troydavis

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Comment · 2 years ago
What's the point of fake comments, let alone talking with yourself using alt accounts?

Do you think potential users will trust someone who posts fake comments?

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Comment · 2 years ago
Thanks for editing out the line where you told me to go get my brain checked.
Comment · 2 years ago
Don’t rely on my assessment, go read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9775868. If you disagree, don’t tell me, suggest an improvement to Dan.
Comment · 2 years ago
Your quote omits the portion where Dan explicitly addressed that case. It needs to be one year since it received “significant attention,” and also major new development. Dan’s post could be worded more clearly, though.

(We’re pretty far in the weeds here, but as long as we’re here – for all intents and purposes, this is a show HN.)

Comment · 2 years ago
Please reread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9775868. It says one year since it received significant attention, not one year except when a massive chunk of features and content is added. Dan explicitly addresses that case (“but that only applies after the "significant attention" test has been passed”).
Comment · 2 years ago
Effectively a dupe - this just got attention 3 months ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39672947, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39677009) and 8 months ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38144417).

Once a year has been suggested as the typical maximum frequency: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9775868 . Consider reposting in 2025.

Also, coordinating comments and upvotes won’t do you any favors. It’s an easy way to get all submissions banned.

Comment · 2 years ago
Head over to the full text (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10899630/) and find in the page for “sleep”. Excerpt:

> Covariates included … drinking status (never drinker/past drinker/current drinker), body mass index (kg/m2), physical activity (metabolic equivalent hours per week (METs-h/week), sleep hours (hours/day)

They also break down sleep hours by cohort, with roughly 12 minutes/day less sleep among high nighttime eaters.

Comment · 2 years ago
Check out my comment in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40392631#40392877. As I wrote, head over to https://old.reddit.com/r/changemyview/ , where you can have every version of that debate in an environment that's designed for it.

Here are some to start: https://old.reddit.com/r/changemyview/search?q=assisted+suic...

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
I bought an AirGradient indoor meter and ran into 3 significant undocumented problems, 2 of which affect CO2:

1. The VOC readings use a relative scale and it's relative to a floating value: the last 24 hours. If a VOC source is present for more than 24 hours, it will quietly become part of the baseline value (100). You can read more here: https://forum.airgradient.com/t/measurement-values-for-the-a... , https://forum.airgradient.com/t/measurement-values-for-the-a...

2. The CO2 measurements re-calibrate to the lowest value detected every week (as ~400 ppm clean air). If it's not exposed to clean air every week, the readings will drift. When users asked how this worked, calibration hadn't been thought about much, if at all: https://forum.airgradient.com/t/model-number-for-co2-calibra... , https://forum.airgradient.com/t/model-number-for-co2-calibra...

3. The graphs don't show reboots, even though reboots (always?) reset the baselines. Reboots happen relatively frequently due to software updates. So, even the relative scale can change without any entry on the graph.

I was pretty annoyed because it didn't seem like the company had thought through the user experience enough to even encounter these questions, let alone consider the best implementation (or at least document the flaws in whatever they're able to implement). This is the whole purpose of the product. The company means well and tries hard, but at some point good intentions matter less than the product.

Comment · 2 years ago

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