skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For almost a year, I have worked for a forward-thinking doctor who started funding the development of an app after he realized that many of his patients receiving chronic care management by phone could be better served. He also realized he could sell it as a turnkey service for other doctors without any remote care solutions of their own. So the advent of the pandemic saw a brief layoff period of two weeks, then a hiring spree that has remained more or less constant since then. The problem, however, is that the doctor tries to run this app company on his own - and he's still a doctor all day, too. So organizationally we're a wreck. We have no formal onboarding process, no formal training process, no clear rules on handling patients, and from what I can tell there are still no clear plans to develop any of those. So we've grown the number of clinics, doctors, and patients we serve, plus we've developed a glitchy but very useful app. But I think we'll be out of business within a year unless someone experienced in tech development can convince the doctor he has no idea what he's doing.
Yes, this is a problem that a heavily regulated free market actually solved pretty well.

I go to my local grocery store and look at the painkillers they have. There are generic aspirin and Tylenol available for a price almost anyone can afford. There are branded versions which are still reasonably priced. There are reasonable variations such as with caffeine or with decongestant, again priced perfectly fairly. If you want to pay $2 extra for awesome marketing you can.
In some stores you might find a 'natural' remedy - essentially a placebo, again priced ok.

Everything on sale is basically safe. Nothing has a business model that relies on addiction. Nothing costs hundreds of dollars. Nothing is adulterated or counterfeit. It's easy to get information about everything available.
The vast majority people would be able to choose something to match their own needs (for example, they might be allergic to aspirin, or need to avoid Tylenol because of a kidney condition).

If you bought the worst painkiller on sale in the store, it would be fairly effective and not too expensive. The experience in most stores in large parts of the world would be very similar.
What is the alternative...?
They both provide important services...
The throughput in banks is orders of magnitudes greater than for Bitcoin. Transactions are carried out instantly and processed at least once daily in huge and super fast batches.

You could add a layer for fast transactions to BTC but IIRC it can't handle processing nearly enough of them into the blockchain per day.
User configurable would be best. 10 seconds seems excessive for most sites. If their app requires a longer timeout, I doubt they are in the majority. Even so, 10 seconds to complete a request would indicate a problem that I would want to be made aware of.
You mean if you use CGNAT, which is not that common (thank god). And IPv6 does not precisely make it harder...

And I'm curious about how infrequent that is, considering that to use sealed sender you actually have to login 'frequently' to their server (to update the keys you use), and I couldn't see how much frequent that is (or even whether it is a server-initiated which would defeat the purpose).

It would need to be a month or so to have a reasonable benefit. But I don't see why that's not doable.
Signal itself also has a long dedicated documentation page to help users prevent their phone from throttling it: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007318711-Tr...

I presume these manufacturers allowlist WhatsApp by default. Hopefully Signal getting more popular will help it in that department.
But then in the present day, there is Apple Music so now they are certainly competing (and have already settled with Apple records).
Yep, and Kotlin is just getting whole the Scala refugees.
Workers owning the means of production.
This philosophy is exactly what I had with PC Tools and XTree Gold.
The utilities which made computers interesting for me.

Having the ability to ruin my OS (all three floppy disks of it) made learning easier. Being protected from root level commands doesn't suit me on my personal machines.
"Mistakes are proof you're trying".

How can you ever learn any responsibility without any power, great or otherwise?
I should imagine an experience outdoors person like her would be able to choose appropriate footwear! Boots are heavy and don't protect you from blisters either.
i am interested in mailinabox. i think next month i am going to take the plunge but i need a webmail. my question, how much of a vps server do you need to set one up? 1Gb ram for miab+roundcube?
any better foss webmail like roundcube or squirrelmail?
also, have you looked into oracle always free ? would that work?
Interesting. I'm just wondering why the color green has not been discussed in more detail in this text.
Well, view could speed up code, but it also had some overhead, so creating lots of views came with a cost that would sometimes outweigh the benefit.

But, yeah, version info would be interesting.
The definition for /pyramid scheme/ is straightforward, and Bitcoin does not match it.
We switched from Cassandra (Java) to Scylla (C++) and saw immediate improvements in both query latency and machine count.
Correctly designed stepper based systems use encoders or other feedback mechanisms to detect missed steps and correct for them. Open loop systems will always miss steps, and most hobbyist aimed gear is open loop because it is super cheap.

FWIW I designed and built CNC equipment for a living.

As for the Tormach machines, they use 3 phase, not 2 phase steppers, and use current sensing on the stepper outputs to give them a feedback mechanism, and an encoder to close the loop completely these drivers and stepper motors are better than the ordinary two phase kind that you find in regular hobbyist aimed gear.

https://www.damencnc.com/en/nema-34-closed-loop-stepper-syst...

They are properly classed as a hybrid servo system rather than just a stepper on account of that feedback mechanism.
Sorry for rushing this a bit, but got home yet?
Not without representation.
My thoughts exactly, prepare for the end times as they have been foretold since the dawn of time.
I remember this showing up in the SO sidebar a long time ago (what a time-suck that thing is). At the time, I remember thinking that some of these people must be trolling - and I still do.

For example, the people arguing that the wheels have already touched down. It seems abundantly obvious to me that the wheels have NOT touched down, and that the small strip of black asphalt running parallel to the wheels is a taxi-way in the background which has lots of small aircraft sitting on it. I get the uneasy feeling that anybody that sees it any differently is just trying to gaslight me. But, then, that was also the feeling I got about the blue dress, and that turned out to be all too genuine... People genuinely saw it differently, they weren't trolling.

To me, the lack of heat blur behind the engines seems to be reasonably conclusive evidence that it's landing... But who knows.
I can fully relate to this experience. I think it's no coincidence that the businesses which are the most useful for society are the poorest. Their target customers have no money. Value producers tend to be honest people. They believe that they have to work to get money. That's why they can't get any. Those who have direct access to the money printers know this better than anyone. You need to be a fraudster to make money in this economy. I learned this the hard way working in open source. Now I work in finance. If you can't beat them, join them... Help accelerate the financial collapse.

Education, medicine, software which lets people work more efficiently and save time; they're a waste of time financially. The fiat monetary system wants more bureaucracy, more jobs, more surveillance, more manipulation, less efficiency, less free time for everyone.

Most people who made money in this scam system are fraudsters, attention hoarders, legitimised money launderers, risk externalizers...
Nitpicking but this is a common misconception:

> An changes to the fee have to be agreed upon by both chambers, Bundestag and Bundesrat.

The federal government, and thus Bundestag and Bundesrat, have no say in the funding or operation of Germany's public broadcasters. The exception being Deutsche Welle which is not available in Germany and has an "external" audience.

The funding on operation of public broadcasters is instead determined by a compact between the 16 states.
The feedback is done with optical sensors called 'encoders' on the servo axle.
Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25807114
Keep a copy of .htoprc with your ssh keys.
I have a skeleton /home on my keyring for using various machines with ease.
PM Imran Khan to meet with Tesla executives to discuss launching EVs in Pakistan
Apple GUI frameworks enable them to rely heavily on the GPU, and the smooth and slick GUI are definitely a big part of their value proposition. While I agree that the business logic of most apps aren't using the GPU for compute, I think most app will have a rendering side where it is important.
The person who designs the firmware of the charger has full control over the harmonics it produces.

They aren't a tricky engineering problem to solve - but nobody is too worried about solving them right now because the people who maintain the grid and who have to deal with harmonic losses aren't the same people as those who design the charger.
There are a lot of right-wing governments in the world. I can't see the argument for them letting the SV tech companies enter their markets unmolested. If Trump can be banned, why not Erdogan? I imagine it is on the cards sooner or later.

At some point that and the access it gives US intelligence agencies to the population has to become a national security issue. China's policy of locking US companies out of the Chinese market looks prudent in hindsight.
I still have a running specimen of N9 in my drawer. They killed own future when they stopped Meego development.
Big +1 on fastmail.

However, the big upside is that I have my own domain now, so if I need to migrate to something else (be it self-hosted or another provider) I can easily do so without losing all my contacts.
That's good to know - I was extrapolating from some 1000amp cables I had to work with, and those were already too big and heavy to move once you had any length of it at all.

>>Some RC car batteries are "60C" indicating they can do a full discharge in 1 minute.

I mean, plenty of batteries can discharge that quickly, but that isn't synonymous with them being able to charge that fast, no? I can think of several examples of batteries, both Ni-Cd as well as Lithium which can be safely discharged fully at very rapid speeds, but you can't(shouldn't?) charge them that quickly.
I expected it to be about Cthulhu.
Don’t forget radio content as well. Radio 4 on bbc iPlayer often has some great shows like the unbelievable truth, just a minute, among others
Eric Weinstein discussed this overall topic on The Realignment Ep. 70: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbSLMtZi2dc

Specifically around the 33 minutes mark.
Color or Fruit? On the Unlikely Etymology of “Orange” (2018)
> You cannot see a virus and you cannot prove one way or the other where you acquired the viral load necessary to come down with an infection.

Based on years of research, I think we can safely conclude that it’s generally not while walking outside by yourself.
Previous discussion (2017): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13405121.
I 'google' stuff on DuckDuckGo about that many times a day maybe, yeah. Have done for years, it wasn't an issue when I switched and it isn't an issue now.
I was hoping this would be about the centralization of the power to govern in the federal government and the need to transfer much power back to the states.
I would use DDG if they added a "!g" button at the bottom of their first results page.
I use Bootstrap (simple and easy to use).
I created Frontendor UI for Bootstrap to boost my productivity.

website: https://frontendor.com/preview
I didn't mean to imply Bitcoin shouldn't be criticized. But saying Bitcoin simply wastes energy by applying a "proof of work" scheme is totally naive. It's not easy to replace and the advantages and risks of "proof of stake" are not clear, yet, I belive.

BTW: For others who have never heard of "proof of stake" and "proof of work" ...

"Proof of work" requires miners to solve a cryptographic puzzle taking the giant share of all computing time required to validate a block of transactions. This is to assure nobody gains complete control over the blockchain and, hence, keep it being a decentralized effort. On the other hand, by providing a miner fee and a reward (currently about 6 BTC) the system creates incentive for miners to keep on validating Bitcoin transactions despite the costs. It's a careful balance and probably the most difficult aspect of the Bitcoin system to grasp.

"Proof of stake" means the miner with the highest monetary stake receives the largest share of the mining fees. In this scheme a miner needs to deposit quite a lot of money to be allowed to compete in the creation of the next transaction block. So it's not computing power enabling a successful miner but his or hers prior investment in the crypto currency. I think you understand now, why such a scheme would have been impossible to implement in Bitcoin 12 years ago.

Ethereum is preparing to switch over to "proof of stake" at the same time as they're preparing to run multiple block chains at the same time. Ethereum 2.0 hopes to save a lot of cost in maintaining its block chain and at the same time to boost its transaction turn over significantly. But it's also a risky undertaking. Keep that in mind if you plan to invest in Ethereum.
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I’m excited for a future where one could take a Tesla on a tour of the Karakoram Highway. I’m also wondering how well a Tesla handles driving through water in a city like Karachi, where it can flood pretty bad.
> the basic usability of all chatting apps I saw is basically the same.

Are you sure? Something tells me if I have to be called to show how one needs to use Signal if it was just as easy to use as WhatsApp, then something is wrong there; usability-wise.

For example, chat backups in Signal is less usable than WhatsApp. All chats are lost once a user changes their device, phone number, factory resets or loses their phone.

As some pointed out, the extra PIN requirement is a trade off that favours security over usability, so there's the risk of putting people off from using Signal and it can't be turned off or avoided.

> When the hype around Signal dies down, and people are trying to get all their friends to migrate from WhatsApp to Signal, it’ll be the UX that makes all the difference.

Absolutely put. Small things like this make the difference between why someone will stay on Signal forever or for 1 month and it's back to WhatsApp for them.
I don't understand your last sentence. Is electricity free only for those who collect social welfare?
It's partial to the status quo.
> is it that difficult?

That sweet paycheck tho.
My understanding of the 3U cubesats that these are intended to be used on was that they weren't much bigger than a 2 litre bottle. Am I way off in my understanding, or do these just use most of the available volume?
Google is so much involved in our life, it is very difficult to just leave google but you can still minimize their activity tracking. This is what I am following from a long time:

1. Already deleted FB and Instagram account. When I came to know different sites also sends your activity data to FB. Deleting Whatsapp is in process and thanks to FB for opening about the privacy policy now many are moving to different channel.

2. Not using Chrome browser. Using Brave/Edge which are using the same chromium engines and are very Fast. Also I use Firefox for its container tabs feature. Personal stuff in Firefox tabs and rest on Brave.

3. I am using VPN, browser extension are also available, I keep my gmail account in a separate browser container tabs.

4. Tried DuckDuckGo for sometime but results are not good as Google, so I am using google search in separate tab where my account is not logged in.

5. Same with youtube, opening in different tab and without logging in.

6. Turned off timeline history in google maps.

7. Stopped using Google Home.

8. Planning to move from Android to _____ whichever is much safer. This is where I think doing all above won't make any sense as long as I am using Android. Believe I am using my phone in a restricted mode. :d

After doing all this, I still think they can track my activity. Haha... But I am trying to make it little difficult to connect the dots.

P.S: I do like Google as a developers company.
> Yes, read the transcript. Don't watch the video which clearly shows the true anger and sentiment behind the speech.

I suggested watching the video as a primary option with reading the transcript as the fallback.

> It's not what you say, it's how you say it.

No it’s what you say. Because how you say it is so open to interpretation that anything could be construed as anything.

Twitter’s final ban of Trump’s account said that him suggesting he’s not attending the inauguration was an invitation for violence. That’s ridiculous.

> "Hey guys, there's a fire", said in a dull sarcastic tone is not the same as screaming it at the top of your lungs with a frightened look on your face.

You’re describing how the majority of the media covers anything about Trump. Just because they’re screaming and jumping up and down does not mean they’re correct.

> But yes, encourage people to read the transcript and not watch the video with their own eyes.

Again, your Trump rage is literally blinding you from seeing that I suggested people watch the video.
This is impressive but also requires a lot of power to train.

If this trend continues ML will soon surpass bitcoin as the worst polluter.
After all that happened, Now it makes sense for a country to have a grasp over the communication of its citizens.

That’s said, the primary use is expected to be control of journalism on Youtube.

After Erdogan took over almost all of the media, many of the fired journalists started Youtube channels and got more popular than the media Erdogan has a hold on.

He now wants to impose the same controls that he has over TV channels. The body responsible is called RTUK and recently got regulatory powers over internet broadcasting too. It infamously fines TV channels that are not friendly enough to Erdogan at the smallest mistake and turning blind eye on pro-Erdogan channels. This is because, the fines need to go through the committee in which Erdogan holds the majority.

To what extent you might ask? Well, there’s a talk show host on the TV who got destroyed for having a guest who said “let’s save the kids” when talking about governments dealings with the Kurds and there’s a TV channel who got a slap on the wrist after a public outcry for hosting commentators asking people to keep arms at home and identify potential targets among their neighbours who might be Erdogan’s political rivals.

The double standards are off the charts. Youtube is probably becoming Erdogan’s double standards enforcer.Everything is going to be legal, of course.

If youtube doesn’t behave, more fines will come. The government would usually turn a blind eye to some practices in the industry and will slap fines to those who are not in line. Turkey has strong as GDPR personal information protection laws, probably a land mine field for ad-agencies and that’s how they will get their fines I would guess.
I expect that will be slowly expanded; the BBC's new Director-General wants to increase commercial revenue (and immediately before being appointed as DG he was the CEO of BBC Studios, the BBC's commercial subsidiary).
I can't find Signal in F-Droid. Telegram is available though.
The Intelligence Committee of a Republican-led Senate confirmed the Russian interference and managed to write a 996 page report with all the evidence.

The failure I see is Americans not wanting to read (or skim) the reports but being satisfied with sound-bites.

Source: https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/docu...
I've been here for almost 15 years and this is not some normal blip. It's true that the 2016 comment threads (the only corollary to this that I have seen) sucked, but they were not dominated by the toxic as this one is. It is not true that a third of the population is partaking in apologetics for violence. But it is true that more than half the community here appears to be. Thanks for your reply, though.
The documentation for package app kind of says it all:

https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/a...

This is atrocious stuff.
From experience, evidence-based conversations here are limited when it comes to politics unfortunately.
We tried to use Tensorflow's native C++ library to run some predictive model in real time on CPU-only. The performance sucked, even though the model was not particularly complex.

My advice would be to only use Tensorflow with the python wrappers. It's just too complex.
Is this 91 page slide show easy to use?

From the first 4-5 slides it has so much pointless fluff that I bet the content is like 3 slides worth.

Guess I'll never know who wins Signal vs Whatsapp...