skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends a lot on your locale. Physical calendars around here always have them, and all decent calendar software has an option to display them.

And if you’d grown up with it, it would be a lot more natural. Much like you probably know what month you’re in without checking your watch, I have a pretty good idea what week we’re in, and if someone says they can deliver something in week 8, I instinctively know that’s late February without having to check.

So it’s a useful shorthand in many ways.
I remember the "news" before the 1990 Iraq war, where we were told horrible stories like Iraqi soldiers crushing babies under their boot in Kuwait. It turns out it was fake.

With all those barely credible news about Western China, are we prepared for a US war with China?
Dropbox is not going to win me back as a user. Not after they chose to drop support for non-APFS/HFS+ filesystems on macOS without sufficient explanation.
My first post was strictly political. Now, about health: it is not good or desirable to feel bad about things you can do nothing about. Any therapist will tell you that.
I think the comment is saying that that freedom began in college, but that freedom is still exciting and new.
The whole point of hearing aids is to hear better. That they last a few days on a single battery or charge is a nice addition.

And probably, a a whole sleuth of gear and cables can probably provide better quality, but it's not something you can easily bring with you to a cafe. Or use, because it would be a mess to set up when you need it. When I say low latency I mean truly low latency. It's at the level where your brain easily tunes it out. Comparable to using cables. Remember, transmitting data over RF can be very low latency, it's typically the pre-processing that adds latency and whatever protocol overhead you have. It seems like Apple has done some great work to get pre-processing and protocol overhead down to a minimum.

And you also have hearing aids that can be connected to iPhones and use the Live Listen. I just wish someone would provide an audio loop bridge for those that are stuck with older variants, as hearing aids are tuned to the frequency range of the person that needs them. AirPods, not so much.
Oh, totally agree that it's much better than it used to be. And far fewer reboots. Solid kudos to them on that.

Still happens though. Thought they maybe had a clever way to make it invisible to more legacy software that forces reboots, or to make it so windows update never required one, or something similar new. That would be pretty amazing to me and worth an announcement. UI change, less so.
I think the sweet spot is knowing enough to know how something works, in essence, if not how to do it necessarily yourself without a whole bunch of bootstrapping.
Big fan of Rob and his work, for those unfamiliar with him he's one of the founders of MicroConf, half of the "Startups for the Rest of Us" podcast and built and then sold Drip (an Email Service).

Whether or not you're seeking to build your own microsaas or you're going full VC funding I feel pretty strongly that you'll see the time spent reading his book as worthwhile.

Here's a direct link to it (it's not gated on his site, so this seems fine to share)

https://robwalling.com/assets/ebook.pdf
Ever since I came across this video https://youtu.be/gy5g33S0Gzo?t=4 of a robot taking 1,5 hours to fold five towels, with mixed results, I think about how much of our brain might be devoted to handling fabric every time I have a towel in my hands. Probably the same with handling fluids, like predicting how milk is going to behave in an opaque carton.
I feel like this secret is being kept alive by a dwindling community unfortunately. I have a great Montane Extreme Jacket, similar to the Buffalo one but with a better hood and not a pullover smock. I had a Buffalo about 15 years ago too.

This move to Gore-Tex et al reminds me of what happened after the invention of the trainer.

Trainers (sneakers) are everywhere now, and they get more and more complex each year yet people get injured running in them just as easily.

A small sommunity kept alive the idea of running in minimal shoes, zero drop, flat unpadded soles, and running like we did in the past.

Similarly, Gore-Tex came along and now we're obsessed with shedding the water on the outer layer. The modern mantra is water must not penetrate under any circumstance. There's a time and a place for that but in those conditions a truly impermeable layer like a PU shell is better.

And so there's just a few of us who know that it's not necessarily preventing all water ingress that's the goal - it's maintaining warmth, breathability, comfort and having material that will dry quickly.

Maybe it's because of our climate in the UK but it's no accident Buffalo, Montane, Mountain Equipment and Rab (all UK based companies) make 'Pile and Pertex' colthing and now some exceptional Primaloft based synthetic shells - The Mountain Equipment Citadel and Fitaroy Jackets, and the Montane Prism are two I own and are every bit as good as Pile and Pertex but without the bulk.

It's good to know there are a few of us out there keeping the wisdom alive!
It's hard to explain through writing, but pause often to a) let the audience catch up and b) make a specific point much more memorable.

Brief pauses improve recall by the audience and make the talk much less boring. Strategic pauses are the key secret great speakers have: they utilize silence to their advantage.

Silence also adds another great opportunity to catch your breath. Dominate silence and you'll have the breathing part set.
Day Sim Only Deal
Oh.

Hard deadline system with some conveniences.

It was possible to upload the work multiple times, and for an hour or so after deathline, to select which of the uploaded copies would be the hand over.

This allowed for e.g. uploading some code that works, and later progressively optimized/improved versions, without fear of uploading something partially broken by the end.
Care to elaborate? I've been happily using async/await in C# without realizing how bad it is. It seems great, but maybe I don't just know enough. What should I know?
I genuinely cannot imagine a less consequential figure than Kliman, mainly because if they were less consequential I would never have heard of them. TSSI is when Marxist economics became what the philosopher Imre Lakatos called a "degenerating research program". People have a psychological a-prior presumption against the theory he advocates because he is transparently playing a game with words. It was well-understood the context in which Marx wrote, and everyone understood Marx in connection with that context. His contemporaries understood him that way, and everyone for the next hundred years understood him that way. Kliman now pretends that everyone between Marx' time and now read Marx wrong, and only he, Kliman, has uncovered the key to decode Marx. At the same time, his supposed key, the TSSI, is so arid and unrelated to any real-world activity that the response to more serious scholars (even serious Marxist economists) is repulsion.

It's clear that Marx mastered a certain rhetorical strategy that made him disproportionately influential -- the rhetorical strategy of the bully. People love the bully. Who doesn't want to be the bully, rather than the bullied? Freud used a similar strategy, to similar effect. I'm not surprised that Kliman has turned to the same strategy, but at least Marx was animated by the great events of his day, but all Kliman can hope for is to defeat his rivals in argument over interpreting Marx. As someone once pointed out, it is philosophers who interpret the world. The point is to change it.
Thank you :) Glad you find them useful.
And WeTransfer, probably the leader in the market.
The problem is not cheating, but that abstractions _leak_.
My company (Fortune 500 Aerospace/Defense) has implemented something like this for years now.

I’ve personally used it to send CAD files to outside manufacturers/suppliers who are under an NDA.

I’ve really grown to like the service and always wished I could use it for personal stuff so I will definitely be trying this out.
I would hope that as more people test and get treated and the drug production gets ramped up, the price should go down significantly. A couple of decades ago only people like Magic Johnson could afford HIV drugs, for example.
For another point of reference, that’s larger than the iPod revenue when it peaked in 2007.

So the entire narrative that Apple hasn’t released a successful product since Cook took over is provably false. Both the Watch and AirPods lines are larger than the iPods ever were.

http://www.asymco.com/2019/12/12/ipods-pro/

Yes I realize that the $4 billion quoted in the article was for the Christmas quarter.
>Cunningham's Law states "the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."

I am amazed there is a law describe this. This is so accurate. I couldn't be bothered to answer questions even if I knew the answer, but I would be bothered to correct it if the answer were wrong.
What's your take-away?
The PI guy operates in Eastern Europe - mostly in Poland. He has not shared any more details with me.
It isn't priced on the customer's ability to pay: it's priced on the companies' ability to gouge.
I'm having issues not using Dropbox Plus even for the basic service after they limited the free version to three devices or less. Can't have a phone, two laptops and a desktop machine using the same account. Feels like they're really trying to push people to upgrade.
And you can combine these things; I've got a musician friend who organizes musicians to go to the local VA hospital once a month to play for the patients. It does everybody a world of good.

My family makes a point to look after others in the church we're part of, generally by inviting them over for dinner and/or by bringing gifts of food.

Music-making and cooking are two hobbies that share really well, but you can do just about anything together.
I like the idea, but hate the “sign up for a free trial”.

Its something ive been pondering lately. Why not open source it, and offer paid certificates ?

Not sure how involved that is, but im partially sick of signing up for things that take my credit card.

Im just one kind of client, so take this with a bit of salt
First Thursday of January is always in week 1. That is actually the only rule needed.
Dropbox transfer notifies you of views and downloads.
I'm a paying user and using transfer to send files to friends. It's very useful.

Transfers auto-expire after a week and links invalidate so it's maintenance is minimal for the normal user.
The rule is simple, but all the work that led up to the formulation of it wasn’t :)
> I don't won't to refuse any projects to miss on money

> I would be perfectly fine even with half money I earn

Wut? Either you're willing to work more hours and receive more money, or you're willing to work less hours and receive less money. They're literally mutually exclusive.

You can't genuinely want both things.
There was a man surnamed Bhutto. He tried.
The thing was really not about Bhutto being a socialist or anybody, but because he touched major landlors.

Take a look at astronomical land prices in the country. Then think how land prices got so high in the country so poor.

Now look who are the biggest land owners.
What collision? TLDs can and should be sold to the highest bidder. If you don't like the service or price, move to another TLD. In fact any organization should have at least 2 (name.org, name.co) - just in case, because they are so inexpensive.

A TLD registrar with more disputes with customers than average would quickly become worthless.

These legislators only care about political donations and landing lucrative lobbyist jobs later in their career. Who cares what they have to say?

Milton Friedman on the ideal role of the FCC:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYw3NTY2rDE
Unlikely. I have seen 0 send links around and wetransfer is still king of the office.

I'd like to see some numbers, though.
Really? So why does everyone complain about engineering shortage?
For all the bells and whistles, you need to be a "Pro" user. I'm using "Plus", and it's fixed to one week, without any password and branding.
There’s a $300 treatment on the way: https://www.dndi.org/2018/media-centre/press-releases/new-af...
Writing original code is laborious, extremely time consuming and in many scenarios unjustified (for majority of coders). It is not an excuse for ignorance but originality in coding isn't particularly productive (IMHO).

I am reminded of an old post (from HN I think) in similar vein that stuck on with me https://stackoverflow.com/questions/153234/how-deep-are-your...

I do take time to understand the code I am using, but for most part spend finding the code (and libraries) I want to use even in the simplest cases. I've developed a habit to give credit in my code ... in fact I have an expansion ';c' on my mac for giving credit! :-)

I see a lot of very experienced programmers spend time writing and debugging even simple lines of code which are perhaps completely obvious to them. I think it is just that way coding is. It is perhaps very difficult to get it "First Time Right".

I guess its a balance between getting things to work vs. self-gratification.
Marketing usually costs money.

If you’re trying to bootstrap, you probably should wait until your product is finished? There are very few free avenues for self promotion on the Internet for “code”, other than a blog.
There's a password option...and the world is large. (Although I agree that inhabited regions are far smaller, people are likely to choose their own address, and possible address data collection is a concern: even though it doesn't seem to happen here, not sure if I want to share my location with the recipient)
I left Dropbox because they count shared space against everyone involved, which makes me cannot share the "photos" folder with my wife (unless we both purchase the 1T plan). Not sure whether they changed this practice. I am a satisfied OneDrive+Office365 user now.
Id rather die than give them the satisfaction of successfully charging me that ridiculous amount.
For occasional uses and normal transfers, Firefox send is really better. Dropbox transfer becomes useful when you want to share files that you already have in your Dropbox.

I use both and they both have their users.
Disclaimer: Author here.

Thank you for posting :-) While the storage system is based on a system called Treetank with a longer history it turns out that Marc Kramis, who came up with the first ideas and a first implementation for his Ph.D. had a tremendous vision about the future of persistent storage (for instance fast random reads in conjunction with fine grained access to storage) and that we can shift our focus from clustering constraints of traditional B+-trees to a storage engines which stores a dense distribution of unique, dense strictly sequential 64bit integers in a keyed persistent, durable trie.

His report "Growing Persistent Trees into the 21st Century" is from 2008:

http://kops.uni-konstanz.de/bitstream/handle/123456789/5914/...

SirixDB strictly drops the requirement of a predefined block-size as well as clustering. It even versions data pages, which are stored in small sized variable-length byte arrays. The whole tree of a revision is based on many tries and revisions are indexed as well as AVL trees for secondary indexes.

The system is also heavily inspired by ZFS and some of their design decitions put to test on a sub-file level.

Any help in putting forward the vision of a versioned, persistent (in the functional data structure sense) data store would be amazing :-)
Pro tips:

- on a phone, long press on that hyperlink. Bingo, you've got your sharing screen to the post

- on a PC: right-click, copy. Bingo, you've got your shareable link to the post

(Yes, I realise your post is /s :) )
Stop Focusing on the Mountain Top, and Start Enjoying Your Climb
I saw a Burger King go out of business recently. Was there for years, the shuttered. It was uniquely memorable but I hope the first of many. Mainly because the food is bad and the workers inside seem to me that they are sadder than other restaurants. For comparison, Chick-fil-a is like walking into Santa’s workshop with its joyfulness, even though they don’t pay more.
>>Here's a direct link to it (it's not gated on his site, so this seems fine to share)

Yes, it does indeed say that on the second page. :)
This sounds so much simpler than just getting a pair of AirPods....
Ask yourself a few questions:m about your relationship to those you talk to, and how are you like as a story teller. How can you improve at telling stories, and do you ever practice reading your texts before you perform?

Your systems seem to be overloaded, and if you develop a storyteller (“come and listen to me” type of mentality) it would make you more at ease, and your natural skills would kick back in. You already know how to breathe, and its a matter of remembering by reducing your stress response.
It's a pretty narrow niche. Assuming a 5% cut from Amazon, he's making 10 to 50 cents for every conversion.

Each article is costing him $50 or so.

So that article has to convert 200 times before it breaks even. Assuming 1% conversion, which is very optimistic, you would need 20,000 visitors to that page.

Ignoring the costs, 200k visits a month would turn $500. 2M would turn 5k.

It's pretty easy to see this isn't going to pay the bills. He didn't seem to do the math.
> be in top 10% of kaggle or any other competitive programming site and I would bet jobs would hunt you, not the other way around

I do wonder, is there an equivalent to Kaggle in other areas in software (not for data science)?
DigiKam 7.0.0-Beta1 Is Released with Deep-Learning Powered Faces Management
At the very least, the timestamp on the file (although, yes, timestamps can be spoofed, etc., etc.). In any case, I've always been pardoned when the "lateness" is three seconds' worth of processing. But if I were waiting on line at the deadline to hand in a physical assignment (the closest analogy I can make), I think that most reasonable profs would not take issue with me if I didn't happen to get to the end of that line by the nanosecond specified. Of course, it's _possible_ that a prof could be a real stickler, with a huge digital clock on the wall and a hand on the submission box. But that, again, to me reflects only an extension of the way people are treated in huge classes (often largely freshmen) in college. If there are a handful of people in a seminar, "deadlines" have never in my experience been a thing in the same way.
"Angry fruit salad" seems to be the hot design trend for 2020 :(
Some previous discussions,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16918757

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12453535

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8749518

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7487341
My dad passed away in August due to Hep C complications. Very true that anyone who has done anything that can put you at risk should be tested. The treatment is criminally expensive but it is curable with it. Sadly my dad, the a-typical medically procrastinating male, didn't start on Sovaldi until it was too late and he died before he could complete treatment.
That museum in Porthcurno is SO INTERESTING. History and hands-on demos and then bam! here's how the big boys did it during the war. Industrially. In a cave. Very neat.
Sorry, but this comment is a bit nonsensical.
It isn’t going well yet from a financial perspective, but he writes this:

“People have asked me if I’m still happy with my decision to quit and start my own company. The answer is definitely yes.

As someone who has always valued independence, I love being a solo developer. It makes a world of difference to wake up whenever I want and make my own choices about how to spend my entire day. This is how I want to live the rest of my life.”

From a life-satisfaction perspective, it sounds like it’s going extremely well! (And that’s WAY more important, at least to me.)
It's not bad. It's slower than SSD, but much faster than a HDD.

The main issue is limited storage space. Some low-end laptops sell with 32GB space, and it's so low, you can't even update Windows properly on that one. Having at least 64GB gives you some breathing room.
Pet insurers, at least in Canada, are just an industry of highway robbery. They deny everything and make you fight up hill for anything. You're usually better off paying a premium into a TFSA or other savings apparatus and be your own insurer.
Speed Up Photoshop
All this complexity because we have to adhere to some pope from 400 years ago. It's just sad.
if I start rejecting projects they will find someone else and I will have nothing to reject in the end, not even that half I would be fine with. 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)

and yes, there is also the money reasoning why not to reject something if it's still within my limits, although I rejected rarely some tasks, but it's like <5 out of maybe 200-300 I get per month
Police are now treating swatting as a serious crime
I run a bootstrapped SAAS business with total team size of 12. I am technically always on call if shit hits the fan. Not in the traditional sense though. If server goes down (has happened like 2 times in past 5 years), I get a call no matter what time of the night it is.
People who can work will be put to work.
It's funny because I own both AirPods and 315s. I always have thought "Why did I pay so much for the 315s when I can get a crappy ol pair of wired headphones for $20 that work well enough." There wasn't a fantastic bluetooth connected option, I have owned 6-10 bluetooth wireless solutions, but nothing matched airpods.
This was from back in July right? Or is this something different? https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/product-tips/send-large-file...
I think the vedantic approach makes more sense. Can you (or can anyone) experience something outside of consciousness ? Why assume any such thing exists if we don't need it to explain our experience ?

In the vedantic approach, matter is not primary : consciousness is, as in our experience. And consciousness is the only thing there is. Matter is a representation of what happens in consciousness at large, an interface humans use. Humans are localised bundles of consciousness, like "whirlpools" in a "stream of consciousness" if you will.
I love coding in C
AWS: The Good Parts
How is something a “status symbol” when close to 50% of the people in the US have one?

People have been saying that Apple devices are a status symbol since the iPod was introduced in 2001.

You can even by AirPods via installments with T-mobile. Anyone can afford them.
Yup, the generic version of the drug is price at $384 per bottle of 28 pills in India

Here's an article on how the patent did not affect it's price in India: https://m.economictimes.com/industry/healthcare/biotech/phar...
Invoicing large companies can also be very lucrative.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/27/phishing-email-scam-stole-10...

or

Running a long company, that's where you set up a company and legitimately trade with other companies, all the while raising your credit line. Then place a massive final order and disappear.
FF71 and getting that error...
That's so sexist of you to think males can't do make-up!
Nonsense. Everywhere I’ve been employed cared about my wellbeing and when I was an employer, I cared about the wellbeing of my staff.

Calling an employer/employee relationship slavery after a Googler complains he wasn’t promoted fast enough is peak self-importance.
I get their point about stigma, but as someone who has never injected drugs, I'm having a hard time caring about getting screened for this.

How do they intend to actually roll out a massive testing operation (everyone under 80) when likely most people hear the details and respond with "meh, not me"?