skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Use prepaid.

I don't see why not many people see the appeal of prepaid SIM cards. Just buy an unlocked phone, and pop in a prepaid SIM card or install an eSIM profile. That's all it takes.

I rarely make phone calls, and haven't send an SMS in years. WiFi is everywhere, so all what I use the SIM card is to register with shitty 2FA providers that dont support TOTP/WebAuthn. The catch with prepaid SIM cards is that phone calls, SMSs, and mobile data are quite expensive. My carrier charges 9,95 euros for a 1GB bundle. I only use mobile data when I need to look up directions or something small that even a small package with a small data cap, or a package with unlimited data at slow rate does the job.

Context: Netherlands, using KPN prepaid. I understand postpaid packages are more common in the US and prepaid cost a lot more too.
I think the question is: are those screens worth retaining a tether? Should a wireless experience have been prioritized? Those screen specs aren't a given.

A wired VR headset for one's computer is already asking a lot, but bringing it to your living space is asking even more.
I'm excited to see this come out of stealth! I had a chance to try it out in the beta and I'm super impressed. It "just works", which is really hard for a cache.

This is definitely a product I wished existed when I worked at reddit -- although maintaining the cache wasn't super hard, it was a huge pain when one of the instances would fail or we had to dump the cache. Momento has done a lot of work to alleviate the problems when something goes wrong, which is when you want your cache to keep just working. Also writing your cache code to avoid hot spots is a hard problem that they just solve for you too. Super impressed with their tech.
What I don’t understand is how they haven’t seen this as friction to conversion and got rid of it entirely, you’re surely supposed to incentivise people to use your service right? Imagine if Amazon charged $35 to get an account!
Imagine if JS had done the same with jQuery
Templates (I assume you mean Generics, if we're talking Java?) aren't worth the hassle, but your code is flush with .filter() and .map()? Which rely entirely on generics to provide any typing support at all? You should learn to embrace generics; they're absolutely critical for the code you just said you write, and more. And they are most certainly not going away.
There's a strike happening here in Ontario schools by janitors and education assistants and early childhood educators, because they want more than a 2% raise on their $40-$50k year jobs ($30k USD, and look at inflation #s...). The government is going to use a special "shouldn't be used" clause in the Canadian charter or rights and freedoms to force a contract on them and ban a strike and forbid collective bargaining despite it being a charter right. These are people who clean poop, shape young minds, and keep critical systems running, and so on.

All of this to say: difficulty and importance of a job seems to have almost nothing to do with either the pay one gets, or the respect one gets.
I am extremely saddened (but not surprised) that your comment is being downvoted. I think you hit on a lot of good points. You are right. The de-industrialization of America is extremely sad, especially. It's uncouth to say today, but the truth is American culture is exceptional in its production of novel technologies and the entrpreneurial systems that let such technologies be industrialized and scaled for the benefit of humanity. Without a solid industrial base, the harder that becomes.
How labor and delivery doctors treat women is criminal. A hospital should not be a butcher shop.
https://rarest.org/tech/most-expensive-vr-headsets

From that list, the HP Reverb has been described as better than the Index and Quest 2 due to higher quality screen and FOV (priced well too).

The Primax and Aero are considered to be even more high end.

I am considering making the investment since VR and Space/Flight/Racing sims are an entirely unique experience with VR and all the joysticks/racing wheels.
Visible is completely owned by Verizon. Many US “MVNOs” are just businesses created to implement price segmentation (price discrimination) for the 3 mobile networks.
same, Mint has been great.
I recall data overages on AT&T being a festival of excessive fees rather than merely getting throttled, but that was over a decade ago.
That’s correct, and scheduled C-Sections are also the reason Christmas is the rarest birthday.
Dedicated backup?
Give it a couple of years and I think you’ll have Valve release a Steam Deck with official support for their headset for some kind of super portable VR set up. You can already do it with the current gen (even wirelessly) but it’s not quite ready for prime time. Have a look at this video to see it in action:

https://youtu.be/5FWDSFVp3NM
Sepa instant already exists, this addresses the fact that banks and institutions are taking way too long to support.
I've been using Google Fi for many years and don't plan on switching. Since I don't like using my phone or use much data, this has been a good cheap plan to use over the years.

https://fi.google.com/about/
Everyone downvoting me did worse in their career. It's easy to be a critic. But like him or hate him, you can't argue with the results that man achieved. None of us have done as much.
Huh, I didn't know about this, thanks. I'm on Cricket (which was an MVNO running on AT&T but is now actually AT&T owned), where I pay for $30/month for unlimited talk and text and only 5GB of data.

I rarely go over the data, but if I can pay less for 16GB of data if I pre-pay for the year... I might.

Although cricket is really all-inclusive, no additional taxes or fees, $30 is what my credit card actually gets charged. Is AT&T pre-pay the same?

That ad also has "Reg. 8GB/mo" in grey text, which I don't know what that means... 16GB is promotional for first year, after which it's 8GB? Which would still be fine.

I kind of like having no contract and being able to switch carriers at any time... on the other hand, I literally never switch carriers cause it's a pain.

It would be cool to have Canada included for free again too.
HFT entails only a small part of the usage of C++.

It's still being used in many embedded systems (including automotive, aviation and building automation), where Rust is also available. Interop is always possible with C/C++ so there's little excuse not to use Rust there.
The parent did refer to banks giving them to people. I just got a USB one in a swag bag at an event from Google so I guess they're pretty inexpensive these days. But I don't disagree with the basic point. Most everyone has a phone and won't carry around a separate hardware device in general irrespective of price.
I have no regrets, since all mistakes are a lesson to learn from. You don't grow if you don't make mistakes. That doesn't mean I'm hap-hazard and do dangerous things, it just means I transmute failure/mistakes into lessons.

My twenties were experimental. I learned the ropes. I failed often and failed early. Now to inculcate those lessons into everyday life. This is like turning lead into gold.
Glad to share--Small Batches podcast is excellent in general (I'm totally unaffiliated) and I found the Deming introduction contextualized in ways I could understand better than straight business texts. I'm going to do some relistening right now.
To make decent money with a passion you often need to be in the top .1%. It's not like you need to be among the best in the world to make money working in fast food or law, compared to being a sprinter or chess player. Part of the problem is people will do hobbies for free, hence why they are hobbies and not jobs. Also, hobbies/passions do not create as much economic value compared to jobs. Coding the infrastructure that powers Amazon's store probably produces more economic value than learning how to play guitar, that is just the reality of the situation.
This such a short-sighted move. It might curb China today, but tomorrow they will have developed their own domestic technology and the US will no longer have anything to sanction. It also stops Western companies' ability to grow.
Google approached this issue by simply creating and maintaining their own fork of OpenSSL, called BoringSSL. Has it been affected by this most recent issue?
You might not know this but the Meta/Oculus Quest 2 (120Hz) has existed since 2020. I got my Quest 2, 2 years ago, when it was still labeled Oculus on the box, for 350 Euros. I think now it's 450 Euros, inflation and all, but at least the storage is double at 128GB.

Great device, saved my sanity during the winter lockdowns.
Hi! Tier co-founder here.

> Iterating this on a pricing.json file feels easier.

Agreed. :)

> if we decide to do something like giving the user the possibility of choosing between a monthly or a yearly subscription (with a variable quantity, because we charge per seat). That would imply a code refactor. Would tier.run help us with that????

Currently, plans that are similar but with different billing intervals can best be expressed as two plans like: `plan:pro:annual@0` and `plan:pro:monthly@0`. We're very open to feedback on this approach though.

> Do I set up which features belong to every plan on the pricing.json file, and then consume your SDK on the frontend to only show the tier to a certain category of paying user?

This is correct, limits (if any) are defined in the pricing.json using tiers. These limits may be reported to a browser session via a backend that proxies the limits from the sidecar back out.

> I also saw you want to build your product as an Auth0 action. Would that be used for this use case?

It seems possible. How do you envision the Auth0 action behaving with Tier?
Indeed, it's pretty impressive, it also has C++ interop
As an mvno user I do occasionally see it. My wife and I will both independently notice that our data has been garbage that day.
DOD is already SpaceX's biggest customer. It's probably already in the weapons game, but that's not something you're going to hear about, because it would be classified.
The contrast to "the US hospital business" is not necessarily "socialized systems". A better contrast is, as the original commenter pointed out, birthing centers (or home births). A contrast to a hospital OBGYN in the US is a certified nurse midwife.
I love not having a boss, so I spent ten years being a prole and working my arse off.

Now I do what I want.

Some people want to spend their 20s doing what they want. I didn't feel I had that luxury. I didn't feel that I could just "not have a boss" straight away.
> the vast majority of applications on the planet are not written in Erlang and work just fine

The vast majority of applications on the planet are bug-ridden, fragile, over-budget, under-thought, mark-missing, user-hostile garbage. They most certainly do not "work just fine."
It's legal-ish is San Francisco and Oakland.
> I fear even reading this.

you don't necessarily have to read it. Many of the guidelines are implemented as checks in clang, for me the ones I find relevant and enabled show up inline when I write code in my IDE.
`std::make_unique()`, `std::make_shared()`, or another function that wraps `new` and `delete` into an RAII type (commonly called a smart pointer) so that you, the developer, worry less about explicit memory management.

And the standard smart pointers are perfectly extensible enough to wrap things allocated from C libraries (I like to pick on opengl's glalloc() and glfree(), though malloc() and free() are acceptable to pick on too), C-style `FILE` pointers, or even memory-mapped things from `mmap()`

I would also point out that even in 2000, `std::auto_ptr` existed. So even in 2000 you probably should not have been using `new` and `delete`.
Happy customer for 4-5 years here. I don't stream much over cellular -- I keep maps, music, podcasts, etc. mostly on my phone storage -- so I never use more than 1GB. Price comes out to less than $30/mo as a result.

None of the major carriers can even scratch that price point for a single device. Most are upwards of twice the price per month, plus BS activation fees etc.

I've considered switching to other MVNOs like Mint, but when I take a look at the pricing, it seems like the only way to go lower in price than what I currently pay is promotional rates. And if the price will spike after a year, I'm not interested in going through the process of switching my line over, creating a new account, and all that jazz. Fi works well and costs me a reasonable price per month so I stick with it.

Another benefit: if I ever get a cellular smart watch or a cellular tablet, you can get data-only SIMs on Fi for no monthly cost -- it just shares the same data pool as your phone. That means I could someday run a laptop, hotspot, phone, watch, tablet, etc. all off a "1 person" Fi unlimited plan for $70/mo all-in. Not too shabby.
Yes-ish. The mobile hardware in the meta headsets limits the games available on it. If you want to play No Man's Sky VR you're going to need to use Oculus Link (is it called Meta Link now?) and a beefy PC.

If you just want a beat saber device the Quest 2 is definitely way cheaper overall.
This seems like half the price of a comparable PCVR setup, including the PS5 to run it. And there's probably still not much crossover between the console crowd and the PC gamer crowd.
Fair enough but I think there’s still a lot of bad blood among professionals as he pushed Apple products (particularly the laptops) away from premium workhorses towards something like luxury consumer products. A lot of the decisions he made have (thankfully) since been undone in the latest generations.
To answer your last question: because when I go abroad, my phone just works almost everywhere I go. Literally when the plane lands, I get a text message from T-Mobile saying "Welcome to _____" with additional information about my service in that country. Places like Mint, Visible, Ting, etc all charge you per text/minute/MB used abroad which makes them non-starters since that's usually where I'm going to be using my phone even more than usual.
https://www.att.com/international/day-pass/

> You will only be charged one daily fee per 24-hour period for International Day Pass, even if you travel to multiple included destinations in the same 24-hour period.

T-Mobile’s max plan does include 5GB international, so that is neat. If I was frequently traveling internationally, I would consider it over ATT.
I’ll do you one better…

It’s been almost 3 years since Half Life Alyx and nothing in the Vr space has come even remotely close.

It’s the killer app problem. There are a few very cool experiences in VR, but overall it a sad environment.

I have no doubt it’ll be big. Just curious on HOW SLOWLY it’s going.
Sounds… problematic. What can you say about the state of security with it?
Dozens of malicious PyPI packages discovered targeting developers
Pre-paying for a year is a significant sunk cost. What's the per-month cost if you don't prepay for a year?
Doesn't apply to prepaid. You pay a lump sum of $300 for the year, dont even need an associated credit card.
> I don't see why not many people see the appeal of prepaid SIM cards.

Because paying your bill ahead of time means you're lending them money!

> My carrier charges 9,95 euros for a 1GB bundle.

That's stupidly high.
I'm with Cricket Wireless (AT&T MVNO) for a few years now and every time I look at the pricing of major carriers I'm blown away by how intentionally confusing they make it.

So you want unlimited data with your plan right? Well unlimited regular data or "premium" data, are you going to be streaming 1080p, because that only works on "premium" data. Oh and when we said unlimited data, we didn't mean unlimited "premium" data, no you only get 10GB of that before you get another 30GB of regular data and then after that and after that....well consumers with "unlimited data" only really use 30GB max so really "unlimited" is just 30GB plus the 10GB of "premium data" and then you get dial up.

Oh and you want hotspot too? Well for that we have several tiers of premium and non premium data types. Here are 10 more plans to choose from....

Meanwhile Crickets plan is: $50/mo for unlimited data period.
I've been trying to get one since they came out for a friend and I just looked again: there is one company who has some in stock but they are asking 900€!
They even gonna charge it for device exchanges. Like what, $35 for popping a SIM into a different phone? What is the cost there for them? It shouldn't even matter to the network.
Looks like Selectdude in another thread said it happens all the time in Chicago

I can confirm that an MVNO I was using in Tokyo barely worked during rush hour. It was like a 2g connection or worse
Seems not very coincidental that this happens right after the new iPhone in the US went eSIM only, which means you now have to talk to your carrier to change phones instead of just moving your SIM over.

(Unless this doesn't count if you move your SIM over through the OS, but I figure the carrier would have to be informed?)
I'm glad to hear this. I was a digital nomad for some time, and at the time Google Fi and T-Mobile were basically the only real options for international roaming long-term, and so I associated with a lot of folks on Google Fi and it was commonplace for folks to get penalized for spending a long-time outside the US. At the time, I had an 18 month stretch outside the US on T-Mobile with no issues. Maybe they've gotten better about this.
Where can I watch this?
The website's awful. There's no user testing on it - why do I have a 20 sec progress bar before it tells me I need to select files - where from? Drag from where? What format?

Found the datasets - what is AAPL.csv? What do the columns mean? How do I use them to query on? The UI has been designed by someone who doesn't know anything about UIs. Like, anything.

Added: "AskEdith translates English to SQL to help you save 1 hour every day". Well that's a bloody strong claim. Wonder if it's justified.
This is one of those products where it sounds cool but it will only work for very simple queries, where writing the prompt and reviewing the generated SQL query takes as much time as writing the SQL query from scratch.

Also, even the SQL shown in the EXAMPLES is bad :|

I guess it's true, you won't be writing SQL from scratch, you'll be writing SQL from very broken SQL.
Awesome! I suspect that natural language will soon be the default way we interact with data, so I’m excited to see this. There’s just such a clear need for something like this and the technology is finally ready.

(Full disclosure: I have a side project exploring something similar. Demo: https://hermes-odmf.onrender.com. See the Metrics Catalog link for available metrics; all data is from 2018)
Your environment is that important but never considered actually using RHEL (or Ubuntu ESM)?

> sometimes break things in unexpected ways

I have faith on RH to keep CentOS stream to be quite stable now that it runs on its own brand.

I can't understand how people had super faith on CentOS when it was run by a community which even had someone lock up the organization's fund/asset at some point.
I have been microdosing LSD for about 4 months now regularly with great success and it's now my go-to for focus and mood improvement.
From a quick google, likely from a talk on Youtube. Matching section timestamped - https://youtu.be/O3tVctB_VSU?t=2346
It's a sign that people inherently want to work on those hard problems.
I doubt people from the last century are the ones holding on to the idea of a phone call.

Whatever telcos are doing these days would have led to jail time in the 1990s.

I would like to see a return to the government passing QOS laws for safety critical services, then enforcing them.

Since everyone is dunking on twitter these days: How is it legal for them to slap an auth wall on top of emergency response agencies' feeds? If I MITM'ed the emergency broadcast system with such bullshit, I'd go to jail. Twitter is used during emergencies by at least 100x more people than emergency broadcast.
My concern with Google fi is that I have had cellphone billing issues in my life, due to no fault of my own, and Google has the disturbing pattern of disabling all the things if you fall into such a state.
Not sure about the cheaper model part, because one cannot transform trivially a big SOTA langage modeling models into a digital assistant. So maybe they are not using a cheap ML model after all ...
Also, for a digital assistant the input is not only the spoken commands, it can also be: time of the day, weather, location, etc
I think in 500 years the sky should look like a blue and white dot outside of the window of the space craft.
Confirmation of payee is nothing new
Depending on your use case - a MVNO that supports wifi calling + iMessage etc can help. It’s nice in rural areas where the signal is weak.
If you get a new number in the US you'll likely have a similar experience
And the birds don't exist meme was a psyops program.
> Scientists do not attempt to decipher the “black box,” or the opaque processes that the system undertakes, as long as they receive the outputs they are looking for.

This seems a bit disingenuous as there's a whole research field (explainability) that does exactly that. This is not the widest of the whole machine learning domain, but it's there and there's significant work around it...
> I see it as a way of getting paid for the development of services.

The obvious reason is that a company has an incentive to make it easy to onboard and no incentive to help you migrate off or even an incentive to make it difficult or costly to leave. I don't see how making import/export something only a payed tier has is specifically or especially for funding development. It's not the deal breaker or the reason people choose Protonmail over others, even if it can be a consideration.
> 900m diameter

Article says it's 0.9mi, so 1.5km

> 20m

That was Chelyabinsk, Tunguska is thought to have been 50-60m
That's much better than I expected from AT&T. That's great news, actually, and makes it a better offer than the equivalent from Verizon (Travel Pass).
My local bus/transit agency was hiring an embedded programmer a couple of years ago and while I thought it would be fun to do embedded stuff and get to work on busses/trains (!) the pay was like half my web dev salary. (Granted there is a pension but it's not that good)
Andy Kelley noted that contributions to the self hosted zig compiler were way higher than to the C++ one. This matches up with my experience. I’d love to work on Swift but do I want to work on it so much that I’d write C++? Nah. Ditto PyTorch, XLA, LLVM, etc. I should probably bite the bullet and learn C++, but dammit Rust land is so nice.
Indeed they will end up asking you little questions that have zero to do with your engine and ding you for not knowing some particular trick. It drives me crazy.
my guess is it’s the same rewards that drove people to run usenet servers, bbs servers, irc servers, forums, countless open-source projects, and whatever other non-centralized platforms flourished in the past and present.
may not be a bad thing if development of AI is pursued by 'red team' vs 'blue team' - two diverging approaches who might independently generate different solutions to universal problems. Then again, it could be the ultimate bad thing if one were to see the other an existential threat which must be eliminated, making it a rational decision to strike first in order to finish it
Very well and succinctly stated.

Go to any un-juried street art fair, and see all the mediocre art being offered by people with no outstanding talent. They probably love making their art, and not only would they do it without getting paid, they actually are doing it without getting paid.