skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you explain why £12,757 is bad? It's an arbitrary figure and other than "it's big" I have no context for whether or not it's "the right" amount, and certainly would not use it as a point as to whether or not "governments are terrible" is correct.

Let's say I got this all back (from here[1] - I didn't vet these numbers but let's say it's order of magnitude correct - also, this is US numbers, but you get the idea) - is there a better way to spend than this?:

- Pensions	$3,238.24

- Health Care	$3,438.55

- Education	$331.68

- Defense	$2,771.78

- Welfare	$1,092.87

- Protection	$116.15

- Transportation	$289.44

- General Government	$140.06

- Other Spending	$330.44

- Interest	$1,008.40

- Balance	$(0.31)

I mean - I can GUARANTEE that I don't know how to spend on pensions, or defense, or education/etc better than a professional. I'm not saying they're perfect, but they're CERTAINLY better than me, and LIKELY better than someone with a profit seeking motive.

[1] https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/federal_budget_estimate...
It’s the linear chaining effectively required by the standard. I had an application years ago which was 10x as fast after dropping in khash over unordered_map.
"Prophet" who makes one horrifically awful market call after another. He was bullish in February of 2018 (right before implosion), after years of being bearish. What a clown.
Unofficial Apple Music Web Client my friends and I made
Texas loves capitalism. Nothing to do with it being open minded.
No, it’s betting the titanic will sink while you know you’ll be dead before it starts sinking.
The rotisserie chicken is a well-documented loss-leader for Costco. At $4.99 for a three-pound bird, it’s an amazing solution for quick weeknight dinners.> https://www.thekitchn.com/costco-chicken-loss-leader-strateg...
NPR has more info about motivations:

> Building a system to stock its own stores is a way for the company to better manage supply and costs, especially because poultry companies are trending away from raising chickens to be sold whole.

> According to Will Sawyer, a meat industry economist for the Denver-based farm lender CoBank, chicken producers are growing bigger chickens to sell in parts. "The vast majority are processed into chicken breasts or leg quarters or thighs, or they're further processed into strips or nuggets," Sawyer said. "That's where the industry has gone over 50 years now."

https://www.npr.org/2018/10/22/659561091/costco-builds-nebra...
Sears and Kmart were circling the drain for decades. Even before Amazon existed.

Remember that Montgomery Wards vanished pre-internet, as well as a number of more regional chains.
People who advocate this line of thought imagine a density of cars so high that if a car is dirty, you reject it and a replacement is 2 minutes away; and if you need a child seat and a bike rack, a car with both fitted is only 2 minutes away, and so on. They imagine a street like [1] but with every yellow cab an instant-hire robot car.

Obviously, it's difficult to square that theory with the "Public transit won't work in America as the population density is too low" line of thought so you probably have to choose one or the other.

[1] https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-busy-street-scene-in-city-...
Check out Open University (https://www.open.ac.uk), they have a undergraduate (BSc) up to graduate (MSc and PhD) level programmes in Mathematics, and they take distance-learning seriously.

That’s what I would do if I were you. Learning this stuff on your own will be very difficult. I can’t even imagine the amount of discipline needed...
> American chicken monopoly run by the likes of Tyson, Pilgrim's Pride and Perdue.

That's not what "monopoly" means.
I have written custom containers with malloc/realloc/placement new. It’s a hassle, but once it works, you have a very efficient and memory-safe implementation.
"Tesla to Cut 3,000 Jobs in Bid to Push Model 3 into the Mass Market" sounds a lot like Newspeak language.
The problem is that the core issue is the mind and these “peace” type arguments date back thousands of years, even in 340s AD in China’s Annals of Lu Buwei you find these same people not addressing their own minds and preaching “peace” or passivsem. The reality is if you bring up reasonable things they can do, such as not promoting egotism or having a materialistic views of everything which directly lead to a lack of what they feel is “peace”, it just goes over their head and they get angry. Again this is has been going on with these people for thousands of years now. So rather than some fake form of peace that doesn’t work, how about addressing the underlying causes of suffering for everyone instead and stop rejecting them?
Anonymous submissions are in theory somewhat feasible, albeit cumbersome. You can by the 23andme kits with the full fee paid from certain pharmacies (I think Target had them) using cash. This means you don't have to put down a credit card when signing up. I leave the rest to the reader to work out wrt anonymizing themselves while signing up to the website.
Lots of good points here. I can't speak to the graduate level, but for the undergrad level I think the trick is to find textbooks that don't suck (most good textbooks are free, or are old enough no one cares about copyright, and a million pdfs are online, or you could get it used for $15. Most bad textbooks are price gouging undergrads).

Then just put the time in with deliberate practice. I tried self-studying math for a year, and often skipped the harder practice problems, thinking just reading the textbook and examples is sufficient. That's actually entirely useless. You are't learning math (or anything worth learning) unless you spend 6 hours on a Saturday working through some hard problem that makes you so frustrated that you ask God why he made you such an idiot. If you spend enough time doing that you can actually learn something.
Security Breach Discovered Affecting 44% of Airline Travelers
What are the chances that these two people are not identical twins? i.e. fraternal. That could explain the differences in results from the same company. But they should also be quite trivially declared siblings in that case.
Right before they ask “why arent you married” and “when are you having children”?

Or thats not a problem because everyone is already on their 2nd marriage by 28?
lol the first comment

> why the hell is the video called "2002" is this is clearly the footage from 1996 ? you even wrote it in the description ! moron
OpenSecrets[1] and Sunlight Foundation[2] are great places to start. That said, IMO the greatest change is achieved by canvassing, working in public policy, or running for office oneself. Senator Jacky Rosen (D - NV), a former Software Developer, is a great example.

[1] https://www.opensecrets.org/ [2] https://sunlightfoundation.com/
Sure, but does it account for a large percentage change? If their reference data is so limited that adding to it can result in monumental changes, then it is currently inaccurate and a sham. If it isn't a large percentage change then lack of refinement doesn't adequately explain the significant variance across companies.
Can you explain the difference between sampling and sequencing the entire genome? I had assumed they did the latter but I guess the particular markers for diseases they are interested in are at known location that they can "jump to" somehow?
Why is an old crappy desktop computer universally better than a raspberry pi? I use two raspberry pi to run internal DNS and a couple other things small things. They are silent, take up no space and use almost no power and are almost certainly cheaper.
In April of 2018, when Vice Magazine’s lawyers pressured Patreon to drop my account, I had no other options that would enable me to keep my YouTube channel going.

ZOMG that's so evil! She complained that you didn't respect her desire to remain anonymous, so you destroy her livelihood? Why would any source trust Vice to safeguard her anonymity or indeed to do anything they promised after this saga of shitty behavior? Answer: they rely on sources not knowing anything about them, because after all the sources don't have the iron control of the social media "conversation" that Western journalists have.

[EDIT: removed speculation]
Draw your own cards and try bring it to a game, see how that goes down.
Can using dead drops be that efficient if you are retailing on a national level? One of the convenience aspects of darknet markets is surely using the mail service as the courier. Perhaps this is for specific use cases where the sales are on a wholesale level and the economics work out on that basis.
Ideally, we'd understand space completely in terms of the relationships between things, and our coordinate geometry would not ascribe any "positions" to events, but only "relations" between events. Singularities are places where our improperly-formed coordinate maps break down. Which means we'd rather like to look at black holes as holes in the coordinate mapping, rather than as singularities, but we don't have the mathematical prowess to do that. Or good enough scientific understanding of the phenomena to know that we've done it correctly.
Yup. That's an oligopoly. If a monopoly, the pricing and service would've been so bad that they'd have tried this sooner.
Citation needed for the last part though.
Sockette: WebSocket wrapper
There should be a login-as-a-service startup offering secure login tool that is easily configurable.
DNA in Europe is all mixed up. A lot of this is due to the Romans. There were also a lot of other migrations and displacements.

I was watching a BBC documentary about how Rome influenced the history of Scotland. The announcer, who has a very pronounced Scottish accent, took a DNA ancestry test. The results (IIRC) indicated Germany, Italy, and eastern europe. (The announcer interpreted this last one as Dacia) Come to think of it, he doesn't look so different from Metatron.

The twin results not matching is kinda disturbing, though.
I think they may have accidentally removed a character from the URL.

The posted URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DIl3Hfh9t

The actual URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DIl3Hfh9tY
> ...suspects it has to do with the algorithms each company uses...

switch (rand() % 100) {...}
Just to jump on these, traditionally hitting the space bar will also toggle play/pause.
Unless things have changed, this is exactly how 23AndMe works. You get a kit and send it in, then you just have an ID number that ties that kit back to you for setting up your account.
Don't most services provide (2)? You can download the raw data. It's not your full DNA sequenced or anything, they only do genotyping, i.e. only test for genes that are known to differ between individuals, I don't think there's a consumer service that does full gene sequencing for a reasonable price.
Gotta explain low numbers in earnings call somehow /s.
(For the sake of argument) Yes. Now you explain to me why we should allow pastors to force women to give birth to babies in chronic pain and suffering, using all interventions possible to maintain a heartbeat, even when there's no chance for the baby to experience life free of misery.
I'm imagining some kind of machine-learning training set based algorithm for determining the ancestry percentages. Even at 99.6% difference (due to mutations over time or sampling error) over 700k samples there's gonna be ~300 sequencing differences between twins. Enough to make their ML system draw different inferences for sure.
I think we don't know for sure, but can we still find value? Does this open the door for questions to be asked? Maybe the right questions are more valuable than answers?
Even a broken clock shows the correct time twice a day :)
Can We Expect Web Design to Be More Brutal in 2019?
I have found that talking to mathematians is the best way to learn mathematics.
By mistake I swapped lines in my post when composing it. It is fixed now.
There are machines that are "self-aware" in the sense that they run a simulation parallel to the NC control, slightly advanded in time, to catch catastrophic crashes and ESTOP the machine. Cutting into the machine bed can be _very_ expensive.
My local friends just don’t use events. I don’t think I’ve been invited to an event on Facebook that wasn’t mass 300+ person spam in the past 5 years. If it’s someones birthday coming up, I’ll get a text and find out what bar we are going to. If it’s a professional event, I’m getting an email about it. I don’t see what the events page covers beyond these mass mailer commercial events that I’m going to ignore anyway. For things happening around town that are actually interesting, there’s always the city subreddit.
Now it has hallway medicine and 18 month wait times - not really sure which is preferable to be honest, both are just shortages in unsustainable systems.
Just follow MIT Open Courseware for curriculum as for how to learn either the lectures or textbooks, lectures are good for initial understanding but then you'll need a textbook to go over the definitions,theorems and very important EXERCICES .
you might want to take it easy don't try to put everything in some sort of timeline like (I am going to do all undergraduate in 1 year) that's really stupid as may be advertised on the internet. Your real goal ,as you're taking this endeavor ,is to understand it by making it your own, get a feel for it.I cannot describe it but you'll know .
Best of luck in your quests .
That's surprising, since the heart rate monitors on many phones are quite accurate. Many will actually give an ECG-like trace indicating brief changes in blood pressure. I don't see any good reason they shouldn't be extremely accurate.
That's an awful lot of handwaving to explain away forced abortions.
Seconded: TablePlus

Some of what I can do in there feels like magic.
As a Dallas native:

1) There are no natural borders in the Dallas area, so development can sprawl forever and ever unlike in SV/SV and LA which are boxed in by mountains and the Pacific Ocean.

2) Pretty much the entire metro area embraces the concept of edge cities. Someone who lives in Frisco (an exurb) is more likely to commute to Plano (an inner-ring suburb) than to Downtown Dallas. And people who live in Dallas proper may even commute to the suburbs. For an example of the former, I have a friend in McKinney (another exurb) who currently works in Frisco and is interviewing for a position in Lewisville (I guess you could call it another exurb). For an example of the latter, I personally live in Far North Dallas, a very suburban section of Dallas proper, and I commute to work in Plano (and I've had two jobs in the past where I've commuted to Richardson, which was a lateral commute, as Richardson is due east of me while Downtown is due south of me... though both of my jobs in Richardson have been slightly north of where I live).

Now, that's not to say that densification in the suburbs isn't a thing at all. Just take a look at all the development at the Tollway & 121 in Plano or the CityLine area in Richardson (I wish I could share pictures of the former, but it's so new that half the development doesn't show up on Google Maps and even less of it shows up on Street View). But it's not necessary for continuous growth thanks to our lack of natural borders and embrace of edge cities.

We also do a pretty good job with the street layout as well. We have six-lane divided arterials on a one-mile grid that covers not only Dallas proper but also the suburbs, making it easy to navigate across long distances. Compare this to spaghettified messes like Silicon Valley or pretty much every suburb in the eastern US (I'm thinking of NoVa and Atlanta here... and let's throw in the Philly and NYC suburbs too), and it's heaven. It also makes the Dallas area look like a waffle iron at night: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dallas_Metropolitan_Area_...
I never did figure why the author insisted on reporting the runtime statistics for the debug build.
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This is a great reason why I won't get this test done. The math is bad and (genetically identical) twins getting different results shows how bad the science is right now.

This reminds me of when economics try to predict what the GDP will be next year. It's almost always wrong, so why would ever listen to anyone who is always wrong?

It's mostly a scam, in my opinion.
This is a very interesting story and I imagine there is some amount of ML used to gradually improve the accuracy of results for a specific user.

Unrelated: It is called the Apple Watch. :)
Absolutely, contemplating some issues with Rothbards writings led me to something more resembling geolibertarianism.[1]

Reading the Wealth of Networks[2] probably helped to.

I guess I’m even more left now. But really I think it’s time for a synthesis of the left/right ideologies.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geolibertarianism

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Networks
I owned a 3020 and own a Shapeoko 2. Unfortunately, I rarely use them. The biggest problem with CNC is that the overhead is so expensive. There's very little room for mistakes and material cost (stock and bits) can get very expensive. Holding a part can get tricky and the wrong feedrate can ruin your part. I end up using my 3D printers to do most of my parts nowadays. Though I do use my CNC for "food grade" stuff around the house.
Isn't McD worse then? It's encouraging people to eat/drink more sugar and carbs then one should just for a chance to win. Making them more unhealthly. There is also no limit, people can (and do) buy it and chuck it away. Or eat part of it. And end of the day you have nothing "representing" what you got for your money except some more weight on the scale. The skin lasts a lot longer and is better then junk food. At least the skin is neutral, McD has a negative benefit even if it is more tangible.
"who gets the money" was a hard enough question to push me away from trying the patreon / tip jar approach. There are a ton of documentation / translation / one-liner style contributors on my project. Do they all get an ongoing cut of the funds? Or is it a one time thing? How is that number determined?

As soon as you introduce money, some people will get alienated, work 'value' will be ranked, just -- all kinds of new headaches on top of what maintaining a large project for free (which is already often a big headache)
Do you care about people without access to goods in capitalist countries? I bet you don't, so just drop this argument.

BTW, are you claiming BRAZIL is a socialist country? Good grief.

United States currency is the base currency for the world, so yeah, if you're sore that you're don't live in the richest country on earth or of Humanity History then just move there. Don't blame made up stuff. You wouldn't go live in a Panama slum, right? So that's not the matter.
I can't get past the sub headline:
> Twins' DNA 'shockingly similar'

Identical twins are supposed to have identical DNA, right? Or did I really misunderstand a lot of school.
EDIT: somehow submitted half-way through typing.

Even comparing with Java 8, dart syntax is much better IMO. Java 8 type inference gets better, but still not as good (Java 10 looks to be getting closer).

Java 8 type inference gets better, but still not as good (Java 10 looks to be getting closer).
Java lambdas are a joke compared to Dart. This stems from functions being first-class in Dart, but being second-class citizens in Java. Dart can handle a much more functional programming approach much more easily than Java.

Java closures only work with final variables while dart works with all enclosed variables. In Java, if I want a function to accept another function, I have to explicitly say that I accept a Lambda because Lambdas are special cases. With dart, I can accept any function that matches my expected types because functions are first-class. Another big difference is that Dart functions can be top-level. If I need a one-off function somewhere, I don't need to pack it in a class. I just make it and use it.

I also prefer Dart syntax because of things like private variables, implicit setters/getters, named parameters, async/await, no need for `new` keyword everywhere, implicit interfaces, generators, etc.
I have conflicting thoughts on this. I'm having a problem with the credibility of this whole thing. Very few people know about it. Twitter @dnsflagday has 94 followers, telling me it's just an individual account with no public validation yet. The ISC.org site also doesn't seem to be authoritative.

I understand the technical problem but I'm not convinced this is as big a deal as it seems. There are some big names associated with the flag day event, lending credibility. But there are also big names like Slack.com, Twitter.com, GitHub.com, BitBucket.com, and web hosting companies, that all fail the EDNS/dig test.

So - the stated threat is that sites will go dark on 1 Feb, but do we really expect that to happen? Might these companies simply be threatening to reject invalid EDNS responses? Will people blame Them for rejecting queries rather than the services being resolved and their DNS?

I can't decide if this is something to scream loudly about, or to just let it happen. I'm not asking for opinions on that. I'm asking for a credible source of information to confirm what is truly expected.

Thanks.
This is fair. That's why you need to make the goals your own and make sure they are doable. And sometimes, an unreachable goal will still help you learn and value the fundamental material.

Like, if you are into Rubik's cubes, that's going to make learning group theory a lot more fun and motivating.
Mistaken zygosity is quite rare, in the single percent range, after doing some tests like blood groups or hair whorls. In this case, the DNA overlap is vastly higher than would be expected for siblings:

> According to the raw data from 23andMe, 99.6 per cent of those parts were the same, which is why Gerstein and his team were so confused by the results. They concluded the raw data used by the other four companies was also statistically identical.

If they were siblings, ~50% of the (several hundred thousand) SNP calls would be the same, not 99.6%. (Which is about what you would expect from identical twins, since that's where either one disagrees with the other, and errors usually don't strike twice, so a 99.6% overlap roughly implies a per-SNP accuracy rate of sqrt(0.996) = 99.8%, which sounds reasonable given the difficulty of sequencing and the inherent noise & randomness.)

On a fun side note, identical twins are not exactly 100% genetically identical, which is how rapist/murderer identical twins are being convicted these days based on DNA evidence; but there are so few unique mutations to each twin, and the new mutations wouldn't be on the common-SNP tests, that you have to do the equivalent of like 4 whole-genome sequences (IIRC, you need coverage of ~120x vs the more usual WGS of 30x) to get enough evidence to override the prior of any difference being just a repeated sequencing error, and it's very expensive.
Is "cartel" the word they are looking for?
If it weren't for locales, probably yes ;P
> Corrupt government is the real problem we should all be trying to solve as software developers.

While I agree it's a problem we should all be trying to solve, I'm not sure what being software developers has to do with it. To me, that statement sounds just as odd as if you had said "corrupt government is the real problem we should all be trying to solve as retail employees."

Software and networks might have some role in a solution, but I think any worthwhile solution will start with people and policy, and possibly use software and networks to help (just as it may use resources from other professional industries, economists, such as legal professionals, etc). I think any solution that comes out of trying to shove computer science theory and practice at the problem is most likely doomed to fail.

Actually, if I had to choose one discipline to that had the most to offer to this problem, it would definitely be economics.