skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not presenting it as a false dichotomy between "do nothing" and "stack the entire Peninsula with wall-to-wall tiny houses". I'm presenting the latter option as an example that the most extreme, non-realistic course of action would not occur even absent the regulatory environment.

Obviously every additional unit places a very slight downward pressure on housing prices, I just disagree that regulation is a primary factor at play here.
I have an older account so avoided most of the validation hell, but I cannot link even Hong Kong payment cards to the account.

Every time I come over, I hand a fistfull of cash to a local, who will send me the equivalent in WeChat.

From what I understand on new foreign accounts, even this loophole is closed.
There's no ML. It's a direct measurement.

ML only works for these types of measurements when you have some kind of reliable source of truth or fitness function to compare against.
Oh really? And do you have built-in microblogging platform? Do you have OCR with English-Chinese and Chinese-English translation? Do you have mobile payments? Do you have discover people feature (by location)? Can you identify movies by recording audio? Not only payments are possible, you can send money to anyone in WeChat. Sadly, some of these functionality are not available for non Chinese people (people without account in Chinese bank).
When the Terms of Service cannot be understood, that burden is too high.
I don't know about HN-in-general, but I support taxing the rich while being quite aware that I'm in the top half (though not the top 80%) and might thus potentially pay higher taxes as a result.

People can be willing to contribute to the public good; whether or not taxes are the most efficient way to do this, they're more effective than ending up in decision-paralysis over where to donate.
But you can easily avoid that cost on std::vector, too. std::vector doesn't default-initialize unless you ask it to via resize(). reserve() doesn't initialize, though, it just allocates. Take this toy example:

#include <vector>
#include <cstdio>

struct MyFoo {
MyFoo() { printf("default ctor\n"); }
MyFoo(int i) { printf("Initialized with %d\n", i); }
MyFoo(const MyFoo& foo) {}
};

int main() {
std::vector<MyFoo> myvec;
myvec.reserve(100);
printf("resize(2)\n");
myvec.resize(2);
printf("emplace_back()\n");
myvec.emplace_back();
printf("emplace_back(1)\n");
myvec.emplace_back(1);
printf("push_back(MyFoo{1})\n");
myvec.push_back(MyFoo{2});
return 0;
}

It will print:

resize(2)
default ctor
default ctor
emplace_back()
default ctor
emplace_back(1)
Initialized with 1
push_back(MyFoo{1})
Initialized with 2

Only the resize() call did a default initialization "silently", nothing else did.
For the NFL and all of football, a new threat: an evaporating insurance market
When an organization makes an out-going call, they generally wish to show their central number to the caller. So if someone from within Apple (for example) called you, the caller ID would show the Apple general phone number, rather than the actual caller's number. To achieve this, the business exchange server that companies use has a field in which they can place any phone number they choose. This field was seen by the designers of digital telephony switching as merely a convenience feature for customers. Of course, the "feature" is now widely abused. I think it would take much effort to come up with a system that forced a legitimate number to be placed in that field.
A nice foundational textbook to start with is Michael Spivak's text "Calculus." This text is fairly conversational, it motivates its concepts well with many examples, and it will help you build a strong foundation in writing proofs and reasoning mathematically.

As others have said, it might be helpful to have a friend or two read with you so you can answer each other's questions. Also, make sure you do a ton of exercises!
It's not advertised as such but yes, several companies allow you to obtain the "raw data" from the sequencer. The raw data is what gets fed into the analysis software which produces relationship and heritage estimates.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wants to Raise Taxes on the Rich and Americans Agree
Given that Helium appears to be proprietary, what kind of perf benefit are we talking about here?
The issue with antibiotics in farming is that they may be used to contrast unhealthy conditions.

If your chicken don't get sick because they have free roaming space and don't peck each other and so on you don't need antibiotics.
The antibiotics are needed because they're so poorly treated. The chickens wouldn't get sick if they weren't packed into battery farms. The antibiotics aren't always necessary either, it's just more profitable to have the animal spend less energy fighting illness that it would otherwise have survived.
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Apple has broken compatibility plenty of times

When Apple breaks compatibility, I have to tweak the Objective-C code I've been toting around for ten years. When Microsoft broke WinMo compatibility, you burned it to the ground and started over.
You must be trolling.
The antibiotics fed to non-organic animals cause them to grow faster.
No it is not (funnier).
Are there any services that sequence the entire genome/have a higher level of accuracy?
It would appear we _do_ have different ideas about who the ruling classes are, I think it’s those who are actually pulling the strings.

Your “get a job at McDonalds” bit reads like the same racist arguments against immigration that are largely parroted by many leave voters, a thinly veiled “foreigners are taking our jobs” - the reality is that immigration is a net benefit to the economy and this country is going to struggle without it. The NHS is already hitting problems, our universities, who rely on foreign students paying much more in fees, are seeing a potentially catastrophic decline in enrolments (anecdata).
I totally understand the other side of the argument, the problem is that it’s based on lies they’ve been fed by those who stand to profit. The groundswell of anger that brought about the leave vote was orchestrated by exactly those who I’m calling the ruling classes - they gave the disenfranchised someone to punch down at.
Wouldn't that be additional mass appearing from nothing from the perspective of this universe
Yeah, but moving towards C is not where those 44% came from.
History (and Future) of Asynchronous JavaScript
how is it a failure? they are in power. all a politician should care about is getting into power and remaining in power (and gracefully exiting gracefully before people shoot you out) they promised a referendum because that's what people wanted in order to vote for them. success #1.

they held the referendum and accepted the result, based their policy on it, because that was people had voted for. the result was winning an election and clinging to power. success #2.

perhaps the new leader of the tories will do things differently and ignore the referendum, but that will only be a succcess if he manages to win the election. but to me it seems unlikely that will be a succesful strategy especially with that corbyn dude breathing down your neck. papers like the economist tend to dismiss him as an extremist, but he's a man with an affinity for populism and a serious problem for the tories.

apparantly chooosing your schoolmates to be your running mate is the recipe for success in politics. perhaps power is all about whom you can trust. maybe boris johnson is an idiot, but he is someone who has affinity for the common man, she knows him from way back and she knows he would not stab her in the back. that makes him a rather useful idiot.
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I'm not sure what you mean by this...what do the "PHONE on" and "PHONE off" contacts do?
Sorta light on details. Says as a result, 2018 will have $150M in losses, but does not detail the extent of the corruption. I'm not sure if they were going to lose $149M but had $1M in corruption, or if they were going to make a billion dollars, but had $1,150M in corruption, or what.
Check out https://TPLang.org/ for a JavaScript based Open-Source alternative to GCode. I'm the author.
Of course it sounds good. But you could get basically the same improvement while staying fully within C++ idioms. The correct title would be "Is my library fast without performance tuning?".
Antibiotics are used to make animals grow faster and bigger not to make them well.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/16142667/
“Tests should be poorly factored”
This is a piece of advice I'd seen somewhere once, but can't remember where (or if this is exactly how it was worded). Does anyone know of an article or something that talks about this, or a more well-known term for this idea?

The basic idea: Say you have some code like:

def square(x):
return x ^ 2

A test like:

def test_square():
for inp in [3, 4, 5, 50, 100]:
assert square(inp) == inp ^ 2

is "well-factored", in that it doesn't have a lot of repetition, but isn't a great a test, since it's basically testing that the function's code does what the function's code does.

A better test would be something like:

def test_square():
assert square(3) == 9
assert square(4) == 16
assert square(5) == 25
# ...

because, for one, it would expose the bug (^ is XOR in Python, not exponentiation).
I tried to help him out, to no avail: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18941848
I don't think this is a good comparison. People who are skilled in both areas might not realize that, but learning how to program is a hundred times easier than working through any advanced topic in higher mathematics and coming up with your own proofs.
>machinist still needs to load everything correctly. It's very easy to make a mistake.

Tool configuration is kinda-sorta solved with ISO 13399, this is being supported in more and more CAM systems and tool vendors, but as you say it is very easy to make a mistake.

Assuming the mistakes are happening when the tool data is reduced from the comprehensive format that ISO 13399 supports to the barebones and simple TxDxHx format that is loaded on CNC machine. Would be nice if machine tools supported a comprehensive format directly.
>in the US we're waiting less and getting better treatment with less runaround/referrals/arguments; if you have insurance, you'll get whatever you want without a fight

Stating this as fact basically means you've never been to an American doctor, or are extremely lucky in your local hospitals. Waiting months for an appointment just so you can be told to see someone else is par for the course if you don't have a "normal" health condition in America. And after all the playing around trying to find someone actually willing to diagnose you with something, you then get to play the fun game of paying the bills. Remember, no matter the discounts the insurance company has with the hospital, they still benefit by denying you coverage through whatever fine print they can manage. They get paid regardless
Just because I'm using a C++17 compiler doesn't mean I'm happy with the standard library.

I still have to google every time I need to sleep the current thread ; and don't get me started on iostream!

However, I'm happy to be able to return a buffer without copying it (move semantics), to precompute frequency tables at compile time (constexpr), to be able to pass around functions without having to create a dedicated class (lambdas), not to have to worry about having an extra conversion (auto) ... And soon, I will be happy to write serialization code without relying on dirty tricks (introspection).
I think it's just classic vertical integration, nothing to do with how animals are treated:
https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/012715/when-does-it...
My hope is that China demonstrates to the world how terribly this kind of digital-dystopia plays out, and serves as a cautionary tale for countries like England and companies like Google which are already (more slowly) heading in that direction.
I wonder why they didn't mention male microchimerism, a still poorly understand phenomenon, in which male DNA is found in females. Possible sources of gene transfer are " unrecognized spontaneous abortion, vanished male twin, an older brother transferred by the maternal circulation, or sexual intercourse"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16084184/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3458919/
> Why are we not switching to decentralized content sharing platforms?

Because that site looks like a phishing site for reddit accounts. How is 100% cloning another site's design acceptable at all?
GDPR is a ridiculous law to which nobody should adhere.
I've been looking into building my own CNC. Sounds like there are some experienced CNC peoople here. Does anyone know why there are not more polar coordinate based CNC machines? I've been wondering what the pros and cons are.
I wasn't implying they DO measure it from conception I'm just an example that could explain a discrepancy that is not indicative of better results

Agree on the point about underreporting everywher
> Addictive stuff is bad if taking it has other negative effects.

The definition of addiction includes negative consequences. If there aren't any, it's not an addiction.
So at that point, you are basically saying "assume all communications over any medium is public", because this would apply to every form of communication.
I think Compiler Explorer shows that it usually doesn't, unfortunately.
I applaud your ideals and attitude. I shared a similar ideals and attitude as well. But I also feel that a for-profit company is not doing our planet and humanity any favours if making a profit is priority number one. At least that is the message I am getting when I read the company update.
> Techniques used to read DNA only read short segments, from which larger segments are inferred.

I think you’re describing short-read sequencing here but this isn’t what any of these services does. They do microarray genotyping rather than sequencing. And in neither case is there “inference”. True there’s something called imputation but it works quite differently and I don’t think (though I don’t know) that 23andme uses it for ancestry. I’m also not sure what you mean by “bijection” in this context.
wondering what the odds are they get a takedown from the NFL during the super bowl or preemptively won't show CBS during that time period?
Yes, http://tplang.org compiles to GCode. Or rather, it produces GCode when executed.
i made www.muusical.com a few years ago. i haven't been maintaining much lately but I'm still quite interested in meeting people with similar interests.
> I would like it if you'd elaborate on this.

I don't have an opinion about this, but they're probably implying that the business model is the same as Google, Facebook, et. al., which is selling user data to third parties.
That said, they still import nearly 20% of their food - https://tradingeconomics.com/egypt/food-imports-percent-of-m...
Yeah I personally stopped buy chicken years ago for mostly ethical reasons but I think Costco getting into the chicken game will probably be a net positive.

Reason being that for one, Costco was one of the first grocers to start replacing items with Organic alternatives, and in general, they usually demands higher quality goods than other grocers. For example, compare the ingredient list for Delimex taquitos from Costco to your supermarket and it's basically half the size... or Campbell's "Simply" Chicken Noodle soup to what's sold at the grocer - again about half the ingredients. Even those $5 chickens Costco sells are antibiotic/hormone/steroid-free humane-certified Foster-Farms chickens.

Then there's employee treatment. Costco has a long history of being one of the better employers in the country. They pay their employees well, pay for people to attend college, don't require a lot of interaction with irate customers thanks to their no deadline any reason return policy and generally promote internally rather than hiring outsiders to leadership roles.

Compare that to the average chicken farmer who has to buy all of their own equipment that the big companies are constantly requiring them to update at their own expense, raise chickens they don't own like a horrific daycare center at very low return, all while being exposed to chemicals/drugs they're being forced to use and it's kind of a nightmare.

Costco cares about their brand image, their customers and their employees... I expect this will end up being a good thing.
> If you're a foreigner, getting a functioning WeChat account is near to impossible these days.

You are confusing Wechat with Wechat Pay which is a feature of the former. You only need a mobile phone # (foreign or domestic) to sign up for WeChat. As for Wechat Pay, getting a bank account should be fairly easy if you live in China.
Edit: I meant 22.8k not 228k. Type on my part. Good thing I don't publish articles :)
From the post:

>One number that we haven’t moved substantially yet is the time it takes to run this code in debug using MSVC. While it’s natural to expect unoptimized builds to be slower than optimized, they have to be fast enough. Sometimes you want to debug your problem on a non-trivial input dataset. Sometimes you want to run the debug build with full checks through your tests to make sure they don’t trigger any bugs that could disappear in release. Sometimes you are trying to debug a different part of the program, but you still need to run the rest of it.

The library, by the author, is https://github.com/zeux/meshoptimizer. I presume it will be used in graphics pipelines. Debug builds working at a speed that allow graphics to be tolerable by humans sounds like a good goal to have.
The only "crapularity" that really matters is climate change (and sustainability in general). If the ecosphere is destroyed, no one is going to care about movie reboots.
Be a social human and find a local math prof or someone in industry to mentor you.

That aside: Haskell Road to Math and Programming. Concrete Mathematics. Pick your favorite computer graphics book to learn working with vectors and physics equations. From there chase your passions.
Frankly I'm not certain how his proposed system is any better than the one where all the cool kids move to San Fran?

I mean, there are just some realities about people that, I think, are oftentimes overlooked. He calls them "social networks", but at their root, it's the manifestation of the tendency for humans to be tribal. You can try to move San Fran to Omaha Nebraska if you like, but it won't work. People are tribal. The cool kids will still want to hang with the cool kids. In fact, it's extremely probable that the cool kids would just not move.

I'll even go one step further and say that not only will the new proposal fail to elicit the desired behavior from the cool kids, but I'll go ahead and predict that this proposed change would also do nothing to better the lot of, say, impoverished minorities. It's just a fact of life that the human proclivity for tribalism will work against them. It worked against them in the post war "urban sprawl" model, it's working against them in the current "urban revival" model, and it will work against them in the "goldilocks" model. Why has it worked against them so consistently over time? Because we're not changing the people, we're just changing the model.

And so much of what is happening is due to people, and how people think and behave.
If you don't check your settings before each tweet, there's not much difference for between your settings being changed and your settings not working correctly.
This is simply not true and one of the many lies vegan activists tell. If you are optimizing for calorie and health, you eat a mix of meat, vegetables, fruits, etc ( aka a balanced diet ). Plants require far more effort for the same amount of energy.

http://time.com/4252373/meat-eating-veganism-evolution/

If plant diet was optimizing for caloric intake and health advantages, most human societies would have been vegan. But no human society throughout human existence and pre-human existence were vegan because plant diet isn't optimal.

It's also why vegans tend to be lethargic, lose bone mass, teeth rot, joint pains, have trouble concentrating, etc. It's why vegans have to take tons of supplements to even stay alive and while doing so do long term damage to their bodies.

Balanced diet folks. It's something humans have been designed to eat since human existence. Not only does your body need it, it also helps with your gut biodiversity which helps prevent anxiety, depression, etc.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/anxiety-head-gut/story?id=2022...
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Well I'm going to recommend not checking that book out because it is of exceedingly low quality and not worth your time. Unless you're looking for something to reaffirm your existing leftist biases and dogma and not make you think uncomfortable thoughts, then it's pretty good.
Any practical recommendations on how to get into a daily meditation habit. Do you use an app like Headspace? Any special mind hacks you use?
I'm not. But I do find it interesting how some people here don't like certain definitions and claim they are wrong.
I've never heard of that site, and it clearly doesn't look like it's intended for use by subscribers. I can't get it to play a full song even after signing in.
In a very cynical way, I've always loved when a company tells it's employees "Last year was our best", and then follows it up with "By the way, you're all taking a haircut"
It's a shame that linkeddata.org is the top Google result for "linked data" then.
cartels are inherently unstable and very hard to maintain, plus it's outlawed. I'd be surprised if there is one.
At first I thought it was a meta comment on the overall influx of Crap, but I think now it was meant somehow non-ironically.
I'd like a way to prompt callers to confirm it's a human before ringing my phone. "Please press one to continue your call or wait to be directed to voicemail". I do not want to give google control of my phone number though, so google voice is out. A native android app would be better.

Hell, tmobile should offer this as a free service.
I think the issue is some previous data that we also discussed here, this data shows that if before we had N children smoking now we have N1 = 10*N children using the cool looking, sweet tasting, less harmful e-cigarettes. If we had N1 = N then I would consider it a good thing but unfortunately is not that, Btw I invented this numbers but the point still stands.
> But the second unit had failed in the identical manner a few milliseconds before. And why not? It was running the same software.

That got me to thinking, could 3 different teams have separately built and programmed 3 different units (separate software and hardware), and then had a voting type system so that, if say 2 units are saying "keep going straight" and the third is saying "turn left", then it knows to keep going straight? Is something like this ever done in systems that require extremely high reliability?
I have the first apple watch. (I bought the newest but haven't used it yet still boxed).

What I found was that the heart rate correlated well with taking it manually and/or a finger heart monitor (pulse ox cheap from Amazon).

But with both devices you could actually tell when it was clearly wrong independent of comparison. The point is you more or less (at least I found) could figure out when it is right and wrong just based on past use and what you would expect (feeling your pulse). So if it was off it was grossly off and obvious. That is my experience with the watch that I have had for years. Either 'correct' or 'vastly off and easy to tell that is the case'.
Nothing novel or new here, as far as I can tell. Haven't lots of people filed GDPR complaints against there companies already? If there had been a verdict of some sort then this post would be a lot more interesting, but AFAIK there haven't been any major court orders on this matter?