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Ask HN: Sourdough Beer/Spirits?
I have a sourdough starter I've been using once a week for a few years. If I leave the starter too long without re-feeding, then a liquid forms on the top of it. I've read this is the ethanol that is a by-product of the yeast eating the sugars in the flour.

I've read that "you shouldn't drink it, because it can make you blind" (and haven't particularly wanted to test out that theory).

Recently I found this old school web site with a recipe for Sourdough Beer, using the "hooch" as a fermenting agent: https://sites.google.com/site/windintheroses/sourdoughbeer

But I haven't found any other information like this around... is it more/less dangerous than an alcoholic ginger beer? Are there any other methods for distilling or using this by-product?
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Cheers. I'm currently putting extra oil down the sides just before baking. This works pretty well but creates a loaf that's somewhat greasy to the touch. It tastes OK though.
Here is a lecture of it: http://pirsa.org/displayFlash.php?id=19120023
Funny story: I was creating a script that would download attachments from an arbitrary (enterprise) gmail account, then do some processing on it. This was basically a hack we devised because there wasn't an API to fetch the file we needed programmatically, but we could schedule an email to be sent with the file as an attachment.

I decided that I didn't want to deal with maintaining a gmail oauth token, so I went down the rabbit hole of getting my service auth set up as a gsuite admin. It turned out to work fine, no more oauth token necessary. But then I thought for a second, and changed the email address from the the junk one I setup specifically for this task to mine, and it worked. So I tried my colleagues (with their knowledge) and it worked as well. Turns out giving your service account admin rights means giving them full access to the entire company's accounts.

So with a sigh and a dammit, I went back to using the oauth token. I couldn't find any way to be a "limited" gsuite admin over just some set of email addresses; it was all-or-nothing. This seems like a strange oversight on Google's part, but I also could have missed some documentation.
Don't forget that, with the Switch, there was the opposite argument: "Smartphones are so common, nobody would buy a separate gaming device! If you want gaming on the go, you just download Candy Crush on your iPhone."

So the "lateral" thinking, here, was actually... quality. Smartphone games suck. The monetization strategies are downright predatory and touchscreens are a bad input device for a majority of game genres.

So what Nintendo did was make actually great games for a tablet device. Being able to put it on the TV and detaching the controllers is secondary, it's mostly about having great games!

This is why I'm a little pissed at marketing analysts turning this into some kind of stroke of business genius. The Switch is basically a Wii U with the GPU moved into the tablet part and the Wii U flopped hard. No market analysis could have predicted the Switch's success. It was a stubborn believe in quality, the worst thing they could do, what every "business advisor" would have warned them against. Market analysts were hilariously wrong and that's the history lesson to learn here, not "predulating quadrilateral core-market flibbugasting". The Switch is not a win they can claim, it's a win for quality and idealism.
I think, while your view point is valid, it ignores that, at the time, M-PESA was a huge leap forward. They were doing mobile money before pretty much anyone. Now, yes, Safaricom has monopolized it and is falling behind and overcharging, but that doesn't negate the initial innovation having been world-changing.
> Technically the government itself is a form of conspiracy against the general population

"Technically" in which sense? Which political science course taught you that? Or are you referring to some specific government?
From the abstract:

> Fourteen healthy subjects fasted from dawn to sunset for over 14 h daily. Fasting duration was 30 consecutive days.

Edit:

There's an infographic further down that changes how I read this. Participants have a late dinner (after sunset) and an early breakfast (pre-sunrise), and fast for at least 14 hours while awake. Traditional IF counts time asleep as part of the fast, and this does not.

However, the pre-dawn breakfast essentially resets the fasting clock every morning, which means subjects have two fasting periods per day: about 8 hours while asleep, and about 14 hours while awake.

That leaves a two-hour eating window at night, and a short (let's call it thirty minutes) eating window in the morning.

This is closer to One Meal a Day (OMAD) than 16/8 in terms of hours spent fasting, but the pre-dawn feeding does make this a unique strategy.
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I think you misread the passage that you quote as supporting idealism. The full passage is:

"The answer, I realized, is that they didn't think they could get caught. They didn't realize there was any danger in making false predictions. These people constantly make false predictions, and get away with it, because the things they make predictions about either have mushy enough outcomes that they can bluster their way out of trouble, or happen so far in the future that few remember what they said."

Making a false prediction on the premise that you can bluster your way out of it doesn't indicate that they think the false prediction doesn't have consequences - it indicates that they think the false prediction doesn't have consequences for them. That they can get away with it. It's "I can say what I want, because nothing bad will happen to me personally for lying."

I wouldn't call that idealism.
In the world of modern technological marvel, robots should ideally be cheaper than human labor. Toyota employs fewer humans per car produced than Tesla. They simply invested in their industries such that mass production techniques makes things cheaper.

Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, are all examples of wealthy and industrialized nations.
There's a growing body of evidence that C19 attacks hemoglobin in the blood, with the effects similar to malaria (where the parasite uses hemoglobin as a nutrient source): blood with depleted hemoglobin simply can't carry as much oxygen, so people start gasping for air, their lungs swell, and then pneumonia kills them. Crucially, gasping for air seems to happen well before the onset of pneumonia. This also explains why diabetics are more severely affected.

If that's the case, ventilators aren't going to help if you use air in them, without supplemental oxygen: even if you pump air into the patient's lungs, their blood simply won't be able to carry sufficient oxygen. You need to supplement with oxygen.

It also explains why (hydroxy)chloroquine helps: if it stops/reduces depletion of hemoglobin (which it does [*]), the patient may never progress to pneumonia, because their blood is able to carry sufficient oxygen.

For those who already have pneumonia, supplemental oxygen would be vital if they also have C19. Standard ARDS treatment protocol will not work well.

https://chemrxiv.org/articles/COVID-19_Disease_ORF8_and_Surf...
Worse than undiagnosed, they are unmanaged preexisting heart conditions.

If two people have similar heart damage but one knows about it and manages the hypertension that caused it, who is in worse shape if a disease adds stress to your system?
Nobody is able to test all or even most of their population with tests overwhelmingly concentrated among those either likely to be infected or at least exposed one would expect the proportion of positive tests to be a function of the testing methodology rather than a fiction of its prevalence in the population. If for example a group is only testing those already experiencing severe symptoms and had a 93% positive rate what would it even mean for the proportion of positive tests to increase exponentially?

What we are supposing is instead that the number of people who are presently infected will increase exponentially IF we don't adopt measures to decrease the spread. This is actually what you saw in the initial period and what you would be seeing now if we did nothing extraordinary to decrease the spread. If you look at the 1918 flu epidemic it ultimately infected 1/3 of the population. It is utterly unclear to me why you imagine your understanding is better than that of the experts. It would seem you yourself are guilty of the same sin you ascribe to programmers? From your animus towards the profession are you perhaps a manager of same? If so you seem to have contracted at least one of their faults.

> politicians have in the blink of an eye ceded power to a tiny cabal of (primarily) epidemiologists.

This literally isn't real.

The politicians are indeed at fault for the poor response. We cede to them substantial funds and powers to both prepare for and response to situations just like this. In fact the pentagon prepared a report on literally just this exact crisis in 2017 that called out among other things a lack of supplies. We opted to do nothing of import between now and today. In the crucial early days of this crisis instead of instituting effective measures we were busy first ignoring reports of it and then publicly claiming it is a hoax. If we aren't brave and clear sighted enough to even ascribe blame how are we to do better next time?
Oh yikes. Mine's been iffy, but looking a full week out I've usually been able to find something. I suppose I should consider my area fortunate for that.

I don't know if either of my other suggestions are of any use to you, but I genuinely wish you luck in your search.
Tangential regarding Dr. Drew. I remember watching Loveline on MTV and hearing it a bit on radio when I was younger, and remember thinking how progressive him and Adam Corolla sounded. When I discovered much later that they're still going on podcasts, I've tuned in a couple times over the last decade but usually wind up cringing or disagreeing. I used to think Adam Corolla was mostly funny and made some good points, now I find him pretty distasteful. What happened, did they shift in their outlooks/politics/behaviors/etc, or did I and I'm just realizing how they've always been? It just seems like as I get older, many people in the generations ahead of me are getting crazier, and it makes me worried that at some point I'm going to lose my grip on reality. How does this happen?
If anything, with the rise of targeted advertising and paywalls, this kind of thing was encouraged. Why write articles hoping they get picked up on their merits when you can just pitch partisan articles to partisan people and get the desired home-run every single time?
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I'm picking up this approach
This is from a post I wrote:

A few ways to 'find a problem':

1. Think about what’s broken in the industry you worked at or have expertise in. Make a list of all the things your previous employer lost money over (employees’ time is probably the most expensive resource). This list is essentially a list of potential companies. If for example, you were in the fashion industry, you might be able to come up with ways to solve the guesswork fashion brands need to do in order to keep up with the market trends.

2. Build something that solves a problem for you. Many companies started that way. Say you are trying to go on a keto diet, and you found a way that makes it easier. Chances are many other people would find it helpful and be willing to pay for it.

3. Research. You might know a specific demographic is experiencing several difficulties, but you don’t know exactly what’s the core problem. Start reading and writing about it. When I started Spectroomz I didn’t know it’s going to be a freelancing platform for autistic people. My son is autistic so I started researching on Reddit what would be his future biggest challenges. You can passively research (i.e. read), or do so actively (I actually posted that question on Reddit r/aspergers). Once I got a sense that one of the main challenges is employment, I started searching for more content on Google Scholar, corresponding and chatting with other autistics about it and more.

4. Important reading - Paul Graham wrote a great post on how to come up with startup ideas. http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html

After you find the problem, talk to users as jppope said. In the blog post I share a format of how to talk to users which I simply summarized from a YC startup school lecture - https://spectroomz.typeform.com/to/HR5R10

If you have several ideas and want to assess what has most potential, you can use a startup evaluation tool I created (also following a YC startup school lecture) - https://spectroomz.typeform.com/to/imIL7z

Hope this helps.
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Right. What I'm really hoping is that those of us who were going into an office to do a job that everyone involved fully well knew could be done from home (e.g., software dev) won't be forced back into close-quarters again just because a "safe-at-home" order has been lifted (besides, I have asthma and my wife has hypertension).

Until we beat this thing (which probably means a vaccine being widely-available, so... another year at least), any job that can be done remotely, should absolutely be done remotely. And I, for one, won't be setting foot in a cafe or restaurant or going to a conference until this is all over.

And my kids won't be going back to school either. Guess we're homeschooling now.
They are working with the VS Code team and Theia uses Monaco and other OSS components shared with VS Code.
> “Under these conditions, there does not seem to be a significant difference between the mortality rate of SARS-CoV-2 in OECD countries and that of common coronaviruses (χ2 test, P=0.11). Of course, the major flaw in this study is that the percentage of deaths attributable to the virus is not determined, but this is the case for all studies reporting respiratory virus infections, including SARS-CoV-2.”

> “Under these conditions, and all other things being equal, SARS-CoV-2 infection cannot be described as being statistically more severe than infection with other coronaviruses in common circulation.”

> “Finally, in OECD countries, SARS-CoV-2 does not seem to be deadlier than other circulating viruses.”
One thing that seems useful to me, in addition to determining experimentally what I can actually accomplish on my own, is determining the common components, and knowing that the more time I put into the things that cross project boundaries, the more useful I will become for my employers/clients, and the more effective boilerplate I can DRY with.
Future projects will more likely require the core infrastructure than any specific, final, perfect, finished UX I imagine ahead of beginning.
One size fits [almost] all.
Sadly, no...

Just about a month or so ago the union at $job emailed around to again warn members that, yes, management does monitor your work machines, and indicated that just recently several employees were targeted for using their work laptop at home, after hours, for personal purposes, and one of the personal purposes was one of the specific 'uses' (porn) that management keeps a close watch out for and goes after users for accessing on their work machines.
I've really enjoyed Kosmi[1] for some socializing recently.

[1] https://kosmi.io/
Is that really a limitation of WFH? Even when someone is in the office, if the intent is to bypass monitoring someone can use their phone. I tether my laptop to my phone all the time on client sites (instead of fighting with yet another captive portal).
This is no longer active, so please disregard

Thanks!
Well, it doesn't help much either to put a mainstream entertainment persona as the president of the USA.
Dude you are so out of touch here - I was talking about our friends - if your wife is indeed a doctor, then you have tons of those in your inner circle. This is first hand experience, nothing less, in biggest Swiss hospital, nothing less. There you have it, a citation from person directly talking to those mentioned.

An update - just learned that 1 year old daughter of our friends, both are doctors, is tested positive, probably from her nursery/child carer. The poor little thing is sick for more than a week. They still think they are OK to continue to work and not being sick since only one of them shows mild symptoms which could be anything. How the fuck is that possible? With doctors? En Suisse?

Some doctors, while experts in their narrow field, are just doing what they are told and don't do much research outside of their field. Please don't tell everybody to just blindly trust appointed experts, that can be a dangerous advice in these times.
You're right. And I'd add that modern journalism has effectively become activist journalism across the board. Modern journalists are primarily ideologues - and that is the origin of the partisan spin on almost every single news outlet, especially online.

This is also why credibility in media is at all time lows. Most people are politically moderate and they're waking up to the inescapable spin. This behavior is also dangerous because it provides some justification for the infamous "enemy of the people" quote. But I think partisan reporting has become so commonplace in the industry that most journalists don't realise what they're doing - either that or they believe the end justifies the means. But when the means back away at the credibility that reporting must be based on, you are destroying your institution and possibly taking society with you.
7 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6159963
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Never really heard of them before. Looks like everything I bought is out of stock anyway, but it's good to know there are alternatives.
The business model of these companies seems in question long term given that they rely heavily on location data “opted in” from users that honestly probably didn’t realize they “opted in” to share their data for such uses.

As more efforts continue (by Apple, Firefox and others) to crack down on that sort of thing the proportion of reality represented by the data such companies hope to sell gets smaller and smaller.

It’s increasingly not “people shop here” but “people with bad privacy settings on their device shop here.”
10 years ago I used Newegg a ton, but with third party items now mixed into their store, I find shopping there a bit more of a dice roll.
Soundpipe looks great, thanks!
McMaster has a powerfully simple website. You can get to any item with mcmaster.com/<part number>. They often provide 3D models of their parts. You can even paste in a list of items to quickly bulk-add to your cart. It just works.

Their customer service is also second to none. I've never had the phone ring more than once before being answered by a real person. And they'll respond 24/7 to phone calls or emails. Oh, and they've accepted returns a year after I bought something, no questions asked.

In the Atlanta area they usually deliver same-day via courier, or you can drive over to their warehouse for will call.

McMaster can often be more expensive than other distributors, especially for things like metal stock (I recommend price-comparing with onlinemetals.com or midweststeelsupply.com but be careful about Midwest Steel's processing times). But you're paying for the service and ease of use.

Probably the biggest problem I have with McMaster is their lack of insight into shipping cost. They don't give you even an estimate of the shipping before you check out, it just gets added once they ship. I will say their shipping prices have always been fair but it can be scary to buy something not knowing what it will cost.
Which is one of the reasons why I wish we, collectively as a society, would stop blaming the blame game in this crisis. Almost everyone got this wrong.
There should be a well-known website with a neat domain name that lists well-known companies that allow this to continue to happen.
Not if their salaries depended on not understanding...
Agreed. Unfortunately now it's more like picking a sport team ("Team CNN" or "Team Fox"), or Apple vs/ Google vs/ Microsoft than actually finding, or learning about, facts. Tribalism at it's finest.

The only alternative I've found (I'm open to helpful suggestions) is to ignore that noise and read actual briefings and original sources.

But, that defeats the point of news being an honest and straight forward source of a summary. And it takes a lot of time. And doesn't always end in rewarding information (lies/bias in original sources exist too - eg: watching hours upon hours of live impeachment hearings was full of lies/half-truths/obfuscation coming from all sides).
myocarditis can happen from any virus infection it doesn't have to involve pneumonia

lots of young athletes die from it after coming back too hard/fast from flu
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That's funny. I was born in 1988, so that world was gone by the time I got here. And even then, when I was a kid there were abandoned buildings to explore like the old tannery, and those are demolished now.

For all the changes they can't get the downtown to "work" and they are really, really bad at trying. I tried too: the mayor appointed me to the downtown improvement committee where I got to watch nothing happen first hand.
The 15-20% number is very stale. The current numbers are under 3% across that cohort: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...

0–9 years 0 13 0·00% (0·00–0·00)

10–19 years 1 50 0·0408% (0·0243–0·0832)

20–29 years 49 437 1·04% (0·622–2·13)

30–39 years 124 733 3·43% (2·04–7·00)

40–49 years 154 743 4·25% (2·53–8·68)

50–59 years 222 790 8·16% (4·86–16·7)

60–69 years 201 560 11·8% (7·01–24·0)

70–79 years 133 263 16·6% (9·87–33·8)

≥80 years 51 76 18·4% (11·0–37·6)
Strange that you got downvoted. NSA collection of American data fits any reasonable definition of "conspiracy against the population" that I can think of.
I think that may have more to do with how you evolved than how they did.
Give all my data to Google and the CDC
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2020-1...

> fixed in Firefox 74.0.1 and Firefox ESR 68.6.1

CVE-2020-6819: Use-after-free while running the nsDocShell destructor

CVE-2020-6820: Use-after-free when handling a ReadableStream
As a long time Foursquare user who switched to Swarm I can say it's still the same FourSquare it always was. It's just as "fun" as it ever was. It's awkward to have two apps on my phone and I hate that product decision too, but it's better than them killing off the check-in feature altogether. That's what Google would have done.
Supply chains need to be more resilient, and that probably means making them more global rather than less.

A pandemic could originate in any country. Making things "at home" would turn out to be a bad idea if the pandemic originates at home. If that happened we would like to be able to get help from other countries.
The equivalency being drawn by the parent may be wrong, but mainstream sources outside Fox News absolutely downplayed the seriousness of the virus and helped push the "it's not a big deal" perception that we are all now rowing against.
How does that compare to playing Catan via Catan Universe? I enjoy the multi-platform (Mac, PC, iOS, Android, Browser, Steam) aspect of it, but it does have some rough edges.
I think that's the point, and the value of the discussion (hopefully not "argument").

In my imagined best case result, you and your coworker are now having a conversation about your backgrounds and perspectives to try to understand where the mismatch is that led to your astonishment. One possible outcome there is that you establish a new, common basis for understanding, and less future astonishment thereby.