skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think the reason why centralization is a danger to democracy, is because of lobbying.

Also to add, centralized political systems cannot be truly "democratic". The middle ages were far more democratic than our modern enlightened times. Canadian historian Francis Dupuis-Déri writing in the book "Démocratie: Histoire politique d’un mot aux États-Unis et en France":

"During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, thousands of villages had an organized assembly where communal decisions were made. The 'community of inhabitants', which even had legal status, functioned for centuries by a process of self-management. Kings and nobles were content to manage affairs related to wars or their own private property, to administer justice, and to now and then mobilize their subjects for common chores. The hierarchical or aristocratic authorities did not interfere in the affairs of the community, which met to deliberate on political communal, financial, judicial and parochial issues. They discussed the sharing of the harvest and sale of the surplus, the cutting of wood on communal land, the repair of bridges, wells and mills, and the hiring of instructors, shepherds, watchmakers, forest guards, sometimes even parish priests, and guards when brigands, wolves or epidemics were rampant. They designated those who would serve in the militia, debated the obligation of lodging the royal court should it visit, or the utility of sending a notable to submit to the court of grievances in the nature of community."
On top of that, the CPU can literally elide movs at runtime so the whole swap could end up being zero latency depending on the code motion
Inductive chargers are ~80% efficient, compared to cables which are well over 99% efficient. Even though super efficient and despite electrical conductors being good heat conductors, the cable still needs active cooling to dump waste heat. Your inductive charger and the attached vehicle are going to have dump tens of kWh of heat in a few minutes, and will have to do it through air, without barbecuing the humans inside.
If something (not Bitcoin, but just speaking generally) is a scam, the quality of self-sustainment wouldn't make it any less of a scam. The idea that being able to sustain a scam somehow legitimizes it, is essentially how Bernie Madoff justified his actions.

“Everybody thinks the worst of me. The only thing I’m happy about is I was able to help people recover … There’s nothing for me to change from. It’s not like I ever considered myself a bad person.”

https://www.politico.com/story/2014/03/bernie-madoff-intervi...

"The facts were that the majority of my individual clients were net winners."

https://www.cnbc.com/2015/04/07/in-new-emails-madoff-says-fr...
Or maybe a middle that's not dominated by dogma or ideologies. There's many pieces of truth located pretty far from the center of various political ideologies, but the ideologies taken as a whole also contain a stunning amount of falsehood and simplification.
>any person who tests positive will be counted as a positive test only once, no matter how many times they test positive. But a person who tests negative will be counted over and over again each time they test negative for the coronavirus.

Which is a reasonable assertion about "the data".

This is where the point about her not being a data scientist comes into play, and needs to be cleared before going into anything else, such as her personal life/drama. She, like many others, including those in this comments section, are running afoul when it comes to familiarity with the subject matter of the data.

You get counted as a positive case "only once", because (early on in theory) you only get the disease once. Whether that's true or not is beyond her paygrade, to say the least.
In the end, many revolutionary developments come down to us realizing the simplicity of things. Quantum mechanics is complicated. Eating well is simple. One just has to "get it".

It's like with shoes. If you buy cheap shoes, you end up paying more for shoes overall because they break much faster and you have to buy yet another pair. If you eat bad because it's cheaper/more convenient/whatever, you end up paying more for that decision than if you had made the right decision in the first place.

Repeating the mantra of "it's not that simple" is literally a self-actualizing curse. By thinking so, you make it so in your mind, which causes you not to act. My philosophy is that things really are simple.

Yesterday I ate nothing but ice cream. I wanted it, I bought it, I ate it. And it was stupid. There's some back and forth between competing desires, but eventually you will settle on the correct course of action. Every single substance and habit, no matter how addictive, I've started and also stopped. The key is literally just willpower. And maybe a bit of math. You have to count the goods and the bads to arrive at a conclusion. Ice cream tastes less good than it makes me feel ill for overconsumption therefore DON'T BUY ICE CREAM. Problem solved. If you then desire ice cream again, remember not how good it tastes but how ill it made you afterwards. What is it anyway? Cream and sugar. Sugar is a drug, so focusing on the cream it's probably an indication that my diet is lacking in fat. Eat more fat. What contains fat? Nuts, for example. Next time you desire ice cream, eat nuts. Problem solved.
WhatsApp pushing back date on accepting T&C
There also is a distribution and vaccination system already in place, it's just that for some reason the government wants to reinvent one from scratch.
Not even full markdown, just bold, italic and strike through. I just had a friend move to Signal and that's exactly what he complained about too.

The kicker is that Signal does support that stuff if you paste them, and shows it properly, it just doesn't have buttons to let you use the styles when writing.
What are "Teams tabs"? Are you using some kind of browser based version of Teams?
Even in a old OOO core because of register renaming and friends the swap could have a latency of zero in the first place.
Thats not entirely true. You can't build car, paved roads, load capacity in one go, you got to make the first horse cart without the horse.. and many would object saying horse is literally free, why should i pay for fuel. where would i refuel wheres the horse can feed itself. horse can drive itself if necessary etc..

There is no single formula for success. Sometimes you are too early and you fail. Snake oil startups are getting billion dollar valuations while a legitimate idea may be rotting in another corner of the world. It's a combination of lot of things. Sometimes I feel many of the yc companies are successful not because people are jumping to buy the license, but because they have a network effect and are vetted by a community and perceive it as the better option while it may not be such. Connections, Money, Advices, Talent, Idea, Marketing, Sales, Management - every single thing is part of the puzzle.

Somtimes you are lucky to get the market fit right of the bat, but many times you have to try hard and struggle a lot before you even have a chance to have a glimpse of market fit. In the case of the author of the blog, if he had build a hype around his product like this is the next biggest thing and got a network effect going (your peer doctors are using it) it may have turned out way different. He wouldn't need to charge it initially or have a free plan that is good enough to get them hooked etc. Don't know there are thousands of variations possible. He simply stopped too early IMO.
A native app for windows and linux would be nice, but the electron app that is currently used doesn't have any major flaws except the usual electron memory and performance problems.

It does perform a lot of disk IO on startup so if you store it on a rust platter it can take a _long_ time to start though.
I have a freesat box for the sole purpose of "Dave" which in the evening mostly broadcasts things like Taskmaster and re-runs of HIGNFY, Mock the Week and various other very British shows (best marketing ever for that channel was to do this so consistently that it's now a standing joke on several panel shows that it will be seen forever on Dave).

It's nice to just put on if I want something funny in the background while doing something else without the annoyance of being interrupted by things stopping and having to pick.
What about using very high voltage like 100kV? All the heavy parts could be in the vehicle and the charging station.

I did find this using 13 kV: https://www.energytrend.com/news/20180904-12449.html
In such discussion it's always useful to get back to basics regarding what engineering is and what engineers do:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineer

I don't see any reason not to apply the term to software. But on the other hand being a software developer is not necessarily the same as being an engineer.
It's good that we've converged on a standard approach for the core stuff - it's the associated functionality that's important and varies quite a lot.

Contact discovery and adding - Signal has gone with the WhatsApp approach here. There are downsides like needing a phone number but it makes it very easy and means that they can do things like sending you notifications when one of your pre-existing contacts joins Signal.

Backups - this is my main sore point with Signal, in terms of recommending it to my friends. Unless they're conscientious or put in extra work they're going to lose all their message history when they get a new phone. You need to do manual backup and restore to transfer messages, and if your phone is lost/stolen then you're screwed.
I've set up sync but it's quite a lot of work for what (e.g.) WhatsApp does for free.
I agree with this sentiment considerably. The BBC seems to get equal bashing from both sides of the political spectrum. I think therefore it's likely it's doing quite well in terms of impartiality.
For a 100kWh battery, you're taking 6MW of power to charge the battery to full in a minute. 6MW is a small nuclear reactor or a medium sized hydroelectric dam. I cannot imagine a charging station wired for that kind of power being drawn when charging, nor can I imagine a connector that would safely carry this power. It can be done "safely" in the million volt range, but you're not going to charge a battery(typically 400-800V) with that. Just for a "fun" calculation, 6MW at 800V is 7500 amps - the cable for it would be bigger and heavier than the car, if it's even possible at all. And then finally, I can't believe there really exists a battery that just wouldn't boil at those rates, nor that we could effectively cool it.
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Tong is good, most appropriate if you already know a little about the subject. However, it is a "fast-track" kind of resource, it is good to read some standard textbooks on the subject, i.e. Landau & Lifshitz (the most efficient book on theoretical mechanics ever) and Goldstein (broad and interesting).
Please don't shoot the messenger. Many stupid posts earlier doesn't mean this one is also. You know he is salty? Any evidence? "some rambling ?" who decides? "Entitlement is strong" or your need to judge is stronger? "privacy arguments are BS" again where is reasoning?
By similarly frozen microbes from other asteroids of course.
> Yes, 10 minutes is not very fast. However, compare that to inter bank transactions and this number seems blazingly fast again

Near instant bank transfers have been available in a lot of countries for many years now. Or did you mean something else?
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Maybe you could shed some light. The landing page says No username, no password, no recovery phrase to backup. Just use your phone number.

Does that mean my wallet can be stolen via SIM swap?

Later it says In the event where your phone is lost or stolen, your private key (recovery phrase) can be safely used to recover your funds.

...which seems to contradict the "no recovery phrase" bit?
I think there's probably a lot more to be learned about business success by studying business failures. There's certainly a load more source material.
The book "Naples 44" has some fascinating details on the Allied occupation of Naples immediately after its liberation, when the shortage of food was most severe. Including the operation of survival prostitution for the food that the Allied troops had, and the efforts of the military authorities to corral this.
Parallel charging is the current answer.

https://insideevs.com/photo/5439695/mine-smart-ferry-fast-ch...
Isn't Python a poor choice of language for computationally intensive code?
> Signal nailed it with their ‘Note to self’ feature
> If you go to start a new message, and search for ‘S’…

That only happens if your name begins with "S". If your name is "Carol", you'll find it under "S".
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And also that "normal" economic activity would be heavily suppressed by the war.
> In reality convenient very slow charging is what you really want

Which can also be an obstacle of its own—something like 60% of homes in the UK only have on-street parking, making overnight charging difficult to say the least.
Everything that I've learned about foster care tells me that removing children from their surroundings is a traumatic event, and should be only a last resort. In many cases, there are a lot of things that can be done instead of just taking kids away.

If there's any research that shows I'm wrong, and that taking troubled kids away from their families is actually the best thing for their development, I'm eager to hear about it.
Excellent resource, thank you!

I think the date at the top has the wrong year (2020 / 2021)
What material will you make the insulators from? Will the insulation itself not be too heavy?
It's not good for the government to have too much direct control over state media. They executive branch should not be able to change the budget from year to year on their own, since they can "punish" state media if they don't say things the government likes. Using tax revenue would generally give the executive branch power to set or at least propose the budget.

When Norway recently moved to tax funding state media, I think they solved this by making it a completely separate dedicated tax. At least that's what was discussed, not sure about the details of the final implementation. So it can only be changed by a vote in parliament, which is more visible to the public, can take more time, and requires a majority of parties to agree on that specific change.
Ask HN: What are the unique technical challenges of a health-related mobile app?
There is a spike of new medical/health mobile apps pushing for consumerization of the healthcare system.

As an outsider in the space and a mobile app developer I am wondering what are some unique challenges that these apps face!
You should look at "Optimising battery usage" in the the application settings for Samsung. WhatsApp is likely whitelisted to prevent this behaviour, I imagine in time Signal will be as well.
Just ask the people who you see doing it.
No you can't because the definition of "streaming" is to use the data as it comes down the wire. So

CMD.BAT format disk
CMD.BAT rem format disk

If the TOC only points to the second CMD.BAT then executing the first one as you stream it is wrong.
Signal doesn't even know when you send messages, due to sealed sender. It can only know when you receive messages, but not whom they're from.
Truth will be unknown in any case, but free speech can at least expose lies as such, which can't be done in controlled propaganda.
Symbian was not it.

Meego was it.

Nokia messed up by not actually sharing it properly like the Android Alliance or whatever it was called did.

Nokia went under and Android is everywhere :-(
Talk to a doctor first. I asked my Pharmacist wife if I should do that (as I don't drink) and she said it's a grey area, talk to the doctor first.
Ask HN: How big should be timeout for checking via HTTP if site is up?
I'm working on uptime monitoring service and I naively thought that 10 seconds should be enough for checking if the site is up.

I check if site is up via 5 nodes, and each node makes 3 tries of HTTP requests with 10 secs timeout.

So,
5 nodes. 3 tries. 10 seconds timeout.

But I've just found out that it's way too small. So I'm going to change the timeout to 30 seconds.

But maybe I'm wrong again, so what would you recommend as a proper timeout?

HTTP requests are done with curl.
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It seems impossible to imagine the BBC being truly unbiased when the government occassionally likes to show it has power over the organisation by sabre-rattling over continuing to allow the TV license fee. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/09/boris-johns...

Honestly I think it has a general pro-government-of-the-day-bias - as you say, 'used to be the witty cry', indeed! Under New Labour it was still broadly speaking pro-government (generally, it's never totally uncritical, just tending towards friendliness relative to the opposition of the day), it was just a different government with different values.

But people don't notice when something stops being biased against them if they've already stopped paying attention to it because they were previously put off by their perception of its bias, so many of these older perceptions of its bias still exist. This creates the illusion that there's bias both ways, based on people's claims, and that it therefore must be 'balanced'.
Free to a point. The government has a (supposedly) reasonable ceiling for electricity consumption. I actually hit that ceiling a while back, but got the decision overturned by complaining about it. I'm running a fair bit of tech 24/7 including electric heating (given Finland winters), no bitcoins though.

I've yet to study the exact nature of the EU with regards to social support, so I don't know if you could just come here and collect welfare.
It's ironically gone from being a pretty progressive tax (only relatively well off people had TV's) to being a very regressive tax ("everyone" has TV's but you pay the same amount no matter how much you earn).

The independence argument has largely been destroyed by the government itself - the last few governments have tightened their control of the management of the BBC considerably to a point where budget control matters much less.
Windows support is actually great. You can use it without draining your phone battery and mobile data. Besides, you can make an actual audio and video call directly from the application, without touching the phone.
Digital gold is the part I feel least confident in. Gold is inherently useful. BTC maximalists retreated from transaction utility to SoV arguments.
In Indonesia, the cost is more than Rp 1.7 million (120 USD) more than 10 years ago. Also you need a very good reason to change your name (religion, etc). You can not change your name on your whim.
Yes, for headaches no one wants to read a meta-analysis, they just want to buy something quickly and feel slightly better.

On the other hand, for depression medication, they don't want their doctor to look at an online tool and choose the most effective antidepressant. They want their doctor to look at THEM and say "hmm, we'll try you on X but if it doesn't help with the intrusive thoughts we'll maybe switch it out to Y and up the dosage of Z". Or they want to tell the doctor what they think they want to be prescribed. They are paying big bucks to see a psychiatrist. Most of them are not on a self-optimization trip, they just want to feel better, and also feel like someone takes an interest in how they are getting on. Using a snazzy tool would probably lead to the patient being less satisfied with the doctor's service, even if they have slightly better outcomes by whatever questionable metric is in the study.
There are good ones, there are bad ones. But my experience so far was that "loudest in the room" was very often becoming a manager, not necessarily doing the best job before, but being loud about it. And it helps, because are all biased, and very often fall for that.
Luckily in the current company we have a pretty much flat structure and it's way better.
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> I really don't understand why I should be forced to give money to corrupt organizations like FIFA and the IOC to hold sports events that I don't watch and otherwise don't have a stake in,

State media has to broadcast some content that's actually popular, that most people want to watch, otherwise they'd soon lose political support. I hate it too, but fact is that these events are extremely popular, especially among people watching a lot of live TV. So I think it's a necessary evil unfortunately.
> "some rambling ?"

Yes the part "Why?", which should explain this motivation uses two paragraphs about unrelated stuff, like Cambridge Analytica, which was Facebook's problem not Google's.

> "Entitlement is strong"

Yes, complaining about someone not giving you something for free is entitlement. In its purest form.

> "privacy arguments are BS"

They obviously aren't. But in this context they are. Either you care about privacy or you continue to use Google products, like Google fonts. This just shows, what the author is "salty" about, which is Google charging for their products. Because he continues to use their free offerings.
There are a number of studies that point this out. This is the biggest by far:

https://sci-hub.se/10.1257/aer.97.5.1583

> As for the idea that "even a single CPS placement" is worse than being left with violent parents - I've never seen anything supporting this but if you have some I'd love to read it.

Well, reactive attachment syndrome is the expected outcome for something like 60% of placements, and 80%+ of kids that are placed more than once. These multiple replacements are not exactly rare. Apparently there is a small group where the first placement remains stable for a long time which has reasonable results, and there is a large group that keep getting placed again and again where the outcomes are terrible.

The vast majority of parents aren't violent but neglectful. And even then, our standards of neglect have moved quite a bit. These days some interventions are done because of "bad" food in lunch boxes (think: mars bars, not sandwiches).

The long term consequences of neglect and violence that isn't random are "parentification. TLDR: kids start acting like adults at a very young age, and obviously with less than ideal success. Think 7 year olds that make sure the rent is paid and their little sister sees a doctor once a year, or when she's ill. These kids will fight for their independence, for obvious reasons, at a very young age. This can, and does, lead to depression and less than ideal school results (because in that situation the kids don't consider school very important and of course caring for others takes time that can't be spent on homework or hobbies or even actually going to class when there's a crisis). The worst outcomes are observed where the kid takes total control of the home situation and the KID abuses this power. But even that is nothing compared to even mild attachment syndrome.

The worse cases of reactive attachment disorder, well, from Wikipedia: "Actions that otherwise would be classified as conduct disorder, such as mutilating animals, harming siblings or other family, or harming themselves intentionally"

And of course, it is anecdotal and probably lacks validity but if you look up mass murderers, whilst diagnosis is missing their family background is really quite common and are the sort of circumstances that you'd expect to generate RAD. Obviously, that outcome is very rare, but does exist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parentification

I would say, read both entries and judge for yourself which is the worse one. But I don't think there will be much disagreement.