skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That said there is some benefit to using RCV even with single member districts as in theory it tends to moderate the candidates a bit as they want to appeal to more people.

RCV has a bigger impact when used in conjunction with primaries. The is a not unusual situation where more extreme candidates win primaries when the more moderate candidate would have won the election by a larger margin. The more extreme candidate then ends up elected because the district has been jerrymandered to belong to their party.
Yes if this voting style extended to primaries or other elections with multiple candidates from one party, it also has benefits. You can vote for the less popular candidate that better suits you, while falling back to the popular one you're willing to settle for. Preferences are generally reported, so people will see 'unpopular' options actually getting votes and things shift over time.
BC's "orgBook"... running on Hyperledger Indy blockchain

https://www.orgbook.gov.bc.ca/en/home

This link has a search for Cannabis in BC's org book

https://www.orgbook.gov.bc.ca/en/search/name?query=cannabis&...
Amazingly, the results of the survey are a precise fit with SPARCC's stated mission [1].

I'm skeptical. Maybe if we saw some data about the survey I could be convinced. (Which questions were asked, the demographics of the responders, etc.)

[1] https://www.sparcchub.org/about/
If you want one - my team built it. There’s some stories to be told. (I’m still in the “credits” though another team has since taken over maintenance)

The first version of the archives was a 20 disk interactive Blu-Ray set, that’s where the file-cabinet design first came from. My first meeting with Neil was at his manager place in Calabasas and he rolled up silently in the 1950s Lincoln he converted to electric years ago.

Anyway it was a good meeting but at the end I had to tell him that the design wouldn’t work on mobile and that in fact these days most folks design “mobile first”. His exact words were “fuck mobile” so I sat my ass down and we glued on an app when we had to.

Fun times ;-)
I created a pretty cool YouTube Subtitle editor [YouTube Community Captions]
Hi everyone,
For a while now I have been working on www.captionfy.io, a community subtitles platform for Youtube that I have built last year to help anyone looking for alternatives after its removal last September. It is an extension to Youtube. I have been an Amara user for a while (which I like a lot) and decided to create a new option for this feature mostly for fun initially, and I have the feeling it can really help other Youtubers and fans like myself.

If you have any needs regarding this topic, or want to discuss this extention further, feel welcome to reply here. Most of the implementation has been done after listening to early users, and I have to say, it is quite cool now. Hope it helps some of you and this thread's purpose is to discuss alternatives to community captions and of course improve the concept as much as possible.
There's an existing kind of business that has privacy booths, maybe they could branch out.
People rarely venture beyond the first page of results. That being said, we've filed an issue to consider adding additional pages of results too. Thank you for the feedback!
“Assigned female”[0] just means that their original birth certificate has an ‘F’ in the sex field, normally assigned based on observed physical characteristics. It also generally implies that everyone assumed this was correct (with the associated gender roles etc) until the person began expressing a gender identity independently—in this case a different one, though for most people they tend to be the same. In this case 'slg is also using it to imply that the person’s natural physical characteristics also match their assigned sex.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_assignment
This also goes to rejection sensitivity which is also common in ADHD. Because we’re overly aware of our failures, we’re also likely to have outsized reactions to reasonable criticism… restarting the same vicious cycle.
Here’s a sample ballot from today’s primary in Brooklyn. Voting was for 7 offices, 5 of which were RCV.

https://nyc-static.electionhub.com/sampleballots/384760/12/2...
What if religion isn't the root cause... Lets play a game...

If a group:

- is becoming less religious
- is becoming more gay
- is becoming less white
- is becoming more literate
- is becoming less starved
- is becoming better at typing
- is becoming worse at blacksmithing
- is becoming better at curing diseases
- is becoming worse at writing with a quill
- is becoming more vaccinated
- is becoming less likely to drive an oldsmobile.
- is becoming more likely to drive a toyota.
- is becoming more urban
- is becoming less rural
- is becoming more divided in ideology
- is becoming more likely to believe in election fraud

OR
(my personal hunch)
- is bad at causation/correlation

> Then that group is essentially a dead-end and those practices will not expand to more groups. Them being rich isn't helping them.

>How is that not a form of natural selection?

--- --- ----

Why can't it be the vaccines and toyotas that are causing depression? Maybe darwin should have warned us that city birds don't mate.

Maybe its just bad causation/correlation when viewed through the lens of one facet of historical change.
Same way baseball, football, etc. labor price fixing is legal - it’s gov’t protected price fixing
That is why it's important to have a national campaign. Amazon can relocate any one warehouse but it's not going to want to give up on wide-scale coverage.
SiFive doesn't own or control the RISC-V instruction set. It owns some CPU core designs it has developed, in the same way that Apple owns the M1 chip but doesn't own the ARM ISA.
Ummmmm - we are talking about the differences between men and women. Not Lebron and you.

Also it’s been very well proven that testosterone leads to more desire/ambition call it what you will.

Women who take testosterone generally report feeling more ambitious and have more sexual desire as a by product.
https://peterturchin.com/cliodynamica/intra-elite-competitio...
Totally agree. What's interesting is that "antiracism" (i.e. neoracism) has analogous tenets and catechisms of a secular religion. They even reinvented original sin.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/antiracism-our-flawed-new-reli...
Not sure why you're downvoted.

"Toxoplasma gondii-A Gastrointestinal Pathogen Associated with Human Brain Diseases"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5508738/
The coyotes agree with this premise.
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I like this tutorial, but it's worth noting that you're building your own lisp with the author's bespoke parser generator.
That's almost the canonical definition of evil in occultism, though: the animalistic part of the human gravitating to matter is the evil, the rational part ascending to abstract spirit is the good. Hence the typical meaning of upsidedown symbols. I'd agree, though, that most people are still heavily attached to their animalistic nature.
> one of the key issues for the US that rarely gets discussed is that we can't use it to elect our President, due to the 12th Amendment, unless you're OK with the states selecting him/her instead. The 12th Amendment states that the Presidential winner has to have a majority of the Electoral College votes on the first round of voting- no multiple rounds- otherwise each state gets to cast one vote to pick who out of the top 3 candidates gets the job

This sounds like it would preclude a nation-wide RCV implementation (without a constitutional amendment), but a per state implementation of RCV would still be an improvement over the current system in my opinion. I don't see how that would run afoul of the constitution, but I'm not a lawyer.
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Well that's easy: you're mistaken. The 12th amendment manager the election by the electors, these are representatives. So someone needs a simple majority of the 538 electoral votes when those are tallied in January. How the states determine which electors to send is up to each state. New York could select it's electors based on a ranked choice ballot.
About a year ago I tried a few different web browsers (chrome, safari, firefox, and brave) to see which had the best user experience and which one I thought had the most value to add to me as a user. I settled on Brave because;

1. I don't have to install a adblocker or any third party extensions out of the gate. - Third party ones never seem to do the job on the other browsers.

2. Their form of rewarding creators is superior, in my opinion, to having creators appeal to a ad serving service for support. - I also find the rewards from viewing ads amusing and have even clicked on a few of the ads.

3. They seem to be the most engaged project with technology trends right now...

I will also mention that their bookmark system works for me. The one feature I find to be missing is having the bookmark icons stay centered in the bar as they can in safari.

It's not too hard for me to imagine that in ten years 90% of users will be using Brave and we will be here again talking about another new web browser on the scene shaking things up from the Brave status quo (instead of how we are with google).
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Anyone remember Milo Yiannapolous?
I always rather liked the original simple idea of Paleo style eating.

Which was unprocessed foods consumed in quantity and variation that maybe is a bit like our ancestors consumption patterns.

But sadly Paleo for co-opted by the Keto crowd and it's all about hi-fat diets and Lo-carb blah blah blah. :-)
> I have yet to see a real world production pipeline where GBDT provides enough improvement over Logistic Regression

Not my field at all, so "I know nooothing".

Are GBDT's very different from "plain" binary decision trees? I've seen the latter a lot in the context of particle experiments[1][2][3].

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0408124

[2]: http://cds.cern.ch/record/2289251/

[3]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02534
Building a monopoly in the face of a monopsony is 100% ethical.
Well current society has chosen "struggle sessions". You get forgiveness if you voluntarily admit to some sin and only then if the sin is mild. If you're found out without coming forth with your sins first, you're excommunicated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struggle_session
thats actually really sweet. are you going to move it to other platforms?
"Papers, please!"

If you support vaccine passports, at least acknowledge you don't care about individual rights, privacy, or capitalism.

People don't realize authoritarianism always comes in the form of the govt "caring for / protecting" you.
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More fundamentally, what is resentment doing for Alice? Why bother exerting that negative emotional energy, holding a hatred for someone else's positive change of circumstance? It's not like your hatred is going to change your circumstances.

> See also the discussion of student debt repayment

My brother and I went to the same university. His social life in high school was better than mine, but grades were worse for it, and he had to take on a lot of student debt. Meanwhile, I studied my ass off and earned a full-ride scholarship. And yet, if his loans got forgiven, I'd be ecstatic for him.
This company is going to change the way every comoany deals with their infrastructure. It’s a complex, dangerous, boring area but it’s critical to any company. These guys have figured it out
An ADHD diagnosis needs to be done by a neuropsychologist, who usually has a Ph.D. and specific board certifications. An anxiety disorder diagnosis is usually done by a psychiatrist, who is a doctor with an M.D. and specific psychiatry certifications.
Awful bigotry.
That JSON endpoint for Independence metrics is what feeds the Independence Score on Brave Search. Click on the to view your own score (provided you have performed a sufficient number of searches). Current global score is 87% at the time of this writing. More information at https://search.brave.com/help/independence.
I suspect this strongly depends on a religion and a fandom. For example, fandoms that cause self-harm in a chase of some fictional perfection vs people who are heavily into Buddhism or derivatives.
I think inflation is definitely something to be concerned about.

It's terrible for people on fixed incomes and those without portfolios that can prosper through rising prices. (So think 'old folks and those who don't have investments or invest conservatively.)

Of course, massive government spending isn't helping.

I hope inflation slows and returns to reasonable levels soon.
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This doesn’t really make sense. The hospital personnel who record the sex of the baby aren‘t saying anything about “gender roles”. They’re simply recording the sex of the baby. It will only be incorrect in extremely rare circumstances of external anatomy not being indicative of sex. (And the field in the birth certificate is for sex, not gender. That would make no sense.)

EDIT: It’s rather underhanded to abuse the edit button to silently correct your comment, causing replies to not quite make sense. That’s why people here signal that they’ve edited a comment in cases like this.
Firstly, there's often a large mob of them. It's hard to punish 1000 people all contributing a little to the cancel attempt.

Secondly, the people who disagree and would like to see some pushback don't want to get mobbed themselves, and so they self-censor instead.
When I was a teenager I was having an odd dream of my nose really tickling as I came out of a deep sleep. I finally opened my eyes to see my Siamese sitting on my chest holding a struggling mouse by the tail over my snoring mouth. Its front paws had been scrabbling just on the edge of my upper lip.
How often do you discuss how meds are working for you? If you feel muted you might be undermedicated. Your doctor should know that you’re reacting this way and if they don’t take it seriously they’re probably not a good fit.

When I was undermedicated I was literally falling asleep at random, and had basically no emotional response to almost anything. Getting closer to where I should be over the last few months has made a world of difference.
The government always caters to the parasites. They want to buy those votes with all of the "free" handouts.

You're just confused about who the parasites are.
I read some blog about why this happens. There's no tribal value in showing you hate someone who's obviously bad because everyone hates them no matter what side they're on. You have to show you hate someone who's good enough for reasonable people to like them. Then your expression of hate reinforces your position as being deep within your side and far from the middle ground which is dangerously close to the enemy.
People die from overwork all the time. In Japan they even have a word for it.
This is true but if we work with this line of logic, we should just remove the gender split in sports and make it purely a game for the best of the best.

What this means is that most females will be removed from sport since they can't compete with the average male athlete. Society has spoken already and decided they want to see female athletes which is why many male only sports have started their own female only sides.

This is a truly unfortunate edge case where trans people have an unfair advantage on one gender side and an unfair disadvantage on the other side. Perhaps the only fair way to do things would be to have trans only teams but the numbers probably don't work out. Or to have trans people pick sports where physical strength is not at play like motor racing, shooting, chess, etc.
I disagree about the consistent distribution in parliaments. I do think that parliamentary governance is, overall, just a better way to elect heads of state - but up here in Canada we have a parliament and, while the NDP certainly does hold some sway, we're drifting toward a two party system. Surprisingly, it seems most likely that the CPC might collapse and get absorbed into the LPC which then provides conservative opposition to the NDP - but time will tell whether the CPC can recover now that Harper is gone.

(I purposefully avoided the common party names since they have connotations how Americans view politics that are extremely inaccurate).
This is my favorite painting of all time and a print is in my study to remind me how not to respond to unreasonable deadlines imposed by management.
Sorry, just realized that my comment above had confusingly poor grammar.
How do you avoid religious discussion when the topic at hand is literally an app that spreads propaganda?

Religion is inherently ideological and its expression in technological form is still ideological.

The mere act of someone publishing this app is itself ideological. No getting around that.
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Thank you! Right now it is pretty hidden (mostly because I suck at advertising it), and I plan on focusing on Youtube until it gets minimally popular. I do plan on expanding to other platforms cause I believe the same concept could be applied.
An interesting idea from Matthew Yglesias was to not care about maximizing revenue as a primary goal of raising tax rates:

> The Laffer Curve — the idea that tax cuts can sometimes increase tax revenue — is one of the most influential and widely debated ideas in the past two generations of American politics. Beloved by the right and despised by the left, one thing that both sides have tended to agree on is that knowing what side of the curve we're on should be a key driver of tax policy.

> But in an era of surging inequality, it's time to revisit that assumption. Maybe at least some taxes should be really high. Maybe even really really high. So high as to useless for revenue-raising purposes — but powerful for achieving other ends.

> We already accept this principle for tobacco taxes. If all we wanted to do was raise revenue, we might want to slightly cut cigarette taxes. And since cigarettes are about the most-taxed thing in America, we certainly would want to cut out all our other anti-smoking initiatives. But we don't do that because we care about public health. We tax tobacco not to [primarily] make money but to discourage smoking.

* https://www.vox.com/2014/4/18/5620702/case-for-confiscatory-...
However, answering a rhetorical question is in fact useless.
Voters pick a candidate knowing that the candidate will have to play within a two party legislature.

Third party legislators are shunned. Their bills get no traction, and they get no committee assignments. If they are seriously divergent, the House could easily have them removed.
My family and I are all sound sleepers who sleep on our backs. Our cat, from the first day we acquired her at the pound until her last, would go from chest to chest during the night. There are few things nicer than waking up in the morning to a cat purring on your chest.
Nothing you've quoted says that the author thinks women make worse engineers, only that people are different. If you think it says something else, you should search within to find out where you generated that meaning.
Great, thanks for the details!
> RCV does have some serious problems. Eliminating the candidate with the least first-place votes at each round means a high probability of rejecting compromise candidates that may be a lot of voters' second choice. Also, placing your first-choice candidate first isn't always a safe choice. RCV is non-monotonic, which means it's possible that ranking someone first might actually cause them to lose. That's weird, and I think it's a good enough reason to investigate other options.

This is actually not true and the opposite of what happens. With RCV, people feel comfortable putting compromise or 3rd party candidates first because they know they aren't throwing away a vote. It creates a system where there is more middle ground and less black and white 2 party systems.
Made my Macbook Pro fans rev up to the max.
This news story — just as much as anything else it might be — is a marketing campaign from the Teamsters.

500,000 new members paying $50 a month in union dues is no joke and they want a piece of that pie — or realistically the entire $100M+ pie itself.

Free market capitalism is alive and well, except in this case it will be in the form of the Teamsters vs The RWDSU on who can offer the most organized power at the best price.

Regardless of how you feel about unions or Amazon, there’s something fascinating going on here at so many levels.
Sure. Go ahead and tell the homeless or poor working Americans how lucky they are to live in a wealthy country. I am sure they will appreciate it.
On my iPhone 12 mini the marketing page allows me to scroll left and right, looks like it needs some tweaking.
One of my projects several years back ran both a LR model and a DNN against the same input data (albeit featurized differently). Accuracy, P&R were roughly the same (minor differences depending on the time horizon), but the LR model took maybe a half hour to train and five minutes to run; the DNN took about 24 hours to train and an hour or two to run.

This wasn't even particularly huge data compared to my other projects. But certainly at that scale, there are huge differences between regression & NNs.
Quite obvious, but naming things is funny in the web-development world. We still call any asynchronous retrieval of data "AJAX," even though it rarely, if ever, involves XML :-)
Very much seconding this take. His arguments routinely lack nuance and there's some tenuous dot-connecting.

As I got to the end of the article, I kind of got this nagging feeling that when I went to read about the author I was going to find some bit about conservative punditry, and lo-and-behold it was there.
> They're not getting that money back. It doesn't necessarily mean that they want to see people become homeless.

That sounds like a pretty privileged take on their parts. If they were wealthy enough to survive a global pandemic that upended the global economy without anyone's help, that speaks pretty well for them. But not everyone was so fortunate, and that's what this program addresses.

I see no cause for resentment here, anymore than I see cause for resentment against poor people on Medicaid while the more-fortunate pay for health insurance. Like, sure -- we could do something "radical" (by US standards) and make Medicaid available to everyone, but if the choice is between having health insurance only for those who can afford it (and sucks to be you if you can't), and having a Medicaid tax to pay for health coverage for those who can't afford insurance, I'd much rather take the latter.
You are right that the US is better than a “developing country with a brutal civil war”. That isn’t a very high bar though.
Rust's string type doesn't have the mentioned problems: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...

Though I would bet this mainly has to do with being a language born in the age of the web. It seems like something that would be very hard to back-port (as opposed to designing for it from the beginning), but proper handling of Unicode is practically table-stakes for a new language in today's world. I would guess (I don't know) that Swift, Go, etc also do a good job with this stuff.
You should generalize that to "aggressively ideological society".

It doesn't matter what the ideology is based upon. It's the aggression that matters.

And the "solipsism" too, I guess. If that term can be applied to societies. I mean, when the hivemind detaches from all evidence, insulated from reality, self-affirming, self-amplifying, purity-seeking. Modern social media is, of course, great for achieving that.
No if you take AP physics in the US, yes if you don’t same thing in the UK if you don’t take physics for your A levels you ain’t gonna learn that.