skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had rectal cancer 18 years ago, and part of my followup was annual colonoscopies for the first decade. So I'm pretty familiar with the procedure, at least how my thoracic surgeon performed them.

Yes, the prep can be unpleasant. I tolerated it because of how close I had come to dying, and really didn't want my ticket punched. But the procedure itself was never unpleasant. When you say you weren't allowed sedatives because "I drink a lot;" were you referring to alcohol? My surgeon typically used propofol to induce twilight sedation. It was the best sleep I've ever had, though I understand that I never lost consciousness. The colonoscopy has NEVER been painful for me.

I would recommend finding a new doctor. Doing a colonoscopy without sedation sounds barbaric.
Those kits if run every few years (not sure which they are running, different kits have different schedules) are pretty good and a lot cheaper than colonoscopies every ten. In single payer systems cost effective matters differently and so they may choose to use them instead.

You can debate if they have the correct numbers when.counting cost effective.
I think it is pretty standard in functional languages not to overload operators. There may be technical reasons as well, I'm a bit out of my depth here, but it probably is better for performance with pattern matching knowing the type? Like `"hello " <> there = "hello there"`. Of course it's not just strings—concatenating lists uses ++ and for dates have their own functions.

OCaml takes it a step further with numbers where `+` only works on integers. You need to do `+.` to add floats. This lets it be statically typed without having to actually specify any types.

Again, a little out of my depth in terms of rock solid explanations.
In some ways it may be even more difficult to find a partner to grow with than one who has already grown and will give you a chance, because there’s more questions involved. Do they have the same capacity for growth? Are they as tenacious? Will they keep up their efforts after receiving the gratification of acceptance? Etc, etc.
ANY blood deserves to be checked out.
The autor deliberately used it to gain more attention with because of the title. It annoys me, not because of the bad language (I do the same), but because of the clickbaitiness.
I've been using BirdNet-Pi for a while and it's great fun. I'm a little confused about the commercial offering from BirdWeather - the PUC looks like a neat product, but I understood most of the BirdNet stuff to be Creative Commons NonCommercial. Maybe there's some nuance about how they're using it, or maybe some pieces have a more lenient open source license?
And here I am, still trying to rid the corporation from Office 2010 from some users..
Not really? They are almost entirely different.

The situation with bison in the US was deeply unnatural when you think about it. Bison are large herbivores, that can reproduce fairly quickly, and that don't have any consistent predators.

Nothing in the US can hunt them successfully and consistently. A wolf pack can take down a grown bison, but it's risky for them, and the wolf population was nowhere large enough to control the bison population numbers. Cougars and coyotes can prey on calves, but not on healthy grown bison.
ChatGPT, write an attractive dating app profile for me!
Oh, indeed. But the price point is crazy, that thing is more expensive than a Raspberry Pi.
https://text.npr.org/2023/10/29/1208928441/google-to-present...
How to Rob a Bank
This podcast explains the three theories and adds the Benign Violation Theory: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whats-so-funny/id15545.... Their theory can be summed up as “something is wrong, but ok/safe”, but it takes some illustrating.

I liked this skittles study, pulled from the transcript:

MANDY: The skittles study goes like this. Participants go into a room to fill out a survey. There's a table and a bowl of skittles, and there's an actor posing as a research assistant. And the goal of the study is to figure out the funniest way the actor can offer the bowl of skittles.

They ran this test in lots of different ways, but in the first condition:

<TAPE> CALEB: The actor will say, I'm sorry to interrupt you, but I'm in a couple seconds. I'm supposed to offer you these Skittles. Would you like these Skittles?

MANDY: This isn't that funny.

MANDY: But then, things get a little weird. In another group, the actor just flings the skittles at them.

<TAPE> CALEB: Out of nowhere, they'd launch the bowl of Skittles and only afterwards say, I'm sorry to interrupt you, but I was told to launch the bowl of skittles.

MANDY: This is surprising but not that funny. It's a little messed up. In the last group though, the actor gives them some warning before it happens.

<TAPE> CALEB: They say, I'm sorry to interrupt you, but in a few seconds I need to throw this bowl of Skittles at you. Then they launch the bowl of Skittles on the participant.

MANDY: It's pretty funny.

<TAPE> CALEB: there was more laughter, certainly, in both of the throwing conditions, but there was a lot more laughter when the person was told the Skittles were gonna be thrown at them first.

MANDY: Under Incongruity theory, people should be more likely to laugh if there's surprise -- but that's not the case here. People are more likely to laugh when it's not a surprise, when they're warned before it happens.

<TAPE>

CALEB: That's because once you hear that and the Skittles get thrown, you know, it's part of the study,

PETER: You're prepared

CALEB: You're prepared! The point of this was to show that it's not about surprise and surprise in some cases actually hurts.

MANDY: So if it's not surprise that's making people laugh when skittles are being thrown at them, what is it? This is where Peter and Caleb's own theory comes in: what they call the benign violation theory.

It’s no great joke, but it serves as a nice tool to examine the theories of humor. The humor from this joke doesn’t depend on incongruity. Maybe a bit on the relief of tension, but it’s not a great explanation. And the scenario with surprise actually hurts here.
Personally I would prefer USB-C for everything. I have plugged in the wrong DC adapter (wrong polarity or voltage but the same physical form factor) far too many times and killed too many things. Not to mention all the device-specific DC adapters that have been lost through the ages.

But for a hobbyist device, the currently available USB-C jacks have pins that are too small to solder by hand so I'll settle there. It would be nice if hand-solderable breakout boards were cheaper and more commonly available (the DC trigger boards out there are a great start but typically have to be ordered direct from China)

But for factory-manufactured goods, DC jacks need to die and be replaced with USB-C.

Meanwhile there is no room anywhere for mini-B, micro-B, etc anymore, even on hobbyist devices. I'm not even sure I could even find a mini-B cable in a physical store nearby anymore.
Pro tip: Go to your bank and you can order $100 worth of half dollars for $100.00.

Pro-er tip: You can also do this with two dollar bills.
Ask HN: Is Express still "de-facto" for building Node back ends?
It's been a while since I've last used node to build a backend, and the last time I did Express was the go-to solution. Is that still the case?
I don't have much time to do too much research and I usually default to the most popular solution in such cases.
ducktape, zipties, ripcord ... FTW
Censorship can and has caused damage when sweeping news under the rug. I'm thinking of the initial reports of a virus Chinese state media quickly squashed.
Illegitimate? What does that mean?

In the 80s when the Iron Curtain was up, we drove freely between some European countries, but certainly not East Germany.

Which of those governments was more "legitimate"?
Doctors routinely washed their hands before Semmelweis, whose innovation was chlorinated hand washing; he ended up in a sanatorium because he went crazy (he likely had an advanced case of syphilis); the connection he made was that "cadaveric particles" were causing illness in hospitals, which is problematic because the phenomenon occurred in circumstances where no cadavers availed, but he was apparently absolutely hung up on the cadaveric nature of the threat.

He's a complicated dude.
it's kind of scary what you can do with a visual programming like scratch these days. but i'm not crazy about the site linked in the title.
Wouldn’t this be a liability though? In this scenario are you just blindly signing whatever? If yes, that’s obviously not good. The alternative is you have a long review and audit process but in the event something falls through the cracks, this still bites you.
Java and Kotlin are still the vast majority of apps, and what's being pushed the hardest in the industry.

Kotlin especially with Jetpack Compose for UI.
>Bullsh*t.

Please keep the quality of conversation high here. Thank you.
I don't know why the man command is missing, because the pages themselves are there under /usr/man.
Amen, my virtual brother.

May a real $2.50 some-time-soon cross your path.
This should be illegal! This person could have cured cancer if they weren't building this kind of shit. (Only half joking)
> What a terrible logo design, and semingly no real buy-in from any major organization

https://www.worldipv6launch.org/ has better logos and corporate participation, though it's mostly a reference to the event on June 6 2012.
Evaluating embedding based retrieval beyond historical search results [video]
Thanks. I took a cursory look and they just don't seem as high quality as something like shadcn/ui (built on Radix UI) or Tailwind's upcoming Catalyst. For example, on Moon, the dropdown arrow support seems broken and it doesn't switch positions based on the viewport. It's these little details that matter, especially for accessibility.
What's wrong with adafruit?
not really. it is well known in non politically influenced circles that hormonal exposure in the uterus is a great predictor of sexuality and behaviour.
I didn’t know this about F-Droid. Are they doing any developers a favor by promoting obsoleted releases of security software to linger?
Humans are the same as we were for millennia, the problem is that we seem to be having a bit of a self-denial crisis nowadays. We just can’t accept our flaws anymore, apparently, so we build these fake meaningless narratives that “everyone is special” and “all bodies are beautiful” etc. The truth is that dating is brutal; it works very well for a few people, but for the majority of average people it is a hard competition to which nobody actually know the rules. It’s completely asymmetric gender-wise and failing on it is basically failing on being.

So you find yourself in this situation where everyone is so nice and polite, so sophisticated and accepting, so inclusive, but for some reason nobody gives a single ** about having a romantic relationship with you. How’s that possible? Well it’s possible because it’s all fake. Deep inside, in our intimacy and our inner circles, we’re the same as we were a thousand years ago. The apps simply make it obvious and pull it to the surface.
More Is Different (1971) [pdf]
AI turtles all the way down
I remember using dd() in Drupal 5 back in 2007. Not as high fidelity of the output as it is today, but the name and concept remains.
> Your comment can be misinterpreted as saying "Nix does not do binary reproducibility very well, just input reproducibility", which is false.

It's only "false" as nobody has actually tried to rebuild the entire package repository of nixpkgs, which to my knowledge is an open problem nobody has really worked on.

The current result is "only" ~800 packages and the set has regular regressions.
What about wysiwyg editors? Something equivalent to react-grid-layout? Date pickers? I want to build a startup, not rebuild complex components for the sake of purity.

Simple components are taken care of, but I think that's not where the discussion is very relevant.

I'm sorry to disagree here, but I think it's disingenuous to act like the problem is solved when there's really quite a large gap.

(Btw, of course I built my components with pure LiveView when it made sense.)
If I understand correctly, Earth got very lucky with whatever massive planet ("Theia"?) crashed through in early formation to give us the huge core (hence magnetic field for particle deflection) and our absolutely massive moon to churn things.

Seems like both might be needed for "life", maybe anything more than microbes?

Mars core is only half the size of earth's
It's certainly more efficient for the end goal of getting to a date, in a the way food delivery is an efficient way of addressing your hunger.

I approve both.

But I would not recommend eating food delivery every day.
But maybe it is the issue. The guy is asking for money. He's not mounting a refusal of the whole system of signing. Everything in his announcement is about finding ways to accommodate himself to the new situation of having a certificate after a previous sponsor churned. His hesitation is clear, but a certificate there would cost $629 (tax excluded) for a single year, and his ask for sponsors is also very clear, and follows immediately: If your organization requires a signed installer then please consider sponsoring us with a code signing certificate. Please reach out to @dlemstra for questions or in case of a sponsorship.

I understand the points you are making, but instead I think in this case it is not I who is missing the larger picture, but you--missing the larger picture, and one painted clearly in the text of the GitHub announcement this thread is about.

However, in your other less relevant comment above, you raise interesting points which I want to address! While not as relevant to the specific case at hand, they are interesting and deep! Let's dive in over there! :)
The $629/year is if they use a certificate from one particular company (Digicert) that manages keys in a way that would be easiest for them to fit into their current workflow.

There are other options that would require more changes to their workflow but are much less expensive. See the responses on GitHub or the other comments here for several of them.
Curves need not be smooth, for example we may consider elliptic curves over finite fields [1] or space-filling curves [2]. In general, there are various ways to generalize the notion of curvature to discrete structures like graphs and programs [3] which reflects our intuitive understanding about local curvature on smooth manifolds. For example, one way to view discrete curvature is to grow a ball around a point and look at how quickly its volume deviates from a ball of the same radius embedded in a uniformly connected graph approximating a “flat” or Euclidean space.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_curve#Elliptic_curves...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-filling_curve

[3]: https://www.maths.dur.ac.uk/users/norbert.peyerimhoff/peyeri...
Ask HN: If you were to build a web app today what tech stack would you choose?
Not for your current job. But if you were starting a new passion project.
> What were we up to during those times?

You don't have to go that far in human history to ask such question. E.g. we don't know much about Mississippian culture (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippian_culture).
One thing that is crucial is that websites MUST support multiple Passkeys per account, otherwise you end up with a single point of failure if something happens to your password manager.

It's good that you can't export a Passkey, which reduce the attack vector against phishing and extraction. It's kinda like how an SSH or a GPG private key should never leave the computer it was generated from, and each machine should have their own unique private key.
"Going for a walk" is great, when you can do it.

Based on my experiences when I visited the USA, with sidewalks in most of the states I visited suddenly stopping for no apparent reason forcing me to re-trace my steps and take a different route, or with many road crossings feeling so dangerous that I was seriously tempted to take a taxi even for really small distances[0]? There's plenty of places where the city designers make this unnecessarily hard.

One of the reasons I chose Berlin over San Francisco when I was deciding how to show the ultimate lawful middle finger to UK politics, was that I like walking.

[0] it's only the 0.4 miles from the The Cupertino Hotel to 1 Infinite Loop, but ten lanes on the North De Anza Boulevard and 2/3 on the on/off ramps connecting it with the Junipero Serra Freeway is terrifying.
So you're donating $600/year to ImageMagik for them to get a code signing certificate, right?

Oh, you're not? Then why should the volunteer developers do so?
If Earth lost its magnetic field, how long would we last? My understanding is these sort of geological scale events would take thousands of years. Maybe a million.
My favorite former client [we're both retire now] is approaching 90 years old. Wow. She is a distinguished portrait artist from The Silent Generation, and she recently told me [upon her own best friend's recent death]:

"Nobody wants to be the last one left at the party. You have to help clean up, then..."

We ended our professional relationship over petty words when I felt like the only person giving a shit about maintaining her assets [as her maintenance guy]. Our personal relationship has outlasted any pettiness; but it still hurts seeing her squander her massive inheritance without maintenance.
Isn't Circle already a "typescript path" evolution of C++ ?

https://www.circle-lang.org/
You had the stuff fixed well before the date, no?

So did everyone else. It wasn't a difficult problem to foresee. Most places in any danger of inconvenience did foresee it, and acted well beforehand to fix the problems.

Without hype, without "crash priority budgets", without stress, without ever really facing the possibility of existential disaster.
It always fascinates me the inner core of our planet, after all it is from what we know a swilling mass of hot melting metal and other elements. Which is ever so slowly cooling at a size and scale we find hard to imagine.

Are their events that bring about rapid cooling, or are there mechanisms that maintain or induce the heating, scale of planet and subsequent pressure, or perhaps even cosmic rays impact it are thoughts, but the deeper we look, the more questions we find and still a case of solve less answers than questions and yet to reach that point in which we fully understand it.

Perhaps and very probably, Mars was a thriving ecosystem whilst the earth was still a molten blob of rock. Just the scale of time in the universe well outpaces biological life when talking billions of years.
Well at least the Bison outlived the Yacc.
RattleCAD
Government that works never works for the people.

Government that works only works for the cleptocracy.

Never never never aks for government that works.
At the simplest biological level, the burden of being pregnant is only borne by one gender (or sex, or whatever).

Birth control changes this of course, but society (let alone biology!) hasn’t adapted to that yet. It’s very unclear where we’ll end up long term.

STD risk is dramatically higher for women too, but one could make a ‘giver/receiver’ argument with men that is less clear. Still less risk though I believe.

Men have always been able to ‘hit and run’ in a way that women can’t. No one is getting pregnant because they were ACE, or had homosexual sex (with either gender). So it’s about meeting one’s own needs, with limited consequences, for both parties.

Marriage and other forms of sexual control has always been about trying to get a degree of accountability and stability that is a compromise between the sexes so that society isn’t inundated with the poverty, countless needless deaths and out of control orphans/unwanted children that result otherwise. At least pre birth control.

Shotgun weddings were a thing for a reason! Dad was going to get stuck with the costs of raising some random assholes kid otherwise, and fuck that!

And out of control physical violence and abuse if men don’t get what they need too (which is more than just sex, despite what many men will say).

If things don’t get reined in somewhat, we’re going to be Brazil - if we’re lucky.
There’s an argument that monogamy is a requirement for what we’d consider a stable society, specifically for that reason.
You better watch out though I would actually be more worried with that type of relationship because your wife will now realize she has unlimited options and start to second guess. So many divorces happen now from things as simple as a facebook message leading to an affair.

That fear of missing out could hit hard and lots of people get blindsided by it.
What about swallowing a pill camera? Could these be a slightly less invasive way to screen your colon? The technology for pill cameras along with AI should keep improving.
With the way dating apps work, you’ve gotta try to make an impression because they make users feel embarrassed for choice. If your profile is basically the same as everybody else’s you’re probably gonna get swiped left unless you’ve got outstanding looks and/or eye-catching photos.

Just put yourself in the shoes of someone who might see your profile. If I’m a bearded guy who enjoys hiking, Netflix, and IPAs what reason do they have to swipe right on me compared to the other 50 bearded guys who also enjoy hiking, Netflix, and IPAs?
Apple Watch is probably < 1% of a market dominated by Garmin, Polar, and Suunto, so it doesn't make much financial sense to integrate with GymKit.

Apple falls to Garmin in two areas: battery life and software. Sleep affects recovery, so planting a watch on a charger every night is a non-starter. Garmin's performance analysis software is also years ahead of Apple's. Apple could fix both of those things but that would require investment which I'm not sure they are willing to make.
Yeah, that's basically it. I have a drawer of barrel-jack wall warts but they all vary in diameter, polarity, voltage, current... USB is a nice standard 5V source.
People really shouldn't get tested unless they meet several criteria. Obviously any bleeding from your rectum should get checked out, and if hemorrhoids are rules out, a colonoscopy is probably the next course of action. And around 45, you should have one since that's the most likely age for colo/rectal cancer occurring.

Family history can also affect this timeline. My kids are now stuck having colonoscopies five years earlier than the normal recommendation since I had rectal cancer at 40.

And while I've found colonoscopies to be uneventful, they can have side effects. A perforated colon can happen in the worst case, or bleeding and infection. These are considered rare though and colonoscopies are considered pretty safe overall. But this doesn't mean you should get one just because you like getting high...
The editor is often in a similar bind, a freelancer paid by the word or per article, who doesn't really have an incentive to go beyond ensuring some minimum level of quality.

The publishing industry is just in a very bad place right now, mainly because it's so unprofitable for all but the biggest few players and the spigot of VC money has been turned off.