skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some years ago I did some searching on scholar.google.com about bacterial vaginosis.

While douching is generally discouraged as non-helpful at best or counter-productive at worst, I remember reading a study that found washing the vagina with iodine mostly eliminates all bacteria - desirable and undesirable - but that the beneficial lacto-bacteria are the first to repopulate the cavity.

Quotes and links to two studies about this approach are below.

I recall that when I was looking into the matter, I noticed that Walmart's store brand of iodine wash has that chemical in spermicide that some women are sensitive to. The adjacent bottle of brand-name iodine (Betadine?) doesn't have that chemical. Searching now, it must've been Nonoxynol-9 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonoxynol-9 / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Povidone-iodine

I'll look at my pictures... (EDIT: maybe it's been reformulated: "Active Ingredient: Povidone-iodine, 10%; Inactive ingredients: C12-13, PARETH-9, citric acid, disodium phosphate, glycerin, sodium hydroxide, water" - https://www.walmart.com/ip/Equate-First-Aid-Antiseptic-8-fl-...

This one has Nonoxynol-9: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Betadine-skin-cleanser/46068801

Betadine without Nonoxynol-9: Active Ingredients: Povidone-Iodine (10%) (1% Available Iodine). Purpose: First Aid Antiseptic. Inactive Ingredients: Pareth 25-8, Purified Water, Sodium Hydroxide. - https://www.walmart.com/ip/Betadine-Solution-8-fl-oz/1732500... /EDIT)

tl/dr: use iodine to wipe out all bacteria, so the lactic-acid producing bacteria can repopulate the area.

Two studies that seem to support using iodine washes to take out all the bacteria:

" [...] Contrary to that the lactobacilli counts from patients treated with povidone iodine suppositories decreased after the first week but increased in the second one. Potentially pathogenic germs, e.g. Gardnerella, Bacteroides and Enterobacteria were reduced in a higher extent and with a longer lasting effect after treatment with povidone iodine suppositories than with capsules containing lactobacilli. The results of this study show that native lactobacilli rapidly re-colonize after the antiseptic treatment with povidone iodine. Therefore, there is no need to use lactobacilli in addition." - Efficacy of Povidone-Iodine Vaginal Suppositories in the Treatment of Bacterial Vaginosis - https://www.karger.com/Article/Abstract/57731

"Repeated vaginal washings with 3% H2O2, 15% NaCl and 10% providone iodine were initiated. At the end of each washing, vaginal walls were thoroughly cleaned up with a small gauze. After 10 days of treatment the odor and the vaginal discharge had ceased and 12 months later no relapse had occurred" - Recurrent Bacterial Vaginosis in a Virgin Adolescent: A New Method of Treatment - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s15010-002-2001-9
Fat Tails and the T Test
Google’s mission only seems non-bullshit because they actually did organize a good fraction of the world’s information. When they were just a search engine with better relevance, it seemed like a stretch.

But yes, the chart is more impressionistic than rigorous.
That's almost like saying it's OK to falsely report about religion in the first place because "the religious interest groups will defend themselves adequately", etc.

False reporting of any sort (including the failure to correct prior false reports, whether intended or not) always causes harm. Truth and principles matter.

Furthermore, reducing ideas to power struggles between those who speak them is to commit both the genetic fallacy and the ad-hominem fallacy.
I've been following the series as well. I think that for any author to attempt an explanation of "everything," the author needs to rely heavily on a single consistent narrative that will undoubtably simplify and linearize the content of the story. I'd say Tim Urban does a good job of acknowledging that at the start of the series.

His series of posts is beginning to remind me of the works of Yuval Noah Harari, as they have similarly ambitious goals of explaining why the world is the way it is by telling a story, and they make sacrifices to get there.
This happens to legal drugs, too.

Excedrin was recalled in 2012 and new stock was unavailable for almost a year.

https://abc13.com/archive/8639559/
Men Are Waiting to Share Some Feelings (2018)
The last I heard about anechoic chambers, most people can't stay in them for very long, apparently it's incredibly unsettling after a while.
My point is that in factory jobs, the end result is usually just to get the job done, whatever that may be (building parts of a car, etc). As long as the workers can understand you and you can communicate what needs to be done, it can work.

White collar jobs usually involve more meetings, knowledge of business culture and language. This is much more difficult to outsource to countries that don't share any of the same culture and language.

This is also why outsourcing development jobs has been mostly a disaster for US companies.
> One is a major international company...the other is a small media firm based in one country

The point is a single company's PR force rivals a major newspaper's entire staff. The Fourth Estate is outmanned and outgunned.

> WaPo's mission statement is "Democracy Dies in Darkness"

No, it's a seven-principle list [1]. Stringing together points one and two, it is "to tell the truth as nearly as the truth may be ascertained...concerning the important affairs of America and the world."

"Democracy dies in darkness" is a tag line.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/ask-the-post/wp/2016/01/...
I really don't understand why people obsesses over popularity so much. The only question worth asking is whether the language has a big enough community to be sustainable, especially when dealing with a hosted language that leverages the underlying ecosystem.

In case of Clojure the answer is unequivocally yes. It's got a large active community around it, and there are many companies of all kinds using it in production. Whether it's growing rapidly or slowly doesn't really affect its effectiveness compared to the other options available.
> 1. Why do you want to work for our company?

I don't feel comfortable asking this question. Many of the people I interview are "headhunted" into an interview by an talent acquisition team. Are they even looking for a new job?
I've had this as a bookmark on my browser for years, you can just click it to turn it on:

javascript:document.body.contentEditable='true';%20document.designMode='on';%20void%200
Hey I work for Nexient. Kind of cool to be in an article in the NY Times, less so perhaps for the ire directed at outsourcing.

I'm just a devops person. Would it be considered a majorly huge faux pas if I mentioned any details about Nexient's careers? If so, I'll edit and remove that previous sentence.
NPR does pretty well. They do tend to get whipped into a bit of a frenzy when interviewing Republicans about various Trump antics (most recently this Ukraine thing).

Edit:

Specifically this interview [1]

[1] https://www.npr.org/2019/09/27/764969584/many-gop-lawmakers-...
I've often heard that drinking distilled water is bad due to it leaching minerals/electrolytes. Has anyone done the math on this to either validate or debunk this?

A 16oz bottle of San Pellegrino has 20mg of sodium. How can such a small difference in sodium intake (and other minerals) have a meaningful influence on electrolyte levels?
Ok, but please don't post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News.
I like to ask "what is/was your favorite and least favorite part of [Company's] [Department's] culture, that way there's a rough range that's specific to the department rather than ambiguous cultural perks.
I’ve worked for campaigns, as a contractor for a small firm exclusively catering to a single agency, for a larger firm that did incidental government work, and I’ve got several friends who are high up in tech working directly for agencies.

My impression is that government tech = All the problems of Enterprise + Academia, all the recognition and support of a non profit, the culture of Uber, and the ethics of Facebook.

It’s just a maelstrom of most developers idea of hell.

And if you were born in hell and they hand you a pitchfork, hey, why not have a go?

But don’t go down there thinking you’re gonna install air conditioning and escalators.
Worse: all the datasources were provided by plugins written by third-party indie developers working for free (and for that reason they weren't perfect, of course).

What is the core team wasting their time on?
The Realist Case for Impeachment
> The situation with 737 max was one terribly system and the pilot's complete inability to stop this - inability that could have been anticipated and which was the product of the original bad design.

You accuse me of being disingenuous and immediately follow it with a false claim.

This is untrue. Stabilator trim can be turned off. Indeed, before Lion Air 610 the previous flight had experienced the problem and had dealt with it correctly.

Also, re-trimming using the trim switch disables MCAS for some number of seconds.

In the case of ET302, they turned the system off, but allowed the aircraft to overspeed and were, as a result, unable to retrim manually. Still, they had a positive rate of climb. It is only when they turned it back on in violation of training/checklist and inexplicably did not use it to retrim nose up that they were doomed.

> This kind of disaster certainly can happen but the situation with the 737 Max was Boeing pushing an old design far beyond it's limits because of the threat of losing market share and regulators allowing this.

I strongly disagree. I think it's a badly engineered system but things like this are part of the normal design refinement that happens when planes are stretched and iterated upon. The 737 has bad handling on pitch during departure; bigger, more powerful 737's have it worse, and it makes sense to fix this.
How is it that the CDC has been investigating this for a couple weeks and it was NBC News that found the contamination in their tests?
Doesn’t Tesla do that too?
Makes me wonder how much plastic kids eat when they eat with plastic spoons
yeah but it's structured like serial killer movie, even if it's ambiguous as to whether it might just all be in his head.
One of my own favorite explanations of meter in English is Timothy Steele's All the Fun's in How you Say a Thing: An Explanation of Meter and Versification [0].

I'd be interested if anyone has other recommendations?

[0]: https://www.ohioswallow.com/book/All+the+Fun%E2%80%99s+in+Ho...
The toolkits are getting complete enough to allow individuals or very small teams to roll out an MMO, if you're willing to pay the bills for Spatial OS. Full VR support, even. Big-world support. Powered by Expensive Google Cloud.

One of the first: Community Garden.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2XEbJOWkxc
I'll keep that in mind for future comments. Removing mine now would probably be counter productive?

But you're right, I completely slipped into Reddit snark mode rather than constructive HN mode.
Tap water in the developed world is really really good. You can measure a country by the ability of that nation to provide clean water to people. Municipal water supplies in cities like Atlanta and Cincinnati are often tested 200~300 times per month at several pumping and maintenance locations. Bottled water is a scam, and it also is a resources that's often extracted from poor countries and communities.

The documentary Tapped and Blue Gold both go into all the screwed up thing the bottle water industry does. For countries without clean water, bottled water is not the solution. Better municipal water, more wells and cheaper, low energy water purification around those wells is a much more sustainable solution.
The problem I have with that is shit talking your previous work is generally seen as unprofessional - yet, you're also leaving them for a reason.

I would probably be evasive if asked your question (at least, in terms of 'least favourite'), which also wouldn't work in my favour.
People are losing sleep over political issues?

Unless your livelihood is directly tied to the issue, that's bizarre to me.
That seems a little misleading. Google says they're sunsetting it about 11 months from now.
As was the atomic bomb at one point in time. There may be exceptions for unintended uses of the technology you develop (a la Alfred Nobel), but there's not a lot of wiggle room when you work for the DoD.

You were hired to develop things that will eventually be used to kill people. That's the end goal of the job. Whether you make anything usable or not is somewhat beside the point, the intention is still there.
Be aware: audio will start playing out of your speakers if they are on.
but the iOS you install doesnt even need to be signed anymore. Im not an expert on this, but I would suspect you can delete the entire authorization step, wholesale.
Thanks, really enjoyed that foreword and it really pushed High Output Management up on my reading list. Plus as a bonus I finally learned the name of "The Peter Principle" (the idea that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their level of incompetence).
The hubris of this is wild - a payroll system that is compliant in every US state and accounts for the many, many nuances of the US financial system is no small project.
I work for a Healthcare startup and we are actually delivering health care and value to patients, care providers and insurers, and we are scrutinized 50 ways from Sunday in order to get table scraps, because most of them don't think we have a real business. But dog walking seems like the next market defining breakout.
A link has been found to some household chemicals (diethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP) and polychlorinated biphenyl 153 (PCB153)) affecting dogs:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/fertility-problems...
No idea about new cars, but Carmax is a nationwide used car dealership chain that does no-haggle pricing.
> Angular [...] You can really focus on the application

I don't know about the newest versions but I have to disagree for Angular 1, the framework was so badly designed and overengineered that my team and I had to constantly check the doc to remember how to write x or y or what were the best practices to do z.

React does less than Angular but it's way more intuitive and straightforward. The doc is a one-time read.

> forget tooling [...] The webpack build that the Angular CLI uses internally is completely transparent [...] nothing else comes even close

React has create-react-app. Vue probably has something similar. Same for Ember. Last time I had to setup a build pipeline myself was like 3 years ago.
"Horrifying addictiveness": I think that may be a good choice of words. I think people are becoming addicted to anger and outrage. And even for those who aren't (and I hope you aren't, even if you're in the midst of the Brexit craziness), the constant "and then what happened?" urge is like an addiction. But "then what" hasn't actually happened yet, and so we sit here, frantically hitting refresh, waiting for the next thing to happen.

I can do the same with HN. "There must be something new and interesting on there - better check again now." I need to break that, and I think it is worth breaking. (I say as I post this on HN...)
You’ve got to applaud Masayoshi Son for his tenacity at the very least. Lived through the Dot Com Crash, caused the next one 20 years later.

That’s a big achievement in my book. How many people can really say they’ve been able to do something like that?

[Edit] I should probably add a caveat that Masayoshi Son isn’t the dumb one here. No, he’s actually quite the genius, managing to convince Saudia Arabia to basically give him $45 billion and then spinning that all the way into $100 billion with the Vision Fund. I’m genuinely giving praise to the man here. He saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.
http://youtu.be/gHBhMGbJHe8
Link to actual demo at the bottom of the article.
Interesting sound for the transition.
Wish there was more to the demo.
You don't have to mine Bitcoin to send and receive Bitcoin.
You'd need 100GbE NIC and network fabric for that to not be a waste of time though. That costs more than renting an industrial portable air conditioner.
To be fair to you I clicked on the article expecting a summary review rather than a technical run through and got as far as Why Consider Svelte on my small phone screen before googling. I can see on a revisit on my tablet it is rather more comprehensive.
World's largest optical lens is 5.1 feet wide and took 5 years to make
Inevitable future: space colonization beyond Earth with microbes first
Yes they did, but nothing prevented them to do a counter-offer, which wasn't seen as being worthwhile.
> "For example, calling Comcast to cancel. The company is paying pennies per hour to have you on hold. But its costing you your real time. Therefore comcast can easily suffer more in the process and ultimately could just wait you out..."

That's why you call them while you've got something else to do. Put them on speaker while playing a computer game, doing the laundry, or whatever else you'd prefer to be doing, as long as it's something that's easy to pause as soon as they pick up the phone.

Or better yet: do business with the company with the most responsive customer service.
The idea is that microplastics don't become vapor. Which seems more than plausible.
I Dumped God
I think it's situations like this that result in society having such a hard time with 'science'. The term has been so heavily co-opted by fields that just don't have sufficient rigger for the term to hold weight. Yet, on various topics, we have this publicized attack of "your a science denier!". At the end of the day, there are two 'types' of science, one where I can take the results and make accurate predictions, and one where I can't. The later just amounts to 'our best guess' where the accuracy is entirely unknown. If we want the general populous to 'trust science', we need to stop calling the later science. In short, if you can't repeat and predict, stop calling it science.
No, tbh by the time I got there I had lost interest. I'm not commenting on the value of Svelte, just saying I felt the benefits of investing time in investigating it in the context of a myriad of established tools and frameworks needed to be more clearly sold.
These are generally interview wildcards. It can be used against you regardless of how you answer (assuming you didn't show an obvious red flag like call your former manager a fuckhead) or used for your benefit if someone needs a bit more leverage to get you on the team.

My take is that you need to project the image of a professional, match your resume experience, don't be combative and basically show that you can be a valuable drone. Even the fact that you can bullshit this with a straight face and not go candid on the interviewer is a positive data point, as that's basically 80% of working in a corporation. But again, the hiring manager can cherry pick positives/negatives based on what he actually wants to do.
He brought up Chamberlain's pact with Hitler to make a point, but I also ended up seeing a coincidence: What Chamberlain did was called appeasement, and selling off the We jet is appeasement.
Stallman is the head of GNU, which in in charge of GCC. Stallman is (or was) officially "in charge" of GCC, he could (and would) veto changes to GCC he didn't want.

I didn't want to support software which was headed by Stallman.
What do you do once you're a mature, commoditized company with no room left to innovate? Maybe you wouldn't try to milk your customers for as much as they're worth, but you'll eventually retire sell your company to the highest bidder, who probably will.
I also made not one, but two "almost" OMMMOs (One Coder MMO?):

2001! http://www.rupy.se/raywalk/magequest.html (the graphics/sounds are "borrowed")

2011. http://aeonalpha.com (my neighbor made the music/sounds in exchange of a 960Ti for his Hackintosh)

Both use Java, the first one is a mix of Applet/Application that you can try by running this file:

http://www.rupy.se/raywalk/client.jar

The second is Application only so you download it here:

http://aeonalpha.com/aeon.zip

I'm working on my third OCMMO:

2021? http://ahoy.rupy.se
I actually agree with this, Twitter is far from my favorite way to consume content but I actually really enjoyed the format that this was presented in.
Welcome to the internet. Every single website has auto-playing video now.

Firefox has an option to turn it off. I think it's the only browser with that.
> The chart is some cherrypicked bullshit that ignores the importance of outlier rejection

The vertical axis is the author's subjective opinion on a scale of "I’m a professor of marketing who likes dogs" to "I am a spirit Dawg that unlocks self-actualization." That should give away that it's, at best, a back-of-the-envelope gut check.

"This thesis doesn't fall apart on basic scrutiny" is the best point it can make. Which, given it's leaps and bounds more scrutiny than Theranos or WeWork got, is part of the joke.
> overly pressurised

It would be interesting to compare carbonated versus uncarbonated.
Right then...

...strong typing: for or against?

(To be fair even strong typing won't save you if you don't use it. But fuuuuuk, what an error. I noted that paper mentally and would have quoted from it)
Isn't most bottled water bottled in plastic?

The bottle is plastic. The lid is plastic too.

When you're opening the bottle, plastic is rubbing against plastic, and then water is pouring over it.

Even glass-bottles typically have a lid that has a plastic sealing layer inside.
We don't know. "Was your ditch weed sprayed with paraquat?" isn't a question doctors ask their patients.
This mechanism that you suggest about copying values is how Lua used to work before version 5.0, when they came up with the current upvalue mechanism.
How does that not solve the problem that you detailed? You said replacing all those systems will take time and money. Edge is coming to every supported platform, so if you don't want to update your applications, you don't have to. I'm not sure what else you want Microsoft to do here. They can't make you update your software, only provide a high level of backwards compatibility for those that can't justify the expense on their side. MS is carrying your financial burden by building this out and supporting it. You're free to do what you please, even complain about it, but you aren't going to find better support than that.
Product suggestion: bump the price to $99 and 20 x the traffic over a longer delivery window. You need more impressions than offered to meaningfully affect target beliefs. You can mix in cheaper ad space as well.

None of these have a direct call to action.... thus you need additional impressions to build recall or trigger inception.
I always just drink tap water and find it better tasting than bottled. But I guess that varies by where you live. Do most people in the US drink 100% bottled?
Interesting fun fact!

How is it that a chip used for 2D/3D operations gets used in the ME though?

I would've thinked that they are pretty different, but I'm no expert so, any ideas?
It's a weird question because one of the reasons I'm interviewing is to decide if I wanna work at your company or not. It's like if the candidate asked the interviewer "why do you want to hire me?"
Any suspect can always be innocent.

There is nothing special about DNA evidence that makes it worse or better in that regard.
Can the Yogababble scale go higher than 10?
You would have to take the answer in context, ie does it align with their reason for leaving. Shit talking would be a red flag but everyone's got unique cultural preferences. Someone's favorite part might be someone's least favorite part from that same company.
The peter principle and the dunning kruger effect define the majority of leadership I see these days.
Bottled water is also usually just tap water .. at a 1000% markup. You're paying for tap water plus some plastic.