skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, I'm in the same boat as you, that is I am about to schedule my consultation with a LASIK provider. I was really anxious about it, but I've been talking with my regular optometrist about it for the last three years and he has finally convinced me.

What made me feel better was finding out that no one has ever gone blind from the surgery. Those kind of serious complications are a function of people not following the post-operation protocols which leads to an infection.

My optometrist also told me that the main source of complications are from folks that seek out cheap providers and that the three offices he recommends are very very good. I realize that doesn't help you, but my recommendation would be to trust your regular optometrist and ask them for where they see the best outcomes.
> For the ThinkPad, it's a 5 minute task which many people can do themselves

Which is still a step backwards. On my ThinkPad I can remove the battery in seconds without looking. Mainly because sometimes I had to disconnect it to reset it completely. If that would take 5 minutes or any kind of tool that's already hard to justify imho. What do we gain from integrated batteries? Nothing that makes up for easy replacement or, in the case of ThinkPads, the option to upgrade the capacity before the purchase.
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> In practice, much of their thinking is profoundly rational and bayesian.

Right, this was the third option I mentioned; I'm certainly not leaping all the way to the conclusion that one shouldn't listen to a doctor about the best course of action after mammogram results[1]. If their explicit understanding of mammography's false positive rate is so incredibly flawed, there is presumably an implicit counterbalance in the calculus that's built on experience (both their own and their mentors'/institution's), or an _order-of-magnitude_ error would show up in patient outcomes. I'd guess that this and the other instances of critical thinking failure that plague medical culture have their rough edges sanded over time, through decades of what is effectively guess-and-check iterative evolution, combined with institutional transmission of this folk wisdom.

Though I disagree that I would call this "profoundly rational", as IMO leaving explicit reasoning tools on the table instead of intentionally combining them with intuition/experience/epistemic humility is optimal. Iterative evolution is not an efficient process, and adding an attempt to explicitly model the functions you're learning can be a powerful tool. It's very difficult for me to imagine that a doctor explicitly internalized the basics of Bayesian reasoning wouldn't make them at least marginally more effective in terms of patient outcome, etc. Medical history is full of blind alleys built by medical hubris like your comment's "doctors know A Deeper Truth in their soul that defies explicit logical articulation". (Though I should note I don't claim to have a pat answer to this problem: one can theorize about improving a specific doctor's effectiveness, but scaling it to the whole culture is another, and can bump into everything from supply problems to downstream cultural impacts with negative consequences)

[1] Though with knowledge of flaws in such basic reasoning skills in one subpart of the total calculus, a patient can't rationally escape updating in the direction of checking their reasoning more thoroughly. Medicine is a collaborative endeavor between patient and doctor, both bring flaws in their reasoning to the table, and stronger evidence of a huge flaw in reasoning should lower confidence in the overall decision (though at a much lower magnitude, for the reasons we both describe here). This is the same logic that doctors use to rationally discount patient's opinions when they don't perceive them as coming from, eg, overly emotional reasoning.
> And thanks to automated tools, the free offline-capable KiCAD library is now exceeding the scope of the paid online-only Altium vault.

Well, you say this but as a KiCad dev I will say our library team is heavily understaffed and entirely burnt out. Very few library submissions have been processed in over a year. The automation is there to validate agaisnt rules but there's some that still need to be checked manually, i.e. actually confirming everything matches datasheets, etc.
It's a thankless job.
I live in Bay Area and like visiting Goodwill.

Although I haven't seen anything as cool as the one in this article, sometimes there are coffee mugs or T-shirts of failed startups and large companies that are gone long time ago, or lovely T-shirts that used to be sold in Cupertino Apple store.
The difference between what Amjad tweets publicly and what Amjad threatens the ex-intern privately is jarring.

That makes me think that either the tweets are empty virtue signaling; or Amjad is legit worried that an intern open-source project can accidentally outcompete his company!
also relies on it being in working-enough-order to do the erase to begin with.. plenty of machines broken enough to not to power on but still hold data...
@gibberish - I've got a working PCMCIA Wi-Fi adapter in my junk bin if you're interested.
Why bother? Seems throwing their money around is functionality well enough.

Not sure what they'll do if another company decides to reinvent it.. but /shrug

(to be clear, not defending them at all)
> But the fair thing to do is to wait and hear from amjad.

This.

I feel it's likely your GP comment will turn out to be the most constructive one on this whole thread. It seems like a clear case of bullying, but if Amjad is like you describe then one must postulate some additional factor(s) to account for his behaviour.

I'm reminded of a story I once heard about a sweet little old lady who suddenly became highly irascible and it turned out she had lead poisoning. These things happen. God forbid, it could be a brain tumor.
Is TikTok not an Instagram competitor?
> The CEO is probably just having trouble dealing with stress and is acting out. It happens.

That doesn't give them a free pass to lash out at people.
> In a statement to The Telegraph, Apple said “when we learned of this egregious violation of our policies at one of our vendors in 2016, we took immediate action and have since continued to strengthen our vendor protocols.”

Yet it took us 5 years to figure out how to make this right with the victim.
Yep it's a very small step from suing a friendly collaborator to suing a customer. Ask Oracle.
Since Windows XP the common controls are themed which do not support the usual color customizations which were available before then. Some still support WM_CTLCOLOR but some don't, or only do in certain situations.
> JS code is more expressive than WASM, so if you’re aim is to minimize costs you still save bandwidth using JS over WASM.

Dubious, given that WASM is bytecode, unlike JS. Do you have data to cite?
https://lightning.engineering/pool/

more here: https://medium.com/lightningto-me/practical-solutions-to-inb...
Great question! We did our trials at two overseas locations in parallel with doctors. All uses cases were diagnostic for immigration purposes (e.g., detecting Tuberculosis and other chest infections at border points of entry). Given the non-medical use -- no liability insurance. No coverage diagnosis. Also given everything was run in parallel, double-blind with doctors also doing reads, no blame had to be absorbed. Once we got out of parallel, still we wouldn't need liability.

The importance here was demonstrating efficacy, which we did fantastically well.

Once we prove efficacy for multiple use cases, we can at least remove the "oh you computer scientists dont get it" argument and can have adult conversations about how to progress state of the art rather than continue to bleed patients dry.

I'll admit there are definitely barriers like what you mention. But those barriers are not some impenetrable force once we break down real issues and deal with them separately and start treating the problem as one we can solve as a society.
Doesn't the TypeStable struct just hide the unknown type, not remove it? The type of o.o still needs to be looked up at runtime. Furthermore, TypeStable itself has to be on the heap, which I think means this causes two pointer lookups rather than just one.
Goodwill in the PNW is great too with lots of Microsoft “not for sale” items.
Thanks for the quotes, I've been wanting to read this paper for some time. Great to see they went through the consensus literature and made a decision to go with Active Disk Paxos, instead of stopping short and not fully understanding the consensus they're building on. The consensus and replication protocol is such a huge part of building a distributed database.
Can someone with knowledge in law tell me?

If (in another world) he made this project with commercial motive and used some of the design decisions, would this actually be illegal?
anyone who has ever interviewed with Amjad knows hes two-faced. He had a posting for a marketing position open forever and would have you work about 3 weeks for the interview. He would ask for marketing campaigns and how to implementing them. thinking that he was testing your skill set but actually just stealing ideas. I use to use Repl.it but forget. I really hope this company burns. He lacks the understanding of what the face of a company means and every time i see or think about this company, i just remember how i was treated by the guy who supposedly wants to "change" the world and "help" people. he makes me sick
What country/area? Interesting anecdote.
I don't think this is true. As the author notes, he doesn't have any ability to scale due to simplistic design decisions he made. As the author notes, the hard part of this business is not "write a webserver that takes a program from a user and runs it"
Ask HN: What are the best blog posts to learn the inner workings of Git?
Not the git CLI commands, but the way git is implemented? Any articles that do a nice overview?
So once I've done one kind of work I shouldn't ever do that again for fear of offending my previous employer? Do you hear how ridiculous that sounds?
If your business is threatened by a non-commercial one-man open source project, you have a lot more problems on your plate than that single "issue"
When you saw the wide support for communism after the war and the blindness to its own concentration camps and genocides, a lot of people who lived ww2 didn't really respect its lessons either.
I really don't understand why people jump to conclusions so fast without hearing both sides.

I understand no one wants the small guy to be bullied by the company but it's ridiculously naive to assume that the entire truth is contained in that blog post.
> And it's not just Apple devices that can use a FaceTime link to join a call. Android and Windows devices can join from the browser. Even on the web, FaceTime calls are still end-to-end encrypted.

from https://live.arstechnica.com/apples-wwdc-2021-keynote/
Scientists fear future leaks as top-level labs proliferate
Pretty much normal unfortunately in industries that aren't so visible in the public like big tech companies.
I think RIPlit would have better potential at attracting customers than anything using the f-word :)
You mean the least response?
"it would evoke the largest response from the Christian nations"
Christian/American/European leaders didn't care at all about jews.
If there's anything I've learned in the past 10 years is that there must be a gigantic mass of people using the web/smartphone without any hint of self-determination.

Anecdotally I see it in relatives that they're often hopelessly at the mercy of what their screen says. This is who gets targeted with this nonsense.
This is true. No one has ever gone blind from LASIK, but personally, I value my vision over (almost) everything, and losing it is a chance I don't want to take.
What were the strong contenders?
Last I checked 3% of deaths are among vaccinated people. That isn't what "almost zero" looks like. It's really good but it aint zero. Next up with 58% of the population not being fully vaccinated yet we have plenty of opportunity for problems if we don't take the ball all the way to the end zone especially with vaccinated people not being exactly evenly distributed.

I give you the fine state of Mississippi where only 1/3 is vaccinated and they are only doing 15k vaccinations per week. If the population even wanted a vaccine at this rate it would achieve immunity some time in 2023. Its like a nice little virus lab where there are plenty of unvaccinated hanging around for existing strains but the first strain to successfully attack vaccinated will gain a huge advantage.

https://msdh.ms.gov/msdhsite/_static/resources/12130.pdf
Good question. These statement applies to patients who have no to very minor eye issues, meaning healthy people under age 40 who have refractive errors of ~1D (ideally less,) who have never been diagnosed with eye disease, who have no family history of eye disease, and who have good vision (that they are happy with.) It sounds like you probably have a refractive error of >6D, in which case yearly dilated exams are good practice.

Re: inaccuracies, what I am referring to is the air puff test. The air puff test is a very crude measurement of eye pressure (aka intraocular pressure, or IOP.) The gold standard is Goldman Applanation, which involves putting yellow fluorescein drops in your eye and then using the applanation tip and a blue light to assess IOP.

More on Goldman Applanation here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2206330/

Hope this helps!
Try sitting in a Kubota for 12 hours vs a JD. Your ass will be able to tell a difference.

At this point it's better to buy a Kubota to avoid the lock-in, but JD is still far superior when it comes to the attention to detail.
> There are many cases where an attacker can access a device for a short time and/or without the owner realizing that the phone was tampered with.

This is what you originally responded to. I paraphrased it. The "heavy lifting" meme that you've employed is rarely more than a shallow dismissal. Be better.
Many attorneys offer free consultations, so OP (or anyone in a similar situation) should've contacted an attorney and asked them what to do. The attorney would know very well if he was in actual danger or the CEO was just bluffing.
In regards to your comment about the situation being a bit muddier than presented: I would suggest that you take a look through the unabridged version as linked in the post ( https://web.archive.org/web/20210530184721/https://imgur.com... )

Rather than downvoting your comment I opted to reply to it since it may provide a bit more information for you to base your judgement on about "things being muddier".

As for your last comment about their abilities - forgive me but that sounds incredibly unfair and unwarranted and verges on being a personal attack.
It looks native but not windows 10 native. We have a similar problem with an MFC application at work? Microsoft no longer provides MFC with the ability to update your app to use the system look and feel. The newest we can go to is “Office 2007”
Then why would OP tell them about that? Sounds to me like the latest thing you'd do
Does teaching children how to play chess improve their educational attainment?
I'm sorry but this is a lot of words to say "be subservient to your old boss". There's nothing wrong in what this dude did. He made an open source experiment and for that he was threatened practically at gun point. The contents of the emails he received are highly unprofessional and childishly antagonistic
> at least the Replit CEO trusted that OP will not make this go viral on HN and spiral into a PR nightmare I suppose,

From reading the emails, it looks like the Replit CEO "trusted" that the OP was cowed into submission.
I'm an advisor for a large coding Bootcamp, and I was about to recommend they use Replit across the board for all of their students. I will now be recommending that people stay as far away from this company as possible. This kind of behavior is unethical and intolerable, and worse, suggestive of deeper issues with Replit's governance, decision making, etc.

In the very least their poor decision making will now cost them a massive deal, so now there is a positive spin :)
Emission control suit of requirements (both hardware & software) make these tractors failure more likely. Eg. from a youtube farmer in Sask, Ca., his NH tractor wiring harness failed because highly corrosive DEF was puked all over it. Wiring hardness is only needed to fine tune injection pump & the pletora of sensors because of regulations, and DEF is only needed because of regulations.

All of this decrease the useful lifetime of equipment.

And no, all of this is not required, a trucked was able to pass California regulations with an old pre-EPA-regulations diesel engine, but the tolerances are a lot tighter (ie. forget about that chinesium oil pump with a couple thousands too much shaft end play), maintenance is a lot trickier...
+1

Finally someone raising the valid point about "it all depends on the legal paperwork signed."
I have been consistently appalled by the NHS' willingness to collaborate so freely with data-mining privacy-violating american companies (google, palantir).

Did the UK public consent to having their personal data shared to unaccountable foreign companies? I know I didn't.
It seems that he isn't really trying to make more money. Maybe I'm misinterpreting his words from his site:

https://blog.sindresorhus.com/answering-anything-678ce562379...

> How do you make a living if you don’t have a job and don’t take donations?

> I don’t make a living, currently. I have some money saved up. I don’t really care much about money or material things, don’t use much money, and don’t have a lot of monthly expenses.

> Do you enjoy being homeless?

> Definitely. It’s nice being free to travel anywhere at any time. I don’t really care much about material stuff either, so I have everything I need and care about in a small backpack.

> How to be rich?

> You don’t want to be rich — You want to be happy.
This article published last night by the ACLU is in direct response to the New York Times piece below published yesterday to counter the narrative the ACLU is in an identity crisis.

The identity crisis as detailed in the NY Times article states that the majority of lawyers that are members of the ACLU do not agree with the stance that ALL free speech should be defended. They argue that the free speech rights of the far right in the January 6th Capitol Riots were not worthy of defense by the A.C.L.U, whereas the BLM free speech rights are.

That is a big departure from the ACLU historic stance of the past and it's the problem inside the ACLU right now - today free speech does not trump voting rights, reparations, transgender rights and defunding the police in the eyes of the MAJORITY of their members.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/06/us/aclu-free-speech.html
Not trolling, but what case are you referring to? The only ones I'm aware of were where protesters were illegally prevented from gathering. I'm also not sure what they'd be able to do to defend the Jan 6th rioters - it doesn't seem like their 1st amendment rights were violated that day.
ACLU attorney's response: https://twitter.com/carltakei/status/1401655639114489859
Were there other distributed databases that did pass the fault injection testing?
I always find these orphaned technological branches compelling, in part, because it's so easy to point to the success story and treat it like it was a singular invention. We hold up the iPhone as a miracle but forget the Newton and PalmPilot.

It's a good antidote to the narrative that either an idea is sufficient for success, or that success is a function of the idea. It's important, sure, but a fair bit of it is having the timing, resources, and luck to throw ideas against the wall until the world is ready for it, either due to cultural factors, missing infrastructure now built out, or other underlying technological evolutions meeting up together.
I've gotten into data hoarding for the same reason. Google photos, youtube, icloud; storing your content on your own hardware is always best for critical features like predictability and access (I don't even want to imagine managing multiple TB through my consumer internet connection). Cloud is great for convenience and redundancy but I consider those secondary features to data preservation.

Follow-up: any recommendations for a beginner NAS? I'd love something cheap and simple; a 2-4 drive system with plug and play functionality would be awesome. I can live without streaming 4k videos or top-of-the-line features like that, though streaming 1080p would be nice.
The anger is not directed at replit but at its CEO. The company's negative reaction is understandable, lawyering up in response to some freshly graduated intern that obviously had not intended any harm - not cool. They could talk much softer and the result would be the same. That CEO dude gives an asshole vibe - people react :shrug:

edit: CTO -> CEO
> Lawyers do not like to lose cases, so will not push a losing agenda.

They don't need to push it very far to cause a lot of harm to an individual and relatively bury them in costs.
In the context of the article I took that as a gesture of goodwill while trying to talk out the misunderstanding. They had a relationship before this happened and it sounded like he wanted to maintain that relationship.

In the end, this was a hobby project for the author, and I can understand he might not want to deal with the stress involved with possible legislation. The bully is the aggressor here and lets try not to blame the victim.
Yeah, holding a VC fund and accelerator responsible for every tantrum thrown by one of their proteges is worth a downvote.

This kind of catastrophizing doesn't contribute. For one thing, you jumped from "this kind of person" to "these kind of people", without supporting evidence.

Do you have a process which can identify, in advance, everyone who is going to be an asshole to a former intern? While picking enough winners to make bank? Please share!
Unless there was an NDA or some such (and since this isn't mentioned anywhere in the emails or post, I assume there's not) you can hardly sue someone for re-using knowledge they acquired during their job. How are you even supposed to know what the supposed super-magic super-secret sauce is if you never agreed to an NDA?

If that was the case almost everyone with a GitHub project could be sued to infinity, because almost everyone learns tons of things every day while working.
noteworthy facts: regen is only required because of EPA regulations.
Maybe an easy solution is to do the thing everybody seems to discourage: add a clause to your preferred OSS license, stating that usage of the code is subject to sending a mandatory thank-you email.

That change alone might be enough to break the fragile conditions that allow the license to be considered Open Source... but who cares, the mental health and happiness of OSS devs affected by the difficulties mentioned in here is more important than the technicalities of what could happen by a small clause addition.
Opposite experience here w/ two uBreakiFix stores and a Pixel 3. Neither time I was asked to provide the PIN. The first time I asked and they gave me a strong "no". No factory wipe, etc.