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c0restrainton Ask HN: What were the things you did that made the biggest impact at your work?

> As I have a few thousand tabs over several windows

I'd sugges you need to find an alternative workflow... even one thousand tabs has far passed the point of diminished returns

c0restrainton Ask HN: What to avoid in life?

Some community colleges in the US are $100-300 per course, and they offer most of those same core math & physics courses, without the crippling debt.

c0restrainton Ask HN: How do you maintain your medical record?

That sounds both amazing (from a patient in need POV) and scary (from a privacy POV). I’m interested in both

c0restrainton Bioaerosols generated from toilet flushing in rooms of patients with C-Diff

You can keep your germs, but please wash your hands long enough so you don’t pass them onto others. That’s why we have restaurant staff wash their hands

c0restrainton Artificial intelligence will do what we ask, and that's a problem

NOTE: Hacker News changed the title, so my comment might make less sense. The title was "Isaac Asimov’s three laws of robotics have been updated"

1. The machine’s only objective is to maximize the realization of human preferences.

Not all humans are the same. How would a robot deal with incongruent preferences? Or cultural differences that conflict?

2. The machine is initially uncertain about what those preferences are.

So am I... We often don't even know what our own preferences are. This has been studied. Given too many options of snow cone flavors, humans are less likely to even pick one! [0]

3. The ultimate source of information about human preferences is human behavior.

What?! The phrase "Do as I say, not as I do" comes to mind. Many people behave against their own intuition, best interests, or even their preferences, given the situation, peer pressure, or blackmail.

This "rewrite" is less preferable to Asimov's. Humans are fallible. I wouldn't want a robot to follow our lead.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice

c0restrainton Is Open-Source Cryptography Secure?

In short, the answer is yes

c0restrainton State Farm uses payment signature for HIPAA disclosure authorization

I've signed mortgage documents several times in the past few years, and I've had the opposite experience. The first time they openly scoffed at me for taking the time to read it. Took about two hours to read >100 pages.

c0restrainton State Farm uses payment signature for HIPAA disclosure authorization

Is it illegal to write someone else's name, like "Donald Duck" in the field, in legible script? It's clearly NOT your signature then...

c0restrainton Amazon appears to be tracking every tap on Kindle

Wouldn't they need to, in order to provide this functionality? I use several devices to read Kindle books and it synchronizes my state across devices (latest page turned across each device). The info in this screenshot looks to pertain to that.

c0restrainton The Fed Has Bought 70% of Net Treasury Issuance Since October

How do you draw that conclusion?

c0restrainton Huawei set for limited role in UK 5G networks

I’d agree with you, but then you hand-waved past forcing Hauwei to open source their IP.

c0restrainton Microsoft Application Inspector

Weird, that first screenshot [0] contains Audible's logo [1] which is an Amazon company (far right icon in the first row of icons).

It looks like they are repurposing Audible's logo to mean "Dynamic Command Execution" [2]

[0] https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/47648296/72893326-...

[1] https://m.media-amazon.com/images/G/01/audibleweb/arya/navig...

[2] https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/47648296/71859554-...

c0restrainton Scotland to use 100% renewables on time to host 2020 climate summit

I'd agree. Ireland is fairly windy too