skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's now a treatment using low-concentration atropine eye drops to more-or-less stop the further deteriorating of the eyes (at least for near-sightedness).

Our ophthalmologist told us about this when we took our oldest there after noticing she had some issues in seeing things properly from a distance. Since my wife and myself have on average -8 we were keeping an eye out (ha!) on our kids for any signs of vision issues.

Basically every night before bed you put a drop in each eye and keep this up for as long as they're still growing. If you can start early enough this means they can end up with e.g. -1.5 or -2 instead of regressing all the way to e.g. -8.5 like me. Definitely a quality-of-life improvement, less chance of other eye issues later on, reduced cost of glasses and easier treatment with a laser to get back to 0 in case they want that.

It's fairly new, at least here in Europe, so not all doctors are familiar with it. Same for pharmacists: they need to prepare these eye drops themselves since they are not available directly from a manufacturer in this low concentration.
>it's much better for people to believe in Jesus than the Kardashians

The problem is not what you believe in but how you do. Religion is by definition dogmatic and in a sociatal context very well suited to create/base a self image on. Its a nice layer 8 intrusion vector.
To be fair, there can be dogmatic kardashian fans but its much more unlikely. Just consider the short news lifespan of this celeb world.
For the last few years one has seen articles about the good stuff Dolly does, and AFAICR most of it goes back much further in time than when the writings about it began to become common. Seems she, as opposed to most billionaires who look ever more the congenital arseholes, is good people for real.

On Gates, I suppose the jury will be out until well after his death? Personally, I'm totally split on him: Yes, he seems to be doing a real lot of actual good shit with his billions nowadays. But he did amass them by being perhaps the biggest robber baron of the 20th century. (And certainly the biggest -- so far! -- in the IT / "tech" [whatever that means] industry; I guess we'll have to wait until Thiel, Musk, Zuck & al are gone too, before we can assess if any of them surpassed him.)
I don't know. Lots of people around the world were killed by people who believe n Jesus. 100s of millions actually.
The replies to this make it clear that people want to be ignorant of the actual situation. Usually, you are in rooms with other people who you don't know or trust without a secure place to put your belongings. You can only sleep at night and have to leave during the day. Different shelters have different rules and occupancy and you might have to go to several to find one with an opening. During the day you have to find places you can be that you won't be harassed. Repeat. Imagine trying to do this while dealing with medical issues or just shear exhaustion from having no stability.

Living in a tent sounds preferable from constantly being on the move. A shelter does not mean you have dedicated space to be in whenever you want.
An Epidemiologist Says At-Home Testing Is Key to Stopping Covid
I agree where there isn't inherently a stack. Many of the introductory examples of recursion are trivially transformed to an iteration in constant space.

However, there are plenty of interesting cases where if you don't use recursion, you end up having to implement your own stack as a resizable vector.

The question "why should the busy work of hand-rolling your own stack be necessary?" is the kind of question that you don't want to waste too much time on as a working programmer, but unless some people think deeply about such questions, the field as a whole stops progressing.

As others point out in this discussion, with a 64-bit address space one could organize the stack(s) in such a way that recursion could use all of physical memory if necessary.
The Cardassians did...
Not specific to web apps, but usually only used with respect to them.

“Traditional” applications on desktops/laptops/similar where offline-only, some later getting online sync as optional features, so offline-first doesn't need to be stated as it is the assumed default when something isn't offline-only.

Web based applications started out online-only, only later in their evolution sometimes getting the ability to work properly offline. Offline-first is still an unusual property, and may forever be, so gets mentioned where it is relevant. Many are simply “works offline” where offline operation is bolted on as an afterthought and may not be at all optimal (for instance in the case of two edits to the same object the last to sync automatically wins, clobbering the other with no attempt to merge or branch and no notice that this has happened or is about to happen, and no care given to the consistency of compound entities when this happens).

Apps for phone & tables fall between, so the matter is more vague. I have heard offline-first in reference to them but usually they are either online-only or “works offline” (offering little or nothing more than buffering changes until a connection is available). Some, particularly games, are like traditional apps (offline only or offline with some sort of online sync/backup).
> For schoolkids it's probably even bigger. They don't even know that their eyesight might not be just like every other kid.

During 6th grade I transitioned from being able to read the blackboard to not being able to read the blackboard, unless I was sitting closer.

Not realizing there's a problem is something that might come up for kindergarteners, but not for kids who are already in school.
Netflix acquires its first game studio
Yes, it can happen. Above certain thresholds of ownership you need to declare that, and financials get adjusted to reflect consolidated figures, and it ends up working out.
Yeah, but would you want to bet on it? You’d have to be either really really stupid, or really really smart, but we’d only find out afterwards.
Same. I also stopped using two monitors because it was distracting.
Makes sense to me. This is going to be sick once it's ready!
PHP can be built as either thread safe (TS (the term ZTS, Zend Thread Safe, is also used)) or non thread safe (NTS), depending how you deploy PHP (how the webserver interacts with PHP like FastCGI or SAPI, if it spawns processes or threads) you run one or the other, most common is that you use NTS builds on Linux and TS builds on Windows.

PHP does not have a GIL, thus PHP does not suffer from any slowdown when using threads, proper use of threading improves PHP performance without the need to escape to a C library. Internally PHP uses something called Thread-Safe Resource Manager (TSRM) when built as thread safe. TSRM architecture was improved with PHP 7 and to my understanding performance as well.

However PHP does not ship with any API to handle threads, this is because normally you, the web programmer, don't do any process/thread handling in a web setup, concurrency is handled by the webserver for each request. It does exist third party extensions that enables threading API, like in a cron job.
Say something about Huawei case
I had a hard time keeping up with taking notes and then I had my eyes tested and got glasses and it wasn’t an issue anymore .

I just thought I was slow because I could read the board, it just took me a few seconds to focus each time I looked up, which slowed me down.
I disagree, at least somewhat.

I got my first pair in grade 3 and the next day, it looked like the teacher had dramatically upgraded the chalk she was using. I could actually read it and follow along easily, but the day before I didn’t know anything was “wrong” and I was sure “I don’t need glasses!!”

I think people in general are slow to notice gradual changes. “Maybe the new school’s board is different. Maybe the teacher sucks at writing. Maybe this lighting is worse. (But mostly,) I’ll just squint a little and get by.”
Is it really massive? It's a bug, and should be fixed, but aren't most people on iOS mostly just using apps for streaming anyway. I'm not sure how many people are affected by this bug in any meaningful way.
The CIA Hypochondria Syndrom spreads in MSM.
Yea but saying they expect 100% freedom is implying that they have unreasonable demands like allowing violence. But the actual strings attached are not things many healthy housed people would put up with, like requiring people to leave during the day every day (to go where?) And sleeping next to many total strangers.
A dichotomy that is thankfully entirely fictional. It's better to believe neiter.

But if we are being reasonable, relgion has caused unfathomable turmoil and despair across centuries. The Kardashians hardly tweak the needle in pain inflicted. It's not like people are going to war over them. I think some perspective is needed about what religion actually is at times. It isn't just sunday church with Grandma.
Alright then. With the authority vested in my by HN comment #28691569 (2021-09-29, rini17) I hereby declare all expansion ambitions of the United States of America on the North American continent after 1776 as territorial conquest. Furthermore, I declare all United Nations military presence on soil not under US control in 1776, especially soil not on the North American continent, to be territorial conquest.
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> But it is still worth contemplating a world without Sci-Hub—that is to say, a world in which Sci-Hub would be unnecessary. The “effective nationalization” proposed by Wiley and by the academic publishers themselves might just pave the way there. Imagine it: a 21st-century Library of Alexandria, a truly utopian creation, gifted to the world by Uncle Sam.

Those are fair sentiments but in my experience, replacing one ideological solution (capitalism) with another (socialism) just shifts the pile of money to be made, from one group of people to another.

From my perspective, I'm not sure there really is a solution as, no matter what we try, at some point somewhere greed just seems to get the better of us.
I've had my non-public LinkedIn account scraped a number of times. Thankfully waving the GDPR cannon now gets the information taken down (eventually).
Why is everything so hard in a large organization?
Nah is almost definitely because of lower funding for the library. The budgets globally are so squeezed now that publishers are actually lowering their fees for the first time since the industry started.
> Worse, focusing on the computer consumption may push web developers to just move computations to the server side, where the energy consumption is not measured.

Server side energy consumption is directly measured by how much money it costs to run the servers. The only reason web devs waste client processing power like there is no tomorrow is that it doesn't cost anything.
Koalas are fine. I don't know anyone who has ever been attacked by one. They just keep to themselves.

Magpies are much worse. I don't know anyone who hasn't been swooped by one.
I get what you are saying.

However I guess I was referring to all healthcare system in the US. I believe all over the Europe kid would be tested for free, every year, mandatorily. If eye correction is needed one would be supplied. So study like this wouldn't even be possible. Of course maybe some minimum payment would be needed, parents involved, etc. etc. But these are only details.

However the problem itself is not a problem of neglectful parents. It is a problem of healthcare system/educational system and society as whole.
Has anyone used ObjectBox in anger and can share their experience?

https://objectbox.io/

https://github.com/objectbox/

(addition) Some benchmarks

https://greenrobot.org/android/benchmarking-on-android/

https://greenrobot.org/android/android-orm-performance-2016/

(edit) You can even measure it yourself

https://github.com/objectbox/objectbox-performance
From the wiki on their Github [1] and looking at Github contributors, this is a 3 person project (and no Github commits since June 2021). They're clearly not making their own VR headset, they're using something off the shelf (from other comments seems like an HTC Vive). Making the website ambiguous about this is just confusing.

I saw a couple YC apps in there, so I'm sure they had to be ambitious, but thinking realistically there's a big difference between being:

1) A VR headset for work company

2) A VR operating system for work company

3) A window manager for VR for work company

[1] https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula/wiki/Simula-Master-Plan
I want to hear a legitimate argument for why because the worst effects of being obsessed with pop culture icons appears to be people buying useless merch whereas the worst forms of religious zealously tend to spawn significantly more dangerous ideologies.

With the Kardashians and Gwyneth Paltrow as bad as it gets is news drama and vagina-scented candles rather than wars, creationism and women without reproductive rights
> Religion is by definition dogmatic

What definition is that? I see that religion is an axiom, not unlike many other axioms that we take for granted. At what point do you "just believe" the physicists? When they talk about atoms? Subatomic particles? Fields?

I'm not religious and I'm strongly in the science camp. But I don't pretend that my choice of worldview is not based on axioms that I myself cannot test.
If you're anything like me, by your mid-forties you aren't going to need 4k per eye.

The Quest 2 is already pretty much as sharp as my eyes can resolve - and that's with prescription glasses.
Congratulations on going out of beta! Spaces have many interesting properties indeed. I read that there was some interop between Spaces and Microsoft Teams, but i couldn't find the source code. Could you point me to it?

Related: i've read most of the specs API but like all specs in decentralized RFC ecosystems (W3C, XSF, MSC) but i find it hard to understand what version of what document is currently implemented. Is there a document summarizing all APIs/concerns for this feature, and/or a document specifically intended for interoperability with other networks/protocols?
One of my kids started school last year. He did well, learned to read etc., but we noticed that unlike his older sibling, he didn't seem to like letters, numbers and books much. We never seemed able to concentrate for more than a minute.

So in the summer break, we had his vision tested, and it was +6 and +4. Turns out that although you are half blind you can somehow manage to read and write anyways. In a matter of weeks after he got glasses, he taught himself to read in English, a language he doesn't even have in school but that he knows from YouTube and Netflix, and with letters different from the Cyrillic alphabet he knew.

If like us, you live in a place where kids' vision is not tested automatically by your physician, I can only encourage you to have your kids' vision tested.
I think it’s not that religion is good or bad, it’s what you replace it with. Humans are in some sense geared to mythical beliefs - believing in something higher than us sort of like a father figure, there is a reason every famous work of art or fiction exploits that - be it Harry Potter or Game of Thrones. You can go way beyond in the past and cave engravings and such also seem to tell the same story.

Wiping out clean religion (or the sense that there is a father figure watching and judging you) seems to have had bad consequences wherever it has been tried. And it has come back with vengeance. Go to StPetersburg in Russia in a church on Sunday - all the churches are almost full to the brink.
The difference between Go and Rust
That's the point, though: One doesn't see the impact directly. But after 15 years you just do it the python way by default, not considering other ways that stuff could be solved if it weren't for the limitations imposed by the platform.

The python ways work fine, so it's OK even with GIL, but there are other ways as well.
Who exactly do you see as profiting from a globally open-access paper store?
> My understanding is that the SpaceX ground stations uplink the orbital parameters of other satellites and/or debris and it is mostly up to the satellites to avoid a collision.

That is almost certainly not how that is implemented. Why would they run the orbit maneuver planning in space when they could do the whole thing comfortably on a simple server PC on earth?

> But overall the Starlink operations concept is probably tailored to mostly automated operations.

I agree with that. They are most definietly not hand-flying their birds. But this autonomy is most likely implemented on the ground.
Amazing, thanks so much!
> I thought the URL was displayed when you scanned an NFC before you opened it. If the URL is from apple.com or icloud.com, you know you can trust it. If the URL is someone else, you know not to trust it.

While you obviously know what you're talking about, you can't honestly think that the majority of people wouldn't know any better? Even if most people knew better than clicking nwidjjjj.biz/lkqpdi15, something like youfoundmyairtag.hr/tag=238s71j would probably still fool enough to make it a viable vector.
Looks a lot like Project Looking Glass :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Looking_Glass
Old video game advertisements
Most baby books with sound use a plastic case with a screw for button battery safety.
> forbids using matrix as an emergency contact method

I think it's good policy that your work communication tools are unavailable outside of work hours. It's actually mandated by worker protection laws in many countries (France included).

But if your work contract specifies you have compensation for staying reachable on an emergency basis, why not have a dedicated emergency channel where both personal and work accounts are subscribed?
TIL. That's really cool!
Ah, that's a bit of a shame. That said, if people are willing to pay the premium to run Macs, they should probably expect to need to keep upgrading their machines to maintain a level of stability. (It's not good, but it is how the cookie crumbles)
We don't really know if there's going to be a hit on battery life because we've never been able to test this (since there are no alternative browsers to test with).

Besides, you should be able to keep using Safari and the impact will be exactly zero :)
It could be done, and I wonder if someone in the UK (since they are loose) did it.

First, you need to start with an actual person. Say "csomar" register and owns Company A. Then Company A registers and owns Company B. Now Company B goes on to buy Company A. This will require some accounting fraud since Company A value is always superior to Company B.
Ruby seems to have got past its GIL problems with Ractor[1]. What's stopping Python from doing something similar?

[1] https://scoutapm.com/blog/ruby-ractor
PoW is the only proof mechanism that has seen real world use for a significant length of time.
Thank you so much for your explanation! I've always wondered how they did that.

Do you know any way to get a copy of the full video? I like to play video at 1.5x speed, but some player don't have this feature so I need to obtain the URI (to play the network file with local player ove) or the file itself (e.g with youtube-dl).
In software, when an engineer exits the team
Interesting. Then again, even if apple made it immutable, what's to stop bad actors from having a bunch of lookalike tags manufactured with plain old NFC?

edit: apple has no native support for reading NFC tags. You can only do it within apps. So i guess my idea wouldn't work for now.
Fun note, almost all of it is written in Haskell. If I remember correctly they've also done a bunch of stuff that helps Godot, or at least something to do with the Haskell bindings. Very accessible guys, I once asked a question on the gitter, and got helpful replies almost immediately.
It’s even difficult for adults to admit something might be wrong with eyesight
Expansion doesn't take land if the state already had reserved that land for itself. Many highways have huge rights of way beside them because the state had grand plans for expansion when they were built in the 50s-70s.
Aply the verification approach to religion and you will see many inconsistencies and contradictions. I believe no major religion would widthstand a scrutinizing critical look.

This sceptical approach down to the core is fatal for religions, thus discouraged, thus dogmatic.

Science is hard to reproduce, true, but it is non the less encouraged.
The big shipping companies are still European but their ships are built in Asia and crewed with whoever is cheapest.

Its a relentlessly efficient industry and I don't think a lot of Westerners are willing to spend an entire year on a cargo ship. The Jones act is actually an admission that the US cannot compete.
A Smalltalk and REBOL inspired language implemented as an AST interpreter in Nim
I make my computer hostile enough that viruses and intruders backoff when they meet it.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/NkXauuz2vUALRafq6 this is what my wife goes through in two weeks.

That's boot of my Subi Forester and that is not the fullest it is ever been. During mango season we even take a bit of passenger space. That box of oranges is was 5 AUDs btw.
I'm not advocating to do this but anyway there are times at which more than six months goes by without any mandatory kernel vuln fix requiring a reboot. And not all kernel vulnerabilities do affect all setups, especially when the system is used not as a server but simply as a "workstation" (with 0 ports opened or maybe just the SSH one).

I was just commenting that modern machines can be very reliable too.
Well GitHub recommend that people use https as it works even if you are behind a firewall or proxy. They even offer SSH over port 443 [1] if you want to use SSH but are stuck behind such a firewall.

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/troubleshooting-ss...
Politics, favoritism, nepotism, incompetence, and working synergy with a team also spoils things because you never get synergy.
I think this is a really bad solution that only reinforces bad practices of hiding content. Even worse than direct censorship, it generates more problems than it solves.
I suppose it’s a difficult field to enter? Idk if it’s needed but my naive assumption is that I won’t be able to contribute without having a VR headset.

Speaking of, what’s a good VR headset that I can purchase in ‘21 that does not have anything to do with FB? I enjoyed playing Alyx on the Index so that’s my prime candidate for now, for both gaming and productivity.
Same here. Whoever gets past all the layered defenses has earned whatever data they can exfiltrate.
Even ultrasound scans where the finding could be used as an argument to terminate a pregnancy poses the same ethical problem.
Yep. Let's ban cars, sex, and food. To save the planet.
The sex lobby is big and powerful. And what about the food industries? And what about humans? Let's ban all activity.
The easiest way out.
> (b) Companies House does not carry out any data validation, they accept what you sign and send them and publish it verbatim.

I think this is the crux of the issue. While Companies House "appears" transparent, it's actually just a directory website where any dog can put anything.
Selling a company for less than it's worth isn't automatically accounting fraud, is it?
I don’t know, there could be all sorts of confounders there. Like maybe poor eyesight means you’re not as good at sports which means you tend to focus on more studious hobbies like reading.

Or maybe reading and spending time inside tends to ruin your eyesight. Or maybe it does, but only because it takes time away from active pursuits like sports!

Does anyone have pointers to research that teases out the causes and effects here?
> feet of engineering

Thanks for the chuckle.
Especially back when PCs out there where still all super noisy: silent PSUs / fans etc. wasn't a thing. So in music studios many would still rock Atari STs for they were totally silent even though we were well into the PC age.
My favorite part was him being happy about vibrating dick picture in paint.