skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That wouldn't surprise me - I had seriously considered subscribing to Dropbox many times, but the price was just too high for my needs. When they forced me to make a decision (by enforcing the 3 client rule), I evaluated the costs/benefits and ended up going with OneDrive - cheaper overall and I got Office 365. I much prefer Dropbox's sync technology, but not at double the price.
> if I start rejecting projects they will find someone else

... Which you're basing on:

> it doesn't work that easily that I can just limit how much work I take without repercussions (it already happened in past, but not because of rejecting reason)

If it's true that they won't accept anything less than 12 hour days with zero down time, then you're better off working elsewhere.
Link: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-online/
Kaboom: an unusual Minesweeper
No, a company just a collection of people with a common goal. And when you don’t like one company, you have incredible mobility to find another. In a job market as good as the one in the US at the moment, that mobility is irrespective of skill level.

And that keeps companies, even the bad ones, from getting away with dehumanizing its workforce.
If you are comparing it to slavery I think you are vastly overestimating how bad the promo process is.
As a fellow content creator, I'd say your book appears to be lacking based on the outline.
See also the author's blog post about how he built it: https://pwmarcz.pl/blog/kaboom/
I work with teenagers and there is a distinct lack of social stigma around having a conversation while wearing (at least) one earbud. Older folks immediately find this rude as it implies the listener is only paying half attention, or can’t be bothered to turn off their music. Young people simply don’t care as much - while will be important if AR is ever going to take off as we will need to bridge our social acceptance beyond the ‘glasshole’ phase.
> All that said, if it's life saving you might be surprised what people can and will do, savings notwithstanding.

Withholding a life-saving treatment has to be criminal in some way.

I just can't imagine a hospital sending people home to die because they can't pay.
Nim vs. Crystal
I don't know about EEG, but a standard way to perform this type of action is to correlate your signal with a known signal (signature of a blink in your case) and if the correlation result exceeds some arbitrary threshold you set you have a match.
I'd start by removing the blockchain feature
Most major grocery stores allow you to order delivery directly through their website now. There's no need to involve a 3rd party and their markup.
And what are those few exercises?
>convince existing talent to accept lower wages.

That seems like lousy marketing. If I'm told that something is constantly in a shortage my first thought isn't exactly to sell it for less.
This may have been good advice a few years ago, but things do move on. People are wary giving their email address to the promise of a service and will normally now be hesitant to engage without some kind of product in return.

What’s more, having people actually use and pay for your product is much better validation than people saying they will (not always the same thing)
“back breaking work”

Mercy.
I doubt it would be. Dropbox’s model for file storage has always been to encrypt the data with its own key on the server.
Artists on Artificial Intelligence
That really should be an argument for collective payment so the mean ability to pay counts and nobody is priced out. I'll never understand how people can support the US health care system.
You should treat other businesses with respect, this is not a Firefox fan board. Dropbox is also an alternative product, even connected to this board and their service is superb. It is premium.
These drugs are priced this high for the sake of health insurance and the screwy pricing market based around it.

When you get the final bill with the “adjustments” and “discounts” it will be far less.

If you signaled to the provider you are paying cash it’s far less.

My physical therapy was $1200 a visit to my insurance provider, and magically $40 out of pocket once my insurance cut off my covered trips.
Taking the television example a bit far - one can imagine that one company makes radio, other makes ~telephones~ cellphones, oven, etc. These are all electronic gadgets that are used for different purposes.

However, most if not the entirety of drugs is to cure disease and save lives (or significantly improve the quality of live). There is one market as opposed to a market each for the types of gadgets.

Which is why something as trivial as say a surgical equipment gets priced exorbitantly because without that there’s no “whole functioning gadget” (surgery).

The free market economy doesn’t work in this case.
Talking to potential is customers is more about making sure you’re solving someone’s real problem, as opposed to “build it and they will come”. That should probably fall under a different category than marketing. We’re overloading the term, which could lead to confusion.

Your “advice” would fall under the “getting your first 1000 users” trope:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ajayyadav/2017/05/16/how-to-get...
Hey, easy there :) Nothing wrong with linking to an alternative.
How is this different from human health providers? They deny everything, and force you to fight them as well. Maybe Canadian health insurance is different, but in the US, it is exactly as you describe pet insurance.
one company, multiple projects (but basically two main ones and under them subprojects), each has many tasks (some of them smaller doable in minutes, some of them bigger taking hours)

I could drop one project I really don't like, because how unprofessional they are, so I started to get quite bitchy about it and also refused recently task and voiced my objections about their workflow/mismanagement. I would not mind at all if they would assign it to someone else, but honestly this project doesn't take that significant portion of time, maybe hour a day and pays better than the other one per minute, like now I just finished 60USD task in 20mins
Use K8s to schedule the work.
Yes, I often write small command-line tools and that's what I found. Profiling seemed to indicate that doing anything at all in Java, such as reading a config file, is fast the second time but super slow the first time.

You can test my assertion simply by writing a "hello world" in Python and Java.
Do you still have any of the relevant software or documentation?

I am looking for the Apple A/UX Device Driver Kit (APDA M8037/B), which should include a book titled “Building A/UX Device Drivers”. I am specifically interested in driver source code.

Here is an incomplete list of A/UX software and documentation of which I am aware. Helping preserve any of the missing items would be highly appreciated.

https://gist.github.com/mietek/174b27e879a7b83d502a351ea3aaa...

My contact information is in my profile.
Completely agree.

> WhatsApp because it meant that international SMS was now free

Not sure the exact meaning of "international" here. In Brazil SMS was not free at all, so Whatsapp became a free SMS for all, with bonus of a nice chat UI that made easy to be in conversations (contrary to any phone's SMS UI at the time), groups, images (becoming a MMS for free too).

So, a 100x better SMS for free. No wonder it exploded.

But the use case was mostly for local messages, not international messages.
> C is closest to the real

Nope, plenty of alternatives have existed throughout the history of computing

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_programming_language

> C as the Ur-language

Not really, ESPOL came up in 1961, while C only became a thing in 1969.
My take is that it's a product of their situation: Google has thousands of highly talented people on board who probably have some expectations regarding professional growth, so in order to keep them they produce it.

Does this mean that we have an overabundance of talent? I don't think so. I guess Google simply has enough money to keep its competitors at bay by hoarding talent.

And they appear not to be alone in this as the anti-poaching agreement scandal showed.
Ask HN: Best book you read in 2019
Mine are-

Tech: "Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software" by Charles Petzold

Non-Tech: "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl
Matt Parker: Stand-Up Maths Routine (About Barcodes)
There is only one thing worse than being exploited by the capitalist corporations and that's being unemployed and not being exploited by anyone.
Awesome! I've been lurking on Zulip, and everyone seems so nice. Should probably just ask...
Paul Stamets
I currently own a 1000xm3. My colleague recently just bought an Airpods pro and was going on for ages about how awesome it is. I offered him to try out my XM3s. He tried them out for 15 mins. I never heard another word from him again. See, my colleague's behaviour is what many bloggers and self-proclaimed journalists exhibit today. They try out one thing and simply go on to write about how superior it is.

The Sony XM3s have all the functionality in the AirPods pro with so much more. For example, you can swipe your fingers over the headphone housing and it will do different things depending on the direction of the swipe. They provide you an app to configure this and the buttons on the headphone itself. Not to mention, they also allow you to enable high resolution codecs, equalizer and surround sound from the app itself. The sound quality (which is one of the reasons people buy headphones for) is also vastly superior on the Sony's.

So, it's not an apples to apples comparison, yes (Headphones vs Earphones)?

Ok, In addition to my Sony's, I also have the Galaxy earbuds. It also supported swipe gestures and configurable actions via the app which is tightly integrated with Galaxy phones. The sound quality is superior and has officially been benchmarked by consumer reports to be the same as well[1]. Nothing what the author is excited about here is unique just to Apple even in terms of strategy or technology. IF anything, it's confusing nomenclature bundled with mediocre hardware.

[1] https://www.consumerreports.org/headphones/apple-airpods-vs-...

The author simply needs go out and try other brands of headphones.
I'm not sure I follow your reasoning. Are you saying that suggesting a relevant and free alternative by a non-profit is disrespectful towards Dropbox, and should not be allowed?
yes wrong, it's what google does, flooding with the free service when others trying to make a buck. Anyone here knows about FF send anyway this is stupid cheer-leading.
100%. I shut down DropBox at last $dayjob (mid-size) after piloting OneDrive. Saved tens of thousands a year.

OneDrive was inferior, no doubt, but good enough. And will only become better.

More importantly, I cannot imagine anyone building better integration with Office (live editing) than the actual Office company.
I grew up in the country around 1980, with a Vic 20, then C64. I read about dial-up services and eventually the BBS concept, but they were totally out of reach. Aside from the quite great manuals that came with the computer, I'd buy computer magazines when possible. I wrote a lot of simple video games, it was a great escape. I remember writing a Dig Dug style game in a jag while my family was away.

By 1985 I'd moved to the big city and had access to dial-up. I wrote a sardonic platform video game called "Can You Get to the Very Top of the Thing" which I shared with friends. By then we had access to every video game as they were released, they were becoming incredible productions. Fortunately my attention switched to writing BBS software.
Our family dental plan is the cost of about 10 cleanings a year, so it’s not a great deal, but we exceed that number and have also used the reduced fee for fillings a few times.

Dental’s historic lack of insurance and relative ease of opening a clinic has obviously made it much more cost-competitive than medical care, so we kind of feel like we are contributing to a future problem by using dental insurance, but it’s hard to turn down the savings now.
It's straight up price gouging though these companies are doing.

As usual the answer probably lies somewhere in the middle.
Would you like to pay $20 for a protection plan on your new foot massager?

What makes me the most upset about these little games of chance companies want us to play, is how it takes advantage of certain demographics, like the elderly.
They said is, not was.
I'd not heard of FF Send before this comment, and will now make use of it, so I think your comment is a bit misguided.
>So people should vote for somebody, anybody, even though they'd rather not vote for any of the offered options ?

The offered options are numerous. That most people who do vote only want two of the group and thus no one else even has a chance is part of democracy in action, and perhaps a view as to what is wrong with such a system. For long term gains, people who don't vote can try to push for the most popular third party candidate to shake up the system. If enough win, they may support voting reform that will change how votes are counted.

There are also other options. For example, convincing other people to not vote. I honestly do not see why this is viewed as bad. If my argument can't convince someone to vote for the one I think will do a good job but can convince them to not vote for one of the ones I think will do a bad job, why not use that argument?

>And that, in itself, is a choice. A worrying one. A disheartening one.

Is it much different than people who skip out on jury duty instead of getting to make sure the 'facts' align with their own view of reality? People are overall too complacent, which may just be an indictment that things are still going well enough.
Insurance increases net costs via added overhead. So, it’s ~80k * ~1.30 * (number receiving treatment) / (people paying insurance). Aka, it’s both more expensive and more affordable.
One of my early Youtube memory is the "Write In C" song altho I think I saw it written on some Usenet channels in the mid-90s

https://youtu.be/XHosLhPEN3k
Oh thanks for that.

Funny for you to observe that I've seemed “focused”.

I've often though that to an outsider who isn't right beside me on this journey, I'd seem incredibly unfocused; since leaving my startup I've worked on almost 10 different projects or contracts.

But what I've actually been doing, mostly very privately, is undertaking a highly focused project/experiment in deeply healing my mind and body, whilst doing what I need to do to make a living along the way, and doing what I can to keep the ball moving forward towards some fuzzy long-term career outcome and/or life purpose.

And yep, it does all seem to be yielding some solid results, but if it looks like I've been focused, well I think that's a happy accident :)
GiveDirectly is experimenting with that kind of small-sum UBI in eastern Africa: https://www.givedirectly.org/
I'm British, but have been working with Norwegian companies for many years, and while it took a while, week numbers now feel very natural.

For those in English locales, Outlook has an option to enable week numbers in calendar views, and mobile calendar apps have this option too (at least the ones I've used).
I recall Jupyter being a parallel evolution alongside Airflow+Spark+Zeppelin (or similar mashup) and I think Jupyter has become "better".
I wonder how many people that complain about healthcare costs would be willing to pay higher taxes for taxpayer funded research for medications and education to increase supply of doctors.
Can I get atleast one paid customer before year ends:(
You need to watch more PETA undercover videos.
That's unbelievably depressing.

Canadian health insurers haven't been involved in any of the surgeries or pregnancies in my family. Where they were involved: dentists, massages, medications, I've never had any hassle.

Dealing with a pet insurer was eye opening. I can't imagine having to deal with that while a loved one was sick.
Probably an oversight by Apple’s notoriously poor web testing matrix.
Basically any other country than US is a better alternative for the patient financially.
> is very difficult for non-technical people.

It's very difficult for everyone, regardless of how "technical" they happen to be. It takes time to read through the options and actually understand the implications. These things change too, sometimes dramatically. There's a lot of settings.

It is right for people to feel a certain level of anxiety about this stuff and to be a bit angry. I am more concerned with folks that uncritically put their trust in the apps they download and their phones.

Sadly, it will take quite a few more high-profile "privacy disasters" for the masses to truly get wise to the risks.
I imagine a fair amount is also from unprotected sex with high risk partners.
yea right, who cares about the environment anyway?
Could it be that those recommending everyone get screened have a financial interest, or investments in those companies that produce the medicines . . . stranger things have happened . . .
Which is why more elaborately funded real-World armies are deploying suppressors on line-issue rifles.

Without the muzzle report the enemy has a much more difficult task in assessing distance and direction to the source of fire.
The Ur-Language is probably verilog, or at least the raw instructions of the platform; and C isn't much closer to those instructions than many of its alternatives, thanks to optimizing compilers and the differences between the true form of the computational model of the platform and the imaginary one that the C standard reflects.
I struggle with that too. I’m holding out hope that a 3rd party offers alternative tips.
Google hasn't done stack ranking for perf in years.
Tipping like it's 1989 (or: emacs iPhone
Haven't seen metalworking on that list. It's amazing how far you can get with a vise, saw, files, drill and pliers. And it's also amazing how quickly you feel then need for actual machines and order a lathe and mill :|

If you are space-constrained you can also make jewelry, which can be a lot like machining, just a lot smaller. Also it's amazing how your view of metal als "very solid" changed once you take a graver and move it around by hand.
That’s garbage. People without insurance are utterly fucked. The uninsured are sacrificed as a negotiating point against insurers. “List price is $5000. We’ll cut you a deal at only $2000!”
So I need to have a Dropbox account to be able to use Dropbox Transfer. And Firefox requires me to sign up to be able to use Firefox Send.

Why not MiDrive Transfer. https://transfer.midrive.io
Presumably, R&D costs should be shared across all countries rather than individual countries footing the bills. Alternatively a cost benefit from such R&D spending such that US R&D subsidies resulted in free drugs for the US market would be acceptable.

Instead, the US both has the largest R&D subsides and the largest drug prices.
Every insurance company I've had is upfront with their coverage, and covered it just fine. I've never had a major illness like cancer, maybe that is a next level situation that would require legal representation.

The big problem seems to be the soaring prices due to the fight between insurance companies and the hospitals. Depending on who you ask, you get a different opinion on who's fault it is.
Alerts Amazon shoppers if a company engages in harmful business practices
Why should they fork Chromium when they already have a highly capable browser engine?

I"m really glad that Firefox is (barely!) holding back a full-on Chromium/Webkit monoculture.
My advice is talk to your manager about how disappointed you are. If you need metrics and a plan - work with him on how to get that, I'm sure they'll be happy to help. Alternatively it could be that you are doing great work but your manager didn't notice - so you should be telling him what you're up to. It could be that your manager isn't wise enough to realize how valuable you are so you should let others try to do the heavy lifting and fail. It could be that there you're just working too hard so you should be going home earlier and work on spending time learning the skills for your next job.
I do music production as a side hobby. Virtually all the producers and studios I've worked with use WeTransfer. It's fast, efficient, and free.

I can't see any reason to switch.
What is your purpose in doing so? Background tones? Notifications?
> It segfaults on executables of any real size

Is this just in iSH, or a bug in Radare in general?
Under The Hood: Inside a Status Page Aggregator
When I was 13-14 I made games on a TI-83 plus in TI-basic. Made poker, blackjack, pong, some dice games. The biggest project was a version of space trader, I think I just had two commodities and two worlds but it worked.
Your job sucks. You should stop it immediately and find something else to do.
As a Pak- American, I was pretty upset when Yousuf Raza Gilani said at a press conference (when he was PM) if people didn’t like Pakistan what was stopping them from leaving. He clearly wasn’t thinking of these guys. I think that movie Zinda Bhaag was made in response.
I use https://www.swisstransfer.com/, which even if it only supports 50Gb and not 100Gb, it is totally free and doesn't need a account to upload the files. Way easier
In many countries public insurance can't deny anything.

Costs for various treatments are already negotiated ahead of time and hospitals/doctors bill insurers directly.

If the insurer thinks you received some kind of treatment you shouldn't have, it's between them and the hospital/doctor.

Of course there's always the odd/fancy treatment people insist on getting that is not covered. In that case you'll be billed by the hospital.

In neither case you'll be fighting any insurance company personally.
Articles are exclusively about feral cats and dogs, but yes, “toy pets”.
Merry Christmas folks.
That’s a little overblown- they’re kept disassembled and have PALs that the Americans know the code to
IMO: WiFi works well enough we should try upping the power limit in a few bands (maybe lower frequency than WiFi.) I’m not sure exclusively licensing bands makes sense with packet radio.
Maybe I am taking this too seriously, but I find this kind of parallel unhelpful at best. Smartphones themselves are a huge time sink for a lot of people that is absolutely true and I have no doubt that it can also be considered an addiction.

That being said, smoking is a health problem that has no positive impact at all on our society. By comparison, smartphones can be used as a tool to access a treasure trove of information online. From obscure claims your brother-in-law can make to looking up recipes when cooking, without forgetting learning a language on the bus with Duolingo. Therefore, I think smartphones are above all a very useful tool, and I believe perhaps foolishly that in time we will find an equilibrium that does not include going back to not having one.
New macOS Bundlore Loader Analysis
Hahahaha.. I was wondering that myself.
Arg, these kind of landing pages drive me nuts!

They all follow the same pattern: introduce a paid-for product, tell you a bit about it, then give you a link to try it for free - OK, but then how much is it actually going to cost!!

Sorry for the rant, but there are just so many landing pages using this dark pattern, and I'm absolutely sick of it.
same. first time i'm hearing of firefox send.

is this something new that mozilla is offering?
How do you define gouging? Because a number looks big?

Is Google/Apple/MS/FB price gouging? Their net incomes are massive.

I'd be hard pressed to classify a situation were a company introduces a new product 80% cheaper than the alternative, and still be guilty of price gouging.
Might be this https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1580895#c2