Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog

Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog

Switch from Medium to your own blog in a few minutes. To see an example of what your blog will look like, check over here to find a few guides to help you editing the content of you newly created blog. We need all the help we can get to make this project awesome!

Source: github.com

How Plaid Reconciles Pending and Posted Transactions

How Plaid Reconciles Pending and Posted Transactions

To reduce the trees’ correlation, our model also randomly sampled features in addition to randomly sampling training data, resulting in a random forest. This meant our training sets had an imbalance in which a large majority of the data was “not matching”; as a result, our random forest model erred on the side of predicting lower probabilities of matching, resulting in a high false negative rate. Our new boosting model lowered our false negative rate by 96% compared to the random forest model, ultimately providing higher quality transactions data to our clients and consumers.

Source: blog.plaid.com

Urql: a GraphQL client library

Urql: a GraphQL client library

Today, with the release of the new documentation site, we’re happy to call a stable, production-ready GraphQL client library for both small and large React applications. New features in v1 include React Hooks for GraphQL queries, mutations and subscriptions, and a new powerful extensibility mechanism called Exchanges. Since we want to be a fully functional client when you first install and use it, it already ships with Exchanges that make up the small core of a basic GraphQL client.

Source: formidable.com

Found: Stolen Alexander Hamilton Letter to the Marquis de Lafayette

Found: Stolen Alexander Hamilton Letter to the Marquis de Lafayette

But one paper, a 1780 letter from Alexander Hamilton to the Marquis de Lafayette, remained missing for decades—until it surfaced recently in Virginia. Mark Pratt of the Associated Press reports that the precious document came to light last November, when a family from South Carolina tried to sell it to an auction house in Alexandria, Virginia; the letter had reportedly been in the possession of a relative who had died. Authorities believe that after it was stolen from the Massachusetts Archives, the letter ended up in the possession of a rare books and documents dealer in Syracuse, New York, who sold it to a member of the South Carolina family who tried to put it up for auction.

Source: www.smithsonianmag.com

The Collapsing Crime Rates of the ’90s Might Have Been Driven by Cellphones

The Collapsing Crime Rates of the ’90s Might Have Been Driven by Cellphones

“The cellphones changed how drugs were dealt,” Edlund told me. In the ’80s, turf-based drug sales generated violence as gangs attacked and defended territory, and also allowed those who controlled the block to keep profits high. The cellphone broke the link, the paper claims, between turf and selling drugs.

Source: www.theatlantic.com

Use of male mice skews drug research against women, study finds

Use of male mice skews drug research against women, study finds

The male bias is seen across all fields of pre-clinical research, but one of the starkest areas is neuroscience, in which male animals outnumber females by nearly six to one. Recent research has challenged the reasoning behind using almost exclusively male animals, with one analysis of nearly 300 neuroscience studies revealing that data collected from female mice was not more variable than that from males – in fact, for some measures, the reverse was true. She is also concerned about the approach taken by some research teams in the US which incorporate both sexes in experiments by working things out in males first and then repeating it in females.

Source: www.theguardian.com

Another Step Toward the End of Moore’s Law

Another Step Toward the End of Moore’s Law

Two of the world’s largest foundries—Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) and Samsung—announced in April that they’d climbed one more rung on the Moore’s Law ladder. Performance And Power-Consumption Improvements

Sources: Samsung; TSMC (Comparisons To Original Version Of Previous Node)

Foundries began 7-nm manufacturing without EUV, but later used it to collapse the number of lithographic steps and improve yield. Only Samsung and TSMC are offering 5-nm foundry services.

Source: spectrum.ieee.org

PureScript 0.13 Release

PureScript 0.13 Release

For the past few months I’ve been working on a complete rewrite of the existing parser. This release is definitely breaking, but I think you’ll find the changes are modest. I also hope that this release will open up a lot of opportunities for syntactic tooling, both using the existing parser or even using alternative parsers (which are now possible).

Source: github.com

Google/Oracle’s $9B Copyright Case Could Be Headed for the Supreme Court

Google/Oracle’s $9B Copyright Case Could Be Headed for the Supreme Court

Oracle brought the case in 2010 after Google incorporated 11,500 lines of Oracle’s Java code into Google’s Android platform for smartphones and tablets. “Before Android,” Oracle’s lawyers write in their brief to the Supreme Court, “every company that wanted to use the Java platform took a commercial license…including smartphone manufacturers BlackBerry, Nokia and Danger.” Despite Google’s “sky-is-falling” arguments, they write, the software industry did not crash in the wake of May 2014 or March 2018, when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued the two key rulings that Google seeks to reverse.

Source: www.newsweek.com