skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Got bitten in 2010 while camping in Czechia, we failed to remove the tick properly and the head stayed in my skin so we had to butcher me a bit more and it left a tiny wound. Two days later I got the famous painful rash that I had no clue about, red circle, swollen and painful. I went to the doctor who immediately told me "you might have Lyme disease", I had never heard of this before but I understood that it required 3 weeks amoxicillin. I did several blood tests and got positive once to the borreliosis then negative after the treatment. So I thought everything was over but a month later I was feeling extremely tired, body and brain wise, I started to freak out that the disease was still there but blood tests were negative. This was during my exams period and as a student I was under high stress and the spot where I got bitten was still a bit swollen. The doctor told me that it was normal but the only way to be sure that the disease is completely gone at this stage (around 2 months after being bitten) is to do a lumbar puncture which I did (kudos to pregnant women who go through this
! I'll never do it again). The test showed negative, there was no way that I could still have the disease so it calmed me down and I accepted that it was just due to stress and hypochondria. Today I'm totally fine, this was my first bite and I hope the last one. This little bug is a pure nightmare.
I didn't have an issue w/ the grammar, but the misleading description. :) It's a significant difference between a study starting and having a conclusion (or even partial data). In my mind, it's the difference between clickbait and non-clickbait headline, even though the article is very interesting.

This is at the University PR section of
http://phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1174
> At 41 knots and 400 meters the ALFA Class pushed the boundaries of both speed and operating depth.

400 m is a claim on operating depth, not length.
Happy to answer specific tactical questions here. This is the kind of thing that seems easy until you dig into the details on actually doing it.
I see comments like this coming up on Hacker News almost every month and I tend to think that people who make these comments are either too young and/or have not worked for a mid-sized to a large company.

If you have worked in any company that deals with internet-facing traffic serving the size of audience that Twitter does, it should be obvious that 1k employees is nothing if you want to have all the necessary teams you need to keep the business running, for example, software engineering, software support, hardware engineering, hardware support, network engineering, software engineering, HR, finance, legal, PR, management, IT department, etc.

A company of this scale is not just code and raw technical skills. There are many nuances that you need to appreciate before you understand why it involves 1k-5k employees.
This, but the reason it's engineered that way is because landing gear face far higher loads on landing. During takeoff, landing gear essentially only have to support the weight of the aircraft. During landing, the gear have to arrest the aircraft's descent (which may be momentarily 3 or 4 g's of acceleration if the aircraft encounters turbulence while landing); and then they need to brake the entire weight of the plane within the remaining length of the runway, which is a high loading in a different direction (along the aircraft's longitudinal axis). So maximum landing weight is set by the landing gear, while maximum takeoff weight is usually set by the wings and engines.
They probably mean the known tickborne illnesses. When illnesses are unknown it's often because they're rare, so it's probably a good estimate.

In any case, Lyme disease is very common and on that basis alone, a vaccine would prevent a lot of suffering, regardless of what other suffering remains in place.
Encouraging a local opossum population, if they live in your area, would help. They eat a lot of ticks. Allegedly they eat 90% of the ticks that they encounter, which can be up to 5000 per opossum in a season.
Well the existing system doesn’t seem to be working right. Blatantly obvious spam is allowed to remain, just see the spam replies to any big account’s tweets or spam on certain popular hashtags.
> Do you mean that we won't face the problem of completely occupying the Universe with our bodies in 9k years?

Obviously, I mean we'll go extinct long before 9k years if we don't move out into the solar system.

> we are already in the Solar System

Do you want a productive discussion or not?
What don't you like about the other 5 answers you got to this question?

The point of CI is to identify integration issues, not a blame assignment system (the loaded way you ask the question is really not helpful). So we can work faster. Not so we can spend all day second guessing our push being afraid we will make the build red.

Any commit can have integration issues. With enough people committing, there is a build going on all day long. It won't always be ships passing in the night.
Build a serverless multi-region, active-active back end solution – within a VPC
you know he founded PayPal, right?

Which sold to eBay for $1.5b

His first company was acquired by Compaq for almost half a billion.

He’s listed by Forbes as one of the top 25 most powerful people on earth.

Tesla is a 15 year old company.

I feel like “startup founder” should not the operating phrase here.
Longboards are great for long distance commutes. Much more efficient and comfortable over long distances than traditional skateboards. And if you can find a place for downhill boarding, its an exhilarating hobby!
Speaking only for myself, I think it means journalism really is dead.
I agree with your points generally, but here are some places I differ and some additional thoughts:

(In some places I'm going to copy and paste parts of other comments of mine, so I can get off of HN and back to work!)

...

> you now have to be this tall/smart/educated

You always needed some ability; it's just that the abilities needed have changed. You used to need to be physically durable, strong, handy, and usually male. The nerdy, clumsy kid with the glasses, not to mention women, had no future in the coal mine or steel mill. It's not a lot different than a developer growing older, not learning the new technologies, and finding their skills are obsolete.

I generally believe almost anyone is smart enough, if given education and opportunity, to do knowledge work. Many people just don't get the education and opportunity.

...

> tell that to an unemployed steel worker in the Rust Belt

This points to the fundamental problem, IMHO: Capital can move much faster than individuals; a factory can move to another country much faster than the workers can find new, equivalent jobs - for most, moving to another country is practically impossible - especially if half the town is now unemployed. Therefore, trade provides a net benefit, but the impact on individuals is disparate to a great degree. We need to protect those individuals, by giving them time to adjust (require a warning or continuing salary for X time, perhaps based on the impact on the local job market), by compensating them for the change (taxing the benefits of moving capital and giving some back to the people making the biggest sacrifice), and by means of the latter taxes, also raise the cost of such changes to the point where it's economically viable not just for the company and future employees, but for those left behind.

> This is how you got Trump.

I don't agree: Think of all the ways the theory doesn't apply: Most voters making less than $50K chose Clinton[0]; minority voters, who also lost jobs and who have higher unemployment than white voters, overwhelming chose Clinton; Trump's and the GOP's policies overwhelmingly favor the wealthy and big business, including cutting health care and other government services to the working class, and shifting relatively more of the tax burden onto them.

To the extent working class white voters supported Trump, they did so against economic self-interest. But that's long been true of many such voters; remember the book 'What's the matter with Kansas?' (or whatever it was called - a f*ng obnoxious, ignorant, arrogant title that reveals the problem with Dems: 'customers aren't buying our product, what's the matter with them?'). The question is, why?

[0] Based on a HN comment that cited some stats; I didn't check them myself, so take with salt. But I remember reading similar research after the election.
Fascinating that

1 - google is going to participate in the purchase. Clearly a defensive move v amazon.

2 - us companies will now own the 1 & 2 positions for ecommerce in India. Start difference w China and somewhat surprising given Indias excellent engineering and biz culture
I mean there are press conferences where his press secretary is literally handing over a check to the head of the respective agency.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZkLEmJvDjQ

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr8li6hpC2s

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftt_y__EP7w

[3]: https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4714620/trump-donates-4thq-sa...
TGV, Concorde, Leclerc tank, Rafale, it's almost like the cliché of the French not being good engineers is inaccurate.

Yes I'm French, yes I'm salty.
> The judge also warned us indirectly about jury nullification, which he said happened most often in marijuana cases.

What did the judge say? I was under the impression that nullification was a legal, if inconvenient, option for a jury to return.
> That's false, as I pointed out; they've been endorsed and embraced worldwide for centuries.

What does "they've" refer to?

> Also, the supporters of oppression like to frame it as a matter of opinion

Am I one of these "supporters of oppression"? What oppression are we talking about here? This feels like one of those situations where two people wearing a blindfold are describing an elephant to each other, I have no idea what you're talking about. Maybe you feel the same about me? But I certainly don't think I'm trying to oppress anyone.

> and then invoke some extreme relativism: Your opinion is X, mine is Y, therefore there's no real basis for X.

Have I done that? Where?

> We could say it about anything: You think murder is wrong, I think it's ok, therefore it's just a matter of opinion.

I've seen this technique before, I wonder what the name is for it. I'd offer a comparable retort, but I don't enjoy protection due to my politics.

> Another consideration: Should you and others be allowed to debate this issue with me? Why?

In the real world, that is a matter of opinion, but let's try not to change the subject shall we?

> The rest of the parent comment attributes things to me that I haven't said, so I'll pass commenting on it.

The irony.
I don’t understand the reason for flagging it. I get the impression that you are flagging it for not being novel or unique. I can relate, but that is concerning in itself.

The general concern here could not be anymore relevant, and discounting that merely because it lacks novelty seems at least decadent and at most snobery.

Without even taking a stance on the issue being discussed, I think we can all agree that these sorts of issues that come up in our society and seem to affect all of us are in our noblest interests to take concern with.

I say we let these articles live.
Even that isn't enough. The fatal problem of central planning is always that nobody has enough information to make it actually work. Even very honest, very smart people only can know what they think would be best for either some crude average of people, or some small sample of specific people.

And we don't have any angels to do the job. All we have are human beings. They are sometimes selfish, and sometimes foolish. Sometimes they find it easy to take "what's good for me" and think it's "what's good for everybody" - even if they have the best of intentions. And sometimes they don't have the best of intentions, but use "good for everybody" as a smokescreen for their own selfish desires.
Without reading the article we can safely say absolutely nothing in regard to the future of DIY science as we still don't have an autopsy report. So until then, let's stop speculating.
> The crap it does have can generally be disabled.

Except the keyboard.
> I’m wondering what the idiots at Twitter are really doing.

Focusing on profit.
Operation Ivy Bells
An interesting aspect in the demise of the Concorde has nothing to do with the Concorde, but how other long haul airplanes changed with time. By the late 90s, you had lay-flat business class seats, in flight entertainment, and even fancier service in first class. The Concorde, on the other hand, was a small plane (2 by 2, single aisle), and while it cost more than first class, seats were similar to premium economy today (38" seat pitch). As you had to pay much more for a crappier seat, it is rumored that as much as half the passengers on each flight were just free upgrades and award flights.
Announcing Microsoft's Own Content Delivery Network
> If humans couldn’t even communicate with animals that shared most of our evolutionary history, he believed, they were a bit daft to think they could recognize signals from a distant planet.

I've long thought that. Too obvious to be an original idea, but never seen anything indicating anyone was following up on it seriously. Glad to see this, and to learn about Zipf's Law.

It'd be interesting to see the results for other obviously intelligent, social creatures like Elephants and whales.
Can you sponsor work visas?
Please leave twitter asap This crazyness is just not even started yet!
Tick populations have surged, mostly because of mice, rodent, and deer overpopulation. And we've killed off huge numbers of natural predators to those carriers.

Anecdotally, 15 years ago I used to maybe find one tick a year after frequent walks/hikes in grasslands or woods. Today I can walk the same trail systems and find 10+ ticks per dog after a single days walk even when they have tick/flea treatment applied. It's a frequent topic of discussion in outdoorsy groups and communities, vet clinics, ranchers, etc.
No. This is what SJWs believe.
Profit? Which profit?

Not to mention, having spam on the platform isn’t really a good strategy for profit anyway.
otoh this may actually increase recycling rates, because of reliable indicators of age. like with cars, lots of people probably buy new just because it's easy to tell if something is used and not new, but not whether it is 5% used (like they claim) or actually 50% used.
Reaching Peak Meeting Efficiency
Like what? SpamAssassin? You would be surprised how much obvious spam gets through it in the face of the kind of spam onslaught that goes on in the real world today.

Seriously, this problem is not as easy to solve for machines as you think it is.
I agree with amazon killing it. I used to shop both on flipkart and amazon. Now I just shop on Amazon. At some point I just stopped checking flipkart.
My understanding is that the strongest predictors of success that psychologists know about are:

1. Intelligence
2. Conscientiousness [1]

It's also my understanding that these factors usually are correlated under 40% as success predictors. Seems that a lot of it is just plain luck and/or environment. I don't see raw intelligence not being important towards success anytime soon but I don't doubt how as access to information/technology increases, that other factors will begin to dominate as differentiating factors.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscientiousness
Yep, that is a side effect of rebuild the world with UWP and what ASP.NET team was doing (.NET Core 1.0) before acknowledging that it wasn't actually flying, now it is taking them a couple of years to steer the ship back on track, while trying to gain the confidence of developers with 15 years of development investment in .NET Framework.
From the headline I assumed that technicians were literally able to smell whether a chip is new, possibly by it releasing gases shortly after production. It reminded me of the distinct smell of new hard drives when you open the factory sealed pouch.

I was slightly disappointed when I found that the article describes software based testing instead.
Big airports are already pretty saturated for traffic, and what most of us don't realize is that airplanes create vortices around the runway that the airport has to wait out. So more small planes can take off in an hour than large planes.

If you build smaller planes that fly farther, you don't need the hub and spoke pattern as much. If a direct flight cuts two hours off of your trip, makes it so you don't have to board two planes instead of one, that is both objectively faster and at least for me much less stressful.
I've seen glaciers load faster than that website. I'm really impressed that it's hanging on and not just erroring out.
And bird of prey, fox, coyote, bear, wildcats, mountain lions, human hunters, etc.

The entire ecosystem has been overmanaged to reduce predators, and the consequences are dire.
I added that link to my reading list. Very interesting idea. I'll be looking more into MQTT.

But I don't see the issue with exposing the HTTP interface to the world? I'm always leaning towards solutions that ship with web interfaces, especially over mobile apps because I can use third party apps to work with them. Especially IP cameras.
>Although there is no question that a large part of the religious dogma is straight out false, it seems to me that, knowing how many things we still have no understanding of, it would be just as unproductive to outright dismiss all of it as false.

You either dismiss it all as false, accept it all as true, or you are a hypocrite. The evidence is the same for all theologies. It's unproductive to consider ideas that either have no evidence or have no logical basis, and that describes theology.

> The thing is, in the right place, in the right context, those remarks could be interesting, however, when misplaced like that, they end up coming off as someone simply having a chip on their shoulder

For most of the past several thousand years, politely wording these sentiments could end in your death. Even now, a failure to at least pay lip service to Christian theology leaves you largely ineligible for public office, and may limit other opportunities. So yes, there is a chip on their shoulder, many people have a negative opinion about them no matter how tactful they are.

>And thus, instead of a philosophical debate, we end up with a two-person monologue where the beliefs of the atheist are presented no more rationally the those of the religious.

There is no debate with "the religious," there belief is based on things that are not debatable. They often pride themselves on how their belief comes from faith. The philosophical debate is another thing altogether.
What if Walmart and Google actually teamed up? Google technology powering Walmart's supply chain? I wonder how competitive they'd end up actually being vs Amazon.
I don't think they store all their data on twitter. If they did, they probably wouldn't have this file in their repo: https://github.com/edent/openbenches/blob/master/database/da...
It always meant and still means "don't try this at home". It's unreasonable and very dangerous if you do biohacking without actually knowing what you're doing! Seriously, the world won't miss another idiot killing himself, because he thought he was smarter than everyone else. That's not science. It's recklessness.
> You'll have to hire some engineers to maintain this

That rules out small projects and requires monetization.
Here in Ohio it is common to give distance in time. Especially south/east Ohio in the hills.

There are also congested areas in Col/Cle/Cin where it might take 20min to go three miles so distance is also time there.
I won't comment on everything, because we all are entitled to have an opinion, but I don't think you took the time to read all the way through the article. Maybe you find it a waste of time, maybe you were simply not interested, and that's ok in either case.

Anyway, I wasn't comparing computers and operating systems from 1995 to what we have today, regarding anything else than a few characteristics like objectivity and transparency.

We never had so much concerning technology and it's impossible to compare whatever was done a few decades ago with what we have now. However, regarding the mindset that surrounds a product launch, I think that we are moving in the wrong direction for some time now.

Imagine if the chart that you've posted here concerned video games, for instance. Wouldn't you agree it makes sense? The same applies to applications, to smartphones, web services... etc.

I don't think it's absurd, but you're allowed to think differently.
That's not what entrapment is. She had every chance to walk away, and on multiple occasions willfully ignored the answers to her questions about the source of the property.

Police are very good at avoiding entrapment, and this woman knowingly committed a crime. An example of actual entrapment would involve the undercover agent threatening to commit violence or even to report her to authorities unless she went through with the deal.

http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=633
Solving that particular problem is not hard: trash any reply to a celebrity or viral tweet that includes a link and gets reported x times. There was a good Twitter thread on this recently, pointing out that we look for complicated solutions when simple ones would do. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/987602838594445312.html
I can definitely resonate with this line:
"Once people start coupling up, the challenges only increase. Making friends with other couples “is like matchmaking for two,” said Kara Baskin, a journalist who works in Boston."

From experience, finding new couple friends appears to be impossible. The difficulty is even quantifiable. For example, to make a friend person A must like person B, and vice versa, or expressed as a permutation: P(2,2)=2 units of difficulty.

But to make a couple friend the difficulty increases to P(4,2)=12...a 6x increase :(

Has anyone had success finding couple friends?
Same thing happened with my @busplungebot . All it did was post articles where about about buses plunging off cliffs have occurred. Hell, I think I was the only follower.

I haven’t even bothered to log in and fix it.
Well I trust the stock market more cause normal people invested in it and not mostly weird internet libertarians who thought Obama was going to take their savings and drug dealers (I'm sure other people were investing in Bitcoin in 2011 but these are the guys I was aware of)
Some further reading on this subject for those that are interested:

Poverty linked to epigenetic changes and mental illness: https://www.nature.com/news/poverty-linked-to-epigenetic-cha...

Childhood poverty linked to brain changes related to depression: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/news/childhood-poverty-link...

What Poverty Does to Your Brain: https://www.attn.com/stories/2442/effects-poverty-brain-ment...

What Poverty Does to the Young Brain: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/what-poverty-does-to...

'Crack baby' study ends with unexpected but clear result: http://www.philly.com/philly/health/20130721__Crack_baby__st...

How Poverty Taxes the Brain: https://www.citylab.com/life/2013/08/how-poverty-taxes-brain...

Freeing Up Intelligence: https://scholar.harvard.edu/sendhil/publications/freeing-int...

Growing Up Poor Is Bad for Your Brain: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vvb4gy/growing-up...

These articles should be pretty good reads on the subject. Let me know if any of them are especially weak.
I run a bot swarm that tweets transit delays in Boston and this has been affecting some of the most prolific accounts (i.e. the one that tweets bus delays), that being said, it's been super easy to get them reactivated and I havn't lost any followers.
Exactly, now just add some subjective moralizing to it and now you'll reach parity with most people's notion of "intrinsic value".