skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There have been some wearables coming on the market claiming to measure blood pressure. Family member got one. Unfortunately it turns out to be so inaccurate that it created more stress for them out of frequently seeing alarming numbers.

I wonder if blood pressure readout is one of those things like Theranos' assays from one drop of blood - not possible due to physics. It certainly is less obviously so.
Which ones? There are only two public companies that currently make a profit that I'm aware of: dropbox and coinbase. I don't really pay much attention, but that's all I can think of at the moment.
You can set up sleep timings in the watch app on iPhone and the watch will automatically enter sleep mode in that range. It’ll mute notifications etc. as well, and give you a sweet notification on your iPhone when it’s done charging.
Could you give some examples of some Russian words that are more enduring than English words? I've always been fascinated by this.
I was born with a deviated septum and for the first 15 years of my life I just assumed breathing through one’s mouth was normal and the nose was just for smelling things. After surgery I started breathing through my nose without conscious thought for the first time.
old IRC way of typing))))
From Earth's POV - the message is sent at 10 of Earth time which is 6 of the ship's time from the Earth's POV, the reply sent and received immediately at 6 of the ship's time which is 10 of the Earth time from the Earth POV.
Here's more on the theme from Andreas[1]:

> SerenityOS does not have nightly builds or ISO images.

> This is a simple proof-of-work system designed to prevent low-quality bug reports and tire-kicking.

> The build is completely scripted and can be performed by anyone familiar with the command line. [Smiling Face with Smiling Eyes emoji][Lady Beetle emoji]

[1] https://twitter.com/awesomekling/status/1241306104572923904
Or, something more Roman, lead!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead(II)_acetate
> How much food and what quality? Do I get to ask for tomahawk steaks every meal and an extra one to bring home to my dog?

You would get rice, lentils, beans, vegetables, grains, etc. The raw food ingredients to live a healthy lifestyle.

Nobody on this type of welfare would be entitled to “luxury food”.

> For housing, do you get to decide where you live?

This would be the toughest part of implementing this system, I think. Managing the demand for welfare housing on the regional level. Ideally you would just move to one of the several social housing complexes in your city, but managing capacity would be tough since it can take years to build new accommodations.
A friend of mine who had lived in the USA long enough to pick up some local traits had to go back to Russia to renew his expiring documents.
One required a fresh photo to be taken. The guy who was readily available next door for the occasion felt a bit uneasy about doing his job.
After several discarded takes he finally figured it out: "Stop stretching your lips!".

[-1] Not the right time to smile
https://www.svoboda.org/a/28088763.html
I think Elon Musk would be a far better CEO is there was someone more technical reigning in his promises.

Promising to deliver a large battery to Australia's power grid on short notice, over Twitter? Sure. That's great, it's straightforward technology and the use case had been designed. Batteries plot down where lever and can just be weird.

Boring holes through earth? Sure straightforward enough. But when it comes to moving large numbers of people efficiently, thats not trivial at all. And even the idea of falling back to cars is preposterous. Cars are not even in the same league as trains, and dropping them in is serious amateur hour. Putting a bunch of small-capacity, wheeled, vehicles that load awkwardly through the tunnel? Disaster.
It can also be used to mutate hard game state (I wouldn't try it with dynamic, interpolated values like object position, angle, acceleration, or velocity.)

There are many other methods, some are more precise and compressible than others:

Trailing State Synchronization

https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~krasic/cpsc538a/summaries/38/

Basic ideas

https://www.gafferongames.com/post/state_synchronization/

https://engineering.monstar-lab.com/2021/02/09/Game-server-S...

https://www.gabrielgambetta.com/client-side-prediction-serve...
I appreciate the fact you said this and find it ironic you are being downvoted for this heresy!
How reasonable it is for the bulldozers to be remotely controlled?

EDIT: Hah... just reached the 9:50 mark where they mention just that
At a certain point there’s nothing left to spend it on, and they use the money to make more money.

In my opinion all billionaires are sociopaths. I think it’s necessary to be one in order to become one, and most definitely to stay one. If you think “yeah I am the best person to manage this wealth”, then you’re already putting yourself over society. That they can look at the state of the world, and double down on personal wealth, makes it even clearer.
Switch to another company. For example why do you need a big bank? Unless you are a big company yourself small financial institutions will provide all the services you need.
A better SoC usually means better power efficiency, where the speed means it can get through tasks faster under the same wattage, so it helps battery life.
Thanks, makes sense
> Digital information can't really be stolen

That's not completely true. Generally, most ways you can "steal" data are illegal in their own right. Examples include computer fraud and wire fraud.

The Computer Fraid and Abuse act does actually detail punishment for the trafficking of passwords but said trafficking must be done knowingly and with an intent to defraud, so this specific usage would probably be fine
Unless you are playing on console, almost nothing is p2p in gaming (Due to cheaters). The server has to simulate the entire "world", and as I understand it, the problem becomes when you have one server instance simulating a world for 100s of players.

The said, FTA I think people are focusing on the wrong side of aisle. From what I understand, I don't think anything they said is impossible; it just seems like the team is very inexperienced and MMOs are incredibly complex and given how few MMO developers there are (MMOs are popular, but they aren't diverse) they might have bit off more than can chew. I'm really not seeing how what they are trying to do is anymore complicated than Fortnite or Minecraft from a backend standpoint (I'm very green to game programming)
Wrangling the Embedded Controller: Adventures in Power Sequencing
I was aware it was in Safari Technology Preview, but I wouldn't really count a feature in a beta release as being available. And who knows when it will be available on iOS.
Not really a fan of using binaries I cannot myself compile on NetBSD (i.e., non-portable code that only compiles on Windows/MacOS/Linux). No doubt the provided binaries will work, but I want to compile crt.S and ape.S myself on a NetBSD host.

Have not looked at it closely but is the "unbourne" shell more or less a copy of NetBSD's Almquist shell. Would be neat to use an Almquist-derived shell with command history on Linux.

From what I have seen of other OS, attracting "further interest" is not always a good thing. Depends on whose interest it attracts. The negative side effects of popularity, to me, are not always worth it. The Linux kernel is said to get an additional 1.5 million LOC per year. Of course it can be trimmed down (even smaller than NetBSD's), but still. The fewer cooks in the kitchen the better, IMO.
Portland cement has a significantly worse environmental footprint than wood. One removes carbon from the atmosphere while the other releases it.
Using one vs two hands is a huge difference in convenience. I think this is the best version I've ever heard.
The Power of Nothing
> Most of the Apple Watch health features are blocked in Australia because they were literally too lazy to submit the paperwork to the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA)!

Why duplicate all the work done by the FDA? Just use their certificate. Save the taxpayer some money.
Electors.
Yes, certainly for heavy congestion. However, for marginal cases, there might be some body adaptation made to help with efforts at nose breathing. .. Nestor avoids giving specific recommendations, given individual variations and needs. But the research seems to point to: there is a lot going on. For example, apparently the nose contains erectile tissue, perhaps helping explain how one can cycle between now one nostril being easier to breathe through, later the other. .. My very limited experience, living where I would usually call myself "always congested," is that given a little effort/intent at nose breathing, I now sense that my congestion is consistently less than before. (But N<1 as evidence, since there could be some seasonal change as well.)
If only self-funded moonshot businesses were a status symbol, like pearls or big yachts.
Working from Home Has Benefits Some Don't Want to Lose
Like Madonna.
The whole article is viewing things through some heavily tinted glasses.

1. Apple was early - Nope, Apple came late to the party, years after first movers were there.

2. Voice computing distraction - Again, nope. Amazon Echo devices and Google Home devices are HUGE. Headphones and earbugs come with Alexa and google Assistant integration. Apple tries with Siri but it's consistently far behind Amazon and Google there.

3. Wearables require design expertise. It’s not enough to just throw together some leftover smartphone components and ship wearables. -- Yet, that's what Apple did with the first gen of Apple watch. Gen 1 was also dead in three years. Gen 1 was a pilot project.

4. Ecosystem and technology advantage. - These are Apple advantages, but not ten year leads.

5. No price and feature umbrellas under Apple. - Well, there are a lot of people still wondering what utility they have aside from a few "health" measures. I personally don't care about my heartrate all day, nor my steps, or a bad idea of calories burned. I don't need to monitor my O2 levels, nor get instant EKGs. I personally stuggle to see the point of smart watches. Notifications? I can see them on the phone screen, it's just as easy for me to look at it. Music controls? If I'm in the car the controls are on my steering wheel. At home I just say "Alexa, stop" or whatever. When I have headphones/earbugs in? I can tap the button on my headphones just as easily as I can tap my watch. What else would I use it for?

There certain is a price umbrella, too, because you have to have an iPhone and be bought into that ecosystem.
Could be a fun fiction book or movie at least. :)
China maintains 'artificial sun' at 120M Celsius for over 100 seconds
Yes, smart watches haven’t advanced as much as I thought they would.

Apple needs competition. They wouldn’t make large screen iPhones until Android started winning, for example.

Hopefully we get there. There’s a lot of promise in wearables:

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2020/12/smartwatch-ca...
I don’t know, perhaps this is how alliances form. Both the 99% and the 1% are getting screwed by the 0.01% - team up.
11 GB of old conversations?

The Bible contains about 3.5 million characters and an average Bible weighs about 500 grams. 11 GB of conversations would then be about 1.5 tons of Bibles.
sometimes people (the CEO and COO, here) pretend you (the CTO, here) are a bad person so that they don't feel bad about how they're treating you.

that's why all the nonsense badmouthing was happening and why it was so sudden and allegedly not based in reality. they had to do that in order to justify to themselves that taking CTO's shares was valid.

humans are piles of shit, as a species. we really don't deserve to last, in my opinion.
260g https://www.apple.com/uk/shop/product/MXJA2ZM/A/beats-studio...
I remember when Google announced they were bringing fiber to Austin suddenly AT&T decided it was worth making an effort to compete for business...
I am the same way, I first realized when I was talking to foreign tourists on the bus in Disney world and my parents yelled at me for mimicking their accent. I was like 8 or 9
You can do quite a bit more than "toy apps" on an iPad. Photoshop and 4k video editing come to mind.
Yea, I noticed east/west coast friendships are different too.

Friendships are a bit stronger on the east coast.

At least from my perspective in California.
There are also today many accents and dialects in Britain. To my ear some US accents sound similar to Bristol and some Scottish accents but not at all like an English RP or London accents.
Fair enough but they would have to change out the Apple design language. I find it odd that we seem to assume Apple would do this for a headset and not headphones though.
Section 5. You have to actually read the article.
Are you never grateful to your coworkers for all the things they do that make your life easier? And you aren't even there to see the things you do for your customer that make their life easier. If you got hired and it wasn't because someone made a law you had to be hired, you're probably doing something pretty consequential.
While hovering over the comment, press Alt+F4 on your keyboard.
without regulation, perhaps. But no ism is pure, and needs countervailing forces, such as government in the case of capitalism.
Legally binding on themselves?

Different countries work different ways, but legislatures can’t force future legislatures hands like that.

For example, many NATO countries have a legal obligation to spend a certain amount of their GDP on defense. But they don’t.

Courts aren’t stepping in - nor should they.
Making a Perforce Server with Docker
iMessage is backwards compatible with older devices. This means Apple can’t stop supporting old versions of the protocol, even as they are “cracked”.
Smartphones are life changing! They freed me to travel anywhere (GPS), to take my pills on schedule, to Google what to do in emergencies. I bet each smartphone adds more quality to people's lives than the one who dies loses.
I had an Android smartwatch years before Apple even came out with one. Typical Apple reality distortion field in effect.
I'm curious what exactly distinguishes the "AI supercomputer" category from whatever the rest of the TOP500 are.

Perlmutter's 120 petaflops peak would place it very favorably in TOP500's rankings, within the top five – if these flops aren't apples-to-oranges with what those rankings measure. Can anyone shed more light on the distinctions involved?
Why those eight teenagers and nun specifically? Will they get a large say in the process than anyone else?
Please see [1], which has before-and-after plots (page 18) that appear to match up with the differences you're seeing and describes why those adjustments were made (section 4, on page 3). For example, it fixes biases that resulted from different time-of-day for measurements, stations moving their thermometer locations over time, and a couple others.

One thing that doesn't perfectly match up is that the peak in the 1930s of the before-adjustment plot in [1] doesn't go quite as high as Fig 6 of the 1999 paper, but it does seem to match Plate A2, so I would assume it is a difference of using calendar years vs meteorological years (section A2 of the 1999 paper).

Regarding your broader point: I think skepticism is great; asking questions is how we learn new things, after all. But it's not so great to assume that climate science must be wrong (or a political narrative) just because you found something that doesn't immediately make sense. Often it simply means climate scientists know something we don't.

Also, since you mentioned concern about financial conflicts of interest, I'd encourage you to consider that the anti-climate-change narrative is just as (if not more) susceptible to those. Fossil fuels are big business.

[1] https://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/2001/2001_Hansen_ha02300a.pd...
Use https://feedbackassistant.apple.com/ instead, it has a mildly better chance of being read.
I’m always struck by how, apart from the desirable locales, the homes of the wealthy are pretty much the same as normal houses (just nicer/bigger). Mansion fit for a king… but the 2x4’s and wall sockets and vanity might have all come from Home Depot. Same cracking pavement, mold, drafts, etc.

It’s all very nice of course. But here are the richest people on the planet, by grotesque margins, and all that gets is more square feet and a nice site?
Apple doesn't provide this GPS trace to you unlike Google, but they do use it internally for Apple Maps. One tactic I heard from Apple Maps people in Austin was determining business hours based on when iPhone traces started showing up or left a particular location.

Apple started providing much better GPS hardware in iPhones after they got serious about Apple Maps, as the quality of their maps is directly controlled by the data they get (GPS traces from users to determine what new points of interest are, stale data bought from vendors that is then integrated into the base layer, etc)
The Bible doesn’t contain pictures and video.
Venmo leaked Joe Biden’s friends, but you can now keep yours a secret
Do this for products and get that referal $$$. This week I tried to find good cover case for Iphone and currently with google it is almost imbosible.
YC didn’t fund installmonetizer! They funded the next venture from the people behind installmonetizer, who then proceeded to say “we’re funded by YC” on their about us page.
Hey don’t knock. I recently found myself trapped in a bureaucratic hellscape that literally drove me to tears.

One to my Senator and it all instantly vanished.
Webkit family actually should be called KHTML family.
There was a similar, or same study published by Nature I saw here a few weeks ago.

I would have happily skipped the second Pfizer shot if the CDC said it was ok.
Talking to the Diamond Hands
If you are referring to Google Play services, there may be some confusion. This is not the Google Play Store app, rather Google Play services acts as a service provider for other apps you have installed on your device.

https://android.stackexchange.com/tags/google-play-services/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Any_sufficiently_...
> About 20 people I met from twitter have been over my house (for dinner, etc) at different times.

I think this would be considered extremely out of the norm. Your experiences with Twitter are definitely not typical.
Sorry for the late response, dunno if you'll see this. I'm not a developer so the heaviest program I use is a photoshop-alike, which still runs just fine (or at least if it lags, I don't notice...)
Although I've never really used it, I always conceptually preferred the Twitter everything-is-public model over the Facebook faux-privacy model. For two reasons:

1. It's more honest. With Facebook, you are given the illusion of sharing information only with your friends, but it's actually ...with your friends, and Facebook, and anyone Facebook chooses to share it with. Cambridge Analytica being the highest profile example. When you tweet, the expectation is that whatever you said is now On The Internet, a matter of permanent record.

2. It opposes the network effect. Twitter doesn't force me to create an account in order to view a tweet. Or, from the other perspective, if I post on Twitter, I'm not requiring anyone who wants to read my stuff to sign up as well. It's closer to a microblogging platform.
The Super Rich Are Choosing Singapore as the Safest Haven
This is honestly not worth debate. It's like arguing about having kids (whether pro or con) with people who don't have kids. There is no way to have the experience of lisp without being an experienced lisp hacker.
From the article:

>Singapore has long been a draw for wealthy Chinese, Indonesians and Malaysians who would come for short trips to shop, play baccarat at the casino or get medical check-ups at world-class clinics. Mount Elizabeth Hospital Orchard, just steps from the flagship stores of Gucci and Rolex, features a UOB Privilege Banking Centre in the lobby.

>The pandemic has changed all that, prompting many tycoons and their families to stay for months, in some cases seeking residency to ride out the storm. On a per capita basis, the mortality rates in Malaysia and Indonesia are more than 10 and 30 times higher than in Singapore, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University.
I'm have to sort of disagree, not a decade but easily half a decade lead. Source: I worked in this space years ago with what was, at the time, the leader in the space, and remember how many of my coworkers laughed at the Apple Watch unveil. Now Apple is the one laughing with a girthy, multibillion dollar schadenfreude.

Apple has leads in silicon and cross-platform integration which is inarguably led to a better user experience, extended battery life, and smaller form factor. Try piecing together an Airpods Pro grade product with 'off-the-shelf' parts and half the firmware engineers.

Apple has orders of magnitude greater scale through their supply chain, and a real clincher: technological mastery of material science; from CNC milled aluminum to tooling for high grade plastic resin, and can shoulder out competitors from even touching the raw material once they've even realized they need it.

Apple has solid brand cachet, which drives loyalty which drives revenue.

Apple has (last I checked) the highest revenue/sq. foot retail space in the world. Yes, the rest of retail is dying, but Apple controls the image, experience, support, and purchasing of all it's own products. Check out an Apple store on a Friday night in the Bay Area, it's incredible how packed they are.

Arguably the most difficult thing for competitors to copy is the culture of industrial design and UX prioritization backed by engineering. Every other major competitor in their spaces shamelessly copies the externals without the same cohesion and mastery of internals -- it's embarrassing frankly (checkout the Oppo 'Enco X' earbud site, it's a poorly made rip off of the Airpods site).

I don't own any Apple products, and I don't endorse their labor practices, but I respect their brand, products, and patience in releasing GOOD things at the right time. Consumers do too, judging by revenue.

Apple's weakness is now their precarious position in bed with China, which will take decades to undo.
Tesla Will Have to Ship Its Texas-Built Cars Out of State to Sell Back to Texans
‘Superman’ Forced to Surrender Crypto in ATM Laundering Bust
The media has always been talking about the 1%, and showed statistics in that regard as well.

If you were part of the mega-rich elite, isn't that a convenient narrative you'd want to push? "Watch out regular wealthy folks, they're coming for your cash!" Just like how rich people are always very concerned about how tax rises will affect the working population.
Thank you for reformatting this
Why Did So Many Victorians Try to Speak with the Dead?
There really isn't any weekly obligations when I went through, other than a dinner weekly. You met with the partners as much as you liked. At Demo Day, there were folks in 2011 with no product, someone even pivoted the day before demo day and just had an idea on a powerpoint. Some of the folks went on to build very successful businesses. So the lack of demo day progress in of itself doesn't mean too much i think. The other points might though, to be fair.
When necessary or simply appropriate I too can downshift into the Texas vernacular...
/s ...
Very good advice
Do you suggest the use of vpns and adblockers

If so, which ones do you suggest
Hehe there's a flash flood warning for the next two hours, fingers crossed...