skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be clear, we're discussing homeless people with mental issues, and not people who aren't homeless. The homeless have less access to resources than a non-homeless person with family and friends.

> It is important to give someone a stable and loving and validating environment for them to be able to recover. There are several kinds of people who, while they talk to themselves, really just have their symptoms exacerbated by stress

Yes, which is why a mental institution is a good starting point for a homeless person with mental issues. Let's not confuse these institutions with the mental asylums of the past. Are there better alternatives for the mentally ill homeless that I'm not aware of? I don't feel that most if not all homeless shelters are equiped to fully deal with individuals suffering from schizophrenia.
Russian spies hacked the Olympics and tried to make it look like N. Korea did it
If the temperature increases several degrees, hundreds of million - maybe even billion - of people will be displaced not just from the coastlines, but also from areas becoming desertified. Can you imagine the economic distress, humanitarian crises, and the conflicts this can generate?
A forgotten theory of dreams that inspired Vladimir Nabokov
Didn't Dick Cheney also get kicked out of Yale?
Thanks for sharing this. Drawing a connection between the superstition of superhero movies and ghost dancers is simply brilliant.
It actually supports pretty much all of Dr. Sadedin's details if you read past the first half of the BBC article, which describes previous discredited theories.
What if some countries said "don't refreeze us, we're ok"?
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Not exactly what you described, but I'm a big fan of Grafio for iPad as a diagram tool, because 'sketching' is the primary input. You can't import something from paper, but if you've got an iPad around, you can draw on it like paper, and it'll give you the neater & better aligned counterparts of the things as you draw them.

Much better than pulling shapes out of a toolbox. Or typing.
Why impossible? It's just a mindset. People do switch careers at >40 years, it's far from impossible.
I can relate to this. I grew up in India when India was a closed economy, with anything (commodities or services) either too expensive or limited by license raj. My father, being a lowly government official, did have a steady but meagre income. Groceries and mortgage were always on his mind. But, he also had his habit of never borrowing, in spite of dire need. Never kept a credit card either (to this day). I have learnt that brand of frugality from him.
Yeah, we drop articles all the time because there is no such thing in Russian language.
i would think that greenland melting wouldn't happen all at once (if that's what you're saying), but rather that due to higher average ocean temperatures more of it would melt in the summer and less of it would freeze in the winter, and cumulatively over years and decades it has a net loss of ice, and perhaps eventually loses most of it. am i missing something in your argument?
I find it's much easier to understand why 3 CNN layers applied on the raw image can learn convolutions that are relevant to solving my task... than it is to understand what is being done by "artisanal hand-engineered authentic patches" with a couple obscure dimensionality reduction algorithms thrown in, and an SVM on top.

Expert systems were also incredibly hard to build and debug, and weren't nearly as useful as ML systems are nowadays.
Quite the opposite; his answer was from Jan 2015; the good answer arrived nearly two years later.
The solution might be creative (in this case it might be more memory of how things used to work than creativity), but first you have to isolate the issue, theorize on how long it will be out and what the consequences of that are and determine if you should do something or just wait. Then you have to weigh several solutions which could include nothing or multiple solutions for different cases. There are many critical thinking steps involved and some very incomplete data to base them on.
Depends on the form of charity (and that includes government assistance).

Give me basic income, and I will feel no loss of dignity.

Make me stand in a line for a few hours (what's the problem wasting my time, if I am unemployed anyway, right?), fill out a ton of paperwork, send me back to collect signatures from my former employers that I really did work for them three years ago (because everyone deserves to be told that I have a problem now, especially my former employers), and so on... then I will consider not eating for a few weeks a more dignified option.
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Comments criticizing evolution in favor of intelligent design will also be downvoted for the same reasons. The scientific consensus is that climate change is happening, and it's caused by us. The evidence in favor of the theory is overwhelming, so you'd have to publish a pretty substantial study, not a comment on an internet forum, if you would want to sensibly argue against anthropogenic climate change without being ridiculed.
> Google sunsets one of their services. And releases something that copies a service from one of their competitors but in an incredibly tone deaf way.

... And releases four more video/messaging apps along with three more banking/wallet apps just in case their current properties fail.
Strictly speaking, the question is asking why women can't get pregnant without the menstrual cycle. As you mention in your post, the period occurs at the end of the cycle, therefore without a cycle, pregnancy will not happen.
Which is understandable.

What isn't so understandable is having a speech as if on the next door employees of the same company weren't exactly speaking the opposite.

I don't understand how in stage A one can speak how glorious the future of native apps is going to be, while on Stage B we are hearing how web apps are going to win the war against native apps and PWA are the path to it.
> The tax rate is just 24% up to $150,000.

This is just the federal tax rate. What about state taxes? What about cost of living? Healthcare?
Sure but keep in mind that a much higher percentage of anime fans would like the candies than the average YouTube viewer. So essentially the cost per interested user decreases since even though people like yourself miss out, overall the wins per dollar go up.

It's a good strategy. In theory he could spend the money saved from people like you skipping the ad on a different ad that targets a more general market and end up with more wins overall.
that's a lot of work
Oh please bitcoin doesn’t even approach the carbon emissions of the US military. Nobody ever points that out.
> why would you assume that two brown guys are going to rape you? Not to trivialize what happens to women, but it’s certainly an odd reaction to have.

Because of the extreme cost of a false negative, ...
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Not being able to find a discount you saw can be pretty frustrating. Less important in this case as employers often pay for these conferences.
Good God y'all
Might work for some people, but the probability that I would even remember the first ad had a code - let alone the exact string - is minuscule.
I upgraded a few weeks ago from a Nexus 5X to a Galaxy S7 (non-Edge). The two things I miss from the 5X are the fingerprint scanner location (The iPhone-style 'home' button / scanner combo on the S7 is a bit more fiddly, although the scanner is quicker) and the bezel at the side. It's far too easy to get false touch inputs along the edge of the screen, turning a click into a pinch zoom etc. Bezels aren't necessarily bad on a multitouch screen.
Well, he is frequently met with outright ridicule. But to be fair, he does address those points. I haven’t read his stuff for a while, but I think he argued that, even with the two world wars and all the other atrocities of the 20th century, there were still fewer violent deaths per capita than in the previous century.

I don’t agree with everything Pinker says but there does appear to be a statistical fact that fewer people die from violence each century. He looks for for explanations for this general trend.
People at the top of our economy are generally oblivious to how bad things are for the bottom half. The top 0.1% commands the same wealth as the bottom 90%. Historically wealth inequality finds its outlet in political unrest, and there is probably more of that to come in the next decade. In the last election a socialist and a populist both got suprising amounts of support, even though the broader economy was supposed to be doing well. The next recession will hit the bottom 50% hard, and we could see truly strange things if that occurs near an election.
I found this chart to help a lot:

http://www.wri.org/resources/charts-graphs/world-greenhouse-...

Although the data is from 2005. Personally I was surprised by the impact of concrete (it says 5% but some estimates are 9%).
I consider myself a recovering perfectionist.

It used to be that, all my code had to be perfectly understandable, all my variable names the perfect metaphor / concept, my architectures the most scalable etc.

I found that the anxiety of having to make hundreds of correct decisions everyday left me exhausted. Ultimately it was not sustainable. I would agonised over tiny details for extended period of time.

I was eventually exposed to and much later internalised the idea that there are three types of decisions:

1. those you get right
2. Those you get wrong
3. Those you don't make

Anything is better than 3 in a non-life or death situation. If you're trying to learn 1 is not so important and doing 2 is the only way to truly learn.
Possibly somebody else will be able to help you, but I'm going to have to say that in nearly a decade of living here I haven't really found anything really mind blowing in terms of candy. Which is not to say that Japanese sweets aren't amazing - do a google image search of "wagashi". The problem is that these aren't candies and they don't really travel that well. You pretty much have to come to Japan to try them.

When I was living in Canada I managed to find some things. For example daifuku (mochi rice with sweet bean paste inside) is amazing (I especially like goma daifuku, which is unfortunately not popular where I live). Manju (steamed buns with sweet bean paste, etc inside) can probably be frozen and shipped. But it's just not really that good when not fresh.

For actual candy that's available almost everywhere: Pocky is nice -- not exactly mind blowing, like I said, but pleasant. Where I live "matcha chocolate" is popular and worth trying. It's basically coco butter with ground green tea in it. There are even various versions of Kitkat with green tea flavours. Actually Kitkat flavours are pretty crazy in Japan -- some of them are even good. My town is a test centre for Kitkat, so I get to try all of them (as well as Coca Cola -- Peach Coca Cola is horrible, just in case it makes it out of here).

Basically, as far as I know (and would be glad to be proven wrong) Japan doesn't really have a long history of candy making, so the candy you are likely to find is basically just variants of candy that came from other places. There are some exceptions, but I can't imagine the traditional candies I've had being particularly popular for anything other than nostalgia (for example pressed soy bean sugar).
> If an ad can be targeted to that level it can be used to address a single individual.

Alec Brownstein did exactly that by ad targeting his favorite creative directors' names some years back in order to land a job. It worked.

https://mashable.com/2010/05/13/job-google-ad-words/#GvW9atl...
Your comment is very sad and true at the same time. Reminded me once again the actions of each of us matter.
Really enjoyed that video, thank you.
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Funny that you should mention tumor angiogenesis. Two of my female friends were diagnosed with Uterine Fibroids [1] in their 30s, and both their doctors said basically the same thing in recommending hysterectomy - paraphrasing:

"The uterus is good for two things, growing babies and growing tumors."

Apparently these are extremely common, and hormonal birth control exacerbates the problem by making the body behave as if it's constantly pregnant. Both of my friends were angry about having been casually prescribed birth control pills as teens without being clearly informed of it increasing the probability of this outcome.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uterine_fibroid
I don't really agree with the proposed list. It is listed based on the reduction certain solutions could potentially offer, but the limits of the reductions they offer are not correct.
So for example, the impact of cement is way higher but their proposed solution isn't carbon negative or carbon neutral concrete but just a reduction in the carbon footprint. So if they were optimistic about the outcome, the order in the list would greatly changed.
http://archive.is/mg5oU
don't count modern day China out.

supposedly they're maintaining 120,000 person concentration camps for their stubborn ethnic minorities in the western region.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/25/at-least-12000...
I'm not terribly familiar with Quora's UI, but it looked like that's the date that the person's author profile was last updated, not the date that they answered the question. I could be totally wrong on this though. It's not possible for the good answer to have arrived later, because the bad answer references it (unless he edited the post afterwards to refer to it, but if the date on the post is actually a last-edit date for the post, that still wouldn't make sense).
you should focus on media and placements where you have a higher percentage of people that a near to take immediate useful actions - maybe a video platform to consume video content is not the best choice to start with.

Where would that be for a candy subscription service? I mean, people looking to buy candy probably just want one packet right now, not ten spread somewhere over the next few months.
1. Thermal expansion. It's a tiny effect, you won't see it in a glass of water in science class but when you've got oceans a few kilometers deep and humans living a few meters above them it can have an impact.

2. It's a feedback effect. Less ice means less light reflected means more energy in our oceans/atmosphere. In turn this creates more ice loss that won't be sea ice.
This is usually true but sometimes not. For example products like Grey Goose vodka make billions of dollars despite being indistinguishable from other quality vodka even by self-professed experts.
One of the last updates for the Moto Z Play 1 did something horrible to my battery life and now it's no better than your average phone. If you check reddit and the Motorola support forum there are tons of people with the same problem.
I agree it is about intellectual laziness.

I was a developer for a decade or two before I finally realized something critical to my career: other developers are actively selling me on things that may or may not be a net benefit to me as the years pass.

Developers are a market just like any other, so people make abstraction layers and then become "evangelists" that go out and sell people on stuff. What's to sell? The idea that the framework takes away all the hard work. (I was a big sucker for frameworks with slick UIs back in the day.) We want to believe with a minimum amount of thought, something super cool that will come out that users and other developers will fawn over.

Once I started teaching developers, I ran into people who called themselves professionals but were unable to think through simple activities. Yes, these people were lazy, but they were also products of an environment where they were just moving from shiny object to shiny object. They knew a little bit about various abstraction layers here or there, but nothing about how anything worked. Most of the time, once they went off "happy path", they just banged away at the compiler until things looked like they were working. And these were people being paid to program!

I completely agree this is because of laziness. I don't think it's the entire picture, however.
When I walk in a shop, I just see many things that I do not need. Other people worry that they won't get enough vacation by ocean, the latest car model, or the most fashionable clothes... I just laugh at such suggestions. I have a roof above my head, as much food as I need, a computer and a fast internet connection -- what else would I really need?

On the other hand, for a long time in my life, when I saved some money, I had absolutely no idea what to do with it. That was a kind of a problem no one around me had during my childhood. I wish I had found websites like "early retirement extreme" a few decades ago, because I was the kind of person who could quite simply achieve it. (Instead I lost the extra money taking bad investment advice from various "financial advisors".) Other people seem to have an irresistible urge to increase their expenses when their income increases; I don't feel this urge.
The mark of a good speaker is one who can hold an audience's attention. This man, is a very good speaker.
It seems that rather than trying to fight the laws of economics with rent controls, special housing, and welfare programs, the focus should be relocation and job placement in less expensive areas.

It's unrealistic to try to get someone a low end job that will support them long term in one of the most expensive cities in America.

With the $1.2B bond measure, you could rent housing for every single homeless person in LA for a good 5 years in middle America. (less than $500 a month all in).
That's the whole point of the study of energy storage over fifty years. The interesting point is that the amount of ice calving off from the Greenland glaciers is minute compared to the amount of ice on Greenland. It doesn't matter how spectacular these calves are and they are spectacular and from our point of view they are huge, you can think of them as flaking skin off an elephant.

The problem I see here is that the energy flows and pathways required are of such a magnitude and are so complex that the simplistic modelling being used basically ignores it.

For every kilotonne of ice being calved, it will require, at a minimum, the energy stored in 4 kilotonnes of sea water at 20 degrees Celcius. The resulting temperature of that sea water would be reduced to just above freezing point of water. If you, say, set the limit at a 1 degree Celsius drop, then we are looking extracting the energy of about 84 - 85 kilotonnes of sea water. You still need to take into account the energy conduction through water and also from water to the ice.

At this end of the globe, we see stories often enough of the end of small icebergs that have calved off the Antarctic ice mass. Many of these have been tracked from the initial calve to their final demise and it takes many years for even small ones to finally disappear.

To get any serious ice melt, you have to have serious amounts of energy flowing into that ice.

One question to ask is how the calving is occurring? There can be a variety of ways this can happen and they are not all caused by temperature increases. This, in itself, is a very interesting subject and there are some quite complex processes involved.

The world around us is extremely complex and we have very little understanding of how things work, irrespective of what is portrayed in popular media.

Historical records do indicate that the Arctic Polar ice mass has been of varying sizes. Some of these have essentially indicated that the ice mass was very small at some points in history and at other times very large. Some of these records and reports go back many hundreds of years.
Or how money changes your mindset ?
> People at the top of our economy are generally oblivious to how bad things are for the bottom half.

Generally oblivious or willfully ignorant with malice?
Yeah, despite this being the first serious thing requiring medical attention in my life, I knew it was appendicitis from literally the moment I felt it; it just took them seven hours to first, listen, and second, confirm the diagnosis. They spent hours sending me to tests that were ultimately pointless and inconclusive. Then when I collapsed spontaneously and went into a cold sweat for the third time since arriving, the people dealing with me seemed genuinely surprised that I had collapsed and went into a cold sweat!

They sent me home with like... "16 hours worth" of ultra-low-dose hydromorphone (I couldn't find any dosing guidelines which even reference 1mg tablets) and left me to choose which hours of pain I wanted them for; I missed my followup because the front desk folks couldn't send me where the surgeon's note said I should go.

The best part was the ambulance ride, which only cost me fifty bucks and was conducted excellently; the surgery itself also went well, as far as I can tell, though for an appendectomy that's nothing to write home about (not to downplay the work involved, but like flying in airplanes, it has become routine).

Likely not a coincidence, the ambulance ride is the one thing I had choice in as a patient, and the one thing I paid for out of pocket (although non-emergency rides somewhat subsidize emergency ones, by policy).
While he has not voiced any direct criticism of the project that i recall, he has voiced concerns about the principle developers of it.

Keep in mind that at one point he was so fed up with Kay Sievers that he announced he would not accept any kernel patches that originated from that person.

I think it related to Sievers unilaterally deciding that the kernel, and not udev, should be responsible for loading firmwares, leading to the kernel devs scrambling to implement the required functionality. In the aftermath some kernel devs even pondered forking udev and bundling it with the kernel code as part of its userspace toolkit.

And this was from before udev was merged with systemd (iirc).
I think they mean that blocking problems that would prevent the implementation of their favorite policy are the tragedies.

Public transport does not work, and this is just one more reason why. Every few years the police feels the need to spend a month or two catching pickpockets (or worse) on public transport. Train stations in all the big cities are hotbeds of criminal activity. That is a major problem that is not, and probably won't ever be, solved.

For me personally public transport fails in 3 massive ways:

1) public transport means I cannot do groceries, shopping for furniture, tvs or other big goods, move houses, ... so I still need a car, public transport or not.

2) governments just don't build out public transport. Even in places with "excellent" public transport, when I pass there (the Netherlands, for example), there are severe capacity problems that COULD have been solved, but aren't.

In many places like London or New York, there aren't capacity problems, you're actually unlikely to NOT be delayed at some point.

3) it's not actually cheaper once you take into account that you have to bring 2 kids to school, then go to work. Taking the cost/inconvenience/risk of public transport doesn't even provide a monetary or time reward.

This also means that using public transport for family trips is out : driving across Europe (e.g. Netherlands -> South of France) for a weekend or holiday ... train is a LOT more expensive than using a car.

(That said, it can provide a big time advantage and I will use it in that case, but I still much prefer a car)

Some reading on the subject:

http://www.uwgb.edu/DutchS/PSEUDOSC/MassTransit.HTM

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2013/03/06/top-eigh...
I attended this same talk last month at NDC London. Very interesting talk with lots of little details, and a brilliant speaker.