skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kinda. Except that's "need for a definite date" is an expectation that they could be flexible about if forced. If other professions genuinely understood that software estimation is inaccurate by its nature and that accurate predictions of completion dates are, by their nature, impossible, then the uncertainty can be managed.

But because it seems so simple to estimate how long a piece of work will take for everyone else, it's really difficult to get other people to realise how hard this is.

I've sat in meetings saying "I don't know how long this is going to take" repeatedly until the rest of the organisation works out that they're not going to get a definitive date. Then suddenly the marketing team plans for "OK, well if it's done by this date then we'll have enough time to make this trade fair. If not then we can skip that and do the other one". They'd like to have a definite date because it makes their job easier. But if they can't have one, they can work around it.

> I also believe that a feature request is incomplete without an xestimatex delivery date attached

This is so true, as long as the devs have control over the scope. "We don't know and can't predict how long it's going to take to build the thing. If we can't build it all by the deadline, what's more important: delivering something on the deadline, or missing the deadline and delivering the entire feature set?"

To use your car haggling analogy: You've given me $5K to buy a 4-door car less than 5 years old. If I can't find one like that, what's more important: the budget, the doors or the age?
The central philosophy in capitalism is competition. The world is currently very acutely seeing the second and third order effects of such "winner takes all" philosophy, ranging from consumer-harming monopolies to environment-destroying profit-seeking. If we set socialism as an opposition to capitalism, it rises naturally to represent cooperation; The idea that everyone is entitled to a base level of creature comfort regardless of accumulated capital, and that in coming together to solve problems, rather than trying to one-up each other, problems can be solved more effectively and with less harm.
While the UX may not be as polished, you can conduct polls in Signal via the emoji reactions to messages. You could simply count the number of "thumbs up" vs. "thumbs down" reactions.
I think that is because initially, "suffering" in sport is actually rewarding. It happens around the same time endorphins flow and you feel so good after. And then you feel improvement and achievement. You have to overcome some discomfort to get better, so trainers and coaches teach that mindset too. And it pushes you further and plus, you can imagine yourself as sort of tough hero. And you can brag about it.

The issue is when it becomes addictive and it is not good suffering anymore, but rather deliberate destruction of body with long term consequences.
This isn't true.

There's two caveats: (a) it's a little unstable with no Google account but using a throwaway Google account fixes this, and (b) it doesn't get you away from Google because they still have a lot of ways to track you in Android without an account, but...

You can disable Play services and install Aurora Store from F-Droid and have a very reasonable Android experience with no Google account.

Aurora Store is a Play Store client that doesn't require a Google account, so you can get access to all the "normal" commercial apps and games that are absent on F-Droid. The developers use a central account for API access which can get rate limited and get blocked sometimes (they recommend you sign in with your own throwaway Google account to avoid this), but otherwise it's better than Play Store in many ways.

Some apps will not work without Play services but I've found that in most cases it's either a matter of:

- some annoying notification function of the app doesn't work but the rest of the app works fine

- in some rare cases, apps with a strong reliance on Play services have alternative independent builds available as apk from their own website

You can also just leave Play services enabled and simply never log into your Google account (the Aurora account login is separate, it doesn't link into the rest of the device) BUT if you do this Google will plague you with prompts to login for all eternity.
From the Wikipedia article linked below, you’re better off assuming the answer is “yes”.

The real answer is that these titles are just click bait and don’t really provide evidence one way or another.

A 2016 study of a sample of academic journals that set out to test Betteridge's Law and Hinchliffe's Rule (see below) found that few titles were posed as questions and of those, few were yes/no questions and they were more often answered "yes" in the body of the article rather than "no".[13] A 2018 study of 2,585 articles in four academic journals in the field of ecology similarly found that very few titles were posed as questions at all, with 1.82 percent being wh-questions and 2.15 percent being yes/no questions.[14] Of the yes/no questions, 44 percent were answered "yes", 34 percent "maybe", and only 22 percent were answered "no".[14] In 2015, a study of 26,000 articles from 13 news sites on the World Wide Web, conducted by a data scientist and published on his blog, found that the majority (54 percent) were yes/no questions, which divided into 20 percent "yes" answers, 17 percent "no" answers and 16 percent whose answers he could not determine (all percentages rounded by Linander).[15]
Are you also complaining about other parts of societal funding that does not benefit everyone? You could argue about so many things that might not affect you directly (schools, police, roads, …) but at the end of the day you may also profit indirectly from those as well (more educated people, fewer crimes, proper goods distribution, …).
I remember from when I was a kid the government used to broadcast commercials (in the Netherlands) about you having to pay up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPr61na7icE

You don't have to understand Dutch to understand what the doorbell and the "uhooo" at the end of the commercial means... The whole text of the commercial is a hilarious attempt at intimidation. Basically it's about how it's all fun and games until somebody gets busted.
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Intel's powertop utility is useful for finding "hot" processes as part of performance tuning on linux.
Funnily enough, the best apps that that use ai to find your celebrity look alike are making hundreds of thousands per month in subscriptions and ad revenue
Etherium 2.0's move to proof of stake will help with the ridiculous energy usage that bitcoin has, but I don't see a blockchain ever being able to handle the traffic of a major card processor like visa. Even with sharding, your latency between shards compounds to the point where the UX is degraded.

What I see value in for a blockchain is store of value (which arguably is basically a pyramid scheme), smart contracts for provable logic-based transactions, niche database uses, and as you brought up: drugs (or more accurately, private/anonymous payments). Bitcoin is really a poor choice for both the smart contracts and niche databases, which leaves it with store of value and drugs. Once law enforcement legislates it to the point where it becomes impractical for drugs, at that point it is just a store of value. It holds no use except to become more valuable the more people buy into it, which is just a pyramid scheme.
Asteroids game is not a physical model. Did you ever played with GPT2 text generator? Your theory would be like that.
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None of those are policies exclusive to a socialist system. But what do i know about Social Democracy, im just Swedish.
Re BBC nature documentaries

That's interesting what you have to say about international vs domestic documentaries. Could you give an example of either group?

I mean, I appreciate the BBC documentaries that I've seen for their high production quality and photography, innovative CGI and all, and I think they inspired and pushed the limits and budgets for TV documentaries worldwide. But personally, I prefer old-school quiet and scientific documentaries having extended interviews with leading scientist of a field and generally are about a scientific discourse rather than CGI-heavy interpretations of historic, cosmic, or paleo events; you know the kind where dinosaurs look up to an approaching meteorite in sorrow, or idk Alexander the Great is portrayed as a vulgar commander yelling at his men, with lots of made-up ethno kitsch and sensationalist commentary. But perhaps these latter ones are exactly the kind you're not so appreciative of.
IMO, YLE actually publishes pretty good content, watchable via streaming. Commercial channels are mostly full of shit. 163 €/year makes ~14 €/month, a fair price, if you accept that public broadcaster is a tolerable compromise.
I don't get the downvotes. It is nigh-impossible to conclude something from a tiny sample, other than it's worth looking at more. But there are tons of things worth looking at more, most of which come out to nothing. Covid produced so many small-sample "promising effect" papers, most of which came to nothing at all.

It's not a critique of the study, either. You can't recruit tens of thousands of people for every little study.

So to rephrase, the headline could read "we found a relationship that probably doesn't actually hold, but just might".
1. The title mentions only Google.

2. The article then talks about both Facebook and Google and links to some of Facebook's most egregious incidents like data sharing, Cambridge Analytica, WhatsApp.

3. The article then proceeds to tell you how to leave Google.

It just comes across in a bad way. Don't mix up the two companies - they aren't equivalent. And if you want to give advice on leaving Google, do that instead of this switcharoo that uses Facebook's scandals as a reason to leave Google.
Look for Dover books, particularly from Russian authors. Cheap and good!
The 2005's rang, they want their phones back. My Sony Ericsson 500i was my edgy love of my teenage college years. Every provider had their own phone with their own firmware. Android appeared and nearly-all of them got in to bed with Google.

And so here we are, living in a world of a million different sized rectangles; all running Android.

> Honestly, we need a optimised non-custom rom alternative to smartphone operating systems, which is not iOS or google/android.

Symbian was way ahead for its time. But I'm just glad we have some developments such as PinePhone and Librem
I found these lecture notes by David Tong to be really good at a glance [1]. A free introductory physics book [2].
I don't have much physics stuff and I know almost nothing about it, I mostly focus on Math/CS, this is some stuff that I had bookmarked. Maybe someone else here can share some good Mechanics resources.

[1] http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/dynamics.html
[2] http://www.lightandmatter.com
How Anker is beating Apple and Samsung at their own accessory game (2017)
Author missed a spot, still using fonts by Google, and their MX.
Short-medium term you have the advantage that the Signal codebases are open source, thus much easier to audit.

There have been a number of independent security audits over the years, which are easy to find. WhatsApp code was never open, even pre-Facebook.
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An earlier comment[0] says there's a reliable method for including ids and things in AM audio at 5KHz bandwidth.

POTS is a few KHz. So less, but without looking into Nielsen's fingerprinting methods I wouldn't say you could assume that the fingerprint wouldn't be preserved running it through a phone line first.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25831303
Adding as example of dumb ideas, people constantly trying to patent perpetual motion machines.
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Wouldn't children's dosage of aspirin be more manageable? IIRC some older people are recommended to eat that daily (something like 1/4 adult dosage of aspirine).
This is the actual goal of Starship: airliner-type safety. Of course I doubt that they will reach that goal, but by striving for it then perhaps the next generation of rocket might.

Contrast with NASA manned vehicle requirements, which call for a 1:270 chance of loss of crew or loss of vehicle.
I completely agree with you about the US over-focus on equity with the vaccination effort. By all means attempt a best effort at vaccinating at-risk populations first... But at the end of the day, even the at-risk-but-vaccinated folks are still at risk as long as herd immunity isn't reached (the vaccines are 95% effective, not 100%). Lots of shots in arms, quickly, is more important than being extremely particular about whose arms the shots are in and in what order they are inserted. Israel will eliminate COVID as a serious concern by March; is it more "equitable" that Americans will likely continue dying through the summer, but at least they're dying in the right order?
>The Muslim ban was so-called by Trumps opponents.

Er, and Trump himself. Many times. It was really important to him that people understood that. He explicitly and frequently said it was his attempt to implement the explicit Muslim ban he promised in the campaign.

https://www.cato.org/blog/dozen-times-trump-equated-travel-b...

I agree religion is a choice, but 'Muslim' is simply a massively broad category. It includes many groups that are implacable ideological and religious opponents of each other, and says practically nothing about a person's actual likely behaviour or actions. As with all racism and other-ism the belief otherwise is nonsense on stilts.
i thought so too, but for some reason on my macbook air it keeps starting at login lol. i wouldn't be surprised if it's PEBKAC, honestly...
The public broadcasters in Germany aren't propaganda arms of the government and are generally respected across political affiliation, except perhaps by the sort of folks that think AfD has the right approach. They may exhibit some editorial lean (https://www.dw.com/en/a-dual-broadcasting-system/a-435426), but from everything I've seen not even to the level that folks in the US complain about CNBC or Fox News.

Germany, in fact, comes in with one of the highest press freedom scores from Reporters without Borders:

https://rsf.org/en/germany , https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/germany-media-profile/

National public Radio and the Public Broadcast Company in the US, in further illustration, hasn't been Donald Trump's megaphone.

Just generally, independent journalism is important and can be subverted whether the sources are public or private. Open pluralistic oversight is most important to maintaining balance and Germany seems to get it right, while also making sure the media can be accessible to any resident.

Seems a not-awful approach to trying to ensure a more-educated population, which is also good for a democracy.
When you see an article by the Daily Mail about the CCP destroying evidence (the CCP that supported one specific narrative about the origin of this devastating global pandemic from the beginning, with groups of chinese scientists publishing papers about the natural origin a month into this) - will you believe the CCP is the one to trust here?
I had the same experience. Cause myself long term injuries because overtraining and "no excuses push it through" mindset.

When I realized how stupid the mindset is and how deep in me that mindset was, it was too late.
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I've always felt the same about ultra-endurance sports. When exercising, there's "good pain" and "bad pain" and if something is doing you damage rather than just stressing your tissues in an intended manner, that's "bad pain" and means you should stop immediately.
Or less fun, as this lady is still struggling to prove she's legally alive having been incorrectly declared legally dead by a court in 2017:

https://www.itv.com/news/2021-01-18/woman-ruled-dead-in-2017...
>superior efficiency compared to other electric propulsion technologies

That seems... unsupported.

They're products have ISPs of 800 and 1000. By contrast Dawn's gridded ion thrusters got 3,100. Comparing to other cubesat thrusters, Accion's electrospray thrusters get 1650.
There's tons science courses, maths courses and stats courses on the internet where you learn these things in depth. Most documentaries are often 'pop' takes at things.
Depending on the specific apps it is usually that it is not using GCM/FCM (something like Conversations) or that the battery manager is very aggressive and Whatsapp is whitelisted by default (because so many use it).

For Samsung I think it is the latter, since many apps have the same problem on Samsung.
Not sure how big the difference is, but she was forced by the Japanese to be a comfort woman, the Wikipedia talks about women during the US occupation, some who were perhaps more "freely" there. Although it does mention them being "owned" by the club/bar owners.
Signal is registered as a 501c3 nonprofit, there should be challenges to buy that. Granted, I have not investigated if someone else holds a trademark or so that maybe still allows for something to be sold.

Signal not only encrypts messages (Whatsapp does as well), but also seem to make sure there is as little meta data available as possible. This should make it less interesting for eg. Facebook to buy them.
In most legal circumstances consent can be withdrawn at a later date. That generally can only not be done if something is permanent. Requiring the photo to be "de-published" is something that publications have done for some time.
I take your point 100%.
I also love TG4's style of programming, but the problem with your approach is that you will be accused of "elitism" and being "out of touch with ordinary people" . I agree that a lot of the content on RTE and even BBC is a bit gimmicky or even trashy, but it is a difficult balancing act. Economy of scale is a huge issue for Ireland. We could never hope to cover even what the BBC does. I feel the answer ia more funding, not less. As for news bias, I agree that it is somewhat biased, but it is at least a common starting point for a discussion, as everyone sees the same message at least. The bias is more nieve, being towards centre left "good Irish morals" than some sinister government plot...
This goes in with the legal principle that these dead people don't have rights, but their surviving relatives do - if whoever inherited those letters and the rights to them decides to sell or publish them, the dead person's privacy is not grounds to prevent that.
That money has no strings attached, unless the amunt is about to be changed. An changes to the fee have to be agreed upon by both chambers, Bundestag and Bundesrat. The Bundesat, representing the individual states, means state parliaments have to agree first. That's the reason why the last fee increase fell through after one state feared backlash from the AfD leaning members of the CDU (Merkals party) and voted against it.

Once the fee is agreed upon, it cannot be changed either way with out every parliamnt agreeing to do so. The money cannot be held back by te "government" (we have coalitions, and those change regularly every 10 years or so). Neither can it be held back for state broadcasters (third programms) by the local governments or parliaments. Sounds pretty tempering free to me.

And the debate did happen in 2015, or didn't you see the same panel discussions I saw? It also happened in print and the public broacasters reported aboutthat debate in their news segments. The nature of these news segments being to report facts and not to debate.

It just turned out that only one party really opposed the opening of boarders, along with the right wings of the cnservative parties CDU and CSU. Thos are not the majority but rather a very very loud minority.
Red shift can be caused by Doppler shift of frequency and by loss of energy by photons. When Red shift is interpreted as 100% Doppler shift, then we have such absurd velocity. Of course, nobody saw a photonic boom when the whole galaxy crossed the speed of light barrier.
We'd have to know both the wet mass and the dry mass to figure that out. They mention 10 kg which I assume is the wet mass but don't give another mass number.
Actually when I am driving long range, I will do a break in every 4 hours (top). What is needed is actually a tense infrastructure of charging stations. These do not have to be like gas stations - big and manned, so more can be added.
interesting - have noticed google knocking on my door much more (I am in capital markets) - they have hired of the street so that provides some credibility when mixed in with their strong tech teams. Have interesting debates with my head quant about quant vs automl - what's 'better' :)
The government decides what is an externality and determines the tax rate.

Two things governments are good at: taxing, and starting wars. Why not take advantage of the first?

It even has the advantage of being a revenue source for the government, rather than a revenue sink. The government has to tax something, why not externalities?

Around here, the government decided to tax plastic shopping bags. Geez, just put a tax on it instead. Raise the tax until plastic shopping bags become scarce enough. Then if someone really wants a plastic shopping bag to use, say, to clean up after their dog, they can if they're willing to pay. Much better than being charged with a crime.
I’m curious what you think the solution would be. Ban the hash tag BLM? Ban anyone who supports BLM protests?

It seems you want Twitter to do more and that’s fair, but the question is what more should they do?

BLM found wide spread support. HN had a George Floyd banner. Should HN be banned from its hosting account?
Are you asking if minorities have ever been oppressed by majorities?

Does the Holocaust or Jim Crow count?
But you can’t actually use Bitcoin for anything?

The Regression Theorem, first proposed by Ludwig von Mises in his 1912 book The Theory of Money and Credit, states that the value of money can be traced back ("regressed") to the goods and services it obtains. In other words, money is backed by some commodity that has intrinsic value.

Recently, there has been a debate about applying Regression Theorem to Cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin.[1] Since Bitcoin (for instance) is not backed by any commodity, it appears to fail the definition of a currency according to the Regression Theorem. Others hold the view[2] that Bitcoin does fit the definition as it is at once a payment system and money, with the source of value being the payment system.
I recently closed my Google account after a few months of an automated message informing anyone that the address would be closed soon (using the "Vacation responder" functionality from Gmail settings). In the meantime, I started using my new email address for all my online accounts and I passed it on to all my contacts. Another thing I did, was to download all my Google data (I saved the archives on my NAS at home and on my Nextcloud instance on Digitalocean).

Since then, the only time I needed a Google account was when someone wanted to collaborate on a Google Docs file. I created a "burner" temporary account for that, which I subsequently closed.

Every now and then I might watch something on Youtube, but I never really need to be logged in.

It's funny because before closing my Google account, I imagined it would have been so hard, when if fact it was quite uneventful.

During the last 12 months I also closed Reddit, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. It feels really good. I don't waste time during the day, I'm more focused during working hours and after work I have more time to do whatever I really like doing (as opposed to wasting time watching someone else doing those things on Youtube or Instagram).