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I think HN is not social media in the same way Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram are. One big difference is that HN is pretty anonymous. I usually don't look at who's posting, so it just looks like an agglomeration of authorless text. There's no feeling of "I wonder what X is up to on HN?" or "damn, person X is doing so well on HN".

This, along with the general hiding of points, reduces the amount of comparison to others that occurs on HN. That's different from conventional social media. There's still some comparison ("People on here know so much!"), but the impersonal aspect makes it reasonable to just shrug off.
> "Some conservatives (if you didn't know, we're not all the same, we're not all pro-Trump) argue that when government is given a new power, it will use it in ways that were unexpected."

And they demonstrate it as soon as they are in power. If a government is determined to abuse its power in ways that were never intended, laws aren't going to stop that. You need elections to stop that. The problem is that people keep voting for politicians who abuse that power and use it in ways that it was never meant for.

> "I hold out hope that the Trump administration serves to the left as a demonstration of the merits of limited government"

It mostly serves as a demonstration of the dangers of governmental overreach, and the dangers of voting for the party that put this government in power.

It's a bit weird to suggest that the party behind it is innocent of their own overreach or abuse of power and blame it all on the laws, when it's the government that makes the laws, executes them, and in this case twists them into the opposite of what they're meant for.
Came here to say just this! It's even better when you actually might want to click on something on the footer.
Yeah, so what? I think we have often enough discussed that the US healthcare system is broken.

People should never have to worry whether they can financially manage to go and see a doctor when they are in need of one. Doesn't care if you've broken your arm, am expecting a child or if you're chronically ill.

I don't know what else to say about this. Get that shit together and become a first world country.
Wow. You might be right about B. That could be interesting. (I don’t think A is any different than existing federal laws)
>because that will cover a full work day and people aren't expected to use those devices 24/7

Just expand that for a bit.

For people doing Coding, that might have meant every second of it, for normal people on a computer, There will be likely be 20%- 50% of times you idling ( in computer terms ) or doing something else.

So it is not just 24/7, you just aren't really using the computer for every minutes every seconds.
That seems like a very cynical interpretation.
It's not just SMS 2FA causing this issue, it's the entire premise that a phone number is equivalent to identity. https://neflabs.com/article/sim-swapping-attacks/
Do you do any type of exercise (gym/weights) apart from cycling to work? If so, how does such comparatively little sleep affect your recovery?
This Reply All episode https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/v4he6k is how I learned about SIM swapping and I strongly recommend it for interested people.
You probably are an employee unless you are providing specialized consulting expertise and have several clients.

In this case, it's just financially to your benefit to be a consultant. This sword will cut both ways.
I don't see how FOMO explains anything more than the first purchase. The second and third purchases just seem like random stupidity.
Fast as Fuck Django, Part 1: Using a Profiler
I have been working on an enterprise React App for the past 6 months using only the hooks API. The App is a non trivial Dashboard, displays various custom charts (done using d3 and manual SVG Elements in React) and some larger tables/forms. While I use useEffect() frequently, there is not a single useCallback/useMemo in the code.

I just profiled it on my 5 year old MacbookPro, and out of 50 commits or so, just a single one spiked above 20ms (which was the first commit, subsequent to same view were much faster) and almost all are in the <5ms range. I decided it is not worth doing any optimization yet, and I will defer useCallback/useMemo optimization until there is a real, noticeable delay in rendering.
>Chargers generally cost per minute, so you're incentivised to stay plugged in for the bulk fast-charge portion of your charge, not the trickle at the end.

It's a bit unrealistic to expect people to park again after the charging is done.
Istio has been progressively integrated into Cloud Foundry, which predates Kubernetes.
I really would want to buy a Fairphone 3 but it isn't possible to install a free OS on it currently, so I'll stick with my Fairphone 2 running Ubuntu Touch for now.
What he says is (I gather) worse: those events are only separated be 1.1std deviations, which is little.
It looks like their long term strategy, i.e. put smartphone functionality into a watch, put tablet functionality into a phone, put laptop functionality into a tablet.
I guess I am always rushed, What you described as 30m schedule takes me less than 10.
as people already know by now, the US medical system is subsidising the rest of world, along with medical innovation (new drugs etc):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7xmkzVU29Q
Starlette: A lightweight ASGI framework/toolkit
You Do Not Need Blockchain: Eight Popular Use Cases and Why They Do Not Work
> only what’s native to GP^H^H the rest of the world outside North America
Optimal or not there are plenty of people in society who are doing just fine on <6hr of sleep every night.

The results kind of speak for themselves. These people have jobs, families and generally productive lives like everyone else. If these people felt the extra sleep made their lives better than the extra time to do stuff they'd probably sleep more.
Sigh, I hate seeing companies capitulate to china.

The communist rebellion/revolution in mainland failed to defeat the remaining part of the Republic of China. Taiwan flys the same flag. Taiwan even held the UN sit for china before being voted out in the 70's.
> I really don't know how these so-called designers get paid to confuse their readers and customers.

Um.....

Adds?
If you really are a consultant and not just a skilled worker with enough pull to negotiate your own terms, B should not apply, you'll be doing something unique that is not normally part of their business. Also, A would not apply because the manager should not have the expertise to actually directly manage you and instead should be setting objectives out in a statement of work.
The role that time and money play is huge in every aspect in society. It becomes even more evident when you become a parent. Good positive article.
That's about how much it costs (after insurance) to give birth in a private hospital in Australia as well. This is in a country that has universal healthcare. The largest costs are the often the hospital fees.
I still don't get it. What p-value observations would not be "reasonable" here? It seems to me he's saying that anything between 0 and 1 is completely reasonable, which is a completely pointless statement as I see it.
That's not even a bayesian point of view, even in a frequentist setting the p-value is a conditional probability, conditioned on the dataset.
You can still form an LLC and hire yourself as a w-2 employee.
It's expensive to pay nearly double for a phone just because they have physical stores where you've gotten phones that you've destroyed replaced for free.

It's expensive to pay nearly double for a phone because you feel you need classes to learn how to use it.

I'm saying it is perfectly fine if you want to spend more money for the Apple experience. And obviously you are fine with that, too. I prefer to use my money on other things. It's not a competition between rabid fans. It's a market for selling chunks of hardware. So yes, they are competing for our dollars. I prefer to maintain my decision-making over where those dollars go. Having special in-store luxury experiences is not why I buy a phone that takes pictures and does other things nicely, too. But it's fine if you spend that money.

Insurance is betting you're going to have something bad happen. Expensive insurance is when the ones calculating the insurance make a bunch of money off you because you pay a lot more than you get out of it. Paying a ton for a low deductible but never making a claim. If you personally don't destroy phones, paying a lot for insurance on them doesn't make sense. I never said no one else should do so, or that no one else destroys phones. Obviously you do. But still not enough to make up for the price premium.

Overall it's not a solid argument for the phone, but you have your reasons for buying it. It just does nothing to discount my reasons for saving my money and buying a different phone.
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A4 is the normal assumed standard office paper size for around 90% of the people on earth. I tend to see something printed on US Letter around once or twice a year and it's a weird novelty.
> I made a resolution in September of 2018 that I would quit social media indefinitely.

I had my phone die years back on my way to a social event after a combination of a facebook app bug that sapped battery and leaving my charger in other vehicle. I was so aggravated with the app that I deleted it. Never installed it again. Think this was 2016/17? After a few weeks I also deleted my instagram. Then again, I wasn't into the social media thing so I only had those two accounts and didn't post much. Never had or saw a need for twitter or whatsapp. Deleted instagram and facebook account was slimmed down to just a few pictures and I keep in touch with some family through it. I maybe visit facebook via web once or twice a month.

We've painted ourselves into a social anxiety corner as we removed the actual social aspect and replaced it with a poorly designed html implementation. You want to be social and have friends? Then call and hang out with people without feeling the need to post about it or sit in front of someone scrolling and endless sea of nothing.
Ask HN: Do you have problems with Bluetooth on Linux?
I'm using bluetoothctl to connect to my Bluetooth devices and often I can't even pair with devices from first attempt.
It becomes even worse when I want to pair my headset with PC, so in that case some pulseaudio mangling required to setup correct profile (e.g. A2DP).
> On the other hand you can have 100s of smaller games on a few GB…

You need really small games, Monument Valley or King of Dragon Path are not especially big games but they're both well above 200MB.

Though you can certainly fit games in way less (Shaun Inman's Horror Vacui and Last Rocket are 1.xMB, Passage is 110K) the data-light games are few and far between.
> Also, to get technical for a moment, the p-value is not the “probability of happening by chance.” But we can just chalk that up to a casual writing style.

Isn't it though? The probability of this large (or larger) of a variance happening purely by chance[1]?

This article is highly critical, but the criticism goes over my head at least.

[1] assuming a normally distributed population
This only means one thing: the system is not as decentralized as it is announced.
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In recent local elections AfD more than doubled their previous results and is the second biggest Party in every of those local parliaments.
> "USA needs to find a way to forbid the bad side-effects of trusts, while keeping their domination outside the US."

One way to accomplish that might be stronger regulation. Companies can stay big, but both US and foreign companies have to follow the regulation.

This needs a more practical example, of course. In the EU, banks are required to allow customers to use other apps to manage their banking. This requires banks to implement standards for access and interoperability. Imagine if Facebook would be required to let you access your Facebook contacts and their posts through a different app, that would give you more control over your stream (not to mention the ads!). Any maybe also to allow Facebook users to follow users on other social networks. This would instantly turn Facebook into a more Fediverse/Federation-style social network.
Have Twitter stated that this is how the hack was accomplished? When I first read that SMS was used I assumed someone had just spoofed the phone number. My assumption was that the Twitter account has a verified phone number and that any SMS sent to the SMS->Tweet service would be published as long as the senderid was the same as the account phone number. That there was need to begin the SMS with a secret code/password to authenticate each SMS. And that is why the shut down the whole service because anyone can just spoof the senderid in a SMS.
MIT CSAIL alum here, the Media lab wasn't exactly a bastion of fundamental, more known for whizz-bang demos and media interviews etc. I remember reading somewhere they were "all icing no cake" or the "MIT marketing agency".

I hope this crisis refocuses it on breakthrough research,where its talent and resources could be very well spent.
> It means that if the null hypothesis were true, you expect your p-values to be a random variable contained inside a nice bell shaped normal. 0.005 is dead center so it's very likely but O.2 which seems very unprobable is actually only 1std further, it's well inside the bell curve.

I'm completely lost here. How is 0.005 "dead center"? Are you assuming p = 0 is the center? Are there negative p-values I'm not seeing that somehow balance the positive ones?

How can a random variable that's strictly between 0 and 1 even follow a bell curve?
I don't see quite as many ruby jobs today but they're still out there.

Ruby has been very focused on increasing performance the past few years. A few major teams ran away from Rails because it's really easy to build functional things in Rails that won't scale, which gets attributed back to Ruby performance. I think that was enough to scare people away from using ruby at all

GitHub and Shopify both use Rails, among many others.
> Improvement in camera could be enticing, but the platforms to which the photos, videos are shared would compress them anyways

Strongly agree, and the reason for that is that is that level of quality is good enough for the 99.99% use case of photography and anything above is simply a waste of storage space.

If you are actually a professional artist, it matters. If you're doing computer vision, it matters. For the other 99.99% of photos, it doesn't matter.

What Apple is selling at this point is just the aspiration that you're in the special 0.01%, or could be.
You need to adjust your irony detector.
> Most first-tier journals in the social sciences have an acceptance rate of about 5%.

Assuming the null hypothesis, that is precisely our expectation of finding something significant under the p < .05 rule. (That is, assuming that all papers try to falsely reject a true null hypothesis, then we expect 5% of the papers to be successful at that and get published.)
Curious why this particular tweet was submitted. That is probably the lowest bill I have ever seen for childbirth. My first son’s C-section birth was $25k.
Except those are all application-specific and if you're the one writing the application, rendering different languages differently still seems to require messing around with fonts. (Or embedding an HTML renderer that does the messing for you.) I'm not sure whether there's any solution for OS-level strings that don't support changing the font (e.g. window titles, application names) beyond requiring the user to pick one language for their system and ignore all others.
I have insurance and it cost me close to $3k for my last kid. In the US
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What has been your experience?
This is intended for game loops but it is a nice timer that targets iterations per second (FPS) using requestAnimationFrame. This is my preferred solution when I cannot just read the system clock on a recursive setTimeout.

http://pixijs.download/next/docs/PIXI.Ticker.html
Bonus points if you go on to click on the footer, the infinite scroll kicks in, and your mouse cursor ends up on a link in the newly loaded text, which you end up clicking on. (Or video content, or whatever ends up doing something because you clicked)
Incorrect, that's how much it typically costs to give birth in a private hospital BEFORE any private insurance is applied.

If you go through the public hospital system (aka universal healthcare) the cost is negligible. Around 70% of people choose the public option.
> "Uber is not Taxi. OP point is still correct. Taxi companies are coming back but Uber drivers get fired"

They can't be "fired", since they were never properly hired in the first place! They were never regarded as employees. That's exactly what this legislation is setting out to change!
If that means people driving for Uber/Lyft can now have a decent standard of living I'm all for it.
Well, UC Browser for Android has ~17% market share in India.
Note: that’s not what she owes, that’s just the ‘cost’. Interestingly she cropped that part out of the bill.
So, the article is basically saying that everything except Bitcoin is bullshit. I agree.
Urban Dictionary is one of my most-used reference works. As a non-native speaker I wouldn't ever come naturally across all those acronyms and terms people use on the Internet.
Well, if there is no effect (the effect-size is zero), two different experimenters will likely see two different p-values regardless of how large an experiment either of them runs.
I just read this the other day about caring for elderly abusive parents and found it refreshing:

https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/02/abusive-parents-wha...
That doesn't match my experience. We have private insurance while on 457 and the only out of pocket expenses were the genetic extra test for autism and sex of the child and me staying couple nights in the hospital with my wife. About 750 in total. Everything else, pregnancy handling, hospital, midwives, cesarean, anesthetics were covered by the insurance company totaling around 20 000 AUD.
Did you have to pay it yourself?
Loose is relative. I suspect a 2mm tolerance in office paper wasn't considered loose in 1921.
> The problem is that people keep voting for politicians who abuse that power and use it in ways that it was never meant for.

In a democracy, determining what a certain law was "intended for" by all of the various parties who supported its passage is a bit of a false question. When bills are complicated, it's because they serve many masters. So who's intention is the actual intention behind the bill? I think of laws like software for running people. And users always end up using your software on ways you don't expect.

Also, if the governing people/party is really intent on abusing power, voting is probably not going to stop it.
This is one of the places where Apple could test new Battery Tech.

People seems to value things very differently, so for iPhone, they valued it as a Phone, when it is more like a Pocket Computer with very decent Camera. But they still see it as a Phone, so $1099 is expensive.

When it comes to Watches, we are used to seeing Super expensive watches, I don't ever see people ( General Public, not tech nerds ) comparing Apple Watch with what ever Digital Watches, like Gear Watch. And for this reason Apple Watch is affordable to many.

And I see it is very much possible for Apple to bump the price and include Solid Battery or some other form of Breakthrough Battery technology along with Super fast Charging.

I wouldn't mind spending $1099 if it had 3x Battery Capacity and Super Fast Charging.
This has moved on quite a bit from the proposition that emoticons and tags are necessary.

Just because written language can be argued over, that does not make spoken and written communication equivalent in that regard.

Writing does far more than just time-shifting. Handling complexity is one important benefit. Disseminating information accurately is another.

Debating is not prominent partly because it is not efficient (even in law, the amount of verbal debate is dwarfed by the amount of written communication, which is necessary in its own right as well as necessary to support what verbal debate does happen.)

The modern world is inconceivable without near-universal literacy, and it seems very odd to have to defend that point on HN.
Comparison of OpenJDK 12 garbage collectors for a Java network driver
What Is DevOps? Complete Guide
Among the other criticisms, Ruby hasn't been hip for a while. Bootcamps started offering nodejs, meetups are more diverse, fewer conference topics on Ruby. One major local conference had such low attendence last year they were going to cancel it this year.

It's a very low quality post.
You seem to imagine what you want to see. Drivers choose whether to work, when to work, where to work, whether to accept jobs, whether to complete a job or cancel it, whether to take the route suggested or not, whether to take jobs from other gig companies at the same time, whether to run personal errands in between, whether to take breaks, whether to heed feedback given by their own customers, whether to be in areas where demand will be high and jobs are likely, whether to be influenced by incentives or other payments dictated by market conditions, etc. What is the interference?

Au contraire, it is the various governments over the years that have re-regulated drivers (cannot drive in certain areas at certain times, must display decal, must carry license, must pay ransom fees, cannot stop in places, etc.) in ways that have taken away their control over work. We're headed back to capped and regulated taxis, unfortunately. New York City already has a black market trading TNC plates, just like medallions, and prices are back to taxi levels. Hope you like that.
Looks like a Grafana dashboard :)
$4.3M? That doesn't buy power. That buys a consultation.
So by this logic "it is completely consistent with the null hypothesis to see p-values of 0.00000001 and 0.99999999 from two replications of the same damn experiment"?

At which point, what is even the point of this statement?
I remember the FB consent process that was worded in a very specific way to create fear within the user when no consent is given. That was not cool.
No, some of the infrastructure is of course useful in itself (although a good chunk is wasted, like this lovely report explains: https://www.eca.europa.eu/Lists/ECADocuments/SR14_21/QJAB140... ), but the prominent signs and flags proclaiming that said infrastructure was funded by the EU is certainly marketing.
Yeah, but most of Western Europe also has a pro-EU majority at the moment. You may just call it marketing, but stuff like Schengen, free trade, cultural exchange programs, funding for underdeveloped regions, and yes, EU roaming, are very popular. Of course, you can call each and every political achievement "just marketing", but then the term becomes meaningless and just demonstrates bias.
Which effectively reduces it back to 1-factor authentication. There's an adage somewhere that is probably worded better but which boils down to your security is only as good as your weakest link.
There's nothing in that article that we didn't already know. It seems like this is only getting attention now because someone wrote a book.

Is there some new revelation in this book that makes it worth reading?
...in 2019, yes. This all happened a long time ago when you got a LOT more bang for your lobby buck.
Yup. Authy does a good job of this if you need to reset your access. They (automatically) harass the shit out of you for 24h before doing it. I think I got 10+ calls/texts plus emails.