skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In terms of not accepting help, I've had people refuse to be put in a motel for the night or placed with someone who had a room for rent. That was primarily a case of pride as they've usually been very newly homeless, but they end up sleeping somewhere unsafe and / or illegal, so I'd love to be able to break past that mental barrier for them.

In terms of being mad about help given, the strongest example in my memory was a group that was offering free hygiene kits (this came to mind because of the article's comments on dental problems) at a soup kitchen. Some people were very offended at the idea and thought it was given in a judgmental way. I can see why they might think that, but... they need those items. So how do you avoid giving that impression? They ended up having a bin of items instead of handing them to everyone - it definitely didn't get received that much better.
I think the goal should be so have so much factional diversity you never reach a coalition state. It only degrades into the status quo when politicians see a path to enshrining their ideology into law without compromise.

Part of the problem is also that most governments have flawed establishing documents that make it possible for legislatures to put innumerable barriers up against a propositioned bill. It should be much easier to force a proposal to vote and that should always be public record. Politicians love being able to kept their intentions "in committee" forever or on a divided floor where nobody ever calls for cloture. Having a firm record of actionable legislative motions is the last thing anyone wants when they expect a lifelong career on a house floor.
when(mockObject.getVar()).thenReturn(1);
assertEquals(1, mockObject.getVar());

test passes boss!
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I don't disagree but the problem is when the lines are very gray.

Like when you have Jason Jones in custody and he's be in trouble for 6 other things and "he probably killed this guy". That's when the generally good people tend to, maybe, cut corners a bit.
Well, I mean, there are at least supposed to be checks and balances with US currency.

It’s a literal universal interest that the USD be stable. A dozen people at the FED or executive shouldn’t be able to ruin the dollar at least in any comparison to how fast a niche crypto commodity could be ruined.

That said... we went through at least three rounds of QE directed by the last administration. So, maybe you’re right.
It's a good point. Punishment in the form of losing something does not work on someone who lost everything.
I'm not sure that it would have a profound effect at all. Fission is very power dense as well and fission fuel cost is not the primary driver of overall costs in existing nuclear designs.

Fusion might end up looking a lot like fission, but hopefully with a lower perceived safety risk and thus more public acceptance.

Granted, modern fission designs aren't actually unsafe, but that doesn't matter for PR purposes.
5-1 negative opinions of other adults being able to clean dishes, at the time I'm writing this.

It wouldn't have struck me, except I named that very concern in my initial comment, and that many people still felt it's the first thing they should inform me of.

Most of us had experiences in college, but yeesh: I like to think everyone's grown as humans since their dorm days.
Wow. Sources needed. You're right in some instances. But the U.N. says a third of young people are raised in abusive homes, and escaping that is the main source of youth homelessness according to what I've read.
I think the Coke/Pepsi remarks are a bit facile, and play into some people's cynical attitude that "they're all the same". For someone with pre-existing conditions, that was manifestly not true. For Iraq, its people, and the thousands of soldiers who served there, it was not true. Just to rattle off a couple of examples.
I always thought edge computing was driven more by IoT applications where wireless access is the bottleneck. For IoT at least, ingress bandwidth is free in most cloud datacenters so I don't see that WAN bandwidth would be an issue? Or are enterprise use cases of edge computing more concerned with 'download heavy' traffic?
While that's true, the current president, Mauricio Macri, is currently non-Peronist, and although he's unpopular and the economy is collapsing, he's made it three years, and he has a substantial chance of lasting to the end of his term in December 2019.
For another anecdote: I’m a college student, and essentially the only reason that anyone I know uses Facebook is for groups that date to a while ago, groups set up by older people, and Messenger.
HN has a huge amount of Googlers as users. That’s the downvotes. Just look at the Googlers in this thread defending the company.
> Preferential voting is IRV.

Most real and proposed balloting methods (other than range/score voting) are preferential, they differ in the restrictions on he expressed preferences; IRV (and lots of other systems), as usually defined, relies on a fully-ranked forced-preference (no ties) ballot. Approval has an implicitly fully-ranked two-preference-rank ballot with unlimited ties, FPTP (whether plurality or majority/runoff) has an implicitly fully-ranked two-preference-rank ballot with ties allowed only in the second rank.

> Relative rankings seem to express more information

They do, there is no “seem". They also do so more consistently. Forced preferences can have the reverse problem of forced ties, though (which is abstractly a point in favor of unforced ranking ballots, but there's less work done on resolution procedures for them.)

> but it turns out that the way you have to count relative rankings either leads to pathological consequences for 3rd parties (see IRV), just like winner-takes-all voting, or the counting method becomes complex and byzantine in corner cases (see Condorcet).

Bucklin is simpler to count than IRV and doesn't have it's pathological effects; the main concrete criticism I've seen is that if truncation is allowed rather than forced-preference, and if the no-majority fallback is highest-vote-total-on-last-round, it may encourage truncation and devolve to plurality. (But a similar charge of incentive to bullet-vote is made against approval.)
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I've been poor most of my life. It's not discriminatory against the poor at all.

I lived in a van with my wife, and we didn't steal. There were people in the parks that would steal, and the police would come after them, not us. I speak from life experience.

You are helping spread a deadly lie.

I challenge anyone to prove me wrong. Go be genuinely poor, it's really easy to do. Just use a tiny amount of money to live off of. And see if it causes you to commit crimes.

Move to a single room apartment, or be homeless. It does not make you immoral or unethical or cause you to mug people or steal.
I am also speaking from experience. It's not my area of mathematics but I have a passing familiarity.

There are simplified problems that can be presented to undergrads, sure - just like most areas. Intro courses often use a toy version of this to show integer programming and the like. But there is as reason these are "toy" version - some of the general variants are NP-hard and have connections to interesting and open problems. Many real world variants are not trivial to undertake.

On a general note - if you hear someone who is even slightly plausibly qualified say "Problem X is hard" and you think "Huh, I solved problem X in undergrad" - the overwhelmingly most likely reason is that you aren't, in fact, talking about the same "problem X". This can of course be due to the method of communication (e.g. science journalism)
Me too. But I couldn't find where was that %75 discount?
> "The purpose of a fine for doing something illegal is supposed to be corrective."

that's almost certainly not true. a fine is primarily a deterrent, and failing that, is punitive. it's not corrective (or restorative), because it doesn't "correct" anything.

an example of corrective action is a burglar being required to return/replace stolen items.
The way radioactivity works, the faster a substance decays, the more dangerous it is. Something being slightly radioactive for ten thousand years is much better than some searing-hot exotic isotope sitting around for 40.
The perl CPAN module DBD::CSV also lets you do this. It was started in 1998 and still gets updates.
I was excited by this prospect mainly because of battery life, but I have a recent Thinkpad and with Ubuntu 18.10 battery life is quite good, even though I have 32GB and a zillion tabs open. This i7 Thinkpad is more expandable and serviceable and still cost less. Probably some of the improvements are due to ChromeOS Kernel improvements, so thanks for that!
Don't use approaches that are black-box in nature if they will negatively impact people who have a say in its adoption.

Shouldn't that "people who are going to be harmed by it." I mean, this situation makes it clear that no one likes being ridden-over by a black box. We shouldn't say "well, it's OK if they can't complain." (and the racist-AI parole system example shows this is a real risk [1]).

[1] https://www.wired.com/2017/04/courts-using-ai-sentence-crimi...
UnitedHealthcare offers free Apple Watch Series 3 if customers exercise daily
Yeah, but (presumably) at least you only had to install it once.
> Also... you've got to treat a laptop pretty gingerly to have one last more than 5 years.

Well it's 5 years from launch which is a big problem in my opinion. For example, they didn't replace the Pixelbook so if you are, like me, considering buying one for Black Friday, you only get 4 years of (guaranteed) support. It also probably harms resale value.

5 years of support from the last day of sale would be much more acceptable to me.

I work for Google but opinions are my own.
So you're saying atmospheric CO2 is not an extremely long-lasting side effect?
Should engineers be paid commission instead of sales people?
> As long as you a producing a normal amount of testosterone

That's something I'm curious about.

I can't access the full article, but the abstract simply mentions "testosterone treatment."

I'm not sure if that means your typical testosterone treatment, where testosterone is given to those who have low testosterone... or if they were administering testosterone to people in this trial regardless of their existing testosterone levels, even if they weren't low.

I suspect it's the latter! Which would be interesting.

If it's the former, this barely qualifies as news. We've known for ages that low testosterone is associated with depression. It would be almost hard to believe that anybody would bother to run a study on it in 2018.

The latter possibility is interesting though. It suggests that supplementing testosterone could be an effective way to treat depression even in those who do not have low testosterone.

(We already know that exercise boosts testosterone, and that exercise is an effective treatment for depression, so this is not completely surprising. And yes, I realize that exercise is not a cure-all, nor an option available to everybody)
I read about the Chromebooks being a huge market especially in education, so I bought a Chromebook and made a app targeted for education. The market is however a ghost town, it seems I'm at least 5 years behind, most old apps have 10ˇ5 users, but new apps, those only one or two years old, have less then 10ˇ2 users ... What happened? Are schools only using pre-installed apps? Or did they stop using Chromebooks? How does this market work!?
Besides being only a Chrome browser, the Chromebook is actually very nice! It's fast and battery last for two or more days. It's perfect for browsing HN, but for developing I'm using another machine with Ubuntu. Also I have not got support for Android and this Crostini thing on my Chromebook.
Ohh and you need a Google account to login, although both Apple and Microsoft does this now a days, so even if you bought your computer, you are not really owning it, just pre paid rent, unless you install another Linux distro on it.
I think as long as we are using rockets to lift things from our world, there will be some level of fear of failure. After all, rockets are essentially an explosion attempting to be controlled.
Okay, but: "We’re excited to announce that the team behind Streams—our mobile app that supports doctors and nurses to deliver faster, better care to patients—will be joining Google."

They're joining Google. Representatives from DeepMind have said that they're joining Google[0]. Every source I can find says that they're joining Google. You're talking about a hypothetical that doesn't exist.

If Streams was joining Alphabet instead of Google, that would probably change things a bit. If they announced they were joining Mozilla instead of Google, that would change things even more. But based on all of the information we have now from both Google and Streams, neither of those things are happening.

Is your position that the blog post that Streams itself used to announce this about their own acquisition is wrong?

[0]: https://twitter.com/Dominic1King/status/1062755561727578113
I mean call me cynical but this wouldn't have happened if they didn't get bad press about it recently
Facebook’s fundraising tools have raised over $1B
On the bright side, a failed deployment might make us expedite deep space manned mission tech in order to go fix it.
It's been decades since I worked on telephones. That scares me a bit :-D
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How can it have millions of tests with 25 million lines of code? How many lines of code is there including the code in the tests?
Does anyone know if this type of setup would be good for smokey air from California wildfires?
Arguably, sure, that's one characterization of the problem alternative voting systems seek to solve.

That isn't a reason to choose a system that maximizes the degree to which that problem is preserved.
Completely serious, no /s here's your strategy.

* Get a 5 sided die.

* Rank each candidate from 0-5.

* For each candidate roll the die and vote for them if your roll is less than or equal to your rank.

I very much dislike approval voting because the way to make people the happiest is to turn it into stochastic STAR.
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Technological totalitarianism is the novelty. But there have been plenty of totalitarian governments that didn't use technology to completely monitor their citizens.

As I read history, I'd say that totalitarianism has been common throughout recorded history, perhaps even the majority.
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For more on the consequences of big data and algorithms on humans, check out mathematician Cathy O'Neill's book "Weapons of Math Destruction". She describes problematic systems that are opaque, difficult to contest, and scalable, thereby amplifying inherent biases to affect increasingly larger populations.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapons_of_Math_Destruction
I don't think our two statements are at odds with one another. There is absolutely a resource shortage to deal with these issues. In addition, there's the pernicious side effect of the disease in that it keeps you from wanting to seek treatment.
I was amazed by how long he bakes it and now that you pointed that out, I think that's why. If I baked my usual bread recipe at 475F+ for an hour, it would be a rock!
This could read "Stock price at public companies a distraction for employees"
This is really awesome. For NYC what data is actually real time?
The community submits links to external resources. I don't want to be left moderating what I personally believe is a good or bad resource. I'd rather users downvote unhelpful resources.
Actually I think the Rust folks would appreciate any feedback on the security of the service, as long as you don't DoS it or use it to do anything bad. :-)
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I don’t know maybe something like this https://www.businessinsider.com/larry-ellison-says-its-embar... ?
You can give any candidates you like a tally. The one with the most tallies wins.

Do you want to increase some candidates' total tallies? Then "approve" of them on your ballot.
One thing I did for a while (I no longer live in a place with many panhandlers) was restaurant gift cards. It can't be spent on drugs or alcohol (at least not directly), and most cheap restaurants aren't going to kick out a homeless person very quickly on a cold night. I don't think I ever gave out double-digits of those, but I never got a bad reaction...
Explore it like any other opportunity. It might not work out for you, or them, or both of you. You might not get an offer, you might find the place would be a worse fit. Be conscious and intentional with what you say. Figure out what legal agreements you're bound by and don't violate them.

It might also lead to a good offer you can use to help get better comp / title / growth opportunities / autonomy at your current job.
How do you teach? As an instructor at a school or tutoring on the side?
The actual ChromeOS (not Chromium) in a VM would be nice to try things out.
A lot of infrared lasers are dangerous because of this. Blink response is part of the reason visible lasers are classified differently than invisible lasers.
A few kWh of power times a million users. I'm not complaining about individuals buying time by paying for energy. I'm talking about saving little time for yourself by burning a disproportionate amount of power, distributed among all your users.
My Dad joined the "big brother" program (back when it was for teens without Dad's, not government spying).

We had a kid live with us for maybe half a year. My Dad said the kid just didn't want to change anything, but I think you have to be patient like your parents were to actually help anyone. (So thanks for sharing that story.)

We learned how to drink raw eggs from this guy. And he didn't do anything bad that I ever saw. But my Dad didn't bring anyone else home after this.
My favorite paragraph [0] I've read about Facebook is:

“Zuck himself so clearly doesn’t even understand Facebook” strikes me as a completely fair and not even controversial position. Mark Zuckerberg built an online facebook for Harvard students. It became popular, and he turned it into a company with a vision “to make the world more open and connected,” and now it is enabling mob violence in India and ethnic cleansing in Myanmar and election interference in the U.S. and corporate emotional manipulation and the transformation of the news media and also probably just making people sad a lot. That list is sort of random, which is the point; no one at Facebook sat down to build an election interference function. They sat down to build a system for purposes that they thought were good, and are happy to brag to you about: sharing baby pictures, connecting the world, making piles of money by showing you ads, that sort of thing. All — most, anyway — of the bad effects of Facebook are emergent features of the system that they built for the good effects; that system itself, and its messy interactions with billions of people out in the real world, creates the bad effects.

Conventional wisdom for a long time was that ad-funded social media was a pretty cool and not-that-bad thing. Those emergent properties might make it a sometimes cool, mostly bad thing.

When the stock price is climbing, I'm sure it's pretty easy for employees to ignore that line of thinking. When it stops—if you agree with the shifting conventional wisdom—then why wouldn't you leave?

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-09-13/the-cr...
Just stupidly high coverage. Something like 200x coverage over six replicates from blood and saliva. We needed DNA for QA purposes and I happen to have DNA, dontchaknow.
Thanks for this. I assumed anyone that visits HN knows what Google does, especially after the whistleblowing and revelations in the past few years. I agree that it would’ve been better for me to add a few citations or proof, so here’s [0] the first search result when searching for google+surveillance on DDG.
[0]:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/18/google...
For like, a minute. You just kind of cross a bridge into the Bronx and then cross right back into Manhattan.
Don't mention you're expecting downvotes on HN, etcetera.
What if mystruct ends up in an array? buf[125] will overwite fptr all the same. Furthermore, what if you need two arrays in your struct?
> distribute it equitably.

<sarcasm>You communist</sarcasm>

I was having a discussion a couple minutes ago about the situation of Cuban doctors in Brazil and the simplistic solution some supporters of the far-right government proposed - to give citizenship to the ones who take a test to validate their degrees.

Unsurprisingly, not that many would be attracted by the moving from a country with nearly zero crime, assured retirement and free education and healthcare from cradle to grave to one that's violent and just elected a xenophobic, homophobic and racist president. Life is much more complicated than that.
I wouldn't say it's considered the "ideal role model" by some British politicians (as it currently stands), but they definitely stand on very similar ideological grounds. People like Corbyn simply think that if it's them who run the machine, things will run smoothly. That is, there is nothing inherently wrong with their ideology, the only problem with it is who gets to be the supreme leader. In Corbyn's eyes, he can do better. By the way, Podemos is the third largest party in Spain, and it supports Chavez/Maduro and it blames Venezuela's ills on US sanctions. Videos of the leader of Podemos supporting the Venezuelan dictatorship and its ideals aren't rare. Unfortunately, HN has the last years turned extremely left. They are like children who must experience pain before they understand. As a Cuban, I see through people like Corbyn and Iglesias as if I were Casper. The implications of their ideology are something the US/most of the West has not experienced yet, and as such, they're entirely ignorant about it. "The Open Society and Its Enemies" isn't a popular book among people here, I can tell you.
Any classification that's actually defined by behavior, such as "drive drunk" as opposed to "streetpeople" is perfectly fine by me, as I think would be obvious. Both streetpeople and homeless are highly heterogeneous groups, so I don't think this affects my point. Which is that your one-to-one mapping is literally stereotyping. Just back off a little, so that you're only complaining about those you're really angry at, please. That's all I'm asking. If you want to say "a majority of" and have proper sources for that, I won't object to such a statement and I would genuinely be interested in the sources.
It's typically 1/3 of your feed in my experience. It depends on time of day I've noticed. I usually use Facebook either in the morning before I get up and there are less ads. Or late at night when winding down. But they really have dark patterns to disguise an ad. It's disgusting, a friend liked some random post 6 months ago and everything that company posted since is popping up. They make it appear as if that friend is endorsing everything from that company.

Aol is probably being too complimentary.
You can look at the work of Page and Gilens, who have shown that the US is not democratic in any meaningful sense.

That is, if you know that policy A is preferred over B by 95% of the citizens of the USA (an incredible supermajority), that gives you no information about whether A or B will be implemented by the government. Has no predictive value. But if I provide the additional information that B is preferred over A by a majority of US elites, then now you can predict whether A or B will be implemented: B will be implemented, most likely.

That situation is the current state of affairs in the US, and it shouldn't be. The system is broken.