skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd still love to hear a convincing argument from someone as to the benefits of counting steps and measuring heart rate with a wrist band- Are people feeling like they are more fit because they walked to lunch "the long way" so they can reach the 10000 step goal that Fred from accounting has set for them? Do they feel healthier because they were regularly watching their heart rate reading during their hour in the gym to make sure it is in the correct target window, instead of just focusing on working their asses off for the whole hour without looking at metrics?

Convince me this isn't just a distraction and fad with little benefit, besides being an advertising device on your wrist to inform others that you value fitness.

EDIT: OK, looks like everyone here is convinced of the benefits- I'm pretty much on my own in my skepticism, I guess.
> ... horribly uncomfortable.

One persons uncomfortable is another persons perfection. I can't stand headphones like these new Pro ones that have the little rubber tips. They hurt my ears so much. The current Airpods or the wired ones you "throw in the trash" are the most comfortable in ear headphones I've ever used, personally.
Have they fixed the stuttering issue when connecting to a MacBook Pro? My current gen ones work fine with everything except the Mac.
The average price of Vitamin A is $54/kg: https://www.pharmacompass.com/price/vitamin-a . The RDA for kids is around 0.5 mg, 20,000 kids could be supplemented a day with $54.

100g of GR1 rice is needed to feed one kid, So 2000 kg rice need would provide the same amount of beta-carotine/Vitamin A. Just for Vitamin A point-of-view, I fail to see how is it financially reasonable to choose GR1 over lab-quality Vitamin A for $54 per kg.
Of course a neuroscientist can understand a microprocessor. That’s easy. Let me know when a microprocessor can understand a neuroscientist.
> Fitbits’ stock shot up almost 30 percent after the first rumors surfaced. In recent months, the company’s stock often traded below $3, down from close to $48 shortly after its IPO in 2015. Today, after the announcement, it went up to around $5.20.

Good lord, must the acquisition offer feel like a relief? Surely, Fitbit wouldn't do a Groupon now.

The article fails to mention Fossil, but Google recently did acquire their wearables research division for $40M [0]. It looks like Google is gearing up to launch multiple wearables. Xiaomi, Huawei, and Huami have really taken the wearables market by storm [1]. If anything, price differentiation seems to be the key. I hope the rumoured Pixel Wearable isn't comically expensive like its Phone counterparts.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/17/18187026/google-fossil-gr...

[1] https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20191017005172/en/Hua...
A first time manager from Flipp approaches one-on-one meetings
> One of the many things that would speed up adoption is "IPv6 by default".

This is precisely why I end up searching for the knob to turn off IPv6 in kernel after installing a new system. That is, if I remember to do so. And then I curse because the system's (or application's) name resolver still keeps performing AAAA queries and breaking because IPv6 doesn't actually work.

Recent example: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1582686

Please don't enable anything by default unless it's actually working.
The federal appellate has ruled [0] that the police do not have a duty to protect anyone in particular. SCotUS ruled in similar cases [1] [2] that cops just don't have to lift a single finger if it would save your life.

That does mean that the police isn't fit for service. You hire a bodyguard and/or private security firm because you do actually need someone working for you whose duty is to protect your person and/or property. Most people with something to protect just buy insurance or a dog or a firearm, but the rich pay more for more active measures, such as monitored home security systems, or full-time on-site guards.

It doesn't take much of a stretch to realize that public firefighters likewise do not have a duty to protect your house, specifically, against fires.

Hiring private is absolutely an indictment of the inadequacy of the publicly funded protective measures. And once someone has secured a private solution, they have no further interest in fixing or funding the public solution, in the same way that people who send their kids to private schools stop caring about the public schools.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Rock_v._Gonzales

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeShaney_v._Winnebago_County
You don't really mention why? Why are they better than wireless earbuds by Sennheiser, Amazon, Google etc?
As always, those trying to play within the law get screwed over. Meanwhile pirates fart, chuckle a bit at it all, and go back to sleep.
> Their watches though popular are completely self sustained, as in not connected devices. No link to the phone, cannot install Android on them most likely. So they are buying it purely for their experience making watches and not for their products.

Either that changes and Fitbit is tied into the ecosystem (which sucks because I like Fitbit as it is), or the brand (and its products die) as the engineers are put to work building something else.
As far as I can tell, this is individual developers reaching out, possibly at risk violating company policy.

They do it anyway, and should be commended, but this isn't Apple per se.
I think you are on to something RE using dealership cars as high-end rentals.

I use DriveFlow, which is a Car as a Service. It is owned by a dealership chain.

It is $1100/mo. I love it.

https://www.driveflow.com/
What headphones does Google sell?
The problem with typed streams is that couples the implementations together on both ends and tends to de-genericise them. You get a "grep" that would only work on strings when actually you'd be quite happy grepping numbers 99% of the time. Also in order to serialise them you'd need fully typed files. Notice that you can't serialise a Powershell stream.

The world tried "everything is XML" and more recently "everything is JSON" as a solution to this. The latter is almost there.
You might want to look into fp-ts. Has plenty of constructs like those, although it now favors piping calling conventions over a fluent API.
If we are just treating causes of death then we are just keeping people alive for longer. What David Sinclair is doing is trying to keep people young for longer.
Basically what you're describing is the tradeoff between exploration and exploitation. Depending on situation in life and age people tend to lean towards one or another.
They spent their time working on a project that they enjoyed, successfully completed, and ended up with 40 customers. I would not call that a waste of time at all. Even if it dies off in 6 months it's a great learning experience and the kind of thing that's great to talk about with a hiring manager.
Thank you for the feedback.
Actually, you can try the product (button "start" at the top right).
That's not quite right. What the anti-noise does is generate an inverse wave to cancel out some (as much as possible) of the waveform of the noise. It's not just playing white noise louder than the external noise. The result is that your ear drum receives a smaller waveform to vibrate to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_noise_control
My favorite thing in the Tcl ecosystem was "Expect". It's a tool you can use to automate ssh/telnet/serial connections to other machines.

It has a really mature and elegant way of handling the automation of command/response scenarios in connections to other machines.

I do similar stuff with .net now, but it's not as pretty. I wish there were a modern equivalent of Expect that as as nice.
Most downtowns (mine included) don't have car dealerships nearby. I have no idea where the closest one is. I suppose I could take a Uber to a dealer less downtown when I want to Carve.
Everything with crypto is shady and something the authorities would prefer not to exist. Nothing new here.
> Noted the first two bits in the post. Did you read it? :)
Yes, I did read. Come on. However, you're not quite right. You called Swift "relatively well covered". I disagree with that and consider the Swift language documentation excellent. That's not really the same thing.

I did see you mention the WWDC videos, but I think you mischaracterize the role of them. My point is, people who are interested in learning SwiftUI should start with the WWDC videos, not feel "reduced to searching through" them.

Anyway, if you want to work on top of something solid, forget about SwiftUI. It's very raw and changing fast. I wouldn't rewrite on top of it now unless you aren't planning to release for at least a year. And you might end up throwing it all away anyway.

And shout all you want. I'm letting you know it's a bad look.
Disappointed; I was not expecting that kind of pager.
Heart rate is an interesting way of getting bio feedback for emotions. I am willing to bet that it will be used in future as a way of improving somatic therapy.
Was the former more secure? Most people don’t want their laptop exposed with a fully routable address.
Lem's Solaris is (among other things) a literary take on Wittgenstein's lion, might be an easier and more fun read. (I hear the George Clooney vehicle movie is actually good too, but different from the book.)

Regarding your Chinese Midwesterner lit, we do have the huge genre of Serge Leone and the Italian "spaghetti westerns" (and spaghetti was invented in China!)

Anyway, I don't want an AI remixing literary to make derivative literature. I want AI remixing news and culture to find subtle patterns and generating literature about that, which is what many great human writers too.
Tcl/Tk was a tremendous rapid GUI prototyping tool. I remember cobbling together a Verilog schematic viewer in a couple of weeks using that combination, for the Series A funding round of the startup I was working at in the early 2000s.
Probably received free replacements. I had 3 break down on me and only once did I have to pay shipping, coincidentally that was the last time I asked for a replacement. perhaps I am bitter.

Their support was great but when it doesn't perform the basic function of syncing with my phone or desktop app, what good is it? I had software and hardware problems (band breaks easily) on all of them.
>I would still rather my browser only copy the text that I visibly highlighted. It is annoying to edit content out that I have carefully selected.

Absolutely. But how do we solve that problem and still allow proper usage of it? Removing this feature would break the copy ability of nearly every rich-text-like web-based UI in existence, such as Google Sheets.

Personally, this feels more like something for an adblock-like addon.
How Mary-Kay Wilmers became Britain's most influential editor
Looking briefly at their site, it looks like on some (all?) cars they offer an Uber voucher to get to/from the pickup lot.
...? How?

I mean, I know I have plenty of confirmation biases reacting to this headline (generally in the opposite direction), but outside of the headline, I don't get the above conclusion.

If X service has Y service competing with (or being bought in conjunction with) X, then X isn't worthwhile? I have to be missing something, because that doesn't pass the smell test.
Lwan Web Server: 5 years in snippets
I hear this argument a lot and I agree 100% that this is the reason, but I'm baffled about why developers feel like it's so hard to review someone's GitHub profile. I find them shockingly easy to evaluate, as in literally it takes about a minute. Here's what the process looks like:

1. Look at the project list, if it's all tutorial projects, you're already done. There's no use looking closer because you won't be able to tell if it's their source code or if it's copied from a tutorial.

2. If it looks like they have some real source code, apps or frameworks they've written from scratch, pick one and look for an important file. There's no trick to identifying an important file, in most cases the projects are small enough that it's obvious. (And if the candidate has large and complex projects, you've probably already identified an exceptional candidate.)

3. Once you've opened the file, I'm always stunned at how easy it is to evaluate. I'd say in about ten seconds of scanning I've usually identified three or so mistakes that roughly gauge that developers ability. In which case I'm done, unless I want to dig for some material to discuss on a phone interview.

4. If I haven't seen three mistakes, then we have an exceptional candidate, this is really rare (maybe 1 in 100), so we've already identified an exceptional candidate in about a minute.

One of the keys takeaways is that process only takes a long time for a truly exceptional candidate, in which case I'm happy to spend the extra time. I'm baffled by the preference for coding tests, because those I find way harder to evaluate. I know in my bones what production ready source code looks like, because I've written and read it all day, everyday for ten some odd years. Evaluating someones coding test is way more mental gymnastics and guesswork for me.

For the people who have experience evaluating GitHub profiles, but instead prefer giving tests, I'd love to hear how your experience deviates from mine. I know there's nothing special about my ability to evaluate source code, e.g., I watch my colleagues do it all day as part of code review.
I’m intrigued to actually try this. Turning the transparency setting on and off.

On an active phone call I can carry on a conversation in the room im in 10 feet away from the person. To have that cancelled out would be interesting to try.
Forgive my naiveté - how does running out of IPV4 addresses result in Netflix stuttering? I'm viewing it a binary problem (you either have an IP and have internet, or you're fighting to get an IP and have no internet) but that seems incorrect.
This is, frankly, idiotic, on moral, legal, and logistical levels.

Who is testing mandatory for? The entire population? And to be effective it'd have to be done on a quarterly basis (as that's the period of time where many tests won't detect the antibodies, and also when the virus is most communicable).

Okay, so now you identify tens of thousands of HIV positive individuals every month. What do your quarantine camps look like? How expensive are they to maintain? Are death rates lower or higher in these HIV concentration camps than in the outside world?

If this is a brilliant idea, why haven't other countries with few to no rights (e.g. Russia) implemented it to deal with their HIV crisis?
We get presented with a false choice between "inequality" and "economic efficiency".

During the Great Depression people learned the hard way that if you give rich people money they hoard it, demand drops, and the economy shuts down.

Ever since then there has been a systematic campaign to make us forget that truth, but people are slowly starting to understand it.
changing this behavior will break many sites. slack, discourse, Gmail chat/Hangouts , Facebook messenger, and I'm guessing discord etc.

Most chat sites seem to want their own emoji. Gmail replaces emoji with Google's. Discourse claims to do it to make it consistent across devices and they got angry when I asked for an option to disable the conversion and just leave things plain text.

In order for all of these to work they have to let you select your chat messages with their embedded images and then convert that back to utf8 if you copy
"Websites cost money to run, so I think it's only fair to accept a reasonable amount of advertising."

Do you also make a point of buying some percentage of the products advertised to you? After all, isn't it ethical to support the advertisers that are supporting the websites that you read? It costs money to run those ads, after all, and without the ads the websites wouldn't run, according to your reasoning. Or would you rather externalize the cost of supporting those advertisers to others while you get a free ride?
Nice to see confusing a joke reference to a regional fact (as to things that can seem X but be Y) with transphobia. Anybody told you that merely referencing trans women in Thailand is opposing them? Projecting much?
> "no one would buy such an expensive phone"

Lower prices definitely had benefits, but 3/4 of a billion dollars in revenue clearly shows that many people would buy such an expensive phone.
They're annoyed because of Adam Neumann's golden parachute. If he'd have been kicked out with nothing except the obligation to pay interest on that personal loan to JPMorgan, the article might have come out differently.
On the other hand, they do give you perspective and help you realize that maybe being "high potential" isn't all its cracked up to be.
A trip down NBA Jam graphics pipeline
This happens with neural nets as well. As they progress in their training, epoch by epoch, accuracy plateaus. There is always a tradeoff between keeping on learning and applying knowledge. Companies have the same dilemma between research and production - if you keep researching too much, you never get to produce anything, and vice-versa.
My understanding was that the Versa Lite was a big misstep. The first Versa was super solid though (I have an Ionic, it's precursor), and the Versa 2 looks to be a solid true successor.

Google has murdered every hardware company they've bought, whether it was smarthome products, watches, smartphones, robots, etc.

I specifically bought a Fitbit because it didn't capture my location history (unless using a specific app for tracking running I don't use), and obviously I will have to leave (and stop buying them for friends as well) if Google acquires them.
It's gamification of activity, to combat sloth. Users either feel better or hope to feel better. I couldn't say whether it's effective though.
> changing this behavior will break many sites. slack, discourse, Gmail chat/Hangouts , Facebook messenger, and I'm guessing discord etc.

How will it break any of those sites?

If you mean that it won't copy-and-paste formatting, which is encoded in a mark-down like syntax, then that's true - but most of the time when I copy something on a website, the formatting there rarely makes it through to another application (like any of the ones you mentioned) anyway, and most of the time when it _does_ survive the journey, I silently curse and try to remember what the "paste without formatting" hotkey is.
FWIW I have the Bose NC 700 and the Bluetooth pairing is seamless. I can be paired to multiple devices at once; if I’m playing music from my laptop but receive a call from my phone then the Bose are smart enough to pause music on my laptop and switch the audio input to my phone.
> I'm hoping the third time is the charm

"fool me once, shame on you. fool me twice, shame on me"
It's very close to an already proven business model:

Enterprise rent-a-car buys new cars, rents them, and then sells them at their own dealerships. They time it so they buy the cars as cheaply as possible, and then sell them when it's most profitable.

So, they do things like buy excess inventory of convertibles in the fall, and then sell them as used in spring.

IMO, I suspect that, for this business, most rentals will be 2-4 year old new-ish cars that are sold as used: Lease returns, trade-ins, ect.
I’m in a similar boat as OP, and I can tell you that folks are VERY skeptical of success when you haven’t been a part of the corporate rat race. My success has a consultant has (so far) apparently little relevance to passing interviews at FAANG and the like. People like talking to me though, so I guess there’s that!
"Players in the crypto ecosystem will be shocked, shocked to know it got this bad, this quickly, but this has been an open secret for over a year."

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I'm not entirely in agreement the crypto world will be shocked tether is insolvent. As long the the fiat gateways exist to exit the system with gains intact, most could care less about tether. It's musical chairs.
Your daily reminder that you can short Tether if you want. All these people writing these articles, and the freely moving market price hovers right around 1:1. Funny how when people are asked to bet, despite the fact that there's almost no risk of loss for shorting it, their convictions disappear.
For me, at least, getting a smart watch with fitness capabilities made me realize how non-active I was before. I wasn't remotely interested in fitness pre-watch, and now I make sure to hit 30 minutes of exercise per day, even if that's just walking around the neighborhood or doing some gentle yoga.
I definitely wouldn't say that government is always trustworthy, but having the food supply controlled by a democratically operated nonprofit entity with a clear interest in everyone's wellbeing is obviously better than having the food supply controlled by a single for-profit entity with no stake in the wellbeing of employees or customers except insomuch as it provides profit for its owners.

Also it should be noted, "government ownership of patents" means that the patents are unenforcable. The government is forbidden by law from charging licensing fees for its IP, so government ownership of patents is inherently open-sourcing them.

While Monsanto owns the patents, they can legally wreck anyone who attempts to violate them. If the government owns the patents, "violation" doesn't exist because anyone can use them freely.
Tried to live in the Oz after a working holiday visa! None of you all wanted to sponsor me -- and I had professional creds. Applied everywhere too.

AWS/Amazon Australia still send me recruiting emails occasionally.
I concede this argument, from your latter sentence, I am considering emergent properties at different scales to be fractal like indeed.

For the first sentence, my point was not to imply that a presence of one kind of behaviour leads to similar behaviour in related structures, but that at different scales, components of each structure may exhibit similar kinds of behaviour. E.g. a person can be considered to be violent or peaceful and so can a community. This could be from our nature of finding patterns in everything, though. Which I guess also leads to emergent properties anyway in some way, so I cannot add much more there.

Actually I am unsure if it fits the definition of emergence - "emergence occurs when an entity is observed to have properties its parts do not have on their own" - but it would be hypocritical for me to argue on that note :D
There are plenty of cars on a dealer’s lot that they’d love to squeeze extra value out of. This isn’t for new cars with the plastic still on them, it’s for last year’s model that didn’t sell, demo units, recent off-lease trade-ins, etc.

I could see this working quite well.
Thanks! So it actually destroys the sound and it has no effect? Or does it have an effect on your hearing, but you don’t perceive it?
oh I had a pair of those for YEARS. LOVED them. Battery lasted ages. great small size for traveling. I wish they had a better form factor (I hate that neck thing format).
I wonder if the pressure equalization is a first for these and not in the originals. It might be the win that actually makes them comfortable this time around.
I was surprised how often stress kicks my heart rate to near max for my age. That and seeing how much sleep I get. I don't really care about steps, but 10k isn't that hard.
Yes, people spend their time to have a life. If that's YouTube, so be it.
What matters is that their time is worth at least minimum wage, probably more if you are a skilled professional. So saying 'I did it for $0' is not useful.

Example: I could spend a week learning carpentry and build a dinner table, or I could buy it from IKEA for $40.
That's a dumb move for most people, unless I am super interested in carpentry.