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irlib

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I'm a solo entrepreneur, you know -- technical/backend one.
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irlib··on Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men
Finland is a small country, and it joined NATO without Russia so much as flinching. Ukraine is nothing like small. It's bigger than France, for instance, with almost 50M people. Attacking it was just plain madness.
irlib··on GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks
Or maybe it was supposed to be the OMP (OhMy Pi) harness. Pi can do just about anything for you. Use most models in most ways possible. You just tell Pi what you want, and it builds an extension for itself.
irlib··on Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities
Where are you getting cheap GLM5.2? It is about 1/3 the price of Opus, which is not what I would call cheap.
irlib··on European Commission fines Google €2.95B over abusive ad tech practices
They'll be sure to stick around if there's still money to be made.

Here’s a case where leaving makes sense: Google was hit with a literal bazillion-dollar fine in Russia.

irlib··on Sequoia backs Zed
It does not support Monokai because of reasons. That does not scream good taste to me. It screams something different.
irlib··on How I run my servers (2022)
He said Microsoft. Not Amazon.
irlib··on Show HN: GPT-4-powered web searches for developers
Well, I am using ChatGPT as a pocket keto nutritionist and it is recommending an actual product brands quite often. Not sure if this is intentional or just learned behavior.
irlib··on Apple Watch momentum is building
I have everything on on my series 6 LTE. After 23 hours on my wrist it usually at 50%. It is new though. But the screen is always on. It seems they have improved battery life on series 6 comparing with my old series 4.
irlib··on Half of Americans fear a health-related bankruptcy
Well, they have a publicly accessible price list in most hospitals out of USA.
irlib··on Half of Americans fear a health-related bankruptcy
Does the "bronze" plan have "out of pocket maximum"? It supposed to be 20% up to the OOM and total coverage after, right?
irlib··on Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” flying alongside them
I do. Those 3 wheel cars/bikes in California...
irlib··on Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?
Weather tax.
irlib··on Fitful nightly sleep linked to chronic inflammation, hardened arteries
It's already just like that here in california. They schedule a free in-home sleep study, then lend you (again, for free) a CPAP machine for a week. Then you decide if you want to keep (buy) it.
irlib··on Fitful nightly sleep linked to chronic inflammation, hardened arteries
Yeah, I've been provided with a CPAP machine for a week, and although it reduces the breath interruptions, just like in your case, it does not improve the quality of the sleep perceivably, just like in your case.

So I decided not to buy it after the week of the free test drive.

irlib··on Fitful nightly sleep linked to chronic inflammation, hardened arteries
Yeah, a couple of years ago, I had an at-home sleep study. It was free for me with Kaiser insurance, so I guess the cost was neglectable.
irlib··on Fitful nightly sleep linked to chronic inflammation, hardened arteries
I am in the USA, and my cheap ass insurance covered the sleep study in full.

CPAP machine, however, is upon deductible, so I have postponed it upon I'll have spent the deductible on something like CT.

irlib··on Fitful nightly sleep linked to chronic inflammation, hardened arteries
In my case, the sleep study was done at home. I just have to wear some gear at night for a week or something.

Then a week of CPAP machine for free to feel if it's helping (I feel no improvement, although wife said there was no snoring with the machine).

irlib··on AirPods Pro owners complain of worse noise cancellation after firmware updates
If you have Apple care plus, you may just exchange the AirPods at some point during second year of wearing.
irlib··on NY Man Arrested for Cutting Wires to Red Light Cameras (2016)
You must be living in a perfect world where people finally won laws of physics.

In my world, if you driving at speed limit near intersection you have zero chance to stop before the line. And even if you managed so, there is a very good chance that a driver behind will not have so good brakes and reflexes.

irlib··on Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?
Miss Google Reader.

Now I have to host a miniflux to have relatively similar experience. Still, GR was much more convenient.

Miss Mr.Reader as a RSS client on iPad. Miss AlienBlue Reddit client.

irlib··on Python in Visual Studio Code
My story was: vim (5 years) -> emacs (7 years) -> sublime (2 years) -> atom (1 year) -> vscode (2 years and counting).

Switch from vim to emacs is obvious. Switch from emacs to sublime was triggered by moving from Linux to MacOS (my Thinkpad was failing after diving in a tropical rain so I bought a brand new MacBook).

irlib··on Things they don’t teach you running a business by yourself
But why?

Family plan on coveredca site costs about $13k/year. Or even less if your business is not yet profitable enough.

irlib··on Tesla crash victim had complained about auto-pilot in same location
His car does not always veers.

He owns the car/work in apple/drive the same road to work - for about half year (i.e. >100 times) and according to the article he has just about 7-10 veering incidents here. Like one or two per month.

irlib··on Smallest possible machine for web programming?
MacBook 12’ would work for most webdev work much better than any tablet while being much less in weight and size than mbp 13’.
irlib··on Ask HN: Good jQuery source code examples
Then involve light (not-so-heavy) framework. E.g. Backbone.JS.
irlib··on oDesk to merge with Elance
> We have a few other competitors targeting the high-end of the freelancer market, but that's still open territory.

Could you please name a few?

irlib··on I made $200K and PayPal locked my account
there is no Stripe for aliens yet unfortunately but there is PayPal
irlib··on Don’t Waste Your Twenties
isn't thought about better world make you happy?
irlib··on Ask HN: What's the best way to learn Python/Django enough so I can hire someone?
as of me, it takes about a year before I got an ability to see where code is good, bad or just ugly

probably, you may outsource it as well: cheap coders make code (months), every milestone you hire a hi rate consultant to audit the codebase (days)

what do you think?

irlib··on EBook readers removed from Google Play for supporting OPML format
Hi,

It's really horrible to see how easy anyone can remove competitors from Google play.

The DMCA claim is issued by well known in Russia litres company. This company is well known by DDOS attacks (which they paid for) to some Russian ebooks libraries. Litres loose this fight. Libraries won. Now they started fight again in opposite direction - to remove from Google Play any books reader which can have access (by OPDS) to such libraries (e.g. to lib.rus.ec library).

There is also second cause. Litres company has their own book reader in the Google play. You may check the page of this reader ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.litres.andr... ). Just yesterday, in the "Users who viewed this also viewed" list there was moon+ pro (now removed from market) on first place, Google books on second, then cool reader (may also be removed from Google play since author of the reader has already been threatened about that by litres) and finally moon+ again (not in the marked now). So, it seems, they just got attacked their main competitors (except for Google books by obvious reason).

Moon+ Reader has been installed 5 000 000 - 10 000 000 times (which is 50x times more that LitRes reader's installs number).