skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My mom had a sudden acute glaucoma, we didn't knew it was glaucoma yet, and she was sent to hospital.

Same shit, wealth extraction, no proper care.

We begged help from her usual eye doctor, sent to him photos of her eyes that had obvious glaucoma for someone that know what glaucoma is, and he just replied she is fine.

Eventually we found on our own she had glaucoma and transferred her to a university, where students wanting to learn treated her, or tried, since they couldn't do anything without permission from licensed medics, and the medics and their teacher all were for "some reason" unexpecteadly absent.

She is getting better now, but got some permanent damage that wouldn't have happened if someone bothered to look at her.

In the initial hospital she went to, nurses told me they asked for a medical specialist to come and see her, that I could rest easy and they would fix the issue. Later on, my father asked one of the hospital administrators that is his friend, and he checked the records, and found out the nurses lied.

If that is the treatment you get when you are paying and when hospital administator is your friend, imagine when you are poor...

EDIT: in general, I don't trust medics, almost all medics I know are liars, scam artists or butchers, I have a list of medical malpractice on people I know bigger than the list of stuff fixed, including deaths caused by medical malpractice.

My personal issues are mostly self-treated, with me going to medics only because the law obliges me to to get the needed prescriptions.

My wife is pregnant, and her medics told us a lot of suspicious stuff, I hired a doula and some nurses out of my own pocket, a team that helped with childbirth of a friend of my wife, and asked them about all sketchy stuff the medic said, and they gave me the details, including the science, to prove to me the medic is actually trying to scam my wife into having a privately paid caesarean section in a expensive hospital. And indeed when I asked the medic later how much he expects the birthing to cost us, he quoted us a totally eye-watering figure and said our health insurance wouldn't cover it (a lie, we checked this already).

EDIT2: how to be a butcher: insist a guy has cancer, when everyone insists he doesn't have cancer, then have a exploratory surgery to find his cancer and kill him on the sugery table, then you say "oops, he didn't had cancer after all!"
Oh God, I saw the title and was kind of scared of reading this... I mean, I'm young still, not married or anything, but, I think I am a very empathetic person and kind of like to be understanding of other people's lives and feelings, maybe because I feel it's a way of expanding my own life perspective or something, but anyway I was reading this and feeling pretty emotional during the whole thing and then I read the final sentence that Lilly said and I basically just... Started crying, so those were a few awkward minutes... It's an extremely raw and well-written piece... Ahh that's a strange way to feel on a Sunday...
The interface is a bit tricky, I guess one can click on a point and then leaf left and right through the pictures.

The purple triangles are for pictures at oblique angles which are amazing
Yes, my redaction was not good. NPC movements are not realistic at all
... and that's a problem.

I can't imagine an idea that's worse for space debris than SBSP. It necessarily requires huge masses, and huge surface areas. Total mass in an orbit is what determines if you're past Kessler's "tipping point." Total surface area is what determines how quickly the system erodes into tiny MMOD pieces (each MMOD impact releases 100x as much mass as the impactor itself).

The usual lazy rebuttal is that the preferred orbits are currently unpolluted. To that I say, with that attitude how long do you think it will stay that way?

The remaining "pristine" orbits are so high up that all the debris generated is effectively eternal.
A full scroll through is downloading 135MB+ currently, even though it's a quickly made site it's super wasteful imo. The suggested preview gifs (and loading on click) could be a major improvement.
> But Adams left (and I left) and, for the most part, Dilbert ended up mostly stuck in a 90s cubicle time warp

This was made obvious during COVID lockdowns to me. He had a lot of trouble addressing it in a way that felt as original and genuine as I was used to from the strip.
Exactly! What features do we really need? Many “feature” suggestions I come across are people trying to make podcasts something they’re not so that they suit the person writing.
A Doctor Diagnosed Child Abuse. How Far Would She Go?
Idk the ability to reliably communicate with a large segment of the world population?
> There isn't really any other way to do it

There is, it's called balancing the probabilities. What's more likely - that someone started a company, developed a full-featured VoIP app, set up all the infrastructure to provide their service, made the app open source and established themselves in the market, all just to secretly harvest people's contact lists.......or are they telling the truth and no data is being uploaded? These are all things Google can verify, they just don't want to.
I am afraid it won't be built for a peaceful purpose..
This is irrelevant. Any country in the EU might do the same. I would hate to lose my domain because of this.
Ask HN: Jetbrains Upsource code-review system alternatives?
We are currently not able to adopt a pull-request based workflow due to multiple reasons (among having several legacy code bases). Upsource is no longer sold by Jetbrains, they are not willing to sell us additional licenses nor giving additional user licenses.

Jetbrains offers Space to us as an alternative but it is (1) expensive, (2) tries to do much (planning, source control and project management we already have tools for which work perfectly fine).

What are similar products to Jetbrains Upsource?

For those who don't know: You can either do a branch code-review, or add individual commits and the tool will keep the code-review up to do with additional commits referencing the same JIRA-ticket/user story number/etc. Then as in any code review system you can put overall review comments or per line, etc.
This would be great for Rally racing games, since it's all about reacting to unknown terrain.

Also, it would be better if mouse steering is damping impulse based, i.e. every frame the steering position exponentially decays, mouse position resets to center and the change is added as impulse on the steering position.

sensitivity = max_ang / ( screenwidth/2 )
decay_rate = 6.0

frame(dt){
dx = mouse.x - center_pos
mouse.reset()
steer_ang += dx*sensitivity
steer_ang.clamp(-max_ang,max_ang)
steer_ang *= exp(-decay_rate * dt)
}
No need to run docker or nginx as it's hosted on vercel. Just push to a github repository
Ask HN: Is Anyone Else Tired of the Self Enforced Limits on AI Tech?
Like the reluctance for the folks working on DALL-E or Stable Diffusion to release their models or technology, or the whole restrictions on what it can be used for on their online services?

It makes me wonder when tech folks suddenly decided to become the morality police, and refuse to just release products in case the 'wrong' people make use of them for the 'wrong' purposes. Like, would we have even gotten the internet or computers or image editing programs or video hosting or what not with this mindset?

So is there anyone working in this field who isn't worried about this? Who is willing to just work on a product and release it for the public, restrictions be damned? Someone who thinks tech is best released to the public to do what they like with, not under an ultra restrictiveset of guidelines?
If you're on mobile enable autodrive (the wheel icon at the bottom) and enjoy being a passenger.
It’s all perspective. I think your phone number is more like water. If anything happens to your phone, you can simply take one physical trip down to your carriers store and get a new one with the same number. That’s water.

A bunch of email accounts that your whole life is tied down to where you can’t even get someone on customer service on the line 24/7? No, that’s Soda.

I’m just saying, this is the diet equivalent of giving up sugary drinks and switching to water.
I am aware that Rome’s population decreased. My reasoning is that a population that was larger and denser in the past is carrying around more parasites. Rome is just one example. By 1492, Europe had many large cities and lots of travel between them, enormously more population and travel than the Americas. They had a more fertile environment for parasites.
Sugar water. The ph isn't perfect but it beats having them starve over the winter from not having enough honey. Some of the big producers will feed sugar water or high fructose corn syrup and sell the result as honey, from what I hear.

As far as the mechanics, this time of year 2:1 or so sugar to water. Sometimes you can open feed in barrels or buckets with a float of some sort for the bees to land on. You can also put various containers in the hive. Sometimes I open feed, but this time will put a sealed, inverted jar or bucket in the hive on top of the frames of honeycomb. A few tiny holes to allow droplets retained by surface tension to form and the bees will happily store it away for the winter.
Maybe you should try being empathetic.
A slightly exaggerated point of view: but in a way, the problem with Scrum and Agile is that they have been appropriated by non-tech people because tech is where the money is at. If it wasn't Agile, it would probably be something else.

I know "but that's not agile" is a tired meme at this point, but if you read something like for instance the pattern work by guys like Jim Coplien and Sutherland [1], then Scrum as outlined by these communities of practices sounds pretty sensible. Just some random excerpts:

> Use Small Teams of people working on serialized work rather than striving for false parallelism.

> The Development Team organizes itself to get its work Done. The Development Team is solely responsible for how it does its work.

> Explicitly allot time for interrupts and do not allow more work than fits within the allotment.

> Create ad-hoc “birds of a feather” groups for each area of significant enterprise core competency or developer interest, where interested parties can trade notes on technologies, domain knowledge, and processes that are key to enterprise advancement.

etc.

[1] http://scrumbook.org/
got a Fujitsu S740 for about 40USD (used, 2.5 y.o.). It's a thinclient (similar to the T620 below) and as such sadly doesn't have Wifi-onboard (but 1 SATA M.2 and 1 E-Key inside). Otherwise beats any SBC by an order of magnitude probably. The board inside is actually sold as a "SBC" by Kontron as well...

If you are fine with older stuff and adapt a PSU, you can probably get RPI-performance (even GPIO in a real parallel-port!) for the price of a coffee.
I would also say there's barely any point adding the date at all anymore in most computing cases. In the very unlikely event that you need to prove the date in court you're probably going to be relying on archive.org and git logs anyway, and nobody is going to claim that it's over 75 years old or whatever.
> almost all of the government email IDs are Gmail.

I think you are mistaken.

Majority of the emails are on government server: https://email.gov.in/

They used to be on 3rd party provider till a few years back (but still never on Gmail).
Yawn. That's a classic "you say we can improve society? yet you participate in society, curious". Yes they use Twitch because millions of people are there and they need to reach a wide audience.
Probably Github itself gives stargazers updates on what they starred
Hmm, it's interesting that it's so different from my impression of specialist opinion...

Especially when the CNRS - (which would be partially guilty in the case of a lab leak !) - published the claim that the lab leak hypothesis could not be dismissed.

But you know how paradigms work, you have to be an anti-conformist to support what is going to become the new paradigm...

And sure, there most certainly is a very enthusiastic lay readership on the lab leak side... but why do you think there isn't one on the zoonosis side ?

And especially an even bigger fraction of specialists and lay readership that aren't rejecting either ?

(It bears repeating : I'm not anti-zoonosis, since I am not competent to judge either way anyway, I just find it very worrying that there seemed to be a campaign from quite early on, when social pressure wouldn't have had as much effect yet, to outright dismiss the lab leak theory, even though among the specialists gathered at the WHO in January 2020, there was no such consensus.)

I guess it only goes to show how bubbly the Internet (and your specific sub-field bubble ?) can be...
Will this accept spam and forward it to me, or will it filter spam, and if so, how?
If the question should be left as an exercise, then I'm justified in asking it.

Democracy has nothing to do with what I've asked. We live in a world of various societies each composed of distinct histories, laws, ideologies, creeds, beliefs, cultures, etc. This is as true today as it was millennia ago, before the existence of modern democracy. None of these societies are or were interchangeable, whether across space or time, and many are mutually irreconcilable with respect to one another. Historically, these differences were "settled" with massacres and revolutions, where the victors stood righteous and the losers denounced as animals, barbarians, deviants, heretics, apostates, reactionaries, terrorists, and other terms of abuse. Today, these battles are waged in parliaments and on Internet forums, where the methods are less bloody the but rhetoric and reasoning (or lack thereof) remain relatively unchanged.

Societies, as they exist in the real world, aren't simply voluntary associations of rational individuals (as much as I would like that). They are, whether by accident or design, sets of historical decisions that have accumulated currency in a sufficiently large or sufficiently powerful group of people. These same people are willing to engage in violence or coercion to defend said decisions with little concern for truth.
Ross Scotts dream software: https://youtu.be/at5YMpTLl9U
Exactly. Anyone using Tailwind should be proficient in CSS. Or become proficient by looking at class definitions.
Ask HN: Instant realtime grep tool for Linux
I have been searching for an instant, real-time grep tool to search through source code on Linux but I haven't found any application that does this.

I have only found ONE ancient app only available on Windows, called Baregrep.

Is there any app like this but also available for Linux?
The main thing is there are less than 6 figure jobs out there but not a lot of love for them. Of course we want to get the best results out there but the "bubble" in regards to exorbitant salaries will probably pop next year. We can probably see a rebound in 2024.
The UK produces half its gas and has the potential to be more or less self-sufficient. At the same time they did not invest in other sources, especially nuclear.

It's not that the crisis could have been made slightly better: The UK could have been pretty much insulated from the energy crisis. Yes, hindsight is great but the UK's energy policy has really been awful for decades and disaster was coming one way or another (for instance because of EVs taking the grid down...)
Nice. I’d love to see pics of that setup. I use Namecheap for domains and they have a simple dynamic DNS service built in. I just hit it with curl four times an hour.
exactly the top comment of this reply/thread, that's why i wrote such comment on it.

"As someone who was a genetic engineer for a long while, watching HN talk about dodgy papers like this is painful."

Understand: "as a great scientific with long career, i feel depressed to see so much stupidy."

Trying to attract my sympathy for his "painfull feeling", therefore trying to positively bend my opinion in his favor.

"This paper posits a completely crazy cloning strategy that makes no sense (ie doing something far more convoluted than typical bsaI/bsmbi seamless cloning workflows that breaks the whole point of "seamless" workflows), and then tries to use that to make a case for a genomic signature that we could look for. They then look at a handpicked set of viral genomes, but leave a bunch out and duplicate others (I think WIV04 and WHu are the same), and largely seem to be observing without realizing it that yes, recombination occurs among these viral lineages."

Im not a specialist here, but this babbling just suggest me someone unable to think out of the box, restricting all possibles to only what he can master.

"This isn't even getting into the fact that a restriction-ligation based cloning strategy would leave glaringly obvious fingerprints behind in the form of the hundreds of nucleotide differences that are present outside the cutsites across the lineages... it would be blindingly obvious if someone just cut-and-pasted sars-cov-2 from other studied genomes."

"would leave" - "it would" - To me this is legalist wording. A way to suggest something without actually affirming it. cause the dude is not sure at all in fact.

So may be the core idea of his message is scientifically groundede and valid, but the way he expresses it is far more closer to the 'trust me bro' stance than critical neutral scientific phrasing.
Iirc netlify cms uses a similar way to store data?
>...or else you send it directly from your machine your friend's SMTP server, using TLS, ...

That is normally what happens these days. Intermediate email forwarding is so rare as to be non-existent. Only a small percentage of email is sent unencrypted between servers[1].

Agreed that email should be encrypted and, perhaps more importantly, signed...

[1] https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=pgpfan:starttls
Energy is fundamental to civilisations and something which we cannot do without. You can put forward a million arguments as to why we don't need oil, coal or gas it's just for profit and so on and that is true but when you are freezing your nads off this winter in europe or anywhere else for that matter you will be grateful for the pouch of tobacco and lighter in your pocket to get you through the hardship.
The book you want is called within the graphics industry "Foley Van Dam", after the original authors, but the actual title is "Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice". https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Graphics-Principles-Practice...

You may also be interested in "ACM: Transactions on Graphics", the Association of Computing Machinery's publication of computer graphics research papers. I suggest going to a University technical/research library, where you should be able to access the collection of issues from the 80's, where the original scan line, ray tracing, CSG, and pretty much every single advanced graphics technique (minus the deep learning) used today is documented by the original innovators.

At that same University research library they might have the collected set of course text books (mimeographs and photocopies) used for the 3-day long courses taught at SIGGRAPH every year.

These items are invaluable, and I reference them multiple times a year.
That email could have been sitting in your junk folder for all you know. Even with access to your account it would have been a dumb way to serve someone a summons.

Following my advice or not, email could have still fucked you.
„He landed on Windows XP wallpaper“
This isn't a case of "not using every part of the permission" (like it often is with the location permission, which you need to scan wifi an bluetooth). It's a case of asserting that an app does something just because it technically could, refusing to listen to any evidence to the contrary and demanding they put this nonexistent anti-feature in the description.

It's like demanding a folder encryption app rebrand itself as ransomware because it links against crypto libraries and has the file access permission, or a navigation app as "24/7 tracking app for stalkers" because it has a both GPS location and Internet access.
You are absolutely right.
So many times I have seen people complain about this or that "flaw" in floating point arithmetic and proposing this or that alternative system.
It always makes me question whether they have actually tried using these alternatives...

Giving people the illusion that they can work with real numbers on a computer by itself is pretty magical. But the fact that 32bits of data are not enough to hold information about all real numbers and that floats aren't actually real numbers should not be surprising.
To me it seems most people don't even understand what floating point numbers are, if you know a little bit all the "weird" behavior starts to make sense and you understand why it has to be that way and how much thought and genius has been put into this datatype.
Misleading users for GitHub stars... that's a paddling!

Maybe it's like the YouTube Like and Subscribe, except for the part where they contact you for new releases. It's a lot less pushy to tell people to star your repo than asking them to subscribe to issues and become a contributor on equal footing.

You need something like "stars" or "project member" as part of your contributor ladder.

Did you know that YouTube channels cannot get a non-randomized URL or be searchable by the channel title unless you have 1000 subs? (How do you get 1000 subs when nobody can search for or find your channel unless you hand them a link? I guess by pounding pavement...)

As an OSS maintainer, I don't think that stars do anything except for number go up, but you'd be surprised the things that "number go up" can help with.
You definitely don't want them using shell scripts. That's cloud-init/Ansible work. And you can do all of those through terraform as well.
As I said, LocoScript is about the best WP I saw on any 8-bit. I don't want to denigrate it.

But I suspect it achieved that because of 2 things:

[1] It was written by 2 experienced developers, already veterans of the Data Recall Diamond system, as referenced here:
https://www.theregister.com/Print/2015/09/09/joyce_turns_30/

[2] And because it came along late enough to be influenced by the new wave of 16-bit computers and GUIs and the combination of those and how they affected word processors.

LocoScript didn't expose any CP/M functionality because it didn't run on CP/M. It used the disk structure, and that meant it could use CP/M User Areas as a single-layer directory structure, which was inspired. TBH for non-technical users, 8 flat folders & multiple disks is enough, I suspect.

As for the Cat, yes, it was profoundly different, from the demo videos I've seen. Martin Wichary got lucky finding a cheap one. I've never seen a working one. :-(
No, that would be silly. I am aware of the risk of bedbugs. I know they are less likely in facilities regulated by local health departments.
I really like this pyramid of "factuality". I wonder if the missing bit is people attesting to their confidence of their statements and/or a prior on bullshittidness of the given source.
This is awesome. I was looking for something similar (either fully static or a headless CMS) for using it on the Wasmer website blog [1], which is already using Next.js.

We'll give it a try... thanks for the great work!

[1]: https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer.io
Also:

* https://www.prettygoodhouse.org
I have used select and poll before and sort of skipped to io_uring for a recent project, which also doesn't do too well with multiple threads (you have to use multiple rings and do everything else yourself). It's a shame that there is no obvious, relatively easy to use async IO mechanism on Linux that you can use from multiple threads without getting yourself in trouble. Reading more about kqueue it looks a lot like something that would solve it. Why was it not ported to Linux? Would it have been too hard to integrate?
The linked article is great btw. Very informative and concise!
Perhaps see:

* https://www.prettygoodhouse.org