skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://dev.fitbit.com/build/reference/web-api/heartrate-var...

I used the swagger interface a few months ago to download my resting heart rate over a three-year period, and it was interesting.
I wasn't able to find out about that, from a quick scout around - could you share a link to it?

(I did find BotHack[1] and a video of its' first ascension[2], both of which are cool)

[1] - https://github.com/krajj7/BotHack

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unCQHAbGsAA
Very few people are likely to have that sort of charger installed in their house. High speed charging makes sense though where it'll be heavily utilized, like at charging stations along major highways.

(I'm hoping eventually the highways will become the charging stations, probably with some kind of device that makes a physical connection to rails embedded in the road that supply power to moving vehicles, kind of like a big slot car. For that application, fast-charging batteries are great because it means you only have to electrify short sections of road at regular intervals, not the whole thing.)
Everyone on HN and reddit has to be the most right and be unnecessarily argumentative. And that includes you and me. It’s a compulsion.
Is it? The US/IMF will bail El Salvador out like always and dictators retire with their wealth. Just look at the Marcos clan in the Philippines.
These leaders give zero fucks.
And if you think that's bad look at Japan.
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I'm so happy to hear this! Wish you the very best of luck!
Some other bugs that bother me (in macOS 12.4):

- It's impossible to click buttons or select files in open/save dialogs (maybe also others) when using a zoomed screen, e.g. in Safari

- Preview crashes when moving a text annotation from one page to another

- ...losing some of the annotations on the way (even though the document was saved) which can be recovered using [1]

- AirDrop only works when both devices are logged into iCloud (though Apple might consider this a feature)

- Mail has problems reconnecting to some servers when a connection was interrupted, takes ages to quit

[1] https://github.com/julihoh/pdf_annotation_fix
What government does?
On the other hand Java's generics made it easier for Clojure to be developed.
And now I wish Thai producers step in and market the true Sriracha sauce. For context, Sriracha is a name of a district in Thailand. As it is classified as geographical name, it cannot be registered as a trademark on its own in both Thailand and USA (it can be used with other elements, such as logo, like what Huy Fong did, combining it with Chicken logo)
It's not needed for any compiler. People use it because it's a whole lot nicer to write.
The future of quantum RAM? Scientists watch two time crystals interact
The Onion's meditations on the difference, aka "Should The Government Stop Dumping Money Into A Giant Hole?"

https://youtu.be/JnX-D4kkPOQ
> You may want to short their stock then, because a 20 year lucky streak is incredibly unlikely, and odds are overwhelmingly for it ending tomorrow.

That's not a valid argument, and you are smart enough to know that. Something of the size of Amazon, with almost monopoly in many areas, won't suddenly fail tomorrow just because it was lucky to get where it is today.
But why do you need fast charge ability at home? I thought it only made sense on the go.
> The idea that someone would switch to the Windows (or linux) ecosystem because of some visual tweaks to MacOS settings is very amusing to me.

That wasn't even the gripe. They have disliked the last few major revisions of macOS. I think that's a good enough reason to consider a switch.
I think supercomputer users and customers are on better side of this. The time availability is rationed and likely somewhat fought for. So there is drive to get as much done in time allocated or do it in little time as possible.

I think waste is much more likely in startup and private sector. Where scaling up and out is easy and "cheap"...
Legendary bacterial evolution experiment enters new era
Tho, Greek life could exist only inside universities, because it was facilitated by universities. Actual university uninvolved life would had students renting flats and houses from homeowners around (which would not be bad at all). It would had street numbers on houses and no one would treat it as insult. If you made sand hill in house or in someones garden or wherever, owners would take issue with it.
> Where do we get all the lithium, copper, cobalt to build electric cars? The reality check for EV will be very brutal

We're doing the same thing as we did with ICE cars. We're ignoring all the drawbacks and telling ourselves we'll find hypothetical solutions sometimes in the future. We're basically green washing the entire auto industry: "shhh don't worry it's electric, now buy our $50k car and tell your friends you're saving the planet"

When the average driver does like 30km per day all you need is some kind of hybrid car with a small but efficient gas engine. 90% of your travel will be fully electric, the occasional road trip would use gas (which would be expensive but something the average user doesn't need more than a few times a year)

But I guess it's more marketable to sell AWD, 600+ HP, three tonnes lithium monsters than glorified priuses. This industry is fucked up and doesn't care one bit about sustainability.
Yup

I lived in a ski resort town for some times, and the fire chief said that THE most common cause of fires was visitors conscientiously sweeping out the fireplace, putting the (seemingly) dead ashes in a bag, and leaving them out on the porch with trash collection — hours later, the building is on fire...
The problem that I have with the all electric movement is that all of the expectations don't match up with the numbers.

For instance, a new Ford Lightning can power a house for days.

Lets turn this around a bit... To charge your vehicle, it requires multiple days of typical household energy usage.

This doesn't make sense.
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> afford to buy the cars

Maybe that is a red herring and what Ford got from higher wage was workers that cared about the work they did and made sure the quality was good, as the workers would otherwise end up in a lower-paying job.

When you make "revolutions" such as the first good assembly line, workers that care make a big difference. Faults on assemble lines can be much more expensive than high wage.
I find this super-important. If a variable if mutable then I need to look closely through the whole of the rest of the scope to see if/where it is mutated. If it's not then I can often mostly forget about it. Thus marking variables as immutable where possible dramatically reduces the mental overhead of reading a function.
Google lost the battle for machine learning to Meta
The purchase probably helped drive the price to an all-time high.

If the president had his personal wallet stuffed at all-time lows, you could argue that the timing was perfect for him at least.
For some of this stuff, there are compiler extensions that allow extra type checking to be added e.g. Google Error-Prone: https://github.com/google/error-prone with stuff like: https://errorprone.info/bugpattern/ReturnMissingNullable.

Doesn't help you with third party libraries, but across an org applying that rule (and others!) typically ensures some consistency.
> What puts me off apple devices most is probably this brand of elitism based on class and racial undertones.

What does this mean?

> They are devices, not personality attributes by which people should be measured.

Who is measuring people like this? How can “people” even be measured?
Perhaps all the employees that died last year when they weren't allowed to go home during huge storms? Or was the suffering of those families worth it, as long as Amazon keeps profits up?
Exactly. It often takes weeks for me to reply to a voice message. Simply because I don't feel like listening to it. Sometimes I don't reply at all and never listen to it. My time is important too you know.
For everyone on Android: a lot of Android phones have an auto-subtitling feature now that you can turn on by tapping the volume buttons, and pressing the captions icon. Works great for things like this, apparently it's what they built it for.

https://support.google.com/accessibility/android/answer/9350...
Bonobo and Anna Lapwood Perform Otomo Live at the Royal Albert Hall
The PainStation runs Windows XP because of course it does
If things weren't good in 2019, then they've never been good.

Seriously. In 20 years people will look back on the post-2008 economic frenzy like they look back on the Clinton years.
I don't disagree with the general sentiment, but as someone who has faced literal attempts on his life for revealing unpleasant truths about powerful people and has PTSD, I find myself cautious in fully accepting the optimism. And I'm someone who had a pretty big platform in the 2010s.

The problem with "speaking truth to power" is that the shitbags in power already know the truth (that they're shitbags, and that in a just world they would be torn down and humiliated, if not destroyed). What you do by "speaking truth" is reveal to them that you also know this. By doing so, you make yourself dangerous to them. Sometimes, this is what you want. Sometimes, it is not. It is not an easy, one-size-fits-all decision. Your enemies, but also your friends, start to see you as an instrument of war.

Also, with regard to "algorithmic demons"... it's not "algorithms" that are the problem. It's (a) the complete lack of transparency, (b) that the algorithms are often tailored toward objectives other than content quality (which leads to gaming, hence the perceived need for opacity), and (c) that the data now available about us is invariably used against us by bad actors (and that a lack of influence / platform will also be used against us, so I don't know if there's a way to win).

The algorithms themselves aren't so bad; what's worse is that these companies often slip shit into the algorithms that punishes people or ideas they dislike, and of course (a) this is completely unregulated, (b) it's impossible to prove, and (c) you'll often damage your reputation if you point it out (since you sound identical to a crazy person who failed organically and is lashing out at "the algorithm" with unprovable assertions).
The chilis used to make Sriracha are red jalapenos, which are regular jalapenos left on the vine to mature.
I know my neighbors exist -- I share a wall with them. There's thirty families on my block and I don't know the names of a single one. I think I've said "hi" to one once, when we happened to be on our balconies at the same time. But what ocassion would I have to talk to them?
> So why not smooth it out? Put another battery in the charger which slowly replenishes.

There are 1.4B vehicles one earth, the plan apparently is to replace them all with battery powered vehicles

I don't think people understand the scale of this and how many batteries we can produce and recycle given the limited resources we have.
What Is Google's A.I. LaMDA and What Does It Want?
Ironically this article is presented like a sales slip on desktop, on the 'mobile first' platform.
That sounds really awesome. Congratulations :)
The article from Axios explains the issue a lot better: https://www.axios.com/2022/06/08/sriracha-shortage-2022-chil...

Basically, there's been a consistent drought in Mexico that has affected the yield of chili peppers.
Plus the additional power generation.

But I tend to think this can be solved by the market. Look at the extent we go to find oil at sea. If there is a market, the production will ramp up. What I would be curious is if there is a physical supply of those materials in such volumes.
Graphcore 10 Exaflop “Good” computer
People who believe they need big houses baffle me. It isn't priced right, and you can improve to flip or live and decide later. But why on earth would someone need a giant fucking house to be "happy".
People generally do have the right to safety, but it's not "unconditional", because there are other values such as personal freedom. We compromise between those conflicting values. If I drive a car, I create SOME risk that I run you over. I'm not allowed to drive intoxicated, or without a driver's license, or above certain speed limit, because we find that level of risk unacceptable. But if I drive perfectly sober, within the speed limit etc., I STILL put you at SOME level of risk. I could still lose control over the wheel and smash into a passerby. Statistically speaking, we know it will happen for every million car rides or so. But we consider this level of risk acceptable. The margin is low enough for me to exercise my freedom. So yes, your safety matters, but not unconditionally. It matters to a certain - arbitrary - extent. At least that's the social consensus.
Why is nobody talking about how many situations will arise where one person sends a voice message with a certain tone only to be completely misrepresented by someone using this context-killing feature?
MacOS has changed dramatically in the last 3 years alone. This isn’t just UI tweaks, although those are annoying. I have daily driven MacOS for 10 years now. It’s no longer serviceable.
1999-12-31T23:59:60 would make it easier to remember what the constants are.
>This is such an arrogant statement.

It's not an arrogant statement. A lot of people don't understand how electric cars work.

It's one of the biggest things holding them back. I still hear people saying "I don't want to spend 30 minutes recharging every week" when you don't need to. You can plug in a car overnight. But people struggle to understand that you can wake up every day with a "full tank" which is something a fossil fuel vehicle can't do. It requires thinking about your usage of a vehicle differently.

>Because he wants it. The same reason I have everything I listed.

I ask the question because, again, people don't understand how electric cars work. A lot of people think a 22KW charger at home will be like a 22KW DC charger.

It's an attempt to gauge the actual reasoning behind wanting it. If his reasoning is to be future proof, then that's fine, it's perfectly reasonable to want that. But if his reasoning is to charge at 22KW then it's just a misunderstanding and something we can help him understand.

Don't assume everyone asking questions is being naive or dismissive.
The only constant is they are all authoritarians
"finally" in Java and afaik "val" in Kotlin because of it are a bit of a sham: They work fine for primitives, but for reference types only apply to the object identity. You can still mutate the pointed-to object willy-nilly.
Things You Learn Only After Failing
Here in the UK the Thai-manufactuered Flying Goose brand is widely available and incredibly delicious. Much better tasting than the Californian brand IMO.
What? The US can print dollars. It controls the funny money.

Yes there are things that happen when they do that, but it is functionally impossible for the US to run out of dollars.
> I'm pretty sure they also designed the system for Kubernetes, so I figured it would also mean containerizing the site, as it has been running on VMs for almost 10 years.

Yeah - this is key. If you're already set up to _not_ be containerised, then it's likely not going to be worthwhile unless you are actively feeling some of the pain points around running on VMs.

> It's also a custom home grown solution, so it's not like AWS knowledge I can take with me or google.

One saving grace is that a huge amount of what k8s does is abstracts the aws-ness from underneath. Running a live application on k8s on aws is three separate skills - running a live app, running apps on k8s and running k8s on aws. Two of three of those still transfer!

> fit. No one on my team knows how CICD works. I'm the only one who has actually used it, and even my use has been pretty limited.

That's fair, and it's up to you to make the call as to whether it's worth it or not. If your team aren't willing then the use cases are very limited, and that's a political fight!

> The only way to maintain my sanity is to not get too involved in it all. It will likely all change and go away within the next 2 years. Nothing lasts lone enough to get too invested in.

I've been a driver for improving developer best practices on every team I've worked on. Not everything has always stuck, but I've found that processes that can be automated tend to have high rates of success, and processes that rely on humans tend to be sidestepped. I spoke to a coworker from a previous job last night who told me that some of the process fixes I made as a cog in the wheel have survived 2 years without me there. All is not lost!
TIL, never knew what that button is for, thank you!
> If tourism has gone up, does it not seem more likely correlated with the end of the pandemic?

I find unlikely that people with cabin fever are itching to visit a country with such a violent reputation as El Salvador. We might find more clues if we compare revenue from before the pandemic and bitcoin adoption.

> Investing in clean power sources and then using that power for mining seems a poor economic idea in a country with no fossil fuel reserves and which still relies on imports for its existing power needs.

I think its quite the opposite. They have lots of untapped power from volcano but no actual demand for that energy that justifies investment. Its just there. With bitcoin mining comes incentives from deploying infrastructure and strengthening their grid. Its not coal or gas so everyone should be happy with the results right?
At least it managed to migrate your key. I just stopped encrypting/signing mail when it stopped working after the forced migration from the Enigmail add-on. Can't be bothered to look into fixing it when noone cares about PGP signurates for mail anyway.
There is a realization in your future that all the amazing internet things you've been yearning for are actually in a specific corner of crypto - the people, the projects, the culture, it's all there. It's alas sometimes hard to see from the outside, where one can easily be fooled into thinking that crypto is just the ape pictures and scams.
Bukele is dictator and the way he is doing this (literally buying from his phone and bragging about it like a degen trader) is shameful. Yet it is a bet that very likely will turn out positively for the country (if he doesnt steal the money).
Bitcoin is already well recognized global asset that gives person or country clear monetary rules, ease of storage and transfer and access to all future advancements of the ecosystem.
I dont see any fundamental difference between putting gold into country reserves vs Bitcoin. Yes, gold has history but fundamentally it is inferior to digital bearer asset. Bitcoin is writing history right now.
...another reason is that KJV is not currently under copyright, unlike (as far as I know) all modern English translations.
A lot of people seem to over look the fact that being nearsided or farsided is a change in focal length, not a straight degridation of vision. Someone with "perfect" 20/20 vision can't see as far as many far sided people, and can't see as small and fine details as someone nearsided. Before the invention of lenses both could be pretty valuable traits, but of course weren't super common and harder to identify at the time too.
Same here.

I had a stringent mentality before that I wanted to be an X. Not anymore.

Work needs to have certain things going on, and money beyond an amount is not that of a gamechanger.

I want to do exciting work. Life is too short to work just for money.
Apple's big cat theme was the funniest one with Puma, Panther and Mountain Lion all referring to the exact same animals that happens to be known by the same name.
When I talk to people about everlasting life, they say it would be so boring and we'd have nothing to do

I'm 43 and I've done 0,01% of the things I know, so imagine the things I've never heard of. There's so many things to do, and I'm super frustrated like in that post
Oh I didn't explain myself correctly. I've got nothing against the example in the blog post. What I mean is that no matter if Java or Kotlin makes guarantees about null safety, invariability and the type of the object returned, in the end you still have to deal with the glorified GOTO statements that exceptions are.
Yes, exactly. T always becomes Object in runtime, type information is physically gone.
Shit, I have two kids under 4 and have been telling myself it will be a lot easier by the time they are that age!
I just realized it is becoming more and more difficult for me to tell if people are being serious or sarcastic.
People are obsessed with losses. Systemic losses across the pump in and output phase. I think this is typically allowing a second order effect to override the first order benefit, but there you are: "the losses are too high" is a low bar hall pass out.

What they forget is that the energy input in question is often otherwise being wasted. System loss against throwing it away is not such a bad sum.

There is also a return on capital side of this: spend $100m on Tesla batteries, earn $70m on frequency stability services a year, you're in positive return inside a year on your capex. Invest the same certifying a new pumped hydro, you've barely scratched the surface and you can't earn that sweet FCAS income.

You're not wrong. I will say anything with seawater is a massive turn off. No engineer likes salt water. But that's a minor issue to your underlying point: we're missing cheap, low capital effective storage and gravity based systems because of (in my opinion) second order cost and loss arguments.

Don't hate on the cement block condo btw. I believe the more ugly "crane and bucket model" is in test.
Outwitting the devil by napoleon hill. Reading this book when I was 18-19 just made me realise so many things about how people just do what they have been doing and that people older are not necessarily worth listening too, and that I should be super conscious of what I am doing everyday so that I dont end up living life in auto pilot mode.
I see a world of difference but in the opposite direction.

You could phrase it as paying someone to be vegan is paying them to limit which aliments they put into their body. To me, although I see nothing wrong in veganism, the second one is much more intimate and questionable.
>Who is paying for or fucking whom over?

Future generations are the ones getting fucked over, because they are the ones who will have to pay for the subsidies you're wanting for your pet project.

It's clear you haven't got a clue of the actual long term effects of your proposed policies. I recommend you read Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell, if only to understand that the policies you propose will have consequences.
You need to add a screenshot on the front page :)
From:
https://cointelegraph.com/news/tourism-in-el-salvador-up-30-...

> Valdez noted that El Salvador’s Bitcoin adoption has also impacted the flow of tourist visits, increasing the number of tourists coming from the United States. Prior to the Bitcoin law enactment, the majority of visitors was coming from neighboring countries in the Central American isthmus. Now, as many as 60% of tourists come from the United States...
> I dont see any fundamental difference between putting gold into country reserves vs Bitcoin

Stability? The fact that the IMF, US, EU and whoever will accept gold as collateral but wouldn't come anywhere close to a volatile imaginary "asset" like Bitcoin?
Maybe objects at low angles are perceived with another computational unit, since they are part of the scenary and we need to extrapolate, and the sky is a big whatever.

But really maybe there's no simple explanation other than "that's how the brain works", and we assume there has to be one.
Nice idea, it is indeed ripe for an overhaul.

The flat icons though are not really an improvement. Icons’ role in user interfaces is aiding recognition/recall, if they are indistinguishable color blobs than they have failed, and you’re better off with no icons at all.
The size of CUDA dlls for deep-learning has gone out of control