skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have any (American) cities/towns simply turned an entire street into a bike/pedestrian path? No cars or limited hours or local access only.

Similar to the old-railroad-to-bike-path conversions that are happening everywhere, but for a normal street.
Does this increase risk of gallstones?
A -37% change in caloric intake (Fig. 2B) produces only a -4.5% change in body mass (Fig. 3A)? Seems odd no? Or am I mis-reading something?
That and Firefox never made it particularly easy to find, and even if you notice it, you might not know how to trigger their auto-detection.

In any case, I sent him an email with info on how to add it.
I wonder if they used an off the shelf cellular radio on m.2 card or maybe if they're planning on making it available separately which would be sweet.

Edit: I see the dev kit uses a 3rd party modem, not sure if the final production Librem 5 phone will as well. It looks like the website for the modem they're using that they link from the Purism dev kit page is broken as well.
There is no “walled garden” around Apple’s podcast. They crawl and index RSS feeds just like Google crawls web pages.

Once you subscribe to the podcast, the app itself polls the podcast’s feed and the audio is played directly from the host’s website.

You can also add a podcast directly if you know the feed url.

On top of all that, there has been a freely available API to the podcast directory for years that other podcast players use.

If you want to see a wall garden for podcasts, see Spotify, Google, etc.
Yeah, pretty cool, if you're into cypherpunky solutions to an extent where you don't mind the accompanying dystopia.

I get why some users need Tor, many of them for agreeable reasons, and that they would benefit from more people using Tor (and having more nodes available). But I think making it the default way of using the internet for everyone would be stupid. If the average connection goes through n hops, the entire infrastructure would have to be multiplied by that factor. Just the environmental impact (in terms of increased energy consumption and hardware production) would be significant. And when Tor is the only effective option you have for escaping unwanted tracking, you're disadvantaged as soon as you want to use a service that doesn't work well with he increased latency.

There has to be a better way. Not that I could say what exactly that would be, but what would be really cool to see is a world in which everyone has worry-free internet access. Multiplying the cost doesn't seem like the best approach.
No. NYC is a special case.
Charles Darwin on Earthworms
You can just put raw html and normal img tags. Just think of it as an unstyled version of your normal website, just rendering the article portion.

Also look at other pages’ rss feeds that include full articles.
In ye olden times, there wasn't Medium. Sites where everybody could write whatever they wanted. And so sites like Medium could run their own feed of sorts, and send me a digest email with what they think I want to read.

The King(s) of Google do have a strong blogging community in Blogger, but it was never supposed to be, nor never will be, a backstop against Facebook. It would be better for Google to work within Facebook on this, as bloggers in WordPRess, or MEdium, or whatever announce on social media, guess whose ads are running on the blogs? And I myself as a dev, I'm still searching for the best articles for development practices and more. They don't see that need for us to subscribe to RSS. It's the King(s) of Facebook, Twitter, etc., that need to listen. Giving us a way to watch our subscribed RSS feeds in their own ecosystem will give them the edge on content aggregation.
Semantics here are important because calling Palantir just a consultancy and trying to categorize it with other consultancies is disingenuous. It is a company with a platform and toolset specifically built to enable surveillance states. Calling it a consultancy "like IBM" is not a fair characterization of the company.

And no, if you do a thing once for money you are not in that business. That argument is completely ridiculous. You are in the business of whatever you primarily do for money on a regular basis.
> I'm not advertising on my blogs

Perhaps you should, I enjoyed finding stuff like this : https://danshumway.com/blog/gamasutra-vulnerabilities/
That’s a small business.

Start out as small as possible with as little risk as possible, put more hours into it over time, increase capital as needed, hire people when you run out of waking hours in the day...

Hence the famous startups in a founder’s garage.
Specifically, here's the relevant text from the paper:

"...extended overnight fasting periods might increase
the risk of gallstone disease (Sichieri et al., 1991)"
Can you point to any studies that show the benefits of your vitamin regimen? You point out there are no studies on long term fasting but I am also unable to find the studies on the benefits of vitamins.
This is no longer true on the latest macOS; OS updates are no longer delivered via the app store. (You get to it via settings, or you can get to it via the apple menu in the top bar.)

But anyway, I figure the app store is a place I go to get apps, and if the app store chooses to offered paid placement in that list, at least that's sort of relevant. My start area... is a place I go to use basic functionality of the machine. There is no implication that I want to install anything, or buy anything.

Has Apple ever installed a third-party app on your system? macOS is a batteries-included OS, I think most people consider the wide variety of first-party apps to be a feature not a bug. And if you want a specific app, type its name into Spotlight and you don't even have to hunt and peck through all the icons.
How does anyone get such a huge bonus?
>"Theft of trade secrets" is how Silicon Valley was built.

And reverse engineering, for example

- IBM PC compatible via Corona Data Systems, Eagle Computer and Handwell Corporation

- VTech clones of the Apple II ROMs for the Laser 128
Wouldn't parents income be a good proxy for a disadvantaged background for college education purposes?
Glad to see nextcloud getting more punchy support. Could be a big plus for everyone doing self hosting stuff
I have used Nextcloud for about two years and really like it as well; the only problem I have encountered is that the client sometimes slows down my OS X machine and it's not clear how to proceed in debugging the client.
That's not due to inclusionary zoning [1], that's due to the "missing middle" of housing: https://www.sightline.org/2019/02/13/who-would-live-in-missi...

[1]: https://www.sightline.org/2016/11/29/inclusionary-zoning-the...
Ask HN: Best Resources for Learning UX/Product Design?
As a developer who used to work a lot on SPAs, I always considered myself pretty good at UI/UX (considering "the fold", minimizing clicks, etc.)

However, recently, I've come to realize that I actually don't know a whole lot about the theory or best practices, particularly when compared to the creators of the pieces on dribbble.com or behance.

Are there any books, blogs, or articles that people would recommend in this area?
Definitely understand the hand crafting etc has value if your post is complex and has interactive elements or lots of graphic design, and would be a shame to go to waste.

I guess the main thing you need to provide really is the text and images, <p>, <strong>, <img> tags etc. If you look at your site in Reader View in Firefox or Safari and it looks OK - that should be good enough
Houston is also the most egregious case of rampant urban sprawl on the planet.
Much calorie intake is just an inefficient attempt to get at micronutrients that we are missing. So less calories could just up/down regulate your metabolism and return things to a normal state assuming those fewer calories are proportionally nutrient dense.
Rocket fuel... I assume you mean hydrazine? You need more than just water/hydrogen peroxide for that right? (Like ammonia?)
Creating Small Linux Images with Buildroot
wait, why can it see color? if this algorithm is based on the speed of light traveling (similar to ultrasonic), I would think it won't show color? the resulting image shows the printed 1,2,3 on that paper.

is that because light reflects differently across the same paper due to different colors (black vs. white)?
I subscribe to a bunch of webcomics via RSS, and a few have changed over the years from embedding the comic into the feed to just having the feed be a link to the comic page so that they can still get some ad impressions.

I also subscribe to email newsletters that have sponsored links/blurbs in their content, and I'm sure that one could monetize RSS content similarly.
I'm not aware of any specific reason why it'd become unsafe over long periods of time, but just getting regular checkups and talking with a doctor should be enough to identify it in an individual.

While not nearly as scientifically rigorous as this study there's a lot of people out there who do a more general form of this and call it "intermittent fasting". Usually things ends up as a complete restriction on calorie intact except during designated times, 16:8 or 18:6 are common forms of it where you're fasting for 16 or 18 hours a day, and can only eat during those other 8 or 6 hours. You still have to limit your calorie intake (eating 5,000 calories in 6 hours still isn't going to do anything good for your health). And some people take it even more to an extreme with what they call OMAD or One Meal A Day.

This kind of study looks like it points to some of the claims that this kind of diet could have actual benefits aren't entirely unfounded. I've doubted most of the claims I've seen people make since they largely seem completely fanciful and not had any real testing or study done on them but still plan to try to adhere to a diet like this simply because it looks like it should help deal with self-control and discipline issues that I know I have when it comes to food.
Apologies for my "lmfao" comment after reading hiven's post. The comment didn't add anything to the conversation and was a dumb mistake.
Does Lobsters have some sort of comment cross-posting feature now?
FWIW, you can rent a Cessna 172 for less than $200 per hour, and take it in a trip where you agree to fly at least say one or two hours per day, depending on location and season etc.

So, that’s only a few times more expensive than a car, and quite a bit more fun.
You can walk in to a Tesla store and buy the $35k car today. It's just not for sale on their web site.
That would not be based on day fines; fines and compensation are two different topics. "Disabled for life" sounds like prison time plus monetary compensation for the victim.
If they could go kick the tires over at Google too that would be appreciated.
Maybe so. At the time, everyone wondered why Google did not sue him, just Uber. Now I wonder if Google's legal team wasn't already in touch with the FBI/US attorney's office. It might be that the reason why they didn't pursue him in civil court was to leave the way open for the criminal procedure to blaze the trail. That would be sick, if so.
FiveFilters.org does this: https://fivefilters.org/content-only/

The free version has some limitations, like only three articles per rss feed. They offer a self-hosted version for a one-time 35euro fee (although software updates only for one year), which I really appreciate.
Last years camp had a 500Gbps uplink, somehow I dont think they are struggling.
That’s one of the reasons I have Telemetry turned on. Just to show what I am using, so there’s less reasons to remove something.
> I hope one day there can be an Elm-like experience for backend development as well.

Haskell?
This book has been immensely helpful to me, it's "Writing an OS in Rust" https://os.phil-opp.com/ and I can't recommend it enough.

Also, Redox OS is an OS written in Rust and has a ton of wonderful documentation on it that's been helping me get into systems development: https://www.redox-os.org/docs/
Just curious, what type of stuff do you buy? I find that the quality often is poor when buying from Aliexpress with artificial ratings boosted by the seller doing anything to get a high review. Banggood has been better with more accurate ratings.
Because handwriting analysts tell people they are an accepted branch of psychology and there is not enough time in the day to question everything. At some point, I heard handwriting analysis was pseudoscience, so I looked into it and they were right. I've not looked into whether quantum physics is pseudoscience because the people in my life who appear to be experts in the subject tell me it's real and I don't feel like pursuing a physics degree to tell if they're full of it. Regardless of the perception you have of yourself as a critical thinker, for most things we accept thinds as true by default and only flag certain suspicious things for further criticism.
> If we find a completely different way of computing it that doesn't map to a CA, we'll know it's false.

This is wrong. You would have to additionally prove that the other thing is the only alternative.

Also, CA is not testable in the sense that the theory of relativity is testable. The latter makes measurable predictions that can be satisfied, the former does not. I can imagine any model - unicorns and fairies included - and say that is behaves like the universe. The only way to falsify my claim is to empirically contradict one of my claims. NKS does not put forth such claims. Not the kind you would build a new CERN for.
Yup! A variety of places do this, though I’m not sure if it’s to the extent you have in mind.

Iowa City eliminated cars on roads in their downtown, and they have a vibrant town square there now with plenty of restaurants, bars, shopping, ice cream, etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ped_Mall_(Iowa_City)

Boston closes down Newbury Street a few times during the summer for the past few years.
https://www.newburystboston.com/cd_listing/open-newbury-2019...
This isn't exactly news breaking news.

Swedish SAAB, whose fighter jet (Gripen) doesn't claim to be stealth, started selling radar systems back in 2015 based on custom-manufactured Gallium Nitride (GaN) sensors that can detect "some" "stealth" fighters.

https://saabgroup.com/media/stories/stories-listing/2015-3/l...

https://www.janes.com/article/83778/us-to-evaluate-saab-gan-... (Oct 2018)
We don't have to agree completely; all that we have to agree on is that Varroa mites have in fact been a very big deal both to feral and controlled honey bee hives, and that they are not a smokescreen put up by pesticide companies.
yep, I didn't noticed this. Thank you. This should be recent.
I have no more access to the database.
RSS died when Google Reader died.
This is a fair point. In fact, most research seems to point to the fact that vitamins don't really do anything. I just do it out of habit.
To his fairness, Levandowski knows how to move things forward in PoC stage. He made huge contribution in the early days of Google's self-driving car initiative, and Sebastian Thrun liked him so much that he negotiated an amazing bonus for Levandowski.
Why would your body breakdown your organs when you still have plenty of adipose stores ?

Do you have a citation for the "starvation mode" ? If it's the 1940's study from MN, that was only when the subjects where well into single digit fat %.
examine.com is a pretty good resource on supplements.
What about measuring wealth and education quality instead of race? If I'm a rich black/latino I have more advantages than a poor Asian/White/Jew student.

By the way, I know it shouldn't matter but I'm latino (Dominican). Looks like nowadays you have to have an specific race to have an opinion.
I cannot answer for the author, but for projects which build a lot of expensive numerical routines from scratch, Julia is a good fit: The JIT overhead is a small price compared to the high-level feel of the code and the resulting post-compiled speed.
Oh I wasn't arguing in favor of using this. I doubt I'll ever use non open software for my data again. Just saying I've run into problems trying to use syncthing for sharing files.
That's not how falsifiability works.

>"If we find a completely different way of computing [the universe]"

We can only compute models of the universe. If a model apparently never contradicts our observations of the universe, then we lazily identify the universe with the model within casual contexts, but we don't actually take that as Absolute Truth. Thus, within appropriate contexts, we might speak as if the "forces" of Newton are actual platonic things, as if the arrows in a freshman physics textbook actually exist and could poke you in the eye. But they don't, they are merely a model.

So, suppose we discover tomorrow a new equation which seems to match all observations, and which we can formally prove transcends CAs. Well, we'll never know whether or not tomorrow we'll find an instance where that new equation breaks down, and has to be replaced by an updated equation which IS computable by CAs. Thus, your supposed "test" is not a test at all.

>Computable physics would be extremely useful. Even with coarse approximations you can only integrate the Schrödinger equation among hundreds of particles

You seem to be confusing "computable" with "efficiently computable" or something. A function can be computable but still be prohibitively expensive to compute.
Why would dollar stores be affected? Are they not buying stuff in bulk and shipping themselves?
Lifestyle changes can make a large difference, but the changes that make the most difference are also the hardest to implement (driving less, flying less, A/C and heating, etc.)

I try to do whatever lifestyle changes I can, but I also use Project Wren (https://projectwren.com/) to offset the remainder of my carbon footprint!
I started learning Esperanto but I abandoned due to the lack of cultural work around it. I felt like Esperanto could only bring me new, constructed culture, rather than existing one. When you learn Italian you discover the Italian history and its culture ; when you learn Spanish you learn the history of Spain and its culture ; etc. When you learn Esperanto, you learn… the history of Esperanto and that’s pretty much it. Virtually nobody learns Esperanto as a native language, meaning there’s no region in the World you can travel to and feel immersed in Esperanto culture.

Also, I don’t think Esperanto would be viable as a unique global language in the long term: we don’t have the same culture everywhere in the World, we don’t all think the same way, and so some regions would eventually start creating words that are unique to them. Slang is also something that is by definition very localized. While a universal language would be awesome for international communication, I feel like we would still end up with localized languages, local dialects of Esperanto.
concentrated hydrogen peroxide, if exposed to a catalyst splitting it up again, makes viable a viable thrust source for rockets.
There is a search engine (that gets results from Google) with a black background that claims to reduce energy usage on monitors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackle
Most nutritional studies are worthless.
This is a very divisive topic, for which we have strong cultural taboos and entrenched polarisation. I have yet to see shared explorations in search for the truth, where points from both sides of the debate are treated as coming from a place of good intentions. Every mistake, and there will be mistakes, genuine or perceived, will likely be exploited at the maximum, and possibly will devolve in invectives or worse. Furthermore, it is a complex topic where there may be a superposition of many causes, and teasing out the causes and their respective relative weights, by necessity, will be beyond what HN format can possibly support.

Case in point, "racism". Implying, among other things, KKK and lynchings. Would you submit that the root cause for differentials in college-level education attainment in 2019 between racial groups is endemic lynchings? If not, I would kindly submit that we need a different word to start a conversation.

Edit: Small rephrase to hopefully address u/krastanov concerns.
His bonus at Google predates any of this.
Thanks so much for elaborating on this! :)
Fx looks like a really nice alternative to jq. I love HTTPie for API debugging but wouldn't disregard curl which is a great and versatile tool for everything http.
bazqux, Feedbin
> There's nothing you can do with Palantir that you couldn't do with any consulting firm or an in-house data-science/data-engineering team. Palantir's value proposition is that they have better tools and smarter people

I agree with this account of what Palantir offers, but it seems like an example of "big enough quantitative differences become qualitative".

Palantir isn't selling data no one else has, and I know the average news scare story about them is ridiculous; they're portrayed like a private NSA even though they don't do primary data gathering at all. (Why doesn't Stratfor draw those hit pieces? Just because they seem less competent and more corporate?) But there's a reason Palantir gets no-bid intelligence agency contracts. What they offer isn't in practice possible for most government agencies or companies to replicate. Part of that is simply competence, but not all of it; Palantir is a data analysis contractor noticeably focused on analyzing humans and finances.

I've seen Palantir do a couple of tech demos aimed at engineers, and they consistently focus on two big things. The first is experience and scale: Palantir has probably dealt with a problem a lot like yours in the past, and has the pre-existing tooling and expertise to produce results much faster than even an equally-competent internal team could. The second is selling human-integrated products, where instead of handing over a data lake or an ML pipeline spitting out probabilities, they provide analysis environments that let human analysts manage lots of data in easily-understood ways, and highlight further data they might wish to integrate. Neither of those things is evil, and I assume the human-integrated stuff is at least partially marketing spin, but I hope its understandable why they would make people nervous.

When people wanted to restrict the National Tracing Center, they restricted it to analog data so that people can only be identified via targeted lookup. Palantir seems to sell the opposite of that; maybe you can't get somebody's phone location without a warrant, but if you can aggregate license plate scanners, automated tolling records, and credit card transactions into a unified model of where they went, maybe you don't need to.
The problem with this argument is that most companies will build no parking, because it costs them less. Then the people who buy/rent their houses/apartments park on the street, which puts a burden on the city, and makes things a nightmare for everyone since it becomes impossible to visit that area. i.e. by letting the free market decide in the small picture, you punish everyone else in the big picture. See also: Wal-Mart historically not paying for employee health insurance, which placed the burden on government programs instead.

IMO, the entire "let's build less parking" movement has good intentions, but doing so creates a bubble that's difficult or impossible to visit, because no one from outside the area can park anywhere near it due to residents consuming all the available street parking. i.e. it's a physical-world version of Internet echo-chambers. We need to encourage people to mingle more with people from outside their area, not silo themselves up. It's also bad for local businesses, IMO, because they'll only have customers from the immediate area.