skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was moderately precocious in my programming and in my career, though probably not terribly so by the standards of this crowd. I got started in C when I was 9 or 10, and ran Linux on the desktop from 6th grade onward, hacked on device drivers and the like in my middle and high school years, that kind of stuff. I had a relatively "meteoric" early career before going out on my own, going through 6 jobs between age 18 and 22, in some cases doubling my income as I went. I was the chief sysadmin of a small local ISP at 19 (which says more about the ISP), and I was holding fairly serious senior titles at more serious companies in the big city by age 21 or so, making more than my dad at the time, who was a professor. (The consequences of being this young and stupid with this much money are a grim topic for another day.)

Anyway, the main age-related shift I've experienced is that the socio-professional aura of my skills and experience went from "holy crap, he's 20 year-old wunderkind" to just kind of table stakes. Nobody's really shocked that mid-30s me is pretty good at what I do and have a lot of experience doing it, and it hasn't been a shock in quite a while.

Sure, I'm a lot more credible now as a self-employed consultant than I was at, say, 23, but younger me was a bit of a primadonna and had a big head because I front-loaded so much of the career development and climbing the ladder, at least as engineering per se goes. In these settings, lots of older people resent you (for reasons I find very justifiable in hindsight), but plenty of people pat you on the head along the way, too. I'm not praise-dependent in any extraordinary way, I'd like to think, but anyone can be habituated to something pleasant and can it be a bit of a jolt to feel the tide going out. In addition to undergoing the normal humbling that comes with getting older and realising you're not as brilliant as everyone around you leads you to believe, people also stop telling you you're brilliant to begin with. :-)
do people want this? why do people want this? this sounds very distopian.
Hey Samson, thanks for sharing your experience and I'm glad you persevered to diagnose and treat your condition. I think many people would have given up.

I'm curious, did you track metrics past AHI and how rested you felt the next day?
Maybe I'm missing something, but 500 qps for serving static files seems supremely unimpressive. Fair play about it being more fun, or saving some money from AWS, but I am not convinced that this setup is a good achievement in terms of performance.
I wonder if Apple Watch can detect/show signs of sleep apnea? It measures your breaths, so I theorize if you have sleep apnea, you will eventually stop breathing then wake up suddenly to breathe hard due to the lack of oxygen. So it might show as unevenly breathe rate on the watch.

But I guess monitor your breathing during sleep using WiFi signals is a better solution.
I know this place has a general allergy to people in leadership / managerial roles vs IC engineer types.

Q for the crowd- how in the weeds does a CTO need to be technically?

There’s a lot on that list, what are the most important skills that only the CTO can do and no one else?
It's also weird to me that the Department of Energy (and not, say, the CDC/DHHS or USAMRIID or what have you) is advancing such hypotheses in the first place. What does the origin of SARS-CoV-2 have to do with American energy policy?
I want this to be true. And certainly there has been a lot of progress towards functional-ish code in the languages I'm about to reference.

In my experience, languages like C, Go, Java, C# still dominate the backend. Replacing JavaScript is such a simple and well-defined task that I expect it will be completed much sooner. Maybe only a decade or two.
Don’t leave developers behind in the Section 230 debate
Hi again. Yes, I agree you should ask me, it wasn't as easy to find as I first thought, but here[1] is a thread on HN that discusses it and a bit down the thread you find a link to the Verge [2] which in turn links to the case papers [3].

I admit the links I found now are less clear than I though and I don't have more time now, but there is clearly reason to be suspicious when 1.) Facebook stops encrypting data before upload 2.) Google accept to keep the data without counting it against the users quota 3.) sources claim there was a deal. None of these three carries too much weight on their own but together they paint a picture that something is going on.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28485312

[2]: https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/17/22180258/google-whatsapp...

[3]: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20428869-the_state_o...
Or it’s time to sign up (or get back) to these networks because someone will make better content based not on looks and personalities but on an art of impression and interesting plots instead. Personalities are dull and template, especially looks-based ones.

If that’s not true anymore, and everything is fiction, it’s probably time to get back to IRL experiences.

We just got more fiction. What you thought is true is likely not anyway, so relax. Like/dislike crowd will take care of truth as usual.
The podcast Fall of Civilizations does a great job of telling the astounding, heartbreaking story of how Tenochtitlan got conquered by the Spanish. What really blew my mind is that it was not at all inevitable. It always seemed to me growing up that the Europeans took over the Americas due to superior tech or something, but I don't think that's true at all. I also had to confront the complex reality that the Aztecs were certainly not some kind of benevolent empire, nonetheless, the conquest was an incredible humanitarian catastrophe.
I have a horrible snoring issue and I have some problems with burnout, "brain fog", and inability to stay focused. I have a snorelab score in the 50s and my wife kicked me out of our bedroom since she can't sleep. I did a take-home sleep study with Kaiser once but they said I just have mild disordered sleeping but no apnea. I'm not super fat or anything either (BMI = 23.9).

It seems like I very likely have something similar to what OP has but I don't know how to get diagnosed properly. It's really hard to get a hold of Kaiser's head and neck surgery department too since they only take appointments by referral and can only be reached by voice message on the phone.
> Traditional, simplified, and the Japanese loaned characters kanji.

Traditional, simplified, Japanese, Korean. Some are identical, some different. I wonder why these rendering details were not left to fonts and you can type 雨 and ⾬ for example. Maybe stronger presence of those countries in whatever SDOs and tech integration has to do with it.
If "realistic beauty" equates to "waxy doll", then sure.

To me it looks like a kilogram of botox and makeup. Wouldn't date that.
The author lives in California - I didn't read the article as an "everything sucks and everyone is leaving" piece, it's that it's not great, here are some reasons why, it seems to be getting worse, and if we did something, it could be better.
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=github.com/iptv-org right there next to the title.

https://archive.org/details/github.com-iptv-org-iptv_-_2022-...

https://old.reddit.com/r/IPTV/comments/j1l8ps/iptvorg_hit_wi...

https://web.archive.org/web/20201117192948if_/https://codelo...

https://web.archive.org/web/20220925054954if_/https://iptv-o...

The parent honestly believes that this takedown is not copyright-related. Thought experiment: What are the other ways a repository containing only URLs could violate Github ToS.
Why is this conclusion coming from the Department of Energy of all places?
I found the videos earlier through a blogger. He called it a "barbie filter"
It doesn't, but only because it polls relatively infrequently for biometric data. The increase in pulse or decrease in blood oxygen saturation is not likely to be captured if it lasts only a few seconds and the watch records a datapoint every few minutes to increase battery life
You do get used to it. It's not till you quit that you realize how poorly you were breathing before you did.
https://archive.is/IGPfV
Urban planning is pretty complex. Basic competence is a higher bar than you may realize and anyone really good at planning this stuff can make more money in the private sector.

Some people take staff jobs because they are good at the bureaucratic stuff. This does not necessarily mean they actually complete projects. It does mean they tend to keep their job and get viewed as competent, even if they may not be, really.

A good reason to take a staff job is you are good at the planning part and not so good at being an entrepreneur and would like to actually get paid for your work. I have no idea how many people fit this profile versus how many people are good at playing the game without actually getting all that much done.
Many advice trying a CPAP device first instead of going for a sleep study if you suspect apnea for this exact reason. The sleep tests are expensive and often not accurate.
The packs used by nearly all backpackers transfer weight to your hips, such that the shoulder straps are relatively loose and only there for stability not holding the load. Having your head locked into a band is considerably less comfortable, especially if the point of being out there is to look up not down. It avoids compressing your spine even. I would 100% choose a modern backpack over your suggestion on any sort of rough terrain.

You're really doing a pretzel twist here to turn this into some moral objection, and I say that as someone far more leftist than most of hnews.
Wow, lot of money is going to be save as people don't need to buy makeup for making videos :)
Is this project still relevant with the advent of RISC-V? Can't the Chinese focus their efforts on RISC-V instead? Is there some reason Loongson is still being actively developed?
tiktok banned in india
These work decently but can really mess up your teeth by causing you to develop an open bite.
At some point I went nearly insane. Turns out that ADHD medication can mask sleep apnea. You need the medication but when you cannot sleep properly you go from meditation that is good for your to acting like a meth addict when your actual sleep is 2 hour a night for 2 years. At the worse point of crazy the doctors figured if out and also asked how I was not insane?!? Honestly I was at the point of CT with contrast looking for brain tumors looking for why! All good now. Health focused. Figured out sleep issue and made huge life style changes. CPAP pressures level down to minimum now after much work, with goal to be off of it. I cannot stress how important it is to have a stable measured baseline on all available measurements you can take about your body. BP, sleep cycle, heart rate, etc. things like the Apple Watch are miracles off technology we all need to embrace. Modern medical science used correctly is a game changer. Data is king and understanding it and questioning the doctors to the point of understanding matters. A good doctor will answer your questions in detail and work with you. If yours does not, find a better doctor.
> And that doesn’t obviate the fact that I know from personal experience that it could run Chrome, Windows 10, the latest version of Office365 and it could be used as a Plex server to serve standard definition and low complexity high def video.

And an original iPhone could do texting and stream music and doff around on HN.

> Modern web browsers are much less memory and resource efficient than old ones.

Modern web browsers have more efficient javascript engines and do things like unloading background tabs to deal with people opening hundreds of tabs of porky websites that could otherwise take down even desktop computers. But the same improvements allow you to e.g. open multiple Wikipedia tabs on an older device.

> Yes because the ROI of old Linux devices that aren’t centrally managed without standardize hardware or any MDM solution is going to be much easier to manage.

You're telling me why Google was smart to make their "get 'em while they're young" tech appeal to administrators, not why this is better for the kids.

> So yes. There is nothing else that you need to do with an iPhone with a 400Mhz processor, a really slow bus, 128MB of RAM and a total of 4GB - 8GB of storage except make the modem upgradeable.

Nothing else you need to make phone calls.

> So instead, Apple should keep supporting the original iPhone that sold around 10 million in the first year…

Why not? Their OS is portable. 10 million is not a small number of devices. The effort is negligible for a company that size. They would get more PR value by claiming the longer support lifetime than it would cost them to release the updates.

And the only reason they're the only ones who can support it is that they don't publish sufficient documentation for anyone else to make drivers for it. They could do that once at the end official support and no one would have any complaints.

> Are you really going to say it’s not any better than an iPhone from 2007, with a 30 pin iPod connector, 128MB RAM, a low resolution camera that couldn’t do video, 4-8GB storage, and a 400Mhz processor?

You can get a Core i5-4590 PC for less than $50. Are you really going to say it's not any better than a Core 2 Duo with no AVX, a max of 8GB of RAM and USB2?

That doesn't make the Core 2 Duo useless.
I skipped over fly.io because I don't want to run a command to deploy an update to an app. I much prefer Render.com and DigitalOcean's setup where you select a repo and then it takes care of the rest with auto update on git push.

This seems like a trivial thing to add. If I wanted to use a domain specific configuration file then that's always an option, later.
Wait until you hear about fanny packs
Unforgettable Stories for Black History Month
https://archive.ph/Rykyx
Such a shame. Ancient Indian epics feature violence, slaughter of demons and evil beings. Kids from birth witness the killing of the evil ten headed demon king, enacted, on stage, in pretty much every village in india.

But suddenly we are too soft for august gloop to be called fat or ms twit being fearfully ugly.
When NY originally built the subway, labor laws were a lot more lax, and labor was much, much cheaper.
Thank you for sharing! Skimmed for now, but saving this to read later.

I've had a history as well of never getting good sleep so I'm curious to see what your experience was and the steps you've taken. A few things I've done that have helped a bunch:

- Using BreatheRight nasal strips every night

- Latex earplugs ("Mack's Pillow Soft Silicone Earplugs"). I could never sleep with foam earplugs in my ears but these are great

- Sleeping with a noise machine

- Getting a basic alarm clock so I can leave my phone outside the room

- Getting a c02 monitor

A ctrl+f on the page didn't show any c02 mentions, so I'll just say it's something I think is worth looking into for anyone having sleep trouble. My understanding from when I was looking at one to buy was there were different kind of sensors and the ones in the cheaper monitors were unreliable. I ended up getting this one [1] for $250 with the intention of returning it after getting a sense of where the levels would get to but ended up keeping it. For anyone who thinks it's at all possible to be a factor for them, I recommend getting that monitor with the plan being to just return it if you don't see anything surprising.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Aranet4-Home-Temperature-Ink-Configur...
Related:

Very Long-Term Backup - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=282572 - Aug 2008 (28 comments)
Nah, completely allowed: https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-an...
As above, it's allowed: https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-an...
>Human values seem to have completely gone down the drain. Bravery, courage, chivalry and respect of elders.

So things were better when brave men were happy to march into battle because their feudal lord ordered them to, and they fought to the death with other peasants over some pointless dispute between two warlords?
That's certainly your choice to bow out. My wife is a different race from me, one that has a significantly different composition and cultural background than mine. We spend a lot of time comparing our physical and cultural differences and how they are superior in different situations, and I feel like I learned a lot from it. It's unfortunate others aren't able to appreciate diversity in this way.

I'm pretty sure the person you replied to said nothing about their friends being misogynist/racist/xenophobic. The only thing we know is they were conservative, so your statement "I only singled out..." is a complete sidestep from your process conservative -> "If your conservative friends happen to drop misogynistic/racist/xenophobic ..."

When literally the only thing we know is the person's political ideology and you go straight to talking about if they were saying racist stuff we all know what the implication is, and we all know it was said in a weird way to create plausible deniability that just maybe it wasn't being made.
I don’t know if you’re trying to make an authoritarian argument but it sounds like one.

Yeah I’m worried about government abuses. That’s a pretty fundamental part of democracy
> Photoshop breaks Arabic. We even have a website that will break our Arabic so that Photoshop breaks it back to normal. Yes, Adobe is aware. No, they do not care.

Photoshop since time immemorial had a Middle East edition (ME) which supported RTL and used to curb piracy

I don’t know how it’s with their new pseudo-sass but I think they integrated it into their main product
Ask HN: Is the Turing test still a thing?
With regards to the last year's uptick in AI discussion (both in tech and popular fora), I don't see that many references to the Turing test anymore -- am I alone in this observation?
So start giving artists bread and butter, and we can let their hands pass into the side of history. That's literally what automation has always been about - machines make our bread now. Spread the wealth.
no, that's why they're losing money on starlink and keep raising prices
> I would think that software engineering is the exception that proves the rule: people with domain knowledge are highly motivated to share what they know, ask questions, consolidate knowledge, and refine processes using the Internet.

Not my experience they don't want these people on the Netherlands not with my skin colour I guess.
Oh, give me a break.

I don't know how many people you've known who ran successful bars. I've known several. It is not a profession that is kind to the weak, and Zawinski's thrived in it for what must by now be at least twenty years.

I don't particularly care for the man; mostly I think he's kind of an asshole whose political opinions ossified some time around the year I was born, and whose ability to appreciate the world as is seems entirely circumscribed thereby. I do nonetheless recognize that he is worthy of my respect. Armchair psychoanalysts, not so much.
‘Old-school union busting’: how US corps are quashing the new wave of organizing
If you are unlucky the project you are managing doesn’t scale linearly. So a 10 billion projects is 99999999 time more difficult than a 100 million project.

Then we have the problem of previous experience. How many 10 billion projects do we have in the whole country? And maybe they take 10-15 years to finish. You might get one chance at managing and then it’s time for retirement.

When projects of this size start they often have “wicked problems” [0] which demand a lot of competence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem
Still thinking mind reading is a better option considering your #3 link to reddit is from 2 years ago.
Right. For pipeline hardware, the per-CPU resources have to be well matched to the problem. You have to cut up the problem into bite-size pieces that are the right size for the compute and memory of the little processors. Audio, yes; sonar, yes; cellular problems such as weather prediction and finite element analysis, maybe. The PS3/Cell ran into that problem, which is why later Playstations are more conventional.

Exotic parallel architectures: you can build it, but will they come? Usually, no. You need some widely used case that partitions to match the hardware. GPUs and Bitcoin mining are the big successes so far. Machine learning has that property. Successes in this area tend to come from needing to solve a specific problem at scale.
He also used "Kung Flu." Come on, anyone with a brainstem could see he was promoting anti-Asian sentiment and did nothing to denounce anti-Asian hate crimes at home.
Previously specifically real-time video was hard to forge, that tech was out of reach of a typical person who could not hire actors and do seamless real-time video composition.

Now thus has changed. The person you have just interacted with in a video call, with authentic human reactions, etc may as well be completely a visual fake, and have spent $0 to achieve that.

I suppose digital photos already have hard time to be admitted in court:i think most digital video coverage will soon also be inadmissible. I've heard of places where high-stakes security photo registration has switched back to chemical photography, exactly to make it demonstrably harder to forge, given that the footage us physically well-protected.

All around us gets more and more virtual, no matter whether we think, as consumers, it should be, or not. We'll have to deal with it.
This is a really poor way to compare. even with cross-links about 30% of their bandwidth is useable in the best case. starlink has no way of increasing capacity to their heaviest demand areas besides launching thousands more satellites. fiber is much, much, much more efficient.
We have 2 cats that I love but one of them makes sure that I do not get a good nights sleep. I could not find any solutions so far. On top of that my wife snores and I’ve had long periods of poor sleep as a result of this.

I realised that this is an issue while traveling. Being able to properly sleep in hotels and feeling rested / clear.

Trying to find solutions. Ear plugs don’t feel good and even though sleeping in the guest room helps with snoring, not the cat. (I close the door, little shit screams his lungs off in front of the door)

I never slept great in my 20s either but I guess my body could cope. Now it’s screwing things up.
And we liked it !
But that's the issue, it looks like a kilogram of botox and makeup, not like a digital filter. Whatever you would date, a filter can do it in real-time without artifacts.
It's easy to interpret their leading zero to mean "use 5-digit representation of years", when (after Y2K and similar problems) I would've expected a better message to be "don't limit the time points that can be represented".

Maybe they have an additional assumption: that humanity won't ever need to consider years past 99,999 in a Gregorian calendar.
> The most interesting thing about this article to me isn't the "spending too much on consultants" bit, it's the bit where the agencies in charge of budgets for these enormous projects no longer have staff that are capable of managing them, having outsourced that institutional capacity to consulting companies for far too long.

I don't see how you can avoid this problem without building far faster than the US currently wants to. (Largely because many argue that we don't need to build dozens and dozens of new projects simultaneously, whether subway or anything else infra-wise, all at once.)

You won't get competence in managing the budgeting, planning, and execution of a subway line without doing it a lot.

So how do you break the cycle of inefficiencies leading to people scared to start enough projects necessary to build expertise?

There's a bit in here https://chrisgagne.com/1255/mary-poppendiecks-the-tyranny-of... about how we haven't matched the construction speed of the Empire State Building since then, and a lot of it is because the depression + war that happened right after it was done cause all that knowledge to be forgotten.