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> he lost his original insurance carrier, they stopped writing policies in FL. The personal injury lawyers in Florida are out of control.

I'm a little skeptical, this reminds me of past arguments of "blame malpractice lawsuits for exploding US medical costs, tort reform will fix it", which doesn't seem to have worked in the places where it was tried.

AFAICT most of the reasons insurers are pulling out of Florida involves the math around catastrophes like hurricanes.
Leipzig being known as Hypezig.
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Discussion (and video) here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39712618
Telsa has a market share of 4.2%. It is hardly "total market saturation".

The vehicle market is the relevant metric, not the EV market. At this point they're the same market. Tesla is competing against all cars, not just other EV's.
Congratulations on shipping!

Check out https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt for an open source (MIT license) alternative that also works on desktop (including Citrix!)
At a much more in-your-backyard instance of this: the local PD just got a giant infusion of cash from the city council for new helicopters to wake us up with at 3am.

Apparently they haven't heard about drones either...
Elsevier is becoming the Amazon of scientific research it seems.
I clone my kids' drives with Clonezilla, but not often enough.
It must feel really lame for those active in a subculture to be put on some Unesco heritage list. Like, really really lame.
> Except most reviews find the fov and resolution inadequate for desktop work

I have not heard any such complaints.

Sure, I heard some complaining that the FOV should be wider, but not being able to work because of it? Not a peep.

The resolution is incredible, you can't see any pixels at all. There's zero screen door effect.

If the concern is with the Mac Virtual Display, then it's understandable. There seems to be some compression going on and it doesn't look as crisp.

Native apps though? They are perfect

> eschewing gamers

They are not doing that. It's the companies not porting games over (the ones that don't have issues with the lack of controllers). It may be simply a matter of time, as just porting games and keeping existing assets will make them look terrible with the higher resolution of the Vision Pro.
P.S. I havent read the actual settlement, this NYTimes comment reads like buyers agents will now compete for their compensation, but it doesnt tell me if I would still have to pay 3% to the seller agent and whether that compensation will be open to market forces now
> For those puzzles with the "reverse" tiles that bounce the ball back, I had to turn off my expectations of where the ball is going to go next. In puzzle 5 you send the ball straight out to a reverse tile and my expectation would be for it to just bounce straight back to the entrance tile, but no... it turns left after that. Just a minor complaint.

It's much worse than you make it sound; exactly the same tile layout gets you different results in different places.
It‘s actually called SO36 and a famous punk / music club named after the former postal zone 1000 Berlin 36 which was a part of Berlin Kreuzberg. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SO36 https://www.so36.com/
Apple also has a list at https://valid.apple.com/ct/log_list/current_log_list.json

Getting them accepted as trusted lists is the goal, but how exactly that happens is not yet determined. Both the Apple and Chrome CT programs have responded to our announcement email at https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/ct-policy/c/v9Jzl...

> As the specification, implementations, and ecosystem support evolve, we look forward to being able to include Sunlight logs alongside RFC6962 logs in Chrome. While we're not quite there yet, we encourage the CT community to experiment with the prototype logs and specification as much as possible.

> That said, we’re not planning on accepting new Sunlight logs quite yet in the Apple CT Program (though we hope that is the end result). Before that jump, we’d especially like to hear additional input (even if it’s just “LGTM”) from CT log Monitors and Auditors, as well as CAs and other relying parties submitting certificates to CT logs. Along with that, we invite input from additional SMEs able to perform (informal) security and risk assessments of the proposal — especially if they’re accompanied by filed issues :)

The log list schema is a relatively small problem and should be easily enough to solve.
That sounds like credit bureaus.

You know, those entities that hoover up any and all info on you, that you cannot opt out of, maintain information whether its accurate or not and refuse to delete obviously erroneous data, then release it *all* to the world by being extremely poor stewards of said data, then charging you for credit monitoring for the rest of your life, since your immutable info just got shared with assholes.

Guess who owns most/all of the credit monitoring entities?

Edit: typo...words are hard.
What makes it a cartel is their control over supply and demand. It's really hard to buy or sell a house without dealing with them, because inevitably one of the sides of the transactions has a contract with them, because of they way they require exclusivity.
Yeah, ikea standing desk prices are crazy. There are plenty of comparable products on Amazon for a lot less money. I kept looking at them in the store thinking that there must be something that could warrant the price, but I just can't see it.
Take off and land that gold medal!
Yeah I can see why a lot of people love it, but it's fundamentally anathema to the way I use docs. Considering how common other reference formats are, I can't imagine it's rare among developers, but I'm not sure. I'd love to do a usability study. Modern accessibility guidelines implore taking neurological differences into account with web content, but if it's not easily measurable or even a bit subjective, it's not going to get budgeted for in most cases. I imagine without expert advice, even gauging whether or not you've got the right approach is difficult.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Barnett_(whistleblower)
Check out BoldVoice (YC S21) - I'm biased as a cofounder :) We built this for immigrants who want to improve their spoken English, with a focus on pronunciation. You will get videos from speech/accent coaches + feedback from AI as you speak. The inspiration was my own experience as an immigrant in the US - I was struggling with speaking confidently, even though on paper my English was good. BoldVoice is what I wish I had back then - hope it can be helpful to you too.

Other than that - practice speaking as much as you can! Also, watch native speakers and focus on how they move their mouths to make sounds. Try to copy their speech cadence and repeat the phrases in their pronunciation and musicality. This is called shadowing and can be very effective (and free!)
ChatGPT denies then affirms it generated the text
I asked ChatGPT a question then in a new window asked it to analyze a paragraph I randomly selected from its original answer to determine if it was written by ChatGPT. ChatGPT said the pattern of the text was highly unlikely to have been written by ChatGPT because it lacks the typical conversational tone and linguistic patterns found in ChatGPT-generated text.

Then back in the original question window I asked ChatGPT if that quoted paragraph was original generated text by ChatGPT and "it appears to be original text generated by me, ChatGPT".
This is a problem with no solution in sight. I wonder how common scams were in the past, with no internet. Were people more jaded and less trusting back in the day?

I've seen first-hand a senior citizen getting scammed through a fake investment platform. It was crypto related, but had non-crypto "investments" as well. When I told him in no uncertain terms that it was a scam, his response was "well maybe you're right, but if you don't take risks, you'll never earn anything". Last I heard from him was that some russians had convinced him to install AnyDesk and drained his bank account (repeatedly, for several months in a row). What's even funnier is that in order to finance his "investments" he took a loan from a "bank" which asked him to send a smaller sum as confirmation before receiving the loan, and of course the "bank" was never heard from again. I guess in a way he actually saved money by not getting a real loan and having to repay later.

It's absolutely hopeless, and as much as I dislike the scammers, at some point it becomes hard to not blame the victim.
FCC raises the definition of broadband to 100 Mbps downloads and 20 Mbps uploads
If you are interested in reversing but don't know much about it, including the tools, I made an small plugin for `radare2` that you can ask it questions, it runs the commands and explains you what you need. [1]

The functionality has also been merged into the bigger `r2ai` tool and supports anthropic and local LLMs as well. [2]

[1] https://github.com/dnakov/r2d2

[2] https://github.com/radareorg/r2ai
I taught in high school for several decades and can tell you I saw this shift happen over the past 15 years (by the way I saw my students were just using search rather than folder hierarchies.)
Telecom in New Jersey is code for Verizon Wireless[1].

If I were the Verizon Wireless CEO, I'd own it and pledge to resolve as best I can. And maybe they have, I haven't looked yet.

Edit: I had it backwards. Not AT&T, but rather Verizon. Changed. "Telecom in Georgia" would allude to AT&T. "Telecom in Kansas (or maybe Bellevue, WA now)" to T-Mobile, etc.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizon_(mobile_network)
Maybe I’m joking, but: our society is just a vehicle for economics at this point, our economy is built around science, our science has mostly been turned into observations about engineering, some time ago we changed all of engineering into differential equations, and differential equations can be solved by discretizing them and doing linear algebra, and most of linear algebra can be done with matrix multiplications (triangular solves and orthonormalizations if you are fancy). All you need is matmul.
> But in both cases, I don't see why the value they provide changes based on the value of the home.

In both cases, the value they provide is relative to the value of the house being transacted.

A seller's agent definitely makes sense to take some percentage of the purchase.

The services they render - for say a $20M home in the Beverly Hills - are completely different than when selling a $1M house in San Jose or a $200k condo in Chicago.

I disagree in how valuable buyer's agents are, though. The value they provide is mainly for people who are completely clueless about real estate - which I guess could be a lot of buyers.
Right, I meant worth checking after posting, now it's up to the title deities.
> this is going to have as big of an impact on humanity as the computer or the internet

I don't see how anyone can say this with a straight face. VR/AR just isn't there and won't be there for a lot longer than people think. Everyone always acts like we're -so close- but then we just aren't. Hololens and Oculus are over a decade old, and honestly when I first demo'd both ages ago, they were incredible (especially Hololens.) If I put on a headset now, sure it's better but it's still stuck on that same idea and seems to fundamentally misunderstand how humans interact. Apple's newest product is no different. I think the future of wearable devices looks a lot more like the Meta Ray-bans with some sort of small HUD than a full computer strapped to your face that you can't wear anywhere (without being socially ostracized or robbed).
Unfortunately, nobody took into account the difficulty of talking about this to people online when the County of London was created (totally excluding the City of London) in 1889, nor when the City of London and the London County Council boroughs were finally merged into Greater London 1965 (only to be separated again in 1986 when the Greater London Council was abolished, before being merged again in 2000 when the current Greater London Authority was created).

[And, yes, this means there was a 14 year period when the UK had a capital without a government, nor indeed any administrative unit - effectively "(Greater) London" as a political and administrative entity didn't exist during that period -, largely for political reasons - Thatchers government was strongly at odds with the then particularly left wing Greater London Council]

But really, the reason for contracting City of London to "City" rather than London is to minimise confusion, because it means London fairly unambiguously, though not entirely, refers to Greater London.
Wonder what the author would make of grad school :-D
Archive.org link: https://web.archive.org/web/20240315031723/https://www.sfchr...
Meta severely underplays those capabilities. I've always known they're "there", but it's not their preferred presentation of the device. It also takes a bit of "power user" to be comfortable doing much of what you're describing.

I'm not even sure if AVP can side load apps or watch movies over SFTP, but I don't think it matters at this point: the global mindshare is sold on Apple being the leader now, and personally I don't think it's the hardware driving the difference. Strangely, I think it came down to "look n feel" for a lot of it.
I bet you could sign up to be a drug mule with not that much effort.
As a teacher, I have often been astounded how 17 or 18 year old students don't know about backups and lose big project files at crucial moments.
Archive copy: https://archive.ph/6BrOv
That's what I thought as well, and then my company merged with another one with a very different culture.

Design review? "Let's get some Staff engineers in the room". Promotions? "Senior Staff decide". At some moment there was almost a totally silly situation when a redesign for a widely-used internal system was going to happen without engineers who wrote and maintained it - just because those engineers never bothered to chase the titles.
What we consider acceptable changes all the time. A lot of people have conversations with earbuds in. And in the 90s it would have been inconceivable to go out for dinner and have half of the people hacking away on their phones.
I got mine on day 1 (February 2) and have spent many hours using it and experimenting, trying to make the device as unobtrusive as possible so I can use it for hours watching movies/surfing the web/etc., activities which become enjoyable if you're not constantly adjusting your position/VP's position on your head and face.

Here are my takeaways FWIW:

1. The only body position I find comfortable and compatible with prolonged use is laying down on a couch with my head elevated on the arm. This automatically relieves all pressure on the top and back of my head from the device, and transfers it to my face.

By finding just the right head position/angle, looking up and away, I can create a balance of downward forces distributed across my forehead/nose/cheekbones. If done just right, that 600 grams (1.3 lbs.) of VP hardware then has an effective surface area of about 8 square inches of skin interface with the foam of the light shield cushion.

Note: the VP with knitted strap weighs 600 grams; without the strap it weighs 550 grams (1.2 lbs.)

Lying down while using VP, strap weight is irrelevant since it does not exert force on your head.

Do this experiment: get bags of coffee beans/nuts/raisins/frozen peas/corn, or a steak or bacon or ground beef, whatever weighs a total of around 1.2 pounds, then lie down and put it over your upper face.

Close your eyes and think about how it feels. Remember the VP interface with your skin will be soft foam — NOT product packaging.

Consider that when using VP, your attention will NOT be on how it feels but rather on whatever it is you're doing/watching.

2. For use in the supine position as detailed above, the knitted strap is far more comfortable and easy to use compared to the two-strap alternative that comes with VP.

You don't even have to tighten the strap when you're lying down, since the seal against your face is provided courtesy of gravity.
The CEO's brother (and co-founder) was caught cheating. From what I understand he is no longer involved with Zerodha.
What happened to ... using the address bar?
How often do you exercise? Cardio? Avoid crap food? Get consistent sleep?

I'm not trying to oversimplify matters, but I had a phase in my early 20s when I wasn't taking care of myself. Making those changes made a significant impact on my day to day mental well being.
The other paper OP is referencing: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S24680...

Literally the first sentence of the introduction is ChatGPT addressing the user.
PEX needs to be legal in more cities like New York and Chicago.
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More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39681899
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They are for using only, not for learning about.
what are those differences in services and what prevents them from being itemized?
Knowledge of how to do X isn't the only relevant qualification for being licensed to do X. In fact, I'd argue it's not even the primary qualification. Something else underlies it: the ability to be trusted to do X without causing damage or harm.

Take an example from another licensed practice: operating a vehicle on public roads. Knowledge, skill, and being of age are enough to elicit an initial trust from your local authorities. But if you violate that trust by, say, willfully disregarding a red light, your license may be revoked, not because you forgot what red lights mean, or because you stopped being skilled at using your brakes, but because your holding of this license is now demonstrated to be a threat to public safety.

The objective of a licensing system is to protect others from harm before it happens. The threat of losing a license is a good deterrent, and better, often, than the threat of criminal punishment, precisely because it's easier to invoke. (You called it "for arbitrary reasons", which is false, by the way.)
> If the Vision Pro can soon replicate that experience they will print (even more) money and could lock the big film studios down forever pretty much.

Visually? It looks far better than an IMAX screen. It's an order of magnitude better compared to watching 3D movies in a movie theater with '3d glasses'.

All it is missing is sound. It's no slouch, but you don't have a subwoofer :)
HuggingFace adds special support for GGUF
overall, I'm losing more than winning
I think “IAM makes me feel like a fighter pilot” is a hilarious interpretation of your argument. Love it.
Replaced Signal and Whatsapp on my Android today, got a lot if faith in these guys. But if there's a breach I'm f'ed.
Tiny bitfield based text renderer (2022)
How F-35s Deployed to a Narrow Highway in California
> If you can work from an iPad

Sorry I can't and why the heck should I. I can get vastly superior work computer for 10% of the price (of goggles) that has none of the apple nor general tablet hard and massive limits. Huge constant time saving on work effectivity.

I could do some work with samsung ultra series (mouse, keyboard and massive screen cinnectivity via single usbc out if box), but even that is massively subpar.

Maybe we just do vastly different things, but all folks I know fall into my category, IT or not.
The killer for me was requiring a FB/Meta login...

No way I'm going to buy a piece of equipment Zuck can brick at any minute...

Apple seems to have a bit better reputation in this regard, but I'm still not sure I'd risk getting a device...
Have you tried the Vision Pro? Not doubting your take here, just curious if it's informed by the actual implementation.
Also that, but bad zoning laws exist all over the place, and the PNW is still pretty expensive (on both sides of the border).
The dual loop makes a world of difference to me. Interestingly, lying in bed makes it more uncomfortable, not less, since more of the weight is on the face.
I thought Art Deco was distinctly American architectural/art contribution to the world. Way better than the modern utilitarian glass boxes, or the Brutalisim of the Communists. Wish it would have stayed popular longer.
Art Deco inspired cars are some the coolest looking things on this planet.
I have no idea. I hope not.

They submit opt-out removals though, so one would think that if they paid the data broker they would not have to go through that trouble?
That's true. But as far as business and popularity go, TV and smartphones were a huge success. In the end what makes money will be sold without regard for social consequences.
The court documents don’t name the store, so the reporters may not know the store. The company may have turned in the employee with the understanding they would just be “Company 1” in all court documents.
Where is the lead in Stanley Cups?
Countries where middle class people rent have pretty "communist" tenant protection regimes. Being perpetually 30 days from a potential eviction is not a position most people can or should be okay with.
Because they have spent decades building a brand which most people see as premium and desirable. Doesnt matter what the product is now, if it has an apple logo on it the majority of people will want one.

Other companies trying to compete with Apple in any space will automatically have this disadvantage that they are seen as the inferior choice because Apple have repeatedly positioned themselves as the most premium player in the market, and so thats just what people expect now.
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> But getting into that group seems not that hard, and lots of people do it.

Getting in to the bottom floor, sure. Working your way up? Not so easy. Same for any other cartel like the mafia and so on.
I've worked for two UK telcos. There is no technical measure which you can apply.

Locking your SIM prevents someone from physically stealing the card and putting it in a different device - unless they know the PIN which protects it.

But that isn't the attack here.

The phone number does not belong to you - the network operator defines which SIM it points to. So a suitably authorised person at the telco can point the number to a new SIM card. That's helpful if you've lost your SIM but bad if an attacker wants to divert your number.

The best thing you can do is set a strong password on the account you have with the operator. You can also try ringing them and pretending to be you - see if they'll initiate a swap without proper authentication. If they do - move your number to a more reputable provider.

But there's nothing you as an individual can do to prevent a corrupt employee making the change without authorisation.
Except it's also very wrong. So, it just happened to make you feel good, and therefore it felt well-informed?