skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is true.

Focus = Energy - Distraction

and

Success = Focus x Time

The way you gain stamina is by doing things to increase your energy and decrease distraction. I wrote and talked about this here, fwiw.

https://vonnik.substack.com/p/state-changes-work-and-presenc...

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stokedlive_focus-is-power-lea...
Yes. Especially with that government...
> It's honestly amazing how Apple managed to dodge anti-trust in the United States.

What's amazing to me is how much things have changed since the Microsoft antitrust saga: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
Any ideas what the screen refresh rate is going to be at this point? All the screenshots don't have time that includes seconds, and having a watch face that can update at least every second would be a requirement for me.

(I know e-ink displays can have fast refresh rates, like the 60Hz / fps Daylight computer - but that may not be cost effective / battery efficient here?)
Thousands of lawsuits coming up? How are any of the mentioned companies okay with their highly confidential data being scanned by AI?
I think holding China to a greater standard than USA shows respect rather than disrespect for China.
The chip inside claims to support Bluetooth Low Energy, Bluetooth mesh, NFC, Thread and Zigbee. Maybe someone can hack together a payments app using the NFC?
You couldn't pay me to go back to Android, having used Android from 2009-2020. Apple Watch is fantastic, I'm a little sad that they don't provide better integration capabilities to external devices. I can only assume that's another anti-competitive lawsuit brewing.
I'm guessing that is why they said it was a funny name.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNZy603as5w

They are out there, of course, the standardization part isn't there.
or job security
If you know the Cloud market you know nobody is moving to GCP :-)
IMO the first book was really good, the others are pretty bad. So they were always going to have the problem... and frankly they altered the original book in ways that were worse without actually resolving any problems with length.
It's great value if you use YouTube a lot, but terrible value if you use YouTube every three months to look up a car or washing machine repair video.
As someone who has exclusively worn a pebble since it was crowd funded, I am trilled. I love purpose built devices[0] that don't attempt to do everything. I don't need a watch that does everything, just triage notification and perform time related activities and get out of the way. Pebble has always fit that niche. The fact that I can hack on it and mold it to my needs has been icing.

I have some sincere questions on the design choices. For context, I own a pebble time (everyday wear for triaging notifications) and a polar watch (for exercise tracking). Also part of a cycling community where we swap exercise watches to try out what else is out there. I have found I always sleep in my polycarb pebble time because I forget I am wearing it - it is that unnoticeable.

1) Why limit Core 2 Duo screen to BW? Feels like a step back when the Core Time 2 will have it. Sourcing parts?

2) According to the blog, I understand the Core Time 2 is your (Eric's) dream watch, so not trying to rain on your parade but trying to reason about the audience you're catering to here. The heart rate monitor suggests that it can be used to track physical activity. But... no GPS, metal (heavy) case, and protruding sensor diminish the utility of the sensor. If you've ever run with a light watch, you'll start noticing how quickly metal watches fatigue the skin. I've slept with watches on that track my sleep (optically) and the protruding sensors always causes pressure points - similar to a pebble (heh) in the shoe. Having 30 days battery life, speaker, and better vibration make for a great gadget that doesn't need to be taken off... unless it is not comfortable.

[0]: https://www.polar.com/en/science/whitepapers Purpose built devices are optimized and companies that build they have domain knowledge. You've probably never heard of polar but they publish the science behind their features where as garmin has nice looking gear but has gimmicky features, like "body battery"
> homicides (that are not a subject for reporting bias)

There is very serious bias in which deaths are labelled homicides, and in who is held responsible for them. The idea that homicide stats are bias-free is weirdly pervasive, but absolutely without basis, on either the victimization or (even moreso, since the prior bias also impacts this on top of the direct bias applicable to it) perpetration side.
> actually outrageous claim that Google will use this to illegally siphon customer data

Hypothetical question as much as anything: If Google purchases a company and the data the company stores about their customers, is it illegal for them to use this data for whatever they want?

Lets say it would give them an understanding of what features from AWS people tend to use the most, and they use that to improve Google Cloud, would that be illegal?
> Java streams is that they're as powerful as Ruby's functional-style operation chaining (arr.map{}.reduce(:+) etc)

This is not a unique Ruby feature though. Iterators are very common nowadays. Java streams have okay performance, much like .NET's LINQ you likely won't be able to use them in a really performance-sensitive code (although LINQ is improving quite a bit with each new release, overall it performs moderately to significantly faster than Java Streams, but usually slower than Rust iterators).
The Sesame demo is really impressive but the fact that they record and review your conversations make it a complete non-starter for me to actually use it. I can't feel comfortable knowing some person could actually listen to everything we say. Open sourcing it is great so I could self-host it, although it seems like you can't quite get to something similar to the demo from this so I'm not sure what the point is.
I have subscribed to multiple news organizations this year because I think it's important to support the type reporting they are doing right now. I don't give money to every source that is doing great investigative work but there's at least more of my money paying for news.
Long time Garmin watch user here and Garmins are also HORRIBLY crippled on iOS. Can I respond to a text message? No. I can clear the notification, but that is it. Apple Watch has far greater abilities than any other smart watch. That is the issue.
Apple Health integration - what are your plans?
Blender 4.4
6 months from announcing rePebble (Jan '25) to shipping your first units (July '25) seems like a quick turnaround for a compact consumer electronics device. Curious to know if these first units are closer to a white label of existing hardware or more of a JDM model.

Side note - I got the first pebble through the kickstarter pre-orders in my first year out of high school. Seeing something so novel was definitely a contributor to me switch from CS to Mech E and working in the consumer electronics space now. Thanks for making cool and interesting things :)
> depends upon numerous factors that coincide with how strong the evidence is

Might I venture the guess that seeing tangible advantages for oneself when using that new theory is more important? If you adopt it, will you become one or more of more famous, more successful, able to advance your own work, become part of a more reputable group, etc.?

If it is merely something that will not affect you, there is little or no incentive to change one's view.
You’re stretching here.

Companies hire private physical security all the time. Why is digital security different?
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The idea that anyone who disagrees with you is a generative LLM is also, uh, wrong.
Some 6 years ago I bought new bluetooth headphones.
Every time I'd put them on, my macbook would open apple music (I didn't even know it was installed). Every time. No way to disable it, I really tried. Stopped shy of doing some kernel stuff.

Sold that laptop, and have never touched anything apple since. Probably never will. The hardware's good, everything else is an embarrassing mess.

Sent from my Ubuntu.
yes, due to privacy and contract obligations

as well as this is the surest way for GCP to spectacularly commit suicide
Not answering the question, but k8s doesn't entirely solve this because of the DB. If you're a SaaS provider that reached this scale, there's a good chance your architecture isn't just stuffing everything in one Postgres instance, so shipping a VM with Mongo, Postgres, Zookeeper, and Cassandra sorta makes sense.

If you'd had ample foresight, it might have been nice to have an architecture where the DB is truly abstracted away. Or not. Maintaining two backend implementations is a pain and error-prone.
This is apple's modus operandi. Hobble competitors even if it's anti-customer. Fill the gap themselves for higher profits.
I expect to find it where it is - in sqrt(i)|x,y>+sqrt(1+i/2)|x+2,y>
Telecom and automotive.

I guess hobby robotics, for example, could get you an entry to it if you choose to write the hardware interfacing parts yourself.
wiz probbaly found some big vulnerability in google, and they are now forced to buy them.
Personally, I found the second season to be a decent show in its own right, but comparison is 100% the thief of joy in this case. Season one was one of the most gorgeous pieces of sci-fi media I've ever seen and season two just looked OK by comparison and had a much slower pace and felt more emotionally vulnerable compared to season one's hardboiled tone.

If they were separate shows I would be tempted not to compare them at all.
> Why limit screen to BW?

There's one with a color screen.
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It doesn't if there are only two choices and consumers don't like either.
Riding a tiger is dangerous, climbing down is even more so.
I wonder how good the sleep tracking is without heart monitoring?
Of all the things to be outraged about you choose two astronauts spending more time in space out an abundance of caution for the safety of their return flight?

Empathy, sure. Outrage? Lol.
Whoa, whoa. Touch screen?!
Project Zero and Wiz and have very little in common. It's wrong to bring these two up together as if they are comparable. Project Zero focuses on discovering and analysis of new (including zero-day) vulnerabilities. I do not believe Wiz uncovers new vulnerabilities. The skillset of someone working on Project Zero looks very different from someone working on Wiz.

The field of security is huge. It's unhelpful to lump unrelated things together.
Neat, did not know that. At the time MPW shell was used, it was a little bit too advanced for me — I was only as far as working my way through C For Dummies (or something like that) with a limited student edition of CodeWarrior* around the time REALbasic came out.

* Possibly bronze edition? Whatever it was, it was 68k only.
Google has the best security. But it is hard to market real security (as oposed to snake-oil), so maybe this acquisition will help.
So a .LNK is just a special case of scripting executable file. Now, reading the last line of the article, the quote from the spokesperson, seems to indicate that security warnings are already enabled for an untrusted .LNK downloaded from the Internet. It seems that both iOS and Windows are now flagging any executable that's downloaded as "untrusted", until the user plows through the warnings to run it anyway.

So if .LNK is treated as .EXE and .COM and .BAT, then I would say that there is parity there. Unfortunately, typical users aren't sophisticated enough to recognize that a .LNK is an arbitrarily-coded script file, nor to inspect it closely enough when these Evil North Koreans found a way to obfuscate it.

We're still at a level where typical troubleshooting instructions include: "destroy all your data/cookies/cache, disable your firewall & anti-malware, and run this with admin privileges" because sure enough, those pesky security measures can indeed interfere with legitimate operations.

It's the same thing when you tell users to "check the full URL on preview to make sure it's OK before you click it." Well, bud, I'll show you punycode, and link shortener/redirection, and thousands of legitimate gTLDs, and weighing that against the expertise of a typical consumer on what a "valid URL" looks like, not going to help.
Does it do anything that the linked article says it can't do?
Apple has been restricting iPhones from being awesome since 2007.
Since you claim an extraordinary thing without evidence...

No. It's not.
That’s an interesting rationale from them, especially as neither word includes the letter “u”, and “duo” for “do over” is neither obvious nor established.

Hopefully they exercised better judgement in the design of the product.
That’s not Apple’s fault or responsibility. Maybe Android should stop sucking.
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So, they are banking with HSBC?
> Did Meta get special access to do this?

Apple would never give Meta access to private APIs. Eric has access to everything that the Meta View app is doing.
Disagree. The executive disregarding the constitution (judicial oversight) is a coup. Arresting the offenders is bringing the government back into constitutional order. Seems the opposite of a coup to me.
I would argue the original post is talking about stamina on a different scale. Stamina over years. Not over the course of a day or week, fueled by stimulants.
Cramming that much plot into a 2 hour movie would suck. You could maybe halve the runtime, but anything less than 5 hours would just not work IMO
Yes, but you've proven my point because you missed the complex mechanism at the heart of the system. the nitty gritty is where it gets opaque, for example: a user sends BTC to an 'agent' (collateralized data provider), the btc is 'wrapped' as wbtc and then the user can participate in deFi services in flare network. The user therefore enters a contractual relationship with the agent to look after their btc while they participate in deFi activities, and everyone trusts that the agent doesn't run off with the btc.
Elasticsearch is a good bet, if you need to use multiple filters with your queries, and when you grow above the acceptable size of an in-memory database.
Rump likes to play favorites and use any power at his disposal to hurt his political / personal enemies or people he thinks don't "respect" him enough. He also is a fan of extorting people.

So I wouldn't count on it based on some generic "pro-business" position. Google is going to have to kiss the ring one way or another.
MS had a much larger market share than Apple does in any product category. They were something like 95% or more of the PC OS market. Apple has, in the US, around 50% of the smartphone market and around 15% of the PC market.

MS also did a lot to curtail competition that Apple hasn't even come close to. Like how they crippled BeOS by threatening OEMs with higher Windows licensing costs (as a low-margin business this would have pushed any OEM prices too high to remain competitive).
It makes perfect sense if you're used to the pattern matching of Scheme and Racket syntax macros.
I feel like there may be better ways to address your points without insulting the person you're replying to... Any chance you'd be willing and able to compose a reply that adds credibility to your claims? Or is this more of a "grudge against that commenter in particular" sorta thing?
There is no "business model" that will fix this. Yelp, The Wirecutter, Product Hunt, all these suffer from the principal-agent problem. You, the reader, are the principal looking for a solution to your problem. The app is the agent that solves the problem for you. But the agent has its own motives, and can behave in ways you don't want.

Yelp was great until it decided it needed to become a gatekeeper for restaurants and coerce vendors into paying for ads.

The Wirecutter was decent until it got acquired by NYT and changed its style, with a much heavier focus on affilliate revenue and positioning itself as a a "perk" for NYT subscribers.
Why will application layer value props be squeezed out? And if so, where does value accrue going forward in an RL first world?
> it doesn’t really have an iOS app (AltStore is pretty flaky). Any news on that front?

I thought the Pebble app still worked, using Rebble. My understanding is that they are building a new app for the new watches, if that's what you were asking about.
All i want is sleep and step tracking. Is this a good option?
I'm pretty sure it was this post, which I found by searching the domain: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41884283
Another company that would like Apple to not expose functionality to their first-party ecosystem and refuse to expose it to third parties even with user consent.

If the functionality isn't available to anyone, fine, so be it. If the functionality exists on the Apple Watch, it should be done through an API.
It's kind of weird segmentation, but, given neither has GPS, I wonder how many people who'd seriously consider buying one of these really care about having a compass & barometer. Are those often important features to someone who doesn't care about GPS?
Five? Pray tell!
I use Weaviate and let the model create GraphQL queries to take advantage of both the semantic and data layer. Not sure how efficient it is but it's worked for me
I started off my career in low level stuff and transitioned upwards to web. I’ve always been all over the place in terms of tech so it wasn’t particularly big steps either way. I’ve usually got something low level-ish going on at home. Emulator development, robotics, …
As a fan of British comedy, this is what I think of when I hear wiz: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wiz#Etymology_2
Indeed it isn't.

In general though, what would you expect from young people who spent years in high-tech heavy SIGINT unit to do?
I cannot endorse this overbroad definition of "privacy" and in fact I can't see the logic in it at all. It is true that in the past the cops could not automatically hoover up your posts, but is also true that in the past no individual person could reach millions/billions of other individuals instantly with short messages and videos. The increase in scope of police collection of public communications is proportional to the increase in reach of those communications platforms. It is all well-balanced.
You can use a Python library/tool to control them (https://github.com/sbidy/pywizlight), which means Home Assistant supports them out of the box.

In my setup I have Home Assistant running on an N100 mini PC and that's what I use as an HomeKit bridge.

If possible I'd use ZigBee or Z-Wave bulbs (or even better, switches) though.
Just bought both. One for each arm

Will the watch ship with a JTAG clip? Or is that coming later. Not sure if I missed the option in the store
FWIW Scavenger's Reign's creators have been making the show Common Side Effects. It's a brilliant show in its own right IMO but the animation is nowhere near as high-effort.
I was trying to figure out where the deja vu was coming from. This explains it!
I guess the decisive line was: You make a grown man cry.
It is valid, even today, for all Microsoft products.
Google isn’t buying Wiz for “security expertise”, they’re buying Wiz for a security product, in a growth area, that customers absolutely love. You’ve provided no evidence for the conspiracy theory that google is buying Wiz to siphon up a bunch of data, and if you’re going to link to Wiz, maybe link to their public list of security certifications, many of which prohibit the type of data harvesting you are suggesting.

https://trust.wiz.io/
As someone who has a garmin watch and switched from android to iOS I can tell you it's exactly as crippled as the article spells out.
So if anything garmin has a healthy smartwatch business in spite of apple trying their hardest to choke competition.
How does ethics even come into this? They didn't require consent to show ads in the first place. Why require consent to not show ads?
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Intersting... my physics class in high school (late 80s) made an RF modulated laser transmission system for sending analog video between two buildings a few miles apart. It worked great. I didn't think it was that big of a deal at the time since we had already done microwave and other frequencies.
And how many cars do we need to be able to support in order to cover all of MISO, ERCOT, etc?
One of the many reasons I have been exiting out of the Apple ecosystem.

They are so damn hostile to any third party integration, reserve apis for first party usage, and give middle finger to developers with their abusive fee structure (Apple takes a 30% cut …).

Only thing left is for my devices to age out (I am in deep with phone, watch, mbp, mba, and even Mac Studio M1 “ultra”)
> It’s impossible for a 3rd party smartwatch to send text messages, or perform actions on notifications (like dismissing, muting, replying) and many, many other things.

Unless I'm crazy, I think I've used my Meta Ray-Bans to do all of these things at some point. So is this a watch only limitation that Meta was able to avoid?
I agree. The comment that equated an intelligence service with a religion was crude, inappropriate and unnecessarily political. It is downright shameful to invoke the very real phenomenon of religious persecution as a way to discourage mere mention of a specific, relatively small intelligence organization.
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In a number of cases, yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(spyware)
> Nurses individually have little power (as they are replaceable)

Replaceable with what, exactly? The local ER is now having to close in the evening because they can't find sufficient nursing staff to keep it operating.
Honestly getting the Core 2 Duo just because of the funny name. I miss my old Pebble sometimes so it will be a neat tinker toy.
Hmm.. strange. Will look into it.
I suspect that customer service bot is incorrect. As also noted on this page[0], all dark pool trades are published to the consolidated tape, which appears to be part of the polygon API.

As an aside, the behavior you’re seeing might actually be causal- a large print appearing on the tape likely causes automated systems to widen out their quotes. Or alternatively, if the trade is through the NBBO, you’re seeing the top of the book (the protected quote) being swept in compliance with RegNMS.

[0] https://www.finra.org/investors/insights/can-you-swim-dark-p...
I think the devil is in the details of how iOS and watchOS interact. Instead of sending and receiving texts from iOS, watchOS is running messages and only sharing data. I imagine this pattern works a large amount of the time in Apple's benefit. They make a notification API available for anyone to use, they just choose not to do it. They also make it so the watch can use the phone's data, and this they do use, but also it can use WiFi or Cellular on its own.
> They don't need Wiz's "enterprise" expertise for security.

Yes, because exploit discovery is exactly what enterprise security is.
There's no way it's actually shipping with that name, right?
haha, thanks.