skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the US it is the accumulation of years of frustration with our for-profit system. Insurance at a minimum feels like a parasite, and then on top of that it is the personification of byzantine bureaucratic mazes and arbitrary rulings.

Insurance is also fragile, where an employee that needs their healthcare for something like cancer is then exposed to be laid off and lose coverage.

When you need it most, you are subjected to exploitation and fraud: surprise billing, lack of coverage, and doctors that feign ignorance about costs and complexities.

Meanwhile anyone that knows how billing professionals knows: #1 rule is bill when you can, the #2 rule is to bill as much as possible.

The end result is a lack of faith in our system, where it is just a system of profiteering and exploitation.

They work long hours because they will eventually make a lot of money (my friend is a cardiologist, not even a surgeon, and makes 800k per year in the US) and get huge amounts of prestige. Doctors are the only nerd profession that is cool and sexy. And the number of hours is actually less than it used to be back in the day.

Of course, you don't get as many perks from the drug/device company reps anymore, or have they figured out how to give doctors steak dinners and golf junkets again?
> Would Linux be as popular now if it was dual licensed from the beginning?

Especially when there are BSD variants that are really good.
As an Indian, I can tell you that every single family I know has lost someone to COVID. But this part of India wasn't as torn apart as the cities like Delhi or Bangalore. Or like rural India, whose death toll we never counted.

Both sides of the ideological split here were arguing over the stats until the Ganges swelled up with bodies. But even then, the right continues to deny the extent of death.
I re-run the numbers every year, but solar just does not make fiscal sense for my house. For 2022, my utility lowered the our set rate from 6.98 cents/kWh to 6.5, which puts me at about half the national average.
I have a little fantasy console project I tinker on that has a built-in text editor. Working on that has been an insightful trip into all of the subtleties of text editing that we intuitively know but don't know we know. Here's one I stumbled onto recently. Say your file looks like this, with the cursor at `|`:

12345|678
123
12345678

Press arrow key down once, and you get:

12345678
123|
12345678

Because the second line's length is too short to preserve the cursor column, the cursor snaps to the end of the line. Note that the cursor is really here. If the user were to press left once, it would take them to:

12|3

Instead of pressing left, say the user presses down again. The cursor is currently on column 4, so you'd expect:

12345678
123
123|45678

But in the text editors I've tested, you get:

12345678
123
12345|678

So the cursor is snapped to the end of the line on line 2, but if the user keeps cursoring past that, the original cursor column is remembered and restored. The text editor has to display where the cursor currently is, but track where it "wants" to be if the line length weren't getting in the way.

This is definitely useful behavior. If you arrow down through a bunch of lines of various lengths, it's really annoying if the cursor starts drifting left. But implementing it correctly was much more subtle than I expected.

There are all sorts of other edge cases too. If a user presses Command-Up to move the cursor to the beginning of the file, and then presses Down, does the cursor always stay on column one, or does it remember the original column before Command-Up was pressed?
I'm not embracing corporate. I'm embracing competition.
How do you know that when you don't know what else he was using his GitHub account for?
The gap in this workflow is you have to go out of your way to get a diff. Never mind a diff of what's actually in the .gem. Glancing at changelogs on GitHub only reviews changes from good actors.

In practice most of us just update, often with live reload running, and move on.

We need mandatory peer review of updates before they're distributed in the first place.
If every American city was dense, I'd go for metro + cycling. But as is that isn't the case.

I don't think most Americans are fit enough to cycle , that's ultimately the issue. But even if your overweight, taking a train isn't a problem.
> In fact it was a superior there that told me, when I was more anti-union, that "companies get the union they deserve".

What does that say about the companies that don't have a union?

> I did everything I could to get my wife into a professional career with a union, so that when I die she'll be as safe and protected without me.

The safer option is to make sure she has a skillset which is in high demand.

What's the union going to do if her company goes under?

> I also think unions would help the world, while I'm certainly not overpaid myself, my Indian colleagues deserve the same pay I receive. I'd strike for that.

Different places have different costs of living. That's the competitive advantage of people in poor countries. Have you considered that if the company had to pay them the same as they pay you, they might have hired entirely workers who are in the same timezone? Much to the chagrin of the people you thought you were helping.

> Big corps keep out competition too easily, and should be doing more to keep the American middle class around.

Big corps should be broken up. That's the solution there.
There’s actually a paper on this: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Single-DC-bus-distributi...
I don't know about "a lot more". It is essentially the same calculation without having to know 3 new terms. Let:

A = the event they are a spy
B = the event that an l appears

And ^c denote the complement of these events. Then,

P(A) = 1/5

P(A^c) = 4/5

P(B|A) = 1/6

P(B|A^c) = 1/4

P(A|B) = P(B|A)P(A)/P(B)

By law of total probability,

P(B) = P(B|A)P(A) + P(B|A^c)P(A^c)

Which is very standard formulation and really just your equation as you can rewrite everything I have done as:

P(A|B) = 1/(1 + P(B|A^c)P(A^c)/P(B|A)P(A))

Which is the base odds, posterior odds, and odds to probability conversion all in one. The reason why this method is strictly better in my opinion is because the odds breaks down simply if we introduce a third type of person which doesn't pronounce l's. Also, after doing one homework's worth of these problems, you just skip to the final equation in which case my post is just as short as yours.
> people in authoritarian regimes don't necessarily suffer.

What!? By definition, they suffer. It's right in the definition of the word:

favoring or enforcing strict obedience to authority, especially that of the government, at the expense of personal freedom

I mean come on. You're saying I don't understand how the world works, but say dishonest things like this? Really? Wow.

>I will only answer this because it's both hillarious and sad that crypto peddelrs have literally zero understanding of how the world works. [...] An average person in a functioning state couldn't care less about not being able to spend some other country's currency somewhere else.

It's plain that you who don't understand how the world works. Why do you think those currency controls exist? For funsies? I mean really... you're failing at very basic logic. There are actual, very real, flesh and blood people in this very thread claiming they are using crypto to evade currency controls. But you downplay their struggles.

Not very classy. But, anything to win an argument right? Speaking of class, you know it's also possible to disagree on something without juvenile, grade-school level taunting. You should try it.

>You keep pretending that the only thing people en messe care about is currencies

I said it's the only thing? Really? I said that? No, I merely said it was a thing. I very important one. But... it's me who's putting words in your mouth. Right.

Don't bother replying. I won't be reading it. I'm cool to debate many things but basic concepts around human rights (including economic ones) are not one of them.

There's lots to hate about crypto. I agree with that 100%. I won't strongly argue about any of them except this particular topic (evading currency controls in authoritarian countries).

You know, you can still be right about crypto in general while conceding a very small point: That draconian currency controls are a form of economic oppression that millions of people suffer under. There are examples in this very thread you are outright ignoring.

Stay angry, friend.
> Coinbase looks like it would take 1.49%+$2.99 at each end for a large end-to-end.

You should look into other cryptos.... bitcoin is not the one with least fees...
Why four? Why not one?
Remember when the DOJ was investigating Google and Apple for collusion?

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-requires-s...
>> On his Twitter Marak is claiming [1] that GitHub/NPM have suspended his account

Interesting. Shouldn't they also block access to the repositories? Oh right, that would hurt their other users. This makes it clear who thinks they own code and who works for them for free.
Artificial Intelligence Hiring Bias Spurs Scrutiny and New Regs
Canonical release v3.0 of their design system Vanilla
> Going by my memory, when YC started they invested 5K per founder.

It was originally 5k plus 5k per founder. The first time it changed was summer 2011, with the guaranteed additional 150k funding from Yuri Milner and Ron Conway.

source: https://www.newsweek.com/boot-camp-next-tech-billionaires-10...

https://venturebeat.com/2011/01/29/yuri-milner-and-ron-conwa...
If AD and BE don't intersect then the quadrilateral ADBE doesn't lie in a plane, and instead you have a curved surface there, which is not what you'd expect from the diagram. The idea is that if you assume all of these surfaces are flat, nothing lines up and the shape can't exist. Certainly you can make something that looks like this, but it won't have perfectly flat surfaces everywhere.
> A couple founders eating ramen could very easily launch a new web product back then. Now it’s tough to get recognized

The competition was signficantly lower back then as well. Not only is all of the low hanging fruit gone, but those start ups who made it are now the current behemoth incumbents and are trying to clean up the whole orchard (so to speak).
I'm not surprised.

I have a theory that there's a perverse incentive for startups to make their work more expensive and therefore more complicated. It's related to this quote by Paul Graham about funding:

"VCs don't invest $x million because that's the amount you need, but because that's the amount the structure of their business requires them to invest. Like steroids, these sudden huge investments can do more harm than good. Google survived enormous VC funding because it could legitimately absorb large amounts of money. They had to buy a lot of servers and a lot of bandwidth to crawl the whole Web. Less fortunate startups just end up hiring armies of people to sit around having meetings."

(from here http://www.paulgraham.com/venturecapital.html)

For those that aren't VC funded I think that a lot can be explained by cargo-culting; "If startup X is using Node/React/Redux/microservices and they just scored a 20m Series A then we'd better do it too"
Except that after/while working at Google, the shareholders aren't distant --- the shareholders are YOU. An enormous chunk of the rank-and-file's compensation package at Google is equity, so employees want the company to succeed, i.e. not get bogged down by dealing with unions that generally protect the lowest performers at the expense of the highest performers by treating everyone as an equal performer.
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The overall value of a software engineer is higher now than in the past. I think companies recognize this and are paying for it. An engineer that builds a system that controls 1000 machines in some distributed system, that serves content to 100 million people has massive leverage, and is worth paying an extra few hundred grand.
> New regulation to ban copays and set a mandatory floor on deductibles (say, $10k)

I like everything here except this. Won't a significant amount of healthcare (grouped by specialization, hospital, etc) still be funded by insurance and be outside the reach of market forces?

I am also curious whether there are barriers to producers of medicine, healthcare supply, etc from disrupting existing overpriced producers.
There isn't the same pressure on founders to raise a seed round as they are likely to exit YC with significant capital and runway. Seed investors still have capital allocation targets and are likely to improve their offers to encourage founders to accept investment.
The short article clearly states that YC is now wealthy enough to pay founders more of what they need to survive, and to edge out other investors offering this critical funding.
I'd be curious to see if YC founders, for whatever reason, are able to choose to opt out of the 375.

Overall I think this is a great move, and it's good for founders going through the batch. But they could have reasons to not want to give more equity to YC (maybe have more room in SAFEs for strategic angels, stuff like that).

edit: I originally called 'more equity' pro rata, which is not correct at all.
Thumbs up for https://www.simplepdf.eu! Just generated the Equifax form.
IIRC US copyright law gives very little protection to compilation of non-copyrightable data (look up copyright status of telephone directories). The argument is that it's just public domain factual information bundled together.

The faker libraries are all that -- compilations of mostly non-copyrightable facts.

I'm not saying faker.js did no wrong, just saying if hypothetically a purported copyright owner sued him, they would have a really hard time proving substantial infringement happened given the available precedents.
Most people between age 7 and 16/17/18 can ride a bike, but not drive a car.

Younger children can be a passenger on a bike.
Cryptocurrencies, in general, are not in fixed supply. Some coins do not have fixed supplies, and even if you choose one that does, it can be forked, or new coins can be issued. I don’t see any reason why a government couldn’t implement QE with crypto.

The mechanics would work differently, but the value of an IOU issued by a global superpower has intrinsic worth regardless of how it is assigned. Governments are not powerful because of their currencies; their currencies have value because of their power. If the US Treasury forked bitcoin tomorrow, it would certainly have positive value.
Surely you aren't suggesting that having more hospital beds per capita in the US is causing more deaths? Capacity is hardly the only factor in how Covid is hitting the population (and having more hospital capacity reducing pressure to lock things down will itself affect the rate of spread).

For instance, per https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/total-covid-cases-deaths-... Canada has seen 66K cases per million and 807 deaths per 1M cumulatively. The US is at 180K and 2515. Slightly different numbers than yours, but close enough. Deaths/cases to date is very similar, 1.4% in US and 1.2% in Canada. So the difference in total deaths is largely policy and behavioral, the aggregate policy across the US has largely been one of "at this point we can't eradicate it so we need to live with it as best we can" where even the liberal US states remain quite open compared to initially in 2020 in the face of recent surges. Whether or not that's the right policy is separate from whether or not that policy would've even been realistic without as much health care capacity.
It's not really a question of unplesantness or honesty, more that it's self-defeating: your intent to get the best of both worlds with participation in open source and getting some reward if your work is used commercially is reasonable, it's just that when you write your own license, especially by trying to combine two existing licenses, you're most likely going to wind up with neither (as in neither open source projects or contributers will be interested nor will commercial companies, and anyone who does will be more likely exposing themselves to legal risks).
Hmm, a bit more involved maybe, but not that much. But your calculation sure seems short.

With S = sleeper, and L = letter L, and remembering "total probability":

P(L) = P(L|S)P(S) + P(L|-S)P(-S),

(where -S is not S), we have by Bayes

P(S|L)
= P(L|S) P(S) / P(L)
= P(L|S) P(S) / (P(L|S)P(S) + P(L|-S)P(-S))
= 1/6 * 1/5 / (1/6*1/5 + 1/4*4/5)
= 1/30 / (1/30 + 6/30)
= 1/7
> The elephant in the room here is that you can pay to win in any game by buying a monitor with higher reftesh rate and use a larger GPU that uses more electricity to have 2x more time to react.

I'll be honest, it sounds like you have no idea how competitive gaming works, or any sport at all. Your comments sounds exactly like thinking one can be better at football by buying more expensive boots.
No one in their right mind would rather work for a german software company in a union than work for an american one without a union.

EDIT: Hyperbole here, and it was lost on some. Despite unions in germany, German companies are exploiting their workers compared to lucrative salaries that non union US software engineers are enjoying. The gap beteween the lifestyle of a german software engineer and a US one is quite large.
the problem starts when you start preaching your beliefs onto others
I've heard it described that Rust allows you to write programs in a specific way. If you try to write them in any other way, you're going to have a very, very bad time, and fight the borrow checker every step of the way. But if you embrace that way of writing programs, it makes it pretty easy, you get really good error messages, and as a cherry on top your program will be provably sound in a way pretty much no other language can guarantee. So it all comes down to whether you're interested in learning that specific way of structuring programs.
Hi there - this is not a pro-rata investment, we are investing this 375K right away
They published a paper on how it works: unlike regular VPNs apple does not see what you are requesting , so even if they were logging everything that they see they would not have anything other than you using the relay.
No I mean that games that do this would literally allow frog-hats and butterfly hats regardless of genre and art direction. They’d then obviously need to be able to import the asset and render it on player’s heads and that’s it. If it doesn’t fit the renderer exactly then it’ll look out of place, badly lit etc. But that’s exactly like hats already are in these game. They are out-of-place, ugly assets. The hat-games some times even seem deliberate directed in a style that seems to be for the purpose of allowing a wider variety of art without looking too off (e.g. Fortnite).
If you believe you should reduce suffering, it would be better for you to quickly kill a chicken and eat it. Otherwise, a cat, bird of prey or other animal might kill that chicken. And cats are cruel killers that slowly torture their prey before eating them.
>Personally, I think a better scam would be to follow clampers (parking boot in US), find cars that have been clamped and replace the release notice instructions with your own version and payment QR code.

Sell a service that cuts the boot off for half the price.
So cool. Thanks for this!
This is a super valid question that I have seen asked multiple times with no clear answer.

I don't really care what YC is expecting; I think that is already extremely clear. They're expecting VC unicorns.

The question is what is legal, and what would be breach-of-contract or fraud? I think the answer to those questions 1) probably should not come from an internet forum comment 2) requires the actual documents in question.
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YC’s value is still in the networking and signaling aspects.

I’ve interviewed and worked with a surprisingly large number of YC founders whose startups didn’t go anywhere. It’s amazing how much weight the YC founder background carriers in tech circles. For the one person I’m most familiar with, their YC startup went nowhere, they didn’t even get a prototype put together, and the team fell apart because they couldn’t get along with each other. Yet just mentioning their YC founder background or putting it in a resume (or Twitter bio) grants them instant credibility and a huge reputation boost. It’s fascinating to watch.

On the other hand, the VCs I’m still in touch with seem well aware of how this game is played. They still have a lot of respect for the top founders and companies coming out of YC, but it’s also understood that YC is kind of a numbers game these days and just getting accepted to YC (or other top accelerators) doesn’t mean much on its own.
Of course they are not aimed at people!

See the comment below regarding concerns of misalignment, limit stops & containment for beams with the power to cause permanent blindness. I'm sure some venues handle this safely [1], but powerful lasers are being treated far to casually for my liking.

[1] Though I wonder what would happen if you asked for a copy of their risk assessment?
http://wordpress.mrreid.org/2011/08/06/hacking-qr-codes/

Reminds me of this blog on redirecting qr code links with cleverly made transparent overlays to change a few blocks in the code.
Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29868324
English has a few words taken from Norse that also maintain native equivalents. See also ship / skiff[1]; shirt / skirt.

[1] This one's not Norse.
The carrier just needs to block a few domains and the relay will disable (and the phone or Mac will notify the user)
I'm actually intrigued by this, I own a bike and whenever it rains, even a little bit I leave it at home.

I'm afraid braking won't work as well, and I'll end up hurting myself.
Fair question. We hope to offer everything Pi+Board(8 Channel EEG)+Electrodes+Hat+Cables and everything else necessary for under 500$
I have so many issues with this: Europe is a big place and the countries do not exactly work in unison on these things. I only have experience in Norway - and that's only for the last 8 or 9 years. The prices have always been pretty standard - the doctors office doesn't set the rates, at least not in the public system (there is a private system, but the majority of doctors are in the public system). There hasn't been huge layers of administration, at least not in the way of the US - and this is, in part, because the insurances in the US create the layers of administrators. (Doctors offices do not need nearly as much staff for paperwork duties). For the end user, they've actually removed a layer - there were two types of deductibles that were merged into one (and is less than half the cost of the two combined)

And honestly, I find it very difficult to think that this is the administrative cake you were thinking. I also find it really difficult to think that Norway, Poland, Greece, Italy, Germany, and Britain are all taking the same steps and adding complexity.

Where do you get information? Do you have links?
For years on I endured ads because they were the sole source of revenue to millions of sites online and to people who were getting peanuts for their efforts of building, maintaining and pouring contents which have been priceless to me. But the more I endured them, the further they were pushed down my throat, most of all youtube. So around 6 months ago I decided that I've had enough and switched to brave. And fundamentally the one thing which I still dearly miss was quick access to my bookmarks/history from any of my devices. History more so than bookmarks but hey... I might end up doing something similar specifically for history.
Does the punishment fit the crime here?
Is it just me or is $125k for 7% a terrible deal? Is the idea that the networking perks make up for it?
My laptop has 4GB of memory and 4GB of swap space on a 1TB of harddisk.