skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice write-up, I'm happy to hear it was only stage 2!

Colon cancer runs rampant in my family. My dad was a stage 3 survivor (it's now been 12+ years), however his younger sister (my aunt) just died about 6 weeks ago after an 18 month battle. She was a former nurse, and had basically missed getting one of her regular colonoscopies. At that time, she was supposed to go every 5 years and I think she went 10 - too long for her age. She ended up with a blockage, which by that time meant things were realistically too late. She was only 64 and in otherwise excellent health. A second, younger aunt on that side suffers from diverticulitis and has had bowel surgery.

The cancer gene also runs on my moms side; an aunt there had both colon and breast but survived both. So, I'm pretty much screwed. As a result of those risk factors and various symptoms, I've personally had two colonoscopies (one just a month ago).

I'm close to 40, and I had a 2mm polyp removed. There's a high chance that such a polyp would have developed into colon cancer within a few years. I'm now on the 3-year plan for colonoscopy checks. The good news is, in general, colon cancer is one of the most successfully treated diseases if caught early enough. Gastroenterologists will tell you that there's no excuse to die of colon cancer if you get regularly checked.

What I would tell people is to get checked by age 40. If you have any symptoms don't hesitate to call a gastro and get in for a check. For most people, it is hemorrhoids or something else - but I've got a friend (39 years old) who was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer - the point is this thing is hitting people in their 30s, so it needs to be taken seriously if you're symptomatic.

On the topic of prep, it's not that bad. It's basically 24 hours of suckage because you're on liquid diet for a day, and taking the prep that evening (typically split-prep, some before bed, some in the middle of the night). Try to schedule your colonoscopy for the first thing in the morning so that you don't have to go more than a day without solid food.

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But the data collection comes with safeguards to accesing the data. You need a court order to request it. This is not state ordered mass surveillance but rather gives police a right to monitor when they have a court order.
Is there any way to stop recording browsing history for a particular container?
Funny... I've been contemplating a SLOWER than realtime tape digitizer. Something that would make multiple passes and reconstruct the magnetic domains on the tape with very high certainty.
Seems like a worthwhile nudge. They should make it permanent. I think retweets are a major contributor to Twitter's uniquely hostile atmosphere, and are the reason I stopped bothering with it years ago.

And yeah I know you can disable them on a per-user basis. I'm still happier off the platform entirely.
meh, compute cost almost always costs less than dev time. I use multiple accounts for separation of duties, cost, access, and blast radius. Most services I run blow through the free tier in minutes.

I do have scripts that spin up accounts as needed and I just have a bucket for 'free Tier account access ending' emails.
Thanks for that comment. I once, out of nowhere, had a bad bout of panic attacks and subsequent health anxiety. Every symptom(which were themselves manifesting) led me to believe I was dying. Literally the only thing that helped was googling the symptom + "anxiety.". I felt like an idiot googling 'random pinching pain anxiety', but found all kinds of accounts. After reading hundreds of poor folks in my shoes describe everything I was going through, the symptom faded, and I felt peace. Really weird time for me for sure. But just know people reading random comments can really put minds at ease.
Labor alienation is a Marx theory that private labor alienates the laborer from their humanity, their coworkers and the product they are ultimately making. It’s a high-minded way of saying “you’re a cog in the machine and that is very bad”.

Using it as a counter argument against specialization isn’t very insightful though. Not even Marx tried to argue that (to Marx specialization was only alienating when you did it for the benefit of the bourgeoisie). Specialization is one of the most fundamental components of a developed economy. If you look at any ancient agrarian society, they had barely any specialization compared to a modern developed economy, and if you track the economic development of any society, you’ll notice specialization ticks upward along with it.
The hippies were intent on undermining corporate America. They ended up in it
How is courriel an oddity though? It's just the same thing as email, a shortening of "electronic mail".

Also, many of the "needlessly long" compound words in Dutch and German are just the same as in English and French, except those languages use equally long Greek or Latin compound words instead.
Funny, I am considered high risk and have had it done annually for about 15 years. None of my doctors ever mentioned a sedative as an option, let alone anesthesia. And it has never been a big deal. The risk associated with anesthesia is way too high to justify it for this kind of procedure.

Once every few years they find a suspicious polyp and snip it of / cauterize the wound, all with just local numbing. Still nothing worse than stubbing a toe, and certainly not worth the risk of using sedatives.
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Look, believe it or not, I am in the same boat - never had issues with paypal, but neither I'm a heavy user. Randomness and the severity of paypal actions is a huge issue for me.

The subject of the discussion is paypal's surprise wedding with crypto. As stated in the above comment, my argument is: from customer perspective it is a bad, crazy proposition.

Hey, paypal has a loooong history of random, inexplicable deplatforming of customers, and mixing that corporate attribute with crypto makes sense only on executive powerpoint slides.
Babies are different of course.. mine slept in a bit longer, but I definitely felt more capable in the all consuming parenting zone if I had a bit of my own locked in, too.
Exactly this.

The best return on investment in surveillance is always, always, always extortion. The spooks like to extort by threatening to reveal crimes, or prosecute them. Ever heard of plea bargaining? Most often the promise of "reduced" charges is exchanged for participating in surveillance, yielding more victims and more pigeons. Spies like to get other kinds of cooperation, for other kinds of threats--including revealing that you already caved once. Some people have enemies who would act on revelations. Most people have relatives who wouldn't want them harmed. Judges have relatives. Ever wondered at Judges blatantly violating settled law? It is not always just because they felt like it. Since surveillance always involves official secrecy, it is easily and widely abused, and abuse is never, ever prosecuted.

Do you wonder why politicians stay exactly in line, these days? Think they just don't have any ambition, no independence, no cojones?

We already have a surveillance system in place that the STASI could only have ever dreamed of.
Contrary to American beliefs that three letter security agencies are some angels that follow the law, most of us with our long term experience with dictatorships across the continent, are more than aware that even with democracy, the information services of each state are quite flexible in their interpretation of what is allowed or not.
Interesting idea! I myself have bunch of interesting finings and discoveries that I consider best practices on certain topic - that I could bundle into a course. The issue I am having is that on many related platforms it's either lots of limitations on what and how to post or the UX/UI is not very user friendly .
The value those ads are providing - other than learning about the product - is the content they're subsidizing for you.
A wiretap by compromising a specific device using an exploit after obtaining a court order is also likely fairly high-effort.
Games don't make money in general. A mediocre SaaS makes pretty good money, whereas games are more like the film industry where a select few make millions or billions, and 80% barely break even.

While the big ones hire more, there are probably more jobs with Google and Facebook than there are with Blizzard and Ubisoft.

And then there's the fact that many people already do games in their spare time. I started with games at 13, still code a little on them on weekends, and I still have no foothold in the industry. Someone who started making games at 15, took a game dev CS degree, and does some in their spare time... they're going to have a lot more advantage than the average person who works 40 hours/week.
Google Judge Sees Promise of Reform in Sex Misconduct Settlement
Half the companies you're applying to are probably tied to the military industrial complex in one way or another.
Vael (early stage data privacy startup) seeking technical co-founder
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I like to exhaust my mind by exercising. I also like to think during mundane chore tasks like washing the dishes.
Fintech Startups Broke Apart Financial Services. Now the Sector Is Rebundling
It's very surprising and in my opinion very positive that they managed to bring conscription back in 2017. I was one of the last few age groups to go through mandatory service in Germany before they abolished it, and since then it seems like the army has huge problems getting people both in sufficient quantity and quality, not to mention it also serves an important domestic function of keeping civilian oversight in the military.
If it is cheap and easy, there is no reason to assume it will only, or even mainly, be legal.
> you'll need a Microsoft account to play the Java Edition.

I'm surprised that the GDPR allows companies to require an online account to play the offline version of a game (or to engineer a game to require an online account).

It certainly doesn't seem like users will be meaningfully consenting to the (presumably) new terms and conditions if Microsoft are threatening to brick their existing copy of Minecraft if they don't agree. Perhaps only new versions of the game will require the new account, though.
Are Americans still using MMS? Nobody in the UK uses it because of costs... are MMS free there? My impression is that WhatsApp is much better (and Wechat better still). Privacy questions aside.
The first time I heard that, I thought it was insane. I think it's still pretty insane.
My SaaS was killed by Substack in 3 days, Platform Risk
> less than 1% of requests were denied

The statistics of a rubber-stamp court are identical to a court, where the requirements for an approved request are so clear that no one ever submits requests that are likely to be denied.

To prove what you are claiming, you have to actually show that a large number of accepted requests were "unethical".
I use an account for $service-$stage-$region-<$function> then I run most services in every available region

so:

main-service_prod_us-east-1_dataStore

main-service_prod_us-east-1

main-service_test_us-east-1_dataStore

main-service_test_us-east-1

main-service_beta_us-east-1_dataStore

main-service_beta_us-east-1

* regions

Adds up pretty quickly.
This is the actual title of the article. A quote

“But the pandemic has revealed that university life is far more embedded in the American idea than anyone thought. America is deeply committed to the dream of attending college.”

This is a little like claiming your car wants to drive itself after jumping out of said moving car on a flat stretch of downhill road. Look, nobody’s there and it’s still moving!

There is four years of inertia built into the system. Call back in four years and we can talk about the “necessity” of the college experience. It will certainly be there in some (hopefully improved) form for many young people in certain social classes. What that form will ultimately be...too early to tell.

As to the Author’s thesis that “college’s secondary purpose, [is] education,...its primary one, collegiate life”

...if you want to keep a large physical plant financially viable, you better hope that’s right. Education should be able to be done much more cheaply, quickly and with better quality for motivated students via IT that’s been around for 5 years or more. Speaking from experience, for the lower classes, immigrants...education is by far the primary goal. The thesis seems a bit classist to me, but it is from the Atlantic.
Europe also does not stir up as much conflict in the world as the US does, isn't it? So they are less in need of defense.
Colonoscopies are both terrible and awesome at the same time, but you can make it go a lot smoother (pun intended) by avoiding tons of hard to digest food in the two days leading up to the prep, and being very hydrated on prep day.

Alas, I don't have a colon any more, but when I did, I wrote: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2017/colonoscopy-or-mount-...
That's one way to go, but there are other options. You want inline annotation of types. On the other side you can have an external jsonschema which provides the same information.

Realistically, you can't do "data sharing of unknown types" - at that point you're just sharing binary blobs.
Features aren't decided by the effort it takes to create them but rather the value they provide, offset by the revenue they generate.

Background video lowers the value of ads which subsidizes free playback so it makes monetary sense to disable it. It's also a trivial amount of work done once.
frequency of changes could be an issue in cases where connections are continuous, but for most browsing it shouldn't be a huge problem. Your information will have changed multiple times between requests. The IP problem is larger, but can be mitigated by the use of VPN, TOR, or shared connections (school, workplace, public wifi etc). I think the real takeaway is that there is no perfect solution, only means which make the work of people attempting traffic correlation more difficult. For services you're already logged into (facebook, steam, reddit, insta, youtube, HN) the battle is already lost. Blocking trackers and ads helps prevent 3rd parties from building a profile of your actions across the web, but all we can ever hope to do is make the record less complete. We're all vulnerable. Now that ISPs are able to decrypt much of our traffic and sell our entire browsing histories alongside our names it's not something I see being solved anytime soon.
Paul Singer’s $41B Hedge Fund Moving Headquarters to Florida
> A true Linux app

Electron apps are not true Linux apps, maybe for ChromeOS they can be considered as such.
I'd agree there are plenty of stupid humans there (and elsewhere), but I'm not sure that a catalogue of heuristics with the apparent intent of lessening cognitive bias is a worthy target for your ire. Maybe it would make more sense if you identified some actual problems with their pastiche philosophy.
I did interview for a very well known game studio and it had no engine questions. It was all problem solving, e.g. why our design doesn't use ammunition, or write optimized pseudocode to find a spot for the AI to go to.

I really like those kinds of interviews as they test work-related skills immediately.
So all that tremendous force of "a more respectable 72 artillery pieces" are supposed to help them to do what exactly with Russia?
Laugh to death?

And by the way, how exactly that artillery is supposed to be used against Russia? What's the doctrine?
Technically the government was in the business of taking land from people to give it to other people at the time.

It's not like there was just empty land
Someone having an alternate phone for their secret activities.
Also, the pipelines Nord Stream (2011) and Nord Stream 2 (incomplete) run through Sweden's EEZ. These pipelines deliver Russian-produced natural gas to Germany. Sweden was uneasy about the pipeline, speculating and believing Russia's own suggestions that this would motivate a Russian naval presence, but couldn't find a lasting legal reason to not grant approval.
A couple problems with this submission:

(1) articles on HN need to be in English. We have deep respect for the German language and for other languages, but HN is an English-language site;

(2) we've gotten complaints about this title being misleading and/or completely wrong.

I've edited the title now in an attempt to be more accurate. (Submitted title was "Germany's Bundeskabinett approves draft law allowing WhatsApp/Messenger backdoor".) If there's a more accurate and neutral title we can change it again.
Why is military spending always defined as relative to GDP and not to total tax income, where the actual money is coming from?
Singapore startup develops 60-second Covid-19 breath test
Secret court orders. We have already seen where that naturally goes. Each abuse makes the next easier.
Clearly this is written by someone who only values physical building and doesn't understand that software is exactly the same thing.
Those small towns and small cities--more the small towns than the small cities, but often those too--have those "reasonable middle class lifestyles" largely due to wealth transfers from bigger economic centers.

As a large city dweller for my entire adult life that does not bother me, but it isn't a sustainable process without those economic engines external to them.
I can totally understand how rev-share can be better in comparison but I don’t think your argument here addresses the constraint of greater government revenue derived from the rev-share model.
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Personally it’s one of reasons I’m using python less and less and JavaScript more and more. I just can’t stand the white space.
Not to discredit the potentially valid concerns of these articles but it's not quite accurate to say these aren't an improvement.

I'm a few weeks out from a robotic assisted surgery related to kidney cancer and the recovery time is significantly shorter in duration (6 weeks instead of 3-6 months) than the non robotic surgery. My understanding is that the DaVinci surgical robot also allowed them to be more precise with how much tissue they removed as well.

Hopefully the medical community can get a better sense of when it's appropriate to use such technology but it would be a mistake to dismiss the benefits because of misuse by some surgeons.
Something to note. You do not have to be "sedated" for colonoscopy. I have had two and requested no sedation for the last one. It is mildly uncomfortable, but not painful.

The "sedation" is not really anesthesia, but rather a drug that messes with your short term memory (and makes you goofy). If you don't like the idea of somebody messing with your brain circuitry, ask not to be sedated.

Do get the anesthetic though.

As a cancer survivor, paranoia saves lives. If something seems out of order, go see a doc.
I've had the blood bit off and on (mostly off lately, but it happened again recently for a day), but I've always been told by doctors that it's just hemorrhoids, I'm too young to get cancer.

Then Chadwick died, and I'm like, man, he got diagnosed with Stage 3 the same age I am now, and I'm in terrible shape compared to him.

I'm thinking I should probably get a colonoscopy next summer, after this wave of Covid dies down again. Wouldn't be surprised if I at least have some pre-cancerous polyps.
Done. Agreed, very good call.

Current death rates are 4 to 5 percent. (Dead / recovered)

And that is coarse as recovered numbers are harder to get at times.

But, just say that's in the ballpark.

What does basically 6x mean?

Is it 0.05 * 6 = roughly 30 percent?

Or, in more coarse terms, anywhere from 1 in 5 to 1 in 3 chance of death as opposed to roughly 1 in 20 or maybe 30?
Most GPL software is not wholly owned by a single entity. You can re-license your own code, but you cannot relicense all the GPL libraries that you linked into.
Write of Passage
I am also confused by this. Alleys (at least in California and Texas) have speed limits of 15 mph.
This might be the best pun I've ever read.
I don't think this is a generation thing. The strategy of treating devs as interchangeable cogs is still absolutely thriving in management circles. The only differences now are that it's often glammed up with a bunch of lip service that seems to suggest the opposite approach (but no actions to follow that up), and that there's very successful pockets not using that approach, that aren't representative of the majority of the industry.

I don't think either approach is necessarily 'wrong' either, because I've seen tons of companies have great success with staggering numbers of thoroughly mediocre devs and lots of turnover. But you very likely have to commit to one strategy or the other, the absolute shittest places I've worked are the ones where they're kidding themselves, unsure what they're trying to do, or half way through a transition from one approach to the other.

As dumb and unintuitive as it sounds, I think you can run a big bank very successfully with 200 engineers siloed into small teams of experts, or with 3000 engineers shoveled into big "tribes" (or whatever the buzzword of the day is) of distributed responsibility. But I'm wary of anyone that's trying to do it with 800 engineers, especially the "we only hire the best!" variety. (those three numbers obviously scale with the size of the business and a bunch of external factors).
Sweden doesn't seem to be investing in anti-SEAD. I don't understand how these investments would help against such a threat profile.
Burned my hand bad when it went in. Felt like someone took a jackhammer to it, repeatedly.
You can absolutely pay a company to hold a principle.

Consider the number of companies now who are promoting sustainability as a core value, because it gives them an edge up on competition in big government tenders.

More common than you'd think, especially in physical product supply!
I literally watch people live stream on Twitch and Youtube all the time and this is the second time I've heard of them. I'd agree.
The issue is that in practice it’s quite difficult to reliably get whitespace correct all of the time, whereas braces seem quite easy to get right. If you’ve ever tried cutting and pasting a code block in python you know the pain of having to manually fix whitespace. The same operation in a brace-delimited language has a much smaller chance of going wrong, as the only thing you need to get right is the endpoints of the cut selection.
Qualcomm’s XR Enterprise Program Doubles Membership
Harsh, ruining his last trick. He spent how much time setting this one up?
Very cool. How do you guys compare to "Opt Out - send GDPR and CCPA data requests" by yourdigitalrights.org?

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/opt-out-send-gdpr-...

It seems they just collate the contact info and draft an email on the consumer's behalf. It would be more preferred if there were standard ways to handle this; however, with companies storing data in so many different ways, that is complicated.

A good company in this space is DataWallet.
https://datawallet.com/

They enable each company to integrate their tech so that they can manage the GDPR/CCPA requests for companies and send callbacks to companies with a unique ID for a customer so the company can then send along the customer's data and delete their data and provide confirmation to datawallet.
The vast majority of companies it is neutral to a positive.
Really interesting. One tiny point: I think it’s bad to use the word “Karen”, since it has a racist flavour analogous to “Aunt Jemima”.

(NB: I have no desire to sidetrack a potentially interesting discussion into a dull one about race, whiteness etc., so please don’t be offended if I don’t reply to replies.)