skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think this is accurate. First, "choosing to give birth" is a little biased. In a state like Texas, 96% of Texas counties have no clinics that provided abortions. 43% of Texas women lived in those counties in 2014. Abortion rates are down there. Maternal mortality in Texas is the worst in the US. You'd be better off, as a mom, giving birth in Iran. South Dakota has one, maybe two clinics that do abortions, and they fly in docs from Minnesota. Abortions aren't that common there either. So "choice" is, well, not really there.

Anyhow. Sexism certainly plays a role but it's not really the main thing. You can be a sexist pig doctor and still practice evidence-based care! OB/GYN in the US is often not evidence-based, does not use standardized protocols, and concentrates on the day of birth rather than pre- and post-natal care. In the US we are extraordinarily good at getting babies out alive. We are not good at getting babies to stay alive or keeping moms healthy/alive, because those goals don't involve one day of technical genius, they require sustained care and social services (good nutrition, access to mental health care, maternity leave including prenatal maternity leave, etc).

Weird fun fact: some studies indicate that giving maternity leave the 2 weeks before giving birth has more positive influence on maternal and infant survival and health than increasing maternity leave from 6 months to 12 months. Just two weeks! And yet pre-birth maternity leave isn't standard at all in the US.
How come no one monitors their speed as much as they should?

SpeedCurve and Calibre are great options listed in that article. Also suggest MachMetrics https://www.machmetrics.com/
It not the presence, it's visitors.

For example, both Google and Facebook used to offer lower cost ways to get visitors based mostly on you delivering quality content.

That's mostly gone now. It's pay to play. Breaking out of the walled garden costs now. Quality is a secondary concern, at best.
Wire just released Teams. I believe also all of their apps are really really native.
> a read of the long parent article

Sloppy reporting and mixing/matching disparate statistics in an incoherent way isn't improved by length. In fact I'd argue it gets worse and the conclusion can be trusted even less.
Thanks for the heads-up. In my case I'm the single user, so it doesn't matter, but I'm sure it could handle a lot more.

It used to cache something, either SQL queries or rendered pages, but it might have stopped in the meanwhile.

You made me curious, so I just tested it: 102 rps on a project page, 365 rps on a user profile, as reported by wrk2.
So commercials? The thing that basically every streaming platform has sans a Netflix and HBO.
I had a terrible time trying to find react performance _monitoring_. There's plenty of performance _troubleshooting_ once you already know what component is slow, but nothing that monitors.

Did I miss something? I see some `measureLifecycleperf` functions in the react source but those look like dead ends.
This statement confuses me since Blockstream has positioned itself to be the central authority. They seem to be attempting to remove power from users, businesses, and miners in order to centralize and consolidate power so they are the only people who make decisions regarding Bitcoin. Effectively, a company that's only been around for a few years has been attempting to put itself into a monopoly controlling position of a 100-billion dollar commodity.
You can definitely 100% become a billionaire with this guide
Thanks for the hint, looks interesting!
TouchID doesn’t work with gloves.
To add a focal point to the context this article provides - the keyword in this article is "cesarean." We presume in the US health system it is normative. It is surgery. The other countries listed all have strong midwifery communities with significant hospital privileged. One of the ways midwives help reduce mortality rates is enable even births with complications to be delivered without surgery. If you have a baby on the way, consider a visit to a midwife. If nothing else, you'll gain access to knowledge, experience and training doctors do not typically receive in the US.
It could be. You have to think critically about hard problems. Solving them isn't easier with wishy-washy thinking.
Implement Industry 4.0 for dairy products like cheese or yogurt. People provide a recipe, you provide the production facility. Allow people to sell there own "family" recipes via your shop- become the steam of old family recipes.
Any site that tried this would be replaced immediately by another that didn't.
HTTP 103 – An HTTP Status Code for Indicating Hints
Web service architectures are like shoes. You want what fits now, not what you hope will fit later.

Chances are very good that preemptive scaling will just result in unnecessary development overhead and an architecture/set of abstractions that still fail to handle the expected load since they weren't battle tested against it.
Unprovable statements weaken provable ones no further than the extent to which the undecidability of the halting problem makes my toaster burn my Eggos.
Neither do most other things done by hobbyists. I don't understand what you're saying. The only things that are good enough to do are those that scale to 3 billion people?
Growing up in the NYC area I saw many 4 to 6 story apartments, built mostly before elevators became common and practical. The upper floors were considered undesirable due to all the stairs.

Eight stories seems like quite a lot.
1. The most obvious advice in your case is to revise the heuristic you are using to rule out your ideas. My guess is that you are looking at 'who else is doing this' or some other question that leads to ruling out what you work on. Thinking hard about just that might yield a better result.

2. Instead of looking for problems, I think more about how is the world changing and what can I do about it. I would advise you to do the same. Sometimes something big changes and most people aren't paying attention. For example, Trump's recent XO on healthcare allows businesses to form "associations" (small companies can pool together to get large company rates). In the recent Berkshire meeting, Buffett said that American businesses are going to be increasingly uncompetitive (at the global stage) if healthcare costs keep rising. These are things that are connected - if one is paying attention.
The uber thought is from Peter Thiel [1]

3. Instead of thinking about a startup, start an industry [2]. I think Alan Kay's talks are inspiring - but also give a good framework to think about projects.

4. If I could just give you one advice, it would be: Pay attention. Very few people are paying attention to the whats happening.

5. One of the biggest disadvantages that you have is that you already have a team and money. This puts enormous pressure to do something "Big". No good idea is going to survive this test - obvious "Big" ideas are taken (not that you still can't work on them). So when PG says, works on "projects" and don't think about starting companies - he means, just do stuff that you find fun. This is very hard to do in your case.

I have helped several companies when they found themselves in the same predicament as you did. If you think it would be helpful, I would be happy to talk: ad@42.life

Best wishes and Good luck!

To end with a cliche: Stay hungry, Stay foolish

[1] Peter Thiel: pg 114 http://gsl.mit.edu/media/programs/south-africa-summer-2015/m...

[2] Alan Kay at 1:10: https://www.startupschool.org/videos/11
Even for a well funded hospital this should mean that the procedure now becomes less expensive. Especially important for pets where you can be out of pocket for half the price of one of these.
First of all, I was responding to a link to data on infant mortality in the US compared to other nations. If you have a problem with that topic being discussed in the context of this article, please go complain to the GP.

Secondly, I did not imply that Down Syndrome is a significant cause of infant or maternal mortality. I suggested there might be a correlation between the type of culture that would abort 100% of Down Syndrome babies and low infant mortality rates. Essentially, Iceland might be aborting more of their unhealthy babies relative to the US, which would make them look better in that particular statistic.
Microsoft rep installs Chrome mid-pitch because Edge keeps crashing
Ah, so you're simply projecting your own prejudices.
Good question. I have read "Build Your Own Lisp", and quite enjoyed it. A few random differences:

1. BYOL is done and my book isn't (yet). :)

2. BYOL aims to both teach you how to program in C and how to implement a language at the same time. Mine assumes you are passably comfortable in Java and C and focuses on the language stuff.

3. Lisp is, of course, a very different language from the imperative OOP language my book uses. BYOL teaches you about s-exprs and some macro-related stuff. Mine covers a more complex grammar, assignment, classes, etc.

4. BYOL uses a provided parser combinator library for building the parser. Mine has you build a lexer and recursive descent parser from scratch and goes into greater detail (though not as much as in a PL textbook) about grammars and the theory behind it.

5. If I recall, BYOL avoids needing a GC by passing everything by value, including deep copying trees. That's an interesting way to sidestep the problem but is an uncommon choice for a language. In mine, we first rely on the Java GC to do our dirty work. In the C interpreter, we'll build a precise mark-sweep GC from scratch.

6. My book, for better or worse, is going to end up being quite a bit larger than BYOL. You can probably work through his over a long weekend, where mine is more of a holiday vacation kind of thing.
That's precisely the problem of Kaggle. The data is mostly cleaned for you. This is most of the job of a DS in industry. Cleaning your data improves performance way more than working hard on optimizing your ML algo.
One issue you have with land based installations is there is a size limit on how big they can be. From what I have been told the limiting factor is how big the blades can be and be transported over our existing roads. The blades could be bigger but we couldn't physically transport them given our current infrastructure. Were as if they are build at a seaside port and put on a large freighter the size limitation is lessened.
I think that what this team lacks is a comfortable domain expertise in anything other than " making a fortune on wall street" -- which illustrates how little value "money" guys provide...

There is not an SME on their team in any area where they see a problem to fix - they 'only' have money.

they need to augment their team with an SME in an area they are willing to fund

Then here is their next problem:

Who is willing to get behind this team given the statements - There is only one reality - a confident founder who can provide them the vision to build something - and they provide the funding and maybe the CFO... but they may overly think of themselves as "technical" and meddle in the running of such an enterprise - which means doom.

These guys should simply take their funds and invest - not found shit. they will fail and bring down too many people (their employees) if they try...
So you hate a small group of people with a tendency to riot (black bloc), and you project that hate onto all anti-fascists, because you think that makes them just as bad as actual fascists.
Wouldn't it been better for there to have been a silent blacklist? Won't these companies just rename themselves now to get around this restriction?
Thank you! When the PyCon UK lightning talks go up on YouTube, you'll be able to see my talk from last night about how we built that autocompleter.

Bottom line: Traditional web dev has starved us of decent tool support. Give us even a really basic autocompleter (especially one that knows about what's happening in the server and database) and it feels like borderline magic :)
I wonder if something like Flutter could end up replacing Electron eventually.
There are a lot of ways to make a startup. If you are cynical, you can undermine an existing occupation or skilled trade, either by replacing it with contractors who lack the same job skills but who aren't employees and can't unionize, or commoditizing an industry such that the people or businesses are simply cogs in your machine, where people often pick the cheapest option even if it undermines quality.

If you are less cynical though, you might want a startup that makes the world a better place. So instead of looking for a problem people with money have, you could look for a systemic inequity or market failure that hurts people and keeps them from having money.

My suggestion would be payday loans and credit card debt. There is competition, but there are plenty of ways to go with helping people.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2014/04...
I'm not convinced of that. Both parties have comprised coalitions of groups with different principles and priorities for at least the past several decades, and probably since before we gained independence. Realignments happen when those priorities shift.
How much are you willing to pay for original concepts?
> A side effect of using transaction pooling is that you cannot use prepared statements, as the PREPARE and EXECUTE commands may end up running in different connections; producing errors as a result.

Uhhh... WHAT? I'll simply sit by and watch for SQL injection vulnerabilities resulting from this change. Either you have a very good SQL query writer engine with rock solid escaping or you will get pwned by this.
>That ease applies to creating the piracy addons themselves. Since primarily all they do is find existing sites that host pirated content, grab working links, and present them in Kodi's user-friendly interface, Betzen rates the complexity about the same as creating a simple web page.

This seems like an oversimplification. Most sites that host pirated content want you to watch that content within their website; so they can get their ad revenue and mine cryptocurrencies while you watch. They intentionally make it hard to get at their content, so in most cases, it's significantly harder than "creating a simple web page."
The US is soooo good at the medical save for babies! Thank you for the cite, rayiner, as it illuminates something done relatively well here.

The Finnish baby box system has received a lot of press in the US. Americans think, oh, safe sleep, it'll reduce SIDS/SUID. While that may be true, the whole scam in Finland (since 1949) was that you only got a box if you went to your new free prenatal appointments! Can you imagine the US saying, hey, we'll give all moms & babies cute free stuff if you take advantage of prenatal care! The current situation is rather different.
> Do you really think there aren’t Americans that could fill those roles

The onus is on you (or an authority) to show that that they ignored Americans. I'm sure they could hire a person of any nationality to put a body on the seat, but probably not someone who could solve their whiteboard problems. I'm especially biased about MS because I failed to clear their interview twice.

I downvoted your other comment about Google (that's now dead) because I thought you were making nonsensical claims with zero evidence; I don't think your comments were racist or xenophobic.
There is, of course, zero evidence of any of the allegations you mention

Actually, there's lots. A Freedom of Information Act disclosure showed Chicago had more votes than voters in 2016 elections: 1,101,178 voters, 1,115,664 votes cast[2].

Detroit: voting machines in more than one third of precints recorded more votes than there were voters!

In California, 11 counties have more registered voters than voting age citizens.

A few other examples:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/in-los-angeles-144-voters-for-...

https://www.theepochtimes.com/chicago-had-more-votes-than-vo...

https://www.theepochtimes.com/stream-of-voter-fraud-cases-em...

https://www.theepochtimes.com/official-thousands-of-indiana-...

Judicial Watch keeps uncovering more and more examples.
"The wise man speaks because he has something to say. The fool speaks because he has to say something."

(See also: comments by idlewords, pkw2017.)
depends on the complication, but sometimes for the health of the baby and mom csection is absolutely necessary
"users don't want to kill themselves during interaction" - touché :)

I agree with you, but taking the create-react-app example again - I can very quickly scaffold a react app with necessary toolsets, built on top of webpack. This gets me up and running without having to mess with webpack config.

At some point, I need to break out of these opinionated guardrails and do my own thing. At that point create react app has an 'Eject' feature which opens up the black box and dumps all webpack configuration and scripts for me to hack away on. The Anvil tool seems to have something similar where you can grab all the sources, download, run, and publish it yourself.
I agree TFA seemed to do this throughout, and it made me question the narrative significantly more than I might have otherwise.

For example, why are Black women experiencing pregnancy-related mortality 4x higher than Hispanic?

Lu believes that pregnant black women face the stress of a lifetime of exposure to racism, exacerbated by the experience of nine months of pregnancy.

Research backs him up. Institutional racism has been linked to high-blood pressure; black women’s bodies pay the consequences of “unique stressors around racism, sexism, violence of any kind, or economic burden,” says Fleda Mask Jackson, a professor of public health who led a 2001 study on why African-American women, regardless of their socio-economic background, are more likely to have premature babies. She found that the mother’s internalized stress is likely to lead to poor birth outcomes for the baby, and believes it’s not unreasonable to infer that those stressors have consequences for the mothers too.

This is entirely uncompelling.
Test mining cryptocurrency online
Ask HN: How would you unload 10k BTC?
What would your recommendations be for divesting a now significant amount of BTC? The following conditions would be in place:

- US based

- Would want to divest over 2-3 months

- Willing to sell at discount for USD

Would auctions be the best way to go? Selling as much as possible through multiple exchanges each week? Contacting Coinbase for a large chunk of it?
Colliding Neutron Stars Could Settle the Biggest Debate in Cosmology
Just how is the hard drive damaged? Most of the time... the data is fine, but some board-level component died.

Lots of people out there are capable of swapping boards from the drive and swapping the chips storing any user-specific data , then enabling access to the data.
Agreed. There's 100s more. I wish there was an avenue to directly report these body shops. Here's one: http://www.ccsiusa.net/ (Corporate Computer Services, detroit). Even their Glassdoor reviews are fake.
Very good! I'm looking forward to this high-end gadget future.
Also stumbled today over Lumu Power[1] which I will probably acquire.

[1] https://lu.mu
I don't know if ASN.1 is turing complete, but I don't think Simplicity can handle arbitrary depth recursion, either. Luckily, to parse a BER coded certificate, you only need a fixed depth.

Of course, if you are actually parsing BER in a smart contract, you should really reconsider what life choices brought you to this point :) But it might be useful for a non-blockchain related crypto library.
> The original poster seemed to imply that it would take millions of years worth of solar energy to "put back" all the CO2 into hydrocarbons.

Really? Not the way I read his message. I don't know what you've read (and why it is "seemed to imply" and not some quote that would support your claim), I know only this part of his message: "we released millions of year worth of concentrated solar energy in the span of a century." And if you analyze what actually happened on Earth, it is really billions of years of photosynthesis that were needed for this to happen (to produce the conditions that the concentrated carbon remained in the crust).

You write that you've discovered that only for a geologically "short" time the carbon was stored. Yes, indeed. But that geologically short time is compared to the billions of years where the conditions weren't right, both before and after.

And you still ignore what I wrote: without the pure oxygen, which was produced by the cyanobacteria using photosynthesis(!), there would be no geologically short period of the more active storage.

So yes, the fossil fuels are the still result of the almost 3 billion years of photosynthesis. And yes, it is an "accident" in a sense that everything needed to happen exactly as it happened, it wasn't in any way inevitable.

Which should actually make us appreciate even more that we probably used half of all the easily obtainable oil from the crust in just a 100 years.

And yes, we are burning the hydrocarbons from the crust and releasing the CO2 back to the atmosphere, 300 millions of years after the Carboniferous, and it won't be good for us.

Together with the Holocene extinction, humans already immensely changed the nature.
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I like the idea of extended cognition; we're all already fairly well into transhumanism, as long as we've got access to the internet with all the knowledge it contains.

Of course, that's a fragile thing. It's easy to understand why people hoard physical media full of .pdfs and Wikipedia dumps and stuff.

Anyways, I think what'll really get people's attention is something that makes it easy for them to do, physically, what you do in code every day; automate tedious tasks. It'll probably take awhile for a good and easy-to-reproduce/distribute interface to crop up, though.

Everyone is always trying to find problems and sell solutions, but I think what you really want to sell is an easy way to find solutions to a wide range of as-yet-undisclosed problems.

The metal stuff is just wetware. We'll get robot arms when the Biology side of things catches up, those sloppy unpredictable little... well, cyborgs might just take longer than other large technological shifts.
Things I would love to make but I cannot find time to:

* Syntax-tree aware version control system. Do merges taking into account the syntax tree of the code being managed.

* Real time stats of the judicial system by real-time analisis of the sentences.

My standard ideas license is: the first $100 millons you make, are yours. I want 1% of the rest. If you make less than $100 millons, you owe me nothing.

Good luck!
The city is 1700 years old - I'm sure they had time to figure this stuff out.