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I think Firefox OS didn't have to fail.

1. Allow non-kernel updates without carrier interference. Google has had to learn this lesson the hard way. Let the carriers lock down the lower layers, but Firefox and the user-facing stuff should still be able to update well enough for a few years.

2. Don't launch on crap, low-memory devices. KaliOS works on low-end devices, but that's because it is hyper particular about which apps run and what web APIs they use (and a lot of websites don't run very well). There's no reason a web device can't work for high-end devices. Most people run the same 50 apps as everyone else (and 25 of those ship with the phone anyway). High-end devices also open up other options like running Android in a linux container (like ChromeOS does).

3. Make WebAssembly (then asm.js) first-class. "Native" wasm apps with more direct access to APIs and access to a standard set of canvas widgets (sorry, HTML sucks for a lot of things). New APIs need to be available for more specific cores (especially things like DSP or ML units). Finally, add support for fully-native processes for trusted programs because sometimes 25-50% slower is too much and sometimes a spec (eg, Vulkan) simply isn't available as a webAPI yet but competition is needed here and now.

4. Be different. Make something that tries to clone Android and people will expect it to be Android. Firefox OS would have gone much farther looking and acting like webOS (which is still a better UI than Android more than a decade later). You can't disrupt a free, mature project with an identical, but immature project and a bunch of ideals that 95% of people simply don't understand.
Well I mean, I said it's a solution. They said it is not a solution, a direct response to what I specifically had said, and followed by directly responding to the rest of my statement. The entire comment seems to be directed at what I said, hinging off my use of "solution".

Perhaps the 'you' was intended to be generalized. I interpreted as directed at me, since the entirety of the comment is directed at me. Maybe I'm mistaken.

The joys of trying to have meaningful conversations over text.
So, the intended behavior is that FF does not check any Add-on related cert for a valid date range? In that case, what prevents an insider threat of a Mozilla employee signing malicious add-ons with an out-of-date cert?
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FYI, Burr just came out on Audiobook:

https://www.audible.com/pd/Burr-Audiobook/1543696597
The logical conclusion, then, is that the most cost-effective structure is the maximal one (a single risk pool including the entire population, a.k.a. universal coverage).
Sure, but the end user is going to do whatever is most convenient for them.

Unsubscribing from email lists can be cumbersome and non-uniform, which is usually why people just hit that spam button instead. It always provides them a uniform interface and largely achieves the same goal from their perspective.
This really should be fixed in systemd.

First, randomness should be done in the kernel, not in systemd.

Second, we should have a choice about whether to use hardware-based randomness or not.

Third, any failure to boot due to randomness is just inherently broken. I would LOVE to have someone explain to me how any system that even has the possibility of not booting because of a random number generator is in any way correct or desirable.
https://www.wired.com/story/zoom-bug-webcam-hackers/
Person A: I'd like you to store one megawatt-hour of electricity that I will give you, and then later, I want you to give that electricity back to me.

Person B: Certainly. That will be $187.

It's not the cost of the battery. It's the cost of storing and releasing one megawatt-hour of electricity once. This has to pay for the capital cost over time, as well as overhead and depreciation.
Which is my I'm not pre-ordering, I'm waiting till the final specs are released. Also I need to be able to view PDF documents, so probably gonna be a while.
> But ideas like this, and removing employer provided healthcare (e.g. everyone on an open health insurance exchange) are politically impossible in the US because no politician can get elected for "taking people's employer insurance and taking their discounts." Even if they're the right thing to do to simplify, reduce costs, align goals, and force insurers to compete again.

To be fair, the current president ran partly on a platform to end surprise billing and has asked congress to deliver legislation to this effect
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Ah, the TVtropes of software development.
StackOverflow also had an outage a few years ago that was caused by exponential blow-up of a backtracking regular expression.

https://stackstatus.net/post/147710624694/outage-postmortem-...
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That's not possible, but geothermal energy is a passive way of cooling that actually works (to some point). Install pipes sufficiently deep under the surface and drive air through them and soil will cool the air for you - and because its temperature is almost constant throughout the year you can both cool and heat the greenhouses and barns and even homes this way with very little extra energy (just electricity for fans to move the air, and even that can be reduced to work passive for heating as the hot air climbs up the pipes on its own)
Ask HN: Does working remotely hinder the ability to get a mortgage?
Consider a person A who works regular 9-5 job vs a person B
who works for a company in another country remotely,
does the bank see person A and person B differently at all
provided that they make the same salary?
They spend hundreds of millions on the UEI special forces that are somehow not considered military even though they are structured like a military. This is basically their defense from Nicaragua and narcos which is really all they have to worry about. They have the Fuerza Publica which handles broader security and law enforcement. They are also under UN protection and both the US and China have interests there. It's not like they don't spend any money on defense.
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Manta ray filmed asking divers for help in remarkable underwater encounter
Random billionaire looking to invest here. Email?
> Right now if you compete in a triathlon it shows up as five separate disconnected activities

Five separate disconnected activities?
I'm guessing if they don't count depreciation and charge the batteries when the price is negative, it might make sense. But otherwise that is an astounding claim backed by zero evidence.
Curious why China is named
Sorry, I meant for way less than they typically play.
I've had the same thing happen with wahoo multiple times.
This boosted scooter looks pretty good! hope the product is as good as their promo materials.
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I really hope that it will one day all break down as you describe, because without any big event people will not wake up or get educated about this stuff. There need to be some examples made by the arm of the law. In the verdict it should say, that some people traded medical secrets for their own comfort. Not the people who use the system unknowingly, but the people, who carelessly put it in place, should be prosecuted.
You Will Fail If You Go Straight for Your “World-Changing Startup Idea”
Possibly downvoted because of the name-calling ('what a mess', 'amateur move'), which degrades discussion and is against the site guidelines. It's also sort of distasteful to pile on like that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Why should an insurance company be the one certifying hospitals? Shouldn't that be done by, yknow, a government agency and not a profit-seeking insurance firm?

I mean, governments do certify hospitals. If you don't have gov't certification, you can't provide medical services.
Many people see it as "Oh I was paying $500 a month on healthcare but now the government will pay for it by increasing taxes. However, I'm not a 1% so it won't affect me as much as it affects them so I'm getting a dollar's worth of government for 80 cents today." Those same people aren't paying attention to their tax withholdings all they know is that if they don't get a refund then they are upset.
> You can go into any non-technical thread, and it is full of utterly delusional statements

An even better example (although, the "delusional" charge is a bit heavy in this case):

I was wrong about spreadsheets - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20417967

Even here, in a largely objective domain, one can clearly see a variety of strong "statements of fact" (or so the author believes), but if one was to dig down into each, I suspect you would likely find that the erroneous thinking ultimately resides at the axioms (heuristics) level.

I would love to know if you even somewhat see what I'm getting at, or if this sounds like some form of batshit insanity. Most anyone I run into seems to have a strong aversion to this type of thinking, kind of similar to how people seem to have a natural aversion to certain conversations (discussions in "polite company" that go into too much detail about sex, for example).
You have outlined my 3 biggest complaints with Strava. It is so comforting that I am not a "unique and demanding snowflake" for wondering why these features don't exist. Other people have the same problems with Strava as me!.

Strava's lack of multisport has been driving me insane for years. Getting 5 separate activities is stupid, and it seems like at the very least they could figure out how to handle transitions so they aren't their own activity. Surely that can't require a ton of development time. I always have to go through and delete my two transitions (I still have the data in Garmin Connect for training records). This is especially annoying when you consider that they have people (like I used to) who pay $60 per year for premium subscriptions. Meanwhile Garmin is offering it for free with Garmin Connect (after you buy a Garmin device).

Don't even get me started on Strava's lack of support for swimming. Even as a premium (now called "Summit") member, you get nearly no analytics from swimming. It basically shows up as an activity and that is where the functionality ends.

Finally segments are a complete joke. There are segments in my area that even Usain Bolt couldn't beat. There is a 0.8mile long category HC cycling climb by my house that has a "record" of 54 seconds. So I guess I am to believe that someone rode up a 8% grade hill at 60mph? That would be hard to do on a motorcycle, let alone a bicycle. Surely they could figure out how to filter those out.
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That’s like asking if it’s really a murderer’s fault for pulling the trigger of a gun manufactured by someone else. Yes, it absolutely is their fault and no, “if they didn’t, someone else would” is not a valid moral excuse, ever.
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This is the guy:

https://ai.google/research/people/105344

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=SnJNeR4AAAAJ&hl=en

Literally a world expert on the topic.
Ask HN: Best Chinese YouTube Channel on Machine Learning
Hey,
Can you list out best chinese youtube channel on Machine Learning?
That first article is just a random journalist (user) Windows rant. I'd give it a 90% chance the root cause was user error.

The second mentions:

1) Drivers being replaced, which is often cited as the overwhelming contributing factor of system instability. It was a huge factor specifically when the driver model changed in Vista and shotty 3rd party drivers is often credited as the single biggest reason Vista flopped. They're anal about drivers, but MS provides ways to prevent drivers from being updated automatically. They list printers being uninstalled as a separate thing, but probably same root cause. Printers and their software hold the top ranking on the "WTF is all this shit?" Scale.

Ads turned back on? Never happened on any of these systems. There might have been some feature that was added in an early release (both articles were written in 2017), but if there was, it was a toggle in the settings to disable it.

Default apps being reset actually DID happen to me once, now that I think about it. It's literally a 5 second fix, which is why I forgot about it.

That article also links to MakeUseOf articles that promote installing 3rd party apps to do things like redirect Cortana, set default programs, etc. Gee, use some rando internet person's hack to change default apps and at the next update the default apps are reset to default? Must be Microsoft's fault. Let's mess with Cortana, which can be used to recommend (advertise) apps and services by examining the user's history (telemetry). What? All the telemetry tweaks and ad settings have changed. OMG MS you so bad! Sorry, M$ you so bad! (Gotta have that late 90s childish Developers Developers Developers rage.)

The overwhelming takeaways are:

A) If you're going to spend hours of your life at the computer, spend 30 minutes looking over the settings for each major release, which happens once every year or so. Same goes for your phones/tablets.

B) Use the tools provided to tweak first and resort to 3rd party hacks only if they're reversible, you know exactly what they do, and you could perform the same changes manually.
> You're telling me that the intended behavior is that FF allows add-ons signed by an expired cert?

The leaf certificate is specific to a particular instance of an addon. Firefox has a separate, more flexible capability called the blocklist that can disable individual addons. Since the blocklist exists, enforcing expiration dates on the leaf certificates wouldn't help in any way, but it would require re-signing and re-distributing all addons periodically. So, yes it was a deliberate decision to ignore expiration dates on leaf certificates.

> If that is the case, then what is the point of the signing system in the first place?

I'm not sure if this was meant literally or not but it is outlined here:
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/04/15/the-case-for-exte...
That doesn't have to do with temperature, it has to do with the efficiency of the engine.

Gas burns at a much higher energy than steam, so it's much easier to extract more energy with less fuel, making for a smaller form factor.

I should clarify I was talking about an engine here. Not a power generator.

What I said is correct though. You can compensate for lower temperatures with a more efficient engine & energy conversion, and of course more fuel/input.
Used Bird for about a week when it was new, decided to buy my own (a Glion Dolly) when my city banned them. Used it on my commute every day for the past year (except during rain). Not using a car in LA has been an amazing positive lifestyle change.
If you’re interested, there is a long and sordid history behind how we got here.

In the past, insurance just paid whatever the hospital charged it was called “usual and customary”. This came about because public plans were getting ripped off and gov’t said “no, you can’t charge us whatever”.

Cycle through a series of different reimbursement systems in order to get a grasp on costs and you end up where we are now - chargemaster rates are ridiculously high (because they aren’t allowed to charge more than that) and the payers negotiate rates down as best they can so you end up with massive gross-net differentials.

It’s really a complete mess.
Hospital's costs don't magically change though. The MRI machine? Expensive as all hell. The liquid helium (or whatever) to run it? Also expensive as hell. Doctor's wages? Nurses wages (they're unionized, fwiw). X-ray machines, X-ray tech's, the cost of reagents, pharmaceuticals and all other medical supplies?

The hospital, a for-profit business in the United States, isn't voluntarily going to give up profit, so they "hack" the system by raising prices. If InsuranceCo says they'll payback 20% of list price, but it costs the hospital $100 to run the test (including some nominal profit; hospitals aren't non-profits, for better or worse), the hospital must charge $500 for the test, just to break even on InsuranceCo's patients.

Which they aren't refuse, because those patients are a significant portion of the hospitals revenues, or due to laws, in some jurisdictions. ER's can't (legally) turn away people they don't like (Eg African Americans or immigrants).
I've never had to do this before from a patient standpoint, but perhaps you could try to find out what codes were billed for the visit. [1] Compare this to what was actually performed. It is possible they upcoded your visit, either inadvertently or on purpose (illegally.)

Aside from that, (EDIT: More likely) it could also be that lots of billing actually takes place when a coder reviews the doctor's note of the encounter. This can be several days after the visit. This is a legitimate and very common practice. They might not have known the correct amount to charge until everything was properly coded.

[1] https://coder.aapc.com/cpt-codes-range/2869
[2] https://www.verywellhealth.com/what-is-upcoding-2615214
> This is a massive oversimplification -- if everyone voted purely to protect their financial interests, "voter-approved tax increases" wouldn't exist.

Yes, it would! People always vote to raise taxes on the minority (the 'rich') to give money to the majority (the 'poor'). This is rule by tyranny, a common issue with democratic governments. It is one of the main reasons democracy is not the ultimate value of the United States governmental system.
>I highly doubt they cover Sudan.

The wording is literally global except for.

There might be some gotcha in terms of "doesn't cover active warzones" that I'm not aware of, but my point stands. Insurers are fundamentally OK with the concept of global...but won't touch America. Makes sense - US medical system pulls numbers out of a hat so how do you insure against that as an outside non-US medical aid?

The claims I've filed in other African countries cleared without question. In fact I try to do my annual checkups there.

Edit...no can't link..its a custom policy...but i believe it to be reasonably close to market terms
It's actually brilliant rent seeking. Evil but brilliant. They provide no service and negative value for the user. In exchange they help large employers maintain a way to restrict employee movement and value for shareholders.

Honestly blue Cross blue shield is just like Facebook ..users are the product not the customer.
That is not really his point. He means that he can go almost to any other country and be covered, but if he goes to the US, which is one of the richest and most medically advanced countries in the world, he won't.
The US has insulation requirements, it varies a lot state to state but new housing generally has at least decent-ish insulation. The main issue is that there is a lot of very old housing stock in the US. As of 2015 the median house was 37 years old and 40% were over 45 years old. In the area I live the vast majority of the houses were built in the 40s or 50s, though most people have done some amount of insulation retrofitting.

http://eyeonhousing.org/2015/08/the-aging-housing-stock-2/
you say "domesticated animals" but is that not cats exclusively?
This approach was used for years by Spotify[1], to allow websites embedding their player to load content directly into a running instance of the desktop app.

[1] http://cgbystrom.com/articles/deconstructing-spotifys-builti...
> $0.02/Kwh for the solar part is pretty good.

What's terrible is that PG&E charges the end customers $0.28-$0.42/kwh even though it purchases even the most expensive wholesale power below 5c/kwh
It really bothers me that some employee compensation is lower because of health insurance being a standard employee benefit. An employer saves thousands of dollars if an employee doesn't need to enroll in their insurance (they may get it through their spouse, the VA, or are enrolled in medicare). That savings is not required to be passed down to the employee and its almost never is in practice.
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Kill them and bring back the bikes!
cloud hysteria seems to be representative of some kind of mass amnesia about how computers work. It is only successful because it allows business boys with no real technical understanding to make sweeping infra changes to pad their CV
It's high enough that people are driving dirty old beaters instead of something newer that pollutes less. You could probably make an argument that it does more harm than good. I think they also have VAT or it's coming soon. There have been protests about it since late last year. A couple weeks ago they were at it again and truckers clogged all the roads going 1 kmh.
Can you get your own data from the system?
Meanwhile in Iowa, Mid American Energy is well on their way to 100% renewal by 2021 with an endless array of wind farms.

Their final phase of the project started in 2018 with a $922M investment.

Iowa Public Radio toured one of the windmills back in January.

https://www.iowapublicradio.org/post/skyscrapers-fields-wind...