skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are multiple things under the "sleep hygiene" umbrella, Oura lets me quantify my experiments.

Do I sleep better when it's colder, how about different pillows, blankets? What does alcohol do to my sleep? etc.

With the ring I've got actual data to back up a general feeling of did I sleep well/badly.
That and the Commander X-16 will make it a beautiful 2021.
So if I change "foo" to "moo" and you change "foo" to "boo", who wins?
Oh, good. This is the first time I've seen this. I'm glad this is considered a possible method. Seems like one and done for so many masks is so wasteful if not absolutely necessary.
CISCO WebEx: the worst.
Not to mention that the way the article presents that "study" doesn't make it sound like they controlled for the very real possibility of "everything in the buffet is appealing to around 75% of buffet eaters, so any reordering will result in 75% grabbing the first thing they see".

Plus, the point of a buffet (for me at least, being the fatass I am) is to try a little bit of everything, so unless it's something I already know I don't like, I'm probably gonna grab it.
I feel neither of you might have tried Lync for mac, it beats skype hands down.
>There are a lot of Googlers on HN who blindly follow Google

Which is weird because internally people are pretty damn skeptical. If anything is found I'm all for doing what is determined "correct". I would worry that people with little understanding would make that call but time will tell.

On the flipside of the quoted statement, I will say that Googlers have a far better understanding about what is collected/done (in other instance IE privacy) that your random at HN so are more likely to not be so dismissive/fear mongering. When you've seen the stomach of the best it's far less scary.

Default opinions are my own because I'm paranoid.
Yes, it can.

We have federally-funded national Research labs that regularly take on nuanced, technical challenges like this, and they work great. It's not like a federal bureaucracy designed and built multiple mars rovers, engineers did.

>Add to that the fact that funding will be uneven, because if the tool achieves a 'good enough' status, why keep funding it

If it is good enough, sure, it doesn't need the same amount of funding required to get it to that point. That is a good thing.

The federal government isn't the only potential source of government funding.

>In fact, this is guaranteed to not be the case, because who is to say that funding a word processor is a productive application of capital when you're not responding to market forces.

I don't follow. Because we can spend less money building a thing once than renting it annually for decades and decades, which is a response to market forces.
Er, no. There are really old human remains just about everywhere you look - and that's not just on the Parliamentary benches.

Stonehenge f.ex.: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-28969-8
Reminds me of paddle stickers wear patterns due to SF2 moves.
I don't champion git, but it is sort of the least worst SCM overall. I'm a graph thinker so that aspect never gave me much trouble, but the CLI is a seriously weird jungle of odd naming, based limitations¹, do-all commands with flags changing the entire command out for a different one and poorly written manpages.

I'd also like to point out that the concept of not having the history local (as in CVS, SVN and some of the still-used commercial SCMs), but only on the special sanctified server, feels seriously weird and extremely limiting to me.

¹ The by far weirdest one is --set-upstream specifically (intentionally?) not working if local and remote branch names don't match, so "git push repository branchLocal:branchRemote -u" doesn't make "git push" work if you are on branchLocal. It feels like that's half the point to have that option in the first place. But nah.
“Free speech absolutists” who claim that threats to boycott shouldn’t be protected speech. I don’t think I’ve ever observed such pure distilled doublethink in my life.
stickers! i have the star wars death star over my camera.
Hi, we try to be neutral or friendly here on hn.
is twitch a good enough reincarnation for arcades or does the flesh still lacks ?
Backup tapes for a artificial general intelligence with "That is not dead which can eternal lie, / And with strange aeons even death may die." printed on them
Not just handwashing...

There's a theory popular with jaded biologists that neckties alone may have killed more people than some minor genocides.

And the failure to perfect the practice of hand-washing is somewhat easy to understand: it's tedious, especially when done dozens of times per day. Some people suffer skin irritation. The cause of any infection can almost never be traced, making it hard to learn and/or punish the guilty.

Banning neckties is a rather binary policy decision, and compliance would be extremely easy to monitor. One would think people with advanced academic degrees would see the upside, and don't need to signal status with superfluous items of clothing in addition to that doctorate.
EVs will require a mind change. I have a hybrid. I drive it in St Augustine FL, America’s oldest city. As such the roads in the historic district are narrow.

When I come to an intersection I have to be especially conscientious because pedestrians are use to engine noise bouncing down the road ahead of the car. People have walked out in front of me unaware of my existence. I normally mouth, “Surprise, motha fucka” or “I’m Batman” when that happens.
I was asking for similarities, not differences.
It’s hard enough getting your own code to run and work correctly. When would this be a useful development paradigm?
You could introduce a quiet period in which no updates are let in, coalesce changes into a snapshot, clear history and open the floodgates again.
COVID is a respiratory disease.
Anything which requires me to use a Google captcha or hcaptcha. I generally don't get annoyed very easily but spotting fire hydrants and traffic lights just to login into a site to which you are a paying customer is plain nonsense.

I've actually decided to move my entire infrastructure from Digital ocean to AWS because of this captcha before login nonsense (thankfully DO reverted it just in time)
Data Becomes Key for Next-Gen Chips
I know this is tongue-in-cheek, but I still think it's not the right point of view. A lot of the compatibility in a long term relationship stems from shared values, experiences, interests and culture. So I think your pool of potential "perfect people" is a lot closer to home than that.
Strangely, this is the exact opposite of my normal tendency. For some reason I always want to ponder complex things right before bed, and have zero desire to do so when I wake up.
You could try Google Cloud and you may realize here are a lot more costs you haven't considered which make self hosting more expensive (maintenance and your time). Most SaaS and EE companies are running in the cloud, so why do you think cloud is cost prohibitive? What would happen if 200 people wanted to use your service tomorrow?
How much do you think the average 25 year old knows about networking protocols, HTTP, and web scraping--much less how those areas intersect with legal precedent and practice? Especially given (maybe barring patent and technology-related IP lawyers) they probably have a liberal arts undergrad degree of some sort.

>And the rule book on laws regarding the internet is not fully written yet.

Yes, it is certainly true that there's a lot of technology-related law which is pretty unsettled relative to areas of law like contracts and property that have at least centuries of jurisprudence behind them.

ADDED: And one last thing I'd add to the last point is that, when technical people complain about judges (or whoever) not understanding technology when they make some decision, at least some of the time, they understand perfectly well but the existing laws don't lead to the outcome that the technical people want.

Although it sometimes can seem like they do, courts don't usually just make up things out of whole cloth to get the result they personally think is best.
Cool! Sounds like a good idea. A key stretcher is probably a good idea too if you haven't done so. Given that this is local only, you can go pretty nuts on the key stretching. For example, on a server I'd say >100K rounds of PBKDF2. For local, you could do 1B.
I've never felt that the commands don't make sense or that they don't map to my mental model. Actually I don't understand that complaint. It's not like I set a mental model prior to learning git and expect git to follow it. I base my mental model on git while learning it, so of course it's going to map it. That's what learning how to use a software entails.

If we're talking about inconsistencies in git, the only one that comes to mind is how diff's `...` behaves like log's `..` and diff's `..` behaves like log's `...`. I.e. if you want to see the changes of `git log a..b` as a single diff, you'd use `git diff a...b`. If you want to see the changes of `git log a...b` as a single diff, you'd use `git diff a..b`.
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Honest question: Which bits don't make sense?

For me it's the other way round, git clicked way faster than other systems.
This seems to be grossly miscalculated--at least for Canada (too).

They collected details of 60 plans[1], which is their max. The cheapest they found was $2.5/GB, the most expensive being $140/GB (both of these are incredible). They use the median of those sampled[2], but there's no weight given to the plans.. the terrible data plan (100MB for $14) has the same weight as a popular plan (2GB for $40).

There seems to be no concession for other features (roaming, minutes, long distance, voicemail, caller ID, text) nor device subsidies (many operators still include $0-200 flagship devices on Canadian plans) which doesn't exactly level the playing field worldwide (every country has different strategies).

So grain of salt required - I pay half their "average". Is North America expensive? Yes! Do I want 11GB/$? Also yes! (Although India's low price could be a side effect of the Reliance Industries investment fever[3])

[1] https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/assets.cable.co.uk/mobile...
[2] https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/assets.cable.co.uk/mobile...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliance_Industries#Major_subs...
Current-workload-wise, I do want to do a lot more work with virtualization (if Docker was not announced for Apple Silicon it would have been a nonstarter), plus the ability to play an occasional game or two via Metal.

I actually bought a weaker 2016 MacBook Pro when it launched under the assumption that eGPUs would take off; unfortunately, the cost premium turned out to be not worth it, and the inability to use Nvidia GPUs without extreme hacking makes it a nonstarter. (I also planned to use it for training ML models; the massive cost drops in cloud computing make having a local GPU unnecessary)

My place isn't big enough for a full-on Windows workstation, plus I'm invested enough in the Mac ecosystem that I get benefit from that synergy.

EDIT: Another performance bottleneck in my work is video recording/livestreaming; currently on my Mac I get slowdown when I record HD video for complicated work, so I would prefer to mitigate that.
It maps very well to my own mental model? I'm not arguing that the parent poster doesn't have the problem that they say they have, but it's a problem I do not have and haven't encountered very much with new users after explaining it to them?
The truth doesn't matter. People want a narrative and they will believe what they want to. It's a depressing feeling to think of, but nobody wants to break the narrative they want to believe. Many beliefs have no value, I for instance don't believe China's narrative for their low Corona, while my father does. Neither of our beliefs have any proper function or carry a penalty for believing. Believing in the amount of water we should drink is a lot more useful and actually carries more of a real life impact, and I'd rather not argue about something that will only cause friction and never have any use.
At the same time, Socrates and Confucius were not well liked in their times but they knew they were "right" and their time would come after. Mendel whose ideas were ridiculed also simply believed in his own ideas, and drew strength from it.
Political truth is a funny thing.
- I have to interact with it much much more often

- I have to be a good user of it. I can get away with knowing a couple flags for these tools

- Git is inherently stateful. I can iterate on my grep-ing/sed-ing/curl-ing and try random stuff, but git operation can be destructive or leave me in a state I don't understand and do not konw how to get out of
I agree git is not user friendly. But there are 2 solutions, that are pretty low friction

1. There are great cheatsheets online that you can just print out and keep on your desk.

2. Write a user friendly cli wrapper on top of git (i think there might already some projects out there)
Portable C library for easy-to-use async with event loop and coroutines support
Thanks, and I also routinely read both the NYT and the New Yorker. I don't mean to suggest that most or all of their reporters want to use the tools of their trade to harm perceived opponents, just that some non-negligible subset do (as is inevitable in a large group), and their managers seem disinclined to hold them back (which seems new and scary to me). The personal consequences if you meet such a reporter seem potentially disastrous enough (what does a trained psychiatrist do with his life if he can no longer practice?) to be worth a strong warning. Maybe you think it's hyperbolic; but Alexander probably now wishes that someone had given him that warning before he started blogging.

I do think there's an ideological bias to whom an NYT reporter is likely to treat favorably or unfavorably. In this thread and elsewhere, people listed comparably semi-anonymous figures that the NYT declined to name that one might, in the usual oversimplified binary view, described as left-leaning. The world isn't perfectly orderly, and maybe they just got lucky and Alexander got unlucky. I see moderately strong evidence that's not the case, though.

But I'm more concerned that this is happening than to whom. I was aware that Alexander's blog existed before these events, but I hadn't read it much, and I had no particularly favorable or unfavorable impression. I wrote my comment not out of sympathy for Alexander's views, but out of concern that reporters from mainstream outlets now seem happy to bring about or abet actions that are likely to cause people serious and unfair ("Alexander deserved to get fired for what he wrote, so good" is a perfectly consistent and honest position, but I'm actually kind of surprised that no one said that here) harm. I think Marxists are dangerously wrong, but I don't think they should be run out of their unrelated jobs for that reason.

What Alexander feared the NYT would do to him seems to me more polished and subtler than a Project Veritas article on Breitbart, but basically in the same spirit. I do think it's to the NYT's credit that (so far) they dropped the piece, and to the New Yorker's that their piece didn't use Alexander's real name--no one doubts that Breitbart would have ploughed ahead. I'm disturbed that it got that far, though.
Before buying one I tried to make research about its effectiveness and there are some very alarming reports, coming, of all places, from the research published by the same company. So this isn't even biased...

“From EBE analysis, ŌURA ring had a 96% sensitivity to detect sleep, and agreement of 65%, 51%, and 61%, in detecting “light sleep” (N1), “deep sleep” (N2 + N3), and REM sleep, respectively. Specificity in detecting wake was 48%.”

Specificity in detecting wake was 48%! If this was a medical test, it would never be approved by FDA.

A specificity of 48% means that there is a 48% chance that someone is awake when the device says they are asleep.

That is horrible.

This is very surprising and alarming. As the author later goes on to describe, this has real implications and possible negative effects, this is not just a benign error here and there. Users are apparently supposed to use the Oura data to change or at least adjust and improve their sleep habits, and of course if they will do it based on faulty information, the adjustments themselves are going to be faulty and it can lead to worse or sub-optimal sleep!

Apparently you can still use Oura to track heart rate and HRV, but their own proprietary markers like “readiness” are probably based on all of their data including sleep, so they are not going be that accurate either.
It's a great device.

If there is a primary flaw, it's that it can't be resized. If you are sufficiently motivated to become more active, the ring becomes too loose over time.

Not the worst problem, but it ends up in caught in the drain more than I'd like.
A catch-all for VR/MR/AR. If you can get yourself a Hololens 2, highly recommended!
Your software isn't any better. In many ways, it's far worse than SAP or Oracle/Netsuite, since it doesn't even provide a UI (and the issues most people have with SAP and Oracle is how their custom UI was configured. It can be as painful or as painless as your Integrations team makes it.)
agreed - it's a massive cpu hog for a basic chat client... it excels primarily at turning my macbook into a toaster
>Especially when it's really not that big of an imposition

This is my biggest issue, dismissing it as something trivial. Everybody is different, for some people it can be huge inconvenience.
Jira. Its WYSIWYG editor is goddamn awful. Runner-up goes to its sibling product, Confluence, for the same reason.
I worked with WebSphere (version 5 maybe?) many, many years ago. The admin console was seemed like it was designed to increase confusion. Eventually a consultant I was working with tipped me off that there was a scripting interface, which came bundled with Python (Jython). This made administration so much easier once I got the hang of the APIs, since I could just automate/script things.

I have no idea if this is still possible with modern WS.
I'm surprised that noise propagates far enough for you to hear. In my experience, the noise that propagates furthest from roads is the low frequency tire rumble.
Unfortunately we do not have an inexhaustible supply of fertilizer.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_phosphorus
Refuses to play unless restarted. Every single day.

Forgets selected play list from previous day. Every single day.

Sometimes would play to wrong audio output, which would produce the same silence as first problem but restarting/ rebooting wouldn’t fix. Finally I’d realize and switch it back in control panel.
My (US) state DOT paved over the concrete highways with rubberized asphalt for similar reasons. The asphalt doesn’t last as long, but it’s quieter and cheaper than concrete repairs. It’s also something that uses up old tires.
Even though what you're saying is controversial I strongly agree with you. The number of time I had to Google things wrt is git is insane.

Unfortunately whenever somebody asks what could a better option there are generally no answers except keep at it and you'll get used to it.
It's worth noting that you are the author of RON :)
I have observed vastly different opinion of git among people for whom git was the first vs, and people who were using svn or cvs before. The former is mostly fond of git, and the latter highly critical, mostly I assume because the concepts don't map the same way.

While I myself think I am pretty familiar with git cli, I don't really use the cli anymore, since intellij covers all the features in a much more intuitive way. e.g staged edits, rebase.
> it has the upside of also running iOS apps natively

I've been thinking about this lately, and I wonder who the audience is. For example, I've had a Chromebook that can run Android apps for a while now, but I've never wanted to run them when the desktop equivalent is available. Even if a desktop equivalent is not available, it has the downside of not fitting in well with the look-and-feel and ergonomics of the desktop.

However, I think being able to run iOS apps natively is great for developers testing iOS/iPadOS apps.
No, "breaking up big tech" fits squarely into the left's anti-corporate narrative: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-tech-factbox...

> Biden slammed big tech companies in a January interview with the New York Times, saying he had “never been a fan of Facebook” and arguing that online platforms should not be allowed immunity for content posted by users.

> Warren is leading the charge to break up big tech companies on the grounds they hold outsized influence and stifle competition.

> Sanders, who frequently criticizes corporate influence, has also called for the breakup of big tech companies such as Facebook and Amazon.

Make no mistake, this isn't the Clintons' party anymore (or it won't be for much longer). The young blood hates business and corporations and is pulling the whole party in that direction.
>What do you mean, become autocratic/centralized/...or whatever other word you want to choose. That's a quick one way ticket to getting invaded and thrown out by the US government.

The US government has no problems with autocratic governments, in fact they have propped many in the past. No, if you don't agree with them in economic terms they will invade. And there are plenty of excuses to go around, not that anyone cares anymore really. Iraq was supposed to have chemical weapons and everyone disliked Bush for that, but with Obama the US is at war in multiple countries with no visible excuse.
Also, goes the other way round.
There's this software that one of my customers use called SAP Fieldglass. Fieldglass was a separate company and sold for $1B and it might be - and I'm not exaggerating - the worst software I've ever used, pretty much ever. But the reason is interesting. It's designed as enterprise compliance software and nobody enjoys using it. The enterprise managers hate it. The vendors hate it. The contractors hate it. The finance team hates it. I can't imagine anyone enjoyed writing it. The UI is unintuitive and self-discovery is practically impossible. It's so bad that companies have resorted to making Youtube videos on HOW to take repetitive actions inside the tool. The system is so anti-success that part of me wonders if this is done on purpose; to delay any kind of payments to vendors / etc.

The best part is it doesn't _do_ anything itself. It's just a workflow system for dispatching operations to different systems and teams. It will create an invoice in an existing finance tool. It will issue a ticket to create a physical badge, etc.

Anyway I think that's a massive opportunity, if that's what you're looking for.
My experience with the PPC transition was definitely not that. A 2004 PowerMac G5 lost basically all software support and required community involvement (the likes of tenfourfox) to even get a competent browser by around 2010. Snow Leopard released in 2009 and didn't support PPC Macs.

That said, I think the Intel transition will likely be slower. Apple has said they plan to keep releasing Intel Mac's and there's certain things (discrete GPU support?) that might motivate them to do so.

That and upgrade cycles on desktops/laptops have also slowed quite a bit in the last 15 years.
But in my brief attempt to answer my own question I only found pages detailing pico balloon launches from the UK.
eh? what OTP scheme is asymmetric?