skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Genetic variation by region is well known. That genetics affect mind and body is known. The fact that combining those facts is bannable is nuts. Although I suspect it is all guilt by association, with some prominent bigot parroting a half-correct interpretation. Can we get a comment from HN where the line is discussing these issues to put commenters at ease? It seems a tricky precipice to tread, online and off, yet an important one if equality is truly our goal.
>I believe the answer is that there are properties which only come into existence once you have the right physical arrangement, but these properties can't be predicted in advance from the physical constituents.

In order for such properties to not be predictable from the physical constituents, they must not be encoded in the physical constituents. If they are encoded in the physical constituents, then they must be predictable from them.

If these properties are not encoded in their physical constituents, where does the information come from and where is it represented?
Tutoring is often the only time that a student will sit down for a dedicated amount of time and study without distractions. As much as I want to believe in my own value as a tutor (and I do think there is some value), I will admit that a fair portion of the benefit is just having someone force the student to study.
Slightly off-topic, but is there anything in the design of W3W that mitigates the chances that a square would have an offensive/embarrassing combination of words? Besides a blacklist of problematic words? I imagine the probability that this would happen only increases for English words that are problematic in other languages.
Africa has a lot of arable land that's uncultivated. So I'm not sure the Malthusians are right this time about crop productivity increases worldwide. Google tells me there are 600 million hectares in Africa, which is 60% of the world's total. That's a lot of potential food. Also, much of exiting agriculture in Africa is inefficient, and could be increased.
These things are very much aggregates and averages.

A significant number of people do subscribe to spotify, and some is buy the ad-free kindles.
Not really. Modern capitalism is a serfdom of sorts, 99% working off 25 year mortgages with the proceeds going to the 1%. Soon it will be 25 years of hard work to get the deposit to get started on the 25 year mortgage, which is not the same thing as 'fully developing one's potential'.

A century ago everything was organic. There were no plastics to buy on a daily basis, there was no glyphosate in food. There might have been tincture of arsenic and other nasties, food might have not been affordable and so on, but progress for the better does not mean that everything is better. What point is there if things are better but everything is polluted?

I do not believe that community has got better over the last century, before the television made its appearance in every front room people did go out for their entertainment a lot more. Village halls, church buildings and public houses used to be where people would go to participate in things. The world was not a spectacle to be watched. Today it mostly is.

We also live in an age where the motorcar and planes are omnipresent. Kids used to play in the street, now they have Snapchat. One day of playing in the street - even if bullied - is worth an eternity of Snapchat, even if not 'cyber-bullied'. Cars also have a way of killing all forms of life, not just people's pets but every life form that is not well versed in the Green Cross Code. The billion or so car drivers think it is their divine right to right of way, that climate change does not concern them and that bicycles are for kids.

As for the wonders of scientific advances and breakthroughs, the ancients in Greece, Persia and elsewhere worked out all the difficult maths. But 99% of people get lost at the mention of cosine and would not be able to solve a simultaneous equation even if their life depended on it.

Even this longer, healthier lifespan you speak of is questionable. Who doesn't have elderly relatives that have been on some kind of life support for decades? Fed through a straw, needing a bed hoist, this might be better than dead, but if the Alzheimer's has set in does it even matter? This extended life also ties up the potential of younger generations, care workers who pop by three times a day do not come for free, they too have potential and, whilst they are doing the bed hoist thing, they are not writing the next War And Peace or spending time with their own family.

I am playing devil's advocate here, however, we live in an era of Trump and maximal human stupidity. The baby boomer generation had a better gig in the last century.
I just bought the early access. Interesting what thoughts go through your head after you read such a blogpost. I had to ask myself ten times if I'm not buying it to give parallel-universe-me a leg up...
reduce addictive qualities of the game...

Not sure if applying this strategy to a game that has sold only 4 copies in 3 years would really help the situation.
Not really considering the battery is not charging constantly (contrary to popular fear-mongering, once a phone is at 100% and left plugged in, the phone will simply run off the power and disconnect the battery).
Never used Tiddlywiki, just guessing from your link:

the fish is a tiddler [0], it's consuming a mess [several entangled lines] and excreting something unified and cohesive [single line].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiddler

('Tiddler' is perhaps BrEng slang? I'm British, and I'd say it's slang - especially when applied not to a fish, but to something or someone small - but I don't know how widespread it is.)
Why is that a hard problem?

(Once someone answers this, I promise to read and process the answer, but I'll go and do something else in the meantime)
While I appreciate the wisdom of this approach, the concept of mass transit isn’t new, and for large parts of the US has never worked out for one reason or the other. There are obvious exceptions in high density urban centers, but your typical mid sized midwestern city has never seemed to make mass transit take hold. For better or worse (mostly worse), people by and large continue to prefer private automobiles as their primary (or only) mode of transportation.
Here's what RationalWiki has to say about her:

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Hbdchick

But i have absolutely no idea whether to trust RationalWiki or not. I tend to assume anything with "rational" in the name is anything but (unless it's about fractions).
Small independent creators cannot rely on ads for income already and fund some other way. And so almost all of the websites, except for some thousands of top ones. But those can probably find a way to survive another way.

Blocking ads may not actually affect anyone beyond online advertising corporations.
Gil kalai's argument is essentially that quantum error correction is impossible because he believes that the error will affect too many qubits at once.
I'm not sure what aspect of construction you are in, but there is an amazing amount of inefficiency. For example, a friend of mine was working on the Tappan Zee bridge project several years ago. Union job, very good salary, benefits. He was working the night shift, making an added bonus night differential. However, there was a noise regulation in place where no work could be done after a certain hour, so for 6 hours a night this extremely well paid union construction crew was sitting around collecting very good money + night differential for doing absolutely nothing. Now his job is very real, and it requires skill, but for the purposes of argument, this was a "bullshit job" that went on for weeks and weeks and added literally millions of dollars to the cost of the job in which absolutely no work was done.
I wrote a blog post on the drug development basics that contains some of the charts from that paper

https://www.baybridgebio.com/blog/drug_dev_process.html

It actually costs an average $40M (as of 2010) to do a phase 2 study. That's an average, not a precise cost. The cost entails designing a study, getting regulatory approval, recruiting hundreds of patients, paying for multiple doctor visits for each patient, manufacturing the drug, process engineering, administrative costs, getting hospitals and healthcare facilities onboard to treat patients, lab tests for all the patients, development of custom biological assays to measure the drugs activity, payments to lawyers and consultants, plus paying dozens of employees for a few years

There is an additional $30-40M needed just to get to phase 2 plus the $40m or so for the phase 2 study.

The why is biology hard question is beyond the scope of this post, and I'm not a biologist (though i work with them). But I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that biologists can't directly study human biology -- you can't just delete a gene in people and see what happens, or stick a bunch of random chemicals in somebody. Even if it wasn't ethically, financially and logistically challenging to do that, you couldn't always even see what you want to see. You can't watch changes in live human organs at the level of watching specific molecules, you can't see where all the molecules go and how they impact all other systems in the body in real time. You just have snapshots of specific things, like analysis of blood samples, or imperfect models, like animal or cell models that seek to replicate specific biological phenomena

Contrast that with something like computer science, where you can directly play around with the thing you want to study -- computers. Or chemistry -- you can be in a lab and work directly with the chemical matter you want to study. Not that those are easy, but you at least can poke around directly at the stuff you want to learn about
In this line: https://github.com/brannondorsey/host-validation/blob/2ba467... use Array.some rather than iterating through all elements with Array.filter.

Then this: https://github.com/brannondorsey/host-validation/blob/2ba467... is not something I would recommend. Don't try to fix bad input.
I don't know if I'd agree about your dislike of the graphics being because of your own personal preference. The human brain has evolved to find certain harmonies of shapes/colors attractive while others are not. The author undoubtedly has a lot of grit—but, he's not an artist, and his game suffers because of that. Metroid has superior graphics because they had dedicated artists, and surely put a lot of time/thought into the look and feel of the game.

Also, the design scheme between different 'blocks' which make up the platforms in the game is not uniform, which makes the design feel much more disjointed.
Does python 3.6 support type hinting? This reminds me of php 7+ with scalor types, and return types now. Didn't think python supported this.
I think they have every freedom to do what they want. It will just turn out badly if they use that freedom to choose a walled-garden approach that expresses ambivalence to both user support and on-boarding new contributors by giving them tasks with visible impact and reasonable amounts of creative autonomy.

I only care about what core devs “should” do from the perspective of “what keeps a project healthy.”

If someone wants to optimize that choice for something else, like their personal enjoyment of hacking on a new feature, I think it would have unfortunate consequences, but other than stating my feeling about that, I couldn’t care less and it seems irrelevant to the discussion.

That’s why I characterize it as an ego problem. As far as the whole rest of the project and user base is concerned, what some particular person wants just doesn’t matter.

Yes, they’re free to make their choices that way. Then it just takes that particular case out of the discussion we’re having here about providing user support.
A Rust parser? Is this for your own reviews or workflow? Or, is this intended to eventually handle transpiling and/or JIT Rust applications? Are you porting a CLI or graphics library to Rust, maybe -- or doing something to make working with Rust+WebAssembly less tedious?
That's why addressing a smaller market can be useful. Release your game for Linux and engage with Linux gaming community. You are more likely to be noticed.

Here is an interesting article about it:
http://cheesetalks.net/proton-linux-gaming-history.php
Gofmt is not opinionated enough (go experience report)
I think she is tangential to some completely unobjectionable stuff as well as some (to me) objectionable stuff. The things she talks about the most which I find interesting are the internal-to-Europe differences in family patterns (family size, manorialism, adoption, etc.) and how those have changed population genetics within europe over time (culture impacting genetics; unclear the extent genetics impact culture). Also that in England and other NW Europe the most violent people were executed for crimes fairly aggressively, and only elites had large numbers of children, leading to a long-term improvement in genetics with time.
This is terrible. The pricing info page is completely misleading, and written in a way that obscures the fact that all of this software is available completely for free.
I don't see anyone here pointing out an alternative explanation: It could be simply that more active users are more likely to install ad blockers.
People should demand an end to private insurers. Makes zero send to have middle men who profit off denying care.
Kind of reminds me of https://github.com/timothycrosley/hug , especially using type hints for validation of request parameters.
I didn't see a naive free market analysis in progress, but anyway, I have noticed that people build new parking structures around my urban area on a regular basis. It does take a while, but it happens.
I'd be pretty surprised. To be sure that there's no 3rd party crap in it they'd probably need to re-write it the way they rewrote their C# compiler which would be both pointless and difficult to justify (to put it mildly) from a business perspective.
Amazon warehouse workers are limited by human physiology to move boxes within 10x of the average box moving speed. That disqualifies them from the superstar economy.
> Some things stop existing if you zoom in too far, there is no "forest" or "love" or "chess" any more all the way "down there".

Profound.
They haven't explicitly 'disproved' all of your points because as mentioned previously most of what you said is nonsense.

(Someone already mentioned this, but seriously - this has been done - it works really well - as a polished commercial product it would probably work even better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popcorn_Time)
One thing that makes new housing downtown more expensive is parking minimums. Food for thought.
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I made a similar app (iOS) which varies the display time by word length, punctuation, and each word's place in a list of the 100 most common words (under the assumption that common words contain less information, thus take less effort to read). To be honest, I'm not sure it works any better than one running at a constant speed. There seems to be a surprising lack of research in this area.

(https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/zipf/id1366685837?mt=8 if you're interested.)
A push back against “big feminism?”
Some people invest 3 years and massive debt in studying in uni but we don't think it is something weird even though I will probably hire you as a developer over someone who just finished uni with no experience. So look at it as something like that, you invested in yourself in some way and you are ready now to reap the rewards.
Yep, this is a huge problem in the ecosystem right now. The irony is that JS, an interpreted language, is becoming slower to compile than some of the newer compiled language (i.e. golang, which compiles to machine code and therefore avoids all compatibility issues).
This only adds credence to the fact that social survey is not a science. Most of it is glorified
door to door salespeople work. It's not even research.

We have to draw a clear line soon to prevent good-intentioned people from being lumped into shitty science.
Assuming you have a tight budget (no budget for marketing or user testing) pick someone, yourself, a friend, or relative, then make some concept arts, and show it to them, if they like it, continue iterating, if they are not interested you have to pivot. Note that the user can also be yourself. It's unlikely that you would make a game that you yourself love to play but no other one does. It's however likely that you love developing it much more then playing it, then you are not the user! And you have to find an actual user. Test the game/product on your target user(s) throughout the development process to see what works and what doesn't. If the "users" are engaged they will have suggestions, actually you will get flooded with suggestions, so it helps if you also is a user yourself so you can prioritize features according to your vision and not just the most popular.
With VS and .NET you can pause the program, inspect variables, change variables, execute arbitrary code using a REPL, change threads, view memory usage, edit code and continue the program (if properly configured), debug into framework libraries and even third party libraries with a bit of hackery. You used to be able to debug JS - not sure if you can still do this as I haven't tried for ages since the Chrome debugger is pretty good.

You can also use the same tools to debug a crash dump although often a lot of info is lost, but it can be useful.

Admittedly nothing much has changed in years and it would be good to see more.

One thing I would like to see is a time travelling debugger akin to what is provided with Elm, but Elm apps have state concentrated in one place so it is easier to implement there than for a .NET program probably.

Outside of .NET I am not sure of the quality of debugging tools. Jetbrains created something pretty good for Ruby which I used once, it was quite nice. But I am sure there are languages without much support and it would be frustrating to use them.

Haskell is an interesting example because you don't often need to debug, because of the purity you would more likely run additional unit tests / property-based tests on the functions to find the problem. Having said that I've only made small Haskell apps, nothing in the day job.
Ha! This is gold. If it goes anywhere it’ll definitely get the ban hammer from the big tech sites. Watching...
> Why is US GDP growth so weirdly constant?

Its not hard to make something look consistent when you are constantly changing the algorithm you use, and substantial changes are made every few years. Comparing GDP from year to year when different formulas were used to calculate it (even if the underlying data was all accurate) is comparing apples and oranges. For example, a 2013 change in the GDP formula gave an instant 3% boost to GDP.

https://seekingalpha.com/article/1368001-u-s-governments-new...
While I agree Angular 2 isn't a disaster, AngularJS -> Angular is probably the laziest and most ambiguous "rebranding" I've ever seen, considering the fact that historically AngularJS was often referred to as Angular. This will be a clunky simile, but it's like if all of a sudden Coca-Cola decided to rebrand Cherry Coke as just Coke and branded regular Coke as CokeNC. (Coke NoCherry).
> On Linux/x86-32, the default stack size for a new thread is 2 mb.

It's just reserved, not committed until actually used.

> Granted, I've somewhat shifted the goalpost

Shifted? You've strapped them to a rocket and put them in orbit.
They seem to cover that:

> We then compare test group Web usage after installing the ad blocker to control group usage over a comparable period, controlling for baseline usage levels.

Emphasis mine.
I still don't see how that really applies. I agree that Musk is subject to a lot of scrutiny, and a lot of negative coverage in general. But in this case, he is absolutely in the wrong, and what he did and continues to do is despicable. This wasn't a case of the media taking his statements out of context or misrepresenting his views, and it's disingenuous to try and roll this event into the category of 'unfair media sensationalism'.
X is not Y and is surely not Z in the Digital Age
Oh hey there, Betteridge's law of headlines!
Unless OP is someone very special, all their private data isn't worth 15 dollars a month.

I suspect this device is far more likely a broadband speed testing agency trying to get speed test results from different consumer ISP's, taking WiFi and the customers device out of the picture.
I'm not sure how your conclusion follows. Uber drivers and warehouse workers are unlikely to undergo this effect because no matter how good an Uber driver is, they can't be in multiple places at once. Similarly, there's a limit to how much one warehouse worker can do.
Private encyclopedias just don't work for me.

Neither does keeping large amounts of well formatted documents privately. I can't hold myself accountable unless its public, and easily accessible with a search engine. Notes are primarily to break down topics and cement my understanding of it

Maybe this is just me but its pretty convenient to just type "name-of-article-you-made or name-of-video-you-made" on google and then get the files you've made.

Tiddlywiki's maintenance cost and learning curve / ability to create notes efficiently and effortlessly is not there to me. I've tried picking it up a dozen times in the last few year. A good notetaking app should get out of your way entirely, and only add a small cost of maintenance for the larger amounts of benefits you reap from it. Everything needs to be visible at a glance, with nothing hiding behind obscurity

Something like book reviews, you can write a review on goodreads to remember your opinions and thoughts were. You can bookmark things and use readwise to autosync and send you email reminders of things highlighted / quotes
> 730 movies per year

Is that apples to apples? A 'movie' release could be anything from a quick short on YouTube to a $x00 million blockbuster, and everything in between. The same goes for games.
#1, good call!
#2, usually I am 100% in agreement. But referer vs referrer in the HTTP spec is a special case. I chose to do this as referer is misspelled in the spec itself.
I used it directly on Android with termux and qpython, but never packed it into apk.
I think your parent meant "The amount of pain one needs to endure to get a Linux desktop [app] to work as it should is huge"
What does that even mean? You can't have a "user" without a program.

You can have backers, but even then you probably want hundreds of them before embarking on a three year development journey.
Yes, Python introduced static type hinting in version 3.5

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0484/
Feed llvm bytecode through Z3 and hope you didn't implement something with cryptographic behaviour.
this is why i feel compelled to think about things that are necessarily localized. how the hell can you compete with the whole world?
Sean Carroll's "Great Courses" production on the "Higgs Boson, and Beyond" [1] offers like 5 hours of what you'll likely gradually find to be a very accessible, informative and entertaining audio/aural chronology of the Higgs boson's conception; through its planning, and on through the LHC experiment, and finally past its discovery, into the current state of affairs regarding field theory.
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUv1OJ2PE0s
I own a car, a bike, shoes, and a transit card. Most people where I live have at least 3 of these. Saying that "car owners" are 88% is exactly the kind of superficial statistic that got us to where we are today. How about having an appropriate policy for each area according to local circumstances?