skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just today I saw part of a BBT rerun on German TV: The guys camp out in some lodge, together with the lodge's owner. That owner is also a brilliant(?) scientist, living alone in the lodge. I think he is from Germany, but that might differ depending on the localisation. He and his wife send each other cards once per year, for their respective birthday. Well, turns out most years, because this year he forgot it (Sheldon later realizes that in fact Amy is more important to him than science). Anyway, he asks them if they know the difference in taste between (wild) rabbit and squirrel, and since the guys say they don't, "well, then we'll have bunny today" and leaves the lodge with his rifle.
The guys then leave while he is hunting, with Sheldon commenting "I know the difference, I'm from Texas".

So, as a German, should I be offended because of the squirrel/rabbit thing? Should Texans be offended? What about the career over partner theme, is that insensible to Germans divorcing due to career-induced burnouts?

No, it's just a joke. I don't believe anyone would think we ate squirrel, and I don't believe Texans do. (However, rabbit is in fact eaten around here. It's also a meat in France (who are famous for their cuisine) and... China. Says the Internet. But around here rabbit is more a delicacy, often for Easter or other special occasions; personally I think I haven't eaten rabbit meat in nearly a decade. Also, the rabbits-for-eating are large animals, not bunnys. Those are adored and loved as pets).
Came here to put in a good word for rooibos. When I went through a caffeine-free phase for several years, it was my go to drink. It also makes fantastic iced tea.
Walk around Silicon Valley a little. How many high tech workers, CEOs, and founders are immigrants or children of immigrants? If I have to guess, I'd probably say 80%.
He'll fit right in
Asian men historically have been desexualized. The show is relying on that stereotype.

https://youtu.be/2k82hIqd1Os
Since when are cultural stereotypes "racist"? Since when is "Indian" a "race"?
I visited there as a child but had forgotten all about it until seeing this post. Magical place, though Göreme (where the last photo might be from) probably outshines it a little bit.
What can one expect?
Sounds like GPT-3. Or, GPT-3 isn't too different from human writing before editing.
I guess I wasn’t clear. I’m not saying the 4th and 5th notes don’t have a special sound to anyone. I’m saying that 1) just exactly how important their resonance is to you is influenced by your culture. It’s not that atonal musicians didn’t notice the resonance. They weren’t drawn to it as much. 2) The logic given was “if you want your scale to include the 4th and 5th, then 12 notes is inevitable.” The “if you want your scale to include the 4th and 5th” is the a built in assumption that you want something like the western scale, so it doesn’t seem that impressive to me that they then arrive at the 12-tone scale.
The question I think is more “why does someone have to give me their account details and so allow me to remove an arbitrary amount rather than me providing my account details knowing that all you can do is give me money?”
We should also have the conversation as to why that plumber can get away with cash xD
Is that the case, though? The US has problems of religious and political extremism, but is Muslim violence worse in magnitude than in France with its restrictions on religious expression, or anti‐semitism than in the European countries that ban Holocaust denial?
I've done ACH for amounts over $1,000,000. I was expecting to get a call from the bank, etc, but it just worked. I was the owner of both accounts, but they were with different institutions.
I really liked iTunes at some point around 2006 and then it got progressively worse, dropped my favorite features, and I no longer touch it.

All I needed them to do was improve performance for large libraries.
> The percentage of people with normal BMIs and type 2 diabetes or prediabetes is so small that is irrelevant from a mass health perspective.

Then my father is irrelevant, being diagnosed with prediabetes at 6', 165lb.

So is it really irrelevant numerically, or is that hyperbole? Does your irrelevance include millions of people?

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edit:

> There is no evidence that obese BMIs are negatively correlated to mortality, only the opposite.

TFA mentions that it is negatively correlated when you control for two things that are positively correlated with BMI. So, while the study doesn't say that high BMI reduces mortality (it in fact observes the opposite), nobody claimed it did.

But in finding the negative BMI correlation when controlled for insulin, it does make a very good case that

> Obese BMIs still come with increased arterial plaque, complications in anesthesia and surgical healing for medical interventions, fatty liver disease, ocular pressure, lung function, cardiovascular health, and so on.

are largely irrelevant to the mortality of the obese relative to the thin, and inflammation and insulin resistance are decisive.
I’m aware of the website I’m using. You’re also here but are saying negative things and declining to provide more detail to back your position. I don’t have a dog in this fight and haven’t even heard of Garry until today, but since you had such a strong negative opinion of him I thought you might be able to tell us why.
"Best" is relative, but here's an example of "clever" code that actually shipped in a very popular game, it's just 8 lines.

https://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-quakes-fa...

Also a lot of 4k demo scene have some great looking videos rendered purely by a small amount of code.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W58r7oycUrA
Noone can tell.

Pandora's box has been opened.

Nothing is true, everything is permitted.
I don’t see any concerns not addressed by markets. If iron becomes expensive to extract, it becomes expensive to buy, and people use it carefully. At one point unused cabins were burned down to salvage the nails.

I just don’t understand the mindset of the humble author that the rubes are too stupid to modify prices or behavior, so they will just die en masse unless some heroic NGO gets enough donations to save them.
Sounds like there is a way to appeal it. You just have to provide a copy of a photo id.
btw the example image (https://erock.imgs.sh/t/iceland) 404's :(
One classic example would be Charles Dickens, whose novels started out as serialized chapters in newspapers. While it doesn't take away from him being an excellent writer, if you ever wonder why some of his stuff seems to have filler chapters... well, now you know.
You are completely wrong. There's no such thing as "right to rent video." You could 100% buy a bunch of videos and start renting them out today, and it would be completely legal. Netflix does this today for their DVD rental business. This is also why libraries are legal.

You can't buy a DVD and charge tickets to see the DVD played by you. You can't stream the DVD's contents over the Internet. But you can absolutely rent the DVD itself.
I'm not sure about USA, but here stop signs placement doesn't indicate the location to stop. Instead it is the line on the road if present. Or in such location where the visibility is sufficient. Fun to know that the system would fail here...
> When I contacted their abuse email, I get an automated message saying my message is ignored because they get a lot of false reports (how convenient!), and redirecting me to another website[0] to report it which requires tons of your personal details, photographic evidence, and all sorts of nonsense. I filled out these forms but they seem to just ignore the report anyway.

I also experienced this multiple times when trying to report scam and phishing sites. Some registrars/hosting services wont respond positively to abuse report ever, then what's the point of abuse email?

I wonder if we could report them to their higher authority (IANA?).
> it's saying that high BMI as a cause of premature death is likely just a proxy for high fasting insulin and inflammation and is not _by itself_ life shortening.

No, it is not. We should be very clear that high BMI is, in fact, life shortening.

High BMI is, in fact, strongly correlated with atherosclerosis. It is, in fact, strongly correlated with decreased lung volume and risk pulmonary edema. It is correlated with clot formation and stroke. It is correlated with fatty liver disease. It is correlated with decreased bone density, which leads to a heightened risk of throwing embolism-causing clots if a fall leads to a break. It is correlated with a variety of cardiac events, mostly around hardening valves and fat buildup in cardiac tissue causing lessened output while there is more circulating blood volume. It is correlated with difficulties administering anesthesia or intubating patients in case of emergency. It is correlated with...

Being obese is still horrifyingly unhealthy even if high fasting glucose is just a proxy for some of those factors (which it is not, as this study is terrible).
Agreed. It's easy to handwave it off. Americans churn out propaganda and inject it into every form of media it can. Similar to preservatives, some media is more nitrate than meat. China cuts it out because it says it's unhealthy to consume. China can do that overtly in it's culture war because it has never guaranteed not to.
When was this time that online payments were done with money orders? Some of the earliest online merchants that were associated with AOL and Prodigy accepted credit cards. Amazon definitely accepted credit cards from day one.
These numbers are called "Highly Composite Numbers" [0]. Basically, it is a series of numbers where each number has more factors than the number before it (and is the first number with that number of factors). As you hinted, they are especially useful if your number system does not have fractions or decimal places and you still want to divide things.

You may recognize the beginning of the series:
1 2 4 6 12 24 36 48 60 120 180 240 360 720

Numberphile [1] calls them "Anti-Primes".

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highly_composite_number
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JM2oImb9Qg
If they'd have turned the corner to see the engine fall out from underneath the car, while you'd have already strolled off the scene with the money, they suddenly wouldn't be so happy with finality. I think finality in transactions is more something about "the nominal case". If I'm a transaction processor with significant volume, I would like to reach some final state without too much intervention, but I can still handle the exceedingly-rare exceptions with (expensive) humans. Where that point lies differs per application, also dependent on what kind of service I'm wanting to deliver.
But what data do you even have backing up your assertion that it is radically different today?

The article does not claim that there has been a radical change in the last 4 years or post-covid, so I am not sure where you are getting that from.

Not going to keep responding, your comment was unnecessarily adversarial.
Reply to wizofaus: 9 minutes is more than much more than enough to revert, at least in our setup. Specially if some automated alert triggers, then we could revert well within a minute.
Tech Fear-Mongering Isn’t New–But It’s Time to Break the Cycle
I mostly agree with your post. I’m just curious about which variables people care about most and how accurate your “far and away” statement is. For example, a quick google search suggests that if we take race/ethnicity, the following study shows that 17% of newlywed couples in the US are intermarried.[1] A minority to be sure, but a substantial one. Of course this is just one variable. It could be that such couples would be very similar wrt other factors. And this says nothing about the long-term potential of such relationships.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2017/05/18/1-trend...
I am in London. I checked the console, I got this error:

{
code: 353,
message: "This request requires a matching csrf cookie and header."
}

Tried with Incognito mode, other browsers, nothing helped!
The censored "Temple of Doom" scared the shit out of me. (WARNING: Spoilers!)

When I was young my cousin had a VHS of "Temple of Doom" recorded from the BBC. We didn't know this was the censored version. So there was this scene where the priest puts his fingers on top of the chest of the victim, and then next scene they lowered the victim into the pit.

We watched that movie a few times.

Needless to say, it scared the shit out of me when I saw that movie again another time, but all of a sudden his had went straight into the chest! :o
Happens plenty in B2B but, again, reputational risk is involved
I saw that clip - there may be a valid point somewhere in there at being too easily offended but it's a stupid stunt from a non-honest broker. At the outset, the video's author's intent is to make liberal college students look dumb or like snowflakes, so that's what that video sets out to do but; there's no telling how many people they to talk to get cut on either side of the argument.
You cannot, which is what grandparent was complaining about.
It's been a while but iirc the latter would be the case. The pawn has to do the move itself.
> Sure, the economy might contract a little but I don't think ordinary people like me need to worry about that

Sure it would be just those “un-ordinary” people who have to to deal with the resulting stagflation and don’t really have the elite income generating job skills to be able to afford how much it costs to feed their family.

But I am sure they will continue to provide the manual labor needed to run our society…or they can just learn to code.
Thanks for that link, I don't know if it demonstrates "just intonation" though? But the 1/4 Comma Meantone tuning just sounds horrible the moment a diminished chord comes into the picture.
> Then my father is irrelevant, being diagnosed with prediabetes at 6', 165lb.

BMI is a population-level metric, and population-level analyses of health risks, from an epidemiological perspective to inform healthcare providers and public health officials of risks, frankly, don't care about your father.

Yes, it's irrelevant numerically, and it's irrelevant numerically because there's little evidence that any significant portion of the population (much less millions of people) falls into this category, whereas we are one of the fattest countries on Earth, which has absolutely no need to minimize or downplay the health effects of that.

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Edit (ugh):

> TFA mentions that it is negatively correlated when you control for two things that are positively correlated with BMI.

Kinda the point is that TFA is mathematical gaming which doesn't yield any actionable results for healthcare providers.

> So, while the study doesn't say that high BMI reduces mortality (it in fact observes the opposite), nobody claimed it did.

You did, a bit:

> It also means that if we can control people's reactions to sugar, their weight becomes irrelevant (or possibly even protective.)

There is a range in which increased BMI provides increased survivability from catastrophic events, since the body has energy reserves and some protection from trauma, but then it drops off a cliff. It's not going to be "irrelevant" for health outcomes, much less protective very far outside of the overweight range.

> are largely irrelevant to the mortality of the obese relative to the thin, and inflammation and insulin resistance are decisive.

Yeah, ok. I guess a bunch of things which every significant health organization on Earth calls out as leading causes of mortality and linked to obesity are actually due to inflammation and insulin resistance, which must also have an effect on how hard it is to push a tube into an obese patient's throat, to find a vein to get a line in, the amount of pressure their weight exerts on their lungs, the amount of medication it takes to keep them anesthetized, how much fat accumulates in their liver, plaque buildup inside arterial walls, etc. Definitely just inflammation.
I'm fat. Fat. You know it.
That depends on who gets to decide when the flags get turned on, doesn't it?
They just sold the Grand Banks trawler and are back on a catamaran (last long sail around the world before the kids grow up and move on). More adventure ahead!
Abortion clinics is just a small part of it, it's not a great title. The FTC's complaint is:

"Kochava employs no technical controls to prohibit its customers from identifying consumers or tracking them to sensitive locations. For example, it does not employ a blacklist that removes from or obfuscates in its data set location signals around sensitive locations including, among others, locations associated with medical care, reproductive health, religious worship, mental health, temporary shelters, such as shelters for the homeless, domestic violence survivors, or other at-risk populations, and addiction recovery."

Here's the complaint: https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/1.%20Complaint....
Yes, a metaphor for doing it "even more". He means that they will be angry and will do more than just reverse the transaction: they will punish the merchant who fraudulently debited your account. They will levy a fine on them (any merchant who is plugged into the ACH system will have signed a contract with their bank agreeing to accept such fines and possibly put up a bond), or even perhaps ban them from making any future transactions, seriously harming their business.
What are use cases for something like this?
Hardly dismissive - it’s called staying on topic? A question was asked, folks seem to not know the how or the why if the situation - so here I am.

The California diversion of the Colorado is downstream of AZ and NV. California only gets the water they let it have, under the agreement. Which California probably has more lawyers than total population in both AZ and NV state Capitals, so there is that.

California has always out ‘peopled’ and out ‘moneyed’ it’s neighbors, and LA+SF has done that within the state.

When resources were seemingly infinite and the country was growing at a breakneck pace, that was controversial but didn’t really break things.

Everything has a breaking point somewhere. We’ll see if this is one of them.
OK ... thanks.
You can still install content blocking VPNs from sources other than the play store.

I use DNS66, which I got from the F-Droid open source app store.

It works very well and blocks ads and trackers on websites and apps.
I would say, less "naive", and more "to forget". I remember reading about russian bots like eight years ago, the Facebook scandal, and more on the topic once in a while. But. Maintaining vigilance 24/7 is bloody tiring, as any guard/soldier knows.

I simply forget. Maybe that's how they get you. They wear you down.
> The diff-based storage affects all.

No one is saying Git does or should do that.

> If you got to rebase over many decisions you are likely in trouble anyways.

That script I linked made it easy.

> There small commits can be helpful to ease dealing with merge conflicts.

They were indeed mostly small commits. Mine wasn't that small -- it's fairly invasive and not possible to split up into more than two commits.
Network television is some fine goalpost-moving, but as far as general media access goes you can find it on 3 US streaming services, and the reason no broadcast network is picking it up for redistribution has no basis in government censorship.
>And this is what passes for AI?

Autopilot is kind of a scam. Marketing and economic pixie dust from Elon over a basic camera lane assist system to make sure Teslas attract customers and hold their prestige and value.

But no, FSD is perpetually 6 months around the corner for him.
Your company is doing it right, but that is not Agile :)
>Nothing fancy because all black tea is roughly the same

Please, please, please, please try some good Chinese teas some time.
Same here. It’s incredibly simple to set up and add exclusions and inclusions.
An alternative question is: Why not more? There are approximately rational scales with more than 12 notes. Something I wonder is how the complexity of music relates to its use. For instance, instruments for music that's primarily ceremonial, or used in centralized locations by trained experts, could adopt scales with more notes, or more difficult tunings. This includes 12TET, which was difficult for an untrained musician to replicate, and unlikely to stay in tune for an entire performance on some instruments.

Simpler tunings might lend themselves to instruments that were homemade, used for folk music, carried by travelers, played at home, etc. In fact those two things could coexist within a single culture. There were pipe organs and folk fiddles in Europe during the same time period, after all. Once the 4 strings are tuned by means of an easily discerned interval, you can fill in with a tolerable scale by ear.

"Carried by travelers" suggests an advantage for a tuning system that can be restored by a non-expert and used for music that spreads from town to town.
Yes. https://80000hours.org/problem-profiles/artificial-intellige...
I use writing as a means to understand my thoughts. Getting them on paper and editing and refining them helps me think more clearly.

I recommend the book Thinking on Paper:
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1610908.Thinking_on_P...
The cuts are mainly obvious because of the sound glitch. I think when they would have a better crossover of the audio, it would be way harder to notice.
Yes, rebase is a series of cherry-picks. Each commit picked is treated as a set of diffs that are applied with conflict resolution, then committed, then off to the next. The mental model of commits as diffs works, obviously.

> If commits were diffs, then that process doesn't make any sense. It only makes sense when you think of commits as snapshots, and cherry-pick ing as taking a commit, calculating the diff with the current commit, and then applying that diff to make a brand new commit.

Sure it does. It works for me. You can use whatever mental model of Git that you works for you.
That logic seems to go both ways, though. Actual child abuse is, surely, even more "life-destroying", right? So wouldn't it make more sense to tolerate any number of false positives if we can save just one kid?

I'm always amazed at the number of people who come to a complicated nuanced issue like this, accuse one side of having implemented an absolutist and inflexible dystopian monster, and then promptly demand an equally absolutist solution.

The libertarian answer might well be that we need to tolerate CSAM in the interests of free speech, but that's not the sense of the society we live in, nor of the laws it has passed. All paths must be middle paths.
What about international ACH transfers? What if an overseas bank just claims they didn't receive your transfer when they did?
A few years ago, my father-in-law asked me to fix his computer. He only said it was "slow".

When I got there, he had a serious malware infection. Multiple spyware/hijacker browser extensions, a service running on the desktop that would pop open ads, the works.

He said it started doing this stuff after he installed an iTunes update. It took me way more effort than it should have to convince him that the ad that claimed to be an iTunes update was fraudulent and started the mess.

After I managed to clean up the mess, I installed uBlock Origin. It's been smooth for him ever since.
Yes, this is something were facebook excels at, but it can also create in-group and out-group dynamics. A possible federated solution:
https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/6128-Federated-access-control-with...