skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Inborn in the sense that IQ is highly predictive of lifespan, because IQ highly correlates with overall physiological health.

Correlation is not causation, and many other factors correlate to both lifespan and IQ, neither of which are entirely a result of genetics.
On similar lines, one of the usual gripe with windows is the horrible file copy estimates, Raymond Chen wrote an article on it to explain why it is[1].

[1]: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040106-00/?p=...
Geforce 6200 LE is a card from 2004, are you looking at modern specs for the versions of the games on Steam? Quake was originally released with only a software renderer and later GLQuake was released with OpenGL support, that only really ran well initially on 3DFX Voodoo cards, although technically I think S3 Verge and some other 3D accelerators were supported. Quake 2 supported 3D accelerators at launch but also had a software renderer, like many notable PC games of the late 90s (Half-Life, Unreal tournament, Deus Ex, etc). Quake 3 was controversial in 1999 for being one of the first major PC games that required a 3D accelerator, among other things, the term GPU didn't really get used for PC graphics cards until Nvidia released the Geforce 256.
When I was a programmer at a non software company I would frequently sit with the users and watch how they used the existing software or how they did a task that we were considering creating software to help with. It was a great way to make a useful product right away rather than get back and lot of negative feedback about how it doesn't do what they need or expect if the software was written without that insight.
Added to title, thanks
Run a genome sequencing facility. Here's what we're looking to do or what is top of mind for us in 2019:

Sign a couple of departments that we do a lot of business with onto a sequencing subscription service (recurring rev).

Launch our new bacterial identification pipeline & product for Ear/Nose/Throat doctors.

Expand organic marketing content while scaling paid marketing.

Go as far into automation in our lab as we can.

Start dabbling in RNA sequencing and further our offerings in B/T cell immunology.
Schools in China introduce ‘smart uniforms’ with GPS chips to track students
> I wish I was given _any_ time with my users

With some effort and/or ingenuity, you can probably take time with your users, one way or another.
I got it to work either by picking a different terminal type or restarting the app after enabling the option!
The guy is able to very concisely describe what are very complicated concepts... which is even more impressive considering that english probably isn't his first language.
This. Life expectancy is a measure of the population's ability to keep the infants from dying, bubble wrap the world so the 15-25yo men don't kill themselves and then provide good medical care so the seniors can squeak by with their oxygen.

It says very little about quality of life.
Curious what was the result specifics?
Thanks. Had a look at collection. Many books/courses are not rated yet it seems. But Neil deGrasse Tyson courses, some on music, religion, courses on books like Joyce's Ulysses seem interesting.
Now that there's some open-source synthesis tooling for iCE40 it's nice to have a fully open solution, even if it does really only address the needs of the open-source diehard and entry-level hobbyist. Without an IDE it's harder for open-source toolchains to gain momentum so anything helps.
I don’t even know where to start on how wrong everything you’ve written is.
I get that. So the Python 3 interpreter has to assume that when I say "print (1, 2)", I actually mean, print these two individual arguments.

If I say "print 'foo'" though, it recommends "print ('foo')", but doesn't go all the way to assume I actually meant that. There's a piece of code handling that special case that stops short of actually interpreting what I apparently mean.

The frustration around that was the original point.
Jean Bourgain
I dispute what you are saying, as someone who has studied that Lewis & Rao paper in detail. Advertising academia is pretty much just as mixed up as advertising in practice.

Here is another paper worth reading on it [0] (which cites Lewis & Rao), but provides fairly clear evidence of a distribution of outcomes of digital ad campaigns with a lot of probability mass on the side of positive lift.

The place where issues come in via Lewis & Rao is on the side of poor statistical methodology, particularly in the calculation of necessary statistical power.

But those discussions are all stuck in bad frequentist estimation techniques, and in industry there are practitioners using Bayesian methods, for example such as Gelman’s proposed “type sign” and “type magnitude” errors, with well-calibrated priors that treat the possibility of negative lift seriously.

I strongly disagree with the idea that “ads don’t work” is an “open secret” like you say. Rather, “measuring ads is extremely complicated” is the known conclusion, and marketers are just coming around to the fact that you have to invest in extremely advanced statistical methods to even know if ads are working, let alone to optimize them for an audience, especially inclusive of things like audience privacy, opt-out policies, paychological well being and so on.

[0]: https://marketing.wharton.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/...
I didn't say otherwise?! Defensive much? IQ is the single best predictor of lifespan. I think this is because ability to perform well on an IQ test means cellular metabolism is operating well in the organism.
Maybe kaggle but different?
I'm sure I'm being naieve, but could we just get rid of billing altogether if we nationalize the health care system? I have to recount an anecdote. My mom was hiking in a foreign country, and got injured. She hobbled to the next town, and found a clinic. They treated her and were ready to let her go. She said:

Q: Okay, how do I pay?

A: You don't pay for health care.

Q: I'm American. I'm not part of your health care system.

A: That's all well and good, but we have no way of knowing how much to charge you, how to take your money, or where to send it. Have a nice vacation.

The clinic probably maintained some accounting records, but they simply had no billing system.
I always thought the idiom of 'reusable code' is in deep conflict with 'ruthless refactoring'

I've come down to keep your interfaces and paradigms stable, architecture flat and couplings low.
> Or, to put it another way, it’s [sampling] astonishingly slow when high accuracy is desired

Raph, did you try adaptive sampling? How does the performance compare if you sample with an upper bound on change in angle, versus regular sampling?

Also curious if you wouldn’t mind expanding on use cases that need this much accuracy. The main things I’ve had to use Bezier arc length for are graphics related, e.g. hair rendering, and in that domain you don’t need much accuracy at all.
Yes, but I was hoping for a feature where the name is displayed on the interface...
I often find myself reading 'old' (15+ years) books on planning, Government and NGO working group papers on Major capital projects / Project Management (PM), journal articles on various PM topics, and sometimes it feels as if very little material progress has been made in the discipline since the 70's. If anything, our propensity for relying on technology to 'take care' of particular parts in some cases takes us backwards.

As someone who schedules and oversees complex programes and their governance for (most of) their living, a few observations that are common across all domains:

- We are still very bad at understanding the total scope of work (whether it has been done before or not)
- We are still very bad at understanding the work that must be done to deliver that scope (whether it has been done before or not)
- We are still very bad at understanding how long it takes to do the work, especially if the work is more cerebral (whether it has been done before or not)
- We still think we can predict the future with certainty with enough information
- Things are becoming more complex and (perhaps) more uncertain
- We are still bad at making decisions and usually avoid them, or make them without giving proper thought to their consequences

A schedule's value is not just in '''predicting''' an end date. A schedule primarily does three things: Past / Status / Forecast

- It records work/effort in the past
- It gives you the status against plan
- It forecasts the likely times when future work will take place and the amount of work left to complete the project

This in term serves multiple project stakeholders in different ways. Leaders want to be able to budget, because the cost of money can be more or less expensive at different times. The cost of resources can be more or less expensive at different times. Workers want to know what they should be doing and how long they have to do it. Managers need to balance limited resources and (re)direct effort.

Even with risk and resource loaded probabilistic scheduling with tens of thousands of montecarlo iterations, your actual path is still only one of those possible realities. But as in all models, there are sensitivities and if properly constructed understanding the sensitivities in the precedence graph is sometimes as important as calculating the critical path.
U.S Army soldiers conduct rocket strikes against ISIS in Syria
I get where you're coming from, but is that the reality?

What I've seen in practice is that the useful features in question are only useful to very large companies, which is why they're gated.

Logic being, "if you're in need of this, you most definitely can afford the premium product, and we'd like you to be sponsoring our work since it's necessary for you to make money".

Is it better to let the open source project die on the Hill of Principles, and have nobody actually benefit from the potential wasted work?
How do you avoid that the company becomes a dutch tax resident if you manage it from the Netherlands most of the time?
I think you meant to reply to a different thread
Agreed fully. Systemd is the sole reason after 20 or so years in the Linux ecosystem (to the point of fanboying a bit too much here and there) I'm seriously toying with the idea of moving to FreeBSD in production.

Every time I come across a new "strange" issue in some server distro these days it's almost always systemd related - and usually something utterly insane.
^ This.

For someone who claims to be dedicated to saving the world he (1) is receiving one hell of an executive package and (2) spending a significant amount of time being a rude asshole to critics.
Probably some showboating going on, but who cares? Let the guy do his thing; it doesn't hurt me at all and the industries he's in probably need some stirring up.

As for Tesla whether they succeed or fail it's great for the automotive industry - getting the old oem giants off their wallets and looking over their shoulder is great for the consumers.
The mode of the distribution in the video appears to be zero. How is that possible?
you're arguing with the guy that built redux and he's being nice about it. you think maybe you should reconsider your position?
> For now, these are the states that allow the sale of raw milk at retail stores: Arizona, California, Connecticut, Idaho, Maine, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Nevada, South Carolina, Utah, and Vermont

https://www.epicurious.com/archive/blogs/editor/2014/04/wher...
Not only do the opportunities to use it seem to be limited, but the opportunities for the compiler to statically check that the constraint is respected seem limited, both in the case of the caller and in the implementation of the function.
Just "having" a treaty is not enough. Germany has a treaty with Estonia, but it doesn't protect you. The Estonian company WILL become a german tax resident if the company is being managed by a German citizen living in Germany 99% of the time.
Actually, you are not being pedantic at all. No one in the space industry thought it could be done in a commercially viable way. SpaceX was dismissed time after time by space pundits until it landed a rocket, and then another, and then another. Now the goalpost is 100 reusable flights! I wonder what the next one will be when SpaceX gets to that one.

The article started with a biased premise and then worked to prove that.
Nice try, but a struct would be more appropriate.
I'm about 10 years younger than you, and have always been interested in fountain pens, even before I started becoming more cynical about technology. Any advice on how to start collecting them? Or even just finding good ones to use?
I always carry at least 2 fountain pens with me when travelling - even with the possible hazards of leaking etc. Just find writing with them is so much fun, plus - less fatiguing. Writing with a fountain pen means I don't grip the pen as hard and have to use a lighter touch so as not to damage the tip. That leads to more writing time with less hand cramps and tiredness.

I just got some new Iroshizuku inks [0] for Christmas, and can't wait to try them out.

[0] - https://www.gouletpens.com/collections/pilot-ink?limit=24&of...
I love this typeface and I’m using it for a lot of stuff @ MNT, including the Reform brand. And it’s also pleasant as a GUI font on Linux desktops.
How can travel by rocket even be considered in today's world? Are Falcon launches carbon neutral?
NY Times needs to get their mobile shit together. After the article reformatted itself six times, including more than one change of font size and the right half of the page going blank and reappearing, the page still had not finished rendering. I'm not waiting a minute for my browser to render your damn site.
The Void (Linux) distribution
I've used Palisade @Risk quite a bit, but for my use case, most of the time I feel like I'm taking a Lamborghini to the comer store. This is perfect for someone like me who is more of a "casual" estimator of things modelling with probability.
I hope you realize that I have a long list of these associations.
Report: Huge CenturyLink outage caused by bad networking card in Colorado
I have often wondered if it would be better to just hire professional data entry people to follow the doctor around and enter all the information into the system. Does it really make sense paying someone $500K a year to peck and tap into a EHR?
Might want to throw a “system-ui” in there too, from CSS 4. This works for me in Safari sand Chrome.
Yes, you wouldn't want to go making congress with chaotic communications, now, would you?
Some fair critiques but the tunnel one is way off base. Showing that mass transit is more efficient than cars in tunnels has nothing to do with the question of if building cheaper tunnels for cars will result in a virtuous cycle of commercial investment and development of underground tunnel infrastructure. One of the core theses of boring as far as I understand it is that people prefer cars over subway trains for the most part from a comfort standpoint and so if anything drawing on some of the on-paper benefits of underground rail but transferring them towards passenger vehicles seems like a no-brainer if the economics and logistics work.
I think if your programs profile is flat it means none of your code is actually in the hot path. It's buried behind library functions and OS calls.
The point of The Great Game, the Cold War, was to keep the game going. Either the game ended because everyone became friends or perhaps one side folded peacefully, or there was a Third World War. So yeah the point was, at least in part, to maintain the status quo, since that meant nukes were in silos.
Why is this being posted? Article is 30 years old and even then the headline result was qualified with statements like "Dr. Kirby Hanson, the meteorologist who led the study, said in a telephone interview that the findings concerning the United States do not necessarily ''cast doubt'' on previous findings of a worldwide trend toward warmer temperatures."
Show HN: FaaStRuby (FaaS Platform) has 2 new runtimes: Ruby 2.6 and Crystal 0.27
Well, high school, and we both were chuckling about it.
If they want it, absolutely.

I don't know whether they are actively collecting everything I search for all the time when I am (I presume) not a "person of interest". I wouldn't be very surprised either way.

Also: Why stop at Google? Do you believe that your government has access to everything you read on HN? To everything you look at on Amazon? To everything you look at on Tor?
As a programmer, it always flatters me when I am referred to as an “engineer”
The Martian is already in wishlist. Educated seems interesting. It has critical reviews by Obama and Stephen Fry.
Fascinating video. I use Fourier analysis all the time. It's a foundational tool of controls engineering, which is my field. But I never knew it was invented to describe thermal dynamics problems.
I think IBM Watson salted the earth more than Theranos.
In some ways at least, you can look at data science / ML work as an extreme form of TDD and closer to it in spirit than most proselytizing I've come across. In another great example, Peter Norvig does way more TDD for his Sudoku solver [1] than a "textbook" attempt at it [2] ..like many orders of magnitude more testing when counting cases. The spirit is better if we try to answer the questions of "what do you know about your program" and "how do you know it" through code.

[1] http://norvig.com/sudoku.html

[2] https://xprogramming.com/articles/oksudoku/
^ Critic reviews.
Positive.
Specifics,Host OS is Windows 10 Pro,virtual machine is Hyper-V, Guest OS is Ubuntu, Dynamic VHXD, Storage Space Pool with 4 HDD and 1 SSD, Windows Filesystem ReFS.

Only observe this specifically with kernel updates. Everything updates as I would expect on a HDD.

Slow is ~10-20 minutes. Which is why it is faster to migrate the running VM from the Storage pool, onto a single SSD, complete the ubuntu kernel update and migrate back.
Anyone remembers those information terminals that we at BART stations in the bay area back then?
The slightly surprising incorrect statement is “each real number has a unique decimal expansion”, which is wrong since 1.00000... = 0.99999... — so when using arguments like this, you need to be careful to always only pick one of these.
Both machines should have sufficient memory to cache the entire codebase (including all header and library files) in RAM.
I'll give it a thought. I'm not tied to legal paper but I do a lot of quick math and scratch work so I would like to have a disposable paper option.
Please add 2014 to the title
Somebody will be paying, and will want adequate and auditable documentation about what they are paying for. The potential for fraud is too great. Medicare and states all have to watch for fraud in their claim payments.
As a first commenter, I think I can say this is at least decent advice. Especially around paying off debts (he specifically mentions credit card debit, but it applies to most forms, Imo).
Ignoring the other stuff around Scott Adams, I think this is decent for most, but of course depends on the individual.
My neighbor’s son is a doctor who needed some software written. He learned to write the software and now runs a software business (in addition to being a doctor). I guess it was easier than trying to bring developers in. Ive seen the same thing with a pilot who learned programming to write an incident management system for airlines. Only once the software was successful did he seek advice from ‘professionals’. Learning to code is not the deepest skill around.
Yes, good point! If you visit a slaughterhouse you'll see that none of the workers bother with the male animals' necks, because that would just be pointless. Death comes much more quickly and reliably when they are simply kicked in the balls.
Reminds me of https://web.archive.org/web/20171023045242/http://www.samefa...

"What is this simple free best personal finance advice that fits on a 3×5 card? "

* Max your 401k (or equivalent)

* Buy low fee, diversified whole market funds

* Never buy or sell individual stocks

* Save 20% of your money

* Pay your credit card balance in full every month

* Maximize tax-advantaged savings vehicles like Roth, SEP & 529

* Pay attention to fees and avoid active management

* Make financial advisors commit to a fiduciary standard (or fee-only!)

* Promote social insurance programs to help people when things go wrong
This kind of simple list reminds me of a simple gym workout or simple cardio.

For 95% of Americans, doing any kind of exercise is better than what they're doing (or nothing), and similarly, for 95% of Americans, a simple proscription like this that is easy to follow will be better than whatever they're doing currently.

Complexity can lead to paralysis and inaction, and any positive action, even if technically imperfect, is better.
> But that doesn't tell you anything about whether the programs are necessary or efficient.

That’s irrelevant, if a city spends more money on services for a company than it collects from that company it’s a net loss. Sure, you can argue that they should be more efficient, but collecting less money is not going to help.

> so so the new business imposes no incremental cost.

Every business adds incremental costs associated with transportation etc. Infrastructure is expensive to maintain and becomes more expensive with increased useage. On top of that you have things like food safety inspection which directly relate to business. Suggesting the incremental cost is zero simply demonstrates you don’t understand the specifics.
The Old New Thing is a fantastic blog especially if you develop in Windows. I used to read it religiously until 5 years back and stopped reading about time when Google Reader was retired and somehow didn't setup in my new flow of reading blogs. Thanks for reminding me about this blog and article again.
This story is so bizarre. Despite the article being 20+ paragraphs, there are hardly any details. It lists a handful of newspapers spread across the country and just says they were delayed. Could it be any more vague? The most concrete detail provided is that the attack "disrupted a shared production platform" that apparently made it hard for the printing presses to work - but what does that mean? Disrupted how? What was the shared platform? Was it targeted at multiple newspapers, or was this an attack on a single platform that just happens to be used by all of these newspapers?

Then, in regards to the origin of the attack, the only detail provided is this single line:

> The source identified the attacker only as a “foreign entity.”

That's it. There is absolutely no other information given about the origin of the attack. And yet it's in the story headline? Talk about fear mongering.

They also either didn't report, or even more confusing, don't know if the attack was reported to the FBI.

And just to make it even more bizarre, this entire article is written by LA Times staff and posted on the LA Times website, and then talks about the LA Times (one of the affected newspapers) as if they have no idea how the LA Times was affected. Shouldn't they have a lot more information?

Overall, this article seems to be written by someone who has very little information about the incident(s), and very little knowledge about technology. It also reeks of knee-jerk "omfg hackers!1!". In reality, based on the few details that are available, it sounds to me like they just got hit by some boring ransomware virus. It likely wasn't even targeted.