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I second this 100%. But this needs to be advocated more. Yesterday on a trending ask HN question how to prevent technology scams for family members I recommended a chromebook. But every negative windows os comment gets downvoted so hard that it left me 0 points at the bottom.

Ask HN How do you protect your parents against tech scammers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21934736

My answer:

> Give them a chromebook. No virus scanner or firewall needed.
It's 2020 and the "Personal Computer" paradigm is past its expiration date.
Want to keep hobbying with Windows and manage your "PC" like a pet, good luck with that!
Hardware should be managed like cattle with a cloud native setup if you ask me.
Racehorse owners loose 90 cent on every dollar invested, cowboys fly helicopters.
That location used to be an AutoNation used car megastore, and its only advertising-friendly feature is being visible from I-69.

Since Fishers succumbed to Carmel disease and started putting traffic circles in everywhere, it's even more difficult to get to from the north.

I'd say they spent too little on real estate, and tried to repurpose a bad building in a bad location. They would have done better in the old shuttered Marsh supermarket on 96th St., if it had closed up shop before they moved in to Indy. Actually, they could probably move right now, for all the shelf-stock they're likely to still have on hand. The old building should just be razed and replaced with class-B office park offices. It has never had enough casual traffic to be good retail.
cloud gaming has already been beaten by the cheaters

bots for wow now run on a different machine to that of the game client, process the game's visual output and send inputs to the game client in the same way a human would

the only way you can detect this is heuristically
Some axioms that I'm not seeing talked about much:

* Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is the last problem in computer science, so it should be at least somewhat alarming that it's being funded by internet companies, wall street and the military instead of, say, universities/nonprofits/nonmilitary branches of the government.

* Machine learning is conceptually simple enough that most software developers could work on it (my feeling is that the final formula for consciousness will fit on a napkin), but they never will, because of endlessly having to reinvent the wheel to make rent - eventually missing the boat and getting automated out of a job.

* AI and robot labor will create unemployment and underemployment chaos if we don't implement universal basic income (UBI) or at the very least, reform the tax system so that automation provides for the public good instead of the lion's share of the profit going to a handful of wealthy financiers.

* Children aren't usually exposed to financial responsibility until around the age of 15 or so, so training machine learning for financial use is likely to result in at least some degree of sociopathy, wealth inequality and further entrenchment of the status quo (what we would consider misaligned ethics).

* Humans may not react well when it's discovered that self-awareness is emotion, and that as computers approach sentience they begin to act more like humans trapped in boxes, and that all of this is happening before the world can even provide justice and equality for the "other" (women, minorities, immigrants, oppressed creeds, intersexed people, the impoverished, etc etc etc).

My prediction for 2020: nothing. But for 2025: an optimal game-winning strategy is taught in universities. By 2030: the optimal game-winning strategy is combined with experience from quantum computing to create an optimal search space strategy using exponentially fewer resources than anything today (forming the first limited AGI). By 2035: AGI is found to require some number of execution cycles to evolve, perhaps costing $1 trillion. By 2040: cost to evolve AGI drops to $10 billion and most governments and wealthy financiers own what we would consider a sentient agent. By 2045: AGI is everywhere and humanity is addicted to having any question answered by the AGI oracle so progress in human-machine merging, immortality and all other problems are predicted to be solved within 5 years. By 2050: all human problems have either been enumerated or solved and attention turns to nonhuman motives that can't be predicted (the singularity).
Research suggests that emergency room costs are 7% or less of total healthcare spending in the US (some studies claim it's as low as 2% of total yearly costs). In other words, there's a lot of room for shopping around.
The secret there is that vote kicking wasn't the real anti-cheat method, only the delivery. The real anti cheat was the friends we made along the way. Healthy server communities were a treasure back in the day, and functioned as a more compassionate, involved anti-cheat system.
Check out FE International: https://feinternational.com/
I think we mistake these ideas as being bad business because of our expectations. Some ideas take longer to produce returns.

I'm currently working on an idea that has no business plan in the near future. It's a cryptocurrency. I hope to make money from in the future by either selling my stash or providing software and services. But in the meantime, I'm running it as a fun/side-project. The project is picking up steam. I've seen interest growing, some coin trading on an exchange.

I don't expect to make money soon. So I do everything myself. I spend little money on the project, 3-5k per year. I enjoy working on it and learning. It helps me learn not only about my project but also about other cryptocurrency. I think that I will make some money, eventually.
This is true...

There are a few that will never accept you as a customer again if you do a chargeback (Arenanet comes to mind). However, with EA, that would probably make me happy.
Fantastic description of how voxel rendering works with a really great illustration, I had no idea it was that "simple". I remember the Comanche game mentioned in the README, it was amzaing graphically for the time!
I feel like there has to be a razor stating something like "It's more likely that our expectations were wrong due to a lack of initial knowledge, rather than the explanation being aliens."

Because it seems like time and time again someone proposes aliens when in reality it's just some phenomenon or variable we hadn't observed yet.
That's a good point. This is their fault for not sending an order. If this suspect were to have committed a real attack that resulted in deaths, the blood would be on law enforcement's hands more than Facebook's.
You simply create your own component class and `@apply` tailwind classes to it.

See: https://tailwindcss.com/docs/extracting-components
Removing user control overlaps too much with other desired outcomes than just anti cheat.

It's too profitable to not be an inevitability.
Dry-Comparisons: A C++ Library to Shorten Redundant If Statements
Thinking back to Satya Nadella's book, I still think its incredible that he was selected, and even after it was incredible that he the impact that he had. I guess where I'm getting with this is that to have been able to see and recognize that he had the potential to take Microsoft in the right direction and that he actually was able to take them there is pretty awesome. They could have hired someone from outside, or someone who might fit the look / character of a mega corp CEO but they took a risk with him and I'm glad that it paid off.
You'll need to give me something a bit more convincing than a relatively small deviation from expected trajectory for a small object we know next to nothing about if you want me to believe we've been visited by aliens. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, this is not it IMO.
> The very idea of insurance becomes toxic when you start to pursue this idea

Not really. In general an insurance protects you against risks outside of your control and/or they penalise you for increased risk, and will refuse to pay for intentional losses. We all experience this with car and home insurances.

Smoking and its health consequences are a personal decision and there is an argument that you should not expect others to subsidise your life choices.

That being said, in many countries smokers are indeed made to pay because tobacco products are heavily taxed and proceeds are used to fund healthcare.

In fact, I believe that for example in the UK taxes on tobacco products bring in more money than smoking costs the health service.
If they still manage less CO per capita w/ their exports plus internal market, that weakens the argument that emissions control is primarily a 3rd world responsibility.
For anyone else who, like me, is prone to the excitement of new company ideas and has a tendency to gloss over questions like "is it even possible to monetize this?" I'd recommend reading Disciplined Entrepreneurship. It's not the One True Way but the steps they recommend cover a lot of questions that you should think about during the process.
Even if one were to assume the phenomenon in question was an advanced craft of some kind, an extraterrestrial origin is still among the least likely explanations.
There's much to be said for sticking with things we know work, rather than experimenting with new things that might work better. If a doctor has an effective treatment for a common condition among their patients, what is the cost of trying something new? Do you try it with all patients, or just one?

But "laziness" is something of a trigger word for me in health care discussions, just like "greed" is. It's so easy to attribute what we see as suboptimal outcomes to malice on the part of the person acting - even passive malice like laziness.
Yes, but here's my problem with expected trajectory being used as evidence of aliens, and 'unknown force' being used as some mysterious alien technology.

If I remember right, one of the voyager or pioneer probes was moving much faster than it should've been (relatively), and we had no idea why for years. Then we figured out it was the cumulative effect of heat radiation(?) from something on board the machine.

If we can't figure out what WE made, how can we expect to figure out a once-in-a-generation event like this on the first shot?
As someone who built probably 10 apps / businesses before I read the lean startup, and learned to validate things first, I think "JUST DO IT" is about the worst advice anyone can give you.

Maybe I was and still am a complete idiot. But I think a lot of people would be like me and just assume that lots of people want X, Y, and Z -- so go out and build the thing, and then realize nobody wants X or Y, and no one is willing to pay for Z.

I started doing financial models when I get an idea. What I always find out is -- even in my wildest dreams -- these ideas wouldn't pay more than my current job.

Granted, I make a lot of money. But I think the vast majority of people on here make more money now than is reasonable to believe their business could ever make, if everything worked out.
Being a tiny seed fund means you are likely a minority stakeholder in most of the businesses you invest in. To compare what these people are doing with a small amount of capital e.g. $50k to $100k check to Blackstone is a wild stretch.
Your idea isn’t that weird. If you do it right you’re basically inventing the Web of Trust. As long as you put the user in control of what entitles they trust to validate sites it would actually be a super useful feature.

The problem is always the political one. What does, say, Microsoft vouching for a site actually mean?
"Theoretically" is the problem here. Insurance companies won't spend a penny they don't have to, so you need to prove you'll save them more than they pay you starting from day one. That's a tall order.
This is a great idea and something we definitely want to showcase on the marketing pages. We want to attract those who might not be sure what a retro is, how a retro is done and how easy continuous improvement can be practiced - so we’re going to ramp up attention to onboarding.
> it was noticed that the object had now dropped from 28,000 feet to near sea level in less than a second.

Surely something accelerating to Mach 25 in atmosphere in less than a second would have made a hell of a sound.
Please note that Uhaul is not banning smoking/smokers, they're banning nicotine, which is a stimulant similar to caffeine. The difference is that historically the most prevalent delivery mechanism for nicotine has been to smoke it, and therein lies the health concern. Some might say this is merely a theoretical difference, since portable vape cartridges also contain potentially harmful additives, but this is more of an economic problem - like cigarettes, it's cheaper to include, or fail to exclude, additives that are harmful to humans when vaporized and ingested. However, there's no technical reason a product couldn't come to market tomorrow that would offer a nicotine delivery mechanism free of side effects. But we'll never find out because for years nicotine has been lumped together with smoking as a terrible harmful thing, and that's simply not true.
In SmallTalk you had everything as part of a binary "image". The compiler/interpreter, debugger, IDE, the standard library, your source and everything else was in one big blob.
Maybe GP meant Article I section 8 (the section quoted in their parent)?
Because it's hard. Also technical debt moving from Eth 1 to 2 makes it harder.

My guess is another blockchain will execute PoS better because it won't have tech debt.
It's disheartening to see parent downvoted, but executive overreach and emergency powers have been normalized for a while now. Republicans are a lost cause here too, but Democrats despite constant screeching about "constitutional norms" seemingly don't care about war powers either (perhaps the most important constitutional power).
Microsoft paid $26B for LinkedIn, then mostly left it alone
Yes, aliens have found us and found us wanting. Perhaps they'll try again in a few millennia...
Tiny Capital is the name of the VC company.
I just re-read Rendezvous with Rama yesterday while sick with a cold. Then this story came back up on HN today. What a weird coincidental world.
The Copenhagen Wheel https://www.superpedestrian.com/en/copenhagenwheel does the same with the backwheel and the website currently works. I saw a guy with it in SF at a signal and asked him how he liked it and he said "I love it!" so there's a random anecdote.
No, it also depends on effects like the pressure from the solar wind and outgassing. Outgassing is caused by water on the side facing the sun evaporating, emitting a gentle pressure away from the sun. If the object is rotating, the force pushes at an angle to the sun because the outgassing rate lags insolation due to the surface water's thermal mass (ie, each point on the surface continues to evaporate for a while after its apparent sunset.)

The effects aren't significant for planets, but they are for asteroids. It seemed more significant for Oumuamua than most, suggesting a high surface area to volume ratio.
Congratulations on a valuable experience. You have learned a ton and summarized it wisely. This is all worth a lot more than 40k!

Although the typical SF startup drum is about changing the world, it takes a lot more than just a good product to do it, as you've found out, and especially in healthcare, where the barrier to entry is extremely high.

Also, your doctors forgot to mention that Pharma companies actually pay them (indirectly) for prescribing a certain drug. Your software was not just not useful to them, it was actually telling many a story they did not want to hear. Sure, Tylenol might actually be #3 of the list, but their sales rep is a real friendly one, and next time they go out for dinner, it would be a shame to have prescribed something else...

Anyway, now you know. Isn't that an amazing feeling that you've learned so much that others would never dare, and it had only cost you $40k? Keep going, good lessons are worth it!

p.s. Just because your original iteration of the product was not needed by doctor and not valuable enough to be paid by the consumer, it doesn't make it useless.

Perhaps if you made it the #1 on Google, consumers would notice, and use it, then you could use it as a lead-gen for other products, and sell that space/time/data.. whatever.

The funny thing about startup ideas, your first iteration is probably almost always wrong.
I know it was one of the last to get it, but my first experience with this game was the SNES version. The SNES version has some horrible slowdowns at parts, but the musical score is amazing! I was disappointed to hear other versions didn't have tat score. I haven't checked all the versions, is it unique to the snes? Does anyone know if any other version has that music? I was hoping the 20th anniversary would have had it but it doesn't.

Btw it's not as good but the sequel, heart of the alien, is only on the segacd.

I hunted down a Sega CD and Genesis just to play it.
https://www.denverpost.com/2020/01/02/colorado-drones-myster...
but that wouldn't be a 51% attack, that would just be stealing a wallet
If it was a probe, it seems to be a very poorly planned mission. It just swung through our system without appearing to do anything. Comparing to probe missions that us earthlings have sent out, they orbited interesting objects as mission objectives. They also transmitted data back to us making them useful. We've observed enough exoplanets that we should be able to plan a better mission than just a random flyby of the star, shouldn't we? Then again, maybe that's how Voyager I & II will appear to another society viewing them after they randomly travel through another system looooong after they were useful. Perhaps they'll collect enough space dust/debris to build up a rock like surface on them so they will appear Oumuamua like when meandering through some system we've never considered.
Being (1) private, and (2) moderately-sized, allows you to adapt more quickly - same reason why buyouts of public companies usually end with delisting.
Useful thing in a downturn!
Thanks so much for your reply, Fnoord.

Does that approach allow instantly locking the screen if the YubiKey is removed? It's not mentioned in the guide, so I just want to be sure.
Rust – Reducing support for 32-bit Apple targets
> But the key insight is that you have to take a step back and just treat healthcare like any other for-profit business. Doctors and hospitals care about what generates revenue. Insurance companies want to save money. Pharma companies are looking to advertise to new customers. It's no different than other industries.

This is one of the most concise and effective arguments I have read for Medicare-For-All, Single Payer, etc.
Universal healthcare won't help you there, since it also requires a stringent cost-benefit-calculation, e.g. the British system is very (in)famous for this.
Indeed; see for example this screener showing daily issuance in dollars:

https://messari.io/screener/play-around-074BC5B4

from which we can infer that Bitcoin uses about 10x more electricity than Ethererum.
Ask HN: Help me learn astrology in 2020
One of my to-do in 2020 resolutions is to learn more about astrology and explore it and see if it is a predictive science.

1. I am learning Vedic or Indian Astrology which uses the sidereal and not tropical charts.

2. I have a software that does calculations

3. I have books. So. Many. Books.

I want to be able to study it as a discipline and subject. I am not interested in proving whether it’s ‘science’ or an ‘pseudo science’. Maybe it’s is ..maybe it’s art..maybe it’s a game.

The goal is to read the texts and follow the rules of analysis and predict. And then I want to record it, find patterns based on interpretations and see how it turns out. There has to be a pattern and it can’t be entirely random even if the predictions don’t pan out.

How do I go about this?
Fwiw the transition doesn't look that far off now. There's a working multi-client testnet for the new (separate) proof-of-stake chain, and a recent proposal by Vitalik to transition the old chain into it more quickly than previously expected: https://ethresear.ch/t/alternative-proposal-for-early-eth1-e...
Ethiopians have a third adaptation that’s a bit like one of the others but still distinct.

I have a theory that early Martians will see some gene input from all three of these groups and I’m curious what the results will look like.
It's crazy how countless Alien horror movies never dampened our enthusiasm for contact with another civilization, but one half way thought out sci-fi story can completely change your attitude.
Maybe Google had high hopes at turning Chrome OS into Android for desktop but, as the article points out, it failed miserably.

At my last job in ed tech we developed and maintained a Chrome OS app for about 3 years. Not an Android app, but a web app for Chrome OS.

I had great hopes for the platform for education use but it turned out developing for Chrome OS was a terrible mess. Docs are incomplete and cryptic, there are strange dev restrictions like not being able to use localStore, erratic behaviors of the apps, nowhere to go for help, the chrome web store dashboard was totally obsolete by today's standards, etc.

It felt very bizarre seeing Google doing all the marketing on their new flashy Chrome OS devices, Android apps, and Linux support, while at the same time looking at the docs and working on what seemed like an abandoned project.

I think ultimately Google will replace Chrome OS with Fuchsia. Maybe Fuchsia took longer than expected so they had to improvise and bring Android and Linux to keep the platform alive for a couple more years.
If you mean that the "expected" trajectory is different than the "observed" one, it's not that we don't have examples where the simpler calculations result in difference from the observations, but then the newer, better calculations find these older simply insufficient. See the famous "Pioneer anomaly":

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

"The anomalous acceleration was first noticed as early as 1980 but not seriously investigated until 1994." "Various explanations, both of spacecraft behavior and of gravitation itself, were proposed to explain the anomaly."

"By 2012 several papers by different groups, all reanalyzing the thermal radiation pressure forces inherent in the spacecraft, showed that a careful accounting of this explains the entire anomaly; thus the cause is mundane and does not point to any new phenomenon or need for a different physical paradigm."
I want to believe, but just looking at the numbers make the aliens theory seem kind of ridiculous to me. At its current velocity, Oumuamua would have taken something like 45000! years to reach us from just the nearest star. Engineering a generations-ship or even just a drone and not improving on the speed of the craft just does not make sense to me. I suppose the craft could have slowed down before we noticed it, but then why only slow it down its current velocity if it could have stayed in the system and collected more data? Of the theories I've heard so far, only debris from a craft seems to make sense, but then the debris would have to be incredibly old for it to have just wandered into our system on accident.
But surely it can be affected if the body outgasses because of some solar effect? I don't believe that applies to Ceres, or to satelites around the Earth, etc.
Did EA ever officially support running on Linux? Shitty customer treatment aside, running a game on an unknown graphics stack isn’t really viable to allow if you want to e.g ensure users can’t replace shaders etc.

I don’t think this kind of anticheat is a good idea to begin with but if you want to use it, it means that when you detect a shady stack you have to assume a user is a potential cheater.

What EA should do is just reverse the bans if players want to run them on Windows, or refund the games (Origin credit) for those that aren’t interested if they can’t run on Linux.
boasting about a 15% annual return with an illiquid stake in a early to mid stage private tech company is the opposite of “too good to be true”