skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"A lot of people have flipped a coin 10 times and had it come up heads only 4-6 times, but I had it come up heads a full 7 times, so clearly I have an extremely proficient coin flipping technique. Sit down and listen to me discuss the wrist exercises I did!"

A lot of people have tried to do what the author did and lost all their money. He recounts how he lost tons of money on different occasions. He says it's been bad for his mental health. He freely admits that much of the limited success he did have was luck, and mentions that doing it during a bull market made everything much easier. But even so he product calculates that, once he mastered this skill hes...

...failed to beat the market. Ouch.

For anyone who skimmed the article (which spends about 90% of it's length talking up "swing trading" and making it sound like the author thinks it's a great idea), make sure you read to the end:

> So what should you do with your time instead of mastering swing trading? Find what you really want to do with your life that adds value to the world, and get to work!

Quite right. (Well, assuming for the sake of argument that swing trading is actually a thing, and that it's something that can be mastered.)
It would be especially neat to see this done for 3d models.

There are plenty of texture upgrades available for Quake, but I haven't really seen any model updates.
Since 2018,newly created Wechat Account isn't able to login via Web Wechat anymore,using Windows WeChat is ok. If you don't keep your account active everyday through browsing or sending message, WeChat may be lock you out, saying it needs to verify the account.
Caltrain accepts CC payments for single trip tickets, why is BART different?

Marijuana is unique because banks won’t go near it because the federal government still thinks weed is illegal. Marijuana dispensaries aren’t even allowed bank accounts as a result, something that would surely happen in China as well :).
The author of Homebrew was rejected for software engineering at Google, which was perfectly reasonable given what he has said about his own skills. He has demonstrated very good product management aptitude on the other hand; it would be far more concerning if he were rejected from a PM role.
That doesn't mean the value of that travel is high. In fact it means the opposite: if the travel was so valuable, people would still do it when it's more difficult.
> Racial profiling is a form of prejudice and racism but fits your accepted logic that it's fine to, for example, infer this black guy is more likely to be a criminal because of the color of his skin because statistics support that.

We don't do that not because it's irrational [1], but because of the ethical viewpoint that everyone should get a fair shake, regardless of the statistical background of their racial group (or other protected class). Having heterodox scientific views based on anecdata is not a protected class.

[1]: Although it is also irrational, or at least less rational than it appears on the surface. Here is not the place to get into why.
The features it has and their suitability for the task.
1. I never pick up numbers I don't recognize.

2. If a number I don't recognize calls but doesn't leave a voicemail or follow up with a text, I ignore it so long as it doesn't call back. If it does but the same pattern repeats where they don't leave any messages, I blacklist.

3. If they do leave a voicemail and it's obvious this is spam, I blacklist.

Eventually with enough blacklists and repeatedly not picking up, I get maybe 3-4 spoof calls a month now. Not completely all gone but it sure has diminished greatly.
That's why it's important to personally check to which "science" comports with your living experience. In this age (and in the one we're entering), it's important to not only personally check, but to promulgate your assessments throughout your social graph in order to keep "science" in check with science.
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Thanks for sharing this. It really really humanizes the people behind the crime.
> We don't have a good way to name the origins of populations.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup ?
Genuinely curious: if sometime in the past 10 years you had seen or heard or read this unique phrase, what would you have done?
> More like uninformed people don't consider them problems, or at least not problems outweighing the benefits.

Which still doesn't change anything about them being (serious) problems. It just means that people who don't have a clue don't have a clue.

> There are several things that make "problems" more or less problematic, one of which being hyper-focus on negatives, which is why it's relevant.

No, whether anyone is paying attention to a problem has zero influence on how big a problem it is.
None of this addresses my original point: I simply do not believe (and, unlike with a local farm, can not verify) that all Tyson chickens are treated that way you're saying they are.

I think that some of them are kept in battery cages, fed antibiotics, debeaked or otherwise mutilated, etc.
I think what happens is people make a decision of the effort and risk vs the reward, like every other activity.
Not unheard of, but usually there are credentials and reputations behind researchers' names which other peer-reviewers/editors will know. Many articles are invited articles or follow-ups to previous articles. Seems very unlikely that most reputable scientists would put their careers on the line for provably fraudulent data when they can just p-hack or use biased methods on actual data. It's much easier to get caught fabricating, than cutting corners or using biased approaches.
You can now Setup WeChat Pay in HK, which is actually a different system to WeChat Pay in China, and be able to pay in China. Money will be deducted from your HK account converting your payment from RMB to HKD. You can link a Credit Card, Debit Card in your WeChat Pay HK or simply top up some money in any convenience Store.

However you will not be able to Top up your WeChat Pay HK within China (yet).

I have never tried to tied a foreign Credit Card to a WeChat Pay HK Account, but in theory since it is in HK there is no reason why it wouldn't work. Although I expect there will be a higher exchange rate to cover up the processing fees.

So in theory you don't even need to stop by HK to have this sort out, you just download the WeChat Pay Apps in HK ( I suspect you have to change App Store region ) to get it done. But in case you want to witness the largest Concrete Jungle in the world you are welcome to stop by.
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We’ll never get a flat tax, so this is kind of under the assumption that we somehow get and maintain one.
"finding email addresses"... unless they're on the company's website and are supposed to be contacted for possible sales, this is called spamming.

I get lots of 'creative spam' daily. Drip campaigns. Wanting to 'set up a call' and 'how about Thursday at 2pm'. When you ask where they got your email, it's always 'LinkedIn', 'from a mutual contact', or 'I just guessed it'. No, you didn't. You bought it from a shady list reseller who hacked and scraped it together.

For most folks, mark them as spam and forget about it. If you want to get more involved, report them to their upstream web host for spamming (which will be against the terms of service). Maybe call them out on social media for being an unethical company others should avoid.
I'm not claiming to be a protected class. I'm merely frustrated at the preponderance of people on the internet who are unqualified to rebut what I'm saying because they don't have sufficient knowledge of the topic, yet are trigger happy about concluding that I'm both wrong and mentally unstable.

My only desire is to be able to engage in meaningful discussion on the topic. Dismissing me as a nutcase when you aren't qualified to engage any of my points is malicious behavior that makes it harder for me to get other people to engage me.

I'm not asking anyone to have faith and believe in me like I'm the next Joan of Arc. I just want to be able to talk about the science behind my health situation in spite of the tremendous social faux pas I have committed of getting healthier instead of politely dropping dead like the world expected me to.
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I'd be interested to see a "why?" section in your docs. In general I think making new "skins" for the same underlying tech is not a good thing. It fragments the ecosystem without any real business purpose. Is there some problem this addresses that is not already solved equally well by proto2 or proto3, besides that it doesn't look like a particular programming language?
During the Spring, Summer, and Fall months I can go and pick up fruits and veggies from a local grower

City dwellers can do nearly the same thing through farmers markets and Community Supported Agriculture services. (except instead of picking yourself, the farmer does the picking)

Mega-agribusiness is one of the consequences of increasing urban living. To support really large, dense cities, everything has to be scaled way up

Isn't it more a factor of how many people there are to feed rather than density?

A million people in a dense city will need (roughly) the same amount of food as a million people spread over half a state.
What's your disagreement? 1st Lieutenant vs 2nd Lieutenant? Lieutenant is commonly used to refer to both.

Or are you saying that you start of at O-1 and not a higher paygrade? If that's the case, the OP was pointing out that you start off outranking enlisted service members, not that you start out above O-1.
MHealth Market Value $23B in 2017 and to Develop at CAGR of more than 35%
haha guess what, the second piece of the puzzle is that you have to be rich enough to have time to study AND a place that is close enough that commuting to college and work doesn't mentally wipe you out everyday. why do you think silicon valley isn't seen as a place with actual opportunity for everyone even though everyone inside it thinks it's wonderful?
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I'm with you but I think it depends on the person.

I have actually found people to be very different in this regard.

For instance, I work in data science and a lot of my peers like to learn about new techniques by applying them to real problems or working with datasets and exploring.

I don't like that approach. I always like to learn the theory of something before using it.

Similarly, I had the goal of learning math for statistics and general relativity among other subjects.

But my desire to have a deep understanding, ended up with me essentially learning the equivalent an undergraduate math degree and selected graduate level topics.

In my case, just learning in a bottom up way with maybe a slight direction would have been sufficient.
This article provides weak arguments and no data to back up its claims. The reason "total gridlock" hasn't happened is as simple as the city, businesses, and individuals enacting different timings/routes/operations to avoid issues. Both people and businesses are taking on those pains with the knowledge that these inconveniences are temporary, and that they can return to their normal way of life in a few weeks.

Just to provide one example, the Port of Seattle is opening freight activity at 5am instead of the usual 7am (https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/tunnel-effect/how-t...). Some terminals are opening 3 hours early (https://mynorthwest.com/1231341/port-of-seattle-viaduct-clos...).

Other things are in place temporarily as well - for example ferries that don't service commuter routes are temporarily operating as water taxis. There are extra temporary park and ride lots set up in some locations. And on a personal level, I have time-shifted and even cancelled some of my activities and trips to minimize the time I spend in otherwise worse traffic.

There is a cost to adapting to these circumstances - reduced quality of life, increased inconveniences, etc. Just because it is hard to measure doesn't mean it isn't happening. Frankly, assuming otherwise and boldly making claims that roads are unnecessary seems incompetent or purposefully biased.
Possibly, but I don't believe that the 99 closure is a good test of this.

- We know it's only temporary, and we knew about it ahead of time. It can be easy to put off many types of errands, or work from home (lots of tech workers here), for a little while. That doesn't mean it's sustainable.

- They've upped the water taxi routes for the closure (but not buses, AFAICT?), and they're taking hundreds more passengers per day. That's not going to last. Adding more public transit options permanently would be fantastic, but apparently that's not a sustainable option, either.

- A lot of commutes are being time-shifted. The rule of thumb I've been hearing is "Double your normal transportation time". That's a significant cost. I know of people leaving home early, and then sitting in the parking lot because their workplace isn't even open yet. There's a huge number of person-hours being wasted just to deal with this added constraint.

- I seem to recall hearing that the vehicle accident rate was up this week. Based on the wrecks I've seen and the sirens I've heard (I'm hearing some right now), I believe it.

- The Google traffic map only shows speeds down to "Slow" ("stop and go", claims this article), but that still covers a wide spectrum. There's 3-block section near me that Google says is orange-to-red on a typical weekday at 4-6pm, but I avoid it entirely because it literally takes 45 minutes to drive down those 3 blocks. (Personally, I'd call that "gridlock".) Google Traffic is probably designed to tell you what regions to avoid as a driver, not as a statistical analysis of traffic volume.

What other real-world costs are not visible on a simple color-coded traffic map?
Just curious, were you working while you studied? How did you manage this?
This feels like saying "It's important to check science against a biased sample of confirmation bias."
It's terrible for your mental health, that's for sure.
Very strange, I'm on a JetBlue flight and the website appears to be blacklisted on their in-flight WiFi ("Fly-Fi")?
they don't need to - your github/ side projects tell them all they need to know & you're probably required to submit them to even be considered. you think someone with a full time family is going to have the same output in code as a single person with nothing but their career going on?

discriminating is trivial if they just have your name
Sure, but then they shouldn't turn around and constantly keep complaining about a shortage of tech talent.
Indexer error cases
That is a good question!

And the answer to your question is that Facebook pays a whole lot of money.

They pay at the top end of all of the top tech companies, and this is impressive.
Sure, any rational person facing austerity cuts whatever they value least. And any rational person enjoying growth can only add whatever the value low enough to not have yet.

Imagine the price of groceries rises to 100% of your wages, so you stop running the furnace. "If being warm were so valuable, you would still do it even when it means skipping a few meals."

Welfare is still harmed by austerity and boosted by growth.

A better line of argument, IMO: a denser environment would offer more value for less travel. Or, driving to a faraway discount store is only profitable because you pay 100% for manufactured goods and X < 100% for highway mileage.
I had the same experience. I tried to self study Math. I hit a wall where it became inefficient at best and beating my head against the wall for the rest. I couldn’t do it alone past material normally covered in the first two years of university.

I eventually did get to university and get a Math degree. It was much more rewarding and fun to do it with professors and other students.
Yeah, it's the syntax when calling a generic function, e.g. `Array.of<number | null>(1, 2, null);` has return type `Array<number | null>`. You usually don't need to specify the type since TypeScript can figure it out, but sometime's it's necessary to specify it explicitly.

TypeScript compiles `a<b>(x)` to `a(x)`, which is a function call, but when run as plain JS, `a<b>(x)` is a less-than and greater-than comparison between a, b, and x.
Lennon was a junkie and an asshole. He is responsible for the breakup of the Beatles. Yoko is a convenient target becuase she is weirder than John
I wouldn't call the first version well factored since "x ^ 2" is repeated. So you could simplify to

assert square(inp) == square(inp)

...at which point, if it's not 3:00 AM, you hopefully notice that it's not actually testing anything and include both test input data and output data.
Me too. I want to see last year very often, last month not so much.
Phlegm is mucus produced by lung tissue. And your lungs (or vagina) being filled with pus would be a very different thing.
The exact terminology is beside the point. Cryptocurrency software is a large scale enabler for ransom, kidnapping, and money laundering, bribery, etc.

There's a reason ransomware was not feasible with cash at the scale it's happening today.
Have you considered that they aren’t necessarily looking for a particular answer or even a correct answer but rather your thought process while working through problems and how you engage with a peer?
It depends very specifically when your accounts were made.
Mine has 5+ years - had no problems. Friends trying to make accounts in the last 6 months have had huge issues.
Posting from Shenzhen.
It is accurate and repeatable... to some point.

If you do it 10 times, you will always get the same buckets, but the percentages will differ back and forth for a bit. If you're goal it so find out your heritage, which these services are offering, then you are getting the right heritage repeatedly.

If your goal is to find out how many 0.1% of you is of an exact descendance, then you're going in with the wrong expectations.
One thing that caught my eye was your $20k/year license fee for MATLAB. How many toolboxes did you purchase?! I maintain a commercial license for a single user and it's nowhere near that. I purchased a perpetual license originally:

https://www.mathworks.com/pricing-licensing.html

which is around $2k, but then pay a yearly maintenance fee to get upgrades, which is vastly less.
> Ironically, I was listening to a story on NPR about Iowa House Representative Steve King being stripped of his committee seats for saying that White Nationalism and White Supremacy are essential elements of being an American Nationalist. There isn’t space in the America of White Nationalists for Black men. I was being stopped by a White man in a uniform with his hand on his gun who may have been, what Rep. King called, an American Nationalist.

> The second officer was Italian and sounded like he was from New York. In any other world, I would have been equally afraid of him. Now, think Eric Garner. But, I could tell immediately that he was reasonable and not angry at me just for being me. His presence, in the absence of the officer with Rep. King beliefs, deescalated the whole affair. I repeated my case to him, that the car is new and I could surely sort it out with the insurance company.

So, the author is making the assumption that the officer must be racist, based on the officer's shared skin tone with another racist (Steve King)? That strikes me as pretty overtly racist itself. Perhaps viewing everything through the lens of race results in seeing lots of racism (confirmation bias).

Also, I'm a white dude and I've had a nearly identical experience with the police in California. This is pretty standard operating procedure. It is definitely nerve wracking, especially when that second cop shows up, but if they are going to tow a car or make an arrest, it is SOP to call a backup.

Cops are people like any other. Some are assholes, and some are cool. I've had both types, and yes it's enraging to be patronized and talked down to. I'm still pissed from years ago when I got a speeding ticket for going 3 over the limit, and got a lecture about how I wouldn't get there faster if I got in a wreck. I wanted to point out how idiotic that argument was, as tho it were a logical certainty that driving 45 I would arrive without incident, but 48 I would definitely experience a collision. The power differential essentially means they can and will say whatever they want, and we just have to take it. Power differentials don't care about your race. Most humans abuse their authority when they have it. Let's reduce that power differential!

I've had black cops be assholes to me. I don't assume without any evidence, that just because they were the same color as Louis Farrakhan, they must be racist against me for my Jewish ancestry.
This is a common tactic for industry science denial.

Epidemiology studies aren't acceptable because of unmeasured confounding and they have no way of suggesting mechanism of action. We need lab studies.

Lab studies aren't acceptable because they're not in real people. We need RCTs.

RCTs aren't acceptable because they don't generalize to the population well. We need epidemiological studies.
BF5 applies ray tracing extremely selectively: they only trace light for some glossy and specular surfaces. Most of what you see on screen is still rasterized traditinally in that game, meaning, using some 30 to 40 different hacky methods and approximations to make it look good.

Q2VKPT is different in that it does no traditional rasterization at all for the 3d graphics (only the HUD graphics are rasterized). The rest is path traced with multiple reflections even for the diffuse surfaces. Because of this purity in its approach it is quite unique.

QVKPT is from the guy who invented the postprocessing filter used to denoise the images in this implementation. The graphics would be way worse without that filter (there has to be a convar to disable it).
Are they really worried about the CC fee on $15 drink?
There are plenty of good arguments against cars, this is not one of them, this is not even remotely intellectually honest.
Ask HN: Videos and books about video codecs and containers
Where can I find information about video codecs, containers?

The basics, existing standards and properties and comparison of different codecs and file formats.
I felt the same, recently I have a habit of clicking into user and see if they have only recently joined. I also notice a higher percentage of consumer hardware related news from various sources appearing on HN front page. It used to be only some real breakthrough, important announcement that gets the front page.

I have a simple solution. Old HNer should start downvoting rigorously. To show we have little tolerance on noise and HN isn't Reddit.
Can you use this setup to use Linux's device drivers for SeL4? Given the paranoia level involved, I imagine you'd run a stripped down Linux kernel per driver, with all device commands proxied through L4. Your Linux or whatever other userland would see virtual devices through L4 as well. Possible? Hopelessly inefficient? Or does L4's capability pipelining save the day?
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My point is that phlegm is akin to pus in that it is drainage due to infection. It is not "normal" mucus.

Women routinely have vaginal discharge of various sorts that is not normal, healthy mucus. The fact that women with CF have both substantial vaginal discharge and vaginal dryness severe enough in some cases to "ruin" their sex life strongly suggests that there is a difference between what is produced in quantity by the mucus membranes of people with CF and normal, healthy mucus.

I'm saying that difference is that it's a form of discharge due to infection, not an overproduction of mucus per se. If it were the same thing as mucus, women with CF should not be simultaneously reporting vaginal dryness that interferes with sex and vaginal discharge.