skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ACE of 8 here - I don't know how to qualify "gifted" but I believe I was and am a few std deviations away from median on most IQ tests I've had to take (therapists always insist I take one).

I don't feel the need to get into my childhood but there was instances of severe abuse/neglect, and extreme hoarding. Some light sexual stuff but it's all fuzzy. Our home and upbringing was a lot like that Turpin [0] family where they were basically forbidden outside contact despite maintaining normal appearances to the outside world. If that was a 10/10, mine was about a 7. I've had symptoms of PTSD since a very early age and subsequent traumatic events in adulthood.

My teens/early 20's were... difficult. I was independent by 17 and mostly was too busy trying to survive than to seriously attempt college. By my mid 20's I was able to enroll in community college and then transfer to a prestigious CS program and graduated with honors. I naively thought this would be the "end" of my problems - a lot of the trauma drove me to push through extraordinarily difficult circumstances during my time at school and trying to juggle several jobs.

In the decade since though, while I do have much more money and resources to get help than I used to, I feel I have declined. I've had persistent depression and anxiety for so long it's to the point I have difficulty recognizing it without the help of a therapist, who I see 2x a week. Found out I am very high functioning on the spectrum, and people often have difficulty understanding where I am coming from in terms of life experiences and I have difficulty relaying to them why I am the way that I am, so I often present a facade, which is isolating and lonely. My siblings fared a little better than I did and found family with their significant others that I for whatever reason did not. I suspect without being a gifted child I would have died a long time ago.

So all in all, not great, but probably much better than my peers in similar situations did.

[0] - https://abcnews.go.com/US/turpin-daughter-escape-happened-di....
My Series 6 Apple Watch lasts from about 8am to midnight every day. If I wanted to sleep while wearing it I'd just take it off around 11pm and it'd be done charging almost every time by midnight, sometimes even sooner.

I used to religiously wear Pebble watches because they lasted forever between charges. But in all honesty I just don't find the one day battery life of AW to be that bad considering how quickly they charge. IMO they do have all-day battery.
Tangentially, I'd have loved to see a modern, (se)L4 based desktop (general purpose) operating system, capabilities-based, with services written in a safe language, with no legacy (POSIX) baggage.

Failing that, I hope to be able to hack on something along those lines when I retire :)

(before someone mentiones Fuchsia - Zircon is cool'n'all, but we're talking about L4 here)
Maybe it's time to stop caring about such things entirely.
> because they want to be able to spy on you whilst the laptop is off.

Source?
Ask HN: Cleaning up after 100X SaaS billing spike
Yes. We have all been there. Someone accidentally backing up logs a little too frequently, running tests a little too frequently etc. The end result is the same: vendor defaults settings and plethora of settings result in an inadvertent huge monthly bill. The damage is done and vendor rep is unreasonable.

So, lets make this unique: You are a small startup with no flex.

Whats your process for fixing the situation ?
Can you go into more details on what you are trying to point out here? I am not sure what stories you are referring to, nor do I fully understand the rest of your sentence.
The final sentence: "Hire leaders, not managers."

Left unsaid: This is incredibly hard to do well.

Even if you base your hiring on solid evidence of past successes, you're never going to know for sure whether the person is going to be able to achieve the same sorts of successes within your organization, with its own unique culture, structure, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, etc.

It's made all the more difficult by the fact that you have to be able to distinguish between true leaders and those who have ascended the corporate ladder through Batesian mimicry (basically by superficially resembling true leaders). So it's really tricky to tell one from the other under the constrained environment of an job interview.
Wikimedia Foundation.
Yes. It does require thinking about the monolith in a way so it can be broken up should the need arise.

Going down the monolith path != Having spaghetti as the core abstraction. :)
I agree. I am referring to "pop" meditation, "mindfulness", clinical meditation, what you get at workplaces -- i.e. the "thinking about nothing" meditation promoted by this webpage.

I'm calling attention to value, virtue, beauty, etc. Someone who is telling you that prayer is bad while meditation is good, or that religion is bad while secular mindfulness is good -- they are telling you to focus on yourself instead of something or someone else.
Did you miss the context of this subthread? My point was to agree with one of the (grand)*parent posts that it's still a human-specific matter.
I'm wondering how many sites are being affected due to AI, I've noticed myself using Google less
Now that is a name I haven't heard in a long time. I almost struggle to remember where I heard them from, but I distinctly remember reading this site trying to find the next great game for my first-gen iPod Touch. I can't say I've ever followed it closely, but there's a certain sadness bound to happen when a childhood site goes down.

I'll poor one out for TouchArcade (and Joystiq. and Rooster Teeth. Just checked, and gonintendo is still kicking!)
You mean it's easier to shard databases per tenant when it's a monolith?
I can't help envisioning such a thing with *Command and Conquer* announcer or *Warcraft 2* peasants.

"Building ..."
"Cancelled"
"Unable to comply, building in progress"
"Construction complete"
"Cannot deploy here"

"Job's done"

etc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW1qfrx_Lg8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoMhMZZjbGg
Seems hard… weather is a structure in the Piagetian sense, with lots of individual elements influencing each other via static forces. Earthquakes are-AFAIU as a non-expert Californian-more about physical rock structures within the crust that we have only a vague idea of. Although hey, hopefully I’m wrong; maybe there’s a kind of pre-earthquake tremor for some kinds of quake that a big enough transformer could identify…
fuck the Uni’s, they’ve spent decades profiteering off of us. my degree was an absolute waste of time (mathematics, cs+ stats minor) other than telling employers that i’m not a dumbass. i barely attended 30% of classes and graduated with a 3.5. uni is too easy, admits too many people, and serve as just a bottleneck in the system to actually living my life (profitably). the only reason i, and im assuming most others, went and did a hard degree was to signal to employers that im intelligent (and deserved to earn a proper living wage) , not bc i genuinely gave a shit about learning more lol
What's mentioned here is trivially 'fixed', it's setting stuff which can filled in.

The bigger issue is the magic system and description, especially combined with the very active divine system. D&D without it could be a zero-sum ignorant world like medieval times. The magic and divine systems transform it into an almost scientific world with magic replacing science. We can't easily 'fix' this like the setting stuff.

To get a more static result, designers then need to introduce powerful enemies, limit magic to a few people so the results of research can make little social difference, and since that's not enough (the PCs must have access to magic and work against the enemies), introduce almost regular cataclysms. That's still not enough, since the attitude is still a modern one ('we can fix it with tech^W magic').
It might compare favorably as a scripting language to bash, but I prefer python in this space.

As an interactive shell I'm getting used to powershell on Windows, but I have too much bash muscle memory for now.
If you're building drones in Ukraine, you're in war mode.

If your business required zero interest rates, you're not in war mode. You're in stupid mode. It was never a successful business. (See WeWork, etc.) Get out.
Darn, I remember checking this website everyday for new games when I had the 1st generation iPod Touch.
cf "Papers & Paychecks": https://www.explorersdesign.com/content/images/2024/04/7f35a...
Never heard of it, but will definitely give it a shot. At this point I'd read the books only to learn more about the setting. Thank you.
Interview with Inventor of Neural Nets Warren McCulloch () [video]
What an absolutely dishonest company, lying to employees repeatedly. I’ve heard from Amazon friends that their internal survey even shows that remote work improved productivity. But their old school behind the times executives don’t care. Plus whenever I visit Seattle I’m blown away that it has worse traffic than LA, so I don’t see how it is good for them either, since employees won’t stay late to make up for the time lost to commute.
Maybe I'm not a reliable-enough reader, but I didn't particularly see a palindromic effect in the last part of the book.

(Which to me still feels like the last third - to me, the book feels like the book has three sections: the setup, the survival, and the aftermath. I haven't read it in long enough to see if it's actually split that way in any sort of specific "Part 1, Part 2, Part 3" way.)
How is 36 hours different from 3600 hours, in your scenario? Either way, you need either need two watches, or not wear it sometimes.

The answer is, of course, that sometimes you don't wear it, but charge it. Like a few minutes in the morning and/or a few minutes in the evening while you shower or eat or whatever. Done.
Putting it on a $10 VPS means it costs $10 whatever happens. How to limit spend like this on static storage providers?
For example, a team of GPT3.5 agents can outperform GPT4o. A single inference is essentially just kind of a chain reaction where once you have a set of tokens generated, as it's building an answer, it's looking for next tokens only, and can't revise or rethink. CoT will always outperform the single inference approach.
Something maybe obvious but worth repeating is that there are 2 kinds of errors: predictable and unpredictable. Bias is the predictable error, it's the direction we are likely to be wrong in. In many practical applications unbiased error is not what we want. If the cost of being wrong in different directions is asymmetric then we want to be biased so that our mistakes are less costly. The unpredictable error is noise. In this example we are trying to create something maximally unpredictable, so the goal is to remove all biases, giving pure noise.
> Almost all the successful microservice stories have started with a monolith that got too big and was broken up

The less certain you are about a system's requirements the more you should prefer a monolith.

A well-understood system (eg an internal combustion engine) has well-defined lines and so it _can_ make sense to put barriers in between components so that they can be tweaked/replaced/fixed without affecting the rest of the system. This gives you worthwhile, but modest overall performance improvements.

But if you draw the lines wrong you end up with inefficiencies that outweigh any benefit modularity could bring.

Start with a monolith and break it up as the system's ideal form reveals itself.
Why would a company who recently added "strive to be the earth's best employer" care about a little thing like that?
Looks interesting. Sadly it will likely be hamstring by CORS rules. When designing an API, I frequently send all non-GET requests as POSTs with content type text/plain in order for them to classify as simple requests and avoid CORS preflights, which add an entire round trip per request. Obviously only safe if you're doing proper authorization with a token or something. Another fun bit is that you have to put the token in the query string, going against best practices for things like OAuth2, because the Authorization header isn't CORS approved. CORS enforcement is an abomination.
Nice! Yeah, that's definitely modern enough. Do you know if it runs as a hypervisor in the Secure Enclave firmware? It seems like the processor itself is low-power enough that it might not have virtualization features.
Good point, I read over that in the guidelines, I removed the Show HN from the title accordingly. My apologies its my first HN post, we offer free trials for users on case by case basis - send an email to lodi@labofdata.com with what you plan on using the product for and we'll follow up with you about free trial details.
Rediscovering Chesterton’s fence
Yeah. There's a healthy middle ground between boxing yourself in and boxing yourself out. Don't write things before you need them, but if you can tweak an implementation slightly with knowledge of things you're thinking about adding later, that's often a good idea idea.
For about two weeks, until everyone forgets.
It doesn’t have a grasp of bridging at all. It tagged a few of your terms as important based on its training data, then did a weighted search for words to respond, then as it built the response, continued applying importance-weighting to its “own words” as it did further searches, to avoid writing gibberish or going off some weird direction.

It’s still not much more than Markov chains, just with some clever anti-nonsense filtering and importance-weighting. There’s no “understanding”, nor anything particularly close to it.

It’s impressive we’ve accomplished so much with something that is so thoroughly, entirely stupid, in fact. They are useful tools, for sure.
There's the ideal path, then the actual. Most monoliths, unchecked and with enough age, turn into spaghetti due to turn over, changing priorities, entropy, etc.
Props. HN really needs an [edited] icon… throw it on the long list!
This is a highly visible manifestation of something that has been going on for years. I have been around mobile games for 20 years (going back to J2ME) and have never seen interest in the field so low.

Essentially the noise is that people are locked into habits in the app stores. It takes huge amounts of money to get people to try something new, and this invariably leads to amazing conservatism on the part of publishers. The big breakout hit last year was a Monopoly spin off, admittedly well executed, but with absolutely massive marketing pushes.

Steam is squeezing on one side and web games on the other. When the mobile herd simply moves where the marketing dollars lead them who needs reviews?
Ah, I see, 15-minute towns - the idea directly from the green EU.
>How does this relate to sleep apnea detection?

Because every friend I've talked to about the apple watch tells me charging isn't a big deal because they just throw it on the charger at night with their phone and use it in the morning. If I'm wearing it all night to track sleep apnea, when do I charge it? Per my original post. It looks like it takes an hour and a half to do a full charge, so it's not like you can just throw it on the charger for 15 minutes in the morning while getting ready for work.
macOS 15 Sequoia: The Ars Technica Review
Ah, good point. And even below I pointed out we can see a connection down to the the current president. Though, with a public repentance, for whatever that's worth from a politician.
What Google did was sit on their ass, not deigning to release anything. In the meantime, OpenAI became a $150 billion company. And Anthropic came out with Claude, and Facebook with Llama, and Mistral with their models.

Only then did Google realise there might be something to this LLM stuff - so they responded with Bard, a product so poorly received they later had to completely rebrand it. Looks like they didn't have a "sentient" model up their sleeve after all. Then the updated, rebranded model had a bunch of image generation embarrassments of its own.

Admittedly, they have recovered somewhat since then; they're second on some performance leaderboards, which is respectable.

But there was a real tortoise-and-hare situation where they thought they were so far ahead they had time for a nap, until they got overtaken. Any lead they had from inventing transformers and being the only people with TPUs has been squandered.
Any arguments to support this claim? What's the difference then?

If there is three communicating servces: first has 90% of the business logic, second has 7%, and the last one has 3%.
Should we call the first one a monolith? And if they don't communicate?
My co-worker gave me the quote - "if you have more microservices than clients, you're doing it wrong". Not sure if it was original or not but makes sense to me.
Which is why Apple's page that I linked is quite a lot longer than my comment. It is more carefully worded. It also isn't based on your particular preferences or tastes, but the tastes and preferences of their target market(s), which may vary well not include you.
Our lives are made up of and guided by narratives that sound good and just on paper, but are empirically proven wrong time and time again. Yet they persist.

Some come from the zeitgeist, others are eternal, biblical, and worse, unfalsifiable: "everything happens for a reason," "if you're meant to be together, you will be together," "just do a good job and you'll get what you deserve". The latter was voiced by my postdoc advisor, who did not take the time to look at the percentage of researchers who did good work but did not get a tenure-track position. But perhaps those who did not find jobs did not do good enough work, and the charade continues.
Maybe but they’re facing political pressure from the left, like Elizabeth Warren, to basically make the economy at least look good artificially. And they may do that. Will it be a sustainably better economy? I doubt it given federal debt and what feels like shaky employment levels.
It's not really binary or a spectrum. Royce was not taking about what he observed people doing, but how he believed large software projects should be conducted in the future.

In that, he first introduces what has come to be known as Waterfall. While he considered it to be fundamentally sound, he posits that it carries significant risk and then goes on to tell what needs to be added to diminish the risk. Those additions are what oft get called Agile (although not in the Manifesto sense).

You have a point that "simplification" is more in line with the device he was trying to use, but with the intent of leading you into understanding the more complex aspects of his idea. Kind of like that owl drawing meme where you start with two circles and then draw the rest of the owl. There is only one idea present. In other words, "Waterfall" and "Agile" are the exact same thing, just at different stages of communication.

Where others have tried to invent "Waterfall" as it own distinct thing to contrast with "Agile", it would be fair to characterize that as a strawman. If anything all projects are "Agile" at their core, with varying degrees of deviation happening in a multi-dimensional space.
It's not cynical to simply remind everyone who and what is motivating OpenAI (i.e. ClosedAI) at this point. They're no longer about helping the "AI community". They're about holding back from the community. Like you said: "That's what competition is."
Safari 18.0 Release Notes
People want it on their resume and money.

While I knew RTO was coming, the way that it has been implemented is going to cause some huge issues that I wonder how companies are going to move forward.

Disengagement was bad pre-pandemic and how these RTOs were handled industry wide have resulted in a lot of delegating upward.

Not sure if that culture shift will impact their recruiting efforts or if they will address it before that happens.

Perhaps it being industry wide will mitigate he impact for Amazon. Losing their scaling properties would be disaster for them compared to many.

But working there has been more of a stepping stone than a career for a long time for many people.
that project deserves a permanent web presence, if only a blog post!
Show HN: Firebender – A Dead Simple Coding Assistant in Android Studio
I spent a couple months working on a fork of AOSP (Android operating system), creating OS baked apps, and I realized how bad the coding assistants were for Android Studio (ie. Gemini). So, I built a coding assistant plugin designed for Android Development. It's simple to use: hit `CMD+L`, and a chat window opens in a side panel on the right with context over any highlighted code or opened file. There’s options to pick the best LLMs for android development like o1, gpt-4o, and claude-3.5-sonnet.

This is in its early stage, so feedback from other android developers would be super helpful - If you’re in the bay area and want free lunch/coffee, pick a time that works for you https://cal.com/team/firebender/coffee-with-firebender
Tell HN: iOS Devs, do not update to macOS Sequoia, Xcode 16 isnt live yet
I just made the mistake of updating to macOS Sequoia, only to discover that my installed version of Xcode 15 does not open, and there is no path to update to Xcode 16.

This due to the new OS version not supporting old Xcode versions (normal), but also that there is no update currently in the Mac App store to install Xcode 16.

Going to the official Xcode site only links you back to the Mac App Store, with the aforementioned lack of updates.

The net result is there is no Xcode that works on macOS Sequoia barring one of the beta/RCs of Xcode 16
We actually have two versions of this test. One does 100% totally random actions. The other tries to simulate an actual user (i.e. maintains the state of their cursor, which sheet they are looking at, etc), but still quite random.

So the former finds crazy obscure edges, but the combinatorics make it less likely to hit any particular combination. The latter is the opposite. They pair really well.
That's what the article is saying in part. Very few people showed or tested absolutely nothing before the very end of the project so if that's a requirement to be 'waterfall' it was a strawman that's easy to argue against.
i think the Jetblue thing is historically true but not anymore.

The Jetblue thing is also not really altruistic, but a nice side effect of an optimization they did; the removal of the seats brought the capacity to their planes to a round number of 50, which happens to be the FAA required ratio of persons per flight attendant.
TouchArcade dying is completely unrelated to the AI slop boom: as the post notes they've been on the deathbed for many many years due to shifts both in web revenue and mobile game interests. They were good when premium mobile games sold well (TouchArcade was the best place to learn about deals) but that time is long gone.

Notably, websites specialized around gacha mobile games have been doing very well.
https://www.amazon.com/Blitzed-Drugs-Third-Norman-Ohler/dp/1...
How to Make HTTPS Verifiable
“We’re here on this Earth to fart around, don’t let anybody tell you different.”

~ Kurt Vonnegut
Yeah, that's my point. A stock buyback is a visible boost to NPV, whereas the drawback (opportunity cost of not investing in core businesses) is much harder to measure. Sometimes, they don't need any additional investment. Other times, it's Boeing.
and xmonad!
Don't forget Toon as the radical alternative for somebody who wants to run an easy and fast game that is not set in such an unforgiving setting as CoC or Paranoia.
Whenever this man write anything the cargo cults are flocking. That's totally okay as long as you are aware.

I recommend you to learn to think for yourself given the context you are in, along with the power and social dynamics of such.
The manual says 45 minutes to 80%, 90 minutes to 100%. If I'm only charging to 80% that's roughly 14 hours of battery life on a Series 9 or 10 (18 hours on full charge). So not even a full day? I just don't get how the math works if I'm trying to wear it all night every night and wear it for workouts during the day.