skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need to compare maternal obesity rates, not mean BMI. The two are not correlated because there are major biases in maternal demographics. For instance in the US most children born are now non-white and there is a strong inverse correlation between income and fertility rates. Both those characteristics (non-white, low income) in turn correlate strongly with increased obesity rates. There are an immense number of studies on this topic. Without link bombing an easy way to find more data is to check out google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=US+infant+mortality+obe...

Something that might help clarify matters most is this [1] paper. It not only gives specific figures but is over an extremely large and comprehensive sample, most of the data is from a ethnically homogeneous sample, and is in a region with nationalized healthcare (Sweden). So it helps remove confounding variables. And there too we find that infant mortality for normal weight women was 2.4/1000 while it was 5.8/1000 for those with obesity grade 3. There was a linear scaling of risks and mortality that mapped directly against obesity. Interestingly enough even being just overweight also corresponded to a slightly increased rate of infant mortality.

Crucially, what obesity tended to lead to was preterm deliveries, congenital birth defects, pregnancy complications, and sudden infant death syndrome. The reason I say crucially is that these [2] are the leading causes of infant death from the CDC. Those issues that arise from obesity are literally the top 4/4 causes of infant death.

[1] - https://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g6572.full.pdf+html

[2] - https://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/maternalinfanthealth/...
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Experimenting is the key word there. From the caveats section of their readme: "This is not an officially supported Google product." It's promising if they decide to officially support but it's dubious until then.
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Thanks for the excellent analogies!
But you can vote to vote again. It’s all for the peoples’ will.
Your confusion is because you think there is one "DNA test". That isn't the case. You can sequence a genome, but that costs on the order of $1k so companies like 23andme don't offer that. They use simpler methods.

Even sequencing a genome is not perfect - the current most common method works by cutting the genome into pieces, sequencing those and then reassembling them. A pretty obvious limitation is that you can't detect repeated sections.

I'm not sure what method the police use but it definitely isn't the same as what 23andme do.
I'm unsure what you are talking about, but as the other person stated, 538 gave Trump a 30% chance to win. If your colleagues interpreted that as a surefire thing then that reflects on you all poorly, not 538.
That's kind of a weirdly confrontational tone to take.

If you already believe that "taxes are theft", then nothing I or anyone else can say will change your mind.

However, the fact is that you made your money in one of the most money-making-amenable contexts in the history of this planet, and that's not an accident, and it's not a coincidence. This nation has been investing in itself--and investing in you--since long before either of us were born, in order to provide the societal context that allowed you to exercise the full extent of your god-given abilities in order to make your fortune. That's why you didn't die of cholera when you were 3, it's why you didn't join the job market as a barefoot and illiterate 12-year-old, it's why you can commute to work each day secure in the knowledge that some dude isn't going to pull up in a Toyota Hilux, jack your Beemer and sell you into slavery.

To be a rich person in the United States and think "I made all this money, all by myself, because I'm some kind of genius Randian super-guy" is the pinnacle of deluded, parasitical vanity.
The particle goes through the event horizon in finite time according to its own clock (and will then hit the singularity in finite term however it tries to travel).

Think of the view of it by an external observer as being 'frozen' at the event horizon as kind of optical illusion caused by the extreme warping of spacetime. For a non-evaporating black hole (as described by general relativity), the 'last' photon coming off it will indeed be at infinity (or with infinite redshift). If (when) the black hole evaporates, the external observer will see that and of course there will be no more photons from the infalling particle.

These two different views are hard to reconcile from our human perspective of how the world works, but they really do come from the mathematics of general relativity.

Here's a really excellent and short video which attempts to explain this in ten minutes. (His explanation of how a Penrose diagram works is fleshed-out in more detail in the Susskind lectures I mentioned above).

PBS Spacetime - What happens at the Event Horizon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mht-1c4wc0Q
That doesn't make much sense. Someone in a position to invest millions (or take out millions in loans) would more likely be paying someone else wages to do the work, whether 18 hours or whatever. From what I hear contract poultry farming has become almost a turnkey sort of business. You contract with one of the poultry majors, they supply you with a lot of the supplies you need for whichever niche you occupy, and then basically guarantee buying your entire output.
There are many who claim that nicotine is like caffeine: an addictive stimulant with no significant downsides.

Note that most of the people who make this argument are either addicts or nicotine sellers, so I am highly skeptical and you should be too, especially since there hasn't been much study on the direct effects of mere nicotine.

If the science comes in and it turns out nicotine really is harmless on its own, and it really does help you focus and suppress appetite and whatever, then I'll be all aboard the vape train, love myself a good nootropic. Until such a time, I think it's wise not to take chances. Give it a few years for the science to settle before getting addicted.
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Naive soul here, but is it really wise to type live passwords into someone's site that ostensibly is looking for matches with its existing database? That seems awfully trusting.
The problem I personally have with KeePass is sharing and that you are on your own for many things.

You CAN make mistakes with KeePass. You pretty much can’t make mistakes with a service.

I’ve set about 100 people up on LastPass including my mom. I recommend it as a very good thing normal people will actually use.
Even the happy chickens get their heads cut off.
Is corn not an input?
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This is a good case of statistics being insufficient without proper interpreting. There's a huge difference between the health of someone who has one drink with dinner every day and someone who has seven drinks in one night every Friday and passes out at a bar. Mere total alcohol consumption is insufficient to determine abuse.
Yeah, I have found Apple Music to be better than Spotify for the curation of music libraries.

> it just lists all of the songs that I have saved from an artist, ignoring the album information

AM definitely has Spotify beat here. Click an artist, see their albums, choose an album to listen to. All in one view. It seems so natural ... I wonder if this is because I learned to curate my music on iTunes, and it is just a habit?

But for music discovery, open development practices (this is the biggest reason I switched from AM to Spotify - knowing that no matter what kind of thing I want to hack together, Raspberry Pi connected to BT speaker connected to projector, I would be able connect Spotify to it somehow), and social music experience, I think Spotify has AM beat.
I actually saw the update earlier and thought "I should see how to go back to the former icons", I found them much clearer. Particularly the page zoom icons, and the [document|] settings icons; I have to rely on the tooltips to get the right icon now, whilst previously they were really clear to me.

This is probably subjective.
And yet, one is legalized in every state and the other is a schedule one drug on par with Heroin (although legal in some states).
I upgraded to v 7.0.0 a few weeks ago (when it first appeared), and WeChat runs 2 or 3 times slower on my old phone ever since. As for payments, sometimes it takes a few minutes to make a payment in a shop where I scan them. I'm starting to seek out larger shops where they scan me for payments because it's a lot quicker. I really don't want to buy a new phone because my old one still works for everything else. Sounds like WeChat/Huawei is the Chinese version of the old Microsoft/Intel duopoly.
They NYT article intimated that the OCP is part of the reason for the discrepancy as the gov't is loath to admit its policies could have had a "negative" effect on the country's outlook, given they frame declining pop as negative.
I'm working on preparing for an interview gauntlet but in no way would I do 6 interviews in 6 days. A full day of interviewing is such a draining experience mentally and physically, after interviewing with Google in 2014 I just wanted to get a glass of water for my parched throat and go to sleep.

Congratulations to the OP, I have EPI as well and it's certainly a challenging book.
The quality of the spam does not affect its status as spam. These people make the internet worse.
Guanxi sounds like the "Old boy network."

And "Chabuduo" sounds similar to "Fail fast, fail often."
Google Voice has a similar screening service. From the GV help forum ...

"when call screening is enabled:

If the caller's name and phone number are in your Google Contacts, or the caller is a business known to Google (e.g. it shows up in Google Maps with an information box), then that name will be played to you. If the caller's number is not in either of those places, then their calls will be screened every time, until/unless you add them to Contacts."
Typescript also supports type checking pure JS files, as well as type annotations via JSDoc comments, if you don't want to transpile.
You get local monopolies even if the government freely allows multiple companies to string wires.
A tiny part of me still hopes that one day JS standard adopts 100% of TypeScript features.
Yes. It's an appetite suppressant, helps you focus similar to ADHD drugs, and relaxes you. Snus (steamed tobacco) doesn't have carcinogens, cause cancer, or reduce lifespan. Pipe Tobacco users live on average 3 years longer than non Pipe Tobacco users. Nicotine is not an issue with respect to cancer. It's everything else in cigarette smoke. Nicotine's not even that addictive by itself. What's more addictive are the social behaviors surrounding it. Overcooked steaks are carcinogens and psychologically addictive, should we ban those too?
That's exactly my worry.
Yes, I was looking for USB+C + NFC, so I can use it with my Macbook + iPhone... having to buy two seems inconvenient.
The drug scheduling regulations are delusional and do not reflect the actual research potential, medical use, or harm potential of drugs. I'd remind you that marijuana is scheduled more harshly than cocaine, and so are a lot of other relatively harmless drugs.
Apple Music is not an exclusive app though:

Android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.andr...

Windows 10:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/itunes/9pb2mz1zmb1s
> but the fact that Cuba has one of the best medical systems in the entire world

This is a lie.
We subsidize foods because most of the people in our government have read their histories, and know that instability in food pricing and availability is a great way to bring about a domestic regime change.
I sent my grandparents raw dna file to a few different sites and got wildly different results, including 1% nigerian and 10% north african from myheritage.com (something that didn't show up at all on other sites.)
I just had a chat some days ago to an Ethiopian import-export manager.

He said:

"our core business is importing building materials (this is how we make money) but to be allowed to do so our national bank makes us exports goods so to be able to have USD to be used to import: I mean, if we want to import 500K USD of building material, first we need to sell Ethiopian goods abroad for 500K USD: how do we do it? by selling coffee!"

coffee? yes!

"The weird outcome of this is that we end up selling ethiopian coffee abroad without making any profit, so to be sure to sell it, and so to be sure to have the USD necessary to buy building materials, which is where we make money"

So, Ethiopian coffee can be purchased abroad with a price that is about its cost!

This is very bad since, as a minimum:

1. No proper coffee exporters can survive, due to very low margin

2. Ethipia ends up selling its coffee without making any money

can Coffee producers survive?
It's also worth noting that if the company sells analysis products to EU residents then GDPR may require those companies to make the raw data available to the customer anyway.
Dr. Taber works with fruit and vegetable farms. She's extremely biased and aggressive to the point of derangement when it comes to anything dairy-related.
JUUL was the only thing that got me off a pack-a-day 13 year habit. I think very highly of the product and it is a shame teenagers made it so 'cool'. (Much like cigarettes at one time...)
At least as. Often faster because of easier inlining.
""If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.""

... Says the billionaire to the gay man in Nigeria who could be killed if this were public knowledge?

... Says the billionaire to the journalist with private sources doing legit work?

... Says the billionaire to the person who votes 'ABC' but works in company who votes 'XYZ' and hate those 'ABC voters' and who could lose their job due to blatant political discrimination?

I quite fundamentally disagree with this concept as it abnegates the very nature of privacy.

Different words, ideas, have utterly different meanings in different social contexts and in different cultures, different regimes.

It's a deeply cynical quote from him, I think, that facilitates his own 'bottom line' i.e. as someone who makes billions from the exchange of 'public' information.

"We've lost our ability to keep secrets."

It's true that privacy is harder but it's definitely not true that we can't keep secrets. We control technology and the internet, and we can definitely 'choose privacy', it's mostly a matter of will, and the pragmatic acceptance that it won't be perfect.

Privacy was taken for granted, but I believe we should recognize it as a basic right.

It'll be a little bit harder for example in the digital age, but we can absolutely have it, we just need to make the choice.
I also find it a hassle. I wonder if they do it because they think it's better security? That a user will always have their cell phone, and logging in on a computer is more rare?
In dairy farms yes. Was trying to generalize.
If anyone had a chance of getting Apple to approve NFC for MFA, it’s Yunikey. But I wouldn’t hold my breathe just yet and would plan on the lightening one.
The 2018 individual inheritance tax doesn't apply to inheritances below $5.6 million per individual ($11.2 million for couples)[1]. I suspect that relatively few small farmers are impacted by it.

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ashleaebeling/2017/10/19/irs-an...
It says monopoly byt then lists 3 other competitors. Are they all colluding?
I have used both TypeScript (for multiple projects) and Flow (at Facebook). TypeScript is much more feature-rich and looser in strictness. In practice, this looseness has been preferable, as I've seen many of my colleagues fighting Flow's type system vs TypeScript (prior to FB). In theory, perhaps Flow's type system prevents more bugs, but I've sometimes seen it circumvented with hacks just to get past its strictness. TypeScript's ability to infer types seems much smarter than Flow's as well.

Besides that, TypeScript has much wider adoption and community support. Most issues I have with TypeScript I can find others who have had similar issues on the web, where as I can't say the same about Flow.
They actually were called out for giving Trump such a high chance of victory by many. In particular, the Huffington Post accused Nate Silver and 538 of intentionally biasing their results to make it seem like Trump had a better shot.

Somehow in the months following the election the narrative completely turned around and now 538 were hacks for not giving Trump an even better chance.
It's definitely ok to not know what flutter is. It seems a little unreasonable to expect specialized projects to define everything from the ground up, though.
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Good to see Yelp being compared with giants :P
You're the one that linked the dictionary the says "or group"...
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That's a terribly simplistic analysis. First, humans don't digest plants in the same way and won't get the same calories/nutrition out of the plants as a chicken/whatever. Second, feed for animals is significantly cheaper than the plants humans like to eat and what the stores sell them for.

Sure, if you could live eating chicken feed then it would certainly be cheaper to eat that instead of chicken for caloric intake. But to optimize for dollar nutritional value in food humans actually eat, it's pretty hard to beat the $5 chicken.
First sentence:

> That's kind of a weirdly confrontational tone to take.

Last sentence:

> To be a rich person in the United States and think "I made all this money, all by myself, because I'm some kind of genius Randian super-guy" is the pinnacle of deluded, parasitical vanity.

You see that as non confrontational?
In China university startup competitions have 2.5M entrants
yes, a monopoly is dominated by one large supplier (or in the case of a buyer, monopsony). but that doesn't mean that there is only one market participant. it doesn't even mean that the dominant player has the majority market share.

like any field of study, people apply words outside of the technical application and meaning gets diluted the further a person is from the field (economics). just look at how superhero movies use the word 'dimension'. =)

but yes, without examining the industry in more detail, oligopoly is the safer initial assumption.
The heart rate info that he provides for the onsite interviews is a funny and interesting thing to include (around 100-122 during interviews, with a resting of 60).

Does an elevated heart rate during an interview count towards one's daily fitness goals? :)
"Echa el freno, magdaleno!"
Great phrase for this software! XD
I agree with your sentiment but the lambdas do get treated as anonymous classes overloading operator ().
It did work, but there were a lot of unintended consequences. I no longer have the source link for this bit, but it's from a post-grad who extensively researched that era.

> It's a common myth that Prohibition did not work in the US. In reality it worked far better than those pushing for it realized. What we need to remember is that Prohibition was foisted on the US buy the upper class who felt that alcohol was keeping the working class poor and uneducated (the myth of Demon Rum is still a prevalent one today, albeit it's evolved quite a bit). Prohibition was actually effective at reducing the overall consumption of alcohol and shutting down illegal speakeasies. There were a number of unintentional consequences though 1) The alcohol industry brought in so much money to the state and federal governments that even the passage of Income Tax was unable to make up the loss. 2) Those who pushed for Prohibition never expected it to be equally enforced and once Law Enforcement was able to get working class consumption under control they started enforcing it on the upper class and politicians which of course did not go over well. 3) There was a surge in crime due to the creation of a massive black market which also encourage rampant political corruption both of which were a bad look for the United States. 4) There were so many loopholes in the Volstead Act that it was costing a fortune to enforce the law.
One of the ironic parts of "Homie" is that they're value proposition depends on existing real estate agents.

They claim to charge sellers $1,500 to list and no more. Sounds good so far. How do they get buyers?

They claim to give buyers $5,000 back at closing. Cool, but where does that money come from you might ask?

The FAQ's imply by only buying listings currently available with a traditional real estate agent.

Exact wording from their FAQ's: "If a non-Homie seller has listed their home on the MLS, they’ve agreed to pay a buyer agent commission (BAC), usually around 3% of the price of the home."

The more sellers choose them, the less successful they will be at attracting buyers.

That's why so many of these "Billion dollar disrupters" go under. They need the existing system to succeed.
'You pay only for what you use'
Sorry, have you read the article? He is not using any C++20, C++17, C++14... features, just adding a compiler key. And he's paying with compilation time. https://twitter.com/zeuxcg/status/1085781851568914432

You might say that compilation time is nothing.. But it is C++, compilation time has a huge impact on big codebases.
Yeah I got blocked for being a "scammer" as well. Only needed it to communicate with 2 people..
Tim Cook made $12 million in total comp last year. Apple has 132,000 employees. If he made $0, that would be an extra $90 per year for each employee. And, after taxes, that would mean more like an extra $60 per year per employee. Basically an extra $2.30 per paycheck.

Want to increase worker pay? Cut taxes.
I think the first is likely (hybrids often exist, as with ligers and tigons, mules and hinny’s) but very different species? IMO less likely.

I don’t want to know the answer, and it may be because of my limited understanding of biology, but it wouldn’t even surprise me if humans could interbreed with some of the great apes (rationale: I wouldn’t know why that would be much different from lions and tigers or horses and zebras. Those are within-genus, but I don’t think ‘genus’ is that well-defined, and, certainly historically, biologists have wanted to keep humans well-separated from animals, so there’s a decent chance they exaggerated the separation between humans on the one hand and chimpanzees and bonobos on the other)
Yup. Lists like, "The 100 Best Songs of All Time" = 100 American songs.
https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/Type-Checking-J...
Calling something vi like is either naivete or a really high praise. Can you elaborate please how it helps you be productive?
This links to nothing
Juul helped me quit 2 packs a day
Qualcomm wouldn't release modems as often without Apple's business
Is JS a strict subset of TypeScript?
> Should my bank really refuse if I have the money, and force them to take me to court to try to get their money just because I didn't authorise the charge?

Yes, absolutely. Are you seriously arguing that anyone should be able to claim money from your bank account without either prior authorization by the account holder or independent arbitration? Bypassing the courts in cases like this serves no one's interests except bad actors.