvote my comments should you ever find one informative.
> but if you could get up that wall to keep you from going out of bounds the game game would yeet you with great force to the center, it was glorious.

I can still hear that bang. Played MCM2 to death! Pity it (and Monster Truck Madness for that matter) never got a followup.
"Attribution Non-Commercial Sharealike"

Oops. Non-Commercial. Thus not open source or free software.

I'll look elsewhere.
Worked at Google.

Most don’t care if products succeeds or fails. After all you can always blame the product managers - who appear to be recyclable e.g name Google’s top engineers then try to name Google’s top product people; and contrast this to Apple.

However new products generate engineering demand, which means team headcount, promotion opportunities, experience, and more pay. It’s a bubble which flows from free money.
Fertilizers can be more than urea, like ammonium nitrate. Urea is also used, although many times it is treated for controlled release. Apart from that, some math is in order.

Let's say I need 200 kg/ha of a 12-6-6 NPK fertilizer for post-sowing 10 ha of some crop, like corn. (This is a little short of 180 lb/ac for a total of ~25 acres. I'm in Europe, and I don't know what would be a typical value for the US).

This fertilizer has 12% w/w of total nitrogen, so for the total area my needs are 240 kg of nitrogen (~530 lb).

An adult will produce an average of 1,4 L (0.37 gal) of urine daily, with a nitrogen content of 8,83 g/L, so this means a total of 12,36 g/day, or 4,5 kg/year (~10 lb/year).[1]

So I'll need the urine that 53 people pee for a whole year for this single crop. A six tower pivot has something around 4 or 5 times that area. And this area can be used twice a year for different crops. The average US farm has 445 ac.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urine#Characteristics
[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/196106/average-size-of-f...
The conscious part of that system is the interpretation, not the bar itself. You have skipped directly over the observer, who is actually performing the conscious computation.

Think about how you would actually write a program to achieve this. The iron bar is just a bunch of atoms with random bit states that flip at random intervals - we'll model it as a contiguous 1D array of bits. You have a 1 second consciousness mapping, which is most likely rather large in size. Our interpretation process maps the random bits in the bar to a time instant of the conscious process by interpreting some bits in the bar as themselves, and the other bits in the bar as the reverse of themselves. In other words, our interpretation of which atom-bits are telling the truth and which are lying is itself a 1D array of bits that satisfies the following property:

BAR bitxor INTERPRETATION = CONSCIOUS_INSTANT

As time progresses, BAR and CONSCIOUS_INSTANT continuously change, therefore necessitating INTERPRETATION to change as well to keep the above formula consistent. In fact, by the rules of XOR, we can compute exactly what INTERPRETATION is at any given moment:

INTERPRETATION = CONSCIOUS_INSTANT bitxor BAR

But wait! This means that to dynamically know INTERPRETATION, you _must_ know all of the information associated with both CONSCIOUS_INSTANT and BAR. But if you know all the information associated with CONSCIOUS_INSTANT, haven't you already simulated a conscious process...? So there is in fact a consciousness here, but not in the {BAR} system: it is in the {BAR,INTERPRETATION,CONSCIOUS_INSTANT} system.

(Note: If you squint at this for long enough, it starts sounding a lot like a motivation for Death of the Author.)
yes, I believe yours is the better phrasing on the point I was hoping the make. Thanks
People know what they're doing the second and third time that they launch the same product.

Like when you see founders of large VC backed companies go off to launch the same thing.

Or why business practices calcify and people aren’t open to a new theoretically efficient process, they have already failed at so many other things that they don't want to risk again. Its not arbitrary why people become this way, there is a lot of crap out there.
I know Searle replied to this, but don’t remember what he said, except it seemed a little ridiculous to talk about sentient rooms. I think it’s much more plausible to just claim that the people who wrote the instructions know Chinese.
> 2 years is really hard

Yeah, loosing 2 kg/week for two years is physically impossible for almost all obese people.
Can confirm - bought mine in ~2010 and it's not smart and it's been working ever since. If I hadn't read about all the bad stuff in the last few years I would've absolutely looked for another Samsung first.. Good job!
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I'm not sure about that.

Dangerous, I can see it if it's not implemented reasonably. I'll admit to being less than a stellar ARM reader so I can't say for sure, but I'd bet this was well-considered when it was added. Considering these are literals conversions should be check-able at compile time with some reasonable limitations, and I assume those were added. If I'm wrong though, do let me know.

Hard to read? Maybe, but not really? It feels like a 'modern' feature to me in the sense that back in the old days it may have been a little too opaque and required a step more than is ideal to see through it, but with modern editor facilities it seems easily fine. And I don't think it's as bad as tagged types can be in that respect, so I don't see this being a problem.

And it will enable some much nicer to use interfaces for libraries, which is one of the few things I've really found myself still fighting in Ada. I don't think it's a general solution to the whole thing, but I'll happily take it.
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Orkut had reached critical mass in several countries, especially spanish and portuguese speaking ones.
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Hehe, that's so funny :)

So, some more context: swapfiets is the dutch student bike provider, they are very basic bikes, no gears, no nothing because what isn't on them can't break.

Key quote: "What do you miss the most about a racing bike?" -> "A slightly lighter gear".

He's doing remarkably well by the way, testimony to his skills, keeping up with those guys on their carbon frame racers with 22 gears is extremely impressive even over a short distance. The gearing on a typical swapfiets is typically 46/16 or 44/16 so ~3:1, on a racing bike you would have access to 36/23 or even 34/23 on a special climbing gear set. So he has to work about twice as hard to maintain the same speed.

Passing bike comments 'you're crazy man' :)
From the wikipage:

>The position of the German government is that after the German territorial losses after World War II, the current Polish minority has no century-old roots in the remaining German territory, because Germany lost all the territories where people of German and Polish ethnicity overlapped. Since they are therefore only recent immigrants, they do not fulfill the requirements of a national minority according to the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and the Treaty of Good Neighbourship. Being German citizens, they still retain all civil and political rights every German citizen possesses, and therefore can voice their will in the political system.[10]
> move the webcam something weird (an edge

Would it be so weird? I mean: top corner/edge is less of a problem than bottom (nostril+big hands)

Assymertic? let's go nuts: two webcams, one on each side... suddenly, no notch, double the amount of light, stereoscopic vision. Combine that with some software processing and probably two very cheap sensors could produce decent results without bumping the price as a thin and tiny high quality sensor would.
> Don't you think that it makes sense in that context?

It does, in an age of entitlement where we teach kids any of their feelings are valid reasons to bully other people to get what they want.
I wonder whether you should generate the commit messages first, and then base your code changes on that.

(Might also be an interesting idea for human programmers. In analogy to Test-Driven-Development, this would be called Commit-Message-Driven-Development.)
I figured the parent comment had largely covered the societal aspect you mentioned. Public schools aren't far off free and healthcare where I live is inexpensive. Childcare is expensive but there are at least income-tested subsidies which are very helpful; free childcare seems like a good goal.

With the emotional and financial angle, I was getting at abortion as well as contraceptives and sex education. If an individual/couple get pregnant but they themselves don't feel they are emotionally or financially prepared, pushing them down that path (especially with poor support) immediately puts them and their child behind the eight ball. Obviously it's a particularly contentious topic in some countries.

I can't find the link now, but I was reading stats about foster children the other day which were quite incredible. Encouraging an environment where children are with parents who want them seems like something we should aim for.
> free schools

This furthers the huge amount of resources society puts into the positional good known as education. If you make X level of education free and universal the X+1 level will soon become mandatory for a decent job even if it's irrelevant to the work.

> healthcare

This is a bottomless pit. A gov can spend almost arbitrarily large amounts of money on this (easily orders of magnitude more than total GDP), so you'll need to put a limit on it in some way.
> and maybe dogs because we like them but definitely not spiders and flies because we don’t

This is not an intellectualy honest way to put it. Dogs are obviously and objectively more psychologically complex creatures than flies. "Liking" them has nothing to do with it. People generally like butterflies more than rats, yet hardly anyone would deny that rats are more conscious than butterflies nevertheless.

Just because consciousness is not a binary thing (either on or off) doesn't mean it can't exist at all. It can be a spectrum.

> My personal experience is that consciousness, like free will, is a useful illusion. Poking at the edges of consciousness (mostly with drugs) leads to all sorts of contradictions and challenges to what people usually think of as consciousness.

I could use the same argument to state that mountains are an illusion.

And then it's also kind of true. After all, you can't clearly define what constitutes a mountain (what's the minimum height? And what's the reference point, who says it must be the sea level? etc.), or show me precisely where a mountain starts and where it ends, without having to use some criteria of purely arbitrary nature, under which what you consider a mountain I may not, and there's no way to objectively prove who's right.

But mountains aren't illusionary in the sense that a world without mountains as we know them (however imprecisely) wouldn't be identical to ours. So they are something.
I like it from time to time.
For those interested in this but haven't heard of the show DEVS [0] yet, it explores and asks questions about consciousness and determinism, being the central themes of the story.

[0]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8134186/
Here we run into the philosophical question of what it means to "know what you are doing".

On the one hand people may have the best of advice and make decisions that are extremely clever in a specific context. And on the other the world is fundamentally too chaotic - the most important factors are generally unknowns or unanticipated.