skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Universal Basic Income already exists for the 1%
That's a feature of modern American life. I would guess that easily 60% of large company CEOs, Mayors, Governors, etc either don't use email or at all or limit its use to trivial matters.

Since 2006 when the courts changed their rules, any email sent for official or business purposes, with the except of client-attorney email is potentially postcard. Nothing important to a company should be in there.
Discrimination is often subtle and the people doing it rarely know they're doing it. It's often simply impossible to point to a specific email as "proof" of discrimination.

That hardly means all genders and minorities are equally welcome, however. If you've ever been to a tech conference as a moderately attractive woman, you'd know how unappealing these communities can be at times.

Seriously though, this is a post by self-appointed "elder" ESR telling women and minorities what is and isn't discrimination, that things they've experienced almost never really occur, how they're individually unimportant, and that most people who complain are mentally disturbed, drama queens, or political carpetbaggers. If you cannot understand why this article is a perfect example of the problems in the community, I can't help you.
> Until you show up uninsured at the same ER for the same visit and end up with a $10,000 bill because you don't have insurance.

That's the problem, though. If I can't afford it, then it doesn't matter whether they charge me $1,700 I don't have, or $1,700,000 I don't have. Either way, I'm not going to pay it, and it's going to end up going to collections and dinging my credit.

Let's say the worst possible case happens and I get cancer. They don't treat you for that in the ER, other than the bare minimum to keep you alive. But to get those ungodly expensive $3,000 a dose drugs would require too much out of pocket. I wouldn't be able to get them with or without insurance.
The blood tests that are part of most medical insurance wellness plans now do check for diabetes symptoms. If your blood glucose or A1c is above the reference range then it will get flagged for your doctor as a possible diabetes case regardless of whether you're fat or skinny.
> All those arguments also apply to food production. But that's a free market, and does rather well.

I disagree; it does poorly:

Poor people in the U.S., the richest country in the history of the world, need subsidies (such as food stamps) to have enough to eat, and even then often can't afford healthy food. I read awhile ago that over 50% of children in U.S. public schools needed subsidized lunches (but my memory is hazy, so it might be that over 50% came from families that used food stamps or something similar; sorry I'm too lazy to look it up).

Despite there being enough food and money in the world to feed everyone, people still starve and others are malnourished in many places. At least some researchers attribute the Arab Spring to increased food prices, as a proxy indicator of the impact (again, too busy to look up the data).

> Yes, I know there are agricultural subsidies. It's not a perfect free market.

Agreed, and there are other distortions besides agricultural subsidies, esp. when it comes to international trade. I don't know enough about that market to characterize it.
We have verified (experimentally) that individual particles, whose quantum properties can be individually measured, do obey the rules of SR/GR. That is, space is curved for them in the presence of mass, and time slows down based on velocity, etc. Everything about QM that involves spacetime, has to be considered using the Relativity definitions of spacetime. Non-relativistic classical calculations will give the wrong answers always and relativistic is always right. Gravity only 'appears' to be a 'large numbers' problem because it's effect is so weak compared to EMF, as far as is proven. But my opinion is it's 50/50 chance that in the end SR/GR actually is emergent from something more fundamental rather than "that's just how it is."
Can you provide a link to an iTunes Music Store release that is available in ALAC format? I am not aware of any.
Did anybody understand where Margaret Levi got this?

"Indeed, the expectation of reciprocity can both reduce and even undermine altruism."

Surely expectation of reciprocity would make the reciprocal loop stronger, not weaker.
Let's assume we're talking about short and clear email messages. Nothing shady at all, not using misleading popup to trick the user into clicking adsense ads.

If people buy more stuff when they receive 10 mails per months, is the user to blame?

Additional information: Users really open the emails and don't mark them as spam at all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. After you’ve not fooled yourself, it’s easy not to fool other scientists. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after that.”

— Richard Feynman
I don't actually know how much my plan is per month. It's not clearly listed anywhere I can find. It's the top plan my company offers, though.

Here's the actual ER bill as proof of what they charged me:

https://twitter.com/byuu_san/status/776137889348358144
These days, I treat test code the same way as I treat application code, refactoring and cleaning up as I go. I've noticed that in most projects, unless you do this, there's a tendency to copy-paste tests, without any thought given to DRY.
That's how I inferred the OPs comment as well. Shouldn't a union that represents the majority of its workers also be majority vote?
I think it's worth trying in Seattle. A few years from now Seattle can be compared to other cities and we can try to figure out what the effects of the regulations are. If nothing good comes from it, rewrite the rules and try again.
Emergence as a concept only serves to eliminate the need for a designer. It doesn't actually explain anything to someone who already accepts the possibility of complexity without design. But that doesn't mean it's a useless concept, just that it is sometimes misused (if the LW post's premise is true).
IR is better than assembly (2013)
I can backup, wipe my device, do the test, pull the debug logs, and restore from backup in an hour or so. iTunes and iCloud make it really easy to do this. It's just not cost effective for Apple to treat every case as a special snowflake if nuking from orbit fixes the issue. It sucks, but it's not like you'll get support from anywhere else.
The Dallas thing sounds pretty sweet. Would you mind emailing me (maciej@ceglowski.com) so I can pepper you with questions?
Myrddin: Retrospective: 2016
"Data models" makes me think of relational models.

Memory models made me remember the 8086 which I would like to forget, so I think "memory models" works to describe these six conceptualizations.
Sure, the Wikipedia entry lists a number of different names:

The war is also known under other names, such as the Persian Gulf War, First Gulf War, Gulf War I, Kuwait War, First Iraq War, or Iraq War before the term "Iraq War" became identified instead with the 2003 Iraq War

The point is the 2003 coalition invasion isn't referred to as the First Iraq War; if using that term, it's commonly understood to mean the events of 1991. I could have phrased it better as "What's commonly referred to by the first Iraq War would be following the invasion of Kuwait in 1990."
We have no way of knowing that we are not in that simulation now. The simulation could even be many layers deep.
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The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) of 2008 makes it illegal to base medical insurance premiums on genetic markers.
First, the assumption that search equates to consumption is invalid.

Second, the research methodology is stupendously biased towards people who do Google searches for food in English.

Third, the authorship - a collaboration between Google News Lab and Truth & Beauty - reveals the source of this bias.

Finally, 'findings' like the season for pumpkin spice latte has started to creep earlier into the year since 2011 are mostly bunk. A single marketing campaign or media appearance of such an obscure notion would completely skew the result.

In any event, if you are wont for marketeering advice, heed this: if you want to sell pumpkin spice latte, it's quite possible that you may well have more luck selling it on the basis of novelty to people who have never tried it, regardless of what country you are in, or the time of year - Google searches be damned!
In general, I wish more people understood some elementary facts about global warming, for example, because we observe more warming at the poles, during the winter and during the night, and also we observe cooling of the stratosphere, the cause must be in the Earth's atmosphere, it cannot be the Sun.

In mathematics, I wish more people knew about typed lambda calculus and its connection to mathematical logic. I think the fact that most mathematicians use predicate logic, while theorem provers use e.g. calculus of constructions is one of the big obstacles for more wide usage of automated theorem provers. But it's just a language barrier.

In economics, I wish more people knew about (I don't know the name, unfortunately) the approach to calculating of equilibrium prices that is described in J.M.Blatt's book Dynamic Economic Systems, and is based on input-output production matrices. It's a much more superior approach to the classical supply-demand analysis that dominates the textbooks, because it requires much less free parameters and assumptions.
Which is what Google and Apple do. Pretty good, but it doesn't work well with trees
What’s the maximum number of people that can fit in Times Square?
Given that this is symbiotic relationship, this probably works in both ways but given that number of genes coded in mitos is low its probably way harder to notice the effect.

So it might happen that even if 100% of 'old mitochondria' is cleared the new symbiosis will also be defective as some of the 40 genes required by the hosting cell might be missing with new mito lineage replacing the original one.
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Beta signup: https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/comingsoon/invisibleb...
The novel Anathem might be interesting to your friend.
I'd pick Juarez Cirino's book "Radical Criminology". It reeks of ultraidealist marxism but I think the observations it makes on the workings of the criminal system in capitalist societies is simply enlightening. He draws from ideas of Foucault, Marx, Pasukanis and many others to form a concise and understandable take on modern criminal and penal systems.
It'd probably be easier to use aerial imagery
I think you've posted the wrong link...
There is no evidence that Clinton used private email in order to skirt FOIA.
McCarthy Math
MultiPath TCP (MTCP)[1] is the recent protocol that has me the most interested.
A full Linux implementation is available here: [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multipath_TCP

[2] http://blog.multipath-tcp.org/blog/html/index.html
How would you know which defects in a population were thus caused?
In the footnote, what is that comma after "Regehr" doing there? Delete it!

But yes, "note that" is a bugaboo I have to battle in my own writing. With rare exceptions it can just be deleted; occasionally it indicates that the following point deserves more emphasis than I have given it.
The "of which" lines on the EU version are particularly weird - simple indentation like on the US version is more readable.

On a tangent, here in Australia, goods in supermarkets now have to have their prices also listed in 'per 100g' (or per volume). It makes price comparison much easier, and no longer are you trying to figure out what the breakdown is for a 527ml bottle of Foo Cleaner against it's 483ml competitor.
Did you expect these specific risks?
Gotta love the downvotes without explanation.
> "Monkeys can be trained to do some pretty complex things in comparison to what a bird can do, it seems to me monkeys are smarter than birds."

Crows are likely on par with chimps and dolphins for intelligence by creating their own tools in the wild and other intelligent behavior (language, facial recognition, passing on knowledge).

Parrots such as African Greys and cockatoos are right up there too with problem solving abilities. I know cockatoos can be trained to "pick locks" and then pass on the knowledge to other cockatoos.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/mobile/science/nature/8631486.stm

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/avian-einsteins/201207/...

http://www.nwf.org/news-and-magazines/national-wildlife/bird...

https://youtube.com/watch?v=BGPGknpq3e0

http://www.pbs.org/lifeofbirds/brain/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_(parrot)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/23150941

https://www.google.com/search?q=canuck+the+crow&ie=utf-8&oe=...
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Egyptian hieroglyphs included a group of 24 signs that were read phonetically, representing single letters (specifically, consonants) matching the first sound of the word symbolised by the pictogram (the "rebus" principle) [1].

In fact, most Egyptian hieroglyphs had multiple readings, the same sign standing alternatively for a single sound (letter or syllable), a single word, or some more or less broad concept. Other cultures also had similar systems, or used syllabaries or partial alphabets (abjads [2] and abugidas [3]), or a liberal mix of several systems.

In other words, the idea of alphabetic writing (representing atomic sounds rather than entire words or phrases) did occur more than once. It's only a very small hop from a syllabary to a full alphabet, anyway.

What is unique to the Proto-Sinaitic alphabet discussed in the OP then, is probably the fact that it used the phonetic reading as its sole system, probably for the reasons detailed in the OP: it was used by officially "illiterate" people who didn't have the opportunity to learn (or use!) a more complex script.

So, I guess, their big innovation was not phonetic writing per se, but the fact that they distilled it down to the cheapest, dirtiest, fastest-to-learn bits that could be used by people with very few resources.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transliteration_of_Ancient_Egy...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abugida

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abjad
Why Reactive?
I agree, but this is not an inherent difference of the open web vs. a walled garden, only a difference of implementation of the software involved. Indeed, the developers of the Web and its browsers were aware of this problem, and they though that they had solved it, using something they called “Bookmarks”. Now, as implemented, bookmarks may not be easy enough, and there have been other ideas, like RSS feeds, which tried to improve upon the idea. Just don’t think that this difference is inherent and set in stone. New features could be developed.
We actually ran into this as a problem: our tests were so DRY that it was really hard to adapt them as the behaviour of our application changed.

We've since gone more DAMP (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6453235/what-does-damp-no...): tests should be descriptive and meaningful by themselves, not abstract, concise and DRY.

It makes for more lines of test code but they are simpler to understand and adapt.
Ghee has the milk proteins removed though. I guess some might remain in the fat?
> If you've ever been to a tech conference as a moderately attractive woman, you'd know how unappealing these communities can be at times.

You're inventing an anecdote and using "can be at times" to weasel out of making an actual statement.

It's amusing because that's actually even mentioned in the article:

> It isn’t sufficient to say, for example, “Women (or black people, or gays) can’t get their patches accepted, or are sexually/racially taunted on forums.” and then wave your hands as though the accusation itself is to be treated as evidence and anyone demanding specifics is part of the problem.
Can you provide an example of this style? thanks
I half agree, but, I'll make 3 (super brief) counter-arguments.

a. Democrats and Republicans are guided by very different moral philosophies - the kind of thing that courts eschew dealing with as 'political questions' because which one you plump for depends less on reasoned argument than on which basic premises you adhere to. As inherently political entities, it's irrational to demand they hew to some objective standard of political behavior as if there were a knowable truth of conduct that transcended politics.

b. Fringe parties are always running colorful candidates for high-visibility executive positions and then complaining than the system is exclusionary when they inevitably fail against better funded and organized opponents from parties with long track records (whether or not you approve, at least you sorta know what you're gonna get). This is a crap strategy and the idea that the fringe party should get some sort of help in the next election cycle for having shown in a previous one is mystifying to me.

The path to power in the US is through legislative capture. That's how the Tea Party hijacked the GOP - not spontaneously but as the culmination of a long, focused effort. Conservatives chose to worth within the framework of an existing party. Leftists have attempted to do the same in the Democratic party but frankly they're not that good at entryism as a political tactic, lack a coherent alternative to liberal capitalism, and so end up demanding change while being unable to articulate a plan for how to achieve it. You will see a redoubling and refinement of these effort sin the next few years. but if you don't want to work within an existing party, then the next best thing is a party that focuses on legislative representation like the Working Families Party, whose principles I only partly agree with but whose tactical instincts are excellent.

c. Brokerage (as in back-room political favor-trading and negotiation) is an unavoidable components of representative democracy and wishing it away is like asking it to only rain at night. If you want to change this then you need to think about changing the basis of of the political system itself. For example, one could have election by sortilege, where legislators were chosen involuntarily, like jury service. Or we could move away from producing laws like books authored by committee and adopt Wikiism, such that instead of legislative debates we have edit wars on the legal corpus. The main problem with Wikiism (or Social Coding or Participativism or some similar autology) is that implementation in the real world lacks authoritative grounding or operational consistency, which is probably why you don't see many corporations using this model to carry on business.
Going too crazy on non-dry tests can make tests failures hard to track down, though. Meta-programming to generate tests has only lead to pain in my experience.
I disagree about the emphasis on prediction. Science involves predictions, but it does not involve only predictions.

Chaos theory, for example, shows that physical, deterministic systems can be rigorously understood while prediction is (approximately) impossible. Likewise, you can make predictions without understanding, with sufficiently advanced machine learning (interpretability vs. flexibility).
Given that ESR is armed and has a history of making death threats I'm not sure it's wise to engage with him on any topic about which he may become heated.
That's what I meant by "mostly". Indeed it does have influence from scheme but it is not "scheme in c clothing" as people have put it.
I suspect the threat of a full-on nuke response to USSR or China, in all eventualities, was sensible ie don't even entertain the thought of any, even deniable or covert actions against us, although we all know we do it to you. Daily.

Cuba wasn't a 'tiff'. Deploying Soviet nukes to Cuba was an attempt to subvert MAD, which would have made WWIII more likely.

Not getting your Cheney thing. If he said it, was probably a joke. But I doubt it, since Iraq was an Ally at the time.

Nuking Japan likely saved millions of US/UK/AUS/NZ/CAD etc lives, so I don't think you've worked through the numbers, curiously, despite your moralistic, high-brow typing.
Contact the embassy of the country you want to go to.
"I quit sugar for about 2 months and went into an inexplicable depression"

I wonder if tapering down sugar consumption gradually instead of abruptly quitting would lessen this effect by giving the brain time to adjust? It might be similar to how people need to taper down their dosage of Prozac rather than just stopping it.
'eat less' is not the same as 'eating a balanced diet'. There's plenty of people out there who eat a small but terrible diet. I knew a guy in IT once who lived on a diet of basically chips and Coke. He was rail-thin, but his doctor diagnosed him with scurvy (!)
I see the distinction, but as an important aside ...

> these are normative statements, expressing what one expects to be right or moral. As these are based on belief systems, they may not be convincing to some of us in the forum.

While I respect that people have varying moral beliefs, many much different than mine, I don't believe that morals are infinitely relative and any belief is possible or acceptable. It's sort of the new political correctness, never to discuss morality, assume it, or argue for it. I think there are some pretty universal, natural morals; morals aren't artificial constructs and amoral people aren't normal or common, they are ill and called sociopaths.

Yes, there are among our 7 billion fellow humans some that believe people should be left to die at the hospital door because they can't afford care, but it's so few that I don't have to take them into account. More might argue it theoretically, but if someone was dying in front of them they would be horrified and help.
I think the Soylent CEO's blog is an example of this, but I haven't really noticed it as a trend in the tech world.
I had read that the spinal cord of monkeys and the small hole through which it must pass, does not permit the many nerves that are required to control the speech apparatus with sufficient accuracy for intelligible speech. I was surprised to find the article didn't mention this issue at all, either as an urban myth, or as a fact of anatomy. Has thinking moved on when it comes to this issue? Are Macaque monkeys somehow different in this regard?
You leave it out because it's unfalsifiable woo-woo flights of fancy.
My daily work is math intensive and performance critical. I constantly need to think about cache sizes, big-O scaling and that ever-important constant factor.

Me too, at least for some of the projects I'm working on, but it's probably fair to say that I've never used most of the "textbook algorithms" I've come across over the years in a production system.

The interesting and challenging problems are mostly the ones that aren't just a direct application of such an algorithm. Consequently, I think the more valuable ability is recognising when a part of such a problem probably does have a standard solution, so you can spend a few minutes looking up the current state of the art.

Obviously you still need enough familiarity with the theory in the areas you're working in for that recognition to work, and then to understand the current state of the art when you need it.
Please also remember that ESR has previously written "One was: their skin color looks fecal. The other was: their bone structure doesn’t look human. And they’re just off-reference enough to be much more creepy than if they looked less like people, like bad CGI or shambling undead in a B movie. When I paid close enough attention, these were the three basic data under the revulsion; my hindbrain thought it was surrounded by alien shit zombies."