skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you see much evidence of Kotlin eating Java's lunch as some have predicted?
Disclaimer != Disclosure

Probably one of HNs most common mistakes in comments
"the computer went really slow after I installed it"

This version also appears to be using a lot of system resources. Firefox on Linux is idling at about 6% CPU while reading HN. Go to that web site and the usage goes up to 80% to 90%. Come back here and CPU goes back down to 6% or so.
How would you begin to understand programming (or anything for that matter) without first starting with a massive undertaking and breaking it down into smaller chunks that can be discovered? Give someone a for-loop in isolation and it means nothing. They will never really understand it because it doesn't relate to anything. Given something massive they will have to break it down, and in that it will dawn on them "Huh, I need to do this same thing over and over again. I wonder how I might do that?" at which point they will discover loops, and then it will make perfect sense.
I don't know that that's very informative, clinically. How many obesity cases are there that don't have one of those two issues in some co-causal way? Likewise how do you treat these people to reduce their insulin swings in such a way that they... would fail to lose weight?

It seems almost like a joke, but "hyperinsulinemia and inflammation" seems more or less identical with "chronic overeating", right?
Fuel transfer is mechanically the same whether there are people around or not, and whether you are talking 1 ton of propellant or 100 tons.
"The increase in mortality that has been attributed to higher BMI is more likely due to hyperinsulinemia and inflammation rather than obesity."

That's encouraging because I've been able to fix the hyperinsulinemia and inflammation, but not all of the excess BMI. Maybe fit & fat aren't mutually exclusive.
> Measuring BMI requires stepping on a scale and knowing how tall you are.

There are contradicting posts in this very thread that say high BMI and obesity aren't necessarily the same thing, because apparently you can be tall and be only mildly into lifting and suddenly you have a high BMI. If that's the case [I'm not a lifter] then it makes total sense to me to track resting blood glucose, not obesity, because it's simply the more accurate measurement.
Hiring a hitman?
I may be missing something - but how exactly do I Use it?
> WTF is with this perception of $750k/yr being anywhere even _remotely_ near what the average programmer gets?

They said "highest paid programmers", not "near average" programmers. This is fairly typical total comp for the senior staff level at a FAANG. Around 5-10% of engineers at these companies will make that much (and a smaller percentage make even more).
> And reality is complicated, filled with reasonable disputes over terms and deals (in the best case) and outright fraud and theft (in the worst case).

Yep, and also methods to bring forward and rectify those disputes, as in the courts. I always wonder how many court orders each day need to go through the banks for enforcement, through wage garnishment, sheriff's auctions, power of attorney, etc.
Previously you said:

> Japanese whaling fleets are targeting those exact whale populations that are endangered

And the evidence you have cited was this line from a wikipedia article:

> Japan kept official hunts of endangered species such as North Pacific right whales until 1994,[141] but intentional by-catches of endangered still continue to present in unknown scales.

There are a number of different issues here:

> Japan kept official hunts of endangered species such as North Pacific right whales until 1994 ,[141]

This ended nearly 30 years ago, so I will ignore as it is not relevant to the discussion of what Japan is currently doing. (That citation from the wikipedia article is also completely bogus - if you visit the link you will find an article written in 1818 (!) that has been translated to Chinese. So definitely not about modern Japanese whaling.)

> intentional by-catches of endangered still continue to present in unknown scales

Issues here are:

* No citation given in the wikipedia article

* Saying it happens in “unknown scales” provides no indication of the size of the problem. Is is 1 per year or 1000?

* “intentional” appears to be a typo here. “By-catch” by definition means the unintentional capture of non-targeted species.

So to recap - you made a claim earlier that Japanese are targeting endangered species. And then as justification you referenced an improperly cited claim about something that ended 30 years ago, and an un-cited claim about by-catches - which is very much not the same thing as targeting endangered species. There is absolutely nothing here to justify your claim.

By the way, I do think that by-catch is a real issue that is estimated to kill 300,000 cetaceans every year [1]. So many orders of magnitude more impactful than Japanese whaling. But it is a global issue inherent to commercial fishing rather than an issue with Japanese fishing in particular.

> It is not my burden to disprove a made up fact.

I’ll remind you that this whole thread started precisely because you did attempt to disprove this claim. If your position is simply that “This seems like an unlikely claim, but I have no evidence to disprove it” - then that’s perfectly reasonable. But based on the arguments and evidence you have put forth so far, any degree of confidence in your opinion beyond that is completely unjustified.

And finally, I would just like to point out one more inaccuracy in your most recent comment for good measure:

> not to mention apex predators are not prone to overpopulation since they rely on lower levels of the food chain to survive

Baleen whales (which are the types that are targeted by Japanese whalers) are not considered apex predators since they feed primarily on krill and smaller fish. So basically they are competing with fish for the same food source.

[1] https://iwc.int/bycatch
For something run relatively infrequently, I can see why it wouldn't be a huge priority.

On that topic, I wish there was a generic build system like SCons written in something faster. Maybe there is (does Bazel fit my bill?) and I just don't know of it yet. What I love best about SCons is that you can just write custom builders right there. No need to drop in a shell script - you have the much better Python standard library at your fingertips. This also means it's way easier to make cross-platform.
It improves string comparison and sorting in ClickHouse by 15%: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/38093
You are on your own side quest to predict facial structure from genotype. That and perhaps intelligence agencies.

Your quest makes you concerned with discerning from averages. Outside your world, people don't have to be concerned with averages. Instead, they can see multiple correlated features. Perhaps a jawline, a brow, and a hairline.
OperCom (MS Teams client): progress update
Start with questioning whether the software was created by the best and brightest.
Just to play devils advocate, I 100% do not want this.

I understand your reasons for making this and I fully support them, but the day Amazon make the Kindle into something other a way to read books is the day I drop the kindle for another reader.

The whole point of a Kindle for me is that I can use it to read and not be distracted by notifications or wondering what's on HN or whatever.
The researchers tried to subtract out the mortality risk of elevated C-reactive protein (aka CRP, inflammation market) and higher fasting insulin.

However, both elevated CRP and higher fasting insulin are correlated with obesity, so controlling for these variables seems misleading.
The world cannot simply stop doing business with China. It would result in a great depression. Absolutist views are never the most appropriate. You have to give and take.

My comment was more than just the last ~100 years of history. You can look at NK today and go back to the witch hunts, or go back further in history, flat earth, bloodletting, even washing hands. Modern understanding and knowledge could be lost. If we weren't educated, we could very easily regress to believing whatever is taught is the right idea.
My son is 15, 182 cm and weights 81 kg. According to BMI charts he is in the 94th percentile and it's categorized as obese.

But he is an athlete with almost no fat (he is not aiming at muscles so he does not have a diet that minimizes fat, he is looking for sheer power and explosivity (gym, martial arts)). He is very built up (muscular) though.

So I wonder how the BMI can give any kind of reasonable indication when the fat level is not taken into account.
Check out the state of some of the most important open source projects in WebRTC - the engine powering many of our communication services today.
This is why my support for UBI is based on the amount of money given out. If you give out a very small amount then it's not going to a big problem. If you then use it to simplify the tax system, replace it with flat tax, and remove many welfare systems you have a much better system.
It's sad to think how much time webmasters spent (and are still spending), cumulatively speaking, to optimize their websites to do better in Google's search results.
I am not a nutrition expert but I believe inflammation can be a problem without high BMI. For example, eating lots of highly processed foods but staying within your calorie limit, would have this outcome.
I wasn't sure until the section on there only being one comparison operator.
ACH fraud is hard to do because it’s reversible over long periods and you can’t do ACH without being well identified.

Banks do plenty of identification of you (say you’re opening a credit card or bank account) that you don’t necessarily see in order to cover their risks.
Yeah but if you're too slow at chopping vegetables and I have to wait 1 hour to get my dish, I'm not coming back to your restaurant either.

To produce software that works and doesn't get in the user's way, and not introduce regressions every other day, caring about your tech stack, pipeline, deploy model etc matters.
In my experience it keeps you awake but it doesn't give the same kind of productive buzz that coffee does. I think this is to do with not just the caffeine but the general combination of other chemicals, such as l-theanine.
I’m not very well versed in this terminology, what does a “good fasting blood sugar” mean? Does that mean that generally speaking, your blood sugar remains relatively stable / low? Eg a person eating mostly meat and no sugar?
I mentioned this in the other thread, but the really interesting part to me is "When fasting insulin and the natural logarithm of c-reactive protein were included in the model, an inverse association between BMI and mortality was present" which says that, if the study's findings are correct, that hyperinsulinemia and inflammation are the only material contributors to obesity-linked mortality.

It's not surprising to find these causes are significant factors in obesity-linked mortality, but it is moderately surprising, at least to me, to find that they're the only significant ones.
Doesn’t seem that it addresses Noah’s actual complaint:

There is a claim that something in the past is in some way relevant to something now. This claim of relevance is typically somewhat specific (eg how democracy fails). Historians make these claims with verifying if such claims are valid.

Noah calls these claims theories and says that therefore they need to be empirically verified. Many historians balk at the word “theory” (ok fine), while ignoring the actual complaint — the need to verify if the claim made (that a historical example is relevant/is a tool for understanding of present) is correct!

If there is no claim of relevance, then why are we discussing historical examples from the past instead of alignment of stars or the unfurling of tea leaves in a cup?
Perhaps not. I'm just pointing out we should not dismiss theories simply because they are counter-intuitive.

There is another theory, which says universe expands then contracts, then expands and so on and it has always, always been like that. I understand many scientists today don't vote for that theory but I think it is less counter-intuitive than something coming out of nothing.
Yeah that can work, but only if the monitor manufacturer forgot to set the EDID flash chip read-only
One of the aspects of mastery (that I've observed in others) is being able to say yes to 99% of requests but knowing how to steer projects away from that one feature that will cause complexity to explode without delivering commensurate value.
> There are a lot of security checks just to be in the ACH system.

But most of them depend on the customer reviewing their transactions and reporting fraud. Otherwise, it can and will go undetected.

I personally don't care to review my transactions, it's a hassle, simple 2FA would do away with it.

I live in Denmark, we have similar systems for automatic payment, but at-least it now let's me see who has a mandate to withdraw money from me on a monthly basis. That said, it still a sorry state of affairs. The EU mandated 2FA on all internet shopping, this works, it got done, it's ugly and some of the 2FA systems look sketchy, but online shopping frequently involves an app or a text message for authentication.
While there is a lot of negative posts about the CCP, with good reasons for the negativity, what you say is not generally true, you are just being hyperbolic about it. I see posts about Chinese accomplishments fairly regularly

You're aren't wrong that the most common type of story from China is like: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32641028
Non-heterosexual images (and masturbation) are anathema to China's leadership because China is facing a population decline, due to very low fertility.[1] [2]

Internally produced TV in China has been censored for portraying "effeminate men".[3] The CCP has also, er, "encouraged", women to spend less time on social media and shopping. Internally the CCP says members must have three children.[4]

1. Here is military age population: https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/Probabilistic/POP/15-49...

2. Here is fertility rate. The green line is "replacement", i.e. enough for a stable population: https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/Probabilistic/FERT/TOT/...

3. https://www.npr.org/2021/09/02/1033687586/china-ban-effemina...

4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-child_policy
You did an impressive number of steps and follow-ups already.

If it's faking a Apple website it might help to report it to Apple, too. I reported fake bank websites to the (real) banks and they were responsive because it's in their best interest as their customers are likely the targeted audience. That would hopefully get their security team (or a project manager) on the case. I didn't follow up though how long deletion took.
> because apparently you can be tall and be only mildly into lifting and suddenly you have a high BMI.

Very unlikely. BMI is a standardized model. Unless you are dramatically out of the parameters (you're 7'2" or you are an olympic lifter) it is pretty accurate.

You can also use calipers in that case - you need someone to help you because you can't reach it yourself but it's very fast and accurate.

Again, insulin testing is expensive, invasive and time consuming. You might get insulin tested once a year.
Uh, wow, ok. What don't people get about this? If a good is non-rivalrous and non-exclusive (or close to it), it's kind of tough to get people to pay for it, so you have to find something else they'll pay for.
Multiplicity Horror
Thanks. It's definitely not obvious to me coming from Java/c++/python.

I think I went into the deep end with some non trivial generic functions. It's been a few months, but I remember ditching interfaces for classes so I could do some run time type checking.

I wouldn't have fallen into these traps with something like Java.
90s kids in the west grew up on censored looney Tunes and "localized" anime like sailor moon, I remember some barely viral discussions of comparisons with OG version and sentiment was basically meh.
These used to be so popular, that my circa 2003-2005 public school district's official website where we could find our homework assignments, social calendars, teacher phone numbers, etc had a cursor effect for cougar paws (honoring the school mascot).
Peace, order, and good government.

There's something to it. More people will be able to express themselves fully and openly if a tiny minority isn't screaming, throwing excrement, and/or threatening violence.
Sure, crimes should be prosecuted. There is enough questionable evidence here that voters should know about, the information should not have been suppressed.
Checkers is a playable chess-like game that uses only checkers.
>No, again. The AI can be human operated, and thus it can produce copyrightable works.

And which work in the entire thread up to you moving those goalposts was not human operated?

Blog post: "Stable Diffusion is a new “text-to-image diffusion model”". "you can try..." "type in a text prompt..." "and added a prompt..." and on and on.

In every example in the post, the images were created by human inputs.

Top post in this chain: "Are the AI generated images copyrighted?" Notice the "the" instead of "Are AI generated images copyrighted?" Did you miss that word? What "the AI" do you think this refers to? Some other AI that you made up to split hairs over, or "the" AI under discussion that is creating the art in this thread?

Did you notice no one except you in the replies to that comment misunderstood it? Not one person misread it, except you.

>it's you not understanding what the premise is.

Not a single item in the chain above you was about anything other than humans using AI to make images. You made up a premise to split hairs over, but it looks like that is your modus operandi judging from past posts.

I think you need to read the thread carefully before claiming others don't understand.

Have a good day.
You're missing the other direction: those people who have insulin resistance and inflammation and aren't clinically obese.

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/circ.128.suppl_22.A1...

[Metabolic syndrome] doubles the risk of all vascular complications in patients often erroneously considered at lower CVD risk because of their normal BMI.
Yeah we did lots of things like this at Instagram. Can be very brittle and dangerous though to share any caching amongst multiple users. If you work at Facebook you can search for some SEVs related to this lol
you can run the model on your own, then it became to easy to generate porn to be honest
I use copper cookware and I feel great.
> This punishes work.

No, it does not. I wouldn't call it a punishment. It forces people to rethink their priorities. Something about extrinsic motivation vs intrinsic motivation. What motivates you to get out of bed in the morning and do something?

I think UBI will open up a lot of vacancies and will do wonders in improving quality of life for workers who do want to do the job. Sure, the economy might contract a little but I don't think ordinary people like me need to worry about that.
Ask HN: Why are energy prices soaring in Europe?
This is maybe a dumb question. But I need to ask it.

Energy prices go up in a really crazy way. Why?

Is it just the conflict in Ukraine? Why would that make the prices go so up; isn’t it mostly natural gas from there?

Doesn’t Europe also have coal, nuclear and renewables; and import of oil from Middle Eastern countries?
I am blocked by Garry despite having zero interactions with him on Twitter (nor ever tweeting anything controversial). I see numerous reports of other people stating the same both in this thread and on twitter: https://imgur.com/a/MOPDVSl
This is a really good point. Engineers are constantly trying to predict the future, but ability to do so often does not depend on engineering skills at all. Often it is completely out of your control.

Instead of trying to make code "extendable" I found that it is much better to make code "disposable".

Do not hope you'll make the right prediction. Expect to be wrong and be able to recover fast.
The OSI thinks otherwise:

> 6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor

> The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.

-- Source: https://opensource.org/osd

They've been pushing this line for decades.
I hate it as a release engineer. The corners cut to do "rapid releases" usually means sacrificing regression testing which results in angry customers blowing up phones and inboxes.
These might still be popular if you have a user base for whom the 90s is nostalgic!
You can get the same experience by paying Google $10/mo. If you can stomach the cost, you can get this for all your family for $18/mo.

I can't get everyone on adblockers for all their devices so this is worth it to me. Of course, I also setup basic content blockers where I can as well.
Some Stable Diffusion repos are already using an additional specialized model that fixes faces.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32643225

You can't get basic shit right, like pitching the F/A-18 as an example of Boeing design competence. Then you ask people for their backgrounds without sharing your own? Leaning on implicit credentialism when your arguments wilt under criticism. Is it going too far for me to guess that you or some of your colleagues work for Boeing, and thus take Boeing's reputation personally?

Boeing is a stinker, they have been for years and their contributions to SLS is just one example of this, of many. Crewed starliner should be aaaany day now, right? How many years behind crewed Dragon? Is Boeing's excuse that crewed Dragon started development 30 years before Starliner? If it were up to Boeing, America would depend on Russia to get to the ISS.
Blank page? Strange.
Try https://every-layout.dev/rudiments/boxes/
That's just from modulo math. A fifth is 7 semitones, which is relatively prime to 12. Thus 7x (mod 12) hits all the elements of the modulo 12 congruence for x in 0..11. We cover all notes in the first twelve steps.

But say we are not assuming a twelve note system in the first place; how do we get twelve notes?

Going up a fifth and then down a fourth is very close to a tone. We can do that five times before we approximately hit an octave, yielding six notes. The fifths above those notes are six additional notes.

We see that in your diagram:

C -> G -> D -> A -> E -> B -> F# -> C# -> G# -> D# -> A# -> E# -> B#(C)

in that we can interpret every other note as the whole tone scale:

C -> D -> E -> F# -> G# -> A# -> B#(C)

and their fifths:

G -> A -> B -> C# -> D# -> E# -> Fx(G)

Fifths fill the gaps in the whole tone scale to recover the other whole tone scale.

Going back to the 12 tone math again, 2 and 12 have a common divisor, so steps of 2 modulo 12 cycle through 6 symbols. There are 6 others left out, reachable by some relatively prime step like 7 (perfect fifth).
Viewing sound waves that don't synchronize with each other as being better matched than sound waves that do synchronize is less plausible than violating the fundamental theorem of arithmetic. There's no element of coincidence in whether two frequencies harmonize.

That hypothetical species wouldn't recognize two notes an octave apart as being similar, so there would be no reason to imagine a circle of fifths in the first place.
UBI doesn’t stop people making more money. What it will do is help people be more mobile so they can find a job they like. The downside is people won’t spend 12 hours a day as an Amazon slave unless there is a financial reward commensurate to the employers demands.

Some people will participate simply because it is the only paying work available, some will participate because they need structure to their time.

Earning a wage is not comparable to earning a B in school. That B doesn’t put apples or oranges on the tables, earning a wage gives you both.