It would be amazing to have robot-delivered butler service. However, I'm deeply concerned about privacy and, given OTA updates, physical safety. There are enough bad actors on the Internet as-is, I don't want my butler deciding to reenact Order 66 after a Wifi update.
Readit Newspolitician commented on The Coming Robot Home Invasion andykessler.com/andy_kess... · Posted by u/walterbell
politician commented on Open Banking and Payments Competition bitsaboutmoney.com/archiv... · Posted by u/smitop
I just want to easily pull bank/card transactions into my budget app, and the glacial pace of open banking really annoys me. The pace in Canada has been just as slow, although we have Interac for direct person to person transfers already so I'm not sure how much the issue of direct payments applies there.
It's really just f**ing ridiculous that some of the earliest and most important digital systems we have are allowed to wall in their data with no API access. Banks suck so goddamn hard and are allowed to operate without any real competition and don't innovate at all. They are the definition of regulatory capture.
> Banks suck so goddamn hard and are allowed to operate without any real competition and don't innovate at all.
It's not really the banks' fault. They're all stuck leasing expensive information systems from entrenched third-party technology shops. They don't have software development dollars and they are extremely risk averse, to a paranoid degree. Thank the regulatory environment for that (state and federal).
Companies like Moov.io are trying to crack open this space and provide the levels of integration we see in other industries.
But it's really hard and slow.
The realistic reading is that: In the future, a treatment based on this technique could help parents going through IVF rescue more embryos from trisomy-21.
Considering that scope, the people for whom this could be useful are those who have very few embryos, one or more of which have trisomy-21. With a young couple, they will have many embryos and preimplantation genetic testing will reveal trisomy-21 early enough that even if they have fertility issues they can just run more rounds of IVF.
With an older couple or one with severe fertility issues, they may only have one or two embryos to work with.
This is all science-fiction, though, since a technique like this will require a lot of work (both in development and in regulation) before it can go live.
This comment and the original question ought to be pinned to the top of this discussion.
politician commented on Facts don't change minds, structure does vasily.cc/blog/facts-dont... · Posted by u/staph
> Ignoring the strawman at the end
Oh, no. You don't get to ignore my actual experience with people and Covid vaccines. I watched 3 different anti-vaxxers in my family die begging for a vaccine while doctors struggled to save their dumb asses (yeah, mass spreading event).
> it can never be proven that vaccines don't harm us.
That's your job to prove, Mr. Skeptical. Not mine.
I very much can prove that not getting a vaccine does harm you. I've got a handful of measles deaths to point to right now. We've got step function decreases in reproductive cancers due to HPV vaccination. We've got shingles vaccines showing decreases in dementia and Alzheimers. I can go on and on.
It's up to YOU to show the contrary that the harm a vaccine does outweighs it's benefits.
People don't seem to get that "being skeptical" is simply the first step. After that, you are required to begin the hard work of massing factual evidence as well as cause/effect relationships for your argument.
Otherwise you are simply "obviously irrational and can't be reasoned with".
> I say this as a fully vaccinated (including COVID) vaccine enjoyer.
"I'm not racist, but ..."
Sorry. Statement gives you no credibility or authority.
It’s impossible to argue with the biased framing you’ve setup: any single good outcome due to vaccines is sufficient to declare victory for your argument while opponents face defeat unless they show that all harms outweigh all benefits based on your evaluation methodology.
Anyway, for everyone else, the J&J COVID vaccine is known to cause heart problems in certain men and boys. Here’s an article about the issue from the pre-RFK HHS era:
https://health.mountsinai.org/blog/wynk-heart-inflammation-m...
politician commented on C# Language Design Meeting for June 30th, 2025 github.com/dotnet/csharpl... · Posted by u/jasonthorsness
I just want to focus on writing functions. Here's a trivial example.
I would like:
// math/adder.cs
public static add(int x, int y) : int {
return x + y;
}
// math/adder.cs
namespace math {
class adder {
public static add(int x, int y) : int {
return x + y;
}
}
}
math.adder.add(10, 20);Consider:
// math/adder.cs
package math;
…code…politician commented on What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing? newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/adrianhon
Universities have been criticized for ideological indoctrination. We might be able to quantify this: the increase in use of AI to write essays should result in a weakening of this phenomenon simply due to the lower engagement in the material and reduced critical thinking as was shown recent [1] studies [2].
[1] https://time.com/7295195/ai-chatgpt-google-learning-school/ [2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
politician commented on OpenTelemetry for Go: Measuring overhead costs coroot.com/blog/opentelem... · Posted by u/openWrangler
The article never really explains what eBPF is -- AFAIU, it’s a kernel feature that lets you trace syscalls and network events without touching your app code. Low overhead, good for metrics, but not exactly transparent.
It’s the umpteenth OTEL-critical article on the front page of HN this month alone... I have to say I share the sentiment but probably for different reasons. My take is quite the opposite: most value is precisely in the application (code) level so you definetly should instrument... and then focus on Errors over "general observability"[0]
I don't want to take away from your point, and yet... if anyone lacks background knowledge these days the relevant context is just an LLM prompt away.
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It's good to see that the report identified raiding, and raid leaders in particular, as the principle origin and context of abuse.
Raid leaders are symptomatic of broken game design.
So many questions:
- Why not just handle all of this in the app? Do you think Apple won't allow it?
- Are you geofencing this functionality? It seems like per other comments this is US only.
- How are you handling existing subscribers (not sure if applicable)? Will you "encourage" them to migrate?
It'll be a nightmare to get an in-app change like this through their approval process. OP's solution to offload the entire thing to the web is a great stop-gap measure since when it is definitely rejected they can appeal through their App Store rep pointing to this external payment URL decision and have some small chance of getting it approved in the nearest term.