skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> poor credit or lack of capital for a downpayment is a bad person to lend to

There is a huge gulf between those who have unconventional sources of income and those who lack capital for a downpayment or who have poor credit. Poor credit is caused by things like not paying off previous loans / carrying high balances. Not having a down payment is a sign you have not yet demonstrated an ability to save enough, or don't have enough income to save enough, both of which seem reasonable criteria off of which to base a lending decision.

The parent commenter described a circumstance -- self-employment -- that is wholly unrelated to both poor credit and an inability to save a down payment. You made the leap between the two. We need to end this kind of thinking.

> a nice buying opportunity, etc

Equal housing laws mean that -- in the absence of very particular circumstances -- any opportunity for this hypothetical student would also be available to more reliable debtors.
Off the Radar: Private Planes Hidden from Public View – ProPublica(2010)
OMG. I'm beginning to see a plot line developing here, "Honey, why is the computer asking me to call this number and press 1, before it will let me watch a cat video?", "I guess it just wants to know you aren't a robot, pretty clever because a web scraper wouldn't be able to activate a phone."
> wonder to what extent it has contributed to mistrust of the traditional media.

Is anyone's experience that "non traditional media" or news sources are more mathematically rigorous?

I understand that all media has bias, lots of content is written by non experts, and presenting data (especially statistical data) is really hard and rarely done well. But any "alternative" or "non mainstream" news source I've seen is _way_ worse at those things than traditional mainstream sources like NYT, WP, Economist, Foreign Policy, NPR, 538, etc. Even while those sources still make noticeable blunders.

(Curious because I've seen this statement before.)
What are some use cases for a time-series database?
Do you mind shredding some light on where big tech companies are expanding to? I can't seem to find where they're going through Google search.
The voting system here in Oregon seems to be pretty nice. I’ve experienced it in both the UK and here, and voting in the UK is very easy when you’re actually present where the council expects you to be on the day, and is very hard otherwise. I was unable to vote in the EU referendum because my council just wouldn’t send me a postal ballot, I called them multiple times, they said they’d sent it each time, I got the ballot a few weeks after the results were announced. As I recall the thing was postmarked after the deadline.

I strongly believe using the postal system for everyone’s votes is an ideal solution. It’s distributed, already exists, is convenient, etc. Oregon’s voting is great.
The Scientific Attitude – a defence against denial, fraud and pseudoscience
As soon as I saw the title here, I started skimming comments to see if this had been mentioned yet. Highly recommended, indeed!
The democrats are never going to call it a poll tax though because once you start calling statutory requirements to jump through non-free hoops to exercise rights "poll taxes" you've just paved the way to overturning a whole lot of gun control stuff.
> You're being manipulated.

I'm sorry: that's you.
https://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/pauling.h...
Call me old fashioned, but someone recording my nephews, without them knowing, and then selling/giving that recording to just about anyone, is cause for a bit of concern and possibly a headline. But then again, I may be old fashioned.
oh wow i was actually completely unaware of the etymological history of it, but after reading what you said i did some research and confirmed it for myself. thank you for sharing that with me, and for allowing me to turn an unknown unknown into a more productive form :^)
Yeah a lot of the advancements from that era are still secret. Counter-IED and massive airborne visual surveillance at scale are my top two.
Because nicotine doesn't kill you, the way it is delivered does. Tobacco products are the most popular delivery method and is especially harmful due to level of carcinogens and other elements. Essentially no one cared much about nicotine as a chemical specifically much more than they did about caffeine.
As someone who is interested in buying a home. This scares me. We have lots of money saved for our down payment, but I don't want to end up in a bidding war with someone who isn't as good financially, and then end up purchasing for more than the house is really worth. Also, cheap money inflates the prices of homes anyway.

Grumble grumble... we will have to stay disciplined and be honest with ourselves as to what the home is truly worth to us.
Maybe at certain sums much larger than individual depositors concern themselves with, you can't just "hold the cash".

Like banks might say there is no way we want your $10 billion in cash to look after. Either invest it yourself or pay us to invest it for you.
I'll also throw in there that it could be simply that mortgages are increasing overall, and that the sub-prime share of the mortgage pie isn't increasing at all.
You can define whatever you want for your project's scope, but when you're distributing self updating binaries to an audience the size of steam's and you act this casual about an admin escalation exploit, you deserve whatever damage to your reputation that you get.
"muh rights!!!!"
a great library.
They do, and the obvious and inevitable outcome of that is that Twitter is now their bug bounty program for some researchers.
How much are you willing to pay for a head of lettuce? I have no idea about the logistics or costs for building hydro-electric indoor multi-storied farms on mountainsides, but it sounds like many millions of dollars.

I think a more realistic approach to mountain farming would be what Sepp Holzer does in the Austrian Alps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GMXqgQIU9c
AppEngine is great!

Plus, I just finished making an auto deploy to AppEngine Workflow with GitHub Actions last night, so I can just push and auto deploy if all tests pass!
Now I’m just waiting for Steam to follow their lead.
It's only worth $1.1 million when someone pays that.
Did you read his first report? In scope or not, their right or not, how is a ban without proper dialogue (threats don't fall in that category) the reasonable reaction here? That's not how you interact with a pretty tight knit community, even if you're the one sitting on the pile of money.
> Perhaps the person didn't choose their work. They want to be a professional developer, but right now they're working in Starbucks.

I had a longer answer that I trimmed down but that's one of the reasons you can guess why someone isn't saying why they do what they do.

Chances you're interacting with a decamillionaire is much lower than vs someone who doesn't like to mention [insert not typically viewed as a great job here].

There are no assumptions here - just likelihoods.
Hmm, that might be crazy enough to work.
The big use cases are devops/monitoring data and IoT data. But it also applies to pretty much any use case where you want to answer questions about data in relation to time.
It's an open problem. All the proposed solutions are an invitation to or an implementation of tyranny.

There's also ethical questions around whether solving the problem is even something any human is entitled to do.
An Archaeological Puzzle on the Danube
Yea agreed. It’s almost a straw man of sorts where there’s this proverbial “they” that gets it right and uses rigorous standards that the traditional media falls short of. But I’ve yet to find these sources of information in the wild.
They're commonly used for collecting metrics, such as performance or traffic data.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/jeffrey-epstein-owne...

https://www.aol.com/article/news/2019/08/16/painting-of-bill...

If this particular sentence is what your brain focuses on to prevent it from seeing the truth and unraveling everything you think you know about the world, then you may be too far gone at this point.

How about these flight logs?

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/14/bill-clinto...
Once AI is good enough, it may have to prove that it is not a human:
https://me.me/i/there-are-no-more-humans-prove-you-are-not-a...
>Make IDs free

Sure.

>and mandatory for all citizens

And what are the consequences if you don't get this now mandatory (federal?) ID? Presumably some sort of passport card like thing that doesn't actually let you travel across borders. What if you don't have the documentation you need? What if you don't have the time to go to the offices that provide these IDs?

For a lot of people, the cost of getting the Equivalent ID to a driver's license isn't the big issue. All the other things are.
The world is different when you're dealing with really large amounts of cash. You can't just store it yourself; your mattress isn't big enough. And if you ask a bank to store it for you, the bank will charge you for the service. (Banks that work in this line of business are known as 'custodian banks'.) Consequently, the effective interest rate on cash for large amounts of cash can be negative.
Can't believe how far down I had to scroll to find this answer.
I bought my house in Austin 4 years ago in a pretty hot market. The advice I can give is don't let yourself get emotional. If you get outbid on a house, there will always be another one you can bid.

I ended up putting in offers on 8 houses before I didn't get out bid.
It could backfire if China sees these smaller countries as a threat and moves to block them. Vietnam borders with China, no doubt they are as dependent on China as, say, Canada is with the US. I could see China saying "hey if you trade with the US, we're putting 20% on your exports to China"
That makes sense if the application is, like, a SAAS app, and the scope is, like, "don't employ credential stuffing or test any of our 3rd party dependencies that have not given us permission to be included in this scope".

But this is software people install on their desktops, and Valve has no say in how security researchers approach that stuff. Valve can and maybe even should exclude LPEs from their bounty scope (if that's not what they're focusing on right now), but they can't reasonably ban people for publishing vulnerabilities they've scoped out of the only mechanism they've provided for submitting and tracking vulnerabilities.
Is the frequency / preponderance distribution of amino acids known?

If so, is it known over time to any extent?

(I'm going to presume that to a meaningful extent it is not as any potential samples are going to be largely recent -- past few thousand years, maybe tens of thousands given frozen samples. Amber possibly excluded.)

What does that distribution look like? Zipf? Normal? Other?
Pretty much anything that is naturally generating time series data, and when your queries are going to be about things-over-time in relationship to each other.

Think automotive monitoring (external or internal), algorithmic trading, retail monitoring, aviation, etc.
You can argue safety (bonds you have sovereign default risk vs cash will have bank credit risk) but your math is not incorporating how a transaction in this case would actually take place. It's not as simple as just holding onto $100. You have a deposit rate of -0.40% at the ECB. So instead of -0.40%, you settle for -0.14% which is what these newly issued Bunds are yielding.
Ok you're arguing that there is no such thing as a liquid store of value that that offers a better return than a negative yield government bond?

So let's say I'm a bank with a stack of 1B in high denomination central bank notes. I calculate the rate of return as zero minus the annual cost of securing those and the annual risk that they are stolen or destroyed. Inflation isn't a factor because the bond is in the same currency. Based on your explanation that rate of return will be lower than the -0.11% that I would get from a german 30 year bond today. And there's simply nothing I can exchange those central bank notes for that would do any better than the bond.

Like OP I've never understood negative yield debt and I'm trying really hard to.
Imo permanent === persisting after whatever was causing this state in the first place is gone. If those "transient" effects are gone after a chronic user is done using after a long time, then I would still consider the effect to be transient rather than permanent.
My concern is that any pushback on attacks on vaping just allows more room for more people to continue saying / believing that it's "ok, not 100% harmless, but almost completely" - enough so for the rise in nicotin intake among younger people (as referenced by other commenters) and enough for people to spontaneously start to vape in places where smoking is strictly prohibited, acting like it shouldn't bother anyone,("it's not like it's cigarette smoke") - even offices (happened in mine), public transportation etc...That boils my blood to no end.
I answered the argument directly. Requiring ID to vote is not "ironic' because:

Republicans aren't calling for the abolishment of the DMV for driver's licenses. Requiring ID to vote is inline with requiring ID to drive.
... you're describing the reason why people are calling for random audits of a subset of votes in every election.
If this turns out to be useful then what's stopping us adding similar annotations in a custom section for Webassembly?
Sounds a bit backwards when one of the most powerful countries in the world cannot afford to issue its poor citizens passports...
It’s not 2 kW/100 m^2. It’s 2-5 kW per a stack of 100 double-sided 10 m x 10 m squares. That’s 2 kW/20000 m^2.
Matt Yglesias himself fits that mold perfectly -- studying philosophy at a prestigious university -- and going on to write about economics, politics, and foreign policy, not philosophy. Best I can tell he's never had any kind of role other than blogger/journalist.
> Java used to work in the browser a quarter-century ago, albeit not very well. Even .NET sort of worked in the browser for both the people who enabled Silverlight.

Not Really. They worked With a plugin side to the browser and not really IN the browser.

And that makes a big difference. Nor Java Applet, nor Sliverlight not even Flash were offering a smooth, integrated experience with in web page or application.

I have seen flash applet crashing more than I can count. JVM applet launch was cumbersome at best and bringing the beauty (irony) of Java-style GUI in my browser. Sliverlight remained a joke unusable outside of Windows.

WebAssembly made something unthinkable before: Make all Web Browsers Manufacturers agreed on a Standard for a Virtual Machine and implementing it.
There is a nice youtube video but in German. Maybe translated subtitle will help the less einlighted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnJPy-lsZKQ&list=PLS5j2nq7Ag...
> Hackable machines are a problem, but they are not the only problem.

They might not be the biggest problem, but they're definitely an _extra_ problem. I don't see what problems they take away, in exchange for bringing this extra problem.

With a paper ballot, I can go to the polling booth, see my vote being counted, and see whether any other funky stuff happens, right there. It's all in the open. This in turn gives you extra trust in the system.

With an electronic system, how do I know what happens behind those layers of abstraction between the user interface and the hardware? How can I in any way verify that my vote has been counted?
>you will need some kind of proof that the results are invalid.

are discrepancies between exit polls and election result valid reason?
I don't know where you live, but in my jurisdiction they do (WA state). Same big black or white paper with giant print saying the same stuff that is said on cig packs.
Proof?

I've provided more than enough evidence of my claims in this thread, from sources which you won't be able to say "right wing propaganda" about.
Oh nice, that makes sense, I guess.
Valve figured out how to print money by hooking teenagers with gambling on loot boxes. They stopped having to create AAA titles, they stopped having to do anything remotely creative, and now they are a giant cancer with no value left to add. Their client is an insecure, slow, instable piece of shit and has been this way for well over a decade. I regret being a customer of theirs.
I ride a bicycle daily and vape e-cigs. If anything I notice an increased performance immediately after vaping, I feel like I'm less tired and have more energy.

Overall this is an interesting topic because contrary to popular opinion many athletes use nicotine and find that it increases their performance: Nicotine [...] use is widespread amongst professional team/strength sports (e.g. American football, ice hockey, wrestling, bobsleigh, gymnastics, rugby, skiing) whereby active consumption of nicotine and nicotine-containing substances in-competition occurs in approximately 25–50% of such athletes [1].

The meta-analysis [1] found that two studies observed an ergogenic effect, one an ergolytic with the remaining seven reporting no change.

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5684328/
You need to do some self-examination. Give it some time.
Security in Dependencies – Qvault
We actually haven't been running against any limits here. One thing to keep in mind is that postgres remote-fetch operations aren't tuple-at-a-time, so this shouldn't be a bottleneck for our multi-node operations.
The srticle says

> The co-founder of DeepMind, the high-profile artificial intelligence lab owned by Google, has been placed on leave after controversy over some of the projects he led.

So I think we can rule most of your suggestions out (Not implying that his leave is in any way connected to a sex scandal)
Isn't it quite common for companies to provide quotes to reporters through spokespeople without putting the person's name on record?

No. That's the whole point of having a spokesperson.

It's become more common recently since the rise of small media (blogs, Buzzfeed, etc...), but the big players hardly ever do it. Sometimes it's used for brevity. For example, an article written for radio might not name the person just to fit into a certain number of seconds. That article can then end up on the web site without being re-written by the web team. It's possible that's what happened here, since Bloomberg has a radio network.

The New York Times publishes a book explaining how things work within its organization. There's a chapter about un-named sources, and the significant hoops a reporter must go through in order to not use names.
Going with a hybrid voting system (say filling out paper ballots but having a machine count them, or using a voting machine and having it print paper ballots) isn't getting the best of both worlds, it's getting the worst of both.

To use a metaphor, it's not having 2 locks on your front door, it's having 2 different keys that open the same lock.

Say you have a hybrid system, and the numbers come in and the electronic and paper counts disagree. Which one is used as the true vote?

If you take the paper, then what was the point of the electronic? If you take the electronic what was the point of the paper? If you throw out all votes where the paper and electronic disagree, you just enabled any "fraudster" the ability to disenfranchise any subset of votes by breaking either system.

You also can't exactly pick and choose which to accept per instance (could you imagine the abuse that could come from that!?), and methods of "averaging" them don't really solve the problem as much as they make it marginally harder to pull off (to sway 1% of votes in a 50%/50% weighted system, you'd only need to hack 2% of the electronic machines). And of course using a significant "disagreement" between paper and electronic to trigger re-doing an election isn't a solution either because if they hacked it the first time, chances are they can do it again. Not mention that having a second voting day because the first was taken over by fraud is going to be a logistical nightmare, it will change who can come out to vote, and it may even change who/what people will vote for.

If what you want is an audit or a second count, then call for more exit polls or an explicitly secondary system. But this whole dual-voting idea isn't really a good one when you really dive into the dirty details of how it would work.
>So why should media companies hire and publish quant journalists? There's no good reason.

So that you can take them seriously. Then again, modern journalism is such a joke I don't know if this is a worthy endeavor
Maybe "submarines" was intended to refer to submarine drones and not human crewed vehicles?
I think the lack of <insert specialty here> in the US Government is becoming a bigger liability every year. Here science is changing the globe at an ever increasing pace and our congresspeople are baffled and confused by the word <insert specialty lingo here>

Lets play some word-games:

* Doctors : Disease, Ebola, Health Care costs

* Accountants: Corporate Taxes, Tax Loopholes, Economic Stats

* Programmers: Encryption, Websites, "Internet is Tubes", Infrastructure as a Service

* Army Generals: War against ISIS. War against Taliban. War against (any other enemy here).

* Civil Engineers: Bridge design and safety, Urban Smart Growth, Gentrification, Water Rights management across rivers.

* Energy Engineers: Power Plant construction, Nuclear Safety, Solar vs Coal investments.

* Farmers: Patent law applied to GMOs and ownership of genetics, Legal Insecticides and whether or not they are damaging the local ecology, legal limits to water-consumption across various states and locals

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Believe it or not: US Politics involve more than just programmer issues. We care about programmer issues because Hacker News attracts programmers. But as soon as we leave the subject of programming, we (as a community) will become blubbering idiots in the face of Hospital issues, Child-care laws, foreign policy and Tax-fraud.

The entire point of a Congressman is to specialize in the ability to talk to a wide variety of experts. Congressmen are "experts at politics": the ability to make a decision WITHOUT being an expert in a subject.

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Our job, as experts in our field, is to form a cohesive argument that Congresspeople understand. Well, that's the point of lobbying: hiring specialists who know how to talk to Congressmen, so that our interests are communicated more effectively.

And lets be frank: there are plenty of lobbyists who are actually representing technology's point of view at the moment. Google, Facebook, Microsoft, IBM, and other big-tech all ensure that Congress is keenly aware of the issues affecting our field.

Other fields are not quite as lucky as ours. I don't think we have any right to really complain about the Programmer's role in modern US politics.
Brilliant piece of writing, some choice quotes:

“I’ve watched many tech managers research their positions by reading blog posts, books, advice columns, and so on — instead of simply listening to their team and putting effort into dealing with their problems.”

“On some level, everyone in tech knows that the system and its founding stories are inadequate .. But they also believe that there are similarly-managed tech startups succeeding all around them, and so they refuse to conclude that the problem is with the overall system.”
They're arrogant and lazy. Just say thank you and fix it. I hope GOG and HumbleBundle get a nice boost in sales.
For damn good reasons too. They're intentionally used to target minority voters that vote democratic in most cases under the guise of preventing a problem that doesn't actually exist. It's bad enough the courts decided that representatives can choose their voters through gerrymandering but allowing them to lock some voters out by requiring IDs without making it significantly easier to get IDs reeks of Jim Crow style poll taxes and literacy tests.