skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
or go to India now and be treated for $1k [1]?

[1] https://www.medicaltourismmag.com/article/hepatitis-c-treatm...
As a compromise solution, you could collect telemetry locally and prompt the user to upload it e.g. if there was an assertion failure or an operation takes much longer to complete than expected.

That way, the value of providing telemetry data is much clearer to the user and in the end it remains their decision whether to provide it or not.
Because what they're really saying is that they don't want to pay more money.

By complaining about the "shortage" they encourage new entrants into the field and convince existing talent to accept lower wages.

It's purely marketing, IMO.
As with most commercial goods there's a market identified and the goods priced accordingly to maximize profit.

This means that somebody is priced out no matter what. Given the state of American healthcare it's easier to reconcile if you remove the emotional part and view a drug treatment as, say, a television. If I make a 50" television and price it at $500, I accept that some people will not buy it and target my television to my intended market.

What I'm saying is the drug companies are probably fine saying "ok, some people can't afford it, but we maximize profit by selling at a premium to those that can."

All that said, if it's life saving you might be surprised what people can and will do, savings notwithstanding.
Also blood transfusions, which could be a wide variety of folks that have had routine surgeries, including, for example, c-sections.
I’m not trying to disregard the need for cheap treatment, but by preventing pharma from developing drugs that they profit from kills all R&D.

I’d be open on a success based public funding where IP becomes public domain, but I doubt big pharma would ever pull that trigger.

I’m thankful for modern day drugs, like PReP and PEP (pre and post hiv exposure drugs), vaccines and cancer treatments to name a few, it just sucks that those less fortunate don’t have access yet.
The parent poster said “wireless headphones” not AirPods specifically.
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Airpods just magically stop working.
To justify the H1B and similar quotas so they can import more foreign born labor so they can pay labor less.
I can't find any references that say the cost of manufacturing it or inventing it, so the only indication we have that it is expensive is the high price. Interferon is an entire protien so it can't be that cheap.
And nobody memorized a hundred phone numbers anyway. Beyond a certain point, people had books (little black books, even) with phone numbers written in them.

My point is, whenever people rail against new technology, they tend to forget about old technology and how that was supposed to be the downfall of mankind back when it was new, or at least in the spotlight. For example, before TV, we had novels, and, much like how TV was railed against for destroying your mind, novels were supposed to be dangerous and deleterious:

http://www.merrycoz.org/books/CONFESSN.xhtml

http://www.merrycoz.org/books/DEVOURNG.xhtml
Almost every water heater sold at big box home improvement retailers is manufactured by the same company in Tennessee.

There is some truth to this sentiment. I think part of it comes from the "race to the bottom" for low prices which fosters disposable consumables (even for durable goods) and leaves you with monopolies / oligopolies after the dust settles.
It would require a world government with teeth to be able to pull that off, Einstein was a famous proponent of this but even he could not make the case convincingly enough to get people to give it a try.

https://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/should-we-have-a-world-gove...
I don't want to be too harsh on this guy. He should be proud he pushed out 5 projects and he seems really really passionate about Keto. The fact he made even one dollar is impressive, it is always hardest at the start.

But some of the things he did make my head explode. He spent more than his total revenue ever on...testing software? He paid hundreds of dollars for every project on logos? He paid a developer thousands of dollars to develop a blog? Half his projects are free wordpress/(insert popular website builder) templates. He managed to burn 6k a month on rent/food while doing this? Even in New York that is kinda ridiculous, I did 2k a month in Brooklyn with my startup.

That said, the amount of traffic his blog gets is amazing. I think his biggest achievement was that. Hopefully he can direct that traffic towards future projects.
That's why I prefer MAPS.ME (uses OpenStreetMap).

It is a little slow but so is Google Maps nowadays.

But OSM is way better imho. And MAPS.ME can download offline maps for different areas.
This is why diversity is important. If the entire batch of YC founders suffer from White Fragility it's going to reduce the chances of success.
Or share one account with your wife.
Cheers for that.

> the untouched wounding eventually comes through and takes its toll if it stays unaddressed

This nails it, and I think a lot about this in the context of the very public cases of "unicorn" CEO falls-from-grace in recent years.

> That doesn't mean that we don't want to to continue having a meaningful contribution to the world, but the sense of ego-striving that is often just a mask for our wounds can gently fall away and allow us to walk through life a little more freely.

Very nicely put, many thanks.
I thought it was about coding. I remember doing some paging data entry screens with FoxPRO (generating screen form code then adding in additional code to handle the paging), and letting another user know how to do it on a forum, and I got a "That's cheating" response. heh.
100 GB is a great value proposition. Is it E2E encrypted?
Spec development? No.

But for bug reports, debugging and fixing bugs in the shader compiler, validation layers, etc they are pretty responsive to issue reports and pull requests.
Pakistan is the closest thing today to a medieval feudal society. Near no industry, and the upper class is mostly represented by landlords.

Bonded kiln labourers are one thing, but there are also a lot of bonded land labourers.

Were there any opportunity to make money with labour, things would've changed. See, now if those people were to run away, even then they would have little opportunities to make money elsewhere.

Country is knee deep in trade and financial sanctions around the world thanks to India (try sending a wire there from a Western nation, and you will be up for an amazing adventure.) That's not the only impediment to doing exports.

You have to add to this that the elites there a very conscious that if the industrialisation will "hit the fan" it will hit the fan on them. Some are working quite actively to lobby against industrialisation, and trying to sabotage it with passive-aggressive style resistance.
Like War: The Rules Behind the Weaponization of Social Media
They do have buds, too: https://www.beatsbydre.com/earphones/powerbeats-pro
Battlefield one of the most popular FPS has been doing bullet drop from a while.

https://battlefield.fandom.com/wiki/Projectile_mechanics
Yeah, they might pay for your insurance, give you free food, but that's it. The ultimate motive is to make profit, by getting every bit of work from you.

You can sugarcoat it however you want, but to an employer, you are just a liability, not an asset, even when the "current" they call you as one. Because, the "next" they might not. The terms "employer", "they" are relative. As in the previous comment, "A company as a whole is a faceless, consciousness-less creature".
In many other countries getting treated for hepatitis C won't cost you a dime besides your regular health insurance payment.

Prices are often negotiated by health insurers and are pretty much guaranteed to be lower for that reason. Depending on what system you are in, you might never even learn what your treatment cost. Not that you should care.
Being lost in a city can be fun. Being lost in a few thousand square miles of "not much", "almost nothing", and "this is supposedly a town but it looks like a grain elevator with outbuildings" is anywhere from boring to actively dangerous, depending on the weather.
Just anectdotal experience. By "dominating", I mean in non-tech US Fortune 500 companies. They have very few employees, and the software is very expensive.

"When your sales is done by relationship building and there isn't much competition once you're in, there isn't really a need to boast a fancy website or make an effort."

Sure, but try and find a phone number or email address on their site. They've taken coasting to a whole new level.
Why only in the US?
Toxic fumes from idling cruise ships are still a problem in New York
Good thing the majority of the population is bad with money.
Did you complain this much about the transplant surgeon's bill?
I sleep with one AirPod in. Have been since 2016.
You’re supposed to present them with a 19 page TOS document first, then sell their data, present them with a completely different TOS and then leave.
Interesting how it takes a hero to state the obvious nowadays.
You might enjoy https://rust-lang.github.io/rustc-guide/

But seriously, the team is very happy to onboard new people, don't worry about it. I know it's not that easy to just stop worrying, but it's not a big deal at all. The compiler team is happy to help.
Isn't that what Google Reader, Flipbook, etc are? Isn't that what many news websites are?

It's just a question of degree. I'm sure some people want all their info to come from just 1 site, but most people want it separated into manageable chunks. Car info from this site, computer from that site, etc.

For instance, I come to Hacker News for most of my computer-related news. I use reddit for most entertainment, though there's some computer stuff there. I use Flipbook for random things that I wouldn't think to subscribe to on Reddit.

And people use Facebook, etc for things that their friends like and want to share.
> I just don't have what it takes

Try not to put yourself down like that; it might just be that you were already grounded and emotionally centred enough that you didn't need to chase the riches and fame :)
I find myself gasping for air when I've done telephone interviews in the past. It's obviously a nerves thing, but it happens even though I'm aware of why it's happening. I think best while I'm pacing, so it doesn't help.

I think the problem is that I don't assume people will be patient while listening to me. I don't have a loud speaking voice, so I'm probably right a lot of the time. So I race to the finish of everything I say. But it's probably just that I don't do it that much. If I was interviewing everyday I'm sure I'd work the kinks out.
How about the hardware that runs it? Serious question, thinking about studying electrical engineering after computer science.
I remember when ICQ was criticized for 'not playing nice' by implementing their own closed protocol. That was a rare exception back in the days, everybody seemed to have this tacit agreement that open protocols were better than closed ones. Now look where we are: AOL 2.0, and with no end to the mess in sight.
No winter break from “publish or perish”
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Which option is cheaper depends on how you tax/incentives the system. We tax cigarettes so that it becomes expensive and puts pressure on the system to reduce consumption (in addition to raising awareness etc. which is not the point here according to you)

So the argument does not hold given we’ve ways to make things expensive/cheaper.
They’re probably referring to the warning in VS that async methods should be called from other async methods and aren’t a wait able otherwise, which causes async to propagate outward. This is imho not a big deal because you can decide at any point up the chain to make something synchronous by using .Result or .Wait() instead of awaiting it. It still makes everything downstream async. It’s a misunderstanding of the await keyword mostly. Await is essentially a yield you can place in a method that’s marked async but it’s not required for other called methods to have async/await patterns. Ultimately though the better way is to just make everything you can async.
Is it approximating the gradient or approximating the solution?

If it’s the gradient, doesn’t it have the real gradient in expectation, so you can run as many iterations to get epsilon precision up to what your machine will support?
I had a short look at compiling their Desktop Editors. Not only do they not provide any build instructions, but a ticket for it has been unanswered for years. Since they provide binary rpms but no srpms/spec files (which would not only document, but most likely implement a fully automatic build system), I can only conclude this is intentional.

This is a big red flag for anything "open source" for me.
I feel like you're underestimating how terrible Google's stack ranking system. It basically exploits you into doing more work than you should with the prospect of making more money, only to smack you back down and ask you to do 6 more month of back breaking work. More than you were hired to, mind you.
That was the scope of the report. From the first paragraph of the submission:

> "The hepatitis C virus now kills more Americans than all other reportable infectious diseases combined -- including HIV. Acute cases of HCV have increased 3.5-fold over the last decade, particularly among young, white, injection drug users."
Ask HN: Assistance with Rebuilding Life in Amsterdam
Hi all,

I am 42 years old, born in Sweden, and have been writing software since I got my C64 for Christmas at the age of 8. I spent 13 years working professionally in companies of all kinds and sizes in several countries.

Four years ago I met a woman with whom I decided to start a family. We ended up in a tiny village in Northern Germany next to her family, with VERY limited options for work. As a result, we lived mostly on welfare and I focused on designing the programming language I always wanted [0] [1] [2]. I setup a Liberapay account [3], but never received any donations. Then disaster struck; and my partner's family decided that since I still wasn't supporting the family, I needed to leave pronto.

So I ended up on the street with everything I owned in a bag and around €250; and no passport since I didn't need one when I got there and spending €150 on welfare wasn't an option. So got a temporary passport and headed South to Riace/Italy; where I was hoping to be able to arrange a simple life and get time to process.

I've now spent two months in Riace, and come to the conclusion that there is no future for me here. The first month I was able to find work harvesting olives, which paid €20 per day. And for the last month, I've been living with a family of African immigrants who kindly offered me a bed and food for free once they learned of my situation.

I have received enough donations on my Gofundme campaign [4] to renew the passport and make the trip back, but could really use a buffer. My plan is to aim for Amsterdam, which always felt like home and offers plenty of opportunities. Any help with finding software work there would be most appreciated, as would recommendations for a cheap place to stay.

Thank you!

[0] https://github.com/codr7/g-fu
[1] https://github.com/codr7/forthy2
[2] https://github.com/codr7/cidk
[3] https://liberapay.com/codr7/donate
[4] https://www.gofundme.com/f/analogistics
I'll have to try this, I had given my dad (who uses hearing aids) a pair of bone conduction headphones which he described as "the best he'd heard anything in 10 years".

What I'd really like is a way to combine the bone conduction technology with Live Listen.
The recommendation was issued by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force who is funded by the American government whose job it is to issue evidence based preventive medical recommendations for only the American population based on data relevant to the American population. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has neither the authority nor the funding to make Hep C testing recommendations for other countries.

Other countries may have similar issues and their medical task forces may issue similar recommendations, or Hep C might be extremely uncommon in other countries and their medical task force may make different recommendations.
This is the first thing Dropbox has done in a long while that makes sense to me as an external observer. Great product idea and totally reinforces the prime Dropbox use cases.
Drug R&D includes failures - not saying they aren't for profit companies but there is significant cost (in the billions yearly) and risk in running a pharmaceutical research company
Let's hope that Amazon recognizes the seriousness of this problem before it manifests itself financially. By then it could be too late. If we think about this as a "reputational security" problem then Amazon is already vulnerable. If the idea that buying from Amazon means you will get a fake gains traction--either organically or through an information campaign by a competitor--then it seems likely that their sales will decline. And, once their reputation is damaged in this way it will be difficult to repair.

I'm suggesting that reputation has a delayed effect on sales, it may not have a significant financial impact until the reputational attack hits a certain threshold; at which point that impact could be very significant. It's easy to imagine the hyberbolic, clickbait articles that might arise: "The Amazon Fake Crisis: What you need to know" or "Amazon fakes: Read this before you buy another thing on Amazon" (or better clickbait headlines than I can write but you get the idea).
Will gladly provide it you. Pakistan is largely an agrarian feudal society, even with some new nouveau riche coming industrialist families.

Coincidentally many military families do make Pakistani "old money" class. Generals make for huge portion of land owners (they are even few kanals of prime rib agricultural lands in their official retirement package.) The second biggest real estate company in the country also belong the the army.

Any reform that threatens land value get instantaneously attacked by them, politicians get killed. Even when laws pass the parliament, local authorities under control of landlord class will do everything they can to sabotage their implementation though active and passive resistance.
Many retired Americans choose to live in Vietnam
Well I have a lot of experience with IT procurement. IT is more about cost and risk mitigation than technology. The last thing IT wants is to try new software that might blow up in the hands of their unprepared outsourced helpdesk support people. So the absolute first thing you want to show is robust and cheap support or even better a way to make sure your product works with their helpdesk setup. Another thing is cost and how your product helps them run things with less money. They could not care less about the quality of the product because they will not be the ones using it. In general you sell by telling a story that fits with whatever story they are telling the business. So if IT is telling business cloud is the next thing and you sell on premise you won’t go anywhere.
And they have nuclear bombs
Its not always zero sum. In the best case, a group of workers that could make 1x each on their own, combine and are able to make 1.5x each together, and get paid around 1.2x each.

The additional .3x is the corporate "profit" and is distributed in any number of ways depending on how the company is set up. Its still a rational decision for all of the employees to work there.
I thought about it, then acted by giving my dog a pat on the head and my cat some chin scritches.
Check out self paid dental insurance. I spent hours going over the plans and basically couldn’t find any scenario where I’d come out ahead.
What’s the alternative? This gets tiresome asking because the typically argument is to say “This is crAzYyyy!!!! “ without offering any real solution or input.

gilead the makers of Harvoni literally made a cure for a previously uncureable disease, You literally have no respect on a tech site of all places, for all the RnD that went into doing that.
As someone currently in a similar situation to the article author, I can wholeheartedly agree that regaining your own agency and being able to determine technology and product decisions is a huge relief and opens up greatly enjoyable and satisfying opportunities for growth.

Developing a product takes a lot of time and effort, especially for a small/solo team - and yes, by pure financial metrics it may seem like success is a long distance away.

In much of the world it also takes a degree of good individual (or family) fortune and savings to be able to embark on a journey like this, and I think it's important to be aware of that privilege.

That's not a criticism, but something worth keeping in mind especially when discussing and explaining these projects. Not everyone in society can make this kind of leap (despite what those who tend to profit from inspiring and leading bright young developers might tell us) due to the anxiety involved in paying recurring bills. This is even more true in the U.S. with the additional bundled decision complexity (HMO vs PPO, etc.) and financial cost of selecting and paying for healthcare, versus taking the gamble that you'll be one of the lucky members of society not to require medical care. Well-educated and well-compensated folks such as the audience of HN are likely among the people most able to take the risks required.

Anyway, despite the argument that this might not be an economically rewarding project at the moment: value creation is a different, harder to measure metric, and I'd argue the author is creating value for themselves and for their community they're building tools for.

(Upvoted both parents of this reply, since I think this is a really important and interesting trend and topic, regardless of any argument positions taken)
Most Americans wouldn't end up paying the 84k. Their insurance would pay for most of that, and negotiate it down further - the other day I was picking up a drug that without insurance would cost over $1,000. I paid $34.
If you need to send large files to someone, you can use Firefox Send:

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The file is encrypted, the urls are expiring, it costs nothing.
Some good advice I heard here a few years ago is start marketing well before you start coding. Eg create a website, start your advertising, look for customers while providing a white label product or even just a promise to deliver later. Its a great way to find out if anyone is interested. If you can attract actual customers then you can start coding. If you have trouble getting any attention maybe you have the wrong product.
The vast majority of Americans have some form of medical insurance so a patient's out of pocket expense would typically be far lower.
I meant hypothetically. Like the typical shopper blames their seller when no one (including Amazon) knows whom to blame.
There is a conflict of interest. Foreign aid won't work because you're effectively paying corrupt politicians to keep their country unstable so that they can collect more foreign aid.
SRE at Google. We are oncall for 12h then the other site takes over for the other 12h, so no night shifts. You do that for 7 days in a row once every 5 week-ish. Some team have slight variations on that.

We get paged around once per 12h on average but our service is fairly young. More mature services tend to page less I think.
Ok, I beat the game into submission with the Fighter. Wizard and Thief are more difficult.

You have to flee every strong enemy and farm weak Goblins/Orcs. When you have enough money buy the best armor. After that you should win every fight and buy enough health potions to get over 20 hitpoints. Search for the white robed man (looks like a snow man on the map) and fight him.

You can save with alt-s and drink potions with h on the map. s is the statistics screen. Help screen is F1.
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