skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you follow the advice of Dr Richard Bernstein at all? http://www.diabetes-book.com/

Dr Bernstein is a T1D diagnosed back in the '46. He followed the typical diabetes advice and still developed complications to his diabetes. He was an engineer and felt like the biggest problem (at his time) was that diabetics couldn't tell what was happening with their blood sugar so he started doing whatever he could to gain access to a blood sugar monitor (rare and only owned by doctors at the time) and once he got one he started doing what engineers do, testing adjusting and tracking results. He realized that complications from diabetes is entirely caused by blood sugar, and that carbs are the largest thing that affects blood sugar. A low carb high fat/protein diet would have minimal effect on blood sugar levels. He tried to advocate that everyone should follow this diet and also have access to a blood sugar monitor. But the medical industry wouldn't give him any mind, because he's an engineer not a doctor. So this dude went out and became a doctor, and has completely changed the lives of diabetics everywhere thanks to his work.

Anyways, tangent about how awesome this guy is aside. He says if you maintain an A1C of 5.5 you will not suffer the effects of diabetes. The best way to do that, he recommends, is to eat a low carb high fat diet in order to minimize spikes in blood sugar and avoid needing to take excess insulin.
While they quickly acknowledge that integrating by means of a database is widely regarded as an anti-pattern, the rest of the article doesn't really address why this wouldn't be an anti-pattern, other than to pretend that the major reasons for avoiding this pattern are deployment complexity and furnishing multi-region services.

> A customer pattern we see solves this problem, and it’s the integration database pattern. This pattern went out of style in the 90s along with Oracle servers in the closet and dedicated DBAs, but with technological advances like scalable multi-region transactions and serverless computing resources, its utility has returned.

Considering they are flogging a product, this feels especially dishonest to me.
I wish I had realized before I clicked that this was not, as the title suggests, thoughtful industry analysis. Rather, it's an investment pitch from a startup to help them raise capital.

I would suggest a barometer for whether a new technology does, in fact "matter": how much of the writing about it is by VCs and startups looking to hype their own investments.

In the case of "the Metaverse", that ratio seems to be surprisingly close to 1.0.

(Another barometer of significance is, "Does it have a definition which is sufficiently concrete to say what it isn't?," which the 'metaverse' seems often to conspicuously lack as well.)
You only have to convince your friends to join you. Technically it is certainly still possible.

I would expect most Fediverse applications don't have much of a ranking algorithm yet, or at least it should be configurable.
I browsed through some books and websites and figured that most of the work of a "general" geologist is still indoors. Some sub-variants such as palaeontologists are exceptions, but still I figured most of time is still spent in labs, not in fields.

So yeah I agree it's a good hobby.
> It’s a choice that—in hindsight—I would make again.

It is always truly satisfying when you land in this spot on past technical decisions.
Its very good to see three viable, great emerging CPU architectures. Intel is important, and them getting their CPU node up is critical. AMD has saved x86 from irrelevency and stagnation, and has been sitting on their next node while Intel caught up, but now has to release it to keep their spot on top. Apple is remaking the game with the M1 / Pro and Max variants - and we still have Jade 2c and Jade 4c coming.

Competition is great.
I can relate to this story a bit.

I had an Avastin injection in my eye 10ish years ago in my mid 20s. It turned out that I had a central retinal vein occlusion which caused me to suddenly lose vision in one of my eyes. There was lots of hemorrhaging and swelling of macula which made me lose vision.

One of the suggested ways to treat some of the swelling was by injecting Avastin into my eyes. The ophthalmologist said that there weren't really anything else to do at that point besides to let the eye naturally heal so I did take the chance to take the shot.

I experienced all of that anxiety that the author wrote about as just the thought of a needle injection into the eye is truly gruesome. But what everyone else on here have said is correct in that, they put all this stuff on you, antibiotic drops, anesthetic drops, and betadine and then they have you look up in the upper right hand or upper left hand corner as they inject into the white of your eye.

I remember this being the excruciating part as once the needle goes in, you shouldn't move your eye at all and keep it in that position or risk blindness (as the ophthalmologist put it). What was seconds seemed like minutes. Due to all the anesthesia, you feel no pain but you do feel this discomfort of pressure as the needle gets inserted into the eye.

Thankfully, I only required just one injection but I knew a lot of other elderly with macular degeneration and such who needed these injections regularly in order to not lose vision. The whole process was pretty professional but I don't know if I would want to go through that all again but I know that if it was between that or lose my vision, I think most people would decide to get the injections.
I love fasting and typically I have one meal and fast for 22 hours a day, but please be careful with multi day fasting.

I drink a lot of water and on two occasions on 60 hour fasts I passed out cold, falling to the ground and chipping one of my front teeth in the process, but it could have ended much worse.

I eventually figured out I was not consuming enough electrolytes relative to my water consumption, I still recommend long term fasts but please do more research than I did and be careful.

I have kept that chip in my tooth to this day to remind me my naivety and how lucky I was.
90-95% of my time is spent working in at least two languages. Usually JavaScript and some backend language, like Go or Python.
Funniest comment I've read in a while :)
Would you also not struggle to touch a hot stove? I think it is a similar feeling. Genuine question too - I've got a friend who is comedically brave and doesn't experience pain the way that other people do who might express a similar idea. He just already knows that its unusual and not the default.
That video clearly shows one motor between the front wheels and one between the rear wheels.
Friend here did an electric conversion of a pontoon boat as a covid lockdown hobby project. Got an electric marine motor from china, bank of batteries at the stern and a modest solar panel (his dock is north/south, so he can tie up with it facing south). Range is a few tens of miles, but it's a pontoon boat, that's plenty for a nice afternoon cruise on the river. The fact that it's almost totally silent is perfect for the application. Recharges on its own in a day or two, no shore connection needed.
Not at all. I'm calling philanthropy with strings attached barely philanthropy.
I always just thought it was down to a unit of time relative to your age. So as a 1 year old a year represent your entire life, so seems really long. As a 40 year old a year is just a fraction of your life, so seems much less significant.
It seemed like Genshin went from zero to 100 in absolutely no time. Like they came out of nowhere, and suddenly all of reddit was full of fanart and they're making more money than anyother game.

Are there any good articles on how the game started, how it got funded and built its now enormous fanbase?
Ah, I see. I've been thinking far too long about buying a Sinn 556i as my daily watch. Well, we can be certain no one will poke fun at Sinn watches, because no one outside the watch community will ever recognize them on the wrist.
> Yet on its recent first anniversary, people were surprised that they were, yet again, very stingy.

The anniversary controversy was due to the rewards being unusually stingy to the point where the initial rewards were worse than the typical biweekly event, whereas in every other gacha anniversary events offer substantially better rewards than usual.

If they had included the bonus 1600 Primogem reward initially it wouldn't have been as much of a mess.
The value is in the convenience of NOT having to spend the time researching, bookmarking, and remembering all those tools you use. That is the calling of software developers right? To abstract complexity so the other person doesnt have to worry about "this"? All businesses are born out of creating convenience for someone else who values time more than experience (in that particular thing).

$25 for this app might save you hours of work, hundreds or thousands. Just like $25 for a half tank of gas will save you a few hours from getting to where you want to go.
Yeah, it's that.
Why would I use this instead of Airbyte?
The good ones don't.

Maybe it’s a way to start the conversation and find out a bit about what you're currently doing and what you want from your next role. But I still hate answering it myself.
Even without the need for IE11, BYOND is nigh unusable on Wine. It runs extremely poorly due to extreme and poor usage of Win32 UI stuff.

There appears to be some form of resource leak in BYOND which causes its Ui system to gradually slow down the longer you're playing. This is severely amplified by presumably Wine being less optimized than Windows in these areas. It means that after just ~15 minutes of playing the client will starts stuttering severely on Wine. Then you need to restart the client which can take 2-3 minutes depending on how broken BYOND's ad loading wants to be. (This also happens on Windows but the effect is MUCH slower so you can go hours without noticing).
Yes, that sucks. I agree. But, the video doorbell doesn't help with drunks coming in a side/basement window. I understand an array of cameras around the house to cover your example. So, maybe the doorbell video is just one part of the solution--that makes sense. Only having a doorbell video to my earlier question doesn't seem to provide any value.
I'd rather spend $60 on a 20h game I love than spend $0.01 on a game that doesn't require it. I don't understand whales, but I definitely don't understand people paying for cosmetic things in a game either.
I don’t think it’s a recent societal norm, but is exaggerated due to existence of numerous means of communication. I suppose people in the past would suggest ‘ignore your ex’ and this would be 100% doable since you would have 0 chance of seeing or talking to her again unless you stepped at her door. Now you need to unfriend and block him from tens of different services, hence it slmost becomes like a game “why she blocked me? What did she post in ig? Who follows her in spotify?” etc.

In any case i also share your question how people can put into a generic “my terrible exes” bucket even people that they loved deeply and could at least have some basic communication or interests in the future.
Hey hey people, Sseth here.
I feel like focusing on who owns the data is unnecessary.

If there is an API that grants access to data by passing in a valid auth token, then it doesn’t matter if it’s called from a SPA app or postman or curl.

As long as you are using the public API and haven’t forged an auth token then it doesn’t matter how you call the public API.
This is so great on the last android versions. I can shut all your noisy messages down. You think they are important, they are not.
I see where you're going - but I've personally noticed that there are a lot of things coming along with these cloud infrastructure paradigms that have made me feel like my localhost text editing workflows are going to make me look and feel even more like an absolute dinosaur as time goes on. I can't speak eloquently on this as I'm still an amateur to these cloud infra configuration concepts and their real limitations on how I'm used to thinking about application development, but I hope this comment sparks some inspiration for someone else to do so.
A close relative needed cortisone to manage an eye infection post eye surgery. The insurance stopped paying for the cortisone drops after a while, the only thing they would pay for were injections. The procedure consisted of a large syringe that was used to inject a literal pellet that would float around in the eye and slowly give off cortisone over multiple weeks. My relative said they could sometimes see the pellet float through their eye as it intercepted light on its way to the optical nerve. It manifested as a circular shadow in their field of vision. They called it their "satellite".

The thing that struck me the most, is that a human eye seems to be pretty puncture tolerant before it starts to leak. Also, the insurance's decision is hard to understand: The injections cost $2k compared to a couple hundred for the eye drops. And once the pellet is in, you can't get it out to reduce the dosage.
I work on a side project related to these kinds of risks. a range of them like this
Someone strongly pressured them to be killers, and they lacked the moral courage to say "no". But maybe we'd be better off not creating systems where people need that moral courage?
I'm not a security engineer but I have attended a lot of talks by security people. And the feeling I get from them is: don't opt-out of security updates. You don't want that option, it is a lose-lose for everyone involved, including your grandmother who is very likely to be a target of all kinds of scams and phishing attempts.
I do this in Twitter with lists. They don't make it obvious, but lists actually make it quite usable once you've set them up.

Facebook (or Instagram) don't seem to have good options for this so for the most part I don't use them.

Discord works chronologically, for now at least, and as long as it does I'll be happy to keep chatting with my friends there.
NLP for Beginners
I wonder if the emissions from battery fires are counted in EV impact calculations.
It's like the slots in Vegas; gambling itself is addictive.
I’m assuming they’re referring to the people who grew up in the 80s and maybe even pre-internet 90s that then participated in the tech scene over the past 15 years. I also don’t they’re talking about kids now but rather then.
You used emacs for 7 years without learning that it very much has auto-completion, you can see available functions with fuzzy matching, and that you can easily alias any function to any name or key-binding you want instead of memorizing it?

:-O
Nationalistic attacks are not ok on HN, regardless of which country you have a problem with. No more of this, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The Ketamine Cure
Is that significant?
If in the first year of life, you have 100% new experiences, 2nd year, 50% new experiences, etc, and reach an age of around 80, you'll have made half your life's experiences by the age of 20.

I think in retrospect we perceive time through our memories, less so by our momentary experience. If your memories have little variance, you'll feel like time has passed quickly. So if you work some factory job for 40 years, you may feel like life passed by in a blink of a moment.
Yes, whenever I see a dash cam I stop and think about getting one, I see the value. Especially since the probability of a car accident is far more likely than a B&E through your front door.
The Disciple, by Oscar Wilde

When Narcissus died the pool of his pleasure changed from a cup of sweet waters into a cup of salt tears, and the Oreads came weeping through the woodland that they might sing to the pool and give it comfort.

And when they saw that the pool had changed from a cup of sweet waters into a cup of salt tears, they loosened the green tresses of their hair and cried to the pool and said, `We do not wonder that you should mourn in this manner for Narcissus, so beautiful was he.'

`But was Narcissus beautiful?' said the pool.

`Who should know that better than you?' answered the Oreads. `Us did he ever pass by, but you he sought for, and would lie on your banks and look down at you, and in the mirror of your waters he would mirror his own beauty.'

And the pool answered, `But I loved Narcissus because, as he lay on my banks and looked down at me, in the mirror of his eyes I saw ever my own beauty mirrored.'
There's very little that they can do that Emacs can't. It's just that if you're on the easy path, the IDE will give you a pretty high-quality experience with very little time spent configuring it. The "easy path" supports more and more use cases each year, but my experience is still that the more custom your build system is, the more likely it is that you'll not get your nice IDE integrations. That's was true in the 1990s as it is today.
"big.little" is like "kleenex" or "ziploc". Yes, technically they refer to a specific implementation of a thing, heterogenous CPU core size, tissues, plastic storage bags, but in reality, they were so perfectly branded that they just replaced the item name. It's not a big deal.
This is my impression as well. Old people who have settled in a routine can tell what year and month it is, but probably have a harder time telling the day or weekday. For them, all days are weekends.

You don't even need to be old to feel this. I've had vacations where I mostly played JRPGs, and those vacations certainly felt considerably shorter.
> you can actually unit-test user-defined functions and stored procedures using the same tooling you use for your application code

Can you give an example of how this is possible, or what tools/services it's possible with? I can understand how it would work on UDFs, but not entirely sure how it would be possible for stored procedures, esp when they're often times doing something more complex than simple read operations.
In particular in gaming loads it even draws less than the same tier AMD products at mostly better results (modulo DDR5 vs DDR4).
In college I would pirate everything and think paying for in game items was stupid. Now I will happily spend $1-5 for a few hours of fun in a well balanced game, e.g. hearthstone. But when I tried to get into Genshin Impact I quickly gave up after realizing I would have to spend at least $50 if not hundreds to roll a good team, or just stick with a completely f2p grind (which I don’t have time for anymore).
Please don't post flamewar comments or unsubstantive comments to HN, regardless of how badly other people behave or you feel they behave. We're trying for something quite different here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Go 1.17.3 and Go 1.16.10 released
Using SPA vs SSR as the sole factor in determining "published" status rings hollow for me, because it completely excludes any analysis based on intent, and intent usually matters in law! (Though I admit I'm not familiar in this case and this country.)

Also it's easy to poke holes: does this mean that scraping data from html is always hacking, regardless of the expressed intent? (See recent Missouri case for what that might degenerate into.) What if it's "semantic web" and the html contains metadata specifically designed to aid data extraction?

I think the parents should own the data, and that's why it should be open. But I don't think drawing the line based on which kind of technology is used to deliver the content is a good method of adjudicating published intent.
And you usually are not excited for the next day but for the nexy payday. Zombies until the weekend or until we get paid.
You don't: https://www.pontooners.com/solar-powered-pontoon-boats/
Tip: If you tilt your head back and squirt it in the corner of your eye (near your nose), it'll flow into your eye perfectly every time.
Oh yes please.
I read Ministry for the Future lately, and minor faults aside, the book made me take climate change seriously-seriously. I’m not sure what I’d do about engaging with that yet though with my current career path*.

B/t reading that book and it reflected in news like this and related events at the COP, seems like we’re in for a rough go.
Ask HN: Is there an open-source decentralized alternative to HN?
Most of the deliveries take place by bike, at least for the fast delivery sites. For the stores and others, they have trucks that deliver to 20-50 people. So, you replace many cars with a single trip.
Anyone know how I can invest/get exposure to hetzner as a business? Doesn't seem to be a public company.

I can honestly see these guys becoming a HUGE cloud provider.
Never had one. Phone carriers haven't invested to have cell coverage in my neighborhood, why should I invest $1000 to have a $100 a month bill?
Hi everyone, this is my second "Show HN" submission posted in Hacker News. The first one was https://github.com/aome510/hackernews-TUI. I received a lot of good feedbacks and suggestions from the community back then. For the second one, I also look forward to hearing the community's opinions.

A bit background on the project: I started `hackernews-tui` and after that `spotify-player` (both are terminal application) because I want to learn Rust and build applications with Rust which I'm able to use daily.

`spotify-player` is a terminal application that can be used as either a remote player to control another Spotify client or a local player with an integrated Spotify client. So if you already know spotify-tui[1] or ncspot[2], `spotify-player` is kinda a simplified combination of both =).

I have made two demo videos for the application, one in youtube (https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Jbfe9GLNWbA) and the another in asciicast (https://asciinema.org/a/446913).

Hope you guys give it a try. Any feedbacks are highly appreciated!

[1]: https://github.com/Rigellute/spotify-tui

[2]: https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot
If you look at the history of Han Chinese, they called themselves many different names.

>Among some southern Han Chinese varieties such as Cantonese, Hakka and Minnan, a different term exists – Tang Chinese (Chinese: 唐人; pinyin: Táng Rén, literally "the people of Tang"), derived from the later Tang dynasty, regarded as another zenith of Chinese civilization.

>The term "Huaxia" was used by Confucius's contemporaries, during the Warring States era, to describe the shared ethnicity of all Chinese; Chinese people called themselves Hua Ren.

Regionally they called themselves people of the area they grew up in, the Baiyue who are now called "Han Chinese" did not call themselves Han. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baiyue When reading this section I noticed a "Han Chinese" bias.

>The Han Chinese referred to the various non-Han "barbarian" peoples of southern China as "Baiyue", saying they possessed habits like adapting to water, having their hair cropped short and tattooed. The Han also said their language was "animal shrieking" and that they lacked morals, modesty, civilization and culture.

The actual book linked calls them "citizens of Han" not "Han Chinese". https://books.google.com/books/content?id=Y3oSAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA...

Han Chinese is like Apple retronaming all of the OSes that run on iPhone as iOS, the same way the Chinese government is doing the same for all the people's historical names of what they called themselves.
The 2008 crash was undone in under 4 years.
I've found this leads to burnout if the deadline is too far out or if the deadline keeps getting pushed forward.

The antidote is to have no deadlines, and take the time to enjoy doing things right.
How do you control the cascading?

Can you use Mixins without having to import them on every .svelte file?
When I first played Sim City I imagined a future of towering soundproofed arcologies where everyone still had a private yard on a giant balcony, so you could increase density without overly decreasing living space per household. Is anyone trying to build like that?