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Ask HN: I'm afraid my wife is dying. Is there a “quora.com” for rare cancers?
Fellow hackers, I'm a long-time lurker, but this is a bit personal (thus the new account).

Short version: Is there a website or world-wide pool of oncologists which I could send an ultrasound-screening image or blood data, so that in return my little family can know how long we'll have our mommy?

Long version:

My wife, 35 years old, mother of two, has a very rare "thing" developing quite fast on her liver. She very rarely drinks alcohol, like once every 5 years, has no history of substance abuse, and according to blood screens her liver-values are fine with no indication of the liver being affected at all.

When our second child was born, 1,5 years ago, it was done via an emergency c-section, because of a sudden inner bleeding. Mother and child luckily survived. We found out the bleeding was caused by a "thing" bursting. The clinic's head oncologist, after having multiple round-table calls with other head oncologists from other clinics finally decided, that this was likely a malignant cancer.

So here we were, newborn baby, unharmed but an unnoticed 10cm-sized cystic cancer suddenly bursting, meaning it must have been there for quite some time. All the material around it was removed, the liver quickly grew back.

But on subsequent screenings new spots appeared. And now 1,5 years after the old thing was removed, some have grown to 5cm in size. No other organ seems affected and the liver still functioning, but one tumor marker is increasing.

We went to multiple clinics in Germany, even to Tübingen, which is rather regarded for their knowledge in the field. But no one can really tell us what this is or what to do [1]. It's not affecting any organs, isn't spreading (it had time to do so and just seems to live on/in the liver's surface), and since it's the liver chemotherapy doesn't seem to be an option.

We're seeking help, and clarity. And if there's one strength of the internet, it is connecting the right people with each other. Maybe posting this here helps.

[1] At the time we went to the clinics the spots were too small to take samples. I understand taking them now might prove more helpful - but then, if it's an incurable cancer my wife is kind of reluctant to have another surgery just to find out what we are already pretty sure what it is...

(Excuse any spelling errors, I'm not a native speaker)
Will Maria Reesa's Nobel force Zuckerberg to wake up?
The economist has been killing me for a long time. They use to have what I thought were good articles or maybe i was just less informed although I don’t think that has changed in the past 2 years when i noticed a huge drop in quality.

If anyone has any good news sources please let me know. The economist was the last thing i was reading before it stopped putting out quality content.
I'm not sure that South Korea has a single flat area to put 5x5 block of super blocks. The landscape is very rugged.

Also, putting any number of buildings in the middle of nowhere is not solving any issues. And near Seoul there's no land.
> As a developer I never had much problems building systems in multiple locales.

That's really not the hard part

The hard part is to follow all the legal and social conventions. Formats for dates and money, symbols and colors that you can or cannot use, making sure you get timezones right, serving a right to left design to the middle east, dealing with the various way to enter a phone number or a home address, translating efficiently db content or SPA pieces...

Just translating from a *.po file, yes, it's easy.
Didn't Intel sell their farm? To Samsung wasn't it?

Bezos should buy the top say 6 levels of Intel management, and give them a new company whose sole focus is to keep any further advances in space travel from happening. That seems to be a high priority goal for him, and if the Intel folks can make the business pivot that's their jam just in a different market segment.

The only way to extract any of the value still extant inside Intel, that I can imagine, is a deep breakup where the resulting entities are small, focused, single purpose shops... In other words, I don't see a way. Some Liquidation / Firesale move would be better and keep the foreign companies off the first auction.
Depends on what you mean by not liking emacs. If you prefer vim, then you can just install Evil to get similar-ish modal keyboard controls. If you are more of an IDE-person who likes controlling stuff with a mouse in VS or IntelliJ, then probably no.
Well at the point of time when policies are that to the left hard to imagine you will still have elected officials but who knows
Red Work vs. Blue Work
The US already has a couple billionaires doing space stuff and one trying to eradicate things like polio so if this were a Civilization video game tech tree choice it would be amazing to pick the next billionaire (i.e. FB's Zuckerberg) to fully fund non-profit mental health centers across the country.
Yes, free market is not free-so-I-can-do-anything. It must have some regulations, or else all the corporations will become evil.
It's a legit joy to play! We bought copies for our two gaming systems so the kids wouldn't fight over their turn.
>For the 1000th time, a total of 0 (zero) VCs that most people would associate with "silicon valley" invested in Theranos

Well, Tim Draper is a VC that people would associate with "Silicon Valley". (portfolio: https://www.dfj.com/)

The first $500k seed came from DFJ.[1]

But somewhat to your point, Elizabeth Holmes did not get his backing via the typical "VC due diligence" channel. Instead, she was childhood friends with Draper's daughter. Apparently, her charm completely bypassed his VC radar for detecting bullshit.

[1] https://news.crunchbase.com/news/theranos-elizabeth-holmes-t....
'We value your privacy [, at about 30¢].'
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I think there is a strong correlation between the number of Javascript programmers interested in algorithms and data structures and the number of C programmers interested in front-end frameworks.
"The West" roughly means Europe/Western culture/world [0]. Everywhere has always had some level of change always, but there has never been a demographic and cultural decline alongside a wholesale importation of backwards cultures like the one we're seeing in Europe.

>My preferred strategy would be to implement policies that keep bringing in desirable future citizens that continue to give out tribe an economic edge.

That's exactly what's causing this decline. For the capitalist class, importing cheap labor that will not align with the prevailing culture is EXACTLY what they want.

> Not sure why we do not hand STEM graduates (at least Masters and PhDs) green cards with their diploma.

Not sure why we don't grow our own people organically versus replacing them with immigrants from backwards countries and cultures.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world
Same way power plant workers live with themselves, knowing that criminals use electricity too.
I'll take frame.work over apple any day.
We could do the same process with fast growing bush-form softwoods like poplar or willow that regenerate from roots.

In fact a stand of young poplars doesn't look too dissimilar from a bamboo grove; lots of narrow straight trees.

I cut two dying poplars on my property a few years ago and there's now a stand of dozens of 4" diameter smaller trees, sprouted out from the root system.
Your assertion was that it never comes from engineers. If you accept that was too strong and want to adjust your claim okay, but don't make as though that's what I was arguing about.

> I don't, but I don't lionize Tesla or Elon either.

If you don't address or retract any of the seemingly incorrect claims you made about Tesla, that suggests to me that you do.
These headlines naïvely miss the point. The problem isn’t Facebook, a private company, seeking profits. The problem is its deeply-entrenched psychopathy and pathological record of lying [1].

And it really appears to be a Facebook problem. Instagram for Kids wasn’t the fever dream of a deranged Instagrammer. It was pushed by a Facebook implant [2].

I don’t know if being in proximity to Facebook’s leadership corrupts people. Or if they select broken folks to start with. But it’s a top down effect, and the main reason I lobby for breaking up the company.

[1] They lied to the FTC [a]. They lied to WhatsApp and the EU [B]. They created an Oversight Board and then, wait for it, lied to it [c].

—[a] https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/cases/182_3109_fa...

—[b] https://euobserver.com/digital/137953

—[c] https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebooks-oversight-board-says-...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Mosseri
I wonder how heads of states will live with themselves knowing that they are directly facilitating all the horrible things that go on the World.

On the other hand, I consider fighting against mass surveillance and for maintaining privacy a good thing.
Interesting, curious what your occupation is?
Well $CORP is here to serve its various stakeholders and its customers is arguably one of the most important.

The issue with $ADS_CORP is that the people it serves ads to are not the customer. But they are still a stakeholder, simply a less important one.
You have it backwards: ethnic violence is more prevalent in diverse countries without boundaries separating different groups: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

Look at ex-Yugoslavia. Is it not working out? Are the people worse off in their separate countries, than when they were genociding each-other under a common flag?

"Good fences make good neighbors" wasn't invented out of thin air.
So does Google or Apple or Amazon. Along with Facebook these make 4 horsemen of worse internet.
I still have to collect all the documents and give them to the person. The time to file once i gather everything is negligible and unless i have a very complex year i just do it myself.

Just paying someone to do stuff doesn’t solve everything unless you are some level of rich I don’t understand where someone has access to all your accounts and does it for you.
It is if only the max version of the machines has it.
Appears that he had wrote more books than what I knew. What a positive revelation. The one I liked was "Debt".

Do you have a link to the article about bullshit jobs?
Good old KHTML :)
Internet providers collect “staggering” amounts of data
Gpsd bug to roll back clocks to 2002
Hmm. Well, if you're not one of the sheep - it probably isn't.
way to insert an unrelated woke issue into the conversation

> until very recently

how about now? Fact of the matter is even in the developed countries where work isn't stressful and people do have sex, birth rate is still low. So simply encouraging people to have sex isn't the solution if you want more kids. I believe that's the point they are making.
Wasn’t this during the Little Ice Age?
Traditional companies may have been kept in line by having to keep their customers happy. But in Facebook's case, that's advertisers.
People in this thread say variations of your comment, that it's obvious, that everyone knows it.

But then at the same time people still make excuses for companies like Facebook. They urge others not to assume any bad (or purely profit oriented) intent, to believe that the people working at Facebook are honest about what their PR campaigns and Zuckerberg claim and the list goes on...

Also it is absolutely common that people really want to give companies the benefit of the doubt when it comes to morals vs. profit.

So it's clearly not that obvious to most, it's just that people agree if you phrase it the way this headline does.

Also still everyone does the dance of company marketing and "mission statements". Quotes like "we here at <generic megacorp> want to make the world a better place" are still often taken at face value or repeated outside the work environment.

It's not clear, or if it is, most still play along.
This article is a hot mess for the reason you said, but also for saying Elizabeth Holmes is the scapegoat of investors (who didn't do due diligence) for the endangering people's health. If she was selling death machines that's one thing, but she (through her company) made fraudulent claims about the accuracy of their device not only to investors but also the doctors and patients.
If 'the West' is primarily made up of people who think like you then good riddance. OTOH, the rest of us are adaptable and curious. We like new cultural synthesis; new immigrants are a source of fun new restaurants, new media/arts, and new ideas to explore.

People have been sounding the call of '[People who look different] are coming! Our culture is doomed!' for mellennia, and thankfully we learn not to cares what they think. We will keep progressing and leave them to stew in their ignorance and spite. For more than 2000 years people complained about the barbarians invading, but once we learn to ignore the shrill cries of alarm we look around and the barbarians are nowhere to be seen, just a bunch of new citizens with interesting new ideas.
/s/bypassed/overloaded
Open source maintainers keep contributors–and themselves–happy
There never was a uniform one child policy.

All of the photos I've seen of Chinese celebrity families have 3 kids.

Also, China's demographic problem is likely magnified because of the internal passport (hukou) system. Up to 1/3 of urban workers are there illegally, which would make having children very difficult.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hukou
I remember this back in the 1980s in Miami, regarding Santería.

Ahh, Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Lukumi_Babalu_Ay... .

Basically, the Hialeah City Council thought Santería practices were un-American, un-Cuban, and "abhorrent to its citizens", so banned "sacrifices of animals for any type of ritual", but made sure to allow: "Kosher slaughterhouses, regular slaughterhouses, hunting, fishing, pest extermination, euthanasia of stray animals, and feeding live rabbits to greyhounds."

The Santería church sued, and in 1993 the Supreme Court "concluded that the city's ordinances violated the Free Exercise Clause of the United States Constitution."

The Wikipedia entry also points to the more recent Merced v. Kasson from 2009, where the judge ruled the Texas Religious Freedom Restoration Act meant that the city's prohibition on the slaughter of four-legged animals "substantially burden plaintiff's free exercise of religion without advancing a compelling governmental interest using the least restrictive means."

> ... Somewhat similarly in 2009, a freedom of religion case related to animal sacrifice was taken to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in the case of Merced v. Kasson ... The court ruled that the ordinances "substantially burden plaintiff's free exercise of religion without advancing a compelling governmental interest using the least restrictive means", as required by the Texas Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
Yes. This (Spivaks ideas on using categories to define and reason about database stuff) was also my first association.
The VCs are definitely not victims here. Their own greed and incompetency to listen to experts put them in that position.

The real victims are the people that received the results from such fraudulent tests and maybe even received improper treatments because of it.
Pathetic blame shifting
I am also a bit lost about people being bamboozled by this reality of life.
Maybe it's possible, however you would need like a law to allow freedoms but not hinder on others freedoms, maybe like a art platform where you can only discuss via symbols and signs, original artwork or images that are approved but then you enter a kind of dictatorship platform it's a fine line.
> One idea is to have a periodic ‘chat splitting,’ where every 3-6 months (or when membership hits a certain number) there is a new forum/chatroom made, and people have to choose which group to join.

IMO communities that undergo splitting of this kind will inevitably result in the death of the community.
Should, sure, but it's a competitive disadvantage so if you want the free market as the fitness function, you'll end up with companies choosing profit over externalities like that.
It completely ignores the fact that it's possible to have deep religious beliefs about something.
In addition to working on Xen, which enabled EC2/cloud, they were a Debian contributor, https://ma.ttias.be/devuan-debian-fork/
Trump supporter? People have been migrating and integrating since the dawn of humanity… civilization still survives fine and in fact thrives and evolves as new cultures develop. It’s your tribal fear mongering that is the primary cause of concern to me.

Countries, ethnicities and national boundaries shift with the times, ease of migration and economic trends. The world has 7.9 billion people in it, so the fate of the “whites” as a race is of little concern to humanity…
It has definitely changed my view on what money is and how it came to be. And how political money really is, like a king can say from now one 1 gold coin equals 11 silver coins etc. Another one is the book "And forgive them their debts" by Michael Hudson talking about ancient debt jubilee in the middle east. If i'm not mistaken one of the sources for debt: the first 5000 years book.
Man Arrested for Unblurring Japanese Porn with AI in First Deepfake Case
Depends on how they're reporting on it.

There absolutely are reporters that do this by always saying things like "it feels like... " Etc.

It's however notoriously hard to estimate these numbers and participants generally overestimate the amount by several orders of magnitude.
I beg to differ. The purpose of the company is what those in power of the company decide it to be. While in the absolute majority of cases it is profit, there _are_ exceptions. Most notable exception would be SpaceX, which has its sights set on Mars transportation, with profits mainly serving as the stepping stones.
Crypto co-founded by Sam Altman now valued at $1B
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithms_%2B_Data_Structures...
Ohio recently changed from numbers stickers for the 88 counties (which some, but not most people knew), to the actual county written on the plate. THe previous way was better imo. The purpose is for different emissions rules iirc.
I'm working on my own indie game that's inspired by Stardew Valley, so I've done a good bit of looking at similar cozy farming games. I also wrote an analysis of Stardew's game design that was well-received on Hacker News [1].

Animal Crossing is the granddaddy of cozy games, but the core loop didn't keep me engaged. More "arranging your house and island" than farming.

Cozy Grove is Animal Crossing with a far better narrative.

Graveyard Keeper, Littlewood, and My Time In Portia are closer to being "Stardew, but X". Your mileage may vary with each, but I enjoyed parts all of them.

Spiritfarer is my favorite of the lot. It plays differently enough with your hodgepodge boat-city of ghosts, but it feels the closest in spirit (rimshot) to Stardew. Bring a box of tissues.

My own game, Moondrop Mountain, is trying for a roguelike farming experience. It should be coming into Early Access early next year [2].

[1] https://www.pixelatedplaygrounds.com/sidequests/game-design-...
[2] https://store.steampowered.com/app/1417750/Moondrop_Mountain...
One thing with fastai that annoyed me when I built a project with it was that the v1 and v2 APIs are totally different, and if you google or search stackoverflow for help with something, I found it more likely to stumble on answers for the v1 API than the v2 API. I also didn’t find their documentation super helpful for more than the most basic things (though not all documentation can be as amazing as scikit-learn).
Yet YouTubers constantly make clickbait titles like "Tour of my 10 MILLLION DOLLAR house" or "I gave away $50,000"
Not a good analogy. Most usage of Tor is either unnecessarily paranoid people, criminal enterprises, and state agencies. In fact, so far the leaks (Snowden, Wikileaks, etc) are the only cases I've heard of where Tor usage legitimately helped.

Can you say the same thing about electricity?

Again, I'm not saying that Tor should be shut down, it's just unsettling to work on something that the majority of its usage is "bad".
Uproar usually begins with the results of research and reports. That research and those reports typically originate from wherever the money is. That money typically originates from a new competitor entering the market, or from an established competitor trying to force change in market forces by affecting demand for the products being reported on.

Occasionally uproar originates from someone's personal motivation, but that requires a rare alignment of drive, capability and charisma.
Religion means different things to different people.

For example, religion to a modern protestant-descended American means something very different to a Salafi Muslim. To one, religion is law. To the other, it's superficial pomp.

If your ancestral law (Salafi religion) dictates that you will slaughter animals a certain way lest the wrath of God and your kin and your ancestors strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger, that to violate such a tenet is to violate the law, then by God you will do it.

A rationalist (protestant religion) might divine the religious practice has roots as a hygienic practice that was useful for stone age peoples in a desert climate, but today has no practical use, and he might be right, but that doesn't matter to the Salafist. The Salafist's "why" for doing things is very different and much more personally compelling than the protestant's "why".

The protestant would be well-served in realizing that, although he distinguishes religion from state or law, many others in this world do not.
In any dictatorship, the behavior of the organization will grow to reflect that of the dictator. And Mark has the majority of voting shares.
Something, something, Wizard’s First Rule.

People will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true.
At the time I worked for an ASML contractor, the joke was that the chinese already have all the ASML code, just they couldn't compile it. This sounded so true, because the ASML code is the worst pile of c built over almost 40 years that the world has ever seen and because the chinese were rather blatant in their attempts to steal whatever they can from ASML.
And it you are one of the sheep - it probably isn't.

Everyone is happy, no problems
Independent Living and Aging in Place: Can smart home technology be the key?
Claim the EFF, but headline statement is not an assertion that has held up in court.
That works because the purpose — at least currently — doesn't actually cannibalise on the profits.
I wonder how the creators of the internet can live with themselves knowing that they facilitated all the horrible things that go on the internet. I know that I can't do that, so kudos to them.
A letter to a refugee child ‘afraid of speaking the new language’
Simply scope it as such.

Presuming you're working with your client directly and success is in measured in outcomes not hours, you get to craft exactly the engagement that works for both parties.
Anything “for the masses” has to compete to win over the average and below average intellects. From what I can tell, that means that you have to get more and more sensationalistic to keep market share. You’re competing with a lot of addictive content out there, and educational content generally doesn’t fare well in that regard. Remember all of those educational video games in the past? Math blasters? They sucked. There’s no way they could compete with Mario and Zelda. This is the same phenomenon.