skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am an enthusiast for Garmin smart watches and bands, even if I think the heart rate monitoring and pulse ox is less than perfect. (Sometimes the pulse ox reads around 82% around 10 pm at night when I am awake, certainly not experiencing sleep apnea, and not struggling to breathe or feeling any distress.)

Garmin devices measure stress based on HRV. When I look at the numbers in real time I think they are often accurate but I see my lowest stress levels when I am having a lazy weekend where I feel really low energy (certainly not 'great'.)

If I look at my charts of stress over the day the notable thing is that there are gaps: yesterday 7 hours of of 24 were gaps, all during the waking hours.

I don't find the stress readings averaged over a long period of time (weeks, months) to be meaningful.

Still I like having a slim timepiece, making GPS tracks, heart rate monitoring, step count, music, etc. You can get great deals at

https://g.factoryoutletstore.com/

Having tried a few I have a preference for the Vivosmart bands and the Vicoactive watch. I am wearing a Vivosport right now and like it the least of the bunch mostly because despite a nice color screen the U.I. is not so good. (Sometimes it's hard to navigate away from whatever screen it is on to see the time.)
Salespeople nowadays are basically recruited from the same pool as Uber Eats delivery people. They don't care about what they sell, they just want to make it to the end of the month.
I'd love to see those stats!

I think the conventionally accepted stats for mainstream social media is that 10% of the users account for 80% of the content, or something similar to that?

I don't know if HN has ever published these kinds of stats but it would be interesting to see.
Simpson’s paradox is fascinating. If the result above does not seem intuitive, think of an extremely simplified version: imagine that half of everyone in their 50’s is vaxxed and no one on their 20’s is. Next imagine that of 1000 people in their 50’s, 100 of 500 vaxxed people die from non-covid sources, 100 of 500 unvaxxed people die from non-covid sources, plus 50 unvaxxed people in their 50’s die from covid and no vaxxed people do. And imagine that 0 out of 2000 people in their 20’s die from anything.

150 out of 2500 unvaxxed deaths in 18-59

100 out of 500 vaxxed deaths in 18-59 (higher rate)

But: 150 of 500 unvaxxed deaths in 50-59

100 of 500 vaxxed deaths in 50-59 (lower rate)

It would be true that more vaxxed people died than unvaxxed in the 18-59 age group without the vaccine causing any death, but only because the larger number of surviving young people swamps the higher relative death rates among the higher relative vaxxed elderly.
No one denies that. The article argues that current "attention economy" tech is actively making this harder or even impossible.
Great tip, thanks. Funny how much i used to do google dorks (that got introduce to me in a college course), but overtime i completely forgot about them.

About the risk though: it's happened already. Remember the "to find any book free online just do "filetype:pdf book-name"" tips that were popular online a while ago? Now it's all just PDFs on public google drives with tons of book names and a single link leading to some sketchy site.
Why does the workout require motivation? You don't need motivation to eat or sleep. Surely you've experienced the negative consequences of a sedentary lifestyle: getting winded, needing help to move heavy objects, injuring yourself more frequently. If you have children, being unable to physically keep up with them. Health and strength are as important as feeding yourself and getting rest.

Strength training is functional: the thing you are building is strength within your own body. Programs often focus on just a handful of core exercises (squat, press, deadlift). They're the opposite of crossfit, and you can find gyms and trainers that will help you focus on your form in the way you want, without the shouting and peer pressure.

Rowing can be similar, and also a full-body workout, and lower impact on your joints if your form is correct.

It took me 6-9 months to not resent going to the gym three days a week. It's not fun, it's work, it's effort, it's an obligation for my health and wellbeing.
Google have found a sweet spot where their search results are almost correct but still insufficient.

That "near-correctness" ensures you don't lose hope of finding what you are looking for, so you keep reading result after result. And most of those sites are conveniently loaded with ads, sold by guess which company - Google!

Eventually, pagerank cashes out, and you find what you are looking for. You receive a much needed endorphin kick, and you go on with your day. Rinse and repeat.
Noted - thanks!
I hope they'd have a human complaints department too, for when (a real) business is upset
Just reading up on Hayabusa and Hayabusa2, and the NASA's OSIRIS-REx. They all targeted large (~1km) Apollo group asteroids (Itokawa, Ryugu, Bennu respectively).

The asteroid that has had the highest probability of collision with Earth (1950 DA) was also an ~1km Apollo group asteroid, and Apollo asteroids are the source of almost all of the known Potentially Hazardous Objects for Earth.

The stated objectives for these missions is basic science, such as understanding the proto-planetary conditions of our solar system. That makes sense and also near-Earth asteroids are practical targets for missions!

But it seems likely to me that someone is also building profiles for interception, should we need it. So it's curious that hazard profiling isn't mentioned in the objectives for these missions (not that I can find.. correction appreciated!) That makes me wonder if there's something else out there not being talked about. And Osiris Rex would be King God of the Dead... shrug, nothing to see here ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSIRIS-REx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_asteroid
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/25143_Itokawa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/162173_Ryugu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/101955_Bennu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(29075)_1950_DA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potentially_hazardous_object#L...
https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/lists/PHACloseApp.html
https://www.isas.jaxa.jp/e/snews/2006/0602.shtml
A much simpler explanation is that this is a side effect of the pandemic itself.

The timing of the vaccine roll out is of course related to the timing of the pandemic. So it's expected that we would see some loose correlation in timing between the different events related to the pandemic.

Things such as increase in mental issues and increased drug consumption due to loneliness, lack of medical care due to overflowed hospitals or loss of income etc. all took time to build up once the pandemic started.
Just as it took time to manufacture and distribute a vaccine once the pandemic started.
https://techcrunch.com/2015/02/01/the-saas-travel-adventure/

There is more recent content written on this framework - Google for T2D3.
Have you looked at Open Board (https://openboard.ch/index.en.html)? I've just started playing with it and I _think_ it has all of those features.

But I agree. I've been looking for a whiteboarding program that I can use on my iPad and display on my desktop/external display (which, since they're more than five years old, are scrap AFA Apple is concerned).
> nails are more likely to pull out

That's why you toe nail in opposite directions, giving you the best of both worlds.
If elderly people are not in the data set, why are they mentioned at all?
Microcenter blows Amazon out of the water. Selection is rediculous.
> It's not as though the UK will be holding out a begging bowl because the EU decides to be difficult.

Oh, so it was the EU that decided to change the status quo ante?
Companies are adapting to this too - marketers are increasingly purchasing or grooming high-rep accounts for astroturfing select subreddits related to company products
Anyone building mass drivers on the moon is going to bring up anti-satellite missiles along with other point defense (“anti-meteroid”) systems and sky-facing telescopes and radars on the first mission.

Several of these components are necessary even for a peaceful research base.
A handful of prehistoric geniuses launched humanity's technological revolution
What do you mean debunked? It was NOT debunked. In fact, it has just recently been confirmed. Please, see this research paper - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01630-0.pdf – for men <40, dose 2 and dose 3 of Pfizer have more myocarditis than sars-cov-2 infection, and this is true for dose 1 and dose 2 of Moderna. Also, Pfizer boosters (Dose 3) have more myocarditis for men <40 than infection.
What is the difference for you? I get "happy family" stock photos of either all white or all black skin color for both queries. The only difference is that there are like 10x more "happy black family" hits.
What data are you citing?

There's official data showing the opposite (I personally checked each data point in that graph): https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/vaccinated-english-adult...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29763343
Wooster-sheer
Ignoring all the true and false negatives which themselves are markers of how accurate the test is.

16% precision is the correct statement, saying the test is wrong 84% of the time implies that those getting negative results might actually have positive results.
I’ve noticed they started to limit search length, my search was too long and they removed small words like “of” and “the. I also saw a message somewhere along the lines of “to show you the best quality results, we limited this search to two pages”

Google is only good for finding stuff you already know exists. What ever happened to exploring the web?
Mouse support via SDL is not optimal, yes.

Try to play the game with arrow keys and ENTER. Thats how the original game was played.
Some of the WireCutter’s picks were fairly terrible, which makes sense: testing diverse categories of products is too expensive for affiliate links to cover. I’ve gifted dashcams on their recommendation that shot beautiful QHD but had MTBF measured in single digit months. The TP-Link C7 Archer was kind of a turd and within a stone’s throw of a decent router price-wise.
recipes is a fun example.

The obvious success formula IMHO would be to have a file format for recipes (with a wrapper file format) and display those as search results under a "recipes search" tab. (The user picks his own tabs)

Then, like news results, the results have to be parsed and combined so that there is one main trend for mashed potatoes & gravy with creative alternatives presented in a beautiful crafted UI for the specific purpose that is cooking. One then elects to add the raisins and the cheese and stores this new combination some place private or public under a user name (possibly with pictures, the beef foo bar, soup and desert served with it) for future reference. If the raisins are a wonderful or terrible idea the rating can be merged into the mashed potato search result.

There is no room for good enough in my kitchen!
A function that sleeps for 5 seconds is blocking. No IO involved.

Blocking just means that you're blocking your current code till you return out of the called function.

Anything else regarding a function call is an assumption unless you know the exact implementation.
Saying it's impossible is denying it...
If I understood their paper[1] correctly you can just use a popular phone number that a person walking by is likely to have in their contacts, like an emergency line number.

My mobile telco's SIM comes with a couple of contacts on it like their customer support line. I don't know anything about AirDrop, but I assume this will work.

[1]: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity21/presentat...
I edited an old service book to gain MMS functionality on my Bold 9900. My carrier (Koodo Prepaid, Canada) doesn't have BIS and never did. If I lose any other functions, I'll probably have a look at the other service books to find out what's in there.
It's situationally very good in some topics. Perhaps not a replacement for Google, but at least a complement.
Right, but the majority of folks on here squeal when consumer reports or wirecutter want to be paid for their recommendations. Buying the devices, comparing them, etc all cost money, and refusing to pay inevitably leads to the state we're in...

I don't have a solution for this; I just think we're in the exact state we would expect.
Web search is an adversarial context. Just try to list the things a search engine provider has to fight against, then try to define some criteria for each of those things that more than 50% of the population will agree upon.
I wonder how much of this is due to Google or that the rest of the web (the crappy parts at least) has figured out the algorithm sufficiently to degrade its performance overall?
let suppose you ask google for "fresh baked bread"

search results give many results for fresh, but none include baked or bread.

this means less than 50% of the search terms are being honoured for first in line.

so ---browser app, please send all results with less than 50% to the end of the line, until the results show 50% or more relevance.
So this year they'll build around 700.000 normal F-150 trucks and only 15.000 electric ones, when they could sell many times more.

It seems they are out of touch with the market.

That may be understandable, as it is a bit nonsensical. 90% of the people who buy these trucks buy them as a status symbol: they are wasting resources, energy and emissions to signal they are active/outdoor types while driving to work and the mall. I read trucks do not count as part of manufacturer fuel efficiency targets, which is why they started marketing them to consumers in the first place. Buying an electric version of this still seems quite wasteful.

I hope people will think again and buy something right-sized.
>it frustrates me to see them framed against another useless tragedy.

The framing is relevant since the increase is arguably a product of the lockdown/social isolation. Generally it's not Boomers or the upperclass who are having to deal with opiate addiction. Is it a coincidence that their needs once again supersede the needs of others? Maybe
The whole point is to not be equivalent to Google since Google is an ad revenue engine now, not a search engine.
Think of it as being Worce-ster-shire, not Wor-ces-ter-shire.
Micro Center staff still are like this, and that's much more than anything else why I buy whatever I can from them before looking anywhere else. I want them to stay in business, because otherwise I have to do my own research every time, and who has the time for that? - well, this, and also because I just delight in being still able to walk into one brick-and-mortar store where I know for sure I won't have wasted the trip.
Indeed, I would go as far as to say that not glottalizing the /t/ in such words (preceding unstressed syllabic /n/) could sound somewhat odd or affected in American English.

"Important" is an interesting word in American English. I think for many speakers including me the first /t/ is glottalized (following the general rule noted above) but for me at least there's a sound preceding the glottal sound which I don't know how to describe other than "t realization sound".

I feel like I've noticed younger (than me) American speakers omitting that first sound and just using the second (normal /n/-preceding) glottal sound. I think I've only noticed this in the Boston area where I currently live but it may be more widespread. To me it makes the pronunciation of "important" sound slightly more like how I'd expect a stereotypical southern England pronunciation to sound, except for the /r/. I have also heard Americans pronounce "important" with the /t/ realized as (I think) a flap and no glottalization, which sounds sort of affected to me, as though the speaker is trying to avoid the glottal sound.
Ask HN: What are your thoughts on advertising products in comments?
A good chunk is fentanyl and suicide: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/micaelaburrow/2020/07/28/redfi...
It feels like I’m the only one who gets consistently excellent results from Google search (and it feels like they’ve gotten better for me over time)? Maybe it’s because most of my searches are basic and lowest common denominator? I just don’t need obscure information most of the time and when I do it’s honestly still not that hard to find it.
Lol, ok that explains it. Not the friendliest UI.
My opinion is that these are awful. Mercury and Venus especially are so close that with printing margins and color-calibration issues, you'll never ever be able to tell them apart in real life.
Sure, but just use execvp and it's a damn sight safer because you know exactly the state of your child's environment state. You can see this in the CERT C coding guidelines: https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/c/ENV03-C.+Sanit...

also ENV02-C comes into effect, as well, if your program is invoked with

SOME_INTERNAL_VARIABLE=1 PORT=2000 ./prog

then you try to invoke your child with:

setenv("SOME_INTERNAL_VARIABLE", "2", 1);
(fork blah blah)
Let's hope that question will be asked the other way around in a century or so:

What's the current percentage of humans who identify as first-Earthers?

So, Musk et al, get crackin'.
> it made me pine for the days when you could walk into a shop and a knowledgeable salesperson would ask you a few questions and pick the right stuff for you.

When you use Google you are walking into their shop. That salesperson is very knowlegeable, but about you.
Multichain Sucks
Not much to the article: of course wealthy people will widely diversify their wealth because they always want something to fall back on in case everything crashes.
https://plants.ifas.ufl.edu/manage/control-methods/chemical-...
So don't talk to that guy again. The others should be fine, unless your local store happens to have a lousy GM.

Initially I dealt with this concern by benchmarking the advice I got on a topic I do know a lot about. I haven't worried about that in a while; at least in the Towson store, the quality of advice and discussion has been such that the next time they steer me wrong will be the first.
No, he is saying, it's becoming impossible - and he goes on to argue why this is the case. That's pretty much the main point of the article.

What's your counter-argument?
It is if you're being darkly cynical
Interconnectedness of the world today is economically justified, it does not have any morality in it. In the same vein, if we would have to listen to your anti-morality point of view, we should have kept the connections as before even if we contribute to the global warming, to the deaths of many vulnerable people contributed by the rising number of viruses that are spreaded at an accelerated rate, to the number of cyberattacks that have quadrupled. Similarly to economically accessible transit around the world and its complexity, we have the Internet which is clearly becoming more and more prone to breaches exploiting vulnerabilities (log4j literally proved that everything was open for exploitation). Today, while I'm watching a random Romanian TV channel, many psychopaths at a round table are leading you to believe that Covid's risk is self inflicted by people who don't work out & are overweight and that lockdowns are unjust, it is all people's fault, that there's nothing moral in lockdowns and wearing masks, which I strongly disagree with and it is also not supported by data.
Crytocurrency Mining Motherboards
Yep; a huge portion of Google results, especially for spicy searches like “best ______ 2021” are just lists of affiliate links to top 10 selling items on Amazon from made-up brand names that are rotated once a product receives a few bad reviews.

It’s really hard to find legit review sites; at least Wirecutter seems to actually test things, but sites like SeriousEats, OutdoorGearLab, Carryology, DCRainMaker, SoundOnSound, Adventure Journal, Magnetic Magazine, The Loam Wolf, etc that are quite niche / domain-specific are where I go for actual trustworthy reviews.

I agree that Google seems to be dominated by clickbait ad-riddled BS SEO sites now more than ever, and I can’t help but think that Google is allowing this to happen because it pays the bills. I’ve posted about this before, but at the end of the day, Google and FB are advertising companies trying to be more than that. The difference to me is that I’m willing to reward actual reviews and effort with rev share if I decide to buy something reviewed, but I’m super unimpressed with all the irrelevant ads we still get in 2021 despite having so much personalization data about users.

Another thing that advertisers don’t seem to understand somehow: if I searched for a thing or even clicked through a FB ad and bought it, the chances that I’m also interested in buying a similar thing in the next few days / weeks are drastically reduced. They seem to be totally missing this signal, showing me ads for some category of thing I already purchased for a very long time after I don’t need any more suggestions.

Lastly, I would literally pay per month for an Amazon search that filters out all the fake brands. If I search for “webcam”, there are half a dozen brands I want to see, yet instead I’m forced to sift through piles of junk that I would never even consider purchasing to find what I’m looking for. I’ve heard that Amazon knows this is a thing but chooses not to fix it due to some psychological allure of sifting through the junk to find the nuggets of gold. In the worst cases, I have to use Google to find stuff on Amazon because their own search is so horrendous, with the categories being an absolute joke.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23337237/
I will accept an apology.
> The perfect aspect is so called for the fact that it indicates completion -- that is the literal meaning of "perfect".

Ideally this would be true (and it is generally true in languages which are more concrete about aspect), but that’s not how it’s used in English tense names.

For example, ‘I’ve been playing tennis since lunchtime’ is not complete, but this is a form of the present perfect. Note that there’s also no indication of whether you intend to complete the action or not, and no distinction between actions which will or can be completed and those which won’t or can’t - apart from the latter sounding ungrammatical (such as the construction ‘I’ve been knowing’ - which is common in certain dialects but violates prescriptivist grammar rules).

> This just isn't true. The form in question is required to mark experiential aspect

I think actually you’re mistaken here. In British English, it is normal to say ‘have you seen the new James Bond film?’, while in American English ‘did you see the new James Bond film?’ Is also normal (although both can be used). In most British dialects, the simple past here sounds jarring and ungrammatical.

> it's also the only way of describing an action begun in the past that continues through the present ("I've been calling for 15 minutes").

This was a clumsy statement on my part. By ‘except for emphasis’, I intended to handwave over cases where something other than the action itself is being emphasised by the speaker (ie: duration, as in your example, persistent evidence of recency, such as ‘it’s been raining [and the ground is still wet]’, or some other dialect or ‘non-standard’ use. For example, often eyewitness statements, police reports, etc. unconsciously slip into the present perfect in cases for which there’s no standard grammatical explanation).