skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is interesting here is their finding that the two specific known major causes of obesity-linked mortality that they considered (c-reactive protein and high resting insulin -- effectively "obesity-linked diabetes") explained slightly more than all of the increased mortality associated with obesity.

That suggests that there is no other material contributor to mortality from obesity[1], which is a somewhat unexpected result.

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[1] it is possible that there are negative contributions to mortality associated with obesity which could potentially "hide" other positive contributors
Ask HN: What Makes a Hackathon Successful?
I am hosting a month long hackathon starting next week and am looking for your suggestions on what I can do to make it an AMAZING experience for hackers.

Here are some questions I have:
- What makes a hackathon engaging?
- What type of support would you look for as a hacker?

Any advice is appreciated!
Tell that to all the normal people that went out of business and lost life savings because they couldn't compete with loss-leader.
I had the same reaction when I saw this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=sgfgross
there's BER MetaOCaml

https://okmij.org/ftp/ML/MetaOCaml.html
you should try omnom, v1 has been created when del.icio.us was sold. it has been revamped into a v2 earlier this year: https://github.com/asciimoo/omnom

distinguishing features: selfhosted, in-browser-snapshots-as-currently-rendered for archival and against linkrot.
And the opposite; NOT making things look like buttons that aren't actually clickable.
>You may have noticed that 24 is also includes the 5ths and 4ths, the problem is that having twice as many notes would require instruments with twice as many keys or buttons making them more expensive and complicated to play, also probably we wouldn't notice the difference between notes that are so close

We actually would, and it's quite noticable. Several cultures use microtonals intervals with half-half-steps or similar.

The main reason we stuck with 12, is complexity in making AND playing an instrument with so many notes - that, or the halved range, if we keep the number of notes on the instrument the same.

But there are cultures (and instruments) which have more.
Disneyland – Man in Space (1955)
these days you have std::async(promise+future via channel), std::thread(e.g. pthread style) and coroutines in modern C++. my understanding is std::async is a simpler API for parallel coding, thread for finer grained control, while coroutine is running on one core|cpu by design thus it needs to work with threadpool(i.e. using std::thread) or something else to utilize all cores, unlike std::async or std::thread, both are multi-core ready.
I still encounter people who don't know "Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles" was a heavily censored version of the real show. They realize how weird the edits are in retrospect, but it didn't register much/at all for them at the time.
Yes I do get the general argument for CD (though I have issues with how universally it can be applied based on the sort of BVT I've had to do for SaaS platforms I worked on in the past, where it just wasn't possible to safely release new versions of key components without needing several days' worth of testing, most of which was waiting for verification that interactions with banks etc. had worked as expected).
Yes. If an app dont run, I do not use it. If I cannot root my phone, I'll stop having one, I'll have a dumb phone.
I think I'm a little confused by your definition of obesity. As far as I know, obesity is defined by BMI measure which is defined by a specific ratio of weight and height, so I don't understand how being tall would affect your being obese or not. [Unless you're saying the measurement doesn't work for tall people?]
No, behind implies that they are currently in the opposite direction of the current direction of western cultural movement. If the direction of our movement changes, they will, without lifting a finger, become ahead of us.

Social progress is inherently subjective (because progress in one value system is actually a regression in a different value system), and the observer always grounds their claim of 'behind' or 'ahead' in their culture's viewpoint.
US Government reveals big changes to open-access policy
Associations of body mass index, fasting insulin and inflammation with mortality
The distinction makes sense everywhere, but it's not tracked in Chinese (as in many other languages).

It's still possible to look at a Chinese text and determine accurately whether an English translation should mark definiteness or indefiniteness on particular nouns. That wouldn't be possible if the distinction didn't make sense.
> The political conditions of the US have basically deteriorated to where any meaningful regulation of corporations can't really happen because of the changing laws around how corporate contributions to political campaigns work.

I’ve run a US Senate campaign. We raised tens of millions of dollars, and I can confidently say that corporate donations made no impact in any policy decisions - on the campaign or the official side.

That extends to individual donations as well. The caps are ~$10,000 per couple. Considering the cost of a federal campaign, no person or corporation can buy a campaign when costs are in the tens of millions and contribution caps are in the thousands.
by now i consider ublock origin as more than a tool. it's an integral part of the internet. without it the internet is not usable for me. Raymond Hill deserves no less than a Noble prize or something alike for crafting and maintaining it.
TIL about the existence of white tea. Thank you!

Fun fact: "White tea may have first appeared in English publication in 1876, where it was categorized as a black tea, ..."

So white can be black sometimes!

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_tea
Those descriptors ("austere," etc.) have always struck me as subjective -- I'm not one to tell people what mood they're getting from certain keys. But a root major chord will have a much different feel in, e.g., C#-major on an 18th-century tuning than in equal temperament.

I have this CD [1] in a box somewhere but can't find it on Youtube. It's a few Beethoven sonatas in the temperament he would've used. Just sounded out-of-tune to me in certain parts (especially during the Waldstein), but I don't have perfect pitch. The booklet that came with that CD is really helpful in understanding all this, and I think that might be where I learned about that Owen Jorgensen tome.

There's no shortage of similar experiments on Youtube. This one [2] has a wild one in just intonation, but I doubt that temperament was still used when Mozart was composing.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Beethoven-Temperaments-Historical-Tun...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzsEdK48CDY
Though it wss built to protect from raids, keep in mind every instance of it's use you list happened at least a millennium after it's creation.
Ask HN: Using pre-1.0 software in production. How do you decide?
How do you decide to use a pre-1.0 (open-source) programming language or package/library for production apps?

Example scenarios:

- Using a pre-1.0 programming language

- Using a pre-1.0 library or package

- Looking at the popularity (downloads) of a pre-1.0 package to influence whether to use.

Are you using a pre-1.0 language or library in production (or building a product)? Or do you consider it too risky for production use?
Bonzi Buddy was particularly insidious because it was so close to being useful/fun and instead was just glorified malware.

I desperately want a Bonzi Buddy plushie, however. Just for the lolz.
And I did not know if you were Chinese or otherwise of east or south-east Asian descent, either. A group is not obligated to be a monolith in what they feel is offensive or not. And sometimes can be empowering to steal a slur / stereotype, but it feels a lot differently if the same word or joke is made in other circumstances.

I don't know the right answer, but I definitely think it would be understandable if someone didn't appreciate that joke. And worst of all, it's just in service of the cheapest, blandest kind of humor. The writers should be ashamed of such lazy work, regardless of bigger issues. "Would it work without a laugh track" clearly fails badly here, as it does pretty frequently in TBBT.
They don't work with Cloudflare DNS, that might have something to do with it?
Not only would they "decline to air it" they are prohibited from airing it.

> Broadcasting obscene content is prohibited by law at all times of the day. Indecent and profane content are prohibited on broadcast TV and radio between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m., when there is a reasonable risk that children may be in the audience.

> Obscene content does not have protection by the First Amendment. For content to be ruled obscene, it must meet a three-pronged test established by the Supreme Court: It must appeal to an average person's prurient interest; depict or describe sexual conduct in a "patently offensive" way; and, taken as a whole, lack serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.

via [https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/obscene-indecent-and-pr....]

Christ in the Original Star Trek run CBS had a censor employed on set for an episode where a character wore a risky outfit to make sure no nipples popped out. That isn't different to this Chinese company making sure their shows meet the restrictions of the Chinese authority.

Your weird puritan country will air a show where a character shoots someone with a gun in the street, in your copaganda shows, but god forbid one of them gets a tit out whilst they do it.
> But I don't think the original DevOps (TM) specified that every person was required to work on every part of the stack? Just that you need to have full-stack skills and responsibilities within the same team?

Then you have Ops person integrated in every dev team/squad, then those Ops people have their own meetings to talk about Ops things. Then there aren't enough Ops people to staff every dev team (maybe they are on vacation, perhaps just not enough in general), so they start sharing them. Next they need to work on some special Ops tasks, so they want to have their own board. Oops, now you have Ops team.

The point of DevOps is that the team is responsible for code being shipped, and after they shipped it, so everyone needs to know how to work in the stack that runs your app (Kubernetes, Nomad, AWS Beanstalk, bare-metal with Ansible or whatever it is you use). That means devs don't go to some other team to fix their CI or CD pipeline.

I worked in a company that was doing DevOps, we had no Ops team, we had a few people who only worked on infra, but they were part of our team. We didn't call it anything, it was just how to work, about 3/4 of the team was capable of setting up infrastructure and working on Jenkins.

I also worked in the company that "did DevOps" had a "DevOps team" and devs knew absolutely nothing about what happens to their code after they did `git push` (that if they knew how to do `git push` without asking "DevOps team").

Another company "for sure did DevOps right", they didn't have "DevOps team" instead they had "Infra team" and infra team was responsible for bare metal provisioning. Devs could write CI pipelines and stuff. However, devs had zero responsibility for code after they shipped it - it was infra team that would be woken up by nightly Pager Duty alert.
Tangentially related: the delay field in your hn profile will hide your comment for n minutes for you to make edits.

I always set mine to 2.
One of the biggest categories of digital art at the moment is algorithmically generated art.

Of course, the “artist” wrote the algorithm, but I can easily imagine an AI putting together something similar.
There was a Revised Syntax (not sure if it's still a thing) which smooths out some of the most egregious warts. It requires preprocessing, but it was part of the standard distribution last I looked.

The most egregious for me was actually ;; being so close to ; to type and you'd be staring at weird type errors for ages before realizing what had gone wrong. I realize that this may be hard to convey to people who haven't used OCaml, but: The ;; terminates a top-level definition -- which was usually type-inferred when I was using OCaml... so it would lead to all sorts of "weird" type errors, when all that was missing was a simple ;

EDIT: Just for context, last looked (seriously) at OCaml ~15 years ago, last wrote it ~20+ years ago. It's cool, but it ended up just being my gateway drug to Haskell... for which I thank it :)
> Anything you can think of you will be able to find that content.

That's untrue. A trivial example is porn involving 17 year olds.
You just made some people’s heads pop off. Eastern Europe being diverse? High income economies? Some folks are stuck in little bubbles where they think of east europe as a weak backwards region. Until a war breaks out and half the world goes hungry, western europe scrambles without energy and some countries shiver at the thought of nuclear fallout. For better or worse east europeans should stick their heads up a bit more often.
The actual recommendation:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/08-202...
Actually, this should point to https://bbenchoff.github.io/pages/QuicktakeLens.html
revanced popped up within about a day
The last website I saw with a perfect mouse cursor: https://thekebabshop.com/. See if you can resist slicing the logo with that big knife.
>I'm not comfortable with this first refering to a natural human tendency and then a western harmony, which is pretty much accquired, as if it were a natural consequence.

Well, western harmony is based on a set of natural human tendencies formalized.

There are other ethnic music practices, also based on natural human tendencies.

The parts that are acquired are built on top. But most/all music practices (western or otherwise) start with natural human tendencies, as their foundations.
Cycle or stint. I like "stint" more.
Think about what comes after this hypothetical runs its course.

Unable to profit from online advertising, what do "tech" companies do next. Are there any other commercial uses for surveillance and data collection.
Yes, but it got removed from overt Accessibility Features at some point Vista-ish and is hidden as an "additional option" that's three or four clicks away from "Ease of Access".
> xenophobic

It's interesting how politically charged words mutate over time.
It has now been re-submitted with the nature.com link

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32643396
For such cases, just email HN and describe the problem. It's both more effective (dang is guaranteed to see it) and disrupts the thread less.
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Learn solidity programming for free in 4-weeks and become a blockchain engineer.

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I'm trying to prove to the world, and student's don't have to pay massive amounts of money for bootcamps to get jobs. If you are an engineer looking to transition into web3, please apply and take part in our mission for a more accessible education system.
I'm not sure if I have the talent to write something worthy. But I can tell you that using the tech in this way makes me feel drunk on power.
Or ahead, who knows?
Years behind what? Table stakes for what? There is much more to ML than the latest transformer and diffusion models. While those get the attention the amount of research not in that space dominates.
MIRC 7.69
> "However, some dogs are more sensitive to garlic toxicity than others, and consumption of a toxic dose spread out over a few days could also cause problems."

You wanna risk it with your dog, that's on you… Also, "Dogs can eat garlic." and then ridiculing the person who actually did research about what's safe for their dog, when this person couldn't be bothered to even do a ten second web search to determine if their harshness was even justifiable? And it's worth taking into account that dogs come in a pretty wide variety of sizes and body mass. Larger or more massive dog can obviously tolerate more of a toxic substance before it's a serious issue. Still shouldn't just take this person at their word and start feeding your dog garlic just because some Internet rando says "dogs can eat garlic".
If you read that part in Wikipedia again you will see those dates are about the ICESat and Cryosat projects (that are now contributing to PIOMAS).

But PIOMAS has been collecting Arctic ice data since 1979.

For example:

http://psc.apl.uw.edu/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/schweiger...

If you don't believe, download the PIOMAS data and check it yourself.

https://psc.apl.uw.edu/research/projects/arctic-sea-ice-volu...
There's no point in getting defensive, that's not my favorite book and nobody expects you or anyone to actually read it, let alone before replying. It's just a reference to the ideas I mentioned, put in a more academic format.

> maybe you genuinely think that working at Google and living in Egypt under President Mubarak is a good comparison

Nice way of picking two extremes to make a point. Also, not sure what you're comparing here. Nobody is gonna kill you at Google. You can get fired though (which is more or less like some sort of corporate execution or something) and if you're at the wrong end of a recession you're gonna have a bad time.

Fine then, it seems I struck a nerve here. How about authoritarian? Is that better? And maybe Russia instead of Egypt. Would that be more palatable?

I did live under a totalitarian government myself. And to be honest, I see a lot of the behaviors I grew up with, in the current corporate culture (at least in the US). Do I live a better life? Sure, of course, there's no doubt about it. But that's solely because I submit to that culture. But I will be kicked off the gravy train at the first sign of dissent (same as under said dictatorship).
This is a really interesting article. I was expecting some obviously biased and/or marketing horror by virtue of it being on arm.com

It’s actually an interesting breakdown of ways NEON differs from SSE, and how a “direct” translation may well be sub optimal. Their first example is really illustrative of this. SSE has an instruction that pulls the top(I think?) but of each register and creates an 8bit mask from those. You can do similar in NEON but the perf is apparently terrible. But NEON has an instruction that packs some bits from each register into a 64bit value, and you can go from that to the masking behaviour you were presumably trying for originally, but much faster.

The other examples and case studies are similarly interesting.
TechInsights reverse engineered one of SMIC’s 7nm ASICS and claims a lot of similarities with TSMC’s N7 process.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/china-chipmaker-smics-7nm-...
More to the point, you don't so training and inference in the same program, so don't have to be on the same hardware in the same machine. It's two separate problems with separate hardware solutions.
The usual argument is that the scaling of the power wrt height is wrong (people aren't spherical basically). I don't buy it though. So many people say they have a high BMI but "they just lift weights". If you aren't on PEDs it is very unlikely that you can be BMI > 30 with low body fat.
Talking about sex is taboo because having sex is taboo. Having sex is taboo because if women have sex with more than one man, none of men can be sure whose child she is carrying.

Men, in general, really like having their genes carried on. Men, in general, really hate wondering if a child is theirs or not.
>Arguably the most stable societies are those that existed for 10s of 1000s of years before the agricultural revolution etc.

Societies of n>100s. By tabooing sex you reduce promiscuous behaviour - which stabilises society. I don't really see how this would be controversial. Modern social values have unambiguously shown that they lead to a population decline. Huge difference being that technology makes us less reliant on population count for stability (hopefully).
The things themselves are very useful. They're just not things people will pay for. It's quite weird.
I go for cheap gas. It's a 20 minute drive plus 10 minutes wait for gas. after spending a half hour to get gas, not going inside seems like a waste. but I hate every second of the experience from driving on the lot to leaving, so i don't understand the people who crow about how good an experience costco is. It's a horrible experience.
PDF here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41366-022-01211-2.pdf
Your 3080 should be able to do full precision. Are you sure you don’t have the batch size set greater than 1, or another issue along those lines?
If your list of allowed transition is in a single place how is it making your logic harder to understand vs easier?
I'm seeing a few too many comments about static site generators rebuilding everything on a change.

Have the tenets of Make (and the like) from over 40 years ago been forgotten?

I guess maintaining a dependency graph just isn't a high priority feature for site generators.
Okay, I've read this archive of the article. I see some resemblance in the people in the photos, but I really, seriously could tell any pair of these people apart after spending about 30 seconds with them. I might think they were siblings or cousins if I didn't know better, but they are not easily mistaken for one another like "dopplegänger" suggests. But that goes to the same point, doesn't it? That we just expect this to be true, that people who resemble one another probably do because they share some genes? It seems so much as that suspicion is confirmed could have been said without the hype running all through the article and headline.

https://archive.ph/Z9jMU
And there is Ook!, a language for Orangutans.

It is a joke language that is equivalent to brainfuck, and doesn't contain the word "monkey".

https://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/ook.html
> Null values, famously dubbed the billion dollar mistake. I want my money back Tony Hoare.

s/Tony Hoare/Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson/
Ask HN: Productize system developer skills.
Hey HN,

it is a bit that I am trying to figure out how to create a product around my core skills, Linux/Backend/System development.

I am looking to create some product to sell to a wider audience. But I am really struggling with what to build.

Is there any particular problem that you are facing and a somebody with my kinda of skill would solve?
> It doesn’t necessarily have to be this way, but it turned out this way, so logic designers don’t have another realistic option.

I mean, I think if graphical programming were really that compelling another option would have presented itself. People are constantly trying to introduce new graphical programming systems.

> Combine this with the misconception that HDLs are programming instead of modeling

I don't think that's really a misconception unless you have an especially pedantic definition of "programming". As you literally just said, Verilog was originally designed for simulation only - you literally were writing a simulation program.

The act of programming Verilog is not really that different from programming C. The only difference is that the abstract machine your code runs in is very different (for synthesisable code anyway).
Not quite. But the direct opposite after playing the market for fun, but that is totally irrelevant here and for another time. Let's not deflect and make this about me.

We need to concern ourselves with AI running its course and with wasteful deep learning models constantly training, retraining with that burning up the planet via the data centers especially with zero efficient alternatives, which that is the main concern here and using our data to fuel this dystopia.
Here is another one that demonstrates how absurd this idea of a "search engine" can become.

https://www.entireweb.com

Using a text-only browser I get only one search result for each query.