skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using Dexcom now for two years, and it finally helped me to really understand certain weird things about my blood glucose, after having a type1 diabetes over 20 years.

a) The morning peak is a dawn phenomenon. Solved with a higher basal setting 3 hours before waking up.

b) Going to sleep with a 100 mg/dl and waking up in the middle of the night with a glucose of 300 mg/dl? Usually because eating fatty and heavy food for dinner. Depending on your meal, a 150% temporary basal or if looping, letting the oref1 super multi bolus to take care of it.

c) Having a cold and suddenly there is no way to keep your glucose levels down? I use AndroidAPS's profile multipliers here. Last time I was sick I set the multiplier to 160%, which means more basal, more insulin for carbs and correction.

d) Doing sports? Get the insulin on board settings right in AndroidAPS, and try to do exercise only when the IoB is back to the base level. Use 0% TBR if needed.

And still I have an alarm almost every night for a hypo/hyper. Soon closing my loop and letting the automation take care of the nightly surprises. It used to work great with my Accu-Chek Combo pump until the pump broke. Now hopefully getting a Dana RS soon, so I can automate lots of things for the software to take care of.
Most (maybe all?) CGMs need to be calibrated regularly with finger pricks. In fact in the case of both the Dexcom G5 (haven't known anyone on the G6) and Medtronic Guardian sensors they can occasionally sort of derp out and ask for multiple calibrations in a row for utterly mysterious reasons. I just asked and my partner says the most times she has had to test to get a Guardian sensor back to normal was seven times in two hours.

Of course this is anecdotal, but the point is that your mileage may vary.
Saying that inflation is low is referring to a broken metric. Inflation in housing, healthcare, and education have significantly contributed to the current problem in the US. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19106964

I would say the root problem is all that debt, specifically the ongoing costs of servicing the debt. Staying alive does intrinsically require ongoing expenses for food, energy, shelter upkeep, personal grooming, etc. But the cost of these is dwarfed by the amount spent on rent (aka debt) for the space on which the shelter resides.

Basic income is really just a natural progression of the last several decades's policy of overwhelming monetary inflation. If the BI mostly goes towards just servicing debt then it's only increasing the speed of that debt treadmill and making people's financial position ever-more precarious - they then depend on both continuing to hold down their job, and conforming to whatever conditions will be placed on the BI.

The one sensible thing BI would do is allow people to have income in areas with low economic activity, which is great for those willing to "retire" to such areas. It's just not going to alleviate the pain of the average person having to "make rent" as everyone seemingly envisions.
Considering the "red bull gives you wings" lawsuit went through, it seems like this would be a rather open/shut case.

Except it depends on the judge, $$$ lawyers, etc. so...
>Yeah no way. WhatsApp already does e2e. Signal doesn't bring anything else that's significant for me as a techie, much less the general population.

You mean besides freeing them from the Facebook ecosystem? That alone is worth it to me.
Why would they not? Clearly at least some people (the consumers in Japan) think this is ok, so why would the bbc choose your point of view over theres? This is called objective journalism.
Facebook seem to have been able to constantly grow their per user revenue: https://www.statista.com/statistics/234056/facebooks-average...
You know, I'm happy on some level for that individual. It seems like a great stroke of fortune. On another level, it bothers me that there are such large institutions that can arbitrarily "bless" random people like a deity or something. I also can't help but look at this cynically as a largely self-interested PR grab by Apple that is not a real sacrifice on their part.
4. I don't want to pay for the data they are collecting, now if there was a paid option for that...
==No. No they wouldn’t==

You don’t know this to be true, at all. If the tax breaks didn’t matter and it was always going to be NYC, Amazon likely wouldn’t have conducted the whole dog and pony show in the first place. In reality, NYC has a huge talent base which is enticing to Amazon; they also offered significant tax incentives, which is enticing to Amazon. Both can be true.
JS is a descendant of Scheme, Self, and Java.
That's the fault of the developer not being clear about what was going to happen to the Elizabeth Street Garden. Not to mention the screeching YIMBY side of the equation pretending that opposition to the project was just because a bunch of rich people were throwing a shitfit and somehow hated LGBT retirees.

The ESG is a really unique area in a part of downtown that doesn't have a ton of greenspace. The nearest parks are Washington Square, Tompkins, and Sarah Roosevelt, all across neighborhood boundaries from Nolita. ESG is pretty unique, a green space full of collected sculptures—not easy to replicate.

The proposed solution does preserve some of the space and will keep the area open to the public which is what tipped me in the direction of supporting the development but I do hope they buy some of the existing sculptures to put on the public green area instead of turning it into a shitty lawn.

I understand the YIMBY side, I am mostly all in on YIMBY-ism, but the rhetoric on this is bonkers. It also conveniently ignores that there is already a large public housing development right next to ESG.
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Read my responses above.
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Similar situation here – large increase in price for offering the same thing. In the past they’d jacked up the price saying ‘they’ve built new stuff so should charge more’ but have no option to remain using only the old stuff. IMO they completely abuse their customers, and at the same time I don’t blame them one but as customers like us are so locked in that it’s too much hassle to move.
That won't fly in every journal.
I don't agree with the poster above, but one common cited example is that emergency rooms are required to treat all patents regardless of their ability to pay. So they have to raise prices for everyone else in order to manage the risk that someone won't pay.
It's only about expectations.

When you open your web browser you suddenly expect apps you access there to be the same across all OS, and you certainly don't mind them all being different from each other - it's actually a good thing.

So why shouldn't we expect the same of native OS? I know I care only about few details - like native notifications instead of custom ones, native close, minimize, maximize buttons etc.
i've always liked the challenge of, and gravitated towards, being the synthesizer on group projects, because while it meant extra work for me, it also imparted deeper understanding.

you literally get smarter from having to consider disparate perspectives. this is a lesson that's always stuck with me.

and it seems to uncover a gap elided in your conclusion:

> "Amazon's leadership makes better decisions than their competitors in part because they are routinely supplied with better arguments than their competitors."

i suspect better argument came not only from (an initial) concise writing by the narrator but the revision process incorporating other people's perspectives?
Geoff Goldberg (@geoffgolberg) [1] who is very vocal about this on twitter and has done bunch of analysis about foreign bots, got his account suspended by foreign trolls flagging him.

Presidential Candidate, Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) account was inflated by millions of fake followers. There is an analysis of it here [2]

Which is if paid by the campaign, by law it should be reflected on their campaign spending (however, it would violated twitter's rules and her account could be suspended). Or paid by some PAC. Either way, if it's so easy to detect, it's obvious twitter knows about these and are just not reacting to them and only removing some accounts for PR purposes.

[1] https://twitter.com/geoffgolberg

[2] https://twitter.com/likingonline/status/1092643779402620928
I think you just created a good argument about the value add of journals! Everyone says "they do nothing!", but what they have, that other people want is a reputation for high impact, important publications. If you get your paper published in Nature, your work will be very highly regarded.

The argument about how much money it's worth to pay for that is another discussion entirely.
Yeah I wanna know what kind of coffee this dude is drinking. Even at the most expensive places US side it's <3.50. I know this is semantics, but that's super deceptive. The only thing of value to me from Spotify is their quantification of my musical tastes.

That said, full disclosure I'm a notorious pirate on the dread sea qbittorrent with little qualms about denying others profit; so take anything with a massive grain of salt.
They changed that last year though. An All Access subscription now only includes YouTube Music Premium, which does not remove ads. That requires a YouTube Premium subscription. Plus I hear there are plans to ditch Play Music for YouTube Music this year...
If you email any author I guarantee they will send you a PDF of the paper.
And refinement types
I like the idea of the Dijkstra amnesia effect. I feel like it’s due time to birth a system like what Ted Nelson had in mind using RDF or something more novel.

Ever since YC had an RFS about replacing Wikipedia I’ve thought about how it needs to change. There are many shortcomings including the fact that it is hard to edit for a number of reasons, but most importantly going to a Wikipedia page at one point in time only captures that information which may be right at the time or wildly off or as you point out full of omissions. Information shouldn’t be deleted but instead we should see meta information like how other experts weigh in. If someone points to the Wait But Why article on AI it will be backed by the author and Elon Musk (who are both dilettantes), and maybe we can see some experts gave it a low rating.

Part of the problem I see is that often so called experts are just those who are rabidly vocal while the actual experts are heads down becoming better experts. So while we might see hand waving about killer AI from several “experts” we only have a few people who occasionally interject like Rodney Brooks. (This is a bit why I’m not very optimistic about several of these startups trying to show consumers “the truth;” indeed, the Dijkstra amnesia effect.)
Agreed with the other user's assessment of pumps. I've had T1D since 1990; been wearing a pump since 2004. My A1C has averaged 6.3 since 2000 (so I was in control before I started on the pump) - and I lived in Los Angeles from 2000 to 2008 (so I've dealt with the heat).

Personally, I've rarely had an issue with the heat affecting my pump's reservoir - except when I would go skydiving up in the Mojave desert, where temps would reach north of 110 degrees F. Would simply pack it in a bag with a cool pack when I was outdoors, then put it back on once I got to the ground and was back inside.

Since I was in good control, my biggest reason for transitioning to the pump was convenience. I was up to taking 7 injections a day (when I was working from home and couldn't resist the urge to snack). Once I made the switch, I was amazed at the convenience - I could eat almost anything and take the insulin to cover it (of course, moderation is the key here - and knowing how quickly and persistently some foods elevate your blood sugar. For instance, I'd much rather have a snickers bar than Chinese food. The high fat content and the rice carbs wreak havoc on my BG).

Point being, it's well worth looking into it, if you have the means and the desire.

I've been on a Medtronic pump since making the switch, but will likely be jumping over to a Dexcom CGM and compatible pump once my latest pump warranty is up. (I've stopped using the Medtronic CGM due to some hassles with calibration issues; the Dexcom is supposedly more reliable overall).

Regardless, good luck!
It seems like add-ons are still mostly Ok if they use the narrowly defined scopes, instead of say "gmail.readonly" which is a blanket permission. Minor heart attack, but we might be ok.
the central dogma (of molecular biology, not genetics) is more what you call a guideline, not a rule. It was also kind of meant humorously (Crick meant for it to be taken semi-seriously). And of course we've found many exceptions to the dogma over time. So, this is much less exciting an observation as you might think.
Exactly. These rules just make life monotonic
Don't forget that all that bureaucracy is the source of thousands of good paying jobs that now also are worse off even when they get added to UBI. Also, don't forget that now that they have less money, their collective reduced spending means the business they used to patron will have to lay people off. Now those people also need UBI. This doesn't spiral to infinity but their is a huge ripple effect.
Give Me Tutorial Suggestions
I have a website where I do tutorials on various things tech related

https://sites.google.com/view/smushytutorials

If you have any suggestions on what I should put on the site be sure to let me know (I'll get a normal domain for it soon).
I made a sloppy job of quoting him, here is the original:

> "There's nobody," he lamented. "Let's say that Donald Trump basically makes whatever you want to say, whatever claim he wants to make. And everybody knows it's a falsehood. The big question of my audience, it is impossible for me to say that, 'By the way, you know it's false.' And they'll say, 'Why? I saw it on Allen B. West.' Or they'll say, 'I saw it on a Facebook page.' And I'll say, 'The New York Times did a fact check.' And they'll say, 'Oh, that's The New York Times. That's bulls---.' There's nobody - you can't go to anybody and say, 'Look, here are the facts.'"

In https://www.businessinsider.com/conservative-media-trump-dru...
I used to be all-in UBI supporter. To my "hacker" mind it appeared like a wonderful hack around issues society is facing. But lately, as I saw our parents retire, I was thinking about what really keep people happy - and as soon as basics are covered, it appears that "being useful" is what jobs are really about.

UBI, as a result, may lock people forever in a jobless situation. UBI will not provide enough capital to bootstrap anything, it might disconnect you from people doing something. This can only increase the resentment between employed and unemployed classes. Granted, some will find themselves doing what they wanted to do their whole life (non-profitable) and couldn't because they had to put food on the table. But is this the case for everyone? I am afraid the rest will risk being marked "not useful" for life, and that doesn't sound like something that makes one happy...

Sorry, it is just my random philosophical thoughts and no real answers or pieces of advice here...
There is no main power in Europe. Each country, down to Lichtenstein, has struggled for centuries to gain and maintain its independence.
What you do have are blocs and factions.

But if you think Germany can actually tell any country on how to vote you need a European history lesson.
So, an Uber drive that's in the app available for calls 35+ hours a week but gets few calls, are they part-time or full-time?
The distinction is subtle I admit. Racist depictions would be a white person playing a nonwhite character (e.g. Fu Manchu, Tonto or Othello), or Shakespear's depiction of Shylock.

Racialism -- pretending or willfully wanting to believe that there are actual meaningful racial distinctions differences -- you can see in the photos of lynchings, slave era laws in the slave states etc. I think most of the people in those photos knew they were wrong, just as I believe some of those old laws I've read were written by people who knew they were wrong. Likewise modern laws that happen to "coincidentally" exclude some sections of the population from voting.

I believe some racist comments and representations can be innocent (though in this day and age, quite few IMHO) and they can also be intended to send a message (e.g. neither Alexander Hamilton nor Aaron Burr were black; you could purposefully either neuter or hyper-extend the portrayal of Shylock to make a point).

The racialists have no excuse.
Making an error in my field doesn’t fundamentally misrepresent another field to the general public though.

So yes, mistakes are expected initially. But the job of the author is to get enough outside eyes to fix it. Historians go to great lengths to ensure they aren’t just repeating a single view of an event. Most authors do not seem to make any similar effort.
Check this Ask HN, for more examples of this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13337948
What would work for you high standards ? If they do something it's Corporate BS. If they don't then they are same old Corp machine couldn't care less.
Historical Lessons for AR's Future
Seems to me a lot of hackers/tech people get off getting around paying for stuff, even if they make well over six figures.
Hey there, we've got a fix coming for this, so sorry about that. Thanks for the feedback!
It is within someone's full legal right to use an ad blocker.
You lose weight by consuming less.

Cut all calories from your drinks. Water, black coffee, unsweetened tea only. Eat a reasonable sized plate of food for your meals. Favor protein and vegetables over starchy-carby-french-fryish things. Don't eat deserts. No pie, no donuts, no candy. No snacks between meals. You will look like a different person in 1 year.

Exercise improves the strength of your heart and other muscles. It even improves your nervous system. And you will look better. It's very important to exercise your body. but it's not the main driver of weight loss. You simply don't burn very many calories through exercise.
Ruby is more like SmallTalk than Python.
There's a reason journalism is called "the first draft of history", and not the final draft.

Also, the idea that the errors software developers make don't have a broad impact on society is a bit of an eyebrow-raiser for me, but that might be a function of the subfield of software that I happen to work in.
Prey and Timeline are two of my favorite. Micro (which was finished by another author after Crichton's death) is also very good an dissimilar to Prey.

Since I like Timeline so much it made watching the movie so painful.
The more books you read, the better your own prose (generally).

I'd imagine the guy that started a company to sell books online has read many of them.
> It's a general misunderstanding that Basic Income is some sort of job program, it's not.

The problem is that I've heard many proponents of UBI sell it as exactly that, a way for people to get better jobs. And I can't really blame them, framing UBI as a way to make unemployment more comfortable is not going to be very successfully politically.
The problem I have with this description is you could describe any software that has a renderer thats separate from the UI like this. Perhaps in Java if we had an egg, we could,

import egg.yolk;
import egg.whites;
import egg.shell;

Egg fakeEgg = new Egg(brown);
I use it to follow and post news, as well as what academics are interested in posting/sharing.

Microblogging is great, and Twitter remains the least worst solution for this.
The Law - Frédéric Bastiat, 1850 [1]

Bastiat was a great French Economist and liberal political philosopher. He been considered as more of a popularizer than an original thinker, but that's unwarranted. The Law is the greatest work of classical liberal political though that I have encountered. In school we all read Locke's Second Treatise of Government, but we should have first read The Law. It's very short--more of a long essay than a full length book--but it packs an earth shattering wallop.

Bastiat is also an intellectual ancestor of the Austrian School of economics. The famous Hazlitt book, Economics in One Lesson, is an extended meditation on Bastiat's classic essay, That Which is Seen and That Which is Unseen [2], which is the origin of the Broken Window Fallacy.

[1] http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html

[2] http://bastiat.org/en/twisatwins.html
Just so we're on the same page, this is the validation I was referring to -

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/topics/checks/

Standardization is always an issue, I guess. Env vars seem to be the norm in the community in my experience, whatever that's worth..
Not black bars but it's a similar idea https://getcatblock.com/
Huh? Group calls were not a new feature, and the teen's mother made several attempts to disclose it privately to Apple, including registering for a developer account and submitting a bug from there. I'm pretty sure that's as close as "responsible disclosure" as you can get.
Ask HN: What are the problems for non-programmers who need to learn to code?
Hi all, I am interested in the problems and annoyances you encounter in learning to program or applying that knowledge to your non-programming job.

For example if you are a trader who has to use spreadsheets, a data scientist writing python, a landscape gardener who built their own website, etc. Programming to me seems like it would be tough for those who don't do it full time with all the complexity us programmers throw in :-).
I've been using Google for nearly 20 years and anecdotally it HAS gotten worse precisely because it has become harder and harder to make precise queries.
Hillary Clinton has never been president, therefore cannot set a precedent in this matter.

Bill Clinton's supposed "conspiracies" are mainly sexual assaults and their ensuing covers-up. Some of his accusers received cash settlements, and presumably would not testify against in any criminal trials. The remainder apparently did not leave enough evidence by the time Clinton left office to pursue criminal charges, or did not come forward until #MeToo emboldened them to do so, long after he left office, and possibly after any relevant statutes of limitations had elapsed.

If Bill Clinton was indeed as dirty as Donald Trump appears to be, he was certainly better at cleaning up the evidence of it. He may have also pursued a policy of being more honest in less critical situations, such that he could attempt a lie--and still be believed based on reputation--when a deception would benefit him most. Furthermore, fewer of Clinton's former aides, employees, and associates were indicted and convicted during his term in office.

It is possible that Clinton was not charged because he was a more cautious criminal. It is also possible the reports of his crimes were invented or exaggerated to weaken him or his wife politically. It is also possible that I think Trump's suspected crimes are so much more severe than Clinton's that the best fixers in the country can't massage them away.

In any case, that's a fallacy of distraction. It doesn't matter what anyone else did but Trump, when the states' attorneys come knocking on Trump's door. They have prosecutorial discretion, and many have political ambitions of their own, so it may well be a matter of whether going after a former president and getting the conviction will help them more in the future than permanently burning all of that president's remaining political allies. Clinton can still pull in some votes and some campaign contributions. Even Nixon had folks that would still go to bat for him after he resigned. Trump is burning his (R) bridges, and snubbing all possible networking opportunities with the (D) side. It's almost like he has no conception whatsoever about how he can stay politically relevant--or at least politically protected--after leaving office.