skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Approval voting is biased toward "moderate" candidates. This has all the problems of first-past-the-post in terms of electing representatives who do not allow for a wide range of political opinion. It empowers status quo politicians beholden to special interests.
Every military technology from bows and arrows to GPS is doing exactly what you are objecting to by lowering the danger to the attacker and increasing the success of a potential attack. Drones are an incremental step in that process. It just seems strange to me to draw the specific line at drones when we are seemingly fine with other advancements that are almost identical in effect like stealth technology. Once again, my argument is not that drones are good. My argument is that drones are not inherently more evil than other weapons.

I completely agree with your last three paragraphs. But once again, none of that is specific to drones. It is true whether the trigger is pulled by special forces soldier from feet away, from an manned aircraft thousands of feet in the air, or a pilot in trailer hundreds of miles away.
> It feels empty, and I couldn't care less for most of the cast if they make it or not.

Very astute. I'm someone who was in the same boat, sharing the same beliefs you hold for the OT and prequels. I haven't watched a single one of the new movies, I just don't care. The story isn't new if you (Disney) just swap some character stats (age, ethnicity, melanin levels) and just go "it's the same but everyone looks different! check out the explosions and the lightsabers! WUMMM WUMMM KRSHHH buy merchandise PEW PEW KPOW."

I know I just implied that I think it degraded because it became about the money, but at least give me good reason to spend my money. This is why I liked the old EU and side stories in general, and why game like Republic Commando and KOTOR were appealing: there were other things going on in the universe, and these things were given time to mature and breathe. There were cool things going on and I'm pretty sure I still have the Episode III capital ship/vehicle cross section book hanging around somewhere because god help me I think that the Acclamator and Venator are some cool ship designs.

I've found that this phenomenon isn't just limited to Star Wars, either.
Its a great book!
Around here it's Pigeons, but they seem to occupy the same niche as these Crows. Part of the problem is that not only are they good scavengers, but some people actively feed them causing not only a huge mess (piles of rotting bread dumped on the pavements), but it encourages the birds to congregate and multiply.
'The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz'

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3268458/

https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/internet-own-boy-story-aaron...
Vision-X was a fairly popular "scene" BBS software back in the day:
http://software.bbsdocumentary.com/IBM/DOS/VISIONX/
> Those young kids who carried out that attack have known nothing but war, while you have known nothing but peace and have the gall to suggest that they and their neighbors should be subject to constant, round-the-clock, death-from-the-sky TERROR. They've known people who got hit by drones. They've known people who were collateral. They've seen the craters. Arms and legs blown off. Brains. Dead bodies. Charred remains. From machines in the sky, operated by people sitting in airconditioned offices half a world away. You don't think they know that? That drone operators sit in airconditioned offices and blow people up? War is fucking hell. And that's been their reality. And our reality has been playing video games. They fucking hate us. God damn, how could they not?

There's a great quote by Machiavelli that explains this: "There can be no proper relation between one who is armed and one who is not. Nor it is reasonable to expect that one who is armed will voluntarily obey one who is not."

> Welcome to the endless cycle of violence your myopia brings.

Myopia is thinking the world is nothing but sunshine and lollipops. There are people in this world who's entire existence is based on the destruction of everyone else with a different way of life. ISIS falls into that camp and anything short of utter destruction of them and anyone that gives aid or comfort to them will allow them to continue. A cancer like that needs to be fully excised to prevent it from returning.

> If you think the best way to defeat ISIS and Al Qaeda is by blowing up random people who seem important now is a good plan, then it's going to be a fail.

I never suggested that "blowing up random people" is a good idea. I was making that point that in the interests of saving lives of your own people, it can make sense to bomb (and presumably kill) other people. It's not that there won't be any loss of life. It's that doing so will save lives on your side.

> Al Qaeda and ISIS need to be defeated and expunged by and from CIVILIZATION--their networks dismantled and defunded by detective work, cooperation with local governments, the rule of law, and lots of arrests. They are going to be defeated when the local population is sick of their shit and doesn't believe what they believe. They are going to be defeated when being part of Al Qaeda is a poor alternative in life, because life offers you so much better alternatives, and their ain't shit to be that damn mad about.

Sure it's bombs alone that will solve the problem of Al Qaeda and ISIS. Nor did I suggest that they would. But putting pressure on the locals by splitting the world into "with us or with them" camps isn't that crazy either.

> There won't be Al Qaeda when people chill the fuck out, on all sides.

I can assure you that nobody in either Al Qaeda or ISIS will ever "chill the fuck out". Given the opportunity to maim, hurt, or kill anyone in Western society, or more generally anyone that's not they're specific sub-sect of Sunni Islam, then they will seize on it.
Can confirm. If I have a secondary DNS specified in my router, other than my pi-hole, it becomes useless. My guess is the router is either measuring response time, and goes with the most efficient, or otherwise round-robining the requests. Either way, requests bypass the pi-hole in such quantities that it became useless.

PS: someone here mentioned that this behavior is OS-dependent - nope, this happens on the router level, and all devices in my apartment suffer.
>But if your ecosystem is about general-purpose apps and communication tools, you become complicit to some degree in all sorts of vile shit; oppression and forced relocation of minorities (China), mass murder of gay people (Russia), etc.

I wonder if it would be possible to sort of fence off communication tools to a more open area of the ecosystem.... like everything in an curated app store.... then another space where it is a bit of the wild west but you don't control what is installed... sort of Android's ability to side load apps....

Granted this is convoluted and I guess there's nothing keeping that side channel from becoming all pirated apps from the other store....

well that thought experiment didn't work.
Emacs is compared to vim because both can be run in a terminal on a remote machine, not because it’s the JS-editor-of-the-month. There’s a fairly decent chance I’d switch away from vim if I ever had a job where I could edit code locally.
I'm not talking about execution speed but the human interface. The syntax of Python just is not nice and using libraries just adds more and more boilerplate.

I don't expect anyone who has not spent a lot of time with Matlab to "get" it.
Personally, I think we should go back to first principles to understand the meaning of a representative democracy. The aim is to get a representation of the population. Currently, we get the representation of the people who vote - but this is not the objective. The aim should be to get a representation regardless of vote.

There are different ways to get representation. One way is to force everyone to vote like Brazil or Australia but this might not be practical in a country like India where elections go on for 1.5 months. But, there are other ways - where you draw a representation of the entire population and make them vote aka Sortition [0]. We already use this concept in juries and other aspects of life. It would be worthwhile to give this a serious try for alternative voting systems.

We could perform alternate experiment systems in parallel and then compare their outcomes to current systems - we don't need to adopt them. But, this has to start somewhere. We could have a debate on "HOW" to draw this representative sample but we should acknowledge that the current system rarely achieves the objective of representation.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
Visualization of SQL Data in Jupyter Notebook
My wife cares very little about money. She developed her own methods for getting the most out of life without it, and is always suggesting that I spend less of it. I've been able to show her the benefits of having extra money and she's been able to show me how to live well frugally (not that I'm a big spender in the first place).
NYC is definitely an N=1, most other places in the country Trader Joe's is quite expensive. The food is high quality (and value good) but in absolute terms, more expensive than discount supermarkets.
As a side note, a house also has inherent cost. If you're thinking of a house as an investment, you have to factor maintenance in, which can be hard to calculate in advance.
So many people seem cynical about having kids or doing anything else involving sacrificing happiness for meaning.

Ah, the ol' "kids give my life meaning, how can anyone live a life without meaning?" trope. Hey, more power to you, but spreading DNA around isn't the only road to a meaningful life. Your false choice of "have kids, or live a life of hedonism" strikes me as the argument of the religious zealot. Speaking of religion, Jesus Christ didn't have kids, and he seemed to do okay on the "meaningful" scale.

If you don't want kids, don't have them.

And if you do have them, try to avoid attempting to convince the rest of the world that yours is the only right, moral, and meaningful choice.
I think the Effective Altruism movement really belies its own values and cause with the fact that one of its own funds is for supporting:

> organizations that work on improving long-term outcomes for humanity. Grants will likely go to organizations that seek to reduce global catastrophic risks, especially those relating to advanced artificial intelligence. [1]

Yes, an argument can be made that it's important to fund prevention of global catastrophes, as while they're unlikely compared to the immediate threat of malaria, they'll cause much greater damage, thus increasing risk. However, to consider artificial intelligence to be a potential global catastrophe at all, let alone the single one requiring extra funding, is mostly unfounded. We currently can barely even define what the actual risk is, let alone how to mitigate it.

It's one thing to walk past homeless people in my city and not give them money, because I know that money could much more easily and effectively safe a life in malaria-ridden parts of the world. I think it's absolutely morally repugnant to walk past them and not give them money, because instead you're paying people to sit around thinking about AI.

[1] https://app.effectivealtruism.org/funds/far-future
meh we already are kinda in that world.
as for skynet...throws hands in the air
It’s only murder if it’s unlawful. It’s a killing, a slaughter though.

Edit: never mind, you tought me a new definition.
Easy answers like this are always oversimplifications. There's problems with our voting system but there's no serious reason to believe simply switching to a different style of voting system alone would fix anything.

We also have terrible gerrymandering that ensures seats are hard to change.

Effectively no limits on political contributions thanks to Citizens United (not that things were great before that but they've gotten much worse) means that the best funded candidate tends to dominate. Not always, but it's a huge uphill battle and makes it nearly impossible to be an unfunded candidate taking on the two main parties of the US.

People pushing easy answers like this aren't doing anyone any favors. Even if somehow their favored solution got adopted, when it fails to be the panacea they've promised people will reject it and call it a failure even if it might have helped the situation.
I have thought about it...but I don't really know whether that's the case. There is no encouragement or any instructions how to help yourself. We aren't all famous singers. The videos are great to watch, but to me it really feels more like a pr-machine.
Well actually this is the whole problem, US is obsessed with growth and I have seen great projects beeing shut down as there was no growth. They had steady flow of few millions of revenue but still were shut down. Development team and whole department could live for years but someone was looking at growth trough toilet paper tube. Same with Facebook, they could have a very decent product without beeing creepy but, again, "we need growth". I could argue that this will destroy the planet and its resources, it works like a cancer, consuming more and more resources untill the organism can no longer stand the pressure.

My opinion is that US is using wrong metrics, the EU is still having the old school "... but do we live better" beside the "growth" (less than we had but it is still there). US lost that part and most of people live far worse than in EU (I have tasted your vegetables... not the one that are meant for the rich, the every-grocery-store ones. Yep, someone had growth, but you are eating tastless food).
lol. obviously if I am on the receiving end I want bad targeting!
I would also strongly recommend "Triumph of the Nerds." I think it is invaluable because it gives an inside perspective on the tech industry using interviews of people who were actually leading the change: Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, Larry Ellison, Dan Bricklin (of VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet), etc.
You said there may be merit to bombing weddings. Why is it any different to bombing hospitals, nurseries, scholyards etc? Those are all civilian targets.

Edit: In the spirit of reconcilliation, I would like to explain that I didn't accuse you of anything, much less advocating genocide (I don't even think that bombing a school is genocide; infanticide, at scale, maybe- but, genocide? I don't see that).

I felt you are trying to do something extremely risky, to justify killing Y civilians by the number X of combatants that would also be killed. I don't think Y > 0 can ever be morally justified and I don't think that a targeted strike against any number of enemy combatants in a civilian area is, either, no matter the tactical outcome. Dropping bombs on the heads of people going about peacefull activities is just wrong, any way you cut it. Hence my comment- we don't accept the bombing of hospitals, regardless of their tactical value as targets, so why would we accept bombing weddings to kill some terrorists?

It's clear you find the idea of bombing hospitals or schools revolting, yet you're OK with bombing a wedding? I don't understand that.
If you want to fix politics in the US, bring back earmarks.

It sounds like I'm advocating corruption, and I kind of am. But at the same time, earmarks served the purpose of providing a good reason for parties to work together, across the aisle. If a little bit of corruption accomplishes that higher purpose, I'm glad to have it.
Perhaps because emotions are easier to express and read this way rater than in text form.

But it still feels to me like watching 99% videos is mostly a boring waste of time compared to quick-read text&picture scrollable feed posts. I'm just not comfortable with the slow pace and low concentration of the information flow in videos (and books).

Is the "Twitter generation" that prefers to consume information quickly in small high-concentration portions passing away?
Arrow's Theorem only applies to ordinal voting systems.

There are other voting systems that get around this. Kenneth Arrow himself was into non-ordinal voting systems.
Build a Simple GraphQL Server with GraphQL Yoga
You can distribute closed source product in Qt without buying commercial license. LGPL allows this.

You have to either

1) dynamically link to QT libraries, or

2) provide object files that can be statically linked against LGPL libraries.
That sounds amazing.
I see the point you're getting at, but I think you're missing the civil service in your picture. They are the career professionals who should be taking the actual decisions - our elected representatives should stick to overseeing and representing their constituents.

Just like you have an elected board, who represent shareholders, overseeing the unelected executives at the top of any corporate structure.

The problem is that this setup is regularly decried by populists as being "technocratic" (as if that were a bad thing)
This actually looks really slick. Do you have more information on how this works under the hood? I found https://katacontainers.io/media/uploads/katacontainers/uploa... but it is a little light on details.

For example, memory and storage - with a traditional VM solution, you must allocate the desired memory and storage at the time of VM creation. With a traditional container solution, the container uses only what it needs. Where does Kata fall on this line?
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The lack of proportional representation is a feature of single winner districts, as opposed to multi-winner districts, not national vs federal.
/g is interesting especially /g/dpt (the daily programming thread). Today's thread: http://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/66170997
I see this occasionally. Why can't you edit locally?
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At this point you should just consider your HTML/HTTP interface an API because when you use headless browser technology readily available with any programming language it becomes exactly that.
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