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Ask HN: You've got a million dollars. What do you do?
You're an ordinary 40 year old software engineer in a major US city, making six figures by writing code that you know creates more problems than it solves. Your performance reviews read like a predictable template of strengths and weaknesses, delivered by an Engineering Manager who insists your company will revolutionize the way the world does X and oh how he misses writing code. You don’t buy any of it. Honestly, you’re hoping — for his own sake — that neither does he. You remember that programming used to be all the fun, but you don’t remember how that transformed into this. It doesn’t matter. You really need the six figures. It doesn’t even cross your mind to change the company — you’ve had enough jobs at this point to know they are all, in a nutshell, more of the same.

You live in a cookie-cutter house in a good suburban neighborhood with a child and a loving wife. Between your mortgage, two cars, restaurants, and some hobbies, your total cost of living is about $12,000/mo. During weekdays you build shareholder value. During weekends, holidays, and “unlimited vacation”, you enjoy life.

You’re cleaning out your email inbox on a Sunday afternoon and stumble upon an old confirmation for a cryptocurrency purchase from years ago. You barely remember buying it, but out of curiosity, you log into the account. To your shock, the balance has ballooned to over a million dollars — $1,157,329.

What do you do?

Asking for a friend.
Had to look that up: "Good Old-Fashioned Artificial Intelligence"
The Daily Mail? You clearly have no experience with Western news. Nobody takes the Daily Mail seriously. They don't even have copy editors.
Most unhealthy people are unhealthy by choice.
I think the effect was noted/studied before Internet so as to separate it from broader country or global trends
Who is spending money on burning it down?

No, obviously, spending money on Notre Dame is getting us more of it, on account of one Notre Dame is more than no Notre Dame.
As a New Yorker myself, I’m fairly confident.
That's not really the qualifier you think it is. I've been coding and hacking stuff up since I was nine. Corporate programming is a great perversion of the kind of stuff I find fun to do in my spare time. In order to be successful you not only need to be a good programmer and curious person but you also need to know how to navigate corporate power structures (explicit and implicit), you need to be somewhat of a therapist helping people tap into their true problems, and above all else you need to be excellent at compartmentalization.
heh, comments are where business rules go to die https://github.com/golang/vscode-go/blob/v0.43.4/extension/s... A mere 5 lines away from the line it was trying to tie itself to, they really should have put the TODO on the source of the change, not the effect of the change
Nay, even commenting is often pointless. HN likes to overly articulate drivel more often than not. Indeed, even this very comment is pointless, because what does it really add but another section in another chain of pointless drivel? Socializing is human. Any and all communication platforms like forums, or even Twitter, work to capitalize on the needless want to contribute something. Which is often unnecessary. I'd argue that lurking is often the smarter choice.

Not that books are exempt from the same problem. Many of them are pointless or suck too, but that's just part of living in a flawed world.
>I said that our government is for sale to the highest bidders, plural.

This is what they were pointing out was incorrect, since the highest bidding faction didn't win.
The attestations are checked into the public transparency log, so they’re still accessible — that’s how I did a decent amount of the triage in the write up. You can find them in the write up by searching for “Sigstore” (I would direct link them, but I’m on mobile).

> Another element here is that the releases seemingly were deleted and re-created? I thought that was prevented by PyPI?

Hmm, where do you see this? The release history on PyPI doesn’t show any recreations[1].

[1]: https://pypi.org/project/ultralytics/
>China is not without its issues

That is a bit of an understatement, isn't it?
https://www.ushmm.org/genocide-prevention/countries/china/ch...
It makes me sad, the contrast between then and now, as we're fighting for the right to run arbitrary code and on a path to losing it. Applications have been replaced by apps for many who don't use or see the benefit of desktops over mobile.
Not entirely related, but what was all the hype about the xAI Colossus? It's claimed to be the most powerful cluster by some measures. I know that a cluster isn't comparable to another because it's all a matter of connectivity and use cases, but does it actually make sense have 100k H100s connected through Ethernet or was it something others didn't do because it is not actually useful?
It is a real pity that the major browsers don’t support better keyboard navigation out of the box. Due to work restrictions, I can only really use firefox, chrome or edge and no addons/extensions. There’s a 14 year old ticket for firefox (still open), but the reaction back then was that it is a niche feature better suited for an addon.
Franchise agreements have been non-exclusive by US federal law since a long time.

Lack of competition is more about the cost to establish service in an area, and the ROI on service in an area with competition. It costs a lot to pull wires past a lot of potential customers and if many of them won't sign up because they already have a good enough option, it doesn't make much sense to do it.

Cable and Telco compete because when cable was built, it was a completely different service, but they've both evolved to fill the same role.

This is why mandatory line sharing is important for competition, and it's in the telecom act of 1996. But the FCC first said it only applied to telecoms, and then said it doesn't apply in remote terminals because of lack of space, and then courts said it doesn't apply at all because telecom and not cable isn't fair.
I'm sorry, you're correct, I missed that. I'll edit my edit!
I think a lot of people do college too young: if you can find a reasonable “real” job, a gap year or two will give you some life experience and a chance to mature a bit, which puts you in a much better place for actually learning.
I agree that's is a bad look, and I wonder who does Nyxt's writing. And I wonder what they mean, I didn't think there was any sort of LLM integration, and definintely not built in... has something changed there?

Do they just mean it's built with Lisp? What are these semantic document tools?
I do some occasional tool and game programming for 8-bit machines for fun because it's so close to the metal and different from modern software development. It has nothing to do with feeling older or younger.

I also despise forced anachronistic "retro" graphics "aesthetic" and I'll never again play new games that feature overly blocky "pixel art". I've had enough of that in my childhood, it's ugly, almost always uninspired and lazy, and I really don't want to see it anymore.
Jobs Applier AI Agent
Ok, there are some comments like this one and a few others that seem to be focused on his apparent lack of anxiety, or that I'm calling him out for being "privileged".

I'm primarily calling him out because his story, as written, simply makes no sense, because reality. He has no money left, and is making less money than his next rent payment, but he is talking about continuing on in the next year doing the same things he did in previous years. Except in previous years he started with 80k, and this year he's starting with 0.

I'm really not particularly interested in his anxiety triggers, I'm interested in where he will be getting money for his next rent payment. There are literally only a couple options: he's got backup support somewhere that will provide him with funds/housing/food, he plans to get some "day jobs" to fund his lifestyle (which would then severely limit his entrepreneurial time), or he plans to just ride out the eviction process where he's currently renting until being homeless. One of these must be true, and I think it's a pretty critical part of his story that he just leaves out.
> They have no need to when they can simply deny claims or coverage. It seems strange to me that we should have private corporations shaming the public by acting as the arbiters of health. I agree that people have unhealthy habits, but some of these coverage items have nothing to do with personal choices.

You can't deny claims to an obese person for a joint replacement. If it was part of the policy, you can't deny the treatment simply because someone had a condition they could have avoided if they had adopted different practices.

> I agree that people have unhealthy habits, but some of these coverage items have nothing to do with personal choices. There are conditions people are born with or develop without being able to control them. The elderly need more care, and that's not fault of their own outside of simply living long enough.

This is an area I do agree with to some extent: we should be much more discerning what we consider "preexisting" conditions; congenital heart defects from birth should be covered, but eating deep fried oreos every day for and washing it down with a handle of vodka shouldn't. This is generally not controversial to most laymen, however states such as CA (see: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVersionsCompare...) outright limit the ability of insurers to impact consumer behavior. There needs to be a much more clear-eyed view of mutable vs. immutable characteristics and how we permit insurers to underwrite risk, and how we as a society perceive things such as genetic defects verus excess alcohol consumption.

(to put it in perspective, insurers made 25B in profit in '23 (see: https://content.naic.org/sites/default/files/industry-analys...). Alcoholism cost 249B (see https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/brochures-and-fact-sh....), obesity cost 426B (see https://hrp.net/hrp-insights/report-obesity-cost-employers-a....))

> The elderly need more care, and that's not fault of their own outside of simply living long enough.

In my view, one of the big problems with the risk pool is young (myself included) buy catastrophic instead of health because of the 3x max charge on elderly. This is a nice to say, but the costs don't pencil out and this needs to be handled out-of-band for standard healthcare. Elder care is a problem, but it is one that can't be solved by risk pooling and is a contributing factor to typical healthcare premium increases.

source for this: I work in the industry owning two (small) businesses in this area, and was looking to expand into insurance directly, and am running into the fact you can only do so much to limit costs on obesity and other things. It's a real problem that insurers can't actually reflect risk accurately.
This post about Syria has more Russia vs Ukraine comments than Syria.

Can anyone explain which one is the bad side?
>Companies providing medical Care have to spend 80% of their costs on actual medical care, not marketing and executive compensation.

That requirement was imposed on insurers in response to already-exorbitant medical costs. It does create a perverse incentive, but it cannot be the root cause of the issue.
I saw an interview many years ago with some American historian (of the labor movement?) who argued that establishing universal health care was on the table in the 1950s, but the unions opposed it because health care was the prime benefit they used to attract people to union membership. Wish I could remember the name of that historian.
This question seems to bring a frame that implies there is an example that would apply to everyone. I'm claiming such an example doesn't exist but I will try (please note these are overly simplified).

Consider addition...

"We're going to learn addition today"

One approach: "it is combining two quantities into one. For example, 1 + 1 = 2, 2 + 2 = 4"

Another: "1 + 1 = 2, 2 + 2 = 4, you see, we are combining the quantities"

For some of us, getting the abstraction first gives us the mental framing that allows the examples to teach us the most and the alternative feels like noise.

For others, they're not sure what we're going on about until we have given them enough examples so that they can understand the abstraction. They want to generalize off of the examples they've seen.

Neither is inherently right but they have trade offs and we have preferences on this dimension that end up being strong and usually outside of our awareness. Frequently it can not matter if we jump back and forth between concreteness and abstraction.
Not skipping. Acknowledged. And the fact remains that this erodes trust in science, and government. And that's especially true when the justification advertised isn't the one you've given.

Instead it was a media effort to demonize scientists who gave their expert opinions if they were not in line with a particular narrative. Agreeable or not, right or wrong, moral or immoral that's not science.

Disagreement and free speech are necessary for science. And when you remove that, whether your reasons are dire or not, breaks the scientific approach to information. And that works, as expected, to erode trust. For better or worse, that's the cost of attempting to control the conversation.
That was an example to illustrate how little basis they needed for these searches in previous cases, not intended to be a guess for what the reason the person at the start of this thread was stopped.

The point is, this whole "cold consensual search" policy was based on nothing other than the officer's personal opinion for who should be approached and searched; because it was theoretically "consensual", they didn't need any kind of basis for making the determination.
They probably need the user data for further fine tuning
My family (of 4) car is a Kia Rio :). We live in an EU city and do 300km trips every other weekend. Frequently it is a tight fit, but one can manage.
I agree that theres no hope of such a project ever happening in the USA unless it’s on private land, and even then someone is going to object and sue to stop it for some shortsighted and probably selfish reason.
There are lots of ways to have big risk pools. The bigger issue is that the things you most need insurance for are often so bad you won't be able to work or won't remain employed.

On top of that, historically the connection discouraged entrepreneurship.(With the exchanges I think that's maybe slightly less the case. Though risk pools issues with small businesses do favor larger businesses IMO.)
Why not? Should he be caught it seems like an open and shut case with video evidence.
I wonder whether this is working, as far as preventing desertification goes. The project has critics. It might just the state declaring victory?

Edit: apparently it’s controversial.

Will China’s “green Great Wall” save it from encroaching sands?

https://www.economist.com/china/2024/12/05/will-chinas-green...

https://archive.is/FVimm
Plenty of stuff on internet.

There's plenty of "stuff on internet" about piles of beheaded babies on Oct 7, too.

Links to reasonably trustable reports needed, please. Otherwise what you're saying is just more "stuff".
I think it's strictly worse than Google Translate-ing your bullet point notes?
I remember the first time I saw audiophile cables that had an "electron flow direction" marked on them and I kinda knew right then what this was all about.
Indeed, and both a reasonable desire and one of my systemic communication failures. :)
>But also horrifying that treatment costs so much.

My mother underwent chemotherapy for her cancer.

According to the statements from her insurance company, each round of chemotherapy cost as much as a new luxury car before hospital vs. insurance negotiations. Yeah.

The value of health insurance isn't just the offloading of expenses, it's also their power to tell hospitals to get fucking bent with ludicrous bills.
Fluid Size
Ignorance is bliss. My therapist hated it when I said it that way, but it's undeniably true.
Too bad. Sounds like they fucked up and are now sore losers.
NEPA was passed about then and most people would prefer it stay, so yeah, it makes sense. It’s why we don’t have environmental review for I-5 but we do for new bike lanes. I-5 was already decided in the 1960s so the construction was okay. But bike lanes are today and need extensive environmental review, as any environmentalist will tell you.
Boy, Girl, Boy
It’s bullshit like this that makes me realise how lucky we are in countries that have public health care. Sure it has problems but private systems seem to have zero advantage for the average person. Pay more for less effectiveness AND a bunch of people get nothing.
Show HN: Program a robot to solve a maze on a CPU emulator
A little game I made to show off an old project. The functionality of the CPU is derived entirely from simulated logic gates. All the operations and control flow are based on the underlying properties of the logic gates, and changing their operation leads to corresponding changes in function.

The original game code is all python and it runs in the browser using wasm/pyodide. Not very mobile friendly
If choice is between dying from head chopping or a chemical attack I choose head chopping.
Meanwhile the US uses it surpluses of wealth to do… what?

Optimize ad sales to 16 year olds and fund genocide in Gaza?
Tell no one. Liquidate, diversify (VTI, VXUS, BND), coast and do what makes you happy. Congrats on the freedom. You can’t afford to do nothing, but you can afford to do something that pays less, or gives you more flexibility.

More info: https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Managing_a_windfall
Wow, that's oddly specific.

I'd send this user a thousand dollars for commenting under my post. Lol.

I'd quit my job. My dream is to not work a 9-5, to have freedom to live my life under my own terms. A million dollars gives me that.
I feel the same about old HW as I do old cars: some deserve historical recognition for their importance, and I'm thankful for the uh, passionately committed people who maintain them against all odds and sometimes at ridiculous expense, so that these important historical icons remain, but they are the past, and I don't live there anymore.

While we can learn from them and their inventors/creators, if we choose, I'm much happier with my rock solid highly reliable five year old RAM and my new MacBook Pro. I've driven a lot of the Jeeps ever made, and off-road I'll take my JKU Rubicon over any of them (except maybe the 2004 "LJ") any day. It's a beast to maintain mostly because I am beastly to it, and the older ones are worse for that.

I don’t rush after the newest and shiniest (my M3 replaced a 2013 Air), but when it's time, the RAM and JKU will be replaced with new.
Show HN: Grow Bluesky – A curated collection of the best tools for Bluesky users
If you're building a service for Bluesky, share it in the comments, and I'll add it to Grow Bluesky
Like I said, you can get private health insurance in both the Netherlands and Germany. Basic service is mandated by law, and will be the same across all providers, but you can get any additional insurance you want.

I do agree that it makes more sense to have basic healthcare covered by a single national government program, rather than mandating basic coverage and allowing private insurance companies to "compete" by offering the same mandatory coverage as each other. If that's specifically what you're referring to by "useless added bureaucracy", then I agree.
That's nice, but I don't have any interest in switching because Just does everything I want. I legitimately have zero feature requests regarding Just.
In Poland do people keep working while dying from cancer to maintain their insurance coverage?
If you are looking at a link you want to follow, you press a single hotkey (default 'f'), and just type the two letters that appear directly where you're looking. If you want to open a lot of links in the background, e.g. if you're looking at the front page of HN, you can use the rapid follow action (default ';r') and just type a couple letters for each link you'd like to follow.

Personally, this is much easier on my RSI than mousing to each link. Especially on a laptop with a trackpad.

Additionally, the browser is fully configurable in Python, to a much greater degree than what you get from Firefox or Chrome.

One seemingly small thing that I find quite convenient is that I can use reader mode or open a PDF and still keep hjkl for scrolling. I also use Tridactyl in Firefox, but Firefox's reader mode and opening PDFs turns disable extensions in the tab, so you can't use these scrolling keys.

As for next and previous page, I think you're referring to history navigation forward and back. Qutebrowser includes built-in functionality to navigate in multi-page documents to the next page and previous page, e.g. documentation sites or html books. That shortcut is '[[' for previous and ']]' for next. So, for example, if I am on this section of SICP: https://sarabander.github.io/sicp/html/1_002e3.xhtml#g_t1_00... and I press ']]' I immediately go to https://sarabander.github.io/sicp/html/Chapter-2.xhtml#Chapt... . This happens regardless of browser history. "Back" and "Forward" are different from "Previous" and "Next". I do not know of a similar piece of functionality in other mainstream browsers.

This is all highly opinionated. I like vim-style shortcuts. I vastly prefer the experience of using qutebrowser (or a vim-like extension for another browser) over using a mouse exclusively or a mouse and keyboard mixed.

If you, or someone else, prefers a different style of interaction with the browser, that's fine. It's not about right or wrong or better and worse, at least not in the abstract. It's about a user interaction paradigm that works well for an individual.
Don't take your phoen, problem solved
In this case, Mark tried to give them the benefit of the doubt, explaining that even if the circuit is a reference design, spending time to match components might make it better than it would be otherwise. It wasn't a bashing, but seemed like a repair video in good faith.
For entering or leaving the country. Was this case an internal flight? If so then what money an individual has in their possession is their business, and nobody else's.
> What’s stopping tech nerds from putting effort into their appearance like everyone else to get into a club?

For those who put the effort, nothing will stop them, and they will be more than welcome. The idea is to filter out the smug ones who think they are higher human beings who don’t need to conform to the norms of such places like everyone else, and putting any effort toward such “intellectually plebian” entertainment is beyond them. So everything is kinda working as intended.
So they wouldn't have been sued if they just never pursued on device monitoring in the first place? Or is this going to be a new requirement for all smartphones moving forward?
Oh wow, thanks for pointing me to that -- I've still been patching my driver every update for no reason.
Has anyone come across many distributors for HD108 LED strips per chance? I've found only the bare LEDs on Aliexpress currently.
Who is “we” and why do we need it in a “simple” language prone to memory errors where people have to non-portably reinvent every wheel?

Signed,

someone that writes and distributes apps/tools written in “less simple” languages and apps/tools written in zero-dependency and even libc-free C.
The DEA should be disbanded and all these agents fired and pensions deleted from existence.
Abu Mohammad Al-Julani (Syrian Rebel Leader)
I don't know about you, but I already feel enough guilt about how we eat animals. I even feel bad about throwing away a stuffed animal. We don't need some journo shoving another knife through our collective hearts about eating vegetables.