skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A and C could procreate, and A and B could procreate, and D could procreate successfully with C but fail to procreate successfully with B. What are the species involved in this case?

That's still rigorous and biologically based. What you've pointed out is a rare exception, where that one methodology breaks. In which case you'd have to analyze the situation in more depth. Which scientists actually do (it's not society doing it), and based on the data (not social pressures), they decide what the species are. The example I gave is one of many factors used to determine species. It's not the only factor and used in isolation, is it? So in the above case, the next step would perhaps be to look at the actual genes involved.

> "Species" is just as much a social construct as race.

Then please provide examples of two organisms that have very little in common genetically but are considered the same species. And where society decided what the species is. Race is exactly that: groups of individuals that have almost nothing in common except for a few genes but society has decided to group them together anyway.

> Let's not pretend that scientists are immune from the prevailing political winds of the day.

Please give examples of species that were categorized due to politics or ideology and where it gets the underlying biology wrong.

> We can't possibly know whether race is a signficant factor until its studied.

It's not studied because it is a disproven and outdated model that is useless to biologists compared to the far better tools we have today. We can look directly at people's genes. Why would you group people using far less accuracy when you want to study heritibility of traits? That doesn't make any sense. Why wouldn't you look at what genes people have and group them according to their genes? That's what will give meaningful results and that is why scientists choose to group based on biology rather than grouping based on what society decides. Grouping based on what society decides what race you are is close to useless for biology.
and ECB just started NIRP (Negative Interest Rates Policy) in order to tax our savings accounts.

Or let's move your savings to your current account.
Maybe I’m missing it, but does this example work for online predictions? My use case is I have a trained model, and I want to put a REST API in front of it that clients call call.
well, I mean, in that it’s not some JavaScript nonsense that gobbles a GB or so of ram for no readily explicable reason, it is pretty important to the user experience.
I'd prefer to let the market fix this when something better appears and gets traction. Giving more power to the government is the go-to solution in third world countries. The US is supposed to be better and much more mature as a nation.

Disclaimer: I live in a third world country.
Here's the tl;dr (from the article):

> This review of literature reveals promising early evidence that yoga practice can positively impact brain health. Studies suggest that yoga practice may have an effect on the functional connectivity of the DMN, the activity of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex while engaged in cognitive tasks, and the structure of the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex- all regions known to show significant age-related changes [65, 66]. Therefore, behavioral interventions like yoga may hold promise to mitigate age-related and neurodegenerative declines. Systematic randomized trials of yoga and its comparison to other exercise-based interventions, as well as long term longitudinal studies on yoga practitioners are needed to identify the extent and scope of neurobiological changes.

With studies like this, my reaction is to assume that it's not really about yoga, but rather just making a habit out of doing exercise and spending some time focused on something other than your cell phone or a computer.

There are plenty of good ways to get exercise and manage your attention, but you don't need buzzwords to accomplish that. Taking long walks without bringing your cellphone along (or leaving it in your pocket with notifications off) is a simple, cheaper (assuming you pay for yoga classes), and equally effective way to do this.
I agree that these are pretty limited. I taught a class on interactive narrative last year and I really wanted to have my students make something like Zork but there just isn't anything user friendly enough (The class had no per-requisites so I didn't want to assume the students had any technical knowledge and many didn't) so I chose twine.

I was pretty happy with what they did because there was a really wide range of topics that aren't usually seen in gaming (one was making dinner, another was going to the mall, another was a text based football game. There were a number of games about more-traditional topics too).
What can't you find on the iTunes Store?

I use iTunes for most media, precisely because I see it as a way of cutting through all the BS—it has just about every movie and every show—including series from Hulu and HBO. (The sole thing I can't get are Netflix exclusive shows, which is annoying.)

(And then I run my purchases through TunesKit to losslessly strip the DRM)
Edit: I'm a bit long-worded and too heavy with using fancy words. I typed fast and didn't edit at all. Writing succinctly and in easy to understand English is more difficult, for me.

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I could predict that yoga has a good effect on brain health since I have the following hypothesis: whatever you do with a serious attentive concentration will be good for your brain in that specific area.

One question I have left is: to what extent will one be able to go beyond that area and use their cognitive benefits for similar but different pursuits?

I also have a hypothesis for that (I just don't know to what extent it's true, I read some research on it but it's all quite tentative). It is: if one specifically focuses on an area, then the benefit will be specific. However, if one chooses a meta-topic (e.g. learning as fast as possible, increasing memory or increasing attention span), then that meta-topic will be trained and that person will be good in the meta-topic across all cognition. This presumes they are immersed in training this meta-topic though (i.e. it's everywhere in their life).

Examples:

1 (normal topic). One chooses to be amazing at chess, and just at chess. Then, the brain benefits will only be helpful for chess.

2 (meta-topic). One chooses to learn as fast as possible, and chooses chess as the medium to measure progress. That person will be able to learn as fast as possible on many more domains. In part, also I presume that such a person is actively trying to use the meta principles from learning chess as fast as possible to solve other problems in their life.

So they're not doing the same things. One is learning chess, and the other one is learning to play chess as fast as possible with the broader scope to learn anything as fast as possible.

One complicating factor is that the normal chess player can try to organize the meta-topics they have learned while playing chess. While this helps, I'd argue it's simply less effective than what the second person would be doing. It's similar to architecting a software product to do certain things from the get go (person 2) or patching your software product afterwards to do that same thing (person 1).
Correction: building the extension requires installing a programming language with sudo bash because the extension needs to communicate with a native app.

I completely retract what I said.
It looks like we’ve ran out of names. I would tell you it’s the python package uploader if you asked for twine
JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised
Could you provide further details about where to start for material design?

Sorry for bothering you. But I lost my inspiration at the design step. My many projects struggle and lost motivation at design phase.
I think it's probably non-controversial that exercise (posing, stretching), and mindful activity (meditation, thoughtful breathing) are good for us. Certainly it's something I feel happy encouraging patients to do, particularly if they enjoy it or feel that it benifits then.

What I find thought-provoking though is the use of the phase "health approach" in the first line of the abstract:

> Yoga is the most popular complementary health approach practiced by adults in the United States.

I wonder what exactly qualifies as a "health approach". The paper acknowledges exercise is well know to be good for people, particularly in ageing - so it's heathy, but is exercise an "approach"? What about reading, or caring for young children (both also good for your health) can that be a "health approach"?

I usually try to talk about these practices as being part of a heathy lifestyle, rather than being therapies. I feel that we're over-medicalising when we start to say that riding a bicycle or hugging our friends are therapies, rather than just being healthy.
Well, you can use the same json file for multiple documents.

By default it will be stored in the directory from which pandoc is invoked, but you can also change that by setting `url2cite-cache: filename` in the markdown frontmatter or in the pandoc invocation: `pandoc -M url2cite-cache=../bla.json --filter ...`.
There is: use developer edition or unbranded builds.
R is single threaded. The same is with python. We use kubernetes for scaling.
But it is not for all applications of course.
R can be put into production. Rsuite is one of the solutions that helps with that.
I'd say the game is the "genre" and the streamer is an author. If you are someone who produces music or literature, and you do it in a popular genre, you will get some of the genre's public through radio streaming, antologies etc.

If you are good enough, people will buy your next album/book in the same genre. If you have a cult following, people will buy your next book/album in whatever genre.
Privatisation did "wonders" to British rail transport system...
The maintainer has a patreon that I support. https://www.patreon.com/klembot I'm impressed by how diligent he is with sending updates out to backers. He's currently updating twine and I'm sure he would like some support.
Yes, this has happened to me quite often.

Oddly, Google seems to throw up SO search results a lot less often for me these days though, so I don't get send there in the first place.

You do get one bit of information from this: You learn about a question you definitely can't get the answer to on SO!
I started yoga two years ago after suffering a small back injury while weight lifting (I lift 4 times weekly). I was looking for an exercise routine which was:
1) Easy to do while traveling
2) I could do well into my old age (I can’t lift heavy weights forever)
3) Would build back strength to counteract the degeneration of my desk job (developer)

I enjoy yoga immensely and I feel that I have granted myself a gift that will last a lifetime. I am not spiritual and was not flexible before starting so I wouldn’t count those are barriers for getting benefit from the practice. I do try to suspend my beliefs about spirituality as well as I can during practice which has worked well for me.

I started with the C1 classes at CorePower which I’d recommend to beginners who are interested.
Ostensibly. Some may want the paper and an actual learning experience that isn't virtualised. I must be asking for too much.

I also might not understand the purpose of the video lectures. If they supplant face to face time but get rid of the tedium, then I would say it should also accompany course/lecture notes, reading texts, and/or supplemental documents.

I just think forcing people to watch youtube videos is a much lower quality experience for a student. If it's a required course I'd want a refund for being forced into a lazy teaching format.
What I think would be interesting is to introduce something like "GPL for Ads". If you have a binary, you should be able to obtain its source code. Similarly, if you see an ad, you should be able to see who's paying for it, how much it cost, and what was its bidding/selection process, etc.

This doesn't just apply to Google. All TV ads and paper ads will also have to provide a way to obtain this information. It doesn't necessarily have to be accompanying the ads. It can even charge a (reasonable) fee to access that information, but it has to be accessible to the end user (ad viewer). Rationale: consumer protection.

This won't directly solve the monopoly situation, but it will force them to be transparent, and in a long run it will reduce their questionable ads and their revenue. And the consumer is more informed.
True to some extent, though I don't think there have been many OS updates which deleted all storage for all apps (well, moved to an inaccessible place)... This really is a massive failure of QA and dev.
Not gp, but I'd love to run OSX legally, even if just for testing. But their hardware doesnt fit my requirements, nor is it a good value for money.
Ending the Era of the U. S.Survey Foot
One thing that the paper doesn’t spend much time on, but which is probably important, is that practising yoga is something that people often do with other people, it can be a communal exercise - which is good for the social human creature.
The pages on programming of Go is a surprise good read.
sure, offsets are technically purchaseable -- if you know what they are, where to buy them, which sellers are reputable, which type of offset/credit/other carbon instrument you want to buy, what's the difference between different types of carbon instrument, how retirement of an instrument works, etc.

you are probably someone who cares about this stuff roughly a million times more than the average member of the public, but for most people, the actions you specified aren't on the radar.

nobody i've spoken to has even known about offsets, nevermind what they do or how to access the markets as an individual. people do vaguely know about the idea of "cap and trade", but that's not exactly something they think of as being relevant to their lives or their efforts to mitigate climate change, even if it is.

there's a huge gap between the public's willingness to participate in these type of carbon reduction plans and their knowledge about how to actually do so and how much they should actually be contributing to make up for their personal carbon footprint.

i'm not proposing to do anything revolutionary. creating a new source of offsets is a non-starter. my idea is merely to close the gap.

to inform people that they aren't powerless, and to reduce the friction of navigating the carbon markets at the scale they would prefer.
Personally, I use the following two combinations:

- For things I will watch/listen to a lot, I purchase and rip to my server running Plex. Then I control my own streaming server and don't have to worry about where to find it. If you have a local secondhand store, its not hard to find what you are looking for.

- For one offs, I can actually very reliably find it either on Redbox or my local library. The local Library had DVDs and Blu-Rays there. I watch and return.
Those are very big and bright lights
> Testosterone levels drop in men who even cohabitate with young children.

I call bullshit. There is at best a correlation of cohabitating with young children and periods of sexual inactivity, but probably correlation of periods of sexual inactivity and participating in the study you pulled that data from, i.e. it's a bullshit study.

Wikipedia has good enough explanation about when testosterone levels change in men: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testosterone#Males
2018 article
Economist here, wondering how to measure the net gain or harm. If more useful open-source ideas used to be generated by companies hoping to profit from ancillary services like product support, and now those innovators have retreated because they expect Amazon to poach their ideas, then that's harm.

But quantifying the generation of useful ideas is hard. Moreover that harm has to be weighed against the benefit Amazon brings to the users of AWS.
Very cool idea. Probably wouldn't want to do it where there is marine life though.
India: Several killed in Assam protests against citizenship law
I very much like the idea and direction, but this is a good idea only in theory. It would be comparable to every financial firm opening up their bidding algorithms.

Ad buyers work very hard and spend a lot of money to create the best strategy/algorithm and that solution would just let a competitor copy it for free.

Not for search or social ads, but programmatic/display are literally bought by creating a very complicated algorithm with potentially unlimited variables to automatically (programmatically) place bids.
I believe it is a combination of things:

* the regulatory environment is tough on businesses: it's hard to start one and follow all the rules. The rules can also be different across EU states.

* poorer local market. Europeans generally don't have as much disposable income as Americans. It's harder to get a good amount of people to pay 20 EUR / month for a SaaS.

* different investor culture: if you failed once, you'll always fail thinking

* corporate and personal taxes are high, so there's little incentive to work like crazy to become a multimillionaire if you have to pay the bulk of it in tax.

* overall tougher social mobility, making it hard for top talent to get to the right people for funding, ideas, mentoring, etc.

* EU spends public money in attempt to create "unicorns". This feeds a certain class of exploitative business people and paper pushers who have optimized to leech off these programs by building useless things that technically check the boxes in rule books and regulations, in order to get even more public money.
The US government has no authority to break up a monopoly just because users don't like its ads. Google continues to provide a valuable service, and your cost is the ads you're served that you don't want. Google's not a charity. I'm tired of opinions about "user hostility" and so on from tech people about valuable services as they ramp up user revenues. If you don't like Google's ads, use DuckDuckGo or Bing.
Brings to mind an absurd idea of software development companies gathering to discuss the international exchange of stack pointers.
Meditation is a tribal act in a screentime age: quietly facing the same direction, obeying a common leader - together. Just like yoga, dancing, climbing & hiking.

I think tribal socialization is a better explanation for meditation's growing popularity than “watching your thoughts like a river.”
Creating My Ideal CSS Framework: Cutestrap
Now that you mentioned tidyverse, let me discuss the ugly side of R. You are right, R community and ecosystem is being pushed forward by Rstudio, the company and people behind it. Tidyverse is truly great and R without it would have not been where it is now. However, Rstudio is a company and they want to earn money, sure, they are contributing heavily to the open-source R but that might change, or they use their influence to steer the development. I’m not saying that they would but they could. I see it more and more that R codes relies on APIs that Rstudio expose. What if Rstudio decides to keep more of its product locked. You can see a part of this already, Rstudio team (company) sells essential security as a feature. What if this extends to R and Tidyverse. Sure, there is license and what not to protect it but that could change. Looking back at the history, this is how the whole Matlab has started!

Again, I’m not saying that it will happen, but it could. Dependent of R on third party packages and a company to push it forward it’s not necessarily a good thing.

P.S. Python IDEs are crappy too!
Where to get started with SEO?
A truck with the bed removed and the flatbed added seems appropriate.

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Are customs rules ever complicated for a typical person?

Usually it just seems to be common sense rules that you can bring something like $10k cash or large quantities of alcohol or tobacco, which aren’t practical concerns for almost any traveller.

Have you found rules that may trip people up that we should know about?
If one is a cinephile there are many interesting classics that are sadly not available on the iTunes Store. There are no films by Ingmar Bergman, for example.
Something came out in the NYTimes recently that walking three times a week for a half hour had positive effects.

Can’t remember everything about it.

I love walking.

What I think is nice about yoga is you get mindfulness, flexibility, strength, balance, and endurance all in one session which seems like a pretty decent bang for your buck.
It's readable (y'know, technically) for me in Firefox 71. Maybe there's something weird about the PDF?
> Isn't the problem here the "deny" part, and not the justification given?

Well, the problem is the deny part. That's why in the context of race we say being race blind isn't helpful. You have to be race conscious, and the same goes for religion, orientation, gender, and sex.

Generally, the core problem is we deny people things and remove their agency based on this stuff. It's fine to acknowledge and even celebrate differences. But when it starts to cause serious problems like the incarceration crisis or the equal pay crisis, then we need to look at systemic biases (because we should've been on the lookout for them the entire time).
Google's competition is not DDG, it's Brave
Google is automated censorship engine for all communists.
IANAL but I think it's trademark in this case.

Should have named it Frozen 2! :)
Great job. The website is well designed, nice UI and everything is just super clear and accessible. I wonder is it a React app...

This is exactly the kind of project I would have thought of and then never bothered, thinking its already been done, its on wikipedia etc...Although you were fortunate with your partnerships, thats a bit of a jackpot, but in fairness you made the effort so well deserved. Good luck with version 2.
> I don't understand why video seems to be so much harder than music?

Maybe the movie industry saw the music industry as a cautionary tale and doubled down with DRM and exclusivity. The difference is bitrate and music sharing happened first, giving the film industry time to react.
Security/privacy aside - it's a bummer that it doesn't mention multiple domains per account. I have ~20 diff domains tied my sole fastmail account.
How is your magic algorithm will distinguish "bad" channels from game reviewers,movie critics and other reviwers? Or should they all be banned too? Also how it will detect that something is fair use?
Neither Gmail nor Maps is anything close to a “monopoly” in the US. You can get email from plenty of places and Apple has about a 40% market share in the US - with its own maps.
> The Correct Answer is to model organizational behavior as events, capturing state changes in an event log. What accountants call ledgers.

That's one step. Another one is to sign the relevant data, and make it available for auditory.

Somebody already talked about a blockchain... Well, the chain isn't actually necessary, as long as all interested parties have a receipt. It also adds nothing if all the signatures stay with a single party.
No, in certain use cases the search engine can fall behind. It's not going to be the best at everything. And when thinking about certain other issues (privacy, not showing the full URL, etc) it is perfectly valid to not use Google.
What benefit would that provide? They’d all still be the dominant player in their market.

And how would splitting off AdWords be good for the consumer? Do you like paying for your search engine, Gmail, maps, and more?