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Clarification, I'm not the author, but I share the sentiment and like to follow James' creative output.

schuon Why are cancer guidelines stuck in PDFs?

Would love to take a look at the code, in particular at how the data extraction and transformation is implemented.

As a side note, the German associations of oncology publish their guidelines here (HTML and SVG graphs): https://www.onkopedia.com/de/onkopedia/guidelines

schuon To Be Born in a Bag

The main factor at play here is maternal passive immunity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_immunity#Maternal_pass...

As far as I know, there's no (direct, retrograde) transfer of pathogens from the child to the mother through the breast. But if the child has an infection, there is often a higher chance for the mother to get ill as well (due to close body contact, aerosol particles, etc.) and to develop a "mature immune response", which could lead to a (delayed) positive secondary effect on the child through passive immunity.

schuon The darker side of being a doctor (2017)

Also, two months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40025261

schuon The One Billion Row Challenge in Go: from 1m45s to 4s in nine solutions

Instructions on how to create it can be found here:

https://github.com/gunnarmorling/1brc?tab=readme-ov-file#run...

The Python version:

https://github.com/gunnarmorling/1brc/blob/main/src/main/pyt...

schuon Ask HN: What are some of the best documentaries you've seen?

Generation Wealth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Wealth

schuon Systemd v228 local root exploit

The CVE-HOWTO by RedHat is a good resource to find out about the process:

https://github.com/RedHatProductSecurity/CVE-HOWTO