skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Nobody's gonna care until it hits them personally or has the potential to do so imminently.

It's for this reason that I really, really want the US to implement some kind of formal, stated facial recognition across the board. I honestly don't think we'll see any mass movement on privacy issues from regular folks until something that big happens.
dude, when they said tune in and drop out, they didnt mean tune in to hackernews.. lol
The good news is Fitbit’s health data sucks so Googles not gaining that much.
That's the idea behind the parody subreddit Men Kampf.

>In the post you're about to make, replace cis/white/hetero/male people with the Jews and if the result sounds like something that could be right out of Mein Kampf, you should probably reconsider your social justice blogging habits.

https://www.reddit.com/r/menkampf/top/?t=year
Both Linux and Git look like obvious solutions that anyone could have come up with. That's what makes a discovery or a product great. That's why I think Linus is simply a genius.
> Fitbit health and wellness data will not be used for Google ads

"For now. We'll wait a few years until everyone's forgotten, then launch an amazing new service that just happens to combine health and ads data. What? Hey, it worked for Facebook and WhatsApp."
probably has to do with the webcam, mine was a microsoft HD cam
My 6 year old tries that with every “free” game installed.... it’s a nightmare!
If anyone wants to play around with VoIP, FreePBX is a Linux distro that has packaged things up nicely for this purpose:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreePBX

The guy who runs Crosstalk Solutions has a good YT channel on VoIP (not affiliated), amongst other tech-y stuff:

* https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVS6ejD9NLZvjsvhcbiDzjw
Classic HN baiting; I predict the comments will be over 50% meta-commentary about the title's inaccuracy and possibly something about the principle of highlighting female mathematicians, a sizeable chunk on suggestions for female mathematicians with a larger impact, and very little about Geiringer, her mathematics and her legacy...
You're right. The dumbest part is that I actually went to my phone to find the company name and still thought it said "Reader" for the app name.

Thanks!
If anything they are as different as possible. And part of that was to avoid legal problems with BK.
wrt naming skills, not sure I follow; I think "git" and "linux" were great choices.
Have you tried slow release melatonin? My sleep medicine doc suggested it and I take 6mg a night. Helped a lot with waking up in the middle of the night.

The other pieces you may consider is some form of restless legs. Sleep docs diagnose a lot more than apnea. Best of luck.
The real issue historically hasn't been privacy itself in many cases so much as people unduly giving a fuck about things they shouldn't because it doesn't actually affect them at all or their "requirements" are objectively barking mad. While surveillance is full of evils the true root of most damage from releases. Society's stupid reactions are and it would prefer to change anything execpt their dumb presumptions in the face of reality and morality.

It brings to mind the stacked absurdity of pagent winners losing their crown over nude picture releases. Clearly they should inspect the models to beforehand to be sure they have Barbie Doll crotches beforehand if having a naked body is a disqualifier. It would save them all embarassment once they realize there are no qualified human models which meet their standards and they will have to make due with giving trophies to department store mannequins.

Or the many who suffered from being outed as gay including dumbass tautologies where making a secret firing worthy because of a risk of blackmail - that they created.
Social networks are not popular because of their tech stacks or their codebase being written. There are already several open source git frontends, GitLab included.

Social networks are popular because of their userbase and the ease of discovering other users and code. There is nothing you can build into a piece of client software that enables that.
Stupefied: How organisations Enshrine Collective Stupidity
I’m not sure. Git has proven that however good its core model might be, it’s pretty bad at putting a UI over it.
The backing services factor doesn't mean that you should expect to be able to hot-swap database types.

Rather, it means you should be able to "dependency inject" a compatible database into your app. Say your app is designed to speak Postgres - that Postgres db should be able to run locally, or on a managed cloud service, and the app shouldn't know or care which. You should be able to switch between such services without any code changes.

In practice, this sometimes does mean that multiple database implementations satisfy the interface expected by your app, and you can in fact hot-swap underlying stores. But the spirit of the factor is that the app should have its dependencies ("backing services") provided, rather than hard-coded.
She's one of the few true aliens I regard as up there with von Neumann and Einstein, who have some kind of ridiculous direct line of communication with the fabric of reality.
I doubt it. According to https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/publish/submitti... the file has to be validated and signed through their submission form, and, I quote,

> Note, however, that your add-on may still be subject to further review, if it is you’ll receive notification of the outcome of the review later.

So other than hosting, I fail to see how this is different from distributing through the official channel — you still have to pass their review.

Note that I’ve never written a Firefox add-on (I’ve written plenty of Chrome extensions though), so please correct me if I’m wrong.
Hetzner isn't really a 'cloud' thing in the same way as AWS et al are, and doesn't really seem to have ambitions in that direction. Which is fine; there's definitely a market for what they do.
@siscia There are currently no limits on calling the API but eventually I will need to add some, 100/minute for example.
> but I've never had something as multiheaded as the linux repo.

Git is overkill for so many projects, I hate being forced into for everything.
Something has to change, radically, when it comes to mental and medical healthcare in this country.

I am very, very, fortunate.

In 2018 I was suffering from the effects of PTSD: social isolation, anxiety, hyper-vigilance, poor physical health, and depression.

Many men are experiencing some of these issues, not brought about by PTSD but by other factors and they turn to drugs and alcohol to cope.

Luckily, instead of coping with PTSD brought about by deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan through drugs and alcohol I turned to food and extreme isolation.

But I make money. Lots of it. I also have persuasive parents, and a great job with awesome co-workers who spurred me into action.

With my money I hired a registered dietician, therapist, and a personal yoga instructor, and have completely changed the trajectory of my life. I meditate daily, go to yoga six days a week, have lost 50 lbs (22.7 kg) in eight months. I have had more, positive, social interactions in the last year than I have had in the last 10. My daughters say I am a completely different person, and I feel healthier at 40 than I did at 20.

I am tapering off the industrial quantities of anti-depressants I was on, and no longer eat anything that came off an assembly line.

There are very few social problems that lead to shortened life expectancy that cannot be overcome.

And while "diet and exercise" seems to be met with derision on HN, it's not just about that. It is about the mindfulness and care one puts into themselves when dieting and exercising. The slow changes that are barely noticed from day-to-day but hit you like waves, like when I was brushing my teeth and some toothpaste fell from my mouth and instead of landing on my belly, it landed on my feet. Or when you struggle for months with sitting still and focusing on your breathing while meditating and then one day your timer goes off and you are amazed because it feels like you just started your timer two or three breaths ago.

It is unacceptable to me that just because I used the GI Bill to get a degree in Computer Science and now make lots of money that I can save myself from a downward spiral of isolation and addiction (to food), while most other men cannot.

Because of my limited ability to effect change, the only thing I can propose is that we collectively throw the stigma associated with depression and isolation in the trash and look out for each other as best as possible, talking openly and candidly about those things and trying to support each other with low-cost evidence-based self-improvement methods like diet, exercise, and positive social interactions until access to the same resources I used to save myself of are attainable by everyone.
Similarity can be a learnable metric or user defined.
This is some MRA BS. No one has it easy, but to say society doesn’t care about men’s issues is laughable. If you’re complaining about not taking up most college slots or “being mocked”/“put down” then you’re massively out of touch with the issues others are facing. Instead of complaining about how bad it is to be a man you should learn more about the unique struggles than non-men have to live with, many at the expense of “men”.
Well that's pure baloney. They're clear that they may collect data such as <non-exhaustive examples> and that it may be used in a variety of ways which could include <list of vague, anodyne fluff>.
It's true Google doesn't sell your data: they just rent it out a bit.
This is the key point.

People in power would like to avoid divisions that are between them and people with less power. Instead they prefer divisions between different groups of people with less power, because that way these groups will be ineffective.

If the median white American man understood this, he would understand that he is siding with the wrong people.

----
PS: Yes, I know the labels for this might be "divide and conquer", and "false consciousness", but I think people have trouble relating to these terms.
what if google built androd on top of BSD?
Fitbit press release: https://investor.fitbit.com/press/press-releases/press-relea...
But git already has a built in webserver...

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-GitWeb
imho git is not a version control system but a version control tool. when we started using git trough a system mediating all the functionality trough a goal/workflow oriented approach our whole experience radically changed.

both fork and the intellij ide are great for that, handling the common cases solidly and building up so many convenience functions I can't live without them now, like whitespace aware conflict resolution or single line commits.
> look like obvious solutions

ex post facto
Do you have a summary of your conclusions (for those of us who haven't read it already)? Are we doomed, or is there a bright light?
Mercurial was also spawned from the BitKeeper drama:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/20/45
Society has many (new?) structural problems dealing with men's issues. A lot of it is sexism favoring women, but a lot of it is a lack of desire to understand the issues facing men and address them. To get an idea how bad it can be check out the APA's guidelines on treating men.[0]

I think at the root of this is just a poor economy. Many of these issues about uselessness or loneliness would be solved by a job and a significant other. But no one's just going to start handing out well paying jobs and girlfriends.

[0] https://www.apa.org/about/policy/boys-men-practice-guideline...
You could just use your phone to listen to the cpu to extract whatever you want.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2082200/listen-up-rsa-keys-s...
Reminder for anyone who used a Pebble: Your data will have been sold to FitBit and so Google now gets it. Yay!
GitHub is like half social network and half hosting service. I don't see these as features that should or could be built into git itself.
I had also issues, yoga + meditation + pranayam has workws wonders.

The effects went away when I had taken a pause from the the activities and Normal sleep returned when I resumed them
When I saw this service last week, I think you had a section about a paid service where you do the scraping on a server and send the results. Do you offer that? How do you get around anti-scraping technology, if it exists?
No, it's not. However, you can see the software that his work was originally based on here:

https://github.com/mewo2/terrain
I'm intrigued, and interested in database technology. Do you have any links or pointers?
Makes sense. Google needs access to our wrists and Fitbit is widely used and a cheap company, relatively speaking. That means they've got the Home, Nest, Fitbit, Phone, Computer, Car...all wrapped up. Now I wonder when are they going to buy a drone company. Oh wait, they did that already with Titan Aerospace and Boston Dynamics (even though the latter is gone). Anyhow, with this all lined up, it sounds like the Google 2020 announcements for 2025 will have watches.
I don't know. I think he's just lucky. I only say this to motivate him.
What you could do is the negative "they won't load this file" which could have many reasons (from connection breaking just after the HTML to JS blockers)

And I believe it's a good solution to restrict such a feature to files already marked with a hash on the origin. They would only do that for common libraries found elsewhere as well.
Not to take away from git, but would git be as successful if it wasn’t made by him? Mercurial did come out around the same time, no?
https://news.yahoo.com/google-acquiring-fitbit-130619853.htm...

"Google has struggled to make much of a dent in the wearables category..."

"Fitbit, meanwhile, has had issues maintaining growth in recent years."

Failure + failure = success?
My account on Airbnb has also most likely been hacked. Twice over the summer someone tried to book using my Airbnb account and my expired CC. I hadn't used Airbnb in 3 years.

Airbnb support was completely useless both times. So I cancelled my account everything, and the CC support will deny any Airbnb transaction.

Anyway, it is so annoying to search anything on Airbnb that I am not compelled to use it. The "host" will advertise a one night price that can easily double with all the other fees, and double again for each additional nights.

I'll revisit when accountability standards are raised from the maker to the user.

(edit: added "my account")
I'll just burn my pebble now.
While not totally what you are describing there is Santo Daime although it is more religous based.

There is also Soul Quest Ayahuasca Church in Orlando which seems to operate in the public.
It is generally not possible to participate on the reddit while presenting an alternate viewpoint. You go to your own echo chamber or you get downvoted into oblivion.
It might be a case where some paternalism is warranted. I would guess that timing contributes to the "magic" of film more than is obvious. If it's made too easy to speed up playback, people will do it, find their enjoyment of movies/shows diminished, and then probably misattribute their dissatisfaction to the quality of what they're watching rather than the fact that they haven't watched it "as designed."

If enough people do this, filmmakers are forced to counteract it by making works that are more amenable being watched sped up -- assuming that's possible -- but it's inevitable that that will reduce their quality when watched at a normal rate; the end result being that all media will become worse.
Going Keyless Everywhere
> both those companies' value propositions would fall off the face of the earth.

what do you think are their value propositions? I think they biggest part of their value proposition has to do with a centralized git repository as a service.

The centralized part is really important for most companies. To the point that many git users don't really understand it's decentralized nature.
If you're making extensions and distributing them by hand to your friends you're so far outside the mainstream of Firefox users that you might as well not exist and they shouldn't be making decisions based on your usage patterns.

This is aimed at Joe Average User who maybe downloaded a program from sourceforge and suddenly every user on the computer has Myway Search installed, or something with serious privacy problems that's injecting itself into every web page they visit.
Are you seriously arguing that R's implementation and statsmodels's implementations are doing it wrong? What if I had a model called "OrdinaryLeastSquares" in sklearn and had it regularize by default. After all, it's sklearn, so people probably wanted a penalized least squares model. That would be bad, because it's not what that means in most other libraries and textbooks where users have encountered the term.
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This blog has such a wealth of interesting information!

I wish more people would blog regularly about their process of creation.
https://i.imgflip.com/2q12ca.jpg
maybe they should stop being such losers

I think another motive here may be that if you provide "the dispossessed" and benefits, you create the incentive to become dispossessed.

This problem is relatively easy to solve on a small community level (all family knows that aunt Rosa isn't actually as sick as she likes to pretend), but becomes extremely complicated when scaled to the whole country.
The question in my mind is how this change is gonna affect the enterprise installations.

I'm aware of some installations which rely on both auto configuration and some proprietary extensions to the enterprises themselves which needs to be non-removable and always active.

Disabling installation of sideloaded extensions may make these installations harder, if not impossible.
Never tried slow release. That’s not a bad idea.
Please don't, there's a limited number of them in circulation. :)

There's also zero chance it will be affected.
RIP Fitbit
Swift's ARC is also really slow compared to a lot of GC implementations, largely because it relies on a lot of atomic operations in order to work in a thread-safe manner.

It does have positive characteristics in that it's much more memory efficient than a lot of GC solutions. Also it's deterministic, which will be appreciated by anyone who's had to deal with Stop-the-world garbage collectors. It's also possible to avoid a lot of ARC overhead by avoiding reference types, which is often quite tenable due to Swift's robust support for value types. Also there's a lot of low-hanging fruit for how ARC could be optimized to cut into that overhead.

Anyway, not quite sure what I'm getting at, but the memory management story with Swift is interesting.
haven't looked at the data, but I'd guess a similar gap exists if comparing the top 1 or 2% to the bottom 5-10%...
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I do 35 minutes of heavy weight training and 40 minutes of cardio.
Managed within or managed out, but I think yes.
You would be mistaken to trust a random expert without some independent verification of the accuracy of their predictions.
Duplicate of: https://investor.fitbit.com/press/press-releases/press-relea...

Propose that we don't allow either company's blog post on the front page.
Thank you for the thoughtful reply to a snarky comment. That’s admirable. And I agree that we should not dismiss problems just because of skin color. You win the internet today.
This news says that it will. You should go in and delete your fitbit account if you don't want that.
Have you ever tried Magtein?

I stopped taking fish oil a while ago but worth adding back in.

Why do you think Aleve is helping?
Is there any way to pull data from the fitbit device itself offline?
Why it is getting expensive then?
Just look at this tweet and its replies:

https://mobile.twitter.com/andrewyang/status/101020755332480...

There are hundreds of videos like this one, and journalists with similar (or more strident) opinions:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=LkQkzcrk7ds

Such as Sarah Jeong, formerly of the NYT Editorial Board (still a contracted Opinion writer):

‘“Oh man it's kind of sick how much joy I get out of being cruel to old white men," Jeong said in one tweet from 2014 that has since been deleted.

"Dumbass f---ing white people marking up the internet with their opinions like dogs pissing on fire hydrants," Jeong said in another tweet from that year.

A third tweet posted by Jeong in 2014 said, "Are white people genetically predisposed to burn faster in the sun, thus logically being only fit to live underground like groveling goblins."’

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/463503-sarah-jeong-out-at...

When I worked in Silicon Valley, these attitudes from top opinion-makers often filtered down into workplace and personal conversation.
That's not what mozilla is changing with this policy change. You've had to either sign or temporarily load an unsigned packed/unpacked extension for a while now.
The only claim in the article is that nationality affects the process. In what universe is it wrong to take this into account? For example, the considerations when admitting an American into your country are different than admitting an Azerbaijani. There are linguistic barriers, concerns about self-suffiency based on personal financial resources, and even edge-case concerns like the prevelance of militant groups. There are also unequal costs to the UK to do follow-up investigations in fully modernized countries vs. others, and greater costs to countries with less common official languages, given that the number of staff who are fluent in Azerbaijani is lower than those speaking English, Spanish, French, etc.

And all of this is separate from the objective fact that, on average, a random American will be better educated, more culturally in sync, more able to participate in Civic society, and capable of making a larger net positive contribution economically.

So, it is easier and more beneficial to admit an American, why are we trying ourselves in knots, engaging in humanist handwringing about the fact that the process acknowledges this fact in practice? Immigration isn't welfare.

The goal isn't, or shouldn't be, the welfare of all human beings. It should be the best outcome for the nation whose policy is in question.

In other words, one man's 'bias' is another man's common sense.
IMHO, the best and most disruptive inventions are ones where almost everyone could’ve said “Hey I should have thought of X, it’s such a simple idea.”
> 57% of undergraduates are now women

True

>yet every resource makes it seem like men are way ahead and tries to bring them down

What college resources are trying to bring men down?
Repeatedly being acquired to be immediately shut down sounds like quite a good business model, if your goal is to be paid.

I wonder what other kinds of products and services would be good for that model. In other words, would tend to be acquired for good money in order to stop them.
What an odd suggestion. Git follows the Unix philosophy of being designed to do one thing and do it well (concurrent version control). Building an issue tracker and more directly into it just doesn't make sense.
> Call them what you want (protestors/agitators/woke/etc), but I get the feeling that they're getting a disproportionately large amount of focus from the media and I guess management.

Explicitly so. Loud voices make headlines, headlines get clicks, clicks get ad revenue. The entire industry is geared to produce maximum clicks and, ergo, maximum loud voice. This has been the theme for a while now.

The issue, though, is that Management can ignore a couple of angry cranks -- or just fire them -- but they can't avoid news articles.