skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That’s tens of millions

It says "This study reveals that U.S. military forces were directly responsible for about 10 to 15 million deaths ", which is not "tens".
Now imagine death toll if US would directly fight war with USSR over Europe.

And yes, it includes Vietnam and Korean wars, where high precision weapons weren't used yet.
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The full WA Museum report ( http://museum.wa.gov.au/maritime-archaeology-db/sites/defaul...) puts the longevity of the paper down to the bottle likely remaining buried in a layer of damp sand for most of the intervening time.

Note that the bottle was found open, but half-filled with sand.
And if you read my replies you'll notice that I gave two examples. In response to your fixation on nuclear weapons I pointed out that developing better designs could be helpful with regard to maintaining an awareness of if modern technology has made some producing some version of the weapon, in my example it was a miniaturized version of the weapon, possible for a terrorist organization. I don't feel like it's asking too much to expect you to realize why that might be a useful thing to know for protecting the nation. In my other example I highlighted that having a cutting edge understanding of drone technology could be useful for defending our navy in the event that we another crisis similar to the time we sent ships to guard Taiwan. Given that the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis happened well within recent history I don't think it's unrealistic to suggest preparing for an analogous situation could be beneficial in the event that it should happen again but escalate this time.
I mistakenly thought your double-grand-parent was related... so my comment is without context.

yeah, "tech" is changing things and I couldn't imagine life without it... I imagine there are beings on the planet that can't imagine life with it, and they seem to live fine lives.

we're special animals... in that technology is part of "us". but I don't know that makes our lives better.

bill joy and some others disagreed, too
I'm fortunate enough to be on a motorcycle trip through New Zealand's South Island right now, and I can see the evidence that plenty of people (albeit the overall population is small) do continue to buy local in every small town I pass through: the archetypal general store is everywhere, not to mention hardware merchants, and many other local businesses serving their local communities. It just doesn't happen much in our bubble.
I've observed the same thing regarding EE and embedded software compensation vs. pure software pay. Big difference, and very unfair feeling when you look at the skill involved with being an EE.

I'd argue that maybe EE's aren't underpaid on an absolute scale, but that software has completely different market conditions and rather, it's software people who are doing uniquely great.
Microsoft (both vscode and studio) seems to be moving toward ide adaptation — parsing output from other compilers, supporting compilation databases and folder-only (non solution) projects. Perhaps this, combined with Clang viability for MSVC ABI, will reduce the impetus for cross-platform projects to use cmake just to support Windows. Of course, there’s added inertia in favor of cmake due to LLVM, Boost, and others moving over. Not to mention that Microsoft now also supports the “cmake server” concept (there will be some deep irony if after 20 years of “we need cmake to support Microsoft” the argument for the next N years becomes “we should use cmake because Microsoft supports it”).
I am mystified as to why coinbase is not performing float or liquidity adjustments.
It’s easier than that. Just buy the 4 coins in their current market cap proportions and revisit once/year.
You'll still have to pay taxes on capital gains if you have shares of a mutual fund. There will be capital gains/losses generated any time a mutual fund buys or sells the underlying assets (for example, if shareholders liquidate their shares, and there's not enough cash on hand to pay them). Mutual fund managers are required to pay out these capital gains to shareholders on a regular basis. These get reported to you (and the IRS) on a 1099-DIV as "capital gains distributions", and you report them on your tax return for that year.

The fund may try to minimize trading to be tax-efficient, but this may not always be possible. For example, if asset prices drop suddenly and lots of investors try to cash out, the fund may be realizing (and distributing) large capital gains if it's forced to liquidate assets that it has held for a long time. If it's forced to liquidate assets that it has held less than a year, you'll get a short term capital gains distribution which is taxed like ordinary income. (Of course, when you sell your own shares, you'll incur a long/short-term capital gain or loss based on the difference between your sales and purchase price.)

More information on capital gains distributions can be found here: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/capitalgainsdistributio...
EDIT! I found it! I thought it interesting enough to send to my folks.

https://boingboing.net/2016/02/04/how-to-prepare-to-join-the...
If the current FCC approved something, I wouldn't assume that it was approved on its merits. Is the FDA better? An honest question; I don't know much about its current performance or composition, but it's under the same political control as the FCC.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16532112. Not the flamewars though.

All: we eventually ban accounts that propagate flamewars like these. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html for how HN is intended to be used, and then please use it that way.
What I did a while back is download the raw data and run it through https://promethease.com/. Will tell you a lot more about risks, drug interactions. What it does is it compares your data to that of all the journal papers and research around that gene. Interestingly I have a SNP that is correlated with lack of empathy and another one that is the "warrior" gene. The BRCA SNPs would be identified.
Would you please stop using HN for ideological arguments? It's not ok.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
“React Native reusable components”

What did that mean? Downside of flutter is you can’t use any non Flutter UI control easily.
The hope for running Android go versions on a nicer phone isn't to save space (nice phones have plenty) or make updates not suck (that's unlikely to change), it's that the experience might be faster because it's doing less.
Everyone has stood by while this has happened, more so than Tech in many cases, for example, with respect to immigration, the major tech companies have filed amicus briefs with courts, lobbied politicians, and pleaded with the Trump administration to stop what they're doing.

And while tech companies have been accused at various rates of sexual harassment, do we really think the big tech companies aren't trying to mitigate these issues to a greater degree than say, Hollywood or Wall Street Investment Banks (or the VC industry)? Are tech companies destroying the environment as fast as Koch Industries, or are they actually trying to be carbon neutral? Are they at least trying to cleanup their supply chain's bloody parts, or are they lobbying politicians to legalize pollution and bloody exploitation. (e.g. Apple and blood minerals vs Union Carbide/Dow)

Your usage of the fallacy is incorrect BTW, this isn't a No True Scotsman fallacy, no where did I assert that tech companies don't do things which could harm society. My point is, the focus of HN is to obsess about tech companies behavior and avoid the far greater harm that non-tech (i.e. non-software) have done, principally because their interests are primarily talking about tech and how it relates to everything, and it is a myopic view of tech as the center of the universe: it either is the center of great harm, or the utopian solution to everything.

The real problems of the world require messy, political problems that don't include the skills of geeks or silicon valley, they include things you can't calculate, engineer, or apply rigid principles to.

So at worst, you can say my fallacy is "whataboutism", but in this case, the "whataboutism" is real. Lots of people crying about AI Skynets and full spectrum surveillance, and none about basic inequality. Why? Because a tech geek can imagine a way to filter cookies, or implement Asimov laws, but they can't imagine how to convince millions of people to stop voting for candidates who promise not to raise their taxes and stop giving money to "freeloaders" The real squishy, soft problems can't be solved with code on GitHub.

Yes, we can tackle both issues, both what tech companies are doing wrong and what non-tech companies are doing, but it is a false equivalence to say they're causing equal levels of damage,
right now we haven't even cleaned up the historical legacy damage caused by the old economy, and we're talking about paying large amount of attention hypothetical threats and damages?
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I've never done one of these genetic tests. Partly because it's scary to me to learn what diseases I'm likely to get as I get older, but also I just don't want that information in some else's database. We're very fearful of what Google and Facebook already knows about us now imagine they buy 23andMe and then join all their data about you with your DNA (which you've already willingly given up and allowed them to "profile".

Google/Facebook user behavioral data + their users' DNA is about as scary invasive as it gets.
Would you please stop using HN for ideological arguments? They're predictable, off topic, and not ok.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Beneath the popular messages that everyone should be respected, that all members of certain groups should be treated well, hides the fact that there are people who do true evil, who exploit and deceive, on a daily basis.
Gambling is one of the most heavily regulated businesses on the planet.
It does feel like a bit of a weird bubble. I had one unique/rare skill (financial trading + network+ it security, basically Kerberos skills) that let me bill out at $350/hour for a short while. I was somewhat embarrassed, though grateful, about the whole thing.

And I completely got that people smarter than me were billing at 5x lower rates for harder work.
Paradoxically, Google getting involved has the potential, if not the actual goal, of decreasing the amount of mistaken or misidentified targets.

I understand some "conscientious" Googlers feeling uneasy about Google getting involved in this sort of thing, but paradoxically, Google (or other AI resources) getting involved will very likely result in fewer incidents of hitting the wrong targets. In other words a measurable reduction in "collateral casualties/damage"
Absolutely and nothing illegal about that, at least in most reasonably acting countries. Dont forget you talking about UK where they continue attempt to ban encryption and pass laws toake all your data visible and accessible to the government at any given time.
Why shouldn't a small town be compact and walkable?
You're wrong. In Brazil corporate income is taxed at 34,5% (base 15%, plus additional 10% for medium to big sized companies, plus 9,5% for social security)

That amount is on par or above OCDE counties, and much higher than most developing nations.

What we don't have is dividend tax. Unlike corporate tax that one must pay every quarter, you only pay dividend tax if you give money back to shareholders, so reinvestments are not taxed.

Usually countries balance income and dividend taxes so the government has a stable income but doesn't penalize investments as much. In Brazil, we opted for screwing investors.

Not to mention that companies pay an enormous amount of money in combined sales taxes. A manufacturing company usually pays 17% for state sales tax, another 9,35% federal social security, and sometimes an extra 5% to 15% for "luxury good" (like shampoo).

So, again, you're completely wrong and companies (read YOU) pay a hell lot of taxes in Brazil.

Source: I worked in investment analysis in another life.
That doesn't sound like a caveat at all.

"Becoming more popular" should instead be "will be the only supported version of Python from 2020 onwards".

Unless the reader is aware of the state of Python 2 vs. 3, he/she wouldn't even bat an eye.
Tethering takes the same number of clicks (2) as switching to a different wifi network. It couldn't be easier.
Rotating your image such that the text is readable would be a useful modification.
>Perhaps one clue as to why it is so much harder to quantize gravity than everything else is that other force fields in nature exhibit a feature called “locality” ... But “there’s at least a bunch of theoretical evidence that that’s not how gravity works.”

Really? I was under the impression that gravitational waves propagate at very nearly the speed of light.

Also, this article doesn't do a very good job of explaining why people are so certain gravity can be quantized. Gravity as a deformation of spacetime seems like a perfectly reasonable model to work with. Why should we think it doesn't reflect reality?
Shame it wasn't available last year when I bought my current phone. Last year there really wasn't anything truly worthy to be called a successor to the Z3 compact.
When Coinbase adds a new coin, will they buy the coins for the fund before or after the announcement? If before, then this fund would actually be useful as a way to front run the market. But I'm guessing it would be after.
> A well patterned and modern site developed in the past five years shouldn't have these issues.

You would think so, but...

- One of my clients is a Fortune-10 company. One of their e-commerce sites wasn't rendering HTML (I think it was built with React) which completely prevented search engine indexing. Was a huge jump in organic traffic when we got that fixed after I caught it.

- Another client lets its users to have publicly accessible project pages (think GitHub). This resulted in Google indexing X0,000 of these URLs, many of which have 1) duplicate content, 2) minimal organic traffic, 3) minimal value to business. We de-indexed those pages and organic traffic is way up.

- And so on...

This is why people like the author can make a living doing nothing but SEO work.
I don't know much about the FCC other than reading about net neutrality, but my answer would be probably yes.

For all its faults, FDA is pretty good all things considered, especially considering the lack of resources they have to do their job. The reviewers are often helpful and the conversations are very scientifically focused and objective. There are many controls within FDA to prevent corruption or outsiders to influence policy.

That said, ive been involved with some decisions where FDA has clearly made questionable decisions that have set back innovation for no good reason. There are also many lobbyists pleading their case to FDA, but congress has very limited power to influence in most cases other than by writing laws (which i think is as it should be)

Many companies that complain about fDA simply havent done their homework or are pushing shoddy science
Our drones are already exceedingly good at hitting the targets they intend to. The problem is that most of the targets they are trying to hit are innocent.
I had an Atari 800 XL(?) and I loved Miner 2049er. My favorite game, by far, though was Behind the Jaggi Lines (so?) where you had to save downed pilots on an alien planet.
Amazing case. I dont think however it will stand the test of time today.

A driver that supposedly doesnt know how marihuana smells (how do you prove he does or does not) drives across the state moving tons of contraband so long as he does not posses a key to the truck's locker.
I became quite interested in Flutter recently but it was pretty much impossible to find a range of good demo applications (or any demo applications) that show off what it is capable of so I gave up. LOTS of technical documentation however but nothing to sell me on using it.
I bought a Nokia 8 because I saw it got upgraded to Oreo 8.0 then 8.1 recently. Looks like only Nokia/HMD is the most competent vendor now.
I wanted to know. It turns out I’m a carrier for cystic fibrosis, and my wife is not. If we were both carriers, we might have chosen to adopt children rather than have our own. So there is more to learn than just your future health. It’s also interesting seeing who my distant cousins are.
Please don't post ideological rants to Hacker News. Whatever your point is intended to be, flamebait drowns it out and has the side effect of wrecking this place.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
2% is a massive fee. That is almost reaching hedge fund levels.

For what is pretty much a passively managed fund it seems hard to justify such a high fee.
My guess is that there are a lot of young people on HN who may have negative net worths - just got out of college a couple of years ago and still paying off student loans. Probably more of those here than there are millionaires.
I grew up the way you describe and in terms of accomplishments I’m decades behind the folks I knew that had structured and rigorous childhoods. Learn from me folks!
It really is scary. They claim to anonymise the data, but to me it feels like removing your name and address from your DNA is like removing the make and model from a car schematic (where only one model was produced).
Yeah this is weird. Maybe they meant "React Native-like reusable components". Flutter widgets take inspiration from React Native:

"Flutter widgets are built using a modern reactive-style framework which takes inspiration from React Native. "
- https://flutter.io/flutter-for-react-native/#built-in-widget...
The greatest gains are not long since gone or we'd already have perfectly working dApps.
Thanks for taking the time to reply with a well-thought out response :)
Wouldn't better analysis provided by [AI-]assisted intelligence result in better identification of what things are the correct would-be-targets?

I don't mean getting better at hitting coordinate x,y,z on the mark better but rather identifying which coordinates are actually "real" war targets [munitions factory, command centers, training centers, etc.]
I wrote my first game (in assembly language) on an Atari 400, because it was all I could afford on my college student budget. It was a fun machine to program.

You could get into a zone on the keyboard where you just tapped lightly and could achieve a decent typing speed, but it was never truly comfortable.
No. All of that is just an extremely convoluted way of trying to be cute and get around tax laws, which any judge would immediately shut down just like the "sovereign citizen" stuff. Sorry, but there is no cheat code for taxes.
Use can use the Roth conversion ladder to access retirement funds early.

https://www.moneyunder30.com/roth-ira-conversion-ladder

You can use a Backdoor Roth to get around income limits.

https://www.rothira.com/what-is-a-backdoor-roth-ira

Anyways, this "caluculator" didn't mention anything about taxable accounts vs tax advantage accounts.
Basic societal infrastructure (in this case, universal healthcare) is not a pet technocratic issue. When did we become a first world country in name only?

The irony of such levels of defeatism in a forum that proclaims opportunity is at every turn is astounding. Hope is not a strategy, but chances of success are not zero.
I think you can be this fancy with your CSS:

http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/

And use vanilla JS.
Ask HN: Recruiters asking personal questions at job interviews, I'm fed up
I'll try to keep this short.

Basically, I had a job interview 2 days ago at some startup, I'm a self-taught programmer with over 20 years of work experience.

I've been working for several startups in the last 10 years and made significant contributions to high profile open source projects so I have a reasonably good working history.

2 days ago I had this interview with a female recruiter/psychologist and the first thing she asked me was "What's your nationality?" with a sarcastic smile.

I responded, and while I was expressing myself I got some funny looks from her that I thought was humiliating/condescending.

I even saw she was talking with the employees and I know she was talking about me because I saw her stare me and they were laughing.

I thought it was maybe because I'm from a different country or because I don't have a very good accent (I struggle with my speaking sometimes), but I hate when I'm being treated differently.

She also asked me about my education/training, I said "self taught" followed by her saying "Oh, so you are self taught. Uhmm..." and I had to explain myself that it was never a problem.

I explained that I tried to apply for university in the country I currently reside but that immigrants are not allowed to enter the public university by law, even after me taking the exams and passing them.

She explained that the market would take me more seriously if I had a degree, I thought "maybe she is right" but I think it's rude not to consider someone for their skills and experience.

Anyway, maybe I'm paranoid or something but I always observe the same patterns at job interviews, do I really have to tell you my nationality, age, education, marital status, economic status, where I meet my wife, if I have children, if I smoke weed, etc?

Is it reasonable if I can keep some of these things to myself?

As a recruiter, do you ever think about how the person being interviewed feels like when you are being so disrespectful?

Do you think that your startup is so special that you feel entitled to ask all sort of personal questions?

I don't think these things have anything to do with the job at all, and I feel they always use one information or another against you.

Just because you live a normal life and you went to college and your job is being a recruiter for some startup doesn't give you the right to be disrespectful to others. I didn't had to do any of these things and I'm sitting here right in front of you, have you ever thought about that?

I don't think it's fair and honestly, I'm really fed up of playing this game.

I'm not interested about climbing your corporate ladder, I just want to get work done.

Feel free to share your stories if you feel like, I'd appreciate any advice and sorry about the rant.
They tried to sell it but nobody wanted it, AFAIK. Note that when they bought Boston Dynamics they made a big deal about not renewing military contracts because they didn't want to be in the business of autonomous weaponry.

Look how a mere couple years has changed things.
>I, along with 95% of the world's population, do not live in a place where Equifax exists.

But you probably do live in a place with probate laws. This isn't a new problem, and there are processes to deal with it.
Where Do Your Tax Dollars Actually Go?
I wonder how this stacks up vs other BRCA tests in terms of performance and coverage of common variants. And also whether it is cheaper to use their DTC test rather than going to a doctor and getting insurance to cover the test? I assume this is not a sequencing based test?
That said, git doesn't just store direct copies either. It will bundle things up into packfiles as it calls them to do compression and encoding of various forms to reduce disk space and make it quicker to find a given version of a file

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Packfiles
Google's Threat to Democracy