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I'm curious what that would have to do with a state controlled news company generating millions of spam articles.

sure, that's simplest scenario, just seemed odd that was the first vote. and it's not like writing or running a bot is hard and political stories seem like they'd be a popular target to me.

(I do find it interesting, btw, that a few seconds after post this did get an immediate downvote to 0 - it didn't last, but it makes me wonder if there are bots monitoring the HN firehose for anything critical of country X)

... yet another update, they added O₂ \o/ ♥

I don't trust that one enormously, but still much more plausible than measuring blood pressure through low-res vein imaging.

... oh, and the pebble watch only does steps/sleep/heart, not all the other more dubious measurements, but frankly, I didn't trust those anyway.

Bit of an update to myself. My dipping toes in water with the cheap device convinced me to try the Pebble Time 2, and man it's an enormous difference in accuracy and real-time feedback. So, if I was going to be spending a significant amount of money on a fitness device I'd definitely recommend the watch. Has a lot more alternate uses too. But ofc if you're looking to stay more in the <$50 range, a ring probably still makes sense.

No idea how it compares, but my local Lidl was selling a smart ring for $15 so I decided to give it a shot. I assume half the measurements are "for entertainment purposes only" (glucose, blood pressure, stress [heart rate variability proxy?], blood oxygenation [might be ok with my skin tone, not sure I'd trust it]) but the others seem fairly accurate. Again, no idea how it compares to the pricier ones, but seems to match my pulse measured at neck and what I remember of my nightly sleep pretty well.

And yeah, I'm certainly not going to worry about it getting scratched or slightly wet. Actually, it got dropped and stepped on, and is slightly dented but still seems to run fine - the epoxy sealant for the electronics seems intact and while I was a bit concerned for the battery, that's been a while with no issues.

And, while I have no idea whether the app is quietly collecting data and pushing it to a server in china (if it is, it is doing it in a way that is sneaking past the firewall), at least it does not require creating an account to use.

So in that sense it is maybe more private than oura or samsung ?

They do mention that in the "Concurrent Work" section.

    Our effort began on September 1st after hearing a rumor which we later realized was related to Levent Alpöge, an Anthropic employee, and Tristan Buckmaster, a math professor at NYU. After the completion of our full project and Lean verification (on September 6th), believing from the rumor they also had a solution of Navier–Stokes, we reached out to them to offer a concurrent release of our result and to recognize their priority in a joint announcement. At that point we found out that they had a resolution of the forced Euler problem. In these discussions we offered them visibility into all of the prompts we used and later to see the proof. We recognize the priority of their work on forced Euler and congratulate them on their remarkable mathematical achievement.

That seems like it could also mess with mouse selections if the text moved when selected. maybe even causing endless jitter.

I kinda wonder if "page scrolled 'cause X was selected" type data extraction attacks might play a slight role too. Although I suppose if you've managed to inject CSS all bets are off..

yeah, although text-stroke and text-shadow probably work even better with fixed width code since it avoids changing line lengths.

Hedgewars has a mac build. It's at least in the genre... Although with these old games I feel they'd probably play fine in a VM...

Hedgewars had to lock down its bugzilla and repo too, for the exact same reason. So far the really simple method used (basic auth with the creds posted on the main site) seems to have resisted the scrapers. Presumably if they are too stupid to scrape correctly they are also too stupid to incorporate a trivial auth.

Ah. missed those when reading the intro page. thanks.