skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One of the main causes of infant mortality is parental obesity. [1]

The article you cite does not say that it is a main cause. It says it is a cause, and that it doubles the chance of infant mortality in obese mothers, but it makes no comparisons with other causes.

> In other words, this is about a healthier people - not about a comparable people with better access to healthcare.

We can test your hypothesis. Let's compare two countries that happen to have female populations with the same average BMI, with similar cultures and dominant ethnicity (both former colonies of the British Empire):

* USA -> Female mean BMI: 28.8; Under-five mortality rate: 6.5

* Australia -> Female mean BMI: 28.8; Under-five mortality rate: 3.7

For Feamle Mean BMI I used World Health Organization data from 2015:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_body_mass...

For Under-five mortality rate (deaths/1,000 live births) I used World Bank data from 2016:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_infant_an...

While obesity clearly plays a role in increasing infant mortality, it fails to account for the big discrepancy in infant mortality rates between the USA and the other western nations. One compelling explanation remains: the USA is the only one of these countries without some form of universal healthcare.
Examples available in the link in the comment you responded to.

In order to attempt to falsify a hypothesis you don't need to necessarily run a direct experiment on it. In fact, few things are testable like that.

Anyway, I think I have what I need to know as to how he tests his ideas.
> Has anyone else had that sort of intellectual journey, where you discover libertarianism, you learn all the tropes, you feel very confident, and then after a while you pull back a bit after finding a few issues? And I suppose on the other side of the spectrum as well?

For most people, that transition happens between the teenage years and adulthood.
The US has the largest rail network in the world [1]. Its used for freight, not passengers, which is a more sensible use since rail can more large amounts of heavy stuff cheaply. Moving a few passengers at high speed is extremely expensive, and better done by aircraft or autonomous cars.

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

Tesla is doing the best for planet Earth of any company on the planet. Without them we would not be seeing traditional autos move away from fossil fuel vehicles - the margins and established knowledge would have been too good to just abandon it.
Patients have the rights to chose their treatment, and this includes the right to make unwise choices about their treatment.

(I have no idea what actually happens in Cuba).
G-code is the most hilariously bad language. Keywords are G + a number, e.g. G01, with wildly different effects, varying arg lists and no standard. E.g. G01 move to position, G20 set the machine units to inches. Its often stateful.

Obviously its coz its old and works, but i chuckle everytime i have to look up the codes at how comically awful it is compared to anything else i see

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-code
The country has an unusually high rate of late fetal deaths, and skeptics contend that when a baby is born in distress and dies after a few hours, this is sometimes categorized as a stillbirth to avoid recording an infant death. ... I’m not in a position to judge who’s right, but any manipulation seems unlikely to make a huge difference to the reported figures.

What are we to make of that last sentence? The author seems to be saying "I don't know enough to judge" but then immediately follows that with a strong opinion as to who must be wrong. How are we as an audience supposed to gauge whether Kristof (the author) is right that the effects will be inconsequential even if the accusations of manipulation were true? The implication would seem to be that because he's writing his (clearly labeled) opinion in the New York Times, we should trust him as an expert, despite his disavowals.

While we can't easily answer the question as to whether the statistics are manipulated, it turns out that there are at least clear answers to what the effect of the manipulation would be. In a 2015 article entitled "Infant Mortality in Cuba: Myth and Reality", Roberto Gonzalez runs the numbers and shows that the effect of reporting Early Neonatal Deaths as Late Fetal Deaths would be enough to completely change our interpretation of the statistics. Here's a summary of the paper's conclusions: https://thecubaneconomy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Infan...

What should we make of this? Certainly a problem with a small detail like this doesn't mean the overall question isn't worth asking, and the "human interest" aspects of the story are certainly interesting, but it sure make me wonder how much we should trust the author's intuitions about other details in the story.
> If you sign up twice, won't they match your account and merge the results specifically to avoid this problem?

Not if you sign-up with someone else's identity and pay with a different card. I very much doubt they go to any effort to verify the human the sample came from is the same human who paid and who the results are set to be sent to.
Because women aren't forced to have abortions in Cuba. If that were the case, there would be no Cubans with birth defects. No Cubans in wheelchairs. Etc etc etc.

I think the article definitely gave the impression that the abortions were "forced". But to be fair, the article never actually said that. I think the word they used most often was "pressure".

It's been a while since I was last in Cuba, but when I was last there abortion was given on a list of the various options that could be taken in such cases. And just like everywhere, the option that the doctor would recommend would depend on the doctor and his/her motivations. For instance, some might recommend abortion, another might recommend an experimental treatment that he came up with etc. Again, in fairness, you see this in the US as well. Let's say you go in and they find a tumor. Doctors conversant with radio-therapy will likely recommend radiotherapy. A surgeon, nine times out of ten, will recommend surgery. Etc etc etc.

So yeah, not much difference between the two systems in this regard. At least, when I was last there the doctors in the US and Cuba behaved similarly in this regard.

I will say though, that abortion seems like the only option if, say, 9 out of 10 doctors are all advising the same thing. Or if 9 out of 10 doctors are all saying your child will need 24/7 care for the rest of her life, and her life will be short. So how you're presenting the option, even though it is only an option, can make the whole thing feel forced.
That sounds nothing like “true cross-platform GUI” to me.
This is really good advice, and I thinking about suggesting the same thing. I've accepted that there are some basics that you have to have in place before you can really get traction and learn what you need to learn for specific projects.
Amazon does grocery delivery in the UK and you're right, the experience is not on-par with the incumbents in this relatively mature online grocery ordering market.
Even the slow language features are fast enough for most use cases, though. I think the actual comparison here isn't between 'slow' and 'fast' but 'probably fast enough' and 'as fast as possible.'
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Agreed. And it's so easy to set up when you have your own domain, I'm somewhat surprised not more people are doing it. Oh well.
Is "combat information" necessary in order to navigate? Most civilian vessels would not have a CIC. Some vessels don't even have lots of the navigational electronics that container ships have, yet are still safely piloted on the ocean.
Both of them, I think. Though actually Superquinn may have been first in Ireland; dunno if Tesco Ireland had it in the 90s.

EDIT: Yeah, Tesco online shopping only became available here in 2000. Superquinn was definitely first.
Ask HN: Is a non-human surrogate mother possible?
Is a non-human surrogate mother possible? More generally, among mammals, can very different species act as surrogate mothers for fertilized egg cells and have the resulting baby mammals successfully brought to term?
futures originated from commodities trading, where you wanted to lock in the price of a ton of corn or wool or whatever because you fear the price will go up.

you don’t need them for currency arbitrage. you just need very fast connections to multiple currency markets, low transaction costs, and mispriced exchange rates.

it’s riskless because the money itself is mispriced and you can buy it for one price (in your own currency) and sell it for another all in one transaction. you get the difference for free. that’s what makes it riskless and that’s what makes it arbitrage.

keep reading those investopedia articles, it’s all in there somewhere!
Yeah , i mean they have advertising, and people are interested in it. My wife wanted to get one and i was like WIFE, we know where you come from. Your dad was born in Mexico and your mom has some spanish roots. I aint payin any money for this garbage. For all we know they just have some empirical machine learning model they came up with. Or for the public, groundbreaking AI techniques to trace your roots with pinpoint accuracy all for one low fee
So you believe that women should be forced to have abortions if their child will be born with some sort of abnormality?
Porting 140K lines of code to Flow
As already said, it depends on the type of project. Sometimes performance is key, sometimes
implementation time is. It is the old tradeoff between engineering effort spent and the value gained.
This is really well put together, works flawlessly for me.
The only group of women who would feel oppressed would be the CEOs that can afford fully-staffed private hospitals in their own homes and wouldn't be caught dead resting alongside the unwashed masses.
Misleading headline in my opinion...

Carly's results have a larger 'Broadly European' percentage, but that is a catchall that includes: Italian, Eastern European, Balkan, French & German, Iberian (Others category), and Broadly Southern European (Others category). Therefore Carly's 'Broadly European' traits could be used to match Charlsie's results.

It is unfair to call the 23andMe results 'different'. They are getting the same results, however one twin is getting more specificity.
If it is going to use the same factory farming processes, what's the point?
This is amazing! One of the main reasons I went with Spotify after 3 yrs of Apple Music is because I moved to use Linux as my primary desktop and I didn't have an Apple Music client there. This is making me reconsider getting Apple Music subscription again!

I'm going to see if there's a Github link or maybe reverse engineer the API and make it into a desktop app (mainly for Media key controls and Desktop integration to be honest).
> They found a solution by reducing the work hours for a large percentage of their workers (with an accompanied pay cut) instead of firing a smaller percentage of them, which allowed them to retain almost everyone and at the same time reduce costs.

More companies don't do this because it's not in labor's favor, in aggregate. Regardless of economic conditions, companies always have an interest in paying their workers less, as this cuts costs and improves profit margins. In aggregate, companies can't continually cut wages because workers would leave for employers who would pay them market rate, and so employers are forced to lay off employees to cut costs - precisely because, in a low-trust environment, it's the only way to convince labor that the cost cutting is actually necessary, because the layoff hurts the company too by way of lost productivity. The upwards pressure is called "sticky wages", and it's one of the reasons why economies need at least a small amount of inflation to be healthy.

German auto manufacturers could do it because a) they have much better labor relations on the ground and b) the 2008 recession was a real phenomenon that everyone knew about. Their trust allowed them to come to a more ideal solution, but for most companies around the world, real people and realpolitik get in the way of the ideal solution.
Integrating NFig with .NET Core
Well, that was college. If you want a job with Google (or the companies that try to mindlessly mimic their hiring process) --

your best bet is to memorize.
> Canada has a drain problem of doctors leaving the country to go work in the US for exactly this reason.

This used to be true in the 1990s, but it is not true anymore.

https://cmajnews.com/2017/06/15/fewer-canadian-mds-heading-t...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/post/meme-bust...
Ah, the Mark Zuckerberg model!
That overhead can be thin or heavy, depending on the operation.

Doing "push_back" requires checking if "size < capacity", so this operation has a lot of overhead even for std::vector instances that never reallocate storage.
As you explained, the debugging mode for STL is well beyond normal debugging mode (i.e. no optimiziations, all debug symbols). It explicitly changes complexity guarantees of the stl to catch issues with iterator invalidation and other nasty bugs. As such it adds a considerable runtime cost to any use of the STL.

In a way it is comparable to the overhead of the sanitizers available in other compilers.

IIRC MS chose to enable it by default in debug mode as part of their effort of fortifying unsafe C and C++ code against security bugs, but of course it has a large penalty.

libstdc++ has a similar debug mode, but it is disabled by default, as, in addition to be more expensive, it also breaks the ABI.
If this kind of stuff interests you, check out "Coming Apart" by Charles Murray (yes that one)
Really nice UI. Simple, neutral and sharp.

In addition to other feedback in this thread, I'd also want the Volume icon to change: show muted state / volume level state without showing the slider. YouTube does this well.
> It's the computer security equivalent of this: https://smile.amazon.com/Midnight-Movie-Madness-MegaPack-Dig.... 50 low-value movies for $11.99. Note the distinction between "low value" and "no value". Yes, you might find something you like in there, as some of the reviewers did, but the economic value of this stuff has passed.

They should call it "Amazon Subprime".
Yes, Amazon Fresh does the same thing for grocery delivery in the UK (which is functionally equivalent to Ireland for this sort of thing).
I suspect that this is about quality of product. Chicken has had a lot of problems with poisoning people here in the US (since our standards for the environment where chickens are kept isn't designed to reduce disease - rather, it encourages disease.) People have gotten sick from Costco chickens - and Costco's better smaller suppliers have been taken over by the large producers - and of course people start dying again. As long as the profits stay high chicken producers are able to get laws passed to avoid any real regulation. Corrupt government is the real problem we should all be trying to solve as software developers.
>move to a German educational model

Isn't the German model based on assigning people to tracks with very little opportunity to jump out of your track and into another one? Personally, I would hate to be assigned a track that I couldn't move out of if I really wanted to.
I've worked as an engineer in over 14 different software companies of all sizes over the last decade (including one Y Combinator company for 1 year) and I've interacted with hundreds of top engineers but I've never once seen a talented engineer 'straight out of college'.
There is no room for lone creative geniuses in the software industry. It's more science than art. On the other hand, I've met plenty of very good engineers in their 40s; even those engineers who were never passionate about the work tend to become really good at it after a couple of decades.
I'm sorry I must have misread the article we are all commenting on, I thought "investing prophet Jeremy Grantham" wast investing the majority of his wealth in trying to stop climate change, maybe I'll read the article again. From your comment I'm way off, or maybe you didn't read it?
"The SRI internal events that led to the failure have been reproduced by simulation calculations. Furthermore, both SRIs were recovered during the Board's investigation and the failure context was precisely determined from memory readouts. In addition, the Board has examined the software code which was shown to be consistent with the failure scenario. The results of these examinations are documented in the Technical Report."

You may also be interested in section 2.3 which describes the factors that led to simulations failing to discover this failure mode

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/19970125194224/http://www.esrin....
> in the long run, I think it will just create inflation

Not if the basic-income is funded by taxes or other such sources. In which case all you're effectively doing is taking money (ie, resources) from the upper-class and redistributing it to the middle class. This is the exact same principle behind progressive taxation, as opposed to a flat tax.
The only reasonable way of achieving those goals would be to allow totally anonymous submissions. Mail in a sample and simply have a code that you keep to check on results once they are processed.

The fact that none of these services allow for anonymous submission should be a huge tell about their real motivations.
Bike lanes show that transportation solutions can be cheap and effective
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With the right pricing incentives, there's still a lot of slack during lower demand periods (overnight). The grid must be able to handle peak demand during the day but after say 10pm demand falls sharply. Offer discounts on overnight electrical usage and you can smooth out demand throughout the 24 hour day. We still would need to invest in upgrading the power grid but that investment is long overdue anyway.
GitHub Link: https://github.com/Musish/Musish

not op btw
I'm not sure I you've read my comment in full. This condition is (according to what story tells) more easily manageable, both medically, and socially, then many cosmetic defects, and some cases of diabetes.
What a terrible article.

I thought it was ok. Asking "Is C++ fast?" is a little like asking if internal combustion engines are fast. The actual answer is, "It depends." The content is ok for this site, which also has people who are just starting out with optimization or who might not be that familiar with C++.

"Is [lang] fast?" is a typical clickbait tactic which works by nibbling at a programmer's pride. Here's the thing. Either one is a bit naive, the pride is hurt and the clickbait works, because one isn't seasoned enough to know that optimization is a complex subject within a complex world of tradeoffs or you're so invested in making things fast (possibly so good at it) that you can't resist taking it apart.

And all of this for a 572ms -> 320ms performance improvement?

78%? "Not tea bag!" as AvE would say.
Teenage engineering poor man’s modular
They don't reuse wallets that I've ever seen, and I've been getting spates of these off and on for a few years now, since TVTropes (what? I had some time on my hands!) got owned.

Interestingly, the dollar amount of the attempted extortion has gone up more or less monotonically throughout; the first ones I got were looking for something like $200.
> At least they are leaving for a hot job market.

Auto workers in Northern California?
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Bet you weren't married at the time. I'm trying to re-learn calculus myself, and I have to hide it from her because she gets mad at me when I try to do calculus problems: "why are you doing this? Are you doing this for work? You don't have to do this. There's no reason for you to be doing this."
Is there any evidence of women entering the workforce at different points in time being tied to inflation?

I could be mistaken, but I thought it was pretty well agreed upon that the extremely high inflation of the 70s was due to the oils shortage and significantly higher gas prices. Gasoline was (and is) essential to just about every business and increased costs including transportation costs.

In the same way "free energy" increases production per dollar, scarcer/costlier energy reduces production per dollar which can be expressed as inflated prices.

Or in one form simply employees demanded higher wages to still be able to afford to drive to work, and companies demanded higher prices to account for higher manufacturing and shipping costs on everything.

Increase in cost of labor and increase in cost of goods is inflation.
>> 3d printers typically don't care about arcs or splines since they only use STL files which do not have "real" curves.

I would have thought the printer would support arcs even if the slicer doesn't. There is work going on to support arcs in slic3r (automatic detection of arcs) but it will be irrelevant for printers that don't support it. It's would also be possible for a slicer to import step files and find such surfaces. One can also approximate other curves with fewer gcodes if they use arcs vs lines - splines even fewer.
Microsoft might surprise us with HoloLens 2 next month
Nah, a good way to learn new skills is to pick a destination and then figure out what steps you need to take to get there. This type of “top-down” learning can help one stay motivated through the most frustrating road blocks. This is especially important for self-learning, because unlike an undergrad setting, the person is on their own and can’t rely on peers.
In a straddle/strangle you have unlimited upside on both legs (up and down/call and put). It’s a matter of determining if the long gamma+long volatility position is worth the price you pay in option premium up front and decay thereafter (theta).
Logically speaking this amounts to betting that the Titanic will sink on its maiden voyage, while you’re stuck on the Titanic.
Microsoft recommends switching to iPhone, Android as it kills off Windows phones
Cities in league with Chicago would be NYC/SFO/LAX/SEA/ATL/BOS/DC, and maybe after that DEN/PDX/AUS/BNA/TPA/MSP.

Chicago is good for many careers, but for how much longer, and how much are people willing to deal with Chicago's weather? It does have a huge source of fresh water though, so that is definitely a plus. But while growth is happening mostly in the West and South:

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2018/estimate...

Who knows, maybe the pros of Chicago outweigh the cons if you're in commodities trading or whatnot, but for many in the top 20%, I don't think they would suffer career wise in many other places where the tax burdens aren't so severe.
With low taxes, minimal regulation, state self-sufficiency, and no knee-jerk reactions to "fix" every social problem through the government this shouldn't come as a surprise.
99.6% is still awfully dissimilar, depending on what that number means. Thinking about single polymorphisms, of ca. 3 billion bases, that is still 120,000,000 SNPs between twins. Of course, they aren't doing full genome sequencing, and they are probably targeting loci that are know to be more divergent. Still... that similarity seems awfully low for twins. I wonder what they typically find for similarity between any two individuals. I also wonder if their lab is a little disorganized....
But surely you wouldn’t expect it to be perfectly accurate and repeatable. It’s pretty well known that no medical test I can think of is perfect.
Oh, interesting! I've never seen anyone running this scam reuse a wallet before.
With great power comes great responsibility.

C++ is no different. If you want it to be blazing fast, you need to tell it exactly what you want. What data structure do you want, where do you want it, where should it ask for more memory if needed?

If you don't do that, there's some sane defaults but the compiler doesn't know whether you are going to relocate the structure or how you plan to access it.