skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have hypertension, as well as diabetes. I wanted my cardiologist to test me for hyperaldosteronism, because I had read it was not uncommon and could be a factor in hypertension that continues to get worse and worse, without an obvious explanation. He refused, saying that it was the job of my endocrinologist to do that test.

So, I talked to my endocrinologist and he said it wasn't a normal test they do, but he was happy to do it if I wanted it. Well, the test came back positive. So they sent me in for a CAT scan of my adrenal glands to see if anything was obviously abnormal there. Which came back negative. So, now they want me to do a salt test to see how bad my hyperaldosteronism is, so that they can give me the right amount of the drug for that condition.

But the key thing that set me off was that original article that said this was now recommended by cardiologists as a standard screening test. Maybe only 10% of patients have this problem, but it's common enough that it's still worthwhile screening for.

So, why didn't my cardiologist screen me for it in the first place? Why didn't my endocrinologist screen me for it without me having to explicitly request it?

I'm pissed.

I don't want to sue anyone for malpractice, or even mention that word to any of my doctors. But I do want to convince them that they really do need to screen for this condition.

Meanwhile, I'm going to continue to follow this diagnosis to see where it goes, and if they can help me get my blood pressure under better control.
Hah. I have my badge on my website. I'm surprised a recruiter was looking for it.
> statements like this literally set me off. The patient being right and the doctor ignoring the patient and treating the patient like an idiot

There's a huge number of people who vastly overestimate their medical knowledge, google some symptoms (I'm sure you know the pitfalls of that but many don't), do self-diagnosis as a hobby with friends over coffee, come to absurd conclusions and then bother their doctors about it.

It's not ideal but somewhat understandable that under time pressure experts want to to know the object level (symptoms, history) and don't want to waste time listening to the speculation of non-experts, even if that speculation is sometimes right, and even if some (the doctor can't tell who) of those non-experts actually make good points.
That only works on Windows, I believe (and maybe on Linux). Chrome on macOS uses the system root certificate store.
Because it got other providers to get off their butts. Besides, it's relatively easy to switch providers anyway (where available).

I don't understand why people are scared of using services that have relatively low switching barriers, because they may be shut down one day.

I've used so many services over the years - big tech and from start ups that I've since moved form because they closed down or remained stagnant over better alternatives, and I never had to give it a second thought.
Seems pretty neat. Really like the Unison app though it was a pretty fatal UX flaw of not following the notes being played. Still, impressive.
I don't think using <dd> as <add> command when add could be used and a dd tag already exists is a good idea.

Same with sub, ul, ...

The more a I read the page the more it looks like a joke...
> by a very very screwed up founder.

I thought I knew the guys story, but wow is that some powerful grifting. Dude sells crystals and... Voter fraud dowsing sticks?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Hutton_Pulitzer
100% agreed.

Make upgrades easy, automate the tedious parts, and do them as often as possible.

If you do upgrades once per several years, yes, it is going to be excruciating.
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The irony is that we may see another leapfrog moment similar to analog cellphone networks and Internet infrastructure (where many poor countries largely skipped analog and modems because they had their boom later), where it will be easier to deploy AI for these purposes in countries where the existing healthcare system is underfunded and lacking in political clout than in richer countries even for situations where it delivers better outcomes.
I’m going to counter the other response you got slightly.

No, work doesn’t have to be soul crushing and you don’t have to be on a constant state of burnout.

For me, the industry I’m in and the product I’m building are the most important part of my job, boss and coworkers being second most important. If I were simply trying to sell more ads or building a product that survived on ad revenue, I would have burned out years ago.

Instead, I’m building a product that helps actually improve people’s physical being and, in turn, their lives. No, it isn’t selling a product but providing a service.

Seeing our end users live a better life makes dealing with corporate bullshit and meetings on meetings easy to deal with. I love what I do and enjoy it even if I’m frustrated from time to time.
Sometimes you want to write fast code for things that aren't purely numerical (e.g. any string processing such as CSV/Arrow/JSON etc) or things that are mostly numerical but benefit from abstractions (like generic algorithms so you can run programs in arbitrary precision or autodifferentiation). Fortran is pretty good for writing 3 loops over a double precision matrix.

Aside from "why not Fortran" the "why not 2 languages" is because moving your implimentation to a language few of your users know creates a big barrier between users and developers of your code. In Python, ~90% of users don't even know the language that the packages they use are written in which makes it a lot harder for them to become contributors. Using a single language means that as users learn how to use libraries they are also learning how to contribute to them in the future.
I don't want to be that guy, but here we go: get a pair of AirPods if you haven't yet. I'm in the same situation as you and it - oh no, that guy again - changed my life.
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I loved the food in Sydney too. Best coffee in the world. Good mixed food too - pad thai, kebabs, burgers, yogurt, whatever. The beaches get a lot of attention, but the city and markets are beautiful too.

Personally, I found the weather quite harsh. The joke was that we had two tornadoes in a day once and it didn't even make front page. The other joke is we'd always say the winter wind would rip your umbrella apart, and everyone who's never been there thinks it's an exaggeration.
To be honest, there's a difference between having your issues entertained, versus taken seriously. The former is often done as political theater.
I had one of these and thought it was pretty cool to scan the ISBN barcodes on the back of my books and make a catalog of my books. That didn’t take very long and then I wondered what I would use it for and was very confused as a 13 year old what in the world the business model could be to keep them afloat, because it made no sense to me to give them away or charge so little for the device. I was similarly confused by the various toolbars you could install that would pay you to browse the web (which I hooked up to some mouse jiggling script to keep it working while I slept). I did get at least one check for $15 from that which seemed magical at the time.
Yeah, I mean, as I mentioned, I'm willing to order rolling the dice but once my order is picked up, they should do the right thing and be transparent. They have my money already and as you said, I now have the expectation that "I'm next".
I wonder if this is a reduction in mortality that was caused by an increase in chronic inflammation from modern life, stress and obesity.

In a healthy fit human, inflammation is a good thing, it is the body's construction and maintenance crew. Chronic inflammation is not good, but that is a side effect of an underlying issue (in my understanding so far)
If you had lots of debt and lots of assets even if in 2020 that was a net zero of you made it to 2022 you became insanely rich in the last couple years
I don't mind PiHole, but it doesn't do nearly as good a job of ad blocking as a "real" browser plugin does.

The amount of crap that still comes through when I turn off uBlock -- but am still using PiHole DNS, which is always active on my home network -- is a lot.

Honestly I don't think DNS-based adblocking is really viable, long-term. It's just too easy for advertisers and dirtbag website operators to get around it. There's just no substitute for controlling the retrieval of content elements and their presentation from the application where the user is doing the interaction.

This is why keeping browsers out of the hands of adtech corporations is pretty important; once they control that presentation layer it's largely game over. They can just tunnel all the traffic through a single connection to a relay server, if they want to, and there won't be shit a user can do about it once they've decided that's the only browser they can use.
Even if it does create unique root certificates it is a massive attack vector. How good is the tool at protecting the corresponding private key from other software on the device, for example?
Something I thought was really cool is that in Korean Natural Farming [1] there is a technique where you go to the forest near your farm and gather a bunch of decomposing leaves and other matter from the forest floor, then take it at home and throw it in a tub of I think starchy water to feed the microorganisms in the material you collected. You incubate this for a while and then spread this water over your soil. The motivation for this practice is the idea that your local forest has self-selected to grow well in your particular location, and those bacteria will be very helpful. I think it's an excellent innovation. It is both very simple for poor farmers all over the world to do and based on good scientific principles.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_natural_farming
>White-collar crimes feel the only place where you could make the argument that further action on the scene is likely to leave behind more evidence.

Nixon tapes, Iran Contra paper shredding, Enron paper shredding (we got Sarbanes Oxley out of that.) There are plenty of places where further action likely prevented far far worse things.

I think white collar crime is harder now, as evidenced by recent political scandals (fucking up your secure messaging app, bungling PDF's). I dont know of any one who has the technical acumen to fully cover their tracks.
This feels like over-analysis.

Norway, with 0.07% of the world's population, has the world's best chess player ever. Two of the top ten bridge players. One of the very best soccer players under 25. And so on.

Basically, it's a very oil-rich country that uses its wealth to invest in its people. And we see the results in every field of endeavor.

Many other "rich" countries, whatever the source of their wealth, do not have the same people-investment attitude.

Funny: I learned recently that Norway's Ekofisk oil field almost ended up with Denmark. It came down to a negotiation that went Norway's way - against a drunk Danish minister.
Honestly just use Ghidra. It has it's quirks but it's pretty good. And open source.
If it's good enough for the NSA it's probably good enough for recreational use.
I had a PS/2 CueCat which IIRC required some hardware modification to use unlocked, at least early on. I stuck in it a drawer and never bothered with it again. The default functionality was useless.

The thing I miss however is things like that old Amazon web service that. Icould look up book information for free. For a few years there were some really interesting free XML-RPC and SOAP web services that were relatively easy to plug into and access interesting services. I really miss those services and composability for mash-ups.
How do folks live with hyperinflation? Do salaries change monthly?
How? Can't Youtube just detect which expected resources are not loading and refuse to play?
> I don't understand why people are scared of using services that have relatively low switching barriers, because they may be shut down one day.

This suggests there's alternative services available anyway, so why take the risk on Google at all?
In practice, there are examples both for and against the proposition that the cover-up is worse than the crime. Having said that, the argument presented here against the proposition is being justified with a fallacy: numerous cases have shown that cover-ups are attempted even when a full revelation of the underlying crime is survivable (either literally or metaphorically.) In at least some and perhaps many cases, attempting a cover-up may be the statistically-justifiable rational choice even if its failure will bring worse consequences than the infraction being covered up.
the crime was the cover-up tho
> Finally, you also may want to disclose derived information - such as just that I have a vaccination in the last x months, rather than the precise date or location, or just that I'm of legal age to purchase alcohol in my country, rather than my birthdate. These sorts of predicate proofs are also of interest to the group, although the algorithms and representations aren't as far along yet.

That sounds kind of crazy. I can't imagine how you'd prove derived data. Very cool though. Thanks!
Who defines what's "Fake"? Who defines what's stupid?
That's only true if only a small percentage of users actually use that particular ad-blocking strategy. If a significant number of users did, then it would be a real concern.

Although I think YouTube et al see an increasing amount of revenue and viewership coming from apps... and if they could, I suspect they would kill their web sites in favor of apps where they have much more control.
> it's hard to see a point in bothering with all these tags at all

What? It's easier than using custom markup that you then need to style appropriately. Why would you not use them? Why would you use <span class="small"> instead of <small>?

> the spec[1] says you should mark up a menu with this atrocity...

No it doesn't. That's a specific example of indicating keys to press in a menu. Menus generally are marked up as lists inside a nav element.
Someone, sometime ago decided that a vehicle above 3500kg might have a different behaviour on the road than those under so they decided that to manage a "heavy" vehicle, you had to have special training and a special license.

In Belgium, they decided that this limit is the same with or without a trailer so a standard car of 1600kg cannot pull a 2000kg trailer.
And someone with a standard license cannot drive a car that weights more than 3500kg.

And if you have a car that weights 3100kg, add the driver and passengers, that doesn't leave much room for a trailer.

And that's also why there aren't many fifth wheel trailers in Europe.
Is that even a common problem? I can't think of any apps on my computer that are showing me ads, other than my browser.

It's a very different story on mobile, but there, certificate pinning can also trivially bypass this kind of blocking, and for good reason too: Imagine a system-wide tool like this getting access to online banking credentials, for example...
> International?

International as in international relations, the field that studies foreign policy, security, and defense. While ASPI has branded itself as a strategy institute, it is still very much similar to those found in all Western countries.
Hard disagree. ChatGPT is already useful for work. I regularly see it used for legal and technical questions.
Not just from UAE. He's literally the person who heads up the state-run UAE oil business. From Wikipedia: "minister of industry and advanced technology of the United Arab Emirates, head of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC),and chairman of Masdar."[1] Masdar is a UAE-owned company that Financial Times said, "hires lobbyists to deflect climate talks criticism"[2]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultan_Al_Jaber

2. https://www.ft.com/content/6c207836-a26c-4960-888c-bea2890a2...

I'd like to imagine that if I'd been in the room when his name came up as the person to head COP28 I'd have stood up, crossed my arms, and asked everyone, "Are you crazy, or just plain stupid?"
Hello HN!

Having just posted the app to a couple of small subreddits before sleep and then waking up to being on the front page over here is quite an experience :) I was hoping to make a Show HN post after giving Zen a bit more polish, but I guess here we are.

Thanks for all the constructive feedback. I totally share your concerns about its security and likewise wouldn't use some unverified application trying to install a root CA on my system. For those wanting to audit the certificate generation and installation code, feel free to take a look at certmanager/get.go and certmanager/install_{platformname}.go. It is mostly self-contained and, I hope, easy to understand. The lack of any instructions on how to delete the certificate is an oversight on my part, and I'll be working on this. Regarding the binaries: all of them are built on GitHub's CI. I wish there was a way for users to verify this fact, but to my knowledge, there is no way to do that currently. You can run and build the app yourself using Wails (https://wails.io/docs/gettingstarted/installation). I'll be sure to add more instructions to the repo in the coming days.

As always, any feedback, help, and suggestions are much welcome.
How does efficient and affordable transportation increase the cost of housing? It should be pretty clear that this decreases the cost of housing, by allowing people to live in a larger physical area.

How does a diverse housing stock increase the cost of housing? When there's only a limited variety of housing available, competition for the less-available variety becomes intense and prices go through the roof. This is currently what's happening with smaller, older single-family homes.
Email deliverability sans DNS authentication: was looking for stats
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37127604

...didn't get any, but I found some via an unfortunate client, who was doing this via a CRM without setting any sort of domain authentication up for their sender (I do data migrations at my day job, so I see everyone's skeletons...)

tl;dr: bounce rate will be about 45-50% over time if you don't set up any sort of DKIM or SPF records, varying slightly depending on your recipients, but it's the IMPORTANT PEOPLE you can't email.

Excerpt below, <-- email domain sent to, --> email server which rejected the message.

Email Bounced | Email Server

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@cbmove.com usb-smtp-inbound-1.mimecast.com.

@pattonboggs.com eu-smtp-inbound-1.mimecast.com.

@montgomerycollege.edu mx0a-0016b401.pphosted.com.

@iri.org us-smtp-inbound-1.mimecast.com.

@stemedcoalition.org us-smtp-inbound-2.mimecast.com.

@bipc.com us-smtp-inbound-1.mimecast.com.

@dickblick.com us-smtp-inbound-1.mimecast.com.

@student.american.edu mx0a-00240c01.pphosted.com.

@cbf.org us-smtp-inbound-1.mimecast.com.

@binghamt.gannett.com us-smtp-inbound-1.mimecast.com.

@hhlaw.com eu-smtp-inbound-2.mimecast.com.

@pattonboggs.com eu-smtp-inbound-1.mimecast.com.

@iri.org us-smtp-inbound-1.mimecast.com.

@tmgcustommedia.com us-smtp-inbound-1.mimecast.com.

@washington.goethe.org mx02.goethe.de.

@nbcuni.com mxb-00176a04.gslb.pphosted.com.

@jonesday.com mxb-00393202.gslb.pphosted.com.

@intelsatgeneral.com mxb-0056a401.gslb.pphosted.com.

@qga.com mxa-00173601.gslb.pphosted.com.

@wpost.com mxb-001a3c01.gslb.pphosted.com.

@nbcuni.com mx0a-00176a04.pphosted.com.

@tr.com mxb-00160c04.gslb.pphosted.com.

@arts.ri.gov mx0b-00137801.pphosted.com.

@readexpress.com mxa-001a3c01.gslb.pphosted.com.

@icloud.com mx02.mail.icloud.com.

@readexpress.com mxa-001a3c01.gslb.pphosted.com.

@nbc.com mxa-00176a04.gslb.pphosted.com.

@wellsfargoadvisors.com mxa-00004003.gslb.pphosted.com.

@american.edu mx0b-00240c01.pphosted.com.

@chron.com mxa-0018d701.gslb.pphosted.com.

@na.ko.com mxa-0037a502.gslb.pphosted.com.

@bbandt.com mxb-0058fb01.gslb.pphosted.com.

@exxonmobil.com mxa-00016305.gslb.pphosted.com.

@dcist.com mx0a-00240c01.pphosted.com.

@k12.com mxa-00678201.gslb.pphosted.com.

@stanford.edu mxb-00000d07.gslb.pphosted.com.

@ge.com mx0a-00176a02.pphosted.com.

@american.edu mx0b-00240c01.pphosted.com.

@dynetics.com mxa-00336402.gslb.gpphosted.com.

@washpost.com mxa-001a3c01.gslb.pphosted.com.

@pnc.com mxb-000ade01.gslb.pphosted.com.

@vh1staff.com mxa-00262c01.gslb.pphosted.com.

@hosthotels.com mxa-00320801.gslb.pphosted.com.

@dc.gov dc-gov.mail.protection.outlook.com.

@dc.gov dc-gov.mail.protection.outlook.com.

@arenastage.org arenastage-org.mail.protection.outlook.com.
My last garden went gangbusters when I introduced this to the soil, especially in the second & third years after starting with it. It was really neat to see (via digging) that it was also invading the lawn around the garden, & that the grass there was clearly healthier than the rest of the lawn. The spores also did great when introduced to the compost pile.

Tree/fungus interaction is also interesting. I planted four fruit trees, two near where an old tree had been taken down, and two on the other side of the lawn. Same soil, same watering, but the second two died — the only real difference I could see was a sizable patch of fungus which had been growing around the old tree, & which was still in the lawn near the trees that lived. Next time I plant trees I'm going to add in a bucket of dirt taken from an old-growth patch around the sapling roots & see what difference that might make.
I don't know your background, but this definitely reads like someone who either isn't, or doesn't have a family member or friend as faculty in a public high school. You enforce the rule, and confiscate the device. You have an irate parent now emailing you constantly, coming in and demanding that their child be able to have their several hundred dollar smartphone back, to which they will hand it back to their child, give them a weak "don't do that again" at best, and likely forget the incident ever happened.
I'm not in the US, but in my country the fibre-provider and the ISP are unrelated companies. There are multiple fibre companies (typically an area is served by one or another of them although my area has two) and of course a couple dozen ISPs that do the ISP part.

This model works -really- well. ISPs compete on price, and service. Fibre folks do the physical stuff. Fibre companies are incentivised to get rolled out in an area first. ISPs can scale up without having to raise huge capital. And the roadside only gets dug up once (mostly the fibre is buried, although some makes use of existing pole infrastructure. )

It's one of those (rare?) cases where good regulation, and a free market collide, and the result us that everyone has fibre.

I say this not to gloat, but rather to show that it can be beneficial to separate access from service for best customer service.

[1] my first ISP went under. I switched to a new ISP within an hour after the cause of the outage was understood.

[2] a couple of outages have been ascribed to the fibre provider, the ISP escalates those for me, and have been rectified within the hour.

Who knew competition could lead to such good customer service...
From 0.8% of people averaging 70 years of age to 1.1%. I’ll take those odds, cancer is hell.
I think your response captures it in a nutshell. Dog’s, chimp’s and giraffe’s primary concern is addressing the problematic behavior. Modern parenting’s primary concern is with congratulating themselves for their enlightened values.