skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PTLDS is not entirely a rebrand of "chronic Lyme". It's specific to "people who had Lyme and still have issues". "Chronic Lyme" frequently involves people with no verifiable (or even likely) Lyme exposure.

https://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-conditions/chronic-lyme-d...

> In some patients, symptoms, such as fatigue, pain and joint and muscle aches, persist even after treatment, a condition termed “Post Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome (PTLDS)”.

> The term “chronic Lyme disease” (CLD) has been used to describe people with different illnesses. While the term is sometimes used to describe illness in patients with Lyme disease, it has also been used to describe symptoms in people who have no clinical or diagnostic evidence of a current or past infection with B. burgdorferi . Because of the confusion in how the term CLD is employed, and the lack of a clearly defined clinical definition, many experts in this field do not support its use.
The struggle of trying to turn my phone from the source of my main interesting interactions to a small collection of helpful apps is ongoing. Like going back in time to 2008/9 where apps didn't control every facet of our life, and living more off the screen rather than on it. Lots of people can't resist or don't even think it's a problem, but the trend of abstinence is growing which is what we need to keep us questioning our usage.
I really, really, really like Snow Leopard[1], but there are a some features they’ve added that I really like, such as autosaving, fullscreen, and word lookup.

I’d still go back to Snow Leopard if I could, I don’t quite agree Apple has added nothing of value. There are things I would miss.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20224370
> Not nearly enough has been written about "travel as status-seeking".

What are you talking about? Travel is status seeking and status displaying. It showed up after WWII.

"I travel" is a polite way of saying "I am rich enough to travel". "I like going to places, seeing new things, meeting the locals and blah blah blah" is a polite way of saying "I'm rich enough to be able to take off work time for going to new places, seeing seeings, meeting the locals and blaj blah blah"
> "literally pastes replies"

Okay I did check, and point taken on the literally part.

But I do still stand by many of his replies start with:

"Use Signal/Wire......"
Thanks for the info on that. It's an entertaining little app. With a wide range of data sets (e.g., other crypto coins, stock market, Forex), this sort of thing could be turned into a fun group game at a party, with onlookers cheering on participants as they compete simultaneously on their tablets. It would be way more entertaining than most board games. Upon further examination, I've noticed that when you click the sell button, you're selling roughly ten shares (about a tenth of your starting position). I wonder if you'd consider adding a button or two to "Sell All Shares"/"Buy With All Funds"?
Probably the most striking case of the former is anti-NMDA-receptor encephalitis, which causes schizophenia-like symptoms in its early stages (delusions, hallucinations, disorganized thinking, depersonalization/derealization) [1]. It doesn't even seem to be especially rare, but it wasn't identified until 2007.

The latter is tricky because modern psychiatry doesn't really give us the notion of confirming that a condition is psychogenic. Almost all modern psychiatric diagnoses are diagnoses of exclusion (more or less) and do not carry any particular assertions about etiology. We can be reasonably certain that cases of psychogenic disorders do exist, but I don't think they tend to explain any preexisting diagnosis because the signs and symptoms vary so much.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3983958/
I’m not sure what that is.
I realize that this mid-night remark is in arguably poor taste and would delete it if possible.
I have merged the first pull request that changes to the prediction first training after.
Maybe not all of the Leave voters believed it would be that easy, but enough did. Or alternatively at least bought some of what the Leave campaign were selling - the "we send £350m a week ..." stuff was a big one
Peak draw. Duty cycle is about 1/3 that typically.

First hour use may approach peak, but again, most of that is incurred regardless.

5 kWh is $0.50 - $1.00, which is the cost of running an hour long for a day, the worst-case scenario. You'd spend a lot more on IoT kit (the Turris Omnia alone is $300) for minimising that cost.

Timers are cheap.
Facebook is so slow on my Chromebook that I stopped using the main site and use mbasic.facebook.com

What was once a performant chat+newsfeed app has gradually become a slow elephant.
No. The positive outcome will be that:

- set in stone that it is possible to leave the EU bureaucracy
- set a role model on how not to leave the EU

The fact that the UK has done a piss-poor job of taking advantage of an unprecedented opportunity does not negate the fact that leaving, if done properly, is a once-in-a-lifetime good opportunity.
When in high school I was part of a 3-student team to compete in local economy olympics. The competition was public and 3-person teams represented respective school in a public venue.

Only a day before the competition we were told a mistake was made and it actually was "ecology" competinion and not about economy at all.

We still beat most schools in the region and finished third, including beating a school that had a class specialized in ecology.
The problem was tht the populace was just asked:

IN or OUT?

None of the unsescapable consequences were mentioned, not was the form of an exit discussed.
Justice Dept 'Big Tech' Antitrust Investigation Is Unnecessary Political Theater
Also:

- Cook a meal from scratch. End to end. Takes the ingredients from the fridge and puts a meal on the table at a specified time. Orders new ingredients when it doesn't have them. Also washes the dishes (see above).
Right, but it's worth mentioning that unlike the US and perhaps Ireland, countries in the Schengen area are required to issue passports containing fingerprint data, though most (all?) do not have a centralized database of citizens' fingerprints.

The Netherlands planned to create a centralized store but it seems to face public opposition.
You're in luck; you can patch your own! https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts#font-patcher
Guess this is related to the abomination called "new Twitter UI". While the redesign is an abomination, with Twitter especially there is another thing in play: they do not listen to or consult their users in any way, no matter if ordinary users or third party app developers.

Third party developers want to be able to use all the features available on the platform - especially when it comes to DMs, polls and media. But Twitter has locked down all that stuff and introduced ridiculous rate limits on that what remains open - to the point that writing a full featured client is not worth the time any more.

Users want to get rid of harrassment - the calls of "Twitter, ban the f...ing Nazis" are years old. Instead, Twitter still doesn't even allow banning quote-tweeting - meaning, a large account quote-tweets a small-ish account and the followers of the large account then dog-pile on the quoted tweet. Mass flagging exploits automated AI filters leading to (especially) sex workers being automatically banned, with next to zero accountability for Twitter and sometimes requiring court orders. But instead of working on real pain points like the ones I just described, Twitter rather works away silently on a crap design, forces it onto their users overnight and doesn't even give an option to opt out or to submit feedback.

Of course users feel like they're being treated like shit.
One might argue that the current system is making things much more terrible than any alternative. Software as a service makes sense for some things. But for the majority of things its now being used for, its only purpose is rent seeking. Cryptocurrencies offer an interesting balance between rent seeking and consumer friendliness. You use a piece of software, it mines for coins which are transferred to the company. The more you use their product, the more money they get yet from the user perspective it's all free (beyond some initial purchase) and doesn't even get into the nastiness of the ad world.

Only problem there is that as ASICs are developed, general purpose CPU mining rapidly becomes grossly inefficient, so you'd somehow need a decentralized coin optimized for extremely high usage scenarios that was also resistant to ASICs. Not really sure how you'd achieve that latter part without simply constantly changing the algorithm, but it poses a complex challenge of changing the algorithm in a purely decentralized fashion in a way that one can not build adaptive ASICs for. Though I would imagine this is a solvable problem.
It doesn't even have to be from people, she could just have a terrible email full of red flags and/or didn't send from a decent ESP with a good server reputation.
What Stephen Hawking didn't understand about super-intelligence
Nope. That should have no bearing on people's GitHub accounts.

Also, it was an annexation with somewhat-questionable merit rather than an occupation.
Maybe check who is the author of the Twitter post...
The European Council isn't made up of directly elected heads of state, though - most of its members are indirectly elected prime ministers. This makes it the head of the European Commission at least one step further away from the people's influence than in the UK system. What makes this worse is that the European Commission has the exclusive power to propose new laws, whereas in the UK ordinary directly-elected MPs can do this.
There's a big difference between offering "end-of-life" versions for download, even if they are no longer supported, and forcing users on new versions even if they don't want to (which is fairly common for mobile/web apps and generally subscription-models like Adobe and Autodesk switched to).
Best practices for web apps that minimize battery/CPU usage?
I'm working on a solar powered e-Ink app where power consumption is a primary factor to minimize, but I think this question also applies to traditional sites that users access on their mobile phones.

A web app can use a variety of resources: network data, CPU, memory. When designing a web app how much do these things "cost" in battery usage and what are best practices for benchmarking and minimizing them?

For example, consider a Javascript SPA vs. a traditionally server side rendered web page. A SPA is going to be a hefty initial download and then requires extra CPU to boot up and keep running. However, on an ongoing basis it can fetch very small amounts of data. OTOH, a simple server-side rendered page will be smaller initially, and will only need a very simple timer to re-download every so often. But then each download will be larger.

How does one compare the battery usage of more data transfer, vs. running, say, a react app with minimal data transfer that still has a lot of logic to compute DOM diffing and rendering. Will a web browser more efficiently render simple HTML than a JS app making a small update?

Has anyone written a web app under these constraints and written about their trade offs? Does anyone know what sort of good tools are available to measure power consumption of a web app?
> Of course, at any restaurant glasses given with water for the table are going to be somewhere much nearer your 236ml, so there's really nothing psychotic about it.

Bingo. It's not hard to sip on a average sized glass of water during a meal. I routinely kill a 750ml water bottle at the gym or when hiking.
C++ Initialization
So, what you're saying is that everyone should just switch to GitLab?
Weather forecasting 50yr ago was more than good enough to tell you whether a particular day would be a good day (especially in the middle of North America where you can rely on observations further west and north to tell you about upcoming fronts). You don't need a week of clear weather to do this.

Satellites gave us good long term forecasting (we know there is a hurricane that's gonna hit in a week or two). Computers gave us super accurate short term forecasting (we know exactly what time this afternoon it will start raining and how hard). Being able to know a day in advance what the weather will be has been a skill we have had with decent accuracy since the development of the telegraph (and the ability to know the weather in other locations much faster than the weather changes).

Your primary concern in an un-seaworthy vessel (such as a bathtub) will be the surf. If you are not time constrained it is not hard to wait for a high pressure front to park its butt over the body of water you wish to traverse. It is only dangerous if you make it dangerous by being sloppy.

Crossing the great lakes is an exersise in planning. Just because it requires basically no effort to do said planning today doesn't mean it wasn't very possible then. As stated in TFA people crossed lake michigan in all sorts of craft. The reason he chose a bathtub is because nobody has done it.
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Reading the article gives an impression of the people who seek out and provide bunk medicine.

It’s also a picture of how actual medicine is incomplete and has failed a lot of people, leaving many suffering and looking high and low for whatever might work.
HN self-polices the titles here pretty well. Correcting inaccurate titles is a regular occurrence on HN. I think it leads to a much better user experience. Wanting an accurate headline on HN does not have to conflate to a person not understanding or disagreeing with the linked content. It can just be a representation of an overall goal of the HN community to keep headlines accurate.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14173716

Blog post about the project: https://spacetime.dev/memory-security-go
I am much more concerned about "Web contagion" and the dysfunction of the "web ecosystem" prematurely turning people off IOT before it can take off.

I don't want webdevs coming and breaking the embedded ecosystem. I don't want my fridge crashing because of somebody's webpack setup going haywire.
If it were that easy to beat the stock market, it wouldn't be that easy to beat the stock market. (Not a joke or snark.)
The Murdoch press and their shills plus some of the other tabloids relentlessly and over decades systematically trashed the European project with lies, half-truth and other unsavory tactics.

How, exactly, do you expect a populace to make an informed decision under such a relentless assault?
I think one valuable takeaway from that study and from discussions about altering one's appearance is that some people literally aren't fine just the way they are. Looks are not merely superficial attributes.

Your appearance (actually, society's response to your appearance) heavily affects your mental health, happiness, career development, and relationship prospects. Appearance is quite literally life-altering.
Farmers are on large plots, and there is only so much watertable. Why do they need to be anonymous?

Sounds like more blockchain hype + the hidden potential for Nestle or whoever to buy up all the water rights discretely. Utilities should not be anonymous.
people want to look attractive. you're not 'above it all' for discounting that
I also have a lot of trouble with the Force Touch trackpad! Everyone else I know seems to have no issue with it, but I'm constantly triggering Force Touch when I don't want to. Add in the fact that Force Touch is pretty useless on the mac (three finger click to define replaces literally my only use case) and it was easy enough to just disable it.
I guess the fact that Apple is ditching 3D Touch on the iPhone might mean the end of Force Touch on the Macbook, too.
https://downdetector.in/status/whatsapp

Seems so.
Could you share any resources that helped you get past this? This is basically what my life is like all the time
The FBI has been filing inaccurate FISA warrants for nearly two decades (the article on the Hill refers to incidents dating back to 2002/2003). Not really surprising in the post-9/11 era, where procedural abuses and law-enforcement power creep are tolerated if the justification is to "catch terrorists".

I didn't read anything suggesting that the FBI abused FISA warrants specifically against Trump people.
And we all know some clown will hook up a nuclear launch system to it so the good General can connect via his home WiFi. And the doctor a hospital life support system to "stay informed" at his cabin...

For sure I applaud this and will play with it. And hope my cynicism is misplaced.
> So? Why is the aesthetics important to you? If it's functional and useful but looks ugly, then I consider it a mature and developed response to choose that nonetheless.

Then why don't you shave? Actually, why do you take care of your appearance at all?

I'm pretty sure that you do a minimum of works on your appearance. The same reasons you do apply to people balding.
What does that matter? The point was that "hard brexit" wasn't raised as a real possibility by the Leave campaign before the referendum (in fact hard vs soft wasn't even a thing before the vote). The campaign was based on promises of a lovely favourable trade deals and a hybrid in-and-yet-out where it suited us arrangement.

The fact that Boris is PM and he's A-OK with hard brexit doesn't change any of that. And I don't know what "more action" we could see - it is by very definition the zero-action option.
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Agreed, and I got the same feeling right from the title. This is not a trust crisis. This is a trustworthiness crisis.
You are missing it. Not because you are not travelling, but because you are 21 with no real responsibilities and you are not using that time frivolously.

Get a passport, save $5-10k and go slumming in Europe for 6 months. Backpack for clothes. Laptop. Camera. Condoms. If you decide you don't like it in three-four weeks, come back. Otherwise spend time there stretching your money as long as you can until your budget runs out.
Do you have any recommendations on getting started with Auxy, either Auxy specific or resources for things _like_ Auxy that translate well?
Slightly less than half of voters voted for a concrete thing, slightly more than half voted for anything else.

Its like the tax cut someone else mentioned. Sure 52% of the population could vote in favour, are all of those going to vote in favour of a tax cut for the rich? Or a tax cut for the poor? Or for low carbon technologies? Or to support the coal mining industry.

And because there wasn't a 'plan' for Brexit there wasn't a decent conversation on any Brexit plan. You couldn't pin down the Brexiteers because as soon as you suggested that leaving the common market would damage the economy, they'd tell you we could stay in the common market.

To answer your question more directly, I don't think the level of integration was appreciated, Northern Ireland wasn't discussed at all. Further than that I'm not sure you can say anything about all Brexit voters because its such a broad church, as it was never defined.
Yep, let's leave that warmness in our hearts once we see all the new fancy subscription models after investor money will be in.
I just returned from a trip to Washington D.C. I’m an amateur photographer[1] - I don’t get paid for my photos, I do it for fun. One thing I noticed in D.C. when visiting monuments and places like the Library of Congress (which is a stunning building inside), was the sheer number of people standing around taking selfies in these places. In confined spaces (Library of Congress) it was difficult to take pictures because there were so many people taking selfies. And not just a single one - it’s almost always a series of them in various poses and facial expressions. It was quite annoying.

I tried to temper my annoyance by reminding myself that they have just as much right to be there as I do - these are public places after all. What stood out though is the behavior described in this article, which is the complete focus on themselves and no awareness or concern for the location or the people around them who might also want to take a picture - or even just enjoy the place they’re visiting. I didn’t see anything like the destruction and theft described in this article, but that’s likely just because of the nature of the places I visited (lots of armed guards).

I worry that we’re allowing (and reinforcing) some horrible behaviors, and wonder what kind of people they will grow up to be. Narcissism is a harsh label, but I don’t have a better one.

[1] http://larrywright.me/photo/
http://tones.wolfram.com/generate/
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that that's a joke about the UK being a monarchy in anything but name! Its democratic issues are much more to do with the House of Lords, FPTP voting system and lack of press balance.

The power to directly elect or remove the top spot is certainly an important facet of democracy, maybe even the most important, but it's still just one of many measures. to be honest I don't think it's really that meaningful to talk about one system being "more democratic" than another, or that "entirely democratic" can apply coherently to anything except some kind of anarchist utopia.

That said, there is such a thing as the global [democracy index](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index) in which the US comes well below the UK and plenty of other EU countries. Note that Norway, also a constitutional and hereditary monarchy, tops the list.
The Future of Data Is Licensing
I've posted before, but the touch bar is not for the HN crowd.

It's for graphics/video/audio professionals, the original Mac "pro" market, where it's a super-useful ultra-flexible slider/picker that works far better than a trackpad or mouse for that purpose. And the ones I know love it.

I get most HN'ers don't like it (and I personally have no use for it), but Apple didn't build it because they're dumb or are going for style over substance. It's just a different target market.
I built this with @smalter. This is the first app I've ever built! I'm excited to share it here and get feedback.

I’ve worked as a content marketing writer for almost five years. I’ve always enjoyed the creative side of writing but the analytical side of it has always grinded my gears.

Before falling into marketing I was a scientist for 15 years. Worked in neuroscience and neuroengineering on such eclectic subjects as sheep facial recognition and brain-machine interfaces. Found my way into content after taking on more writing for my lab, then technical writing as a freelancer, before teaming up with @smalter at Animalz.

As a field, content is way behind even other areas of marketing in terms of analyzing and investigating what works and what doesn’t. GA numbers are treated just as something to dump in a spreadsheet each month rather than something to be investigated.

Now I’m combining the two and starting to build analytical tools to help content people understand better what is happening with what they produce. Not just presenting them data, but telling them what it means. Kinda thinking about this as ‘opinionated analytics.’

The first thing I’ve built is Revive. We want to help people find stuff they’ve done that isn’t performing as well as it once does but still has legs with a little bit of effort. Should be a low lift way for people to get more traffic.

The app looks at the organic traffic for each piece of content over the past year, and highlights those that have a negative trend over the year, a definite recent dip, and has lost a decent percentage of traffic in this time.

Be great to hear what you think and any feedback!
There is no visa information in the SIS, you are probably referring to a different system (maybe VIS). Yes, when you apply for visa you will probably be _searched_ in the SIS, but this will happen many times in the EU anyway (or even before approaching the EU - likely when boarding a flight to an EU country).