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DailyHN··on Ask HN: Best solutions for keeping a personal log?
Awesome! I've been wanting to do this.
DailyHN··on FDA approves new treatment for adults with migraine
Thanks for sharing about it taking thirty years. I can only imagine that it becomes so much harder of a problem to solve when the symptoms are as severe as a migraine.

Unfortunately, I don't think people understand how long it takes to get a grasp on everything we ingest. Someone in a sibling comment mentioned giving up after just a few months of "logging" their diet.

It took me years to narrow down an allergy/sensitivity to tannins. And it also took years to recognize the full extent of sugars' effect on my body.

DailyHN··on FDA approves new treatment for adults with migraine
> Tbh I would rather have to take painkillers sometimes than do keto intermittent fasting every day with organic vegan weeks.

Lucky for you it seems you haven't been exposed to pain killer addiction and death.

But, not as lucky since you don't have someone that can create delicious meals from any ingredients (it's possible, see the TV show "Chopped").

> probably eats healthier

This would be much easier to answer if you spent 1% of the time you spend eating on learning about what it is that's going into your body.

DailyHN··on FDA approves new treatment for adults with migraine
> Even when they are triggered the brain is mistaken that something is wrong.

Seems like pain is an indicator that something is wrong to me.

DailyHN··on FDA approves new treatment for adults with migraine
I think your stretching/twisting what I said quite a bit.
DailyHN··on FDA approves new treatment for adults with migraine
Growing up, I had multiple friends die from brain aneurysms. Those start with a bad headache.

That has lead to me avoiding all medicines every time I get a headache (yes, I understand correlation is not causation).

My primary route to solve any headache is hydration. Adding electrolytes is also important because too much water without them can also give you a headache.

My experience has also lead me to focus on consuming the healthiest diet I can find (currently intermittent fasting + keto with intermittent-vegan weeks, mostly organic, with all nutrients from food sources).

On the other hand, my mother, who could convince the majority she's healthy based on her weight and latest diet buzzwords, has had migraines for the past 30 years, maybe longer — even landing her in the hospital on many occasions.

A migraine is your body telling you something is wrong with your most valuable asset.

Are you sure you want to sweep this problem under the rug?

There is a documentary on Amazon called "Fat". It illustrates how many children with epilepsy were harmed by the combination of 1. lack of understanding food and 2. pharmaceuticals with side effects that render them permanently disabled.

Good luck with your search for health and wellbeing.

DailyHN··on As wildfires hit Australia, ocean warming from climate change endangers Tasmania
Better reference than Netflix?
DailyHN··on Effects of Intermittent Fasting on Health, Aging, and Disease [pdf]
Yes, that would be great. This is a real problem for me. Especially because I don't drink coffee, either.
DailyHN··on Effects of Intermittent Fasting on Health, Aging, and Disease [pdf]
How can that be lucrative?
DailyHN··on Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines
Not hard. No dedicated device required, either.

It requires reverse engineering which data in being transferred to the school. This likely occurs using a simple HTTP request. Or series of requests. Copy the data from that HTTP request. Then replicate those HTTP requests.

DailyHN··on What it's like to bootstrap a business before it can financially support you
Selling blood is somewhat outlawed. I say somewhat because you can still receive gift cards and movie tickets.

Selling plasma for cash is mostly done by very impoverished people. I used to live a few blocks from one of these businesses. The people you see hanging around the place would probably discourage anyone but the neediest from "donating."

DailyHN··on Hippy: React Native Alternative by Tencent
People are saying that this looks like React Native fork.

Since the project hasn't acknowledged the forking, they already have given good reason to be suspicious.

DailyHN··on BugJail: New Java debugger – debug across time with mouse
Those images aren't visible on mobile. And I was expecting much worse when I viewed them in desktop mode.

Based on the stage they're at, I'd save optimizing the landing page design for the future.

Though, I would put effort to better describe the problem on the landing page.

DailyHN··on Memories Can Be Injected and Survive Amputation and Metamorphosis
What about encoding long term memories in DNA?
DailyHN··on Supreme Court Won't Hear Case on Ban Against Homeless Sleeping in Public Spaces
Yes, I agree with the outcome of the article.

The sad thing is that anyone could ever imagine ticketing(monetary fines) as a good idea to control homelessness.

That's kicking someone when they're already down. Very sad.

DailyHN··on Supreme Court Won't Hear Case on Ban Against Homeless Sleeping in Public Spaces
Recommendation: Raise your kids around homelessness.

Why? Because then they will learn to have compassion for these people.

And maybe then, with compassion that doesn't come from a sheltered life, one will use their privileged education and resources to execute an innovative solution successfully.

DailyHN··on Supreme Court Won't Hear Case on Ban Against Homeless Sleeping in Public Spaces
#1 is a problem that needs to be solved, yes. No, I don't think asylums are the solution.

"Crazy people and drug addicts" can be rehabilitated.

At this point, the only people in problem #1 are those that simultaneously have problem #2.

DailyHN··on Supreme Court Won't Hear Case on Ban Against Homeless Sleeping in Public Spaces
I understand what happened. I'm just sad this is what we're talking about in 2019.
DailyHN··on Supreme Court Won't Hear Case on Ban Against Homeless Sleeping in Public Spaces
It's also sad to see that my city spends extra money to make sure that every bench is designed so that sleeping on it is uncomfortable, if not impossible.
DailyHN··on Supreme Court Won't Hear Case on Ban Against Homeless Sleeping in Public Spaces
If you think ticketing homeless people will solve the homelessness problem, then you are the reason homelessness is still a problem.

Articles like this make me sad.

Humanity can do better.

What's wrong with us?

DailyHN··on Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf
You should try it out.
DailyHN··on Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf
Yes, and this becomes exceedingly important as the number and complexity of automations increases.

Huginn can assist in organizing complex workflows into manageable components.

DailyHN··on Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf
Sometimes a smoothie around 3pm that contains plant proteins, collagen protein, amazing grass, 1/4 cup of blueberries, ground chia seeds, and maca powder.

I've been intermittent fasting + keto for the majority of the past five years. The minority is when we cycle off keto for a week here and there by doing intermittent fasting + vegan.

DailyHN··on Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf
I use HTTP cloud functions (google/firebase version of aws lambda).

Firebase database for long term persistence.

Huginn for scheduling and event based triggers of those cloud functions.

DailyHN··on Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf
> How does configuration works? Is it just configurable through the webinterface or can I update/set workflows with some external script?

Primarily Web interface. Though, the CommanderAgent can configure and trigger other agents. You can use that in combination with your external script for configuration.

> Is configuration saved in textfiles which I can put under versioncontrol and backup, or is it some unaccesable binay blob?

Agent configurations are stored in the database and can be exported as text files for your backups.

> How much does it break with each update? And how often does it receive bigger and smaller updates?

Making sure updates don't break existing installations is one of the top priorities of maintainers. Most of the updates are small/incremental. And I haven't had any problems with the updates breaking things.

> How does this compare to something like home assistant or node-red, if you know this software.

I looks at node-red years ago and determined it wasn't as mature of a project. Things could've changed since then. And I haven't heard of home assistant.

> Anything you consider missing or lacking on some area?

The UI is a bit basic. Though, I think this can also be looked at as a feature instead of a flaw.

DailyHN··on Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf
Ok, so in the remote agent:

Retrieving data from huginn can be done with the DataOutputAgent.

Sending data to huginn can be achieved through the WebhookAgent.

DailyHN··on Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf
What do you mean remote agents? Can it be accessed over HTTP? Then yes.

One of the great features of huginn is the diagram. That's where there are green and red indicators. Red indicates both errors and when a longer than expected period has passed. This makes quickly inspecting your workflows easy.

DailyHN··on Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf
Mostly assisting in curating news about niche technologies (angular, react).

What's a "major issue"?

At this point, I feel that I'm well versed in when to use huginn. That helps me avoid most issues.

I use Zapier all the time for the things it does better/easier. That said, often, one end of the "zap" is integrated with a workflow in huginn. For instance, I commonly use Zapier when I need data gathered by huginn to be continuously logged into a spreadsheet.

Additionally, puppeteer(node) is another fantastic automation tool, which I use to do things that you probably shouldn't try to do with huginn. But, I connect my puppeteer scripts to larger workflows using huginn.

Thanks to the maintainers, I think that huginn does what it was designed to do very well.

DailyHN··on Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf
@dsander I immediately recognized your username from GitHub Thanks for all the work you've put in!

I run Huginn on Heroku. I haven't had any significant issues since it's been running. It's been so long since I've set it up that I would need to review my notes to tell you any more about how it's deployed.

DailyHN··on Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf
I don't eat breakfast.
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