Hacker News: metiscus

New comment by metiscus in "Android introduces $2-4 install fee and 10–20% cut for US external content links"

metiscus — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 09:51:43 +0000

They're also killing this off next year and you'll have to install via adb, unless something changed and I didn't hear about it.

New comment by metiscus in "Android introduces $2-4 install fee and 10–20% cut for US external content links"

metiscus — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 09:47:26 +0000

This is probably why they killed installs that dont have attribution, specifically to undercut f-droid.

New comment by metiscus in "Microsoft doesn't understand the dislike for Windows' new direction"

metiscus — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 12:14:28 +0000

Google is basically killing side loading for all practical purposes. I get your point but the race for the bottom should be televised.

New comment by metiscus in "Vulnerable transistors threaten to upend Europa Clipper mission"

metiscus — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 14:45:02 +0000

Sounds like Infineon may owe someone a new satellite soon. At least if it can be shown that they sent NASA bad parts and didn't notify them in time to prevent this failure.

New comment by metiscus in "Navy cancels ship briefings after damning internal report"

metiscus — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 01:58:18 +0000

You see, these contractors tend to hire retired admirals and generals directly out of acquisitions positions and onto their boards. The contracts are written in ways that make it hard to punish shoddy work in a way that doesn't make the government side look bad too, so they tend to let slide what is kept out of sight. After all, if someone makes enough noise, then your contract may end up on the news or even worse, on the hill. If that happens, contracts get yanked, people get reassigned or lose their chance at a kushy spot on a board in a few years. It varies by contract and organizations, some are much better run than others and tend to deliver good quality.

New comment by metiscus in "Unity Software plans to reduce its workforce by 25%, eliminating ~1,800 jobs"

metiscus — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 18:27:27 +0000

Goodwill and stability have a value too. If it were me and I was in the position where the retracted changes would have endangered my business, I would have at least someone working to ensure that we could pivot to Unreal or another engine if Unity decided to change courses again. "Fool me once, shame on you, if you fool me you can't get fooled again" or something like that.

New comment by metiscus in "Unity Software plans to reduce its workforce by 25%, eliminating ~1,800 jobs"

metiscus — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 02:25:35 +0000

After the fees fiasco, many studios began plans to migrate away. I can't help but believe some will move to Unreal or Godot etc for their next projects.

New comment by metiscus in "IT employment grew by just 700 jobs in 2023"

metiscus — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 02:24:09 +0000

It is a testament to the great work they do that many people believe that IT does not do much. The work required to keep things working without noticible downtime is hardly trivial.

New comment by metiscus in "Nuclear Reactor Simulator"

metiscus — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 18:37:06 +0000

I emailed the author to see if I could get the source code to update it for a modern platform. Given the amount of link rot since that time it is unlikely that he replies but hope is eternal.

New comment by metiscus in "Nuclear Reactor Simulator"

metiscus — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 01:23:29 +0000

This bring back memories?

https://web.archive.org/web/20020928111017/http://www.simula...

New comment by metiscus in "Verizon, AT&T customers sue to undo T-Mobile merger"

metiscus — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 13:58:27 +0000

Spirit is very hit or miss depending on the route. I flew from Orlando to Pensacola and back three times in two weeks earlier this year and was delayed an average of 3 hours every single flight. The reported cause of the delay was "aircraft maintenance" although in two cases the aircraft had been at the airport overnight. The pilot explained to us during announcements that sometimes they skip longer maintenance when planes are there overnight.

Otherwise, I've had okay experiences with Spirit prior to this year but I won't be flying with them again since it is shorter to drive than suffer their constant delays.

New comment by metiscus in "YouTube wants to get you watching more news from 'authoritative sources'"

metiscus — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 14:42:53 +0000

I think they meant unrolling as in deploying.

New comment by metiscus in "Some Pixel owners still can't dial 911 during an emergency"

metiscus — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 16:46:40 +0000

https://www.911.gov/calling-911/frequently-asked-questions/

From that link: Test calls confirm that your local 911 service can receive your 911 call and has the correct location information. Test calls can be scheduled by contacting your local 911 call center via its non-emergency phone number.

New comment by metiscus in "'Cancer-killing pill' is now being tested on humans"

metiscus — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 18:46:59 +0000

Everything in medicine is about weighing comparative risks - nothing is completely safe if you look at it hard enough. Well raised point, thanks.

New comment by metiscus in "Ask HN: Who is using small OS LLMs in production?"

metiscus — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 13:39:47 +0000

Exactly. It isn't free as in FSF definitional freedom, you still can't do certain things with it etc but it is unencumbered by external costs unless you exceed a certain usage threshold.

New comment by metiscus in "'Cancer-killing pill' is now being tested on humans"

metiscus — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 13:35:57 +0000

As many others have said, this appears to be a puff piece almost entirely devoid of meaningful content. There is currently one ongoing phase 1 trial for the drug in question, AOH1996. That phase 1 trial is scheduled to end in March or April of 2024 so we may have some answers about the safety of the treatment.

It is important to remember, when discussing these things, how clinical trial phases work. There are four main trial phases in a drug development cycle.

A Phase 1 trial is used to determine if a treatment is safe and to determine the maximum dosing. A preliminary result about the effects of the drug is a side product of a Phase 1 trial but this is not sufficient to know if a drug will succeed. Phase 1 trials are primarily about safety.

A Phase 2 trial is used to determine the efficacy of a treatment and to determine the best and most effective way to use that treatment. A drug that has a successful Phase 2 trial is likely to be effective but merely being effective is often insufficient for a drug to be considered a success.

A Phase 3 trial compares the effectiveness of a treatment against the current standard treatments. A new treatment must be better than the existing treatments in some way (e.g. same effect on the disease but lower side-effects, more effective in general, etc) to have a successful Phase 3 trial. A Phase 3 trial is the last regulatory hurdle to the approval of a treatment for use.

A Phase 4 trial, is performed after a treatment is developed and brought to market. The most common type is post-marketing surveillance where data is gathered about the effectiveness of the treatment, side effects, etc from observational studies of the treatment as used. These data are compared with the data developed during the Phase 3 randomized controlled trial to ensure that the treatment is performing like it should in the market. Differences between Phase 3 results and Phase 4 results can result in modifications to the box (e.g. a black box label), prescribing information, or other aspects of the treatment's packaging and marketing.

Hopefully this was helpful.

New comment by metiscus in "Ask HN: Who is using small OS LLMs in production?"

metiscus — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 13:20:04 +0000

LLAMA 2 appears to require no cost because it can be run locally. The license does mention that if you are using facilitating than 700 million users that you have to negotiate for a different license or something like that but for most peoples uses, it would seem that LLAMA 2 is basically "free".

New comment by metiscus in "Forced rhubarb, a vegetable deprived of sunlight, is having a renaissance (2019)"

metiscus — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 00:59:45 +0000

The calcium in Rhubarb is Calcium Oxalate, which is not likely to be highly bioavailable. Not all calcium is equal in this case.

New comment by metiscus in "Senators propose law that bans members of Congress from trading stocks"

metiscus — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 23:08:20 +0000

"It is a crime punishible by xyz to hold any of the following offices and while owning any of the following classes of asset. A newly elected xyz shall have XXX days to divest themselves of any of the prohibited securities after the election is certified."

Something like that seems constitutional to me, although I am not a constitutional scholar.

New comment by metiscus in "Community Note correcting Musk’s anti-vax tweet mysteriously disappears"

metiscus — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 20:15:57 +0000

My personal views are somewhere between Bakunin and Benjamin Tucker. Private companies can be equally or even more coercive than a government. In this case, via the OSHA mandate and the executive orders on defense contractors, we saw both acting together.