skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because people have a natural tendency to give when they have plenty.

A poor person can spare little, a comfortably off person can spare more. If you really want to increase the charitable givings of a population, decreasing wealth disparity and making more people feel comfortable about their finances (ie. redistributing wealth), is a pragmatic way to do it.

The more I have, the more I give. The more the general population has, the more they will give.

Everyone ultimately has to focus on themselves in hard times. Want to increase charitable givings? Make it easy to be charitable.
It is about 60 days ahead at most and it doesn't matter because the hard cap of 21 million coins is till the same. This has gotta be the dumbest argument I've ever heard.
But this is not purely a coincidence; what it demonstrates is that our timekeeping leans heavily on the 5-3-2 prime factors, which is, while not very deeply hidden, a meaningful insight.
People stopped starving to death when capitalism created enough wealth that we joke about First World Problems. Socialism doesn’t stop people from starving, look at Venezuela. Look at China’s history.
An unlikely manager of technologists. She wasn't an engineer.
This article is not about card games. Would you mind taking another look at the guidelines and then following them?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The sheer size and capability of China (hundreds of millions of people willing to work extremely hard in exchange for little money) has allowed a wide variety of things to happen in the world that otherwise simply wouldn't be possible.

Their deciding that they no longer are willing to participate in things like this can be a massive (in a time frame and to a degree that a lot of people will be utterly confused and scratching their heads "but how can this be, it doesn't make any sense!!!???") game changer.
You should see all the empty lots where the houses burned down long ago in places like Flint. The lawns aren't mowed in the summers so they look like wheat fields and wildflowers grow like crazy.

It's a traffic hazard as the intersections have no visibility, nobody will mow because people dump junk in the empty lots and you'll hit bricks or metal and ruin the mower.
Wine 3.0 RC1 Released. Support for DX11
>Despite this, I can't say for sure that they'd sell given some serious volatility. There's a growing cult like groupthink attitude best represented by the phrase "HODL".

True, but the rise in price seems to have largely been due to newcomers entering the market who don't share the attitude of longtime HODLers. See: Coinbase shooting to #1 on the App Store. I think that raises the odds of a crash considerably. The new crowd is in it because they expect the rally to continue and if they realize it won't, they'll want out en masse ASAP.
yes, why do something good when you could do something else?

they found a good thing to do. The fact that there are other good things they could have done doesn't make this less good.
I was actually praising Clojure, ie. doesn't necessarily depend on Java libraries.
Anyone else want to discuss the wealth metric they created? That's fascinating to me, with just a handful of datapoints they were able to estimate people's income fairly effectively IMO.

The biggest 3 points were census information from addresses (median income/percentage below poverty line), race/gender/education plus BLS statistics, and occupation (combined with median income for that job from BLS.)
You're casting so much judgement here. Anyone can spend money on whatever they choose, just like the recipients can spend the $1000 however they like. We have no business criticizing these people.
Debian seems to use WML for its website, managed by CVS: https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/webwml/webwml/
Internally, Python is a lot like that, too - like in Haskell, the lexer adds in brace tokens when the code is indented an unindented, which keeps the grammar simpler. I guess the main difference here is that Haskell exposes the underlying whitespace-insensitive notation to the programmer, too, whereas Python keeps it hidden.
I also love Fitzgerald's Odyssey. I tried Wilson's, and it just didn't sing at all, which really put me off.
As it is, it seems highly unlikely my children are going to be able to put a roof over their heads let alone reproduce. Personally, I feel no guilt leaving a environmentally trashed planet for the children of globalists and those who've profited handsomely over collectively ignoring what's going on in the world.
Is there any reason to believe that this will ever even make it out of committee and come up for a vote?

He's a Democrat. Democrats are a minority in the House of Representatives (193 Democrats vs. 239 Republicans), and Republicans have been very united in opposition to net neutrality. Getting rid of the 2015 rule is even part of the party platform adopted at the 2016 convention. It seems very unlikely that enough Republicans can be convinced to go against their party position and flip on this.

They would also draw the ire of President Trump, who is on the record as strongly opposing net neutrality. Not that he actually knows what net neutrality is [1]...

At best, Republicans might let this go to a vote, and allow up to about 20 Republicans from moderate states where Democrats might use net neutrality to flip seats vote in favor of it to help keep those seats Republican.

[1] Trump: ""Obama’s attack on the internet is another top down power grab. Net neutrality is the Fairness Doctrine. Will target conservative media." https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/53260835850816716...
Funny, but good idea. I remember when glass used to have a deposit value on it. We still get local milk in refundable glass containers.
Stop putting moral judgements on scientific facts. Either IQ measures intelligence or it doesn't. And there is an enormous amount of research supporting the former. And very little to support your assertion that it's "just schooling" or whatever. In fact there's mounting evidence that schooling affects outcomes a lot less than most people believe, e.g. http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/05/19/teachers-much-more-than...

Look, no one is saying your individual IQ test is the only thing that matters. There is random error on tests, and it's not like intelligence is the only thing that matters in a person. But if you go around denying that it exists at all, you are just spreading pseudoscience.
I don't begrudge anybody their small pleasures in life. I also think they can do what they want with their money.

But, when the topic of wealth redistribution comes up I do start to have a lot more questions about what people want to do with the money. After all, it's not their money. They didn't earn it. Somebody else did. I think it's pretty fair to at least have the conversation. I absolutely hate the "helpless poor people" trope and the idea that if they just had more money everything would be better. How often do good and well meaning ideas have horrible and long lasting consequences that were not intended.
I don't think environmental disasters are something unique to modern times. There have been books written about the environmental problems the ancient Romans & Greeks faced.
Manufacturers should be the ones forced to take their products back. That way they (the only ones who can) will take the cost into account and design differently.

No more greedy planned obsolescence, no more flimsy crap that breaks in 10 days, no more cries about right to repair. The right incentive solves all the problems.
The difference between solar day (about 24h+-30s) and sidereal day (about 23h56min) has nothing to do with leap years
Ever make chicken? 3lbs of chicken is $15 alone ($3.59/lb x 4 lbs, about 1lb of liquid). That's not a lot of food.

Oh, hmm.. How about hamburger then? Same story.

$1k would absolutely be a lifechanger. I'd be able to go get my colonoscopy that I desperately need, or be able to at least go to a therapist to help get over my fear of needles in preparation for that.

You bet I'll drop $15 on CAH. I'm not going to deny myself entertainment just because there are other things I need.

Look at it this way: $15 is a one-time expense. Health insurance is $400/mo.

And I'm not even that poor. I'd rather the $1k go to someone who needs it more than me.
What's the point of applauding legislative initiatives like this that are obviously doomed to failure?

It's a waste of time that could be better spent elsewhere. The only point of this is to make Maloney more marketable in the next election.
What makes cars design look different is related to intellectual property.

Literally this month GM patented new designs for it's cars of the future.
Their whole schtick is that they did some private charity work and it went great so FUCK DRUMPF AND FUCK CAPITALISM. And you’re asking people not to talk about the main point of their shtick? I won’t argue what they did isn’t good but literally thousands of charities do this every day.
People in liking different things shocker. More at 11.
I'm not sure its the 'game changer' they wanted. Labor rates going up in China means, more automation in the US. Its not a matter of them-vs-us jobs; its a matter of cheap labor vs automation. And the smart money is on automation today, since its growing explosively in manufacturing and warehousing.
> Rappler, as a news organization, is head and shoulders above 90% of most other news outlets in the region when it comes to factual reporting.

Citation needed. Or you are just pulling stats out of pure, unadulterated BS.

Every form of media is a propaganda machine. Its why China spends a great amount of money and effort for the Great Firewall. Its why advertising is an industry.

The bigger question here is Facebook, and its power to influence the people on a huge scale.
I'd love to see the government (or just some kind of NGO) hand out radios and some kind of specific-to-this-community application to people who own boats or other specialty equipment. If there were an easier way to organize, they could be even more effective. Use GIS to let them do site surveys and maybe respond to low-risk rescues, letting professionals/government do the highest risk. Right now there are coordination issues.

(The other thing I'd like to see, which is done in some areas, is turning gas stations into disaster fortified base stations -- they have fuel tankage already, add generators to pump when the grid is down, and maybe store a connex or two full of bottled water and other disaster supplies on property, or in an underground tank type thing (which they already need to have installed for fuel, so whenever they upgrade from single to double wall or whatever, dig one extra vault). Putting a cell tower onsite, and maybe some kind of satcom backhaul, and some kind of data network which could work even in isolated mode, would help in situations like Puerto Rico. The incremental cost of funding this with tax money would be far lower than building up other community response sites.
"Boy meets girl; girl gets boy into pickle; boy gets pickle into girl" --Jack Woodford on plotting.
Do you think "actual" years also have 366 days?
You're missing the important point that a "free market" has nothing to do with the mathematical notion of a market from economics. I suspect that it was intentionally named misleadingly to make it sound like it constituted a market, but it nearly never does.
Author of linked article speaking.

SPARKization is already in the works; can't really consider disabling bounds checks without SPARKistic proof of guaranteed nonoverflow.

Being saved for the end of the article series, however; introducing it from the beginning IMHO will pointlessly clutter the tutorial.
None so pretty as Crockett's Daytona. (Even though it was really a kit-car based on a 70s Corvette.)
AI was taught to run
It has no chance.

I can at least applaud the fact that it puts the spotlight back on Congress, as opposed to the FCC. The FCC is a Republican regulatory agency. Like every regulatory agency, it's only minimally accountable to voters. The expectation that loud public outcry from Internet nerds would lead it to regulate like a Democratic agency is crazymaking.
Yes, a Slack or Discord channel would be nice.
Most people don't want to look too closely at the stock market. In order for someone to make money, someone else has to loose some, eventually.
As a general rule, it's safe to assume every word in the abstract of a paper is significant.
You may be suffering from the same thing I did: not understanding what this is about. I recommend taking a look at the FAQ (which is relatively difficult to get to from the original article): https://www.cardsagainsthumanitysavesamerica.com/#faq

It's a "complicated promotion" and in this phase they are redistributing wealth to the poorest of the group who paid -- not to the poorest people in the country. I had originally thought that people were signing up with the hopes of getting a payback -- some kind of horrible poorest person wins the pot kind of game. But this is literally, "Pay us $15 and we will do something crazy with it". So far the other things they have done is bought up land to try to interfere with Trump's wall between the US and Mexico (and built a trebuchet), and set up a "good news only podcast" (and sent out stickers).

Most people in the US have discretionary spending even if they are poor. $15 to participate in crazy stunts to "save America"? Certainly there are people who can not afford that, but I don't think that was ever the point.

Edit: Is $1000 potentially life changing for people who are not in abject poverty. I think point is: yes. They point out that half of Americans do not have any emergency money at all. So you don't even need to be in poverty to be living hand to mouth. Will $1000 realistically change that? Clearly not. But the whole thing is a bit tongue in cheek.
There is a similar thing in mathematics.

The Appel and Haken proof of the four color theorem was the first computer-aided proof of a major theorem.

As such, we aren't sure why the theorem is true, but we are sure that it is.

An interesting question is about the logical necessity of a mathematical theorem being true if we require a computer to interpret it.

After all, we require people to interpret smaller logical statements, too!

Stephen Wolfram'a "New Kind of Science" was all about that stuff. Did it ever reach any conclusions though? Or just "look how cool complexity can be?"
https://www.appliedbehavioranalysisedu.org/is-autism-associa...

The very existence of autism calls into question our historical conceptualization of intelligence and IQ testing.

I have two ASD sons. They are very bright. They also have some serious personal struggles.

So, which is it? Does IQ measure general competence or does it measure something else? Because this latest twist in the conversation seems just ridiculous.
Some level of deduction for equipment/depreciation/services rendered would be appropriate, or possibly a tax credit. Another option would be donating to a charity which then compensates people for expenditures during situations like this; the challenge is doing it after the fact. However, it's not like this is the last time the CN will respond, so it could also be done prospectively.

I've shown up at car accidents as a private individual and expended wool blankets (not taking one back after it's covered in blood), first aid supplies, water, etc. Maybe $300-500 lifetime total, which isn't a big deal for me, but it'd be nice to be able to get reimbursed/replaced.
Looks nice in Haskell too.

product (map (\n -> n ^ n) [1..5]) == 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24
=> True
Are you sure they are cancer symptoms? Seems you be dead by now if you and them untreated for so long.
But it's not a straightforward decision.

For one, there is an opportunity cost to spending another 2-3 years making little and saving no money. For example, I can't even afford a car with the money I'm making, which can seriously affect how much socializing you can do. I also can't afford to have an emergency fund.

Another issue is the number of jobs you suddenly become overqualified for, especially with a PhD. A potential employer will prioritize the BS or even MS applicant, simply because it's more likely that the PhD applicant won't stay for long!
One man's waste is another man's profit. :)
In my mind this illustrates the obvious flaws in the globalized economy where we build these wacky supply chains based on exploiting poorer countries.

Other examples abound. Shipping chickens harvested in Arkansas to be butchered in China and sold in Massachusetts is another.
Yes, they're called "trap streets": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street
> But I will note that the comment you replied to said nothing about IQ. I only spoke of a need for validation and that's it. I was quite careful to not suggest it had anything to do with intelligence or competence.

What did you mean by "smarts", if not "intelligence", "competence" or "IQ"?
That first paragraph is pretty deceptive. They are not comparing against the results from GATK 1.0.
I would be down for this, pm me
The recent flooding associated with the cajun navy is not a routine event. It was regarded as a "500 year flood." Local rivers (Amite River) that rarely have a problem with capacity overflowed into nearby cities (Baton Rouge, Denham Springs, etc.) Houses on land that did not require flood insurance were filled with water to the roof-level.

Not Normal: https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2016/08/16/louisiana-f...

Video of devastation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZSXGin-zNA

Law enforcement would have been prepared to handle normal-scale hurricanes, flooding, etc. (They do) but were not prepared to handle this kind of uncommon disaster. And even though the disaster was unforeseen, the government still helped some - my parents were removed from their house via Coast Guard. (But many more in the same area were removed by locals with boats)

I do agree that it makes sense to reimburse cajun navy participants in some way but I'm not sure how
Consider a fecal occult blood test -- much cheaper than colonoscopy, has the same impact on mortality on a population level, non-invasive. If you get a "positive" on it you might be able to access care somehow.
> I wonder what advantages The World has over lines like Seabourn[0] or Silversea?[1]

Well, for a resident, you eliminate the cognitive load of changing residences. Your home on the ship is literally a home (albeit a heavily-regulated one, in the style of extreme HOAs), and you can treat it like one, rather than having to slice everything into several-week increments because you might have to leave or change cabins at short notice.

Of course, this comes with tremendous maintenance prices ($1m+ per residence per year), but for some people it's worth that.
I admittedly skimmed through, but it seems to be more systems theory, as applied to computer science, than a new form of computer science in and of itself.
http://db.cs.yale.edu/hadoopdb/hadoopdb.pdf

Sorry, it’s actually “DBMS-X”
If you're highly employable, recruiters should already be approaching you by now. When I was doing my degree, we often got a lot of email from the university faculty itself and there were also lots of job fairs targeting us.

When you're employable, recruiters will just keep knocking on you to emails and message apps asking if you're looking for another job yet or if you know someone.

A lot of recruiters seem to be getting lazy and focusing on LinkedIn these days though.
How so? I see how "the" DNS is centralized in ICANN's list of root servers, but from a technical standpoint isn't the use of that list just a convention?
makes it more clear who is responsible. it's not the bureaucrats.
Too bad most of the handwritten stuff is all but unreadable
Eulas are toiled paper in EU, so just benchmark here. You can even buy the software second hand and avoid touching EULA completely. Oracle learned this the hard way, losing the lawsuit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UsedSoft#ECJ_ruling
And AGAIN.

Trump has just demanded (and got) an apology from a Washington Post reporter that posted a misleading photo suggesting a Trump rally was half-empty. (It really was a sellout.)

Hacker News is a site for readers who think. No matter what your politics happens to be, we should all recognize the dangers present in disingenuous journalism.
That has nothing to do with a choice to give money to cah customers vs the global poorest.
Depends, what does ELI5 mean?

When an electron, seated at the edge of a
crowded-with-electrons valence band in a
semiconductor, gets excited and jumps over
the energy gap to the otherwise empty
conduction band, it leaves behind a “hole”
in the valence band. That hole behaves as
though it were a particle with positive
charge, and it attracts the escaped
electron. When the escaped electron with
its negative charge, pairs up with the hole,
the two remarkably form a composite particle,
a boson.

So, it is something else entirely, after this whole process completes. It is transformed from being an electron, and is no longer an electron.

Electrons are Leptons, not Bosons.

The electron is transformed into a different thing, after it jumps out of its hole, only to land back in the hole it jumped out of.

When they made an electron jump out of it's valence shell, and then permitted it to bounce back into the void it left behind, landing back in the slot changes it enough that it's no longer an electron.

Apparently the orbit it resumes is different enough to be detected with instrumentation, which actually is pretty interesting, and probably matters in terms of optimizing materials for solid-state applications.

I can't tell if it's just that these are temporary ripples in the valence field that eventually resolve themselves, and that it's just a mild technicality, to be able to notice that the jumping electrons don't immediately meld back into their cloud, and that on paper, and due to mathematical descriptions, this "qualifies" the rebounded electron as "no-longer-an-electron" until it resumes a normal harmonious "orbit" with the atom's general electron cloud? (AKA: "decays back into an electron" in technical terms)

How does this kind of boson transition back to an ordinary electron? How long does that take? How often does this happen in nature? What does this mean in the grand scheme of things? Is the entire world, nay, universe, slowly and irrevocably transforming all electrons into these things forever? How come the all the world's electrons haven't completely decayed into these sorts of bosons by now? Is this really very significant, or is it just a tidbit of technical trivia that persists for less than a few units of planck time?

The article does not answer such questions.
Environmental disasters existed, sure, but they were mostly called something like "the vengeance of the gods". Most of them do represent a form of Themic justice, as our human hubris at being lords of this world causes us to be swept away by storm or fire.
Does that apply to the guy selling a gallon of milk?

Figure that consumer packaging for food, and products generates a ton more volume than a TV set does.
I had the same moment of introspection... I remember thinking “you want to spend this money on gifts or car tires?”

And then I realized that these are the things they’re stressing about. It’s nice to think those will be one less stressor in a life full of stressful things. Which I think is good - if only for the mental win of not having to worry about X.

Way to go CAH - you got me thinking. And this time it wasn’t about something I had to go look up on urban dictionary.
Given the average age of the residents, it's probably mostly things like "everything in the shipboard pharmacy is extremely cheap compared to the US".