skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the Infinite"

Games are infinity generators.

Mark Zuckerberg and Sid Meier are superficial heros. They just stand around with their 6 inch chimp brains staring at that Infinity they have seeded, trying to take credit for what works and hide behind good intentions for what fails. They and their behavior distracts, and should be filtered out of any discussion of Games as infinity generators.
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I actually use Social Media to promote my music... The things platforms don't understand is that there are multiple potential uses for social sites. That is why the one script or narrative they create and impose on their user base to manage everyone is severely flawed from the "one platform fits all: model.

That's also why tightening moderation and introducing complex protocols for success/productivity/satisfaction/merit/growth over a large user base drives people off of platforms and kills a user base quickly... It's better for social apps to stay relatively small and tight knit. They all grow and wither as monopolies, with no way of returning to the past success as far as I've seen thus far.
So they can institutionalise racism in eductation and keep breeding the underclass to maintain the family trust.

These guys came way before Apple and Google.
With this rethoric, you cant rule out lightsabers either. Or any science fiction stuff at all.
I used a microwriter in around '85. It was kind-of cool. Took more time to invest in than I was willing to give for a non-standard input device, but it definitely worked.
Only thing which prevented me going fully into Phoenix was that there was no good library for authentication and admin interface at that time.

Are there any good libraries like devise and activeadmin now ?
Yet they have been advertising its problems I think. I'm not that into Windows though.
> has probably descended entirely into virtual reality

Even if it was possible, what would "descend" mean -- it would mean that someone could make a perfect virtual clone of me inside a virtual world.

What is the incentive for ME to do that? It's like saying that in a parallel universe a perfect clone of me is a billionaire if I so choose.

> singularity

What does that actually mean?
How does this compare to current EU guidelines?

Air quality in Europe is already in a sorrid state
Oh well in that case, you would have to have a totally different conversation about bundled payments.

The price (chargemaster) that the hospital might list for all of the a-la-carte care you're provided is totally separate from how they will get paid on it. If you present at the ER and are triaged with stabilizing care, the nurse can't tell you that price because it will depend on your status at discharge, which is not yet known or in her scope of license to determine. If the doctor sees you and sends you home, that's one price (tied to Medicare outpatient prospective payment system or OPPS). Depending on how severe your issue is, the triaging care, such as pain relievers, may or may not be included in the "evaluation and management" procedure coding level you're assigned. There's one of those codes and typically separate bills for both the facility and the attending physician on your visit. If you're admitted to the hospital, what happened in the ER is not really relevant anymore, because now the facility portion of your care will be paid for based on your diagnosis related group (MS-DRG) at discharge, which has no bearing on how many a-la-carte services/drugs you received. Your insurer negotiates payment per DRG (usually as a spread to Medicare) but the hospital, recognizing that they can get screwed and lose a fortune if they have a really complicated case, will probably negotiate a stoploss provision for "outlier claims", saying something like after $750,000 of billed charges, we don't want MS-DRG reimbursement anymore, we want 35% of billed charges.

The regulation, primarily driven by Medicare, prevents any of this from being simple enough to communicate at point of care.

That doesn't even touch the administrative burden of documenting and collecting on all of that care. If your care wasn't meticulously documented by providers making hundreds an hour to type longform notes, it's essentially free, because no provider will risk billing for care they can't support with documentation. Once insurance pays (or not, they might deny the claim), they will often say "yeah we agreed to pay you x but the patient has 20% coinsurance so here's 80%, you need to talk to him about the rest". The hospital and especially caregivers are not aware of how much of your annual out of pocket max you've spent (thereotically they could check with the insurer, but not realistically in an ER), so maybe you have 20% coinsurance or maybe you don't, only you and the insurance company can realistically know that before the hospital sends the bill.

So now that you've glimpsed one hellscape of a reimbursement scenario, which price did you want the nurse to tell you?

It's totally insane and it all starts with CMS and the insurers. The hospitals would love to simplify and have menu pricing for your care, run your card, and send you on your way. No insurer would contract to pay that way because it would "incentivize the providers to administer unnecessary care".
Well, I always felt the same about NanoPore sequencing and here we are. As a biologist it’s difficult to imagine that we can’t tackle all of these problems. Sure it may take longer than initially expected, like fusion reactors.

Maybe we’ll get there in another way, by culturing a cow that can walk but has no central nervous system? But we’ll get there.
Also don't take any important dependency on any Google service. If Gmail is your primary email you may end up locked out of everything associated with it.
Please accept my humble apology for offending you and any others with my sincere attempt at being truthful. It was not my intent in the least to evoke your ad hominem. I do appreciate that you recognized and acknowledge my argument as sound despite unfortunate self-righteousness of which I admit I was unaware. If you could see yourself to overlooking my error, I will endeavor to be more careful next time.
Perhaps law needs to be that software needs to be open sourced after some years of product launch or when official support ends - then community can over?
Why Goodreads is hard to unseat (part 1)
LG acquires Israeli automotive cybersecurity startup Cybellum
Isn't that easily accomplished by storing a disk image? (e.g. clobezilla, ssd migration software, snapshots,...). For that the OS is completely irrelevant.
The preview for it is available so in a way it is already out. The general release is also very soon -- October 5th -- so the latest previews are likely fairly close to the final version.
China is a fake headless dragon gallivanted on by the international community's opportunists who've domesticated the U. S. and China Communist Party in debt. The virus outbreak is no surprise on the spectrum of repeat stupidity going from little accidents that happen to children falling out of windows and industrial accidents blowing up a blast on the scale of sound traveling faster than the followup shattering of windows.
You can find lots of instances of people maintaining old software, a lot of times just fans. Nobody is going to maintain anything just for you but we should give the opportunity at least just in case there is enough critical mass.

About Linux: is not switching to a new version an update in itself? Maybe your remark would be more correct saying: "older versions don't get fixes". In this case as I said maybe there is enough market, or maybe you have enough money to pay someone to do the job.

The problem are proprietary systems that remain closed when going out of business. It's great when at least some of them close but say "here is the code just in case someone wants it, for us it no longer makes monetary sense"
More over, they have a bit of a raid 0 problem.

There more studies you include, the greater the chance you'll get a bad one. If you look at where these meta-analyses often fail, you'll often see just a few "Bad" studies that end up corrupting their results.

You'd think the statistical tools they bring to bear in these would be resistant to this, but it appears to not be the case in several recent cases.
Improbable Research recorded their own performance to bypass YouTube Takedown
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Seven Ways I’ve Almost Killed FreshBooks
It's not really fair to compare costs when the whole benefit of lab-grown meat is to include the externalities of industrialized natural meat.
This reminds me of how we used to type on pre-smart phone era phones.

Eg https://phonesdata.com/files/models/Nokia-E51-807.jpg

The funny thing with those little handsets was, with a bit practice you could actually get very quick at typing. Quicker even than on QWERTY keyboards on touch screen phones (at least you had tactile buttons).
>A growing pile of video-game histories [...] suggest that the medium has always had collective effort at its heart, from its academic beginnings to its ascent into everyday life. In Meier’s memoir, we discover that he was a good game-maker when he fought this essential fact, but that he became great when he learned to embrace it.

>The strength of the modding community is, instead, the very reason the series survived.

Oddly, the best games to bear his imprimatur, Civ II, and (by far) Alpha Centauri, were not headed by Meier. It does seem like games, of all things, would have the potential to be at their greatest under the vision of a single author, but history has shown the opposite (many times, after designers of successful games go on to head their own projects with total control, the results fall short of their predecessors). Part of this might have to do with the possibility space of game states (far too great for a single person to test, explore, or even conceive of), and also the complexity involved in programming a complete game. However, another explanation is that it is still possible to achieve greatness via that approach, and we merely have not had any genius game designers so far.
Not if you brand the more expensive one as a GAMING model.
It is as successful as the work done to support Objective-C and GNUStep.

It is interesting that it works, and some folks might even create some products that use it, but it won't ever take the world by storm.

Similarly like Mono was never that much relevant, with Miguel and others ended up creating Xamarin and focusing on mobile instead.

.NET nowadays has a good story on Linux, because now it matters to Microsoft to make it relevant, and yet most UNIX shops would rather go with Java, Rust, Go,....
Or another Windows 8 misstep. They seem intent on releasing the product with a crippled start menu (zero customization and half of it seemingly reserved for ad space), the integrated teams chat is not compatible with work accounts, the widgets do not allow you to disable the news widget.

I appreciate the typeface changes, though as a Windows user such things have never been a priority to me.

What irks me is the loss of customization and productivity enhancements of being able to group and size the start menu - all my video editing stuff in one group, coding-related apps in another, etc. That organization is what I miss the most on a daily basis.
"After that, sweeping up all the debris and containing it is a solid way of preparing the area for humans again."

Sounds like lots of effort. And would still leave me wondering at every rock I encounter, of whether I should avoid this one, because it was overlooked.
I believe this is true but I believe it's because they actually expect both to last about the same duration.

Too many products either aren't worth the effort of a warranty claim process or the company makes it almost impossible to use.

Too many products are just the same rebranded imported goods that you can not tell anything from the product description unless it's a major product from a brand.

IMO portable electronics make large strides in the lest 10 and 15 years. So much that wanting to use an old device with the same but working software is a pretty small hill to die on.

It is essentially impossible to support a device for 10+ years unless it runs a standardized OS and the component drivers are kept working. Most ARM SoC chips do not get more than 2-3 years of support.

Maintaining cloud services is also very expensive since no one wants or likes having old, unmaintainable stuff around and constantly updating stuff is a lot of work/money.

TLDR; This is only possible if devices and software are as open as x86 + Linux computers.
It is impossible to have an HN post about Brave without two mentions:

- Brave's foray in the crypto world

- What Eich did in his last moments at Mozilla

It is a rare and bittersweet joy to see someone try their hardest to detach for the constant, angry mob that forms every time there's a chance to. We are no better than Reddit or YouTube comments, however we want to think we are.
Is it only me whom every of the links in the blog post returns "We are sorry, the page you requested cannot be found.The URL may be misspelled or the page you're looking for is no longer available." ? Normally it doesn't surprise me that links on MS sites are broken but I would expect at least fresh blog posts have it right..
Tech Breakdown: Why China's Mars rover lost communication
What the hell are you actually on about.

Don't take any single point of view as Canon gospel, sure. But just completely dismissing them would call into question whether anyone's view is actually relevant.

What nihilistic nonsense.
Typically this was T9: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T9_(predictive_text)

I still miss being able to compose messages in my pocket...
> there is no article. It's a link to a google support forum thread

Fine, then s/article/post/ in what I said.

> the way the author of the initial post (not just the replies) describes the way they use Google Drive and how they use technology in general suggests the person does not have the same level of tech-savvy as a typical HN reader

I agree; I'm simply pointing out that if you are going to try to execute a project that requires a lot of digital storage of important data, you should be tech savvy, or collaborate with someone who is. You certainly should not expect a free service like Google Drive to be a secure, reliable data store for your only copies of important data.
Why wouldn't someone write a digital simulation of "The Analog Thing" and sell it?
Cool article!

If you haven't come across Doug Engelbart yet, I highly recommend it. He invented the mouse (yes, that mouse), and was a staunch believer in chorded keyboards.

I'll admit, though, I don't really get it.
Hey! There isn't a sandbox, this is indeed just a javascript eval. It's essentially the same as running code on the devtools console, except with an editor UI and wrapped in way that saves the hassle of messing with the DOM.
I have no idea what you're getting at here, but it certainly isn't any kind of response to the actual article posted.
What do I truly need to learn and do to become a successful software engineer?
(from the sibling archive link)

> Roll Your Own Chat Server
> Implement a simple standalone TCP-based chat server, using the following protocol:
> ...
> When implementing the server, aim for scalability and robustness. (Many submissions fail due to lack of robustness!)
> ...
> Please do not use an existing networking framework

Oh man. You weren't kidding, that's high-precision nerd-sniping.
G employee. If you are using G to store anything important and if you do not have an offline backup or some other redundancy please reconsider.
I'm using my app Tracknack for discovery and staying up to date with releases by artists and record labels I like. This app, of course, is very much integrated with Spotify and does not really work as a way of cutting Spotify out of the picture. It does, however, allow me to support lesser known artists via Spotify streams.

https://tracknack.com
> They say they could feed the world on plant-based food, if only they'd give it a fraction of the subsidies meat gets.

Or just stop subsidizing meat and make it compete on a level playing field with other protein sources.
Having watched the video of the phone I agree, it actually looks like quite a good concept. I do think the integration with Windows is excellent as well, if I am at my computer realistically why should I need to pick up my phone? All of my notifications, features and settings should be accessible from my Windows laptop/desktop.
when it comes to "News" these days (ie opinion) Objectivity is highly Subjective.
The warranty should be a clue but is not often advertised.
Except ARC only works for Cocoa like classes, everything else is traditional C like memory management.
Thanks! Turing Tumble looks awesome
Thermodynamics says nothing about which plants can grow on which land. A lot of land in the world can only sustain grass. Letting animals graze on that land is as close to free as you can get
Observing that your original post came across as excessively sanctimonious is an ad hominem?
For Cocoa like classes, it did not solve anything else for the rest.
I had no idea it was a named technology, though I probably shouldn’t have been surprised. Thanks for sharing that link.
Speed typers did not use T9. A friend of mine used to compete in texting.
Sure, you could get a mac and then opt out of/remove all things apple, but then why get a mac in the first place?

I don't think that is confusing at all, just a matter of degree between leaving all services of apple or additionally leaving their OS as well.
Same as patent law — After 20 years, no protection? Except the cycle is rather 5 years.

As a startup, I’m ok. But customers will be hit by vulns every year, either with the OS or any layer up to my software, and one of them will have to be upgraded.
> This requires no new physics and no exotic materials.

It could be that Dyson Swarms are possible, but we have 0 examples of space industries so far.

It could be an economical impossibility, it could be that the means to easily convert matter into energy is discoverable before the means to economically produce a Dyson Swarm, thus a Dyson Swarm is not necessary to orbit that close to a Star.

It could be that the means to capture dark matter is right around the corner, so there's no need to estinguish stars to preserve them.

It could be that the means to capture dark energy is also around the corner and there's no need to bother with altering the universe in any way, in fact, it would be a shame to do so.

It could be that once a species is advanced enough to transcend its own biology and once it becomes kind of immortal, it no longer reproduces.

I'm just pointing out counter arguments, I'm on the opinion that we are completely alone in our Milky Way and most likely the entire Universe. As in there is no bacteria outside our Solar System, anywhere, but there is no way to know yet.
Exactly. Moreover less expensive doesn't mean worst quality. True for clothes, food and electronics.
Sputnik was quite real, though.
As were lots of other things. For example the industrialisation of a big country that was in poor rural state before, while being blocked by the west.

Not everyone in the sowjets was forced to be there. Idealism is a strong driving force, otherwise the sowjet empire would not have sustained itself for so long on propaganda alone.
Then Metal is dead as well.
Because manufacturers choose to make a crappy kernel fork with hacky drivers. So it's on them to provide updates to that crap-kernel. If they instead made sure their drivers are in mainline, they could just use official current kernels as updates, and this is how it's meant...
You can use a raspberry Pi amd Balena Sound to make one of these. Bonus feature: it also support Air Play.

https://hub.balena.io/balenalabs/balenasound
The ABS clearly sets out their method for calculating CFR, which is covid deaths divided by confirmed infections.

Yes, that is only a proxy for the overall all infection fatality rate. However, given the contact tracing, testing, and medical systems have been quite robust in Australia, it shouldn't be too far off the mark.

Furthermore, the 3% figure only applies to the population as a whole. According to the ABS, CFR climbs to over 30% for people 80 and over. Similarly, a recent American study found it to be about 21% [1].

So, back to the original point, it should be very easy to find a mortality signal in a RCT, which included that cohort.

[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.09.21255193v...
Not my area of expertise but I would bet that would get you a substantial fine from Medicare for misrepresenting your cost of care, or at least be prevented by Medicare cost reporting

https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Dow...
All of them are accessible from your Windows machine using the Your Phone app.
Agreed. Cloudsync is a car superior product and supports every cloud service ever and full encryption.

https://cloudsync.bdrive.com/
Metal is a mix of Objective-C and C++ (MSL C++14 dialect).

So it will stay around for a while.
I don't think we need to go as far as to remove the brain.

But let's say we map all the pain receptors and pain-like receptors(like loneliness) and engineer a chicken without those or with them blocked ?

It's a doable thing with today's tech,similar things are already been done to lab mice. hopefully that chicken lives.

Would it be ethical to kill such a chicken?
Fuck that noise Jack; I recently updated my home computer and had to install Windows 10 from scratch - Even its setup seems to have changed for the worst since I originally installed it on my now defunct PC. I have the Pro edition (that I paid $200 for) - using the latest ISO, the whole setup just felt user and privacy hostile. I remembered that it would try to make me use my Hotmail account as a user account, but when I tried to go the old way of using a local account, it just kept telling me I was limiting my new system's capabilities. It kept trying to put me back on Hotmail account path. There were a few other things, like trying to get me to sign up for Office with a dark (well maybe gray) pattern, forcing Edge on me, which even though it is Chromium based and I would use it, they were so aggressive about it, it turned me off it completely. Don't get me started on the fact that I seem to be signed up for something called Bing rewards now and that there are ads in my start menu and in the new task bar weather widget. They also seem to have by default installed something called MeetNow in my taskbar and while you can hide the icon, you seemingly can't uninstall it.
I have to say, as a .NET dev, I've been so happy with all the .NetCore stuff and even Azure is growing on me - but this Windows business is extremely disconcerting. If that's how even Windows 10 has evolved, I don't want any part of 11, even from just what I have seen so far.
I don't see where it creates the incentive to lock down firmware. Any examples? For example, in Librem 5, you can still upgrade the firmware for modem and WiFi: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque....

Documentation would be great of course anyway.
Very well done !

I see this trend continue: "Bring Your Own Client" from examples like this to pure software like the apollo reddit client or youtube client featured a few days ago.
I’ve once bought a warranty extension for my washing machine, only to discover that it is impossible to reach them.