skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use an overnight no-knead inspired approach as documented here:

https://blog.steve.fi/this_is_mostly_how_i_make_bread.html

There's only one bowl to clean afterward, and so I find it pretty simple. The pictures in that post don't really do it justice, but I've never had an inedible result, even if sometimes it doesn't look great.
You couldn't implement this in a fund structure. It would need to be a separately managed account or something customized to each individual.
Yes! My entry point as well, back in the Macromedia days, making interactive animations with gotoAndStop. When AS3 appeared many years later weaned myself into the concepts of OOP, partly out of need, partly out of curiousity ... but mainly to understand other's work. Looking up to guys like mr doob. Frontend tooling today is insane. The flash ide and actionscript felt like a standard at the time, with a huge amount of power abstracted away. I feel like it's only in the past 5 years that the real standards have caught up with the (admiteddly inaccessible) possibilities of pre-2008.
It's funny, I worked so intimately with Flash in my day job that I clocked this before I even knew the tech (Scaleform?) existed because badly made Flash content has a certain jankiness to it that I recognized instantly. The Borderlands 2 menu system comes to mind in particular.
Being consistent helps, that way you know whether its a technique problem or under/over-proofing. I live in a poorly insulated house and baking bread over winter is a pain. I ended up making my own proofing box - way cheaper than buying an off-the-shelf chamber (some of which are $100+).

Get an expanded polystyrene crate [1], the sort of things market traders use, a seedling mat and a relay thermostat. Wire together and you have a reasonably accurate climate controlled box. The box will be the most expensive thing, but I bought a very large one (too large, to be honest) and it was about £35. For a single loaf, you only need an interior volume enough to fit something a standard plastic food container [3]. A 4L container will barely do a 1kg batch, so size up.

This is essentially the design that Noma use in their fermentation book [2]. Hint: you can see the design in the preview on Google Books (page 42).

I set mine around 26-27C for bread, seems to work quite well. I've not bothered to measure how accurate the setpoint is.

[1] https://hydropac.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/deluxe-1.j...
[2] https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Noma_Guide_to_Fer...
[3] https://www.nisbets.co.uk/cambro-square-polycarbonate-food-s...
If I may add to your sentence, specifically the last claim in your quote is what puts their train of thought on a collision course with reality.

Life adapts, when it can. The rate of change you mentioned ensures that a majority of life will not be able to adapt and it's not impossible that another K-T level extinction event is already taking place.

Geologically speaking, the speed at which the Earth is changing from human-induced climate change could just as well be a meteorite impact. Looking at global conflict resolution ability I fear that we have no hope to stop it.
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The Anti-Transformation Transformation
I have been laid off 4 times over the course of my career. And to tell the truth, it has been the best of times.

Each time it galvanised me into action to further my portfolio of skills. As a software developer for the majority of my life, it showed me how much the landscape has changed over the years. You have to keep on learning new things, languages, products, just to stay on top of everything. Each time I was laid off I spent a few weeks learning new tools and languages ready for the next stage of my career.

Mind you, the last time I was laid off I only spent a week "unemployed" waiting for my next job to start. At a certain point you learn so much that you can adapt on the fly and my current employer saw that I had a shed load of skills that the fought off other companies who wanted me.

On another plus side, each time I got laid off I was paid a handsome tax-free payoff. I now have no debt (not even a mortgage) and have enough savings that I could retire now. Mind you, I only have a few years to go before it's my official retirement age.

Getting laid off is not the bad thing many people see it as. See it as a change for the better. It's gives you a new focus and purpose, and hopefully it's better for your wallet too.
Actually Windows and Ubuntu are not a good example because the end user can easily perform updates without the computer manufacturer having anything to say. I would upgrade my mom's Android 8 phone, but I cannot. It is not the fragmentation, it's who's in control of the updates.
Interview with a (self-taught) crypto quant about HFT trading in crypto
Very frequently, with the amount of churn that one sees today, you can't even get to the end of a deployment with the same people that you started a project with.

I cherish my customers that have company lifers on the other side. Dealing with people that actually know what they are doing and have history and context to draw on is such a luxury.
Plural of anecdote doesn't make data, but I've got one for you in any case:

I used to suffer quite badly from winter dips, I've since installed a IKEA Floalt panel right next to my desk. I turn it on when I sit down and turn it off when I'm done for the day. I run it at full brightness at the medium color temperature (which is still fairly reddish in my opinion). Since then it definitely seems that my winter dips have gotten significantly less severe, though actual sunlight still seems to work better.

Now all that said I'm aware it might just be a placebo effect, but honestly if a placebo stops me getting all gloomy I'm all for it. To me at least it seems that my winter dips are heavily influenced simply by environment brightness.
Anonymous classes and generics limit in .NET/C#?
HN source is available and there are some hosted clones out there.
Second word you get to read is "inclusive".
And I'll just leave this here: https://webwide.io/help/code-of-conduct/
So this is not a place for devs to and entrepreneurs to learn and exchange, but another place to indoctrinate people into this one specific worldview.
Stillborn.
>What I fear the most is a silly bug causing a crash in a way no manually triggered series of trades would.

Banks are run by smart people and they worry about the same things. There's dedicated systems checking to ensure algorithms aren't running away. All the big banks and brokers have been buying them for a decade or so. Nobody wants a crash and the algorithmic traders are mostly using a line of credit from the bank with which to do their trading and the bank usually take a commission on the profit so the banks have a strong interest in seeing them make money as opposed to crash the market and disappear into bankruptcy proceedings. Of course the government also swooped in and saved the day by mandating risk checking systems a couple years after everyone who cared was already using them (thereby solidifying the status quo for better or worse).
Where do you think the wealthy hoard their cash?
That what I was thinking too.

I think it could be implemented as SP520 index fund with a low cost swap sold separately against the fund.
Nobel Economics Prize for experimental approach to alleviating global poverty
My understanding is that the law is that government agencies may access companies' infrastructure to conduct security and compliance audits.

The worry is that this may be used to access companies' data.
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You might want to look up the definition of 'oxymoron'
Not by their choice and this is the main problem. I have about 10 Android phones and tablets in the house, a single Apple device and I can keep the Apple device current, but I cannot choose to do the same for Android, the manufacturers do.
So could US companies that bail claim extraordinary business losses?
Columbus Day Haters are Missing the Point
This is bizarre, you start your comment saying that I have no idea what I'm talking about and then go on to agree with everything I wrote.
Our take on how to preserve Flash content in the WebAssembly era: https://medium.com/leaningtech/preserving-flash-content-with...
Hong Kong protests: President Xi warns of 'bodies smashed'
Why I’m Running Cloudlinux in Production
If I was an employee or customer of a US/EU company that has a large percentage of (e.g., engineering) staff based in China, I'd be seriously concerned at this point. Large multinationals may be able to avoid/mitigate the restrictions somehow. But smaller companies that depend on a Chinese branch would surely try to "fly under the radar" and stick it out in the hopes of the law not being applied to the fullest extent.
If anything happens in the society there's
always a person who made the decision

Imagine a green field of gras.

People start walking on it. In all kinds of directions.

Slowly paths through the grass start to emerge.

Those paths attract more people to walk on those.

The stronger the path through the grass, the more people use it.

Finally, there is one clearly visible path through the grass everyone uses.

Who made the decision?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E82pl8rEOoY

Not really on par with Outrun though.
Does that mean that different countries used incompatible dialing patterns? Since our 1 emitted one tone and 0 emitted 10, but presumably Sweden's 0 emitted one tone and 9 emitted 10.
do you need a thousand chairs? skyscrapers can't be built out of wood, too.

the easiest way would be to just bury the wood (we dug it out in the first place, right?) but we need to make sure that it doesn't rot and thus reenter the atmosphere. that's where burning makes sense.
It's actually the other way around, at least historically speaking. Typically a very small number of names account for the lions share of the index return.
I remember my first big screw up, at my first start-up I worked at.

I mounted production server webdir as an sftp mount remotely. Then I remember doing chown -R at some higher level directory locally thinking it surely won't affect NTFS remote system, but boy was I wrong. It caused a one whole day of downtime. Thankfully easy to fix once I figured it out.

My boss couldn't live it down for a week or two, but eventually it dissipated and I earned a lifetime lesson, and nothing really was lost.
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I Started a Remote Community
Beyond-c, the next programming language
I figured it was obvious from the context that the hypothetical person is wearing it in support of Nazis, and not as a buddhist symbol...
Yes, and this is how powerpc applications were supported for years.
Bocker is a good resource to learn what containers actually are: https://github.com/p8952/bocker
Don't get stuck on a problem for too long. Ask for help. On the other hand, don't immediately ask for help but try to figure it out by yourself first.
How would it be possible for 8-bit machines to successfully emulate a game that used twin 68000 cpus and custom sprite scaling hardware? these conversions were just a marketing gimmick, targeting the wallets of the poor consumers.

It was amazing back then to me how bad were home computers relative to arcade machines back then. It was also amazing to me that no home computer manufacturer ever had a plan for a serious gaming home computer system that matched (or came close to) the arcades in visual quality.

Who wouldn't try to buy a machine that could play, for example, Outrun, close to the arcade? even if it cost 1000 dollars...
Good observations but I can't tell what Taibbi is recommending.
"No it isn't. It is a stable design. To claim otherwise misunderstands the term."

Well, then we just disagree on the term.

"Because the 737 Max had been outfitted with larger new engines that could cause its nose to pitch dangerously skyward" (Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/opinion/business-economic... )

I don't call this a stable design. You can crash every airplane (e.g. "stall") but the plane should not enter an unsafe flying mode during normal flying behavior. No good engineer would have chosen that design.

An airplane that can only be kept in the air with a computer must not be necessary unsafe. As far as I know the stealth bombers can only fly with massive computer help. But this must be a rational, conscious decision and the pilot must be aware of this. Not a quick fix to stick huge engines on a plane that was designed in the 60ies.

I can put a Ferrari engine in a Mercedes from the 20ies. And I am sure it will drive. But the car, the brakes, everything is not made for this combination.
Until it's not and the fund manager goes bankrupt...
>I was interpreting "such places" to mean cities like Norilsk.

And why would we know how you "interpreted it" if it wasn't spelt out? And what would be the limits to accept other places as being "like Norilsk"?

Cold cities only (e.g. not a cold village)? Cold places in Russia? Cold industrial cities only? Cities that get dark in the artic for months? Would similarly cold places elsewhere count? Does it have to get to -40 celcius or a city that gets to -20 will do?

The "most reasonable interpretation of a comment" of what we were already discussing in this thread is that we weren't talking about Norilsk lookalikes, but about whether people could live in such adverse settlements before or are "only able to live there while burning copious amounts of hydrocarbons to stay warm and/or generate electricity".

That was literally the claim that started the subthread.

>Assuming I've never heard of the Inuit or whatever is offensively patronizing and violates the HN recommendation to respond to the most reasonable interpretation of a comment.

It's not that difficult to not have heard of the Inuit, or to have heard of them but believe they lived if other conditions, or whatever.

The "outrage" is rude, and probably violates the same HN recommendation it invokes (if not others too). The parent replied very calmly to a question.

HN is global and has people of all places and all ages, including people who know little or nothing about Alaska and the Inuit. And people don't know all kind of basic things if they're not in their interests. Heck, many people can't place basic countries on the map, much less know about the Inuit. Just because someone is a programmer, and reads HN, is no guarantee.
> These emergencies did not present as a classic runaway stabilizer problem

I find this baffling. The stabilizer was clearly running and dangerously pitching the nose down.

The pilots could have safely resolved the situation by:

1. using the electric trim switches to override the runaway trim, which they did

2. then cutting off the stabilizer trim with the cutoff switches, which they did not

(1) and (2) are true. See Aviation Week Aug 19.
The Scala release checklist [1] is a good example of a release checklist with both automated and manual steps.

[1]: https://github.com/scala/scala-dev/issues/645
Policy simulation: How to build an economy-wide digital twin
If you are Apple, you cannot ignore the security updates. If you are one of the 100 small vendors that sells some cheap Android phones, you offer no support and nobody will complain. If most of the Android phones have no updates, the entire market will not provide security updates, except a few flagship models where Samsung and a few more top manufacturers will have to do it to maintain the brand equity. This way you get to live in a world where "no updates" is the norm and there is no incentive to change that: the people buying $100 phones will not care about updates that they don't understand, but will increase the price by $10-20. When sub-$200 market is 80-90% of the market by volume the gold standard of no updates is set.
The old system makes the man rich who can hire the right people with the "right" people skills.

The new system makes the man rich who can hire the right math graduates.

It seems like we've got the same system as always. The rich get richer.
Picking losers is just as hard as picking winners. And you know this otherwise you would just short those 20 picks of yours.

So what would happen is that investors who don't pick outperform those who do.
I wonder if HN is hosted in China at all.

Edit: To clarify, I doubt any of it is. Still, having seen some seemingly unlikely events coming to pass over the past few years, it's natural to be curious and think through the scenario.
What about big companies like Supercell, owned by Tencent at about 80% ?
> The US government has a policy that is substantially similar in many respect

Not at all. The US legal tools that let the government demand data substantially limit what can be demanded. There is currently nothing in US law that prevents you from protecting your own systems. You might get a NSL, but you can fight it.

No doubt the US government collects a lot of data covertly, but you can fight that too. I'm not a big fan of giant US tech companies, but (based on well-placed friends I trust) I believe Google and others sincerely fight covert collection, and they're pretty competent.

I think a good choice for a private conversation would be a browser peer-to-peer WebRTC conversation on one of many hosts such as https://talky.io/ (for example). Good end-to-end encryption, perfect forward secrecy, open-source clients running on your platform of choice, many possible Web hosts which are unlikely to have been all backdoored by the government (and you can set up your own easily if you want). Obviously if you have been specifically targeted by a state-level agency, your client is probably already hacked and none of that matters, but those attacks are expensive and it seems unlikely that covers more than a small fraction of people.

It is counterproductive to take the position that all countries are similarly bad and there's nothing we can do about it.
VPNs are not illegal. VPN apps that are not authorised by the government are illegal, and using a VPN to bypass the Great Firewall is also illegal.

I don't think any of this will change. Companies will still be able to use VPNs, but they will likely have to be by authorised VPN software vendors.

Obviously the worry is that this may mean that the Chinese government could have backdoors or some other sort of access to data.
> “It could have been in completely useless purely technical terms "stable"...”

Not for nothing, how is this dismissal of terms helping forward understanding? This is in part a technical discussion with intelligent individuals. If avionics takes ‘stable’ to have a special meaning, then denying the term’s special meaning undermines credibility of those who are working so hard to hold Boeing to account.
All jetliners are unstable, which is why they have a yaw damper as required equipment since the 707.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaw_damper
Don't eat lunch alone. Build rapport with your colleagues.
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Not old as the wheel of course, but the first commercial installation happened a decade ago. It's not like it's some kind of experimental stuff that was discovered only recently.
Investors buy into the notion of gas as a transition fuel.

I'm not sure we have the time for the luxury of that sort of transition any more.
Looking back at 10 years AS 2/3 has brought us more than we have ever done within the Javascript era. The major lacking stabilities, compilers like TypeScript makes the modern toolset so incredible bad. Lovely to see as most of old AS programmers still approach these modern Javascript webapps way better than people started with Javascript without knowing the language behind it.

"R.i.p. Robotlegs" (lol @ https://github.com/robmoorman/as3-robotlegs-library)
I read you should write it as an interactive script e.g.:

input("Build X")
input("Build Y")
input("Zip X & Y")
input("Upload release")

THen run the script and press enter as you do the steps. It means if you're interrupted as your proceed, you can resume exacly where you were before.

If you implement it as functions:

def buildX():
input("Build X")
def buildY():
input("Build Y")
def ZipUp():
input("Zip X & Y")
def Upload():
input("Upload release")
if __name__ == '__main__':
buildX()
buildY()
ZipUp()
Upload()

Then you can automate parts piecemeal.
Probably the deer that were there already?
As much as I fear the China with regard to censorship, I think this could be a wise move for all social media platforms.

There are two reason why I think this:

a) Political advertising on social media is very hard to police as you can create huge amount of versions of each ad and target very different audiences.

b) Political advertising at volume favors the richest campaigns with the largest amount of knowledge about their targets.

By blanket removing political advertising from these platforms more focus would have to be made for more traditional forms of political work (door to door etc) and thus a slower more deliberate political climate.

It is by no means panacea but a good start.

Norway has always forbiden political TV-advertising, something that I think has helped the debate stay a bit less polarized, though that has changed with the advent of Facebook and it's ilk.
> Well, then we just disagree on the term.

When you're talking aeronautics, you should use the definition used by aeronautical engineers.
Note that there wasn't a roof over these bags. Understandable 1 year after the catastrophy but not now, almost a decade later. The typhoon didn't even have to blow off the roof.

This isn't an engineering problem. The art to build roofs is wel researched. It's a human problem. That nuclear is only "cheap" if you aren't building roofs over little/medium radioactive waste storage sites, or don't design reactors to be as safe as possible. More safe == more expensive.

I wonder what happens the next time a tsunami similar to the one from 2011 hits the fukushima site. How much better prepared are they now?
Ebooks are the easiest of the bunch, but I don't purchase a book simply because it's DRM-free. I find the book I want to read, I look for a DRM-free version of it (I'm fine with watermarks as well), and, if I can't find it, I either strip away the DRM or pirate it.

I specifically didn't mention music because it's easy to get it DRM-free. Pretty much every online music store is DRM-free.
I would disagree with the final part. Freelancing and actually earning a first-world developer income successfully requires quite a few skills that aren't part of a typical development job.

Knowing where and how to find leads, how to convert them into prospects and clients, how to negotiate, how to scope out a project, how to appropriately push back against scope creep and how to manage a pipeline of future projects are all important skills if you're freelancing (and not using a "race to the bottom" platform).
Disappointed that there is no easter egg revealed for dialing 8675309.... But cool nonetheless.
JavaScript Image Compress Using HTML5 Canvas and File API Before Upload
No, just like with synthetic ETFs, there would be a number of swap counterparties that would have to cover the difference.

If some of them fail (which is very unlikely), the damage would be limited to the difference between the actual portfolio and the S&P 500.
Very much a non-elite runner here, but yeah, "run vs my previous best pace" is a standard mode and seeing "you are 12 seconds ahead and will finish with a time of xx:yy" is very, very motivating.
It's easy to identify patterns that let you consistently (consistently enough to make more than you lose) pick companies that will win or lose a little. That's why that task is now automated. Picking the companies that will win and lose by orders of magnitude is hard to do consistently.
QR Codes used for reviews now?
> in the next 5 - 10 years.

this estimate is far too short even assuming a sequence of unprecedented negative events.
A more tangible catalyst would be a power vacuum after the current leader dies filled by a very poor candidate. Even then it took lousy Roman Emperors hundreds of years to squander the legacy of Rome.