skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a few old books available on Google books about baking-powder and leavening agents. I found it facinating to learn that this is relatively new technology. [0]

Also, that there were (early 20th century) huge industry wars and cartels over baking powder [1], a strange story. (I couldn't read all 2000+ pages of this though)

Another interesting side effect of researching this topic is running into bread made with combining an unleavened dough with carbonic acid inside a vacuum to "insta-rise" the bread. (can't find the reference now, buried in one of those really old books) The claims were it was "healthier".

Last semi-related topic, cereal Grapenuts from Post, was originally sold as a health food, not a breakfast cereal. [2] (worked with a guy that spent years at Post) It's made from huge loaves of bread turned into those little dried crumbs.

Cream of tartar is a dry acid scraped from the barrels from wine making.[3] Makes you wonder who tried this stuff first.

[0] Leavening Agents (1914)

https://books.google.com/books?id=1jQNAAAAYAAJ&printsec=fron...

[1] The Baking Powder Controversy (1907, over 2000 pages long...)

https://books.google.com/books?id=fIbZAAAAMAAJ&printsec=fron...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grape-Nuts

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium_bitartrate
There is and they should. But bugs tend to find a way anyway.
Ummm... given the global manipulation of political opinion by Russia this is a minimum required step. Brexit, Trump, other massive global destabilization has been delivered by using Twitter to artificially amplify destructive voices.

Save the outrage Nate Swanner the alternative is nothing less than the end of western democracy.
If an idea is in my head, nobody else but me should should be able to control this idea.

the rights of the owner of the idea should never reach inside my head.

going further, if a file is in my personal disk which I physically control, the rights of the file's creator should never reach into my personal disk.

specially given that the file can exist in any number of disks.
>> We need to deprioritze short-term growth and revenue and to explain to Wall Street why that is ok. We need to be willing to pick sides when there are clear moral or humanitarian issues. And we need to be open, honest and transparent about challenges and what we are doing to fix them.

Those who want facebook to step up on various issues may regret it. Don't assume that Facebook will pick good over evil. Many Facebook people have spoken about the end of privacy, that it would be a good thing. Note that those who run Facebook don't actually use it, at least not in the way they want the rest of us to use Facebook. Do not expect Facebook to take the popular side. They have their own opinions that are likely very different than those of the common person.
Even more compute shaders (execution units and caches)
It reminds me of George Carlin save the planet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c
Why is this (or the demo I linked to earlier) not a satisfactory representation?

https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-1ab704621d3c845630ab6f....
The post mentions heavy API users will get exceptions based on their use-case.
The API only makes it easy for the good guys to use twitter.
People don't mark calls as spam so I wonder how they do the training?
Since this is obviously a fanboy war post: I prefer Apple because I feel like their products are more user focused. Android and Google's mobile environment feel like a platform on which they can collect data and sell you ads (not that Apple doesn't collect data, but it isn't their primary business model). It also seems like Google will write new apps whenever they don't want to deal with technical debt of the older ones, or they want to use whatever fancy new platform level service they have that lets you sync 50,000 nodes cross datacenter instantly using autonomous submarines or whatever.
It's always been about how you follow people.

I have a few twitter accounts:

one where I follow people I know and devs and it's very noisy. It's nearly unusable, it's full of political rants, even from well known devs, angry tweets, just not very useful. I don't read it much.

The other twitter account I follow people who write funny tweets, and that account is a goldmine. I love it. I like almost every tweet. Nobody follows this account, it's just like a read only twitter and it's amazing.

I have a third twitter account for local news, I follow the local fire department, police, local news, local businesses, and it's also super great.

Twitter's android app makes it easy to switch between accounts, it's basically just like different feeds.
> P.S. The article is about Intel's ME flaws and patches so probably our whole discussion branched off in the wrong direction :).

Maybe that's why I was confused? I thought we were talking about commodity, x86 servers all along, particularly the GGP about "where uptime really matters" and other comments by the same person about warranty lengths (which seemed irrelevant, other than being indicative of commodity hardware).

Of course, that commenter's very terse remarks, combining "safety", "uptime", and "insurance" (and, later, billions in damages) into an environment where commodity (or not?) x86 servers are proactively replaced started me off in a state of confusion, like there was some very major assumption about the system design that I (and everyone else here, too, it seems) was missing.
They need to hire me :)
Are you saying Intel CPUs now can adapt to power loss, instead of just not working? I doubt that very much. The CPU got too hot(easily reaching 100C) so there was definetly not "plenty of headroom", in fact, there was no headroom at all.
They should just tax employees like any other benefit, most countries do that if you have subsidized meals you pay the value of the meal in tax.

E.G. if you ate $400 worth of meals in a month and you have an income tax of 25% you pay $100 in additional income tax. It shouldn’t be any different than getting a company car or any other material benefit.
Ouch. Way to bury the lede!

Is this ever going to be a bare-metal thing? Like probably many others, I'm not really interested in doing on-prem virtualization... kubernetes is interesting to me because containers are a better abstraction than virtual machines in the first place. Why add a virtualization layer if you don't have to?

(I get that it makes your life easier as the developer of this product, but having to run a virtualization IaaS between your metal and your orchestration makes the whole thing rather uninteresting IMO.)
>We often couldn't agree on the direction of the product, pricing, marketing and features to develop - which led to heated arguments at times. The bigger problem was that it was seldom resolved - each of the founders pretty much ended up implementing their own idea. We tried addressing this a few times over the years, using different methods/products/solutions to try to plan and structure this.

So for a while at least three different products, marketing and etc? That seems like a lot of wasted cycles.
failed fyre festival founder, that's quite a tongue twister.
From Russian to German: How Codefree Automation Works
Sure, he's got his axe to grind. I mean, you can't watch Louis and not think he's got an axe to grind -- like maybe even literally in a makeshift workbench in his kitchen with a whetstone. But even if you watch his videos with the most cynical stance, it's still very eyebrow raising. Apple has had it's share of design 'doh! That's pretty much undeniable in gory detail -- far beyond the big headlines everyone knows about.
> We're talking about 2 small continents: entire AU & NZ, not bunkers. They can definitely be self-sustaining.

Why would the existing populations of AU & NZ consent to becoming the subjects of some billionaire aristocracy? We're talking about millions of people formed into actual nation states with sizable and competent militaries. Not even the combined private security forces of 100 billionaires and 1,000 millionaires could take control and dominate something that large. Elon Musk isn't going to be able to wow them into submission with minisubs and beads.
We will support vSphere 6.5 in Alpha.
GKE On-Prem is a full K8s installation - so nodes and masters. We will support vSphere 6.5 in Alpha.
No, but users tend to think twice and avoid them if there is a less dodgy alternative
1MB of RAM?
The existing large players probably already have their exceptions worked out, or will very soon.

Want to join that space? Gotta be lucky with review/limit raise request I guess. It's possible they just want services to start small and act legitimate to raise the bar for "bad apples" and will raise the limits easily afterwards, we'll have to see.
That's... amazing.

These two tweets really show just how WTF this was

> A vendor notified us of their acquisition at 6am this morning and shut down their APIs 30 minutes later, creating a production outage for npm (package publishes and user registrations). The sheer unprofessionalism of this is blowing my mind.

> It takes weeks to negotiate and sign an acquisition. You didn't find out at 6am. You couldn't give us a week? Even a couple of hours to take your service out of our critical path and avoid an outage? Fucking shocking behavior.
Meantime: https://www.dropbox.com/s/hb7c0l54r8m0zoy/Screenshot%202018-...

I know that fixing/changing/upgrading things at scale is much harder that what most people think, but man... they have done nothing to fix these type of issues, and don't tell me is not something easy to fix.

The other day a journo complained on twitter about the problem of dealing with crappy messages: https://twitter.com/sarahfrier/status/1020512187322789888

So in less than an hour, I had a prototype to help to filter those type of messages: https://www.dropbox.com/s/z914olzgn68v660/Screenshot%202018-...

If a random dev can do this, why they can't fix it?

I like twitter, and I'm genuinely curious why some of these seemingly easy to fix problems are not taken care.
It should be noted that minimum wage laws are not good, from their original implementation to today. The original law was put in place to keep unskilled persons (read minorities of color) from taking white's jobs. The hard working unskilled people were learning the skills to take the white people's jobs at a lower rate, so they passed a bill that made it impossible to effectively climb up the wage ladder. Today it is used to keep people subservient to the government when the wage gets higher than an economy can bear, look at Puerto Rico and how unemployment was so high, the only jobs available were government jobs. Any economist who can look themselves in the mirror will tell you this.
Agree.

But question - when you say cultural importance, do you mean in terms of what it talks about? Or was the book itself important culturally? (I'm not sure how well-known the book itself was, I've always gotten the impression that Octavia Butler is a less-known SF author).
"reading" is technically homework but not the kind of homework that education researchers are opposed to. The bad kind of homework is loaded down worksheets and projects that are high-stakes (perform or fail) and prone to cheating. Telling students to read has none of these problems, it's purely for the student's benefit and has no penalty attacked.
Sure, but do you really expect the one-person maintainer of a random Wordpress plugin to be backporting security fixes? In an ideal world I'd love to see that, but my guess is that that's not often going to be the case.

Then the question becomes: is it more effort to backport this fix into a codebase I don't know? Or is it more effort to bring everything else up to using the new version. Either way, it's going to suck :)
The surprisingly positive power of texting, according to science
Hmm these are interesting but not quite the Apple CD I'm remembering. When the multimedia application automatically loaded I remember some kind of video feature that included a country music band along with a lot of image and videos included on the disc. Of course this was a long time ago, I might be misremembering some details, but I'm surprised more archives of this kind of thing do not exist. I hope I can find a copy of this CD online someday and relive some of those glossy childhood Mac memories
When did reading become "education theater" ?

I hope your master wasn't in statistics, because you made a poor extrapolation from data.
> Don't assume that Facebook will pick good over evil

If Facebook doesn't, a new competitor will. People will switch if they no longer feel safe.
Because a 100 year span is definitely relevant to current events (and nevermind that both parties have shifted drastically over the 20th century). Nice choice of window, also good call to expand the scope to federal position as opposed to people in the legislative branch. Crafting misleading narratives sure is fun isn't it?
In those days, what could you do? Write a strongly worded letter to the editor? Have the magazine print a retraction two months later for their feature article? Not going to happen.
I did not suggest that audio cannot be measured quantitatively. However, it generally is not. I've never read a sound bar review that used any kind of objective measures except maybe SPL. It's always about whether the sound is crisp or muddy and the sound stage is wide or tall or compressed or whatever.

I also did not say that the difference between sound bars and receiver setups is too close for human hearing to detect. This is clearly not the case, since it's entirely possible for humans to detect sound differences even between two sound bars or the same receiver with different speakers. However, sounding different doesn't mean one is actually better. When two setups differ in volume slightly, human listeners will consistently choose the louder one as "better" unless the sound is clearly low quality (i.e. no bass, laptop speakers), disregarding the supposed intrinsic superiority of the "better" system.
Are wages increasing at the same rate? Or is the new wealth just flowing to the already rich?
I agree in principle, but there is still a difference here.

Dell sells way more PCs (in much more varied configurations) than Apple does. They're generally more repairable, and they're generally cheaper. They're also willing to let you max out specs and build weird configurations; configurations that arguably don't always make much sense. That range means they also sell a few objectively cruddy laptops, so you need to be careful and read reviews and do comparisons before you buy.

Apple positions itself as different from those companies. The comparison I'm making above isn't something that only self-building PC nerds understand; the same explanation is what I give to regular consumers who are trying to decide whether to go with Windows or Mac - people who will never try to build their own stuff.

"Should I buy a Windows PC or a Mac?"

"Do you want to spend a lot of time researching brands, reading reviews, and thinking about hardware specs?"

I think the point still stands that Apple is positioning itself in a different category than companies like Dell. If not, I'm gonna have some complaints about that $3K price tag.

The closest comparison is something like the Microsoft Surface - an expensive, premium device, with low repairability and configuration options, but (theoretically) increased reliability with a streamlined experience that "just works" out of the box. When the Surface line has problems, I put more blame on Microsoft than I would put on a company like Dell in an equivalent situation.
73-year-old sets new standard for old runners at Western States ultramarathon
Some parents need a little nudge to support their children's education beyond "school is daycare while I work".
Americans want to believe that it’s about wealth disparity, because that allows moderates to believe that at some level, people are responsible for their own poverty, and if poverty is something people have control over, then they bear personal responsibility for being too poor to afford justice.

Compound that with people disingenuousy promoting this narrative for their own political reasons, such as wanting to promote the idea that the inhumanly high incarceration rates are evidence of an inherent criminality, laziness, or both on the part of people of colour, and you get an oft-repeated explanation that should not be accepted without evidence.

It might feel like it ought to be true, but it’s not.
So the big question is... Can we point this at aws and get Google to manage our aws kubernetes Installs...

Given the massive shambles eks turned out to be, that would be great.
Any issue can be explained away by claiming it is "very very small" - including the matter of straws. I'm skeptical that use of plastic straws by developed countries will ultimately cause enough climate change to kill disabled people as your comment implies. Let's not confuse litter and climate change. That kind of hyperbole does not help.

Environmentalism would be better served if environmentalists focused on deeper solutions and did not waste societal attention and resources on distractions of negligible outcome. Black-and-white thinking and choosing to die on every hill only serves to breed false self-satisfaction and alienate potential supporters.
Yes, I expect pretty much every funded "cyber" agency has explored our systems, from the UK to Somalia. I expect any neutral to semi-hostile country (e.g., North Korea) has dormant C&C systems in our infrastructure.

The conversation needs to be around, "we have known electronic critical infrastructure has been thoroughly compromised for a decade, how do we contain, mitigate, and remove the compromises."

I don't mean to fear-monger or suggest fear mongering. The status quo has been "don't do anything particularly troublesome" on all sides, and that has been stable to date with only mild perturbations such as Stuxnet. It's probably a MAD calculus, with the recognition that open hostile acts would escalate to, as the phrase goes, "kinetic actions".

The US could open the dialogue with the frank admission that our pants are not only down, but blew away in the breeze - we should, all of us, mutually, improve our security. I don't know that this is possible with, e.g., the US power grid without nationalizing it - the profit motive for defending against rare argues against security, as we all know...
I can assure you that on Android world C++ feels pretty much "third class citzen".
> Note that those who run Facebook don't actually use it

I would love this claim to be true, but could you back it up with some data?
Where's the humor? What's the joke? Explain how it's funny.

He doesn't explain how it's filling the world with bile and garbage, that's just a claim. And sure, it may qualify as criticism, but it's empty criticism. You could easily say that about most things. Bill Hicks is filling the world with bile and garbage. You'd want me to qualify that. Defend it, prove it. Something you're not asking of him.

Yes, advertisers want you to buy shit. Anyone who works in advertising will tell you that their job is to get you to buy shit. Advertising's job is to get you to buy shit. Maybe one brand of shit over another. Or shit you may not necessarily need, but all the same. You may disagree with the utility of what they're trying to sell you, but that's kind of irrelevant. The job itself is to make the product appealing enough to purchase.

You can bitch about advertisers who take on clients of products known to be harmful. That companies that do advertising for cigarettes are morally suspect. But the job in and of itself is no better or worse than a lot of others. Do you think Hicks blamed advertisers for making him a chain smoker? Then again, he was mostly a chain smoker to deal with his other addictions. But last time I checked most illegal narcotics don't have an advertising arm. Unless you count Bill Hicks, who advertised for them essentially for free.

Also, don't use acronyms unless you are going to explain what they mean. The only hit for KLM I got was the Royal Dutch Airline. It was only once I searched "KLM burning money" that I got the result that I think you were talking about, the KLF burns a million quid. And apparently, they went on a lecture circuit after that, Bill Drummond started writing, Jimmy Cauty continued as a music producer (which I don't know how that fits in with the whole "renouncing the industry" bit) and artist. So it's not like they fucked off and became bus drivers. They still leveraged that fame. And they regard that stunt as a mistake now.

As for Rage Against the Machine, I do see their predicament. They could go full Fugazi and reject most of the corporate structure, but then their reach becomes much less. Your message can't really reach.

And here's the thing, I'm not totally against what they're doing. I do think it's a bit ironic preaching anti-consumerism using the vehicle of consumerism to get your message. "Buy this thing that tells you that buying things is stupid". I think they're wrong in rejecting the entire notion of consumerism. Just like Hicks is wrong in rejecting the entire notion of advertising and marketing (which is a bit of an anti-consumerist screed). But the answer isn't to become a charge card wielding shopaholic either. No matter the extreme you go to, you've gone to the wrong one. Extreme isn't the answer, ever. There is value in a lot of things.
Many Facebook people have spoken about the end of privacy, that it would be a good thing.

Zuck famously tapes over his laptop camera even in a building and on a network he physically owns...
not sure they seem quite similar (I am not familiar with neither to be honest) but the main difference in my opinion is this is built on open source and backed by the big boys : google, IBM, SAP ..etc
Not if you want to build on Mac or Windows.
Same reason the salesperson at the car dealership (or th hiring manager at your new job) has to "talk to my manager" about your offer. Deferring to a synthetic external authority is a powerful negotiating technique.
Excellent question.

GKE On-Prem is a Google provided, validated and supported distribution of Kubernetes and extensions that offer a GKE-like experience in your on-premise datacenter. It makes it easy to install and upgrade Kubernetes and provides access to GCP services such as monitoring, logging, metrics, security and auditing for your on-premise installation. It is the foundational component of the Cloud Services Platform, and is how Google "brings the cloud to you".

CSP combines Kubernetes both in your on-premise datacenter (GKE On-Prem) and Google-managed Kubernetes in GCP (GKE) with Istio and other CI/CD (Cloud Build) and serverless (Knative) products. You can leverage this suite of products to both modernize your existing on-premise applications and build new applications in the cloud.

Additionally, Google will be offering phone and email support similar to the existing GCP support packages.
When team sizes grow, time to hire those teams shrink, and deadlines shrink, you trend toward the quality of work product being whatever the system permits. Would you agree that C++ is overly permissive for such teams?
I've noticed both on Coinbase and Ally recently that connecting other accounts for transfer lets you do it instantly in a little popup window that asks for credentials for other banks. Seems like a big step backwards in training users.
"It is an absurd notion that there are two manners of discussing how the pie should be divided up"

There is absolutely a difference between normative and positive statements about the world. Arguing whether raising taxes will lower middle class wages is a different question from whether one should raise taxes.One is a question of facts and the other is a questions of values. This distinction holds no matter what field you are discussing; it's just the field of economics where people seem to insist on blurring the two.