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Panpsychism only superficially looks as if it does not have boundaries because it literally says next to nothing about consciousness. Once one gets into the combination problem, or even the difference between how consciousness presents itself a living brain and the same brain dead, we can confidently expect there will be boundaries.

This is entirely moot, however, until you have a hypothesis that offers something in the way of an explanation. Panpsychism does not offer anything in the way of an explanation; it merely takes as axiomatic that all is consciousness, much like Thales' assertion that all is water.

I doubt Occam's razor has ever been relevant in choosing between worked-out hypotheses about natural phenomena, as it would require them to be indistinguishable except in the number of premises. If you can think of an exception, I would be happy to discuss it.
From past experience, NGOs are rarely buying the cheapest things available off Alibaba. They tend to work with large, enterprise-y vendors, which certainly don't charge that way (regardless of the ultimate source of the goods).

Also, this piece is specifically about the resources that are used in the initial 24-48h of deployment, when the camp beds are still sitting in a warehouse half a continent away. If you can use closest packaging factory to pump out designs within hours of the disaster, that's actually really useful.
You’ve responded to a quote which is largely stating that high fertility religious groups won’t spawn rigidly religious off spring by arguing with some anecdata that religious folks aren’t always stupid.
Agree. The better your team members, the less need there is for code review.

However, the approach of few/no code reviews doesn’t work for large open source projects that accept external contributions (the author of the post is mitchellh who is a founder of HashiCorp, which has/had several large open source projects).
if files are getting managed by blobs, git doesn't really scale well with that since it stores diffs.

`bup` notionally does this a lot better, or git-lfs.

https://github.com/bup/bup

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bup/bup/main/DESIGN

https://git-lfs.com/

git really needs textual representation for any kind of meaningful commit, and binaries totally break that.
Yeah Cuba and Venezuela in particular. They don't really do anything wrong except they have the 'unfavourable' state system.

Pretty easy to say: "hey look communism doesn't work" when you are causing it to fail. I'm not a fan of hard communism either but something more in the middle between the US capitalism and communism would really be great both for poor people and the environment.
"in which case, what's the point?"

I cannot imagine what system of ethics you are operating from that you would have to ask this question. The point, always, is to provide the best possible life to the greatest number of people, without regard to where those people come from. My goal in life is to maximize human happiness, I do not care what nation a person is from. Unless I'm misreading your words, or you chose your words clumsily, you seem to want a system that works for some set of people but not another set of people. But I'm curious, one what basis would you chose one set of people, and then why would you care about them at all, rather than care about some other group? If you're not going to care about the happiness of all people, then it seems to me you should be consistent and not care about anyone's happiness. But if you honestly care about one group, but not some other group, I'm curious on what basis you chose the group that you care about? And do you really care about them?

"You're only playing a game of managed extinction in cooperation with your country's new settlers"

I think you meant to write "One generation has apparently found it is possible to maximize their happiness without having children, and now gratefully receives help from new arrivals so as to take care of them during old age, as they have no children to care for them."
Right, it's not your job, so why are you doing it? It's also not your job to tell other people how they should take it, right? Or pretend what the best approach is? You're not the center of everything, you know?
There's nothing communist about China except the state control. The whole equality and sharing is caring thing is missing. It's as capitalist as it gets now, since it was reformed by Deng Xiaoping.

They have outcapitalisted the US, this is how they beat them economically.
You can sue anyone. You'll almost certainly not get anywhere for someone in the US, and any other country would tell you to pound sand. It's the same situation in practice.

Don't listen to random people for your personal medical decisions, robot or human, or you're going to have a bad time
I think this is what https://graphite.dev is trying to do.
It's been a long time since I have touched Ada and I don't really know Rust. But I do know that Ada allows you to specify the range of custom numeric types[1]:

type Page_Num is range 1 .. 2_000;

type Line_Size is range 1 .. Max_Line_Size;

subtype Buffer_Size is Integer range 0 .. Max;

type Byte is mod 256; -- an unsigned byte

type Hash_Index is mod 97; -- modulus is prime

Looking around, I see that the Rustaceans are working on ranged types, as discussed here[2]. They even mention Ada. And there is a PR for a ranged types MVP here[3], which was ultimately closed to do some more thinking.

[1] https://www.adaic.org/resources/add_content/standards/05rm/h...

[2] https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/671

[3] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/107606
you can just attribute everything to the Lazarus Group these days

> hacks and leaks earnings report and insider trades but only right after it leaks <

“North Korea did it wdym”

> investigators find planted reference to an APAC timezone or font within the exploit <

case closed
I feel like "social ills are only a problem if you acknowledge them", while not wrong, really downplays the differences.

Having spent more time of my life in more developed countries, I find that a lot of little behaviors that are normal back in India really grate on me which aren't as big of a thing in, say, the US.

Basic things like behavior on public transport, over in the US you can generally seem to rely on people standing to the sides of the door in a rough line until people have stepped off, while in India you have to push your way through the crowd trying to push its way in. It's hard to get used to those sorts of things, and many of them aren't meaningfully addressed by simply being wealthy (since similar behaviors carry over to, say, shopping).

Plus, it's even worse for women, who really can't "just" not acknowledge social ills in India as they can have a significant influence on their safety. As a man, I could do essentially whatever I want, party late, wear revealing clothes, get drunk etc. If my sister were to do the same things in India she'd be putting herself at immense risk.
You should never compare an additional cost to the overall c ost in a production setting. You should compare it to the profit margin. If you are running a 10% margin, then a 2% cost increase is -20% profit, a quite substantial amount.
>Of course, no one would use corporate resources for job-hunting, right? I know that folks here, get all huffy, when I suggest that happens rather frequently.

Where I work we have a take home exercise we have candidates do and then when we have the interview with that person we review their code with them and ask them to make incremental changes to see how they handle the asks with their communication skills and their technical ability. I interviewed one individual who couldn’t even get the REPL started for their project and as they were struggling trying to get it to work I heard them mumble to themself “I should have just use my work computer”. The fact they couldn’t get the most basic aspect of the project to work on their personal meant that they did their coding assignment on their work computer
There is quite a bit more to it, distributing sound in time frequency and space, sidechain effects that apply changes on some tracks depending on the sound of other tracks (one super common example is to silence slightly instruments to leave room in volume and frequency for a kick or drums in general). Frequency splitting, parallel fx chains. It is a bit tricky to automate and is really based on a feeling as each person doing the mixing will have a different vision and experience, and every song will have a different frequency/space/time complexity even in the same genre.
But most advanced DAWs with integrated collection of effects like Live or Bitwig will have presets that you can start to build on. (I have not tried reaper for that, that's on my list)
https://i.imgur.com/8TvAZ28.png

How many ads do you need? I got a total of five. The fifth one is the full overlay when you go to another page.
A few years ago there was this video floating around of a guy flying off an electric skateboard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7lO4yV-eQk

While the physics of what happened make sense, it still looks so unreal.
Nim is closer to D than Python IMO. The syntax is like Python, sure, but in terms of features it's very similar to D (statically typed, supports multiple GCs, fast compiler).
You can get pretty standard setups to mate almost anything to anything, and if you’re willing to fabricobble you literally CAN mate anything to anything.
And all of that wasnt due to extra engineers and personnel, it was due to the audience on the core product that had no real new features.
>Similar to how most people have shifted to permanent shuffle for the song selection queue, online streaming caused the same shift in how people decide what to watch.

That is not a shift by consumer usage, but a forced selection from Streaming services.
Apple’s ill thought out on-device CSAM detection and thankfully, the removal of it from its plans after heavy pushback comes to mind.

Any time a specific ability is granted or is available to law enforcement, it will expand to broaden surveillance on everything. CSAM is horrific, despicable and devastating. But the way law enforcement treats it as an easy “in” to push for more surveillance and more powers for itself is shameful.
This was an actual plan in the 70s in fact. No shit.

https://gizmodo.com/how-the-ussr-tried-to-melt-the-arctic-56...
Show HN: How I made a donut-shaped donut.c replica in Python [video]
The solution is more like making sure Technology X is ubiquitous before they can do anything. That makes it significantly harder to outlaw without undesirable political and economic side effects.
There are some articles and ”quick tests“ that ask you to close your eyes, which can be quite confusing. Some people find it easier to visualise with their eyes open, others with their eyes closed.

Additionally, aphantasia often is represented by a black image, which also is misleading. Some people think they have aphantasia because they see black or Eigengrau behind their eyelids.

But aphantasia has nothing to do with physical seeing with your eyes.
There is only so much people can care about in their day to day. This mentality you are displaying ignores reality and will end up biting you one day when something you expect to happen does not come true because you're living your life on the internet too much.
Artificial wombs don't reduce the period of bring a child to be be a functioning social being (currently 18 - 28 years). Nor the costs or other incentives or disincentives.

To me, the most likely consequence is to reduce the total fertility rate to one child per woman.
The experience has been good for me, but I'm in no way an average smartphone user. The apps I use are mainly Whatsapp, Firefox and Spotify Lite.

I think grapheneOS the best choice if you don't tolerate a proprietary OS on your smartphone.

Disclaimer: Pixel 3a support on GrapheneOS is EOL, but you can still download it and install it.

Some observations:

- I have not had any calls dropped.

- I don't remember a case where I couldn't get mobile data while being in an urban area. At least LTE and 3G work well.

- UI is snappy.

- You can install Google Play Services in a sandbox, but some apps, notoriously most banking apps, crash on launch, probably because they implement Play Integrity API.

- If you install Google Play Services in the sandbox, Whatsapp messages arrive instantly. If you don't, they do sometimes, sometimes they take some time, and sometimes you need to launch the app to see the messages.

- The default apps lack a cohesive UI appearance. The photo gallery looks as if it was taken from a 7 year old Android version. The clock app and settings app look up to date. The SMS app looks different from all the other apps mentioned.

- The default app icons are in black and white, which doesn't look bad in itself, but your app list screen looks ugly when you start installing other apps whose icons are not black and white.

- I don't remember a case of system apps crashing or the whole OS getting frozen in the 10 months that I've used it. And I don't remember feeling frustration because of system unresponsiveness.
Self-deprecation seems like a safe play.
Both are far more forgiving than skateboarding, even given the speeds you're sometimes wiping out at.

You just sort of bounce down the slope, and it hardly even scuffs up your snow gear.

Wipe out at a quick on a skateboard - the pavement has no give, and you're not all bundled up because it's summer. You're getting road rash, minimum, maybe some more serious damage to bones, head, etc.

Rollerblades, not quite as bad. They aren't constantly trying to run away from you. Similar failure mode though.
Except nobody in Japan actually needs these ridiculous beds.
Why not use something like pango, libschrift, etc ? Text rendering is a hard problem, moreso one cross-platform...
That's right, not everyone's. So when you say "is it so hard..." to consider someone else's viewpoint, I think you should take that seriously! Hahaha

> Also, you might want to read up on what an ad hominem is so you can use it correctly in the future.

Oh, okay, is that what I might wanna do? Hahaha. No, you wouldn't know. I guess you're the ad hominem expert, tho, right? That's you trying to do it there?

I see you just want to fight. I'm not here for that, sorry.

Did you get upset? I suppose you couldn't take that criticism of what you were doing, so you had to try to flip it around! Hahaha, not exactly a recipe for improvement, is it? Hahaha.
Is it easy to split your model onto multiple gpus though?
America does not have a good food culture
Using Emacs as $EDITOR
Many of my American friends don’t have kids now pushing 40. I know two Bangladeshis of the same age who have no kids (out of my entire extended family)—and even then they wouldn’t say out loud that was the plan. And my family is quite secular. My dad, who hasn’t stepped foot in a mosque in decades was freaking out when my brother turned 30 without kids.

By contrast, I feel like most American Christians wouldn’t react that negatively to someone in their family declaring they don’t want kids.
Anyone who actually reads the New Testament closely will see that modern American evangelicalism is not especially closely related to what those texts actually say. (Obvious example: the texts don't claim "inerrancy" anywhere.)

It follows that Christianity evolved into its current form from the NT as its starting point.

Further evolutions and shifts should be expected (though some of them may look like explorations of very ancient paths not taken, like a drift away from inerrantist literalism and back towards things like Origen's opinion that the NT writers may well have made factual errors).
My question would be, how are they solving this problem if they are not using this service?
Their current track is not demographically suicidal?
I think the flaw with this explanation is that lots of children are un/under planned. Talk to a teacher at a metropolitan public school sometime in the US for example and ask them how many students are from low income areas, it's going to be a lot. So it follows that either everyone is overdramatizing how much it costs to raise a child or that concerns about the cost aren't what's stopping people from having them and by extension it's sure not access to daycare.
The “Long Form Landing Page” is a science that has been popularized and refined since the dawn of the consumer internet. It’s all about slowly building emotional investment from the user to trick them into pressuring themselves to engaging the eventual “Call to Action”.
I'm just a commenter on hacker news, I can't tell you what the purpose of life is. Here are some of my thoughts though.

I believe that everything should be taken in moderation and that extremes generally are bad, so you should not totally optimize on any one thing, but should generally do somethings you enjoy and some that give you pleasure. You should do somethings for humanity and somethings for the community and to make others do well. You should probably take some ideas from religion and integrate them into your life, but not become a zealot. I think you should try to have children if you can, because children seem to be some aspect of the world and life that's important. I think you should try and make some money and work in a field that get good pay, but that you do enjoy and that's relatively stable. I think you should try and be there for your family and view them as a small community, but not expect anything from them or try and fight with them. I think you should avoid drugs and other things that are generally bad for you if you can.

To the people who believe that happiness is the point of life. I also think there is a decent amount of scientific evidence that people's happiness levels are pretty static over time and if you find some success in your life, you will be happy for a short time, but your happiness will return to the static level of your life. I think that people, and things, and many external things cannot make you happy and happiness can only be found from within. However, I don't think that that is the point.

I think that our natural dissatisfaction with the world and unhappiness about it is how we make the world a better place and that it is how progress is made by celebrating our wins and then becoming dissatisfied and trying to be better.
Yup, I used to do small molecule work as well.

I remember when we were doing some early optimizing work and we had the computational chemists do some calculations on how to optimize drug binding to the receptor. "Oh, just put a methyl group here and you'll improve binding by 10x".

So we go and make the molecule and a few weeks later (it wasn't a trivial change) we go and run the assay and.... the binding is 1000x worse.

No doubt the computational methods have gotten better since this story happened, but our understanding of biology is so limited that even using AI to incorporate all known biology into a prediction isn't going to give you great results.

I do see it helping in the sense of guiding optimizing - "try and improve binding on this part of the molecule", but we're very, very far away from entering some data into a model and it spitting out a result that solves all the issues at hand.
What does "didn't even happen" mean? That girl was standing there with the balloons. She just happened to be slightly off frame, and that moment is now gone and you'll never get a proper framed photo of that moment.

It's like re-coloring an old black and white photo, or photoshopping out a photo bomber from the background.
JWST Observations Break Galactic Evolution Models but Prove Big Bang Correct [video]
I think they're working with the premise that intellectuals are less likely to be as religious or more likely to think for themselves, leading to breaking off
Thanks, this was a great post! It actually made me realize how, relatively recently, I had a bunch of Japanese tech in my house, but now almost none. Sony Vaio was a great laptop. I had a Sony Ericcson phone back in the day, as well as Bravia TV. I remember a family member had one of the "mini" Toshiba laptops in the 90s (I think it was a Portege? not sure) that I remember being so cool back then.

PlayStation is still going strong, and Nintendo, too, but it's really amazing to see how much has changed in such a short time period.

I do take issue with your conclusion, though: "Japan Inc. is a Ponzi scheme that Bernie Madoff would have loved to have conceived, veiled in superficial politeness intermingled with lots of courteous smiles and bows." I don't think it's really much different than modern capitalism basically being a Ponzi scheme that depends on ever increasing population. Japan just hit it a lot earlier than other places because (1) they had such a massive asset bubble in the late 80s, and 34 years later the Nikkei is still well below its peak in the late 80s, and (2) they experienced population decline well before most other advanced economies - their population peaked in 2010.

Edit: Oh, and I used to own a Toyota, too, which I loved and had for nearly 2 decades. Until I replaced it with an electric vehicle.
> The natural order of the free market is towards monopolies or cartels.

I don't know where you're getting that from. Monopolies are almost always created by governments; indeed, the original meaning of the word "monopoly" was an exclusive privilege granted by the king to sell a particular product. Cartels in free markets don't last because there is a strong incentive for cartel members to defect, since they can increase their profits by doing so; it takes governmental agreements (such as the Middle Eastern oil cartel upheld by the governments of the countries involved) to prevent such defection.

> Why compete when you can merge or buy the startup before they get big enough to bother you?

If the startup is a real competitor, in a free market its owners will be able to realize more upside by competing with you than by being bought by you.

> If you are the only one offering what they need then they have no choice, do they?

In a free market this won't happen: if there is enough demand, it is always in someone's interest to start a competing producer.

> Have you figured out the answer to that?

Historically, the reason the obvious free market things I describe don't always happen is that governments mess with markets, making them not free. So the obvious answer is to not do that.
It's like this in San Francisco too. And Chicago.

Heck, I saw a middle aged guy in a forest preserve on the trails with one taking some work conference call.
They used to be designed to inform the buyer how to do nearly anything.

Now they instruct the buyer to do nothing lest they incur legal liability.
In my opinion advanced DAWs like Ardour, Bitwig, Reaper or Live bring automation to the table, more complex routing and a single tool for a big part of the production. They are also extremely useful to play live (and the recent addition of clips into Ardour makes it closer to the commercial competion now).

It is a bit (just a poor analogy) like saying you could program anything in assembly or C. Sure but sometimes it is just much more efficient time-wise to just use Python, Kotlin, C# or any higher level language and not have to reinvent the wheel or deal with repetitive complexity.

In the end, what I always recommend is to try things and see what sticks, test new tools and retest the ones you didnt select regularly and when your workflow evolves just switch to the more adapted tool. I also find that really nice to improve myself in my current favorite tool as I can often bring back new tricks that were more obvious in other tools.
Battleship lacks most other elements that make a good war game interesting.
I see! Thank you! :)
Ehhh, that quote would apply perfectly to China’s requirements that you form a joint venture to enter restricted markets. These JV often require IP to be surrendered.

https://harrisbricken.com/chinalawblog/china-joint-venture/#...