skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Garmin Watch body battery. Was skeptical initially, but am surprised how well it works. It's a composite of sleep quality for gains (should recharge daily above 80 ideally) and physical stress, measured by heart rate variation, for losses.

Quasi-related to the body battery is minimal heart rate while sleeping (the watches automatic "resting" number is often higher, so I look at the chart). Relative to 2-week moving average it's a leading indicator of illness. I have nice charts for my recent covid and common cold, 1-2 days before the symptoms I could see unexplained (e.g. no drinks) higher levels. In absolute terms it correlates with endurance training and recovery after long training sessions (it goes lower with training in general, after a long session it is higher for 1-3 days, when it's back to low level it's full recovery, good time for further training).

Both help in simple decisions such as go to bed earlier, training intensity, whether evening coding session could be productive or better watch a movie, etc.

As a side note, it's funny how alcohol affects both metrics - same as illness + very low battery the next day. The metrics make me think twice and when both are bad it's better to skip drinking even if the context/schedule and subjective feelings are OK for it.
As a society we've largely dealt with the latter problem by deeming children less capable of making rational decisions, and therefore holding them to a different, lower level of responsibility for them. This can be observed particularly in how we punish them differently than we do adults for their misdeeds.
I'm curious as to what scanner /needs/ MacOS. I have yet to meet a scanner that VueScan doesn't support. I'm a mild free software zealot, VueScan is such a gem that I was more than happy to pay for it. (this comment not sponsored, really!)
> The most basic and important job for any government is so maintain a basic, minimum level of public safety. Without that, nothing else they do much matters.

Look, I agree that this is a problem - but I think it is laughable to suggest our current government doesn't provide this basic, minimum level.
You can invest in companies that make money though. There are lots of them chugging along just fine and providing returns, dividends even. The high flying meme stocks get majority of the attention, but they’re not the majority of the market.

It’s true they’ll get pulled down in a bear markets, but not nearly as much as meme stocks.
I wish it was before Unicode.
This is one of the reasons I am fiercely anti-immigration to the UK: there simply is not enough space left to accomodate more people here without a. smashing the remain biodiversity to pieces b. drastic impacts on the current human population's quality of life, as we are herded into pod cities to preserve the sad excuse for nature that's left or c. outright genocide, which sadly doesn't look that far away to me these days. Anyone that's pro-immigation needs to tell us which it will be. Personally I'm already planning to leave this country for good due to the overcrowding. I - like I suspect the majority of people in the country - never voted for mass migration, and indeed, there's clearly a globalist agenda that seeks to prevent the electorate being given a vote on this at all costs (see how completely insane they went over Brexit...). It's simply not a civilised way to live and not something I have any intention whatsoever of inflicting on my offspring.
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They would most likely be ERC-20 tokens built on the ethereum chain. So you inherit the security of the main chain.

Also, they don't necessarily need to be centralized. The currency could be run via a DAO and changes to the currency could be voted on.
Yes, very frustrating this. I totally agree that all ISO standards - in fact, all standards and all laws - should be freely available. Nothing else makes sense.
Yeah.... no. You'd think that giving the police video evidence of a theft would do something. It doesn't. On top of the fact that CCTV doesn't reduce crime rate really makes you question if we should be having this many cameras everywhere.
So if I'm a programmer, with basically no funding, is it possible to meet someone online and get them here? What's the minimum to get a foreign hire?
Nope, they may far longer than that when temperature-controlled (so, every car but two years of Leaf cars in Arizona). The only issue is new cars are so much better than earlier ones. They continue to work just fine.
Thinking about this purely from the perspective of SEO, does the domain still have backlinks pointing to it from that 2011 timeframe?

If yes, then the "age" of the domain shouldn't matter as much as the age of the backlinks.

So if the old links are still pointing to it, the newer domain age shouldn't matter - you should be good. I would use a pages report in a backlink analysis tool (I prefer Majestic, but I know there are others :)) and then pull up the Wayback Machine to see what kind of data it has on the domain. Then work on rebuilding the essential pages from there.
Thankfully I'm personally on the other side of this already (got my green card less than a year ago). With many jobs becoming fully remote, do you think it's still possible to offer relocation to employees through L-1s, O-1s and H-1Bs? On the one hand, it's hard to claim that they truly need to be in the States, but on the other hand, it could be important for the timezones to match (and it's an amazing employee benefit).

Obviously my question doesn't apply to in-office or hybrid positions, only to pure remote.
What do you mean crazy weird if statements? You can do one liners, or if you don't your indentation is similar to what you'd see in C++.

if condition: return expression
if condition: foo = value

or

if condition:
body statements
elif condition:
body statements
else:
body statements
Hello, just a heads up, your account is shadow banned.
It’s worth saying that it’s not to hard to train up to being able to do 100-200km rides with no electronic assist. At such distance, the weight saving is probably outweighing the battery and you can use the space in the frame can be used for luggage such as extra clothing.
At longer distances the ride limiting factor is comfort, not stamina / endurance - here the Ebike adds nothing
An infrastructure bill that has rider clauses in it that have nothing to do with infrastructure? Color me shocked! Why a bill that's worth 1 trillion dollars is allowed to even be signed in the first place should be abhorrent to anybody. With that amount of money involved, you're just ASKING for political bribing, back-door deals, etc. etc.

If you want infrastructure done properly, let the states handle it themselves - worry about interstate highways and commerce. The past two years of courier companies using highways/roads exclusively for delivery should be taxed to high heaven, but notice how that's not happening?

I can't wait for companies to implement more features in vehicles that will be done under the guise of "safety" but in reality will be used for oppression of rights and freedoms. What's that? Your breathalyzer in your car isn't working? Too bad, you can't drive, and now you have to pay to have it repaired on your dime! Notice how they're slowly making individual car ownership more and more expensive and harder to reach?

Don't worry though, we'll all be "safe"!
I think it would suffer from the gold problem though, where what you are buying is _interest_ in the underlying asset. So it peaks before the anticipated inflation, and then during the inflation it actually doesn't keep up as people offload it but don't buy more. Ex-
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/08/gold-as-an-inflation-hedge-h...
I work all the time in my private practice and really don't do much charitable work or work for the community so this is a small way of doing something. As a firm, we're also starting to do some pro bono asylum work but really not enough yet.
Ergonomic async depends on a smarter type system (GAT), and a lot of progress has been made on that.
Lean Manufacturing in Software Development with Ephemeral Environments
And it requires the exclusive use of very favourable terrain (for solar, which isn't available in many places) to provide what, 1/5th of what same sized nuclear facility could do (and that's me underplaying the capacity of the nuclear facility, it's even worse if you go for what's possible)
It's been a theory of mine that people wearing better masks ARE getting minuscule amounts of the virus and it preps their body differently than people that get it dumped on them.
It's a buzzword indistinguishable in purpose to VR with more ads and corporate endorsement [0].

[0] - Ask HN: How is the “metaverse” concept different from the Second Life boom?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29136478
Luckily both can be done without Microsoft, eh?
I read a book about Wilding recently that challenged the assumption that ancient landscapes were dominated by forests. In a fully unrestricted system, megafauna would be responsible for keeping the number of trees relatively low and certain not like the "closed canopy forest" that we all assume would be the default.

That is how it works now because there are very few large foraging animals in Europe today but to reintroduce them would also need the introduction of their natural predators to keep things in balance and most people are not keen on wild wolves or large cats!

I would be happier with knowing that the UK has "wild cover" rather than forests specifically but I suspect we score even worse on that!
> As a result we will put the tools in place to deal with other problems as well: corruption, mass poverty and so on. Humanity will emerge much stronger

I truly wish I shared this sentiment, but as long as the pain of COVID is not felt equally everywhere, there will be no resolution.
It is a resource. Decent, not so.
Their argument is that they can’t effect change if they’re not there. It doesn’t seem like they’re making much of an effort though. I do think they’ve had a passive effect on worker treatment.
If it's straight RPC there's no need for the extra moving parts, and the simpler your topology the fewer ways for it to go wrong.

I often build TPC based "protocols" that are just newline delimited json in each direction, it's a nice middle ground between using an HTTP POST and something like gRPC.
So your conclusion is that black people should be killed more often by police because black people are convicted more often when looking at percentages by race?
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> How complex are the actual charging "pumps"?

150 kW per supercharger.

So your typical 8-pod supercharger needs to supply 1.2 MW, or roughly the same amount of power as 1000-typical US homes. EDIT: And now to build a thick enough cable that is weather-proofed and idiot-proof, so that no one kills themselves touching that wire... in all weather conditions (hot, cold, rain, snow, sleet), and... yeah... its actually kinda scary if you think about it.

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Yeah, in terms of "MW of fuel delivered per second", a gas station pumping gasoline is surprisingly efficient and simple. Doing it purely electrically, even at a much slower rate (30 minute charge times) is surprisingly complex.
The "spam parcels" from review-brushing scams have negative externalities, yes; but, unlike regular spam, these spam parcels don't make up the majority (or even a non-negligible minority) of Amazon deliveries. So, on net, a random abandoned parcel pallet is going to have net-positive ROI to whoever claims it. Probably highly net-positive ROI.

(Compare: the liquidation stores that run entirely off of a business model of buying Amazon returns lots, tossing out the broken crap, and selling the rest. Those stores make a profit, and they're receiving pallets where half the stuff is unusuable. If they were receiving pallets where everything is new from the warehouse [valuable or not], they'd likely cry for joy.)

Remember, whoever gets this stuff doesn't have to personally have a use for it. They could just call up their local charitable thrift store to drive over and pick up the whole lot, if they wanted. But that's still net-positive ROI — they get a warm feeling of having donated a bunch of stuff; and the charitable thrift store gets a lot of free stock that they know how to resell, to turn into money for their charity; and a bunch of people who each wanted one particular thing, can now find it at that thrift store for much less than they would have paid for it on Amazon. It's exactly the same as if Amazon donated a bunch of random crap directly to the charitable thrift store, save for the necessity of making one phone call, and the possibility of the caller skimming whatever nice items they like off the top before they make that call.
GP is talking about hypothetical flow batteries, not vehicles in production.
Lot of people want old trucks now as many are used for work vehicles/beaten to death, the really premium examples appreciate more. I live in a dry climate so I dont have to worry about rust, really just UV damage. Problem is I dont really want to own a field of trucks, just looking for hedges.
I don't think this is a meaningful comparison because they are not interchangeable and they exist independently of each other. The large footprint of farmland and roads doesn't make solar appealing in comparison, it just means that other facets of civilization are worse in terms of land use. To me, at least, just because something is way worse does not mean the other thing is acceptable because of it.

I also believe the amount of land we would need to convert to solar would be mostly be newly developed land. We probably wouldn't be converting already productive and utilized land.
Cynically: Money. Lots and lots of money.

Practically: It’s likely difficult to shirk them if you manufacture most of your products there.

Optimistically: By being there they try to push privacy etc. further than other companies, even if it’s weak compared to elsewhere.

For more, see e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/technology/apple-china-ce...
What he is referring to _could_ mean aliasing, where n^2 pixels that can't be accurately represented are merged into m^2 pixels of average colors and values, where m<n.

Still a stretch, and quite a big one at that, so its probably not it.

In what context did this show up in the Rittenhouse trial?
It's always been the global functions in Python that put me off. My brain just doesn't think like that. When I want the length of an array, I look for a method on the array. Same with map, and anything else.

That said... pretty small gripe in the grand scheme (no pun intended, maybe) of things. When I've written projects in Python, I've enjoyed it.
> intensive purposes
> What

Just checking the resident Grammar Police Officer is awake and not eating doughnuts. ;-)
There is but there are limits on what he can do and unfortunately other than not getting paid by the side business the limits aren't very clear. If he's interested, he should speak with someone so that he doesn't cross any lines.
DC does not have a light rail system outside of the small H street project.

I grew up in DC and a classmate of mine murdered somebody on the Metro, so it is certainly not all smiles and roses.

I agree it is much worse on the West coast.
Disclaimer: am Googler.

Self-hosting is a good option, especially when mixed with multi-cloud offerings.

The big rub is that it's really hard to approach the same level of availability the cloud offerings already give you. Depending on work-load, self-hosting is typically more expensive.

This is why the SRE book talks about availability budget. You can't have 100% uptime, so how much do you want to pay to get close to it?
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The big questions about Covid-19 booster shots
Because it's an American company and the U.S. itself has not been that innocent of a country?
This is a UX problem, which can be solved by not showing the exact rating, but showing a "rating score" which is the Wilson score.
Not a rubyist, but I love that collect() made it into Rust, too. I feel like it takes the role that generators have in Python, but is much easier to reason about in terms of the control flow and what data is being passed where.
'Nerf' is a term used for when game developers update a game and reduce the effectiveness of something. 'My sword attack ability was nerfed in the latest patch'. In this context I suppose the API capabilities was reduced in browser updates.
These are quite minor and (IMO) verging on acceptable.

Try someone shouting in your face about how they're going to kill you and your family and that is closer to the experiences I've had with BART and homelessness.
> Now consider that only a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of seawater is easily accessible.

Not saying it’s an economically realistic idea, but on the topic of availability of seawater it seems like you’d just need to set up your pumping station in a location with a persistent oceanic current, filter upstream and discharge downstream, and you’d be set for thousands of years. The Straight of Gibraltar seems like a good candidate, since the large surface evaporation of the Mediterranean Sea and the comparatively small amount of water it receives from rivers means that there is a permanent current through the straight. (The Mediterranean Sea would evaporate away in about a thousand years without the Straight.)

This also makes me wonder if seawater uranium concentration in the Mediterranean Sea is much higher than elsewhere. The current has been in place bringing in seawater and evaporating off the water, leaving behind all non-evaporable minerals, for over 5 million years, and the Mediterranean Sea is much saltier than the ocean in general, suggesting that uranium concentration would also be substantially elevated.
I always wondered if this is US specific. In Europe, as far as I know, the package would simply be delivered by the neighbor, they return the next day, or you have to get it from the local convenience store or some centralized lock-box.
Chrome destroys the battery on my laptop and is basically spyware these days, the Chrome-alikes are all dreadful - Vivaldi has the jankiest UI ever, Brave is unbearably sluggish, Edge runs processes that I didn't ask for like Microsoft Updater that bugs me constantly and spams the new tab screen with all sorts of low rent junk that I can't remove.

Firefox is my developing browser and I do really like it, but Safari my actual browsing browser because it's by far the best browsing browser on Macs.
Tangentially related: I wish more protocols used netstrings [0] as transport. This would trivially eliminate a whole class of bugs that are all too easy to commit, especially in low-level languages.

[0]: https://cr.yp.to/proto/netstrings.txt
I've been a Python developer for twenty years, I'm sure those things are bound to happen at some point but haven't yet.
I've often wondered how effective a large induction loop would be in tapping power off of transmisison lines.
That is the main issue of the problem, but not the focus of the article. The focus of the article is "we shouldn't catch thieves on our property because they're homeless and probably black." I don't know how someone lacks the self awareness to internalize such a viewpoint but apparently these people are out there.
Privacy at the very top is extraordinarily expensive. It's extraordinarily inexpensive at the very bottom.

It's dramatically easier to disappear in terms of privacy if you're poor than if you're in the middle class.

You're not going to show up in stores as often (less surveillence footage, less facial recognition). You're not as likely to own or use a smartphone, which means no device in your pocket tracking you everywhere. You're far less likely to utilize Uber type services, Instacart, et al. You're far less likely to own a credit card, and more likely to use cash; which means a far smaller purchase history/footprint to profile you with. You're far less likely to often use the Internet, which means a smaller online footprint; that also goes for social media. You're less likely to own various smart devices that will spy on you. You're far less likely to own real-estate or businesses, which often show up on public records at some point. You're less likely to have various entertainment subscriptions (Amazon Prime, Netflix, Disney+, cable, and so on), which again reduces your footprint vs most everybody else. Your job requirements are typically far lower and far less connected, leaving a smaller footprint (no zoom meetings, no zillions of digital profiles, no linkedin, no networking, no slack, no conferences, and on and on).

If you don't have purchasing power, the privacy invading fiends in the commercial sphere mostly don't care if you exist or not. They are not motivated to go out of their way to track you. You don't count, you don't show up in their numbers. Think of the numerous services (Kroger or Walgreens cards; Peloton; eBay, Etsy, PayPal, Coinbase, brokerage accounts; Apple services; and 400 others) the middle class and above sign on to, and how they get tracked by them regularly.

Politically you also matter a lot less, because you're far less likely to vote if you're poor vs middle class and above. So you're tracked, profiled and contacted far less often by the political machine. And you have no money to give them, so they care that much less about keeping tabs on you.
The "API" header is a freaking pizza emoji. WTF?
How is someone talking to you to ask for money different from them grabbing you?

C'mon.
It shouldn’t matter too much.

Xero or Quickbooks Online should work fine. If you ever outgrow them you can always migrate your data to another system.

The main difference specific to SAAS is accounting for deferred revenue. You can always hook up something like Chargebee to Xero to get better reporting in that regard.
Gauss complained about the name too. He suggested using "Direct, inverse and lateral numbers" instead of "positive, negative and imaginary numbers".

Imaginary numbers are not pairs. Complex numbers are. Continuing Gauss, I'd rename "complex numbers" as "planar numbers".
There's some variation depending on the visa classification but yes, an employee could qualify for a visa even if the job is fully remote. But the employer must be a US company with US operations.
Nuclear waste has appropriate and functional solutions on those time scales in deep geologic repositories. Finland is the leader here [1].

Compared with combustion waste from fossil and biofuel which kills ~8 million people every year and causes climate change, I have to say that the nuclear waste is dramatically better for the present and for the future.

[1] https://posiva.fi/
As I understand it its just a way of building a generic service using the Redis protocols instead of HTTP. For example if you have a microservice architecture where services currently communicate over HTTP, you could potentially replace it with the Redis protocol. What I don't understand is how it compares to other rpc protocol formats (e.g. protocolbuffers).
Hey Peter! Thank you tons for your contributions here!

I'm an Indian in the US on an H1B visa and working in software. I've also made a product for fun on weekends (which my company knows about and approves of).

I was thinking of opening access to it for the world, but as it'll involve substantial costs on (cloud) infrastructure, I'll have to ask people to pay for usage on it. I don't plan to profit from this in any way right now. People will mostly pay for their share of usage.

From some rough googling (oh, no!), it seems like this wouldn't work under the rules of the H1B as it'd be considered unauthorized work. Is there any legitimate way of giving people access to this without having to also just pay for all the infrastructure myself?

Also would it be fine to just release it for free?
But nearest neighbors interpolation would be quick on a gpu, right?