skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are four different scales here.

One is the current generation of sleep trackers or Bluetooth toothbrushes (I own both, just for curiosity’s sake and amusement) which at best tell you only what you already know, and often not even that.

Next is the coarse 6K/7k step case you talk about. The measurements on the gym’s treadmills are similarly arbitrary. That kind of gamification is useful to get people moving and as you say accuracy isn’t important.

Next is the gross trend...if you’re in a pattern and deviate then it could be a sign of something and could be that you put the device on loosely or that it is dirty.

Which is the last kind: even though I have the watch i still use a pressure cuff, though not often, and even occasionally exercise with a heart rate monitor and even a pressure cuff. They suffer from the worst sort of measurement problem: inconvenience. Just as “the best camera you have is the one with you” the same applies to health monitoring.

As for the importance of health monitoring...how often do you look at your poo? Even in Germany where many toilets are equipped with a “shelf” for inspection, an informal (and amusing) survey I conducted revealed that most people never looked even when they weren’t feeling well.
I spend more time writing and reading files than figuring out syntax errors. Also yaml has comments.
Smedley Butler is like a God figure to Marines, second only to Chesty Puller. I've often referenced this when arguing about the military-industrial complex with people who assume that if you criticize military spending you are somehow anti-military. I don't know if it has any effect.

Some might think it's a fallacious argument from authority, but I don't think it is. Fortunately, or unfortunately?, the people I tend to argue with about this stuff likely don't know what that fallacy is.
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Yes. They A/B tested and the flat fee model was more popular. The new directive is to increase margins, and the variable model is better at that.

I can’t name sources, but it should be pretty evident just based on the new CEO public messages by now?
> There are a few WTFs in here, like the "int i, j, j;" in Script.h.

The blog post does explain this though.
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Major General Smedley Butler was a 2X Congressional Medal of Honor recipient. In his literary magnum opus, “War Is a Racket” he argues just that. A true statesman, he informed FDR & Co of the Business Plot, the cartel of big businesses who plotted to overthrow the US government. An amazing American that time will not allow us to forget.
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See my comment elsewhere: I could not find filings for this device
What is it with Amiga that people keep tinkering with it and HN is full of Amiga articles? I once had an Amiga 1000 but for me that's just a sweet memory. Why is it different for other people, and why Amiga and not Spectrums or the like?
Apple makes Chinese iCloud user data at rest available to the Chinese government. They've come a long ways from fighting the FBI back in 2015.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/03/apple-privacy...
But due to how trademarks work, they would have had to then aggressively protect that trademark with lawyers and stuff and I have a hard time imagining that working out all that well with a lot of us open source software enthusiasts and companies.

Simply put, I think if the name “open source” was a trademark, the open source community would still exist, and businesses would produce open source software as they do today too, but a lot of us would be using some other name for this instead of referring to it as “open source”, so that we’d avoid any potential problems with the trademark of open source.
The CIA absolutely bribes local officials. The issue is you need to bribe the right people:

1. People who will change their opinion, reliably, when bribed.
2. People who won't backstab you (aka: take the money, and attack you anyway).

Figuring this out is an intelligence problem. To get good intelligence, you need boots on the ground. To have boots on the ground, you need to protect them. Etc. etc.

With regards to Afghanistan culture: they have a different way of thinking than us Americans. Sure, some can be bribed with money, but a history of being a warzone for... I think 200 years at least... has made their culture strange and alien to us.

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IIRC, Afghanistan culture is about accepting and protecting of strangers, even when they are under attack. But as soon as the stranger leaves, you're allowed to shoot them or otherwise kill them again. So this makes #2 more difficult, you need to understand the local's religion, their culture, their legends and their stories. (I'm probably butchering the concept, but I read about the details a long time ago...)

In the case of Afghanistan, if US Troops could take advantage of the "accepting of strangers" culture, then US Troops will be protected by the locals. Diplomacy leads to better war-fighters and safer people. Play your cards right, and you don't even need to bribe people. You'll be a good-guy in their culture and they'll protect you.
Minimal Web Applications and the Curl Command
I write from memory when PG was doing these experiments, if you do a HN search over PG & classic should be able to dig it out.
There’s absolutely nothing in CA law preventing upfront pricing!
Germany declared war on the United States.
> Your argument seems to be that utility should outweigh ethical concerns

Not GP, but that seems a bit unfair. Utilitarianism in various flavours is a popular ethical framework; for those who subscribe to it, ethical concerns are properly calibrated and measured in utility.

I suspect your argument (especially the SA comparison) would be better expressed as a tension between long- and short-term utility, but don't want to put words into your mouth.
If it is for grad school, then age is essentially a non-factor. I have a few friends who went back to get PhDs in their 40s
Ask HN: Vlogging the startup for a year, could use some topic suggestions/tips
... i don't really have a strategy except that my goal is to upload every single day (i did a similar year-long challenge on my personal youtube channel a few years back).

i'm a solo founder (vc-backed) and just pivoted the company (a real one... not a pseudo-pivot). right now, contextually, i'm nearing the end of my hiring process to hire "engineer uno"...

my loose plan is to candidly capture the process of building "zero to one" but would love any suggestions or even other channels with similar angles / approaches?

thanks HN!

you can see the first week here: http://yen.show/
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Germany declared war on U.S., not the other way around.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_declaration_of_war_agai...
So, let me share what we do internally at Grafana Labs:

General:

1. We run everything on Kubernetes

2. We configure it using Tanka, keep all Jsonnet in git

3. Changes are done using PullRequest

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Grafana (the software) related:

1. We use provisioning:
https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/administration/provi.... This means dashboards are kept in .json files on the filesystem and loaded on startup

2. Those dashboard json files are ConfigMaps

3. Those ConfigMaps are created using Tanka

4. The content of those ConfigMaps is created using grafonnet-lib

This means, our dashboards are source-controlled! A change to a dashboard is reviewed, merged and automatically deployed (ConfigMap is changed, Grafana restarted, picks that up and done!)

---

Caveats:

- Edit dashboard in Grafana won't work anymore

- You need to mess with files - BUT this might change in the future, Jsonnet might become integrated to Grafana. Stay tuned :D
Just a bit of a side note, but I was in China last fall, and using Bing there were many search results that you could not click through. However the few sentence description below the search link often had information that would be censored elsewhere.
But then it is all .. vague. I do hope something better than can be done.. hand drawn diagrams can't represent details at different levels of magnitude, like for example why statecharts are very expressive compared to other diagrams is it's ability to have arbitrary levels of nesting, which is not possible with handdrawn or even printed diagrams.

I feel like resorting to simple hand drawn diagrams, is in a way declaring failure on being able to describe complex software requirements and structure/ behavior in a systematic graphical manner.
Because half of us are just glad Microsoft isn’t in charge anymore. The opposite of hate is apathy, and that you ask the question suggests that you are too young to remember a lot of people used to call Microsoft the Evil Empire - a reference to Star Wars. Of course they’re doing slimy shit. They’ve always been slimy to half of us. If you forget history it will repeat.

You’ve got me on Apple though. And I say this as both a member of an Apple household and a longtime investor: It’s more or less a luxury good, it has cachet, people tie their egos to them, and we have the legacy of the Reality Distortion field that you can still see in the word choices in product launch events (and the fact that they are events).

People don’t want to believe Apple is evil like they don’t want to believe Michael touched kids inappropriately at Neverland.

They do some things domestically that make it Not My Problem... if you ignore the Hong Kong situation. But I am not empowered to fix my own government (save maybe at the local level) let alone someone else’s.
I still own a 8" floppy drive, it isn't connected up to anything though.
Sorry, but I think the approach of treating the apnea with or without weight loss is an obvious win. Trying to summon any type of willpower when you're constantly sleep-deprived is almost impossible, much less the amount of discipline that chronically obese people need to break that cycle.
I'm actually more interested in the science, however from what I've seen that's usually reserved for PhD Oceanographers? How do I get in contact with you?
I bet it also saves battery so they can advertise a higher number of miles.
That’s not what the flexible rate is either? You won’t pay for a ride 6 months after it, you’ll pay per mile, like Taxis
Yet even Go has several new features not present in version 1.0 and 2.0 roadmap is underway.

Languages are software products, they are evolve to fulfill the market needs or they die.
I asked on Twitter if 73.0b2 had the fix and was told that it did, so we should be good!
Can you really work a 9-5 and still claim that you aren't a lotus eater? Lotus eating isn't endulging in company meals or taking their Ubers, lotus eating is being lured into a sense of security and letting yourself be surrounded by walls of safety to strong for you to break.
Iraq definitely was a racket. At the same time the war went on , defense companies reported record profits and upper incomes received big tax cuts. So for upper management of defense companies it was a huge win to go to war. I am always thinking we should make sure that when a country goes to war everybody suffers. In most wars young guys have to die for something they don’t understand, most population suffers, but upper class and leadership usually still lives in splendor.
There is the excellent Architecture of Open Source Applications book, which is available online for free at http://aosabook.org/en/index.html

It contains architecture overviews of many open source projects.
Wanted to explain the reason for my flag.

* The article presents a controversial, click-bait title

* The article contents intentionally misrepresents very selective and incomplete quotes without surrounding context

* The article is low on factual content, high on opinion, while representing itself otherwise.
I was pulling the goggles away from and closer to my face if that's what you mean, I believe that was the only focus mechanism.
Why then tie it to labor at all, why not the full UBI? Also why tax credits - many low wage jobs aren't well served by annualized refunds (you can see that in stats where medical visits surge for a bit after tax refunds...).
Have switch for a normal mode and sports mode - solved.
Every one of these stories always seems to have the common theme that at some point Google HR seems to step in in a really big-brother/creepy way and start saying the employee has been tagged for poor performance. It always seems to happen as soon as someone starts to get in the way of a "Do some Evil" project.

They also always seem to have this pattern of trying to move the person to a do-nothing job to try and keep the whole thing quiet.

It's really, really creepy. Kind of makes you want to put Google on a "Do not ever ever interview with" list.
Google had this, at least around 2010. Product teams would have to get the go-ahead from a bunch of interested parties like legal, security, internationalization, etc. Each of those parties controlled a "launch bit" (literally a checkbox) for each product launch.
Didn't you sort of have a falling-out type of experience with Mozilla? Does that have any effect on this move?
Perhaps a better way to express this is to say there are far more Chinese students in American universities than just ten years ago. Statistics that show this are abundant. Since Google likes to hire people straight out of college, we now see a higher proportion of these Chinese students, who are apolitical or in fact support the Chinese government.
What do you expect when climate change is used as a weapon to take rights away? People that will ignore well established science to push trans agenda will lie about any and all science to get their way.
>The research shows that in 2017, alcohol proved to be even more deadly than illicit drugs, including opioids. That year there were about 70,000 drug overdose deaths — about 2,300 fewer than those involving alcohol,

>Only cigarettes are deadlier than alcohol: More than 480,000 people die each year in the U.S. because of smoking-related illnesses.

I didn't realise how much worse this is compared to the opioid epedemic .
> Beautiful ideals were painted for our boys who were sent out to die. This was the "war to end all wars." This was the "war to make the world safe for democracy." No one mentioned to them, as they marched away, that their going and their dying would mean huge war profits. No one told these American soldiers that they might be shot down by bullets made by their own brothers here. No one told them that the ships on which they were going to cross might be torpedoed by submarines built with United States patents. They were just told it was to be a "glorious adventure."

Very strange how WWI makes almost no sense from today's perspective. Every country was damaged either directly by the conflict, or indirectly through its protracted (and still ongoing) resolution.

Had those young men simply decided to do nothing rather than join, the world would have been a better place.

I'd be curious to know Butler's take on WWII (he died in 1940). That's the one that people seem most hung up on. It's the only war in living memory considered near universally "good" by those in the US. It's the war that's invoked by every administration trying to stir up popular support for a military adventure in a country most voters can't place on a map.

I'm doubtful our current reverence for WWII will stand the test of time. Long after Hitler has been replaced by the next boogeyman, history students of the future will scratch their heads at what could have possibly motivated a young man to volunteer for such a fool's errand.
Perhaps “chill” and “standard” modes.
Aiohttp + Aiopg which uses sqlalchemy
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I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that is still a terrible user experience, which is why Microsoft and every other search engine in China do not attempt to do that.

That's why this is a red herring. The problem you want to solve is Chinese citizen awareness when Google is just trying to provide the information that's available.
Alright thanks for that! My hopes for an impending VR future are no longer as dim. I didn't realize the PSVR came out in 2016 when I tried it. I figured it was brand new this year.
Out of 100 people who call themselves autodidact CS people, how many are like the ones you describe, who spend years to work their way through CS theory books to the extent that would be required by passing exams with good grades?

Let's ignore for the moment whether it's even needed, whether devs will just code stuff that doesn't need much math anyway etc. as that's a different topic. I want to focus on whether autodidacts get the same level of CS knowledge as university graduates (with good grades).

My CS education did have a lot of difficult math that I enjoyed but in a running-a-marathon way, not in an eat-a-piece-of-cake way.
Having regular lectures, homework and topics given to you by experts in a logical order is very important for many people like myself, so they have no gaps and get a well-rounded overview of CS fundamentals. Designing your own curriculum is often how you end up being a crank as well (e.g. see "autodidact physicists").

And it's not just calculus and analysis, but also graph theory, complexity theory, abstract algebra, linear algebra, complex numbers, formal languages and automata, information theory, theory of compression and encryption algorithms, signal processing like Fourier theory, control theory, optimization and machine learning, and various other things you learn here and there, such as Petri nets, quaternions etc.

And also, outside of extraordinary life circumstances, why not get admitted to a university anyway, if you're so enthusiastic about all this theory stuff that you'd learn it to good-grade level just by your own motivation anyway? For example in Germany, university is free and if you prefer you can even skip all the lectures if you don't think they give you value and just take the exams, while studying in your preferred autodidactic fashion.

My default assumption, unless convinced otherwise by evidence, is that self-taught devs can put together functioning code and have familiarity with CS terminology but only a vague folk understanding of the details.

Most people who argue that university is superfluous are usually those who could not pass the exams due to a lack of interest and/or talent (or live in a country with tuition fees they cannot afford, such as the US).
Thanks! I don't really do twitter, but maybe I should! Pretty quick turnaround there.
Every non-toy, non-academic programming language should be non breaking. I know, there is a gray zone and some do not give a sh*. But as a company it is really hard investing into something that is breaking.
This is a superb argument. Thank you.
Mat companies have security teams and security review through, as well as web accessibility and the like. It seems to help since without those teams most product groups pay very little attention to either.
fantastic writing. if it makes you feel any better, someone in the thrall of the lotus is incapable of introspection.
No one doing manual labor for 60+ hours a week is morbidly obese.
> The author of the article criticizes the decision because it makes the car less fun

Isn't "fun" what Mazda is known for? Their "Zoom Zoom" campaign ran for 14 years on the premise that Mazdas are more fun to drive.

Now they're intentionally making them less fun?
400ish attempts for me IIRC. But then I could do it on demand for a while (I’ve since lost the muscle memory of course)
My theory is that one of the FAAN +M companies is using social media to make Google's reputation go down.
Despite it's name, Jsonnet can generate JSON, YAML, INI, and other formats.
Much of the money for war flows right back into the American economy.

You pay American soldiers and contractor salaries. You buy weapons and technology from American companies.

Bribes don't have the same economic effect.

For these large dollar amounts, how you spend it matters as much as how much you spend.
Are those use cases supposed to make VR sound good?
Yes, charges last longer and the battery degrades slower with lower peak discharges. The same with charging too, though, but most people want to charge as fast as possible.
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Yeah, that'd theoretically work. But I wonder how it would go in practice with the limited information of each driver. Perhaps if they provided drivers with statistics (average offering price, bottom 10% offering price, ride volume over time, peak areas etc) then it would work. Interesting proposition.
Your impressions pretty much mirrors his own notes about the code, if you read through his actual post.
Also referenced in this article posted a few days back: "War is still a racket" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21990298
Facebook buys Oculus.
Zuckerberg predicts that VR will be the next big thing in the 20's.
Shocking.
Those are definitely realistic scenarios. But in the case of a company that relies heavily on attracting and maintaining talented employees, those actions would probably engender significant blowback as well. At the very least the abandoning of values is a discrete step that is taken, as opposed to an vague degradation of some executives feelings. I do agree that it isn’t a total solution, but I do think there are some other interesting developments in the area, like the Long Term Stock Exchange and Generation Investment Management.
And also did you have a working kitchen? Access to a decent grocery store? Were you free from constant stress about how you would pay rent?
I don't think they assumed it would work. Humiliating tech employees (or "resources" for sociopaths) is a popular sport for the slave drivers in any corporation. They enjoy it and unfortunately many introvert people fall for it every time.

Remember folks, participating in something ridiculous in order to humiliate and test people's subservience is one of the cornerstones of any self-respecting cult.
Yeah, agreed. I stopped using it altogether when I am not talking with programmers. I usually just say "when adding this new thing you have to re-fit everything else so all parts play nice with each other", or "you know how you have to pull the engine out so you can fix the frontal suspension? that's what I have to do sometimes". Both of these are accepted pretty well by non-technical people.
I’ll bet it’s a reference to the Imperial Civil Service Exam[0], which in its later years became notorious in the same ways mentioned in the link. Government officials, who had all passed the exam, were known as Mandarins (at least to the West).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_examination
Fair point. I used to see Google as the good guy.

Working there seemed to be Good.

Where as it was obvious with Apple's anti competitive policies, they'd be evil/corrupt. When they ban Apps, I don't bat an eye anymore.
Just make sure your stuff really expresses something and isn’t just pretty as I see quite a bit.
Stressed, as in, fearful of attack. A surface-to-air missile site (or command and control center) would be one of the first places attacked. That is, the person is under the stress that, if it's a real attack and he doesn't pull the trigger, he may die. (The Vincennes had the same stress.)
I started using Insomnia a few months ago and it's been such a pleasure to use. I find it more user friendly and less "in your face" than Postman. Everything just seemed to work the as expected.

https://insomnia.rest/
Dude, just wow.

There are many flash games in Steam and elsewhere. Your whole rant is clueless.
I’ve seen this done - with UK and US employees working together on the same remote team for an SF-based startup, but it resulted in pressure to pay US employees below market rate.