skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure why they went all the way to 5 days when 4 days would have done most of the job. Anyone has insights into this?
From a few minutes on Google, it appears like most developed countries require a prescription to purchase a CPAP device, including the US (varies per state), Canada, UK, Australia, Germany, France and Italy.

The most notable exceptions I find are Japan and Singapore, where it can be purchased without an Rx.
Spot on based on my work experience at Amazon. Working Saturdays from home was much better because at least I did not have to interact with those psychopaths from Retail.
The New Kids in the Huddle
My suggestion for anyone wanting to try this is to use small bleeps that don't get annoying over time. I use some retro game sounds by cabled mess[1].

[1] https://freesound.org/search/?q=Retro+Video+Game+sound+effec...
I suspect you're right and was already having similar thoughts regarding the hashing scheme. I put a patch together and am going to supplement with some additional tests of the collision space.

Unordered hashes made more sense for arbitrary Clojure data structures where the keys might be complex compound objects, but once we're in the land of datoms with finite value data types it's pretty easy to enforce a consistent ordering.

(disclaimer: I wrote much of the feature and post)
> Suboxone is a compound of two drugs that decreases one’s cravings for opioids while blocking their effects. It is safer and less cumbersome than methadone, which requires daily or weekly visits to a clinic, and more effective than any abstinence-based treatment, which requires people to withstand cravings and suppress physical discomfort.

This highlights one of the issues I have with articles like this about Ozempic at this current moment - this glosses over something major with these two particular drugs. With methadone, yes, it will keep you off of heroin, but you'll also likely never, ever get off of methadone because the withdrawal is 1) just as horrible and severe as heroin and 2) can last months. To the point where you'd almost be better off just kicking the heroin the "old fashioned" way. suboxone is similar - the drug isn't without side effects either. Of course, that isn't to say these things aren't useful - to have a methadone/suboxone dependency is way preferable to heroin addiction.

My only real point is that we should wait to see what long term side effects these drugs have before calling them miracles and glossing over their down sides, because I think the end effect of that is counterproductive to medicine. I'm always immediately skeptical as to what drugs pharmaceutical companies are pushing out, due to the history I've witnessed so far in my lifetime.

That all said Ozempic probably would've saved a relative of mine's life. In the end, they'd likely not care about the side effects all that much.
I know I'll be seen as an Apple fanbot for saying it, but holy schmoley Apple's operating system-fu just leaves Windows in the dust.
People have sued and won over being asked to check emails off the clock.
I would also be interested to know how true this is for individual productivity versus group productivity.
It won't work that way. If you look at the internal structure of amazon, you realize that majority of the good engineers have been there for 5+ years. Amazon always churned through people, causing good engineers who couldn't deal with the culture to leave within 2-3 years, and mediocre engineers getting pipped over 3-4 years.
If by "very small" you mean two 12-story office towers in South Lake Union, then yeah.

But note that Apple is on a similar glide path as Amazon with respect to return-to-office.
Answering my own question, it looks like window tiling is finally solved.
In other words, it's already been infected by the enemy.
is it just what scrcpy has been doing for some years already ?
it's fully supported, my main desktop is NixOS on zfs crypto root. I do not use auto-snapshots but they are supported as well.
Does anyone know how these eSIM travel apps work behind the scenes? There seem to be a ton of them popping up, so I'm guessing there are a bunch of services that let you white-label their offering.
You're not supposed to pay attention.
I like accuweather's minutecast which is a higher resolution short-term forecast (+60 min) that is not just pulling the forecast for the nearest weather station to you.

Windy(.com) premium also has a great hybrid weather radar+forecast view which was recently released and which I find has been very effective at predicting rain at a specific location on the map vs "nearby". With smaller weather patterns it is entirely possible for it to rain a few blocks away but not at your location. An 11-KM resolution weather forecast (as referenced above) will not be able to capture this nuance.
I was/am a rectangle pro user!
> Ozempic seems to be something of a miracle. It’s a very effective treatment for diabetes as well as high blood pressure, heart failure, and kidney disease. New evidence suggests that it improves depression and reduces suicidality, and it also seems, unexpectedly, to reduce non-food-related addictive behaviors, like gambling. Studies are underway to see if it prevents cancer and Alzheimer’s disease.

reminds me of cortisone, which was also hailed (and partially is) a sort of panacea. Turned out not to be a cure for everything, and with some significant downsides, while still being a very valuable drug.
Wait, did you make that? I remember going to that site around 2003-2004!
it looks great. Covering a few pain points in modelling APIs when you need to retrieve data idempotently but the URL is not identifying a specific resource, ie, "The content returned in response to a QUERY cannot be assumed to be a representation of the resource identified by the target URI".

This is a "work in progress". Is there any estimation of when it will be finalized by? Something like during 2025, and frameworks/libraries starting to support it by something like 2026?
Just to have a reference, anyone remember how long it took for PATCH?
Bingo. The other tool they use is a secretly higher perf review bar.
Feeling humiliated and driven to a point where one’s subjective feeling is that there is nothing left to lose, one does not need to be a madman to launch everything one has. Vengefulness is sufficient.

Note that subjective assessment of the situation is sufficient. Putin is dependent on nobody to come to such a conclusion, especially not the west, and why should he care anyway? Western war escalation enthusiasts apparently are willing to take the risk anyway or do not seem to understand this.
> Worlds without internal consistency like Discworld

What don't you find internally consistent about Discworld?

Yes, it's full of gags and references to the modern world, but is that inconsistency? Or do you mean something else?
>or even $20 on a game inspired by Harvest Moon, when I can actually play the original games for free?

If by that you are referring to Stardew Valley, while it is indeed inspired by Harvest Moon, it is so much richer and deeper and after playing it I guarantee you won't want to go back . It is like saying why play a modern Roguelike when you can just play Rogue.
In the beta builds with Apple Intelligence, it is possible to turn the entire feature set off (including cloud calls). Don’t think you can keep the local features and skip the cloud though.
For me, that book sits in a weird crux of interesting yet underwhelming. I think it suffers a lot from the implied quasi-D&D setting intersecting with modern assumptions. It has a lot of absentee worldbuilding that amounts to a blank space implying all the stuff you're already used to from the real world, instead of doing anything interesting with it being fantasy.
The next year is long away, let’s see how o1 changes the things. The side with the upside drives the employment conditions in the end.
> You might as well call helicopters "flying cars."

Which is exactly what people do in reply to the question, "where are our promised flying cars?". They exist, they're called helicopters.

The one criterion this does not meet, that's often hiding implied in the word "car", is "car as in private car ownership in United States". This will never fly (excuse the pun) with flying vehicles, because not many would be willing to go through enough training to be able to operate an aircraft safely. Most drivers don't even get adequate training to operate their own cars safely (drivers' license requirements are a joke), and piloting takes at least an order of magnitude more than that.

(And that doesn't even touch maintenance, which most drivers don't do, and a good fraction of those are willing to spend extra money to get their broken cars stamped as road-worthy.)

Which is why human-piloted helicopters and self-flying passenger drones are the closest we're going to get to "flying car" anytime soon; physics and human stupidity precludes anything else.
It exists in the same line of argumentation as being against student loan debt forgiveness because one had to pay off one's own loans, except about something that is even more determined by one's birth.
congrats on your App!
I know someone who (is trim, and managed to lose 10KG on their own) responded to Ozempic and other such drugs saying "It's not fair".

Think about it.
We may actually be seeing the moment where Moom[1] is no longer an essential OS X app. It can solve both window tiling and the "maximize problem" on mac and has been my first install for many years. Here's to hoping that Apple can get one basic OS feature right once.

[1] https://manytricks.com/moom/
I don't recall all the details but we did end up with lua to talk to redis or memcached to do some traffic shaping at one point. One for bouncing to error pages before we switched to CDN (long story), and another one for doing something too clever by half about TTFB. It's still really cheap especially on a box that is just doing load balancing and nothing else.

If you wanted to throw another layer of load balancer in, there are consistent hashing-adjacent strategies in nginx+ that would allow you to go from 2 ingress routers to 3 shards with rate limiters to your services, using one KV store per box. But I highly suspect that the latency profile there will look remarkably similar to ingress routers doing rate limiting talking to a KV store cluster.
It seems very expensive compared to going with something like Visible or US Mobile (both get prioritized Verizon data these days) and adding eSIMs as required abroad.
Amazon pays well, but will work you like a dog. My wife worked as a WHS specialist, and really enjoyed her team starting out. However over time they all got weary of the workload and left. Insolent managers, incapable and sometimes even unintelligible workers (it got so bad they started posting signs in two languages), and a mounting focus on speed over safety completely burnt out their facility’s entire safety team. Only one remains from her OG team, and she‘s looking for her chance to jump ship too. Now my wife is much happier working in an insurance field, even despite the pay cut.
Do you honestly believe that if all the studies and research showed performance goes down when WFH that executives wouldn't be screaming it from the rooftops and shoving it down our throats to get us to come back in? Most people don't want to commute.
thank you!

Sorry, tone is very hard on the internet sometimes.

Any sass would be directed at mono-lingual-future dreamers.
This. Some products are platforms with thousands of functionalities all interlinked in a uniform data model, with similar but specific behavior expected for all modules of the platform.For instance, a Core Banking System, or OMS in Telcos. And since we all get paychecks, it seems to work.

Building such an product in agile was often tried and failed in the past decade. You need common data structures and routines that a few thousand developers can all expect to find ready further down the line. Like the Oregon Trail game, you launch all workstreams in different moments and expect them to converge at the finish line.

I think “100% waterfall” was ditched in the early 90s, for all the known reasons, with smaller cycles of releases becoming the norm. But still the hard thinking, laying down the key mechanisms of a platform was heavily thought out early on.

I think all criticism is a bit unfair, as agile is also an infinite source of cock ups, mediocrity and dead ends just as waterfall. There is a space for each approach, and bottom line, the right people will make all the difference. But that’s also why it’s important to learn and respect both approaches…
Snark aside, that's not how oncall works at Amazon.

The oncall person has a laptop (and perhaps a pager), and they are expected to remote connect ASAP when needed. That was the norm well before Covid; doesn't make sense to wait for a commute before responding.

But then maybe after you do the first level of triage, if it's still ongoing, then you go in to the office.
For me there are two:

- the nix language, very little digestible

- a somewhat disperse community

But it's still pretty usable and EXTREMELY better than mainstream distros automated with Ansible. The real issue is that most people still do not know such systems (NixOS/Guix System) do exists and they are arguably the future.
I find footnotes slow me down as well because I'm compelled to read every single one of them. Though they are better than links.
You could try cutting the AI process from the internet using LuLu
Ah I really wanted this too but it seems like it's not available in the EU.

Does anyone understand why? Is it apple having a flap about recent DMA/Whatever regulations they don't like or is there an actual technical reason why what's probably a fancy version of VNC can't work without breaching European regulations?
The IMEI is no longer specific to a given slot on modern phones. I have dual eSIMs on my iPhone; I believe it’s the same for newer Pixels.
Yes, but we've had Ozempic since 2017 for type 2 diabetes. That's longer than Vioxx was on the market.
Looking at the homepage from a purely sales perspective, a few things detract:

1) I don't know if 'Love' is the first button I want my users to click on. It's unclear what it's for until you click it.

2) 4.9 stars based on an unknown number of user reviews feels a bit less believable.

3) There are a few critical typos to fix, one being 'sceenshot' on the homepage. See the full list here: https://triplechecker.com/s/MpCApq/xnapper.com?v=T6ny-
General employment includes working in pizza shops, factory floor sweepers, car salesmen, janitors, deboning chicken, making Happy Meal boxes, and of course tech jobs that pay low six figures.

To me it seems we have alot of the former (several food places that specialize in lunch are closed monday and tuesday due to not enough employees) but the latter is tough right now.

But the general unemployment metric is solidly good.
> I'd never encountered anyone like that in real life,

How many people tell you their deepest asshole feelings right off the bat? They feel you out of you're in the same hate canoe and then they let loose. Doesn't mean they are not there.
When some repetitive task (rebuilding a program, running tests, …) tend to last more than 30 seconds, I like to make it beep when it’s done so I can do something else and not get carried away and loose some precious time on my #1 priority goal.
I recently got bored of Apple ecosystem. Was considering buying System76 for work, but thought that iPhone Mirroring feature would be really neat and decided to wait.

Turns out it’s not available in EU because yadda yadda Apple threw a fit.

Oh well.
It's just the same old thing. If someone worked hard to get somewhere, they hate it when someone else gets that for free. Oh, but you didn't really make that art, you used a brush, you used a diffusion model, blah blah. Oh but you didn't really work out. Oh but you didn't really write that Python program in 100 lines, it actually relies on these million lines of stdlib + firmware. If it works, it works. If it doesn't, it doesn't. That's how it is.

I have a personal bias to small effect consistent medication over high effect rare medication, but I have at least one friend who has seen great results with Ozempic. So I'm glad to see more people can access this drug.

After all, I can't really see. I use glasses or contact lenses.
Non-commercial license. Ugh.
> What is the value of working at Amazon (or even just AWS) these days?

If you're entry-level and will put up with anything just to get Amazon on your resume.
> it's because companies figured out that they were overstaffed and could afford to lose the headcount.

Well yeah but why were they suddenly overstaffed? It wasn’t some kind of collective paranoia. It was interest rates. With low interest rates, investors want you to prioritize growth. With high interest rates, its profitability.
He even has a direct commentary on this opinion piece here: https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=14133
Edit: Sry, missed your Poe's law. People buy fords because they are cheaper for the most part. People that have more money buy Toyota. This is just market segmentation of a couple of the biggest brands.

Companies that have hammered out an effective cost/production/time ratio are not something you can compete with without becoming the same thing as them. Which is why factory managers are literally afraid to turn them off for any reason.

My brother constantly tells me about how when they do repairs they will see something within 1-3 months of failing and tell the factory manager. He said almost without exception they always ask will it increase the repair time "TODAY" and of course the answer is yes. They always decline and deal with it when it breaks at a greater time/cost. I think this is more an effect of the toxic work relationship that has become forced on everyone by MBA's.
I guess it provides a complete console like API in all cases where some environments offer fewer console methods?
We (https://basil.net) are not new and not a startup, but our main language is Clojure and each new project is written in it. Very satisfied with our choice.
As someone who's not Excel-pilled, how does this work? Is it an alternative language to Excel's own formula language or an add-on like VBA?
>Told by whom?

I sort of feel my body telling me, my back hurts because I never sleep on my back (because of sleep apnea, or at least horrendous snoring) but when I lay on my back it feels much more comfortable, but can't sleep that way because I will wake up the house.
Humidification is necessary in any place where winter is cold. Cold air can't hold much absolute moisture, and as you warm it up to room temperature, the relative humidity of that air drops. In Canada you will often find the relative humidity of the room to be below 10% in winter, which is uncomfortable even in the absence of CPAP.
It forwards notifications to your Mac too, even when a mirroring session isn't active.
In "Frankfurt-Hahn" the "Frankfurt" is still the same Frankfurt you (probably) wanted, you just got a different airport located further out. "Frankfurt an der Oder" is on the other side of Germany on the border with Poland, a ~7h drive away.

So this is more like you going to NY and landing at Newark when you expected JFK where Frankfurt an der Oder would be like ending up in New York, Iowa.
I wish I could set the macOS one to allow me to have ⅓ on the left and ⅔ on the right.
There are pumps with ads in Germany[1], although not as annoying.

[1]: https://www.threads.net/@twind.fotografie/post/C6f4n28gdqY
I don’t like the tokens to power analogy. Power is a well defined physical quantity. Tokens are just an ML implementation detail.

> To quantify this for his new steam engine, James Watt developed the unit “horsepower”, which he and Matthew Boulton standardized at 33,000 foot-pounds in 1783.

> By analogy to “horsepower”, AI can be measured in terms of “thought-hours”. Whereas horsepower quantifies physical work relative to horses, a thought-hour quantifies cognitive work relative to humans.

The idea of “the <mechanical device> does an amount of <type of work> equal to what the <biological creature> does per hour” fits, but the crucial part is the end of the first quote; having enough understanding to actually standardize that new made up unit in a physically meaningful way. For thoughts, intuitively, it would seem to map to information, entropy, that sort of stuff, but of course nobody has worked it out yet.

I think we’re still in the era where people are digging up black rocks and noticing that sometimes if they stick it in their furnace, it’ll heat it up. Or make the iron into steel. It is a mystery!

> It would be absurd to quantify the net generation of electricity generators in the U.S. in 2023 as “15.05 quintillion joules”. We have watt-hours for that (3,600 joules) and physics prefixes to quantify the orders of magnitude.

I don’t understand this bit at all. There’s nothing particularly absurd about using joules for these quantities of energy other than the fact that it is unconventional. We’d just have to switch the SI prefix.
Are Pre-trained Convolutions Better than Pre-trained Transformers? (2021)
And other GLP-1 receptor agonists since 2005 when Exenatide was approved.
> Instead, the only perk that Amazon has is that you get one free coffee per day, and even that they have tried to remove multiple times.

This is crazy, seriously? Apparently no one has written a good enough two-pager arguing that gratis coffee pays for itself with increased productivity
The HN bookmarklet picked up the "What if" title. It's often different from the article title.

EDIT: The "What if" title is from the article's HTML markup...
1. I don't think that's an accurate characterization of Mr. Beasts' content

2. > He's a wannabe altruist that pockets more money than he donates.
That's such a weak case. So he doesn't donate everything therefore he's evil or something?

3. > His content revolves around exploiting charity as a social phenomenon.
What are you even saying? I'm much more utilitarian about it. Is he doing more good than harm? The answer is a clear and resounding yes. Especially as the 'harm' is labeled: Entertaining kids, helping others and filming it, and making money?

I guess this politically correct posturing bothers me because most of the people issuing this criticism have not had as much impact in people's lives as he has. Classic case of armchair thinkers, criticizing people doing stuff, and doing so excellently.

At any rate the outrage seems like it would be better directed at Pfizer or other corporatocratic corruption machines, you know, people doing actual harm. Not a kid that figured out how to make money in a new media landscape and is using a huge portion of that to uplift his community.
I assume this varies widely across setups.

(use-package visual-regexp
:defer t
:bind (("C-c r" . vr/replace)
("C-c q" . vr/query-replace)
("C-r" . vr/isearch-backward)
("C-s" . vr/isearch-forward)))

(use-package visual-regexp-steroids
:defer t)
RIF without paying severance.
"But if we didn't have sprints, how could we possibly measure the team's productivity and individual productivity?"

A more enlightening question might be what actionable information about productivity they are gaining from the sprint-based metrics.
So long, and thanks for all the free shipping.
Landscape of Language Model Watermarks