skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I couldn't dismiss the thought that may be if they had worn a smart watch they could have had better chances of reaching out for help and perhaps even got alerted of some discrepancies in their vitals.

Does this actually work? Apple watch only can detect sudden falls and call 911, but AFAIK it can't auto call 911 if you get a heartattack or whatever.

>I got the cellular working in the Apple Watch by using the same SIM from my Android phone in the iPhone, pairing with the Apple Watch and setting up the mobile data.

>Receiving and making calls via Apple Watch (when Wifi/BT is disabled) works well, but since the SIM is in the Android phone, the SMS functionality doesn't work; with it SOS messages to emergency contacts(even if they're on iMessage ʅ₍ッ₎ʃ ); but SOS calls work.

There's no way this can work unless "calls" actually mean facetime audio rather than PSTN (ie. "regular") phone calls. If the sim isn't in the watch, then there's no way it can receive calls.
Agreed but it’s not baffling. To me this is just another case of marketing disguised as research. An AI company whose sales pitch to differentiate themselves in the market is being hyperfocused on safe AI. So they participate in research that shows AI is “lying” and therefore can be dangerous. That’s why we should entrust Anthropic amongst all the AI companies! All these companies are run by people and they all have the same motives. Money and fame. Secret scratch pad of AI’s inner thoughts? Give me a break.
Yeah this definitely seems more efficient than letting people just work for home.

Also I find it hilarious that apparently they can just move the RTO mandate 4 months. You'd think the whole RTO thing would be of some urgency, but apparently another 4 months of remote work won't make too big of a productivity dent...
False dichotomy. I trust neither - if Apple doesn't trust Meta to handle their APIs then I don't trust Apple to use them either.
HTML-based templating is toxic to a codebase, especially django templating. It is untyped, impossible to compile and trust, and it's horrible to maintain.

Use React and JSX (TSX, to be more specific). NextJS does good quality SSR, use that if you want an app that is also usable without JS.

Anybody not in that ecosystem /right now/ is going to be lagging behind by so much in velocity and capability, and will get eaten by competition.
Vimeo didnt completely pull out of the EU, but it removed most of the functionality.

They havent clarified what law, but they said it was due to legislation and cost of compliance.
This isn’t true at all.

It was hackers ringing up phone companies, acting as celebrities or agents and asking for replacement SIMs. Or pretending to be Apple Support. And then social engineering around the MFA process. Apple’s security was on par with everyone else in the industry.
The Apple Watch was a big contributor to my decision to switch back to an iPhone after a decade. I can’t speak to the current smartwatch market, but for many many years, the Apple Watch has been unparalleled in its category.

I wish Apple was more flexible in their products. The watch is plenty capable on its own, and I feel confident the attachment to the iPhone is arbitrary.
> Cache is seen as an optimization for small data: if it fits in L2, it’s going to be processed faster

Nobody worth their salt believes just this and nothing else.

Yes, if the data fits entirely into a given cache, that's a nice case that's easy to reason about. No matter what access pattern is applied to the data, it doesn't matter because it's in the cache.

Hopefully everyone working with caches understands that they provide a potential speedup when not everything fits into the cache, and that this depends on the pattern of access (mainly, does it exhibit "locality"). Moreover, this case is extremely important.

The article gives an example of exactly that: improving the locality of access.

If you don't know this, you don't know one of the first facts about caching.

There is something else to know about: you can't tell by size alone whether a given data set will fit into a cache. The problem is that caches are not always fully associative. In a set associative cache, a given block of data cannot be stored in any cache line: it is assigned to a small set of possible cache lines. Then within a set, the cache lines are dynamically allocated and tagged. A given bunch of working which appears to be just smaller than the cache might be arranged in such a poor way in memory that it doesn't map to all of the cache's sets. And so, it actually does not fit into the cache.
Amen, good to see it wasnt just me. My last job search was this summer and I hit this all over.

I'm fine with working for a defense contractor or the feds. I'm fine with taking a pay haircut relative to FAANG to do something meaningful. I'm even fine with commuting, and the agencies poking into my life to assess a clearance. But I need to move from one job to another without a gap.

Private sector employers won't touch me without a clearance, and in my part of the world there are lots of people who already have one, so I'm not worth their time.

The US government would put me through a clearance, but their hiring practices are so slow and arcane that they're just not viable for someone who needs to find a job starting say in the next 30 days.

I wish it wasn't that way, but it is. So, I stay in the uncleared commercial sector.
Bluesky Has a Death Threat Problem
I don't think it makes sense to prevent it becoming more selective, but I do think it makes sense to avoid passing over candidates who can do the job. And your best (only?) data on who can actually do the job is who is currently doing the job.

If you really need everyone in Role X to have a PhD in Psychoergonomics, then what's up with Jane over there and her MD?
Not person you are replying to, but I think lack of sideloading is a big factor, since it impacts ease of doing anything outside appstore.

AFA Security and privacy, I think security issues have been brought up previously on HN where the relative closed-ness of Apple and how the respond to some security reports raises questions whether the RDF is in play.

I want to be clear that I trust them more than others. At the same time, while I got my dad an iPhone to replace his Lumia 640 (because Microsoft does stupid things) I still use an android phone. Why? Because for someone like him, yes, it is safer.

> Can you elaborate on this “excuse” and “exploitation” you are talking about? I am curious because I fully believe Apple really cares about security and privacy and goes to great lengths to preserve it for their users. Sure they use it as a strategy, and that is how they justify the investment.

Going back to windows phone, I'll give a fun example. Why didn't Windows phones get Snapchat? because MS literally would not let that be collectible by 3rd party apps (Not sure about 1st party.) and that was a sticking point.

Not the best move for them at the time (definitely hurt uptake on folks still 'new' to smartphones to become a 3rd player) yet it is arguably a more strict stance than what apple did/does.

I'll also note, Apple gets instant bad karma from me AFA the combination of (1) not allowing sideloading, (2) taking the cut they do on all transactions, alongside (3) still giving better deals to huge players like netflix.

TBH I just want to be able to buy shit to read on my kindle account without going through a circus on my android phone, yet it's a big sign of how fucked things are in the overall ecosystem.
Pretty spot on and that is why devops stuff and automatic tests are so important. Those just let your bet faster.
> deportation dragnet

Do you know how insane that sounds in this context? I absolutely despise Trump, make no mistake; but if you think Trump is rounding up any of the 40+% of the USA's non-white citizens and deporting them, you have been deluded by widespread FUD.

The "deportation dragnet" might apply to illegals, sure. Will any meaningful amount of US citizens get scooped up in that, if any? Highly, highly unlikely. You're probably more likely to be murdered.
My "discrimination rant" is informed by my ex-girlfriend being hired for an M&S/OpenCL job as a non-programming mech-e. Why? Because all the work was already done and it would look better to the government client to have a female, black engineer sit around in a SCIF doing nothing all day. Stuff like this is absolutely rampant.
Unless it's a simulation and stuff exists only when you look at it to save GPU cycles for more important stuff.
They know how I work, because I'm on the board and constantly update them. I built this company from slides to 5M ARR in 4 years. Granted, I have made hiring mistakes - good engineer, bad attitude that affected the team, good engineer not bought into what we do, one or two mediocre engineers that I couldn't suss out. But I've rectified them and have found good engineers in reasonable time.

Unfortunately you have to take my word for it. Not sure how you assumed I cannot manage with no context.
TL;DR - The drones sent by the UFOs did it in the drawing room with the candlestick.
Yes, auth between Django and a PWA is not a solved problem. It seems people just give up and go the hosted auth route or something.

But it's also really not that difficult. Auth just takes a lot of practice for people to grok so most people don't want to touch it.

I'll open source something once we're done solving the problem cleanly at my company.
EC proposed measures for Apple interoperability requests [pdf]
The problem is that we have decades of experience with your approach. And it simply doesn’t work. Users will click any dialog box especially when the app makes features conditional on its approval.

The only way this works is what Apple and Google have implemented. Which is to allow access to a single photo or contact but not the entire library. But that’s not what Meta is after. They want everything.
The last coauthor listed on this preprint is Michael Levin, who has a lot of other cool work.

In particular, this talk of his from NeurIPS 2018 includes fascinating biology research results, as well as musings on the future of biologically-inspired artificial intelligence.

https://youtu.be/RjD1aLm4Thg

HN discussion about the talk: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736698
From the Father, as all things are, but the Son directs it thereafter.

The Holy Spirit is like the force - it's behind all things, like lines of code behind a web page - but more specifically it's similar to a background process within a system that allows for all actions on the page to exist, by their causes, their consequences and the ensuing causes and consequences and so on forever and since the start of time.

The Holy Spirit is similar to fate but unlike fate we have ability to dictate and direct our reality - like in "How to Win Friends and Influence People" this is the force within reality that delivers what we expect and believe will be.

This is what pushes us along
- individually and collectively, that which is behind evolution and behind the miracle rain dance is the same thing.

Faith that moves mountains is merely the most known example of the ability attained by our true understanding of the Holy Spirit - it allows us to access all the powers and forces and laws and systems of this reality and utilize them to our benefit and ends. One who knows and has faith has higher authority than all worldly authorities and can bend them to utilize them to attain whatever desires.

If one needs the Queen of England to write a letter, that person must only believe - enough to kno for certain, that she has already done so and it will be so.

Expectation is part of asking when we have desires of God - ask and expect to receive - expect more, ask less. Asking is less important than expecting - faith is part belief, for example a belief that you can ask God - the other part is expecting God to deliver as he said he would...

Again, this is a rant but this conversation hopefully adds to your spiritual progression faster than the teachings I'm reading professed here will allow any of you.

I have faith that those with hears will hear and act accordingly, there are no limits - only consequences.
You can say this about any discipline. The root of the issue is that productivity for productivity's sake is meaningless, and it makes no sense to measure productivity as a general property when outputs vary.

A tire factory has a distinct, singular goal: produce tires. It does this continually. Productivity is meaningful, but only in relation to a target that is typically specified by externalities (e.g. amount of demand)

A software company is usually not in the business of producing consumable commodities so this kind of measurement does not make sense. It can make sense to measure productivity during a period for delivering a particular piece of software within a given time bound, but once it's delivered, productivity becomes meaningless. You always need to understand productivity in relation to some purpose and I don't know how these knuckleheads who think this abstract idea is basically like a concrete measurable essence, like mass, or liquid, got leadership positions.
> I would argue that what good software developers do is remove problems. The opposite, in fact, of production

But something is being produced - it is version 2.0 of the software. This is an artifact that is then shipped to users or deployed to a server. Peter’s solution fixed the issue and did not (seemingly) create further maintenance burden, which would have taken attention away from other tasks, i.e. reduced future productivity.

I agree that metrics for programmer productivity are often useless (e.g. using lines of code is a bad idea for obvious reasons), but it seems silly to claim that the entire concept of productivity does not apply to the production of software.
Exposing the Clearingstelle Urheberrecht Im Internet (CUII)
Wow, I was all ready to look you up in your profile ... until I read all of the follow-up responses.

I knew it was too good to be true.
more people will become billionaires in the next four years than get deported :)
The only bad thing about it is that it takes longer as players are knocked out. Now you have one kid who’s in a bad mood because they were knocked out early, and their friends are busy.
IMHO this nails it.

I finally caved to one of those "balanced news" sites because someone had a 50%-off sale. They have a feature where you can see news stories that are being ignored by either liberal or conservative outlets.

It's damned fascinating, tempered by the fact that it's also damned terrifying that the populace as a whole is being controlled by it... and also that the future President of the US is trying to control it.

But maybe that's just me falling into the trap TFA talks about. :)
Lovely paper but their analysis did not include either KhoiSan or Central African hunter-gather Pygmy populations. They used the 1000 Genomes project.
chargie is one solution for platforms where support is available

https://chargie.org/
"probabilistic storytelling engine" It's a bit more complicated thing than that.

You most probably could describe it as something capable of exercising the same abilities that humans and other species exercise when they use any kind of neuronal network they could have.

Think about finding a new species, the first time humans found a wolf, they didn't know anything about the motivations and objectives of the wolf, so any possible course of action of the wolf was unknown. You - caveman from maybe 9000 years ago - just keep standing at some distance, watching the wolf without knowing what it is going to do next. No probabilities, no clues about what's next with the thing.

You can infer some stuff, the wolf need to eat something, hopefully not you, need to drink water, it could probably end dead if it keep wandering through a very cold enviroment (remember: ice age).

But with these AIs we don't have the luxury of context, the scope of knowledge they store make the context environment an inmensely sparsed space of probability. You could infer a lot, but from what exactly?

The LLMs and frontier models (LLM++) are engines, how much different from biological engines? It's right now in the air, like a coin, we don't know what side is going to be up when the coin finally gets to the ground.

If this "... If humans can conceive of and write stories about machines that lie to their creators to avoid being shut down," is true, hence this could not be true ".. it doesn't actually believe anything or have any values".

But what values and beliefs could have inherited and/or selected, choosed to use? Could it change core beliefs and/values like you change your clothes? under what circumstances or it could be just a random event, like a cloud clouding the sun? Way too many questions for the alignment crew.
3 strokes and your out. There cannot be an out without 3 strokes - each strike equal in importance to the out but each strike is unique.

That is the Trinity.
Apple will be required to provide documentation for its private frameworks on request:

> Apple should produce a comprehensive technical reference for the iOS and iPadOS frameworks and libraries called by Apple’s services and hardware that comprise the feature or functionality concerned by the reference query. This technical reference should be comparable in detail to the current developer documentation of public frameworks, and should contain all symbols called by Apple’s services and hardware, including classes, protocols, properties, variables, methods, functions, structures, enumerations, and all other symbols contained within the framework or library.

Pretty wild.

There are also required timelines for satisfying interoperability requests:

> Apple should develop and release within 40 working days all requests that require
minor or mild engineering efforts, starting from the end of phase II. Requests that
require significant engineering efforts should be developed and released within the
timeline set by Apple in its project plan communicated to the developer, and in any
event, should be released no longer than 12 months from the submission of the
interoperability request.

That's after a 20-working-day Phase I and a 30-working-day Phase II.
Thanks for explaining this. You were much more clear than the whole article.
I found that AI models really have a hard time with Android native, kept reverting to the latest libraries which don't have broad support. I had more success with Flutter but still needs a decent amount of course correction.
Not really, one explanation here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26869544

And some more here from the Show HN page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336638

There's a longer version of some of these you can just ask dang for.
I feel like that range is a on the high side, at least for jobs outside the Bay Area. Unless aerospace pays a lot better than software jobs at government contractors. When I was laid off less than 2 years ago and applying to a wide variety of places, the gov contractors were only offering in the $120-$140 ballpark for senior sw engineering positions. They tended to play up gold plated benefits, high 401k match, etc as well but there’s no way that would get it up to $263k.
I did cut my teeth on Java back in middle school-ish. It never bothered me at all, I was too busy having fun learning to program. I agree with GP, the mandatory class is a completely overblown complaint about Java.
Unless you want to “write a Shakespearean sonnet about Bayes’ rule”. Here’s what Claude sonnet (ahem) came up with:

"Bayes's Revelation"

What knowledge held before new facts arrive,
Our prior thoughts, though incomplete they be,
Must yield and change as evidence does strive
To shape posterior probability.

Through multiplicative steps we find our way,
As likelihood with prior beliefs combine,
The normalizing constant holds its sway,
While truth emerges, clearer line by line.

O Reverend Bayes, thy theorem divine
Shows how our minds should learn from what we see,
Each observation helps our thoughts refine,
Till posterior wisdom sets uncertainty free.

In statistics' realm, this rule holds fast:
Each present builds upon what's known from past.

The sonnet weaves together the key components of Bayes' theorem - prior probability, likelihood, and how they combine to form the posterior probability. Would you like me to explain any of these statistical concepts in more detail?

Although it would be an easier change now that Bard is Gemini…
I do appreciate the little coda at the end - nice that the author was self-aware enough to realize where the cruft was and cut it (and courteous to the reader!)
Human beings are the most dangerous, potentially-violent, and destructive animal this planet has ever known... and far more dangerous in larger groups. None of us is as dumb as all of us.
Roles in a System
Apple Watch now has irregular rhythm notifications[1] which can help alert you to signs that you will soon have a heart attack.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/120276
Oh don't get me wrong. UniFi and central management can be great if your on actively managed IT infrastructure. That is to say, you pay someone a monthly fee to keep your stuff configured, monitored and working. But where I live, most of these installs are at rural businesses or properties where IT only gets called when things go wrong. These are exactly the wrong place to put managed infrastructure. It can be years between problems and rarely are the same techs even in the area when the next call comes around. Which is exactly why I was able to crack the DB in the first place, it was an out of date V6 install of the controller using a unsecured mongodb. Took me about 20 minutes of googling to find out how to do it when I used the right key words/after I'd figured out what was wrong (someone plugged in a router with DHCP enabled upstream of all the p2p wifi nodes but downstream from the unifi security gateway, the router got flagged as trying to provide/hijack dhcp and unifi blocked that port it seems, killing all the p2p wifi with it, honestly not a bad response from unifi hardware but a nightmare for your joe blog tech who doesnt really have much experience with network problem solving).

I advocate certain clients towards centrally managed systems, but for most of these clients who aren't interested in a regular checkup or business agreement with an IT provider I generally put them on un-managed setups with at least 2x USB devices with copies of config on-site and a printout of what the setup and network layout is. This is in-case I'm not here the next time they need work done or in case I do come back and don't want to spend a day deciphering their setup again. All cloud services are disable, no external log-in from outside of the site allowed. I leave the main modem/ISP connected router ideally up to the ISP they are getting internet services from and build everything downstream from that. Auto-update set to on. I've got multiple p2p and p2mp wireless networks at properties all around the region that haven't had a tech on-site for 4+ years and they won't until something breaks or the protocol their operating on gets too slow for user requirements which I would expect is another 4+ years at least because mikrotik wifi is rock solid when its setup manually and correctly.

Security is less of a worry. I mean honestly if your willing to drive out to the middle of nowhere to war-drive and crack the passwords and get into their network...hell you probably deserve to get some internet and check ya emails for the effort you've put in. They'll probably see your vehicle while your doing it and invite you in for a cuppa and give you the password anyways.
There's a word for it: anthropocentrism. And another apt aphorism: arrogance.