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ultimoo··on Apple Watch no longer sold with blood oxygen monitoring after patent battle loss
It helps to track VO2Max if you’re into cardio. I’m assuming the watch can no longer measure it.
ultimoo··on Tesla Employees Using Vehicle Cameras to Spy on 'Private Scenes;' Owners Suing (2023)
I have been injured on more than occasion by sharp edges and heavy doors on the Model Y.
ultimoo··on Nightshade: An offensive tool for artists against AI art generators
would it have been that hard to include a sample photo and how it looks with the nightshade filter side by side in a 3 page document describing how it would look in great detail
ultimoo··on Conway's Game of Life is omniperiodic
> ...in the decades since the creation of Life.

Beautifully put.

ultimoo··on Ford lays off 700 who were building electric version of F-150
> so-called “sub pay,” which is paid by the companies. Together unemployment benefits and sub pay covers 74% of their normal pay while laid off. But the F-150 Lightning workers who are laid off will be eligible for both unemployment and sub pay

I had no idea ford had to pay 74% in wages after laying off! For how long?

ultimoo··on India's banks are making $64B from free cashless payments
The article is poorly written to support a clickbait headline. I found it hard to follow.
ultimoo··on Chrome now tracks users and shares a “topic” list with advertisers
I stopped using Chrome and uninstalled it from all my devices a year ago. It was hard at first, but you get used to other browsers pretty quickly (took me two weeks). Safari on macOS works like a champ, and if I'm doing web development I switch to Firefox which has excellent developer tools (remember firebug?)
ultimoo··on Smol Developer
having to define the function signature in one place and its implementation in another adds to the cognitive burden of human developers, which is why we don't see it much in modern languages. instead, what if libraries emitted the equivalent of .h files that work better with LLM? is there a currently a spec for this?
ultimoo··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2023)
Substack | iOS Engineer, Android Engineer | SF Bay Area | Onsite | VISA

At Substack, we believe that what you read matters and that writing is valuable. We’re here to help writers go independent and thrive, and we’re hiring engineers to help us ship great features across our iOS and Android apps. You’ll get to work on thoughtfully designed native mobile apps with high traffic and help us build delightful experiences for reading long-form journalism, listening to podcasts, and participate in thriving communities of like minded readers. We’re based in San Francisco and offer a robust suite of benefits that include comprehensive healthcare, parking, and catered lunches.

I’m the hiring manager and my email is in my profile. Details at http://substack.com/jobs

ultimoo··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2022)
Substack | iOS Engineer, Android Engineer | SF Bay Area | Onsite | VISA

At Substack, we believe that what you read matters and that writing is valuable. We’re here to help writers go independent and thrive, and we’re hiring engineers to help us ship great features across our iOS and Android apps. You’ll get to work on thoughtfully designed native mobile apps with high traffic and help us build delightful experiences for reading long-form journalism, listening to podcasts, and participate in thriving communities of like minded readers. We’re based in San Francisco and offer a robust suite of benefits that include comprehensive healthcare, parking, and catered lunches.

I’m the hiring manager and my email is in my profile. Details at http://substack.com/jobs

ultimoo··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2022)
Substack | Security Software Engineer | SF, NYC, Remote (US/CAN) | Full-time

At Substack, we build software in the service of writers. Our distributed backend system is responsible for taking the content writers create and delivering it to millions of email inboxes every day while keeping spam out. We balance cutting-edge technology with defending our infrastructure’s reliability and security and build thoughtful products that help writers grow their businesses. We’re well-funded, growing and need an experienced security software engineer that can dive into the code and lead implementation for foundational projects around auth, identity, and product security. Tech stack: Node.js, React, AWS

* Senior Security Engineer https://boards.greenhouse.io/substack/jobs/4009405005

* Backend Systems Engineer https://boards.greenhouse.io/substack/jobs/4006384005

Mention HN in the application, or please reach out with any questions (email in profile).

ultimoo··on Airbnb’s design to live and work anywhere
>Most companies don’t do this because of the mountain of complexities with taxes, payroll, and time zone availability, but I hope we can open-source a solution so other companies can offer this flexibility as well.

I think this is a genius growth play for Airbnb. Make it easier for _other_ companies to operate in a similar way so that _their_ employees can travel and live in an... Airbnb! Next, they should lobby to get US and EU to make short-term "tourism + wfh" visas more accessible so that this becomes even more popular. I think everyone wins here.

ultimoo··on Twitter owner transition: Temporary ban on product updates after Elon Musk deal
> The guy who he appointed was an obvious stooge who was clearly not up to it.

Curious to know why you think so?

ultimoo··on It is physically impossible to exceed the weight limit for a Small Flat Rate Box
This sounds fascinating -- do tell more! Was this for a large cap company CEO?
ultimoo··on Apple's whitelist of the 250k auto-completable domains in iOS
To add another data point: I couldn't find "substack" on there, and it's been around since 2017.
ultimoo··on The YC Winter 2022 Batch
To be connected with people and resources for reaching $50M
ultimoo··on US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent
No, 50 years ago people had different lifestyles, jobs, and hobbies. Technology as we know it today did not exist. It's a very different world today and the chances of a different outcome are large enough to warrant repeating this.
ultimoo··on Toll signs on 101 report your transponder setting
Building better+faster public transport brings orders of magnitude of absurd complexity, compared to implementing something like this. I do agree that public transit solves many of these problems in the long run, and I hope we get there some day.
ultimoo··on Show HN: Make better food choices when grocery shopping
Opting in sounds like the better pattern here. I would also appreciate if I could opt-in giving the extension network access instead of extensions getting it by default.
ultimoo··on Show HN: Make better food choices when grocery shopping
This is clearly a useful product that solves real problems, but I'm here to comment on browser extensions as a whole. Personally, I find the notion of running 3rd party code with internet access that can see the entire DOM of any website a little scary. Do others on HN routinely use random browser extensions (e.g. okta, grammarly, etc.)? Is there a different way to think about browser extensions that frames it in a more appetizing way?
ultimoo··on Groups never admit failure
Do B Corp organizations fit into this narrative? From what I've read organizations like Allbirds and Sweet Green are B Corps but I don't know much about it beyond that.
ultimoo··on AWS us-east-1 outage
> ...you own your dependencies. You don't blame others.

Agreed, teams should invest resources in architecting their systems in a way that can withstand broken dependencies. How does AWS teams account for "core" dependencies (e.g. auth) that may not have alternatives?

ultimoo··on Ask HN: I feel so shallow and dumb when I see what other smart people are doing
Thank you for opening up and sharing this. Don't let others or even the industry set the standard for what "smart" and "accomplished" means. Every one of us is on a unique journey and we're all accomplished in our own ways -- even a stay-at-home parent without a college degree!

If I may, do look into building your own brand either by starting a newsletter or a freelancing writing practice -- you're clearly great at it!

ultimoo··on To set new tab as blank in MS Edge you need to enroll device in MDM
I don't have any Windows computers these days but if I may offer a workaround for the news feed -- I'd recommend looking to running your own ad blocking DNS with pi-hole. You can get a Raspberry Pi for $30 and get the whole thing up and running in an hour.
ultimoo··on What I learned from a year on Substack
Any tips or advice for someone who is newly venturing into writing a fairly niche tech substack newsletter?
ultimoo··on Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)
My New Year's resolution was to write more and I'm happy I was finally able to find the time and start my own newsletter on substack! (I write about engineering management at engmgmt.substack.com) So far, it's been challenging to find the time to write frequently -- once a week is recommended but I'm aiming for once every two weeks.

For those on the fence, writing is a wonderful hobby that also has some practical applications -- give it a try!

ultimoo··on Can You See Me Now? A measurement study of Zoom, Webex, and Meet
Just want to add that I've had this exact experience with people using phone audio with the added variant of them losing cellular signal every few minutes.
ultimoo··on iPhone 13 announced with redesigned camera array and smaller notch
Agreed. Additionally, sometimes even an update to the physical form factor is sufficient to warrant an upgrade.
ultimoo··on iPhone 13 announced with redesigned camera array and smaller notch
13 Pro looks like a great phone on its own but not compelling enough to upgrade from 12 Pro.
ultimoo··on Sad, lonely people more likely to be ‘natural’ social psychologists (2018)
Could it be that you hesitate to "write" because you've accurately "read" the room?

E.g. a toddler may find it easier to kick around a ball on a lawn vs. a kid kicking it around on a soccer field with boundaries, goal posts, and rules. To extend the analogy, everyone thinks the toddler is cute and doing a great job, but only the kid's parents think she's playing well.

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