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Re:Ask HN: Good Fitness Band? on Saturday December 24, 2022 @10:59PM (#34124105)
Makes sense. Could a fever still be detected with the wrist temperature? I was reading the wikipedia page on fever, and it has this interesting graphic showing different fever patterns: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fever#/media/File:Fever_Patter...

...so naturally I was wondering if this could lead to rough diagnostic method using a temperature sensing fitness wearable.

Ask HN: Good Fitness Band?

Posted by mustachionut on Saturday December 24, 2022 @04:24PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I recently got the flu and was thinking it would be interesting to have a graph of my body temperature, which made me consider buying a fitness band. Are there any that HN likes? Factors I care about: - Slim design and good battery life - No subscription required to unlock any features - Lots of interesting sensors (heart rate, SpO2, skin temp, others?) - Open data access, reverse...

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Re:ChatGPT vs. a Cryptic Crossword on Monday December 05, 2022 @09:31PM (#33875140)
Great, just when I thought captchas were hard enough...
Re:Be Less Scared of Overconfidence on Monday December 05, 2022 @02:07AM (#33862457)
Related: "Heuristics That Almost Always Work": https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/heuristics-that-almost...
Re:BuiltWith: $14M ARR, no employees on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @08:19PM (#33185576)
If they have no employees, why do they have 4 workstations and a conference room with a whiteboard?
Re:Tesla FSD Beta Lunges Toward Bicyclist on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @07:37PM (#30266980)
This cyclist went on to murder three people. The Tesla was simply choosing the better of two bad options to minimize fatality.
Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch on Monday October 18, 2021 @08:44PM (#28913677)
Ooh they're shipping the 16-inch with a 140w power adapter: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MLYU3AM/A/

Sadly looks like its still not GaN, this thing is a beast...

Re:Caffeine: A vitamin-like nutrient, or adaptogen on Sunday May 24, 2020 @04:38PM (#23294491)
People who aren’t super healthy don’t typically feel like drinking lots of caffeine. I think that’s a more likely explanation than caffeine having tons of assorted health benefits.
Re:Vitamin D looks powerful, underutilized for Covid-19 on Friday May 08, 2020 @08:15PM (#23120941)
A low-cost Vitamin D blood test was FDA approved in 2011, and since then Vitamin D deficiency diagnoses have skyrocketed. Plus, the narrative works (humans need sun for vitamin D, but now humans are inside, thus humans need to supplement D).
Re:FastMRI leverages adversarial training to remove image artifacts on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @03:42PM (#22417214)
Even without anything fancy, is there a speed vs clarity parameter(s) when doing an MRI? It seems an easy improvement would be to spend more time getting a clear picture of the specific area of interest, vs now where the whole scan seems to be done at full clarity.
Re:Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spreading glo... on Friday January 31, 2020 @07:55PM (#22207667)
> From a fake account?

No. From a new, anonymous account where I intend to post my opinions without them being tied to my identity. At least until I post enough for stylometric analysis to work...

Re:Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spreading glo... on Friday January 31, 2020 @05:53PM (#22206771)
The allegation that the virus originated in a lab is appealing but unfounded. Everybody would rather believe that our problems come from circumstances humans understand and control rather than the cold randomness of the universe. Though the virus and death it has caused is terrible, at least the fight against it unites humanity in a limited way. The groundless assertion that it originated in a lab recasts coronavirus into a human vs human problem and amplifies our political differences.