skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What's so safe about pen & paper?

An agent has to be physically present to affect it, first of all. This helps a lot by constraining the field of actors from "potentially anyone with an internet connection" to "people who physically come in contact with the artifact". This is a widely underrated safety benefit with applicability all over, not just in elections.

The great benefit of paper voting is its simplicity. Any time you invent a complex contraption and tell the people to just trust that contraption's designers, e.g., the "blockchain technologists" you've mentioned, you've just built a new ruling class.

For something to work, it must use a process and mechanism that is plainly and obviously valid to anyone of sound mind. "Counting marks on paper" is such a process. You can't get much more complex than that before you're transferring control to a new elite.

People will always search for ways to unduly influence and damage processes by which power is ascribed. This is one of the main reasons why a process with trivial verification mechanisms is required for the public to credit the results.

In the year of Spectre and Meltdown, it is immensely naive to pretend that computers are ultimately trustworthy. Simplicity remains supreme, and computers are not simple.
Even After Fix, Windows 10 Update Is Botching File Operations
Ireland isn't even the only border issue to Brexit. There's also Gibraltar.
From what I've read previously, this isn't a surprise - PrEP is expected to make a huge impact where it's available and this study sounds like it could be very influential in getting it made available elsewhere which is, I think, its real value - the public health effect rather than the individual-level effect.

The article linked below also details some of the pitfalls campaigners had to overcome to get it funded on the NHS in the UK - the biggest hurdle was not convincing people of effectiveness but that there was a need in the first place - as safer sex is much cheaper but in practice just doesn't always happen and we're probably at, or close to, the limit of what education can achieve now.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-44606711
Extremely misleading title, but looks delicious.
> VCs are going to have to start refusing money from nearly everybody foreign thanks to the new CFIUS rules

That isn't going to happen at all. The point of CFIUS is selective enforcement, not broad, strict enforcement. It's the exact same reason anti-trust laws are vague, so they can selectively go after anyone at any time if they so choose. The point is to be able to further control the economy, whenever that is desirable, and to target a given nation for restrictions if it's viewed as politically advantageous. The point is absolutely not to clamp down on all foreign investment.
2 years seems to be the minimum, and it's almost how linked in computes it that matters. In west cost tech companies, 2 years raises no red flags. so if you can get your average to that, or at a minimum your current job is at least 2 years no one will car.
To be fair, I imagine a lot of systems don't handle noninteger house numbers very robustly. That "1/2" business just seems like asking for trouble.

The best solution might be to convince your building landlord or management to rename the units as 1 Fake Street Unit A and Unit B, or something like that. Assuming they don't have to fight City Hall to make that happen, they might be willing to help.
While that's true, it's a complete non-sequitur to the parent comment.
Another issue with infinite scrolling on web sites is: what happens when there's a connection problem? I've seen sites where it silently acts as if the user had reached the end of the "infinite" page, even though that's not the case. Worse, the only way to recover (once the connection is working again) is to reload the page and start once more from the beginning.
> emergency care is a single-digit percentage of total health expenditures.

How does that contrast with "care provided by emergency departments?"
Can you elaborate on the context in which the martyrdom statement was made.
Great planet money podcast on this [1] with owner of site [2] that tries to surface fake reviews.

[1] https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor...

[2] https://reviewmeta.com/
If you disassemble a basic set of wired headphones it is literally just a set of wires from the TRS or TRRS plug to a set of speakers.
Or you know, do both! Socialize the costs, but unevenly, then inflate the costs, spread them across as many middlemen as possible, and charge left and right!
stdint.h was introduced in C99, yes? There's a lot of code that started before that and hasn't been converted to newfangled things.
I like to write maths tutorials. Anything in particular you're interested in?
Ah perhaps I have stale information then. Last I heard retail truvada will run you north of $1,500 per month in the us.
Only if you use non sequitur arguments, and the football team captain's name was Albert Einstein.
Knew it would be John Arnold. If you find this interesting, he regularly posts content like this on his Twitter: https://twitter.com/JohnArnoldFndtn
I use it regularly. It's a bit better, but I really would like to bypass the client altogether if possible. I don't want to sound too critical/ungrateful for something that is free in all senses of the word, but it does leave a lot to be desired. Main gripes: Their repo is either down or slow quite often. The client will just keep spinning until force closed. The new UI is worse (when is it not ? I can't remember a recent project whose new UI is better) Too many steps to do basic stuff. Entire blank page devoted to nearby (p2p) stuff, which I have no use for. Inconsistent links for issues, changelog etc., that can lead anywhere (either the upstream project, f-droid's version of the project, or some random website). Lot of other issues too that will get too long to get into here.
> Lol there’s no cure for syphillis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, hep b, etc etc.

Each and everyone disease you listed here can be cured. Example, Syphilis - https://www.cdc.gov/std/syphilis/lab/default.htm
You would think, however, that the "1/2" works fine in the text field used for a standard North American address... At least with Amazon and 99% of ecommerce sites there's two separate freeform text entry fields for street address. It's not like these are fields that require a precise integer.

This should enable the actual human making the delivery to see the same thing printed on the label, and visually match it to whatever is labeled "1/2" on the building.
the answer is that company policies like only small raises are dumb ass, and are clearly bad for the company. We all know if someone knowledgeable leaves, it will take time for the new hire to ramp up, and replace an existing good person. For that reason we should try harder to keep them. But higher up the ladder, people look at stats like average pay - it's much harder to measure productivity than average pay, that's why pay is used in stupid ways, in negative incentive ways.
Is there any centralized ruling for this in the US (and other countries) or is this up to the blood banks.

I'd imagine they'd face liability issues if they were taking blood from high risk individuals. This also applies to intravenous drug users as well (which has nothing to do with sexual orientation).
hi! Sorry I didn't mean to mislead you, what were you expecting? I can definitely send you a whole bunch of recipes if you're interested
Antibiotics aren’t going to work forever on new strains of common STDs. Already seeing rise in drug resistant strains.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna642161
No, South Africa ended apartheid when the international business community and their governments mostly decided to boycott them (after public unrest). It turned businesses that supported apartheid into pariahs.
I tried to engage with SO when I first started programming about 8 years ago, but I think I said something someone didn't like or that wasn't technically allowed by their rules or something. I think they wanted me to ask a bunch of my own questions to get up my points. I didn't have any questions to ask. I gave up on it.

Over the last 8 years I've used answers on SO many times, as I've been directed there by Google. There have been MANY times I could have provided a much better answer or clarification than any others, but I don't because as far as I'm aware, SO still won't let me. I don't really care since it doesn't affect me, but I do like to help out others when I can. SO's loss really.
And on every other service you will get something that at least resembles a straight answer.
I don't think that hr is looking to replace people, because it's way too hard to hire. At my company every new hire looks like a magical lucky serendipitous event. Hiring is just that hard. HR grudlingly matches people's other offers. They are too exhausted to look for someone to replace their existing employees.
On the flip side of "we don't want dirty money from ethically questionable non democratic states investing in our fund":

Things start looking really dirty, really fast when you look at what major institutional investors put money into things that are highly ethically questionable. For example a major Canadian pension fund was recently discovered to be investing in private prisons/immigration detention facilities in the USA.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/12/canada-pension...
“There is a basis”

Of course there is. I have no idea why there is such a viceral reaction to a nuanced viewpoint of why a guy got dismembered. It’s not a simple “he was a cool WaPo journalist who criticized the Saudi family “

It reminds me of how so many smart people supported the Iraq war in 2003, including American media like NYT.

I implore people to not do that again.
Infinite scroll seems to be ideal with casual consumption and serendipitous discovery, which is probably why its the status quo for sites like Reddit, Tumblr, Facebook, and even Google Images.

But it seems to be detrimental for sites in which a user is looking for something specific, such as an answer to a search query or a product to buy -- i.e. they know what they want when they see it -- which would explain why sites like Google or Amazon haven't implemented it (though Amazon does have it for its mobile client it seems).

Years ago Etsy implemented infinite scroll in its search results, but killed it after finding "that people seeing infinite scroll purchased less from search".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5017995
There IS a looming danger from non-banks, but I wasn't expecting insurance to be it.

It's already been regulated, due to there being a fairly obvious risk if left to decide its own reserves: You could just write loads of insurance in a limited liability company and go bankrupt if you had too many claims. So there are rules to stop that happening.

What would be interesting would be something like the shadow banking system. Various vehicles that aren't banks but are major financial players (esp lenders) anyway. It covers a lot of different things.
It’s worth noting that Kaiser does this. They post a fee schedule for just about every routine procedure in every region they operate in. There is no abiguity about what an MRI costs.

Transparency won’t fix healthcare in the US, but it is a starting point. Hell, it’s fundamental to simple free market economics. It’s silly to say we have a free market healthcare system when there is virtually no cost information about goods and services until after purchase.
Antibiotics won’t work forever. Seeing drug resistant strains already.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna642161
Those Prime branded vans are often third party contractors as well.
I bought a problematic item on Amazon and left a negative review. The seller contacted me three times via email and offered me $30 (the cost of the item) to remove the review. I didn't take it but maybe others had. And I wonder if I was duped into buying the thing because previous negative reviewers had been bought off.

Considering the fake reviews and the number of counterfeit items I've received from Amazon, I default to Costco, Target, Lowes, etc. for shopping now. I have a lot more confidence that their suppliers and their vetting of products are legit.

I consider Amazon a flea market at this point. I'll buy some things at a flea market, but not much.
Each donor center medical director is responsible for their own checklist, however, The American Association of Blood Banks (AABB) inspects blood donor centers and publishes their questionnairre. Not asking these questions will constitute a hit agaisnt your program and may jeopardize your institution's ability to seek reimbursement for services from, say, CMS.

http://www.aabb.org/tm/questionnaires/Documents/dhq/v2/DHQ%2...
The former Liberal government looked seriously at changing the tax code to attract financial services types from overseas. The idea was to establish BC as a “Singapore of the North”. I wish I had a citation for this - sorry.
"Make sure to pipe the output to /dev/null when running this program. This is because the redox ransid ibrary
keeps spamming stdout..."

Signs of quality software.
It always interests me how much of the US electoral system is just obviously completely broken from the perspective of outsiders, and it seems strange that people within the US see procedures like this and view them as normal and legitimate.
I don't know about Prudential in particular, but most companies offering life insurance are also in the business of selling life annuities -- so an epidemic which triggers large insurance payouts might also dramatically cut their annuity liabilities.
Istanbul Vending Machines Offer Subway Credit for Recycled Bottles and Cans
The distinction you're making matters at the level of individuals. If you're a person choosing a startup to dedicate years of your life to, the choice you make has major consequences for you.

At the level of a huge wealth fund, those details are noise that gets canceled out because the more promise a startup has the more capital dollars are chasing it, so the buy in price is proportional to the value. Arguing that investments aren't fungible is essentially arguing that the efficient market hypothesis is wrong. (Which it can be, but not in a way that seems particularly relevant here.)
> donations

There's your problem.
It is hilarious.

If it has session save/restore, it can compete in the same space as screen/termux/byobu.
A summary of what AI bias is, why we should care, and what can be done about it
Check out the Linux command zines Julia Evans creates and sells online. I don’t know the exact numbers, but if I remember correctly she sold like 3.000 PDFs for $10 each.
I find your argument somewhat specious. Terraforming entire planets in a few hundred years is feasible, if you devote
significant resources of the entire human race to it i.e we have had a drastic impact on the climate by pumping trillions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere. The equivalent effort on Mars would be impossible due to cost, but on earth it was a by-product of an already profitable process (extract and burn fossil fuels, cut down forests).
Why is it a 'perfect' counter-example against my description if it involves beards and job applications when I was talking about income and applying to universities? Is that perfect? Get me counter-example where at least income was discussed as the discriminatory factor or do you think a lawyer would provide the case you mentioned as precedence on this other case? Be more humble, your example just moves the goalpost to provide a contrarian point of view, its far from perfect.
I have some scripts I use to scrape data from FB by manually spoofing keystrokes and I shudder to think how much energy is being wasted at both ends for the amount of data I am actually trying to collect.
Note that a gene "against university success" does not necessarily have to be related to anything you understand as a part of education (e.g. intelligence, conscientiousness, conformity).

For example, imagine that universities are discriminating against... let's use a completely random example here... Asians. In such case, if you measure how individual genes relate to university success, it will turn out that statistically, genes for being Asian are negatively correlated with university success. But that doesn't say anything about Asians' ability to learn or follow instructions, only how the current system is treating them.

Or if you take a country where women are not allowed to study at a university, or course the sexual Y chromosome will be among the ones most strongly correlated with university success.

So even if you find out that a certain gene is good or bad for university success, you still don't know whether this is about what the gene does, or about how the academic establishment treats people having the gene.
The trouble is that there's a ratchet effect which makes non-industrial food increasingly uncompetitive over time, and the only people who can afford decent goods and services are those who are wealthy. I wrote a long comment on this over a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13306700

I'm sorry for your feeling of disturbance. I can't help your sense of righteous indignation, but I don't believe free markets always deliver superior results to democracy.
> Antibiotics won’t work forever. Seeing drug resistant strains already

You said there's "no cure." That's different. Reducing frequencies of a disease for which there is literally no cure in exchange for higher frequencies of a disease for which there is emerging antibiotic resistance is still a good trade.

The article you cite regarding rising STD rates claims the cause is "a decline in funding for state and local agencies working on prevention" as well as "an extreme lack of awareness about STDs and sexual health" and "doctors are not screening and testing for these diseases and patients [not knowing] they need to ask to be tested" [1]. The only link to HIV stated is "people are not afraid of dying from HIV," not a link to prep.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna904311
It is, at a breakpoint. Seems to be plenty of width at the point at which it expands to me.
The Nazis could never have sustained the industrial efforts required to produce a nuclear weapon. Heavy water is (in comparison) easy to isolate, and can be bought and sold freely in the west today.

[0] http://unitednuclear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&pr...
[1] https://www.isowater.com/purchase/
[2] https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/catalog/product/aldrich/151882?...
Is GDP a good metric of the planets net worth?

I'd say biodiversity is a better one. If you include the opportunity cost of losing all the value bound in the genes of organisms that will go extinct before we can use it, for example, things look much worse.

If you insist on GDP, then what will be the effect on the distribution of wealth? And decades of stagnant GDP's effect on investment in technology? Without constant growth many things will fall apart in our society.
Does private life assurance pay out if you are killed war-fighting?
what are the major sources of new debt since the GFC?
You act as if free choice occurs in a vacuum. It does not. Billions spent on advertising, public policy designed to benefit the agriculture and food industries: let's not pretend we are all perfectly informed rational actors, that fallacy was debunked a generation ago.
CO2 isn't pollution. CO2 is causing massive greening of the earth.
Apologies I missed this a few days ago. Transport in Glasgow is also far more efficient than driving. Similarly Birmingham, hull, Manchester are all much easier handled by their transport systems.

If you live outside the cities though, you better own a car.
maybe in parts of europe they got more from milk. i think veggies were more important everywhere else. Other people can't even eat milk!
Fake negative reviews are a tactic of nasty competitors. I'm an Amazon seller and they are rampant. The more competitive the category you're in, the nastier it gets. They will bomb you with negative reviews using certain keywords that will trigger an Amazon algorithm to shut you down.

Amazon has a few systems in place for QC, things like 6% negative customer experience rate or certain keywords like counterfeit or related to safety that will get you flagged. Once you're flagged or shut down, it might take a week or two or more to sell again. You will probably have to pay for an expensive specialist to help you clear Amazon's red tape because if you mess up, and many people do, you might be banned forever from the Amazon marketplace. Almost like a sick video game.

It's a little funny but maddening how people will abuse every gear that makes the Amazon system tick. I use a number of Amazon softwares to scrape data from Amazon and I love seeing the bad players. I'm also in an expensive mastermind and their tactics are dirty. These are Americans so I can't even imagine the tactics that Chinese sellers might use. Honestly, every month I spend in this business makes me lose faith a little more. It's a dark system and I do not like where I think it's going.
I mean, real estate records are public information and real estate transactions are even republished in the newspaper on a weekly basis...
I've been enjoying working on Rust code for the same reasons: Rust can, for every library you have in a project, generate static HTML documentation for all of them. The only part you need Internet for is downloading the dependencies, but that needs only be done once.
Why?

Github offers the possibility of see the repositories and developers that are more appealing for the community daily, weekly and monthly (https://github.com/trending). Also you can filter them by selecting your preferred coding language. It’s pretty good for having an idea of what the community is most excited about.

However, I want to add some features. For example, the ability to know how much time the repo/dev is on the spot and its relative gains and looses positions during the permanency on the trending chart.

For those reasons and because I want to show some uses for zircle-ui (https://github.com/zircleUI/zircleUI) is that I'm trying to present an alternative approach.

This project is very alpha yet, but in some days I will show a beta version.
I'm conflicted about Tor. On the one hand, it (or something equivalent) is necessary to fight traffic analysis, but it also slows you down dramatically, and a significant proportion of its users in the US at least are involved in serious crimes like pedophilia, which is why I would never consider hosting an exit node:

https://www.wired.com/2014/12/80-percent-dark-web-visits-rel...
I download online course videos to my mobile phone and watch them when internet is not available.
I think the major problem for working on side project is you can’t access to the API reference when you don’t have the access to the internet.
Thank you, I really appreciate the response. This was useful.

I do see the reasoning for choosing the normal due to it being the only distribution with finite non-zero moments, and thus, as you nicely pointed out, constraints on a finite number of higher order moments will not give a unique distribution.

But, due to the issues we've now mentioned, I find myself a bit uneasy wrt. maxent as a derivation of and/or as an explanation of the ubiquity of the normal distribution. Thus I find myself more comfortable with some of the other derivations demonstrated by Jaynes.

And thank you for the paper reference; will have a proper look at it sometime. It might be related to
The US required a large, competent army from the very beginning: to gain its independence from Great Britain and to stay united after secession attempts.
As a Canadian living in the USA, I can say that it works less terribly than the American alternative.