skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a strong conservative distaste for federal control of the conduct of elections, which has been a power reserved to state and local governments. Your suggestion is not irrational at all, but it's far from "clear what is happening."
Probably by the kind of people that rise to leadership in the firm. Engineers would have more decision making power in a company that produces software. Not so much in a bank or hospital.
The stated concern is e-cigs becoming unavailable to smokers looking to quit. Making it available via a prescription permits that use, while limiting access for recreational uptake by kids.
I thought it was sulfur, but it may have been silicon that the researchers had used.
You mean like I would use IronPython, with the codecs coded in C++/CLI, ML analysis in F# and the UI in XAML/C# all on top of the CLR?
A ten year old technology named Blockchain could solve this problem.
Ugh. Forgot to remove that. Didn’t see it on my iPhone.
Sure, but who pays for spaying and neutering the plethora of street dogs in the poorest states in Mexico? And many people have dogs without the means of paying for this (or any) kind of surgery.

Between us and my MIL we have 10 dogs, and all of them except one are fixed. I've made sure of that. I'm not able to win the argument over the last one, but it's old now anyways. The dogs she had that got sick was from before I was in the picture.
Easily gamed without strong (physical presense) voter ID requirements.

EDIT:
Mail in voting is skimmed with little to no risk. Oops, lost 1% of that zip code...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW2LpFkVfYk
Any database experts here? My question is should we use relational database for such use case? Quora like app I mean.
Time in market beats timing the market.
Nicotine is in the same drug class as caffiene. Want to ban coffee as well?
> Things like: Forced updates in Windows 10, certain lack of hardware, application, and game support in Linux, and MacOS "requiring" Apple hardware

I'm pretty sure you've discovered a simplex (a thing like a CAP triangle) here! These all trade off against one-another:

1. highly-integrated first-class hardware support

2. support for all third-party components under the sun

3. low security-vulnerability surface (and thus a long security-critical update cadence)

Windows picks 1 and 2 at the expense of 3. Linux picks 2 and 3 at the expense of 1. Apple picks 1 and 3 at the expense of 2. (Hackintoshes trade some of 1 for some of 2, ending up fully satisfying neither.)

I'm pretty sure you can't have 100% of all three, no matter your resources. They're trade-offs, not in time/effort, but in design-space.
It solves a problem that doesn’t exist in practice and is impossible to exploit at scale even in theory. It would be good, but it’s not terribly important.
Paper is a renewable resource. Trees are replanted when we cut them down to make paper.
Audit is separate from recount, though the capacity for the former is equivalent to the capacity for the latter. Audits can be done by third parties as a review without having the force of an official recount (for instance, this happened in Florida in 2000 after the official recount was ended.)

If an election method cannot be audited, it cannot be trusted.
> The market for unconventional home loans is still tiny compared with the rest of the mortgage market as well as its precrisis past, when unconventional borrowing peaked at more than $1 trillion.

And the number of defaulted loans/foreclosures was tiny compared to the total toxic (sorry, not letting them re-brand toxic loans as unconventional) assets. However, that tiny number of defaults/foreclosures, was enough to overturn the entire economy...but for Bush's $1T+ bailout followed by Obama's $1T+ bailout, banks and wall street would have crumbled, instead the got to consolidate with their new taxpayer cash on hand.

The banks and wall street recovered, of course homeowners and American working class taxpayer never did, so its time to run the whole scam again and get those devious working class American's who escaped 2008 unharmed.
My concern is with the officials themselves. Everyone should be treated as untrustworthy.
That makes sense but I have a follow up question. What forces this? For example, what's to stop a single entity from reaping the rewards of using cash while everyone else buys bonds to keep the economy moving. Is it a government regulation? an agreement between large institutions? or are the gains to each individual entity large enough that the negative yield is worth it?
It would convert electrical energy to mechanical, acting like an engine (and drivetrain).

An 85kW engine.

Which is — as I noted — about what you'd find on a compact EV (that's about 115hp).
Scenic LA River isn't listed! Woot! /s
The 16GB max RAM and only USB-C are disappointing. I'll be looking for new Linux laptop soon but want more RAM and hate dongles.
Eh. When I look at the Hugo lists, I'm looking for truly excellent work to read. It still checks that box for me more than other awards I'm aware of, so I don't feel it's devalued. The winners still seem very deserving. You could argue (and I think you may be) that many runners-up are also deserving. Of the stories that deserve to win, they choose one they more endorse the message of. That seems fine to me.

I've only really sought out the short story winners, but they remain really really excellent, and who cares about the subtlety. A sledgehammer can tell a great story, and at the end of the day, it's the greatness I care about, not how it's achieved. Last year's winner, Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™ for example, wasn't exactly subtle, but it was really really excellent and enjoyable. Likewise the year before's winner: Seasons of Glass and Iron.

Between writing and editing this comment I read this year's winner and decided you are absolutely wrong.
It is leading to a rapidly growing reliance on lobbyists for information, including "think tanks" which are groups of lobbyists.
Younger users might not have context like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Berkshire or the acrimony leading up to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_Master_Settlement_Agre....
I find it interesting how many people equate tech with software.

I would consider tech a lot broader than that; if your company is making any kind of new innovative approach to solving problems (and the future of the business depends on this), you're a tech company. So companies making lasers, robots, drones, sensors, 3D printers, DC-DC converters, batteries, and housing insulation could all be tech companies... As long as they're trying something new. So a battery company that is testing new formulations is a tech company, and one that just mass produces the same alkali cells they've been making for 50 years is not.

Software is just one sub-category.
Is this different from how Netlify does it?
Svarog Engine, a path tracing game engine made with C++, GLFW3, and OpenGL 4.6
Maybe if I go on Rogan's show he'll offer me some! Can't be that hard to get invited.
It is disenfranchisement. It can cost almost a hundred dollars just for the IDs to be issued some places. If you have lost some identity documents you may need to request records from other places to substantiate name changes. That is to say marriage licenses and divorce decrees. Gathering this additional documentation may require another hundred bucks easy.

The common reply to this is that you need these documents anyway to work, to drive etc. This is true but ignores all the peripheral people you don't see. People whose roles in their family are support or who themselves are in need of support because of illness. Not all of them drive or work and they are citizens too.

It seems to me that the easier solution is to make public records free. Let the taxes you already pay serve to pay the salary of the peon at the printer. Then the people clamoring for us to check ID's to keep the "illegals" from voting can be happy and those people can be enfranchised.
It is more politics than anything else, with WASM being the new cool kid on the block.
Git Is Eating the World
I agree the artificial light makes this uneconomical for most crops. There is an argument for premium greens:

- They can be harvested and then delivered to the customer the same day, some places will pay for this type of high end service

- Indoor crops grow quicker than outdoor ones due to the optimized conditions. For already fast growing crops like greens that means you can have more harvests per year.

- Being able to be located in a densely populated area greatly expands the labor pool

- Vastly improved labor conditions by virtue of being indoors and not bending over to the ground all day
I worked for a company where the guy in charge had some vague notion of what he wanted. He made the famous statement 'I do not know what I want but I will know it when I see it'. Hard to develop to that requirement. Needless to say it failed.
Svarog Engine works primarily on Linux as of now, as it is my development environment for it, but contributions to enable windows support are always welcome, just make a pull request and ill merge it upon review.
This is sort of correct, but it also doesn't address the point that this setup can't exist, logically, with fiat currency.

There is no way to hold money that isn't ultimately lent to or borrowed from some other entity. You can store cash under your mattress, but even that's money that you've effectively lent to the government (the seigniorage of storing it under your mattress means that you've now given them the ability to print that same amount of money at zero extra cost).

This is harder to wrap your head around, but once you understand the principle - money is always at work, no matter what form it's in - it's a lot easier to understand the flow of money on a macro or international scale.
It makes a big difference in the aggregated analysis of the IPO market. Tech is one of the few IPO areas that actually come close to matching the S&P500 returns (tech did better than any other IPO category). So, most companies going public want to be considered and valued as "tech".
That is correct; some romantic relationships exist in a workplace. A lot of married professors even work at the same university.
Why would you like to avoid Go? It's pretty ergonomic for programmers with C experience and can compile a web app plus its dependencies into a standalone binary.
Escobar conservatively killed thousands of people. I wouldn't worry too much about insulting him.
Why does America have problems counting?

I went to watch a count for the local elections in May in the UK (I was a candidate)

The papers were counted in front of me and dozens of other people from the various parties. I could see each one going into each pile of ten, each pile of ten being bundled as a pile of 100 and put into a basket, the ambiguous ones (blank, voting for multiple candidates, writing "WANK" next to all candidates but one (which had "NOT WANK" written next to it), went into a separate pile.

At the end of the counting the returning officer went through the ambiguous ones with the candidate or agent and explained if he would accept it or not.

This doesn't take long - it scales, and is fully repeatable by completely different people if needed. The problems that seem to occur are not in the count, but in the returning officers (who tend to be doddery old men) writing the wrong result down, and for some reason this result is final, but that's the same whatever the counting method.
I completely agree. One cannot pass fair laws on topics one doesn't understand. It's even worse if understanding is based on input from a consultant or lobbyist!

There aren't many reasons an engineer would want to jump into the political fray besides altruism. It's like choosing to join the largest, most corrupt, bureaucratic, change-averse, and valueless company that ever existed. For lawyers, that probably sounds like a dream come true.

My perspective as an engineer: Yes, there are huge important problems I would like to help solve. No, I don't think I'm willing or capable of solving that class of problems in a system like that.
It looks like the webcam is on the top of the screen, thankfully.
If an A.I. were to somehow ever gain "consciousness" I'm sure they would view this flagging as correct.
> So people should be forced to invest their money even if they don't think any of the ventures are worthwhile? And physical cash shouldn't exist either?

Physical cash is also debt (backed by the full faith and credit of the US government, in the case of the US, or the relevant issuer in the case of other fiat currencies).
I understand wanting to be intellectually lazy about it, but when you make a claim the burden of citation lands squarely on your plate.
So tech = innovation? I don't think that's a common definition.
Good point. The Japan case is a weird one. There's a Paul Krugman essay from the '90s that argues it's partially due to a historically high savings rate among Japanese consumers[0]. A good chunk of their boom was export-driven after all.

Loosening monetary policy to fight deflationary pressure in the '90s also didn't seem to work because interest rates were already near zero. I think the US is different because the benchmark Fed rate is 2.25% now after many years of near-zero rates. So there's room to cut rates if needed.

[0]: http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/nikkei.html
I find your apologetics for those who associate with known pedophiles deeply disturbing.

Pedophiles require a network of enablers to operate, much more so for high-profile cases like Epstein. If someone you know chooses to associate with a known pedophile, you should cut all ties with them. If you don’t, then you are potentially complicit in the crime insofar as you could potentially provide assistance to someone who is enabling a known pedophile.

This is why anyone with a functioning moral system will negatively judge associates of known pedophiles. I’m not sure why this needs to be spelled out for you.
We should be more worried about voter id. I still don't understand how you can vote without a legal id. I mean look at California, they require zero proof of your identity to vote according to Wikipedia. That's bonkers to me.

In my home country Bolivia, we are required to present a valid national ID to vote.
Thank you! I will definitely keep a weather eye on this project! :)
Re Q1: It's not a requirement of the model and the majority of our Residents are not planning on staying in the same property for more than 3 years. We can support buying out the property they live in if they wanted though.

Re Q2: We include a fixed monthly rate for two years and a rental cap for future renewals in the lease agreement.
They should grow mushrooms not salad greens. No light needed, humid conditions, constant temp.
This seems like the perfect application for zk-snarks. (i.e. prove that a valid vote occurred, but not where the vote came from).
For anyone interested in how elections are actually run, please volunteer to serve as a poll worker. It's a great way to serve your community and learn about actual challenges on the ground.
Does anyone know if they ever fixed the widely-reported coil whine problem on these?
I'm the author of the post. I've wanted a tool like this for a while, and I coincidentally discovered the SMOTE paper recently. It's simple enough to throw together a prototype in a few hours, and it requires very little understanding of the data set.

I was looking for something with a certain balance between speed/effort and statistical robustness. I wanted a big data set for testing pilosa performance, not for training ML models, or anything that really cares about the statistics. However, hundreds of repeated records can make histograms look glitchy, so I wanted to avoid that naive approach. Something like SMOTE fit that need well.
People can hold cash in bank accounts but they also yield negative interest rates (for balances above some threshold).
In Ohio, they scan your ID, then keep track of the ballot number they give you.

Thus, if they audit they can be sure the ballot was cast by a legitimate voter.

If you don't tie ballots to voters, you go full Florida where they just keep "finding" boxes of prefilled ballots.

You MUST tie a ballot to a voter if you want your elections to have any integrity at all. There is no other way to prevent double voting, voting out of precinct, etc.
Hack voting machines: trick or bribe an election worker to plug a USB drive into all the machines a week before the election.

Hack paper ballots: bribe the multiple people, including representatives from each party who cares to send one, to look the other way while you steal a box full of paper ballots and substitute your own.

It’s not impossible, but it’s much harder to mess with paper ballots at scale and much easier to secure them.
In an ideal world, we wouldn't care about which company is called a tech company and which isn't. This reminds me of that famous Bezos quote to the question of whether Amazon is an internet company or not.

He said "It doesn't matter whether we are a pure internet play or not. Internet, Schminternet, it doesn't matter. What matters is obsessing over providing customer value."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyrmPMJoG0Q

That said, it is altogether a different question whether WeWork provides value for customers in a fiscally responsible and sustainable manner, and whether Nuemann has the foresight and business acumen of Bezos.
The FICO score is only one consideration. The biggest problem with the loans in 2007 was lack of verification of income and buyers qualifying on a mortgage amount that would eventually go up. A 650 FICO borrower with a good job, downpayment and an affordable monthly payment is a pretty good risk.
Each WeWork office has an SPE that's just for that lease. Every landload wants WeWork on the lease, but won't get it, as WeWork tends to have significant leverage with either the space that they're going after or the desire to have WeWork on the rent roll.

When things are booming, WeWork is advantageous for landlords, and appraisers/the market/potential buyers will underwrite that space positively.

However, there's minimal guarantees that WeWork will actually pay long term, or that you'll have any legal recourse. On top of that there are significant capital costs to a WeWork lease that landlords have to shell out up front. Their leases are typically structured with a lot of free rent up front, so the break even point for a landlord may be many months or years farther out than a typical tenant leasing comparable space.

The losers in the WeWork deal are the landlords, as they're bearing a lot of the risk, and get minimal upside. I'd expect to see a high degree of correlation between WeWork's IPO/stock price and REIT valuations. Underwriting will push the value of a WeWork lease if they can, which will only give more momentum to the bubble.

Source: Worked at a nationally invested REIT that had several WeWork leases in our portfolio
Homebrew will work on Linux and the Windows Subsystem for Linux as well. I'm not sure how well it works there, though, as I've only used it on macOS.

https://docs.brew.sh/Homebrew-on-Linux
Use Front.
Electronic voting machines run proprietary code which, AFAIK, was never publicly audited (AFAIK, the manufacturers have resisted auditing efforts bitterly).

How can you trust that the machine will behave as you expect in a "real world" setting, when the results truly count?

IMHO, the biggest risk from electronic voting machines isn't some rando swinging the elections with their 1337 haxx0r skills: the biggest risk is that the machines basically come "pre-hacked" from the factory - either intentionally, or unintentionally (bugs happen).
putting cash under your mattress has security costs. For < 1k euro, probably not worth calculating. But for > 1M euro, there is a real security cost to keeping that amount of cash safe for 30 years.

I may be totally wrong, but I think the floor on negative yields is going to be the security costs of keeping cash for that timeframe.
I’m surprised more people aren’t talking about blockchain here... we need democratization of information. How can one trust the vote counters? Put it in a distributed ledger with checks and balances.
Frankly it’s a bit silly that the UK government didn’t give this person something a bit sturdier then BNO status. The way British nationality law works is wildly absurd, and British nationals should be provided consular protection throughout the world, and honestly BNO shouldn’t even be a thing, it should just be full nationality.
energy is total change, power is change over time
It's shared across the owners of the fund. All parties receive their equal share based on amount invested. This is also true for the risk of any price declines.
You can't do anonymous ballots.

With anonymous ballots, you can just "Find a box of ballots" and have no way to authenticate that they came from actual voters vs fraudsters.
he was raping girls. "Everybody knows" they said

Again with the parallels to Harvey Weinstein. All the happy, smiling people photographed with him also scrambled to distance themselves once the allegations reached a critical mass, but they all knew all along what he was. And as long as it suited their interests they were perfectly willing to look the other way.
Probably because the crowd that mostly was on. Net is the one in enterprises and they're not going to migrate legacy apps anytime soon.
Seriously, other than stack overflow and maybe Ms owned properties, does anyone remember any other large scale site that was on. Net?

IMO, that means that. Net was never targeting the early adopter market. Ergo, their new platform, which is just different enough, isn't probably having many adopters. Secondly, having to wait for libraries to catch up is probably a real reason initially (till.net standard 2.0?) But that just meant when slower adoption.

Add to this, to maintain cross platform tooling, they're now have cli first tooling and flux around fileformats. That imo, made a lot of the traditional .net shops uncomfortable.

I've jumped b/w .net and Java and very comfy with Linux. Last few years have been. Net and .net core in prod. after 2.0+, it's been absolutely wonderful. Great language ergonomics and I can finally ditch vs for vs code. 3.0 is only going to make it better

But then, I'm probably far from the representative .net dev here.
Voter ID does not tie the ballot to a voter.
I remember seeing an article a few months ago, that Microsoft removed 51 Google services from Chromium while they transitioned Edge to it.

https://imgur.com/Szwkb0O

That list helps to show how Chromium is far from the open-source ideal.
But notice you are the ultimate authority to yourself on what is real. And I would posit to you that if you do enough self-inquiry you will find that reality is not physical, and that this is an absolute truth that is true regardless of the circumstance or perspective. The question becomes, have you become directly conscious of this? I don't believe brains in vats, all beliefs are false.
Silent operation is always a big plus for subs that want to stay hidden.
I think that's the key right there: motion of the water. There's no free lunch here; it's not a battery.

Maybe a good application would be throwing the whole rig into the surf, or a salty tidal stream, where you get the induced current from lunar power.
Ok, and how do you verify that your vote was cast for X candidate (i.e. that the machine didn't count your vote for Y candidate)?

There's no way to do that without tying the voter to the vote somehow. Why not hash the voter ID + a secret of your choosing and store that with the vote? Then, even if counting by hand, you can verify your vote was indeed cast for X candidate.