skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is always extra annoying because it might be a false savings to pay cash there. Let's say your MRI says you need a $5500 procedure, and your plan's deductible is $3000, 90% coverage after, and out of pocket max is $6000, and there's nothing else you've spent on the plan this year.

Pay $800 for MRI with insurance, you'll then pay $2200 for the procedure to hit the deductible + 10% of the remaining $3300, so $2530 total for the procedure. $3330 total for the year between the two things.

Pay $600 cash for MRI, you'll then pay $3000 for the procedure to hit the deductible, and 10% of the remaining $2000, so $3200 total for the procedure. Now you've paid $3800 total, so you've spent $470 more despite the MRI being "cheaper"!

If you have other expenses so your out of pocket max comes into play, that difference approaches the full $600.
I think the point is a little more general than that. You "win" by convincing people to pay you - whether it's for nothing, for regular work, or for superior work, is immaterial.

This isn't a zero-sum game, at the IC level at least. Winning doesn't mean others lose. It just means you get paid. There are many roads to victory, including empty performance.
YC is trying to buy more pro rata with this deal, which is what a ton of YC founders complain about in later rounds. This will make things worse.
Lol, cute. There is a medical panel that reviews applications for an exemption (details elsewhere in these comments) and they had already approved his application.

I note that those are the same rules for everyone. The government however decided to override the medical panel (and in doing so undermine its independence) because it was politically awkward for the government and in doing so completely unnecessarily detain Djokovic and put him through all of this. It's hugely embarrassing to Australia on the world stage.
Wow! Great resource! Thank you!
I'm not talking about society in general. I'm talking about random F/OSS projects on github. There is zero expectation when looking at someone's project from afar.
Does a union fix that?
I was once tasked with writing a simple text editor. I knew this book inside out so I decided to try putting the text into a tree the way it describes.

This made selecting text quite hard. So I gave up and just put the whole thing into an array. It made everything a lot easier.
I guess it could make a good target to test the range of the laser if you're not aware of the dangers. There isn't much else in the sky that would reflect it and pointing it at buildings instead may not be visible due to all the light pollution around from the streets as opposed to the dark sky behind an airplane at night.
> is a standard and common term-of-art in contracts

the reason this isn't exactly helpful is because everyone says that about everything contract related. thats the user experience of being presented a contract whether it is true or not.

got a list? is there a document on clause etymology?
On-chain knowledge is the transaction https://etherscan.io/tx/0x798c7060f2e5e0cf2a4d143874be88f404...
and their official address 0xbc4ca0eda7647a8ab7c2061c2e118a18a936f13d which is sufficient for me to tell whether it was minted by them or not. The other one clearly is affiliated with some other address in its transaction.
This is great news to see. I’ve spent a considerable amount of time in Milan. It is one of my favourite cities, although the pollution is noticeable. Something else I’m hoping this plan will improve is noise pollution. Thanks to the ubiquitous Milan is one of the noisiest cities I’ve been in.

One thing I’m curious to know is how the cobble stones will be handled. Some of those circular routes have cobbled sections. They remain for historical reasons, however the vibrations to a cyclist would be jarring.
The cynical take is that said maintainer doesn't really 'maintain', but rather 'lets rot'.

The optimistic take (and what I prefer to believe) is that if a project works, and solves the problem the maintainer wants it to solve, it doesn't need to be changed unless/until it breaks.
Is it at all practical to just run DC power lines through your house? Would that save some efficiency lost during transforming knowing that will end up as DC in a lot of household appliances?
The current healthcare system in the US is just as bad for service providers as it is for service recipients, maybe even worse.

My girlfriend has worked with children with special needs for around 20 years, mostly children with autism. A few years ago, the field began migrating from almost entirely state-funded to funding from private insurance (California, not sure about other states). The problems with private insurance funding began almost immediately and couldn't be clearer. Under the state-funded program that existed for decades, her company met monthly with the state funding agency, discussed individual cases, and got funded. Easy, efficient. With private insurance, well, the best way to describe it is that her small company had to hire a full-time person just to manage the billing/funding with the insurance companies. And this is not a do-nothing position. This position is responsible for much of the company's revenue, which is inherently important. Also, understanding all the different processes/procedures/BS of each insurance company is highly skilled. That might sound ridiculous, but it's totally true. I hear the stories about fighting with insurance companies, trying to get paid for services rendered months prior. Quick example: one private insurance company (a big one, you've heard of them) only accepts payment requests via fax. Yes, fax. But it gets better. The fax line is only "active" during regular business hours, and the line is almost always busy, because as you might expect, other companies are trying to get paid, too.

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I think I remember this. IIRC google's story were that they were fired because they were sharing internal documents and keeping track of other employees one-on-ones, medical aptmts, family meetings, etc. The NYT article does a decent job of going over a timeline of everything.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/02/18/magazine/goog...
There are the series, those are interesting.
Out of interest sake, how much importance does YC place on actually having existing users (not necessarily a lot of revenue, but hundreds of users) as opposed to not? It sounds like a non-brainer question but YC is a bit different than other funds.
> tech has hurt their subscription numbers immensely, not because they want to do the world a service.

They can do both at the same time though?
That argument should be made by a professor in their college lectures. Not as part of induction procedure to the company. It should be legal but it's actually hilarious that this happens in the US. It would be like a landlord mandating a tenant watch a video on why tenancy rights are a bad idea.
I would suggest adding RSS as well, for each category shown. That can allow users to pull the information instead of it being pushed out via phone/email/webhook. And it also means we can minimize the personal information we're giving out.
The charges are about leaking to the media, not for breaking the law when spying on Danes, the latter being what the commission was set up to investigate.
Would the average user raise a chargeback for €/$ 5 of parking fees? Even if the scam results in them getting a parking ticket, the cost of the parking ticket isn't subject to a chargeback, only the scammed parking fee itself.
> Kara Silverstein, Google’s human resources director said that she “like[d] the idea” of the op-ed, but that it should be executed so that “there would be no fingerprints and not Google specific.”

Should tell you everything you need to know about your company's HR department's true interests.
Read it again. Any one dependency, or the root project, has the power to pull in the latest version. One laggard dependency does not stop that.

For your second question, yes, Rust handles that well. If you depend on ">=1.0" and ">=1.1", you end up with a single copy of 1.1. If you depend on "=1.0" and "=1.1", you end up with both copies of the library. Every crate uses the version it requested. You can argue whether that's good or bad, but at least it's principled. There's a lint if you dislike that behavior.

https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/master/#multiple_cra...
Yes, you tell me the feature you want after I described (roughly) how to implement it in "words".
Nope. It's $125k for 7%; then the 375k are on terms of next equity round.

So the first tranche values your company at 1.78 million; if, afterwards, you raise more money at 6 million valuation, YC gets another 6.25% for 375k.

Correct me if I'm wrong.
But prison for children. I say this as a woman — I am currently the sole income earner, and will swap roles with my spouse when it is time to have kids. Kids need a lot of attention, it’s a real job, and having a parent home is essential.
The terms are set at the next equity round. The money comes in right away.

See the footnote:

"Simply put, we’re giving the company money now but at terms you’ll negotiate with future investors."
> I'd be interested to hear the ages of people belittling /r/antiwork

I'd be more interested in hearing what social class they're in.
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1. Why is it so hard to sell additional labor on the open source project? That's the purest form of exchanging money for services.

2. You shouldn't have to take the option that hurts everyone else just to get paid.
The full $500k is upfront. Quote:

> Simply put, we’re giving the company money now but at terms you’ll negotiate with future investors.
I'm not very familiar with VC funding/equity structures; would you mind expanding on this?
Morality is like an ass: everybody has their own.
I'm also confused about how this works. If you choose to never raise after YC, is the remaining $375K just part of of the 7% they take upfront, or is it only available if you raise?

> Simply put, we’re giving the company money now but at terms you’ll negotiate with future investors.
What is Xkcd counting down to?
XKCD (http://xkcd.com) currently had a countdown showing in the upper right, ending at the morning of January 31st 2020 in my time zone. What's up?
"Not pushing malware", _wink wink_.

Let's say I set up a lemonade stand in my neighborhood every weekend, where I pour a bunch of cups for people to take, put up a sign that says it's free, and I set out a tip jar.

After a few weeks, I get upset that people have been taking the lemonade without
leaving tips, so the next time I set up the stand I add a toxin that I know will cause immediate damage to anyone who ingests it. To protect myself, I have of course been posting a sign every weekend that says the lemonade is provided as-is.

So – did I do something wrong, or not? Will a court look at this situation and say, "gee, he just poisoned his _own_ lemonade and set it out for public use, it's not like he forced anybody to drink it"?

This feels like 100% black-and-white criminal conduct, and I would hope anyone who pulls a malicious stunt like this would be held liable for it.
I read about the “sorta sneeze” as being a call for consensus for “let’s go”. When my dog did that as we were getting ready to go out, I tried making a similar sound back and the dog looked at me immediately like I finally said something she understood!
> perhaps this year as they move to proof of stake

But will they move?
DoJ and other parts of the government have been successfully convinced that consequential enforcement is counterproductive to their greater anti-trust goals.

basically, because the government also wants competition in the market, they can't be the reason why there is no competition after they curb stomp one of the major few competitors in many fields.

there is some degree of truth in this, but it has also been co-opted to prevent any meaningful consequence for people and their organizations, once they are big enough
My wider society is much more balanced in is treatment of the age groups. There's definitely issues, but when the unions get involved there's no balance anymore.

This society is not a gerontocracy either. There's quite a few 30-somethings in the government.
Not quite. The way that it works is that the 375k is invested now, but at terms that are determined in the next equity round. If the next round values the company at 10 million, then the 375k would be 3.75% of the company.
I mark bugs, security-related issues, and planned features with appropriate labels, and the stale bot ignores those: https://github.com/geerlingguy/ansible-role-docker/blob/mast...

Not all maintainers do the same. And some even _lock issues_, which I hate, because even closed issues can have a very fruitful discussion long after the issue was originally posted.
Haikus are 5/7/5 syllables, this is 5/7/6
Prior to the SAFE, a lot of startups raised using convertible debt, which had a bunch of strings attached (convertible notes typically have an interest rate, a cap, and a discount). SAFE was an attempt to make this simpler and more founder friendly.
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Going forward, definitely get things in writing.

Even between friends, paperwork makes sure everyone knows who is committing to what. Prevents bad feelings.
How many do you want?
'That thing is made of meat. I can eat meat. I'm going to kill it and eat it'

I am made of meat -- hopefully we don't cross paths!
I had a 2011 MacBook Air that I used as a casual "couch laptop" up until a month ago. I probably could have continued using it if it wasn't for both the battery and the power supply becoming unreliable. It surprises me that with a dual core i5 and 4GB of RAM, it was more than adequate for all but the most demanding tasks.
Can you just start pumping current into the transformer on the pole outside your house, just like that? Even if the meter doesn't "spin backwards", is that safe to do? (Not considering the other top-level comment about the grid going out, just general delivery.)
Pretty interesting move. Great for founders raising seed rounds after YC. Great for YC. Not sure if it's as great for founders who want to raise a little at a pre-seed price (e.g. $1m at $10m post) because now there's $375k extra converting at whatever valuation you raise at.
Why would Amazon (or any producer/distributor of digital content) want to facilitate second-hand sales of a product they otherwise control the sale and distribution of? How does this benefit Amazon more than controlling access to the content?
people don't build bombs for fun
Inflation?
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Are you arguing that most malware should be legal because the user downloaded it and ran it?
> having a deep understanding of statistics?

As someone with a strong background in statistics, please tell me where I can find DS jobs that require this.

For me and all my statistics friends in DS we find much more frustration in how hard it is to pass DS interviews when you understand problems deeper than "use XGBoost". I have found that very few data scientists really even understand basic statistics, I failed an interview once because an interviewer did not believe that logistic regression could be used to solve statistical inference questions (when it and more generally the GLM is the workhorse of statistical work).

And to answer your question, whenever I'm in a hiring manager position I very strongly value strong software engineering skills. DS teams made up of people that are closer to curious engineers tend to greatly outperform teams made up of researchers that don't know you can write code outside of a notebook.
It's a race to the bottom, but is there a realistic solution that still provides choice and opportunity to both men and women? Once everyone has options, the "defector" couples who send both spouses to work make financial gains over those who would rather not, until there's not as much of a choice left for those making typical incomes.
Question for YC: if a solo founder fully intends never to take additional funding after YC, is that considered defrauding YC (or at least a bad faith application)? I thought YC only invests in companies which it expects to go "VC-scale big", i.e. multiple series of follow-on funding to hit $100M+ annual revenue targets and huge teams?
How big is a medium sized corpus? 10m documents?
If we're honest about the US justice system, this would be a subjective decision decided by non-technological lawyers, jurors, and judges. The purposeful malicious intent is working hard against his stance.
Do you really believe that’s the full extent of Google’s anti-unionism?
> Neighbors reporting each other for crimes is a good thing. Codes of silence between neighbors are what lead communities to cover up murders and refuse to talk to police.

People voluntarily gathering in defiance of COVID restrictions is a classic "victimless crime". Comparing it to covering up a murder is an example of the type of hyperbolic language that makes it impossible to have a rational discussion about policy.
>> And there is no denying there has be a reasonable cause to in the last four years.

Yea who needs laws when we can just instate shadow government agencies with shadow budgets and their own set of alternative laws.
Kinda sad that there is no distinction made between color selection and color production. RGB based color opponents (e.g. red - cyan, green - purple) are less pleasing to the eye and culturally relevant than RYB ones (red - green, yellow - purple).

Let's say you develop a luxury theme, the yellow - purple opponency would naturally lead you to the classic colors of royality, purple and gold.

A good RYB based picker is the good old Paletton: https://paletton.com/
If you have the wherewithal to constantly be a top performer... then why are you working for someone else to begin with?

I think there's a point during everyone's career when a union could be useful. Maybe it's not apparently useful to you right now, but we'll all experience hardships at one point or another.
Very curious to see what kind of pricing pressure this puts on seed investors who traditionally invest after YC. The dynamics seem likely to swing even more in favor of founders.
Most of those (malice, who introduced it to your environment, fatal bug) seem contestable, even if we grant for the purpose of argument that the as-is disclaimer does not cover all cases.
I'm not arguing that there should be no consequences for what this person did. I am questioning the ability for an application like Github to essentially "cancel" someone like this whenever they feel like it.
A lot of people have this terrible notion of what a union is, where they force you to do things and set wages and work hours.

But I suspect a union for programmers would look more like the Actors union or screenwriters union in Hollywood. They would negotiate minimum rates and benefits, but top performers would still be able to get significantly more. The union just sets the minimums.
I don't know and who cares what the average user would do. Thats the defense. It depends on the user experience, chargebacks aren't hard and can be done attempted with just the click of a button for some user's banks.
Git submodule with vendor packages checked in? Delete the module after the upgrade and you’ve inspected it.
I agree with awinter-py, it will be tricky to use "without authorization" for this. The developer only published the code, that is up to other companies to verify the code and roll with it. If Company A installed the dependency, that could mean Company A "authorized" the code because they pulled the dependency to their system. So not sure how CFAA could protect this if the Company A proceed to download the code which in turn that the code are authorized. It is their responsibility to audit and verify the code before incorporating into their software.
The hard drive equipped T1200 was the first computer I ever used. We had two of them at home as a kid after they were discarded by the ministry of public health where my dad worked as a clerk.

I had so much fun playing Keen on the slow blue-only LCD display, and just drawing stuff in Paint on Windows 3.11.

Sadly, I discovered as a teenager my mom (who never throws out anything, not even old newspapers) threw both of them out in perfectly working condition. I still get sad thinking about that.
Meanwhile in London founders are expected to take £6k at > 0%
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This is ignorant of so much contemporary philosophy / analytical ethics.

The amount of convincing arguments for needlessly causing suffering in beings that clearly experience it are vanishingly small.
Do you have any books/material that can help the learner acquiring this deeper understanding?
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So what happens to the $375k if you don't raise after YC?

Let's say you exit 1 year after YC at a $5m valuation

With the MFN, does that mean that YC get 28% of the sale instead of the initial 7%?
Sigh. It's 2022. I should not have to call the site owner to tell him that his site is down. Based on his own numbers, he's been losing users since 2017. This might go belly-up one day.
Not at all, it’s saying that sometimes rules have to bent in order for the intelligence services to go about their mission to protect the citizens of their country (including their rights). Sometimes potential threats come from within (even potentially from government ministers or civil servants) making them legally difficult to investigate quickly. Asking their mates to take a “quick look” is a good way of checking out if there is a problem that warrants further investigation.

Having said all that, I’m no expert, I’m just a John Le Carre fan.
People supporting a software engineering union are looking for equality in the group, even though every member of the group is already objectively doing pretty well. I personally worked with many women who were just as smart and productive as me, but got paid less.

Why is that? There are many reasons; self-selection for promotion was noted as one reason at the time. Managers need to encourage employees to go through the promotion process, but managers don't do this consistently. The data shows that the result of this is that there is a gender gap in pay, and that doesn't feel very good. Some system other than individual managers encouraging people to go up for promotion is needed; a union looking out for that is one solution.

I don't know how it would work, I'm not really up to speed on how to organize a union or anything, but issues like that is where the core of the support comes from. (The article also mentions binding arbitration clauses being another sticky bit.)
Good points. Recent high end laptops suffer from terrible heat throttling. Recently I've resorted to buying a cheap old server to do most my work on. The old machine is significantly faster than my company issued 2019 Macbook Pro due to having great big fans and heat sinks, despite being 1/6 the price. Next laptop I purchase will have a lower TDP CPU like you mention and basically just be a terminal to the server.
I am a newbie to Ruby. I hadn't touched it before a few months ago, after coming to Shopify. But I really think Ruby is a fantastic language, I would much rather program in Ruby than in Python, JS or Java right now. It reminds me of small talk and is just nice to write. And Rails, wow Rails is such a good web framework, there's no surprises, and its opinionated nature makes it really easy to come up to speed in even a big code base.

Tech trends are weird, and the "hot new thing" is usually based off of some blog post or tech company saying its cool. Plus with things like TruffleRuby and Sorbet and JITs, there's some interesting development in the ecosystem.