skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Your comment exemplifies social conformity. The concern over getting fired for choosing a brand is an interesting concept.

I do enjoy minimizing negative consequences and maximizes positive ones. Although that doesn't neccesarily mean doing what is popular, ultimately if you want to label me a social conformist for that, then by all means.

Re the thumb thing. I had never heard that, i always assumed it meant estimating the length of something based on your thumb.
I know this is veering into Black Mirror territory, but we're not too far off from being able to automate this with a chatbot. Particularly with dementia patients, it would be a kindness to have a patient, listening voice that plays along with their delusions and never gets tired of hearing the same stories or answering the same questions.
Nothing. That is best case scenario. That is friendship.
Jeff is the only person that can fix this?
I really wish flutter to succeed on Desktop.
It checks most of the points.
1. Modern reactive API like React
2. Better rendering performance than electron
3. Interoperable API between web/mobile/desktop
I think this is somewhat of a more recent occurance, and possibly only GCP related. I've only had a couple GCP interactions now but all of them have gotten me to stay away from that specific portion of Google.
Even with a pretty big pricing gap ($100 for Apple and $60 for Podswap, per pair), this seems like a risky business to enter. What makes them think that Apple won't drop the price of their service by $30 and put them out of business?

Apple could do swaps much more efficiently due to their physical stores (where you could swap in real-time), and most people would pay a $10 premium over Podswap to have the Apple name behind their purchase.

The only thing that would give me comfort about Podswaps' business model is the fact that Apple undoubtedly would prefer to sell you a new pair rather than fix up your old pair.
A MS dev writing a blog on building MS’ own distro of Linux on his _Macbook_ must have Ballmer sweating bullets.
It's just not the "glass windows":

> And I saw people taking pictures inside all the time, so I just had to double check with an employee.

McDonald recieved permission to take photos, he just didn't disclose how he would take the photo or what he would use them for. If there is anything unethical here, it is how the pictures were taken and why (and lack of disclosure thereof), not the taking of photos itself.
At least on mobile there is no information on timezones on the elder side form.

The form for the getting paid side doesn't seem to ask for international telephone prefix. This makes me wonder whether Germans (or Indians where $12 per hour would go far) who speak English fluently would be welcome through the website.

Does silver dial serve as a middle man for the calls, so it can record them for quality control purposes or with an automatic transcript that is screened for keywords that indicate abuse of the elders such as scams?
But they won't.
It seems pretty clear that Google has made their search worse to sell more ads.
My business might have 32 days before it's shut down by NYC
Congress could have ended the Iraq War, the Afghan War, reined in domestic spying, broken up the banks, passed serious financial and bankruptcy reforms after the '08 crisis or even repealed the ACA. They did exactly none of these things. Why is that, since they have so much power?

Congress has power theoretically, on paper. So does the Monarch in the UK or the National People's Congress or, historically, the Supreme Soviet. But Congress these days rarely exercises real power. Congress is mostly a rubber stamp with some third-rate acting and drama.

The Fed has real power. They started paying interest on reserves in the wake of the financial crisis, and seemed to have no explicit authority to do so. They also started buying much riskier assets than they had before, and also seemed to just so it. They did the various iterations of QE with no real guidance or oversight.

And the Fed controls the money, the lifeblood of any organization. Without the money, Congress does nothing, the president does nothing. That's a lot of power that is frankly unmatched in the US government.
€1000 is an awfully low threshold.
Yeah, otherwise the statement in essence would just be, its a fact that whatever happens, happens. While i don't disagree, its not a particularly interesting claim without the "as intended"
I believe the cases of steep sales drop were observed at the moment when a cracked game binary appeared. No game studio would want to spend resources (developers work and licensing cost) implementing anti-piracy for nothing.
How on earth would that happen? It will just be as expensive in Europe as in the US.

You really think that nobody outside the US are making drugs? Like no drugs are ever developed in Europe??
Interesting idea. What about a system where the callers are volunteers? And as far as vetting the volunteers, you could utilize the vast and willing pool of high school students involved in community outreach organizations like National Honor Society, etc.
By generating the QR code locally via JS. You can check the source code https://github.com/bndw/wifi-card/blob/master/package.json#L...
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There’s another name for a central bank digital currency. It’s called “a bank account at the central bank”. Hardly Orwellian, but hardly innovative either.

Traditional paper money is actually a zero interest bearer bond. Essentially a simple receipt for liabilities at the central bank that can be passed around like an endorsed cheque.

Since regulators have steadily been eliminating the abilities of cheques to act as promissory notes rather than bills of exchange for decades, it’s hardly surprising to see their next assault on the “bearer transfer process” of traditional paper money.

The whole point is to change it from a promissory note to a bill of exchange at the very least.
Not really. And for those cases that do, we only require it with the merchant, not the central bank.
Yea, I kind of agree. It's great the entrepreneur found this little niche, but at the same time I feel horrible that there is a sufficient market for this! People willing to pay $100 so their loved ones can talk to someone for 30 minutes, presumably instead of spending that time with them.

Imagine having that conversation: "So, mom, you're going to get a call every week or so from this new friend I found--he's very nice, and he's going to ask how your day went and listen to you. What, ma? Why don't I just call more myself? Well..."
No, there was no increase in health outcomes.
Indeed.. While it could be seen as "sad", I see it as refreshing.. Someone saw someone else struggling and had an idea to try to help.
What will you do about that sadness?
It sounds like your feedback is "your margin is very transparent".
Well, AWS does have a strong CDN offering called Cloudfront so it is surprising.
> Re (2) you misread - it's the "waving hand" emoji which can mean a bad reaction to something dumb.

This is where things get complicated: How can I know you're right and they're wrong? Thats no different to indirect references to things and people: so "dear leader" is understood to refer to the DPRK but in fact, contextually can be used to refer to any upward manager.

The inherent ambiguity of meaning is a problem in all communication and across both words, and shapes, it's meaning is highly contextual, and I would suggest fluid: in 5 years time this specific wechat emoji/emoticon meaning will have shifted.

"fab" probably had about 4-5 years of real currency in the 1960s. Now, its use is mostly confined to the near geriatrics or ironically. (and, to kids who watch "thunderbirds" F.A.B. probably lacks context)
> There was no consent to install software onto their computers.

Higher up in the article when the author first introduces the software, they say this line:

> I just had to double check with an employee.

Very vague, yes. It's entirely plausible that the author deliberately hid details in that discussion, or just unintentionally communicated it poorly. But in the absence of any evidence towards that, I don't think it's unreasonable to assume that the author is telling the truth.
To answer the question you asked, the show is based on a neighborhood of Mr. Rogers, with permission from the Fred Rogers foundation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Tiger%27s_Neighborhood#...
In Czechia we have sufficient capacity of ambulances and other emergency services. What happens is that off peak they serve to help move old people to hospital, like a super expensive taxi. In these cases I can see how "emergency Uber" could help. On the other hand the doctors serving in these ambulances are usually extremely well prepared, the best MD students go to study to serve there. Even if it is one in a hundred cases, they will recognize the stroke from a random chest pain. Replacing them would surely increase the death rate in these cases...
Google will attack and subvert every nationalist politician around the world because they are existentially dependent on globalism and weak national borders. Anyone who is a nationalist is racist and hates freedom according to Google. Nevermind self-determination. China is their worse nightmare because they are not dumb enough to let profiteers monitor and manipulate their citizens. Other countries are waking up to the reality that allowing these American imperialist multinationals to monitor, control, and ultimately culturally rape their indigenous culture might not be a good thing. When he says a free and open internet is under attack it means that countries are waking up and taking power back from Google. Can't happen soon enough. Will be great for startups and decentralized platforms. Go to a foreign country and clone the big tech companies and build a good-enough solution so that the people will have an alternative when they are ready to kick FAANG out.
Your "it" is ambiguous. Piracy doesn't hurt sales, but DRM certainly does.
I agree, the stated goal is to build a database with the names and contact information of lonely, isolated seniors. I don't think the designer is actually malicious, but if he were...
Imagine not being you, and not having a family.
> I do not expect it in any way to abstract away the CPU

C was especially designed to do that!
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53100198/what-is-the-pre...
nah. it's the difference between your phone being intercepted when the police have a warrant and mass surveillance.

In no world, no matter how poorly trained this hypothetical apple employee that allegedly gave them permission is, they would have not agreed to this.
I never understood Emojis beyond the text-based smilies. I'm the one who disables "Convert my text smiley to icons" in the WordPress preferences every time I install one, ever since it was introduced.

I have a 13-year old daughter, and she explained to me that my text-based smilies when converted becomes those old-school emojis. These can be interpreted in various ways by the millennials. I tried learning the new emojis and tried few times; but my daughter laughed at me, and asked me to stopped and instead she stopped using emojis with me. She texts me in full sentences while conversing with me.

I was neither in the SMS-esque shortened text bandwagon. I hated texting until iPhone came out. Still never got used to emojis.
>That's illegal!

Any theories why nothing happened in the end if this is clearly illegal? Maybe because it was a public place, people were already recorded by at least Apple security cameras?

Or maybe the law did not applied in this exact case?
> Then, since most people have insurance, there wasn't enough of a market for the older formulations for anybody to bother making them for the margins you get for making a generic.

Is there some research confirming that? It doesn't quite match my out-of-us experience with other drugs. I get a choice of 2-3 brands of ibuprofen and another 1-2 generics for it. Why wouldn't the same apply to insulin? I expect that it's also not 100% covered? (please correct me here)
IANAL but this sounds pretty illegal to me. It's illegal even if you do this to one computer. Doing it to all computers in the store without asking?
Thankfully, anyone on Android 10 and up already has sharing of wifi via we built in.

As should any of the new routers.
sounds interesting. Is it for USB device or USB host? Specs aren’t entirely clear.
Presumably nothing, except for maybe a contract that would rarely be enforced in practice. Tutoring sites like Wyzant are also like this. They make money on the first session and the portion of people who go on through the service. Wyzant does things to try and make the marginal cost of each lesson more attractive, such as the fact that you can make a payment at the push of a button with the amount filled in, instead of working out a separate agreement by PayPal or similar. Another thing Wyzant does is to give you a higher cut the more you teach on the site, which incentivizes you to use the site even with your longer-term students, to rack up. Doesn't look like there's anything similar going on here.

At any rate, it's kinda a weird business model, but it's been tried in parallel situations and led to successful sites.
You could just use google to find the same thing in a few years. The project is so simple I could replicate it and have it hosted in a few hours.
I don't think it's fair to say "fuck you" to the OP.

They didn't create the situation where millions of old people have been basically cast out by their families. Yes, they're profiting from a shitty situation, and perhaps their proposed solution is ineffective, but that's more than most people are going about it.
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This was the original idea - I just think tapping that labor market will be a lot more difficult.
yeah, Amazon is past the stage where they had sysadmins. They now have armies of Operations People with SDEs being the fallback in case a runbook does not cover the current failure
What ires me over this one is that they rationalize it by thinking "it´s green energy, so it´s not a problem if we waste it". Meanwhile, for every megawatt they put into mining bitcoin, someone burns almost a half ton of coal. They can decide to put it on the grid to offset energy production from other sources, yet they decide to "waste it" on bitcoin. (As a sibling noted, it being wasted is a question of opinion)
Let me be clear: this company is asking for your elderly loved one's name, email, and phone#. before you have paid a single cent. This is a very clear phishing operation and all of the supportive comments on HN are either in on this scam or crazy naive.
> But China and Russia do not interfere nearly as much with countries all over the planet.

Tell that to Taiwan and Ukraine. Or go back and tell it to the entire eastern Europe, Afghanistan, Tibet etc.

I also guess most Cubans today would have wished Sovjet didn't interfere back in the day.

America and the west generally is prone to mindless self-flaggelation.
Yes. Conform by default then deviate when you understand why things are that way seems like a safer approach. "Because everyone else is stupid" doesn't count as understanding.
There's Mercury. I think it's a pretty good language. It's better than Lisp at least, which doesn't do anything interesting for execution power or safety besides table stakes like memory management.
the question is: would you be at your desk?
Also I have a very strong impression Legend of Mana for PC is... emulated.

It has the same slowndowns it used to have on PSX, but somehow, worse, the game runs quite poorly during combat, stuttering when there is any new sprite on the screen.

I think they lost the source code, and made an emulator just f or this game, to allow them to shove the new "remastered" assets in (the remastered assets are just AI-processed backgrounds... quite poorly sometimes even, for example in one screen something that is clearly some grass near a fountain on PS1 became a green smudge on PC).
I had the same problem with remaining 50 uen moving country from Japan to Europe. But call to Apple Support solved the problem..
The author seems to have asked:

> I saw people taking pictures inside all the time, so I just had to double check with an employee
You can't force people to think the way you want them to think or believe the things you want them to believe. Not ethically, anyway.
Publishers want to protect first month of sales, which is the biggest one for projects like RE (heavily advertised offline games). So, I would consider it a success
I prefer a more competitive, dynamic, and diverse market for almost all products as well. However, most of this thread is pie in the sky wishful thinking that busting big corps will solve all of societies ills. Attribution of these ills to mega corps often ignores the actual problem and obfuscates the real solutions.
Can you normally do this?
It costs 75€ in Europe, which is stupid since a new pair costs 130€.

https://support.apple.com/es-es/airpods/repair/service
My first thought was what country is this in? Different countries and cultures have different attitudes to work and workers. My first guess was India or one of its neighbors, where I have witnessed such abuses first hand. As a westerner I have to my horror even seen rows of 30 developers, with overseers walking up and down with a large stick behind them hitting those that do not meet some unknown (to me) standard.

Too much power is held by the employer, and workers are just resources that can be abused, mistreated and replaced at will. While laws might exist, the rule of law does not, leaving employees open to abuse (in some cases without pay) without recourse.

This is a failure of society and workers collectively to provide and demand decent conditions. It also reflects that software development is a commodity skill in oversupply.

You normally have the right to take your employment elsewhere, but what to do in an abusive culture, where “junior developers” are a dime a dozen? Where dozens of eager applicants are ready for abuse just for your chair in front of a computer?
They only really care about share prices and those haven't been affected.
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Yeah I think just the shipping for sending airpods back and forth (in a shipping bag) could come close to the waste of just buying a new pair.
You'll find what you're trying to pay them for eventually if they put you back on their starting page — and they know it.
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The analogy doesn’t really stack up, flying a plane is nothing like designing software or even managing software systems. Imagine if aviation had a few million kinds of planes to worry about where pilots were expected to modify their planes in flight, in might begin to resemble IT.
It is not a good situation, but OP didn't create the problem and he isn't going to get people to call their parents more often.
Please, stop, before they make this an OA question for next year.@
To make my claim more specific (not all black neighborhoods are dangerous, just ghettos) and because a far larger proportion of primarily-black neighborhoods are ghettos than primarily-white neighborhoods (since there are far fewer black people and they're a disadvantaged demographic)
This is probably why most new games have some sort of online multiplayer requirement - the DRM/purchase check is required to use the online, so a pirated copy means little.
How dare they push me
Another possibility is that the data is just wrong. Subject reported data on diet and exercise is notoriously inaccurate.
Jeff would fix this by sending out a couple of emails containing only a single character: ?

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/why-amazon-executives-dr...
Then please explain why they ask for your elderly loved one's phone and email before payment. This is a scam (or RIPE for scamming), and I truly hope you and yours don't get duped (and feel loved!)
...After reading the first half of your comment, I thought you were serious. Only after the second half did it finally dawn on me that you were probably being sarcastic. Seriously.
Yep. My first developer position was at an audio software company that made a plugin used by EDM artists. The year our software was cracked (2009ish), our sales dropped by 65%. Support tickets also nearly quadrupled including a massive increase in refund requests and chargebacks because customers realized they could get it for free instead.
Wouldn't be surprised if they serve .au from China
I'd feel like there are easier ways to get large databases of vulnerable victims. I know there are dark web stores where you can get fake sign-in pages for around US$50 a pop; surely the same exists for lists of phone numbers.
Which isn't that bad. The oil came from under ground. Stick it back there and its not too bad. The real problem is when it ends up in rivers and oceans.
Yes. It is being made by Elon Musk. Who is undoubtedly the misunderstood hero of this whole situation, of course.

(/s, if it wasn't obvious).
Also a notorious case: Final Fantasy XV famously could run the full game using the demo binary, this is how it was "cracked" before launch, when players realized the demo binary could run the preloaded content before release.

Only AFTER the official launch, performance complaints started, then people realized the official launch binary, that has Denuvo, has performance issues, while the demo binary, that has no DRM, runs perfectly fine, using the exact same data.
People say this to acknowledge out loud the perceived change in how Google makes product decisions. In the early days, the lead priority was an awesome, focused search experience. Today, the lead priority seems to be comportment with the revenue model.

This explains user-hostile deprecations like newsgroup search (a literal search engine they bought and abandoned), RSS Reader, etc.

In addition, the ever-decreasing visual distinction between organic search results and ads on Google SERPs is well documented. As is the ever-increasing encroachment of data collection into all their products. Look at how Chrome works with Google accounts now vs 5 or 10 years ago.

Google went from a search engine company who runs ads so they can afford to keep building cool things, to an ad company that runs a search engine because it provides provide data and inventory for its ad network.
In case you hadn't seen it, Australia tried to ban the use of cash payments for higher value transactions. It didn't end up passing but it is expected to be revived in future.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-07/cash-ban-law-10000-do...
Your original post complained about "Dial a friend" being a bad substitute for a real relationship (I agree). It didn't mention scamming at all.
I think the idea is that the doctor is actively intervening in your medical treatment, so they have a responsibility to make sure they're getting it right. This person is free to stop taking their meds and die alone whenever they like.

Visits to the doctor should be cheaper and more efficient, but people shouldn't stop going to the doctor.