skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Self-Hosted Apple Health Analyzer (Open-Source)
I was playing around and found out that you can export all your Apple health data. I've been wearing an Apple watch for 8 years and whoop for 3 years. I always check my day to day and week to week stats but I never looked at the data over the years.

I exported my data and there was 989MB of data! So I needed to write some code to break this down. The code takes in your export data and gives you options to look at Steps, Distance, Heart rate, Sleep and more. It gave me some cool charts.

I was really stressed at work last 2 years. I decided to pass this data to A.I. It gave me some CRAZY insights:

Seasonal Anomalies: While there's a general trend of higher activity in spring/summer, some of your most active periods occurred during winter months, particularly in December and January of recent years.

Reversed Weekend Pattern: Unlike most people who are more active on weekends, your data shows consistently lower step counts on weekends, suggesting your physical activity is more tied to workdays than leisure time.

COVID Impact: There's a clear signature of the pandemic in your data, with more erratic step patterns and changed workout routines during 2020-2021, followed by a distinct recovery pattern in late 2021.

Morning Consistency: Your most successful workout periods consistently occur in morning hours, with these sessions showing better heart rate performance compared to other times.

You can run this on your own computer. No one can access your data. For the A.I. part, you need to send it to chatGPT or if you want privacy use your own self hosted LLM.

It's also got a docker image and a branch for a still in progress API. This is my first opensource project so any help would be appreciated!
In every system. The whole point of money is you can use it to get what you want. The whole point of having power is that you can use it to get what you want. They are the same thing if not completely interchangeable. You can use money to buy power and you can use power to accumulate money.
"Cool" years are now hotter than the "warm" years of the past
there's nothing to wonder. He never would have imagined that, it is entirely impossible.
Everyone's in violation. A society where everyone obeys every law is a society of robots.
Manhattan is pretty far on the other extreme. In the kind of medium density typical of European cities (dense rows of 3-6 story townhouses) you have enough density to support excellent public transit and multiple supermarkets in walking distance while having very moderate road noise outside of arterial roads. Delivery drones would absolutely increase noise pollution in such places
> I think VR's issue is that most people don't want to strap things to their face.

It's the whole package, not just one factor. Motion sickness, strapping something to your face, requirement for "free space" to move around and exercise of being up for an extended period of time.

Playing a shooter in VR is genuinely one of my favorite experience, it feels tactical, you have to crouch, reload, you hear the bullets wishling close to your ears, etc... but it's also an experience that is kept to the odd weekend, every once in a while, because it genuinely feels like work to setup everything.
i don't know if pike counts as a systems language, but i consider it an alternative to C, if only because it has good C integration so that you can easily include a module written in C. pikes syntax is also very close to C, which may be appealing to some (ironically that's an aspect i don't really care about myself)

if the question of go being a systems language is controversial, then pike is even more so. i would situate pike somewhere between python and go. pikes major drawback is that it doesn't produce standalone executables.

the real question i'd like to ask is, what actually is a systems language?
How about a 50- year old Product Manager in Tech without a job for > 1.5 year?
> program in US politics that is barely being talked about

Social Security’s looming insolvency is at the heart of Freedom Caucus politics and, before that, animated the Tea Party [1]. Politicians of all stripes running around each cycle professing to protect Social Security are basically dancing around this issue, acknowledging the problem and doing as little as possible to kick the can down the road [2].

(Given the electorate’s changing demographics [3], I expect benefits to be cut by taxing benefits, extending the retirement age and/or increasing penalties for early participation, but that’s just a guess.)

[1] https://www.ontheissues.org/Celeb/Tea_Party_Social_Security....

[2] https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/02/nation/trump-gop-budg...

[3] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/04/03/millennia...
Which would be fine if that's how it was but usually when this subject comes up it's because the government is being sloppy, fining first and asking questions later and rake in untold sums before they accidentally fine the guy who meticulously complied, knows he can prove it and has the time/resources to fight them and then makes the news.

There's a reason I lumped them in with insurance mis-identifying shadows and whatnot.

If the violations were truly meaningful or detrimental then the abutters would have narc'd.
It's like cutting and pasting from Stack Overflow, if SO didn't have a voting system to give you some hope that the top answer at least works and wasn't hallucinated by someone who didn't understand the question.

I asked Gemini for the lyrics of a song that I knew was on all the main lyrics sites. It gave me the lyrics to a different song with the same title. On the second try, it hallucinated a batch of lyrics. Third time, I gave it a link to the correct lyrics, and it "lied" and said it had consulted that page to get it right but gave me another wrong set.

It did manage to find me a decent recipe for chicken salad, but I certainly didn't make it without checking to make sure the ingredients and ratios looked reasonable. I wouldn't use code from one of these things without closely inspecting every line, which makes it a pointless exercise.
Not the case for me. I also tried disabling uBlock, still nothing.
> "The Ukraine" is grammatically incorrect for the same reason "the England" is grammatically incorrect.

It is grammatically atypical, perhaps, but not incorrect. It is fundamentally impossible to use English 'incorrectly'. The closest you can get to any semblance of 'incorrectness' is failing to communicate with the reader. But that is certainly not the case here. Everyone is well aware that in the above comment 'the Ukraine' refers to Ukraine.

> The politically incorrect usage here is not bound to intent, because unaware readers will subconsciously lower Ukraine's status in their minds regardless of whether the writer intended them to do so.

A faulty lowering of Ukraine's status may be politically incorrect, but the words are not to blame. That's your fault for thinking about its status improperly. There is no onus on the writer to worry about a failing mind. If there were, communication would be out of the question.

> If your friend was called James, would you intentionally call him "the James" just because you're not making an official statement?

I personally would not be intentional when writing casually. That defeats the purpose of writing casually. If I happened to put "the" down on paper I certainly wouldn't put in the effort to remove it. Who cares? Assuming the context is otherwise clear, nobody is going to be confused about who "the James" is.
The first step to a world where people do the right thing for the right reasons, is getting them to do the right thing for any reason.
The historical average for the S&P 500 is 6% with inflation adjusting. But even with your math, 15K is a big change given the current median retirement savings.
Chief of Microsoft-backed UK tech unicorn Builder.ai steps down
You seem to have the opinion that every person on the planet should be working in corporate warehouses and be very happy for that fact, otherwise they would effectively be dead.

Where I live people have jobs like forester, woodcutter, blacksmith, teacher, doctor, farmer, builders, painters etc.
People often do work for somebody else, in return for their services back. Lots of service is provided on a trade basis instead on via money.

People working in commercial warehouses for big companies is a relatively new thing, and it causes most people who do it great unhappiness.

Do you genuinely believe that only the possibility of a world exists where people have to slave all day for big corporations in factories and warehouses?
I wouldn't want to bet that you could do a $10 billion plus project to build the most complex facility in the world, in a tearing hurry and without complete documentation or vendor support, in a war economy and under international sanctions using a bunch of extremely pissed-off people and have the project go very well at all.

And I'd also bet that a translation of Simple Sabotage would be going viral within the week.
>A recently declassified geological survey has revealed that the country’s thorium reserves, already considered among the world’s largest, may have been vastly underestimated.
https://archive.is/LiSP9
“You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.”

― Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Here are the facts of NATO encroachment from the fall of the Berlin wall to the annexation of Crimea:

1. Feb 1990: The US, through West German chancellor Helmut Kohl, hints at freezing NATO’s borders in order to secure German reunification.

"Kohl thus found himself in a complicated position as he prepared to meet with Gorbachev on February 10, 1990. He had received two letters, one on either end of his flight from West Germany to the Soviet Union, the first from Bush and the second from Baker, and the two contained different wording on the same issue. Bush’s letter suggested that NATO’s border would begin moving eastward; Baker’s suggested that it would not.

According to records from Kohl’s office, the chancellor chose to echo Baker, not Bush, since Baker’s softer line was more likely to produce the results that Kohl wanted: permission from Moscow to start reunifying Germany.”

https://archive.ph/hyDhA

Outcome: the former Warsaw-Pact East Germany joins NATO as part of unified Germany.

2. Partnership for Peace membership
(NATO program for creating trust and cooperation between member states and other states mostly in Europe)

Ukraine Feb 8, 1994

Georgia Mar 23, 1994

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partnership_for_Peace#Member...

3. Official NATO expansion

Poland Mar 12, 1999

Estonia Mar 29, 2004

Latvia “

Lithuania "

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlargement_of_NATO#Aspiring...

Outcome: NATO is now on Russia's borders on multiple flanks.

4. Feb/Mar 2014: Putin takes Crimea right after the pro-Russian Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych is ousted.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Crimea_by_the_...

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European motivations for joining NATO are obvious and beyond debate: what formerly war-torn nation wouldn't want shelter under our nuclear umbrella?

But while whether or not gradual, but deliberate NATO encroachment was a Neocon stratagem may be debatable to you and me, I doubt Putin, a paranoid autocrat who considers the fall of the USSR one of history's great calamaties, looking at these facts, would have the least question whatsoever.
> How did that work out in the USSR and CCP, where groups regulated the corrupt power of others on behalf of the people?

You are right, and the US won that battle. But let’s wait a few years as that winning looking quite so solid today.
The prospect of having drones flying over my backyard for any reason is undesirable even if they are completely silent.
Not by noisy drone, if that’s what you’re asking.
Are you thinking of Bismuth's "Speedrunning as a gateway to scientific endeavours", perhaps?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8_1lQ2KH50
Combining the two titans of data.
Understanding Text Processing in LLMs from Scratch (Code Video Tutorial)
A RedMonk Conversation: Jason Lengstorf from Screamo to CodeTV
This is beside the point but they actually might. Take out the electric grid, and most other stuff stops working, including gas pumps and refineries.
I love my Xbox Kinnects (Dance Central >>> Just Dance), but the current state of AI-enhanced motion capture is amazing.

In addition to Google MediaPipe, I just learned about MoCapade 3 that captures multiple people from any video (e.g. any camera): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jizULlZTAR8
Inequalities by themselves are not really a problem. I don't care about other peoples palaces if I can live comfortably in my small house. In fact, if said palace is well maintained and tasteful, it can make for a beautiful landmark everyone can enjoy seeing.

It only becomes a problem if people are miserable, the palace stops being a beautiful landmark and becomes a symbol of oppression.

Back to stocks, I think there is absolutely nothing wrong with the top 10% owning 87% of the stocks (in the US, because apparently, the rest of the world doesn't exist...). The stock market is risky, that's really a thing for those who have all their basic needs covered and can afford to lose big. Owning stock i.e. investing in companies is also among the most best things to society the rich can do, compared to, say, building palaces for themselves.

All that to say that if some causes are worth revolting against, I just don't think inequality in stock ownership is one of them.
Your dentist might want to have a talk with you if you're not using toothpaste daily.
It's only necessary to store the login token if your backend is on a different origin than your SPA is served from. It's not especially hard to avoid this.
27-Year-Old EXE Becomes Python in Minutes (With Claude)
How does someone who was sued for everything and declared bankruptcy come up with 8 million in cash in a shell corporation so quickly?
I've definitely had these types of issues while writing code with LLMs. When relying on an LLM to write something I don't fully understand I will basically default to a form of TDD, making sure that the code behaves according to some spec. If I can't write a spec, then that's an issue.
I haven't seen this with owls but we've got some kind small predator bird like a peregrine falcon that the blue jays have it absolutely out for. The most interesting thing is once they start making the alerting calls, an inter-species mob will form with other birds of similar sized that aren't usually aggressive (like northern flickers) and they'll all harass the falcon until it flies off.
Nuclear Power is cheaper than geothermal at large scale.
Local mirrors of long-defunct historical websites
Targeted delivery of TGF-β mRNA to lung parenchyma using Janus Dendrimers
How does this compare to the `obj` crate? I'm assuming that doesn't handle cases beyond the common one well? I ask because I have a 3D rendering/GUI application lib in rust (`graphics` crate), and for OBJ files, I thinly wrap that to turn it into a mesh.

In my own applications, it hasn't come up, as I've been mostly using primitives and dynamically-generated meshes, but am wondering if I should switch.
hacker spirit and/or hedge against the end of the industrial age

Personally, I don't have much faith in sustaining a modern industrial lifestyle for billions of people very long term on PV panels or any renewables really (EROEI issues, rare earth minerals etc.). But I'm bullish on electricity in general.
need a sense of scale in that video
I thought a lot of this stuff was basically below conscious thought. You can interrupt it but otherwise the urge to breathe and the corresponding breathing proceeds apace. I've been told that in ventilator-dependent patients if the ventilator has too low a breath rate they still have the urge to breathe and feel it quite painfully until the ventilator takes a breath for them.

If you pass out under water because you run out of oxygen you will immediately resume breathing and drown.
https://archive.ph/E4CnA
Yea in my neighborhood I also don't want drones buzzing around and clouding up my views or disturbing my nice day at the park just to deliver drop-shipped plastic crap from slave factories. I'd rather instead of Amazon continue to gain market share that* we have more local stores so we can rebuild our middle class. Yes in my backyard for more local businesses, sidewalks and walkable neighborhoods, fresh, local produce, and parks, and development, and clear skies without noise disturbances.

If you want your packages delivered sooner why not set up your own small communities next to Amazon distribution centers and work out a deal with Amazon to pick up your own packages? Maybe they can even give you a Prime discount for self-pickup??

Technology is just a tool - it's neither progressive nor regressive except in the results of its application usage. I'm not sure where we got this idea that more efficient deliveries == "progress". Progress toward what? Even more efficient deliveries?

* Nothing in particular against Amazon versus Wal-Mart or other generic retailers, Amazon is just the topic of the OP.
> Flow's biggest competition was The Wild Robot, which did gross far more than Inside Out 2, but far below Inside Out 2.

Exactly the same as Inside Out 2 then?

(I'm guessing it was far more than Flow but less than Inside Out 2?)
I fear it will become a huge deal. At some point, Google and/or cloudflare might decide that Firefox is not allowed. This decision becomes harder to make the more people are using Firefox.

In a way, every time a Firefox user-agent string is logged it is a sort of vote for a more open web.
I would appreciate it if someone could chime in here who knows what they're talking about on the physics of this:

My intuition is that there are a number of big problems:
1) power that a power station could supply is limited to the thermal conduction within the earth's crust that the power plant has access to. Instantaneous power can be high, but it would cool down the rocks. I don't think rocks are good conductors. It seems one needs to somehow access a large surface area (facing down) of rocks but a drill hole is vertical.

2) getting heated steam from inside the crust to the surface for electricity conversion faces losses by way of heat conduction to the drill hole. What are the losses there per km, for instance? Does this make some depth infeasible?

Separately, has anyone done a calculation of the actual energy that is released from the inside of the earth through the surface? It seem extremely small for most parts of the world and so would need a massive surface area. I am sceptical that there are many areas which would provide consistent long term energy (over just cooling the rocks too far).
> Last week, the company announced that Duggal was to be replaced as chief but would remain on its board as founder and retain the title of “chief wizard”.

I don't really know much about this company, but this kind of language makes me instantly distrust it.
While you are right about the misleading articles that will likely come from this, we do need to pay attention to what we eat so it is a reasonable question and one that should be investigated.
Wikimedia tries but despite their best efforts Wikipedia is still unrivaled.
The Wii was one of the most successful consoles of all time. Half the games had people standing up and swinging at something. That doesn't track at all.
I've seen this case a bunch of times but I can never wrap my head around how the judge arrived at the 1.5 Billion dollars, because Alex Jones falsely claimed the school shooting was staged. How did that claim cause 1.5 Billion, with a B, in damages to the victims?
Show HN: Go-Zero Reaches 30k GitHub Stars a Milestone Worth Celebrating
That saying is from a time when being a millionaire was akin to being something like a billionaire today.
A rocket, flying saucer or bird seems obvious, for something which is going up and down. But as an improvement, it should also handle the direction of scrolling. At the moment, the buddy always looks into the same direction. Unless it's Michael Jackson doing a moonwalk (which you could add too), it's inconsistent.
Because he stashed away all his earnings using may layers and indirection, and our government systems are not equipped or not motivated to find them all?
There some life forms on earth that will never become preserved. Squids for example are a high ammonium based life form. The Ammonium prevents fossilization. If humans didn't exist while they do, we would have never known about them. [0] There would have been no preserved record.

[0] https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/squid-empire-danna-staaf/11...
> How can one “financially educate” himself out of the prices doubling in a matter of a few years?

By investing. Even with inflation adjustment historical market return is 6%.
There have to be dozens of billionaires that would give out that type of pocket change to "own the libs".
A truck delivers to them once every few days/weeks, the ones doing the last mile to my nearby store are quite often electric. Since it's a truck they can deliver a literal truckload of it instead of relying on some individual deliver point-to-point, economies of scale and all.
In this tutorial, you'll gain an understanding of the principles behind Polars LazyFrames. You'll also learn why using LazyFrames is often the preferred option over more traditional DataFrames
Shop, Home Economics, and Media were the only classes I liked in middle school. I took Shop 3 times and Home Economics twice, because you could retake it voluntarily since they were elective classes. While I don't use this knowledge every day, some of what I learned in Shop class laid the foundational knowledge I needed for a number of my hobbies, including the work that went into building my first race car.

Home Economics taught me how to sew and embroider, which came in handy many times for small repairs like sewing a button on, but more importantly it helped teach me to cook, and as an adult I am a relatively accomplished home chef.

I was never going to make a career out of either, but it definitely helped round me out in a way that has helped me to become over time something of a Renaissance man.
The sorts of people you're describing do certainly exist, but that isn't how unemployed urban planners on YouTube have historically used the term, which is instead used to browbeat people who (quite reasonably) don't want their neighborhoods transformed by the construction of detox facilities, halfway houses, and mass transit infrastructure.
Yes. https://www.blm.gov/
For me it depends on altitude. If they're at the height of the average Cessna, then I'm cool with it. I don't want drones buzzing 100ft above my head though.
I've been putting out seed in winter but seeing a Cooper Hawk show up occasionally, I feel a little bad.
No.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War
The last one you mention is something I think I have but haven’t thought of it like that.

As in, I’ve many times stopped a friend who’s using a tool because I can tell the sound is off - almost always finding something amiss.

Or picked up a tool and felt that something was wrong.

Same with small engines, the sound and vibrations I’ve always found easy to tell if something is off.

On some level, I thought everyone had this if they spent a few moments around these items.

I realize that is such an ignorant take on my part!!

Conversely, I have almost zero talent for easily telling if code is off, or for fighting games, or numeric patterns beyond basic examples.
They kind of nixed that themselves... (of course, rules are meant to be broken)...

https://www.nps.gov/orgs/aviationprogram/upload/unmanned-air...
Melting Antarctic ice sheets are slowing Earth's strongest ocean current