skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For sure, the credit card at the pump has been an amazing convenience for rural areas. I do love the ability, but it is a pain when the credit card company’s software doesn’t feel you need that convenience.
I have a terrific new naturopathic doctor who actually cares about my health and will run blood panels frequently and let me know what lifestyle changes and supplements would help me. I never knew before that I was deficient in zinc. Before her though, most of my doctors were of the bland "if you aren't in extreme pain then it's not a problem" camp.
I feel that the point is not about the transfer representations but about the interaction model. REST makes sense as long as you can sanely map your interactions onto simple modification of something that can be meaningfully described as "resource". For typical application that implements non-trivial bussines processes this means that you either expose low-level implementation details (ie. how you internally represent progress of some process) in your API or you implement "REST" API that is sufficiently far from what REST is supposed to mean that it stops to make sense to use that moniker.

On the other hand SOAP is good match for such applications because it is simply an RPC mechanism, albeit with unnecesarily complex marshalling and transport layers underneath.
Nutrition studies are very difficult, which is exactly how we get to a place where governments are pushing food pyramids telling everyone to eat mostly carbs everyday. I won't show you anything, other than articulating that I genuinely believe sugar is toxic, we should be eating fewer carbs, intermittent fasting makes me feel better, and 3 meals a day is unnecessary.
Wow. I'm not sure if this is even going to be a good suggestion. Let me try in a very personal way.

Having been a developer, designer helped a lot. I know what's going on and I can jump in. Unfortunately, I cannot jump in as much as I want to these days. Things do move fast and the best I can do is help in learning/researching a topic faster and help focus and save time.

While picking any consumption of information, I like to focus on the human side of it. I'm not trying to learn a new thing to either impress or even help them. They are way better than me when it comes to technology, frameworks etc. If I'm helping a newer or not so experienced developer or a designer, I already know how to help them without overwhelming them.

More than podcasts/audible, I read a lot (both physical and kindle). I avoid driving and take an Uber (I live in Bangalore and you know the traffic here) so I can read.

As for the few select podcasts - a16z, YCombinator, Startup School, Entrepreneur on Fire, Youpreneur, No Quit Living. I started being regular recently, so I'm still curating my choices.

Thinking like an entrepreneur really does help -- delegate, accept failures from one and all. Don't try to impress, or win anything. Try to be humble, modest and let others know that you don't know. Don't be that "Product Manager" that have never shipped a product, the "Project Manager" that has never designer/developed a project.

I hope you would be able to take some and form your own ways.

P.S. These came out recently. A lot of good ones.

25 Books Every Business Leader Needs to Read Now
https://www.drift.com/blog/must-read-books/

72 Best Entrepreneurship Books of All Time
https://bookauthority.org/books/best-entrepreneurship-books
Interesting that they can't force people into help. Some Western democracies have provisions for forcing people into help: UK with the previous ASBO laws, US with wards of the state, and even San Francisco targeting 100 "most hopeless homeless" to be forced into help.

It's very odd to me that you need to be a citizen to get benefits. California takes care of everyone -- citizen or not.
A more approachable description of why this is bad: "Green Jellybeans cause acne, p=0.05"

https://xkcd.com/882/

No, outcome switching is not exactly the same as P-hacking, but either could be blamed here.
I use PHP still, using Laravel. So far I enjoy it. Definitely a pleasure to use. My web apps are used by at most a hundred people throughout the month, so performance won’t be an issue.

Deployment with Laravel is a breeze. I don’t use any of their deployment utilities though like Forge.

I came back to PHP. Used it back in what feels like the Stone Age. Then went through Rails when it was the new hotness. Switched to mobile and desktop development. Was behind when I needed a web project done, and knew I could fall back to my PHP skills faster than Ruby. Tried out Laravel and have been pretty happy since.
Isn’t fish oil also good for your joints?

EDIT: here’s some information - https://arthritisaustralia.com.au/managing-arthritis/living-... - and without doing much research I’ve been taking it to prevent joint strains from running - not sure if that’s worthwhile or not
Shouldn't one consider what the p-value is in weighing whether it is a fluke or not?
Signal not as strong as previous iPhone 6. Drops to 4G more often in town when this never happened with my iPhone 6.

Since iOS 12.1 update, wireless will just stop sending/receiving data while still showing connection. I will now sporadically lose all cellular signal, until I turn airplane mode on/off, then back to 3 bars.

I've only seen 4 bars on this phone once, at the AT&T store when they gave me a new sim card. Promptly went back to 3 bars when I left the store.
Yeah, I've tried the same (my theory was it would help mitigate the effects of SAD through the long, dark winter).

I've noticed no difference (though to be fair, it was hardly an empirical approach). I have a pretty well-rounded diet, so I assume I'm not deficient.

I do think that fish oil makes a difference, at least in terms of exercise.
This calculated and scientific approach to picking the perfect color scheme is extremely seductive, but not very useful.

Well, unless you want your site to look like this:

There's a difference between picking maximally distinctive colours (which a lot of palette generators are designed to do) for graphs and such, and picking colours for UI.

Personally, I think less colour and higher contrast is better than the trend of barely-distinguishable shades of grey; and of course, for desktop apps, please use the platform's standard UI colours because the user may have customised them for his/her preference/colour-perception and expect your app to be too.
> If the answer was easy we'd have found it, and we'd tell you about it.

Like washing hands before dealing with women in labor? smh

Also, enough with the "we", student doctor. You're not part of some privileged class of geniuses out to educate the rubes, on HN of all places.
I don't know, the linked editorial in NEJM summarises it pretty well:

>However, these “positive” results need to be interpreted with caution. First, there was no correction for multiple comparisons, as would be required to attenuate the chance that these are spurious results, owing, in part, to the number of secondary end points. Second, these putative effects have not been consistently observed across other large, randomized trials of n−3 fatty acids.5,6 However, in one of the trials of vitamin D supplementation, post hoc analysis showed a lower incidence of cancer among women who received active supplements than among those who received placebo, excluding women who had withdrawn or in whom cancer had developed in the first year of the trial.13 Finally, the medical literature is replete with exciting secondary end points that have failed when they were subsequently formally tested as primary end points in adequately powered randomized trials. Thus, in the absence of additional compelling data, it is prudent to conclude that the strategy of dietary supplementation with either n−3 fatty acids or vitamin D as protection against cardiovascular events or cancer suffers from deteriorating VITAL signs.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe1814933
I don't know of a bank where I can set up an account completely online through an app

In my EU country, there are already six banks that let you do this, and I doubt we're pioneers.
They don't think they're victims, they think they found a system that works for them. And they don't think it should be what everyone does. I had no idea that such a simple story would attract such strong reactions.
Internets of Interest #9: Jason Scott on the Copyright Fury Road
That's the same thing.
> There are so many alternative realities out there now that soon it'll be hard to find two people living in the same one.

They were always there. Absolutely nothing has changed about how crazy people are. Now it's merely easier to commiserate or fight about it with more people.
We should also note that the studies were only done on people over 50 years old:

"... among men 50 years of age or older and women 55 years of age or older in the United States"

Maybe by then it's too late?
Your argument is, to paraphrase, “it’s less that people are priced out of London, it’s just that London is full”. This argument assumes that the property market is a free market, which it is not. It’s subsidised and manipulated by government and banks. Here we go:
1. Planning laws constrain building out into the green belt and upwards into the skies. There’s a lot of space above and around London that could be built on and in. But we don’t. This throttles supply with price consequences.
2. Tax laws privilege home ownership in the UK. Better to hold your wealth in property than cash or shares because it’s (a) capital gains tax expempt (first home) and (b) inheritance tax efficient. You pay a premium for that perk.
3. Foreign ownership laws leading to London property becoming a global asset class and wealth stash. Again - this creates a premium. Many people would think a Russian oligarch buying up a few luxury flats in London does not a housing crisis make. Economists would however say that all impact is at the margin, and this is probably amplified in a sticky market like London property.
4. Help-to-buy. WTF. This was the government priming the demand pump ahead of an election.
5. Banks realizing that the London property market is basically the magic money tree: increase credit limits, increase loan size, increase profits, rinse and repeat. And the governement will bail them out if there’s a crash. Go figure.

So in short, I think a statement that London is full also needs to recognize the extent to which governments use property prices to boost popularity- and its also one of the reasons the UK economy is looking problematic - for far too long property rather than productive investment has sucked up spare cash.
This comes across like the people who say, show me incontrovertible proof God does not exist and I will happily become an atheist.

Knowing, of course, it cannot be proven.

If you are actually of open mind, there are some natural experiments that have been done, e.g. see Blue Zones.
Network effects and the "good enough" effect. At some point no one used swish. Then it became useful for some and then it became useful for many. Then it became the "must have" or "should have" for everyone else.

Crypto's could do this. They just aren't set up as easy right now. I'm pointing at bitcoin etc. They are also slow. I can tap my MasterCard contactless card/phone and pay for coffee and the merchant is happy. I've had bitcoin take >30 minutes to transfer. Unacceptably slow.
One of the things I like about wikis is the concept of backlinks [1]. I currently use TW5 (TiddlyWiki) for my 700+ notes and I always find something that I have written but have forgotten ever writing those down. From the screenshoots it appears like MindForger has this feature and I am glad they chose to implement it. Very few note taking software seem to implement it these days. The ability to see the relationship of existing notes is revelatory. I will be watching this one to see how they progress. Hope they will release a Windows version too.

[1] : http://wiki.c2.com/?BackLink
It seems like the jury is still out. Perhaps 10,000 of them work out better than a large system. It’ll take time for a lab experiment to turn into a production system.

You’re probably right in the short term, for an arbitrarily large value of short.
Because your cpu has a base ISA, plus extensions. The compiler doesn't know if you're going to only run this binary on your machine, or distribute it to others that may share your base ISA but possibly not your extensions, so it takes the conservative approach and doesn't use them unless signaled to do so via those compiler flags. Also, I think -march implies -mtune.
> the problem of adding two 32 bits integers is itself imperfect since you may at some point have big integers to sum, so any solution is inherently flawed, too

Smalltalk solves that problem by promoting the result to arbitrary precision arithmetic. It does the same for integer division. For example, 5 / 2 returns a Fraction, not an Integer.
Yeah I think that Twitter has been a major gateway drug to remember that Politics Matter.

But after you've reached that point, Twitter becomes the place where you read the same take 20 times over. Then you get the push notification from whatever news app you have installed on your phone.

There's a huge amount of diminishing returns to following journalists on Twitter if you're already convinced that stuff is important. But it sure helped to establish the feeling that everything is on fire (and.... kind of always have been but right now's not great)
I'm not familiar with Reason, but OCaml does have virtual methods and dynamic dispatch, and therefore ad-hoc polymorphism.

http://dev.realworldocaml.org/classes.html#virtual-classes-a...

Now, you can't downcast or cross-cast or do a runtime typecheck easily, but that doesn't mean it's impossible - you just have to use roundabout ways like variants to do so (which also means that you can control which class hierarchies it is available for, and which ones it's not). A class hierarchy combined with an polymorphic variant type to allow runtime type queries can be made as powerful as a runtime typecheck/cast in Java - if more verbose - for those rare cases where you actually need it.

http://dev.realworldocaml.org/variants.html#polymorphic-vari...

Of course, in practice, most cases where you'd use a downcast or a typecheck in a language like Java, map more naturally to regular variants and matching on them in OCaml.
I agree. Laptops should be no thinner than 1.5". I would love a nerd machine that is 2" thick, has no less than ten various ports, has a fat battery that could last more than 24 hours at 'performance' energy settings, most things on replace-able/upgrade-able daughter boards (especially graphics), replace-able CPU on a socket, and four SSD + two optical drives. The replace-able parts following standards like desktop PCs do.

Laptops were the first to succumb to the thin/miniaturization cancer, and phones really took off with it. The best form factor smartphone IMO is still my first cellphone I had: Samsung SCH-i730. It had a screen which slid up revealing a physical keyboard, it had a camera, it had a large extended battery, it even had an extend-able antenna! It was not shy about being thick! I grew up loving tech, and now with faceb0rg + scr00gle spying, crapple + android thin-sh1t hardware, "smart tvs," more and more user-lockout in hardware (intel ME?), I'm finding myself hating it all more and more!
Zig has a bunch of runtime safety checking. It applies to divide by zero as well as integer overflow, using the wrong union field, and many more. The runtime safety checks are enabled in Debug and ReleaseSafe mode and disabled in ReleaseFast and ReleaseSmall mode. (Actually they are used as assertions to the optimizer so that it can rely on extra stuff being undefined behavior.)

Pointers can not be null. However you can have optional pointers which are guaranteed to use the 0x0 value as null and have the same size as normal pointers.
There are plenty of people who feel the same way about the laws in New York and California. Having strong talent pools, and economies, in cities with different political climates means more people can live somewhere they're politically aligned and still have decent jobs.
We just took it as a mentorship exercise. Couple of gals in the group were really fast learners and didn't need as much help, so we know some eventual new-hires who sort of know our system and way of doing things. Also, their questions were often very simple but piercing.
That's ... PR.

The Hoba is ~ 84% iron. The Meteoritical Society records over 1200 'Iron meteorites' (FeNi-alloys) https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?sea=&sfor=names&...

Hoba's type is Iron, IVB. It's by far the largest -of that type-.

The Cape York (from Greenland, Melville Bay) is type IIIb. (Both octahedrites.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_York_meteorite
It's total weight (at least 8 large pieces) is comparable, and its story is much more interesting ... the Inuits used it to make iron-tipped weapons, which caught the explorers' eyes. http://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/handle/10524...
I moved dropwizard to Django. Life is too short to generate setters.
From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

>Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.
This is probably addressed by seeing the TZ environment variable as needed.
> It doesn't...allow for the truly violent changes I used to pull off with my friction shifters, but the convenience and speed of shifting right without moving my hands from the brakes is well worth the trade-off.

??? I don't understand. You can mount friction shifters next to your thumbs too. They only require moving your hands if you stick with less accessible frame mounting positions that likely only ever existed because it was easier and slightly cheaper to mount that way (one less cable guide, sigh).

I personally love the absolute simplicity of friction shifters. Doing finicky derailleur adjustments to make sure that every index step transitions smoothly is such an annoying process.
In theory, you can do some more statistical tests to study if the subgroup analysis has statistically significant results.

In practice, those tests are probably going to be skipped or done improperly, and it's difficult to tease out if the subgroup analysis suffers from the statistical fraud of reanalyzing until you get a positive result. Redoing the test from the start with the subgroup as the primary endpoint would always get you more accurate data, and history has pretty clearly shown that most instances of "we looked at the subgroups and found something where it works!" tend to not actually work when done properly anyways.
It’s just that your statements are incorrect about families. The real numbers are: “In the county, children (ages 0 – 17) are 23 percent of the total population, in downtown, they are only 10 percent of the population.”
I think a lot of this is true too. In particular I think lending is out of control (HTB is indeed a complete farce).

In the UK we could basically fix this stuff overnight by just building council houses on a trivial amount of the green belt and bringing back the idea that everyone just gets a family home. It won't happen because we have a broken political system.

But I also think a major pressure relief valve would be somehow eliminating this idea that everyone has to live in SF/NYC/London/etc.

It just doesn't make sense on any level. We can't just have every part of the world outside of a few capital or capital-like cities turn into an economic wasteland.
Even if they store the serial numbers on cash, there is no name linked to those numbers without you also using something like a store/coupon card.
This depends entirely on the city and culture. A lot of European cities don't follow the modern you describe at all.
> No-one wants to live in a block of flats unless they're too poor to afford a house.

I live in an apartment and wouldn't move to house even if I got it for free.

That's mostly due simply to the different environment where you find appartments and houses: almost by definition, the former has higher density.

And while I grew up in something like a suburb and can appreciate its advantages to some degree, it would be a sad day in my life when I started to value the comfort of a garden higher than the excitement a city has to offer: theatres, clubs, strange art events by the weirdo crowd this city (Berlin) currently attracts, far more choices for high-quality groceries, et. Plus it sometimes feels like a front-row seat to history.

It also helps that apartments are mostly in art deco buildings: heigh ceilings, wooden floors etc. Houses are either new new or (even worse) from the 50s/60s.

From my time in the US I remember the rest of the disadvantages: spending an hour commuting, where it takes me 10min on a bike now. Eating out is another 30min drive, and the restaurants, like everything else, look like airport lounges in the middle of a parking lot exhibition. Neighbours that call the police when they see anyone on the sidewalk, because such activity is unusual and suspicious...

What I could imagine at some point is a community sort of like the oldschool US towns that still exist here and there, namely a Main Street with a residential area of about a 1-mile radius around it. With a bit of luck (i. e. a few people with initiative) these communities can be lively enough, and the familiarity of a small community compensates for the loss of choice.
The Commons Clause is added as a restriction to existing open source licensed projects, to those that aren't clued in that the Commons Clause has been applied, they can easily be misled by this poorly named restriction.
In Zig the default target is native, which turns on all the applicable CPU features. If you want to target something other than the native machine you can use --target-os --target-arch parameters. I haven't exposed extra CPU options for cross compiling yet.
It's one study, and it was only done on people over 50. But yeah more science needs to be done.
Take is why I think AI can’t have qualia. They aren’t embodiesd.
Univ. of Penn. engineers 3D printed transistors made from nanocrystal inks
I think you are probably right. I will do a follow-up post addressing the performance claims in this talk. I think I owe it to the community.
Pretty much. I travel with multiple cards from different banks. Recent trip where I notified the banks ahead of time I'd be travelling. Results as follows:

Bank 1 : no issues at all with them. Used that card in 6 countries within 40 hours.

Bank 2 : they killed the card on first use in foreign country (the one I listed as visiting). When I got back it took a week of calls to halfway sort out the mess and then I just cancelled the account in disgust.

Bank 3: they flagged the card. I was notified via app. I called them. They unlocked the account / transaction all was good from then on. Further transactions were fine.
It's not just about the curly braces - there are many warts about OCaml's syntax, and some of them go beyond mere niceties, and into the territory of making it too easy to unintentionally write code that doesn't do what the author intended. In Reason, it looks like they specifically went after those, e.g.:

https://reasonml.github.io/docs/en/comparison-to-ocaml#patte...
Hence, if your wallet is stolen, you go to the bank, not the ATM.

But I actually assumed just the cash was gone. Either bank or ATM works fine in that situation.
It's like how we all had this mental gap for a minute before people started having only a cellphone and no landline.

But now most of us haven't had a landline in a decade or more.

Though it's related to transportation, it's really similar to that. The modality is changing, not just the methodology.
Study linked was not the biggest cardiovascular health news of today--

This was:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1812792

A single purified component of fish oil - EPA, did lead to a 25% relative risk reduction on top of statin treatment. This is a huge result with off the charts p values.