skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People living longer, governments with generous social spending end up with that spending swallowing up the budget as working age population shrinks, so without a working age population increase less and less workers supporting more dependents.

I mean, we all know non-negative increase eventually exceeds carrying capacity of planet, though that capacity has been bumped up a few times due to technology (cheap fossil fuels, green revolution, etc).

The “easy” solution is to keep growth juiced and hope we’ll figure something out (technological or societal structural innovation) before we hit one of the hard limits.

I’m a bit more interested to see what happens when the megacities exhaust their water supplies, which they are burning through at an amazing rate.
Except it was an AWS employee who misconfigured the bucket, not a GoDaddy employee.

Misconfiguration yes, but not GoDaddy's.
Something's been done. LoL. I saw that and am aware. Yeah.
The poorest people in the US also need ID cards to just survive too, try to get any sort of government benefits without being able to prove who you are.
Surely you must concede that, in this particular instance, it's clear-cut that the workplace culture is toxic, and that there are a couple of orders of magnitude in severity between it and this hypothetical non-smoker-excluding office.

Surely you must also see that the described behavior is discriminatory. "If they just didn't hire people like X, there wouldn't be a problem" should be a huge red flag, the kind that suggests in a "there be dragons" sort of way that employment and non-discrimination laws might possibly frown upon something here.

Surely?
I think once could benefit well from learning about mental models and cognitive biases. They affect how we think and make decisions.
Why does not the body that keeps the electoral role just mail out poling cards as is done in the UK.
There is no way to implement verifiable voting which is not vulnerable to voter coercion. If you can verify your vote, so can the person threatening you.

The way to ensure the ballot is secure is to have a fully publicly verifiable end-to-end process. You should be able to watch the ballot box from the moment you put your vote in, all the way to the count.
Source: “The Chickenshit Club” by Eisinger.
Explains how DOJ and SEC have moved to civil actions because they’re easier to prosecute, letting individuals at corps off the hook for actions they’d be criminally liable for if they took them against an individual in their individual capacity.
Why is this a good idea ?
You should really research the electoral college instead of just assuming it's unfair. There is a reason for it. You may disagree, but it's not just an obvious flaw or oversight. It was intentional.

Edit: to the downvoters, your downvotes won't magically and retroactively count as votes in the 2016 election. Why not participate in the discussion instead of the incivility? Or, you know, hypocritically participate in the HN equivalent of the Electoral College, those with downvoting ability.
Not everyone wants features. Go is an extremely simple language, it doesn't even have generics. People use it widely anyway.
If your vote can be associated back to you outside the polling station, vote coercion (and/or selling) becomes a concern.
Why should you not be able to vote just because your quality of life is low?

Evidence suggests that the number of fraudulent votes is very low in the US (although the number of legitimate votes is also low)
If we follow your argument to its logical conclusion, then no company could be held responsible for its actions if more than a generation had passed, because all the constituent employees would then have left.

But by the same logic, if companies are just convenient fictions, then they should have no rights whatsoever beyond those of their constituent employees - no fiscal benefits, no corporate donations, no political lobbying, no corporate legal representation, etc. Is that also your position?
You just need to show proof of residence, of which a utility bill is one example.
By the same measure, the great leap forward was a huge success.
Here's your post:

>Here is just a small handful of YouTube channels censored based on their political views:

(emphasis mine)

I'm asking you to justify calling this censorship based on political views, like you claimed. I didn't say anything about your views.
China's total fertility rate is already well below replacement level, their population will start shrinking around 2027. They're just attempting to boost the birth rate so the dependency ratio (number of people who work to support the retired) isn't so dire.
The way it works in Mexico, every political party has a representative in each voting site. Once the site officials (not government employees, but citizes selected at random) finish the ballot counting, they fill-in an act that is signed by every representative. So, each party has an unofficial report for each office, and their only restriction to know if there was a fraud is how faster they can double check official government figures.

And yes, we do take elections pretty seriously around here. After the "System blackout" of 1988, it is not possible to have any sort of legitimacy without a robust election process with heavy involvement from the public. It is also one of the most expensive systems around the world, but at least we can be reasonably certain that the rascals that rule us are indeed the rascals the majority did choose.
How do you know voter fraud isn't much of an issue if people got no id? how do you check it even? I could probably go there as a tourist and vote, no?
I'm not familiar with the Facebook incident you are referring to, but it doesn't sound like something caused by a bug? The article is about bugs; i.e. unintentional tragedies. If what you're referring to is not the result of a bug then it's off-topic (though perhaps not unimportant).
I don't think it was meant to be a reversal, and I don't see it as one.

It's a claim that half the country holds inconsistent beliefs - wanting things for themselves which entail people helping each other, but being ideologically opposed to the mechanism.

You may disagree, or consider it exaggeration, but it doesn't seem to be incoherent as a claim.
Since I'm not on my work computer, I can't cite any of the documents. But a lot of it has to do with button and box alignment, especially when there is an unknowable number of elements, each of unknown length. As mentioned in my previous comment, grid isn't possible because I have to support a sizable number of IE11 and WinXP visitors.

One example of where things fall down in Flexbox is when you have a number of boxes/buttons in what is, to the user, a grid. If you use justify-content: space-around to match the designer's specifications, you end up with orphans centered in the last row.

To meet ease of reading guidelines, those orphans should be left-aligned. I think it looks like low-grade dog food, but there's a lot of eye-tracking research that shows people ignore items centered in the last row because they think it's decoration, or an ad. If it's left-aligned, that signals that it's part of the rest of the grid.

It's in these cases that inline-box is still the best way to go.

Speaking of ads, one thing I've learned in the last two years from all these research studies is that pretty much anything put in a right column is ignored. People have become inured to ads there that they nearly always assume that content is an ad, even if it's navigation. So one of the big guidelines is that navigation is always either 1, front-and-center; 2, top-line; or 3, left column, even in right-to-left languages.
The last vestige of Ampex, their sign on US 101 in Redwood City, came down last week. Delta Information Systems owns the brand now, and uses it for solid-state aviation recorders.

Stanford ended up with the Museum of Magnetic Recording, with various historical machines including the first VTR, and they are supposedly in a warehouse in Livermore.
That doesn't reflect how HN is moderated at all. Your claim about who's flagging is equally made-up. Edit: the claim in your profile is also completely untrue.

In fact you have a long history of making things up about HN moderation, posting them, and continuing to repeat the false claims when corrected. You also have a long history of using HN for political battle about China. If you keep abusing the site this way, we're eventually going to ban you. Dramatic allegations about "censorship" and "suppression" don't immunize you against having to follow the rules like other users.
FWIW as a HN reader and user here to offer some (of course anecdotal) perspective: I am a resident of Texas and they make it a definite inconvenience to register to vote. It’s 2018 and I have to print something off and mail it to my county to register. That means I have to know who to mail it to, have stamps, know the correct form to print off and have a permanent mailing address to receive correspondence to be able to complete the process (on top of all the other identification requirements detailed elsewhere).

Now I know that isn’t a big deal to a lot of people here but there are a ton of people around where I live that it would be a significant enough barrier to entry to the point where they just wouldn’t bother.

Compare this to some other states that make it super easy (Oregon comes to mind) and look at their voter fraud rates vs TX and you start to wonder if there is some ulterior motive at play here.
Okay but is there some kind of electronic system that checks for the same person showing up in two counties? In India we apply election ink on a voter's finger
Interesting, and thank you for explaining how a blockchain would actually be used! But while there's value in allowing you to prove to yourself that your specific vote was counted, any such scheme also breaks the secrecy of your ballot and opens you to being forced to prove it for someone else.
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My wife can't get NY ID, since she her mom changed her name as a baby twice and lost all of the docs, so they won't accept her current proof.
Text configuration is so far beyond that vast majority of end users. Hacker News truly is living in a bubble.
It seems obvious to me how to fix this: give everyone a federal ID (Estonia style maybe?) and require everyone to vote (maybe a nominal fine if they don't).

I understand changes like that would favor the Democrats more than Republicans. Maybe it could be phased in slowly enough to lessen the pain? Anyway, once it was in place I'm sure the balance of power would readjust and then they could solve some real problems instead of shady politicking.
And people are quite OK to trust these. In these cases there is a central authority from which trust can be established. Voting is the opposite. During voting the central authority is being changed by the man on the street. He therefore needs to understand how it works otherwise how is he in control?
The problem with individually verifiable votes is that of vote buying. Consider two scenarios, one where votes can be individually verified, and one where they cannot.

A) Person stands outside of polling station in swing state/district, offers $5 for a verified vote. Walk in, get your receipt/blockchain entry/doodad, show it to the vote buyer outside, get $5. Not at all a good situation, because it enables votes to be bought.

B) Person stands outside of polling station in swing state/district, offers $5 for a vote. Walk in, vote for whoever you want, then walk out and pocket the $5. Because the vote cannot be verified, they have no proof one way or the other.

Better to have an adversarial system, where any votes coming out of the ballot box are observed by representatives of all candidates. Each candidate has an incentive to ensure that the others do not tamper with the vote.
Low quality fund options in employer provided retirement account are a problem, but in the U.S. you can roll it over into a self-controlled IRA at whatever provider you like once you change employers, so for most people the number of years it'd be subject to those higher fee funds is not too high, at least.
> Simple have the machine print two reports. the copy given to the voter clearly states there vote

Nope nope nope. This is highly undesirable because it allows votes to be sold/forced out of people.
I work a full time job.
You'd have to be registered in both counties, which would be trivially easy to detect.
Being mummified was a clever move. If his brain were preserved long enough, then he may hypothetically have been brought back to life. A bit like cryogenics.
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I've never seen a requirement that specifically listed "must have utility bill". There are usually a list of valid documents, and in someone's worst case, if they're disabled, they're going to be collecting disability and will have official correspondence from the state with their name and address on it that would qualify.
FTA: "In lieu of providing affordable units on site..."
Since the comment you're responding to is the oldest one, it would seem this thread had no comments yet either.
You went from a comment by an official about the state's interest in babies to progressivism, eugenics, soviets and Nazis. It's word salad trollery and you should, as they the thing says, 'eschew' it.
How far advanced are methods to automatically setup FEA simulations on arbitrary inputs? The parameter space for FEA methods is pretty large and things like meshing can go terribly wrong and lead to utterly wrong results. Trying to run simulations in the background while a building is being designed seems like a goal to strife for, but to be successful, the software needs to be able to perform equivalently to an experienced engineer without guidance. That's a tall order.
Yeah, my wife's mom changed her name twice as a baby without saving any docs about it, so her passport doesn't match her birth certificate. It's a horrifying pain in the ass.
Probably not that big a deal. An operator/program can easily damage a CNC mill by jogging a substantial tool (or the spindle itself) into solid material, which is a much more likely scenario.
I assume you are asking in good faith but that is a big ask - yes it is "racist"
A huge amount of games these days are sold as just CDkeys in a box so all of those pesky physical media concerns fall away. You're blocked from reselling them, they're leaden with DRM and the copyright owners are happy.
Faster would be the most desirable attribute in my opinion. Rust should be much faster at least for development builds and LLVM is one of the parts which slows it down.
> transactions anonymous but still verifiable for the owner.

The problem is that "owner" here means "whoever holds the private key". If I can verify that my individual vote was cast correctly, then somebody looking over my shoulder can verify how I voted as well.
Hardly anyone does it because the reward is small and the penalty is huge. Voter fraud is a federal crime. That's 2+ years in a federal pen (the ones they make scary movies about) with a minimum 85% sentence served. There is no early, good behavior release. Imagine knowingly robbing a bank where the maximum haul is $1. That is kind sort of what knowingly.

Authentication happens at registration. Once your registered they have your name on a checklist at the polling location which they check off. It also prevents double voting.

Now, how do they verify all these votes are actually correct? Well polling data is really damn accurate. Each party kind of knows in advance where they will win so it comes down to running a statistical models to find anomalies.

In short, to commit real voting fraud it would have to be a coordinated system wide event. Not something that can be done by individual voters. But now with electronic voting it takes very little to run a SQL update query and change a million votes.
I agree. this is one of the few instances where the blockchain makes sense.
The article expressly says these units are not considered affordable.
I could not find a paper (I was interested in how they constructed the dataset), but only an extended abstract of the talk [1]

It seems the dataset consisted of 70 songs. Since they don't specify the distribution, there is no saying if 80% accuracy is good or worse than average guessing.

An average of 35 samples per class is a serious few-shot constraint, which makes resorting to interpretable and simple Bayesian analysis a sane step. Note how the dataset is grossly underdefined too: 70 samples and 149 features, which can cause problems for more complex algo's.

I think we have to reconstruct this article from behind the pop-sci glasses this was presented with.

> this is really serious stuff in terms of what was done

Sure, it is no joke paper, nor meandering about music theory without any hard proofs.

> "The probability that McCartney wrote it was .018"

Probably this meant to say: The model predicts a 0.018 probability, but that is too careful for a pop-sci article. We can then question the validity of the model.

> you'd better believe the math because it's much more reliable than people's recollections

"Ha-ha! People did a lot of drugs in the 60s!" nothing more...

> And 10 years later, here we are talking about the discovery.

Also cute, in that it makes it sound like one of the authors spend 10 years working on this very basic analysis.

Meta: This article would have been published 10 years ago too (since the finding is interesting from a pop-sci view), but I doubt they would even dare describing the maths behind the publication. Now we are in techno-fetish era and write about the number of layers, GPU hours, BoW, and value networks, just to fool the reader into getting a glimpse of modern AI. While the methods in this article can be implemented in 1 hour of downloading Midi files and another hour of implementing Graham's 2002: A plan for spam. [2]

[1] https://www.amstat.org/asa/files/pdfs/pressreleases/JSM2018-...

[2] http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html
That's everyone's shtick, the CP portions of Gameworks are 100% standard DX API calls whilst AMD optimizations are "Radeon Shader Intrinsics" which are pre-compiled binaries that bypass the compiler in the driver and cannot run on any other hardware at all.

"GPUOpen" is also heavily vendor locked much more so than Gameworks which is nearly 100% cross platform, in fact besides the SLI/VR stuff and RTX there isn't a single part of Gameworks which is proprietary.
You clearly have no idea what bureaucracy in third world countries is like
I've been involved in modular buildings in the past and one area that seems to end up informing design choices (in a negative way) is the size of elements that can be readily transported from a central facility to a site. Having bays of modules related to wagon width often, and regular joints/seams seems to end up driving basic ideas like wall loactions and floorplate thicknesses. Have you evolved much in this aspect?
At least here in California, every voter is assigned a location where they vote. The voting location has a list of everyone assigned there and checks your name (and address) off their list when you show up. If you're not on the list or if your name is already checked off you can't vote.
Voter registration cards are on the identification document list in that link, they don't have pictures on them.

Either way the requirements to vote are currently less strict in many places than the requirements to get a photo ID that can then meet the requirements of voter ID laws.

That, all by itself, means it will affect some percentage of the voters in an area, and that means it can easily affect the outcome of an election, at the very least for a period of time that may span multiple election cycles.

And that is the real reason voter ID laws are constantly being proposed.

Constantly re-arguing the theoretical neutrality and easy availability of ID (which is generally neither free or easily available, in some cases deliberately) ignores the practical effect of voter ID laws, and the motivations of those pushing for voter ID laws.
freedom of speech only applies to governmental entities. private businesses and individuals are not restricted similarly.

freedom of speech does not keep someone from thinking you (not you specifically, but the general you) are an idiot or a kook, nor does it protect you from the consequences of your words by those other individuals (obviously other laws protect you from intentional physical harm and the like). nothing can compel me to listen to you or make a company broadcast your conspiracy theories (again, the general you).
Ask HN: Device for online videos
What hardware do you use to watch online educational videos?
They all think they know best and want to tell people what to do.
Then we should be trying to help homeless people get valid IDs, their quality of life depends on it at least as much as voting, likely far more.
...but it's not "much bother" to run the control loop through the complexity of software? This seems to be the equivalent of overengineering in software, where something straightforward is instead performed through many layers of abstraction and indirection.

The straightforward way of implementing this with a bidirectional motor is to wire normally-closed limit switches in series with their appropriate direction signals, such that when the switch is actuated it prevents the motor from going in that direction, but it can still move away from the switch.
My answer is in the linked video, and doesn’t fit into a sound bite. If I understand your question, you are asking for evidence that corporations get away with things that normal citizens wouldn’t. The answer is that history provides ample evidence to back up this claim, and my link is one such piece of evidence.
Actually with NN-Video editing- 200$ movies that look and sound like the real thing are possible. Hollywood made the stock footage that will be its own demise.
> It has potential to greatly reduce ballot problems, both crap like hanging chads, "voter used an X mark instead of filling in the circle"

Should people who screw up their votes that much even get their votes counted? Maybe these problems are filtering out people whose votes shouldn't be counted in the first place. If they don't understand the (very simple) mechanics of the voting process, I can't imagine how they can understand politics enough to make an intelligent vote.

Also, by the same logic, they could botch what they touch on the screen anyway, and the output of the machine wouldn't give us any insight into what happened during that process.
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I'm currently in this situation and am looking to find a way through.
The homelessness problem in the Bay area has more to do with good weather and a homeless-friendly local government than it does with the usual causes of homelessness. Lots of other homeless-unfriendly cities tend to drive people there.