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n8ta··on Ask HN: Those of you who've left the SWE world, what did you transition into?
Believe so
n8ta··on Wise (formerly Transfer Wise) are asking me to send them photo of my ID
It's also a crime to organize transactions in this way https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structuring
n8ta··on Wise (formerly Transfer Wise) are asking me to send them photo of my ID
I use wise ~1 time / yr. Last time I started a transfer they required ID first. I uploaded two photos and my account was immediately locked since my bday on ID did not match my wise acct (typo). Quick email to support and it was unlocked 2 hrs later. Was able to complete my transaction after that without issue. Fine experience overall if inconvenient.
n8ta··on The diamond world takes radical steps to stop a pricing plunge
Broken for me too. Firefox but through Xfinity. Edit: also broken on Chrome.
n8ta··on How to speed up the Rust compiler: data analysis assistance requested
Follow up to : https://nnethercote.github.io/2023/07/11/back-end-parallelis...
n8ta··on Rust to Assembly: Understanding the Inner Workings of Rust
The articles needs some left margin, very hard to read on mobile with the text touching the edge of the page.

Otherwise looks interesting! I'll take a look when I'm on desktop.

Edit: I'm on desktop now, it is well done (:

n8ta··on SVB collapse could mean a $500B venture capital ‘haircut’
To try to answer the first question: It's about who your customers are.

If you're a business with 30 employees all making 150k/yr you have 375k in payroll costs every month. Holding even 1 months payroll in cash puts you above the FDIC limit of 250k. Normal people rarely need more than 250k in cash so the ratio of business to normal people in customer base matters.

To make things worse let's say you're VC funded and you don't have monthly revenue to put towards your payroll. Instead you have X months of payroll/runway in cash in an account being slowly drawn down. Now you might have 1 year of payroll in cash. Nearly all of that is uninsured.

Quick googling shows me that SVB was only 15% insured. Likely because of their focus in startups with large balances vs regular ppl with low balances. For context BOFA is 40% insured and JP morgan is 35%.

https://time.com/6262009/silicon-valley-bank-deposit-insuran... https://www.forbes.com/advisor/banking/bank-of-america-revie...

But I do see your point, short term treasuries probably would make sense for startups right now. With a 4.2% rate on the 1 month treasuries it would make sense to setup a ladder with bonds coming due as you needed them. But in the very recent low interest rate past this probably wasn't worth the hassle for many startups.

n8ta··on Dropping the creator of ‘Dilbert’ is free speech at work
13:41 is where the relevant bit starts
n8ta··on Dropping the creator of ‘Dilbert’ is free speech at work
Can we get a link to what he said? I don't see it in the article.
n8ta··on Sourcehut will blacklist the Go module mirror
# Used for Alexa, I guess, who cares

User-agent: Amazonbot

Disallow: /

n8ta··on Ruby 3.2.0
I was writing native extensions about 2 years ago so its been possible for awhile. The rutie crate for rust makes it much easier.
n8ta··on What frequent fliers do for status
Flying in a plane is basically the most carbon intensive thing normal people do. It's something like 1/4 ton of CO2 per hour per person. Per capita carbon emission in the US are ~15ton/yr.

(https://www.statista.com/statistics/1049662/fossil-us-carbon...)

n8ta··on iFixit Put Up Right to Repair Billboard Along New York Governor's Drive to Work
If I can fix my phone for $100 I won't buy a new one for $1000. It's clear why they oppose people fixing their own stuff.

Apple & John Deer are the most famous examples but lots of companies lobby against your right to repair things you own and just as importantly have access to the schematics and parts that you would need to do so.

https://pirg.org/articles/who-doesnt-want-the-right-to-repai...

n8ta··on It’s getting harder to do a randomized trial for some drugs
Great read!

So why are trials getting more expensive? The crux of the article was triald aren't being done because costs have risen, but why have costs risen? Have they risen faster than drug prices?

n8ta··on Signal Introduces Stories
RCS is not here for Android and will likely never arrive for IOS...

Even if Android saw 100% adoption for RCS I'd still want to message my apple people via sms.

n8ta··on Signal Introduces Stories
"SMS is on the way out". I'll believe it when I see it. Apple isn't going to adopt it because they have no incentive to do so and apple has huge market share. Android hasn't even implemented it yet! We're killing super useful features because 50% (or whatever android market share is) of mobile phones might have something better next year???

Having SMS support as a workaround was huge for signal usability for me. Taking it away burns so much good will.

n8ta··on Signal Introduces Stories
Removed SMS support and then added stories. Worried about signal's recent direction.

Being able to interact with my remaining non-signal contacts was huge. Really going to miss it. In contrast they are now adding a feature I do not care about at all.

n8ta··on The $300B Google-Meta advertising duopoly is under attack
Corporations don't make mistakes. Corporations run ads. => Ads are not mistakes.

Not sure I buy the first premise of this argument.

n8ta··on Democratic National Committee Edited Bylaws to Let It Overrule Convention
The democratic part is not and has never been a democracy.
n8ta··on Ask HN: Best Alfred for Windows?
Does it have the same easy to pull cmd+space type thing? I really like that it's always there no need to open an application.
n8ta··on Ask HN: Best free software to read text aloud
This voice is better than any I've tried. Thanks!
n8ta··on Amazon admits giving police Ring camera footage without consent
Seems more likely they are storing it in a useful form but just don't care about your problem. Or perhaps a larger agency than your local pd is making use of it.
n8ta··on Stanford’s war on social life
Anywhere else I could read about this? Never heard of splinternews and I'm not familiar with it or Palladium.
n8ta··on My students cheated... a lot
So you're hoping we'll be able to effectively align an AGI with ethics we ourselves don't even possess?

I recommend Robert Miles on YouTube for a few lessons on the challenges of creating friendly/aligned AIs. (And why your hope here is somewhat ludicrous).

n8ta··on Show HN: Stand out with your Resume. Use Resoume
Can you tell us a bit more about how a resume is scored? I didn't see much on the about page or homepage.
n8ta··on Mygov is a ‘huge disappointment,’ key architect despairs
"four-company panel was established to continue works on it, featuring Deloitte, Accenture, IBM and Arq Group."

"We’re supposed to be adopting an agile development methodology"

Ah yes the classic agile setup 2 week sprints where at the end of each sprint you rotate companies.

n8ta··on Modern Python Performance Considerations
Surely in the common case this can be optimized away??? Could you add some detail?
n8ta··on Modern Python Performance Considerations
Print doesn't have to be re resolved on every access... Not sure about python but many interpreters do a resolution pass that matches declarations and usages (and decides where data lives, stack, heap, virtual register, whatever)
n8ta··on Tell HN: Amazon.com is limiting purchases of Audio CDs to four-per-week
Someone running a r(ating)-aas business might have 1000 accounts and order 1 cd per customer per account. Limiting per account forces them to make more accounts, which means more phone #s, more cc numbers, more cost, and makes them easier to spot.
n8ta··on Ribbit Scheme bootstraps with Posix shell while supporting TCO, call/cc and GC
Very cool. For someone with moderate compilers & POSIX experience but no scheme experience why does it take 5 hours to bootstrap from POSIX?
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