skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This will get worse and worse the more the technology gets better and better. It will happen with news and cause mass chaos with false news stories to confuse people.
I think if you decide at all that you want a smartwatch, with all the functionality that entails, you are aware that you’re going to have a thick object on your wrist, so you’re either not bothered by this in the first place or you make peace with it. For what it’s worth, I have an Apple Watch— which is considerably thicker than the Pixel Watch— and I don’t notice the thickness at all, except maybe when putting on formalwear with tight cuffs.
Singapore literally has no extra space to accomodate cars. Every square meter of car infrastructure is a square meter taken away for anything else. Thus pricing land and infrastructure use appropriately is extremely important.

Beyond a certain number of cars congestion is net negative for everyone. With a bidding process you allocate car ownership to where there is actual economic value.
It's ironic or a bit disingenuous that a device putting constant notifications on your wrist is advertised for stress relief. Not unique to PW2, quite common in tech, but regardless...
_Supposedly_ it's now common for cars to be "stolen on a trip to Thailand" near the COE expiration. (This allows the owner to store the car out of country rather than being forced to sell it in Thailand.)
How much easier can it get than the current dropdown allowing you to choose a search engine?
This is horrible. Some shitty business should not be permitted to change the night sky.
Nice work! It's fun to see other people hacking away at Golang projects. I've been contemplating how to write tests for my own project, and this has given me some ideas.
Gliders are made to land in random fields without major obstacles (like cows, fences or hay bales) and regularly do that when they can't manage to glide to an airport.

You need to disassemble the plane afterwards (a routine operation, gliders are built that way) or possibly even have a powered airplane land nearby and aero-tow you back up if the field is good enough for that. :-)
If it's deliberate, how do you expect anyone to get a royal flush?
Most FOSS software has minimal testing. Fuzzers are only used by companies with their own security teams doing due diligence on their stacks.
Most people wrongly believe that the situation is similar to that of a car on the highway. If a car is capable of going ~80 miles per hour, and you put it on a treadmill going 80 miles an hour in the other direction, the car will run in place on the treadmill. The takeoff speed of a jet is something like 160 mph, so the picture most people have is running a treadmill at -160 mph, and they picture the airplane running in place just like the car. As Mythbusters showed, that's not what will happen, the plane will just move at 320 mph relative to the treadmill.

Of course you could imagine a situation that's not analogous to the car at all, in which we just dictate that however fast the treadmill needs to move to exert a force on the jet equal to that of the engines, it will move that fast. That means we've defined the situation in just a way that by definition, the airplane will not be able to move forwards. What most people don't realize, though, is that doing this is not like stopping the car on the highway. In fact the force exerted by the ground on the wheels during takeoff is so small that to effectively stop the plane, you'd have to spin the treadmill fast enough to destroy the wheels and carriage. And maybe even that wouldn't do it!
I don’t understand how we disagree? The expert has more confidence in their field and thus can more safely reject the consensus than the ignorant.
I don't think so.

The main go compilation must work in all sorts of environments: dev computers, CI runners.. it should be quick and automated to keep development fast. It should be easy, so everyone on your team can do this.

The assistant process is basically built once and then never changes, you just need to keep a binary somewhere (and they seem to be <1MB so you can check them into git directly). So a single person somewhere has to figure how to do a C build once, and everyone else can benefit. Have your someone ssh into CI runner directly and install gcc. Spend a day installing compiler and messing with Makefiles on exotic OS. You only do it once and you are good forever (or until you want to bump sqlite version)
A bit unorthodox to have a public throwaway and an anonymous-ish main account, I suppose ;)
You're being overly pedantic, I'm saying they don't use the traction with the ground to take off.
I’ll never forgive them for how they butchered Nest. And yes I do think of that when I contemplate anything from Google like this watch.
Isn’t this the same thing Apple does? Carrier bill credit, Apple TV+ trial, Apple Fitness+ trial, Apple Arcade trial etc. Seems like any other kind of phone marketing to me.
You forget that Russia is under heavy sanctions (which likely lead to the accident in the first place), and they have a difficult time maintaining their normal planes, let alone those that crash land or take off from fields
Inflation has skyrocketed in the past few years due to broad money supply. Everyone has taken a pay cut unless they had a pre-covid equity grant (RSUs) or saw their salary grow > 10% a year.
NYC as a city has one of the highest rates of turnover in residents. Not exactly a counter example.
I've had a different experience - LLMs that continue to apologize then make up other wrong shit in a chain of ludicrous wrong shit.

I think of LLMs as world-class bullshitters. They often hold forth with complete confidence on topics they have little or no understanding of, making up what they don't know, and appearing to be experts. Except to somebody who actually knows something.

Like that blowhard friend who has an opinion on anything.
President Speaking: Spoofing Alerts in 4G LTE Networks (2019) [pdf]
I have read a lot of papers that are vague with the details of implementation. Some release code that isn't portable at all and probably works only on their machine with 0 documentation.

A lot of obfuscation in general. Poor documentation and omission of critical implementation details means it's way too hard to replicate a paper.

And even if you do replicate there's no way of finding out if the output is wrong because of your implementation or the idea itself is flawed.

Doing proper documentation should be mandatory. I can only talk about CS but yeah more information.
I had no idea the battery life on most smart watches is so bad that "24 hours of screen on battery life" is something to brag about. The apple watch is no better.

My Garmin Forerunner 945 (a running focused smart watch), more than two years old at this point, gets nearly two weeks of battery life on a single charge, and it's got an always-on screen as well.

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Quick edit:

Even the latest Forerunner 965, which has an AMOLED touch screen, gets 7 days of battery life in display-always-on mode, and 3 weeks in default mode (display turns off)^1

[1]: https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=FEjONGCI270wlBlREC7Uw8...
I must be lucky. I'm still rocking a pixel 3. It's got multiple breaks in the screen, the back of the phone is pretty cracked, the camera cover is completed smashed out. Hey somehow this thing still works and takes ok pictures.
Any watch case over 12mm thick is considered "thick". Thin is typically under 8mm. (25.4mm=1 inch)
But you can't fit that "sea" into a processor core as a separate unit powered by unique instructions (like an FPU or ALU) because the speed demands the cache and ALU be there (or else it can't run at 3GHz any more). Once it's not that close it doesn't make sense to be on the same chip; maybe a neighboring chiplet. But anybody could do that.
Reading the future ideas section:

* Async support not there yet

* statistical power is principled in terms of following a good paper about how to pick how many iterations, but the variance stuff isn’t implemented yet. By definition, if I’m reading the readme correctly, its execution mode is equivalent to —quick.

* baseline evaluation not there yet.

My overall gripe remains that this stuff isn’t available natively within the Rust/cargo ecosystem. I should be able to swap out benchmarking frameworks without having to rewrite my entire codebase to try out a new one.
Getting on a flight Russian flight seems like a hilariously bad idea nowadays.
my journey into desktop publishing through latex, pandoc, Google docs, and finally scribus as a alternative to Adobe indesign
True. The only time I have walked out of store (maybe once or two times) is when I have already used card few times previously with unplanned $50+ purchases. Now this time I only need $5 thing, & they say there's charge of $0.50 for card.

I also was in your similar example. In US I have a car, so very rarely I use public transport which is not Bart. I landed in Toronto at 2am, got into Bus Google Maps told me, Bus driver said $2.50 fare, cash only. I gave him American 3 dollars, and he gave me Canadian $0.50 change back.
I hate the health insurance system in the USA so much. It's just horrendously bad. I had a kid enter this world at right about the same time I changed jobs. That resulted in changing health insurance. On paper, this should have been a little expensive but fine because I paid extra money for Cobra to extend my coverage until the new plan kicked in. But it was such a mess.

I was making phonecalls and sending emails and logging in to weird web portals with two different insurance companies, Cobra (which was managed by some mysterious other entity??), two different HR departments, and the finance people at the hospital for months trying to deal with this stuff. The hospital we were at was in-network for both insurance companies, but no one was communicating with each other (and apparently one doctor involved was not in-network, so there were extra charges, which is such bullshit).

Why is my employer involved with my healthcare costs anyway? It's genuinely a Kafka-esque nightmare.

Anyway, any presidential or congressional candidate that opposes universal healthcare doesn't get my vote, ever. Sorry Biden, but you don't automatically get my vote just because I disagree with the republican platform.
How can people tolerate charging a watch each night? I can't get behind this idea of having a basket of electronics you need to babysit all the time so they don't run out of battery. Especially when we already have really battery efficient tech, like hybrid watches with e-ink display.
ok but how does this matter for other countries? The approach works for Singapore, but that says nothing about what is right for other places. Parent comment came across as being generally anti car.
If you collaborated with other bank robbers, and they intentionally arranged it so that you would take most or all of the punishment while allowing them to escape free, then I think most would describe that as scapegoating you (even though part of the blame really does lie on you for participating in the scheme).

I don't really know or care about the specifics of the SBF case and I'm not saying this applies to SBF. All I am saying is that at least two people in this discussion disagree with your understanding of the colloquial definition (me and the person you originally replied to with this criticism). So on that basis alone I don't think you have a right to be so assured in your definition.
> No one is forcing you to buy anything you don’t want.

Yes they are, by refusing to release security updates for older models.

I don't want to buy a new phone, but likely will have to due to support ending so they can sell more high margin hardware.
My Garmin Descent Mk2 smartwatch is even thicker at 17.8mm. Not ideal, but the functionality is so good that I'm willing to sacrifice a bit of comfort.

https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/633356#specs
While I don't think Google will abandon Pixel phone, yeah I'd be wary of buying pixel watch for sure.

For better or worse, Apple's rectangular form factor is something people have gotten used to and frankly it's more space efficient than a circle.

To really make a dent in the market place, they should build a product that has a Wow factor that is good enough to lure even Apple Watch users away.
> Fake, made up consequences don't count.

What? There are real consequences to stupid laws/regulations as has been shown again and again. You might want to checkout Consequences Matter: Thomas Sowell on “Social Justice Fallacies” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn2gda_phAA

> Caste Discrimination is like any other form of discrimination. It's wrong.

This is NOT what is being argued (it is a given). The issue is whether it is prevalent enough in the US to warrant laws/regulations.

> Pretending being opposed to it is racist is hilarious. I've read your shallow arguments.

You attacked me explicitly and got called out on that so don't hide behind glib and flippant statements. As pointed out above, from your comments it is clear that you have not even understood the issue being discussed. I have given you links to all sorts of data and arguments while you have given me nothing in support of your arguments.

> I have personally witnessed caste discrimination and work in an environment where it happens regularly enough

Where is the evidence/proof (even the Cisco case has been dismissed)? Making such claims anonymously on a internet forum is the very definition of agenda-driven Hinduphobia. Anonymous accusations have zero credibility. If you really were concerned about the issue you would call out the companies/individuals involved under your own name. But seeing that you are not doing so leads one to the inescapable conclusion that you are being untruthful (to put it mildly)
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Same. I have various "accounts" with google to manage various services and I can never find the right place to login for the set of services I am looking for.
I thought they stopped doing that in 2019?
Tesla is building something called ‘Giga Water Loop’
Huh, I wonder if it works for mucosal membranes too.
My payment processors (Shopify, PayPal, Klarna, etc.) don't treat debit cards any differently than a credit card. Those are all huge payment processors; so it's not like a special snowflake here.

Since we're on HN, I'll mention Stripe. I don't use Stripe - but they act the same way.

All of these don't bill for "credit card" they bill for "card".
FAANG collusion; mass headcount reduction edition
Well, it’s not fine.. : https://store.google.com/us/product/watch_band_woven?hl=en-U...
Now the question is will the landlords “trim the fat” as well and drop rents.

The “2 months off” deals and the bankruptcies due to high vacancies popping up [1] points to the answer being ‘No’. Which means this is a double drop for the residents of the bay.

[1] https://www.globest.com/2023/08/22/default-imminent-on-384m-...
I do all of my genealogy on wikitree. Some people don't like it because it's one big shared tree, so some stuff is pretty messed up and hard to untangle. But in general it's pretty good and a good interface (IMO) for building the tree and documenting sources (get on familysearch for finding sources). There are some image export options, and the platform is open for developers to build apps on top of the database.
A Uruguayan physicist cracked a major code for renewable energy
Track what you work on as it happens. Every time you think, "Wow, I just did a good job," write it down. Keep track of those wins.

When it comes time to interview, that becomes your updated resume and your bank of experience to talk about.
Notably, that page has many photos of the watch from the front, but you have to scroll down to get to a profile shot. It looks like a tank! (even to me, a fellow Garmin-owner)
Qualcomm has a part in maintaining that confusion sadly.

While Hexagon and HVX are publicly documented ISAs, HTA (legacy), HMX and friends are not publicly documented ISA extensions.
But are friends with benefits friends?
> I really wanna like Google products

Why?
whoa whoa whoa, you mean to tell me that importing hundreds of thousands of H1Bs every year (increasing supply) put downward pressure on compensation (demand)?
Ural Airlines is currently under sanctions. The plane in question is effectively stolen property (like most airlines the planes were purchased with loans/leases from the manufacturer's finance arm, and Ural stopped making payments last year). Russian airlines are operating planes without the correct service intervals.
I guess that's why it doesn't cost anywhere close to $100!
Ask HN: Do you honestly expect coding to exist as a profession in 5 years?
For those early in your careers, do you imagine AI tools, short of full AGI, won't completely take over the human element of coding? If you do believe this, are you preparing your life/career with that expectation?
I aspire to never write a postmortem again.
The chonky apple watch lasts 2-3 days. The small ones are engineering marvels to last even 24h.
Creating a solution for a problem that doesn't exist.
Evolution of technology makes things unstable, not specifically servers. A decentralized application is not more stable than a centralized one. It depends on what's prioritized about the product. For example, you can still use SMTP servers developed several decades ago to send email to others.

Also, it is hard to buy the argument that docs based on Google Docs will live less longer than docs served by some CRDT-based collaborative application. It is easy to argue the opposite. My Google doc history shows docs I have even forgotten ever existed, and Google docs play nice with Microsoft Word - making it interoperable with the largest ecosystem around structured documents. Again, this is about product features and prioritization, not underlying building blocks.

CRDTs hold a very special place in my heart. But I also believe they don't offer a differentiated solution - on the user facing side.
There's a point at which something like a new smartphone isn't a status symbol anymore. Among wealthier people, having an iPhone 11 isn't less of a signal than a day one iPhone 15.
Yes, transflective screens consume MUCH less energy than a OLED/LCD or whatever display tech that these watches have that require backlights to function.

The Garmin works just fine without an active backlight (due to transflective) and has much fewer colors and worse resolution and worse refresh rate. It also does not have a touchscreen which also consumes lots of energy.

The modern smart watch advertises always on screens because it manages to get a day of battery life with a "good" display
Ask HN: Trans and recently laid off need advice
I know this is probably not the best forum for this, and am well aware that it's a very politically divisive topic. But,I'm not really sure where to turn.

I've been an SWE for +10 years. The entire time I presented as my gender assigned at birth, and kept my transition a secret because the statistics for employment are depressing to say the least. A year and a half ago I changed jobs to a company that said they promoted tolerance which made me over the moon to join. Well that ended up not being the case. Without knowing anything (still same pronouns, and generic name that is predominately aligned with my gender) my coworkers, and manager said extremely concerning opinions regarding trans individuals (think more generic MAGA sentiment, and acts of violence I don't really care about anything else) so decided to play it safe, and not disclose since the trans benefits were shockingly good despite a not so inclusive environment. This also shockingly was not a small company by any means.

I was originally planning on coming out, but after getting completely cut off from my family 3 years ago I kind of stuck with "if I want to make myself happy I'm going to have to do this myself", and I did. I saved a large portion of my check, and immediately dropped it in savings. Shockingly gender affirming surgery is incredibly expensive, and I'm expecting around a $100k bill that I need to pay in a couple of months, and no surgeons accept insurance. You basically just pay cash, and pray your insurance company will reimburse you.

Well 2 months ago I was laid off, and applying for jobs has taken an extreme tole on my mental health. I've found it incredibly awkward asking recruiters what LGBTQ benefits are available, and well the stats show that I'm significantly less employable being trans, and I'm finding I'm getting more rejections even just mentioning it.

I honestly don't even know what to do anymore. My savings is slowly dwindling away, and I made the wrong bet on my previous employer. My LinkedIn, network, former coworkers all know me as my former self. But, now I'm stuck in a paradigm of not being depressed and coming out, and finding a job.

What should I do? I'm depressed constantly hiding a part of my identity, but know that my chance of landing a job in time, or at all will significantly drop if I come out to everyone.

P.S. I'm not looking for advice on the being trans. I'm honestly just looking to live a normal life, and be happy.
We are using Typesense to fill this exact need, its been a welcome breath of fresh air over the typical ElasticSearch headaches.
Tbh your argument might be stronger if you blame ChatGPT for it
I went there on mobile Safari and the UI just let me go between Free and Ad Supported, saying “Subscribed” next to the option I just clicked, regardless of the fact that I don’t have an account or the plugin installed. So that seems nice and trustworthy.
The page-up and page-down keys, as well as the arrow keys, should also work for scrolling, but often don't because of hijacked scrolling events.
Garmin devices are generally great on battery life but the display on the Forerunner 945 isn't really considered "always on". It always displays an image but isn't readable in the dark without turning on the backlight.

Some newer Garmin devices do have true "always on" displays. Their battery life is slightly worse, but still pretty good.
Mayer didn't kill it off 100%, only like ~95%.
This seems super cool but is this like battery breakthroughs? Don’t get excited until we are much closer to it being manufactured at scale/appearing in clinical settings? This is a real question—I’m not clear on the significance of these kinds of press releases.
On the data analytical site, I always wondered if complex game state patterns could be deconstructed using techniques from the JKU Visual Data Science Lab [0][1]. Here they demonstrate chess board win states from competitive data, and I wonder what the state relationships would look like for different (video) game matches and if new strategies could be derived from it.

[0]: https://youtu.be/yBCe8SqGwK8

[1]: https://jku-vds-lab.at/publications/2022_embedding_structure...
I think the screen quality is very different. Newer Garmins have screens that are more comparable, but if you run them in always-on mode, battery life is a few days IME. I don't leave my screen on, and the battery lasts 5-6 days.

I agree that 24 hours is lousy, and I won't buy and Apple/Google watch for this reason.
>... yes, probably that cost me some salary.

I'll forever take a slightly lower salary for a solid work-life balance. The mental health benefits, and overall happiness, are worth infinitely more than a little more cash.
Bah, typo.

The point stands: useful pathogen-killing much more effective than tea appears to be in the paper.
Russia is definitely on the fast-track to North Korea status. I feel sorry for everyday Russians who aren't able to escape.

Although I do agree with them about Meta.
This is the problem with autoupdate - you are giving Google complete control over your computer.
A large proportion of the population subscribes to one or more false conspiracy theories. On the other hand, man-made global warming is just barely accepted in the general population. We shall learn no such thing.

People believe the papers they want to believe and don’t believe the papers they don’t want to believe. AI doesn’t change that equation because people don’t read papers to start with and journalists are easily fooled.