skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree - I put international SMS as in some countries (such as the UK) providers were beginning to bundle ‘free’ SMS before WhatsApp came along - in these markets international SMS / Voice / MMS for expats, students etc was a big deal. You’re right to point out though that in many countries, WhatsApp was the first cross platform free SMS of any kind.
RoR might have effected my definition of what 'quick' means :D. Things I mentioned in the comment above are indeed 'quick' in ror.

I assume you are implying these are not quick in golang ? I think it proves my point that assemble everything yourself is a silly ideology when applied generically to all things.
I’m assuming these are West Pakistan stats in 1960?
Can you give me the criteria for being 'fair'?

To me, the vote seems fair because it was the conditions to form the USA, and the USA has had centuries to change it but has chosen not to. At least, it is as fair as a vote that requires 'citizenship' to count, given that lack of citizenship doesn't stop one form being directly impacted by the decisions of the President.
Health insurance in the US has overhead capped at a maximum of 20%, or 15% in large employer groups.

https://www.healthcare.gov/health-care-law-protections/rate-...
aaah! thanks for explaining that its about fun things to do with isomorphic conversions and transforms -- which makes it such a fundamental thing that i can likely continue to invent the bits i need of it as i go.
If some sites or features are broken with tracking blocked, maybe it's a good thing? Why should malicious sites/services get a free pass siphoning off and/or infecting devices? This way they are directed towards more respecting services.

On the other hand, too much frustration is just too much, so you definitely need to balance.
>But how would a government spay/neuter the naturally born population?

Probably by making it very obvious that someone came from an artificial womb. Then you can have racism against "naturals".
"gilead the makers of Harvoni literally made a cure for a previously uncureable disease"

No, they acquired Pharmasset, the company that made the cure, for $11.2B. That was a pretty low-risk move. It was already an obvious money maker.

"for all the RnD that went into doing that"

In the 18 months following Sovaldi’s approval, Medicare alone spent $8.2 billion on the drugs...that doesn't include private insurance payments. I imagine the acquisition was paid off quite quickly. Pricing after that was just how much profit they wanted to make.

See these for more detail:

https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Wyden-Grassley%...

https://www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-members-news/wyden-gr...
I would have loved to use Dropbox, since they have a proper official Linux client. However, it’s impossible to have multiple Dropbox accounts sync to a single user on a computer (1). “Better” is relative to what you need.

(1) exception: you can have one personal and one business account
Hah! My one claim to computing fame is that I submitted a game - a Frogger clone - to Amiga Format and it won Reader Game of the Month (and £50) in the Christmas 1999 Issue[1].

Sadly the magazine cover was distinctly un-christmassy - not a single elf or sleigh in sight - thus not good enough to be included in any list of classic Christmas covers.

[1] https://archive.org/details/amigaformatmagazine-131/page/n35
I've been writing a large app in C again after a few years away. Originally wrote the app in C++ then again in Python and now in straight C. I enjoy the faster compile times of C (over C++) and the better type checking of C (over Python).

However, when I'm carefully using C++, I don't have to fiddle around with memory management and still get fast performance and better type checking.

Yesterday I wrote a Python script to generate C code test cases. String manipulation in Python is very easy.

The right tool for the right job, I suppose.
> "making sure you’re solving someone’s real problem"

When I studied a couple of university marketing subjects in the mid-90s, we were taught that's about the most fundamental aspect of marketing.

> “We’re overloading the term”

I think it's more likely you're reacting to a stereotype of marketing held by people outside the field, rather than what it really is according to those who do it properly.

From the author's own summary of the book:

So basically: start marketing the day you start coding.

Or, actually... before you even start coding! Validate your idea, build a prototype, show it to people, gather feedback, improve it and keep going.
I have the same feeling, OneDrive is garbage compared to Dropbox, insanely slow and terrible UIX and yet it is widely used. Classic platform move, bundle X with Office and it will be used by millions.

Edit: I use Google Drive because of Google docs. sigh
Well, I am testing this app since yesterday, now I can make some valid points.

Things I loved:

- Can start typing just after opening the app.

- Can add text with line breaks.

- The same button to confirm is the button to add a new text.

- Clear and dark modes are very nice.

- Easy to backup and restore.

Things that would improve the app:

- Edit previously saved records

- Add a field "updatedAt"

- Allow the user to quickly sort by "createdAt" or "updatedAt".

- Add a marker to show the records that were updated (change the style of datetime, add a dot, an asterisk, etc. anything to show that this record was modified. Or show both datetimes on modified records).

I just found one little strange behaviour. If you type just blank characters (spaces and/or LF), it allows you to add the entry.

To finish, congratulations for this beautiful application.
>It is elected by some people,

What do you think of requirements to vote? Like being 18. Being a citizen. Do you think everyone should get a say, or only some people?
I am arguing self-preservation. What you seem to think is completely detached from you, could very well end up on you rdoorstep.

Is that not worth contemplating and worth feeling bad about; if only for a little while?
“More importantly, I cannot imagine anyone building better integration with Office (live editing) than the actual Office company.”

After working with their stuff I totally can :)

Joke aside, MS is doing a great job commoditizing the space around Office 365 with Teams and OneDrive. I think DropBox and Slack are feeling a lot of pressure right now.
You’re missing the entire point of AirPods. They’re small and they work great with Apple products. Neither of things you mentioned do the same.
Justifying taking time is easy, doing it is a little harder for a lot of people. But justifying it, if you don't take time for yourself you will implode (fail) and when you do you will lose your client(s) and all your income. It is seriously that simple.

While I know it is that simple to justify, all of us that have been consultants where our money is dependent on our time understand where you are coming from, so you aren't alone in this. Based on your description though it seems like you are scared of your client taking work away, if true, this is a horrible client to have. The best way to solve this issue is to find a new client. I am a little confused though as you also call them a partner company so I am unclear what your relationship is, but either way it sounds unhealthy and you need to change it. Either you need to set new expectations and new boundaries or you need to find a new client and get away from them.

I always set boundaries at the beginning of an engagement, and I would always set the expectation that if a contract was 3 months or longer that a developer would take around 2 weeks of vacation. So even if the dev didn't take time during that contract and did it after or before, the expectation was there so everyone was on the same page. Plus good clients don't want you to burn out because then they lose out on your services too. When you have a client that doesn't respect you and you've allowed them to dominate you it will never end well. You have to set clear boundaries and expectations early on, doing it later is possible but it isn't easy.

Basically, if you don't fix this soon and take a little time, you will fail by burning out which is much harder to overcome at that point, and can take much longer to recover as well. So best to address this now and not wait.
it's not 12 hours day, on bad day (usually monday and friday) is 8-10 hours of actual work, on good days (which are very rare recently) 3-4 hours, but usually I work between 5-7 hours (with some gaps between) plus I have free weekends most of the time and maybe 10 days of Chinese holidays spread over year

If I worked as full time employee here in Europe, I would spend 9-10 hours in work each day including commuting but with lot of spare time just sitting/resting in work plus 5 weeks of paid vacation, but also my salary would be like 20-30% of what I have as self employed working from home, nobody can offer me what I have in this company, so I wanna bank on this while it's available, because I'm sure it won't last forever (though I had this attitude already years ago and I'm still doing it with more work)

my main (if not only) issue is lack of continous vacation, I was just asking in OP how to justify taking it under these circumstances, if you are willing to spend let's say 4000USD on short vacation and another 2-3000USD on lost income, if I didn't work in hotel room. I just can't justify completely stop working even without worrying to be replaced
I was going to ask the same question - I've never even heard of Ab Initio.
This is not the right question.
This tiny sentience (alone in the universe as far as we know) has been given the fantastic wealth of a little planet. Of course we should spend it wisely.

But the only thing more pathetic that a spendthrift foolishly wasting their inheritance is a miser making themselves miserable grasping at every cent.
There's terrible dangers that await one who casually throws .Result or .Wait() into an existing ASP.NET application.

The intersection between synchronous and asynchronous code is the ugliest.

The most dangerous is how deadlocks can arise because of the execution context of a running application vs the execution context of your unit tests.

If you're already in .NET Core, you're probably fine.

For more, try https://devblogs.microsoft.com/pfxteam/should-i-expose-synch... or any of Stephen Cleary's blog posts https://blog.stephencleary.com/2012/07/dont-block-on-async-c...
Closest thing is called EMTALA:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Medical_Treatment_an...
The XM3s are over the ear headphones right? Apples to apples? Stick to your Galaxy comparison. At least it's on point.
what a pretentious headline :/
> Would America had looked more like China if no check were placed on immigration from one particularly huge country?

You mean, like the United Kingdom?
> The whole point of hearing aids is to be easily forgotten and to last a day without the need to charge

I thought the whole point of a watch was that you didn't need to charge it for months and it would tell you the time in exchange.

Now people seem to be OK with charging their watches once a day.
So? Are we not allowed to suggest alternatives? Let the customer choose and stop doing it for them. Especially by censoring.
Is 50% supposed to be good? 50% of Android users on the United States can just have apps run the camera in the background. And that number is going to be lower for less affluent countries.

Even if you’re stuck on iOS 10 with an iPhone 5 your security situation is better.

I may be wrong about the particulars of Android isolated file storage but that doesn’t mean I intended to spread misinformation. In fact apps are allowed to carelessly write private data anywhere they want if they aren’t designed well [1]. Apple’s idea to completely disallow apps from accessing common storage and rely on the share sheet was, from a security perspective, the right call.

And I’m not a fanboy. I use Linux at home. I’m not into Apple’s brand beyond their phones being the only viable option for someone who wants a phone that lasts longer than three years. You cannot buy an Android phone that will get 5 years of security updates, and I don’t think a shelf life of 2 or 3 years is acceptable for a piece of hardware. 5 really isn’t even enough: we wouldn’t accept that for our personal computers.

[1] https://developer.android.com/training/data-storage/
Yeah, I have no idea what they're talking about. I'm no fan of the insurance companies, but they can't just deny everything. It's definitely not the predominate experience most people are having with insurance.
Surely your laptop has Bluetooth?
I had this happen recently. Our photographer from our wedding shared the photos on dropbox but we couldnt see them because we didnt have dropbox pro and the folder was over the free size limit! Why does it matter how much space I have if someone else is sharing them with me?!?!
As I recall, the part of Punjab tenancy act from the Raj that gave tenant first right of refusal upon sale of the land was overturned by Zia’s Federal Sharia bench in 1980s
For $3 I could get protection on my ~$20 Sonicare toothbrush heads from Walmart. It's a premium, consumable item.

That offer really caught me off guard.
In that case, you shouldn't be looking for an answer to "how can I make a faster (rebooting) horse," but rather "is there a way to make this redundant, so that a single node offline won't critically endanger the system?"
> That should probably fall under a different category than marketing.

I work in product marketing for a large SaaS and would absolutely consider talking to customers (potential and actual), and talking to people who talk to customers (such as sales, CS) as part of my job. It would be incredibly hard to do my job without it.

The answers to most questions in marketing come from outside the building. We’re not overloading the term - you appear to be narrowly defining the term as advertising and branding.
"You should treat other businesses with respect"
no business deserves respect. a business is not a person. a business does not have human rights, nor human needs. a business is a social construct, deserving of about as much respect as, say, the concept of a deity, or a work of fiction.
Sure, this is a 10+ year old idea about finding 1000 true fans.

https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/

There’s no value in repackaging the idea into “start marketing the day you code”. It’s confusing the real intent with an ambiguous and broad term.
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I’m worried that stars will become a sought after metric that people imbue with too much meaning.

I like stars. I find them useful for quickly filtering amongst so many repos (eg, “foo has 1000 stars, bar has 1, lets read about foo first.”).

But like Goodhart’s Law [0], if people start minmaxing for stars rather than the quality that stars are supposed to proxy, stars will stop being useful and could even be distracting.

[0] https://towardsdatascience.com/unintended-consequences-and-g...
In August this year I started a new project. In C. Why? Because I'm quite familiar with it and because it allowed me to focus on the problem rather than on the language that I was writing in (the problem is - for me at least - a very hard one). The codebase has steadily grown, at some point it was 7K lines, then I cleaned it up and refactored it back down to about 5500 right now. At some future date it will be - hopefully - finished and I may use it to power applications and/or services. It's super efficient both memory and speed wise compared to what the competition is doing but that's just a side effect. That side effect does allow for some applications that would otherwise be impossible.

The code takes one file and outputs another, it's a classical 'unix filter' and it relies on a couple of very high performance libraries that others provided, battle tested and ready to be plugged in. As the project matures I come across the occasional wart in the language, something that I know I could have done more elegantly in a language with richer constructs (lists, list comprehensions, that sort of thing).

What surprised me most after working on this project for a couple of months though is how well the language fits the problem, that's something that I did not really think would be the case when I started out with it. But as time passes and things 'find their place' it is indeed just like the author writes, I - still - love coding in C. Even if I know there are better alternatives out there and I should probably get invested in one of them one of these days at the 75% mark or so of my career I'm still very happy that I picked C at the start and never once did I imagine that it would still serve me this well 37 years later.

Most of the other 'hot' languages of the days that went by in the meantime have all been lost, and yet, C is still here, and likely will still be here for years to come. To me it's like an old knife. Not pretty, known to hurt you if you abuse it but still plenty sharp and well capable of doing the job if you treat it well.
My anecdotal opinion - pure tech people don't usually make good founders because they are too realistic and grounded.

A company needs a visionary, someone who is at times even blinded by their optimism and vision. You pair that visionary with a strong grounded realist, and they balance each other out. There are times when both are needed - to either take a leap of faith (risk) or mitigate/avoid risks.

But this dynamic will also only work if these founders have good communication and respect towards each other, otherwise friction can turn into bitterness and resentment.
I’ve been messing with yasm lately and I think I might like that more. I’ve written a lot of C (including a small browser) and definitely enjoy it (especially parsing, which is probably not great.) The more I’ve written and read though the more I’ve realized how much it really does abstract and that kind of sucks the joy out of it for me.

For actually getting things done there’s go and python of course.
How does Swiss Transfer make money?

(As a Swiss, I love the sound of it. But need to figure out what their model is, otherwise surely if I'm not the customer, I'm the product)
I'm also looking for this documentation as I'm working on a new Ethernet card for the Mac SE/30.

http://www.mactothefuture.org/
Coming from the US, I guess I'm wondering if not using insurance was elective (like self-pay) or circumvented (like home birth)?
Yep, that's all true. It's worse, actually - the government sets reimbursement rates as well, so when they tell a hospital 'we are only going to pay you 60% of what you charge' what do you think a hospital is going to do in response?
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>That is an assumption to further a point, I see no reason for that to be true because different states and suburbs are not homogeneous.

I think it does hold true when you average on the national level and look at a global scale. Not every nation is equal, but there should be many nations which are close enough. The idea is that behavior that is often viewed as criminal in the US isn't significantly higher than at least one other country such as Germany, France, UK, or Netherlands yet the rate of prisoners is.

That different areas within a country might have different crime rates don't matter as what we are concerned with is the national average.
> Arguably the best engineers are also good designers

Is there an implied caveat that this applies mostly to Frontend engineers? Or do you think this is something Backend engineers should also be good at? Or I suppose there is third option that great engineers should do both.
>> I just don't have what it takes to grow a business to those levels.

Don't be too hard on yourself, not everyone has the necessary work ethic to succeed in this industry. The AirBnB guys are very smart and they have excellent business acumen. They had a vision and they created opportunities for themselves through hard work. Not everyone can be a winner.
I suspect your colleague was more bemused than shamed by your comparison. Wireless buds are considered a different product category from headphones due to market perception as well as how and when they are used. Some people find Airpods to be nice to use everywhere; those who prefer headphone audio quality use them when convenient.
> The real selling point of ear buds is the fashion part.

Small and wireless has been a desirable trait for a long time. I think you're underselling that a bit.

> they are still a substandard user experience compared to 3.5mm jack and decent headphones

A lot of people disagree with this. A lot of people prefer the portability of small wireless music over big cans with "better" sound.
C is simple. But not ergonomic. Or safe. It's bad to the point of being almost broken.

"Oh but it's powerful", yes, a chainsaw is powerful but even that has an emergency brake. C has none of that.

(Not to mention compilers that take "undefined behaviour" as a code word for "bamboozle time")
To me its: If you do a good job with simple tools you'll be given boring work. If you work in cool technology you get to work with cool technology even if you're producing junk.
> It's straight up price gouging though these companies are doing.

I'm not sure the margins support that allegation. Sovaldi is manufactured by Gilead (which also makes a Harvoni generic). They don't break out drug-specific margin, but
http://truecostofhealthcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/G... and https://www.investors.com/news/technology/can-gilead-withsta... have some food for thought.

A couple things stand out:

1. Their profit margin varies year to year, but in the peak period from 2012-2019 it was 35-55%, averaging ~40-45%. While that's industry-leading for pharma, it's nowhere near high enough to say that their products could be, say, 75% (or even 50%) cheaper. A 20% reduction (very roughly cutting margins in half) wouldn't make it meaningfully more affordable and I don't think most people would describe that as gouging.

2. Apparently it actually cures the disease for many people, so this is a once-and-done treatment. Compared to nearly all other healthcare interventions, curing a life-threating chronic degenerative condition at this price is cheap. (Cost per death prevented of other interventions: https://journalofscientificinnovationinmedicine.org/articles..., https://twitter.com/troyd/status/1195811217056485377)

3. After they cured so many people, there was a much smaller market (success!). Revenue and margin both dropped a lot: https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GILD/gilead-scienc...

4. "Gilead Sciences was also unique in that it was the only pharmaceutical company I examined that spent less money on marketing than they spent on research. Gilead’s marketing budget was only 15% of their total revenue."
> isn't proof of anything other than one moron was stupid enough to do it.

Look, if you need a second moron stupid enough to do it, I'm just letting you know, I'm available.
How does one get the material without attending? Where I studied, the courses were not simply following the course text as the course. Perhaps at lower tier schools that’s all they do.
You’re an audiophile. Not everyone is.
I honestly don’t like C++ at all as a programmer, “C” is way better for hacking.

For example: I understand why the standard was written the way it was but syntactic closures in C++ are way worse than GNU C.
There are vast swaths of the US that are in economic decline, and they most certainly do not allow for mobility irrespective of skill level. They don't even have sufficient economic activity to support a Walmart.
It looks like the standard blood "Donor Battery" includes anti-HCV, so regular donors are already being screened.

Of course, you shouldn't donate blood for the purpose of getting tested for a disease.
The C emergency brake is called valgrind.