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Former chef here, the variance in balances of different chemical constituents can be so massive between two pieces of fruit picked from the same tree that precise recipes would be useless without requiring each reader to have access to a mass spectrometer (and any clue as to what its readout means). This is largely where the "art" in culinary arts comes in. While you could teach someone to read a mass spectrometer to determine the exact chemical result that a given mixture of different ingredients applied to a specified heat curve, it's more likely that they'll just have to learn how to approximate it via taste, smell, and sight.

Good baking books will actually get a lot closer to having specifics in them. They can do this however because a lot of the ingredients that are used in baking are rated based off of various levels of one or more of the chemicals that will significantly affect the result of your baked product (ash level, acidity, sugar content).
clickbait, same as ever?

seriously tho, the headline sucks.
> To me privacy issue is better solved by radical transparency for everyone.

Human societies don't work like this, and never had. People aren't meant to live in a world where everything is public. You are advocating for a very dangerous and unhealthy transformation.
Try the Temporary Containers plug-in, it's even better. It will automatically remove all site cookies when you close the tab, and can be configured to open all links as a self contained container.

Basically every site you visit will be completely isolated - and fully cleaned up afterwards.
They're asking why it's the standard and how we could change it.
His prompt is the oh-my-zsh theme "agnoster".

https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/wiki/Themes
Nothing wrong with spending all day interviewing if you think you have a strong chance of the interview resulting in tens of thousands of dollars in raise/bonus/etc.

Yeah, an actual full day of interviewing is probably more than necessary, but you need to have a strong signal of your ability. I think most technical recruiting at good companies is more about avoiding the possibility of hiring someone who is bad than trying to find the best candidate ever. The business doesn’t want to spend $50k+ on recruiting+paying someone who sucks. So spending a full day on interviewing, especially if you are offering competitive compensation, just makes sense
Many proponents of AA may admit that things are near fair now, but they used to be much worse. so AA this is just reparations for the past injustice. If that is the case then fixing underlying issues would have less of an effect than we would expect.

It makes sense because if most black children grow up in poor fatherless homes (and that is the cause of the majority of inequality), its not because white people are discriminating but maybe because that is just the state the black people are facing.

A good (race agnostic) way to solve it is just account for the fact the someone is fatherless and they come from low income households. Totally eliminates race.

Blacks will still be helped but unfortunately asian individuals will still have a large hurdle[0]

0 : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_U...
Right, I definitely agree with you. My only point was that it's easy to point to villains but real solutions are structural.
"for a lot of people, the photos you take on a trip become more important than the experience.”

Cheap photography is to blame for this more than anything else. I was transiting through Dubai a few years back and spent a bit of time at the Burj Khalifa. There is a fountain at the base that does a performance every so often. The majority of people were not seeing the fountain directly at all, they were watching it through their mobile phones. It was a weird sight. I personally didn't take a video since you can see much better ones on Youtube than the one I'd have been able to take with trying to keep other people's phones out of it.
Hey, thanks for your interest. I gotta say, I hate the enterprisey page too. But, enterprises buy the support contracts that put food on my table, so I finally had to relent on that. (The original page, which was my handwritten HTML, is still at http://www.lmdb.tech/oldindex.html but I'm no longer updating it. My updates just go to symas.com/lmdb/technical now.)

The doc page hasn't really needed any updates since the API has been stable.
How is banning AirBnB detrimental to the housing problem if it's also contributing to the lack of housing supply?
Google is also a (recent) investor in KaiOS.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/27/google-kaios/
Proficiency is properly a lower standard than fluency though
Because not every engineering problem is a software problem.

You cant just pop some adderall and code all weekend to fix things like this.
Why would it be a conspiracy theory? It makes sense for Google to make people use Chrome in any way possible.

They are not interested in user privacy for gods sake.
A ton of pacific northwest hydropower is already flowing into California through the BPA's intertie system:

https://www.bpa.gov/news/pubs/FactSheets/fs-20170726-BPA-set...
Yeah it's an interesting and tricky issue. At heart I'm also in favor of free movement: I'm an immigrant myself after all, I live in a cosmopolitan city and I enjoy being surrounded by diverse cultures.

At the same time, I'm not sure that truly unfettered freedom of movement would create a world which we actually want. For instance, if all border enforcement disappeared tomorrow, I don't see how there wouldn't be a mass immigration from regions at the bottom of the development index toward those at the top. And I would imagine the result of that would be to torpedo the cost of labour, and put stress on the social systems in those developed countries. I would imagine the wealthy would be just fine, but the middle class would be all but erased globally. So while I don't necessarily like the idea of boarders and exclusion, at some level I don't see how healthy and prosperous communities/cultures/societies can preserve their health and prosperity without having some filtering mechanism.

And as far as the options you give, I would agree with you in broad terms that we should strive to allow people to preserve what's unique and interesting about their cultures when they move into our communities (option 4), but the truth is there are a lot of gray areas and there will probably always have to be some of #1 as well.

For example, lets say that there is a population which moves into your neighborhood in Seattle which doesn't believe in vaccinating their kids, and now your kids who go to the same school are at risk of getting the measles. Is that enforcing your cultural superiority to insist that they get vaccinations against their belief system?

Or say there are people moving into your neighborhood who strongly reject homosexuality in their culture, and now your gay friends have to deal with dirty looks when they walk down the street holding hands in their own neighborhood. Should you just accept this as a form of cultural diversity?

So I think what I'm trying to say is that it's a nice idea to say we should open the borders and live and let live, but it's not as simple as that. A lot of us would probably agree that we're happy if people who share mostly the same values as us, and are of a similar socioeconomic strata come and bring their food, music, maybe even their language. But when it comes to real-world migrations I think there are a lot of grey areas, and we all have to draw the line somewhere as far as what should be accept as far as changes in our communities, but there's a lot of disagreement and negotiation involved in exactly where that line should be.

Anyway, like I say I don't know the answers, and it's a topic I struggle with philosophically.
You can with NoScript.
I've heard this definition of fluent elsewhere, but I find it challenging to accept for two reasons.

1) Even in languages that I've studied for a long time and know a lot more than 1500 words, I struggle to carry on small talk. Here again, maybe we have a different definition of small talk. Sure I can navigate the world, but I can't talk politics, economics, or current events without struggling or feeling stunted.

2) I recall being a student in Germany and having a 5 year old host sister. Sure her grammar was not fully developed and her range of specialized vocabulary was limited, but she most definitely knew more than 1500 words and had a more working understanding of that language than a typical non-native speaker would even after many years of study.
In this particular case it's all about Windows not having a decent SSH client. There's PuTTY... and uh... PuTTY. Oh, and you can sort of maybe run OpenSSH through LSFW or Cygwin, or maybe msys, but those all have some serious gotchas associated with them. Basically it boils down to, there's no standard Windows SSH client, and the ones that are available all have a laundry list of gotchas and problems, and that's without even bringing in the various git clients into consideration. OS X and Linux are low hanging fruit, they both come out of the box with a standard and well supported SSH clients.
> So are you saying that non-salary benefits are bullshit?

I'm saying the reasons startups typically give to justify their low salaries are largely bullshit and not persuasive.

> How can a startup compete for talent against these behemoths?

Outside of paying more, they really can't compete head-to-head with the behemoths. They should really focus on hiring junior people who can't or won't work for Google/Facebook. Case in point: someone wants to work on self-driving cars but Google won't hire them to work in that group. That's someone a self-driving car startup has a shot at hiring.
I haven't watched the news in several years at this point. I'll overhear a story or two occasionally when someone else in the house is watching it. The news upsets me more than anything. It's a majority violent/sad news, with the rare uplifting story. I don't want to start my morning with 4 stories on who got murdered/robbed/raped the night before. The news anymore puts so much emphasis on the negatives. Even on the negative stories, it's rarely about the journalism, it's more about splattering the accused person's name all over the screen. Frankly I don't care about the news. I don't care to about sports news, local happenings, crime stories, construction, etc. If I want to know about the weather, I'll use a weather based source, same goes for traffic.

I will say that I also know people who watch the news too much, multiple times per day. These people live their lives based around what the news told them. Their interests, their fears, it all comes from the news. They don't think for themselves, they think what the news tells them they should think. I've seen their gradual change in thinking. They used to be a bit more out going, but now some of them are petrified to even leave their neighborhood because they think death is around every corner. The news has them so scared that violence is a foot away at any time. I have a few family members who take it to the extreme. The news has them convinced that almost everyone in the world is out to get them. The only people they aren't scared of are people they already know. If you're a stranger and try to talk to them, they automatically assume you are out to scam, harm, or otherwise 'get' them. All because the news focuses so heavily on violence and negativity anymore.
That's how the school district I grew up in ended up with a large population of high expectation Chinese parents. Parents with young kids move there because they hear that some Chinese students from that school district got accepted to Ivy League schools. The children of these high expectation parents inevitably also disproportionately get accepted into top tier universities, which further perpetuates the cycle.
I've used client certificate authentication before, and two big problems present themselves. The first is the opacity of the error messages - if something goes wrong, you usually get a message like "SSL Error #128" with no further information to be found, even if you're reading log files on the server side, because TLS is implemented by low-level libraries. That could be solved with better library support, but the TLS standard (at least until TLS 1.2) makes it difficult to include detailed error information - sometimes for good reason, since too much info can itself be a security hole! The second problem I always run into is that certificates expire with no warning and no option to "ignore this error until I get a chance to fix it". Of course you and I can understand why this happens, but users generally don't.
The government incompetence is intentional. There's a coordinated effort from the Right to make sure the government doesn't function in order to make the argument that the government doesn't function. The disfunction is largely manufactured in order to serve political purposes.

Then they can budget cut and privatize everything while talking about "clean coal" and how climate change is a Chinese hoax and "states rights" etc etc.

It is hardly a coincidence the biggest road blockers in Congress are also the ones arguing to privatize infrastructure for their rich friends.
If you're a serious engineer that is demonstrating consideration: 1-2hr homework doesn't exist. Attention to detail, considering corner cases, test cases, documentation, and polishing takes time.

I do agree with you the whole "let's stress him out till he fails one of the tests and then fail him" gauntlet is just annoying.
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It would be nice if there were say goals of over 90% by 2030; that gives you 12 years to build and decommission or convert existing fossil-fuel plants to sustainable alternatives.

The hard problem is the storage and peak handling, hopefully with 90% you could cover that too.

A real space-race goal - the kind that I would really have expected from America - would be to be carbon neutral within a decade. That would initially spur investment in natural carbon sinks whilst massively rewarding innovation in that area (which we desperately need - we have two centuries of carbon that needs removing from the atmosphere).

Heck, it would also be wise to investigate geo-engineering - to understand in detail how our planet works, and develop methods for altering it. Could we develop technology which would allow us to, say, counter a massive volcano (or a super volcano?).
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Currently, I buy all my electricity from renewables. The price I pay per kwh is lower than conventional generation. However, the state of California has given PG&E a monopoly on electricity distribution, and PG&E charges me the difference between the generation charge from renewables and its own generation charge as a 'distribution fee'. This fee is waived, if i used PG&E generation.

Until California kicks out PG&E's monopoly and lets me pay the actual fair market price for my renewable electricity, I find it hard to take these initiatives as anything more than virtue signalling.

A better method for my county would be for the state to get rid of PG&E's ability to selectively charge the distribution fee. Then, private market forces would basically make everyone switch to renewables. Of course, the legislature wouldn't get the chance to appear virtuous. In fact, they'd look like villains for allowing this ridiculous pricing structure to begin with (and they really do knowingly allow it -- after talking with my state senator and representative, they told me they know this is the case, but 'the PG&E lobby is strong'.. give me a break).
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Also, what does "Clean Electricity" mean? I signed up for CleanPowerSF which only cost me 2¢/kWh more, if I remember right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CleanPowerSF
> I'd love to see Harvard set aside 75% of their spots for a lottery of students who meet an insanely high threshold (98% percentile in the SAT, for example

Insanely high threshold? That's... a very low bar. https://www.statista.com/statistics/195908/number-of-births-... (no idea how good this source is) shows roughly 4 million births a year. A 98th percentile cutoff would admit 80,000 kids per year to Harvard. By contrast, according to https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/admissions-statistics (hopefully a strong source), the class of 2021 admitted 2037 people of which 1687 enrolled.

You would hope that 100% of Harvard admits would have 98th percentile (or, really, better) scores, but they don't.
Writing as a person that's recently built some PV:

The problem of building enough photovoltaics to meet demand is solved. High quality 60 and 72-cell PV modules at sub $0.50/watt and massive scale cheap ground mount and roof mount systems are not rocket science. With sufficient zoning and regulatory incentives it's possible for roof mount PV in California to entirely meet the state's energy needs in megawatt-hours per day. There are a LOT of empty roofs out there.

There is also a lot of nearly useless, non arable desert land that is relatively low cost ($/acre) that can be covered in fixed ground mount photovoltaics. Go drive around out in the area around Twentynine Palms...

The problem is energy storage. Batteries need to get better and have much longer cycle lifetimes. Economies of scale driven by things like the Tesla gigafactory will help. But we will need other, new things like pumped storage hydroelectric and possibly vanadium flow batteries as well. The $/Wh stored ratio is still very high, and the cubic density for energy stored is very low (Wh per cubic meter).
If the manually allocated memory may contain references to managed objects then it still needs to be traced by the gc.

That or you start pinning managed objects or pull everything related into manual world. Both kinda suck.
I, too, love externalities when other's bear the cost, and hate them when I bear the cost.
And pays for articles that give them their beloved publicity on the net
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I'm not convinced of any of that. What sources can you offer for studies into similar situations in the past?
> but focused on Bush (the next Hitler!!!!)

bush launched a war that cost hundreds of thousands of lives and trillions of dollars. sometimes, strong negative reactions are justified.
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Add support for logging into Google with Krypton locally on iOS (Google Advanced Protection program)
Then why not just use "refresh token" as a session token?
Yep. I got recruited for a job I was qualified for yet didn't really want with a very high paying salary. I decided to go through the process to see if there might be something that made me change my mind. They requested a full-day interview. I asked if it could be broken up into two days and they declined. So I informed them that I didn't think I would be a good fit.

There's so much bullshit that Facebook / Google et. al are responsible for in this area. All of the wannabe startups basically copied their recruiting tactics with zero understanding for why good people were drawn to them in the first place.
Slack definitely started from the software niche, but is far from the only player in the field.

Others mentioned Mattermost, Discord, but really, there are so many viable options out there. See this list of 25+ alternatives for example: https://fleep.io/blog/best-slack-alternatives/

From cloud-based to self-hosted, open-source and commercial... As long as they integrate with the tools devs use, there will be devs who use it.
I believe that the conservatives will collectively support people that are in fact acting much like Disney villains because they believe the Disney villains will do the best job of protecting their privileged position in society and their wealth or in the case of poor conservatives the wealth and privilege they imagine they will someday earn.
>Two of my coworkers are currently being forced to look for a new place to live in a tight housing market because their current landlord can make more money renting on Airbnb

Isnt this economics? Travelers are moving money to your location. Your coworkers wont pay the increased rate, but travelers will.

Why are travelers looked down upon? New ideas, patronage in the city, and creating relations around the world.
Ask HN: Best reads about open source movement/philosophy?
I'm looking for the best books, articles, essays, films (?) about OSS: its philosophy, history, and so on.
I understand the outrage, but what are the "real" solutions, who is pushing them, and why aren't they gaining traction? Maybe tunnels suck, but at least there is something happening.
MS don't pay it to all of their workers. So I am confused.
So what is the difference between Krypton and Duo? Why are they so innovative?

By reading the website it seems they are doing the same thing as Duo.
It doesn't matter nearly as much as people believe. Value objects at this point are a kind of red herring. The JVM does aggressive escape analysis and is also very good at capturing short-lived objects. In the big picture, pointer chasing and memory latency is kind of the last frontier of performance grumps. It really becomes an issue is with very large object arrays that must be iterated over quickly. In that case it's straightforwards to implement your own value-types using code-gen or use excellent libraries like Chronicle-Values [1].

[1] https://github.com/OpenHFT/Chronicle-Values
Maybe I'm just in a bad mood. I'm sorry for being a jerk today.
Have you seen this: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Binary_Transparency?
The air force has long had plans to keep the B-52 fleet operational for a 95 year span (last B-52Hs from 1962 serving until 2050). They don't need a replacement for them unless Congress forces the issue.
> If enabled, they are sending a bunch of information with unique id.

That is not the issue. The issue is when they send Firefox user's data to google of all places.
If making money from using people's lives as leverage is evil, then let's go ahead and condemn doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers, insulin injector manufacturers, and lifeguards while we're at it.
I was looking more for studies than anecdotes, like the one mirajshah posted.

My anecdote is that I went to a charter school that served 23 different communities across basically half the state of Massachusetts. Median family income from these communities ranged from $54K (Leominster) to $202K (Lincoln). And there were very noticeable differences in both behavior and academic achievement between students from the Fitchburg/Leominster/Ayer region (poorer and more blue-collar) vs. wealthy Boston exurbs like Lincoln, Carlisle, or Bolton. Almost everyone at the school was white, so this wasn't much of a conflating factor (aside from some Asians & blacks adopted into wealthy white families, and half-Chinese like me who also were in relatively well-off and well-educated families).

Granted, it's a charter school, and my class was the first year they were legal in Massachusetts. This tends to exacerbate differences because you don't go to an experimental charter school unless you're unhappy with your existing school, and top reasons for being unhappy include falling behind classmates or being so far ahead that you're bored. But interestingly, a large number of those who struggled from poor districts went back to their home district, perhaps because they struggled even more when going to a school with a wide mix of backgrounds. This despite my school having a radically individualistic instruction method (every student had a personalized learning plan) and an enviable 1:12 teacher:student ratio.
These are vulnerabilities in specific implementations of JWT. It doesn't make JWT unsafe as a whole.
> Any neighborhood with a reputation for being hip, having art, music, bars etc. is now half populated by Airbnb guests at all times

Why are there so few of these places?