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> Do you mean you run your software on computers that can't run bash?

It is explicitly stated, that PyTorch is the only real requirement.
Bash is not required, i.e. models can be run on Windows or ARM with PyTorch.

> Also, I'm not entirely sure what "out of scope" mean?

There was no tangible benefit in making a bash CLI for us.
Yeah, that's reasonable.

With some differences (better in some way, worse in others), it feels at a similar stage to desktop Linux on commodity hardware ca 2000~2005.

Both GNOME and KDE seem surprisingly serious with their mobile efforts but unless you're happy with a mostly console experience it's probably at least another year or two until basic apps like e-mail are in place for non-enthusiast non-tinker users.

As for distros, I am yet try try Mobian but other than that postmarket is the most reliable experience right now so far (Danct Arch may be catching up though :))
What if "I" woke up in someone else's body? I'm sure there are movies with this premise, where "someone" wakes up in someone else's body, but they have the memories from their previous body.

But if memories are just physically encoded in the brain, I don't think this scenario makes sense even as a thought experiment.

When "I" wake up in the other person's body, I would have all their memories and none of my previous memories. So I wouldn't even know.
> What about porn? oil? alcohol? tobacco? weed? Uber (they broke lots of laws)? traders? anti-virus companies? firearms? companies using cheap Chinese labor?

Porn: No. Not because I disapprove of porn as a concept, but because the larger porn companies are extremely exploitative and don't try very hard to purge themselves of illegal content.

Oil: No.

Tobacco: No.

Alcohol: Yes. Alcohol is regulated enough that I don't think alcohol companies are really able to exploit people too much. It's also just something humans (and many other mammals) consume naturally, even before civilization. It might bother some people, but it doesn't bother me.

Weed: Yes, as long as the company isn't mislabeling products or making false health claims.

Uber: Yes. They did break laws, but the laws they broke were government-mandated monopolies on taxis. In my city at least, Uber made their users more safe, not less. Taxis were scary and I have multiple female friends who were attacked by taxi drivers with no way to identify them afterward.

Traders: Not sure what this means. Like day traders?

Anti-virus companies: No.

Firearms: No.

Companies using cheap Chinese labor: Yes. This is all companies and all people in tech. I would avoid it if I could, but I can't. Every electronic device I have used in the last 10 years has probably been made with unethical labor.
I think he’s saying that this suggests there was a legitimate case against him and they wanted to settle out of court because they didn’t think they would win.

Although, to be fair, it only really means that they didn’t think they would win. And that’s not the same as being, well, guilty.
Well every city is the conglomeration of many square mile towns.
With helping acquaintances learning programming from 0, I have a sample size of n = 2 that starting with FP got them to grok basic programming within a very short amount of time.

And IME moving from FP to OOP is MUCH easier than the other way around.

Don't really have the knowledge to compare iterative vs functional for a complete beginner, though I suspect that even there moving from FP to iterative is easier.
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Also the link was posted with google translated link which was removed during posting (not by me)
I highly recommend this video I watched today about platform capitalism.

THE METAVERSE: A Guide to the Future of Capitalism

https://youtu.be/TM00M-dRMBk
I suppose your argument is, consciousness on the system level does not require individual parts to be conscious.

So let me expand a bit of why I used the adder circuit as an example.

There's nothing about addition that can say "this is addition" in an objective sense. We are dealing with binary encoding of numbers. There's nearly an infinite number of ways to encode information. The design of any circuit deals with particular encoding of information. This extends all the way up to the higher levels. There are an infinite number of ways to encode the state of a go board. Any AI that plays go will deal with some specific ways of encoding the state of the board, and that will be both its input and output.

The most popular "intuitive" model of how consciousness arises is basically hand waving about a system inspecting itself.

But you have to understand, a system inspecting its own state is not any different from a system inspecting any other arbitrary state. For the state of the system will be encoded in some way that was chosen arbitrarily. There's nothing essential about any encoding of any state that can possibly give raise to a phenomenon like consciousness.

You can come study the behavior of any arbitrary system, given certain inputs and outputs, and assign any meaning you want to its states. You can retro-fit any intepretation of state to the system.

Because the thing is with encoding information is it can be completely arbitrary. I can interpret the state [01010101] to be my username, and then interpret [1111000111] to be my real life name. This would allow me to say that a system that takes 01010101 as input and produces 1111000111 is actually a system that can derive my real life name from my username.
> Facebook is not the gatekeeper for millions of peoples lives

Facebook’s influence over billions of people’s lives is far more insidious. What that platform peddles influences countries’ political futures. It is absolutely a gatekeeper of ideas to an extent AOL or the proprietary MSN of old could never imagine. Less charitable people could even call it a privately owned memetic weapon.

> Without a working Apple account any iPhone is as good as a brick.

Lots of people have iPhones without Apple accounts — they’re corporate “managed” iPhones. I appreciate the desire to decouple from Apple’s services, but it’s a stretch to say that you’re locked in. In fact, most iPhone users don’t use all of Apple’s services can quite easily move to Android with only a little effort.

If there’s enough consensus though that Apple’s policies are harming users, then I’m sure legislators can require Apple to (say) allow users to decouple from Apple services.

I’m not seeing it though. There are places with Apple goes overboard, eg the “must pay via Apple” is being attacked by legislation already (eg in the Netherlands), and better App Store policies will probably help as well, as long as they don’t open the door to malware. But to say that Apple is worse than Facebook feels like a very skewed perspective.
What were the changes in 22.04 on the Pi server images that severely impacted you?

(disclosure: I'm probably the one that made those changes, so apologies for that, but I'd like to know what they were in case there's anything I can do about them)
Working as intended indeed,as they draw out anti-semitic comments even if you just discuss them, allowing us to debunk it https://www.facinghistory.org/holocaust-and-human-behavior/c... and be appropriately distrustful afterwards

(for context once flagged, the comment I responded to was spreading a variant of the Elders of Zion "jews try to control us via world government" conspiracy myth)
I wouldn't hire a PM for my practice and here is why.

Given that I am serious about my freelancing and want to build a real business around it going forward, I have to be serious about running my business. That includes things like setting priorities, client comms, and business development (=sales).

If I can't or won't be serious about these things, I won't have a business. And, eventually, my practice will look more like employment with a different paperwork (and no benefits).

Coaches can be very effective, though. I've had a session with a retired exec thanks to SCORE, and her advice was valuable. Getting actionable advice about running your business can bring measurable financial benefits, e.g., in your close rate, or your pricing.

Peer groups can have a similar benefit. I am a member of Jonathan Stark's group coaching Slack, and I learn something new every day.

I think it's important to address one's personal weaknesses that are related to one's business practice, and work on them rather than delegate. I am happy to outsource my accounting but I wouldn't hire a PM to talk to my clients on my behalf. Rather, I'll work on my communication skills so that I don't embarrass myself in front of a client :D
The worst person you know just made a great point.
Totally agree. I have adblockers on my browsers (FireFox - uBlock Origin, Safari - 1blocker) and don't remember the last time I saw an ad (even on YouTube). Been years since I last logged on to any Facebook property. Switched to mostly using Safari after iCloud Private Relay came out.
Thought I was following good privacy hygiene. Covid lockdown freed up some time to focus on health so started consuming strength training/workout content on YouTube and blogs. Logged into Facebook on my Mac a couple weeks ago to view a family video that a relative forwarded. The first ad I see on my feed is for protein powder. Totally blew my mind! There is no escaping Facebook surveillance.
Why I am not going to buy a computer (1987) [pdf]
Games are a good choice as an example. *Some* games are trying to squeeze ot the most of the latest hardware but most just target a minimum acceptable framerate for common hardware and then move on. Good enough to ship is pretty much the game industry's entire mode of operation.

Also, games generally don't make good use of extra resources you have. Have 128 GiB ram and plenty of VRAM? In almost all games you're not going to see any less loading screens in most games than someone with 8 GiB ram even in really simple scenarious like going back to the area you just came from.
I thought it was pretty well established that consciousness is a kind of illusion; That we evolved the ability to extrapolate persona in others which was/is useful to predict future actions and form bonds. Consciousness is just this ability turned inward.

I've seen a lot of evidence for this over the year from neurologists, psychologists etc. Am i wrong, or is this a 'mystery' until we get an answer we like?
Apple’s success lies in creating the best ecosystem of products that work together. The individual products may not be best on the market at times, but by buying into the system as an individual or family, you gain access to the based collaborative ecosystem of products that work together.

That’s why they have the market dominance across such a broad range of products. No one else come close.
I think most of the commenters here are probably more interested in talking about the middle ground between “taking kids away from parents” and “abortion”.
Welcome to the Hitchhiker’s Guide to PlantUML
I love teachers who do totally off the wall stuff like this.
I recently got a new phone and forgot my apple password but I considered just creating a new account because I didn't really consider it that big of a deal to just start fresh. I don't cling onto my emails and I only have like 30 contacts that I actually care about, all of which I have their emails stored in gmail rather than in contacts (and don't call them anyway). So I'm not sure I would care if I had to start from scratch.
I think you're missing a bunch of social networks. You almost certainly have to consider Telegram (700m + monthly active users) aka 1/3 size of fb, arguably more active. Also Discord 400m+ MAU. And also remember how every app ultimately can descend into a dominant network force - remember when instagram was just an app to add filters to photos!
Off-topic: Any piece of advice for a Java-based TTS? (I know and use Mary TTS 5, but may bé there are better ones).
Very much so, Apple market share:

- US: 51%

- EU: 30%

- Asia: 17%

I suppose that makes sense since it's the main local manufacturer, whereas in Korea that would be Samsung with a whopping share of 65%. Apple would probably be way higher in the US if they didn't make overpriced closed-ecosystem stuff.
The Metaverse: A Guide to the Future of Capitalism
My second part (OOo tie in), would be too much in this case.

Imagine a full file upload every change.

Instead, having a git style history for edits, right in OOo would be awesome. Maybe a ${filename}.hist file for each file.

You could exclude this from git/svn/dropbox whatever backups too, so only purposeful saves get sent upstream.

The GUI interface, its nuances would be key here.

Imagine being able to open the history window, scroll to, or search text of all changes, then click and be taken to the location in current document, with a placement option once there.

That's next gen history, and gp is right, why isn't this a thing?
I use neither Facebook nor Apple. Let's hope Google doesn't ban my account since it has everything.

Or perhaps we could have a regulatory regime that doesn't press every consumer into becoming an e-peasant of one of five mega corps.
Even if i hook up a great camera, chrome/Firefox's webrtc will squeeze my bitrate and lower res to 720p. There is no way from the client to upgrade basic quality for Meet/Teams/Zoom web apps.
I felt that way most of my first evening with it. Thankfully I stuck with it, because once I finally got the compiler to accept my awful C-in-Ada-clothes I was hooked. The damn thing worked, first time it compiled, no matter what I threw at it. And that's basically been my experience since, and I don't even need to carry all the paranoia I learned from C and C++ to do it.

I can even look up compiler messages if I need to, unlike my debugger state, which is nice.

I'm completely convinced it's worth it. What looks like pointless verbosity and sadistic pedantry at first turns into a comfortable security blanket that keeps you aware and in control of what the heck you're even doing.

I'd encourage anybody to try it out, just go into it knowing it's kind of similar to jumping into a functional language for the first time. You're going to need to adjust your paradigm a bit to really settle in. Ada is a bit deceptive if you're used to dropping into an imperative language and getting a decent feel for it in an easy afternoon.

On the bright side, even if you don't get as hooked as me on it, you might just get a new way to look at programs out of it. Never know when that'll come in handy.
I would actually train a model to write the commit message by looking at the latest performance, sort of trying to identify the best next step.
In theory no. In practice probably (Rust compiles itself to a fixed point from older versions in around 3 iterations, IIRC).
Prime bait
It was also used in ancient Rome (and even further back) to clean clothes and process fabrics: https://www.worldhistory.org/article/46/the-fullers-of-ancie...
> I do find that Stolpersteine presume too much upon the public space to the point of becoming tasteless and an affront.

Oh please, they are 10x10 cm (or even smaller), how can they take up "too much public space"?

In my street in Berlin there are Stolpersteine almost in front of every house. They are a memorial just as much as they have become integral part of the "environment". In my daily life I don't pay much attention anymore, but sometimes they still make me stop and think, and I guess this was exactly the intent.
wow. It's just a 10 cm by 10 cm plate, how can it bother anybody? I guess modern generation just can't stand monuments.
Can confirm that this works on mac, had to run off to make a very wide page to test it :)
> businesses that require me to have a Facebook account to interact with them.

Can you give examples?

> The quickest way to reach a local politician

Doesn't mean that it is the only one. There are still alternatives. If you feel that using Facebook is wrong, the solution is not to use Facebook and complain about it. The solution is to stay away from it and send a clear signal that Facebook is not the proper channel.
Also relevant

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/21/study-of-hol...

Sadly extremely obvious for me.

Trauma is generational, it's within families; communities, countries, and eventually through all of humanity.

And likewise it is addressed at those many levels.
> The DAO hack of 2016 and the decision to go back a few blocks and revert the hack by a few at the top already taught us about the nonsense of 'cOdE iS lAw' years ago and that decentralization being a total lie.

There's been zero rollback to block the attacker's seized ETH in the DAO hack. There was a "cooldown" period during which the attacker couldn't withdraw the fund and during that cooldown period Ethereum's code was modified and everybody had the choice to either run the old code or the new code on its node. People mostly decided to adopt the code preventing the attacker from accessing the stolen ETH while some decided to continue with the original code. So the chain forked into two blockchains: Ethereum and the one that was named "Ethereum Classic" (ETC).

Arguably after the fork ETC was the "original" blockchain (but with its token way less valued) but since then AFAICT the real development has been happening on Ethereum, not Ethereum Classic and so nobody is arguing anymore that Ethereum Classic is the "real Ethereum".

> The move to proof-of-stake will only show that it will get worse.

Why would that be? Instead of rich miners it's now rich HODLers mining blocks but mining is ultra centralized through a few big pools: I don't see how PoS, if it works, would make anything worse than it currently is?
Is it really a good setting to be surrounded by people we don't know who're all looking for a solution to their (often stubborn) problems and collectively embark on such an experience?

I've done psychedelics plenty of times over 25+ years and can see the potential they have but I'd never in my life do so in one of these retreats.
> They can be one misstep away from homelessness but they still buy a new iPhone

I strongly suspect they will buy the cheaper and possibly shittier Android. Even though it won't last as long. Those monthly payments are a drag yo.

Look I'm glad you like the iPhone, but to say its the greatest product in all of human history is a touch hyperbolic. Yes its a great bit of engineering, but its not like it singularly went from 0-100 by it's self.

Let us not forget, the only thing innovative on the original iphone was the large touch screen. Everything else was a compromise. The battery, the CPU, the RAM, the ability to run apps, all of them were no where near as good as the nearest rival.

But Apple managed to catch up enough to appear ahead of the curve, and well done to them. But let us not forget that without android, the iPhone would never have advanced. (Dont read this as me being an android fanboi, I have never owned one...)

But to the point, in terms of greatest product, I suspect its probably either modern farming (and infra, so tractors) or something medical.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_identity
Making retro-style games in C/C++ and getting them to run in a browser
> the company’s executives, project managers and engineers frankly discuss plans to design Facebook’s services so that users who leave for a rival pay as high a price as possible

Serious question: What are some of the rivals of FB these days ?

As for Apple, at least there are other, in many cases more powerful, mobile devices available, making the jump to Android from Apple isn't the big learning curve it once was. From a users perspective it's not that big of a deal usually.

From a developers point of view - there is a discussion Apple need to consider around how much they gatekeep developers. Anyone who's developed for the AppStore knows the pain. And to add on top of that extremely high fees, it's a wonder there are any 'indie' / smaller developers at all.
I'm not sure what you're getting at?

Either your upset that the community agreed that the comment was irrelivent, or, that there have been people deactivating this broken feature for ~10 years now.

To those who use MacOS in furstration, it's not a real surprise when an IO problem on MacOS is related to this scoring mechanism, and it only ends up hitting experts trying to use their device to do anything other than realtime video editing.

Unfortunately, having a system without a properly working IO stack will lead to eventual data loss, this is just a matter of life, be that through, "I wish I had a backup of that", or, "I couldn't copy the data off before it died"...

This is like saying it's worth keeping around a dody SSD which is failing to read/write quickly enough on a bad day because it's full of family photos. Anti-features and anti-patterns lead to bad behaviour and should be stopped.

This can't and won't be the first time the author has come up against this, however, now he knows that it's there he'll probably leave it turned off which is for the best.
> 1) No. The rules are just physics. Electric signals going through physical material.

This is the wrong level of abstraction. Sure, ultimately everything happening in the CPU is electrical, but still the rules controlling what is shown on the screen are encoded in the OS code. If you encoded the same program in a mechanical computer, you would get the same results. It's not the electrical rules that are important, it's the program.

> 2) Why is this event relevant? I can say the same about water pipes in a sweage system . The way the water moves through pipes is encoded in the design and connections of the pipes. You can inspect it to figure out how it behaves.

Yes, I believe you can say that this system is performing a computation. I'm not sure if you can make a Turing complete computer in this way (I'm not sure how you could encode an If), but for example you can definitely write a program (arrange some pipes) to do some basic arithmetic.

> I've yet to see a model of consciousness that does not imply that the sewage system is conscious.

The claim is "Consciousness is a computation", not "any kind of computation is a form of consciousness". So, there is no immediate contradiction between believing "my consciousness is a computational process" and "this pocket watch is not conscious". Just like I can beleieve that consciousness is a physical phenomenon without believing that rocks are conscious.
You blame the corporation and not the journalist? How is this going to work out in the long run?
And you should not expect to be good friends or acquaintances with someone who has worked hard to overcome something because you need to remind them that part of their success is luck based.

Everybody already knows that. Determination, skill/natural ability, and luck are essentially how we get anything done in our lives. Usually a combination of all three, and you’re focusing on the one that an individual has no control over. It’s unproductive.
In such situations it could be useful to provide a container image or nix or guix shell setup, to make sure people have the dependencies they need.
Should we trust a formal verifer program which was used to verify seL4? (Remember: being "open source" does not help in such cases).
> that would be like if Apple stopped releasing new phones after the iPhone 4S

Would that be such a bad thing? Arguably there haven't been many technological leaps in the years since and if it weren't for planned obsolescence the 4S would still be a totally fine phone
We used to have AGPLv3 or similar, but we decided to abandon it for the reasons I explained in this (or above) thread.
Excuse me. When did I say gold was good? I said it wasn't as abominably bad as cryptocurrency, which doesn't need something as unlikely as a discovery of a massive cache of gold to wipe out poor people's meagre fortunes and is the most heavily manipulated form of money on the planet.

It's like concluding that as poor Vietnamese people already smoke (the men generally do...) in lieu of better forms of entertainment, what would really improve their lives is some crystal meth.