skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sucks, I have not experienced that in NY/NJ/CA/WA.

NJ even has a public document listing all the insurance prices, and they matched the amount quoted to me by the insurance agent for my business.

https://www.state.nj.us/dobi/division_insurance/ihcseh/ihcra...

BCBS is also a network, not the insurance company. So you never buy insurance from BCBS, but rather whichever insurance company has chosen to be a franchise, such as Regence, Horizon NJ, Independence, Elevance, etc.
Im ok with noncompetes.

However, if my would be ex-employer wants to block me from joining a competitor then he has to pay me 150% of the salary that the competitor would have paid me for the duration of the non compete while I twiddle my thumbs.

Fair is fair
> keep the CPU "dumb"

Users started dumb, develooers became dumb, now you want CPUs dumb too? Who will deal with the consequences??
How Worried Should We Be About XBB.1.5?
Ask HN: Why does Chrome's Dark Mode extension not work on HN?
The extension in question: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dark-mode/dmghijelimhndkbmpgbldicpogfkceaj

It works on 99% of websites, but not on HN. The white background turns dark, but the HN box in the middle remains the same color. Why is that?
Ny second paragraph talked about that. It would set my career back doing nothing.
I tried self hosting it, but could never log in. I would even follow the password reset emails that tell me the password was changed, but then login never worked. I wish I could have gotten it to work, but ended up giving up on it.
"Buy it for $20" omg lol no
I would not say it's like this everywhere. Amazon / Meta / Apple tend to see this kind of attitude, and I imagine it exists at Microsoft / Google, and you can find chill environments at most companies (even Amazon).

Also, you see individuals bring these attitudes to an org. All it takes is one manager, or a couple, to shift the balance. I was getting this bullshit in an industry much less known for it. My boss quits, and things go much better.
On her Twitter profile, she calls herself a "ROWLING-LEVEL TERF". It appears that the comic this campaign was funding also included related content[1]. I'd wager this is why they shut it down.

[1]https://images.app.goo.gl/6LoTGv86YtTqK3A38
What the chronological structure broke (for me) was long form conversation — threads that evolve over weeks and months (in the extreme, sometimes even years).

HN is a perfect example: the dynamics of the site drive a "speed dating" feel: where hot takes are encouraged and exploration in depth takes unusual commitment by all parties to keep digging ever further back into their history just to continue a conversation.
Netflix is a generic spam word like Fortnite or Monster to me and I have no idea what it looks like.

> My relationship with web content now resembles a bank heist: get in, get the stuff, and get out -- ASAP.

Correct. Some blockchains are working to automate this. For better or worse (blockchain devs are just basically glorified webdevs so it will probably suck lol).

I just don't get why something like Freenet has not become mainstream 15 years ago and everything in the media acquisition process could then be fully automated and free of legal consequences. Like, that one guy who has that obscure album I want can just host it himself anonymously forever and more likely do it because he really wants people to find out about it. Also this whole thing where I have to hear people complain about deplatforming every day would not exist.

I think the game was Red Alert 3. Don't even get me started with games where you have to make accounts (or that need an account even despite being steam only (or that need to link both of those accounts with some shaky wizard)).
I dunno, I kinda like that, add sum types and you can pass anything to computeArea.

The problem really starts when you have

typeA.func()

typeB.func(x)

typeC.func(x=default_value)
I mean having refresh circuitry basically means it's DRAM. that's one of the unique points of DRAM, it has to periodically refreshed.
It's a matter of taste I guess. I had a Yamaha and switched to Roland and much prefer the chunkier key action and the slightly brighter/compressed piano tone. Definitely important to try it in store.

My absolute favourite is the Nord Grand, but it's a little too expensive.
The main reason is you have more protection and guaranteed continual ownership of the thing (depending on the TLD you choose, of course). Whereas if this service shut down in 12 months time ... well it wouldn't be buckling any trends by doing so.

And if they shut down and let the omg.lol lapse or sell it, someone could then redirect all the subdomains to who knows what.

Another reason might be domain trust? If spammers use omg.lol subdomains the entire thing might be blacklisted for email.

Domains are easier to resell. I don't think there will be a secondary market for omg.lol and if you sell you business based on an omg.lol it will be a red flag vs. a top level domain.

On the other hand if you intent is a personal CV / bio type page, with email (you need fastmail too) and so on, the $20 is a great deal.

But I would rather just use a xyz.netlify.com for such a project, then couple that with a free email service.
24V / 4-20mA isn't really the same job though.
If you changed the incentive structure and allocation of risk you might get different results.
I know this is an argument of 'ignorance is bliss'. But one wonders if the subject would be aware of this decline?

If you are in decline but unaware of it, is that a bad thing?
Police abolitionists talk about plans and years. The Seattle police abandoned a neighborhood when not asked and faked reports of armed terrorists.[1]

The 16 year old was Antonio Mays. He drove a car through the occupied park and at a group of protesters. It's all on video? Not only parts of the aftermath? Where?

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/seattle-police-carried-...
Compose a piece that actually uses the prop noise, and have them vary the speed of the motors during the piece in order to alter the noise.
It took me 10s to load the homepage. How long would it take to forward an email?
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That's great until they get bored of running the service and you've now lost all of the aforementioned which are dependent on their domain.
why not register omg.motorcycles yourself for a discounted $14.99 per year?
I don't remember Prolog much, but since Erlang inherited very much, you're probably right.
Employment works very differently in trades than e.g. software. The main thing is that customers don't care about the company they're using, but about the guy that comes out to help them. So picking up a clientele is extremely easy if you do a good job. And word of mouth multiplies that clientele pretty quickly. And the thing about the trades is that they always need to be done, endlessly. Paint starts to chip, electricity eventually breaks, plumbers go without saying, ...

This is why the normal trajectory, for a skilled tradesman, is apprenticeship -> experience -> accumulate clients -> go independent.

If you want to go independent in something like software you need, among other things, a good idea. If you want to go independent in the trades, all you need is a good reputation and enough people with your card. You don't even need to try either really. Do a good job and people themselves will proactively ask for your contact information. Finding a good and reliable tradesman is not easy.
They definitely should have a free version, limited of course. A sneaky one would be free for the first year, pay $20 thereafter to secure it.
Thats awesome- made me chuckle. Man I needed a little "old web" today.
The change in the y-axis with respect to the x-axis.
d/dx
you can do

func sum(nums []int) (result int) {
for _, n := range nums {
result += n
}
return
}

and it will work same as if you would do

return result

As for omitting return entirely I hated it in every language where I saw it. It just feels wrong to not have return in functions that return stuff
It’s very believable given the regular behavior of what pretends to be a governing body.
A DNS server, landing page and email can be had for free. For the rest there are free alternatives like twitter, pastebin, etc.
Helium and hydrogen would immediately leak out of an aerogel.
How has that problem been resolved in offline (print/TV/display) advertising be solved, and could those solutions be reused for the web?

It seems like the free-for-all with regards to personal data and decriminalisation of spyware has led the online ads market into a near-optimal situation with regards to targeting & fraud detection, but 1) is it a trade-off people are willing to accept (the GDPR being enacted suggests not) and 2) can there be alternatives that give both sides what they want?
I think this is a bit too simplistic. You can perform well without having pressure on you to perform well. Self-motivated people don't need that.

In fact there are some companies out there that my friends have moved to that don't have formal performance reviews like Meta etc, but rather continuous reviews that are low-stakes. They make more than I do now.
I think you underestimate the number of developer type people who buy Apple laptops because of the great hardware (M1, screen, battery life, touchpad etc) and are comfortable with MacOS, but they are not Mac developers and would also be comfortable using Linux or Windows if every part of the laptop works well with it.

Especially Linux, because they already use Linux on their servers and CI/CD, and some dev tools like Docker or anything filesystem-heavy run faster on Linux than MacOS even on the same hardware.
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Also, this might be a wildly unpopular opinion, but...

As much as we glorify technical founders, a CTO is still an employee.

YC has an investment thesis that fixates on early technical talent, but I think software production is basically a commodity in 2023 (and onwards).

Here's an example of me generating an AsyncApi schema with ChatGPT (similar to OpenAPI / Swagger, but for systems built around distributed events/msgs).
https://twitter.com/grepLeigh/status/1604935357832654848?t=X...

In a year or two, I'll probably be able to build a production micro-service by dictating to an LLM. That'll be the execution tool of choice for a Founder doesn't have much coding exp, but has 10-15+ years of line of business experience.

I say all this as someone who thought they'd be a CTO and has depended on software to put food on the table for 15 years.
Many DNS registrars offer very similar sets of value-add services for free for real TLDs people buy through them. Web "parking pages" and vanity email forwarding are table stakes.

What wouldn't be table stakes, would be if each of these was its own Mastodon instance, or something else like that that actually had an OpEx cost.
If you think that's bad, I've been to multiple medical practices where part of the "standard legal stuff" they want you to sign would have you give them the right to sell your private information and info about your visit to their partners for the purposes of advertising, etc.
I would watch live on Fox Sports
So a gaming podcast had a contract lawyer on to opine on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDuHjpwx5Q4

Their "this is not specific personalised advice, consult your own lawyer" thoughts were:

1. The license does not specify revocable or irrevocable, but it would be likely a court would find it to be irrevocable because:

- other lanaguage in the license such as the perpetual term and the option to use later versions appears to anticipate it being non-revocable

- the zection on termination only provides for breach of contract and protects sublicenses of the terminated work from being terminated unless the sub licenses were also infringing. The fact that it provides some grounds for terminatioj but "we have a new license" isn't among them hurts their argument.

- There is mutual consideration and this is even spelled out in the contract as being consideration in terms of the derivative content being reciprocally licensed, plus the unspecified benefit to Wizards of having more complements to their product increasing its appeal. The licensee obviously gets the rights to use the covered content.

- The 23 year usage of OGL 1.0a may constitute reliance especially when combined with past clarifying public statements where Wizards official documents and then-active employees indicated it was intended to be non-revocable.

- Clauses in US law for copyright owners to terminate licenses require 35 yeara and do not affect sublicenses, so unlikely a court would assume a stricter unwritten standard of revocability than this

However, they also point out you can waive your rights to use content under 1.0a if you were to agree to 1.1, e.g. to get access to 6e content.

They also touch on the idea of if Wizards could use others OGL 1.0a licensed content under 1.1 which imposes lesser restrictions on wizards than 1.1. They're vaguer on this point, but imply probably not as its too much of a deviation from the previous license and raise the reliance part again
What a great way to heat a column of air. At the end of it, what are we talking about, 90% loss?
> Another reason might be domain trust? If spammers use omg.lol subdomains the entire thing might be blacklisted for email.

I think that them being on the https://wiki.mozilla.org/Public_Suffix_List makes that unlikely. (a Public Suffix is a thing like .co.uk — would it make sense to blacklist .co.uk? Not unless you're the type of postmaster who is willing to blacklist entire TLDs like .biz as well.)
Don't mind the wasm plan9coin miner, you're web3 aren't you?
THE COURT:

So now tell me in your own words what you did that makes you believe that you are guilty of these crimes.

THE DEFENDANT:

Between 2019 and 2022 --

THE COURT:

I am going to ask you to just speak very slowly and very loudly. It can be difficult to hear in this courtroom because of the high ceilings. Thank you.

THE DEFENDANT:

Between 2019 and 2022, as part of my employment at FTX, I was directed to and agreed to make certain changes to the platform's code. I executed those changes, which I knew would Alameda Research special privileges on the FTX platform. I did so knowing that others were representing to investors and customers that Alameda had no such special privileges and people were likely investing in and using FTX based in part on those misrepresentations.

I knew what I was doing was wrong. I also knew that the misrepresentations were being made by telephone and internet, among other means, and that assets traded on FTX included some assets that the U.S. regulators regard as securities and commodities.

THE COURT:

When you did this, did you know that what you were doing was wrong and was illegal?

THE DEFENDANT:

Yes.

THE COURT:

Could the government please summarize what its evidence would be if you were to go to trial against Mr. Wang.

MR. ROOS:

Certainly, your Honor. It would consist of witness statements, Signal communications and Slack communications, financial records, and records from FTX in the form of code and database, among other things.
To add to what others have said about the utility of books. A deeper question is, why should it have any purpose? Can we not just do something just because we do it. Not everything has to quantified into a manner of a positive transaction. It can just be 'for nice'.
Am I just cynical or were there some troubling cuts in this video? For example the camera cuts once right before he attempts the stopping distance test, and again right before he goes into a pothole on the street
He can't tell you. Users flag things, not admins.
Extra credit: call anyone who disagrees "entitled"
Yeah I am fine with being at my current level with a meets-all for a bit. I just was promoted to IC5 at the beginning of the year and people were giving me some really surprising feedback on how hard it would be to succeed.

This is the first time I didn't take PSC super super seriously so we'll see how it goes. I put in quite a bit of effort still, but I'm not spending 8+ hours like it seems some other people do.
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Pre cell phones, when wireless pagers were important, I used to wonder: What if everyone had their own 1-baud worth of spectrum.
Personally, I found Ruby's symbols to be a source of bugs because they can easily get mixed up with strings. The article gives the example of dict[:employee_id]. But what happens if you serialize "dict" as JSON, then parse it again? The symbol :employee_id will be silently converted to "employee_id", which is treated as a different dict key from :employee_id. I found it was easy to lose track of whether a given dictionary is using the "keys are symbols" or the "keys are strings" convention, especially in larger codebases.
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> someone who just bought a new $1.5M home probably isn’t going to be doing much electrical work for years

unless its UK, then the house with that pricetag was last fixed in the 60's, needs total rewiring, and has energy efficiency of a damp tent.
When you "compete" by working in a way that damages the worker's health, yes, that should be outlawed. (Negative externalities are the fancy economics term)

Large corporations are already legalised collusion. Allowing those with competing interests to "collude" at the same level is a necessary counterbalance to that.
It does! Till you hit the code of someone that didn't really care about readability that much and you're in for ugly mess.
I can think of a few genres of music where drone sounds would not feel out of place. Unfortunately, they're genres of music which aren't suited to a piano either.
It’s not just the volume of air but also the speed that it’s moved at. Large slow propellers are quieter and more efficient than small fast propellers. (But less maneuverable.) In the limit, I could see this being done by big, spidery drones with huge props relative to their weight, like a scale model of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AeroVelo_Atlas.
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Given the abundance of cheap eink book readers, price tags etc on the market, cost doesn't seem to be a problem. OTOH the limitations of the technology - in particular, the contrast and the refresh rate - and how expensive large screens get, prevents it from expanding into more niches.

Perhaps if there were no patent, there'd be more third-party research to improve all these things faster. But as far as adoption of the existing stuff goes, I don't see how license costs are a direct blocker.
The only DMZ in continental US history was between Louisiana and Texas
Because of the ToS [0], in particular articles 3.1 and 3.2.

[0] https://home.omg.lol/info/legal
How is this a workable system!? Why would anyone pay them. This seems like fraud on the part of the phone networks for billing for service that was never provided or should have been provided cheaper.
I don't want to rain on your parade. I really hope I'm wrong. But I see this as somehow profoundly, deeply dystopian.

On the one hand, AI should be used to alleviate the economic and social conditions that prevent children from having attention and coaching from caring adults.

On the other, raising children by robot seems sketchy to me (in ways that are difficult to articulate.)

Like I said, I hope I'm wrong.
If you are at the top 1% level why not quit and roll the dice like the other yc founders?

Do males take more chances?
I’m an older millennial who went to a not great high school and an ok state university.

Of all the people from high school still working dead end service jobs, I don’t know any with a college degree.

Sure there are people who studied English who aren’t making tons of money, but they also aren’t stuck working at Walmart like some of the people who don’t have degrees are.

An English degree isn’t enough to get you a $100k a year job out of college, but it is enough for just about anyone to get their foot in the door to a career where they can make close to that eventually.
To each their own, but I am not. I feel obliged to pay for the work of others that I consume where I can. Whether or not the creators of the content are getting paid a fair share is certainly up for debate. I understand that spotify rates are exceedingly poor for the artists. But it isn't my place to negotiate for them.

And when it comes to movies and TV that aren't available on a streaming platform, I'll just rent it on Apple TV. I think it's like $4 for a movie rental. A much better deal than going to the theater.
Had the candidate currently failing not made a joke in very poor taste about battering Pelosi with the speaker's gavel, I suspect there might be a little less popcorn and a little more defringing action.
Seems like a bit of fun. I've definitely thought even less about something before parting with $20 on it /shrug
It is a wave that has come before and will come again.

Task gets out sourced. They save some money initially. Managers how did it get a promotion and then skips out to the next company. Out sourced work ends up costing more than the original in house work. In house work grows. Rinse and repeat.

If you can survive the wave you will be fine. It just depends on how brutal they get with the initial lay off.
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Wealth inequality is not a problem, it's a symptom. Economic rent is the problem.
I think GP meant the self-modifiable editor part
Curious how that would work with modern pipelines and out of order execution, you could serialize but that would also impact the benchmarks afaik.
Private equity buying up all these companies is actually a huge part of the problem! IMHO. For the older folks who are selling their company, it's of course a huge boon, but for people entering the trade, it's a huge negative.

In the past, when you started a trade, you could apprentice with a small, locally-owned and operated company. If you worked at it long and hard, you'd have a good chance at being able to buy the company or a stake of it from the owners as they enter retirement. I've heard that in many areas, like veterinary clinics, this was a very common path forward for people entering the career.

But nowadays, all these small local companies are increasingly owned by private equity groups from afar that have their eyes on profit. You'll have no chance of working up to an ownership stake. And once the private equity group takes over, you can be sure that your work will be increasingly optimized to maximize profit, which could be good, but it can also mean cutting out the parts of your job that are less profitable but more enjoyable. The path forward is harder. To be a real business owner, your only real option will be starting a new firm from scratch.

So anyway, I don't mean to be overly critical, and it's great to see someone in private equity posting here. If you have any thoughts on my comments above I'd love to hear them. Cheers.
I don't believe the limitations of physics are anywhere near what current drones sound like. They are loud because zero effort goes in to making them quiet. It's not so much the moving air that makes them loud, its the whining motors and bearings that are loud. If you were able to encase those motors inside and perhaps put some effort in to making the air stream less turbulent, they could be a lot quieter.

Although I still can't see drones being good for this even with good designs.
Ooo, yeah, I saw one of those, didn't get to listen to it. It does seem like it would totally be about taste and preference.

Was really pleasurable, also wistful, taking my son to try them out. We could just hang out in this large room in a retail store in the middle of NYC for a few hours, he just playing whatever was there. Sometimes other kids would drop in too. That kind of relaxed vibe now incredibly rare.

And though I can hear and feel the music, I can't make it, never learned. Don't have time and space to do it now. Really glad he is getting it into his brain at a young age.
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