skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although I am not black, I am Asian, and can be described by a word started with C (/csg/ if you lurk /g/), and more accurately G. I would be offended if someone calls me that in real life.

On 4chan though, I myself really don't get offended in any way. Someone explained it this way: you're only supposed to be offended if someone calls you a n* f* in a setting that not everyone is. On 4chan, everyone is already a n* f* so it kinda levels the playing field.

I get it that others minority people might not share the same view.
Thank you. You're spot on.
The University of Washington in conjunction with PBS did a documentary on the crows of Seattle. UW does quite a bit of research on the local (and quite abundant) subspecies of crow, so it's rather interesting.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/a-murder-of-crows-full-episod...
Thank you, I was hoping to learn something by posting a comment, and was richly rewarded by your reply. Hadn't seen the "computer of rocks", brilliant.

Yes, I'm starting to see the difference between pure and deterministic. It seems like the latter is a description of a particular type of predictable/repeatable "program flow".

I found a related Wikipedia topic [1], "What makes algorithms non-deterministic?" Quote:

- If it uses external state other than the input, such as user input, a global variable, a hardware timer value, a random value, or stored disk data.

- If it operates in a way that is timing-sensitive, for example if it has multiple processors writing to the same data at the same time. In this case, the precise order in which each processor writes its data will affect the result.

- If a hardware error causes its state to change in an unexpected way.

Although real programs are rarely purely deterministic, it is easier for humans as well as other programs to reason about programs that are. For this reason, most programming languages and especially functional programming languages make an effort to prevent the above events from happening except under controlled conditions.

The prevalence of multi-core processors has resulted in a surge of interest in determinism in parallel programming.

---

The above includes a number of topics you raised, about events and timing information, and the possibility of making a language deterministic with some exceptions "under controlled conditions".

This part feels relevant too: "easier for humans as well as other programs to reason about".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterministic_algorithm#What_m...?
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Yes, see [1] for details. The "syphoning" exists, but it's not as bad as in a one round system where each vote on a small party is in practice lost. With two rounds, we usually have two "big" parties, flanked by two "small" parties at the extreme. People can push to one side by voting on the extreme side to extreme dissatisfaction with their closer mainline party, and up to a point it won't change the result of the second round with the two big parties. That's typically what happens, and it adds some variety with 4 large enough parties (and more very small ones of course) in the media / national discussions.

Then you have exceptional circumstances with many disgruntled people pushing for the extreme. Even then, two rounds can help. A one round system makes it very hard for the fringe to take control, but once this happen they're one of two. With a two round system only one side can go radical, with a likely result of the other side mainstream party winning.

Both sides extremes getting stronger is possible, and it's really what happened during the last presidential elections. But we got lucky and one "center" candidate went through (by a very small margin), and as expected won the second round. But as in other places we had about half people disgruntled, it's just that it was evenly split between left and right extreme parties, and only one went to second round (but the other was pretty close).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-round_system
Everyone is lucky. We are lucky to have been born. Some of us are "more lucky" than others. It all depends on how you wanna measure lucky. I think the idea that most of these articles are trying to drive home is that we shouldn't depend on ALL LUCK alone. But rather craft a deliberate plan to achieve whatever we wish to. Whatever the steps that lead to our dreams, there will always be an element of luck.
> Lots of money saved for the company advertising ‘register now’ bonuses.

So they say "register a new account for my site and get $10", then trick you into dismissing the $10 award as a pop-up.
Politics is bad because our education system hasn't seen a real overhaul in 70 years and we spend a tiny fraction of our national budget on it, approximately 100 billion dollars. Our classroom sizes have skyrocketed in 70 years but the education budget has not. Meanwhile we still have thousands of private "schools" teaching children to believe in completely fictional supermen in the sky, which makes them insane and retards the value of their entire education.

There's nothing wrong with punch card voting. The system we use to select "Red" or "Blue" doesn't matter. What matters is that the nation is full of idiots. Which I say because I love my country, and it needs to be said, repeatedly, until it's fixed.
I'm in San Diego and I regularly watch crows fight hawks in midair, which defiantly ignore them.
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Yes it's quoted in the article too, however "necessary for the purposes" is subject to interpretation, and there is a huge leeway here. In practice it is always possible to claim that some procedure would require retention for longer, and it would be impossible to have them prosecuted for that.
That's an intellectually dishonest question and you know it, you ought to be ashamed of yourself.
I had a clicketty clicky addiction to Facebook, which I replaced with the reddit mobile app.

In a past age I was a true believer in reddit, up until 2010-2011. I had a >6-year old account. True believer, paid for gold, believed that to be something special. Reddit ruined that and went for a different, shallower audience. Turns out, that audience is also me.
> NYC is definitely an N=1

Where I live in California, my options are Safeway, Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, and a co-op more-organic-than-thou each egg has a name tag and resume type place. Trader Joe's is by far the cheapest of them all. The fact that Trader Joe's fixes their prices nationwide makes them much cheaper than the alternatives in expensive metros.
Yes, I agree. I am not proposing spending all of your money living it up, but to find a healthy balance. It doesn't have to go in the extreme in either direction.
Leaving aside Pax Americana to look at more settled history: none of those events were peaceful in global terms. There's a reason the general term is pax imeperia.

The Pax Romana was 200 years of relative quiet after 700 years of effectively constant war, and followed by another 200 years of war. The thing most historians stress is just how far from peaceful it was. In practice, Roman-held lands were at peace because all resisting inhabitants were already dead, and peace on the border constituted a period of slowed conquest and retrenchment. As soon as the political situation deteriorated, both domestic fighting and foreign glory-seeking resumed.

The Pax Mongolica followed what was per capita the single bloodiest war of conquest in human history, wiping out perhaps 10% of Earth's total population and killing literally every person in several nations. The conquest stopped basically thanks a succession crisis. In return? About 200 years of relative peace and good administration, before the black plague fragmented the khanate. (And if we want to get cynical? The improvements to trade and travel under super- and hyper-powers are a key vector for pandemics. It's not sheer coincidence that disease ended the khanate.)

The Pax Britannica... well, it was accomplished mostly with vicious oppression and butchering local populations until resistance stopped. In return, we got about a century of quiet empire, ending in a global war and yet another world-shaking pandemic (this time, the Spanish Flu).

The history of imperial peaces is one of temporary quietude after an empire has killed off the opposition and reached a pause in its wars of conquest. Fighting remains on the edges, and the peace usually ends in yet another bloodbath as suppressed violence is unleashed - and often as disease wipes out large portions of the empire. It's peace by comparison, not absolute quality.

(The one thing to be said for the Pax Americana is that it's been comparatively bloodless. Even across a double-dozen shadow wars and conquests, the act of conquest was vastly gentler than its predecessors - but the history of such things does not inspire hope.)
I am a bit skeptical about the "scientific rigor" part. Sure, all charities are not equal and there is a big difference between donating to musical education in the US and curing blindness in Africa. But estimating the impact usually involves a lot of guesswork and quantifying the "quality of life" factors. What is the impact of George Soros' pro-democracy foundations? What is the impact of Amnesty International? What is the impact of me supporting the education of one child in Bolivia via ActionAid?
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For some definition of "work". It's really just a different set of tradeoffs.

Continental Europe (the UK uses FPTP) is characterised by countries that have governments that are frequently deadlocked or missing in action, because proportional representation results in lots of parties getting into power with none having a majority. Therefore they spend lots of time building coalitions that can agree on very little except preserving the status quo.

These coalitions often result in absurd political configurations, like alliances between parties that are supposedly of the left and right, resulting in an inability to create policy. You also see bizarre compromises that can cause extreme or weird policies to appear that hardly anyone would have voted for, due to the need to bring on board smaller parties to make the coalitions work.

A few examples: in the Netherlands, the ruling coalition has a working majority of 1. It contains many tiny parties and took months to create, because they were determined to ensure that the politician who runs the second largest party in Parliament (Geert Wilders, who is anti-EU) would be entirely frozen out of power.

Germany is ruled by a coalition of two parties that both lost votes in the last election, and whose leaders hate each other. They both believe repeating the same coalition again will severely damage both parties, as it's a coalition of both the left and right meaning ... again ... essentially the coalition has no coherent policies that anyone campaigned on. However they did it anyway to freeze out the second largest party, AfD, again because AfD is anti-EU and that is seen as so bad almost anything is worth it to avoid having to compromise with them. Before the current coalition formed, Merkel tried to create the "Jamaica coalition" ... a truly laughable attempt to break the basic laws of politics by uniting the far left Green party with a libertarian party. Not surprisingly the quasi-communists and Ayn Randians couldn't agree on anything and that attempt failed, but it goes to show how strange proportional representation can get.

Italy has just voted in a coalition of two parties, again, a left and right wing party who have, as a result, economically incoherent policies. The "right wing" party wants devolution of power within Italy and more regional self rule, the 5-Star movement wants the opposite, with more subsidies for southern Italy.

Basically PR gives you messy governments that frequently collapse or deadlock. This may or may not be a better arrangement than FPTP which tends to yield strong governments with clear policies, which frequently see-saw between polar opposites as left and right parties take turns in power.
What will Mozilla do about the Tor network's usability problems? Advanced users can workaround them and because they understand the benefits and engineering, accept the frustrations as a cost for a worthwhile (and free) technology. But what will non-technical users do?

Many public Internet websites filter connections from the Tor network, many other websites are very slow, yet others impose extra obstacles such as multiple rounds of captchas (even 5 or more) or degraded service (including high suspicion of payments), and of course you often will receive webpages in the wrong locale or language - which can trigger regional filters. Currently, workarounds requires resetting the circuit (few non-technical users will even understand what the circuit is), lots of patience and reloads, and often just giving up. [EDIT: And non-technical users won't understand what is happening and therefore won't know when to use which workaround.]

If that's the experience of typical Firefox users, they won't use it and they will have bad associations with Tor and Firefox.
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I know. Check my other comments.

It's nice, but not nearly good enough.
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That's definitely a thing. I like Pandas, but the syntax is a bit cumbersome compared to R or Julia.
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I was very careful to state this the people writing the code I was talking about were Julia experts/developers, not just anyone writing arbitrary Julia code.

When you're doing that much typing, you might as well write C or C++.
I wish the comments would nest, even if it's just one level like Stack Exchange.
I've been complaining a lot about YouTube's "recommendations" lately so this sounds like a good idea. I may try to see how much work it is to convert to an Edge extension.
Reading email notifications would count as checking in, I don't know why you assumed otherwise.
It's not that it distorts the market, but it's one reason why the assumption that markets some how solve the principle agent problem in the first place is wrong.

My personal argument is that I don't believe markets solve either the principle agent problem or the economic calculation problem, and so to require them of other systems is hypocritical. But even if markets somehow do, then Turing completeness would strongly imply that there are other economic systems that also have those properties. Otherwise magic (which this paper is evidence against).
It's a more privacy movement, not a more security movement. None of this really affects security at all. They're only using encryption because it obscures things. We already have DNSSEC to ensure integrity and authenticity, which is what these DNS-over-HTTP providers will be doing on their side anyway.
See recent behavior of Wells Fargo before you dismiss this. They have built the largest consumer bank on practices that were not legal. Even after some of those practices have been exposed they are #1. Millions of people with multiple semi-truck tire marks on their bodies still bank with them.
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An explicit message to use that feed as part of the countermeasures might be useful. Did/do you do this?
We aren't talking about civil suits though, are we?
Julia actually has that, though polishing is still ongoing. Checkout JuliaDB [0]. It works well for noodling around in a REPL but can also smoothly deal with huge data and processing distributed across multiple computers, all while leveraging the native Julia ecosystem which is much nicer than numpy and with lower overhead.

[0] https://juliadb.org
With the exception of Israel & Ireland, which are the only two western countries to have a positive native birth rate (avg >2.2 births/woman - supposedly 2.2 is the magic number that keeps a population size stable).
I’ve never been able to resolve some of those domains, specifically archive.il. Not a fan, why I switched away.
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The launch blog post from another recent HN submission https://medium.com/@mikestaub22/slack-lunch-club-part-1-7-de...
No more so than you are contributing to the incredibly toxic subreddits like Redpill or the like by posting on any other reddit.
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You can learn car & auto repair & maintenance.

As someone who knows a lot about car and motorcycle maintenance, repair, and modification, this is not good advice, and I see it all over.

You're far better off simply buying a new, cheap compact and taking it to Walmart for oil changes. You will come out far ahead of the person who invests money in tools and space, and time into learning how to do something that is so easily outsourced.

The opportunity cost of maintenance is high. Don't get involved unless it's going to be a hobby that brings you satisfaction in and of itself.

Sure, learn some very basics so you don't get blatantly ripped off by unscrupulous shops (bringing you a filthy air filter that doesn't even fit your car is one example), but don't invest much time or energy.
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> Privacy advocates like the American Civil Liberties Union already decry the use of facial-recognition AI in most cases, making the case that widespread adoption of the technology would mean we would live under constant surveillance by police or large tech companies. Ethnicity recognition is a step even further past the ACLU’s line in the sand.
> but the tremendous gap between the number of children women said they wanted to have and the number that they will probably have

If you interrogate only women, it's completely off.
Ebola transmission is almost always from patient to a close caregiver. While the latter often are family members in Western Africa, someone bleeding from all orifices will get to an ER much faster in the US. Some transmissions from the index case would certainly be possible, although even standard hospital practice goes a long way towards inhibiting it.

I doubt a diagnosis would take more than a day, especially if the patient recently traveled or the hospital is near a major hub. Medical professionals are as obsessed with such diseases as we are.

Once the threat is known, I have no doubt that any decent medical system would contain it within a few days at the most. Ebola isn't the Sci-Fi threat you might think, requiring Biohazard suits etc. Basic precautions work well, finding possible contacts will be much easier, and the tendency of Americans not to attend mass events helps tremendously: Cars instead of public transport, Netflix instead of crowded bars, small families in suburban houses instead of large families in shared apartments, Wall-Mart instead of markets, etc