skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huge disclaimer: I don't know much of anything more about this than I've already said herein, but the basic info seems fairly easy to find and parse.

- A colonoscopy will detect *most* precursor or active anomalies.
- A FIT or FOBT will detect *many* active anomalies once they are bad enough to start releasing traces of blood.

What's plain from even a quick read of the info out there is that national health systems and big insurers can't afford to do colonoscopies on everyone, so they have a huge interest in these lower cost lab tests. If enough people take them, then the headline can be "we caught more cancer earlier, and helped a lot of people". But "helped" means things like surviving a few years, which, thanks, but that's not the same as surviving full stop.

As an individual, a lab test is way better than nothing, but if your health system or insurance will cover the cost, or if you can afford to pay for it out of pocket, then a colonoscopy will reveal most problems, even fairly early and small ones, and give the surgeon a chance to snip out polyps and such right then and there. If the scope comes back reasonably clear, you can be 10 years until the next one.

Keep in mind there is a low risk of "serious complications" (one paper concludes ~2.8 per 1000) or death (~0.34 per 1000) from the colonoscopy procedure. If you'd like to have nightmares about it, source is https://www.giejournal.org/article/S0016-5107(11)01965-1/pdf

Please, anyone, correct me if anything there isn't a fair generalization.
follow up: t-mobile has a plan in the US that doesn't charge you for spotify/pandora internet traffic, but does charge you for all other data. that's an "internet lite" plan right there.

https://www.t-mobile.com/offers/free-music-streaming
Good thing there's still more than AWS, GCP, and Azure in the cloud hosting market. There are dozens if not hundreds of companies willing to rent you computing hardware on the internet. There are dozens if not hundreds of colocations willing to rent you space, power, and network connectivity.
On HN upvote counts on comments aren't shown in discussions but downvotes can lead to greyed out comments or dead comments.

An upvote is communication to the person who posted the comment that it was positive in some way. For me, it usually stands in for "that's a good point", or "my thoughts exactly", or "this comment was unjustly downvoted".

Downvotes, on the other hand, are a communication to everyone involved that that comment crossed a line in some kind of way. There's almost a social shaming that goes along with it. "Keep expressing that opinion and what you say will be increasingly harder for everyone else to see." I'm not a big fan of trying to suppress ideas. Much better to respond to them explaining why you disagree or, alternatively, to just ignore them and move on. I guess I don't feel it's up to me to work with others to make comments harder to read. People can make their own minds up without me having to tell them what they shouldn't agree with.

That's why I only upvote and don't downvote.
> The UK will definitely continue to have open banking.

As discussed elsewhere in this thread, this requires a definition of "open banking" which is separate from PSD2 and not what the phrase commonly meant until now. The distinction isn't between "open banking" and "cross-border banking" - the distinction is between:

* PSD2 compliant "open banking" between TPPs and ASPSPs,

* Some banks in the UK must have APIs "open banking".

Up until January 1st, the phrase "open banking" referred to the former. The latter may become accepted as the definition in the UK, but it is materially different to the original meaning.
$100 is very expensive compared to the other platforms. These licensing fees destroy the majority of open-source projects geared around said platforms, sadly.
Very. Well. Said.
The marriage rate is at 6 per 1000 in the states, and its a historic low; it used to be high as 15 per 1000 maybe 20-30 years ago? I posted a link upthread.

Actually what's ironic is that my state's capitol is heralded as "one of the gayest cities in america" for having a percentage of 4.6%. San fransico seems to be 6.2%. This link is dated 6 years ago, though:

https://www.ctpost.com/living/article/Which-are-the-gayest-c...
There are a lot of issues like that. After a certain point a pattern emerges. I don't have time to find a big list of historical issues. Here are some quick links though.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/839

Look at why LXDE switched from GTK to QT.

Take a look at when a bunch of Gnome developers decided theming wasn't okay (as opposed to fixing themes): https://stopthemingmy.app/

Take a look at this bug-request on the transmission torrent client: https://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/3685

> I guess you have to decide if you are a GNOME app, an Ubuntu app, or an XFCE app unfortunately.

Take a look at the whole history of client-side decorators, particularly the suggestion that every SDL-based app should implement their own CSD support: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/217#note_3552...

There's plenty there if you just look around.
I don't think I have a democratic right to control what private organizations do, in general. That's the default. For me, you have to make a positive case that an org should be enjoined from a given behavior like the one described in the article.
Vehicle camera system that can detect a single brick at 150 meters
Thankfully it found quite a few problems to solve.
One product is not a business model. Please take a moment to update your software:

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/living-und...
I debated between submitting the Forbes article or the company website, but went for the article because of the background info and the discussion of technical tradeoffs between LiDAR and camera-based systems. The company website [1] is also good, with more visuals and a video of the brick detection demo.

1: https://www.nodarsensor.com/
Nice to see this working well on Safari. Web games posted on HN sometimes don’t.
I think more people should see this.

I can't agree more with your comment about wishing people would reply with reasoning rather than simply downvoting.

When I jump into a heated conversation or comment on an emotional topic, I am fully aware that I'm asking for downvotes without responses. But that has served as a negative reinforcement for making said comments, which leads to me engaging in those conversations much less often.

My point is, I'm not sure this is a bug. I'm pretty sure its a feature.
Because it's the right thing to do. Fin.
Google, YouTube ban all political ads for at least one week
It's cyclic between consolidation and new investments.

We're just ramping up into the consolidation period now.
i had some kind of network already in place from starting out.
all my initial gigs came from acquaintances. and from then on usually referals.
i only had 1 client so far that i acquired out of nowhere. and it was random luck.
i also cooperate tightly with thought leaders who operatw in certain industry (eg Smart City). people who can talk and inspire decision makers. I am then their tech guy whenever they convince someone to build an AI for X... this is a win win. they can shine and i get a great project to do :-)
I wonder is something as simple as two factor authentication for those who have access to the build servers may have helped prevent something like this attack?
Sad to hear - I never quite realised how awesome Dropbox was until we were forced by our company to migrate to OneDrive / Sharepoint.

I can't help but feel that 2021 is going to be full of companies who are re-structuring and announcing layoffs...
I know. Mikrotik managed to build it though (HeX PoE), but sadly it has a pretty old SoC.
We have an alternative to the RPi that has an eMMC. It's called a Beaglebone.

And everybody bitches that the board is too expensive.
While not nearly as serious, I found myself more focused on work after a breakup back in 2019 .

This focus was very good for me though and neeted a 80k pay increase. However , I find myself not particularly wanting to get into a relationship again. Felt like a very painful experience. I'd rather make music instead .
The API is not public yet. I plan to though. Out of interest, what are you building? Perhaps we should keep in touch :)
Jeez, I want that hat!
Can definitely amplify divergence of opinions.
I suspect it's more that when someone flashes a router with custom firmware, they are far more likely to then spend hours on the phone with tech support because they have messed up the MTU settings or can't get VoIP to work because the the SIP ALG isn't working properly anymore...

For every person that delves into the internals who knows what they're doing, there are 10 people who delve into the internals following some incomplete and outdated online heresay...
Red teaming to me was using your adversaries tactica to test your system in an attempt to be more secure.
Most people are probably already aware, but that’s likely exactly what happened with mitochondria: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbiogenesis
I've understood it as a critique of a previous CEO, not the new one.
I think Google Drive and Mega do (they definitely used to).
> Which is exactly what happens now.

No, it doesn't because I use an application firewall that BLOCKS them (I haven't upgraded to the crippled macOS). Moreover these are not "core" services and the OS functions fine even if they are blocked.

> If this terrifies you so much, add some ipfw rules and move on.

Why should I when the application firewalls I use are more user-friendly and require less effort? And why should Apple get to dictate what software I use or how I use it? (You may be fine with that and may have given in, some of us won't and we will be vocal about it).

> block it at the firewall so you don’t have to rely on Apple

No, Apple won't make me jump through hoops - the better plan is to DUMP apple if they refuse to value their customers needs. There are better alternate available.
Hah. The Cathedral of St. Matthew in Washington, DC, livestreams a couple of Masses every Sunday on YouTube. Comment is allowed, but a moderator now and then deletes comments from people with an axe to grind (the "call no man Father" lady one Sunday) or who simply are trolls.

Viewer counts are visible on YouTube--whether they make it back to the celebrants I have no idea.
yes.

Usually what happens is the advertisers purchase a set amount of ads from a broker, which operates at scale. That broker than purchases ad space from various advertising networks. many of these brokers also purchase from gab and parler.
New superconductor microprocessor yields a substantial boost in efficiency
It would be interesting to see a union of youtube channels. They seem to be subject to terrible customer services, arbitrary deletion and minimal consultation on changes.
It would be interesting to know if the APP protections "bleed" from APP profiles to the regular kind when they're both on a given device.
How Boston Dynamics' Spot robot is programmed to dance
Oh dear this is a pet peeve when I was searching for pirated video tutorials back then.
This is a bit of a pet peeve with Linux packaging systems.

I want application X.

$ sudo apt-get install appX

This is going to instal 463 packages do you want to continue (y/n)?

# HELL NO

Seems like every time a language starts to get popular, this is an issue until you have 8 or 9 sets of language tools piled up that you never use.
Most about any distribution you can configure your own repositories.

Realistically, you could set up a minimal arch and host your own aur (there are projects for this). This is basically what the aur is.

Or Debian ppas if you’re looking for more self-contained bundles.

And there’s always gentoo.

I think what you want kind of exists and is in practice already :)

Personally I find A LOT of value in distributions and it’s an IOU’s that others do too - otherwise they wouldn’t have the significance they do today.
Working yourself to death is a real thing. And often times, people are forced into these tracks due to competition and pressure. At some point I came to a conclusion that competition does not bring out the best in people and I refuse to work in a contrived environment where such behaviors are encouraged.
Also consider giving to Jason's Patreon[0]. He works on many open source projects including the original Git web interface and the `pass` tool.

[0]: https://www.patreon.com/zx2c4
The useless, giant electron ticked me off. That was soon followed by a price increase. So I dropped them.

On the way out, Dropbox blocked me from deleting 'tex.web' on my local machine, because it thought it owned anything with a '.web' extension.
The best thing to do when coming back from covid and resuming in-person classes would be to try and take the good parts of online learning and keep them. For example, every professor should record their lectures to make them available anytime. Although, I can already see a bunch of professors complaining that if the students can watch the lectures later, they won't come to the live lecture.
It astonishes me that a global health crisis can ironically trigger loss of healthcare for millions. That's such an abject failure of a system.

You're right, healthcare has no business being tightly coupled to employers -- or employment, in my opinion. Everyone should have healthcare.
Why would you want use these as build machines? It seems more efficient to just cross-compile on your fastest build machines. You get much faster CI feedback that way. Obviously you want to validate RISC-V code on native devices but using them as builders seems wasteful.

I'm genuinely curious why that's desirable. Maybe I just misunderstand your comment and you want the RISC-V boards for validation i.e. make sure you can self-host the distro even if in general releases are cross-compiled on your (I assume AMD64) build fleet.
Will the non-simplified J1 fit/run in a larger iCE40 FPGA?
This was a finely worded, AWS does not host Twitter Feeds, but they are in contract to host Twitter timelines...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Aws+to+deliver+Twitter+contract+ti...
The most useful feature (to me) in time tracker apps is the ability to let me know if I've been idle, and options to handle that. (Most apps in this space don't implement this feature)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/minimum-wage-2019-almost-half-o...
The work-from-home phenomenon has triggered a frustration for U.S. corporations
Eh, a decent audio DAC pretty much requires another chip since it takes up a ton of die space, so you'd be an absolute fool to use the same process node as your logic. Since this looks to be beagleboard compatible, you should be able to use an audio cape like this https://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-67906/l/beagleb...

If you don't care about it being decent, you can just use the PWM channels like the RPi does.
And the internet might be a better place with a broken up Google.
How do I submit a repository?
At one time, Dropbox was the easiest and best solution if you were using Android, MacOS, and Windows. I used to pay for 1TB account although Apple offered 2TB for same monthly fee. But the Dropbox destroyed their simple UI to this ugliness clusterfuck. That was the motivation for me to cancel it and move 100% into Apple's ecosystem.
1. My point was to undermine the negative connotation associated with the word infantile. Since when did having an undeveloped prefrontal cortex become absolutely negative?
2. Creative and playful are highly correlated.
I guess I misused it some. I felt it more was "pay the conqueror his due when he asks, and get on with the business of living." The Dane is already here, and we aren't getting rid of him.
You can tell that an increasing proportion of their product engineering is based around figuring out how to convince/trick people into paying, or paying more. This seems to be the rule and not the exception for SaaS companies that have grown to a certain point.
Well, you did the right thing. I think I will sell mine, because I also have an old small gasoline Stihl for firewood.

It sure is an interesting feeling how the blade stops immediately. Mine is 2000W. I always handle it like it is spinning, so there is no difference safety-wise.
The article is factually correct. The reason it's in a tabloid is because reporting it is sensationalistic.

It's sensationalistic because how one person, or several people, or even dozens or hundreds express themselves in a large crowd doesn't say anything about the other people "standing with them", or politics, or political leaders. This applies to the right and left.
All of the challenges with the US K-16 system are political, cultural, or socioeconomic. The choice of technology —whether whiteboard and desks or video lectures— is more likely to amplify those challenges than anything else imho.

Speaking from my professional vantage point on K-12 (school model design and implementation, edtech, school systems leadership development), “content” has a long way to go. If not in terms of design, scope and sequence, then in discovery and management (e.g. find what works for me and transfer back to discourse of assessment, final project, job interview, etc.).

It goes hand and hand with “mastery”. Presumably there is enough content to match any student’s learning style, but the system itself biases toward standardization, not personalization. And the standard goals and outcomes drive the cultural, political and socioeconomic conversation in education reform... it’s a viciously swinging pendulum.

Then there are the classroom teachers and school staff who often best understand students’ learning needs, and bend the rules in-person, in real-time to accommodate. I’m not sure how that looks in a new remote system, but it is the most overlooked and important part of the current system imho.
At protest you attended, what would have happened if there were no fences, and no cops spraying the crowd? Would the government buildings have been stormed without?

And why do people expect them to be insufficient for keeping the trumpers at bay?
>Your doctor is not good at his job or he doesn't like you. Filling out codes so that insurance pays for things is a skill that good doctors develop rapidly.

My Doctor is great, and has zero skill w/r to filling out codes for insurance purposes. Socialized medicine for the win.
And maybe not even "ignorant". I'm not bipolar, but I have (in the past, various therapy techniques and physical exercise have largely controlled/mitigated it) had some severe depressive episodes. During them, you are not in your right mind. For my friends with bipolar disorders, the same happens during their manic phases. Your more rational decision making faculties are not really present or fully utilized depending on severity so even if you know better, you don't act on that knowledge properly. Within the moment your belief system can be severely altered.
Also you're an open source and free project? If you want donations we're going to need a cut of that. Doesn't matter that you're providing our OS with functionality (for free) that we can't or won't create on our own.
Just because a group of morons did something does not mean corporations should take it upon themselves to police the free travel of the citizenry.

Why didn’t they shut down operations across the country when COVID became a known, valid threat? They facilitated the spread of the disease.
I consume news from three different countries (from three continents), four if you count american news that I come across on HN and Twitter, and the only times I hear anything about UFO sightings on Earth (not about possible alien life on other planets or similar) is either on HN, Twitter or via news that comes from US sources ("This Texas man saw a UFO kindnap a cow in his backyard!"). Could be that my sources are biased of course, but it does certainly feel like the UFO paranoia comes from one specific country.
The Bitcoin Cryptocurrency Dream Is Dead
The irony of you libertarian techbros arguing about free speech on one of the most heavily moderated forums on the planet.

Get the fuck over yourselves, cunts
Congrats on the latest release! I'm really excited to see this space getting a lot of attention and traction lately. I think it's one of those things that basically every app has to "reinvent" to some extent, and I would love to just be able to spin up a container that handles a lot of this stuff. Especially considering the security implications.

I dug into this space recently and Keycloak is really the best, most full-featured (open source) solution at the moment. But it's a hefty and can be difficult to work with at times (documentation can be lacking and confusing, customizations difficult). It doesn't seem to jive well with a modern containerized stack, either.

Ory and Supertokens are the two open source projects that I've been keeping an eye on and I think are making great progress and will be real viable alternatives to Keycloak soon. Last I checked they weren't _quite_ ready for real production usage (for various reasons, I'll have to revisit my notes), but they both seem to be moving quickly so looking forward to trying them again soon.
There are some old games I can't get to work on Windows 10 which worked fine on Windows XP. Amusingly, what usually ends up working best is wine.
I'm with you this. I still do work very hard and definitely too much, but I made a decision in my mid 20s to never let work stress actually affect me. Or, at least try not to. I think it actually helped me get promoted when working at startups, but now that I'm working at an 'elite' company, I've definitely missed out on promotions. I'm just not willing to work 14 hr days, every day, to hit arbitrary dates on a calendar.
Twitter signed a large deal with AWS to host some of Twitters service...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Aws+to+deliver+Twitter+contract+ti...
2016 article? is this still broken in 2021
I think it took a while for the cert to work on al continents, because of caching - the site has been up just a few hours :)
Germany's IG Metall was trying to organize that at some point I beleive. I guess it never panned out. [1][2]

1. https://www.engadget.com/2019-07-29-youtube-union-ig-metall....

2. https://fairtube.info/en/
The isolation that comes with being separated from a communal workplace has made many employees question how dedicated they are to their employers, according to lawyers for whistle-blowers and academics. What’s more, people feel emboldened to speak out when managers and co-workers aren’t peering over their shoulders.

“You’re not being observed at the photocopy machine when you’re working from home,” said Jordan Thomas, a former SEC official who helped set up the agency’s whistle-blower program a decade ago. “It’s never been easier to record a meeting when you can do it from your dining room table,” added Thomas, who now represents tipsters as an attorney at Labaton Sucharow in Washington.
Office runs on Macs too!

Seriously, I predict we will see Apple successfully attack the sub $1000 laptop market within two years. They sell the iPhone SE with an A13 for $399 so they could easily do so now they no longer have the 'Intel tax'. And the products will be a lot better than the Windows equivalents.

Most home users might use Office and that's about it. The allure of the Apple ecosystem will be strong especially for iPhone users.
I get your point, but I think the M1 is more significant as proof of what is possible than because I think everyone will buy a Mac.

I can absolutely see Qualcomm offering laptop chips off the back of the M1's success. They may not be as good, but they might be much cheaper. I can also see Microsoft pushing Windows on ARM harder, and rolling out their own chips at some point.

Also once the market gets "used to" multi-architecture software (again), I think we'll see a renaissance of chip design as many more players crop up, because of the lower barrier to entry.