skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How can they kick you off the insurance plan?

They can investigate whether you failed to report any preexisting conditions, or otherwise violated terms of your insurance. Things that would seem to you to be a technicality may be to their lawyers a breach of contract. Do you have a lawyer who is up for that fight?

[1] https://www.justice.org/sites/default/files/file-uploads/Ins...
Do you mind writing a blog post somewhere explaining to noobs how this can be done?

This will be a great post with lots of traffic I imagine!

Thanks, great work!
No, not stupid at all. The author was pursuing her dream of being an author. Without AirBnB this would not have been possible. 12-16k would definitely support an international life style in much cheaper countries.

Not everyone can be a millionaire software engineer in Silicon Valley coming up with apps to pitch to venture capitalists.
For Denuvo they have been better lately at implementing the checks in a way where it does not interfere with performance or if it does, it is very difficult to detect.

But for DRM overall and Denuvo there are numerous issues, and thanks to the "make a game and forget it", principle they games continue to suffer from bad implementation. In particular games with the older iterations of Denuvo continue to have performance issues.

To expand upon this, the older a game continues to have DRM the more problems become apparent. For example just recently in December, where Disney's decision not to renew Securom caused legal owners Tron:Evolution to have their game stop working.[0]

Who knows what fate all those expensive Denuvo titles have in store for them, but we probably have a fair idea. Due to the resources needed to bypass more difficult DRM, often the updated version of the game will remain uncracked and that could make it possibly unplayable for the average consumer if things go south.

[0] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191204/09531743504/disne...
Moving fast has different interpretations if you're a turtle, elephant, or cheetah.
DRM often creates bugs and performance problems for users, so removing it makes users happy.
I got a stand-alone FLIR for that purpose. Though there's also some which you can connect under a camera via USB-C/microUSB/lightning.

Everything on the same physical device has its own pros/cons.
I'm wondering how this comment will age in 10 years...
I am actually thinking on writing it since long ago...
But not motivated enough... :/
Reading that thread, Alec apparently is not a patent lawyer and others pointed out what is really happening
Much cheaper than what? I also can get direct primary care through Sutter, and although the experience is probably worse (less time during appt, longer wait time) it’s probably cheaper than the concierge model of One Medical. At the very least it allows a doctor to scale to more patients.
Freedom is basically capital, because the US is a plutocracy. You're either lucky enough to inherit economic freedom, or you can buy it - if you make enough money to be free of all debt and acquire substantial capital.

The opportunities to do this are strictly limited and anyone starting cold is against very tough odds. And the activities that are rewarded are strongly biased towards rent-seeking and monopolistic market exploitation over less aggressively self-serving provision of goods and services.

Obviously it's not impossible. But if you want true economic freedom, your personal and professional choices are - ironically - very tightly constrained.
Because? Seeing US/non-US comments I think that is your local quirk.

Nobody discusses porn video content and actors themselves, except “bald guy from brazzers” and other folklore. Otherwise it is the same technology, much better and advanced than e.g. youtube freezing crapware show. Idk why someone should not discuss that. Because if you know that it means you watch porn?
Off course my opinion is based on a very selective draw during traveling to many countries. However the conversation has been trending more and more negative on the United States topic and it's form of "democracy".

Noam Chomsky has written elaborate on corporatism and i think this POTUS function as an amplifier.

I argue people are not bad informed but do generalize bad malpractice elements of the USA to all Americans. The election of this president and everything that followed is seen as evidence by many people the USA is crazy.

And my understanding of the people living in the USA is they are still viewing bad malpractice as unintended consequence of the capitalism experiment initiated by the other politic parties behavior on either side of the coin.

In contrast Putin is not Russia and Xi is not China.
Alternate link: https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/comment-australia-i...
Extract:
Astrophysicist Ron Mallett believes he’s found a way to travel back in time — theoretically.

The tenured University of Connecticut physics professor recently told CNN that he’s written a scientific equation that could serve as the foundation for an actual time machine. He’s even built a prototype device to illustrate a key component of his theory — though Mallett’s peers remain unconvinced that his time machine will ever come to fruition.
Wow, this is cool! JSON structures resemble JMAP. I wonder what'd be the effort to add JMAP endpoint to this?
If you have a 5% chance of becoming a billionaire and a 95% chance of walking away from a failed startup with minor debts and lost time, the math says that your expected value for moving fast and breaking things is still quite high.

Of course, if you step outside yourself and also consider the downsides of failure for your employees, your investors, your customers, and the harm that a fast-and-loose approach could do for the public at large, or the environment, (or other externalities, depending on your business) it starts to get less attractive.

Being a sociopath who is "only looking out for #1" is a big advantage in business!
How's the development experience? Can you debug/step-in to the code?
Only for the record until soome 15 years ago, exchanging boards was easy, later disk PCB's contrain some "adaptive" data into a (soldered) EPROM (or Flash/whatever, anyway a memory chip), so now you have to de-solder the chip from the old board and re-solfer it on the new one.

There are dedicated hardwares+softwares (as an example the "PC-3000") that are capable of re-programming the chip on the new board with data extracted from the chip on the old board or to re-program them anew, but they are very pricey and only data recovery companies can afford them and the connected training/resources.

So:

1) simple card swapping won't work on any disk manufactured since (roughly) 2005 (possibly even earlier)

2) card swapping can still be made BUT you need to "migrate" the chip from the old board, it is usually an 8-pin SMD so it is doable at home, but not exactly easy-peasy if you are not familiar and experienced in dde-soldering and soldering
Not just well designed, but many core components have been iterated on for decades at this point.
Ethics are part of the curriculum in my software engineering classes, but the idea that it makes anyone less likely to do something someone else might consider unethical is dubious.

You can almosy always justify your actions with consequentialism just as the scientists who worked on the atomic bomb did.
> we developed a custom client library in Go to just send the logs straight to Loki (which we should probably open source at some point).

I'd be interested in seeing this, we're likely to start using Loki at Sourcegraph soon and would likely want this approach as well.
Radium, Heroin and other patent snake oil medicines were solved by innovation not regulation?

How did we innovate around lead in petrol or pipes? Or the health consequences of smoking? Adulteration of food?

CFCs?

Seems like appropriate use of regulation, punitive taxation and banning has a long history of working well, despite your economic dogma.
> The only drawback is that you are the one to maintain the OS upgrades, security, etc

Since you are running everything in docker this could probably be made easier by using a slimmed down distro with automatic updates.

You'll still need to make sure your docker images are updated and patched though.
Julia Gillard implemented a carbon tax that actually had an effect on slowing down emissions. There was no 'economic suicide' Your statement doesn't make sense. The carbon tax was reverted using lies by the current ruling party.
Economic suicide is what is happening to our collapsing planet right now.
We can't eat money and our crazy policies are killing us all. What is the cost of that?
> Russia is invading neighbours, actively escalating military tensions and sabre rattling.

In the specific case of Crimea, it's much more complicated than that. It is an invasion, but there's much more about it than just "Russia invading neighbors", you're oversimplifying things.

Russia invaded the Crimean Oblast within Ukraine, rather than all of Ukraine.

In the Soviet Union, Crimea was an Oblast of the Russian SFSR. First secretary Nikita Khrushchev, who was of Ukranian origin, transferred the governance of the Crimean oblast from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954 as a "symbolic gesture".

But after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, many Russians (an ethnic majority inside Crimea) were not satisfied with the resulting situation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_transfer_of_Crimea

https://www.britannica.com/place/Crimea/History
First Authorized Translation of Masahiro Mori's 1970 Essay “The Uncanny Valley”
You mean like Common Lisp and Smalltalk do.
Verbose? It’s an assembly language — of course it’s verbose. That’s what makes it low level.

Are you sure you’re not confusing the code that the author uses to demonstrate running inline code from JavaScript with the wasm code itself?
What's worse is they are very resistant to change.

Think Banks and Windows XP. Except without Microsoft drawing a line in the sand and saying that they're no longer offering even paid support for it.

If the change doesn't bring in value for the shareholders (or business) there will be no change.
Secure EcmaScript, a runtime for running third-party code safely
Native Applications with Racket
Correct. It is a misleading term, imo.
Serverless: Somebody else's server
Yeah the list is indeed quite small.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiled_language
It’s an extension to a language. Would you call generics a language? Is TSX a different language from TypeScript?
I am a founder of software house that was using magenta/purple colors in commercial products even when it was not hip back then in 2007.

The main signals behind those colors: out of the box, above and beyond, useful, pretty much reliable while being somewhat playful and comfortable.

Had a few supercilious looks when I presented the products and corresponding logos to my peers back then, but it all played well in commercial terms. Customers loved the aesthetics.

Regarding goliath companies using the same guerrilla design: they are mostly dishonest. But any mass design is somewhat dishonest, so I cannot blame them here.
In that regard, the current offensive action may as well be viewed as a breath of fresh air.

If blood must be shed to end tyranny, perhaps it is a worthwhile gamble. The Iranian people gain nothing from allowing the current regime to grow. A US-Iran war would almost certainly result in a democratic Iran, with a connected and educated populace capable of maintaining it. I think one of the main flaws in Iraq and Afghanistan was simply assuming that you could establish democracy anywhere and then the citizens of the country would come together to form a functional democratic government. Iran's populace is much better equipped for democracy. They have already started begging for it [1].

I don't really believe the air strike was conducted with good intentions. But it may end up having a positive side effect for the Iranian people if the current government is ousted.

I'll end this by posting something I wrote earlier on reddit:

"I mean, it's really an interesting conundrum, when is war with anyone ever a good idea?

And yet over the course of history there are several wars we have fought that are more or less universally accepted as being good ideas: the Revolutionary War, World War I, and World War II.

So obviously, at some point, the calculation must be worth it. But I don't know if it is possible for any human being to perform that calculation with the mental capacity we are all given. What I do know is that the Iraq war absolutely ended the suffering of people under Saddam Hussein's dictatorship, and the Afghanistan war somewhat ended the suffering of people under Taliban rule (the Taliban unfortunately still exists but is definitely not as strong as it used to be). What I don't know, and I don't think anyone can really know, is if the loss of those governments and introduction of our armed forces led to a general improvement on quality of life of Iraqi and Afghani citizens. I know the gut reaction is "obviously not" but neither of us are likely living in those countries at the moment, and so we really don't know how life has changed for them.

The million dollar question is: will toppling Iran's government and ending the suffering of its citizenry under it be a net benefit for its people, or is the status quo shielding them from an even worse fate? How can you really know?"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019-20_Iranian_protests
Forgive my ignorance but can someone explain how these kinds of fires usually start and why couldn't they stop them when they were small and easy to put away?
Only if you think of single-occupancy homes. A married couple with 2 kids will be around 350k USD, peanuts for California but enough to buy a home for the family in many places in the US.
It looks like these don't meet (1) because they don't have "a graphical user interface that enables the user to identify objects"
Flutter is also cross platform, a big advantage. No matter how well the Jetpack Compose experience is going to be, it's still only Android.
Google's 'Most Badass Engineer' Jeff Dean Facts: ProgrammerHumor
If you seared your passphrase into your fingertips, sure. There's a reason it's not just 'fingerprints only' or 'passphrase only'.
> If lithium batteries become the new "oil", then lithium rich countries will become targets

Like Afghanistan, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining_in_Afghanistan#Lithium
I remember back when IE was the standard, and the majority of webpages where broken messes because Microsoft didn’t care about standards and only had their own interests in mind. Then Pheonix (now firefox) came along and pushed for a positive change, Then Google came in backing the movement full force with Chrome, it seemed natural to think that Google cared about the web, cared about developers and cared about the users because they where dealing with a problem central to us all. But apparently the problem they saw was not incompatibility or broken pages, the problem they saw was just that Microsoft and not them where in charge. Now we are back to the same situation with Google breaking the web much more actively this time even because they are coopting the standards bodies, and they just don’t care about anything but their own internal development. “We broke your website on a major browser but really that’s your own fault for not redeveloping it with our newest api’s every 8 months. And obviously we’re doing the right thing, just look at this video with 36 likes!”

It’s time to abandon Chrome if you love the open and stable web. The power has gone to these devs mind and they’ve gone from unintentionally disruptive to actively destructive.
so, if this runs android: how about extracting the launcher and putting it on a 40USD Android Go device... Just kidding ;).

But really: if you buy aforementioned device, don't sign into google play, get your apps from f-droid, enable b/w-mode and disable the browser you've got yourself another light phone for 40USD+1h of your net income.
I'm not surprised to see the name of Qrypt's CTO (Denis Mandich) listed as one of the "inventors" on the application, but to see the name of a New York University professor (Yevgeniy Dodis) is rather baffling to me. Even more since the latter is supposed to be an expert in the field of crypto.

I would think that an academic professor should know better than to try patent something that is already known publicly so well. I can't help but wonder if this is just pure cynicism at work: gaming a broken patent system (for profit), at the expense of (and to hell with) any academic/scientific authority/credibility/reputation. Or is there something I'm completely missing here?

Regardless of whether the patent is granted or not, and unless I'm misunderstanding the whole situation, this professor should probably be deeply ashamed of himself and maybe even be ousted from academia altogether.

EDIT: Not to even start the discussion of how mathematical algorithms shouldn't be patentible in the first place.

EDIT #2: Changed CEO to CTO (typo mistake)
I have tried out loki, too. But I was not satisfied because you have to run an extra server for it. I have only a very small app so I was searching for a much simpler solution and found https://goaccess.io/ . The nice thing is that it is very flexible (you can pipe your logs in command line, but also run as a server) and if you are using standard tools like e.g. nginx or apache, the setup only takes an evening :)

Here are a few more monitoring tools listed https://turtle.community/topic/monitoring

It is always a question of complexity and how much time you want to spend :) At first I used Multitail to peek into server logs via ssh. Then I switched to GoAccess and if you really have a greater infrastructure I would maybe switch to Loki or ELK.
If you’re willing to spend thousands of dollars, book a 1-week trip to a slightly remote place where internet is hard or even impossible to get. Don’t bring your phone. Just money. The location doesn’t even have to be in the middle of the woods. Just a small town or village where there’s nothing much more to do than sightseeing and walking around and having a drink at the local bar/pub. A beach resort is also a nice option as you’ll have fun activities to fill your days. Of course a modern resort will have internet so the temptation will be harder to beat so maybe pick a tiny one.

In any case, the idea is to have a physical disconnection with your phone/the internet so that you can’t satisfy any urge to check Reddit. The start will be rough but over time your fear of missing out will disappear. I find that if I spend time traveling or with family (where browsing reddit or similar is not easy) I realise when coming back home that I haven’t missed anything. I used to browse Reddit a lot. Nowadays I just check /r/soccer once in a while and spend time doing a lot more of other things (music, coding, reading, nothing).
While Australia has the wrong climate plan, Australia only contributes 1% of the CO2 produced in the world. So even if Australia went carbon free, it would still have the same problems--carbon dioxide circulates throughout the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas_emissions_by_Au...
An alternative hypothesis is that the cryptocurrency ecosystem is suffering the same luck as the Torrent protocol: the Torrent protocol is well alive[1] but never mainstream since most people use streaming services as most people use the traditional finance system. At the end it is about convenience.

[1] https://torrentfreak.com/filesharing-and-vpn-traffic-grow-ex...
I agree that the matter is not settled [edit: in the sense that there is criticism of Chomskian linguistics, from linguists] and that there is debate on the poverty of the stimulus and universal grammar etc, but the post you link to is not a very good summary of it. I recommend Alexander Clark's "Linguistic Nativism and the Poverty of the Stimulus" for a good look on the subject from the non-Chomskian poit of view.

Note however that, as far as I understand it, there is no controversy about the lack of negative examples of language given to children by their parents.
Innovation is what brought us to this point. The techno-optimistic viewpoint such as yours is incredibly pessimistic. Rather than believe that humans can engage each other to create cultures that fix these problems, you fantasize about future magic that will remove the need for human input. New technology won’t fix the underlying problems.

- Jevon’s paradox. Much of our heavy use of energy is because of increasing energy efficiency

- population growth. We continue to increase the food supply to increase the already ridiculous population size.

- materialism. In the absence of a culture for many people to fit in, we demand toys, gadgets, international travel, non seasonal food, etc.

- relentless pursuit of economic growth at all costs. The belief that the only solution to the distribution problems in our capitalist economy is to grow.
Neither Geertz nor Doctorow are making an assertion about distinguishing winks vs. twitches, and the assertion they are actually making is the opposite of stupid.

They are pointing out that the system under observation, the system of interest (a person, a conversation, a society) is extremely complex and when it emits a signal it is not possible in the general case to know what that signal “means” without some understanding of the system’s state and processes.

We are not capable of directly interrogating, representing or computing over the true state and processes of these systems, so we must use heuristics. Humans develop “theory of mind”, the cognitive ability to model other people's cognitive state and process, including their human values and motivations. People with a better theory of mind, which makes more accurate, more fine-grained inferences in a wider variety of contexts, have a decisive social competitive advantage.

This doesn't even touch on “theory of relationship”... when you take a system of humans, what are their shared human values? How are value conflicts negotiated in groups at every point of scale? What is the current state of the negotiated compromises?

A dataset and a machine learning algorithm is an observer, inferrer and predictor of human and social systems whose actual state and processes are irreducibly large and invisible, and whose human values (and the domain of possible human values) are mysterious.

Even if we gloss over the symbol grounding problem, it is clear that machine learning systems cannot be expected to operate in a way that is aligned with the human values of individual or groups.

In the worst case they may operate to extinguish those values, and as an unintended consequence hugely diminish quality of life.

And maybe we won't notice, because surely there is an “Overton window” of imaginable possible lives, and ML has the potential to slowly and insidiously shift that window until “being happy and fulfilled” becomes “being in the centre-right of the main distribution” across the major ML models in society.

And yes, I do realize that similar normalizing forces have been present in society forever, operating with similar effect. (And I recognize their value in reducing transaction costs of all kinds). But to date they have been based on human-driven mechanisms which lacked the ability to centrally micro-observe and micromanage behaviour on a global scale. Alternative value systems could evade these pressures and develop, compete and co-exist, at every point of social scale.

But with the advent of the global Internet and sufficient computational throughput, ML has the potential to micro-observe and micromanage everyone everywhere. It can know more about us than we know about ourselves, while entirely missing the point of being human.
> why not just make a fork where Lua is the default scripting language?

doesn't neovim have first-party Lua scripting support?
reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping-Pong_virus
This mentions that they're using S3 as the interface, and I'm not sure if SES provides POP/IMAP support for your email clients.