skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Graveyard of "not considered a real/serious disease/threat by the medical consensus until a frankly embarrassingly amount of time later"

[x] "cadaverous particles" (washing hands after autopsies)

[x] "hysteria" (likely a combination of various mental health conditions and/or PCOS, polycystic ovarian syndrome)

[x] "GRID" (HIV/AIDS)

[x] leaded gas bad

[x] asbestos bad

[x] smoking bad

[?] refined sugar bad

[x] Autism

[x] ADHD

[x] COVID-19 (from ??-2019 until Feb/Mar 2020)

[ ] chronic lyme/other tickborne illness

[ ] ME/CFS

Hopefully, the skyrocketing case load of the latter two (due to explosive spread of tickborne illness, and "long covid", respectively ) will get the gears actually turning and change consensus.

I don't get what's wrong with the medical community acknowledging "hey we have all these odd cases, we can't pin down a cause, but here's the leading theories." Instead, just look at the "Myth/Fact" thread elsewhere in the comments here. Stating with such authority "antibiotics totally cure Lyme". Since when is anything in medicine a sure bet? You're telling me it's impossible that an evolving lifeform can't possibly evade the immune system and selection pressure and become persistent? What?

Ok, please rebut me, tell me how this line of reasoning, "these currently 'orphan' diseases deserve taking a closer look, and not dismissed out of hand" is wrong.
Well said and I agree. Everything most e-ink tablets do you can already do with paper and pencil, more or less. You can search your notes on the tablet, you can search your notes in a paper notebook, and with the paper notebook you can remember things like "it's towards the back, after X". You can manually tag your e-notes, reality automatically tags your physical notes with things like page wrinkles and spilled coffee stains. So, slightly different but ultimately quite similar for most people.

Again, I think spaced repetition is a killer feature that could finally distinguish an e-ink tablet from paper. I think this idea has more potential for improving learning than almost all the multi-million dollar learning websites out there. It can systematically take you to savant levels of recollection in any topic. And right now this tool is locked behind some clunky text focused UI. (Yes, latex and pictures exist, but they suck when compared to drawing on a page.)
> A solution’s performance has many different dimensions (speed, reliability, usability, repeatability, cost, …)—you probably don’t even know what all the dimensions are, let alone which are the most important.

The "hard problem" is finding the balance. Don't be a UI developer that lets beauty eclipse speed, reliability, usability, repeatability, cost--every. last. fucking. time.

The author is on to something in that academia's "one dimensional" evaluation shouldn't be used in the real world.
It is articles like this that remind me that we so desperately need a carbon tax.

Making a t-shirt in China, shipping to the US, wearing it for a few times, and then shipping it to Africa should not be economically viable.
It's really cool that they can use the train tracks to bring stuff into and out of the station. It seems obvious in retrospect, but that had never occurred to me before.
Spot: GTK/Rust native Spotify client
When you were young, those ticks may not have had lyme. More importantly, you removed them. They have to be attached for 24 hours before the bacteria comes back out of the tick's gut.
1. Do you have a recommanded way for i18n integration?
2. What's the performance of updating/adding/deleting a single entry in an array? Will imba just update the html element in O(1) or it will iterate the array to delect the changes?
The Challenge of “Chronic Lyme” (2018)
120 deer per square mile?!

In thought the moose problem in Sweden was big. That is just ridiculous. We have a moose population that is waaay higher than ever before because we killed most large predators, and the people responsible for keeping the population down (hunters) want a much larger population than is environmentally defensible.
> interesting how there's a lot of (seemingly) massive and feature-rich open source games, very specifically today on HN's homepage (two by my count, which is a lot!)

2nd one being this one ?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28204948

> How did so many Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup players miss such an obvious bug?

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Also, (BA/)Spring is totally from last decade (especially diversity-game-wise !), IIRC top activity there was circa 2008 ?

https://springrts.com/
Sounds like the equivalent of Miami was missing, but isn't it incredible that housing the size of a city was just "missing" from the data? How is one to believe other data coming from the city offices? The article should be about this discrepancy rather than the political back and forth about the fate of NYC in the eyes of the nation.
I support Pepsi in this. It's hilarious reading all of the comments from Americans, who will sue at the drop of a hat. Can't even make a joke in an ad without getting sued, so much for being a free country, ahaha.
> I run into subtle bugs all the time due to missing awaits, it's incredibly frustrating.

If you use TS, ESLint's `no-floating-promises` rule (or the equivalent in other linters) is _such_ a requirement
Just like how social media companies suddenly grow a spine and do something about bots and troll behavior only after they become large and successful.
Not disagreeing that a team might be better for targeting Enterprise SaaS but is the implication that a solo founder can’t learn to talk about other people’s non-technical problems?
I request security. I deliberately choose devices and platforms that receive prompt, frequent security updates. Nearly every iOS and macOS update seems to be filled with security patches.

Should users be able to choose whether to accept changes and new features? Probably. Should they be able to opt out of security updates? Not on internet-connected devices.
Interesting point. I think it’s difficult to define ‘sentient’, but since the processor would emulate the nervous system then it should be possible for it to eventually do all of the things that the real one does.

The initial version of the processor would be more comparable the brain of a lizard or a rodent than to that of a human. Still, lots of powerful applications at that level.
Military Adventures and Skin in the Game
Observing Live connectivity status in Jetpack Compose way
Why on earth does it need a cellular plan rather than Wifi?
Okay fine! :)

but to clarify:
-you take three regular plastic coke bottles

-put them in an equilateral triangle

-make the length of a side from center of the bottle slightly longer than a knife

-take three identical knives and create a platform that can hold a regular cup of water

?

Wait..by typing it out like this.. I think I solved it haha. Thanks for the brain tickle!
If you look at NYC as a whole (i.e. all 5 boroughs), 45% own cars, so a minority but still a lot of cars.

ADDED: Manhattan is about half that percentage but, again, still a lot of cars and people.
Antivirals are too expensive for most of the world.
Government regulation is what's pushing it already. Credit card companies are liable for fraud. Mag stripe has become extremely insecure now that just about anyone can build a reader. So the CC companies are moving to chip and rfid based systems.

The bad news is that these new systems are considered so secure that the CC companies have much more limited liability. So that's likely to be a problem eventually.
Apple: https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/creating-accessib...
Love your development videos.

When do you think you'll be able to run your dev stack natively on serenity rather than in Linux and virtualizing serenity only for testing?
That's not a sign of good hygiene, rather a sign of these countries dystopian work laws/ethics, where sick leave is apparently not a thing.
KaiOS (if that's what it's called) is crap and almost unusable. The Symbian series and more basic OSs were pretty complete and nice to use. Nokia no longer make good phones, or even mediocre phones.
I can longer fit into my old clothes - the problem of the expanding waistline - which is why I take them to the charity store. We Aussies truly are a consuming society: too much food, too many clothes, too many electronic gadgets, too easy a lifestyle.
The Morally Troubling ‘Dirty Work’ We Pay Others to Do in Our Place
Yeah your necessities don’t match Spotify’s. If they took this path, the web version is probably important for them.
Then you'll like the Fediverse, then. (Though the tools aren't particularly good, yet… perhaps you could help?)
Agreed. It amplifies the worst aspects of human existence.
Last time I was in NYC, I used Uber-for-taxis Curb app, which I found to be consistently cheaper and largely interchangeable UX-wise with Uber (upfront fares, ride tracking, driver rating, etc). In NYC at least, Uber offered me as a user no tangible upside. I think their inherent competitive advantage against taxis, at least in major metropolitan areas, has been exaggerated.
Not sure if it’s that many but who knows. Below 34th St is around 17%. Rents are about 20% cheaper than before the pandemic. Here’s an article detailing this:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/manhat...
Given the numbers of this article, we should expect Uber to go bankrupt within the next two years or so. I'm fairly cynical and find it a reasonable prediction, but even if you don't agree with me, please play along. My question then is, when Uber goes bankrupt, what happens then? Would it spook the market? There are after all many other companies that have floated on investor capital. Would this sort of event be enough to cause a big market reckoning?

Of course this is all the sort of speculation that's impossible to predict, but it's just something I've been thinking for a while. Uber failing would be a pretty big failure.
My previous thought provoking argument was to say that if you plan to produce electricity in a developed country using mostly wind turbines and solar panels, you'll need an unreasonable amount of batteries.

In that sense, it makes totally sense. If you are Greenpeace (for instance) and argue that all nuclear plants have to be close (for reason X) you need to translate that production with something else. And that amount can't be reasonably replaced by solar + wind + batteries.
Boston Dynamics Atlas Humanoid Robot Doing Parkour [video + article]
Scrimba
Well, I don't, but that doesn't seem like the right rule. I also certainly don't think that, say, genocide makes the speaker (whether Goebbels or a modern-day advocate) look good, but that hardly seems like a reason to permit people to post advocacy of genocide!

The very definition of extremist ideologies is that they are extremist, and that reasonable people who haven't been infected with it don't agree. But - by and large - we don't see that as a reason to allow open advocacy of extremism. Clearly Goebbels had a target audience in mind that he thought could be convinced to agree with him.

So I think a rule "You cannot post things by Goebbels that advocate Nazi ideology" makes sense, and I think a rule "You cannot post things by Goebbels that advocate Nazi ideology, unless reading and pondering that document would leave the average reader less convinced of the merits of Nazism" does not make sense.
I read this and still have no idea what the ‘memoized DOM’ is. There is a broken link to ‘how it really works’. Apparently there is a huge speed-up over react. I don’t actually care about this; I’d rather know what the slow parts of browser DOM changes are, and how it gets around them.

Forgive my ignorance if I’m missing something obvious; I am completely new to JavaScript, but so far have found react/vue/etc confusing, outdated, and unnecessary for my performance needs, versus going raw with the latest features. It sounds like I might be missing something that could hurt me down the line. Thanks.
Can someone explain in simple terms to a non-mathematician. How calculating Pi to these amounts of digits is done?

In my naive ignorance, I can't see how you 'retrieve' more digits past the number of decimal places supported by whatever device you're calculating on.
What you should hope to be invented is better vaccines/treatment.
Washing clothes do wear them a lot, so if you can avoid washing clothes too often that'll help. Socks, undergarments, and (most often) t-shirts I don't do this with, but everything else like shirts or pants, do hang them nicely across the back of a chair so that they can air properly. Avoid wrinkles when hanging them.

I'm about to buy new bed sheets etc, and the advice I've read is as follows:

* satin is nice and soft, but wears faster than plain weave (aka percale when above 200 thread count), so don't use satin for bed sheet, but for the duvet cover and potentially the pillowcase. Percale may have a more hotel'y feeling of "crispyness".

* use percale/plain for the bed sheet since that'll wear evenly

* look for extra long cotton fibers since that'll last longer. It's classified in ranges, such as "long staple" or "extra long staple", but often not typed out. Instead some opt for saying "combed cotton" meaning they removed shorter fibers through "combing"

* "egyptian cotton" says nothing, it'll include all cotton made in egypt, which is not by default good. "Supima" cotton is actually a trademarked name for Pima cotton fibers upholding some level of quality that's supposedly good.

Four types of cotton: Gossypium [Hirsutum, Barbadense, Arboreum, Herbaceum]. Most grown is Hirsutum. Barbadense == Pima, and certified Pima at some minimum fiber length etc == Supima trademark.

Many hotels don't own their sheets, they rent as a service including washing. I've read many use a small amount of synthetic fibers in the mix.

Ideal thread count range is about 300-600, lower doesn't necessarily give the percale feel, and higher is just marketing blaha which doesn't really notice either.

He. Turned out to be quite the post. Let's stop there. Guess you can tell I'm nerding down on the topic.
Would this be recommended for anybody sexually active? Or just for people in higher risk like someone with a partner that has HIV or if you're homosexual?
Apollo raises $130M to pioneer the Graph for app developers
You can definitely do that.

However on something like the underground that would complicate the "turn up and go" approach that most people take to the tube if you start skipping different sets of stations on different trains.

It's something that's done, but I'm not sure how well it would scale on the tube if you did it a lot. Each train would need to miss roughly the same number of stops to prevent blockages or you need more passing places. With the small gaps between many tube trains the margin of error for scheduling can be very small.

I think it's one of those things that works, but the advantage for the vast majority of people would be pretty small compared to the complexity and added fragility it would introduce if you tried to do it a lot.
> The solution I expect is for Amazon to recognized my face and bill me.

I'm just going to go live in the woods. We grown way too comfortable as a society.
How quickly do they seem to wear down?

I'm wearing a 15yo t-shirt as I speak and it's in great shape. I have several in closet that are 20yo. I don't take any particular care other than always washing on cold and using low temperature drier.

My polo shirts depending on material do seem to wear down, on the collar in particular. They seem to be from different material than most t shirts.
Enisa Predicts Fourfold Increase in Software Supply Chain Attacks in 2021
This is a gross misrepresentation of what is going on.
According to postal service data, it was an extra 1.7% compared to 2019:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04/19/upshot/how-th...

Which is not small, but it bears out my anecdotal impression as an NYC resident- most of the people leaving are people who would have left in the next few years anyway, the pandemic just moved up their timeframe.

And no one moved to avoid the “egregious lockdowns”, it’s just that working from home is a lot harder in an NYC apartment compared to a house.
> just not freedom to have anyone else listen to those things

This implies freedom to remember you say bigoted things and proactively avoid you.
Reminds me a bit of the situation in London. It's entirely true, but highly misleading, to state that the total population of the City of London is between nine and ten thousand people.
If a medallion owner can earn $75K per medallion per year, it seems there's a lot of possible value in trying to take $5-10K/year times the number of full-time medallion equivalents while avoiding the cost of buying the medallion and car [and maintaining the car] in the first place.
Show HN: Lemon – Alternative UI for AWS
AIDS killed a million people in 2016. HIV medications help only when taken diligently, which is actually problematic even in developed countries where the most advanced treatments are available, and is much more difficult in poorer countries. Even with treatment HIV infections are a burden on people, interfering with normal adult activities like sex (convincing people to use condoms is a challenge) and having children.

To quote Seven of Nine, survival is insufficient. We could survive without a vaccine or a treatment, it would mean tens of thousands of years and billions of people dying from AIDS until our species adapts and HIV becomes just another retrovirus (as some other primate species have with related SIV viruses). We should aim higher than "survival" and end the suffering caused by HIV, and with a vaccine we could do so in this century.
100m T-Mobile Customer Records Purportedly Up for Sale
Why “Who Not How” Is So Powerful
I imagine for something like 90%+ of users, a popup that says "Your maximum number of API calls has been reached, click this link and register your own API key to continue using..." is an instant nope
Similar situation when ditching plastic or composites for glass bottles. You need a large number of reuses of the glass container (break-even at around 30-50 reuses) or you will actually end up with a net increase in emissions. Recycling glass should be a last resort, as it requires a lot of energy (compared to e.g. recycling PET bottles). Because glass is so much heavier than plastic packaging, transport distances also need to be kept low (good in general). If transport distance exceeds something like 500 km, a glass bottle will always result in higher net emissions than a tetra pack, even if reused a billion times.
> It was hard to diagnose and a few of the doctors I worked with along the years still don’t believe its true.

Did they offer alternative explanations or did they simply stonewall you and deny your reported symptoms?

One of the lessons I learned far too late in life was to not waste time with doctors who don’t believe your reported symptoms.

On some level I understand how it happens — Doctors inevitably see a number of hypochondriacs and people with psychosomatic illnesses who need to be handled delicately to avoid further entrenching their perceived illnesses. However, when you’re having legitimate symptoms and your own doctor tries to deny the symptoms without offering further diagnostics, it’s time to cut ties and move on.

It can take a few tries to find a good doctor.
After a couple of days in the mountains, I found four ticks, and one bite started to turn red after two weeks.

I went to the doctor, she said the tests at this phase are unreliable, my bite could be Lyme, but could be something else too (the bulls eye rings didn't form yet). She said the pragmatic approach is too treat it as if it was Lyme and take antibiotics. It's better to take some antibiotics than wait for the symptoms (which are not always easy to assign to lyme).
New Zealand to go into snap lockdown following Covid case in Auckland
FlyitOut: Culture Sent with Love
I haven't seen any recently but they were really bad earlier in the summer in Massachusetts to the point that there were a couple walks that I was doing regularly that I decided to forgo for a bit. And anecdotally I've heard a similar story from others. (Fortunately, everything I've seen have been the larger dog ticks.)
It's credit because, regardless is you pay in full every month, you receive the service before you make the payment. That opens up the service provider to the risk that you'll ring up a huge bill and then skip out on the payment, and all of the rules around credit are designed to mitigate this fact.
> or succeeded only by real estate speculation around where they built their lines

My understanding of how Japan transit is profitable (I live there and I'm interested on it quite a bit) is multi-sided, but the main difference is that train companies own (or are leased for free/cheap) the station areas. So they setup big malls and stores around the stations, that for the fact of being on a station are probably the most transited and profitable ones in the nation.

Some smaller but meaningful differences might be that Japan urban density is very high (small country, lots of mountains/forests), that there's a lot of public transportation traffic, that the train rides for employees are normally subsidized by the companies, etc.
cellophane has largely been replaced my ldpe
Rvc – RISC-V in C / HLSL
We all want to find a reason why our ocean populations are depleting, but as soon as anyone says China, you're racist (mainly from people on the left, too). This way of thinking and the resulting inaction is going to kill them even faster.
Nice. Reminds me of an optimisation trick from a while ago: I remember being bottlenecked by one of these trigonometric functions years ago when working with a probabilistic data structure... then I figured the input domain was pretty small (a couple dozen values), so I precomputed those and used an array lookup instead. A huge win in terms of perf, obviously only applicable in these extreme cases.
Guantanamo ex-inmates emerge as key players in Taliban victory
It's really crazy how quickly things have gotten bigger. I remember not too long ago my mid-high power computer had 1Gb of RAM, nowadays that would be laughably small.
Hi all, Igor & Mo here from Lemon. We believe that developers deserve better than what AWS UI is today. It's incomprehensible, like an airplane cockpit. Whereas Lemon is built to feel more like your phone - no manual needed.

Lemon is easy to use, like Vercel or Heroku. You can deploy containers, webapps, functions, databases, etc. Networking and permissions are automatically configured, CI / CD just works, instrumentation connected. But it's not a PaaS - it manages your AWS account, and you retain full control.

Lemon has first-class support of Terraform, so you can customise every bit. It supports multiple environments and can export Terraform to a dedicated "infrastructure repository" if you connect one. And it will pick up your custom TF from that repo too, so it's a two-way sync.

By default Lemon uses ECS Fargate to deploy your containers. Kubernetes is supported too, as well as Lambda. Static webapps go to S3 and served via CloudFront. Every environment gets independent configuration so you can have high-load production and many short-lived cost-efficient dev environments, even one per branch if you'd like.

We've also just launched on ProductHunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/lemon-4
In Clojure land we're more picky about paren usage and we're used to variants of let that are named explicitly. if-let, when-let, reagent/with-let, letfn, etc.
There's no meaning to be found in jobs. It's just something you tolerate (and, if you're lucky, sometimes enjoy) in exchange for money. With that mindset, I've found jobs are much easier to bear. Also, with every passing year, as my savings grow and you're closer to early retirement (you ARE saving a lot every year, right?), I find the job gets easier to tolerate.