skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cerner and other electronic medical records systems have, as a huge component of their operation, a scheme for ingesting HL7 data streams (and emitting them to other systems). It's likely the reference to ingestion in the article refers to that.

Chaos-monkeying with those data streams is flat out a good idea when building robust HL7 IT systems.

HL7 encodes a series of changes. For example, you might get records like this.

at 2020-10-06T14:33:00 patient 144616 moved from Floor 6 Rm 603 Bed 2 to OR3

at 2020-10-06T15:47:00 patient 144616 moved from OR3 to Recovery 3

at 2020-10-06T18:20:00 patient 144616 moved from Recovery 3 to Floor 6 Rm 603 Bed 2

It's all state changes. Reconstructing the current state of affairs requires knowing which state was the latest for interesting object (patient, usually, but also maybe OR or other location in my trivial example). These HL7 records don't necessarily show up in chronological order either.

Trouble is, preexisting chaos monkeys (bugs) in systems like these sometimes say to themselves "oops somebody lost sync, I better resync." Resyncing is done by resending a backlog of many days' worth of HL7 records to the unsuspecting consumer of those records.

So anything that can be done, by Cerner or any other HL7-using system, continually to test the oddball edge cases involving loss of sync is a good idea.

And, oh, yeah, everything in those records is protected health information. And often they're sent over ordinary TCP streams without encryption. Health care IT relies on firewalls big time.

I don't think the linked article is written for most HN readers; it's written for Cerner CIOs and other in-the-trenches health care IT workers.
while McAfee is indeed a unique loon bat. How is this different than other people only paying 750 dollars over a few years? The loon bat just needs better accountants?
A master crafter always adjusts their industry to match the currently popular tools. That's why we still use reins to steer automobiles and aircraft.
"Readable" is in the eye of the beholder, which is why I commented that this was something I personally found useful, rather than one of the two subtle flaws I mentioned.

I can also disable all print statements with "def print(* args, * * kwargs): pass" at the top of the module.

I've had times where I couldn't figure out where a print was coming from, so I could replace print() to check the arguments passed in:

import builtins
builtin_print = builtins.print

def my_print(*args, **kwargs):
if "looking for" in args: # adjust as appropriate
1/0
return builtin_print(*args, **kwargs)

builtins.print = my_print

Previously I had to do that by wrapping sys.stdout with my own file-like object, to intercept write(). (Granted, not hard, but harder.)
Well, time does very concretely swap roles with one of the spatial dimensions, namely the radial one. They change signs in the metric, making the radial dimension timelike and the old temporal dimension spacelike.
auto-fix by padding assumes that the only way to get an ID that's too short is by excel removing the leading zeros - presumably it could also be human error when entering etc. (in theory I suppose that would be validated in whatever form the number is entered into in the app that generates the CSV, but hard to say for sure). Or some other issue in data processing pipeline erroneously truncating the ID number some how.

Validating the data would at least prevent getting invalid data into database (and presumably this is happening already), but it doesn't actually "fix" the problem, you still then need the original provider of the data to fix what's missing.
Only Perl 6 got renamed to Raku, and to be clear, is very much alive.
Where are those solar-powered credit-card-sized calculators from the 80s? And why haven't they evolved into more powerful systems (solar-powered credit-card-sized phones for example)?
OK, a few questions:

- Why do you think are there so many different DEs, window managers and UI frameworks out there?

- How would you go about introducing one singular UI and UX across all of Linux?

- How would you foster competition and innovation in that space?

- Why do you think Apple is able to define and (somewhat) enforce their standards?
Yes, and it is incredibly comfortable to work in a properly tooled event-sourced codebase.
Still using my mid 2014 Macbook Pro. It's running really smoothly with updated software.

The outside is prestine as it always has been. I used it extensively in cafes, but the battery is still fine. I work up to 8hrs a day with it and I love it.

Very hesitant to get a new once though. Especially with everyone still complaining!
That is just plain wrong. Even a distribuited model would have the same problems because they would be "platforms" to regulate. The truth is that they cannot win although they will demonstrate a mierdas touch and turn everything they touch to shit because what they are insane and demand the literally impossible. The "leadership" should probably be put in an insane asylum as a danger to self and others with no understanding of objective reality.
When a product disappears from the market, that's often a sign that a successor or replacement is on the way in the near future. In this case, it's possible that Apple is planning to step up their game in the product segments where these third-party devices compete. Of course, it's also possible that Apple simply doesn't find those third-party accessory sales to be worth the trouble any more.
I'd suggest ClojureScript, Reagent and re-frame. A solid stack built on functional programming and immutable data structures.

You need never get seduced by a new javascript framework ever again.
Besides, I don't think there's any more comfort or lessened stakes to be had knowing that the driver that t-boned your kid was looking down at their prosthetic leg or custom controls instead of a smartphone. Or in the middle of an autistic break or epileptic fit or attention deficit fugue or narcoleptic episode.

Fine, the software's enum value of "EYES_DOWN" doesn't quite capture the domain of nuance of all the reasons eyes might be down. But it doesn't necessarily matter.
Back in the day they each led research to detect irrefutable evidence of it. This isn't anything new and groundbreaking.
> Programming languages will generally crash at runtime when an unrecoverable error occurs (index out of bounds, memory allocation failed, null pointer, etc).

JS would like to have a word with you.
Wow, that puts a new spin on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_priesthood
As long as you don't sample outside the fovea it should be ok.

TAA implies a velocity buffer, and that velocity buffer may cause you to sample outside the fovea (of a previous frame), for which you will not have enough samples to do a decent reconstruction of the image.
Nothing quite beats the videos of live male chicks getting tossed down a chute and strait into a shredder like garbage at a recycling center.
The metaphor appears to have run away with you somewhat.
Hawking radiation is emitted from the outside, if you start beyond the barrier it's usually not counted as an escape.
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Light has mass-energy, and mass-energy both affects and is affected by the gravitational field. Indeed it is theoretically possible to make a black hole out of nothing but photons [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kugelblitz_(astrophysics)
Have a look at the linked documents giving the popular science background.

They led the teams that gave the decisive proof that there is black hole at the galactic centre. The teams developed techniques to precisely measure the orbits of the stars which orbit the central black hole. Looking at the speed of the stars, particularly as they pass close to the object, you can measure its mass and put a constraint on its size. The only thing which is small enough and heavy enough is a black hole. Doing this required lots of advances in data analysis and adaptive optics to be able to measure the stars orbits to enough precision.
Good science does not lead to a good story, but can lead to a good read, for those who are interessted in this. Different people have different fun.
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I agree. I would expect no better from a human working at the company. However, really dropped the ball at the end. And it clearly didn't understand my first question (and said so.)
If it's so painful for you, maybe try dropping the IDEs and web editors? To be clear I know that there's nothing wrong with liking IDEs, I'm not that much of a purist, but there's also nothing wrong with not using them. Over the past decade I've worked with all kinds of technologies, from the web to bootloaders, from Perl to Rust and I've done it all without using any IDE.

Again, I'm not advocating against IDEs out of principle, it's just that if your current setup is so frustrating for you at the moment I really think you should consider something a bit radical to improve it. When something in my code workflow feels "sticky" I always find that it's worth taking the time to find a solution, after all we spend so much time using these tools...
I'm slightly wary of thoughty2, I enjoy (can't say "like" nowadays) his videos, but I feel he is prone to the trap of many smart people, where he is too convincing, even to himself sometimes.
The problem is windows doesn't have a preloaded double click viewer for csv except excel if you have Office. The average user just double clicks. If notepad or wordpad did any kind of formatting for viewing it would be less an issue. So you have to solve for excel as a dev knowing that's what 99% of people will use.
Ah yes, the old "Eating/Kepping animals is just like slavery, you're all monsters" chestnut...

Do you really think that anyone is going to see this comment and reconsider eating meat, or wearing leather? Because "that nice _cies_ person on the internet told me I'm a terrible human being"?
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Does anyone have any opinion about Epson CISS equiped inkjet printers?
If Zeus and other gods were able to exist under certain conditions that were reliably reproduced multiple times, they wouldn't be called myths anymore but real.
The old ISBN10 standard could get X (meaning 10) as the last character (the last number is a check digit), but ISBN13 (which prefixes 978 or 979 to ) is all numbers. The check digit is calculated differently. One obvious advantage is that the ISBN13 is barcode compatible.

I would guess that most modern actors in the book business has been primarily using ISBN13 for at least the last decade.
That saying is about naming things being hard. It is, but it's not this hard.

Picking a name that's not as bad as "unlicence" is not hard. It's hard to think of a name that would be worse...
If a surgeon operates on me with a dirty teaspoon he found on the floor outside the operating theatre, I don't blame that spoon. But the surgeon should face some consequences and not do it again.

From the BBC website on the XLS affair: To handle the problem, PHE is now breaking down the data into smaller batches to create a larger number of Excel templates in order to make sure none hit their cap.
The "best practices by a committee they control" requirement which is carte blanche. They could easily set it to considering "key escrow" or "master key" backdoors.
Just below that explanation:

"To read more about Celery you should go read the introduction" (with link)
I like Telegram, but I‘m not sure it is the prime candidate for privacy / secure communication. Hopefully Matrix gains traction. Element is getting better but is still full of bugs...
I'm not an electrical engineer, however I suspect that RF is expensive in terms of energy. So battery issues, and solar energy conversion efficiency I expect. And these days the phone has evolved into a fully blown computer, so yeah - energy requirements. But those little credit card solar calculators were cool, I remember the one I had well... There are some amazingly small phones these days approaching that form factor... google worlds smallest phones etc. Anyhow - maybe a real engineer can comment further?
We already know it because Genzel and Ghez discovered it.

Their work goes back 30 years.
It is Spanish but I am not sure why it’s says US by it when I look in the dictionary. No one uses it in English unless you speak Spanish already.
You can use the same trick in a flexbox container?

Set every * to max-width: 65ch and then have the same full-bleed class to go to width: 100%.

I agree with OP that using grid for this is a bit misplaced. But realistically, it probably won’t be a problem.
I think that's rather unfair. The measurements are still ongoing with ever-increasing accuracy. In 2018 they managed to record the closest approach of the star S2, measuring a velocity of 7000 km/s at its maximum. This was after mapping the full 16 year orbit. I know that Genzel is still actively researching this topic with his group, see e.g. https://www.mpe.mpg.de/7433286/news20200416
It might have been pursued more, had the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_iAPX_432 not met its fate.
As if this is not enough, star count in the repo is currently 666! Coincidence?
> Some very small genes have very large visible expression

Let me change your italics:

Some very small genes have very large visible expression

So small parts of the DNA code for changes that we can visually appreciate. This doesn't mean that the rest of the DNA contains no variations, but just that we cannot see them. But it would be wrong to assume that the only parts that are actually different are those which encode for visible characteristics.
Thank you also for the discussion.

Controlling a cell population in the body is yet another great challenge!

Maybe it could be more feasible if there were two sub-systems:

1. A new virus detector, it doesn't have to be based on B cells, an implantable device could perhaps fill that role at least as a first step.

2. A platform can produce a personalized vaccine. I made a toy version of this a few years ago for peptide vaccines [0].

2.1. On the software side there are minor challenges.

2.2. On the legal aspect of a personalized vaccine, its transport and administration, it is much more complicated, those are real challenges.

[0] https://padiracinnovation.org/en/peptide_PoC/
Why do you believe you can't? Because, I mean, you can.
I found Work Cycles [0] to be somewhat helpful. I also saw a doctor and found out I had some vitamin-levels too low, got a few shots and now get a refresher about every six months since apparently absorption of vitamins isn't working great from food for me.

What really completely changed the game, and I know people here don't like that, was Modafinil. If you're not anti-medication, I strongly recommend to look into that.

[0] https://www.ultraworking.com/cycles
That's my point. Of course a system like this is able to answer precisely targeted questions, but that's not how people communicate. I was trying to to assume the role of a person who doesn't know anything about the product, and want to understand more.

Now, if you ask very targeted questions, then you can get useful answers. But that's not really impressive. Chatbots that are able to hand out canned answers has been available for decades. If you advertise your system as being able to handle "natural" conversations, I tend to expect more.

I rephrased by previous question and instead of simply asking "what kind of followers", I asked for specific social networks. That worked, until it didn't, and the answer to the last question shows that even when it answers in a coherent way, I can't really trust the answers.

Hey I'm here to answer your questions about Itemsy

Me: What services to do you provide?

We provide a tool for managing the content that you read online.

Me: Can I share content with my followers?

Yes, you can share your collections with your followers.

Me: Can I share content with my followers on Facebook?

Yes, you can share your collections with your followers on Facebook.

Me: Can I share content to my followers on social networks other than Facebook?

Yes, you can share your collections to your followers on social networks other than Facebook.

Me: Which social networks can I share content to?

You can share your collections to your followers on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ and Pinterest.

Me: Are you going to allow me to share content on Mastodon? (Mastodon is a new federated social network that is growing in popularity)

I'm sorry, I'm not sure what you mean. Could you please try again?

Me: Can I share content on Reddit?

Yes, you can share your collections to your followers on Reddit.
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That's nice. Using eye tracking to optimize rendering workloads is low hanging fruit, I think. Hope to see it adopted by video games.
Don't forget equity. That's probably where startups have the biggest advantage over large corps.
I’d really like to see someone do the math on how many animals get killed growing plant-based meat substitutes. Mice sucked up when they harvest the corn, bugs sprayed with pesticides, etc.

Pasture-raised grass-fed beef might come out way better in comparison.
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Black hole jets do not originate from beyond the event horizon. They are made of matter in the accretion disk surrounding the black hole that spirals inward but is deflected and ejected by the black hole's magnetic field.
All of you smart arses out here and there, we know it, we know. We know, VPNs and other stuff in between are not so secure and not private. Stop saying it, don't you have some other piece of knowledge to be proud of? for god's sake. Tor and Signal are better than Public Cloud, Chrome & SMS if you're looking for privacy. Don't you have common sense?

- HTTPS is more secure and private than HTTP

- Signal is more secure and private than SMS/Skype/Messenger

- Tor/Browser is more secure and private than Cloud/Chrome

- FileVault, BitLocker and LUKS are more secure and private than RAW unencrypted disk data

- 2FA and Hashing is better than raw Passwords

- List goes on and on.

All you have to do is: get out of your desperate situation where "everything's controlled", because it's not true, at least not everything. We don't have the best security and privacy but we have some of it AND we need to fight to keep and expand it.

Now go on and tell me how smart you are and how you see things different and generalize stuff again in replies. Or you can just shut up and stand up to contribute and improve it.
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3500 or 35000?
This is a legit concern. There are many edge cases with humans.

I worked at a pizza place in high school. There was a delivery driver with cerebral paulsy who was constantly being accused of being drunk. Sometimes customers just called the cops on him. It was sad, he was a super nice young guy already on a short clock and he had to deal with that all the time.
As an intern I was once given a spreadsheet of manually entered daily data, stored by a human being over the previous couple of years. Obviously he'd entered the dates in whatever form he felt like at the time and Excel had parsed them in a variety of godawful ways not least of which was defaulting to American month/day assumptions before UK day/month.

I think it would have been far quicker to just manually write a new column interpreting the dates based on previous/next etc. Instead I spent God knows how long trying to be clever, failing, and being embarrassed that I could not solve this obviously trivial problem.
Absolutely. Being wrong in practise doesn’t matter at all as long as you’re right in principle.
To be fair, the universe will never confront you to such a puzzling situation, as it will kindly squash you under heavy gravity before you come close to any object so massive.
Some games (not sure if all) on the Oculus Quest use fixed foveated rendering, no gaze tracking. If you look to the side of the display, you can notice the rendering getting blocky. If you search for it, you can make out a border from sharp rendering to blocky rendering, but it's seldom noticeable in normal gaming.

Since the field of view is limited in today's VR displays anyhow, you don't lose much from the foveated rendering: if you look to the side of display, much of your own field of view is now black, which is more limiting than the fact that the few pixels that you still see are rendered in a blocky fashion.
Yeah, Sony too. I replaced my Bose with Sonys, not an upgrade in so many ways.
Made this cool video?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_gggKHvfGw
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Eye tracking has currently way too much latency to be used effectively in video games.
> That's pretty much blockchain as far as I am concerned.

Elaborate?
TypeScript Enums or Union Types?
It is true. It has run away with us all
The comfychair and Spanish inquisition.
Then we should abandon those big platforms and move to millions of self-hosted personal mini-platforms. That way, you control your data, and you control who you share it with.
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If you have been defeated, acknowledging it is crucial.

It's hard to make progress while denying the actual nature of the situation.

Not saying that's necessarily true in either of these situations, just that it's not a waste of energy to spread depressing truths.
The only non-US act I know who's covered Me and Bobby McGee ("Freedom's just another word...") is Dame Olivia Newton-John, AC, DBE.

As they sing in the Expanse's asteroid Belt:

"Feriting" bera owta wowt, fo nating mo fo pish
Nating showxa nating, sili mebi na fire
You should check out modern WoW for a day just to see the mechanics they've been able to add.

Before the WoW Classic release last year, I was in your shoes and decided to try modern WoW for a few days as a goblin. It had some pretty crazy quests/events/locations compared to just spawning in Goldshire and getting some "Kill N of X" quests.
There’s a distinction between freedom to trade and legal tender. You might misunderstand why I included the word private when talking about trade. In most countries, I can rent a hotel or buy a sandwich using whatever currency we both agree. For government (not private) transactions, I am typically forced to use legal tender. (See the first sentence in the link you shared.) For private transactions, I can often use a different currency provided my trading partner agrees.

In most cases where you feel like you are forced to transact in the local currency, you are being forced by your trading partner not by their government.

I somewhat regularly use USD currency in countries when that’s not the local legal tender. This is very common in the Caribbean and Central America. It’s commonly accepted (though less frequently done) in Europe. In some cases, shopkeepers have even arranged to offer me currency conversion services (often on their credit card machine) to facilitate their customers' preference to use a different currency.

In some rare cases, even a government demands to transact in a currency that is not the general legal tender. (The Dominican Republic charges tourists an exit fee that is denominated and paid specifically in USD.)
I think there is more to the special status of time than just the sign convention used, so I find this mathematical detail about as interesting as the singularity on the event horizon.
At most three people can win, so they would have had to bump one of the three who did win.