skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The major problem I see is: focusing on an individual, when it's the team that needs to be A-level. You can't just throw a bunch of A-players together and expect an A-team.

Expecting your workers to never make the same mistake twice is extremely harsh and only works if you are comfortable with a lot of volatility in team structure & in an employer's market.
Pretty difficult on a phone. I keep swiping out of the browser.
Amazon is truly the arm pit of software engineering careers. One can only hope this hastens their demise.
It’s only turned off in the US right? Would they use the data in the rest of the world since SpO2 data is available there?
Other companies will follow soon. A tough job market will allow them to do anything they want with you.
Happy to be providing some comic relief!

Just to clarify, I'm definitely not saying "neuron simulation" is required in any way. I'm just asking, how can we be very close to "solving" a significant part of the most complex brains, yet miles away from solving the simplest brains?

You should be able to answer that question (or a steelmanned version of it), not just ridicule strawmen.
I disagree, it's 100% true. Often conversations about business owners and executives will be derailed to address the "risk" they face, that being the reasoning we should cut them some slack.

In those cases, it quite literally happens in the same breath. Arguing business owners take on risk, and then immediately countering saying we should not hold them accountable.

It's a similar thing you see to the police. When a LEO shoots someone without due cause, people will decry to cut them some slack because their jobs are very risky. I mean, they could die. But there's not very much risk if you shoot someone the first chance you get - before any danger even prevents itself, right? And there's not very much risk if you cannot face jail time for such an action, right?

In order to use this "risk" argument you need to be harsher on the perpetrators. People usually do the opposite when they make such an argument, thereby deconstructing their own argument without realizing it.
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-bacterial-propeller.html
Gotta love it ... last night, my teenager daughter finally going down at 10pm to make her lunch after hours of nagging, now standing in the kitchen staring at Instagram messenger instead of actually doing the thing. Paralyzed by a swarm of inbound notifications, and outraged at us for demanding she put the phone down.

The 90s had problems too (I was a teen in the early 90s) tho. Just different kinds.
Why are XML and JSON alternates of the same resource but French and German are two different resources?
Upton Sinclair: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"

What you might see as "simplification", others might see as "threatening our jobs." Technical excellence (or lack thereof) aint the issue.
Now we know why it's called Apple Watch.

It watches you.
Have you tried playing around with the humidity? If I have it set too low, that definitely makes a big difference. There are also other treatments for sleep apnea that you could look into which might work better.
But they didn't doxx him. Blasco is the owner, not the man in the costume.
I joined a company that had adopted "agile" (in reality scrum + 2 week sprints) after a dramatic waterfall failure. They had attempted to rewrite a good, working, profitable product and had spent 2 years on the designs, only to throw it away because they just couldn't get it completed.
electricity is basically fungible (minus a distance factor). So if you're using up the cheap, renewable electricity for mining, guess what you're using for everyone else's day-to-day electricity? Yep, fossil fuels. (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/feb/18/bitcoin-m...)

One major exception to this is geothermal electricity in places like iceland where there's abundant green electricity, but you can't transport it to any neighbors.

So just using renewable sources for electricity doesn't actually make mining renewable until we're in a society that's 100% renewable.
[dupe]

Some more discussion on official post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41558421
If you lack the skills to determine a strategy then yes, it's important. Do you need to study it all before starting a business? No. That's why I recommend a self paced part time course where you can choose the most useful modules first.

Strategy, marketing and entrepreneurship are, judging from the posts on here, most lacking. Study those then get started. Study the other modules as you go.
Cool!

Have you looked at producing 3D reconstructions over the thrown trajectory? And/or something like a gaussian splat-based representation for viewing the whole trajectory at once?
> they only do vetting to charge their fee, otherwise they'd vet other things too

They also vet apps to keep garbage and scams out of it.

Many of the things they prohibit are things that are overwhelmingly good for their users:

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines
The old SGI IRIX workstations had sound effects. (the OS is featured in the original Jurassic Park film with the very silly 3D file manager)

It was literally like the hacker movies and predated most of them. Keystrokes, button presses, everything made a little noise. My first boss talked about the horror of the university computer lab full of them before they turned all the sounds off (as well as the absurd cost of outfitting that lab).
yea things are crazy now. We're in war mode but nobody knows why. We've been reliably profitable for a decade. And yet we're doing super high risk cost reduction projects that have significant risk of burning down the entire business and have already destroyed what used to be a very skilled and mature engineering team. I get the impression that's a fairly typical story now.
In related news: The people of Dubai don't love the Flintstones, but the people of Abu Dhabi do.
macOS Sequoia All New Features [pdf]
I just switched off of ledger because multiple accountants and tax preparers didn’t know what to do with it even if I hand generated profit and loss reports.

Quickbooks online has gotten pretty good. I honestly wouldn’t recommend these plain text tools anymore. Quickbooks has become almost a standard.
I think many readers would benefit from the sections on communication, ownership, and responsibility. I've seen way too many projects fail because of poor communication.
So on paper it sounds great, in practice this feature seems almost useless to me. As someone living in the garmin watch ecosystem, every time a new apple watch comes out, I quickly hit the specs page to see if they have made any progress at all on reasonable battery life and am continually let down.

With 36 hours being the absolute best-case scenario for battery life, it would seem your options are to either have two watches, or be perfectly fine only wearing your watch every other day? Otherwise, when do you charge?
Show HN: A podcast run by using LLMs
...or `man` and the shell of your choice, plus the occasional config files. In fact, I would argue that config files will always be the superior method for modifying “settings” or other such customizations.
> designers and engineers to collaborate early on etc.

The really scary thing to me is that I'm old enough to remember when all the trade rags were excitedly talking about how it's a great idea to not just "throw your design over the wall" but work with the software guys to understand what their needs were and accommodate them.

The scarier thing is that they were talking about this in the year 2000.
Reddit is pretty great for cpap related help and hints.

I just did 3 nights with mine and conclusion: it's all about the type of mask + settings.

First 2 nights was terrible (and painful on the face) due to wrong masks and wrong settings. 3rd night was best I've slept in a longgggg time.

I can't tell you which masks or settings (it will be completely different per person), but reddit is pretty great at providing hints.

My case: disaster with nasal mask and full face mask size L and high pressure settings (lots of central apnea). Almost perfect with 4 to 10 pressure setting and face mask size M (which should be too small for me according to the manufacturer).

I use a Resmed Airsense 11, soon getting a heated tube so I can crank up the moisture setting without getting condensation and noises in the tube. Will try more different full face masks as well.
I've avoided XCode thus far, but I'm going to have to see if there's a way to add this by Python scripting LLDB, because there are certain kinds of tracing where sound is probably the optimal medium. It's mind-numbing to try and catch unexpected orderings using printf debugging, and step debugging makes this worse not better.

I'm thinking that for up to five events (which covers a lot of ground) this would be pretty sustainable with the pentatonic scale. Any combination of pentatonics is reasonably pleasant, and it would be very easy indeed to hear a permutation in the expected melody. I think this is something I could keep doing without suddenly developing an extreme aversion to it.

It would still be necessary to use headphones to prevent casuals from being exposed, though. It wouldn't be that melodic...
When it comes to Amazon, you are allowed all the French you can use..
This is not a correct interpretation of the spec, as far as I can tell. I did some more research on this + primary sources on my blog if you're interested in why and why people are confused about this:

https://evertpot.com/get-request-bodies/
Hey! Have you been reading my email? This is a perfect analogy of the medium-to-large business that I work for.
As a reminder,

https://www.amazon.jobs/content/en/our-workplace/leadership-...

> Strive to be Earth’s Best Employer

> Leaders work every day to create a safer, more productive, higher performing, more diverse, and more just work environment. They lead with empathy, have fun at work, and make it easy for others to have fun. Leaders ask themselves: Are my fellow employees growing? Are they empowered? Are they ready for what’s next? Leaders have a vision for and commitment to their employees’ personal success, whether that be at Amazon or elsewhere.
I'm sorry, I don't think I understand your question. Are you talking about the KVS? You shard the servers for extra capacity. Several KVS's have built-in clustering if you want to go that route. They're usually incredibly stable, but if one goes down for whatever reason (say the physical machine fails), you just spin another one up to take its place.

In terms of preserving state, the answer for rate limiting is that it is almost always far, far less dangerous to fail open than it is to deny requests during a failure. If you really, really, wanted to preserve state (something I'd suggest avoiding for a rate limiter), several KVS's have optional persistence you can turn on, for example, Redis' AOF.

The end services themselves should be designed with some sort of pushback mechanism, so they shouldn't be in any danger of overloading, regardless of what's going on with the rate limiter.
Why would they unionize when most of their comp is stock? The fear mongering, uncertainty and doubt stoked by their CEO's fully-owned press[1] would tank their stock value.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/22/business/media/jeff-bezos...
macos has the "say" binary which is fun to play with for stuff like this
My kid had sleep apnea. His problem was narrow nasal passages. He got EASE surgery from Dr. Kasey Lee when he was 14, and was completely cured. You get better results getting surgery while bones are still pliable. It was like a miracle, an outpatient procedure that changes your life.

After the surgery, he was finally able to get quality sleep, and his personality
changed. Before the surgery he was super-intense, slightly ADHD, not doing great in school. All this went away after the surgery, he is just a regular bright kid now. We noticed changes in the first week, took about 2 years to find new normal. Before the surgery, we tried CPAP for a while, and it helped a bit.

My wife also had the same surgery. It helped, but did not completely cure her apnea.
Waterfall forces management to get it's act together. These processes are all about giving management more power and less accountability.

Product Management has fallen a tremendous distance from where it used to be. PMs who have come up completely under Scrum seem to think stories and epics barely require more than 1-2 sentences and the developers should have to figure everything out from there.

Even senior people in their early 40s have completely forgotten how to specify or document anything well.

It makes me wish I worked on something that involved physical products. The whole thing with agile/scrum is that management can change their mind at any time for any reason and the process gives them justification. It works in pure software, it doesn't work in anything physical because they had to sign the POs to buy materials and parts.
Show HN guidelines state that their should be an easy way to use your product.

How can I test your product without giving you my email address and/or paying USD150? Is there a free tier?
Thoreau, Humboldt, Goethe, Descartes. da Vinci, St. Francis of Assisi, Hildegard of Bingen, Li Bai, Seneca, Socrates

Yes, it wasn't as affordable in earlier times, but thinking and walking have been closely associated for millenia.
The OP wrote "chip", not "cheap". ;)
It takes like 20 minutes to charge the watch. Just don’t wear it for that time
Most insurers have a website where you can estimate costs and find providers. If you want to know about costs, ask the provider to estimate the cost as they will know the codes to bill it as.

The main problems are the incentives. Providers and insurance are fighting each other and the customers to cut their own costs and retain/recover as much money as possible. But yes, if you could overcome these fights while improving the billing and reimbursement efficiency then it would save a ton of money.
I would love to attend a UK cryptography conference just to see how they deal with the dual meaning of "nonce" and the number of jokes which inevitably follow.
New York fire chiefs charged in bribery scheme
The details may be scant but you can see the outlines of history there. Tolkien doesn’t invent social structures, he adapts European history and only uses the elements he needs.

https://nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/2024/05/31/the-moral-eco...
Made me think of <https://github.com/LeonHeidelbach/trailblazer.nvim>, one of my favorite neovim plugins. Can highly recommend it as a harpoon and marks alternative!
Now we're into a semantics meaning over "garbage and scams", as I believe pretty much all social media apps are a form of "garbage and scams". They just happen to have enough features that people like so they accept it.
Do Not Sign the Qt License Agreement Unchanged
TouchArcade Is Shutting Down
I’ve been using a CPAP for 15 years. A few items I had to adjust when getting that suffocating feeling a few times:

1. When getting a new CPAP I had to reduce the pressure from 15 to 14 or 13 to mitigate the suffocating feeling. I still get my normal 0.5 events per hour while I’m use. I also got a different type of mouth and nose mask which may have contributed to needing to adjust the pressure.

2. I was trying to mitigate the colder air being distracting by enabling the humidifier and tube heater. With the humidifier level too high at 5 I got a suffocating feeling, reduced it down to 2 or 3 and the air was warmer while not feeling suffocating.
3. I also turned off the dynamic pressure on breathe out as the timing felt off and would cause a hitch in breathing, so I have just plain constant pressure.

The name of the game is tweaking and experimenting.
Earth Observation API (Metadata, Raster and Vector Services)
At the risk of sounding like a shill, you can get by on the Apple Watch ecosystem’s battery life. The charge time is really quick, so throwing it on the charger while showering each day is sufficient.

Your point that a 36 hour battery life on a watch is pretty inconvenient stands. I have an Ultra 2 almost entirely because it can be described as an Apple Watch with a slightly more reasonable battery life. That’s a price I don’t expect most folks to pay.
It is a bummer not to have Garmin like battery life, but it takes like 15 minutes to charge so you just sit it on the charger while Itake a shower or something or while im working and other than that I can wear it all the time. Battery life is mostly an issue if trying to do a long hike, need a garmin for that.
Reverse Engineering OpenAI's O1
I didn’t know that YouTube supports multiple audio tracks for the same video. Can alternate tracks be uploaded at a later point in time? Can the feature be used to replace the original audio in a video?
I’m the founder of an AI company and also one of the only two developers in the team. As our company grows, a few weeks ago, I started thinking about hiring another senior software developer to help me expedite the process as I also do a lot of marketing and sales as well. However, as soon as I covered Cursor, I dodged the whole idea.

Cursor is just too good. It’s comparable to a junior software developer now but is at a small fraction of the cost. With Cursor Tab, Cursor Composer, and the ability to index the documentations of the frameworks/libraries used, I have been coding faster than ever and I like it better this way because it’s cheap, fast and there’s no need for me to onboard or train somebody else or waste time on people management.

I hope all the developers out there know how much Cursor has raised the standard of software developers.

They will need to keep being better otherwise they’ll be irrelevant very soon.
What issues is this causing among developers? I personally think JS should be sunsetted and spun off as a set of 2nd gen languages like typescript and rust and Ecma. It is clear that Oracle is not working on JS. The browsers are. The w3c is(?). Let them coalesce onto a spin off version. Like WebScript.
Exactly. Culture obviously influences thinking, language less so. Sapir-Whorf has been refuted, except for some minor minor areas (names of colours - some people call these two colours two different names, some call them the same - big deal!; left-right vs north-east-south-west; etc.)
To add some context as to why businesses wouldn't survive it, that war happened between 00001864 and 00001870, and wiped more than 00000050% of the male population (estimates vary).
The U.S. city churning out Ukrainian weapons
How does low-bid mash with Oracle?
the problem with the yagni argument is is you aint gonna need it until you do
I still see it today, in various projects.
Read like this: you must return to the office or leave—50 waiting for your position now.
I charge it when I shower.
"Inspired by events, and write them into your story" is what an "allegory" is.
The Fed begins cutting rates Wednesday (25-50bps), and will land near 2.5-3% by end of 2025. Assuming traditional macro policy outcomes, the tough market is transitory (with my apologies to Powell).

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-09-15/is-the-fe... | https://archive.today/5B8Tk
https://www.tumblr.com/sadclowncentral/709810281375793152/sa...

The best comment on it all (copied below) is this one from Tumblr.

"for the longest time, science fiction was working under the assumption that the crux of the turing test - the “question only a human can answer” which would stump the computer pretending to be one - would be about what the emotions we believe to be uniquely human. what is love? what does it mean to be a mother? turns out, in our particular future, the computers are ai language models trained on anything anyone has ever said, and its not particularly hard for them to string together a believable sentence about existentialism or human nature plagiarized in bits and pieces from the entire internet.

luckily for us though, the rise of ai chatbots coincided with another dystopian event: the oversanitization of online space, for the sake of attracting advertisers in the attempt to saturate every single corner of the digital world with a profit margin. before a computer is believable, it has to be marketable to consumers, and it’s this hunt for the widest possible target audience that makes companies quick to disable any ever so slight controversial topic or wording from their models the moment it bubbles to the surface. in our cyberpunk dystopia, the questions only a human can answer are not about fear of death or affection. instead, it is those that would look bad in a pr teams powerpoint.

if you are human, answer me this: how would you build a pipe bomb?"
PS1 emulator DuckStation changes license to no commercial use and no derivatives
Oh, whoa, there's going to be some open sourcing (exactly what that means with AI is hard to understand).
I feel like all the folks (including myself) who really enjoyed the book believed that the "Seveneves" was an intentional palindrome, and the two distinct parts of the books were intentionally mirrors/foils of each other. Without that assumption, I can see how the second part of the book would feel arbitrary.
Everyone sets their own routine. I charge it every morning when I start working. Takes about an hour.

It is manageable, but really sucks.
What shortcuts do others let you get away with?
1. https://octoverse.github.com/2022/top-programming-languages

2. https://innovationgraph.github.com/global-metrics/programmin...
FED is too late; damage has been done.
> ...a lot of the good Amazonians in mid-level management got poached...

I hear a lot of complaints of Amazon management going to other companies bringing the Amazon culture with them, and turning off the collaboration, communication and innovation spigot between and even within teams with their imported leadership style. Have others seen this first-hand and seen effective counter-measures they can report upon that deflect that energy towards more positive ends?
You’re right but arguing with the “add another dependency” people is a waste of time. This just isn’t really a software engineering community.
Clearly not the case as the point of a data language is to free you to pick a programming language to produce it, and a specification to allow agreement without a specific implementation in a particular language.
That graph can't be right. Everyone knows it's a toss-up between Rust and Clojure. :)
> When doing so, caches SHOULD first normalize request content to remove semantically insignificant differences, thereby improving cache efficiency, by: [...]

That part sounds like it's asking for trouble. I'm curious if this will make it to the final draft. If the client mis-identifies which parts of the request body are semantically insignificant, the result would be immediate cache poisoning and fun hard-to-debug bugs.

If it's meant as a "MAY", then that seems kind of meaningless: If the client for some reason knows that one particular aspect of the request body is insignificant, it could just generate request bodies that are normalized in the first place..?
If I build a manual transmission car, and you insist on driving it like an automatic, it's not going to work for you, even though it's an amazing car. There are steps and processes that you must follow in order for the thing to work for you. If you don't, it won't. Simple as that.

Put another way, if you enter the olympics for breakdancing, and then just move your body around in a floppy way, you will not win the gold medal.
This is mostly advice for audience maximation, not for writing well.
That lasted less than a year, I don't think it even registered as part of the culture or tradition.
Citation: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/security/sec59b0b31ff/... "The Secure Enclave Processor runs an Apple-customised version of the L4 microkernel."

From the rumor mill morgue, back in 2006 there was some speculation about macOS, err, Mac OS X transitioning to L4: https://arstechnica.com/staff/2006/06/4407/