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Let's not again confuse natural intelligence with artificial intelligence. You do not have artificial consciousness, you have genuine consciousness. Further, the brain is not a machine. To explain why, I'm just going to quote this excellent piece from mindmatters:

A machine is an artifact. It is a human-built assembly of materials that have no natural inclination to work in unison. Silicon and copper, plastic and glass have no natural propensity to compute. We make artifacts, for example computers, out of these materials to serve our purposes. But they are not the materials’ natural purposes.

In the classical hylemorphic (Aristotelian) perspective, an artifact is an artificial composite of substances and thus it has an accidental, not substantial, form. Machines work as they do “accidentally”; that is, their function as machines is not inherent to the matter that comprises them. Rather their function is imposed on the disparate parts by human intelligence.

Unlike a machine, the brain is an organ, a functional part of a living organism. It (along with the body) has a substantial form; its activity is natural to it. One might say that the brain's activity is intrinsic to it, not imposed on it extrinsically, as is the activity of a machine.[1]

[1] https://mindmatters.ai/2018/10/yes-your-brain-is-a-machine-i...
Thank you, this is very valuable advice. I haven't built anything yet; I agree it's important to talk to prospective customers before doing so.
Zuck and FB have a huge credibility issue. Numerous times they've had to apologize to customers about misreporting all sorts of critical business and ad metrics. There's not a lot of trust.
I was just talking about this! But this isn't my favorite weird time zone, which goes to ... and here the name eludes me ... a defunct time zone where, for at least two years, they changed it incrementally each day to match the sun.
Not sure that's the case btw. I have noticed it with some libraries but I've used and crated a fair amount of generics without having to annotate stuff with lifetimes.

Lifetimes are necessary when you want to explicitly say "variable X will live just as long as variable Y", or sometimes it's more complex (i.e. you have to specify 2 or more separate lifetimes and then return something that pertains to only one of them) but it's still fairly predictable if you keep it all in your head while coding.

Don't get me wrong I still hate it but it's not as terrible as many people make it out to be. It's hard to get into but also very logical and graspable.
I don't think your revision of the "S-expression" grammar is in accordance with the normal use of the term; it says ()() is an S-expression, when conventionally it's considered to be two of them. If that's what you want, then adding the outer *() is fine, but you should probably drop the leading * on the recursive call *ex, because otherwise the grammar is ambiguous.

If you want to allow binary strings you'd probably want to define the language over bytes rather than Unicode code points, though Markus Kuhn's UTF-8B (implemented in Python as "surrogateescape") can give you the best of both worlds.

Yes, I agree that "S-expression" is rather vague, much like "CSV".

If you disallow having anything other than whitespace in a Jevko with >0 children, Jevko becomes a rose-tree notation, except that the root is unlabeled, so really it's more like a rose-forest notation. If you want a rose-forest notation, you can get it in a less irregular way by declaring that Jevko infers an extra [] following a suffix containing any non-whitespace character, so foo[bar] is equivalent to foo[bar[]], foo[bar[]baz] is equivalent to foo[bar[]baz[]], and a[b]c is equivalent to a[b[]]c[], but foo[bar[] ] is equivalent to foo[bar[]] and not foo[bar[][]].

This change would foreclose the possibility of having significant leading or trailing whitespace in some places but not others, the way I was suggesting.

Rose trees or rose forests are definitely simpler than Jevko's current data model, and they are equally powerful.

Agreed about indentation.

With respect to diagrams, git clone http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/pavnotes2.git and look at {horse,johnsmith,player}.{jpg,jevko,dot}. For the diagrams I've taken the liberty of ignoring leading and trailing whitespace on arc labels (prefixes), as well as suffixes consisting only of whitespace. johnsmith and horse are your examples, but they just use Jevko as a terser syntax for JSON that suffers a whitespace problem.

player.jevko is an example I cooked up based on Minetest's relational database schema, recast as a hierarchical schema. It also takes advantage of the ordered nature of subJevkos, the possibility of multiple identical prefixes in the same parent node, and the possibility of having both "headers" (subJevkos) and a "body" (suffix) in the same node.

(As far as I’m concerned, everyone is free to redistribute these nine files, in whole or in part, modified or unmodified, with or without credit; I waive all rights associated with them to the maximum extent possible under applicable law. Where applicable, I abandon their copyright to the public domain. To the extent that I wrote them at all, I wrote and published them in Argentina in 2022. Today, in fact. But you wrote horse.jevko and johnsmith.jevko, deriving them from things on Wikipedia, so my abandonment of copyright here shouldn't be construed as claiming that I wrote them.)
The 11th and 16th amendments are ones that I argue shouldn't exist. They were ratified in reaction to Supreme court cases that respectively denied state immunity and federal powers.
Well said. Thank you. As a disenfranchised Californian I will bang this gavel until I die. The loss of the SALT deduction hit our finances tremendously. 1. Direct impact via higher taxes. 2. People fleeing the state for lower tax states because without the SALT deduction, we have a race to the bottom infrastructure-wise (not that we didn’t already, but the SALT deduction dampened the effect somewhat).

This is the kind of BS law that can only pass when small states get to run roughshod over large ones.
Given the long list of caveats attributed to the results, it does seem like not much credence was given at this stage to filtering out other external factors leaving that to further research.

It's secretly pleasing to think gaming might have made me smart as a kid, but I suspect as with so many things in education its socio-economic status.

They looked at kids able to spend "3 or more hours a day" gaming. That requires a pretty stable homelife on top of the budget for the games etc etc - something I was lucky enough to have growing up, but not true of everyone.
For posterity, I finally tracked down my suspend issue. It was a combination of an overly aggressive amdgpu.ppfeaturemask kernel option, and a regression in the kernel module. I updated archwiki so hopefully it doesn't bite anyone else.
The whole point is not whether you, without any learning, would have any idea how to read, speak, think in any specific language. You likely have forgot how long you had to learn English. Do you know how many people in the world have no idea what you had written here, yet they are still very comfortable in using a computer?

It's easy for an English speaking person to consider programming languages in English as the only kind that's usable. To be fair, English dominates in the tech world. But it would be narrow minded to dismiss a programming language solely based on its non-English symbols.

Mathematicians have long been using symbols for efficiency in its expressiveness. Why not programming languages? I'd like to keep an open mind.
Because the constitution is nothing compared to the intent to follow it.
Tragic. My dad was an alum, as is my first cousin, and I grew up in the area. I hope they reconsider soon.
It's only a rounding error because rounding 10¹⁸ to 10²⁰ is a thing you do in astrophysics.
Thanks for the feedback!

On the results, I agree. Definitely need more curation in regards to the voters for a more reliable result. So far I've validated the model kind of work and brings in some interesting insights.

Ideas I thought people would be interested in ends up having more not interested votes. Conversely ideas that I thought would be mediocre gather a lot of interest. I think there's a lot of work to polish this further.

In regards to registration, thanks for the insight. Initially I thought email is high friction, but perhaps I'm wrong. I'll try out login link and see how it compares!

If login link works, it's better for the platform too in fact, since I'll have a way to notify users e.g. send vote results, and create a way to bring people back to the site.

Thanks for trying it out
I have learned this with my wife…

Gifts don’t mean just one thing.

There is a variety of things you can optimize for.

For my wife, me getting her something she wants but wouldn’t get herself is the right gift. That, or something she wouldn’t have been able to find for herself.

Surprises are low on her list. Extravagant gifts are low. She would be the kind of person not to buy the coffee for, because she knows what she likes and if you bought her the wrong thing, the thought would count but now what do you do with this bad bag of coffee?

I’m the opposite. I care much more about the fact that you thought about me long enough to do something specific and special to me.
On the other hand, my mom one time mentioned that she thought pigs were cute, and now her sister gives her pig-themed gifts every year for her birthday, 30 years later. "I don't really like pigs, she just thinks I do."

I used to work with a guy who had at least a dozen pirate-themed t-shirts people had bought him, because he always wore pirate themed t-shirts. What's with the pirate shirts? "I bought one shirt because I liked it, then my girlfriend saw it and got me another one, now everybody just buys me more and more."

Mix it up, gift givers, don't outsource your thinking.
For a text, The Economist published a great introductory article (though paywalled) into modern approaches to national constitutions [1] this August, shortly before a failed referendum in Chile to change the country's constitution. An excerpt from the article notes that there is no "template for how to write the ideal constitution," with different approaches having reasonably good results (e.g. the UK's uncodified constitution versus the US's written constitution).

From The Economist's article: "[...] But academics have noticed patterns. Frequently changed constitutions are often a symptom of political corrosion, and tinkering can cause chaos in turn. Attempts to amend charters have led to violence in Burkina Faso, Burundi and Togo among others in recent years. The world’s longest charters, such as India’s and Brazil’s, are also among the most changed.

"There is a strong case for brevity, too, in which constitutions establish the ground rules of how a state functions and leave the specifics to politicians. Overly long constitutions often create conflicts between articles that can only be resolved with further tampering. And “if everything is highest law, then nothing is highest law anymore,” points out Dr Versteeg. Omnibus amendments require voters to balance the merits and drawbacks of many changes at once, making it harder to generate consensus."

The viewpoint by the writer of The Economist's article would actually conflict with the view held by the original commenter, as it notes that many more recently-written constitutions that have taken different approaches from older constitutions have contributed to political instability (though the writer also acknowledges that other factors have also been at play behind instability).

[1] https://www.economist.com/international/2022/08/25/dictators...
No I don’t think so. If it’s that important to you I’d be selective with how you share it. But that’s just me. I’m a naturally guarded person.
That's why I don't even use LinkedIn at all.
In .blocking mode, does `async send_message(addr)` spawn a new OS thread? If it does than you could still have parallelism (or at least concurrency, if I remember the difference between those two correctly).
No, more like one of the broken parts will create their own Constitution.
This viewpoint is very US-centric, but that said, the rest of the world is moving in the same direction, although much less.

As a current US resident, I can see how cities and their residents can be scary at daytime in ways that eg Europeans can't comprehend (eg Tenderloin in SF), but it's almost exclusively due to the lack of social programs for the homeless, drug addicts and mentally ill, and to a smaller a extent, about the prevelance of firearms.

The American solution, to keep the poor poor, is eating it from the inside. Hiding in your cars, locking down campuses, hiring private security for things like schools and living in gated communities is a terrible living experience, it reduces the reachable living space to the bare minimum. But almost every collective problem has an individual solution here, and few people even believe it's possible to change it.
> but is it not the case that the length of the synodic day varies throughout the year, on account of Kepler's 2nd. law?

I don't see the relevance; the length of the sidereal day isn't constant either.

Variation in the length of the synodic day is the reason a day may contain other than 86400 seconds. If days are not of constant length, you could vary the length of a second on a day-to-day basis, or you could define the length of a "reference day" and then define the second as a convenient fraction of that. We have taken the second approach (though the first was used historically).

But we don't care about the vibration of cesium; if that were to change, we would adjust by changing the definition of a second, not by accepting that seconds were now of a different duration than before. Thus, the fact that cesium is referenced in an "official" definition of the duration of a second is meaningless. The officialness of that definition is illusory; in reality, seconds continue to be defined as a convenient fraction of an average day.
Very disappointing, unlike the school up the street with a literal fenced in Yard, MIT is embedded in Cambridge off the street. I’m sure that’s created some challenges, but accessibility seems central to hands and minds.
>> I don't think I've ever seen someone lament that Swift or Go or Typescript or Dart or $ANY_LANG don't have an ISO spec.

> Most of the top programming languages already are specified in international standards. Including JavaScript.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Programming_languages...

> Also, all of your examples, arguably with the exception of Go, are still in very early and unstable development stages, with projects repeatedly introducing breaking changes. If even the language designers don't make up their minds over what goes into it then we can't really talk about stability.

Java, Python, and PHP are all widely used and do not have ISO standards.
I feel like JAX usually comes up on PyTorch posts (in the same way PyTorch usually comes up in the comments on TF posts).

I think the delta between JAX and PT on commodity hardware is just a little bit too small to really create much splash on HN.
This might be a significant change to MIT culture. One of the things on which MIT prides/d itself was an open campus.

For example, the story goes, at 3am, some students in the Infinite Corridor could be discussing something interesting, and just walk into a classroom, to use the desks and chalkboard.

For another example, MIT (like other universities) makes many talks open to anyone interested, including the local community.

I've always marveled at how well MIT open campus has seemed to work, despite being in a urban area, and it's something I found very appealing and civilized -- like part of MIT's version of a university extending some of academia's noble ideals, outwards.

Given some other cultural changes to MIT in recent years, it'll be interesting to see how MIT thinking about open campus changes.
At the risk of sounding heartlessly numerate: campus shootings are so rare that they should mostly be ignored. The danger level is very, very low. If you must worry, then worry about something boring but important like traffic accidents instead.
Yeah, something consumable is definitely the way to go. The coffee I've been gifted has never been something I'd buy more of, but I can enjoy occasionally drinking something different from usual even if it's something I like less than my usual. At worst if I drink it and decide it's not worth finishing, there's little awkwardness in appreciating the sentiment but just throwing it away. A gadget I use twice and then decide I don't like I'll instead feel obligated to store forever, which will result in the opposite feeling as the gift was intended to provoke.
Was the WSJ always this bad or did Rupert Murdoch’s purchase take it in a far right direction?
I would say so, because part of a company’s business is choosing what to invest its cash in. If a company is making bad investments (or viewed as bad in the current market), then that should reflect in its price, and reporting that information helps catalyze that.
What’s the difference between ImmersedVR and Horizon?
I finally just tracked down my issues. There was a recent addition to the amdgpu.ppfeaturemask kernel option, and the archwiki recommended value was enabling an unstable asynchronous mode. Additionally, there was a recent regression in the AMDGPU kernel module that's now fixed in 6.1rc2. So with a tweaked boot parameter and a manually compiled kernel, I have working suspend!
TikTok algorithm produces viral videos and harassment for creators
I don't know that I have anything really obscure, although maybe one or two old wrenches that belonged to my grandfather or my dad would count. But the thing that really comes to mind is my Snap-On F50CSA driver handle.

I mean, it's Snap-On, so not really obscure, but that particular model has been discontinued and you can't buy them anymore, so it's a little bit obscure in that regard.

Anyway, it's a 3/8" drive driver handle with the socket cap in the head so it can be used as an extension. Those things are all over the place in 1/4" drive from every brand on the planet, but back in 1994 or so when I bought my F50CSA there weren't a lot of 3/8" drive ones around. Especially not the ones that could serve as an extension. There are more now, but they still aren't anywhere near as ubiquitous as the 1/4" drive ones.

Long story short, that tool is probably my favorite tool that I've ever bought. It's actually the only Snap-On item I own, as I consider their stuff too expensive to buy for the most part. Most of my hand tool collection is older (USA made era) Craftsman, with a smattering of other stuff. Lately I've started buying GearWrench, Icon, and Tekton stuff.
It was a bad quarter, but the real kicker is the cautious guidance Meta issued for the current quarter. They signaled to wall street that their problems are only getting worse.
It won’t. This is going to be a decade of strife and instability.
I feel like us obviously being galactic losers no one likes is the easiest solution to the FP
> and ending with the creation of the central banking system, which arguably goes against the spirit of the Constitution.

I see you're not a fan of Alexander Hamilton. The (first) US bank predates the other items in your list, though.
Since priests aren’t allowed to get married and have children (which is ridiculous in the first place), they should at least be able to watch porn, which doesn’t hurt anyone. Just my 2 cents. I understand how it goes against Christian tenets though.
Didn't Lego recently buy BrickLink? So they do own the secondary market, in a fairly real sense.
Proving it is another issue all together. Raising a reasonable concern that it was misused or mishandled triggers the process. And the process will uncover the the facts of the matter. For telephone numbers, the laws and regulations are pretty well written.
It's always been bizarre to me that WADA/USADA allows it.

Increases 10 minutes to exhaustion up to 13 minutes

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3623762/figure/...
But unlike 1975, anyone who wants can buy plain packs online.
Exploration of M31 via Black-Hole Slingshots and the “Intergalactic Imperative”
Allegedly committed*
One of the key features of a lousy theory is when you need to ignore the most prominent data points in order to have it be applicable.
This is funny, but in practice there would be maybe one or two of these bars. Many didn’t work together. These toolbars didn’t stop people from being able to work, eat, or pay their bills. I know. I lived through this era.
It's an old joke: An economist is walking down the street when he steps on a $100 bill lying on the ground. He spots it, but decides to keep walking and doesn't pick it up.

“After all,” he thinks to himself, “if that had really been a $100 bill, someone else would have picked it up already!”
"are fully verified as error-free"

If you think this is possible you must not be a very good software engineer. Maybe that was your point. If so, you should say "I accept faulty human drivers but will forever reject anything worse than absolute perfection in autonomous drivers".
> I’d like to know more about AMD specifically too. I’m well aware that PSP is their equivalent

This is why I'm curious and get a little into conspiracy-land with this stuff.

Neither are exactly "well documented", they both arrived on the scene around the same time. It makes one wonder if there was a specification they were told to follow.

That's why I'm very curious if Apple's new chips follow a similar "specification".

Sorry, I mean "feature set".
I'm in Philadelphia, PA, USA. It's a convoluted formula based on your type of sewer hookup (https://water.phila.gov/pool/files/rates-and-charges-2022-09...) and there are different tiers of usage, but the initial base rate is $48.96 for the first 1,000 cubic feet of water or 7,480 gallons, so about $0.0065/gallon + sewer cost. A "typical" household in the city (they estimate 500 cubic feet of water usage) is apparently around $70/month total. We typically come in under that at around $60. My gas bill runs about the same in non-winter months, but most of that is the clothes dryer and oven/range.

So it's not a negligible amount of money, but it costs less than my combined streaming services. Cutting it by 20% would allow me to afford... another streaming service? A couple of days' groceries?

I'm also not sure what kind of showers you're taking, but I know from experience being forced to shower with a mostly-clogged drain for a couple of days there's no way my shower head is filling the tub even over my ankles before the shower is done (5-10 minutes). So "several bath tubs" is an exaggeration unless you're taking extremely long showers or your showerhead has the efficiency of a fire hydrant.

And I guess we're just blessed with plentiful water on the US East Coast, because I've lived in several states on this coast for my entire life and I'd never even heard of "Navy Shower" until college, and only then as a reference to... the Navy! Or sometimes we hear about Californians being asked to do so when a drought hits.

But whatever, you do you! If it actually does make a difference for you than go for it!
I know when I hear music like that, my head feels like it's going to explode too
The tenth amendment is certainly in effect. It's just that we have an expanded definition of commerce those days.
You're 100% correct, but my point is still valid: "autopilot" on a yacht and what tells calls "autopilot" are totally unrelated.