skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ophthalmologist here. The myopia epidemic is real thing. The advice given in this post is not a dangerous thing to try. However, I doubt that the theory is true, and I doubt that following this method will really help myopic patients. Let's try to justify this point :

"The long-term use of over-correcting glasses induces myopia"
This is quite true. But it induces a myopia which is reversible. Overcorrection (which we try to avoid) leads to ciliary spasm. When the patient gets older, the lens gets less flexible (for everyone, this is what leads to presbyopia) and the myopia, if it was overcorrected, diminishes. It is common to reduce the correction for patients around 40.

We have a good, natural model in nature for over-corrected myopic eyes: hyperopic patients. They don't become myopic with time. Around 40-45 years, their hyperopia becomes clinically significant (they didn't need glasses before and they progressively need to have their hyperopia corrected at 45, or a little bit later if the hyperopia is slight).

"Repair is fast at first as you clear the ciliary spasm, and then slows down as you work on shortening the eyeball itself."
No. Clearing the ciliary spasm (which is not present in every myopic patient, only the overcorrected ones) will indeed reduce the amount of myopia (the eye will return to its normal state: less myopia). However, we happen to have a very precise way to mesure the axial length of the eyeball (interferometry). While we commonly observe a lengthening of the eyeball in high, pathological myopia, I've never heard of an eyeball which shortened, nor read any paper which related this phenomenon.
We don't know why the eyeball elongates in high myopia. But, as far as I know, eyeball never shorten.

"If you are considering laser eye surgery, please skim Lasik Complications."
Yes, please do. You must be informed and your surgeon must inform you. However, you could also look at the number of refractive surgeons who underwent themselves this surgery, or operated their family. It is a common thing to operate our residents at the end of their internship because they saw the outcomes and want the procedure.
Please note that any serious refractive surgeon will perform a refraction after cycloplegia, to remove any ciliary spasm and correct only the "real" myopia.

https://theophthalmologist.com/business-profession/do-ophtha...
~possible but I've read a research that the most impact for children is simply more outdoor time. There's a pdf of a Piano Tuner Association recommending the use of reading glasses when working in close distance.

I believe there should be wider recommendation to strongly discourage using myopia glasses for computer/reading. I've been wearing it since I was 7 (> 15 years) with a lot of reading, phone and computer usage, no ~big changes in my myopia but not better too. (Disclaimer, my glasses have always been pretty weak (<2))

I've also mistakenly overcorrected my latest pair, so I'll experiment with a astigmatism-only pair to see how much I need correction.
It's about time these lazy Euro countries contributed to their own security instead of just taking it for granted as always, assuming the rest of NATO members (specially the active ones) would be there for them, without themselves bearing any cost or even paying it any active attention.

Similar to how those who have not vaccinated themselves enjoy the collective immunity that others (who have taken the trouble/time/cost/etc. to get vaccinated) have provided for them.
Isn't this disinformation broad a yoga blogger or some shit?
> Make it nicer and we'll come back.

The people that live there are what make it nicer. You can help and be part of the solution, or you can continue to live in your 1500 sqft kingdom and let Queen Karen out every so often to harass the local teenage serfs, er, service workers.
As others have mentioned it’s basically the foundation of plant biology/genetics. There are entire labs of the top minds in plant genetics working on similar lines of this single plant. Papers/PhDs are published every day characterizing arabidopsis genes, how they interact with other genes, and then how it all changes under different natural or artificial conditions. Because many plant genes are conserved across species, this translates to insights (or gives a good starting point) for researchers working on other plants (or more applied areas like crop improvement).
I am excited for this to be used to speed up Microsoft Teams.
How about amking an icon next to every single post which is a link to summary page of every post of that URL, ever.

I've been a reddit user for 15 years.

I have a fairly good memory. So many reposts from even years ago.

Fine, if nobody had seen such post prior, but an indicator of just how frequently a reposted URL is useful, though antithetical to $model.
Saying it runs PMOS well is pretty generous.

It is usable but not a very pleasant experience compared to even the cheapest android devices.
Also, reproducible-builds.org. Arch has most of its packages as reproducible and it integrates into pacman:

https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/pacman-bintr...

Note, I don't recommend this for haskell packaging on Arch as it slows things down substantially.
Sure, because the Tesla Roadster is half a car, and cost is no object. They literally took an existing car, and built an EV conversion kit, money be damned.

Making the first mass-market EV was going to take multiple years, no matter what. You need to engineer the entire car, at scale, and you need to hit a price-point. Tesla didn't have such an issue. I can't stress enough how much more difficult it is to make an affordable product than one where price is no object.
I’m a Googler and I’m very happy with my job and the company in general. People I work on projects with also seem engaged and satisfied with their work.
>I don't see where they say this.

I literally quoted them saying this. Here it is again "just make the city centres safe, clean, friendly places so that people who are "middle class, suburban, and white" want to live there".

>This comes off as projection.

I don't understand what you think I am projecting. I'm afraid of poor brown people? I don't want white people in the city? For the record, I am a white person who has lived in the middle of various major American cities most of my life. I'm not going to argue with you if you cite housing costs, having a yard, privacy, calmness, or any of the numerous other advantages suburban life has over city living. But when I see someone complain that cities aren't "safe, clean, [or] friendly" for middle class white folks, I will call out what I see as a recycled dog whistle from the 1950s and 1960s.

>They listed several things.

I questioned those listed things because the implication behind them is not true. White people aren't waiting for cities to become safe because the cities have already gotten safe.
There's also interesting theories about bright light exposure preventing myopia in children. Send your kids outside at recess every day :)
I often joke that I have an amateur radio license and only use wired earbuds for conference calls.

The 2.4ghz ISM bands are just noisy, sometimes all it takes is a poorly shielded microwave to take out everything in a 50 yard radius.
Twitter userbase is far, far dumber than Wikipedia's
probably not a good idea because it would introduce more problems related to convergence and accommodation, better to just let the eyes work naturally and keep better habits.
All Our Patent's Are Belong to You (2014)
I apply the same heuristic to the adults.
This is Sweden, people are constantly waiting to make a big fuss about anything that’s irrelevant. I would get yelled at and it would be very uncomfortable, at the very least.
Least cost solution to KPI outcome.

Distinguishing good from bad is hard. Ban everyone, problem solved. (by inventing a new problem)

If you want better outcomes, need to make them either low cost, or inject "funds" (which may be effort) to improve
A clean rebuild doesn't mean that it can't used cached objects. If the cache is the same regardless, the final output will be the same.
I want to know what happened to the people calling the police. There needs to be consequences for people who call the cops on someone to falsely report a crime. Start holding people accountable for their nosiness and people will start minding their own business. An encounter gone wrong with our militarized police can end an innocent life, result in significant injury, cause them to lose their job, and needlessly involve them in the expensive legal system. People ought to err on the side of not inflicting this on each other unless it's obvious that urgent violent intervention is necessary.
They applied "nutrient solution of 0.125× strength MS nutrient solution, pH 5.7 (Murashige and Skoog)". The salts in that make a typical complete hydroponic fertilizer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murashige_and_Skoog_medium
You just summed it up, unfortunately.
I moved to Tokyo a few years back, right before the pandemic. Seeing comments like this makes me feel very lucky that I didn't instead choose a large US city.
When a College Education Helps – and When It Hurts
I was interested in this and took a look. Pedestrian deaths in the USA are up a bit, up 10% since 2010, from 33k to 36k in 2019. [1] USA population over the same period has increased from about 6%, from ~309M to 329M. So it's definitely a real increase, but 4% adjusted is pretty moderate. More interesting to me is that over longer time periods, the pedestrian fatality rate was much higher, and the recent increase is far below historic averages. Also interesting is the relatively high rate of pedestrian fatalities (27%) are impaired by alcohol. [2] Generally, it's a very safe time to be a pedestrian, but has gotten slightly worse over the last ten years.

[1] https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...
[2] https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/motor-vehicle/historical-fatalit...
This seems very different from the view that I learned about it from in the 90s because of Dan Simon's discussion of using a QC for factorization, and then by 2000 there were single qbit computers. Sure, it may have ben theorized in the 80s, but execution is key. This optical computer was demonstrated, and is well beyond the theoretical stage. Also, our ability to prototype circuits of any kind is ridiculously more powerful than 80s tech.

If it's economically viable, I'd bet we will see it in 15 years. There are libraries for quantum algorithms in multuple languages, and I remember trying to learn them in Haskell pre-2010, with the assumption that by the time I wrapped my head around it a decade or two later, there would be computers to run it on. I gave up on that, but from an investor perspective, a game changing improvement in classical compute tech is worth considering exposure to.

Are you seriously confident this optical compute model, if economical, is 30+ years away?
Equivalent in the rights it takes away. 'Rights' in a moral, not legal sense - they may not be codified in any law. In the same way one's right to free speech is said to be curtailed, regardless of if their specific legal system recognizes such a right.
If you vary the monitor count, its memory of the change "back" is mutable: Some windows stay where they were, some move to one or other monitor

(I alternate between 2 external @home 1 external @work)
The Dotcom bubble companies were mostly not outright scams. Some of them were, in retrospect, obviously stupid ideas. But they were at least trying to bring in revenue, and a few actually succeeded.

By contrast, cryptocurrency has no revenue stream. It's a zero-sum game. A better analogy would be the bubble in Beanie Babies that happened around the same time as the Dotcom boom (and drove some early Ebay growth). Idiots were taking out loans to buy up thousands of those toys, thinking that demand would go up forever.
Exactly. I don’t understand how we got to the point where people are so scared of some kind of invisible boogeyman that we have to deal with this.
Stories like this make HN what it is. Thanks for sharing! Love it!
Cocoa is the user interface toolkit used by macOS and iOS applications alike (though on iOS it's called Cocoa Touch). Swift is a programming languages that's often used to write Cocoa applications, usually through the AppKit, UIKit, or SwiftUI frameworks.
Its a good thing for nouveau, since it means that can use the new firmware for reclocking, while it currently can't do reclocking at all.
Those were all the rage in the early 2000s. We siphoned off a coffee shop about 1/4 mile down the street from our apartment with one.
How about make them better? I hated public school, but you're an imbecile.
After checking it out briefly it is definitely slow to load a lot of content. It looks like privacy isn't enabled by default either. To me, it looks like DuckDuckGo but is less private by default.
Windows go invisible is complex. Some windows, you can "gather windows" easily.

Others, refuse to be gathered. A canonical method to force all windows which exist off-screen to be shown at least partially on SOME screen would help

And something like a neon flash border (like zoom does on screencast panes)
Netflix Updates Corporate Culture Memo
Your description reminded of a short song by M83 called I Guess I'm Floating. btw, I agree with you.
How many of these commenters work at Cloudflare? :)
you can substitute spherical correction for astigmatism correction. the spherical equivalent is the normal spherical value plus 50% of the cylinder. so for -3.00 sphere -1.00 cylinder 100 axis, the spherical equivalent would be -3.50 sphere (blank cylinder, blank axis).
> Then a man named Bill Gates came along and he decided that they were going to give away a free encyclopedia with every damn bit of his personal computer software. Away went our $50 million a year. Now, we still sell the encyclopedias in libraries, making a few million per year doing that. But most of the wealth just went away and all that wonderful constructive product.

Encarta was (and is?[1]) great, and I'm disappointed that Microsoft discontinued it. As much as I use wikipedia, I still think that shipping a decent curated encyclopedia with every computer/tablet/phone is a fantastic idea.

One of my favorite features of macOS is that it still contains a built-in dictionary that you can access even if you're offline.

Did Rhapsody/Mac OS X ever include the complete works of Shakespeare like NeXT originally did? Given the massive amounts of storage that we have today, I wouldn't mind having a built-in high-quality library of classics and reference works included in every phone, tablet, and PC.

One of my favorite things about Raspbian is that it includes Mathematica and Sonic Pi.

Perhaps there is an educational Linux distro that includes curated offline versions of Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg, Khan academy, etc. as well as educational software?

[1] Apparently you can still download Encarta 2009 from the internet archive.
Most people spend proportionally to what they earn, so I don't see why one year salary should necessarily provide the lifetime of financial security, regardless of what that salary is.
Texans aren't known for their intelligence...
Note that Apple doesn't specify battery capacity spec on iPhone.
Surprised to not see /r/superstonk in the map
All 4 Apple laptops I've owned in recent years have had significant latency with my Sony WH-1000XM4's too. Like, sometimes over a full second. I have to regularly disconnect and reconnect to address.

And then Apple removed Bluetooth Explorer from Xcode 12, meaning I have no real way to even diagnose that on the newest macOS releases.
> But, as far as I know, eyeball never shorten.

There are many anecdotal reports about people seeing shorter eyeballs as measured by an autorefractor while doing the reduced lens method, one example that I recall is this one from cliffgnu[1].

For LASIK the real thing that isn't communicated is that it doesn't address the root of the problem which is that the eyeball gets longer, it only works as if someone carved glasses on your cornea.

[1] : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efsgkBHaTlI
Haha, ok, I stand corrected.

Interesting stat.
>June 2020

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23589798
Yeah; I'm about to upgrade the backhaul on my Orbi mesh system to be wired, via extant coax nodes in good locations.
There is what the state says it does, and there is what the state actually does. The state says its a model litigator, and respects the constitution. Arms of the state frequently are not model litigators, and frequently treat the constitution as something "emergency powers" drove a truck through decades ago.

All states do this. It's always done this. the UK used DORA (defence of the realm) to silence votes-for-women.
>For men, the lifetime risk of being murdered or killed in intergroup fighting runs about 10 to 20%.

That makes being born in western Russia in 1905 look like a peaceful life
Matt is clearly having the time of his life gawking at the stuff crypto people do.
Very interesting reading. I have also been reading about insulin resistance and how one philosophy was to give more insulin, and another philosophy is to reduce insulin + add fasting so that your body corrects towards the new life [ maybe I am paraphrasing too much ]. From the little I have heard on this, reducing insulin and making body adapt sounds more reasonable.

This seems to be going in a similar direction. Get your body to adjust than help it with strong prescription glasses.

Not sure if it will work for people who are in a transition phase with their eyes worsening every year, but it may help people with relatively stable eyes.
That exact trick is used for broader stats about 'gun violence'. More than half of the deaths counted as 'gun violence' are suicides, not murders.

Counting suicides as gun violence is convenient for a narrative, because areas with friendlier gun laws, and thus, more guns per capita, tend to have more suicides by gun. It's a common hack move to plot those two numbers and show a correlation.
Every time I do an on the street observation, I see that wireless headphones are pretty much universal. It would be 100 wireless to one wired user. Sure, some of that may be because the jacks are removed, but the average person has chosen to use wireless instead of the $9 adapter or picking a phone with a jack.

The average user does not care at all. HN has a tendency to attribute everything to some global conspiracy from the elite’s to make you use technology their way. It’s inconceivable that most people just don’t care about flac quality audio or having to charge their AirPods once a week.
Doctors we're complaining about the blood clot increases far before CDC took a stand.
> As in, are these two tasks (captioning an image and replying to a natural language prompt) so distinct that a "cat" in an image excites different neurons than a "cat" that I ask it about? Or is there overlap? Or we don't know :)

We only have very limited (but suggestive) evidence that the human brain has abstract "cat" neurons involved in various sensory and cognitive modes. Last time I paid attention, there was reasonably strong evidence that an image of a cat and reading the word cat used some of the same neurons. Beyond that it was pretty vague, there seemed to be evidence of a network that only weakly associates concepts from different modes, which isn't consistent with most people's subjective experience.

But then we have other evidence that what we think of as our subjective cognitive experience is at least partly a post-hoc illusion imposed for no apparent reason except that it creates an internal narrative consistency (which presumably has some utility, possibly in terms of having a mind others can form theories about more readily).
Such an incredible opening sequence.
Cyberattacks are inevitable.

The success of those cyberattacks depends greatly on a lot of things. DoS are going to happen, anything can be knocked offline with enough traffic. RCEs need a certain complexity to happen -- try remote-attacking a calculator, X10 outlet, or an esp8266 IOT device without remote updates or unusual protocols.
here ya go - https://www.levels.fyi/company/Twitter/salaries/

> At Twitter, RSUs are subject to a 4-year vesting schedule: 25% vests in the 1st year (8.33% every 4 months), then 25% in each of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th years (6.25% every 3 months). Every year employees get a new grant that vests over 4 years to bring them up to their target compensation.

it's Twitter, hundreds if not thousands of their employees post detailed compensation information.
I disagree on it being the OS maintainers job, for the reason of duplication of effort. Packaging every single package or library individually for every distro is a colossal waste of person power. But I agree that there should be a security review.
As an example, how many children have actually been injured by razor blades in Halloween apples?
Don’t know what people on Linux do, I only referenced macOS and windows.
I'll add that I think GP is confusing Cocoa with Objective-C. Swift does replace Objective-C.
It sounds like you are also burned out. Good luck in getting yourself balanced again, first at a job and perhaps in future at another company. Know that you’re not alone — many have been through this.

For folks in the US: when you do start something, make sure you incorporate and keep any debt in the corporation (obviously this isn’t meaningfully possible for anything you borrow from F&F). Then if the business ends it goes bankrupt and you do not. Among other things this won’t affect your credit or ability to visit countries that bar people who have ever been bankrupt.

I’m not sure this is really possible in Europe — I believe bank loans require a personal guarantee.
My intuition is that humans will continue to make art that takes advantage of technological advances, just like they always have.

The modern process of producing music would basically be unrecognizable to anyone 40 years ago — it's completely intertwined with technology, and far more automated. Yet music is as important as ever, and amazing music is being made (will politely side-step the pitfall of debating whether music was better 40 years ago!)

So I'm excited to see how visual artists incorporate tools like Dall-E into their artistic process.
So, your argument is that you casually violated your rental agreements? And you don't see how that reeks of entitlement? It might play well to this particular audience, but people who are less technical and less libertarian than the average HNer might find it less convincing.
That he can take tough/unpopular calls and do what is asked or need be done. Just like being popular among techies is good thing in some circles. Being unpopular can be good in other places.