skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This 2004 paper examining the difference in infant mortality in The Netherlands[1] concludes that it's basically due to immigration, parents being older (father's age is also a factor), and fertility treatments.

Some ethnic groups in The Netherlands have 2x higher infant mortality after birth than others, people are older when they're having kids, and having twins (or more) is now 2x as common as in the 1950s due to the availability of fertility treatment.

I wonder how up-to-date the results of that older paper are, the other ones discussed here seem to address much narrower questions.

1. https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol11/13/11-13....
Time-Based Anti-Patterns for Caching Time-Series Data
Soulwax did a one hour mix consisting of library music called "Librarian Girl" for their "Radio Soulwax" project a small decade ago. Definitely worth checking out: https://vimeo.com/25861658
It's just GNOME Contacts. Yes, it does.
I too have reverted to a flip phone. Well, actually it's a "candy bar" phone -- the Nokia 3310. I've been using it for one year and one week. I'm definitely looking forward to the Librem 5 release.
The WWAN/LTE card is replaceable. An incredibly nice trade-off for a little extra thickness.
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Honestly, if my Tinder swipes went public it wouldn't be an issue in the slightest. Its not a heart lock bound journal. Its just a list of people you'd have coffee with.
Interesting. If that really works, perhaps they should add a special asterisk that you should always leave the key in the car unless you're parking in an area with poor or nonexistent cell reception.
How Can I Intercept Data from an LCD and Use It with Arduino
Also Maldives at #2. Population: 392,473 [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maldives
And why is baby formula so expensive? And why has the US stigmatized breast feeding so much? Maybe the two are related...
Out of curiosity, how does it get data? Is it from satellites, or some other method? I've always wondered if small ships at sea are anonymous, or no.
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Worded to allow for the presumption of innocence I assume. “Not committing crimes”
Facebook Dating Launches Today with Instagram Too
If you think it is "smart-ass", you don't understand what I am saying (or, more probably, what Burry is saying).

There are no "camps" here. The OP is trying to create a tribe (passive investors are cultish, so this is a very odd comment...I will assume an honest mistake) but that makes no sense on this topic (unless you are selling something, which he is).

The meta of my point is: people try this discussion over and over, it is always wrong, some things in finance are universal (because they have been happening for literally three hundred years).

What you appear to have missed is the part where I said: Burry is not making a "bombastic claim" about what will happen 100% of the time. In my experience, most people think this is what investing is about (the OP is certainly an example). It isn't. I am not making a bombastic claim.

The observation is, again, that: you have a lot of unsophisticated buyers and some non-zero amount of these products are about liquidity transformation. You can have a debate about this all you want but it isn't interesting or engaging to anyone but people who are unsophisticated (not 100% true in this case, Asness is a notable exception but he was an academic and it is mostly academics who take an interest).

My interest is limited to the fact that: it is astonishing how often this happens, and equally astonishing how fervently people will deny that it is happening again (although they are usually new converts).
This is a... puzzling announcement.

It certainly reflects a departure from their previously announced shipping window, which back in May they "adjusted" (the word they used at the time) from Q2 2019 to Q3 (see https://puri.sm/posts/massive-progress-exact-cpu-selected-mi...). And certainly back then they weren't saying anything about Q3 2019 being the start of a year-long iterative release cycle, it was just that the product would ship in Q3 2019, full stop.

A cynical interpretation: it sounds like all the batches until "Batch Evergreen" (due Q2 2020) will be of less-than-general-release quality, with each batch getting a bit closer to what the average person would consider a finished product until Evergreen reaches that mark.

So one reading of this announcement would be that release of the actual, finished Librem 5 product has now slipped again, this time to mid-2020 -- but they didn't want to just come out and, you know, say that. So instead they've created this "iterative release schedule" so they can say they're shipping something in Q3 2019, even though the actual thing they'll be shipping then isn't going to even be close to what the average person would consider a finished, release-quality product ("loose fit, varying alignment, unfinished switch caps... basic web browsing, early power management").

I like Purism and am generally supportive of what they've been trying to do with this device. But this persistent pattern of (1) slipping deadlines and then (2) announcing that the deadline has slipped in ways that seem calculated to obscure that fact is really troubling.

Missing deadlines, by itself, isn't that big a deal on a project like this -- they're trying to do something big and unique, it's understandable if that takes longer than expected. But if you're going to miss a deadline, I'd rather you just say you missed it and give updated guidance, rather than trying to convince me that isn't what actually happened. It just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
This is a really good explanation, but you would think market forces would kick in. If a company drops 20% (or even 3%!) from an event that doesn't effect the business itself, you're going to get smart money buying. I'd have a hard time believing some niche hedge fund somewhere wouldn't make a killing off this by providing liquidity.

This is under the assumption that there will be capital available to flow, if there isn't because of a truly bad scenario, yes it's a downward spiral, but it will take quite an event to get us to that point.
Alt VC Math
Sure, but even as a first pass I'd hoped that the devs would have used the other dating apps and tried to make the experience better based on that.

I don't think anyone even looked based on what I see. It's clearly inferior to Tinder, Bumble and OKCupid's mobile apps just on basic usability.

If you're going to enter a space, shouldn't you try to do better than the market leaders?
I read the title as "don't force callers to allocate" not "don't do allocations behind the call" which is what the post is about. Totally agree on that point, but with nuance. Any call that allocates (or blocks) should be obvious in name and API.

For example a lot of C libs will have an API along these lines:

typedef void* my_api_t;
int create_api (my_api_t* api); // almost certainly allocates

typedef struct {
// yada yada yada
} api_result_t;

int get_result(my_api_t api, api_result_t* result); // does this allocate? I have no idea

I think every function that might block/allocate should be stupid obvious in the documentation and function naming convention, especially if you're distributing closed source libs with opaque types.
Just anecdotally I've noticed whenever I have trouble sleeping I wind up putting a pillow on my chest or otherwise build up something that leans on my body. I don't know why it makes me feel safer maybe it's just the animal instinct to hide from possible predators?
Also remember that google has been building autonomous submarine robots for a few years in alameda... with unknown sensor capabilities....
I agree that their intentions are good. I guess what I'm really saying is that I can't relate to them. I understand it intellectually, I just can't quite see things from that perspective.

> I do think that this company can be a net force for good in this world (easier to believe at Google than at Facebook). But I don't want it to do bad things, and if I damage the brand publicly, the company will still survive, but will think twice about doing something like this in the future since they won't be able to just contain it internally.

That's the thing, at least for me - if you believe the company is not currently being a net force for good in the world, then I'd be contributing to something that is a net force for evil. Even if I believed that could be changed in the future, I couldn't do that. It's the difference between utilitarianism and deontology.
This is why for C/C++, I always like to have something like:

foo * bar(foo * useme=0);

where one can optionally pass memory to be used, but if nothing is passed, it will be allocated by the function (placement new can be helpful here!).
Hitachi HD44780 LCD Controller
I love the universality of these programs—there's no stigma attached to using them.

For our firstborn, we (in Michigan, US) used a county-provided program that included a quick home visit and a small welcome kit (nothing as elaborate as described in this article). While it was not presented as being only intended for impoverished/unprepared families, we couldn't help but feeling that we weren't their target audience, given our income level and family support.

All too often, US social programs are paternalistic "help the needy" regimes, often with intentional stigma (to supposedly cut costs through reduced utilization). IMHO, this is harmful for everyone.
Understanding Recursion as an Absolute Beginner
If anyone has recommendations for good (cupped) eye masks, I'd love to hear them.

I currently use the cheap contoured cupped kinds (I think Bucky, currently), which are adequate. I find the cups vastly preferable to having something pressed against my eyes, and I dislike masks that feel heavy. A cheap mask will keep out most light (but not all of it). For the most part, they work. Sleeping with a mask is better than sleeping without one.

The problem with the cheap brands is that they always inevitably fall apart 3-5 months after being purchased, especially if you wash them. They're almost all glued, not stitched. They use materials like velcro everywhere.

A while back I tried to do some research to see if there was a premium market for nice, really durable, stitched brands. I couldn't find anything that stood out, it was a big surprise. I've considered trying to find someone on Etsy to try and custom make something.

Right now I'm paying $10-16 every 4 months for a disposal mask. I'd happily pay a ton more for a lightweight, cupped mask that actually blocked 100% of the light and that would last me a few years.
Wasn't the housing bubble driven in part by a form of passive investing, namely bundling mortgages (one of the "safest private investments")?

Economic systems are feedback loops. If something is the best investment that causes it to become a bad investment in proportion to how rapidly people realize it's a good investment.
Out of curiosity, how did you do the html to markdown conversion?
Banning trophy hunting can have a detrimental impact, experts say
It's a fantastic lens, even with its minor limitations. I also can't recommend enough trying a 28-30mm, as it replicates the FOV you'd get with a 50 on a full-frame.
You describe yourself as extreme, but then say people are evenly split between those who disagree and agree with your stances. So while your position may feel extreme, in consequence it is the definition of moderate.

And obviously you are coming from a specific background and applying for types of jobs where a your contribution is valuable enough to the company that they are willing to overlook potential political issues.

If you were not as skilled, or applying for government, non-profit, banking jobs, or jobs in Red States your experience might have been completely different.

So try to recognize your coming from a privileged position. I know my organization checks Twitter accounts when they get resumes, and they will throw away the ones that use foul language immediately. This is bizarre and backward to be sure, and I'm fighting to change that but its still goes on currently.

Edit: After googling you, you are awesome, fountain pens are awesome, and smart people everywhere should want to hire you.
> they could start recording. How would you know?

FOIA. That falls into the whole part where government has checks and balances that Google does not.
Well...no. what it says is there are limits on how small of wires we can make, and how small of layers make a material functional (about 5).

Wires can't get smaller without compromising RC (and thus speed). Quite horrifically: this is way more an issue than the transistor.

Graphene and photonics don't help this. At all. It isn't a matter of how small a tube. You physically need 5nm to insulate, and 5nm for a functional material. So a 5nm device with a 5nm spacer and a 5nm space to the next device is about it. The smallest pitch of any physical device is 20nm. The critical pitches in wafer are about 30nm and 40nm, so in an ideal world, we can reach 3x, ever. It doesn't matter which material you choose.

And yeah, you can stack up, but not in quite the way you dream, and thermal and processing issues make this hard in most domains. When I build, I deposit at temperatures, which affect underlying layers. So stacking doesn't quite work as you might expect. Again, real materials Ina real flow are actually different, and not in a trivial 'just make it work' reducible fashion.

Memristors may not really exist, and are useful in the context of high speed memory. That has real physical challenges. And people.have spent billions for decades on this problem.

Anyway, this is missing some background, but the presentation is great.
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It would be interesting to see how usable WhatsApp is on this thing. It would be a perfect “partly-detoxing” phone for me. Still don’t feel left out from whatsapp groups, but annoying enough to not use the phone all the time...
Geneticists Are Untangling the Mystery of Left-Handedness
Once I'm dead, I won't care.
Easter eggs can be fun, but you got to be careful too! I know of a group that put a "PC Load Letter" error on a $100k machine as a joke (Office Space reference), all in good fun. Well years later a unit completely broke, kept saying "PC Load Letter", and caused a big problem for the customer. Somehow an executive caught wind of the whole situation and was not too pleased...

So maybe the moral of the story is put Easter Eggs where a user can find them to have fun, not as an error message!
>implying that moderate consumer inflation somehow helps the rich at the expense of everyone else, when in fact, it's just the opposite.

it is?

so: Moderate consumer inflation helps 'everyone else' at the expense of 'the rich?'

How?

I always figured:

1. inflating the money supply[0] has a usual consequence of price inflation[1].

2. rising prices disproportionately affects the poor who must spend a greater percentage of their income on needed goods.

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to sum: Monetary Stimulus = highly regressive tax
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[0] "monetary stimulus"

[1] assets and consumer goods

edited: formatting
This is really great to see. Makes the "should I get a loan for this" question a lot less cumbersome to answer—the repayment via percentage of sales is quite clever.
Pulumi 1.0
Why would it? The kid isn't sleeping in the snow outside like a Husky, they're in a stroller, sleeping bag, wool etc. All put together it's probably better insulated than your house.
Don't have the proof but I am 25 and can assure you about 50% of women on tinder in my area talk about it or post their sign
The FAQ button goes to https://stripe.com/docs/capital/faqs which currently 404s for me.
Design and generate PDFs in Python web applications (Part 1)
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Square and PayPal both have similar offerings, which piece here do you feel is innovative?

(disclosure: I work at Square, but not on Capital.)
How big are these sensor objects? How do they communicate what datat they collect?
Anchor was kind of like this when it started and, over time, grew into a podcast platform. While I like podcasts, I honestly have a hard time imagining using an audio version of Twitter.
It should be https://stripe.com/docs/advance/faqs
I think this HN adtech paranoia is getting a little extreme lately, e.g. many of the comments from "ocdtrekkie" here ("Wow, Googlers in full force today.", "This is a market that needs to be shut down.")

I definitely share mixed feelings about these adtech companies, and tend to think these personalized, targeted surveillance ads should die. But what about just plain old contextual, relevant ads, e.g. ads for car parts on a hot rod site?

There's a place for web advertising in general - it supports "free" sites in a better than any other model invented thus far. I don't think it's gonna be possible to burn the whole place down and go back to 1993.

Subscriptions work for large high-value offerings like Netflix or NY Times, but average people with small sites are unlikely to be able to provide that level of value. Other alternatives like micropayments always seem to fail, because even if viewing an article costs 1-cent or 1/100 cent, it causes users to hand-wring and watch their usage carefully, deliberate about their browsing choices and eventually stop. It's a psychological thing - people loved it when AOL switched from by-the-minute billing to unlimited, even though they generally paid less under the old scheme. Suddenly they were free to just browse without thinking about it, which is also what ad-sponsored content enables on the web.

There are certainly people who just create for attention / altruism alone and get no material reward - more power to them - but they'll have to keep their day jobs.

In a way I'm gratified to see adblocking taking off, because the ad industry constantly misbehaves and does every sleazy desperate thing it can - from seizure-flashes and automatically-opening popup windows in the 90s, to performance-killing HTML5 garbage ads, distracting animations and creepy privacy-invading remarketing stuff today. Desperate, annoying junk that is indeed killing the web (and people's trust in advertising).

I personally think a move back to classy, non-personalized ads could be the way to go, ideally static images that don't track you and don't fry your CPU & battery with 700 javsacript libraries. That may be wishful thinking too. But perhaps the ad industry can try a little harder to stem the tide of garbage and win people's trust back a bit.
What if you make it an anticipated stimulus? E.g. have operators grouped by event kind.
To some extent, the meals thing is probably just because the mother is the one who is the admitted patient, so her name will be readily on record. As the father is likely both a) not in need of even a contingency of medical care related to the birth process and b) not even necessarily well-established, present, or even alive at time of birth, I can see that being a more ephemeral label.
I was thinking of parcel deliveries. Narrowish European inner city streets are regularly blocked by delivery trucks and fundamentally it's unnecessarily many of them because there are so many different companies servicing the same street. Where I live double parking on bicycle lanes is extremely common (the individual delivery people often see no alternatives), which poses massive dangers to cyclists. Also these trucks typically are quite large, worsening all issues, because a full load is meant for a long route.

If there was just a single company responsible for some "last mile" area, smaller vehicles like this electric model [1] would suffice. They would distribute parcels from a depot that is filled by larger long distance trucks that do not need to belong to the same company.

The last point is important: If DHL, FedEx, UPS etc. each have their own final storage buildings and delivery fleet, those depots could not all be situated close enough to the target addresses.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/StreetScooter
My issue with D3 and other DOM-oriented systems is that it's rare I have a small enough amount data that it would work for them. There's a certain amount preparation and filtering that can be done, but particularly with time-series or geographic data, if you're in exploratory mode, you want to be able to slice and dice as part of the interactive browser presentation.
I had supposed it was named after Ernst Mach, after whom the Mach number is named.
That's not the definition and also don't forget those with dual citizenships.
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QuickBooks, PayPal, and Amazon all offer effectively the same product. Being the fourth (at least, I may be missing some) major player in a market doing the same thing as everyone else isn't innovative.
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Based on the amount of junkmail I get offering my small business loans, I have a hard time believing the "filling a niche no-one else is offering" narrative.

We get about 2x mailers per week from AMEX alone offering business loans of up to $500k, not to mention the many other offers we get less frequently.

I like Stripe and think the offer a great product, but I don't think they're doing this because no-one else will.

Even this specific type of loan, called a "Merchant Chash Advance" - exists, and isn't anything new: https://www.fundera.com/business-loans/merchant-cash-advance
I've been using this[1] for a while, not so much for the privacy, but to segregate internet things from my desktop user.

1: https://gitlab.com/edneville/newuserbrowser
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/05/us/baby-formula-the-locke...

I suspect it's primarily in low-income areas.
Given a situation where a person (who might have been speaking on a protected topic like the administration of justice) said something the judge felt threatened by, the fact-finding and judgement should not have been left to that judge. A different judge, though no less prone to an emotional rather than rational response due to similarity of circumstances, would give the results a little more credibility.
That may provide them some short term legal protection, but the second one of these sub-entities plays that card it’s basically game over for the whole enterprise.
This seems to be a reasonable reference for differentiating them: https://janedogs.com/xoloitzcuintlie-and-peruvian-hairless-d...

I do love that the wikipedia entries just say "Not to be confused with..." but then don't say why.
IIRC that's never been a public API; more of an artifact for troubleshooting/support. Relying on it / parsing it directly was never recommended when I was there.
it's smart because they already have cash flow insights and also control your revenue stream.

but i wonder how this nets out in terms of:

1. do i want the entity holding my loan to also control my billing/revenue management?

2. aren't smb rates much lower than this usually? so crazy that certain usurious rates are just explicitly allowed
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What a fucking amazing company. The biggest challenge in making a loan is getting repaid. When you control the vehicle by which your debtor gets paid by their customers, you can easily and frictionlessly take your repayment without having to make calls and send increasingly agitated letters. Genius
I would check your logs for any suspicious activity
Wait, are you saying that Tinder will show you accounts that you've swiped left on at a later date? I have not found that to be the case.
I worked at IBM Austin on the performance team when the Mach-based IBM Microkernel/Workplace OS was ongoing. (Ask me anything! :-))

Kind of off-topic, but, every once in a while, I think of Workplace OS and how it was this mystical product that was going to be The Future (especially to us OS/2 nerds!) and how it nearly never even gets mentioned anymore these days. I'd love to read the reminisces of you or your team members.