skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A slight counterpoint: earmarks are correlated to a time when there were less strict party lines, so you did have people in office who were more moderate politically.

How about less gerrymandering? It results in more extreme candidates on both sides (as you get much more "pure" blue/red districts and fewer purple).
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Well, nobody's going to keep using a site they hate unless they have to.

> ignore the crap you don't care about

The problem is that plenty of people seem to use it for recruiting to make the world worse for non-users, whether by campaigns of organised harassment or disinformation, or other means.
Actually it's bad because we don't.

Get rid of the popular election of senators and go back to having them be appointed by their state legislatures. That returns the proper focus on balancing the federal and state government powers.
There can be a significant hit in performance due to using Python. I generally prefer developing pure C++, but being able to test/prototype in Python is great. pybind11 makes interoperability easy and efficient.
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I don't know what makes the storyline "bad", necessarily, but I really don't understand the acting charge, especially against the original 1977 release.

Alec Guinness, James Earl Jones, Peter Cushing, Harrison Ford--none of these are slackers. Anthony Daniels might not have much range, but he fit perfectly in the scope required of him. Mark Hamill was convincing as Luke.

The only weak link to me, bless her soul, might have been Carrie Fisher. And maybe a few bit-players. But the bulk of the show was carried by capable, if not excellent, actors.
The point is that they are not a single central entity easily siphoned off by an org that'll sell the information for profit.
Credit where it's due - for its time the special effects in the original series were groundbreaking and revolutionized the industry. The original trilogy pioneered many techniques for practical effects, bluescreen, modelwork and cinematography which would become standard in action movies for years to come, and the prequels arguably did the same with the scale with which they integrated CGI and motion capture with live action.
> There's no significant difference between a drone-strike and a conventional airstrike by a manned aircraft, at lest when it comes to targeting, precision, etc.

But there's a significant difference in the sense that drones are the only way these strikes are conducted. Manned strikes would be more risky, since they expose a pilot, and less practical because manned aircraft can't be "parked" over a target for anywhere near as long as a drone. And whatever the legality of the situation, the political reality is that manned strikes look substantially more like an act of war.

So the difference is that many of these strikes wouldn't happen without drones. It's not about how the bomb is delivered, it's about whether we're assassinating people without a declaration of war in the first place.
I got shades of the endless 2016-era "this means Trump is FINISHED" articles.
>Not that you’d want to be there. The most popular boards on 4chan are typically /pol/, a place for what they say is “politically incorrect” (read: racism, misogyny, homophobia)

So this is what the article is about. /pol/ offended some journalist's sensibilities. I bet they're laughing at him right now.
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STV is complex when there are multiple winners. It still produces a broadly representative result, but it is hard to understand how the mechanism worked near the margins that determine which candidates prevail near the lower threshold.

When there are is only one winner and STV is exactly the same as instant runoff, it is not so difficult to understand.
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If so, it's likely we are all so far screwed as to not make it worth planning for. Global economic collapse is not much better than giant asteroids.

This is not to say I don't think we are in a large bubble.
Then he continued to mock lisp with an AST preprocessor for C called Ace [1989], and through Java.
It's interesting because those were the reasons I heard from MATLAB users for switching to Python: moving to a language with a cleaner, less ad-hoc design and less boilerplate / copy-paste code made a big difference once you had more than a little code.

Has the language improved dramatically in the last few decade?
I accept a global superpower sometimes assassinates people, and perhaps sometimes for good reasons.

My main opposition is to the factory like efficiency in which these extra-judicial executions are carried out by the drone pilots in a cost effective manner.

It gives me associations with other human organizations in the past which have carried out their mission with cruel detachment and efficiency.

I can't really put my finger on it, but it's just something I feel Stalin or Himmler or Robespierre would have totally agreed with.

Automated elimination of the enemies of the state? Wonderfull!
If something goes wrong with an entity dealing with over a hundred million dollars, the CEO is expected to respond relatively immediately, as in, on call 24/7, because a hundred million represents the interests of a lot of people most likely.

The variety of things that can go wrong is large, and the necessary responses are nuanced, potentially requiring sophisticated knowledge in several domains, from legal, accounting, personnel, leadership, to communication and reputation management.

I have no idea what such a role should pay, but 0.2% of the money moved by the organization doesn't sound crazy, insofar as money moved correlates somewhat to the risk of lawsuits or the death of the organization after an emergency is handled poorly.

Aside from the day to day management, look at it like an insurance policy on the whole enterprise. In those terms it's actually a pretty reasonable rate.

This theory doesn't justify any price whatsoever. Some CEO compensations are surely still too large. I just don't think this is the best case study for that point.
Emacs usually doesn't choke on large files, but it chokes on very long lines.

E.g. SQL dumps and such.
What about speed? It's pretty important to keep it moving, otherwise you limit the number of deliveries you can do.
Theoretical harm? It's only theoretical because we maybe haven't seen direct negative consequences. However, there are plenty of examples where actions without negative consequences can still be prosecuted.

The analogy for this regarding physical altercations would be assault vs. battery.

Getting punched in the face is "theoretical harm" until the fist connects with the nose. The connection of fist and face is battery. The swinging of the arm is assault (even if the fist doesn't connect).

However, I think the point is moot as the tagging itself is an invasion of privacy. You may not see a problem but it's not difficult to imagine some. What if someone posts and tags me in a picture with revealing information and my stalker sees it and hunts me down? If I'm someone that has had a stalker, a boss that has no boundaries, or an unaccepting family, knowing this feature exists would cause anxiety.

I remember thinking the tagging feature was incredibly creepy when it came out, but it seems to have become normalized in society.
> If legislator didn't want cartels to exist, drugs wouldn't be made illegal in the first place.

Cartels are far from dedicated to just drugs. Anything illegal that means money is their turf: kidnapping, ransom, prostitution, human trafficking, and a long etc.

Let's be blunt: many people push drug legalization because they just want recreational drugs, not because they want to fight crime. If all drugs were legalized, the cartels would still launder money from other areas, and you can't legalize everything that makes them money.
Aren't such harder to find as video content is not searchable?
It is exactly in scope for a browser. The whole point is to stop your ISP getting your browsing history.

Sure, would be nice for the OS to support it, but until that future point why wait.
That's a fair point about moving into areas in which the effectiveness is hard to measure. However, even apart from AI threats, I'd argue that there are many areas like this that pose potentially great harm. For example, I think that we ought to spend more effort to prevent regulatory capture in corporate-friendly legislation. But whether we can find a metric we'd all agree on to target this from an empirical point of view is a very difficult question.

It reminds me of Gilb's Law, "Anything can be measured in a way that is superior to not measuring it at all."

So if your sincere beliefs were such that the threat posed is high enough, and total harm would be astronomical, then you might believe that accepting a present-day metric that has a lot of variance and which is hotly debated might still be ok. Empirical progress along that rough metric might be more valuable, still in an expected value sense, than progress in other possibly less-harmful areas even if they have more clearly defined metrics.

Again, not arguing for or against, just trying to represent why someone might be sincere about investing in AI safety and why, under their particular beliefs and preferences, it could still be rational from an EA point of view, despite more ambiguity.

There are always risks that a certain model's loss function does not correctly correspond to the goals they wish to optimize towards, or that there is a large amount of idiosyncratic noise in the observation of the loss criteria. But you can still account for the risks of these sources of error in an overall method that is still empirical.
I would like to see stricter qualifications for candidates. For instance, you have to be elected to city council before you can run for state assembly. You have to be elected to state assembly before you can run for governor. You have to be elected for governor before you can run for Congress. Something along those lines. That would prevent a random reality TV star from becoming President. Also term limits.
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> However, to consider artificial intelligence to be a potential global catastrophe at all, let alone the single one requiring extra funding, is mostly unfounded.

As another commenter points out, EA is not a single unified group, but rather a disparate set of people who are united by the belief that we should put money where it has the largest effect. Some, but not all, of them are convinced by the arguments in favor of doing AI alignment research. If you aren't, then don't donate money for that, donate it to what you think is a more effective cause!

I'm curious, though, how people come to the conclusion that AI risk is nonsense? Is it a gut reaction, or does it come from thinking or reading about the problem? Every popsci article I've seen on the topic has been atrocious, so kudos if you thought "nonsense!" after reading such an article.

Scott Alexander has a pretty readable introduction to AI risk:
http://slatestarcodex.com/superintelligence-faq/
It's like calling someone morally repugnant because they agreed to give you money equal to the sum of two and two and then gave you three dollars, insisting that the math actually does come out that way. If they honestly do believe that, they are simply mistaken, not morally repugnant.
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It seems to work in much of Europe, inb4 "But this is Murrrrica!"
The article mentions the Windows 10 upgrade debacle, which caused data loss for some users.

The video at the top of darkpatterns.org, linked by the article, discusses the LinkedIn lawsuit concerning linking to users' contact lists.¹

¹https://youtu.be/kxkrdLI6e6M
Appreciate the interest! The idea came from a combination of a few different factors.

I was bored. There were only a handful of designers and no tech people in Mobile. I was (and still am) a big fan of Andrew Warner and Mixergy. I was listening to a show and had this epiphany—what's stopping me from doing something similar?

Nothing.

Sure I couldn't go out and interview Bill Gates. But I had friends that were working on interesting things and started with them. I worked in various editor positions for the school paper in college and had an interest in niche publications. That was about all the prior experience I had.

As for an alternative:

—Make a list of people that you're genuinely interested in. It's helpful if they are in an industry you want to be in.

—Come up with a list of questions you'd like to ask them.

—Find their Twitter handles or email addresses.

—If they live in your city send them a tweet or email saying why you admire them, and ask to buy them a coffee. If not, see if they'd be open to a 15-30-minute call.

—Follow-up with them occasionally.

I have a friend who is about a year into her career as an occupational therapist. Recently she was asking questions about how she could get ahead. The above is what I recommended. I think it's a valuable exercise regardless of career.
Wtf?! Why is micro payment processor even recording browser history?!
It's literally "in practice" if companies are doing this because of GDPR. The fact that they are misinterpreting the guidelines doesn't change the fact that they are making decisions on what they believe are the guidelines.
Firefox recently whitelisted a bunch of p2p protocols so that they can be used by browser extensions. One of them is the Dat protocol [0], which is similar to BitTorrent but has better support for mutable data and random access [1]. It's far from being "baked in", but it's a step in the right direction.

[0]: https://docs.datproject.org/

[1]: https://docs.datproject.org/faq#dat-vs
It's not an especially weird use of terminology. "I/O bound" means "waiting on reads and/or writes." Cache or RAM or disk, it's all about communication throughput and latency, efficient access patterns etc.

In a compute-bound workload the CPU spends the bulk of its time actually retiring instructions, not stalled waiting on data.

Think about it from the perspective of what the FPU sees -- once it has done that FMA operation, does it have the data it needs to do the next one, or does it need to sit on its hands for a while?

The cache hierarchy, cache-friendly data structures and algorithms -- they all aim to reduce time spent waiting on IO.
Why do these discussions always assume rational or good faith actors, when that so obviously isn't the case?
Also notice how the plan is to push not only DNS entries but also TLS certificates:

"Right now, people are really keen to get HTTP/2 “out the door,” so a few more advanced (and experimental) features have been left out, such as pushing TLS certificates and DNS entries to the client — both to improve performance. HTTP/3 might include these, if experiments go well."

https://www.mnot.net/blog/2014/01/30/http2_expectations

Some of those things could be used for bootstrapping SNI encryption as well:

https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg17474.h...
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Drone targeting is often indiscriminate and always unaccountable.

This is just wrong and not helpful to the discussion. Have you read (or even seen thanks to YT) anything about how "drone targeting" by US forces is actually accomplished besides media outrage when a bomb misses? Mistakes are made, but targeting is far, far from indiscriminate. And being "unaccountable" is not exclusive to drone warfare.

"Would you be OK with your local police enforcing the law at 1000 feet? Using a rocket launcher? That's what we're asking the people of Afghanistan and Iraq to do."

If my local criminal network detonated a bomb at my local coffee shop, killing 50, 100, 200 of my friends and family members, and then proceeded to do so every week, yes - I'd encourage rocket launchers from 1000 feet, 10,000 feet or 10 feet if that was the most effective way to stop them.
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What it changes are the results of a breach / how the data is to be considered. It's the difference between "oh, we had a data breach" and "oh crap why is the Attorney General of Illinois calling our office."

As an aside: Google's Arts and Culture app (that matches your face to historic artwork) doesn't show up in Illinois - the feature within the app for face matching is geolocated out.

http://abc7chicago.com/technology/why-googles-face-match-fea...
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Since communications and travel are cheap, I think a nice compromise would be to have the sitting governor serve as the states single senator. It would save some budget (half the number of senators) and put the person on the hook for the state budget in a position to bring that perspective to DC.
Proportional systems means that a position gets representation in government in proportion to the distribution of that position in the population (to varying degrees). This is the most anyone has any right to expect.

>People should be allowed to vote for representatives who actually represent them!

People need to stop seeing voting as some kind of identity affirmation.
Hey Sametmax, big fan of your site.

Apart from the existing ecosystem of content, are their any reasons you want BitTorrent over ipfs?

Everyone on tor AND ipfs... Now that would be something.
Yeah, I get it.

However, if I use SOUP, I'm responsible for bugs. How would I debug with no source?
Lots I could address here, but I'll start with this: Where is the part where I'm comparing my courses to a Lamborghini?
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