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I remember being taught that there was a paternal component of mtDNA, but that the contribution was really small (<10%, maybe <1%). However, I don't remember if this was undergrad (~ 1998) or grad (~2000)... probably grad school.
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Ask HN: Are standing desks worth it?
Are standing desks just hype?
Why stand all day versus going to the gym for an hour or walk for an hour (assuming the goal is burning calories)? Do they provide benefits for posture?
This is awesome for what I heard about kafka operations.
What would be the benefits of an ISO standard? The list of programming languages with an ISO standard is pretty short https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Programming_languages...
> There was structure, expectations, and responsibilities.

jefftk makes this point in a reflection on raising his own child--that there is great value in providing an environment which is predictable: https://www.jefftk.com/p/how-to-parent-more-predictably
I came here just to say that. Glad to see I wasn't the only one.
Just another story about the evils of zoning and housing regulation. How much do you want to bet builders aren't allowed to build more housing there?
I definitely might be off track on this, which is why I said to visit an actual professional.

>It's the lack of perspective/awareness.

This is another ADHD symptom: a relative nearsightedness to behavioral consequences that are far away in time.
Apple's high base prices and obscene upgrade prices finally crossed some hard to describe psychological barrier where I'm concerned. Bye, Apple. :(
The question was about the media, not the suicide rate.
> when renting is the most common way of living, it is not healthy for society.

Germany (with it's sane housing cost growth) would disagree with that.

> Renting is parasitic and enables social stratification in to elites and tenants.

Not really.
Renting provides accommodation mobility.
Done correctly, it can be liberating & very valuable for state, renter & landlord.
I mean wow, just wow.
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> Video filter: not AI, doesn't work as a video filter (aka searching youtube isn't actually searching video content), also nobody but NSA cares

This video seems to disagree: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzTbptEdKhY

(youtube is not ONLY using video content, not even mostly, but it is using it)

> Talking machines: HMM existed in useful form in the 80s

HMMs are machine learning. Sure it's statistical learning, but come on. And I would further argue that wavenet is a hell of a lot better.

> Programming robots with 'AI' -no you absolutely cannot do this; anyone who tries to sell you this is a charlatan

Meaning it hasn't been productionized yet (and therefore it's very hard to do atm) yes. True. But it's also been shown to be possible:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUZUr7jxoqM

etc ...

> You have a big fat nothing burger above. 'AI' hasn't changed anyone's life in an appreciable way.

I don't agree, obviously.

> The things you list above are ... very far from the singularity of mass unemployment that people seem to envision. Most of them actually seem to create more jobs.

I said exactly that didn't I ?
or will be in another few years.
Worse: I once had to price match bestbuy.com from my phone in-store, because the special online price didn't appear when accessing bestbuy.com through the store's own Internet connection!

Perhaps it was a fluke, but if intentional, this strikes me as borderline fraud.
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You're breaking the guidelines too often with uncivil and/or unsubstantive comments. We eventually ban accounts that continue, so would you please stop?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The design.
I'd be surprised if something similar to python 2/3 happens. The go team have been very explicit in saying that all go 1 code must continue to compile, and transitioning to go 2 needs to be as seamless as possible (most likely using tooling to automatically migrate code across, a la go fix from the early days).
I agree that this is bad advice. I'm 35. I've got a wife, two kids, and a weird house with tons of maintenance projects. My parents live five minutes away, and I spend most weekends at Home Depot or hanging out in my parents' living room with the kids. I work too much and don't sleep enough. And I'm blissfully happy.

I say this is bad advice not because I think what makes me happy will make everyone happy. I know lots of people would find a life with kids in the suburbs stifling. But the "treasured child" type of advice makes the same mistake in the opposite direction. Our culture glamorizes a life of travel and adventure and experiences, but I think it dramatically underestimate the percentage of the population who find such a life unfulfilling and would be more fulfilled with roots and neighbors and a sense of place.

"What would you tell your kid?" My dad traveled the world, visiting dozens of countries helping bring health care to the developing world. He told me that the most fulfilling thing he did in his life was raise two kids. That's very uncool to say these days. But kids are always best served by honesty. They will find fulfilling whatever it is that they find fulfilling. Maybe they'll live a life of experience and die happy. Or maybe the best thing they will ever do will be to make you grandkids. But you're not helping them figure things out by trying to sell them an aspirational version of reality.
It's considered bad practice to comment on HN stories one hasn't read. Did you happen to see anything in this story about zoning or housing regulation, or have specific knowledge to that affect?
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Or, you know, charging for the true externalities of owning a car like Denmark does.
I strongly doubt Airbnb has anything to do with it. The idea seems ridiculous, especially for Dublin. From what I've seen, Dublin suffers from a chronic lack of government planning and spending on housing and general urban planning; has a sizable part of the population that lives and has lived maybe for centuries in serious poverty, helped (and kept quiet) by the dole; it's a tech hub in a tiny country with a formidable capacity of attraction of tech companies and skilled workers, who inevitably compete with the natives for housing; but being small, it's not flexible enough to accommodate the amount of immigrants, and it's very sensitive to boom and busts: rents are now 2.5 times what they were in 2009. Many council houses are horrific in build quality and lack of maintenance. Developers, in the (apparent) complete lack of planning are incredibly greedy, and happily destroy any existing building in the city centre to replace it with brand new, extremely expensive ones. At the same time a lot of old/ historical buildings in the city center are left empty and rotting, amid wastegrounds closed by iron fences and barbed wire.

Ireland's culture seems to me a strange mix of great heart, fatalism, happy go lucky attitude, greed and complete inability to plan the future.

Check this: an Irish comedian around 2008, when the crisis hit Ireland and the properties prices crashed:

https://youtu.be/ZD9R1LMM5Zs
> like the fact that Legos are sold as pre-planned structures and not generic building blocks

This is completely tangential, but to be fair they're sold in both ways. I'm what most people would call a grown man, but I still can't help myself (or my girlfriend sometimes) and we pick up the odd set.

You can still buy large sets of mixed blocks, as well as the models. I've got a few models posted around my place because I enjoy them, but we also have [at least one] classic creator kit[s]. Even as a "grown up" it feels good for the soul sometimes.

https://www.lego.com/en-us/themes/classic/
Or from the other direction: not subsidizing automobile transportation.

If we funneled as much money to mass transit as we do to vehicle infrastructure, there'd be no competition.
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I did and it wasn’t a problem after all. I also asked for better salary, free phone and be allowed to use Linux in their windows only environment and they accepted.
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You still seem to be subcribing to an alternative definition of an overrepresentation. Whether or not factors influence the baseline population does not lessen the objectivity of measuring representation. You seem to be under the impression that the definition of an overrepresentation is, "having representatives in a proportion higher than some perceived ideal average." While under this alternative definition it may be fair to say whether not not a representation of women higher than the current average is a subjective statement, I am speaking in terms of the actual definition of the word which refers to representation with respect to the current average - not some perceived ideal average. When the proportion of women in tech is 20% and a company's proportion is greater than that, then an overrepresentation exists. The fact that you may think the proportion of women in tech may be greater absent certain factors does not affect the objectivity of that statement.
Not to be that guy, but I can top that. I recently saw a young woman eating pasta in her car. On an actual plate, with a fork and knife and napkin, while driving on the freeway.

I'm a motorcyclist, so it causes a bit of rage in me (it's just so damn selfish), but then I remember that they can't hear me or simply don't care and it's safer to just get the hell away from them.
Common Lisp actually lets you use any string for an identifier if you wrap it in pipes, though you have to be a bit careful of casing in that case. Still for so many characters on the keyboard it's not needed to wrap which is so convenient as you illustrate.

(let ((|hello world| 3)
(|HELLO world| 4)
(|こんにちは (jp)| 5)
(|pi\|pe| 'piped)
(|newlines
work
too| 6))
(list |hello world| |HELLO world|
|こんにちは (jp)| |pi\|pe|
|newlines
work
too|))

; --> (3 4 5 PIPED 6)
Maybe this is cultural and I have been grossly desensitized to how temporary rent/lease arrangements are in the US (except in rent controlled places), but I don’t quite understand the aversion to going with a private market renter apartment, subsidized by the government (council?).

What makes it so undesirable that the article protagonists are willing to put their kids through the wait in what is basically a shoe box?! (10 sq.m. is not big enough for two people!)

The risk of having to look for another place to rent in a year is the same in most of US. They appear to be protected from the increases by the subsidy, so doesn’t feel so bad.
As an aside, it's truly remarkable that the amalgam of two near-dead companies (Apple, NeXT) could prove to be such a perfect mix of technology, skills, market and capital that it was able to grow into one of the world's largest and most successful companies.

Obviously it's not so simple—much of the credit goes to Jobs with the scar tissue of age and experience—but it's also true to say most of the essential puzzle pieces of success existed in one or other of these two companies. Apple had market share, loyal users, brand recognition, Jony Ive, and some good technologies; NeXT had Steve Jobs and a fully fleshed out UNIX operating system with all the trimmings.
Yeah it's not just the healthcare system as that example shows. Imagine GP visits were free for that service worker. They still wouldn't go, because paid sick leave isn't mandated by law, so going still costs them money. And even if they do go, unpaid, they have no security in their employment as they can be terminated for any reason at all with no notice.
Never mind traditionally, this is still true, even in the most egalitarian countries (Scandinavian countries).
Women have to choose between family and career, men don't really have to do that. The biggest driver behind the gender pay gap is the difference between women with children and women without. Somehow we haven't solved the issue that it's a cost borne primarily by women.
Not really, no.

Raising the price of gas negatively affects the working poor more than helps the environment. That subset of society may not live in an area accessible by transit, or their employment requires them to be in a different location than is feasible to travel to by transit.
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It looks really cool. I dreamed of software like this, which can visually show high level of the complete architecture. And if I could connect it to these via plugins, wow even better.

My experience so far:
- can't really bring our architecture in - components mostly seem very vendor specific and focus on major players. We use Digital Ocean and it wasn't there, I looked for generic "Cloud Machine" it wasn't there either. Same for logging, etc. and the list goes on.
- it could be useful to share some views on architecture in presentation mode with vendors and customers, there doesn't seem to be anything like that I could find
What would you say Go does objectively better?

I think you might say threading. Maybe? The JVM can be tuned to get similar performance. Where it fails to get similar threading performance, it has better tuning in general.

Simplicity of the language? Maybe? It's simple, but I think it's too simple. One of my issues with Go is that it's hard to tell what implements what. VSC support is a little hit or miss. The fact that I have to use an IDE, or extension pack in VIM/Emacs, to figure this out is terrible. I like that in C++, Java, Python, C#, and Typescript I can clearly see which things a current struct implements. It makes code navigation easier. The lack of generics makes certain natural, and I mean natural as in how the majority of other languages do things, solutions to problems hard. Do you want a set, i.e. a unique collection of things? Use a map, but keep in mind that equality is at the whole struct level so one field being off and you have logical duplicates. You can't make structs immutable.

Community lead structural design? Most Go apps appear to be transaction scripts where the database connection is created at the handler and explicitly passed down or perhaps buried in a Context. This makes testing hard. You have to mock/stub the DB interface to test business logical. If I want to introduce interfaces that wrap the DB away, I'm told by the community that I'm "overthinking things" or I'm not a true gopher.

Produces a binary? I agree.
Given that go is already pretty well specified (and, perhaps more importantly, has 2 mature implementations) it's hard to see what advantages having it formally standardised would bring.

https://golang.org/ref/spec
It's not just AirBnB. It's also that real estate has been backstopped by the Fed and the government. So far it's a can't-lose investment over longer time spans, so if you can afford to stack up properly it's a sure thing way to build wealth.

Housing cannot simultaneously be affordable and a good investment. Affordable housing means existing homeowners lose equity.
Arguably the price of the car is still near enough to estimate; 15K being a median figure in the ballpark.

It's also not JUST the home price, it's the career, being able to expect to stay in the same area for a long time and generally do well.

I happen to live near Seattle, but I think the same could be said of a majority of the 25 most populated metro-areas in the US, if not a similar proportion of cities in most other countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_statistic...

I'm extrapolating that any place with >5% population growth over the ~10 year period is in a similar bind due to various policies.
I'm sort of tired of all these reasons (high upgrade pricing, needless thinness, keyboard reliability, repair hostility), but I am having a bigger problem moving away from MacOS and the tight integrations.

So that's the bigger issue. Windows Subsystem for Linux starts to make a difference, and I just don't have time to fight Linux.

I know people are going to say "Linux is great now! You just have to do these 3 things to get Wayland working with the thingamabob" and at that point, I'd be perfectly happy with a hackintosh if it means I have to fiddle. But I don't have time to fiddle.
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I'm 33 and male, I find it amazing how the dating balance has shifted since I was 23. If I wanted I could easily line up multiple dates per week with women who I'd date. When I was younger a lot of women wouldn't give me the time of day.
How many impressions were you running if you were able to measure a 2% difference?
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Then make your exams very easy so the students will be in a good mood when they fill the teacher and course reviews.
Are you actually expecting your kids to take care of you when you are a broke retiree?
...hence regulations and laws.
I'm wondering how that's even possible if it includes the time for downloading your code from S3. I.e. normal cold starts (as I understand it) involve fetching the code from S3 to install on a VM. Perhaps they aren't including that time when claiming single milli cold start times?
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So do you stand by your words? Do you have a a Do Not Resuscitate order? Would you reject emergency surgery after being shot?
I understand that is what he thinks he’s doing, yes.
I know plenty of good looking men with social skills and reasonable success in long term relationships or having families.

And also ugly men unwilling to commit.

I think that your view of males is unfairly negative.
Why not just leave it at the bank?

It's always nice to have a bit of money on the side for unexpected expenses (eg. car breaks down) or if you should find yourself without a job for a few months, or if you need a down payment to buy an appartement.

If your money is tied up in investements, it's just going to be a hassle to get to your money, and it's going to cost a lot in fees if you need it sooner than later.
Amazon taking more open source and selling it with no value created for the developers. Maybe Kafka should switch to the SSPL [0].

[0] - https://www.mongodb.com/licensing/server-side-public-license
Try the ferry. Once you get a whiff of sitting outside on the bay during a beautiful sunset commute, breathing in the urine odors of your typical BART car will never seem a viable alternative.
Modules are not a build system. You will still need a build system to build real C++ code.
I feel like what he's saying is similar to the way that the open interval between 0 and 1 has no end when viewed as an open set in real analysis. Which is nice, but the only time I felt that I could advance time by infinitesimally small increments I was on mushrooms.
Forgive the noob question, but why is it necessary to have a custom runtime when using a binary from a compiled language? It seems to me that golang support should just mean binary support, and then c++ and rust would be able to comply already, no?
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I doubt it, the number of high schoolers getting their drivers license is by far the lowest it's been in a very long time.
These numbers seem pretty accurate, and I wouldn't expect that they're off by anywhere like a factor of 10.

Think about it: the number of programmers in the world is certainly not off by 10 factor - no way there are 180 million programmers in the world, only 18 of which are visible.

Similarly, there's no way that 43% of programmers in the world are Go programmers, that's again quite clearly off.

I think an estimate of 700k Go programmers makes a lot of sense, maybe with a factor of x2. I would very strongly doubt that there are more than 2 million Go programmers in the world.
I think it's worth quoting the author's book promotion in context (underscores added to show the size of the link):

> Let me be more concrete: Promoting a book — which is what I’ve been doing since __my new book__ came out last month — is fun and exciting. You get to travel and meet new people. But there are aspects of it that feel a little corrosive. Too much focus on the self, on presentation, on sales numbers, on whether or not your work matters.

The columnist is doing the relatively rare thing of going beyond vague platitudes (It’s not easy for anyone, no matter how many deep roots they might’ve nurtured.) and referencing her specific personal circumstance: that even as a touring author -- they kind of life every aspiring writer would kill for -- she has a constant fight against doubt and shame.

Because she doesn't elaborate on what her book is about, nor mentions it again, I had to click through to find out -- a compilation of her "Ask Polly" columns, specifically on the topic of self-improvement. Polly's entire response, according to `wc`, is 2,337 words -- 1,700 of those words come after the link to her book.

Sure, I can agree that she should've taken the time to link to her publisher page, instead of the Amazon link she seems to have bookmarked for sharing. But if she's trying to be honest about her life situation, how is she not supposed to mention being on promotional tour? That's what a writer's life is consumed by after publication: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/10/th...
> I'd argue men still have a ticking clock in some senses. Sure you can still get it up and produce children, but your capacity to engage with them and raise them goes down over time.

I used to work with a woman who was 47 at the time, in a long-term committed relationship, and still pre-menopausal.

She told me once that she and her partner have discussed the idea of having kids before she hits menopause, and they both ended up agreeing that it would be a bad idea because by the time the kids turn 18, she'll be 65 (and I don't know his age, but I met him a couple of times, and he looks to be around her age), and they wouldn't want any kids to have do deal with elderly parents at such a young age.
>"So do you stand by your words?"
- Yes

>"Do you have a a Do Not Resuscitate order?"
- No

>"Would you reject emergency surgery after being shot?"
- No

I suspect the real problem here is with your reading comprehension though.
A lot of people are replying saying this isn't a big deal in practice. I believe them but I'll chime in and say this is also a dealbreaker for me.

I would love to find a language for game / engine development that's as performant as C++ and as easy to use as C# or Python, but this issue scares me. If I search for a variable using any of my existing plain text search tools, I expect to find the variable. It makes me think that this isn't a language that's meant to be used by large teams on large, long-lived codebases.
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"Not hard to make up any number of examples where spacing or capitalization matter for good reason. They matter to humans; its just silly to make them not matter to the compiler."

This one point is always worth considering when deciding on user-facing portions of technology.
Then this [1] article from 3 weeks ago now means that we can also get our stresses from our mothers.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18405636
I'm sure a therapist has handled hundreds of patients going through a mid-life crisis and will be infinitely more useful than some internet columnist hocking their book. (Or a random guy on a startup forum trying to diagnose you)