skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to have many fewer language-level features. No lvalue/rvalue distinction, pointers are not elevated to a language-level feature (only references), only a very limited exception mechanism (panic) that doesn't try to generalize to support general validation (rather general validation is done with Result which is a plain old datatype written in the language, though admittedly it relies on a macro for use - more generally this approach is also used for things like I/O, a lot more is done with plain old library functions written in the language rather than added to the language standard), the macro mechanism is much less of a special case than the C++ preprocessor, no "const" and associated language-level complexity (e.g. "mutable"), smaller and more consistent syntax (no comma operator, no sequence point rules), more unifying things from the start (e.g. traits as values) rather than ad-hoc conversion rules in the language later on.
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The sad reality is that clamping down of the sort they've done (eg sanctions for missing a single jobseeker's meeting) seem far more likely to punish those unfamiliar with the system than those who have made a habit of abusing it. When you're a professional benefits abuser, you have time to learn the intricacies of the system you're gaming.

My own personal anecdata: I recently relocated to the UK with my wife. An acquaintance of hers - who is also a fairly blatant benefits abuser - essentially told her that when she got to the UK she would explain all about how to game the system and that my wife would never need to work again.

She obviously didn't realise that as a non-UK citizen here on settlement visa I am not entitled to benefits, and my wife can't claim benefits if I hope to renew my visa. Further, it didn't even occur to her that we wouldn't want to claim benefits unnecessarily even if we could.
RAIblocks isn't a protocol, it's someone running a centeralized database that publishes the results to everyone else. Dubious.
Great! I hope we can regrow teeth in the somewhat near future.
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Probably best to distinguish between "self-reliant economically, but connected to the world economy" vs "closed system". Trying to be self-reliant in terms of physical inputs doesn't work in the oil age. Whereas the various small and micro-states manage to be economically self-reliant while importing staples.

I don't think distributism requires a closed system.
Launch retrograde (in the direction opposite to the spin of the Earth) with low inclination, and spread the pellets around just a little; should be enough to deny everyone their typical launch trajectories and would also remove the need to shoot those pellets very hard - everything else will be running into them at 2x the orbital speed.
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Be able to make a brain, hopefully means being able to make a better brain - or even, to make our brains better.
Many parts of that personal anecdote sound fishy and biased to me. He "managed to" sounds like some kind of fraud, but no evidence is given. His wife is put into scare quotes, but it seems they were living in a personal union - where I live, this is equivalent of being married, but maybe in the UK it's different. Is it illegal in the UK to own a car or a motorbike when you're not fit for work and get benefits because of it? You sound as if it is, but that seems implausible to me.

The list goes on and on. Maybe this particular guy is skimming the system, but even then he's probably skimming it way less than the many people who evade taxes with offshore accounts, etc. The priorities are quite dubious, because statistics show unambiguously that more and more money and resources flow to less and less people - it's fairly drastic, if you look at the data.

What's wrong with most systems is that they are patronizing recipients of benefits and try to force them into extreme low wage labor (often to falsify unemployment statistics), while the gap between rich and poor is continually increasing at a higher and higher rate. Instead, society should give the lowest income classes some better perspectives, improve their working conditions and overall social power. For example, with a basic income system, but there may be less drastic improvements. Then they can also buy more useless stuff that breaks after two years, which is what everybody wants, right?
In fairness, I've known a number of English people who tell stories exactly like the author did in this case. It feels more authentic - I can imagine the subject of the tale speaking in exactly the same manner.

Nah'mean? You pick up a book, see, and it's all written like the author's telling you how it happened. Gets under your skin, right? Makes it more personal somehow. You read some more, and you get sucked in, lose yourself like.
Translation is an "AI-complete" problem, if I may coin a phrase. Because language expresses human ideas, and languages do not map 1-1, proper translation can sometimes require a complete understanding of the source material (in order to properly circumlocute in the target language).

This is not "quite a tough problem to solve"; it is on par with the Turing test. Hofstadter is not complaining about how awful it would be if computers could pass the Turing test - I'm sure he would be quite as impressed as you - he is saying that given that Strong AI is pure fantasy at the moment, it would be a tragedy and an insult to language to abandon human translation in favour of a half-assed mechanical version.
Wow... their Decision Maker's Guide [DMG] is huge...

DMG Vol 1 Ch 1: Principles of decision making and evidence, 70 pages
DMG Vol 1 Ch 2: Claims and applications, 114 pages
DMG Vol 1 Ch 4: Supersession, suspension and termination, 148 pages
DMG Vol 1 Ch 5: Work-focused interviews, 188 pages
DMG Vol 1 Ch 6: Making appeals and staying, 123 pages
DMG Vol 1: Amendment 54, 72 pages
DMG Vol 1: Amendment 53, 92 pages
DMG Vol 2 Ch 7 Part 1: Common subjects [070000 to 070899], 188 pages
> The government is complicit in far worse breaches of legislation related to the benefits system than fraudulent claimants are.

Good point. The use of retroactive legislation to deny people the money that a court ruled they were entitled to was a stain on the British constitution. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/mar/15/dwp-law-chan...
I've been told by someone who knows the process that it's the same reason why applications for Permanent Residence in UK are held up for the maximum allowed time and then rejected for applicants from certain countries - they are accepted on appeal, but the sheer annoyance of the process turns people away which is what they are aiming for.
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In my Cambridge college there is one 'dean' (not the same as the Master or Mistress of the college - who is essentially the figure-head of the college) - who is responsible for the students welfare. Any member of staff formally associated with the college is a 'fellow'. Each speciality have 'tutors' and 'senior tutors' as well as one 'director of studies'.

Wikipedia says that a 'don' would apply to a 'fellow' or 'tutor'.
Consciousness does depend on it. You cannot mature a recognisably human consciousness without input from the world and from other humans.

And after you mature a human consciousness, you need to keep it busy with external stimuli, otherwise it becomes badly damaged - as anyone who has spent a long time in solitary will tell you.

If you cut off all stimuli for long enough, you’ll have something left in your tank, but it won’t be sane enough to be recognisably human.
Beard is an expert on the history of the Roman Empire, and says that this is not a misrepresentation. She wrote a good article about it here:

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/roman-britain-black-white/
> some of these people "go away" because they have died

For anyone thinking this is hyperbole, one recent case[1] was of an anorexic woman found dead in her freezing cold flat because she couldn't afford to run the heating. She had been sanctioned for missing a jobseekers meeting due to being in ICU.

1: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/anorexic-woma...
The decorated letters are in the easy to spot side. Check some texts on http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/confusables.jsp to see more extreme examples.
It's just another terrible decision in Mozilla's long history of mismanaging Firefox. They've been dumbing down the UI and turning Firefox into a me-too Chrome for the longest time. They broke plugin compatibility, harming Firefox's big killer feature. For the longest time they pretended their performance was competitive with Chrome, when it quite clearly wasn't.

You already mentioned the Pocket fiasco. I could've sworn they also once bundled a non-Free plugin for enhanced disabled access. They dragged their feet for years fixing a serious privacy issue regarding IndexedDB https://superuser.com/a/1250955/867963

Less scandalously, they use a non-standard licence for no clear reason.

The technical progress in Firefox has been great, but the history of mismanagement is awful. But I'm still using Firefox, for what that's worth.
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Have you or your friends worked with any contractor that you like and trust? If so start there and work backwards. I happened upon a really good plumber, for example, so now any time I hire any other contractor I call that plumber and ask him whom I should call. So far it's worked out great.
To be fair, I think that's memebox3v's exact point. They say: 'Darwinism is used as a justification of the social order... the nuances are ignored because of the politics.' One such nuance is the point that you make.
Launching retrograde means you have to make your rocket bigger. And once you are travelling at orbital velocities, a glancing blow is quite enough to cause catastrophic damage anyway.
I still can’t get 256 colours working properly in tmux in Terminal.app - any idea if that’s supported?
trump their right to freely choose the best employment option for them and their personal situation

Yes, because of the externalities. If an Uber driver in London gets sick, he or she will still be treated by the NHS despite Uber’s business model involves paying no employer’s NI.

If you want to say the NHS simply shouldn’t treat those who don’t contribute well that’s a whole ‘nother thing...
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I very much agree with you. However, as for the very phrase "Polish death camps", I completely agree with Poles. There were many anti-semites before and during the war, and also some collaborators, but they had nothing to do with the Holocaust. Moreover, some pre-war antisemites were the first to help Jews (Kossak-Szczucka), calling it "an obligation to their conscience". There is a certain narrative that blends Polish antisemitism with the Holocaust. Of course there were some sick individuals but as a whole the Polish society did not collaborate with Germans in killing Jews - on the opposite, they're the most represented nation among the Righteous Among the Nations, and the word "szmalcownik" is synonymous with the lowest kind of scum.
This story has been submitted a few times this week with different URLs, for instance:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/01/lenov...
> Taleb isn't painting himself in a very flattering light with these attacks. They're very weird and bitter.

This is his default style as a polemicist and it distracts indeed from the points he is trying to make.

> And I can't tell what his actual point is!

The first 3 bullet points are his actual message. The rest is a reaction to some preceding drama on twitter.

His point is basically that Africans were a statistically insignificant subgroup among Romans in Brittain, and by adding them so prominently in a short animated cartoon for school children (who hardly know anything about antiquity) the BBC is performing historical revisionism.

He also casts doubt on the assumption that these Africans were black, pointing out that Northern Africa was inhabited by Berbers and Phoenicians.

> He furiously complains that the BBC and Mary Beard are "bullshitters" but I can't figure out exactly what corrections he wants made.

He wants scientific rigor to prevail over political correctness.
The way I read it, they pose that "if it had just captured some data", the plugin would have been flagged in their privacy review process. They're not saying the plugin was ok otherwise, they're explaining why it wasn't reviewed properly.
High praise indeed - you know the software is good when you can use it to lie to your friends.
Gold wasn't originally a store of value nor used in technology. The world is filled with companies that started as one thing and ended up completely different.

In reality, it's not an argument, there isn't some supreme court of judges sitting there valuing the intent vs. the outcome.

You are creating your own arbitrary rules for judging BTC. That's fine but it's not an argument.
Because it does the rest for you, magically.

You mount a config file into the system, but CoreOS on it (or boot per PXE), and coreOS does the entire rest for you. You never have to install or reinstall, never have to deal with updates. If you put that config file on any system with coreOS, it'll be exactly like yours.

This means I can create a config to tell a server to join a kubernetes cluster, and then whenever I create a new server I simply mount the config in, and am done. I never have to set up or configure servers. Everything is handled automatically. No more fighting with Ubuntu wiping all repos 10 minutes (!) after a version is replaced by the successor, never dealing with misconfiguration.

It's truly amazing, and I loved using it. Going back to normal distros is painful.
> That means a dedicated social worker who knows both the rules and knows you.

Or, we can stop assuming government's efficiency and create an UBI. Because there will never be a dedicated social worker caring about your side - even if it was viable, voters would never allow that.
I wonder if the name is a tip of the hat to China and their leader. Anyone know?
Yeah, but I'm privileged. When somebody is definitely being an ass-hat online, I have the luxury of breezily going about my merry and generally not giving a flip. Life is too short for flame wars. So lacking significant exposure to ass-hattery, I tend to optimistically assume that I'm not seeing it. Might be overly innocent, but keeps me happy.

Being a mod has got to be tough: you're not allowed to look away from the assholes; you're required to look directly at them. After dealing with the 10,000th jerkwad, an optimistic reading of what anyone says has got to be challenging. So divergent readings are totally understandable, and thanks for the reminder that when using flippancy or sarcasm online, it's a good idea to telegraph one's amiable intent.
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The RedHat press release states that RedHat won't maintain any distro aside of those they previously maintained, which many interpret as that all Core OS distros are now EOL.

This is painful and sad.
Oh yes - it's the "hostile environment" policy.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/nov/28/hostile-envi...
Ignoring the obvious welfare complaint, which I incidentally agree with, it paints a pretty good picture of all the health and social problems leading up to this situation for a lot of people. It also shows how the health of the previous generation can cause havoc on the current generation, a problem which I'm dealing with now.

If we improve physical and mental health over the next couple of generations I think there will be a massive shift away from this failure mode. The problem is that those services are being cut as is the education that supports them. So we're screwed.

Also a 4 year cycle on government before someone comes and erases progress or long term goals instantly and just burns a mountain of cash doesn't work either.
At the moment, voters are even less likely to back an UBI.
They go with Java in very specific cases, but you need big bucks to pay for something like PTC Perc Ultra, JamaicaVM or WebSphere Real Time.

Then there is microEJ as well, but their target is that performance critical code is anyway written in C and exposed to Java.

Also depending how embedded one might consider mobile phone hardware, there is Android and Android Things.

Then there are some OEMs still selling Basic, Pascal and Oberon compilers.

But in what concerns embedded domains where only Assembly and C get used, currently C++ seems to be the only one that they care to adopt. Specially given that it already enjoys the same kind of safety regulations (MISRA, DOJ and similar).

And not everyone mind you, C++ conferences keep having sessions on how to advocate to those devs.
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> Well, achieving the Marxist utopia involves forcing the genuine owners of capital goods ("the means of production") to surrender those to the state, in practice usually requiring imprisonment, execution, and initially a certain amount of genocide to avoid revolt.

That is Communism, not Marxism.
We have no reliable evidence regarding what proportion of Roman Britain was "black". We have good historical evidence that there were Romans present in Britain who we'd these days describe as black (e.g. an Ethiopian soldier garrisoning Hadrian's wall). For 101 reasons, the genetic evidence is not very informative, and certainly can't be used to justify that claim that Africans were a "statistically insignificant subgroup" (which by the way doesn't even make sense as a statistical statement). As Beard points out, even Norman DNA is not very well represented in the modern population, and we know for sure that plenty of Normans came over as a result of the Norman invasion.
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Chromium, the open-source base. Google Chrome has various extras (without source available).
that's clever and sneaky!
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Suppose someone invented a "matter transporter", that was to all external appearances approximately equivalent to the standard device that is a science fiction trope.

But what actually happens with this device, is that once a person steps into the chamber, and is scanned, and the information to recreate them is sent to a receiver elsewhere, by some beaming method, the original is dropped into a "recycling chamber" where their body is shredded, compacted, and made into soylent green or something.

Would you voluntarily use this device? All the people who go through it report at the other end everything went well, since it in fact makes perfect copies.

One tangential idea I also want to mention is that there is a mental disorder where people perceive things incorrectly as false and strange. So, given your scenario of your parents coming to Christmas, there exists a disorder where your brain tells you they are some sort of duplicates or imposters, but you can't explain why. I don't have a reference offhand, but it's probably either something I read in a book by the neurologist Oliver Sacks, or some book about schizophrenia.
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I did the same thing a few years ago. Terminal.app has had tab support for years now. What's the killer feature of iTerm these days?

I also recall finding Terminal.app to have lower CPU consumption, matching postit's experience.
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Why can't we do both? I'm happy for them sure, but that doesn't stop people from questioning how they can't be profitable on their own already, why the performance is still one of the worst from all of the PM tools, or why you cannot allow more customization.

Why be so unary?
It is not rigged. Google own the thing. It is not a public utility. If I put an ad, product, or something on my site do I need to care about you? nope. I only care about my own profit.

Same should be going with Google. However, people assume things should happen in a different way because Google has become very popular?

Many people scream "regulation" here. But look around: There is plenty of money in Tech and in funding, yet we have a single Google. I'm afraid regulation will kill and not innovate.
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It's not useless at all. It serves as a store of value, that's all it needs. It doesn't need to be a currency.
Well, there is this paper called "Real-time content-aware image resizing", maybe that describes the method you are curious about?

> In this paper, we present a more efficient algorithm for seam based content-aware image resizing, which searches seams through establishing the matching relation between adjacent rows or columns. We give a linear algorithm to find the optimal matches within a weighted bipartite graph composed of the pixels in adjacent rows or columns.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110707030836/http://vmcl.xjtu....
There are advantages and disadvantages to community governance. It is easier for people to feel ownership and a governance stake. Projects tend to value backwards compat more consistently, rather than following the preference of an individual BDFL, since stakeholders who are injured by a compat break can have more say. This stability over time makes them safe to invest in.

Plugin based architectures tend to work well under such governance, as then the contributors are more insulated from each other and interfere less frequently.

No single governance mechanism is so much better that the others need to go away. Not every project should have community governance, not every project should have a BDFL. Not every project should even take outside contributions -- personal projects (especially licensed under CC0) can offer great value to the wider world without having to placate opinionated contributors.
> history programmes narrated in the present tense

This is called "historical present" [1], and is a style derived from Latin.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_present
It's not quite obvious. British constitutional theory holds Parliament to be completely sovereign - so the concept of an illegal piece of statute law is a bit alien.

The only real constraints on Parliament's freedom of legislation are the body of EU law, and the European Convention on Human Rights. The former is variously directly and indirectly applicable in UK law, and the latter is enforced both by UK statute (which can be overridden by Parliament) and by oversight from an external court (which has limited enforcement powers).

I agree that the surveillance law is obviously bad policy, but it wasn't obviously in breach of either EU law or the ECHR. The English court of appeal thought that it wasn't, but referred it to the Court of Justice of the European Union for a binding opinion, because they decided the question was finely balanced. CJEU ruled that it was in breach of articles 7 and 8 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, so the Court of Appeal made a domestic declaration that the statute was in breach of EU law.

The full judgment is at http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2018/70.html, if you're interested.