skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a study done in 2008 where surgeons wanted to find out how many surgical patients were undiagnosed with sleep apnea, presumably because it had an impact on the operating table.

The results were that 20% of patients had sleep apnea and 90% of them were not diagnosed.

Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19186102/

Additionally, let's assume a person has a 15% likelihood of being a surgical patient

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5765448/.

That means in 2008, when the population of the US was about 300 million, there were between 8.1 million and 54 million people undiagnosed with sleep apnea. The range being dependent on how representative the surgical patient study is on the general population (from assuming ALL people with sleep apnea are also surgical patients to assuming surgery is completely independent of apnea), so likely closer to 50 million than 8 million imo.

20% of today's population is 68million.

Informal Google searching puts yearly CPAP sales at 8million per year in the US. Recommended use is for 5 years. This puts 8million sales per year in line for treating 40 million people with sleep apnea.

Looks to me like we actually might have room to increase our prescription rate still.

Fun fact, I am part of that diagnosis statistic. I was diagnosed in 2016, and estimated to have had it pretty much my whole life, so I was undiagnosed in 2008 and I also never had surgery. Turns out you don't need to be medically obese to have sleep apnea either.

I'd say we are actually fixing one of the countries major medical problems and not overprescribing CPAP machines at all.
if you cover the LED notification light you will get a notification to uncover it. Surely that will stop anyone from covering it.
Thank god the hospital caught it!
These devices need to fit in a very specific power and heat envelope. Is the performance per watt 2x better at the TDP they both run at? We’ll need benchmarks to find out.
Huh, only Pike is listed not the other two on Wikipedia link. So how is it Google marketing hyperbole?
I use some USB Lenovo keyboard that's the most like a Model M in terms of layout but plan to get a New Model M from Unicomp for the superior switches

https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/product/NEW_M
For the love of god, read the damn article before commenting.
Only slightly related anecdote, happened just last week:

My 90 year old family member is having their bathroom renovated. 5 shoebox-sized packages arrive at like 4am, labeled "Shower Door". My relative gets up very early, so they see the package come in. They look at the boxes, think a) Thats not a shower door, and b) I'm not installing shower doors, so my relative opens them.

Inside are nondescript bundles of powder. My relative has no clue what it is. They call the contractor, the contractor comes over, takes one look, and calls the cops. It turns out to be 10+ pounds of fentanyl.

So clearly someone working with the contractor has a scheme going, where they target elderly, unsavvy people in order to ship hundreds of thousands of dollars of fentanyl in the middle of the night. The subcontractor presumably slips in before the homeowner notices, most people aren't awake at 5am checking building material deliveries.

The carrier was just some general shipping company. Not a big name, but not shady either. They had no idea what was being carried.

We don't think its the main contractor, because he easily could have gotten away with it. He could have said "Oh this is grout mix" and my relative would have been perfectly happy. I guess its a possibility though.

Supposedly the cops are looking into it, so I guess we'll see what happens.
If you haven't tried it yet, Supernatural app is great. I lost around 30 pounds while I was using it at home. Now gained some weight back, but hopefully in winter time will get back to the app. And today I got announcement it's only $10/month vs $20 starting October 14.
Indeed. The tech is impressive but the the unintended consequences make me very uneasy.
Oh no, mine's on there
Yeah, sad to see he was a victim of drug overdose at 39.
I'm not interested in this particular device, but after almost being hit by cars several times this month while walking my dog, I am starting to warm to the idea of some form of "dash cam" for walking.
Meta is putting AI chatbots everywhere
> Supporting networked systems and servers - Go has good built-in support for networking and servers, making it well-suited for building networked systems, web servers, and other server tools.

How is this not a web service?
After three tries it loaded the right page. Disgusting pattern, IMHO
100% this. Not worrying about the runtime environment is a huge improvement.

And with go embed[1], that single binary can be literally _everything_ needed by the application. Even non-go stuff can be embedded, like for example, a compiled React application.

[1] https://pkg.go.dev/embed
> I don't think they are boiling it. It read to me like they're just evaporating the water in some efficient way, rather than boiling

There are definitely efficiencies to be had, though I don't know enough of the math to judge one vs. the other. During my brief patent career, I wrote the patents for a distillation system where the main elements involved heating water that was distributed across rotating blades (heat + surface area + air movement) to evaporate the water. When the water was collected, it passed through a heat exchanger that exchanged heat with the in-flowing water. The result was a very efficient system on a small scale, at least.
> There's no such thing as a "have-debugged-and-contributed-actual-code-to-fix-it:" tag.

"Based-on-patch-by:" and/or "Root-caused-by:" comes pretty close, I think.

It may seem like a small difference, but I understand the author's disappointment.
the only people who will buy these are creeps who want to secretly record other people in public
Not just how much money you have, but also how valuable you are to the school. Private schools, unlike public ones, tend to give out merit based scholarships regardless of income status, because introducing potential founders to potential investors is a key selling point.
As a user, I think you have two factors going on here:

1) They work. They help a LOT of people. It's just really hard to argue against "getting more oxygen and waking up less when you sleep."

2) They're horribly and outrageously gatekept. I'm sure I'm going to hear from many people who say you have to be careful because they're medical equipment -- and having used them for literal decades, I just don't believe that (as in, compared to what other dangerous medical stuff you can get OTC, obviously there's SOME hazards, just not enough to justify this level of gatekeeping.)

I would love to see what this industry could look like if you just let people get them OTC; I strongly predict you'd get across the board better and cheaper results with minimal danger to patients.
Yeah it’s their looooong term bet.
Eventually? Sure. Maybe. It wont be a capture story, it'll be a consumption and interaction story.

The biggest thing preventing that future is hardware, and considering how you're brushing up against hard physics, I honestly don't see smart eyeglasses that look like normal eyelgasses playing out in any serious capacity for a looooong time.
All of those features are also available on the EQS, this is an additional set of features on top of that.
I'd go for the handbook in that case:

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/firewalls/#firewa...
it's wild to me that they don't offer colour options
I really hope it'll be possible to use the cameras in voice calls. First person PoV would be way better than phone camera PoV, and it would free my hand from carrying the phone in front of me.
Playing ultra-settings Starfield on an old retina MacBook air is mindblowing. GeForce Now, imo, is quietly the killer app of 2023.

> game streaming fad never really takes off

I am in the opposite camp. I want game developers to be freed from local hardware constraints, and indy developers to have access to the same graphical fidelities as AAA. Real, meaningful innovation in gaming is a possibility.
Get yourself “The Book of PF” and get to work.
It's amusing how scale changes the landscape.

A human reads something for free or "free" (if they're a product for advertisers or data collectors). And no one bats an eye if they retell it to others. There are careers of this - teachers, instructors, advisors.

But if it's a a machine (or a superhuman - I want to hope hope we'll see AGI someday) that can do this at scale, the whole world is suddenly upside-down. I honestly have no idea how things should be (I have opinions, but I cannot really validate them, so they're just... opinions), but I find it interesting.

Being a pessimist and strong believer than humanity as a whole leans towards shittiest-but-cheapest solutions (down to a certain threshold, of course, but the plank is rarely high) my guess is that those websites will eventually try to monetize LLMs the way they do this with humans - by injecting ads in the information provided. Fear the day new breed of SEOs will start spamming, inventing fancier and fancier techniques of - ahem - enriching the models with customer-oriented targeted promotional materials (or whatever). And so the history will repeat itself.
The pro-publica report describes how the machines would cause cancer: The polyurethane foam used to muffle the sound degrades over time, including into some substances that are carcinogenic. The CPAP machine then blows those particles into the lungs of patients every night. [1]

I don't think the reporting proves that the CPAPs caused cancer, but I do think the preponderance of the evidence is that they did. No one is contesting that the foam degraded, or that it was blown into patient's lungs. People would wake up and regularly find black dust in their masks. The pro-publica report does not specify what substance is carcinogenic, but they mention a test report that sounds like a biocompatibility report which found genotoxicity. So it's likely that test also found carcinogenicity. If the machines were blowing carcinogenic particles into people's lungs, that would cause cancer.

[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/philips-kept-warnings-abo...
Given the history of fusion announcements, I suspect the only thing people are willing to listen to is "we successfully delivered power from a fusion reactor fueled by $fuel to a paying customer in $place, and the only byproducts were $waste_product."
The phenomenon doesn’t require for enforcement to become increasingly intense.

Enforcement just needs to be consistently intense enough to create an incentive for traffickers to opt for less bulky alternatives over bulkier alternatives.
I was one of the ridiculous-looking people who had a Google Glass when it came out. It was clunky, and lasted a very short time, and your face would get hot, and it had no real AR interaction with the real world.

But. If you could squint at the rough edges, and project forward what this could be like with more advanced tech, it was a no-brainer for me that it will be a far superior form factor for what we do with the phone. For 2 weeks, I tried hard NOT using a phone and just using it. While it was difficult (mostly because I couldn't have a conversation with anyone that didn't begin with them asking what was on my head), when I went back to the phone I so strongly noticed how much I was craning my neck, how annoying it was to interact with tech like that, and it kinda felt terrible.
Thank you! We try ;)
What the maintainer actually said was [0]:

> Thanks for your patch, but I wanted to fix it differently. Can you try the patch below and make sure it fixes the bug for you?

Which to me, at least, reads very differently than claiming the author's patch is worse.

[0] https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2022-June/24...

(Credit to nolist_policy for pointing this out upthread.)
It could notify you and then disable any recording until it's uncovered again..
Men are coerced to work at the business through the threat of destitution, to use your favorite word.
Kubedeploy is the bridge that brings simplicity and flexibility together in the Kubernetes deployment journey. Whether you’re a beginner looking for an easy start or an advanced user seeking precision and control, Kubedeploy empowers you to navigate the complexities of Kubernetes deployment with ease.
Ignoring it, won't make it go away.

Especially the way it started. It's till out there. The internet never forgets.
Apple is 100% a monopoly. They have a monopoly over software which can run on iOS. You either pay 30% of all revenue, or you lose out on half the North American market. Please explain how that is not a monopoly.
Is Drawing Dead?
Good news for those who don't want to be caught on camera

"The Capture LED lets others know when you're capturing content or going live. If the LED is covered, you'll be notified to clear it."

So that's nice.
Looks like they're currently mostly fetching $150-200 used:

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=quest+2&_sacat=0&LH_Ite...

I'm actually surprised -- I thought it would plummet once the 3 came out. Maybe it still will over the next few weeks if people with 2's upgrade to 3's and the marketplace gets flooded with 2's.
"Capture anything" aka recording videos is exactly one use case compared to a smartphone which can do that and..basically anything else. So I don't see how smart glasses will ever approach the ubiquity of a phone.
Yeah, I agree. This seems like it would be useful for stretches on 405, but not likely the bulk of a trip. Where I live, I could see it being useful for a decent chunk of 101, which could amount to 30 mins each way, each day.

I wonder if it drops down into a less-capable driver-assist mode when the speed goes higher, such that you can still just monitor the system for nearly all of your trip. Or does it drop you out into full human-driving mode?
Europeans’ BPA exposure still exceeds safety threshold but levels may soon fall
The only argument that I have is that wearing glasses kind of sucks and is pretty inconvenient. And glasses are kind of a fashion statement so unless these manufacturers can come up with a way to easily swap out parts like the frame (just like people change phone cases today) and lenses (to support people with prescriptions), it'll be tough to reach the mainstream.
I wonder if it be more effective to (re)
interpret the statement as follows: make friends with those living near you.
"In 2021, Hispanic, Asian and Black people made up a vast majority of the added workers — a trend that, analysts say, is necessary to overcome their historic underrepresentation. ... The biggest shifts happened in less-senior job categories.

... White people still hold a disproportionate share of the top, highly paid jobs in the US at S&P 100 companies. But the share of executive, managerial and professional roles held by people of color increased by about 2 percentage points compared with 2020

... In 2021, companies were hiring lots of people while prioritizing diversity. Many have since cut jobs amid an economic slowdown just as a backlash to corporate diversity efforts grows."
Why would you waste 15 min or care about being recorded? I would show them the door immediately and move on with other tasks.
This is amateur hour!
Let me know when you own all the flavors of the MX Keys, Mechanical, Mini, "Regular". All of the microsoft designer keys, a few Vortex keyboards (Core 40%, Cyph3r), some Dvorak keyboards, apple ones, custom made ones..... lol

It really is an addiction, it's a shame I too keep coming back to the MX Keys Line (Currently in love with the Mechanical w/ Cherry switches).
The resolution was probably OK, you wanted lower FOV or higher pixels per degree (PPD). There are monitor replacement AR glasses with the same resolution or lower, but acceptable PPD due to their low FOV.
encrappification

But sure, there are countless things I too don't say a certain way or even whole topics I don't discuss at all depending on who I'm talking to or in what context.

You can also just blame it on him. You can say it, and say this guy said this instead of just saying it directly. I do that I guess just for the lack of imagination reason. I hate repeating someone else so I haven't actually adopted the word in my own speaking, so if I were to talk about the topic with someone, I'd probably say this guy said it this way and it's perfect... I said it's perfect and yet I distanced myself.
Third party advertising and tracking, considering this is a Google-exclusive feature.
Being on the safe side isn't insane.

Putting lives at risk with a "beta" self-driving vehicle is insane.
If you want to find more of this kind of judgment, you can look online for "pseud" or "midwit" as a signpost; alternatively, "literature" ...
It's so compelling selling the picket house with all the land around it - who doesn't see that as idyllic? But then the hidden costs to community can't really be quantified, and the housing developers are hardly going to think of that.

I don't live in the US, but I do wonder what that has done to your social fabric. As well as making much of downtown flattened and made into parking lots for businesses. It is the first thing I notice jumping into any random US town in Street View; such wide spaces between every business on Main St. Who would ever walk there and chance upon a friend when you just dump the car outside and go into the shop or restaurant.
Why do you think people would prefer to use their phone over something like this? I assume people use their phone because that's what they have to use now. I could be wrong, I'm not representative of the average person, but if I could use my phone less and still engage with tech, I'd do it.
What are you going to do, bring footage to your local police station and get laughed out?
Software engineering is first and foremost about making good engineering choices. We are proving time and again as an industry that humans CANNOT write mistake-free code.

From just this week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37600852

Just because someone built a fantastically functional building doesn't mean we can't criticize their choice of foundation. Case in point: Millennium Tower in SF: https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/series/millennium-...
As someone who wears glasses, my argument was always that most people don't want to wear glasses all the time, even if they were adding no extra friction vs your regular sunglasses (weight, looks, cost).

But, I had the same argument for Apple watch - no one in my circle was wearing watches any more. However, that didn't prevent people to start wearing an Apple watch.

So, I can definitely see a future where people who don't wear glasses choose to wear smart glasses.
I think the perception of risk is what is off more than anything. LA metro for example saw about 180 violent crimes on it last year. For a system that sees almost a third of a billion boarding a year, the risk of violent crime happening is so low it doesn't make sense to consider. I expect the crime rate is similarly low on other transit systems.

https://libraryarchives.metro.net/DPGTL/CrimeStatReports/202...
I just pre-ordered one. I like the concept. It’ll probably suck but it’ll be fun to try.
Cheap? Isn't Tesla $12k perpetual and MB is $2500/year? (and will obviously have annual or biannual increases)

The service lifetime of even an ICE car is over 10 years.

I can't read the actual article because the paywall bypasser's I've tried all use a captcha that additionally have tracking and I can't get through them.
Eyewear isn't ubiquitous.
Well, no, it's not.

Giving a mere "reported-by" tag to a person who comes with a patch is just too unjust. Isn't it? The patch may not deserve to be included in the tree as-is, which can be understandable, yet dismissing all the research is essentially saying "you're too young to be here. Leave this to grown men, ride your tricycle over there. Here's a candy. Good boy."
I can't help but feel like "smart glasses" is really pushing what this is? I feel like the vast majority of people when they see the words "smart glasses" they probably think some sort of AR tech, or at the very least some sort of screen.

And yet this is really just glasses with something like AirPods stuck in it with a camera connected to your phone. Super smart.

Society is far far from ready to answer the privacy questions of something like this, but when has Meta ever cared about that so why not just release it...
Google Glass user here as well, and the one thing that form factor is missing is input (possibly solved by AVP with its eye and finger gestures).
I think the most likely use case, the one making me happy they're working on this, is reducing infra spend and having a separate tool/guarantees/storage for queues and for whatever kafka is more made for.

I'm just hoping librdkafka gets good too-tier support for this feature in a timely manner.
$600 AUD per million liters is still dirt cheap. That comes out to about an extra $3.5 per person per month (assumes 50 gallons of water/day/person). Would you be willing to pay an extra $3.5 per month to never have to worry about a drought again?

I know I would.
I have thrown the base+instruct models up on AI Horde, you can try it with no login:

https://lite.koboldai.net/#
Well, I don’t think you can really stop people from talking about new technology on a forum for hackers…
> I don't think it is possible to allow people to legally continue the addiction because of growing tolerances to the drugs that require people to find stronger and stronger drugs or dosages.

This is counterfactual. There is zero basis for claiming that tolerances are increasing at a population level. The increase in potency of street drugs is due to the basic economics of the black market on the supply side, not a response to demand.

> I think forced treatments have to start becoming an option. It isn't humane to let people rot on the streets.

Forced treatment is itself inhumane. It's a "solution" proposed only by people who have little idea of what it looks like in practice, of how substance abuse works, or of what successful treatment actually entails. In reality, "forced treatment" dramatically increases the death rates of people subjected to it.

If your problem is with people living "on the street", there are lots of simpler ways to address that problem than to subject them to a costly, expensive government response that will statistically end up killing them.
How much would you pay for a 20x20 inch piece?
Did we not learn anything from the failure of “Google Glasses” lol
> I understand your point, but nothing is mandatory in Free Software. However, this is not about internet points, but it's human decency with consequences.

The way OP framed it in the blog post, it sure does seem like it's mostly about Internet Points:

I told him that I would really appreciate if he could accept a patch from me, so that I could receive credit for fixing this issue and become a kernel contributor.

As far as I know, there is no official title of "Kernel Contributor" that comes with a certificate written on parchment. I have code I wrote in the Linux kernel. Am I an official Kernel Contributor? If so, I didn't receive my merit badge, and that doesn't mean any human decency rules were broken. Having code in the kernel is not that big a deal. I highly doubt I got any job offers because of it. This seems as Internet-pointy as HN karma.
Law enforcement is a broad term. 15 years ago oxycodone pills were everywhere. With the crackdown on "pill mill" doctors/pharmacies and prescription monitoring, it's almost impossible to find those pills and the alternative is the fentanyl currently flooding the market.
I posted directly to the original comment, but there is very strong evidence that sleep apnea was severely (~90%!) undiagnosed in 2008. 10 years ago was 2013, so hopefully that number improved between 2008 and 2013, but I'd imagine it was still a large problem.