skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got 3 lines in and found the claims aren't being substantiated by the linked articles.

"The New York Times ... wants you to believe that you can cure schizophrenia with Zumba classes".

ref is a NYT Mag article that makes no claims about cures. It discusses some downsides with common treatments. -> https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/17/magazine/antipsychotic-me...

"The New York Times... wants you to believe ... that all psychotic patients can be controlled with a kind word"

This declaration seems overstated and hyperbolic. The ref'd article reviews some difficult ER interventions; even the treating physicians felt they could have been handled better. -> https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/21/health/psychiatric-restra...
Max Mode for Claude 3.7 – Out Now
I have asked myself this question a lot over the last few years - I don't know. I always want to say no, I wouldn't have done it. But, likely, the stress/instability of living with such a low wage would have caused irrecoverable circumstances at some point, so I guess whatever state I exist in now is probably better than the version of me that would exist had I not pursued my degree.

I am the first generation from my dad's side, who descended from slaves, to get a college degree (or really HS degree if we only include my paternal lineage). So it was a big deal. For me though, my career hasn't been the blazing success I'd expected it to have been, and I didn't end up doing remotely what I thought I would do. I 10x'd my income from college within 5 years, which felt like a big deal, til inflation blew the crap out of that, my meager savings were all but obliterated due to a series of bad financial moves/timing, and I am starting to hit a ceiling where 2xing my salary in a few years is no longer a reasonable expectation. So, I feel stagnant and unsatisfied, and I guess in my worst moments I'd prefer to have never gone through it. My life's materially better, I'm not at risk of starving anymore, and I got some health problems fixed. yet, some of the best people I met while in college I tossed aside because there simply was no time for them + what I was trying to do, very honestly - so I am very alone now, and tossed aside things like settling down in favor of getting ahead, which was another thing I had to kind of give up for a while.

But, I suspect, deep down, I would have done it anyway, or I wouldn't have ended up here. I didn't want to do it then either but I did, for whatever reason.
Nbdkit improving volume transfer speeds
Currently handling cloud to cloud migration using a custom toolkit - under the hood we're running volume transfers with single host instances attached to each cloud that serializes/deserializes resource files. Problem is on a 10Gibs network running a 300Gb disk it takes 30 minutes but 700GB disk takes 7 hours......... Any technical folks have any high level optimizations? Not sure of network topology on the 700GB machine (still in the dark here) but my assumption is the 300GB is barely used. I thought about simple snapshots and streaming content to a block device on the destination cloud but there is some overhead with this approach.
If there are effectively two choices and both of them do things you don’t like, “it’s your fault for not switching to the other one” isn’t a very useful argument
Former founder now small-time entrepreneur and this resonates with me. I know what I’m capable of when I turn on the switch but I also know the sacrifices it entails. Not willing to go into that mode so someone else can profit in my behalf.
I'm guessing people who haven't taken a stance don't feel the pain (yet). The old adage is "No country is more than three meals away from a revolution." 1), and some people still have meals. But alienating the "moderates" might lead them to join the "other side", because "our side" are just full of assholes...

1) Variations: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2022/05/02/nine-meals/
What an amazing coincidence!
You would not charge directly from the grid.

Typically you would use flywheel energy storage in the charging station to store energy. Flywheels are relatively common in managing grid fluctuations in minutes to hour timespan. Use hour to spin up, then discharge in five minutes is 83 kW to 1 MW.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel_storage_power_system
Isn’t “expensive” only a problem if your cost basis is >$0 ?
I mean, I'm salary, so I get paid for on-call as part of that, but I don't get any extra pay for picking up my team's on-call rotation.
You mean APIs the Apple watch already uses?
> the Go proverb "a little copying is better than a little dependency"

What a nice way to put it! Thanks for the mention and thanks for making me discover https://go-proverbs.github.io/ .
Conveniently, Apple's App Store Review Guidelines also include several rules that restrict apps from duplicating features that the OS already provides.

So if they detect a trend early enough, they implement it as first-party feature, dry out the existing competitors while restricting new competitors to enter based on the App Store Review...
> An external work done by someone else is implicitly owned by that creator.

Rendering an image is not "creating a work“ in the copyright sense. There may be all kinds of other legal quagmires, implicit contracts etc., but copyright is not one of them.

> someone else actually wrote the work

So you throw in a totally different situation? If the Blender scene has been modelled by someone else, then yes, that someone owns the copyright. But not because I let someone else render the completed scene.
Genetic reassessment of population division in Yellowstone National Park bison
Apple: “It seems letting other watch devices have access to all the capabilities the Apple Watch has will commodize it. But it will make them happy. Let’s do it anyways, our shareholder shouldn’t mind us allowing our watch to get cannabalized”.
Interference pattern is a measurement of a particle at both slits.
The ancient material is relevant because nothing has changed since the company went out of business :) I'm wearing a Pebble right now and I was able to update one of my favorite watchfaces using a docker container of the old Pebble SDK. The blog post says there will be an updated SDK released with the new watches.
Almost - it's called "mission command" and the core idea is to prioritize initiative, flexibility, and independent judgment over strict adherence to orders’ exact wording.

https://www.army.mil/article/106872/understanding_mission_co...
Where is the part where you can reply to a message?
The universe gave us AI which translates pretty well (and soon to be perfect). There was no one seriously looking to address this, it was just magically addressed when these LLMs showed up.
EDIT: You can now download source code and Android App builds. iOS apps to follow soon!
Everyone who works for a living understands why unions exist even if they don’t need one locally.
They were marked correctly, but I had a feeling someone was sufficiently annoyed with all the fluff in the video, that they went to the trouble. I think it was the only time I saw an LTT video with that many SB segments.
Apple has also shown its not shy about geofencing the remedies to only help people physically located in the EU's jurisdiction, with a billing address to match.
> If I wanted to have a beer or wine, I can't because I may need to work at any point.

One beer or glass of wine renders you incapable? I'd be totally comfortable having 1-2 drinks on call.
I like the way Arcade handles the agents -- I actually built a simple internal web app that we're using at Snyk to help with employee promotion, on top of Arcade's social integrations: https://github.com/snyk-labs/ai-promoter
We should make AI generated conversations to overload their surveillance.
Postgres with pgvector extension. Have been using it in production for months and it works great.
Good article overall. Quite often we are caught in our own dilemma and risk being toxic. My only criticism of the article will be not mentioning the risks of being "too empathic" and absorbing other people's problems into yourself. You should not only be able to get into their shoes, but also get out of there too and do it relatively quickly. Otherwise, you cannot survive as a leader of many and will be quickly crushed emotionally.
Thanks! Added a submission form for the new words and definitions (also in the neo-brutalism style).

As for crowd-sourcing the glossary, that is also planned. I just need to structure the existing entries first, and it's good to go! It will be published as part of the GitHub repository.
I see. I have the "Stocks Advanced" real-time data for individuals feed. I didn't realize the "professional" real time feed isn't the same feed.
I'd be interested to see the percentage of users who have the "Do Not Send Voice Recordings" feature enabled. My guess is .001% or less
Show HN: I am making a drag-and-drop AI tool to build custom UIs
Never a good look to assume where someone is located :)

FWIW, I'm in south-Europe, maybe that's why I got surprised I wouldn't have known the final price until the device would land in my hand?
I've never understood this Apple criticism (scherlocking). Someone built a search for your files, so it's not right for Apple to build a pretty key feature into the OS?

There's a lot of fair criticisms of Apple, but they don't have to be absolutely first at everything or never enter the market.
At least she has a future modeling coats once BS completes its ascendence onto the heap of tech obscurity, joining Gab and Parler.
Then they will hit you with, "We do this for safety of your data, we don't want bad actors getting health info from your watch".

I enjoy apple devices but hate the walled garden.
> This thread is full of people complaining how these aren't like their preferred watches

Which is funny to me because that's explicitly the point.

> These watches are not made for everyone. We want to be upfront with you about what to expect.

It's probably the most frustrating part of smartwatches. Everyone has a different list of mandatory features, and few seem to accept that their list isn't universal. Unlike phones where just about all of them have just about all the features, the smartwatch market is a wild west. It makes finding the right one for you a lot of work, and it's understandably disappointing when a watch checks all but one or two of your "must have"s.
99% of people on-call are salaried anyways
You just don't know how bad you are or how bad your society is. Do you think the Taliban thinks they are fucked up? I'm not comparing you to the Taliban, I'm just asking what do you think they think? It's important to think about what we think.
Maybe the reserve will buy wBtc that is on a L2 chain.
It's also a great environment for skilled technical people who don't mind speaking to another human being in person every now and then.

The idea that you are either an MBA-type "politic player" with zero technical skills whatsoever, or someone doing the "real work" who is super technical but starts fopsweating at the idea of having to present their work or write something that isn't code doesn't really line up with my experience.

A sizable percentage of my managers have written code while being managers. A sizable percentage of my programming coworkers have had MBAs.

The two extremes do not last very long in any healthy organization.
> Bogey Ya'alon doesn't want the IDF to kill babies and women in Gaza. What's wrong with him? Shame on you, Boogie, there's a country here.

https://x.com/AyalaHasson/status/1901001799412129830
I had lots of this when I was starting my career. As far as I could tell, it was some combination of being seen as very sharp, energetic, quirky, and most of all enthusiastic in a vision and enjoying every minute working toward it. After getting back from some OS/2 developer course at Redmond, I accidentally got a mainframe COBOL ERP software company to turning a pet side project into effectively a Visual Basic for OS/2. It did have a COBOL generator back-end though so they could sell to existing customers. The company's profits declined as it alienated existing customers that were paying large support contracts.
Speaking as someone who left tech to get a Ph.D. in a non CS field...

Broadly speaking, I agree with the author's point, that one needs to learn the rules of the game before trying to futz with them, which means one will ultimately be more effective learning the ropes in the first few years of a Ph.D. program. Then, after, one will be in a much better position to change things.

One big issue I see is that the skills that academic training engenders is almost orthogonal to management. And, unlike most of human history, we are now in an Information Age, with both private and public knowledge production economies. The private knowledge economy (i.e., tech, broadly writ) utilizes many practices that are barely heard of in Academia. Minor case in point: project management software is not the norm, at least not in my field.

For those who are interested in this topic, there's a very interesting set of proposals for how to bring "Science 2" much closer to "Science 1" in Michael Nielsen's and Kanjun Qiu's monograph / book "A Vision of Meta-Science." [1] Fair Warning: it is very, very long. But the first part is quite short and proposes a number of interesting Science 2 reforms that should interested HN readers. Tenure Insurance (proposed by none other than Patrick Collison), funding by grant-rating variance, etc.

I'm still finishing the essay, but so far it's the best thing on the state of science I've read to date.

[1] https://scienceplusplus.org/metascience/
GGP mentions "user experience" being "infinitely better". I don't think Android being made by an advertising company has much if anything to do with it.

I also don't see iOS and Android having much of a usability gap. At this point, they have very similar feature sets, and the UX is fairly well-polished, even on Android -- where yes, it took them a lot longer to get there. For the most part, if you think that either platform has bad UX, it's probably just because you've used the other one for so long, and you're used to it. (I don't think iPhone usability is bad, but on the rare occasion I do something on my wife's iPhone, I find it frustrating because it just works differently than my Android phone.)

At this point I think most (US; can't speak for other countries) iPhone users are there mainly because they've always been there, and there's fairly strong lock-in and switching costs. And iPhones are still something of a status symbol, not to mention unnecessary Apple-created problems like the "blue bubble envy" nonsense.
The Best of Edw519 (2011)
But... there isn't a 0 BC! The Gregorian calendar goes straight from 1 BCE to 1 CE.

(That said, most datetime libraries, in practice, tend to behave very weirdly if you go back a few thousand years, if they'll put up with it at all...)
The best decision I made was to switch to Linux Mint and Samsung Z Fold 6. I can't believe I was ever a fan of apple products. Hobbled walled garden products. If you're in tech you should not use apple products. Unless you're building an iphone app.
I will never trust a CEO who posts on social media and takes drugs.
Give me boring Ford and Chrysler.
Help pass Jake Seliger- inspired right to try and clinical trial reform bill
Hacker News,
Jake Seliger’s story inspired new laws. New Hampshire is voting on a new bill HB701 that would make clinical trial access easier for terminal patients and massively expand right to try laws for the dying. Please lend your support by emailing members of the NH health committee before they vote tomorrow. Opposition is pushing hard, claiming that it’s more “dignified” to choose for patients and just let them die instead of helping move scientific progress forward, as Jake wanted to do.

To read more about the bill, links are available on his wife’s published testimony, although the link to show support before the hearing is closed. Please email the reps instead if you can: https://open.substack.com/pub/bessstillman/p/the-seliger-act-testimony-for-a-new?r=16l8ek&utm_medium=ios

Reps to email:

elephantsmarching@msn.com
Lisa.Mazur@gc.nh.gov
Matt.Drew@gc.nh.gov
mark.mclean@gc.nh.gov
Susan.DeLemus@gc.nh.gov
Jim.Kofalt@gc.nh.gov
Yury.Polozov@gc.nh.gov
Jay.Markell@gc.nh.gov
Linda.McGrath@gc.nh.gov
Steven.Kesselring@gc.nh.gov
Lucy.weber@gc.nh.gov
james.mackay@mygait.com
Gary.Woods@gc.nh.gov
William.Palmer@gc.nh.gov
Trinidad.Tellez@gc.nh.gov
Jessica.Lamontagne@gc.nh.gov
Tim.Hartnett@gc.nh.gov
Janet.Lucas@gc.nh.gov
Have there been efforts to set up something like the SMTP block lists for web scraping bots? Seems like this is something that needs to be crowd sourced. It'll be much easier to find patterns in larger piles of data. A single real user is unlikely to do as much as quickly as a bot.
How long is the problem going to take to solve itself?
Dubai is indeed where crypto scammers retire to.
Often this is via special entitlements [0]. Published APIs, which you're only allowed to use if Apple approve your request.

Apple typically don't publish the criteria for when they approve entitlements, so it's almost impossible to get approved. You need to be a big company with contacts inside Apple.

Meta, Google etc. will all have negotiated a bunch of these entitlements for their own apps. But smaller companies are totally shut out.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/bundleresources/en...
it's pretty frustrating how "apple people" just don't care that it's apples fault. i routinely hear my wife mutter "i hate google so much!" when a google maps integration is being intentionally hobbled to keep her using apple maps. or when she has trouble managing rcs conversations because somebody in our social world has the gall to be on an android phone.
I guess I’ll take the contra here on messages integration — moving a message over BLE to untrusted hardware and worse accepting them back into iMessage is a massive, massive change in the security boundary and therefore security architecture and therefore security promises that apple makes on iMessage.

I do not believe average smartwatch users understand what they’d be doing if they got this. I do not believe vendors integrating with such a thing can do it safely, or even that all vendors integrating are good actors.

One reason iMessage is less of a total cesspit than SMS is that the ecosystem is closed, and makes automation difficult. It used to be impossible nearly, and in that era we had almost no iMessage spam. Now it’s difficult, and we have moderate iMessage spam. But adding hooks to make this automation easy, and worse, leave the trust environment as a feature is just wrong.
If you don't like an iPhone, don't buy an iPhone. Don't legislate your consumer preferences on me.
Are you from the past?
The article is over six years old.
CEO of Tembo (the company behind dba.ai) here —

Would love to get feedback on the concept, and if you're super eager to try it out, email us at hi@dba.ai and we can fast track you into the product.
"The independent crowdfunding publisher Unbound has gone into administration"

It is not about your favorite validating, recursive, caching DNS resolver.
Having a compass and a barometer could be a "happy accident" of already having an all in one sensor that does all that things.

The compass could be easily related to an accelerometer used for detecting watch position (a function commonly used in smartwatches to power on the screen on certain positions that suggest you're looking at it) or detecting "steps".

Not so sure about where could you also get the barometric pressure sensor...
Delivery Optimization Not Listening
As a theater director and actor I spend a lot of time thinking about "charisma". What is it that makes some people interesting to look at, even when they're not doing anything?

Physical attractiveness can play into it, but there are some very charismatic actors who aren't attractive. Acting skill plays into it, but often charismatic actors are only mediocre at "acting". It's commonly associated with confidence, but some charismatic actors have a habit of playing un-confident roles. (Which is not the same as a lack of personal confidence, but what is it they're doing that conveys both "confident" and "insecure" simultaneously?")

It's often said to be about commitment, a sense that they're really "present" and really focused on you. That's certainly something we want actors to do: the more they care about their scene-partners, the more the audience will be drawn to both. (That's true even when the focus is based on a negative emotion, like hatred, but it has to be a really targeted kind of hate and not just a general anger.)

I can teach a lot about the theory of acting, but I have only a vague idea of why it works. When it does, it can be really potent, though it can be be incredibly hard to get. People will often do the same wrong thing harder. A lot of the silly acting games they teach are about getting you to at least do a different thing than what you were doing, hoping that somehow you'll accidentally discover the right track.

I'm not sure any of this is really "charisma" in the sense that this writer means it. I certainly support his overall gist: soft skills are massively underrated.
This is very cool. These features would be useful:

- If it isn't possible to transfer the video, I'd rather skip them than just posting a thumbnail
- A way to mass-delete posts after a migration if I regret it
- The option to add text (e.g. [Migrated from X]) to each post if it fits

As far as competitors, go https://blueark.app/ seems like the most complete. I remember seeing another one, a desktop app, but I can't remember what it was called.
I’m sorry, does this send your database to Claude?
It's not just failure detection. A write to EBS is at least two additonal network hops. The first one is to get to the machine for the initial write, and the second is for that write to be propagated to another machine for durability. Multiply this by the number of IOPS required to complete a database transaction.
Interesting read. I am curious how you would analyze the current AI hype MCP (model context protocol) from your perspective. Does it fit into the future you see? It seems like it's going the complete opposite direction as the future you paint, but perhaps it's just a stepping stone given the constraints of row.
In the 1990s, I went to a lab in Tokyo for a presentation, and they had me using a freestanding whiteboard. When the board got full, I grabbed the eraser but a few in the audience started going "wait! wait". I thought they needed more time to copy the writing, but then a guy came up from the audience and pressed a button at the side of the board. The writing surface scrolled off to the side and a printout emerged from a machine in the corner.
I subscribed to Wired a few weeks ago specifically because they were doing good reporting on things that other media was letting slid.
I think it's Deel that they're calling crapware, because they have to resort to such practices as these
Thanks for sharing this. “Keep burning the candle at 110% … It takes something from you that you aren’t going to get back.” That’s something I’ve been feeling but haven’t been able to articulate after a prolonged sprint. It’s not quite burnout because it doesn’t erase your capability right away, but it takes a compounding toll.
Right, that is presumably gross profit per unit, not net. Net profit could easily be zero or negative.
I'm still waiting for the right script.
What is the impact on battery life to have the screen update every second, versus every minute? Will it be possible to have the HR display, on faces that include it, rate-limited to achieve better battery life?

One of the nice things about Amazfit watches was that I could dial down the HR polling and get better battery life that way.
Citus: The Misunderstood Postgres Extension
Denying jewish people the right for self determination is antisemitic as hell, no?