skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a colonoscopy five years ago here in the UK without any anesthesia and it was perfectly fine. Walked into the theatre wearing a gown and a pair of shorts with a flap at the back, and hopped up onto the bed. Somewhat embarrassing with a half dozen nurses standing around various bits of kit and more monitors than NASA.

They asked me if I wanted to watch, then angled one of the monitors so I could see what they were doing. Laid on side, knees up and relax. Blimely is my bum really that hairy? Don't normally get to see if from that angle.

It feels weird and a little uncomfortable at times, but certainly not painful - even when they found a polyp and removed it with a remote lasso tool of some kind. This later turned out to be harmless.

As is normal for Brits, there was a lot of humour, with the women discussing the latest TV soap opera whilest doing their thing with the "dynorod" tool. As they pump in a gas of some kind to keep the bowl inflated while they work, they tell me it's okay to fart whenever I need. Boy, I think I've got a bad job sometimes. Whatever the nurse with the pointy end gets paid - it's not enough.

It's not exactly pleasant, but necessary and quite interesting to watch inside your own body (not as interesting as watching surgeons put stents into my heart, but that's another story).

Totally agree with Graeme, nothing to fear and massive win if they find things before it's too late. Don't hesitate!
Yeah, not to rain too much on Peertube’s parade but in my locale (Sweden) that is about one month’s worth of salary for a developer. And in other locales such as Silicon Valley it’s even less (maybe 1-2 weeks of salary?). Then again in some locales that kind of money would go a much longer way of course.
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I'm not sure, I know they do crawl web sites and use that to generate data sets for Siri. However they also seem to have a relationship with DDG, for example DDG's new route directions feature is powered by Apple Maps, so maybe DDG is their backup plan.
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Why not use Ungoogled Chromium [1] instead? Developer Mode is active forever, and no Google-centric integrations.

[1] https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
> Is my cough metastasized cancer? Probably not but my mind sure loves to think so.

The same when an immediate family member has gone through or died of it.

Instead of being a survivor it’s more like a countdown due to the similar hereditary and environmental factors. Doctors will say “no, don’t worry about that”, the same people could be writing an entry in a scientific journal after your case finally appears.

“Hereditary and Environmental links in X cancer”
I didn't notice much/any speed improvement either. Losing the tab queue sucked and certain links now force open the youtube app rather than in Firefox. The url bar at the bottom is nice, but they released it without the ability to also reverse the order of results.

I think if the new version had just one killer feature it would have been received much more kindly but for many it's a straight downgrade in terms of experience. Personally I think it's crazy that they still don't have working chromecast support.
If you are healthy with all your organs intact (e.g. - you did not have an appendectomy, any part of your digestive system shortened), you can easily do longer fasts - 10 or even 20 days.

Appetite generally goes away at day 2 or 3, so day 7 is usually easier than day 2. Highly recommended for physical and mental benefits, from my experience.

(This is not medical advice. I am not a doctor and don't play one on the internet. For all you know, I might be a dog).
yeah the speed they travel through the inner solar system is pretty ludicrous, especially when you consider how much space junk is generated by all that activity.
In matters of opinion there is little of absoluteness. There is just preference.
What is the difference between this and Decentraleyes?
The article mentions that at the end in a way

> And that is why one should never read any translation by ­Richard Pevear and ­Larissa Volokhonsky. They translate literary masterpieces word by word, with no appreciation of what the author is trying to accomplish or what makes a great work extraordinary.
I agree. It shows at minimum lack of empathy / interpersonal skills and at maximum an attempt to offend him.

It is not racist though.
The programming architecture of Babbage's Analytical Engine [video]
Sure, that's not how we fix Big Tech. Because everything Big must not be privately held. At least all that constitutes modern critical infrastructure must be precisely and transparently planned for public good.
I plan to do a 3-day fast twice a year from now on, already did the first one in June. The main problem for me is that these long fasts take a significant toll on your muscles. After the first one, I noticed that I had lost strength and endurance. Basically you'll have to spend a few weeks training only to get to the level you were at before the fast.
This is the best answer.

If your military service would count against you, is it really going to be a healthy environment for you to work in?
I'm not sure I agree with the complexity. You can go read CMake's and Meson's source code and probably agree with me it's not very trivial. Sure they can provide you a "cross-platform" build with ease, but it doesn't come free. You are giving away flexibility and it only works when it works. When it doesn't work you usually have to employ ugly hacks or your build files start to creep in way more complexity than would be needed with native solution, or even by using a simple Makefile or heck even a shell script. In worst case, you'll become a CMake or Meson developer to add that missing functionality, or fix bugs whatever, just to get your thing to build.

I also want to point out that the build system isn't just for you, it's also for the users and packagers. Especially for packagers it's important the flexibility is there.

I used to use CMake myself a lot way back as well, but eventually got fed up with its problems it always caused (mostly when other people tried to package my projects and there was always some incompatibility or dependencies not being linked correctly, etc...).

I also used to think Makefiles are bad, but actually when I sat down reading the GNU Make's manual many things clicked with me, and (GNU) Makefiles are actually very good at building stuff and they aren't that complex at all. Sure there's lots of bad Makefiles around the internet (just like there's also bad CMakeLists) the Makefiles are very powerful when written correctly, and most importantly they are very very fast.
Connect your devices once, set permissions, and you can list/search/open/download files from connected devices, over any network (Android only for now).

Search files across devices, it detects text on images and speech in video/audio, making them searchable.

Privacy is great, connection is end-to-end encrypted, search does all processing on device.

Free, no limits, no ads.

Your feedback is very welcome!
PeerTube: Free software to take back control of your videos
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On mobile, that is.

On desktop they just shot themselves in the foot by removing some off their competitive advantage. (On desktop they are still way ahead of Chrome when it comes to extensions, but it is nothing compared to before when they was in another league completely.)
IMO, PeerTube will never become popular due to its decentralized nature.
Widely used is relative, Perl at its peak was used in relatively small applications and short scripts.

I worked at the largest US bank and had the unfortunate task to decommission the last Perl software. Doing a lot of archeology there was never much of Perl really, some short scripts here and there. One or two flagship applications in the early 2000 but they were rewritten long ago.

Looking at our python codebase however, that's ten of millions of lines of code covering all types of applications and all aspects of the business. It will still be there 30 years later.

The dependency to the interpreter and external libraries is a problem indeed. They're constantly shifting or getting abandoned under your feet. I wonder how this will be managed eventually.
My wife took no sedation when she had one, so I was shamed into doing the same when I had one a couple of years later. It was unpleasant, but not actually painful, and over quite quickly. Would opt for no sedation if I had to get it again

I went for no sedation during a colonoscopy too, but after a while it got too painful and I asked for some
https://web.archive.org/web/20190929045043/https:/twitter.co...

https://web.archive.org/web/20190929094120if_/https://twitte...

But I don't really care about his views on biological genders, but what relevant point did he have when writing this message down in the blog post?:

https://skepchick.org/2011/07/the-privilege-delusion/

He's become a political agitator, and increasingly rarely a scientist.

This is not meant to say "stick to science", but if he wants to be political, I'm going to criticize is politics, because they suck and he does deserve scorn for them.

Maybe as an old guy don't tell a woman that her experience is wrong.

I don't think that this is a radical "post-modernist" idea.
I've had it done and it was fine. Clearly there's a range of experiences possible, you may as well be optimistic.
I mentioned it as a bit of context since perhaps not all HN readers are familiar with the geography of the area in question. People here are from all around the world so I don’t expect every reader to be familiar with Sweden, Russia and the Baltic Sea.

For example, some reader might think ”okey but to reach Sweden, Russia will first have to go through Finland or Norway”. Nope. They simply have to send their military fleet over the sea.

Case in point: A lot of Sweden’s military resources during the WW2 and cold war was focused on the island of Gotland, home to less than 60000 persons. If Russia would attack Sweden it would make a lot of sense to first gain control of Gotland and then use that as a base for taking Stockholm, the capital.
This is the main reason why I don't and won't fast. The author claims that food is not actually a daily need, whereas I know for a fact that I will injure myself cycling or climbing if I skip even a single large meal in a day. It's a noticeable difference.
It's really disappointing for me to hear this, considering that I have been releasing chrome extensions for the past year. [1,2,3]

One thing I've noticed is that Chrome's extension search is absolute garbage, and even typing the exact name of my extensions, for example "Wikipedia Section Links" [3], doesn't yield my extension, not even on the first page, and the second page is rather hidden and not obvious. Pretty terrible discovery... Why should we develop for such a hostile ecosystem?

Perhaps I lucked out by developing all my extensions as cross-browser web extensions. I've been submitting them all to as many repositories as I can - Chrome, Mozilla, Edge, and Opera.

I feel bad for the author who doesn't have the ability to move their extension to a different browser. Chrome lock-in is a travesty.

[1] https://churchofthought.org/blog/2020/10/17/coursera-quiz-pr...

[2] https://churchofthought.org/blog/2020/10/15/coursera-playbac...

[3] https://churchofthought.org/blog/2020/01/20/a-simple-webexte...
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Precisely the same reason I started my company 15 years ago. That, and wanting to work from home. It was a different world back then.
This may just be an autocorrect gone wrong, but FYI, you mean "backlash". "Backslash" is the character "\".
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Thank you so much for guiding me. Hmm... okey, I need to reconsider the whole terms as actually I used a terms of a famous Japanese web site as a reference and transrated it in English...

Thanks again for your great value comment for me. Let me consider it.
Why ? What are the premises that leads to your conclusion ?
llamify is a staff directory and a place to share about your hobbies and interests with your team.

* Compared to water cooler chats in Slack it allows to collect submissions and present them in a neat form of user profiles.

* Compared to Facebook/Instagram it gives control over what you share with your colleagues and how often you check updates from them.

it's open-source https://github.com/yury-n/llamify so you can install it on your own Firebase account + Next.js app hosting (e.g. vercel).
The mobile (UE) IP anchor is not the S-GW but the P-GW in the core network. For an established PDU session the IP address is fixed, and does not change during a handover.

For information MIP is used between S-GW and P-GW (PMIP IIRC), so there can be IP addresses changes when the HO is such that the S-GW changes. Still, this is transparent to the UE: it's a change at the tunnel level, and the UE traffic flowing inside this tunnel is not affected.

BTW what "anchor" means here is that the IP address the UE gets is routed to the P-GW. From then on the traffic is tunneled to the UE across the cellular network core and radio access networks, but all this is transparent for the end device. There's a first leg from P-GW to S-GW, then from S-GW to the eNB (the base station), then the over-the-air and last leg to the mobile device. That's 3 tunnels joined together to transport data seamlessly from P-GW to UE. During a HO the radio one always changes, the S-GW to P-GW rarely changes. And the P-GW is fixed to provide IP session continuity.
You don't need to have 'magical' powers to do it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Barbieri%27s_fast
As someone who wholeheartedly agrees with your philosophy of focusing on the big picture, I'd like to add that being pedantic (passionate) about one's tools is not necessarily a bad thing - provided said obsession is not a hindrance to one's output (and indeed, their focus on the big picture).
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Individual here for you to talk to. "On my 60 day fast"... Mate - you are in the big leagues compared to me. For us mere mortals smelling meat cooking while I'm hungry kills me . As for salt, I do have salt now. Found out the hard way. Your mileage may vary.
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I mean, I agree with the principle of your argument, I'm not really one to care _too_ much about specialised programs like this being closed source, especially if they have well defined migration paths and so on.

However, this has been _years_, 8 or 9 by my quick check on the App Store.

First there was the "agilekeychain" and the python libraries (blimey) to read from it, so I could kinda do my thing on linux, but then it was deprecated and they spent 18months trying to create a CLI variant that on arrival basically never worked.

Then they pushed a subscription model which was rather expensive for the functionality too, and after paying for new versions a few times I felt a bit annoyed, and I still could not access my passwords from Linux anyway..

Then they pushed really hard for their own hosted sync (for new vaults at the very least); And without dropbox I couldn't even sync to linux. I'm not sure if they went back on that.

Eitherway, the problem is not that it isn't open source per-say.

The problem is that it's an incredibly closed ecosystem as it exists today, and an expensive one- maybe you're better off looking at equivalently featured, free, and more open options... of which there are many.
I have the impression that corruption and being overly friendly towards big corporations seems to be quite the issue, compared to other places I know well the infrastructure is pretty bad (though other large European countries aren't much better - UK, France).

The auction could have easily been fixed, by imposing and enforcing strict rules on maximum prices, minimum coverage and mandating in-country roaming. After all the frequencies should benefit the whole public. With such rules the outcome would have been a much better network, allowing for growth in other regions.

The article you've shared is very interesting, would be helpful if more Germans were informed about this.
I commented quite a little bit in this thread, but I guess it doesn't hurt to write a summary. I was diagnosed with colon cancer ten years ago at 28 without any family history. It started inocent enough with blood in the stool. Sure enough, I was too young to have cancer, so that hemoroids for a year. It did suck so, that really were hemorroids, because that explained everything. Until it became to frequent, and my doctor recommended a colonoscopy. It was a cancerous polyp, caught early, so.

I had surgery where they removed around 30 cm of my colon and some lymph knots, one of which had cancerous cells. went on to get 6 months of easy, as compared other people I saw and met, chemo therapy. The worst part was, when roughly one month after the chemo finished I again had blood in the stool, a lot of it. At that point I was on a high, after all I just finished chemo and survived, right? Damn, that sucked, worse than the initial diagnosis, back then I almost expected it. Luckily, it wasn't cancer, but it took my months to recover from that scare. looking back, I'd say that was harder than everything before, also because people around me kind of got the hard time going through cancer. They didnt really get why the fact not having cancer was so much harder for me.

What I did learn from that is, that I'm less afraid of death than I am from the process of dying, if this makes sense. And that life is too short to care about certain things. It changed me, and then it did not, it is hard to describe. The things that really helped me was my son, aged 3 back then, having a wife that regularly kicked my ass when I needed it. Especially the one time I was cloe to give up (silly me, but it made sense back then). And having a good friend to talk to about stuff that wasn't for families ears.

One thing, so, that very very few people got was the stress and hardship cancer means for ones family. As a patient you can get, and are offered, all the support from your environment. Your family not so much. And man, was I an ass sometimes back then.

Luckily, I have no genetic preposition for cancer. Still, my kids will get colonscopies aged 16. better be safe than sorry, and a cancer diagnosis is nothing you want to miss. I undertand why people are afraid of the diagnosis, but this is nothing that can be ignored. The earlier cancer is caught, the easier the treatmen and the better the chances of survival. And sometimes, a couple of months can make all the difference.

So yes, get a colonoscopy early, as early as possible and do not wait. Coloniscopies are no big deal, the worst part being the prep and even that got better over the years. And even you find it intrusive and unpleasant, which some people do, it still beats surgery, chemo therapy and potential death.
I doubt it's ever gonna become a thing Google even notices.
All tabs opened in private windows share the same "container", which gets cleared once you close the last private tab. With temporary containers, all your tabs are in independent containers.
Bingo. It's like saying you want to be a painter, but then get stuck painting walls for a living. You're still painting, but it's not the same. Unless painting walls is your thing; that's cool too.
You're assuming that 'people' in all those example are the same set of individuals.
I would doubt that?

On the other hand a person lacking ability to tell green from red can still paint quite good landscapes?
The technical impact of a negative interest rate is going to be a huge concern for hundreds of thousands of financial systems. While a numeric ranges below zero, there will be a lot of code that relies on the principle that the base rate will be more than zero. Even if zero itself, consider any function that divides by the base rate!
Went down that rabbit hole. Thanks.
funny and depressing at the same time
Centralised platforms have utterly failed us though, and have become a way to manage information centrally - someone decides what you can or can't see/read/know about.

Decentralised is really the only option for an informed humanity. In the long run, this has to be the answer.
Indeed. Although now I just fire up an instance in AWS for a bit if we need to play with something. But I rarely if ever touch windows now past using it as a shell for some electron apps and terminals :)
It's almost entirely (80%) drivers. Next heaviest is architecture specific code, then filesystems, networking, sound, documentation, and then the actual core of the kernel. A minimal build of linux uses about 300k lines of code.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/223746/why-is-the-l...

So it's still substantially heavier than would be easy to study, but you could probably still fit the core into your head (I've been able to deeply understand systems with similar LOC counts, though there's probably substantial differences in 'density' between codebases)
Same here. I feel odd hearing the commercials nudging me to "ask my doctor..." - I don't have a "my" doctor. I just go to the nearest network clinic, they have my details on the computer and whoever is attending that day looks at them.
Well said. Balance is key. Deep work in a quiet, suitable lit, and well ventilated cave. With intermittent breaks in the vibrant outdoors surrounded by trees, hills, and seas.
Did anyone ever take Microsoft's "Microsoft Certified Application Developer" or "Microsoft Certified Solutions Architect" titles seriously?

Most developers generally didn't, but certainly back in the early 2000s I heard lots of managers and other people responsible for hiring being impressed by it. To be blunt, if you where a mediocre developer with a mediocre resume, it was for a while a pretty efficient way to stand out among other mediocre developers.

Microsoft also used to offer some nice goodies and discounts to Microsoft Certified Professionals that could make it worth having, financially, if you where a freelance developer or worked for a smaller company.
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> Why not use Ungoogled Chromium [1] instead?

Why not use Firefox instead? Then you've solved the problem for good.
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Did those patients every try sprinting? Breakthroughs await.
> you can easily do longer fasts - 10 or even 20 days.

Not gonna argue against this but reading some comments here I feel like HN is full of health quackery sometimes.
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Singing correct tune and being able to distinguish it are two much different things. In any case, 8 years old absolutely not just mimicking words. Even musically untrained 8 years old are diffentiating tunes and trying to hit it.
Could we seriously start looking at deprecating some of the features that make Python slow? Who needs mutable interpreter frames?
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Imo, person you are responding to just dont know what 8 years old are capable and is having those videos with cute 3-4 years old singing badly in mind.
Actually had that debate with a friend of mine who was tired of working as a full-stack web dev and found himself a new job in the field of machine learning after thinking of going back to uni for a phd. So everything is possible when you can code I guess!

Totally agree with @st1x7, you should be learning by doing at this point. There is enough material online to work with especially in the field of AI and machine learning and maybe you could also learn on the job like my friend.

All the best with your decision!