skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The information we have is the scale of their operation.

If they were trying to get flour to people in the most efficient way possible they'd be using that manpower to repackage from wholesale distributors. There's no shortage of flour milling capacity -- the shortages are distribution related.

This is touched on in the article.

As it stands, they're really producing a negligible amount of flour. A nice gesture, but not the kind of thing you'd do if you're earnestly trying to address a problem. It's very clearly a stunt -- not that there's anything wrong with that.
Good one, reminds me of the good old subtlepatterns.com (Now at https://www.toptal.com/designers/subtlepatterns/) from where I picked up background images many times. You have SVG, cool!

A great feature will be the ability to preview the website itself with a chosen background. SubtlePatterns.com has this.
Baking at home has skyrocketed. When you're bored it's an easy, family-friendly rewarding way to spend a couple hours.

Think about how often people bake normally. Not often. Now it's all the time.

Same reason why eggs and vanilla are also harder to find in some places.
Interesting. What is the difference between Treasury Money and money coming from the Federal reserve? Was the 700 billion of Treasury money at that time a loan that had to be paid back while today, they're simply increasing the money supply?
Duplicity is a currency in the intelligence community. This probably scores them points with their colleagues in the US, not disdain.
What does that even mean? Its just some vague feel-good platitude like everything else in agile.
> having done no actual organization.

So it was done using agile diagram methods?
- Apple and Google are now referring to "contact tracing" as "exposure notification," which the companies believe better describes the functionality of their upcoming API. The system is intended to notify a person of potential exposure, augmenting broader contact tracing efforts that public health authorities are undertaking.

- Keys will now be randomly generated rather than derived from a temporary tracing key, making it more difficult for someone to guess how the keys are derived and use that information to try and track people.

- Bluetooth metadata will be encrypted, making it more difficult for someone to try and use that information to identify a person.

- Exposure time will be recorded in five minute intervals, with the maximum reported exposure time capped at 30 minutes.

- The API will include information about the power level of the Bluetooth signal in the data that is exchanged between phones. This can be used in conjunction with the RSSI ("Received Signal Strength Indication") to more accurately estimate the distance between two phones when contact was made.

- Apple and Google will allow developers to specify signal strength and duration thresholds for exposure events.

- The API will now allow for determining the number of days since the last exposure event to better determine what actions the user should take next.

- The API's encryption algorithm is switching from HMAC to AES. Many devices have built-in hardware for accelerating AES encryption, so this change should help performance and efficiency on phones.
> Because I disagree that the filibuster has a substantial negative impact of building projects of ANY kind. Which was literally what my initial comment was.

Again, who are you arguing against? Who is god's name do you think is saying that local building projects are stymied by the senate?

The article doesn't just not make that claim, it explicitly makes the opposite claim. And not just for housing, but also for infrastructure.
Moving up to a major version (1.0) implies there could have been breaking changes if you follow semver. And including something like `unnest_legacy()` is helpful for people making the transition.

Just like `stringsAsFactors=FALSE` happened on a transition from 3.x to 4.x, because it is breaking, dplyr 1.0 had breaking changes.
I'm currently using a Floppy Emu on my Apple IIe- it maps disk files on an SD card to the Apple controller's wire protocol.

My main complaint was that it doesn't sound like a disk drive (Apple drives had a very distinctive sound), but the creator also has a device that makes that sound if you want.

My second complaint was that it's slightly slower than an actual disk drive (however, since my disk drives keep breaking/corrupting files, I can live with this).

Finally, it seems to corrupt some of the data on transport (or somehow work differently than an actual floppy), so some programs crash or fail in a different way.

That said I continue to think it's hilarious that the disk drive for my Apple has a far more powerful processor and more storage space than an Apple IIe ever did, and I just use it to act like a fake disk drive.
> Instead of saying "People are not cut to it" why cannot we say "People have not enough experience with it"?

I've been working exclusively remotely for around five years now.

Certainly there are skills that can be acquired and improved that will help you succeed, but I believe that there is also a significant element of "natural aptitude". Some people need the personal interaction of an office environment more than others to feel fulfilled. If they need that and don't get it, no amount of training or experience is going to change that.
Yeah, discord is pretty bad, but it's better than Zoom.
Some Commodore drives (like the 1541) were single sided so you'd have to use the floppy disk approach.
>>> The report does say that one of the chips Apple is developing will be "much faster" than those used in the iPhone or iPad, though they will not yet be sufficient to replace the fastest Intel chips in the MacBook Pro or Mac Pro

Is it possible that Apple will include both Intel x86 as well as AX processors? Let the A chip handle certain tasks that are low power to be energy efficient and the Intel chip handle everything else? They did something similar with the Touch Bar.
A do remember an "SMS storm" for Sony ericsson A200 from 15 years ago.

You get a garbled binary SMS, and then the virus resends itself to every number in your phonebook.
How about we just treat them as criminals - let's move away form the some of the worst abuses of government power in the 21st century. Let's get back to the rule of law.
I use an Emile Henry pizza stone.
Apparently nothing is sacred if they can squeeze few bucks out of it
Yeah. At my local grocery stores, there's never been any material shortage of bread. There hasn't even really been a lack of choice from mass market stuff to what at least passes for artisanal by supermarket standards. I have been baking (more than usual) at home but there's no shortage of breadstuffs in the supermarket if you'd rather buy. (TBH, bread has been more consistently in-stock than a lot of product categories.)
Oh, Hegel is surely an even more terrible writer than Kant: https://existentialcomics.com/comic/302
Ok, it turns out that my skeptic alarm wasn't wrong on this. It looks like there's a whole cottage industry of people who are peddling non-FDA-approved UV blood irradiation therapy and ozone therapy as a cure-all for everything from depression to AIDS. It goes by the name "BioPhotonic Therapy" if you do some googling. There's probably a good reason why nobody besides "alternative medicine" providers practice this stuff [1].

[1] https://health.wusf.usf.edu/post/despite-skeptics-alternativ...
There literally is no slippery slope because the CC-BY-SA stalls any slipping. You literally cannot lock away that content, and that license aligns StackOverflow's incentives with mine.

The structure of the Internet precludes universal locking away. I am confident in my ability and that of my fellow engineers to always have alternatives.
We've moved into a real-world board game. This tile over here has wheat, if you go get it and then move to this tile, you can process it and gain bread - but your bread resource declines by 1 loaf per day.
They're simple, but what I want is a file I can point to and say "This is how we do things", to me that's a large part of what docker-compose brings.
How many people here refused advice suggesting to go with one's strengths and instead took a different path in life, developed new capabilities, and acquired new strengths? Progress was slow and difficult. Yet, you persevered. You weren't agile, were you?
A few years back I found a website where I could look up big expensive houses on the east bay area hills and it would mention who owned them. When I looked up a few of the big ones, 8 of 10 I looked at were owned by doctors.
-Do you have yeast? Over on the other side of the North Sea, we've got more flour than we know what to do with on the shelves, as there is no yeast to be had - haven't seen a yeast cube in a month! (good thing sourdough is a thing!)
USA Arrested Man who manufacture and sold Coronavirus to China (see video)
That seems implausible. It's far more likely that they just have a split product line for a while (as they did with the Intel transition; the PowerMac didn't get replaced by the Mac Pro for a while)
Airport seizes Virgin Australia planes to recoup debt
You can post whatever you wanna on the internet
It's odd that you went from one end of the spectrum (trying to refine your technique and failing) to the complete opposite (a Keurig). Surely there's a middle ground.

For example, the Rancilio Silvia [1] is known to be one of the best and most tweakable/hackable home machines for manually brewed espresso. It can make great Italian espresso out of the box, but there's also a healthy community around it that hacks the internals to brew at better temperatures and so on. It's also very affordable.

Personally, I have a Jura Ena, because I like just pressing one button to get my coffee, and it's fantastic.

[1] https://www.seattlecoffeegear.com/rancilio-silvia-espresso-m...
Right, but I’m very interested to learn the details of what specifically was the logistics problem. Do you have some insight you can share?
We’ll see how the DNC’s strategy of crapping on a giant portion of the electorate works out... once again...
The initial intent was to add 2 hex values, but using 0xfffe tripped the parser.
The entire business model of the Yellow Pages is to sell entries to businesses, and any value you get out of that is (at least) secondary. It's basically a gym subscription model, except its hosting costs and transit that eat into their profits. Just like the most profitable way to run a gym is to sell subscriptions to people who never visit.
Typical non rigorous find a few examples and write a story article. Not saying not true either just that getting a few people to say something is not a trend or show what is happening in most places (possibly).

That said we just did a refi which closed today. (My own single data point anecdote).

It does make sense that the risk is greater for the mortgage companies now than in typical times in the sense that traditional borrowers who were secure and non risky in a regular economy could potentially be out of work and have a greater chance of default with the security not being worth that much.
It'll depend how far she progresses but the range of £150-£600 is what we have been told
You can raise your own yeast + bacteria mix by following a recipe for making starter. As long as you wash your hands well before working with it, and are willing to wait a few weeks for it to establish, it's difficult to screw it up.
I had the same thought as you. When I got a new laptop, I left Win 10 on it and got Ubuntu in the WSL.

After about 2 years, I went to Debian Stable.

The biggest pro about Win 10 is that it handles 1080p resolution so well. Why Linux distros are not "tuned" to 1080p out of the box, I don't know, because there are few non-HD laptops out there these days.

But the Win 10 cons drove me away:

* Terrible driver support from vendors (what's broken stays broken, I had sound issues that were never going to be resolved)

* Windows 10 updates are horrible, and they kill your productivity. I had a couple of incidents where I couldn't use the laptop for DAYS at a time.

* I really missed the sane package management you get from a good Linux distro. I never tried Choclatey, so maybe that would have made me a happier Windows user.

* WSL is great, and so are Git and all the other Unix/Linux-originated apps I was using. After awhile I figured, "I don't use MS Office or Adobe apps, so I might as well just run the Linuxy stuff I use on a real Linux."
I am annoyed that they missed an opportunity here to fix SMR support in the non-GooFaceAmaSoft DC ecosystem.

Announce a trade-in for anyone who has a Red and has a problem with device-managed SMR, with a CMR Red. Many, many people won't notice or care (RAID1 users who don't do massive writes) Then reflash the SMR reds with the host-managed firmware they already have for the megascalers (who of course have their own highly proprietary software management layers to handle SMR) and sell those at some deep discount to anyone who wants them.

Announce a $100,000 bounty to anyone who adds host-managed SMR support (with some slightly ambitious perf target vs CMR) to ZFS, bcachefs, whatever.

They come out of this looking good (eventually) instead of looking like complete assholes. And end up with an expanded ecosystem that allows them to create a new product family using firmware work that they've already done years go!
The Web Masters will rise again
1965. Wow. Watching and listening to that waterfall was fantastic. And by the way, great use of links in the NPR article. I found a new blog to follow, a lab I've never heard of, a Twitter account to check out, and _Gunter's Space Page_, which we hopefully all know via intuition is a quality work to be saved for later in-depth review. ;-)
Related: Onfim is a 13th century Novgorodian kid whose writing exercises and drawings survived: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onfim

I love these windows into the past. Student exercises also help preserve a lot of cuneiform writings as semi-standardized exercise texts can then be found in fragments all over Mesopotamia. Here's an example of such a thing from Sumeria around 4000 years ago, involving a kid being made to go to school, being late, being punished, and admonished to study diligently: http://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/primary-sources/408
Is there an advantage of using multiply by .5 versus divide by 2?
The people who like Monopoly really love it and everyone else would rather play pretty much anything else.
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Yes! I managed to find a block of yeast last week. But, I can't use it as I got no flour :(
Security startup Randori raises $20M to help enterprises hack themselves
>only be used for the specific case of corona virus and 5G.

There's nothing in any of my comments that suggests the policy would only address the specific case of 5g.
Open Source HA redis DB solution
One addition:

You can't just divide by 2 and expect that to be equivalent to shifting right by 1. That only works if the integer is unsigned. For signed integers, that won't yield the right result. This is trivial to verify.
> millers Pete Loosmore and Imogen Bittner decided that, due to the current demand for flour and the loss of income from visitors, this would be a good time to re-embrace the mill's commercial production capabilities.

I mean, I wouldn't call it a publicity exercise, but they quite explicitly say they need to make up for lost tourism income. Call it an operational pivot.

The lesson here is it's good to have a diversity of offerings. Some of their budget probably comes from historic site funds and maybe they also offer weddings or events, but the point is there certainly is a commercial interest in this.
no, note that the confirmed infection rate as of this morning in CA is 0.1% (~40K out of ~40M). because of the roughly 2-3 week lag in effects, the moderation of that rate is mostly attributable to modest distancing rules, before masks were widely encouraged.
Good news! The people we are working with at Lenovo have no interest in this either. We don't have any special deal here: they're shipping Fedora under the standard open source licenses and https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Trademark_guidelines#OE..., which means there's nothing added (except their docs in /opt/lenovo).
A satellite of that age would have used a very simple analog repeater or linear transponder, meaning that there is no communications logic occurring on the satellite. Any digital modulation, and more so encryption, would be the responsibility of the ground stations. This is still a common design pattern for satellites, referred to as the "bent pipe" model since the space segment is merely a "bend" with no logic, but it is subject to abuse by unauthorized operators so there's usually some degree of at least authentication today.

Military satellites launched into the '80s continued to use analogue transponders and, to some extent to this day, see unauthorized use. The only real deterrent was the difficulty of obtaining inexpensive equipment for satellite bands but the widespread use of DVB and VSATs changed that during the '90s and '00s.

That said, all related documents may very well have been classified at the time (owing especially to the lack of any authentication!) and even when declassify-on dates pass there is often institutional resistance to going through the motions of releasing this material, especially since Lincoln Labs (a contractor) would not be authorized to do so and would have to forward the request on to someone else. A more formal FOIA request, followed by appeals if necessary, can often unstick these wheels since it creates a legal obligation that a more casual media request does not.
Eggs seem to be pretty much back in stock where I live though they were scarce for a while. With eggs, it may not be baking so much (and you mostly don't even use them with yeast bread). But you've got whole families at home and I imagine there are a lot more hot breakfasts going on which can chew up egg stocks pretty quickly.
We need to talk, then. :)
I never said there was a balance, just that none of the sides deserve any praise or romanization when the other to gets the sole attribution of any evil acts. Both sides performed mass murders of civilians. Stop praising people who did that just because an even more depictable side won that conflict.

> Spare us the Ben Shapiro posturing, please.

Maybe that's your issue, you are projecting your frustrations on me and answer things I never said.
If you are ever where this happens the drive is end of life and should be tossed and the new one rebuilt from backups. You do have backups right... Drives fail without notice often
No need for that, any Rust program is obfuscated.
This seems reasonable and beyond what other major employers are offering, but as is the fashion I'm sure Amazon will be convicted in the court of public interwebs shortly...
Agile is the worst form of software development methodology, second only to waterfall. It's still pretty shitty, though.

One of the reasons Agile (with a big A) is so successful is that its peddlers have convinced everyone that there are only two options: Agile and waterfall. When you're up against a strawman, it's easy to win. But it's absolutely a false dichotomy.

There's a quote in the article that I like:

> Find me an actual tech company that talks much about Agile, and I will be astounded.

In my experience, people at tech companies (at least the FAANGs) rarely talk about Agile, although they do talk about things like continuous integration/testing/deployment. They do not obsess over methodologies for how to move post-it notes around a whiteboard (Scrum vs Kanban) or agonize over how to word a user story narrative, or other parts of Agile Theatre.

People at some non-tech companies, especially those supposedly going through a "digital transformation", seem to have fully bought in to the crap that Certified Agile consultants are selling though.

So a superior alternative to both Agile and waterfall is what's in use at a lot of the big tech companies. For example, the engineering culture at Google, which relies on design docs and a very good set of developer tools and infrastructure. It's not perfect, but it's far, far superior to Agile.

And before anyone makes the argument that those non-tech companies are not doing "real Agile", but Google is, let's be linguistic descriptivists and accept that Googlers don't call their methodology "Agile", whereas the Scrum consultants at big corporates do.
Fiscal policy creates debt that needs to be repaid. Ordinary monetary policy involves swapping new currency for very stable assets like Treasury bonds that can be sold back later to destroy the currency. As much aggregate demand as possible should therefore be created by ordinary monetary policy, since it's cheaper (and faster and easier).
Send me an email message, I can ship you some. I've got a kilo of SAF red and gold yeast, I can ship you 50g (or anyone on HN, feel free).

Btw, you don't need much yeast - just use less than 0.5 grams, let the dough rise for 8 hours at room temp. You can save that dough and continue making more bread from the culture.
Looking at three different calculators from googling "mortgage calculator," I get an $800k loan at 3.25% (higher than the rate I pay on mine in SF, but I paid the rate way down) coming to $3,482/mo for principal and interest.

For property tax, i found this california property tax calculator [0], which says it's $6,490/year ($541/month) for a home assessed at $1M in SF. That brings us to $4023/mo.

You're right I totally forgot about insurance. Oops. Sure let's use $150/mo, but IIRC that's more than I pay on mine. Maybe because I'm in a big building and the HOA has insurance for parts that I'd need to insure if it were a single family home? But I didn't factor in HOA, so $150's fair, even cheap.

$3482+$541+$150 = $4173/mo.

I still think this median household is going to have something like $4-5k/mo left over after principal, interest, property tax, insurance, and income tax. That's the most important number to get right in terms of how accessible this is. It tells us how much to they have to squeeze on everything else to make it work.

[1] https://smartasset.com/taxes/california-property-tax-calcula...

... also "$4556... representing one trip to Disney world’s worth of extra spending over the year." Holy shit really? I never would have guessed disney world is that expensive. Daaaaamn. Guess I'm never going there :(

(on second thought, I think you're right about the property tax estimate being low. I pay more than the online calculator said and my place is assessed below $1M. Maybe it's all the other stuff tacked on in SF? Add maybe ~$200/mo to my above estimate, we're still talking about something like $4k/mo left over)
Thanks for backing me up, but if the goal is to prevent asymptomatic transmission, homemade masks made from common materials like cotton and paper towels can be 99% effective at preventing _egress_ of respiratory droplets.

The goal of wearing masks is to stop people from spreading their germs, effectiveuly bringing down the R0 value of the virus, slowing the spread, flattening the curve.

The real challenge is that we need about 80% of people to wear masks to really put a dent in things. Really, everyone should be advocating for everyone they know to wear a mask.

See this site for research backed info if you are not convinced: https://www.fast.ai/2020/04/20/skeptics-masks/
My guess is that all "Pro" hardware will stick with Intel for the foreseeable future (both because of performance and software compatibility), but everything else will switch to custom ARM chips.
Yeah man, really impressed with your simple yet effective implementation. Played a quick game of Boggle with a work mate of mine to test it out. Worked quick and seamlessly! Can't wait to see what other games you get on there.
After the keyboard debacle, I can’t feel positive about this, much as I want to.