skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It starts off with "The egg sets the baseline unit for all other ingredients; 1 egg mass = 1 unit." and

1 egg
2 white sugar
3 brown sugar
4 AP flour
e unsalted butter [2.72]
π chocolate chips [3.14]

but then it continues on with this usage of absolute volume measurements:

1/2 tsp baking soda
3/4 tsp kosher salt
1 tsp vanilla extract*

Is it really true that cookies made with hummingbird eggs need a much larger portion of those ingredients than cookies make with ostrich eggs?
Sorry, it was served as full resolution and quality on desktop for me, but significantly worse on mobile. Should have uploaded a closer crop I guess. Try "request desktop version" if your browser can do that.

It's as bright as it can be while still picking up the LED light.
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Considering some others in there this feels like a slap on the wrist
> I’d go with cancer is correlated with smoking.

Judea Pearl‘s book on causal inference, “The book of why” spends a couple of chapters on the fascinating story of how the causal connection between smoking and cancer was finally established.
At the time, no.

It depends on the lifecycles of the Soviets' assets because it was a bartering arrangement. Plus, gold could be stolen or skimmed, submarines were discrete units of barter that hopefully arrived in more or less one piece.
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You would have to constrain your experiment to some definition of "cookie" to prevent it from converging on a "cookie" that is pure dark chocolate.
This is article from techcrunch, a fairly reputable SV publication.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/26/is-huawei-a-national-secur...

Title : Without proof, is Huawei still a national security threat?

The title gives it away : there is no proof of this allegation.
Is comma.ai interesting to other companies at all? They have a system for integrating into existing cruise control, which Apple doesn't need (they can drop money to get cars made for them). They also have a vision system which is not very secret - throw lots of video footage into a NN - which should be possible to replicate relatively easily. Apart from aquihire, why would anyone buy comma.ai?
We're talking about a former leader of a nation for which the body of evidence is in. What is the evidence that he was feigning ignorance on foreign policy, national security, etc.?
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Idiotic tariffs and bans, trade will always find a way. Just ask drug dealers.
It's much the same here in BC, Canada. Mines, forestry, fishing - different resource extraction jobs have fluctuated enormously over the last century and we effectively have ghost towns all over. Some places look absolutely dead and you wonder why anyone lives there. At one point, most of them were booming. The gold rush was probably the original boom, and from there many others stemmed. Forestry is probably the most tragic, long-tailed bust in this province though.
13.4% of San Francisco is under 18 years of age. And over 65s are 15.7%.

It’s entirely reasonable to take regulatory steps to protect younger persons. Habits ingrained now last a lifetime - that’s why Juul is fighting this - a new generation of consumers is at risk of not having access to their product. Other cities and states are watching this play out.

By the way, just because you don’t see a lot of kids where you hang out, believe me there are tons of kids here. I have one. We live in San Francisco. There is a robust parent community here. You may not see it if you aren’t looking for it. For example, did you know there’s a large playground at ... mission Dolores park? And if you and your childless friends decided it was a fun place to play, you will get asked to leave. Possibly by the police.
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VMS had pretty nice version control, if you happened to be working on a VAX. It's hard to believe, but in the early 90s you still saw non unix (clone) OSes in the wild.
I haven't looked into it in years, but last I checked, CSA shares where I live are really expensive for what you get. And at that point, I'd rather just get my produce at the local New Seasons—it's much more consistent and convenient, and the quality of their seasonal produce is really good in my experience.
> I don't know about 'using'. I think it just is one - learning is possible but terribly inefficient in its absence.

I definitely agree there -- it's definitely part of the barrier to entry, people have to start looking for other ways of doing things before they'll land on haskell since it isn't main stream.

The things from haskell that are trickling out into the mainstream should (hopefully) be pointing people back at haskell, if it's at least mentioned in passing

> Very true & thanks for reminding me. That we can & do change (and must leave space for each other to) is one of the drums I like to bang now and then.

Yeah I really felt this when I watched Sandy's talk on polysemy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dHFOjcK6pA0

There were parts he didn't quite fully understand and he mentions it

Also to temper my previous comment, I want to be clear that I don't necessarily want every single able bodied coder to necessarily join the haskell ecosystem -- I am at least a little cynical in that I believe if there exist good contributors (that you do want) there are probably bad ones (that you don't want).
The easiest way would be to shutdown youtube-dl.org and ytdl-org.github.io by abusing the DMCA or applying pressure on their webhosts and registrars and then pressure youtube to remove or restrict the APIs the tool depends on so that current versions stop working. Maybe follow up by spending a little time playing Whac-A-Mole to shut down new sites as they pop-up while you launch massive legal attacks against every one of the devs (who are nearly all listed on the site's homepage by first and last name).

Youtube is the weakest link here though. If the scumbags working for the media industry put enough pressure on youtube to get into an arms race against the program (and others like it) things could get ugly fast. Especially as DRM worms it's way deeper into the most fundamental parts of both the internet and our devices. In the end, we'll always have the analog hole but software like youtube-dl is still vulnerable.

(I really hope you're asking out of intellectual curiosity and not because you're affiliated with the RIAA/BVMI/IFPI/ETC)
"with the license you get 10"
Questioner didn't stipulate the license they were on. The SF folks I deal with have enterprise licenses (200 custom objects) because SF supports a core part of the enterprise (the revenue side of things). With that there's a certain set of norms that happen and my suggestion is a simple approach to the problem.

"Pay appropriately and do it the right way"

If you're looking for the cheapest solution or the "just getting by" solution don't use Salesforce or you'll get some nasty surprises.
On my iPhone, the setting is “mobile data”, I.e. you can stop it from using cellular data (normally payable), but you can not stop it from using WiFi (presumably free).
Agreed; Facebook, Coca-Cola, McDonalds, Lays, Twitter, CNN, Fox, Disney, and Purdue are all examples of companies that are taking advantage of people's reward path in a basically addictive way. Maybe 95% in terms of aggregate profit.
It's because the engineers are on staff and you're paying them anyway. Trying to justify a separate purchase, even if would be cheaper on paper, is way harder.
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My friend's brother was bitten by a lone star tick on Long Island and since has developed that syndrome. It's been pretty funny trying to figure out what we can cook for him at our BBQ's since apparently the meats he's able to eat now are essentially chicken, fish, duck, and human.
Well, as an initial test, sure, but you have to do the same test in an open road once you know it works in isolation.
Also see Facebook’s XAR: https://github.com/facebookincubator/xar
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Can you suggest any resources for getting into salesforce development? I am aware of trailhead and its seems to be a great place to start. Any other resources?
Yes, it is possible to post a comment (or submit an article, or do just about anything else) on HN without Javascript enabled. This reply is an example. I'm using emacs-w3m to post it, and emacs-w3m does not understand Javascript.

I virtually always use HN without Javascript. It works great.
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I'll concede the point on relative vs absolute units (poor geek form) with practical caveats:

- the preamble clearly calls out the FDA std ~50g large chicken egg as the nominal egg unit.

- the recipe targets home bakers with basic equipment and small batches.

I've converted the small volume measures into mass & egg-ratios in the past, but the numbers butt up against the tolerances of most home kitchen scales and results get dicey. I've also discovered that OXO scales use some some of smoothing function that allows you to load 20 grams of slowly ground salt at "0" grams if you do it slowly enough. That was a bad batch...
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Think of it like the (much more common) disgust reaction to the smell of rotten organic matter. Most people have not actually had the experience of eating something putrid and getting sick from it, but something deep within your sensory system just knows, and tells you it's not ok. It's not debilitating. You can still pick up your dog's poop, or even hold a job in the sanitation industry. It's just really unpleasant.

FWIW I had my first really strong trypophobia reaction to the shattered glass on my family minivan's windshield after hitting a deer, age 7 or so, long before Reddit. (No injuries, other than the deer, just inconvenience). I felt weird. I kept thinking about it afterward. I wanted to bash it in. Discovered more than 10 years later that there's a name for it and and it's a thing other people experience.
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Same! I didn't realize it wasn't just circles cut on two sheets of metal until I saw this video on their design page: https://www.apple.com/105/media/us/mac-pro/2019/36178e80-30f...
With such sensitive information they should really avoid CC/BCC and do it manually, or write a script for sending 1 email at a time. Not because CC/BCC is bad, but because you want to be 100% sure to dodge this kind of problems.
Urgency, social proof and scarcity are dark patterns? Isn’t that online marketing 101?
The problem with continuous anxiety is that long term exposure can have a debilitating physical impact. This is not a joke and if you find that you are continually stressed or anxious you should take some active measures to get it under control.
In blow to China, Japan's 'quality infrastructure' gets endorsement at Osaka G20
that, and others, are mentioned on this projects comparison page https://pyoxidizer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/comparisons.html
That "sea change" in populism did not started just now.

I felt since around late nineties that Western and Eastern politics are getting closer with each day, to the point of convergence.

See, that "ultrapopulism" did not start with Trump and Co., it started with mainstream, centrist parties beginning to resorting to extreme political maneuvers and demagoguery at around start of millennium, with WTC attacks greatly facilitating that.

Whatever slogans the modern ultrapopulists operate, could've easily be taken for something coming from Lenin, Stalin, Pol or Mao few decades ago.
I have a Fireface and never had only the slightest issue with the headphone outputs.

As somebody who understands quite a bit about analog circuits and has seen Firefaces from the inside I would definitly trust RME on that one, this thing is beautifully engineered
I think you two are talking about different things. Empathy has two components: cognitive empathy and emotional empathy. Cognitive empathy is the ability to imagine things from the perspective of others, and lacking that is clearly a big handicap. Emotional empathy is the ability to respond emotionally to other people's mental state, and it's definitely not clear whether lacking that (as sociopaths do) is a handicap.
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>I see this indirectly in your own comment, where you casually referred to gRPC or protobufs as "fundamental piece[s] of architecture". Well they aren't standards, they are technologies that google likes. Protobufs is a perfect example of a technology in, well not widespread use, but is used by a bunch of projects, and as discussed elsewhere contains a number of decisions that reflect the google environment, probably not resulting in a great fit for a number of places where it is used.

I am not suggesting they're fundamental to the world, rather just fundamental pieces of architecture where they're being used at. That is to say, fundamental in a similar (though not identical) way to a libc would be. This is more of a miscommunication than a disagreement I think.

>There's nothing malign in that; the whole point of writing code is to meet your needs. But when you're an 800 pound gorilla, don't presume your every step is what everyone else needs. They are what you need and without proactive effort may not help many others....but can crowd out what could.

So, I'm not in the know, but... To quote the original post:

> So, what do you think about incorporating this new libc under the LLVM project?

That would, to me, imply under LLVM governance, not Google, and I think that's the primary thing people should focus on if they are worried. Kubernetes is a good example of where I think this ended up going extremely well; Kubernetes is under control of CNCF and not Google.

Moving governance elsewhere is surely beneficial for the project's health, and since it's a low level piece of architecture rather than an end user product, I see no reason why there wouldn't be motivation to do that. It appears it is the intent to do that in the first place.
XAR is only for "Linux or macOS", with FUSE installed.

PyOxidizer offers a solution that:

- works on Windows

- can produce executable for Windows, Mac and Linux, but also potentially cross compile from any of those in the future

- results in a stand alone executable, not some filesystem abstraction

- as such, the target machine doesn't need to have anything installed

- it also offers to embed Python into Rust projects, and Rust into Python projects

A better alternative would be the excellent nuitka (nuitka.net):

- it compiles Python to C

- it's very compatible, very reliable (I battle tested it)

- works better than the alternatives like py2exe, cx_freeze, etc

- does provide a standalone executable

- more mature that both of these projects

But:

- no cross compilation

- no rust / python interoperability

- more complicated to get working on windows

So I'm really excited for PyOxidizer. It may make the task of providing a stand alone executable even easier than with nuitka, and as a bonus, may build a bridge between the Python and Rust community, which really are meant to play together.
Empathy is good because you understand people. Psychopaths may have empathy which often makes them good manipulators but they lack sympathy so they don’t feel with others. That’s my understanding.
Sociopathy isn’t associated with empathy impairment like psychopathy is. Sociopaths understand empathy well, and can use it like a weapon.
Perhaps that the actual cost to use private rooms for delivery is being subsidized?
> new research by cybersecurity experts that top U.S. officials said appeared credible

CIA said Huawei insecure guys, guess we should listen to them and pack it up
In some horrendous nihilistic way we seem to get the politicians we deserve. Hopefully Boris and Trump are the end of this mess and after they screw everything we get something better, but I fear it’s just the start. It really does feel like we live in the hunger games right now.
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I think you are referring to sociopaths and not psychopaths, the latter of which are associated with empathy impairment and aren’t as great manipulators as the former.
We debate so much about feature creep in our relatively simple apps. Doom came around and gave us features we didn’t even know were possible.
Yes. Trading is generally bad if you don't know what you're doing and you don't have the right tools. That applies to the vast majority of retail traders. My thoughts on this were formed over the 12 years that I was a wall street trader. If you're a retail guy, just buy and hold an index fund.

The beauty of the financial markets in the US is that they are so accessible. But so are cigarettes.
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It is marketing 101. These are things that have been talked about in "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion" by Robert Cialdini. The examples used in the book to illustrate these concepts are from across the 20th century.
No self-driving car will turn left in front of you either. Pendulum swings both ways.

The self-driving car could very well have reacted faster than you ever could have, saving your life even in the many crash situations where you wouldn't have had any idea of the other driver's intention.
I think education would work better than banning. The "vaping > smoking" comparison is even more apt for weed, because it can be vaped in its natural form, whereas nicotine needs additives like propylene glycol.

(That said, kids should avoid weed in any form, since it's known to affect brain development.)
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No just keep selling personal vaults. Maybe add an open to open it or manage your finances ;-) With bluetooth.
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This is a true HN gem - thanks, really made my evening.
One of the things that I like about go is that the standard-library really encourages the use of writing test-cases. Most of the bigger projects have good coverage, and I try hard to get my own.

But nothing beats the sheer tenacity of running your code through a fuzz-tester. I've written a simple virtual machine, which interprets bytecode, and a BASIC interpreter amongst other things recently. Both of these projects benefited hugely from fuzz-testing, despite having high coverage via manually-written test-cases.

Fuzz testing is cheap and largely automatic, so if it takes a few hours or a few days to find an interesting result that's not a problem. I remember the first time I tested my interpreter when I had ~90% coverage of the code with my test-cases and it crashed via fuzzing within seconds! Magic!
TransferWise once requested a webcam interview and verified my ID using that.

How can a a theif fake an interview?
> A square gauze priced at the cost of an iPad,...

Absurd list prices were used to screw Medicaid and Medicate. Because they often paid at 85% of list price. When commercial payers had negotiated as much as 90% discounts. But that doesn't work anymore, I think.
Urgency and scarcity is so often manufactured that I can definitely see this in the dark pattern side of things. As well, whether or not there really is only 3 left, they chose to add the messaging as high impact alert messaging and it's definitely intended to be coercive.

All marketing is intended to be coercive of course, but I think you land in dark pattern territory when your coercion is no longer related to the value propositions of your product. Saying "You need this TV because it has great definition!" is just selling your product. But saying "You need this TV because TIM bought one, we only have three left and this deal runs out in 9 minutes!" is just plain old bullying someone into buying, regardless of what the item was.

Often enough too, TIM didn't buy one, there is a backorder of 1000 units being delivered this week, and the deal will just start again after the current ticker finishes.
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Just a heads up; there are some rough edges. That said to get it going you can just do a pull and then a `make run`. It's got zero auth in this mode, but if it's ephemeral whatever.
> A new contributor consolidated the config files and cut the number of file open operations by a couple orders of magnitude. I don't think we ever properly thanked that guy.

Unspoken benefit of “new person” — eventually someone not desensitized to the crap will throw up their hands and fix it.
But putting those charges on your card within your credit limit and credit period doesn't cost much.
>The Soviet ruble was still worthless on the international market

Who controls the currency controls the country. A government forced to barter its warships so a multinational company would continue delivering its soft-drink to its citizens. I wonder if the deliberate sabotage of the Ruble helped usher in collapse.
Not really, there are different BINs issued for prepaid card.
"...corporate development teams are uniquely qualified to utterly botch a libc, yet still push it into widespread use..."

That doesn't seem to be uniquely corporate, there are lots of botched, poorly implemented, or designed, community projects not backed or funded by corporations that have come into widespread use.

There are also lots of attempts by corporations to force adoption of some piece of open source software only to fail, look no further than Polymer for example, or NaCL/PNaCL for that matter.

Sounds to me like what they're proposing is a simplified subset of libc, since the exact justifications for what's being supported and what's being left out haven't been discussed, it really seems premature to dismiss it out of hand. There could be plenty of valid reasons for doing it.

Look at OpenGL, a hideously complex spec that is onerous to implement for full compatibility and compliance. John Carmack forked it to create mini-GL drivers that were useful for games. Eventually this became MCD, and eventually the largest most cash flush vendors funded full ICD drivers. Carmack was correct to fork OpenGL for consumer hardware to support games as the fully OpenGL was really incompatible with market needs and backwards compatibility with the full spec was needed by a tiny minority, but held back drivers for millions of consumers.

And now, decades after that decision, we have Vulkan, because honestly, the original OpenGL design needed to be replaced.

Perhaps libc is reaching that point where it is suffering under technical debt?
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BTC hard forked twice (or thrice if you count the one accidental hard fork) and soft forked a dozens of times. Claiming that BTC is the "main chain" is misleading. The main chain is dead for years; run the original bitcoin client, it won't sync up.
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The no political battle rule though seems to make all direct U.S politics off limits however.
i am asking out of curiosity!

but i think the attacks on the devs will be fruitless, unless they can somehow intimidate them without actually suing them (in which case, it's a baseless suit).

Youtube disallowing the app is a possibility - after all, the T&C of youtube may be changed to exclude anyone they want. But the youtube website will need to somehow allow the browser, but restrict non-browsers (or non-compliant browsers). DRM is the only thing i can think of which could achieve this goal - and that is one reason why i hate that google managed to put in DRM into the web standard.
Oooh, this seems like exactly what I need. I hope it gains some traction. Trying it out right now for small util my wife needs that has to run on a machine she doesn't fully control.