I had something similar for many years (triggered by an episode of afib brought-on by triggering my vagus nerve). The one thing that has helped me fully get rid of these (after YEARS of trial-and-error) was getting onto beta blockers (Propranolol).
These have COMPLETELY gotten rid of my ectopic beats and also helped me deal with the health anxiety.
If you ever want to talk, feel free to hit me up (contact info in profile).
Propranolol is such an underrated drug, or at-least it was when I first started using it twenty years ago (initially for hand tremors but I found it did more than settle just my hands). Glad others have been discovering its usefulness over the years.
I think they've even recently found use in cancer therapy [1].
Sir James Black the pharmacologist who developed it is an absolute legend [2].
Yeah, I’ve been on propranolol and then metoprolol but they don’t seem to do much in terms of reducing ectopics. Currently on metoprolol though.
I’ve had an echo, stress ecg and then a ct angiogram. Everything is physically fine so at this point I mostly ignore them cause at least I know they are not an immediate danger.
> an episode of afib brought-on by triggering my vagus nerve
I get ectopic beats when I've got trapped gas in the stomach. Sounds weird, but generally when I get them I realize I need to stand up (because I've usually been sitting with bad posture which leads to the trapped gas) and have a large belch and then it calms down. I mentioned this to my doc and he said it was Roemheld syndrome ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roemheld_syndrome ) which is vagus nerve-related.
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
It's just super easy to use. You give it some natural language prompting and it handles all of the work of figuring out the tools, making the calls, and stitching responses back together. It's nice =D
That depends on what you're looking for. Apple Watch has a pretty good optical heart rate sensor but it's not great. Everyone knows that if you want accurate heart rate data you need to use a chest strap.
Other data point: he wears the Whoop as his daily wearable.
For the top quintile of gadgets, accuracy isn't what sets them apart but rather everything else (battery life, UI, data presentation, form factor, etc).
Question: mullvad doesn't traditionally support any of the streaming services (netflix, etc.). Since Obscura is using mullvad, does that mean it also won't?
Ha! I have a ridiculous amount of insight into this =)
For over a decade now I've been building and leading Developer Relations teams at developer companies. The reason why so many startups have a blog is because... It's one of the best ways you have to attract users to your service in a high-ROI way.
Think of it like this: you're a startup founder for a developer company. You want to get developers to know about your product, and ideally, try it out. How do you do it? You have a handful of options!
- Paid Advertising (expensive, hard to manage, immediately stops working once you stop advertising)
- Cold outreach (aka, outbound sales and prospecting, it works but nobody likes it and it's labor/time intensive, immediately stops working once you stop it)
- Organic outreach (aka, blog posts, YouTube videos, etc.) <--- This is the only category of things that last for a long time: once you've published an article or video, it'll be around as a reference that people will stumble upon in searches, LLM training sets will pick it up and potentially use it for future recommendations, etc. It has a long shelf-life.
When I ran DevRel at Stormpath (acquired by Okta), and later Okta, here's a fun secret most people won't know: a majority of our business and new developer users came from our developer blog. Shocking, right? Even at a large post-IPO company like Okta, the developer blog (back when I was there, anyhow), represented a massive portion of ALL website visits.
The amount of influence you have through educational content is truly massive, and can make or break even the largest tech companies.
> The amount of influence you have through educational content is truly massive, and can make or break even the largest tech companies.
This is true, but it neglects the "spark" that's required to get some sort of amplification to the content and related downstream benefits. Companies spend money on marketing, events, etc.
For INDIVIDUALS who want the ancillary benefits of educational content, they use tools to create and deploy across multiple channels and also engage with others ("shit post", "reply guy", etc.) that drive attention to their content.
For an individual, driving economic outcomes with educational content (on average) seems like an investment with low probability of success. I suspect that many individuals who create educational content are doing it because they are passionate about the topic, and do not expect any other benefit.
Thanks for posting, something that I'm thinking about a lot in the age of increasing participation in "Tech" and ever-increasing amounts of content while simultaneously divided attention.
I'd add that, if done well, it humanizes the company. It tells us something about the author, and you don't get that in other forms of advertising.
Fogbugz is just another company, but Joel took the time to write (well) about it in a way that was interesting, relatable and smart. It made you believe that the products they make are interesting and smart.
Paul Graham did the same. YC was humanized via his essays (which didn't really talk about YC.) Patrick MacKenzie made a business making bingo cards, but look at him now.
Fundamentally people do business with people they like. Writing stuff down allows enough personality to come through to give readers "someone to like".
Of course writing quality blogs takes a skillset lacking in most businesses. So yes, there's an element of cargo-cult, in that the result requires more than "we have a blog". Good blogs are enormously valuable- but most blogs are not terribly good.
As a lifelong American citizen, I'm legitimately concerned for the future of our country and all its residents.
The rate at which constitutional protections are being undermined, attacked, and rule of law is being thrown to the wayside is crushing and astounding. For the first time in my life, it appears that there are no longer any protections in place to help prevent an authoritarian regime from fully taking over our government, and it feels surreal to be living through this in real-time.
The TL;DR is that our security research team routinely hunts for various vulnerabilities in tools developers use. In this particular case, we looked at a potential dependency confusion attack in Cursor, but found no vulnerabilities.
There's no malicious intent or action here, but I can certainly understand how it appears when there's not a ton of information and things like this occur! As a sidenote, I use Cursor all the time and love it <3
> The packages performed HTTP requests back to our researchers containing username, hostname, current directory and (in later versions) environmental variables.
And exfiltration was needed to confirm a vulnerability why exactly?
Sorry, but you screwed up royally. Scary to see that Snyk still does not see this.
Ethically, your work was even lower than that of those who test their AI tools on FOSS code, send in bogus reports and thus waste maintainer's time. Experimenting on unwitting humans and ecosystems is not okay.
What's the justification for taking all of the environment variables? This post tries to paper over that particular problem. If your goal was to see if you could attack the dependency chain the first steps of user+hostname would have been sufficient to prove your case.
Taking the environment variables is about taking the secrets, and kind of moves this from PoC to opposition supply chain attack. Not to mention it's not only Cursor devs that would be affected by this, it could have (if your plan worked) attacked anyone using the extensions.
Frankly I wouldn't be surprised if this was a case of Hanlon's razor. Some "researcher" thought well ENV vars will certainly show us what we want and that's where the conversation ended without thinking a little harder into what else might be in the vars.
That's not really plausible in the modern legislative environment (pun intended), considering your env vars will contain GDPR-controlled data like your username, at the very least. Combined with the IP address it was collected from, they know who you are and where you live.
The few details given in this response don't match up with what happened.
Who did the GDPR review before extracting env vars from systems that were not under your control? How did actively extracting potentially private data from the environment not get flagged as Unauthorized Access?
If this "experiment" (which happened to be against a competitor, mind) was reviewed and approved internally, that is a great demonstration of Snyk's approach to (ir)responsible data collection and disclosure.
These have COMPLETELY gotten rid of my ectopic beats and also helped me deal with the health anxiety.
If you ever want to talk, feel free to hit me up (contact info in profile).