skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There were weapons inspectors in Iraq prior to the invasion and the intelligence services weren't able to direct the inspectors to any WMDs.

So Bush and Blair would not only have to believe they had evidence WMDs exist - they'd also have to believe that the evidence was at once so /bad/ it couldn't direct inspectors to a single shred of evidence, and so /good/ it was believable in spite of that fact.

Intelligence services might not have directed the inspectors to any WMDs but they did find time to spy on the leader of the weapons inspectors, with an aim to "provide sufficient ammunition to undermine Blix and, by association, the new U.N. weapons inspection program" [1]

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2002/04/15/s...
Of course, being a Go expert does not make you a GC expert automatically. You need to be both. But why should you also be a C expert? Adding another whole field of expertise to the requirements does not sound like an improvement.

And everything written in Go also means you are dealing with just one compiler and not two, if you mix Go and C code.
Back in the army you quickly realized that when taking a smoke break, the guy who didn't smoke was volunteered to fetch the truck or whatever. So you learned to smoke, to avoid extra duty.
Would love everyone's thoughts, and also hear about your experiences and stories. Thank you for reading.
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I think you would enjoy the youtube channel of Jamie Mantzel. He did something similar but instead first bought a property in the middle of woods and built a house. Then, several years later, sold that and moved to an island in Panama where he pretty much builds everything he uses and barters with the locals.
I have this argument with my wife every few months. She posts things on a popular social media platform and sets them "private" in full expectation that the content will only be shared with those she selects. Then she gets pissed when she later discovers the privacy settings didn't work the way she expected.

Anything pushed to the internet should be assumed public unless encrypted using open source encryption tools you completely control in a safe zone (like in Tails). All internet activity should be assumed to be logged somewhere, somehow. I don't even 100% trust Tor.
It means there is some control the system has over its variables, and it will move to an optimal position based on that. Humans can adjust their driving speed, and they want to maintain a certain equilibrium of risk. When you add seatbelts, humans will try to move back to the optimal risk level they set. Normally they won't go all the way back, but they'll go some of the way.
Interop with C is easy to code but deceptively expensive from a machine standpoint, due to correctness guarantees when you're switching from green threads to no-green-threads. It involves interacting with the go scheduler and possibly/probably blowing your cache and TLBs.

And the automatic memory management is great, but the above commenter was saying that if you're going to extreme lengths to work around the automatic memory management, maybe you needed a non-GC language in the first place.
Why aren't you super rich, then? If that's really true, then go do that thing you said.
Reading this causes me to experience déjà vu; years and years of reading stories and watching presentations about someone struggling with GC in the JVM. It's happening all over again with Go. The same 'discoveries', the same trade-offs, the same discussions about hardware resources, the same 'concurrent mark and sweep', the same 'more to do' conclusions. You could replace every occurrence of 'Go' with 'Java' and it would probably go undiscovered.

Maybe it's all worth it and this is how developers are supposed to spend their time, but it's no longer interesting to me.
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Define "faster".

I actually have experience that looping over all Erlang processes and running a GC on each of them is definitely human-clock-time orders of magnitude slower than a Go garbage collection across a similar set of data. But who cares? First of all, that was a bit of a desperation play on my part anyhow, run for diagnostic purposes in the REPL, not an operation you do all the time, and secondly, only one process at time was frozen then anyhow, so I didn't care that it took about 10 seconds. It didn't take my service down.

Which was my point in the first place, that "faster" and "slower" don't really apply here, because what they're doing is so different from each other. There's too many different possible definitions of faster. And you have to be careful to use one that matters to your code, not just an artificial benchmark that shows your preferred choice in the better light.

(For those who may be curious, the problem that led me to that play was some now long-fixed issues with large binaries.)
On the other hand, I don't think that it's the park bench designers who should directly address the problems of homelessness.

It's like criticizing people for having locks on their doors. It would be great if people didn't need them. Unfortunately, certain "societal shortcomings" make them a necessary risk-mitigating measure.

I, for one, very much like the design of the Camden bench. It's so less obtrusive and aggressive than e.g. spikes on a storefront. It's much harder to accidentally get hurt by it. These things, which are actually hazardous, not merely preventing unwanted usage, are "unpleasant design" to my eyes.
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PreScheme was designed to replace C in general. It's just been sitting there with no love or further development.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PreScheme

I imagine some techniques behind Chicken Scheme in area of optimization might help it too.
Funny story, this is a direct result of my (small) city spending something like half a million on new branding.

http://www.halifax.ca/home/
Interesting, nice work. Were you inspired by Mojang's cancelled 0x10ᶜ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0x10c

I see the fan version released a v0.1 a couple of days ago. https://github.com/trillek-team/tec/releases
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Cantonese to Mandarin is like Ebonics to English.

https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-hk/%E7%B2%A4%E8%AF%AD#.E4.BF.9D....

In your example:

> 第一及第二人稱用「我」、「你」，與官話相同，但粵語音「我」（ngo5）更保留了中古漢語唐音（*ngɑ̌ ）之疑母（ng-）。第三人稱不用「他」，而是「渠」（俗寫「佢」；東漢《孔雀東南飛》：「雖與府吏要，渠會永無緣」），跟吳語一樣。複數人稱不用「們」，而是上溯至端系的同源形式 [taʔ] 或 [ti]（現代粵語寫作「哋」，本字為「等」，見聖公會的公禱書）。粵語用「係」而不用「是」來代表正面答覆，「係」是明清兩代常用字。這些字眼在中共接管政權初期，仍然有作書面語用，例如李儼《中算史論叢》第一冊 (1955年版本，第210頁) 提及18世紀數學家 Issac Wolfram 時，就寫為「渠係荷蘭礮隊副隊長」。

TL:DR Cantonese is Middle Age "Mandarin" in disguise, plus some Ancient Vietnamese dialects.
I'm only seeing the very few times I've signed into Google to upload a video to YouTube. I infrequently use Gmail on my Android but no signs of it in my activity - aren't Gmail logins along with location logged?
I don't think you should also have to be a C expert, but I am suggesting that, in practice, there is nobody in the world who is proficient in garbage collection who does not also know C. I think if you learned everything needed to understand GC, but were never exposed to C, you would already know enough to pick the language up in a couple of hours.

Nobody is going to turn up in the Go IRC room saying that they have a great idea how to reduce pause times by improving the work-stealing between concurrent markers by using a better lock-free queue algorithm, except do'h they don't know C.

I get your point about just one compiler though - less moving parts is good.
I was an INTJ when I did it before.
Assume the terms are within modern norms. In this case, just based on the distribution of exits, $100M would handicap most startups.
I was in New York recently and the Franklin Av Shuttle subway station seemed to have these devices throughout the station (entry hall, stairs and platform were all covered). Also in my 20s and I could hear them clearly - the frequency was changing between several very annoying ones, all in the extremely high pitched spectrum (17.5-20kHz, from what I read online). By the time the train arrived I was really glad to get out of there, it made my head hurt quite a bit. It was an awful experience. Apparently the MTA decided that royally annoying young customers was less important than preventing loitering kids.
Actually, the hardest part of deciding to go with Erlang is not finding
a programmer within 1-2 months, but deciding that one will need to train the
programmer themselves (which obviously takes time; it took me half a year
dabbling with Erlang and OTP (totally on my own) to actually start writing
idiomatic code).
Cool, thanks for the information. :)
Thanks for that; subscribed to his channel. I don't really build on my own house; I like electronics & software still too much but I think in a few years I might like to do that.
"I don't want to be around those people." We don't, either.

I've seen this comment numerous times (that homeless people don't feel safe in shelters), and it's in part why shelters don't entirely solve the problem. The shelters need to be made safer, and/or other options need to be explored.
Yeah, all I have there are three Youtube videos I watched in 2015 (even though I do use my Youtube account almost daily). I'm content with this.

What I'm not content with is that they're showing it in a wrong language, but I guess I can't ask for good webdesign from someone like Google.
Fair enough.

But I refuse to remove all responsibility, because that's dehumanizing itself.
This makes me wonder if you actually read the whole article. Reading and writing were the second component of that system, so those activities you participated in were also crucial. But more importantly, they were not at the expense of collaboration. The author isn't saying alone time and contemplation aren't central towards bright minds. The author is saying that collaboration is a critical component to a largely social creature. It's not about forcing interactions, but about learning how to handle those numerous interactions with other people. Children spend all day with others at school and with their family, so it's good to focus on how they can work together with others so that they may develop better both socially and intellectually.
Is this a circle or a square?
I would love to see fewer street lights. Especially in village / suburban settings. But the word is that they reduce crime. Are there any studies to this effect?
To me it seems obvious that adding these sync features was the original "extra unnecessary work". It is a dark pattern that Google is obviously engaging in to the detriment of their users. They went the extra mile to annoy their users to gather some more data.
For me the problem is that GPL mixes up the requirement of "Open Source" (which I'm fine with) with a requirement that anything depending on it has to be GPL as well (which I have a problem with). Basically, if GPL would allow someone to sell licenses to his software as long as he keeps publishing the sources, it would go a long way to enable a userland application market on top of GNU based kernels.

Gnu.org could even demand a percentage of revenues going towards the GNU foundation. IMO that would make Linux even free-er since it would democratise the way kernel development is funded (i.e. redistribute some of the influence away from the big software corporations who currently chip in). Right now kernel development works fine because you have the right gatekeepers at the top (especially LT), but I wonder what happens when he retires - will some committee take over?
Correct. The article kept referring to "targeted individuals", but in fact it was behavior that was targeted by the design. Disallowing bad behavior is ethical and reasonable.
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This list is useful for people who are already used to thinking in these ways, intuitively, by being exposed to other people and learning by osmosis. Formalizing intuition leads to easy growth.

For other people, you're right, it's about as useful as reading through a list of course descriptions rather than taking the actual courses.
But it's the inclination of leaders, and everyone else, to lean toward their desires and preconceptions.
R Markdown is very powerful. That being said, I still find myself using Jupyter notebooks instead due to first-class language kernel support of non-R languages (which was not the case at Rmarkdown's launch, when Jupyter was still IPython), and GitHub integration for rendering notebooks.

The dynamic aspect of Rmarkdown is done through HTMLWidgets, which also works with Jupyter notebooks too. (But not via the GitHub integration mentioned earlier.)
This test is quite criticised[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%E2%80%93Briggs_Type_Indi...
You're failing to see the point:

It is anti-social to force everyone to fully take on the responsibility of all their actions, singularly and personally, forever and with no limits.

You hurt only yourself by creating traps that not everyone can escape from, and then having to live with people who have to fight for a living by any means they can.

As for solutions having been tried: Germany does a damn good job of dealing with unemployed and worse off as actual humans and has no homeless epidemic.

As for your first point: Supposition and assumption. My sister is the very first example of a person who has done a LOT in her life wrong and is "paying" for her mistakes by having to live on government aid. I pay fairly high taxes, pretty much half of all i earn, but i do it happily knowing that so does everyone else, resulting in my sister and my nephew living in dignity, with my nephew having access to high quality primary and secondary education and a chance to be something better; without any single person having to sacrifice most of their life to enable this.
>I am bit annoyed at these feel-goody "minimalism" articles, almost always inevitably written by some rich kid, who, if they were to live their preachy minimalism, could at moments notice buy the thing they need in that moment.

That's the point, actually. No article is for everyone.

Once you get past a certain point in wealth/income though, stuff becomes a burden rather than an aid. Realizing that you don't need much of the stuff you keep "just in case" is incredibly useful. Maybe the upper 40% in Western societies fall into that category? +/- 20%.

note: downvoted by mistake while copying the quote. Sorry about that!
I've lived all over Europe and the anti-homeless "ambiance" is strongest in Paris of all places I've visited. I certainly don't compare my country to North America... that'd simply be unfair to north americans.
I'm in sales/tech recruiting and I learned long ago that my two to three sentence email will get far more responses than the three-5 paragraph emails most people send.
Here's a thought exercise: how will this trend be exacerbated by the Electron/Chromium stack? Should Mozilla develop a competing engine for "native" apps?
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Where's the OJ-like vow from Blair and Bush to not rest until the "real" WMDs are found?
By the point someone is homeless it is abundantly clear that they are faced with a burden of responsibility they are incapable of handling.
And ironically enough, whatever they use to set width of the text doesn't work for me.

Web working for everyone is easy, you just don't add crapton of pointless script bloat and use what's been working for decades - unless you need to do something special, but then you can't expect it to work for everyone.
Users who use Inbox instead of gmail should get a lot more rich inputs to Now. Appointments would be deduced from emails, for example, and Now will show you tracking information taken from orders in your receipts, and much more.
Range is a complex topic in large part due to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbRSrjIuzIE

The Super Hornet is designed for air to air combat and needs to stick around in combat for a while which makes the range rather deceptive. Further as all modern combat jets they can do mid air refueling so it's more a question of how much the Navy wants to spend and how long and how much fuel they are willing to spend on transit.

The range for just going somewhere and dropping at lot of bombs without refueling is another consideration. With and without external fuel tanks yet another.

Honestly, the Navy is not going to say what they consider maximum range for strategic reasons.
Given all this, why does Google News ABSOLUTELY INSIST I live in St. Louis when in fact I do not?
Agreed, this is more limousine liberalism. My parents were immigrants and I made special efforts to live above their lifestyle as an adult. Its satisfying and I find no pleasure in living in shitty neighborhoods and worrying about life paycheck to paycheck. I've been there. Its fucking terrible. Having money is wonderful and, regardless of what the media tells you, it does very much make you happy, at least up to a degree. When you don't have money, then that's all you worry about. When you have it, you can focus on other things.

Ironically, I probably should be some kind of liberal, but see myself more of a strict moderate. As a Chicagoan, I just saw my property tax rise thousands of dollars a year to pay for public sector union deals signed in the backroom in the 1980s by liberals with a "pass the problems onto the future" attitude. Now my generation is paying for boomer excess. Now "liking what I have" gets harder because I need to work harder to make up for that lost money. My wife and I just cancelled a trip and I'm shopping around for cheaper house insurance and other small things to save money. Considering we're going to be on the receiving end of further tax hikes, which leads to household cuts, how the hell can we even follow his "like what you have" advice? You guys are taking what I have!

I noticed the limousine liberal never talks about tax cuts, helping entrepreneurs, helping create jobs and prosperity, etc. They just seem to idolize poverty and taxing middle-class families and when we complain, they tell us to enjoy being poor. What a loathsome philosophy.
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I can't remember the last time double clicking on a CSV file did the right thing in Excel. I always use the clunky import dialog. Even then it often requires a few tries before I get what I want.

For an operation that is done literally millions of times around the world each year, Microsoft seems to pretend that it's some bizarre corner case. I know CSV is a messy format, but you can do better Microsoft. Even a week or two of work on that could make it much much better.
Right on. The tools we have at our finger tips as web developers are so accessible and comprehensive that there is little excuse for not testing an app across a range of user interfaces/platforms. I shiver to think how much deep DIY happened at every layer of development and deployment in previous software generations.
I can't see these surviving for long....
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I'm surprised privacy folks aren't happy with this tool. It shows exactly what they collect, lets you edit it, or disable features granularity.

Is it just surprise that they are in fact collecting this information? Because I thought that was pretty well known.
Study has no control group. Bullshit masquerading as science at its best.
Not that AWS isn't great overall--just that compared to https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/02/Compute-Engine-... they are not competive for low cost and high performance storage. (And their internal networking isn't so great either for smaller instances)
I'm always surprised when people talk about Kalman filters without mentioning the killer app, which is weather prediction. Quite a few weather prediction organisations are at least experimenting with Kalman filters, and some are running whole ensemble forecasts using the method. It may sound strange, but the Kalman filter can be a less CPU-intensive (or at least more parallelisable) way of calculating atmospheric state than the current variational data assimilation methods.
I get your hypothetical example, however, will the universe cease to exist after the last conscious observer dies? For that observer, one minute before their death, would/should they suppose that universe will cease to exist or continue existing?

If we humans manage to wipe out ourselves next year in a nuclear holocaust, then is the continued existence of our planet conditional on some other conscious life arising in the future? Obviously it continues to exist even in your definition because they would be able to observe it, but how could such life arise if the universe doesn't exist?

I'd rather define "exist" as having an effect on our physical reality, which would obviously be detectable by "observers" in e.g. the quantum mechanic meaning of "observation" that has no relation to consciousness.
PDF is better for this kind of thing, because average people can easily download and keep the thing. Web pages disappear.
I think part of the reason for this, though, is that Lua is a very "thin" language. It purposefully doesn't have a lot of fancy features (I mean, come on, it literally has one composite datatype, and you're supposed to use them [tables] for everything from arrays to maps to full objects). By removing a lot of assumptions that make Python "easy", Lua has made it much easier to write optimizing JITers and compilers since runtime behavior is (perhaps a little paradoxically) easier to predict. And it doesn't make Lua any less "easy" a language, it's just a different set of rules to follow. Guido's hunt for the simplest programming language possible is noble, but sometimes it causes poor decisions to be made imho.
https://xkcd.com/1479/
Why reinvent this wheel? Why not instead (also) partner with people like Overleaf who already have many of these features?

https://www.overleaf.com
It gets put back on, by default, on every major update.. how convenient..
> unsettling slash dehumanizing

As a tangent, it is fascinating to me that you would write out the "slash" instead of using the single character symbol.

Watching the evolution of the thing-a/thing-b construct from a shorthand used almost exclusively in online text, to something used in spoken conversation to explicitly convey a mix of several ideas has been really interesting.

I wonder if there are examples of this pre-internet, or a similar construct that has now fallen out of style?
I can see it being useful for team training though.
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Seemingly the only relevant reply in this comment section. That said, the article is kind of vague and has a few big misunderstandings unrelated to Tononi's Phi and Information Integration Theory.

Phi is basically a complexity metric that tries to put a number on the effect of memory in a system. I'm unsure wether this has any relation to 'consciousness', but it's at least interesting to measure effects of having a low or high Phi.

For example functional programming languages favor a low Phi. Everything is defined by the input, memoization is possible (sort of what you call 'mocks' in other programming languages). There are no side-effects (memory of past events elsewhere), or at least they have to be invoked explicitly as 'unsafe' operations.

Also, code that calculates Phi: https://github.com/wmayner/pyphi/blob/develop/pyphi/examples...
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This is just what they want you to think they know...
"How to get fired for sending audio of all you conference calls to IBM"

Pretty fun hack though.
I see they weren't as advanced, but resorted to an image instead. :-(