skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>and plenty of money was only able to secure (potentially partial) payment for the treatment?

They did not even receive a partial payment yet, though, 5 years after the event.

>The case itself remains open. The judges ruled that Blue Cross must pay for Salim’s treatment. But they did not say how much.

>Salim is expecting the full $95,862.95 he paid. However, court records show that Blue Cross has said it only needs to pay Salim the discounted rate it had negotiated with MD Anderson at the time of his radiation treatment: $35,170.47. That’s what Blue Cross would have paid if its doctors had said yes in the first place.

>A decision is expected later this year.

Shows you how much you should depend on the courts if you are not already rich.
Basically, I need law enforcement to prove they're not full of shit. Law enforcement and intelligence systems have a long and ugly history of abusing easy access to private information. They also have a long history of working around technical privacy protections at need, in pasts both distant and very recent.

Until then, I think we should give their claims all the weight of all the evidence they have provided. Or failed to provide.
With UEFI, it is easy; each operating system has it's own bootloader in its own directory in ESP, and the UEFI itself contains boot manager, so you can boot whatever you want. It just doesn't show menu by default like grub does, you have to press a key to show the menu. That's about the difference.
>Whereas Wikipedia used to normalize and lend credence to pseudoscience, conspiracy theories, and fringe rhetoric, it has over time become firmly anti-pseudoscience and anti-conspiracy theories.

Okay, so before the mid-20th century Wikipedia would have categorized the concept of plate tectonics as pseudoscience. Consensus doesn't mean truth. Today's conspiracy theory could be tomorrow's government press release. Being firmly anti-pseudoscience and anti-conspiracy theory and anti-fringe might not be the best heuristic for discovering the truth.
https://narrowlink.com/docs/comparisons/tailscale
Does 10c/mi account for replacing the battery every 150k miles?
When I worked disaster recover and continuity, we had to map every business process.

We would make one map from the info the managers told us and one map of the actual processes by talking to every single employee involved.

We frequently found critical processes no manager knew about and also that some random secretary was the focal point for entire departments (mundane processes no one else wanted)
My pitch to the public: “Join the Fediverse and help build the weird new Internet.”

The Epsilon galaxy is a friendly outpost of services in the brave new decentralized digital universe, now known as the Fediverse. (I coined the term Fediverse “galaxy” to refer to a cluster of federated services/nodes run by a single entity, and it’s gained some traction on Mastodon).

My galaxy is completely bootstrapped, no VC investment: https://epsilon.lol

We even have our first paying customer (8 euro/ year)!
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If the article theory is that this was done in response to the court cases, all that should be in the article.
That seems to be the problem across most industries in the U.S.

Seems expected after the courts stopped enforcing the Sherman Antitrust Act and started allowing vertical restraints.
Globally, iMessage is way down the pecking order; the rest of the World uses, in order, WhatsApp, WeChat, Facebook Messenger, Telegram and Snapchat. Google are bitter because it cannot get a decent service to compete despite having 70% of the global market and despite so many different attempts, which is largely down to their institutional ADHD and confused product strategy. Their claim that iMessage is a "core" service under the DMA is laughable and spiteful. If they give a crap, they ought to be going after Meta, which has by far and away the most significant part of the European messaging marketplace.
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I have a stack of books I've been meaning to read. I just need to make time for it.
I was just going to comment this. The device is network connected anyhow. So just open up the local api.
> A big problem is homogeniety in media.

Lack of viewpoints is the least of the problems with "traditional media". Fox news and MSNBC have the same, debilitating problems as NBC, CBS and ABC.

1. They cover things poorly, little depth
2. They are beholden to their sponsorship (a great non-political example is their unwavering support of particular CFB conferences)
3. They offer opinions first instead of facts
4. They are highly selective of only certain topics (Wikipedia is really broad despite having moderation)
5. Wikipedia has 120k active editors. Networks are lucky to break 1000 employees.

I think that US traditional media could do a better job, they've just catered to the LCD. There are examples of non-US media that do a solid job of maintaining NPOV and cover topics in reasonable detail without injecting overt opinions.
The opposite of black is not hard

Why do you need two letters for a single parameter?

You also forgot HB, not just F

And the other two columns in the table
Yep, I kicked MyQ out of the house for Meross.

Added benefit, is that Meross opener is just a dry on switch. It doesn't have to be for a garage door, but for any momentary push button.
Almost-unbeatable AI is now a permanent feature of Gran Turismo 7
Seneca's Sinister Groves: Oedipus and Druidic Dread
“Valuable Data” doesn’t have to be valuable but can be valuable anyway if investors and other partners believe it is.
> It does not weigh heavier, and I wish people would stop repeating this.

They keep saying it because to most people they absolutely do weigh heavier. Very, very few average people are going to agree with what you just said.
Chargebacks are a cost of doing business.

Letting the price reflect those costs is the simplest thing that might work.

Other pricing strategies like subscriptions and packages might also mitigate the cost of chargebacks.

Winning chargebacks is the most complicated thing that might work.

Good luck.
How many people in the world (, software engineers or not) actually have the privilege of enjoying their jobs after 30 years?
If I have a great idea that can be conveyed in 1000 words, will I get paid the same for my pamphlet as I would a book?
The ice cores are fairly reliable: https://www.bas.ac.uk/data/our-data/publication/ice-cores-an...
Yes it should be. But belt and suspenders. It’s crummy UX for it to happen in the first place. And an easy way to accidentally spam calls if someone’s cat sits on the enter key.
I have one of those and trust me, you do not want it.

I was excited about it when we bought the house, but:

1. The remote control range is terrible. Both of our remotes regularly fail to operate the door from less than a car length in to the driveway, through a normal garage door in a normal wood framed home, even with fresh batteries.

2. EVERY control accessory is proprietary, even the wall button. Our house came with the button missing and it can't be replaced with just a normal button. The entire line is out of production as well so the only options for replacement are expensive NOS. Likewise for the keypad and remotes, there are no third party replacements that are compatible and the first party stuff is out of production.

3. The app doesn't work, it won't even detect the opener. Because even the button is proprietary I can't even install an aftermarket controller.

The Ryobi opener has some great ideas like the accessory ports and the support for a battery backup using a battery many of us already have, but they went out of their way to make it worse than any other opener on the market in multiple ways and then abandoned their users. I'm going to be replacing mine with a simple dumb Genie or similar with a DIY controller hooked to the wall button port as soon as we get some garage work completed.
They can just pay for home assistant cloud?
That's how it works in Europe.

In fact, the card terminals themselved ask how much you want to tip when you pay and then the card payment is taken on the total. I don't think it would be possible to proceed another way with all the safety procedures in place nowadays.

Otherwise, people used to leave cash on the table when they left even if they had paid by card (meal only) and they wanted to tip.
This is the own goal that Intel did with their Pentium FDIV bug. They were absolutely correct that it only impacted a small percentage of users. They still ended up losing their shirts over the problem.
King's Speech misses the mark on cyber law reform, says campaign
We had that, when feeds and pingbacks were a thing. But the masses don't want to self-host, nor do they want to learn about web stuff. Hence Facebook.
But discoverability seems the Achilles heel of federated services.

How would you solve that?
How would I discover a blog in practice and how would this work from a technical standpoint?

I am asking not to poke holes, but because this is an interesting topic.
Finding content seems the biggest problem to me in a more decentralized web and we need more good solutions and ideas here.
RE estimates it’s not about the time selected, it’s about managing expectations. People need to know what they can expect from others in order to collaborate, the skill is in knowing when and how to communicate in the framework you’re working in, so that everyone you’re working with has reasonable expectations. You can get it wrong plenty so long as you manage people’s expectations well.
I totally understand what the representatives are trying to do, but it's not going to work because they fundamentally don't understand the way that things work. That's a recipe for stupid and dangerous rules that will backfire on the US.

> I don't believe opensource HW can really work that well

It'll work because hardware vendors are always trying to reduce costs, and licensing costs are part of that. A big part for embedded designs, less so for high end stuff, and guess where RISC-V is making inroads right now.

> Instead you'd try to corner the market and then add proprietary extensions & other stuff to lock your users in

Definitely a danger that this could happen. At Red Hat we've been pretty clear that we wouldn't support vendors that do this.
Approachability and emotional intelligence have been two of my greatest weapons in IT, not my technical skills. Humans are and always will be creatures of emotion, not logic. It sounds corny but I usually strive to be the guy people would enjoy having a beer with.
I'm not good at dead languages, but I've heard complaints about cross-language mixing often enough that I suspect that there's a special term for people who like pointing that out.

Or perhaps, depending on irony levels, three terms. One each in Greek and Latin which they use to describe themselves, and one in Greek and Latin others use to describe them.
Nice so they did both hardware and software works, incredible.
Nope, a Microsoft account is not enough. It must be an @outlook.com address, or any registered company/school/university address.

It took me almost 3 days to find the problem. Microsoft changed that and between all "answers" there is only one single thread in the Microsoft forums that had the solution.
Feynman put this to good use in his lectures:

https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/III_05.html
Right, but you are cynical and dispassionate. There is a world you could be working in a place where you are more passionate and less cynical.

(This could be more personality than experience though, so I agree it could be a misread)
This isn't really controversial. People create institutions, so people leaving or joining can create institutional change. What's weird is that they frame leaving as a force for good, when this is the exception, not the rule. Usually when people are running away from an institution it doesn't get better.
1648: Peace of Westphalia
You can kinda get that from microblog.pub. It federates via ActivityPub and is a single-user customizable micro&macro blog. https://docs.microblog.pub/user_guide.html#customization
I appreciate the reply. When you say you do this for a living, what do you mean? Is your role to sniff this sort of thing out, a whole company, or part of your job on a team?

I agree, none of this is evidence, just intel here. Not sure if we have Defender ATP. We have MDE, which I am starting to dig into now. I don't have direct access, so just looking through pulls after I make a request. For the devs, a simple glance at their gitlab contributions tells you a lot. For remote folks the VPN is another like the logins. The truly lazy won't even bother to be on the VPN, but doesn't mean they are not working. Apparently one of our main sys admins is never on the VPN.

It would be nice if some of the enterprise licensed tools gave some metrics like Outlook, intelliJ/VSCode, and Gitlab, all overlaid on a simple bar chart of activity. It would be pretty easy to see gaps and to piece together a work day. I realize that doesn't account for whiteboard time etc, but that stuff is explainable. 3-4 hours per day of activity + very low contributions is not explainable.

I don't think we have gone up against a real professional yet. If they are here, they are really good. It's a pretty small team and low output sticks out like a sore thumb.
I have another (more fun) way to say almost the same thing as OP: https://eddiots.com/
Wikipedia's articles can be updated along with scientific progress. Wikipedia would only be in trouble if they held articles back compared to contemporaneous scientific knowledge. Not sure what your point is other than that scientific progress is a thing and consensus on how things work evolves over time as we figure things out.
What does it overwrite, exactly?

Each operating system has its files in their respective directories on ESP, and each operating system registers its own boot entries pointing to bootloader in these directories. With UEFI, there's nothing to overwrite, except setting the default entry.

That's not an issue, since you can both easily boot non-default entries and change, what the default entry is.
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I've been saying this for a while. It doesn't even need to be that expensive either. Pay a penny to watch a YouTube video type of deal. It can be done through lightning network to avoid per transaction credit card fees which would probably otherwise make it too expensive. My biggest hangup is paying for something that quickly turns out to be crap. I guess people would learn pretty quickly and hopefully the recommendation algorithm would start to favor just good content over clickbait sellout garbage.
Mozilla website pushes serious eIDAS misinformation to political decision makers
I love it. We are now doing full-scale disinformation campaigns on all sides. Only deepfakes are missing.
> Okay, so before the mid-20th century Wikipedia would have categorized the concept of plate tectonics as pseudoscience.

So just throw all theory/hypothesis in the same bucket because one might be true? You can't cherry pick one thing that happened to be true and say "it is wrong to label that pseudoscience" There are a lot of bad theories and hypothesis out there.

Clathrate gun hypothesis is just that, and should be labeled as such.
Its not like you can't change citizenship - and this is only a minor reason to do so.
Aint it about the fact that Gender =! Sex?
I think it’s not so much about getting a conversion right there and there, but slowly chiseling away at someone’s willpower so that eventually they do buy the thing…whether it’s from their couch or somewhere else.

Also, if you’re about to go into your house, the ad in the car may be priming you for buying something.
There's a really easy way to tell.

If I say something like "I've got my sales history in a database and need to graph how many widgets I've sold over time", do you start thinking about concepts and code, or do you start drooling and typing "npm database npm graph npm widget..."?
It's a good thing the piggies invested in light infrastructure and good logs with their previous houses, the next version after brick will be even better!
Mobile development back in 2010-2014 is just full of greenfield projects and I am just so lucky to be part of it. Every month it feels like someone has a great idea of an app.

There were no reviews back then in Play Store (formerly named Android Market), same with iOS, app store does not yet had a very strict review.
I am passionate about the things I'm interested in, not all the unnecessary fluff around them :)
Thanks for the very helpful response! Yep, it's for prepfully.com.

On 1 -- we don't have any subscriptions at the moment - everything is a transaction. We're planning to roll out a subscription/course module at some point next year, so definitely something to incorporate upfront when we do.

On 2 -- we actually send a "you've booked a session" email, 1 email reminder + 1 (opt-in only) whatsapp reminder pre-session, and 1 email 7-days post-session for feedback at the moment. I'm a bit worried about coming across as spammy if we send anything more. However, I don't send a "payment receipt" email at the moment, so that is perhaps something to explore.

On 3 -- all the chargebacks came from quite honest-seeming customers. After talking to them, it did feel like they made an honest mistake. I have a suspicion that some US banks make it incredibly easy to do a chargeback without asking for much evidence (I'm based in the Netherlands, where for instance you need to provide proof that you directly interacted with a merchant), so suggestion (5) in particular might be very relevant here.

On 4 -- super relevant, thanks! If I look at the first result at the moment it's quite misleading (we definitely allow for refunds), whereas what Google has indexed is the piece where we say "we won't issue a refund if you forget to join a session".

On 5 -- good idea too, and very actionable. We don't put anything beyond "PREPFULLY" at the moment. And our transaction IDs are hashes so they don't communicate much information. So maybe even putting something like "interview coaching" -- will have to see what I can fit, could help people remember.

Will also see how we can bolster our T&C. I'm guessing you meant this in context of winning a potential chargeback dispute? I'm not sure if this would actually reduce the total number of chargebacks.
Aaron Swartz, not "Arron Swarz"
Specifically... The mqtt server should advertise itself on the local network via mdns. The devices should auto-discover the server. Therefore, no config required of the device beyond wifi username/password.

Then dashboards/controllers (who should also auto discover the server via the same method) should be able to send some message to some well-known topic on the server to find all connected devices.
That's a strawmen argument. It's not about preventing something but about delaying it or increasing the cost of it. Economic warfare.
Don’t do this! AI-generated responses increase the noise:signal ratio and are banned on HN [1]

They tend to take up a massive amount of space in the discussion, obscuring more insightful human-generated comments.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33950747
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> Unfortunately TV shows, media and being a nerd at home while everyone else was having fun created the myth of...

Well, yeah. But how many real careers are accurately portrayed in TV and media, or closely resemble doing $Stuff as a hobby? I'm thinking somewhere between "zero" and "Gell-Mann Amnesia".
I wrote the below in another post on this topic:

They never technically allowed it in the first place.

Homebridge and Home Assistant used a popular Python library that reverse-engineered the MyQ API from the Android app. Many companies couldn't care less until abuse ramps up, but given that Chamberlain (Blackstone-owned) has gone into rent-seeking mode all of a sudden (or an incident happened that they won't disclose but prompted them to take a hard look at this), they decided to turn the Cloudflare Super Bot Fight stuff way the hell up on their OIDC token exchange endpoint (you can still request auth codes).

I decided to abandon trying to get MyQ to work with Home Assistant (it would have required hours of trying to figure out what combination of headers would have passed the CF checkpoint) and ended up getting a Meross Smart Opener. It was shockingly easy to install (plug the relay device into the same pinouts that your wall door opener uses) and works even better than MyQ (in that you won't get a weird "close error" that prevents you from operating your door that not even MyQ customer service will clear)

---

I still use and recommend MyQ, however. The Amazon Key and Tesla integrations work great. If they had previously allowed API access but then rescinded it in favor of "providing a better experience" like Reddit is doing, then I'd feel differently. In this case, however, it feels like we took advantage of a backdoor for a long time and the club decided to finally put a lock on it. Shitty, but reasonable.

The next big one to watch out for is Ring.

Ring does not (will not?) support HomeKit. Lots of folks (myself included) have resorted to using Homebridge or Home Assistant as an alternative.

Both are using a library that reverse-engineered Ring's API (though Ring engineers supposedly contributed to it).

While the Homebridge plugin simply exposes device statuses and metrics and RTSP feeds for the cameras, Koush's scrypted NVR platform enables HomeKit Secure Recording for the cameras, which allows more adventurous users to skip paying for Ring Protect ($10/mo)

While I get a lot of value from Ring Protect and will continue to pay it, I really hope Ring doesn't decide to "improve the user experience" for us like Chamberlain did. I'd be really sad if that happens, since HomeKit is amazing and is much better than having a million apps on my phone that don't talk to each other.
>You only see posts that you look for on the Fediverse

>Follow people you want to see posts from. Unfollow people you don't want to see posts from anymore

But that's the same on Twitter or Reddit too. I only follow 20 people on Twitter and I only see their posts. I only read 10 reddit subs through RSS and I only see posts from those subs. To me there is no reason to switch to an alternative because what I want is not there.
Or someone who took high school biology.
Burglar App:- Drive up, open door, drive in, close door, load up, open door, drive out, close door = clean getaway. Advertise to burglars at top of screen....
Bash is not a language, it's a shell. There is a big difference, and the differences will bite you in the ass until you learn to recognize them. For one, bash has no standard library. Different machines will have different things available. It's weird that you cite portability and then use the one solution that's pretty much the least portable. At least if you build on, say the Win32 API, you know exactly what machines are going to be able to run it. Bash? Well you pretty much have to know exactly what the other machine is running in order to have a clue about whether or not it will work.

I'd say the most portable thing you can build with that's script-y enough to be pleasant is likely Ruby. If you can avoid using things introduced with Ruby 3, keep in mind platform differences and the abstractions Ruby has built-in to deal with them, and stick with stdlib, it will likely run on just about every machine with just about any Ruby.

Otherwise maybe perl?
My first PC - a Heathkit H8 - had a numeric keypad that could be used for loading RAM contents with a program and starting execution at some address. I don't recall if it was decimal, hex or octal but it was a lot more convenient than the IMSAI at school that had a bank of paddles to set 1/0 to load into memory.

But my first encounter with computers was Fortran on an IBM fed with punch cards. Very unforgiving. No backspace. And local jerks would slip already punched cards into the feed hopper so those had to be checked before punching any cards. And the error messages were absolutely opaque.