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Britain used to have Paym, which would have made the process simple — except the banks never promoted it for business use, and barely promoted it for individual use.

In Denmark we have MobilePay, and similar systems exist in several other countries. I rarely use it in-person in businesses if I can pay with a card instead, but since McDonald's and Burger King both accept it I think it's popular with teenagers. I most often use it at very tiny shops and bars, who accept either MobilePay or cash.

The other comment about a small $5 transfer reminds me I recently paid 10kr ($1.50) for a cloakroom fee using MobilePay.

It varies depending on how much the business has spent integrating the system, but essentially you scan a QR code and swipe to transfer the money.

The lack of fraud protection isn't a big deal, as it's replacing smaller cash purchases.

(I also use it transferring money between friends, and sometimes when ordering online as it's a smoother process than paying by card.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paym
No problem!

> AI

Not as useful as some people imagine, but still quite useful.

> copyright

Should be abolished completely, it doesn't benefit society.
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Sorry I don't understand, "they divide up existing properties".

Also many Western cities have very high numbers of homes that are vacant. Seems like a tax on that behaviour would be hard to argue about?
Interestingly my number #1 killer feature for N++ seems to be "having multiple unsaved files open and they are transparently saved and restored after restarting the app". In the past I've judged people who did this with a "just save your damn files" but since I, too, have converted to the ephemeral notes buffer where I don't want to find a location and file name to save it.

The funny thing is that my N++ instance has ~5 files always opened, 3-4 of those buffers and when they get to 6 or 7 I trim them down to 3-4. This is probably the beginning of why we find people doing weird things...
I have an AndroidAPS. This is how it works. If the phone loses contact for any reason the device just falls back to delivering insulin at a fixed rate as normal.
I don't think that's how regulations apply in general. Usually they're scoped to the geographical location + your sovereign status, but not just your sovereign status.

For example, I don't think it's realistic to expect a US citizen traveling to a EU country having to follow US regulations and laws, nor the opposite.

So I'm not sure it would apply in this case either, but I'm not even sure what regulation/law made Microsoft add this change to the update in the first place. If we can figure that out, I guess we could figure out the real answer to your question without guessing.
My first car was a 1999 Yaris, bought in 2014 for €1,250 with 320K on the odometer. Shifting gears sometimes took some force but otherwise drove like a dream...and the "holographic" gauge-screen-thingy was brilliant. Oh, and the back bench which you could slide backwards and forwards to choose between trunk space or leg room!

The best thing is, I sold it in 2016 with 400K on the odometer for €1,000...likely it's still chugging along nicely as we speak :-)
I am very irritated that I have made it very clear that I wish to use Firefox as my default browser in Windows 11. However, tools such as Microsoft Outlook and Office keep trying to force me into Edge by opening links in it by default. You don't gain converts by forcing something onto users.
Photography is the best analogy I have thought through, I may write to them to consider this.
That’s my experience too. I run all Windows here and I stay on the happy path. I did turn off a few options in control panel to reduce some UI clutter, but nothing has been hacked away. I run Pro and use an outlook.com login to sync settings. I don’t see any of these ads or pop ups.

This is mostly fud here.
Isn't that exactly what has already happened? Nvidia has released a fully open-source kernel side driver for their current hardware, probably because of pressure from the hyperscalers that don't want to run closed-source code in their kernels. The new driver still needs to be integrated into the upstream kernel so this news is still about the current legally dubious one.
This only works if you can stay profitable enough long enough for it to start to happen. The fewer customers you have, the riskier your pool, and the higher your prices have to be. Suddenly $100 becomes $125 becomes $150 for the same or less profit.

It's safer to just get out of the market entirely. You can always go back in but if you stay in too long it could wipe you out entirely.
They should have taken the regulation. At least that forces it into the public eye and allows for accountability via voting. This way only generates a shadow government.

Apart from the obvious 1a violation.
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CGM circuit systems do auto-handle spikes. The systems are getting better.
I take it contributing to SS is voluntary? Else it’s kind of like robbery.

When you take a job with a pension, you run the risk of not being able to collect that pension if you die early. But it’s your choice to take the job.
> Would be nice if Apple Pay allowed non-visa/mc payments too.

It does, a number of domestic NFC payment schemes like EFTPOS (in Canada) or Interac (in Australia) are supported. Or eMoney cards in Japan like Nanoco or Waon. It's just Visa and Mastercard have a complete stranglehold on the US market, there's no domestic competitor.
So my wife is a type 1ner. She recently got a pump that also reads her transmitter and it will change the amount of insulin being delivered based on what the transmitter is saying. It isn't perfect she can overwhelm it if she eats a ton of carbs, but honestly it's gone from her pump/phone yelling at her 7-8 times a day about being high or low to maybe once a day or once every other day.

The biggest thing it has also done is regulate her blood sugar at night so we don't wake up anymore with the pump screaming at her that she needs to start shoving fruit snacks down her maw.
No, I mean any copywritable material that enters the human mind.
When their market size across EU is big enough for it to be relevant.
If you'd like another example where German citizens are being subjected to less censorship, the restrictions on Nazi images in video games have been somewhat lightened. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45142651
> This is the oddly standard wording used in defense of these newly-fashionable 'everything you've ever done ever can be used against you' contributor codes of conduct and I have to find it very disingenuous.

Please provide me an example of a code of conduct you find objectionable on these grounds. I have yet to see one that fits the language used both in this and the parent comment I originally replied to of being "orwellian."
The system is broken, we need the EFF to do more than just clutch their pearls about somebody trying to do something.

If they want to be the Electronic Frontier Foundation, they can take inspiration from the self-organization that occurs on other frontiers. When there are no rules, you get vigilantes. Well managed, the vigilantes establish the rules, by popular consent. Poorly managed, the most violent ones impose their own rules.

The EFF is well positioned to help establish rules. So merely saying "There shouldn't be any rules", they'll simply be brushed aside one way or the other.
It is hard to tell what is unfounded or not. One thing that the PFAS debacle shows is that (chemical) companies can keep major environmental and human health risks under the covers for decades, and even when uncovered - are not punished and things are forgotten quickly.
Signal… minus the phone number requirement and the primary Android/iOS device requirement and the NSA backdoor removed.
Not at all, I had only been in the industry for 2 years the first time I took 2 years off.. then did another 4 years at a desk and took many years off.

One of my secrets is being willing to relocate to really random and fun locations around the world - i.e. I moved to the Yukon where it was -40 for a few months every year. Every day was an adventure, and I got paid to live/work there.

Don't settle for good enough, go find something that enables the life you want to live.
thanks, that's really reassuring.
blah blah "leaked" as in more cannon fodder for the hype machine.
I don't think something being hard, should mean it just doesn't have to happen. "It's too hard to figure out whose work we used, so we just won't?" I also think it's unfortunate that writers, bloggers, photographers, etc. who have seen no financial compensation for their work will watch it go on to enrich a company with a billion dollar valuation.

It costs $0.091 per copy to "cover" a song in the USA, you get this by securing a "mechanical license" and that rate is set by the Copyright Royalty Board[1]. I don't see why there can't be a similar way forward here.

[1] https://www.crb.gov/rate/
Unfortunately there's not really any competition in the GPU space for AI use. AMD hasn't stepped up, and Intel is barely getting its footing for basic gaming functionality. Nvidia has an established monopoly on the GPGPU space, and forcing their hand, and them withdrawing from Linux compatibility, would result in everyone that needs Nvidia to ditch Linux. At least until an alternative becomes available, and then those customers would ditch Nvidia for screwing them over once already.
There are plenty of those: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=world+watershed+map&atb=v279-1__&i...
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Somehow I think AI will contribute more comments on this than people, much like the net neutrality comment stuffing fiasco a while back.

The reality is copyright has diverged so far from its intended purpose that there is no way to go back to the spirit of the law and rethink it because it is so fundamentally broken. So I anticipate some makeshift policy that nobody likes and gets broadly ignored because it is unenforceable.

Honestly, the best approach right now might be to simply say that AI generated content needs to declare that it is AI generated (somehow...) - that would at least give some context to the situation so that actual rules could have an effect down the road.
I actually live downtown in a small city. We have a small backyard but enough room for hens. They make minimal noise, much less then dogs. And they not make cause any unpleasant odors.

In the 9 years we have had the hens, no one has complained. However many people bring their kids by to watch them through the fence.
I worked in the pharma space building document management systems that supported clinical and pre-clinical processes (mostly clinical, some R&D).

After a while, one starts to understand the need for the rigor. If some cluster of patients suffers some injurious adverse effect pre- or post-market, the FDA and a bunch of lawyers wants to trace the history of development to understand how to assign responsibility. Software systems in this space are validated quite rigorously against their functional and technical design specifications to verify that the records produced are traceable.

Software validation in this space works kind of like GPL licenses: the sponsor (like a Merck or a Pfizer) is responsible for validating software from vendors when it is supporting a GxP process. Those vendors are then responsible for validating not only their systems, but all dependent systems as well. (A lot of it is risk-based and obviously a lot of the methodology, guidance, and interpretation has evolved since the cloud era. But we used to have to take our customers on tours of our data center and their auditors would match the specifications of the hardware!)

I think it's one of the reasons why -- despite this process being extremely high in "schlep" -- there are few startups in this space because the barrier to entry is quite high. Even having 15 years of domain experience and running a team delivering production systems used by pharmas to run their trials, I don't think I'd want to do a startup in this space.

There's a really great HN thread on this that resonated with my experience that I bookmarked a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33545209
... and if that doesn't work, spend years in a stressful and time consuming legal battle.
Every additional interest involved in the case would multiply legal complexity, and legal costs, probably exponentially.
Yes. Insurance companies hold gigantic reserves of cash that must beat inflation and for the past 40 years the "safe" return was bonds of all varieties.

And they do not have access to the newly created 'temporary' facility to mitigate bond loss as the banks do.
Equivalent hardware. $500 does not buy you a Mac Air level laptop.

And I am talking about power users, not the hypothetical grandma. Although grandma is ALSO better served by a Macbook.
I once was on a project that started out with OSM, but then realised there was nothing that compared to Google's Places API (might be different now) in terms of completeness and correctness. And your are not (or at least were not) allowed to use Places API on top of / in combination with OSM).

That's what you get when your consumer directed products are 'free' and thus widely used and thus lot's of stake holders ensure their place is correctly in their database (probably in combination with other, possibly community based, efforts).

We relied heavily on Places API and thus were bound to Google Maps API, we did just not see a reasonable way around that.
Good luck trying that in the EU, we capped their fees years ago.
Have you heard about https://www.felt.com or https://umap.openstreetmap.fr ? Both run on OSM and are free
huh, I guess the University of Austin grift didn't pan out.
+1

Nvidia would win this fight. Linus and co taking a hard stance would result in the industry bifurcating on Linux. AI just has so much momentum and money being poured into it.
No. Marketing is not just ads, it is your compass, which give you direction, where your great product should be. Without compass you will just lost, and throw resources to make something which is not need.
My 11/yo son is a type 1 diabetic. While this seems great...I can't trust a DIY solution. Beta Bionics has the real deal: https://www.betabionics.com/ and has been recently given the green light by the FDA.
> In other words, we have no basis for saying our universe exists, that we have physical existence, that anyone but ourselves exist, or that we exists in time.

Sure, I will grant that.

This does not warrant a leap from we don't actually know what the Universe is to therefore definitely simulation.
That's odd, I just tried mine and it controls VLC just fine.
They did, re-read paragraph 3.
I used to carry a feature phone many years ago. When smartphones appeared, I switched to not carrying any phone at all. (I do have a very old smartphone, which mostly sits at home turned off. Sometimes I turn it on to receive a payment notification or something like that.)

This way, at least when I'm outside or hanging out with people, my mind is free. Though my laptop still eats a lot of my time when I'm at home. Maybe it'd be better with an e-ink laptop.
I think of LLM’s as a vast digital information landscape, vaguely analogous to walking through World of Warcraft, except at a higher dimensionality of existence.

A photographer doesn’t create nature, the subjects, the architecture, the universe, the billions of R&D behind the silicon sensors, etc., but they create the situation and push the button.

Creating the situation, I.e. drawing from the near infinite of possibilities, is analogous to prompting.
The new fees are

“We are publicly traded companies and are failing to meet growth demands, and so are raising prices, because as we all know, not infinitely growing means you’re a failure of a company”
Some more raw feedback:

Words like “streamline” are meaningless.

You sound like you know how web apps work even at your age, so you would know that what you’re saying is near impossible without a ton of reputation, money and history in the business. Saying that you’re not forcing anyone to do upload their valuable images or data while at the same time it’s exactly what your marketing copy suggests strikes me now as a bit scammy (not saying you’re a scammer, just letting you know how it sounds) just like a lot of those crypto scammers who eventually say that they didn’t force anyone to invest.

You seem capable and smart, don't fall into the trap that many HN lurkers fall into, which is thinking that they can build a whatever product to get some attention and then hopefully something comes out of it, you don’t have to waste your time on this stuff, or others for that matter.
in both cases the building/scene/model training data is made by others. you just pick few parameters (location/light/prompt)
> You know how I know that WFH side isn’t saying using the whole truth? They never look bad.

I think this is a fair criticism but has an understandable explanation. What counts as abuse is not clear cut.

1. With respect to people working half time, you’re going to get push back that people do that in the office as well (inflate estimates and slack or whatever), they just then occupy themselves chatting with coworkers or doing water cooler stuff. From an IC point of view, they’re still slacking. From a corporate point of view maybe these conversations have some added value. Is the absence of them a loss or the lack of willingness to do them from home an abuse?

2. Much more controversially: overemployment. Take the same employee as above but now that they’re working from home instead of chatting they pick up contract hours or work another job. Is this an abuse? Is the company paying for time or output? Is this on the individual or management for underutilizing them?

I could see different kinds of people (being motivated to) making different arguments on each side, and the issues aren’t settled.
I think you've mentioned there currently there is only circumstantial evidence. However, broadly speaking circumstantial evidence can be very convincing for people. (and 'being convincing' is not the same thing as 'being true.') It's further the case that there is no hard forensic evidence (at least that I'm aware of currently) that this is natural. In other words, because there's not really a lot of hard forensic evidence available to people, it makes the the circumstantial evidence weigh heavier in people's minds.

I also haven't followed this very closely, so if there is great specific evidence that I'm unaware of, I apologize. I'm not trying to advocate a particular position here, just trying to explain why the lab leak theory is convincing to people. In fact, I think a lot of people would take the list of evidence you've presented and draw the opposite conclusion that you have -- ie, that with the list you've provided, the lab leak is the likeliest conclusion.

Just to reiterate, I'm not suggesting that circumstantial evidence _does_ prove anything, I'm only making the point that circumstantial evidence successfully convinces a large number of people.
Insulin lowers blood glucose, which of course is a vital tool. However, there appears to now be shelf-stable glucagon [1], a hormone which can be injected similarly to insulin and raises blood glucose levels.

AFAIK there is only one company, Beta Bionics [2], that is working on commercialization of such technology with dual pumps. In this case, you could be more aggressive in either direction of pushing BG, because you have a safety net.

Because this feels like a holy grail / functional cure, I'm surprised the incredible DIY teams out there haven't trained their guns on doing this. Having both "turn it up" and "turn it down" knobs seems so much more valuable than squeezing the last 5% of efficacy of AID systems. I feel like glucagon is obviously "the answer", but I don't see much talk about it.

Is the problem that there is no hardware for dual hormone pumps? I would have thought by now they'd have hacked 2 patch-pump AIDs to work simultaneously.

[1] https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/947962
[2] https://www.thejdca.org/article/2023/06/05/fda-approves-beta...
If I don’t pay the prostitute it’s definitely not the pimp who is going to get bruises.
My spouse is also using Loop. It's a huge improvement over just the pump alone. Even just changing basal settings is easier in the app versus the pump device interface, which is no longer required using Loop on iOS with the OrangeLink device.

https://loopkit.github.io/loopdocs/
They have a new web browser build method using TestFlight, which no longer requires an up to date Mac running the latest version of Xcode. The web build mode also enables someone to update the Loop app using only their smartphone. Something which is handy for travel or long periods of time without access to a Mac. It only lasts 90 days instead of the 1 year of the Xcode build, but is easy to rebuild on TestFlight.
> I doubt very much it is suitable as an alternative to credit/debit cards for retail payments

It's used virtually everywhere in Thailand for small retail payments
> but is there any reason other than promoting the GPL why a non-free module should not use linux-only APIs?

I think this question illustrates something of an invisible generation gap in software. GPL is not a utilitarian license. There is no materialistic value in choosing to use the GPL whatsoever. The text of the GPL is itself a legal edifice specifically designed to dismember the very framework in which it exists, rendering it anti-utilitarian.

This is all to say that the GPL is politics. One chooses the GPL specifically for political reasons. In politics, you do not go out of your way to aid your ideological adversaries; you either convert them or destroy them.

> if getting rid of non-free modules is the goal, why even have a syscall exception? why not force all modules to be GPL?

Despite what I just said about GPL as ideology, the GPL is simultaneously a legal construct which necessarily must bend to the rules of the framework it exists within. The logic of GPL extending through syscalls is based in a legal argument similar to that used in the Google vs. Oracle debacle -- we created the "shape" of this API, so we have certain rights regarding it. The "shape" of the Unix syscalls predate Linux and are therefore beyond the project's reach, legally speaking.
Regulate the fees and be done with it. They're effective monopolies.
I don't have a number in mind, my feeling is directional.

I also don't think compensation is the only/best tool to prevent or punish bad decsion making. There have been cases where developer/dba have put companies out of business with a poor decisions. We don't pay them millions of dollars to 'get the best' we put processes in place to prevent issues like that. Otherwise, I'd suggest doing the same thing to the bad CEO that you'd do to other employees: fire them. That's why you have a board.
In the case of Quiznos, it was kickbacks from the service company. Even when your soda machine was still under warranty, the franchise agreement required the store owner to use only one "authorized" company to repair the machines and pay them $75 per visit.

https://www.westword.com/news/youre-toast-5092405?showFullTe...

Westword is Denver's alternative weekly newspaper. Quiznos started in Denver.
Would this be something that might make electric aircrafts practical?

AFAIU the good thing about regular aircrafts is that as it burns fuel, it becomes lighter. That doesn't happen with batteries, obviously.
Hang in there, lots of folks having similar experience!

We have been pretty impressed with the closed-ish loop of the Dexcom and Omnipod, it handles daily fluctuations due to more/less exercise etc. fairly well.

Still two separate handheld devices though, and quality always falls off when the sensor (every 10ish days) and pump (every 3 days) approach expiration.
Nominally not, but at least finance, insurance and air travel suffer from heavy market concentration.