skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most common cancer: colon cancer, would be 95% preventable if only people got over silly notions about their butts and got a colonoscopy when they have reached age 45-50.

Colon cancer takes a decade to develop from polyp to tumour. The main purpose of a colonoscopy is to find and snip any polyps there could be in the colon. Then you'd be safe from colon cancer for a decade or more.

You would normally not feel much: the sensory nerves in the colon are only really able to feel if you have gas.
And many hospitals offer sedation, so you wouldn't need to experience the procedure anyway.
The worst part is the restricted diet for a week before (avoiding foods that would cling to the intestine wall) and emptying the bowels the day before.
If you know that you have healthy kidneys, do ask your doctor for the good laxative that is a small dose that doesn't taste bad.

Myself I have an unusual genetic condition, so I unlike normal people, I do a colonoscopy every year. I stay awake and watch the monitor, because I actually want to see what I look like inside. At the end when you reach the small intestine, the cilia on the walls inside there are quite fascinating.
Former MI6 Chief on the Ukraine and Russia Conflict
How long does it take your house to get from cold to hot? Surely 10-30 seconds is the system startup time, not the time taken to heat up the house?
So is it bureaucracy holdup or a matter of negotiations?
Here, with names, times, place, photos and videos:

https://www.currenttime.tv/a/31739955.html

https://www.currenttime.tv/a/31740700.html

https://www.currenttime.tv/a/31737800.html
have you actually read what you have posted? i google translated:

> There were also some Ukrainian soldiers present at the intersection, but they were outnumbered, according to HRW. The Ukrainian soldiers who were at the crossroads helped the refugees with their luggage. A few hundred meters away, Russian and Ukrainian troops were fighting each other. According to HRW, the Russians may have deliberately fired projectiles at the intersection

To me it reads like there was an engagement between the ukranian and russian soldiers nearby and unfortunately some civilians were caught in a crossfire.
Sure, but you can also direct all that time, money and energy towards something much more rewarding, with real and very probable chances of succeeding, instead of string of little failures to win for rest of your life.

For example I have a long term dream of being self-sufficient paraglider, Icarus dream and all that. I live in a country where its hard to have full course (2 weeks minimum) unless you speak fluent french, which I don't yet. I have 2 tiny little small kids. I have had some recent injuries which delay/block similar efforts. But I didn't give up, waited patiently till suddenly I had a window for the course. Did it, and now looking for spring to continue the momentum, whenever family situation allows it.

Some other activities would be much easier (and cheaper) to get into. But somehow I knew and felt that this will be very rewarding for me, combining hiking up and flying down the mountains.

I don't call them dreams - those are rather impossible situations like me free floating on ISS looking a dark space around Earth, stars, moon and milky way. Or winning lottery. Goals is much better term for me, there are clear actionable steps to get there. Compared to this dream, paragliding is peanuts to achieve.
There are two kind of approaches that I see:

- skip streaming entirely and have near real time solutions using just storage + a query engine

- have streaming using message queues and lambda architecture

In both cases the goal is that your freshest data shows up on a dashboard.
Sure, you could build 95CRI lamps at 2700K, or 3000K, or whatever lower color temperature you want. Build whatever you want with the right LED type.

But can you actually easily find them on the commercial market, outside of tape reels?

Every garage light or high bay LED light I've found is always at or above 5000K, and their CRI is almost never listed. The CRI might never even be officially tested.

If you do have sources for garage or high bay lights that do have a low color temperature but a high CRI, please let me know. Because right now I'm stuck with a 50W corn bulb, and even though it's supposedly low color temperature, I can tell you that the CRI is absolutely horrible and this is the upper limit of how far I can go with this manufacturer.
> The 90s to early 2000s was the golden age of everything because of context. The substance is almost irrelevant.

It is worth considering that this viewpoint is age-dependent.

I feel this way instead about the mid-eighties to the early 90s, and I personally believe that games went rapidly downhill just after Quake, until the mid-2000s casual gaming boom. Everything went 3D and the fun was beaten out of every game concept.

Speaking from a British position, I think your problem with "entertainment" generally is very specifically the manifold outcomes of the US television network syndication model.

US TV companies make too many episodes of everything, because of that model, and that feeds inevitably into a particular story development concept that involves teams of people growing and feeding an addiction.

Not so long ago, a British Prime Minister (David Cameron) told Tina Fey that he wanted a more American model in British TV -- more episodes.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48021899

"Come and convince our showrunners that they can't just make six episodes of things. Like you guys, they should make 200 episodes," she recalled him saying.

Fey rejected the request, however, explaining that US writers were, in fact, jealous of the less-is-more British approach.

The way this works -- that everything has to have a spinoff, everything has to have a multi-episode story arc, everything has to have a universe -- is also why cinema is screwed, because it is now a feeder for this system.

So my suggestion is: watch things that don't have more than ten episodes ever. Watch films that don't have sequels. Reject syndication culture.
I’m surprised there is no technical solution to shell-ing. Some kind of autonomous anti-shell gun that shoots them down mid flight? It seems like a fairly common problem.
> Buffer zone in this context means Russia doesn't want US missiles and nuclear bombers with a 5 minute flight time to Moscow.

So you think it's OK for Russia to invade the (NATO member) Baltic countries, then?
Also, if you try to leave as military able men you’re in danger from both sides. One considering you a threat, the other a traitor and deserter, even if you’re just a civilian. Very bad place to be with no good options.
The difference in my mind is that you have a certain amount of liquid income paid to you gradually, probably twice a month. I feel like it's more comparable to a cash bonus, except that it's a different asset and different period. So if you lose your job before that 6 months, or whatever the time period is, you're still paid money from your salary, but only that. But perhaps I misunderstood something about RSUs or one of your previous comments. As a contractor, even cash is risky the longer you draw out the payment period and terms, and there's also time-value of money to consider.
It’s almost like a country has control over products it exports.
I think that's incredibly cynical. It feels good to leave a mark on others lives.
> How can 7 machines be that many times slower than a single machine?

A mere 7 machines is almost certainly going to be slower than 1.

There was a recent post here recently titled "Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30546995

In this case the dataset was small enough to fix in my laptop's DRAM without straining it. If we assume the 7 machines are in the data centre, that means the two numbers to compare are the main memory reference (100ns) versus the Data Centre round trip time (500us). That's a factor of 5,000.

If your intuition told you those 7 machines are going to be faster, then you really should invest the time to internalise those numbers. The article is 100% correct - every programmer should know them.
> enjoy the today we are getting.

insert spongebob meme where he points out all the hidden diapers
have you watched the news lately?
Snowflake and DV have no interdependency whatsoever. Snowflake is just a database. Whether you use DV to model the data inside of it or dimensional modelling or "big wide tables" is completely up to you, there's nothing about it that requires or benefits DV in particular.
Most economic models need to stop assuming that the typical actor is rational. Putin is clearly not objectively rational, at best subjectively rational within the realms of his ideology (unite the ethnically Russian people).

Add to that miscommunication within all sectors of government just to please your superiors and that's how you arrive at the, sorry, shit tier decision making surrounding this entire war.

Anyone with half a brain should have seen the economic and geopolitical disaster resulting from this. And I firmly believe that many in military, intelligence, economy etc. DID SEE IT. But talking about it was never accepted and harshly punished. This war has ended Russia as we know it and will make it just another vassal of China.

It's interesting and terrifying to observe the new fascist "Z" propaganda being pushed by Putin as well...
And then what? He is expecting that Europe and the USA will just lift the sanctions afterwards?
Well not posting troops in Ukraine doesn't seem to have stopped Ukraine getting invaded does it? So it seems that was empty rhetoric.
How does this research control for the fact that “being outside” generally involves a lot of focusing on stuff further away than a book/screen/etc in your lap? Did they have a cohort of kids who went outside and looked at a lot of bugs or sat around reading or something?
>That's not so obvious. For instance: the US failed to win against much weaker opponents than the Ukrainians.

Those were opponents in a tribalistic society practicing guerilla warfare hiding across deserts spreading thousands of miles.

Ukraine is a developed country with infrastructure that's well documented and known by their enemy. If they take out their vital infrastructure like hospitals, water, power, schools, they're done for. When their cities are reduced to rubble from the shelling, there will be nothing left fighting for, as you can't live and raise kids in wasteland that's been reduced to rubble.
I have had family abroad (not Russia) tell me that the media there is reporting that Ukrainian paramilitary forces, including released prisoners, forcibly prevented their own citizens leaving and collapsed the humanitarian corridors[1].

And the problem is, it's actually not completely outside the realms of possiblity, and I have no way to know. As far as I'm aware, the Ukrainians are fighting the good fight, but that's what I _would_ think. When the propaganda is flying this thick and this fast, maybe I'm as bamboozled as anyone else.

On the other hand shrugging and going "dunno, both sides lol" seems pretty ghoulish when the civilians are being killed and homes and cities bombed to nothing.

[1] I do not know where they got that from but it would have been TV. Trying to figure out where that comes from using only sources I can find leads me to a combination of the (apparently true) report that prisoners with military experience are released if they fight against Russia[2] and a TASS(!) report that Ukraine is responsible for collapsing the corridors[3].

[2] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-army... amongst others

[3] https://tass.com/politics/1417527
Exactly. I see people doing keto on processed factory farmed bacon and thinking they are eating healthy.
The biggest selling point of Snowflake for most of the customers is that they do not need to maintain the infrastructure.
> I'm not going to wear a bit of cloth over my face to filter out viruses until someone convinces me that it does me any good (note, we are talking about masks helping the wearer).

You are misrepresenting the course of the discussion. Someone asserted masks probably aren’t helpful. I countered with some studies suggesting that that’s wrong. You’ve attacked (fairly) the studies I’ve presented, but not offered any support for the original assertion.

Anyway, even if I have failed to convince you, would you consider wearing a mask for the benefit of those around you?
There is an interesting difference between the way countries approach this btw. In US, sedation is standard and used in 90%+ of colonoscopies. In UK sedation is rarely used unless specifically requested by the patient, you usually get some gas and air instead. It's not even due to cost, it's just that sedation for colonoscopy is generally unnecessary, it's an uncomfortable but not particularily painful procedure.
You mean something like this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goalkeeper_CIWS or the Iron Dome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Dome

An Iron Dome was actually ordered by Ukraine but Israel blocked the transaction.
Of course you would say that it's more performant and flexible ...TCP-DS was just a PR ploy
Phalanx?
Actually from a business perspective PHP or something would be the best choice? Lots of (relatively speaking) cheap devs available at all levels. Wasn't Java designed around the idea of medicore developers not being able to mess up too badly?

Functional languages do appear to attract smart people, but I see far more people with an interest in the language than actual jobs out there. They seem more geared towards compute science (more theoretical) over software engineering (solving real world problems).
I found it excellent. It summarizes the main paradox of crypto: if you make it truly decentralized, it costs too much and is useless as a mass medium of exchange, while also being a haven for fraud and theft. If you rely on any sort of ledger/layer 2 system, you are back to trusting a third party, in which case you would be better off with traditional banking.
Strong evidence for brain-related abnormalities in Covid-19
If you have a read error can you expect to recover the rest of the data?
Don't forget the now proverbial bombings of Afghan, and Pakistani, marriages. War crimes happen, they suck, and cannot be measured against each other.
Can someone explain to me why in Section 4: Functions they compute Twice by multiplying the number by three then subtracting the number once? Is it just to showcase more math, or is there a detail I'm missing?

> /*
Computes double of a number.
Works by tripling the number, and then subtracting to get back to double.
/

static int Twice(int num) {

int result = num * 3;

result = result - num;

return(result);**
So it's not standard nor cross platform, but I consider Glib to be the defacto standard data structures library. Have you tried it out?
xbar's post has statistics: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30597524
EU Aims to Cut Dependence on Russian Gas by Almost 80% This Year
They say that the decadent West with radical feminism, Islamic immigration and crony capitalism has to end eventually.
There are definitely areas of NYC that rapidly transition from bustle to relative peace and quiet.
Do pilots have similarly increased rates? Or does it likely correlate with lifestyle factors (sunbaking, smoking etc).
A uninitialized variable. In the Linux Kernel. In 2020.

This should not have happened, and quite frankly before you can gurantuee that it won't why would you even continue to work on the kernel?
Sometimes the choice of the encoding is affected by the target audience. Devices like Raspberry Pi can decode H.264 video well enough due to having the hardware to accelerate it. Some new hardware, like the AMD Radeon RX 6500, still don’t support AV1 decode.

Changes like this tend to take time, especially due to hardware development having a years-long lead time.
The "solution" is controlling the airspace so you can easily shoot back
This submission is related to reading about the UN FAO Food Price index[1] (for which there has been some recent HN discussion[2]).

Although all commodities measured by the index are increasing in price over time, there has been a notable large increase in Vegetable Oils prices, including a significant rise during 2021.

Palm oil seems to be one of the potential causes, and it may have some problematic externalities[3].

There may also have been questionable decisions[4] in the past by both the U.S. and EU that had pro-environmental intent (increased use of biofuels) but that could also have introduced problematic side-effects.

[1] - https://www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation/foodpricesindex/

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29113533

[3] - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-malaysia-palmoil-strategy...

[4] - https://ethical.net/ethical/the-problem-with-palm-oil/
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/evacuation-rou...

However looking at your other activity, I would have to present article from Russia Today.

First and foremost Russians shouldn't be there. How evil they were exactly, can be assessed later, when they go back to their side of the border.
Hmm, no mention of GNU Parallel — that's my go-to replacement for xargs. It has numerous options to treat input as blocks of text, lines, etc and can even run in a distributed fashion over SSH.
NATO has been quite clear for a decade that Ukraine will not be able to join. The EU also cannot accept Ukraine as a member before a very long time. Neither NATO nor the EU are courting Ukraine, Ukrainians very actively want to be part of both institutions to get some level of protection.

So it’s the other way around. Of course that doesn’t make it less sad.
Looks like planes need more radiation protection. A thick heavy lead shield would be best.
Nix is nice as a catch-all, and especially good when languages like C and C++ don't have popular package managers. It's definitely not better than cargo or pip when dealing with just Rust or Python, but it's definitely relevant when you're building multiple languages.

I would love to see an evolution of nixpkgs with more of a starlark-style for package declarations.
Agreed with everyone on the sounds .. I had to get them working in Firefox / Chrome
https://codepen.io/theprojectsomething/full/Exbzjya
No it didn't.

"Westinghouse Electric Company would file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy because of US$9 billion of losses from nuclear reactor construction projects. The projects responsible for this loss are mostly the construction of four AP1000 reactors."

"As of 2019 all four AP1000 reactors in China are operating."

Westinghouse made a large amount of mistakes in their designs, suffered through political climate because of the Fukushima incident and economic hardship because of the ridiculously low gas prices.

How can you reduce that basically to that they tried to mass produce power plants, that was dumb so they failed?

And where's the catastrophe?
So if not all and every platform is supported from day 1, then “it isn’t a solution worth spending any time on”?
I have to have colonoscopy every year since I was 18 because of risk factors. I agree it's much less awful than people think (and I especially agree that laxatives and liquid diet prior to it suck much more than the procedure itself). I never take sedation cause it doesn't really hurt and doctors say it's better to have feedback from the patient.

I also have to do MRI every year and it's much more frustrating for me because they always complain I'm breathing wrong, and I have asthma so it's not easy to "breath right". It takes ages.
I can’t understand how Putin would be able to pay for the reconstruction costs of the immense damage he’s causing, leading me to assume he intends to dismember the country, take the southern and eastern parts that he wants, and hand the ruin over to the west for us to foot the bill.
Even if he succeeds in that, what is the end game?

You now have an immutable hard border on one side of your country, are knee deep in sanctions which will not evaporate and another giant nation ready to take advantage of your poor position on the other side because they’re the only people who will even touch you with a 20 foot long stick. On top of that you have to now commit resources to permanently securing a whole another country which doesn’t want you in it and is being supplied with superior weapons from just about everyone else on the planet.

Putin just sold the whole nation into poverty, slavery and decay.

This is what we generally call a galactic scale fuck up.
Upwork ceases operations in Russia and Belarus
These videos aren't from early-mid 2000s middle east where westerners can't tell the difference. They're clearly Ukranian cities and very high def videos (which didn't exist in past Soviet/European wars).
> Putin is clearly not objectively rational, at best subjectively rational within the realms of his ideology

This is the only type of rationality. What are you imagining when you say "objectively rational"?

> Most economic models need to stop assuming that the typical actor is rational.

Being rational as defined by your personal ideology is what economic models postulate when they assume rationality.
This seems like its going to be a continual moving of goal posts until there is no data to back any position. Before the loans were paid back, inflation went negative. To be clear, I'm not arguing that the government can and should spend their way out of any crisis; the point I'm trying to get across, which you keep evading is that there is no data to back your claim that government spending led directly to inflation, especially when there are so many other obvious factors. In fact, before 2020, there is no modern economy where you could clearly point to and say "the government overspent, and caused massive inflation". Japan desperately tried to spend it's way to inflation and failed. For something that is a "law of nature", there seems to be so few data points to back it up. As far as I can tell, it's a neoliberal talking point used to dissuade any form of direct to citizen welfare.
+1 to this. I really hate when small/non-essential software had not just high cost but freaking subscription. Not speaking about OP but https://www.noisli.com/ for example that was useful, no question, but now asking $120 to listen white-noise that I can download for free? I'm okay to pay $20 for offline app and sent $100 to charity. I'm also sure they would have times more profit from this.

Instead of this, pay fix price for software and 1 year of updates seems time more fair.
Seema is the wife of the founder of one of the biggest online stock brokerage firm called Zerodha.
This is disinformation. If you get the vaccine you won't get COVID. It's that simple.
Don't think the logic is the same. First the Palestinians aren't under attack, they can just stop firing rockets. Second I think there are a lot of people who profit from a cold/warm war, especially there.
and an int overflow!
America's cycle will definitely end over the next 40 years or so, but then the next reserve currency power moves in and the cycle starts over again like it always does every 100-200 years, this time with either China or Europe on top.
Lowering system pressure is basically the same as improving system performance, so I guess I'm still not understanding what you're trying to say.
It's trivial to solve this problem under those criteria by using selection sort.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_sort
I would much rather not engage with the platform out of principle.

If I want to watch a makers video, why should I have to give information/identification, due to some idiotic monitoring scheme camouflaged as 'think of the children' regulation?

You will probably dismiss this as tin foil but it is exactly this inch by inch giving in that has put us all in this walled garden situation that you have on most of the internet at the moment.