skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for relaying that so clearly. So here's the problem.

On Product Hunt[0], 2/8 screenshots clearly show that type of illegal use case ("+10% pricing"), and your own (US based) customer thanks you for "AB test pricing"[1]. You also can't get a product type that is more the personification of highly regulated filed personal lines as "auto insurance".

Literally in a comment from a few hours ago, you tout your ability in "running A/B tests with different pricing logics to optimize profitability."[2] and "your business users can launch and make changes (e.g., increase the price to certain categories of policies"[3].

If you thought what happened with Zenefits was bad, this type of thinking is 10x worse. As in, carrier/you gets fined and has to send rebates to all customers that might have been affected, program shuts down, and you lose your license.

If you're acting as the Broker (MGA?) you have to be extremely careful in whatever type of control you give to an unlicensed entity you are distributing through. What someone from outside of insurance thinks is a routine pricing optimization, "(What if we charge 5% more before a busy weekend?)", can cause untold compliance grief. Plus, if you give the unlicensed entity enough control in how the insurance is presented and sold, they themselves might now need to become licensed producers.

I'm also skeptical you are doing much in the non-admitted space, as marketing restrictions, three declinations, surplus lines stamping etc. is not something you can automate for a consumer (small personal lines) product.

I have no opinion on "non-insurance" products (whatever that is) except that must be a very small percentage of what you are trying to do, as you call yourself "An Insurance Platform".

[0]https://www.producthunt.com/posts/tint-insurance-platform

[1]https://cards.producthunt.com/cards/comments/1231720?v=1

[2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26026901

[3]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26028605
completely agree..scala is a fantastic language. Scala has gotten a lot of hate, for sure Some for good reasons, but much of it is, I think, doesn't really apply anymore. I've been using daily for about 2 years now and it would be difficult to go back to Java at this point, for all of the reasons you stated. For me, it feels most like Swift.. concise but expressive, but with more mature collection and concurrency primitives. I think developers are looking at it more closely now that they're more experienced with functional capabilities in other languages and now can understand all of the type constructions. Granted, most of what I've done is in Spark, but I use it now for other mundane things like os scripting (something I would have used Python for previously). There are some great libraries for it and can't recommend it enough.
FOSDEM 2021: Cross-Platform User Interface Development in Java with OpenJFX
> 38 870 years of combined playtime played on Steam

Wow, that's some real impact, seems crazy to me.
i would absolutely abhor being mandated or otherwise pressured to use this device for work.

i would love forcing or otherwise pressuring my employees to have this strapped on their face for work 24/7.
Could you explain the mods drama to me? I have no idea what's going on.
Multiple newspapers published his identity before the wsg article
love your book.. and your blog. Thanks!!
What lovely a super spreader event
You're right, prices is affected by lower volume, especially in smaller stocks like GME. But I don't assume that $120 billion was all spend in a single day on a single stock.

> Now imagine if that was concentrated in the Robinhood top 100?

Well, probably not evenly distributed. Most goes to the top ten, most probably to AAPL, TSLA, FB, MSFT and other big names. I just wonder: once invested, do people actively trade all the time to cause so much volume?
I really enjoyed both write-ups. Precise, technical and humane at the same time!
Tim Cook said the same thing about VR in 2017. He didn't like that it was isolating, and was much more excited about the potential of AR.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/technology...
Personally, I'm a fan of using fzf with tmux 3.2+ so I get popup windows instead. They're great.
I miss Flash too, but I don't miss the fact that the runtime was only available from a single vendor and only in binary form for the platforms they deemed important. The performance issue was never the main problem.
I was looking for the same thing. Would be really curious if it got released. BTW I really enjoyed "Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process during the Golden Age of Steve Jobs"
>They have monorepo with custom build infra, which makes integrating any third_party code pretty hard.

Why would it be significantly harder than creating new project?
What do you think of Dart? It's still evolving, but for me it ticks all those boxes.
Assuming they get Starship flying, yes.

30 paying customers over the 5-year lifetime of a satellite is $180k. This is more than the estimated cost of a satellite plus the cost of lifting it into orbit assuming they have a fully reusable launch vehicle.

However, even if they don't achieve that you are ignoring a rather important point: that is, most of the time the satellites are not over the US, and there are paying customers elsewhere, too. Even though the profit is not going to be as great elsewhere (generally, in most of the world you have to pay for spectrum, and the customers probably can't support as high a price), each Starlink satellite will spend roughly 50% of it's time within reach of a populated area it can serve. (Even over the southern pacific, with a low angle to the horizon the satellites will be in range of a populated island quite often.)
Confirm, just click and run a pre-built package. I recently downloaded Chromium 79 for Mac in order to debug an issue in Tesla's browser which is based on that. Neat.
My virtualenv for work comes in at 847Mb (actually a lot more than I expected). I have a 2Tb disk attached to my machine. For all intents and purposes, we do have unlimited disk space.
It is on YouTube. But there's a _lot_ of Easter eggs in the Strong Bad Emails that rely on interactivity which are lost in the video.
It does however start to solve the issue of having people who don't belong in prison being sent to prison. A part of a complex set of issues that have led to the US having the largest prison population in the world despite being nowhere near the most populated country.

In the US in particular it seems bizarre that this discussion has descended into worry over being locked up in mental health facilities given a prison population so large it compares unfavourably to most authoritarian dictatorships.
Thank you for this comment. The elitist caste in America have gotten far too big for their britches. And then they wonder why Trump won and why we did not have a peaceful transfer of power for arguably the first time in our nation's history. Being born into comfort only takes a generation to wonder why doesn't everyone just "get more money?".
Hey, free immunization. With a side of extreme sport.
Yes, but my point is: is it so unlikely that big players see the sentiment, hop on the train and actually drive up the price instead of retail?
Political content is a landmine, articles are often locked because vandals are often indistinguishable from those with better information but still controversial.
38,000 might be me. :(
> even though Steve had warned Wayne that it was a problem that needed to be fixed.

I think you are mis-reading the situation here.

In the Q&A Wayne says:
> "A week before the event and we were still struggling to synchronize them and make the motion smooth. [...] However, Steve was on the stage watching these things not perfectly aligned with a little bit of stuttering. He wasn’t happy and we could see it in the video feed we were watching."

There is no suggestion of a risk of failure or that or that it was a problem. Steve simply wanted a perfect, smooth, synchronised motion.

> "But when you were in the audience, you couldn’t tell unless you knew what to look for."

Watch the video posted by another user and judge for yourself.
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Your question doesn't make sense except from a very, very narrow ideological perspective.

It's useful to have an Open Source browser since:

- most of the standards that a browser implements are also open standards

- if it's under a permissive license, you can port it to either your own device, or unsupported devices.

- proprietary browsers are influenced by business goals to do untoward things with regard to privacy and incompatible changes.

- cross-platform abilities. I use Firefox across Mac OS, linux and Windows, though mainly Mac OS.

Source: ex-Netscape,was a member of a well-known browser protocol committee.
The main thing is that its often troublesome wearing glasses with them. You can get the lenses changed to your prescription and you can wear some headsets with glasses. Sometimes the light shines in the side of the lens making it distracting.
"While a virtual FOSDEM does not have buildings, our conference management system expects them. So we reused them to group talks by their type."
Thank you for posting the exact timestamp.
Oh come on. It's fully online. You could at least skim the page before commenting.
Its purely virtual

https://fosdem.org/2021/news/2021-01-31-fosdem-online-sneak-...
can you send me your email address?
If that's what you want to optimize for, take this idea and run with it.

I.e. you can build a website that downloads some data into the browser while the visitor is viewing the first page and subsequent pages will be delivered from inside the browser without hitting the network. They may not be too happy about the extra traffic, especially when on mobile.
We should have stuck with Perl. I never came across the same problems with CPAN.
Works fine for me, sounds like a you-problem.
Probably you need monitoring solution that stores data on plain old EBS disks (or GCE persistent disks) such as VictoriaMetrics? Then you don't need to pay for IO operations. And such disks usually have an order of magnitude lower latencies for IO operations than S3, so they may return results faster.
Same! I use it for switching between branches:

sw = !git checkout $(git branch -a --format '%(refname:short)' | sed 's~origin/~~' | sort | uniq | fzf)

Just type `git sw` and fzfuzzy type the branch name you want to go to.
It's cool that it exists but

a) I don't see much it adds that I can't do myself with a user.js or changes in about.config

b) I don't have reason to trust them to keep pace with security patches and the like.
I dont think it is that simple and more of a spectrum. Some early nerds probably made a lot of money and then many nerds came in mid-to-late in the price run-up. Those guys probably lost money.
Free immunization from watching an online event? I didn't know Bill Gates 5G stuff was that good already.
Working of a Ships Anchor
And it also ignores that the alternative here is not "do nothing" but "send police instead", which also costs. And if it leads to arrests it costs even more. And if people end up getting a criminal record, it tends to reduce their long term employment prospect, and as a result reduce tax revenue/increase welfare costs. There seems to be plenty of potential for this to save money over time.
I honestly can't tell if it's sarcasm or not. If I was reading it on some comp.* newsgroup I'd say the former, but it's 2021 so I consider the possibility you might be serious - but I hope not.
Sports are a special case as, arguably, they're mostly boring and their main value is the social context - cheering for players/teams, spectating together with family and friends. In contrast, the market for serious movies or single-player videogames suggest that there is a lot of demand for "lone time" experiences.

I think a big factor in lackluster adoption of VR is... space. VR games require space, which is expensive, and people seem to have less of it in recent years. On top of that, usable space disappears very quickly once you start a family, which cuts out a good chunk of the target audience.
> While there is sure to be a certain amount of variance between the kinds of people who are considered brave because of this, I think it is an archetype as Carl Jung talks about (he called it the Hero archetype of which the warrior is a subset) that applies throughout cultures and type of warfare.

I do wonder how much this is due to the modern culture of the military where a there is a lot of hero worship for ancient cultures and in particular a shared connection of warriorhood. The US Military and their rather queasy, often ahistorical love for Spartans for example.

Basically the idea that you could say sit a Spartan, Samurai and a modern Soldier down over beers and they'd be able to bond over a shared view of warriorhood feels questionable as a true statement. Even if it's useful for developing an ethos as a belief.
For planet-wide real-time communications (i.e. voice) you really need several server locations or go p2p.

Optimize for MOS ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_opinion_score ) and take into account how latency affects that score.
Early on there was also a lot of talk about High Frequency Trading firms being a prime customer. Once they have inter-satellite laser links, the latency over large distances can be significantly less than via undersea fiberoptic cables.

I believe this is to do with the difference in speed of light in the cable and also indirect path that light takes as it bounces along a cable. Over inter-continental distances, the benefit is magnified.
It only allows a whitelist of Signal related URLs, nothing else.

See here in the code:

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-TLS-Proxy/blob/master/da...
If you’re high on drugs, yelling scary stuff, acting violently without technically doing anything illegal. and threatening to kill yourself, I’d restrain you myself if I could. What’s the alternative to locking you up or waiting until you hurt someone & shooting you dead? You’re out of your mind, ruining everyone’s day, and you need a timeout to get your shit together, so if you wanna act like a child with no regard for the well-being of those around you, I’d have zero problems with sending you to your room until you cool down. It just so happens your room is a padded cell at the local mental health facility.
> One advantage, however, of doing a more whole-program approach to AD rather than individual operators

I was under the impression that the big ML frameworks (and surely JAX with jit) are doing optimization on the complete compute graph, too.

I didn't want to make this discussion too TF/pyTorch focused (I'm not even a ML researcher). But your optimization claims sound like the other AD frameworks are not doing any optimization at all, which is not the case.

I was also thinking about derivatives of functions which are doing something iterative on the inside, like a matrix decomposition (combined with linear solve and/or matrix inversion). While a "high level" AD tracer can identify an efficient derivative of these operations, your LLVM introspection would only be able to compute the derivative through all the internal step of the matrix decomposition?
Steve cared about the most minute things.

There’s a story about how he went into a meeting with an iPad and a MacBook and told his people that his iPad wakes instantly and his MacBook doesn’t.

https://daringfireball.net/2020/11/the_m1_macs
They could have tens or hundreds of cameras, and reconstruct what a virtual cameraman moving on the field with the action would record.

I think such a virtual camera technically almost is possible. Getting a smoothly moving camera image that doesn’t get distracted by ball-like objects (e.g. a bald referee, as happened in soccer recently) and tunes zoom levels to show just enough action probably is the hardest part.
Yes, this is one scenario where the short is forced to cover. What about this scenario:

Institutional investor A believes in GME and owns a lot of stock. They want to hold GME long-term. They don't care about price fluctuations, but they want to make a steady profit by lending out their shares. Institutional investor B believes GME is worth nothing, borrows the stock from A and sells it to whomever. The price goes up from $20 to $300. A doesn't care, the steady income from the lending fees is more valuable to them from a risk perspective and voting rights or whatever. B thinks this is a bubble and decides to sit it out. Where is the forced covering?

Edit: Can't answer to you anymore, because of tree size limit. So here:

> A has to continuedly prove that they have enough money to be able to eventually buy back the stocks to assure B that he will eventually get their stocks back. If they cannot show that, then they are forced to either raise more capital or return the stocks.

Good point. Not sure about the 'continuously' or if there can be individual short selling contracts between two parties that have different margin requirements. Maybe a call from B to A like "we will give you back your shares in a month when the bubble is over" works in the real world. Not for retail investors, but between big parties. I don't know much about this.
Yep, super spreading ideas of software freedom to anyone online seems like a lovely thing indeed.
Thanks. Will be interesting to see how much of an effect that has at this point.
OK, but were the other poster's friends doing any of the things you listed?
Even if not watching the talks (gotta admit, I'm a bit tired of watching streams of talks by now...), I find just browsing through the schedule and seeing what communities I'm not involved with are getting up to really interesting each year. Even if it's clearly just a subset of things it's a nice point to start search further.
They will, but the deeper question is why. People are invested in the Apple ecoystem. They have an iWatch and it only really works with their iPhone. They have iTunes with their mac pro. Apple is incredibly good at brand and interaction.

So how would a VR headset work with everything?

1) the iphone has the best facial tracking camera and software (better even than desktop and webcam and GPU)

2) like the Occulus, you should only need a phone to connect.

3) only 1 vr headset currently has an internal camera able to track faces and eyes. Facial expression, iris movement and gaze tracking is hugely missing currently, but trivial with the iphone.

I would have the iphone being the base station and do the full body tracking "just put it on your desk". I would also put their existing face tracking and eye tracking tech inside the vr headset. I'd make it so the headset only needs an iphone to connect. I'd make it cordless only.
VR Exercises and posture corrections add-ons
Well it is more complicated than that. The power structure is a complex web of entrepreneurs, government officials, land owners, military, finance, families who own businesses, CEOs of public companies etc.
> There is so much calm and peace that comes with std libs.

This, and library documentation. It's probably the single practica issue I have with D and Nim. They seem to have fairly robust standard libs but when I look for something specific it always turns out this feature is missing, outdated, or badly documented.
I really like this, it might actually be a cool machine to code a little text editor and use for drafting.

Anyone knows what that display is?
True about if something is free, you are the product. Like this article made available for free written by a competitor to disqus.
My notebook is using Intel graphics and there's definitely no screen tearing nowadays on X.org with compositing enabled.
The menus could also be navigated using the number pad as shortcuts (first item=1 key, second=2) so getting to "write a new SMS message" could also be done blind in 2-3 key presses
Google has become too big as company and has to be broken up by anti-trust rules, along with many other FAANG companies that ballooned up in recent years.

It's laughable that Microsoft was under anti-trust scrutiny when they were much smaller company. The Microsoft anti-trust situation created enough lanes for smaller companies at the time, like Google, Apple, etc. to gain traction.

The situation is the same now, anti-trust rules are in place to promote healthy competition at all levels. All these big companies has to be broken up under anti-trust rules to further competition in technology space.
I didn't realize they were using a user-agent to determine which platform to serve executables for. Was just getting Linux which confused me.
I wonder how people decide to list on cartax vs otcmarkets
- But huh, if you checked that at runtime compiling un debug mode, and then you compile you compile the exact same code... It should be OK right ?

- I think you're right. C is more l'île a garbage collected C.
I've been thinking about that a bit recently, for a product I'm building where I'd also like to offer a free tier, but at the same time I'm afraid that it's too much of a hassle.

I'm wondering if an open subsidized approach could work: E.g. for every paid user you allow 100 (or at whatever threshold) users to sign up for the free tier. Possible one could also set up a monthly donation system that directly goes towards financing free accounts.

I'm sure something like that has been tried, but I haven't really been able to find any good examples for that.
Ask HN: Does a UX Designer need to code?
Just wondering if it's really necessary for a UX Designer to know how to code or have at least basic understanding of the languages of programming?
It's the referer. Copy paste and open in new tab, rather than clicking.
Interesting article, but the title is kind of misleading. You’re assuming they’re doing the same thing you are by a mere suggestion from the seller to check if the gift card has balance or not.

For all we know these could have been purchased with stolen credit cards. Nonetheless interesting article.
> ”The work of hundreds of people, and hundreds of millions of dollars, were pitted against shitty mechanical hand-cranks”

That’s one way to see it. In my opinion, a faulty mechanical riser in his keynote would have resulted in exactly zero less iMacs sold.
search 1920x480 on aliexpress etc - super-wide formats like that usually originate from automotive use cases and then trickle down into more easily accessible markets once they're made in large numbers, and that's what's happened for 8.8" 1920x480 recently.
OT: Anyone here played "Dyson Sphere Program"?

Is it good? How does it compare to Factorio?
would that help them though? i mean it appears to me they are already as close as possible to avoid latency and use microwave links and stuff so that is pretty hard to beat i guess. the only thing i can easily imagine being beneficial is getting information across the globe faster but then i lack the skills to see how one profits from that, ie. being closer would still be better, no?
I see no reason to teach Python per se unless people request it.

As someone not really familiar with python besides using it instead of one off bash scripts, I have the same feeling about using it. When is python to appropriate language to pick? Not high performance, not safe, does not run in the browser, not embed friendly, no unique features. There are more mature and bigger ecosystem out there with better tooling and there is the whole python 2 vs python 3 thing.

Yet I see so many python positions advertised, that I consider picking it up.
The game is ridiculously popular and has a fan base that has means. Release paid DLCs, or even an entirely new game but keep monetizing. Free updates forever seems silly.
Not a mathematician/physicist/etc, but having literally dived into Julia today, I think you’d be surprised. It definitely seems like “Python 2.0” for numerical computing.