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by botacode 8mo ago
Getting a 403 when I try to read. Anyone have a backup link?
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by botacode 8mo ago
This is a really cool small scale experiment. More of this type of work is need so we can have fairer and more transparent search options. I'd be curious to see the sensitivity of the ratings to things like rater composition (is it a q
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by botacode 8mo ago
Counterpoint 1: the gitlab founder going "founder mode" on his cancer: https://centuryofbio.com/p/sid Counterpoint 2: the findings that happiness doesn't really level off in an S-curve shape (i.e., fewer
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by botacode 8mo ago
Nope! Startup founder who happened to be visiting Taiwan at the right time. The Googlers had way better views XD
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by botacode 8mo ago
They kept most folks pretty far away, you needed a pass or to work in one of the offices to get really close. I was also terrified when ppl would engage with him directly lol
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by botacode 8mo ago
To be fair here (and I say this as someone who's had a spinal fusion as the result of being mowed down by a distracted driver) car ownership is so incredibly subsidized from an insurance perspective that any increase in prices should b
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by botacode 8mo ago
An extremely dark pattern. This, combined with the recent changes to how 'Ads' are displayed in the iOS store (almost unrecognizable from non-advertised apps at this point since they dropped the background) suggest that Apple is g
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by botacode 8mo ago
We had the privilege to watch at first from the SE corner of the building and later as he climbed by the the observation deck on the 89th floor. Hair raising stuff I'll never forget.
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by botacode 8mo ago
The _actual_ threat to the programmer as a career has little to do with AI and a lot to do with the looming decline in global growth which will continue to destroy opportunities for devs to thrive. To frame this in terms of falsifiable-ish
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by botacode 9mo ago
Intelligence is correlated with experimentation and drug usage (and generally do-what-you-will with your body political attitudes). Some discussion on the phenomenon here: "We know that intelligent people have more self-control and mak
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by botacode 9mo ago
It's nice to have a lot of small web content laid out like this! Some suggestions to make discovery more palatable: - 1-2 sentence summaries for the content. most titles are not sufficiently descriptive and clicking on something un-int
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by botacode 9mo ago
Your response is very dismissive in that it doesn't engage with any of the other parts of my comment that provide a lot of nuance and analysis for the issues presented. My description, and appreciation, for these types of tools and the
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by botacode 9mo ago
I am broadly in favor of the existence of prediction markets. They are powerful tools for forecasting complex events that can help enrich and empower folks from across a range of backgrounds. The article has two core points, but fails to go
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by botacode 9mo ago
An underappreciated point here is: fund/subscribe your local papers. They are willing to do work and investigations that national outlets just don't have the capacity or stomach for. The more concentrated/centralized journali
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by botacode 9mo ago
Absolutely, it is an embarrassment that we design systems that continue to neglect this fact and, worse still, we judge and punish folks who have to interact with them at the "attention" end for mistakes. In some critical attentio
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by botacode 9mo ago
The order is wrong here: Governance creates markets -> markets create innovation. These things have feedback loops into governance, but the tail ultimately does not wag the dog. Engineers-- especially in the Bay where discussion of such
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by botacode 9mo ago
All LLM-search tools are slathered in ads already via LLM-SEO hacking. The only difference here is that they will be providing a direct paid channel in this case and will get a cut instead of paying for compute. If it's responsibly dis
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by botacode 9mo ago
My limited understanding here is that usage loads impact model outputs to make them less deterministic (and likely degrading in quality). See: https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeating-nondeterminism-in...
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Coverage Cat (YC S22) Is Hiring a Fractional Operations Specialist(coveragecat.com)
1 points by botacode 9mo ago
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by botacode 10mo ago
There are companies out there re-building / replicating the graph as we speak. Think they have to wait until it has a strong network effect / tipping point dynamic before it can come out publicly as such though.
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by botacode 10mo ago
Nitpick: $1m Bodily Injury limits are sometimes available for auto policies. Many providers also don't offer over $300k, only some do the $500k option!
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How a US home insurance fix is becoming a problem(reuters.com)
4 points by botacode 10mo ago|1 comments
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by botacode 10mo ago
Having been exposed to this only after starting an insurance startup, risk shifts like this in the insurance markets can be a big deal. We see the problem first hand at Coverage Cat (S22) where we help a lot of folks find alternatives to FA
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by botacode 10mo ago
Amen. It is a tremendous place.
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by botacode 11mo ago
Coverage Cat | Senior+ Software Engineers | CA/TX (Remote) | Full-time Coverage Cat is building the AI-native insurance brokerage. Want to make it so that millions of Americans get better financial outcomes, the insurance industry is m
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by botacode 1y ago
Actually, "quality-of-work" and "time-you-share-it" are both necessary to get on the flywheel of product improvement. Folks who obsess over only quality of work in a vacuum and don't put it in front of users end up
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Coverage Cat (YC S22) Is Hiring a Senior, Staff, or Principal Engineer(coveragecat.com)
1 points by botacode 1y ago
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Romance Accelerator (A Dating Show for Founders and Senior Tech Folk)(romanceaccelerator.com)
1 points by botacode 1y ago|0 comments