skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The baking process and the Haber process are two different things, and home baking is not genocide. It's not even elitist, although it requires a bit of time privilege.
i'm glad i commented so you could inform me - there's always another side to everything.

that makes some sense, though like you say it must be partial. i have no problem with japanese motorcycles which seem to be much much quieter.
Heh, that's a possibility, actually. Govs like how software and personal phones enable global surveillance, but they don't like the power that general computing devices give (all these encryption protocols, bitcoins and so on). So obviously some people in the govs are trying to convince the rest to keep the first and take back the general computing part. We may even see in our lifetimes how common people will only be allowed access to dumb software (the Apple model), and general unrestricted software and hardware will be threated like weapons, with licenses and prison time for software engineers. The alternative path for society is cheap and powerful general use phones with quantum coprocessors and a constitutional amendments that defend these rights. I'm pretty sure that the two alternatives are now being considered somewhere in DoD offices.
We can do a lot better, the bar for food is quite low. Ie, many people can double or triple their bread spending to have this kind of bread and still be comfortable. The world grows richer every year, and spending extra money on quality is a great use of extra wealth.

As for the guardian in particular, I think this is what you're seeing:
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/09/identity-...

I think they're very good at this kind of stuff - writing that compliments and affirms their readership's view of themselves. Whether that makes any sense or has much relationship with reality is besides the point.
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You can thank the countries conservative men for that. Chaos v order.
Great question! XenForo is mature software developed over almost a decade by a great team in the UK. It is unfortunately proprietary and this was a decision making factor when choosing a platform.

The only other contender that matched my vision for a revival of a more traditional style forum was phpBB and I don’t think it would have been up to scratch for the eagle eyed and fairly demanding tech community.

Discourse, Flarum, Vanilla are all great options but I don’t think they were well suited to what I wanted to build. Not enough to set them apart from other communities in this space.

Building a bespoke solution wasn’t an option when time commitments and budget are considered.

The data is all well portable and neatly organised so if those needs change and can be reconsidered as we grow what is the best decision.
> Actually was thinking of using Cloudflare Argo

I'd suggest that Argo is a waste of money if you have control of your router, you don't need to secure unencrypted HTTP traffic, and your ISP isn't port-blocking. Block all traffic except from CF's IPs, configure Authenticated Origin Pulls, and use SSL for your CF<->Origin traffic (your own cert or CF's).

If you don't meet all of those conditions, a cheap VPS as a VPN server is probably a better value (plus you get a VPS to do other stuff with).
Mu: A Human Scale Computer
Like the "theoretical magicians" in the aforementioned book.
Not the OP, but will take a crack: A divergence from the acceptable usage of words makes comprehension difficult, and can cause miscommunications, especially where precision is required; which happens often in a business environment. Even in a misunderstanding of proper usage can severely change the intent behind the messaging, if most communication happens over text (Slack/Email etc.).

That being said... if I'm reading this correctly, its specific to communication in non-business settings, where I don't really care much about whats "proper".

This is a losing battle, btw. Every society seems to struggle with the problem of keeping purity in language and all of them seem to have failed in that effort. Europeans failed to keep Latin relevant. Indians failed to keep Sanskrit relevant. The common language that is well understood by a majority will always win. And trying to keep it pure by force, just makes it die in relevance.

Which is why, the fact that Oxford English Dictionary keeps adding new words to the English dictionary is one of the best indicators of the resilience of the English language.
Ask HN: If you could start your career over again what would you do differently?
What part of that report, the linked graph, or my comment said anything about turning off the natural gas plants now?

Why is it so impossible for anyone to read and understand a graph without engaging in such wantonly shitty logic.

That graph says we should stop building NEW gas (and coal and oil) infrastructure. Typical plants and projects are scoped in the 10 - 30 year time range, that graph is a 30 year time range. All that has to happen is we shift what we purchase and invest in going forward.

Its such an underwhelmingly simple answer that people seem to miss it in their yearning for a fight.
> Hire people who are ok without a social workplace

>>> Local support system: If the only support system someone has is their work one, then being in a remote environment will likely make them go crazy. You need people who have outside support systems so they have people they can interact with on a daily/weekly basis.

I found this really interesting. We've been a "remote first" company for about 2 years now, after being a non-remote company for the prior 3 years to this. Initially, the feedback on remote was great from employees.
However, more recently the feedback from 1 on 1s is that "It's not as fun anymore", "I miss the <buzz about the office> <going out for lunch> <random nights out> with colleagues ", from certain people. I think these people fall into this category of not having a strong social life / support group outside of workmates.
Imagine 50 years ago they had passed a law to ban any advertising of products that are not low-fat or non-fat. That research turned out to be wrong and eating fat is good.

The problem with this has nothing to do with the freedoms of sugary drink companies, but rather with thinking that controlling EVERYBODY will solve the problem. You can ban all the ads, fat people will still find their soda fix somehow. Protecting children is one thing, but banning them across everything is really more of an exercise of authority, rather than a useful policy.
It started as lists and shell scripts to query them in the newsgroup rec.arts.movies.
Wait, Apple is Sending URLs to Google ?
> Any pointers on your process here?

It's a pretty straightforward, the same technique that's used industrially for most common ceramic production. I 3D print mold positives that then get cast in plaster. That plaster is used as part of a 'slipcasting' process:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slipcasting

> How do you cure/fire your ceramics?

I'm using standard high-fire (cone 10) ceramic slips that I mix from raw powder. They are fired to ~1300 C in a small electric kiln (although it's a particularly well insulated one so it can go all the way to cone 10 without too much trouble).
I longed for an active traditional style board for many reasons. There’s pros and cons to every style of community and they’re all great for different things.

A bit down this post I did a pros and cons of Webwide vs. Reddit style, Twitter style and Slack/Discord style

https://webwide.io/threads/why-webwide.65/
To me this is conceptually the same problem as DRM - with your position similar to those trying to build DRM systems.

One can’t both hand over data freely to a service (in this case Linkedin) and also subsequently prevent all sharing of that data. Or to put it another way, you can’t both put your information on a public billboard hoping a recruiter sees it to offer you a job AND keep it strangers private from people you hope won’t misuse it.
Are there unions for software devs?
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We’re now considering switching from coffeescript to ES6 (or maybe also Typescript). But coffeescript is seeing a bit of a revival, and I’m starting to wonder if we should stick with it?? Tooling seems a bit behind and also lacking things like tree shaking etc (??). But coffeescript is so clean and fun...

Any tips/thoughts??
The 5GB of persistent data is available for by default for all free accounts running on the free instances. You can easily upgrade your storage up to 1TB by upgrading you subscription within the console. We can also provide up to 4TB by opening a ticket.
> The longer you go without finding a new job, the harder it becomes to get past the suspicious-looking gap in your employment history.

I lucked out once here at an software interview - my parents had bought a house that they were having renovated, and I spent a few months between jobs acting as a general contractor, and doing some of the labour that I was qualified for myself. Turned out my interviewer was a former carpenter, so we spent a while chatting about that.
It's an excellent way to download Linux (or BSD) ISOs. Much faster than the nearest HTTP mirrors.
> In my experience, they will know how to share their Google Docs (which is where their spreadsheets and typed reports in all likelihood get written) with you.

From what she has told me, and from what I have seen, some of them don't even get that far. Their idea of sharing information is to send screenshots in MMS messages or over snapchat.

And, I think that if you graduate high school, you should have these basic skills. Just in the last year, I have emailed zip files to several different people, like my attorney, or when I applied with the local town clerk for a parking permit. There is never going to be an app for everything.

And call me old fashioned, but I think a high school graduate should be able to write a check, put it in a physical envelope with a stamp, and mail it. And if someone lets you expedite something by emailing forms to them directly, you should be able to do that too. God forbid a medical office asks you to fax them something. (Which I still have to do several times a year)

When I was in high school, everyone knew how to use AOL to send word documents and pictures and even mp3s to each other via email. Everyone. These are skills that can be taught.
What recipe do you primarily use?
I do not like a hide and seek game with who viewed your profile functionality: upgrade to a paid subscription to see who viewed, upgrade to another tier to hide that you looked at someone.

It looks like the lack of imagination or business prowess to come up with more advanced, valuable, and less annoying ways for monetisation. If only they could make it easier to connect people with matching mutual interests, more flexible than plain traditional job board and the database of CVs.
> How easy it is to digest

I’ve not had this experience. I’ve found the ambiguity in coffeescript a maddening adventure in syntax confusion.

- function call syntax doesn’t need parens except if a 0 parameter method

- commas are largely optional both in arrays and function parameters. How do you parse: [f, f(), f a b c]

- implicit returns are a terrible idea.

- the @ syntax refers to either a ‘static’ method or an instance variable depending on the context.

- I have to do a double take for the object literal syntax every time
> Not sure "isn't LinkedIn property" is accurate here.

It is very accurate. Users retain the copyright on their works in so far as their works are able to be copyrighted. Anything that is a "mere fact", and can't be copyrighted, is also not LinkedIn's property.

From LinkedIn's terms of service[1]:

> you are only granting LinkedIn and our affiliates the following non-exclusive license:

> A worldwide, transferable and sublicensable right to use, copy, modify, distribute, publish, and process, information and content that you provide through our Services and the services of others, without any further consent, notice and/or compensation to you or others.

___

1. https://www.linkedin.com/legal/user-agreement#rights
Thanks, I know nothing about 3D printing. Thanks for the pointers.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_evaluation#Futamura_... are an interesting point of view for the definition of a compiler
I quit Costco after I realized most items I needed from them were generally about the same or only pennies cheaper per unit, sometimes actually more expensive, and almost always cheaper when on sale at a normal supermarket. For example ground beef was usually about $3/lb, the same as my local supermarket has on sale every other week for the same quality/lean level.

Couple that with the inconvenience of having to go to a second location for normal shopping needs, and one that is usually a jam packed on parking and checkout lines... It just wasn't worth it for the small handful of things that were a good deal.
That does not undermine the thesis that the society is basically a meritocracy - it rewards everyone proportional to their contributions, it's just that some people are poised by birth to be able to contribute more than others.

If US weren't a meritocracy, they would promote incompetent people to positions of power. This for to a large degree does not happen - for example, you can't get a $500k FAANG job just because you have an uncle there. On the other hand, if you were born in a family with right values, have the right genes and worked your ass off in school, you are a powerhouse in terms of your ability to contribute and will get that job (simplification, of course).
No worries thank you for your thoughtful comment and feedback!
This is the CA donation limitation list: https://i.imgur.com/T6mWt3g.png

The valves are broken out separately from the heart for purposes of donation, and the story also discusses a case of valve harvesting causing a problem.

I'm struggling to figure out where to draw the line until I can update my advance healthcare directive... all these tissues, as you say, can still be valuable. I mostly just hate the lack of transparency in these relationships, and that these organizations seem to be hiding this tissue use behind the actual process of organ donations...
> Is fracking sustainable?

Is that an honest question?

It's used to extract a fossil fuel. That should answer your question in case you know the definition of "sustainable".
Read past the title. This is pretty amusing satire. Quote:

> Bernie Sanders is redefining the purpose of politics in the United States. We would like to preserve politics as a domain to conduct business, protect our class interests, material comfort, international engagements and pursue ambitions of dominion. However, Sanders is reconfiguring the bounds of imagination within the American public, that is quickly seeing politics as a tool to achieve broader goals of a cooperative, democratic human society.
I dislike these trendy breads. They have excessively hard crusts and large holes, both of which I consider defects. My favorite bread is made with low hydration dough (50% water by baker's percentage, i.e. percent of flour weight) for a dense crumb, and cooked by steaming for an extra-soft crust. The trendy recipes also have too much salt, which masks the flavor of the fermentation products. IMO 1% salt by baker's percentage is sufficient. Sourdough is helpful for adding flavor to wholegrain or non-wheat breads, but for standard white bread I find it never develops much sourness, and long proofing with standard dried yeast is just as good.

Try experimenting with recipes yourself instead of just copying what's popular. I think a lot of bread recipes are designed to make good looking bread, rather than bread that's enjoyable to eat.
Are memory sports techniques useful in general? I don't know much about them but they seem specialized for memorizing streams of rote information (like strings of numbers). Can they also be used to recall useful information?
On the Code Smell of Asynchronous Middleware in Redux (2018)
I was laid off around 7 years ago. It was a massive hit to my self esteem and confidence and I actually considered leaving tech and going back to wood working (I used to build furniture).

I managed to bounce back somewhat accidentally. A guy needed help with a Wordpress store he used to sell his woodworking products, so I did some stuff for him. He was so happy with what I did, he ended up telling other people. They got a hold of me about some work, then other people, and other people... and suddenly I was building bespoke applications on long term contracts making 3-4x as much as I was before I was laid off.

It was stressful because I didn't have the experience to suddenly run my own business, and I was bad at it. I did an okay job writing code, my customers were happy with that, but I'd invoice a month late, I'd forget to track time and inevitably bill too little because I couldn't bring myself to charge what I knew it was worth, I was a bad communicator at times, terrible at estimating time in certain conditions, etc.

That was a huge help in building the self awareness I needed to move forward in my career. Still working on that, and still super grateful for that layoff in retrospect.
Because everything is running in a docker container behind the scenes we support any kernel you would like. We have a handful of pre-built containers and you can also add a custom container very easily or build one off of a base template such as the Jupyter R stack. Here is a list of some of the container we provide by default https://docs.paperspace.com/gradient/notebooks/notebook-cont...
Simply put, no! Certainly not if the developer of the non-functioning software no-longer supports it.
I love German bread. Whenever we are in Germany we load up on all sorts of great loads and freeze them at home. I am from the Netherlands where the bread it generally fine, but boring. German bread is much more refined and outspoken.
> “ This has turned into a sad chicken-race...”

great dash use! i almost read that as a race of sad chickens (seriously) but the dash autocorrected me. bravo!
What kind of information will you save in Personal Knowledge Base?
Do you use or want to any personal knowledge base tools? if yes, what kind of information you will save to the PKB?
When people look up and misunderstand the meaning of a word, they base their interpretation on what they already know. So they are likely not to absorb a new concept but only get a new way of saying an old one. That means that the redefined word is likely to be an inferior tool on average.

It's also the case that just losing the utility of something hurts, regardless of the merits of the replacement so it's subjectively inferior to someone like me - getting older and crankier, you know.
Effects of battery manufacturing on EV life-cycle GHG emissions [pdf]
Linking PDF because summary is a bit too optimistic IMO. Key takeaways:

Estimates of GHG emissions when manufacturing LiIon batteries varies ten folds.

An EV may have emitted less GHG than an ICEV after 150000km, although that strongly depends on the above estimate and the electricity mix where the car is driven.
that first clause is what gives them the right to distribute your messages, images, profile pic, etc, to other users of the platform.
How can you get both mutable and hashable instances at the same time?
Exactly. I don't like or "enjoy" LinkedIn but I do find it useful professionally.

Now it sounds like this ruling implies that by creating a profile on one platform, I have to accept that every company that comes along can include me in their corpus.

Maybe I should be able to set a pass-through GDPR flag on my profile such that third parties (subject to that regulation) will have to exclude me from their datasets.
You're making some great points here. I'm curious to know how you're handling this part:

> I've put a lot of work into maintaining the ability to see change as opportunity past the age of 30

I do agree with you mostly and most younger coworkers don't seem to want or care about hacker news. I remember when I was in college and found this website, it was the greatest discovery ever and there was so much interesting content. But (purely anecdotally) the viewership seems to be limited to that demographic.
The irresponsibility is clearly on PGE's side. There was no noticeable wind in most of the areas cut, and none predicted. The cut amounted to simple extortion: indemnify us against consequences of our own deliberate negligence, or we will cut again!

Trees did not just start growing near power lines last year. PGE have decades of data, and know in excruciating detail what consequences to expect from sending out billion-dollar dividends instead of performing maintenance.
It's not too late to bootstrap more nuclear, but big nuclear plants don't make less sense economically nowadays. SMRs on the other hand do. NuScale's design is very interesting.
Ask HN: Why can thepiratebay's URLs be used for redirecting but not hosting?
The torrent-hosting site thepiratebay is constantly changing TLDs. Right now it's thepiratebay10.org, but its previous URL at thepiratebay.rocks still redirects to the new one.

How can it be that the .rocks url needed to be moved on from, but can still be used for forwarding? I don't understand how the game works. I would have thought that if it had been seized, they wouldn't be able to use it at all. And if it hadn't been seized, why move on and forward to another one?
I also started out doing my own pizza dough. I used some youtube tutorials to work my up to baking my own sourdough breads. I've had some interesting failures along the way but I'm getting consistently good results now. Making your own bread is pretty easy, cheap, and very tasty. Using a decent quality flour helps. If you are interested in that stuff, Alex French Guy cooking has a no nonsense introduction to making your own sourdough up on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLURsDaOr8hWWSiMZBLGP2...

There are a gazillion similar videos out there but this one is pretty informative and he's a bit of a food hacker.
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Can medium go extinct first?
Fracking in the US is very low-infrastructure. It's not like the 10-30 years it takes to spin up a deep-sea drill rig. It's literally a month or two and a couple million dollars. Here are some actual numbers: https://www.roseassoc.com/the-current-costs-for-drilling-a-s...

That's the whole reason it has taken off -- you turn it on when prices are high, you turn it off when prices are low.

We aren't committing to 30 years of energy policy by fracking in the US. You're committing a to maybe a couple years to pay off the investment.
This part?

> The remaining available carbon budget does not afford for a two-step transition. All investment in carbon emission producing generation needs to be replaced with investment in non-carbon-emitting generation, starting "in 2020" but honestly that's just politician talk. The real deadline is "fucking yesterday".

First, this is a response to someone who suggested we ban fracking. We will need fracking for the foreseeable future to power natural gas peaker plants. So your response to me doesn’t really make sense in context if you’re not actually supporting a fracking ban.

Second, until we have replacement technology, we need to replace retiring coal plants with natural gas even as we invest in renewables. Renewables are, at this stage, not stand alone power. More renewables means we need more peaker plants capacity to balance it out. That means fracking will have to continue and even increase over the next 20-30 years as we shift to more renewables.