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Show HN: I built an app that personalizes home workouts
Hey HN,

I’ve built and bootstrapped PARIAN. It designs personalized workouts so you reach your fitness goal quickly and efficiently. By training only with goal-specific exercises tailored to your experience level and preferred equipment (or just bodyweight), you skip the wasted time, effort, and disappointment. No more doom scrolling exercises, being overwhelmed by how to plan them, and being bombarded by noise from all the fitfluencers. You workout with confidence knowing each exercise is intentional and each session is moving you forward. Plus, you have the freedom to customize your program at any moment, ensuring the training is enjoyable - thus ensuring consistency.

I believe fitness is not a lifestyle, but a core part of life and wanted to create something that will assist this pursuit of going after your fitness potential. And instill the excitement of all the new doors that will open up - bouldering, boxing, breakdancing, you name it.
Being non technical I naturally leaned towards no-code platforms. Started building on Bubble in 2022 and launched the demo that December. I got some assistance from friends with html, css, and js along the way and officially launched the MVP in Feb 2023.

The fitness app space is crowded, and ones that tailor workouts already exist—so why build this? Saturation is demand, and it’s easier to stand out in a crowd than to create your own market. When you break it down, most of the apps aren't personalized. Majority are workout trackers/loggers or just have a selection of pre-made workouts.

The few apps that do personalize workouts create subpar programs with surface level tutorials and lack support, guidance, and customization.

Additionally, even the most popular apps in this space have:
— Questionable exercise selection
— Exercise redundancy in the workouts
— Excessive training volume
— Require constant input throughout workouts

The gap between 0 support and minimal structure (youtube/pdf plans), and hiring a personal trainer at a gym for hundreds of dollars is huge. While both have their time and place, I believe most would actually benefit working out with an app. Training from home, with bodyweight/available equipment is the fastest way to start that fitness journey - leveraging the device you spend the most time with. PARIAN is more than a workout tracker & planner - it’s a savvy training partner that guides you through personalized workouts and expedites your fitness journey.

Just shipped an update, try a demo workout here — https://parianlabs.com/demo-workouts

Follow our journey — @parianlabs on insta

Feedback and support is much appreciated!
How to generate word-of-mouth demand？
No problem, glad you found it interesting, I think it's pretty exciting stuff. This is a more recent paper by the same people, where they tweak slightly to ternary (-1, 0, 1), and they seem to be able to maintain network performance: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.17764
Pretty sure any updates to the software count as additional R&D. Just running software you've already created doesn't count though. Something interesting we were asked was how much of our cloud costs involved developing software vs running existing software to determine if those costs must also be amortized over 5 years.
So how are homophones in Japanese understood when expressed verbally?

How much trouble do you actually have with them?
ResearchGate makes it easy to email and ask for a copy, though you can usually find the corresponding author listed in the journal entry.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/381007622_Industry_...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smile_(data_interchange_form...

/s
> cross-sectional variation in response and results that disprove your claim

What do you mean? The spread was low enough during the period where it was high mortality that in China, we can lower bound at 1 million even with best case assumptions about mortality compared to the US that likely wouldn't have been true in a still developing country.
Editing Files at 1000 tokens/s with llama-70B
That’s the story. Well done.
we have a ton of other texts, the Upanishads, the Brahmanas, the Aranyakas, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, and countless more. I just listed the most famous other example.
Thank you for this, this is exactly what I was needing last week and got into a hellhole of wrapping Python subprocess pipes in a class.
*stated reason, he had a financial conflict of interest
I can't handle the way this is written at all - it uses a bunch of jargon that I find meaningless. LLMs to the rescue!
I'm not sure what you are arguing, but yes, unless a clear medical emergency the science definitely says kids should not be taking puberty blockers. Nearly every country is cracking down on giving them to kids (trans or not)

https://cass.independent-review.uk/home/publications/final-r...
My first license was from 2015. This is one of the most important utilities I install on all my Macs. I'm sad to see this apparently (and appearance is all that really counts at a moment like this) shifty behavior from the new owners. Hope the original dev got a nice payday.

I plan to keep running the app without updating until it breaks or I find something I like better. I hate when beloved software (effectively) goes away.
that's right. i believe an internet famous 90s female beos engineer was behind it. diane hakbod?
Real-Time Streaming Apps with Nvidia Open Source Triton Inference
I was talking about the preservation technique, not the contents. There is not inherently anything preventing oral traditions from preserving historical events, just like theirs no guarantee that written texts capture only factual information.
I switched to HiddenBar a few years ago when a Bartender licence ran out. It's open source, it's free, and it hasn't been taken over by a new owner who won't identify themselves. https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden
From das wiki: During his two terms in office, he undertook reforms which eventually led to growth in GDP, reduction in public debt and inflation, and helping 20 million Brazilians escape poverty.

He is the most popular politician in Brazil and one of the most popular in the world. He didn’t get there by corruption.
>but it sounds like their current design cannot tolerate the loss of more than a few tiles.

What he said is more concerning than that:

> Right now, we are not resilient to loss of a single tile in most places, as the secondary containment material will probably not survive.

Even one tile lost will probably result in loss of vehicle.
If you’re downloading large files (so large you’re concerned about an in-memory tmpfs) to boxes that you don’t own, stop just leaving them around in the first place.

Sure, /tmp is cleaned on boot. But if the host is rarely rebooted it’s pretty inconsiderate to just leave enormous quantities of unneeded crap lying around in shared directories.

/tmp isn’t supposed to be a garbage dump. It’s supposed to be for data that’s actually in use but transient or relevant to running processes. You’re still expected to be a good citizen on shared hosts and clean up after yourself when you’re done.
Mdpi should fix its format as a third of any given article is whitespace.

Oh, and hi Paul!
Yes reinforcement learning. Apologies for the jargon.
Added bonus, you don’t have to deal with your co-workers stealing your keyboard.
You seem to be strangely offended by the idea of people playing small stakes home games for fun, and frankly, your understanding of a game seems rather skewed to me as well.

I'm really glad for you to know and hopefully be able to make a living off of non-professionals that can afford to lose several thousand dollars in one evening of non-serious playing. That's a great clientèle to have as a professional gambler, and I see nothing wrong with taking advantage of it. But I'll go out on a limb and say it's probably far from the lived experience of most people, and neither should it be.

Obviously for poker to make sense you need to have a minimum of skin in the game. Which is exactly why you basically telling people here to rather go and play with peas comes across as pretty tone deaf, not to say entitled.

You need to understand that you are projecting your standards on people who have no aspirations to play professionally.
I don't know if a rubric for English is as applicable to Japanese.

You're just trading one set of problems for another. Those aren't even problems English has.
IDK, I have multiple times seen significant practical security improvements as a direct consequence of some "93 section questionnaire" because the very first section had a few questions "Are you doing this simple, well-known best practice thing?", which they were not, because it took some time, effort and/or money and they just didn't care.

But once the questionnaire mattered, they started doing it just so they could legally answer "yes" to that question. Things like finally changing the default admin passwords on that service they installed a year ago, and testing backup recovery to find out that it actually can't be done due to a bug in the backup script skipping some key data.
Actions (such as resignations) speak louder than words, but I seriously doubt that ex-employees are prevented from making general statements about AI.
Looking at this for a bit, there's a few reasons:

For starters, according to that link it only left "experimental status" in Oct 2023; it's pretty new. Although their GitHub still describes it as "an experimental language". That doesn't exactly inspire confidence for long-term production use.

The second problem is that while imperfect, everyone and their dog knows at least the SQL basics. There's a lot of value in that.

Thirdly it's written in TypeScript, so anyone not using TypeScript will either have to run some sort of "generate" step, or have to rewrite it in $language_of_choice. Both are painful. This is not a TypeScript problem: you will have that with any language (although with languages that compile to a binary it's a bit less painful, albeit still painful).

Lastly, it doesn't work for all SQL flavours: just BigQuery and PostgreSQL. That's pretty limited.

All of that is assuming the SQL it generates performs as well as "native" SQL, and that all of this can be reasonably debugged if something goes wrong.
If the lack of traction takes away from your excitement or ability to learn, it best to just skip writing. It’s fine to do fun stuff just for the sake of it, no need to justify it by getting an audience.
(CLI) Utilities
Works where archive.ph is blocked:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/america-s-commute-to...

Text-only:

https://assets.msn.com/content/view/v2/Detail/en-in/BB1nzqQ1
Why should that <1% of users be at risk of not graduating because of local data loss?

Teach students about backups and make network storage available for the code and recoverable checkpoints to restart failed simulations/computations.

If reliable, available storage isn't available for all students to graduate then allocate more money to technology resources. Speed is much less of an issue if it's only used for periodic checkpoints.
Do we have any evidence that China is telling the truth?
Only as far as I'd trust many of my human coworkers.
HBO Max for example had a very platform limited rollout at launch. It was only on certain devices.

And of course all browser players depend on adequate DRM (which not all browsers/platforms provide) and often restrict functionality like Atmos etc.

In terms of no-fuss, it’s not just about navigating to the site. It’s about having a consistent interaction paradigm (how are you triggering those tiny web based buttons from your couch?) , how are you handling CEC inputs, separable volumes, text input and voice input etc… there’s a lot of things that people take for granted that make for a more laid back experience.

Regarding synchronized playback, it depends on the streamer. But with SharePlay, yes they need to be on Apple devices but any app can support it. Obviously the ubiquity will differ in different households, but my wife and I are both Apple users. We can watch stuff together when we’re on business trips with a button press. When she pauses or I scrub the timeline, it stays in sync. There’s something truly fantastic about that level of telepresence.
What’s the competitor here?
Zooming with the mouse wheel does not work.
> I am sad to report that Mike Karels died on the way home from #BSDCan, at the age of 67.
https://www.gearty-delmore.com/obituaries/michael-mike-karel...

This man spent 40 years working on BSD. His code appears in #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD, and everywhere.
If you have used the Internet, you have used code he wrote.
RIP, sir. You changed the world for the better.
What's probably his last talk: "I don't have much to say," followed by a spellbinding eighty minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSziyKlG1ws
That's really interesting. As one of the co-authors I agree with your approach, but I also thought that so does the article. We put emphasis on following truth (as opposed to falling into nice illusions), being authentic, following your life mission (that's how I understand the "He who has a why to live for" part of your quote), and not escaping from sadness or problems. Even the heavily criticised inverted quotes mentioned "Happiness sometimes is being pained in body and troubled in mind". How come did you come to the conclusion that the article suggest avoiding pain and going for simple pleasures, easing up on the life's purpose?
(Sorry for such a delayed response, a random life event cut in)
I bought a custom set from Apache Poker Chips. We have .25, 1.00, 5.00, 25.00, 50.00, and 100.00

Covers all of our use cases. We usually do a 20 dollar buyin and do 12 .25, 12 1.00, and 1 5.00

Works well and we eventually move rebuys to 4 5.00, with players making change off of someone with lots of chips.

Sometimes we flood the game with as many .25 as possible because it's fun to have a massive chip stack, but pain to count at the end.

This has worked well for us in games up to 14 people (2 tables)

Worth the initial investment in the chips, especially because they are thonky ceramic chips which just feel _so nice_
To some degree yes, but mostly because Cixin Liu is just an incredibly unique writer in style!
It’s kinda specific to Claude, but the overall concept and really a lot of the api shape is similar for most other LLMs, especially ones that adopt the OpenAI api model.

This is probably best described as a tutorial for how to use tools with Claude.
So much good stuff!

I just wish they'd add an RSS feed that mirrors their social feeds.
history on this: this is something that aman was sort of challenged to do in a weekend as a sort of bet. it didnt end up working in that weekend but ended up working out overall! the post is quite fun as it walks through why the problem is hard.

its also important because it is a key primitive for doing good reliable multi-step code systems :)
That's an amazing piece of work. Even in a quick skim I picked up a lot of new ideas which speaks to how well the author can explain tricky concepts!
In Australia we had (for a brief moment) a carbon tax. It was mercilessly vilified by the Murdoch press who aided and abetted one of the darkest periods of Australian political life in decades, and resulted in the downfall of a government.

"The ill-fated Australian carbon tax lasted just two years. ... Emissions dropped almost immediately after it was introduced as businesses moved to technologies that emitted less. That price signal had an impact. When it was dumped in 2014, carbon emissions began to rise again almost immediately."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-26/carbon-tax-has-come-b...
Well, another reason to take whit caution what Google says
Thank you for the extended reply, I found it really interesting. There's a couple of things I disagree with:

- you seem to say that the only reason for politics (and generally speaking disagreements, wars, etc.) is genuine difference in beliefs (ground truths), which come deeply from the heart and as such are not subject to intellect or logic. In my observation, these beliefs are not all similar in nature. Some are truly foundational like "I like people" / "I'm indifferent whether people exist or are happy", however there are plenty of higher-level thoughts, to give an example from the other extreme on that axis: "I like party X" / "I think party X are all thieves", which are very often described also as beliefs, but in fact, they can be subject to division into smaller components using pure logical process, until eventually you reach the much more foundational level of beliefs. What I've observed is that people are unaware of the fact that their beliefs can be analysed this way and instead just fallback to "we just disagree on beliefs, we will never agree". This is a useful method of manipulating people, to divide them into groups which believe that are opponents, while in reality they needn't be.

- you say that no better tool (to close that gap of understanding high-level problems) has been created and seem to imply that this means that it cannot ever be in the future. Even if it could, perhaps that would be a product of some reputable scientific society or a big corporation, and not a modest group of editors of a philosophical website. If you go to the extreme and expect anyone to deliver an ideal tool, then you're right that it may never come to exist. But what I believe everyone can do is try to make an ever so slightly better tool than the one we have right now. That's what we're trying to do and that's what I'm certain you could do too, we don't aspire to be superheroes.

(Sorry for such a delayed response, a random life event cut in)
Thanks, that's super interesting. Adding some simple grapevine anecdata, I've been told that even shipping Fuchsia on Nest hubs was more of a solution in search of a problem.
Even AI needs a break once in a while ...
> AI today is about as useful as a bitcoin in a black out. It's interesting but it doesn't DO anything other than waste power and resources.

AI today is useful as an enhancer to human productivity. It can sometimes be a real time-saver in the hands of a trained professional - at least in fields such as software development where the correctness of an answer can be validated quickly and safely, and the harm caused when the AI gets it wrong is unlikely to be significant. [0] But in that use case it is supplementing humans, not replacing them - without a trained experienced human in the loop, the AI can’t do anything

[0] It is possible the AI might get it wrong in a subtle way which no human notices and then blows up badly in production - but humans already do that anyway - and we already have tools to try to catch some of those problems (security scanners, memory leak detectors, etc) - and it is possible some of those tools might perform even better with AI assistance
> Roughly 5x cost per unit performance, at 1/100th the performance, with a more limited feature set.

And less than 5% of the price.

In other words; other than being some sort of processing units and associated with AI, they aren’t really that similar.
or have the right entitlements?

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/bundleresources/en...
I don't have much experience of Air Canada, but it's all been bad so far. Someone I know was not allowed on the flight because their ticket had been booked on their behalf and they didn't have that credit card with them. Air Canada gave no warning of this leading up to the flight, and there was nothing in their policy online.

I found Air Canada had previously apologised for a similar incident, but apparently they learned nothing from that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38179443

The cynical part of me suspects they use it to bump people off full flights since it always works out cheaper for them than the compensation.
Him making this joke is also a product of his expertise. Like, it takes at least some experience to have the insight and then be able to communicate it in a pithy way.
> But what you notice from the analyses of those is: they're pretty tenuous.

Why do you think this is any less applicable to literary analysis? How many centuries of biblical scholarship was done under the assumption of mosaic authorship?

Different types of sources simply have different characteristics. You use what's useful for the questions you're researching, you don't need to privilege one as "the true history".
This is what I was going to say as well. Somebody on HN told me about SingleFile and I use it all the time now! Really amazing extension.
I know this is a hot take but hear me out.

I think it makes sense these days for Apple to make phones without much care for repairability. Labor is too expensive to bother with spending hours on repairing a phone. Cheaper to produce new one.

The problem with that is the environmental impact of disposable electronics, but Apple is leading the way and using recycled materials, avoiding plastic, becoming carbon neutral etc.

I think this is the direction the industry is generally going to move towards. It makes sense and stops being a problem when the entire product is recyclable and/or uses recycled material in the first place. They’ve been touting their advancements pretty loudly, but I don’t think it’s getting picked up by journalists.
It was so fun to read this. I am also surprised COX hot patched it within a day.
what is the LLM doing to the files? Is it making edits based on a natural language command?
> She has tracked the iPhone via find my through a few us cities and finally it’s in China.

I wonder… if people whose phones get stolen start tracking the locations they see it travel to using Find My, and a site were available to report these to, could enough evidence be collected to motivate a police/FBI visit to the location of fences in the US who are shipping these to China?

(Could one prevent such a tool from being used maliciously to swat someone?—I suppose in the end a specific victim would have to go to the police in person, limiting that risk? I’m imagining the address-collecting site might respond “yes I’ve seen more than (say) 20 phones reported at that location, you may want to work with local police if you can”.)
> Couldn't students address this with their local admins?

They could try to, sure, but normally local admins in the unis don't cave in to any demands from the students. Sometimes they don't agree even to the demands from the faculty!
You too can be a hacker by using... get this... any SQLite client/library of your choice. You're welcome!
Where would one modify this code to filter different sentiments?

Via this post, I learned about the HackerNews Recap podcast:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hacker-news-recap/id16...
I get a small icon in the the URL bar indicating it, but nothing that the average person would even notice.
> All ‘information’ jobs which is a superset for most tech roles.

I should have been clearer. They made claims about specific jobs. You replied with data about all jobs in a collection of industries.

And the collection of industries isn't even limited to what people would call tech companies in fact.

> One more data point against the collapse narrative is that we’ve never had so many software developers working in the US: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IPUJN5112W200000000

This showed companies classified software publishers employed more people than ever. Your claim could be true. But the chart showed something else.
I had the privilege to take a student group that I was not otherwise a part of to walk the last 100km of the Camino de Santiago a few years ago. It was one of the satisfying things I've done.
It edits the file based on the "plan" laid out by a smarter language model
Back in the dark ages of having to work in an office with shared space in a cubicle farm, it wasn't unheard of where people would swap their keyboards with others because theirs was not working correctly rather than going through IT to get it looked at--possibly also knowing IT might just shrug their useless shoulders at it. I'm guessing a keyboard with blank keys would prevent that.