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Ask HN: What features for wellbeing optimisation app?
Dear HN,

My friend and I are currently developing an app to track and optimise wellbeing. We're looking at nutrition, supplements, nootropics and exercise. My background is in machine learning so the idea is to take a data-driven approach.

In case this app would be relevant for you: What features would you like to see?

If you're interested in trying a beta version, check out https://fullspectrum.app
You get one of the people who did the installation to admit to it. I'm sure you could find someone who has a conscience or doesn't think they are personally at fault who would be willing to own up to it.
All great advice. And some of the meal kits are as guilty of complicating as anyone. My one order with Blue Apron included the most complicated and time consuming burger recipe I’ve ever made in my life and it wasn’t even all that great. I suspect they feel incented to have recipes that intimidate people from tackling on their own.
When being admitted to hospital, or even for an MRI one of the questions on the form is usually

Are we allowed to share your data in anonymized form for research ?

I never thought much of that and, of course, always answered Yes.

Nowadays, and after the shit that Facebook[1] and Google are tyring to pull off my answer is a surrounding:

Hell, No!

Do those guys actually consider how much they hurt science and by extension patients?

Scum!

[1] http://fortune.com/2018/04/06/facebook-medical-data-sharing-...
To capture the extent of California’s wildfires, you need to see them from space
Sounds a bit like the Fermi Paradox and Drake Equations - while the math technically works out the missing terms make it useless on a practical level.

The possibility space is limited by sanity checks of the actors - technically a terror group could start putting live rattlesnakes into snake in a can prank devices on people's doorsteps but it would be logistically difficult and incredibly stupid.

Beyond that one interesting thing about attackers are how memetic they are over what is appealing to their personal image as opposed to effectiveness. Like the symbolism matters more.

Terrorists in the US could cause lasting damage and disruption by infrastructure attacks like going around and emptying a few AR-15 clips into unguarded transformers and substations or train track sabotage around oil freight trains yet they don't at all.
Similarly looking at the historic trends between bombings vs mass shooting vs vehicular murder plots seems to be more cultural than availability related.
The specific language was:

> [data] "will never be linked or associated with Google accounts, products or services"

Streams is plainly a Google product and is probably using deep learning models trained on this data. Morever, patients were never given the option to opt-out of this data collection at all.
Awesome resource, a feedback would be to show 4 apps per scroll-view, instead of dedicating an entire screen height to one app - since first-time users are only going to see that one app when they load the page, and there's quite some scrolling involved to view more than two.
The article is in regards to sourdough microbes that are on a bakers hands, not necessarily those that may or may not survive the baking process.
I see this when I'm cycling, years ago the problem was agitated young men, now it's most definitely inattentive old people.
Even if you don't enjoy cooking, you could buy a 15 dollar speaker for the kitchen and put audiobooks or podcasts on while you cook so you don't feel like it is time wasted.
What does this AI do medically?

Is it just playing the odds "oh this and this are probabbly this or this or this."?
Didn't old-school CRT televisions "heat" electrons to more than 10KeV?
I don't think OPENAI will make much difference. Companies & states will simply leech off OPENAI and copyright, trademark, patent or hide their own improvements.
As others have written - HR is there to protect company from employees. I've been working in one company where HR people were actually nice, helpful and engaged in various activities and improvement, but those are rare (and I've been lucky).

Standard corporation has lazy, useless HR department that is there to hire you (with minimal effort on their side), fire you, and stuff mentioned above.
No, it's not. Thanks for the suggestion. That sounds like something I could take a crack at myself.
Not really disagreeing with your larger point, but in this specific instance it's less "designed to last" and more "not actually used".

The article points out how owners are getting older, having more health issues, etc. and that the bikes aren't actually used for anything but fun rides on the weekends.

Harley Davidson is an incredibly powerful brand, but it's not a brand built off of ultra reliability and the creation of long lasting vehicles.
Amazon's OpenJDK is 1.8.0 which is JDK8, so it still 'misses' those Oracle's closed features?
Used OpenJDK in production for years. Never seen any issues or bugs. And with the changes in the OracleJDK license going forward we are essentially forced to use OpenJDK.
I made a similar app recently - https://p2p.chat

Code is available here - https://github.com/tom-james-watson/p2p.chat/

(Warning - definitely pretty alpha still)
> no amount of technical argumentation will save you from a prosecutor, judge, or jury if you do something that causes spoiliation of evidence

Powerful people seem to get away with this....
How does the infinite part work?

The key problems with Wave Function Collapse tend to be that it gets exponentially slower as the area you need to collapse increases, and that it easily gets "stuck" (i.e. finds an combination of tiles that cannot be resolved, and has to backtrack arbitrarily far).

I assume the speed is solved by operating only on new chunks at the edge of the explored space, but backtracking across chunks seems... painful.
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5. The unit works using some LED light.
A. it is bright
B. It is not replaceable. Meaning after 2-4 years of operation, the unit becomes a throwaway. This is not a good thing for a unit that costs over $700
> It's ridiculous to have kitchen hardware * apartments, with abysmal utilization rates.

The problem is common work/school/etc. schedules mean that the bulk of the utilization is at the same time; there isn't a lot to be gained by sharing unless you are in a quasi-executive commune, where a shared kitchen (and other living space) is already a norm.

If you want more people to choose to live in communes, good luck.
Actually the previous assertion predates 4chan. Anecdotally I recall using "copypasta" in the late 90's when working with code that had obviously been copied from another source and turned into a a spaghetti code mess. I don't doubt that it has taken on many other meanings, but I know for a fact that it means what naikrovek is not alone with that definition.
The Mass Exodus of Confederates to Brazil After the Civil War
That's the point, while chess is deterministic, it's not computationally feasible to play the game perfectly.
China has cultivated in its people a very troubling mental complex centered on national pride and driven by the Century of Humiliation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_of_humiliation

To say they are fervent about righting the wrongs and perceived wrongs of the past is an understatement. It's pretty much a driving force of life with many people. It's a powerful dynamic. And it's one that's held close to the chest by Chinese students studying here in the US but in China it's freely talked about, written about, and taken for granted as the right thing.

On our (the west) side we also have racism and nationalism. But I think our more diverse (talking about points of view, not race here) and more activist anti-racism voices are a tempering force that China lacks.

Relating this to weaponization of AI, I think people like Stuart Russell are naive to think that watching Slaughterbots would give these students pause. On the contrary, it would excite them, because it's showing exactly the kind of thing they would be delighted to develop. Not that I know these students, but I'm aware how China drills bitterness into its people about their past humiliations, and uses this to develop racist nationalism. Pretty scary.
Code like this makes me think of the famous line from the film version of Hellraiser: "I have such sights to show you..."

Contrast PostgreSQL or... uhh... virtually any other database. Oracle's mess is clearly a result of bad management, not a reflection of the intrinsic difficulty of the problem domain.
There are many office/lab environments where personal electronic devices cannot be present for various reasons (security, EMI, etc.). Metal safes and lock boxes are common places to store PEDs when entering those environments.
The posted URL goes to the French version of the page.

This is the primary URL: https://aws.amazon.com/corretto/
HD is not known for having unusually good reliability and build quality. In fact, most people consider them below average.

I suspect the issue is not that their bikes last so long per se, but rather that so many people buy them, don't ride them much and then decide to stop riding motorcycles. There is probably a fairly high amount of purchases that go to middle-aged dudes looking for a new hobby that give it up pretty quickly.
Three months of no commits is not enough to declare a project dead.

As for Shumway, looking at the commit history[0], the last commit was over 2 years ago.

[0] https://github.com/mozilla/shumway/commits/master
Krill oil 300 mg once a day.
I don't believe savings is the primary goal.

to me main benefits are:

> control of food prep

> control of ingredients

> having ultra fresh cooked meal

> less packaging waste ?
Meet the E-Nose That Actually Sniffs
Bejing institute of technology is roughly comaprable to UCSC.

Calling them brightest seems overly glossy.
Logical clock
Regarding the hardware questions, I don't know. FWIW, it's a Dell Inspiron i3531-1200BK.

It does have FDE, and requires a password on boot for that.
> I had an iPhone that I forgot the password to and it was a real pain in the ass.

I know this doesn't address your comment head-on (i.e lost password) - but it does address the issue of stolen phones which are apparently impossible to restore back to their factory settings.

Most people who rob iPhones are not technically savvy, but they know people who are, and they get those people to debrick the phones.

The real question is: who are these people who can unbrick iPhones?. Well it turns out: all you need to do is look on your town noticeboard and there are a slew of people who claim to 'unlock' or otherwise debrick iPhones.

Typically the tech they use to debrick the phones is readily available on the web, and god knows what other things they do to the phones once they are 'market ready' and ready to be sold (malware implants, either accidental or deliberate can be found on these devices).

I know from experience and know a few people in those circles who deal with stolen phones all day, everyday. There are also firms who demand proof-of-ID so that stolen phones can be tracked and tied back to an individual. The firms that don't require ID have something to hide (they typically ask for no ID and happily sell you a stolen phone for a cut price).
I've known 3 cyclists killed or severely injured by road debris. At freeway speeds and density there may be no way to avoid going down. It may still be a larger moving vehicle that finishes the job, but once you're on the ground you're lucky to walk away.
Technically there is Rankine if you want to do thermo in imperial units.
Norwegian warship sinking after colliding with oil tanker
> To be extremely clear, the important comparison would be the market as it is vs a hypothetical one where Google didn't abuse it's position. Comparing now to what was 13 years ago is meaningless in the tech world.

No, that's not how it works. You can't compare to a random, made up scenario. Go look up antitrust cases...

Seriously, I'm not sure if you're being deliberately obtuse or really don't understand.

> And they don't really match Google Maps.

Your product sucking is not a antitrust issue, it is simply your incompetence.

Asking that Google or Coca-Cola be punished for having a better product isn't only naive, is ignorance.
Ask HN: Should I Be Ashamed to Love JavaScript?
I feel like JavaScript is the laughing stock of the programming community sometimes... It's inefficient, messy, not typechecked, full of beginners...

But it runs extremely easily on pretty much everything! and can be distributed and run instantly through any browser.

Maybe I feel like it's too easy compared to other languages and is downplayed as a newb language...

Maybe it just doesn't seem as cool as other languages like rust and go...
Learn Talks: Awesome conference and meetup talks
Ah yes, the only barrier to building wealth is already having enough wealth to make a downpayment. Which most people in NYC do not have because they're spending so much of their income on rent. How are you supposed to encourage people to buy things that they don't have any money to buy?
SpaceX to Launch CubeSat Containing “Soul” of First African American Astronaut
WooCommerce Marketing Strategies
The CIA explored using a ‘truth-serum’ on terrorism detainees after 9/11
The same police work that they would have done before the existence of smart phones.

As an observer it seems to me as if law enforcement agencies are lazy and believe that investigation of crimes should be simplified by ubiquitous use of technology rather than frustrated. But technology is a tool which serves its master, and as long as users remain the master of their technology it will serve their interested and frustrate other actors.

Police investigations don't need to rely on access to this technology and can be pursued through the same methods they have been for centuries.
I can't tell what you're trying to say...

What is trained on what data? The point is that health care data will never be linked to your "Google account", e.g. your Gmail/YouTube/etc. or other Google services -- AdSense can't show you ads based on a hospital visit.

DeepMind is part of Alphabet, like Google is part of Alphabet. DeepMind can do its thing without ever touching Google accounts or Google data.
> - Has a top speed >150mph

Sorry, what...?
OpenJDK 9 and OpenJDK 10 missed several root certificates in its truststore.
Tangentially related, I was reading about the negative aspects of pursuing high self-control[1], which could perhaps equate to overthinking. The text also includes links to research purporting the situations where relying on intuition is, perhaps counterintuitively, more advantageous than rationality.

Also quasi-related, a while back there was an article on HN about the human brain's Bayesian like processes[2], which again seem to form the basis of intuitive decision making.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321621803_The_Intri...

[2] https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1740-...?
Yeah, Mohism was outlawed because of its use of logic. Emperors don't like subjects that can think through the national policies.
/s is apparently non optional these days...

They both have non working components (or no working components whatsoever) and solely rely on the placebo effect for providing any form of relief (if any).

A proper placebo is on the other hand only used in medical testing.

So please explain to me what you think I should read about? Since you are suggesting I read something.
University of California at Santa Cruz?
> Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multiplatform, production-ready distribution of the Open Java Development Kit

I really, really wish AWS would start using practical/self-explanatory names for their products.
I'm not convinced it's even that much easier. My main annoyance with cooking is cleaning up afterwards; if they could handle THAT for me then maybe I'd be interested. I've never seen getting ingredients as a particularly arduous part of the process.
This gets to the core reason I've basically given up on all new services.

Eventually, no matter how virtuous a company claims to be, they'll sell the company to FAANG who I try to avoid as much as possible. When the true end goal of most startups is an exit payday to Google I can't trust them with my data.

It's frustrating that avoiding Google isn't even as simple as "Don't use Google". It's become "Don't use anyone who might be an acquisition target for Google".
Show HN: YellowAnt ChatOps 2.0 platform for Slack
> Maybe, though I would say that it is odd that some companies (who presumably have legal council) have decided to implement warrant canaries

Warrant canaries are an effective PR move irrespective of the legality of tripping them. They only stop working as a PR move if you don't trip them after getting a secret warrant and that warrant later becomes non-secret.
Hey everyone,

We just launched the latest version of YellowAnt - a ChatOps 2.0 platform for Slack. The YellowAnt bot works just like Hubot - it takes commands via dialogs, gets actionable notifications from our apps and lets you create IFTTT-style workflows, which allows you to customize notifications and manage critical incidents from Slack. Use cases include Git and CI/CD management, incident management and issue tracking, server and error monitoring. Would be happy to answer any of your queries.
> So the fact that it isn't catching on

what makes you say that ? unity uses WASM, Qt uses wasm, Rust uses wasm, autocad uses WASM, SDL uses WASM... or do you expect every JS code to convert to WASM overnight too ?
This is what happens to the people who lose a civil war. Leave or be dealt with harshly for being disloyal.
I agree on the time it can take, but the skills element crops up a lot. That doesn't seem to be as big a problem when people have engaged in cooking as a child, or through a home economics class. As society changes there will probably be a bigger skills gap.

For me the most important skill is scoping. If I can scope the meal to something inside my skill range I can complete it competently and on a reasonable timeline. I can also choose when I want to push my bounds and allow extra time, or perhaps buy some extra ingredient in case I make a mistake. I think a lot of people don't have the skills and experience to do this and as a result the experience is negative. I can now look at recipes and analyze them reasonably accurately.

Things can be a challenge at different stages:

* Plan what to cook (Do I have the right tools? do I have ingredients I can use? Can I substitute something for this one odd ingredient? Do I need to go out of my way or will my regular grocery store have everything?)

* Acquire ingredients (They don't have something. What substitute is readily available?)

* Prep ingredients (Mostly this is just monotonous, but technique can play a part. Good quality basic tools like knives can make a difference. A more skilled person will be thinking about how to get the cooking step started at this point.)

* Cooking (Skill and experience prevent annoyances like things sticking, cooking too fast, burning etc. Many beginners can't get enough context from many recipes. If you didn't choose a meal that you had all the hardware for do you have alternatives? Should have been caught at the planning stages, but the inexperienced can miss something.)

* Cleanup (It drives me crazy to see this happen only at the end, and for the surfaces and sink to covered in items that need cleanup. A mountain of effort at the end can be unpleasant, especially if you are asking someone else to cleanup and they can't even get into the sink.)
Brutal, but sounds about right.
Indigenous women kept from seeing their newborns until agreeing to sterilization
This is officially in the Firefox Graveyard.

[1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=...
Or, we won't sell/rent "your data" but we certainly sell/rent "our data" collected by the company and not specifically tied to individuals. (Insert long debate about anonymization and/or exactly how few people can be in a pool while still keeping it non-individualized.) It is amazing how many data links can be made with non-PII data points such as vehicle type, color, neighborhood, distance traveled, method of financing ect.
> However, it is known that sourdough/pain-au-levain is more digestible than regular bread for folks with gluten intolerance.

I’ve heard this many times, but I don’t know if it rises to the level of “it’s known”. It’s not even clearly known that “gluten intolerance” exists outside the context of celiac disease, and sourdough definitely does not help with celiac.

There is a theory that “gluten intolerance” is actually intolerance of certain sugars, sometimes called FODMAPs, that are found in wheat, rye, barley, and quite a few non-cereal foods. I’ve never seen a paper about this, but I could easily believe that many sourdoughs ferment those sugars, making the bread more tolerable.

Finally, a little anecdote about gluten intolerance. I know someone who claimed to be gluten intolerant. She felt much better when she avoided gluten. At one point, I baked a fresh challah, and she decided to make an exception and try the challah. After eating maybe a pound of challah all by itself, she felt terrible. And lo and behold, we had a diagnosis! Eating large amounts of bread made her feel sick! Now she eats bread in moderation and she feels okay :)
It will remain part of UK law
The question is what effect does coddling vs doubting have on an individual's personal development? Does actively praising individuals, regardless of whether they 'truly' deserve it, encourage them to work harder or does it encourage complacence? Some research I've read has indicated that the praise itself is what ends up being desired, with a diminishing interest on the field from which the praise was derived.

Ultimately the preponderance of these 'driven by adversity' anecdotes is something that I do not think is a coincidence. It certainly also worked as a motivator in my life. Had Karpov been openly praised and supported from the start would he have become the person he did? Had Karjakin not been hailed as imminent world champion from his youngest years, might he now stand above even Carlsen?

And these are genuine questions. I don't know the answer and I don't think anybody does. But it's something that I think is important since, if this turns out to be the case, it could mean that the educational path places such as the US have set upon could be entirely regressive.
The Honda NC700 is about as close as you'll come. Its basically half of the Honda fits engine in a motorcycle. The problem is that motorcycles are rearly sold on practicalities alone.

Also, there is a bit of a diminishing returns element. My motorcycle (SV650) had an engine originally designed in the 90s, slightly modernised with some electronics and it gets 60+mpg comuting to West London. If it got another 10mpg it'd save maybe £2 a week in fuel, which means the return on investment time is basically infinite.