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>And since zombie-Chalmers is an atom-by-atom duplicate of Chalmers, on what basis would Chalmers say that he is right when he makes this claim, but somehow zombie-Chalmers is wrong?

This isn't quite the right question to get at the issue. Zombie Chalmers is wrong by definition as he's a hypothetical creature defined not to have any conscious experience. Real Chalmers is right iff he has conscious experiences.

I think what you're getting at here is Chalmers' epiphenominalism about consciousness and its possible implications for whether or not Chalmers' belief that he has conscious experiences can be justified according to his own lights. Chalmers is well aware of this issue. It is rather a subtle one, as it is not so obvious on further examination that the belief that one has conscious experiences must necessarily be caused by conscious experiences in order to be justified. Thus, even though zombie Chalmers' belief has the same cause as real Chalmers' belief, it is conceivable that one belief may be justified while the other is not. It all depends on one's theory of justification – and it's probably an understatement to say that there are a lot of those to choose from. There is some summary of Chalmers' and others' takes on this here: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epiphenomenalism/#SelStu

More broadly, I would say that if you are willing to indulge Dennett in some of his more counterintuitive speculations, you could stand to be a little more generous to Chalmers here, who is certainly no fool.
Why should these sorts of licenses exist in the first place? I can understand having a separate license for storing/doing dangerous stuff - example: if a business deals with pesticides and other types of toxins, propane cans, explosives etc.. and these licenses can be issued conditional to building codes, special equipment or arrangements being made etc.

But why should a license be needed to open a repair shop, dealership, a factory, a nursery etc?
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Here's[0] a breakdown from the foundation on that budget category. They also commit to breaking it down better in the future:

Salaries, benefits, payroll taxes, payroll service provider fees: $1.17m
Travel, event sponsorship, & support: $192k
Legal and Professional Fees: $66k
Fund transfer to the Grants Program from membership fees: $40k
Fund transfer to the Specification work from membership fees: $20k
Marketing: $36k
General Admin: (software, bank fees, meeting rooms, etc.) $20k

It's mostly salaries. They employ four engineers (software, security, infrastructure) that work on Rust, who they pay "at or above the average in their local market."

[0]: https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/335408-founda...
I use it these days for my basic indie game models, it's great.
note that i'm not claiming 2x slowdown for cpython.

but here's one test i've run just now:

using your test file, i've run this one-liner on my x86_64 linux laptop in https://pyodide.org/en/stable/console.html in chromium (v8) and natively (pyodide's urllib doesn't handle https for some reason):

import requests;exec(requests.get('https://gist.githubusercontent.com/syrusakbary/b318c97aaa8de6e8040fdd5d3995cb7c/raw/1c6cc96cf98bd7bd41c81ba9d10dc4d19b1c3e53/pystone.py').text)

native: ~470k

pyodide: ~200k

i.e. ~2.4x slowdown
> Tangent: All number started with 12 which in effect made them 10 digits. They worked together with a banking system and the bank folks thought 10 digits was not secure enough so they complied and added 12 in front of everything.

Delicious malicious compliance - I like it.
They discuss a printer, suing the Catholic Church, but, if I remember, the Catholics had an issue with this Gutenberg guy, for coming up with a printing press, and thus, the ability to print lots of bibles.
Your parent should really check out the BOM on his iPhone or MacBook before complaining about $270 being "monstrously expensive" hardware. And all those gadgets benefit from high volume discounts on parts, decades of sunk R&D costs and the volume economies of scale, assembled by sweatshop workers, not niche low volume production runs for enthusiasts like this one.

The price of Pizza at your local non-fast-food restaurant is also significantly higher than that of the bulk raw ingredients it's made of. Now also try adding the R&D costs of inventing the Pizza to that see where that gets you.
what do you miss by playing them on the wii or IRL?
> I wish Apple would release a "dumb mode", which removes 90% of the already limited UX features of macOS/iOS.

Have you seen Assistive Access? https://support.apple.com/guide/assistive-access-iphone/welc...

"Assistive Access is a distinctive iOS experience, with more focused features and a simplified user interface, which allows people with cognitive disabilities to use iPhone with greater ease and independence."
Waymo illegal overtake into wrong-way driving
> Nobody wealthy is sitting around scheming how to keep the proles dumb and subdued.

They dont sit around scheming, they work, walk around doing it in action.

Company executives keep adding ingredients to processed food to make them addictive knowing it’ll hurt health outcomes and lead to more death.

Company executives continue to sell medicine that they sell for $20 or $10 in Europe or India, but charge americans $5000 or higher for the same medicine in the same package.

They shut down any research paper that outs them, by suppressing the findings, like Facebook or Junk food companies do whenever a research is conducted on their products.

We should celebrate our pioneers and innovators, but we shouldn’t ignore it blindly when MBA execs and Beancounters actively sabotage and hurt their own customers and the masses. Businesses are awesome, but it shouldnt be used to give a no questions asked green flag to anyone who runs businesses.

There are people actively lobbying for policies that lead to more american deaths, bankruptcies, families breaking into shambles, and the government watching from the sidelines and even sometimes helping to make it all happen.

Yes, there are people who do want to subdue the masses and keep them dumb, just as long as it helps them buy 1 more yacht or few more 0s in their bank balance.

I say it as a free market capitalist who is ardently anti-communist.
DDT in the 60's was a bug killing spray which soon was banned because it was toxic.
this reads like it was generated by an LLM
I can't even parse this sentence. If you're trying to deny a part of my previous comment, it would help if you indicated which bit you're trying to replace.
Yes, this is a really good article that I can highly recommend if you're interested in these type of "falling sand" simulations.

A big difference between a classic powder toy game like in the article and Noita is that Noita needs to run a much larger simulation that extends beyond the visible canvas. So while multithreading is probably not needed in the former it's most likely needed when the game is a scrolling platformer. I posted a GDC talk by the Noita devs as a reply to a sibling comment if you're interested in their tech.
Fireship is very different, but also highly worth a subscription.
On the plus side, this might help you with networking.
>I wouldn't be so quick to crown teletext as the king of succinct media.

Show me a current example that comes even remotely close (especially one not skimping on the "curated" aspect).

>[..]mostly because you have so much choice in how the page is displayed. Typefaces, colours, whether or not to display pictures - it's all up to you, the reader.

See, that's the crux here - it's not just up to me. It's up to the media producer what kind of content they offer for me to be able choose from.
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=rust
All very good points!

I guess my frustration is that I can understand how fighting famine brought immediate, crucial benefits (even though it seems likely that the technological improvements that improved life may soon destroy civilization as we know it).

But the very first ideas that got in my mind where I learned about LLMs were black hat oriented. I actually needed to make an effort to see the potential benefits of LLMs (other than translators), but I immediately had many ideas of how that could go wrong (probably all of them being mentioned in the featured article).

In the case of LLMs, it seems a lot more direct than, say, the famous story of the Facebook "likes", that did sound like a good idea at first. LLMs sound like a bad idea (for society) from the beginning on.
That sounds super interesting, could you share the code for that?
I think the OP meant ‘half a millennium’.
I have had a great time using Fedora for family members for years! Fedora on a Lenovo laptop has made my OS-related support calls plummet to zero, basically. I check their laptop once or twice a year (during holidays) to upgrade to the latest release.

I spent a few hours setting up Firefox with an uBlock and set up an email client, and that was it.

There was an awkward period where Wayland made screen sharing difficult, but switching to X made TeamViewer work again. From Fedora 39, I switched to using the built-in remote desktop function (RDP) + an always-on Wireguard connection, which makes screen sharing so smooth when I occasionally need to help with non-OS related challenges. This can also be used for SSH access, or whatever.

I recently went with Fedora Silverblue for another relative, which makes everything stay up to date without them noticing. So far it has worked fine, but installing the printer driver was a bit different than usual – but not a problem.

EDIT: Prior experiences has been primarily with macOS, and it has been a lot of trouble adjusting it to their needs and preferences.
Performance Evaluation of Cryptographic File System Algorithms in Devices
>Believe it or not, they mostly figured it all out pretty easily. They still get confused and scared by FB video calls coming in, but otherwise are able to talk, text, use social media, etc. So much so they even bought an iPad.

For the 99% of use cases elderly people have with a phone, what exactly is it you imagine that Apple is doing better than Android? You click an icon to text, phone or browse the web. The experience is nearly identical.

The idea that Android has lots of customization, but Apple doesn't, is a myth; even Apple has far more options to tweak than the average use is ever going to have to get into.
> You do marketing? Authors now have their own followings on social media and can reach them directly.

> You give cash advances? Fans on Kickstarter give 10x more.

Both of those seem very positive to me.
I help so many friends AnyDesk has decided I'm a company so I can't use that any more. Now I use RustDesk.
It's also more ... social perhaps. I'm reading a book that an uncle bought, but never really got around to reading. I would have never picked up that book myself, but he brought it over an I stuck it in the bookshelf.

Similarly my dad has a bunch of books I bought years ago. It's not books that I'd want to re-read, but interesting enough. With ebooks that just not possible, unless you do some cumbersome DRM removal.

There's a lot of good things about ebooks, but the usability just isn't there yet. It is a nice alternative for long out of print books though.

I'd buy and read move, I think, if more stuff was translated to Danish, but most of the books you can get in Danish easily is repetitive crime novels. It's all variations of someone got brutally murdered and now some alcoholic Scandinavia cop / ex-cop with a broken love life has to solve the case for some reason.
Do you mean wake on LAN? PoE is to entirely power a device over Ethernet.
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That was one of my first thoughts when LLMs started to get traction: "they have the potential to break Google... maybe it would bring back stuff like RSS and people following blogs/particular websites instead of following the Google results?".
It is bizarre how Visa and Mastermind can censor what people can watch.
> few even have wings of libraries named after us

Public libraries? With easy access?
Yes, it's expensive in relation - too expensive to motivate more people. But I would rather say that these prices are more in line with actual production costs and that meat is too cheap, partly because of the high agricultural subsidies for livestock farming.
Yea $100 bucks a year for a small historical library with a very limited selection of English books (that's 45 minutes away from me) doesn't really compare to a free library that's in every city in the US (or many libraries in bigger cities)
While you absolutely can use Godot to export to web, I found the exports themselves to be pretty lacking. For one, the export size is much larger compared to other game engines and frameworks. Because we're targeting web and not desktop, small size is a must-have as many people who play web games are more likely to leave and never come back if they're waiting for the game to load.
Something like RSS feeds, maybe? You can follow a blog because you trust the author. Then the blog may link another website that you then add to your feed. You could check the feeds of your friends, too.

This all existed not so long ago.
This is overly reductionist and cynical regarding what libraries provide for communities. You should visit a library sometime — it might surprise you.
In Android, there's a keyboard icon on the interface, you click it and choose your keyboard language. It's two clicks. Is the Apple one more intuitive?
Not only older people. Already since the beginning of computers there have been changes just for changes sake in everything. My theory at that time was that the changes were done so they could sell new education courses for companies every time they upgraded the software.

Now sometimes I have to google how to do things that should be very simple even in Windows or Android but now the setting is hidden to not confuse people...
I think that it is important to note that currently it is only available in the USA; and that anyone who wanted one, and could readily afford one, has probably bought it already. There are also probably many in the US that have decided to wait for the next version.

I’m sure that when they release it in literally every other country in the world they will sell more (including to me).
This may depend on the browser too - have you tried different ones, and if yes, have you noticed any differences in the duration of this splash screen?
Might as well get a Chromebook
It's a bit weird that those niche books are sold - as opposed to just published free with maybe print-on-demand for those who want hard copies.

The authors don't make (practically) any money out of those books. Even the publisher probably doesn't. Vast majority of books aren't written to get any significant money (from sales at least), unless the author is delusional.

It's probably a kind of status thing and cultural lag. To get a publishing deal is a "stamp of approval" that it's a "real book" from a "real author" that has passed the gatekeeper. And that a copy of it costs something means it's not worthless, unlike e.g. the Linux kernel.
Memory-mapped IO registers in zig (2021)
Don't give people admin rights, that's madness!
Great! If you're not using common frontend stacks, UI kits become annoying to use if they don't have any stock HTML (or close to it Tailwind like this) versions.
In comparison, the Mathematica programming language is based on term rewriting.

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/119933/why-d...
Wow... mine is $25/year. I live in a rural county, but work across the border in a less rural county, with a much bigger library system. For $25/year I get access to probably 10x as much stuff through them. I expect it might go to $30 this year.
The trough at 80 must be WWII, but I wonder what the trough at 57 might be?

Rampant alcoholism would easily explain the gender imbalance at the older end: male and alcoholic tends to end poorly, especially if tobacco is involved on top.
It probably doesn't help much that both Lain and Lan are fairly famous fictional characters now (Serial Experiments Lain and al'Lan Mandragoran from Wheel of Time).
Well it does make sense in the context where it comes from: it's an explanation for why the author of that quote thinks that it is not irony. And you are free to disagree with that opinion, but I wouldn't say that the sentence makes no sense.

I could do the same with you: this sentence does not make sense:

> Taxes.
> Politics is just a proxy for people’s desires and motivations and willingness to make trade offs.

It is not people as in "a democratic majority" which want to destroy the habitable state of the Earths atmosphere, ecosystems and our own food chain for very little short-term gain. People have children and younger relatives, and we do care about them.

It is a very small minority of very greedy individuals, and there are also massive amounts of disinformation going on so that the democratic majority confounds the interests of these with their own.
Sounds very cool. Do you have plans to open source that?
Surprised to see this on HN.

There are a number of regional liquors across India, but most are looked down upon as the drivel of the poor or the working class.

If you want something that tastes closest to normal traditional North Indian liquor in North America, just drink some Arak or Raki with a side of cucumbers and a bit of tasting salt.

That said, I've seen that Total Liquor has started importing artisanal Indian liquors now too (btw, Old Monk is not artisanal nor are the beers served at Indian restaurants the normal beers that Indians drink)
Yes, I've tried to point out a different problem with your scheme. Outside of hypothesis, we do have a global market - I think it's disrupting your idea because you cannot prevent an independent team to enter it.
Is there any logical reason why Clang is 50% slower than GCC on Ubuntu?
Wow, thanks for the link! Im in similar situation. I'd like to improve in my music theory knowledge as well.

I realized 15 years after finishing music school how chord progressions would speed up my learning new songs on piano and learn playing jazz. So Im looking for any kind of literature that would improve my knowledge there.
Yeah, it's the future, and will definitely be buying it.
That and neural interface will be the desktop off 2040 I think.
just use numbers and crossbar your 7s - problem gone.

if someone's writing is incompetent tell them. if you can't then they ruined it for themselves by being shit at writing the number 7.
Other prior art is the use of a modified base 58 encoding in Bitcoin addresses.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Base58Check_encoding
As long as we are pointing out mistakes in the article:

9qg6G8B2Z5SIl170O (ariel)

The name of the font is Arial, not Ariel. (No mermaids here, move along)
If you need more possible values, I agree.

However, if you don't need them, I would remove them so that the user doesn't have to spend any time wondering which character it is. Even though you're processing them all after they type them and fixing them, the user has spent time and effort that they didn't need to, just picking which one it is.

IIRC, I chose to keep them when I did something like this, but I don't think I thought to accept the others and convert them automatically. That project is sunset now, so it's not an issue.
It doesn't only cover pure hobby projects:

> (10c) the mere fact that an open-source software product receives financial support by manufacturers or that manufacturers contribute to the development of such a product should not in itself determine that the activity is of commercial nature.

> (10) Accepting donations without the intention of making a profit should not be considered to be a commercial activity.

> (10c).. for the purpose of this Regulation, the development of products qualifying as free and open-source software by not-for-profit organisations should not be considered a commercial activity as long as the organisation is set up in a way that ensures that all earnings after cost are used to achieve not-for-profit objectives.

See https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/eu-cra-what-does-it-mean-f...
In the realm of electricity production, things are now changing very quickly, though not yet as fast as needed.

Where a huge amount of works needs to be done is carbon-economic transport, housing and construction, and agriculture. And, yes, we will need to say farewell to a few things. That's OK, we are also not using steam engines any more.
>the biggest problem with Windows is that most malware is still targeting it.

And even so, when's the last time Windows had a serious security issue? I've been out of the Windows loop for a while, but it seems the biggest vulnerabilities of the past few years are OS agnostic.
Devcoins mined by compiling code in Visual Sudio
Similar to how software engineers get paid $1000s just to keep hitting the keyboard.
My suspicion is that there aren't actually that many "good" websites. A manual approach would maybe not be completely unfeasible.
I do understand that you are frustrated because you were not able to read the article (not to find the webarchive link on this page).

But because you could not read the article does not mean that it is "BS freeriding articles like these pretending to "save the web"".

Did you check who the authors are (you can see that for free). Bruce Schneier is a very respected cryptographer. And usually after a few days he publishes the article for free on his blog. So, there's that.
This is cool to see. I'm from the area (although a different country), but when I was little, my father often said, 'fetch me the digitron,' referring to a pocket calculator.
It was only after many years that I realized it's an actual company.