skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was really tempted by Whoop but then I saw this: https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2020/05/whoop-3-platform-review....

There are also some good points raised in the comments. In particular, I like this comment:

> I’m probably biased because I’ve used Polar for 20 years and Whoop for over 4 years now. I like where Polar has got to on their new Vantage products in terms of activity load, sleep, recovery etc. I started using Whoop because I was frustrated with how far behind the curve that Polar were on the V800 and I liked what Whoop were trying to do.

> Fast forward 4 years and Polar results correlate the closest with how I feel and perform and also with other recovery measurements I use e.g. HRV4Training and Elite HRV. I find Whoop the least reliable in terms of accuracy of data and also correlation with how I actually feel. I like the way Whoop presents data but I have little faith in it due to the accuracy of the sensor etc. YMMV.

That said, I like wearing a mechanical watch, and I'm not a huge fan of wearing a smartwatch, so I'd much rather wear something like the Whoop than a Polar Vantage watch or an Apple Watch. So if someone here wants to defend the Whoop and convince me the data is decent enough, I'd love that :)
Some of us don’t trust Pfizer either. Considering their track record of research fraud. (This is documented, it isn’t some conspiracy theory.)
Maybe because a single anecdote isn't really useful to represent billions of users? They have access to much more information.

I used it in real use, the answer was still a hard yes.
That's totally fair, but it looks like you commented to say you don't like smoking, and not to weigh in on the social aspects of it.
Agree completely. The reasons I think are:

- America has just so many participants so it makes some sense that 100% coverage is on US athletes

- too much focus on personal side of things (X just had a baby etc.) is becuase US gets regular news-people/non-expert commentators. Since they don't often know much about the sport, they make everything into a personal interest stories.

How other countries do it:

- focus on the sport

- former athletes of the sport in question are brought in
That's very disappointing to read.

Imagine you are the kid which will end in prison. Wouldn't you feel betrayed from society if society can already see that you will end in prison and is doing nothing against it?

You can we haven't accepted the right answer though: more money for education.

Smaller classes, more support, proper trained psychologist
Simple, Commercialization, paid athletes.

When the US allowed Pro Basketball/Hockey etc. players to be on the Olympics, I stopped caring about it then. Yes other nations supported their athletes, but who cares.

Another thing, especially in the US, all you get to see on TV are the sports the Americans can win at. In the past you could see some sports you never knew existed and some were Americans did not participate in. No more.

Also half the broadcast is about the athlete's life. I just want to see the competition, not a complete biography of the people in it. Seems there is more biography then the actual competition.

Also it seems the Olympics committee wants to drop "unpopular" sports. They tried to drop greco-roman wrestling but reneged due to push back (as far as I know).

In the past, the Olympics was a great vehicle for people who were not selected for professional sports to get a second chance, no more. Seems you need to be a pro to even get to go.

Never mind the over Commercialization.

I could go on, but this is enough for me.

BTW, not watching it at all.
Ask HN: How can I help you?
I always prioritized having broad skillset rather than focusing on a single thing, but i'm now having doubts about it.

I'd like to discover if my skills are useful by applying them to solve someone's challenges. If talking to me might help you - please drop me an email or schedule a call (the address is in the profile). Free & no strings attached.

About me:

- co-founder/ex-CTO/ex-CPO of a russian company with $15M arr

- people usually describe me as a "smart guy"

- had to solve a problem that required using nlp, so i organized data labelling team, finetuned BERT, and integrated it into a larger system

- know some finance. unit economy, operating costs, that sort of thing

- did a lot of a/b tests and conversion experiments

- bitmap indexes, fractal trees, k-d trees - i like indexes and trees

- developed software using python, golang, php, c++

- clickhouse user for 3 or 4 years. also, mongodb, vertica, presto

- did some custdev and qualitative interviews

- have some experience managing outbound sales reps; but still, i'm a builder/hacker, not a hustler

(I realize this post looks a bit like a sneaky "hire me" post - but i assure you, that is not my intention)
And then you publish anyway to prove you are a "real American." (TM)
What issues do you face with online dating?
Some of the ones that send emails on your behalf are known to harvest your email address for resale. Not sure if the same is true for the ones sending texts but wouldn't be surprised if that were the case.
I mean, there was that Olympics in Nazi Germany.
So I think it's you that has changed, not the Olympics.
When your act is choosing and giving money to a host that supports and enables spammers and attackers yes, your are responsible for that. Blacklists can be outsourced, but many ISPs maintain their own internal blacklists as well. ISPs can also subscribe to a 3rd party blacklist, but still whitelist specific blacklisted IPs they know aren't going to cause them problems. There are plenty of blacklists that ISPs choose not to use because they block too much to be useful. ISPs can also use blacklists not to block senders, but to greylist them or give them higher levels of scrutiny before deciding what do accept or block.

In the end, even with 3rd party blacklists networks still maintain control over what incoming traffic/mail they block or allow.
Every time this topic comes up on HN I see a lot of comments along the lines of "Don't try to fix the problem; just move kids to private schools", an incredibly privileged, net harmful point of view... very sad to see.

The reality is that teachers in America make horrific wages for a job that requires a degree, are treated like garbage, held to impossible standards, constantly subject to budget cuts, and then we wonder why America, the wealthiest country in the world, ranks 14th in education. It's not a mystery. Teachers deserve better.
The MX Master is a surprisingly good mouse, specifically the side buttons which I honestly did not think I would use at the start.
Only problem is the thumb button which dies every now and then, but it's fixable usually within 10 min.
ML is most certainly AI. I had a visceral feeling you'd respond with this. Sorry but what ever magic you have in your head isn't AI -- this is real AI and you're moving goal posts like alot of people tend to do.
How do you handle comment spam?
My dad always told me that during the 40s and 50s children would be paddled for being disrespectful. Students wore uniforms. Parents would be angry at their children if a teacher or administrator scheduled a meeting. The parents would be mad at the kids. it is clear that times have changed dramatically so I think it’s insane to expect the model of the old times to work. If you want a good result for your child then enroll them in a program that is suited for these times. I suspect private school is the only good option.
(american) football __games__ feel like bigger than the most important games of other non-US sports, including soccer.
I'm not sure what you mean by "manipulating people with intent", but certainly many kinds of manipulation are well within the bounds of freedom of speech as it is generally imagined, and especially within the bounds of what should be legally protected according to even minimal theories of civil liberties. So it sounds like you're less libertarian than even fairly non-libertarian people.
> School administrators are by and large bureaucratic idiots that are incapable of innovating or improving schooling.

This can’t be overstated and, unless you have first hand experience, impossible to comprehend. We’re talking the very basic levels of competence like don’t smoke weed in your car before school because you’re the principal of a middle school level of competence.

/wife is a long time teacher quitting this year
Not talc. Pure talc is also a carcinogen. It causes ovarian cancer.

Pediatricians / dermatologists often recommend aquaphor these days. You can also get diaper rash cream, which is similar, but is opaque white and contains zinc.
Large 3d world's with user created content just sounds like minecraft
I've never tried BRL-CAD but it looks really big and complex. The only other one I'm aware of is Solvespace:
https://solvespace.com/index.pl

It uses it's own B-Rep for NURBS and can export STEP files. The basics are there for extrudes, revolves and helixes. Booleans are still a bit buggy, but we occasionally fix a bug or two.

It's definitely the smallest NURBS kernel around at about 8000 LoC and the full program comming in at ~5MB. There is no real API for geometry though, just the constraint solver.

BTW the constraint solver has also been used in one of the FreeCAD assembly workbenches, and also in this sketcher add-on for blender:
https://blenderartists.org/t/geometry-sketcher-constraint-so...
When people say 'wealth tax' they usually are thinking add up all your assets and pay some percentage of that each year. There are quite a lot of practical problems with that.
It’s definitely not hard work relative to other fields. That plus 3 months off and a relatively short day and low barriers for entry make this a no brainer for many, many people.
most teachers will tell you the truth--it's there from birth, and basically incurable
Sounds like the system dodged a bullet, but would be improved if it could have ejected you in less than 2 years. Bemoaning the lack of beatings and then making an analogy between your pupils and livestock? Nice.
Lon/lat it should be. First because of x/y, but also because in astronomy, it is right ascension, declination. (Obviously it is just matter of convention, but certainly for an astronomer lat/Lon is very unnatural)
If you are vaccine-injured, what is the remedy? You can’t sue. What is the incentive for pharma to ensure a safe product if taxpayers are the ones holding the liability?
You could probably cite dozes of contributing reasons ranging from Covid fatigue, the number of entertainment options exploding, and peoples' attention spans being more limited.

But I'd speculate that one of the biggest factors is the feeling of postnationalism.

Being from a specific nation means almost nothing anymore. There's basically almost no such thing as a Frenchman or a Brit or a Canadian: these are just treated as arbitrary designations today. If everybody everywhere is the same and the nation is treated as irrelevant, then an international competition means much less.
Can you give some pointers? I’m interested in using non-traditional input devices but don’t know where to start.
For what it's worth, the J&J aftermath experience for me was on par with actually having covid 8 months prior.

Having also had omni (apparently getting covid is my superpower) with symptoms on par with a mediocre sore throat, I have absolutely no desire to repeat the vaccine experience.
This is what I’ve become. I don’t think I am racist, and I came to the US liking the diversity, that was about ten years ago.

Now I think I’ve had enough of it, and would rather have familiarity and harmony. I began to resent diversity actually.
Not that I dont appreciate the nice comments.
I have tried therapy. Several times. When they turned virtual the little humane contact they provided evaporated and I stopped paying for that crap. And dont get me started on trying to talk to a therapist that wears a face mask the entire time.

I am not actively trying to end my life.
Just trying to correct the naive suggestions that going to a gym or having a child will make you happy or fullfilled.

Loneliness sites bone deep.
The older you get, the harder making meaningful human connections get.
And add the past the past 2 years of “keeping us safe and healthy” what used to be my natural coping mechanisms were outright banned.

I tread on.
Trust me, from the outside you would not think I was this lonely. I have all the things and the hobbies and the travels.
Even athletic enough to sport visible abs, which is not all common at 46 in these parts of the hemisphere.

If I am lucky maybe Ill get shot in a failed robbery or something.

I certainly do not have the courage to physically harm myself.

I appreciate the concern though.
It's a right insofar that comprehensive identity data is additional meta that is attached to the message. But all that is truly needed is the message itself; we don't even need a single field for username. The internet is anonymous by nature, it is only through our artifice that not-anonymous messages are even possible. This is what the incumbents experienced long before the normies took over and IMO how it should remain
Wow, that loads immediately and actually shows the content in a useful way.

Thank you!
Does the reason matter that much? Next time you notice this hesitancy, you could talk to them anyways. After a while you could still decide whether it is net positive or negative for you.
Majority consent[0], which is what we have in the case of the vaccine.

[0] except for protected classes, there are specific carve outs for that.
> P.S. Never use liquid detergents.

Why not? I’ve switched from tablets to liquid detergent and it’s working out well.
The failure of public schooling would mean a reversal of much of the public safety and poverty gains we made over the past 50-70 years. So here’s hoping it turns around.
I see a lot of people praising tenkeyless but I use the numeric keypad so often I can't bring myself to buy one, even if my current keyboard uses more space.
> The question is why those locations don't win?

Partially it is corruption, partially it is that most democratic places want to limit IOC's powers and then many areas try, but are held back by the population by large campaigns against it.
You're just mad that the proles and rubes disagree with your politics.
I tend to agree with this. I live in the UK and they don’t have too many athletes at the winter Olympics which makes the coverage more diverse in terms of sports and more importantly, athletes. This is very different from summer Olympics where the UK have more active participants making the coverage way less enjoyable.
I implore you to look up starting teacher salaries in your area. Where I live, a single family homes average $550k, and teachers start at $35,200. For a career that requires a degree that is horrific, and far from 'generous'.
Like that’ll ever happen, too much money on the table to just walk away. I hope the EU regulators realize this and stick to their guns.
> Go through the effort of handwriting a letter is going to add quite a bit of weight to your message.

Really? is there even a slight chance that Rep. XYZ actually reads my letter and it doesn't get filtered out by an aide as "spam"? And furthermore, once read does my letter actually hold any weight against moneyed interests? It feels like an utterly futile and pointless exercise to pretend democracy still works.
Ok, but we shouldn't artificially limit what would be likely if it were the case just because it results in outcomes undesirable to you. It's already faith based at this point anyway. Most religion is basically a simulation hypothesis.
The underlying report is from 2020 [1] and seems to include data up to 2018.

I've been searching for Sweden in it. There are references to CO2/diesel tax reductions for mining, maritime and rail sectors. Glancing at Figure 2-9, it looks like "infrastructure" and "production" are the two blocks, so I think that confirms it.

I think the net number in OPs article is based on Figure 2-9 and 2-13, but that's just a guess.

[1] https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/92a...
Have you looked into bass shakers? They are popular in home theatre enthusiast and driving / flight simulator crowds.

Still niche, but can provide the sensation of heavy bass with near silent sound.

I have a project integrating a wireless shaker system into the Herman Miller embody.
Oops, yes I do. Thanks!
You just grow up to see behind the veil. It's not a chance that the modern olympic started peak "concert of nations", they already were a nationalistic endeavour.
That sounds like a testament to a successful policy of checking vaccine card. That study would be more illuminating if it were done in some place with no checks.
Unfortunately it disappointed me so much to learn that Eric Ries (the Lean Startup author) is a part of this sorry "R E S I S T" enterprise.

https://resist.bot/news/2017/09/13/the-robot-of-the-resistan...
Lata Mangeshkar, one of India's most beloved singers, dies at 92
I haven't spent that much time weighting the options for this one, so I don't really feel like I can recommend this model over others, but here it is:

https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B01FWIJ25S

I'd say the right one really depends on your needs. In my case space was an issue, so I took a really small one. It's OK for 1 / 2 people, but I wish I could put a little more cutlery in it.

Anyway, I'd definitely recommend any model over not having one.
There's middle ground, I think, but we don't live in a time of balance, and we have completely swung the other way in terms of raising children. Ironically, we may be doing more psychological damage to them in the long run than we did when we paddled them or put soap in their mouths or make them chew spruce gum (not that I condone any of that).
My thoughts:

When I was a kid, seeing Olympic-level athletes (or any high-level athlete) was a Big Deal, even in the news. Now, we’re surrounded by news; we can learn intimate details of their private lives. Familiarity breeds ennui.

The Olympics aren’t for talented amateurs anymore. They probably never were, except in the beginning, now now we realize this. Everyone is aware of the commercialization surrounding every aspect of it. At worst, I t’s a scam on a global basis. At best, it’s just another commercial enterprise slowly being stripped of any national pride.

The Olympics are expensive. The first thought is how much they cost now, not whether we’ll win anything. What is the return on the Olympics? A ton of debt, mainly, and unused venues, slowly rotting, rarely to be re-used.

Going places is expensive. Cheaper than it used to be, for sure, but it still eats a ton of expense that few people have access to. So, we can watch them on video, but it’s easier to just get the highlights than absorb the whole event, since there’s less time availability. But there are other things to be done so we can just plan to get the highlights later.

Finally: it’s sports and I have other amusement available. Sports don’t matter like they used to. I, personally, don’t make connections with people thru discussion of sporting events. So, the Olympics are something that a bunch of people are involved in that has no connection to me.
This thing preserves your sanity!
The 20% comes from scams, mind you
Can you share which garmin you have? Battery life is By far my biggest issue with the Apple Watch. Once it discharges I forget to use it.
That's not surprising, the private teachers are not unionized. I think a lot of the hate for teachers' unions is driven by decades of propaganda - both from private institutions and both of the major political parties. Slashing teacher salaries by ~20% is the wet dream of many "education reform" advocates. Though I wonder what effect that will have on society and the quality of education, especially for those that can't afford the top tier private schools.
> "The rise of bots could render many online communities simply uninhabitable."

Is that uninhabitable in the sense "nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded"? Why would people make bots to post online comment threads, if not to attract real people? And why would real people go there if it wasn't interesting or enjoyable or clickbait rage-engaging?

And why would Governments be interested in stopping you engaging with bots, anymore than they stop you engaging with fiction books or fiction TV or playing video games against computer characters, etc?
lol...did you read the article? It's the same all over...i was the rule, not the exception
In Canada, all of what you just described is illegal.
As others have said, you got older. Olympics have also been about politics.

Also, we're too used to on-demand TV now, and many people are on-demand only now. There were only a few channels in the past and your options when you sat down to watch TV were limited to what was on. The Olympics had primetime coverage and so that is what people watched.
A fight over transgender rights derailed environmentalists in Nevada
That is just bullshit buzzword. Overwhelming majority of classes involve both exercises and lecture like segments. They switch.

Plus, watching and reading stuff does not mean teacher can skip it. It still needs to be said again, either because many kids read only half of it or because they forgot it all due to not switching between active and passive learning by themselves.
I didn't try rustc, but g++ error messages have improved a lot in the last decade or two. I think clang made a point of having better error messages, and g++ followed suit.

One reason C++ error messages are so terrible is because of metaprogramming. C++ has a very powerful template system that has been abused a lot, not only that, but it retained the C preprocessor. When you are just using an API (ex: boost), all the complexity is hidden away from you, you just have to use the convenient features, but to the compiler, it is a horrible mess of templates and when you do something wrong, the mess surfaces.

A lot of what makes modern C++ is just cleaner ways of doing what was done using clever hacks before. It had a positive impact on error messages, but C++ is still a really complex, tricky language, with error messages to match.
I think it is just reality that we have more entertainment available than ever. And it is not consumed like it was before. Before streaming the Olympics were the big TV event. Everyone spend week or two following them as main entertainment on TV. Or radio, or news. Now we just have so many other options available that there is no more the whole community focusing on single event for time period.
You own things, yes? How did you choose them? How did you even discover that they exist?

That's what advertising addresses.
Sounds like this guy is trying to plug his new book using sensationalism.

This episode is widely known:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Matthew

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Russel_Wallace

Stigler's law of eponymy is also relevant:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler%27s_law_of_eponymy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_examples_of_Stigler%27...
The "design space" of architectural CAD models is mostly illegal (e.g. does your AI know how many parking spaces you must provide?) and/or lethally dangerous (e.g. is that beam strong enough?) so in the real world a constraint solver that saves time by automatically drafting, according to detailed specifications, detailed plans that certified architects and engineers can then analyze and sign off is the most useful possible tool.
The same has been said about nuclear meltdowns and toxic waste leaks.

Sure, the baseline rate for this rare cancer is 1 in 10,000,000, and it's 1 in 10 in this town of 1000 people, but it's possible the plaintiff would have gotten it anyway.