skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How my wife does it:

1. Boil milk in a pot (3-4 liters). Forget it's there. Turn it off when someone notices it boiled.

2. Wait till it cools to ~40c. Try to put a finger in the milk. If it's cold enough so you don't have to take your finger out, it's about ready.

3. Dump a cup of probiotic yougurt inside and stir.

4. Cover with the lid. In the winter wrap it with some blanket to keep it warm (probably not really necessary)

5. Wait for 24 hours.

6. It's ready. Put the whole thing in the fridge.

Somehow this works every time... It's seems really hard to ruin the process, and not for lack of trying...
- He was playing poker, with a pair on the table, but his trump card was an ace.

- I refuse to pay this "Bill".

- That looks like an Obama suit.

Are these political statements? It's naive to make such a claim that a whitelist of word is sufficient. The "facebook is censoring me" gang will eat you up in a jiffy.

Even extremely complex models will fail this test.
Incorporate an aspect of "play".

Cooking -- what's the craziest/funnest thing I can make with ingredients at home.

Studying -- allow myself to go down rabbit holes and explore them thoroughly

Coding -- build something fun, even though there might be urgent work on my plate.

Also allow myself to do nothing. This is much harder, because doing something still feels productive.

Do these activities as a way to recharge and refresh. If I find myself doing these too frequently, it's time to reflect and perhaps make a larger change.
I love Indieworldwide remote meetups! Looking forward to the next one
I find an important take-away of that CO story was "The handwriting was nothing like mine. I pulled up my old lease and the writing on the notes is identical to the landlords'!" That suspicion went away as soon as he got his head on straight.

Which is, we're really good at crafting narratives and conforming our perceptions to fit them, whether or not our brain is working right, and bystanders should probably not take the narrative at face value.
“I would like to block all commercial ads, but it seems really important to me that people see political ads.“

At least in the US political ads are full of negativity, distortion and wrong “facts” so I don’t think they contribute at all to a healthy discussion. I think the country would be better off if it severely limited all political advertising. Won’t happen because of first amendment though.
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I no longer receive any Facebook ads. And it's not just my adblock on desktop - I get no ads in mobile either (although I don't watch much FB video). The recently seen ads section is empty. I went through a period where every time I saw an ad I clicked the X and marked it irrelevant, and every so often I go through the list of "businesses that have uploaded your contact information" and marked to hide ads from those entities.

On Instagram I've been following the same procedure and it doesn't seem to be changing anything.
Handling scrutiny with imposter syndrome. A post-mortem
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A PhD has basically zero value (probably net negative) unless you want to go in to academia for the rest of your life and retire as the head of department at an Iowa community college, so double check you really want to do that and have that kind of life?

You need to double check your mental/emotional and physical health. Are you getting sleep? What are your serum vitamin D levels? Do you wake up and run a 5k every morning? Have you travelled to a new or slightly dangerous place on the opposite side of the world in the last 6-12 months to reset your beliefs about the world? - These are the type of questions you need to be asking. When you have this stuff figured out and you feel alive, motivation will not be an issue.
Preparation for a male-only ethnic bioweapon?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_bioweapon
This case is about public officials suing the press.
In my humble opinion, it should be perfectly possible for citizens to sue their politicians for being lied to. Eventually they are supposed to act in our interest and without real information, the democratic process is undermined.

Civilians should be able to trust the elected leaders' words.
I've never bothered with sterilisation to a great deal (just hand washing with washing-up liquid), I just use UHT milk (I think it tastes better for yogurt, and it's already obviously more sterile than fresh milk). I just add a spoonful of yogurt to 1-2 L of milk (I don't bother heating it beforehand), leave it in my PID-controlled crock pot [1] overnight at about 42°C, then it's done. I usually leave the yogurt in some coffee filters for an hour or two to get more of the whey out and make the yogurt thicker. If you leave it for 2-3 hours it's essentially solid, and absolutely delicious.

[1] No write-up yet I'm afraid, but it's a custom PCB I made with a simple temperature sensor, Atmel microcontroller and mains relay that switches on and off my crock pot. It's powered from the mains via a cheap board-mount switch-mode power supply, so no extra power required. Board files here: https://github.com/SeanDS/slow-cooker/tree/master/hardware/v....
Why even demand a percentual rate and not a flat fee per item? This discussion should go beyond the App Store and into payment processor and similar “platforms”. I’m aware that businesses use these platforms to conduct their business but at a certain point these platforms become inevitable and you’re basically at their whim.
Why do you think they don't have a grant?

https://www.imgtec.com/news/press-release/imagination-and-ap...
You realize the Fed isn't controlled by the government, right? Some of the leaders are selected, but the decisions CAN (not necessarily are) made without consultation of any of the branches of government. Besides the oversight of the leadership, there is no power granted to the branches of government into the Fed's decisions.
Wait until you hear about how we Swedes feel when we hit the 50%-55% income tax bracket (not counting payroll tax of 30%!).
I remember a match where Magnus seemed to be behind, and then suddenly with 20 seconds on the clock he was like "oh, I'm running out of time" and checkmated the other guy in the next 10 moves.
(I) There's still a relative scarcity of developers at any skill (even if there's no shortage of class-N developers taking their shot at class-(N+1) work).

(II) I'm not a progressive politically, but Western Society has generally improved. Bigger McDonalds meals that make you fatter is "improved" too under the logic of the market. Because developers are relatively scarce, a greater share of this improvement goes to what they want (whereas in burger flipping, the share gone to better golf clubs for execs is comparatively larger).

(III) There's something about law enforcement that attracts a certain kind of personality. I was never drawn to LEO (as a cop, bail bondsman, mall security, anything) because I don't have these personality traits. The same goes for computer programmers. There's certainly a childish trait going on that isn't present in Mad Men's Don Draper (but then, who knows if this guy existed); the web itself gravitates to a light, rounded, primary-colors visual language. I think in part there's a whiz-kid dynamic where many of us were much much more capable than adults in a moment of extraordinary technology shift (the introduction of the internet), whereas in previous generations adults knew better and youngsters wanted to emulate them. ("Never trust anyone over 30" has been around for a long time, but it was an angry sentiment, whereas now 40-year-olds are welcome to emulate whiz-kids if they still have it).
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I'm sensitive to this, which is why I added those questions to the end.

But let me make create a random example. Oil companies will be able to advertise on Facebook and reach everybody. Environmental organizations talking about oil will not. We don't call the oil companies a political or social issue advertiser, but this disparate treatment for what we consider "social issues" is going to have real-world implications.

You're not there for the ads at all -- you're there for "pictures, the shared calendar and the messaging."
Here is a link to Canada's net debt to GDP figures:

http://www.rbc.com/economics/economic-reports/pdf/canadian-f...

The Liberal Party has different priorities than the Tories, but we're not wild eyed spenders. This year is different, but generally speaking we strike a balance between priorities.
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Nice writeup, good tips.

I recently started making my own yoghurt. Here's my bits:

I buy the Costco 3-pack of organic whole milk. I'd never get thru that much milk otherwise. Works out to about the same price as their greek yoghurt, but theirs is low fat and I want the full fat for the extra calories.

For my starter, I now use a store bought brand I really like, ellenos.com. I tried a few dry starters. Blech. Though I will now try cheesemaking.com's Thermophilic stuff too (linked in article).

I can't figure out an easy, practical way to drain the whey. I don't mind the juice so I've stopped trying.

Now I use my Instapot.

I bought the wrong model of thermometer. https://www.thermoworks.com/DOT Has a temperature alarm. But it only works for rising temps, no way to alert for cooling temps. Surely someone knows how to hack it. Recommendations please.
The killer here is, you are not allowed to say your customers that there are other ways of subscribing.

Good luck.
The pleasure of solving eccentric problems is, of course, a completely separate thing from the question of, "What is the efficacy of asking job candidates to solve well-known programming puzzles?"

When nobody had heard of fizzbuzz, it had a certain value for screening out complete no-hopers when no other signal was available. There were other methods for achieving such a goal, but it had some utility.

Today, using it for job screening it acts like a membership test. "Hey! Are you a member of the programming culture? Have you scoured the internet for examples of problems posed in job interviews? Prove it! Write fizzbuzz!"
That would work great until Apple rejects it. You cannot get around Apple's intentions with technical loopholes.
I think the headline differs (perhaps for traffic). The post seems to discuss concerns about the discovery/trending feature - how developers "discover" new code.
Pristine is a very high bar. There is archaeological evidence of semi-settled early agrarian existence where they would slash and burn an area to farm it and then once the soil depleted move on to a new segment of the surrounding forest and abandon their old settlement to be overgrown and renewed. Wasteful but the cycle was fully sustainable.

Even without human involvement we would see some "normal curves" to tree diameters via attrition of the oldest for varied reasons - but their ring count would be higher.
Good insights. Sorry, when I said "ontology", I was referring to the Web Ontology Language (OWL).
> You can also make Yogurt out of soymilk. Not every milk that you can buy in the store will work, but it works just the same way.

You can also make it with peanut milk, coconut milk, cashew milk and other combinations. The process is the same, but the results will be different because of the inherent nutritional composition of the base ingredients. Store bought milks may have additives that hinder this process. It’s better to make the milk at home and then start it.
Not really. There are a lot of strategic decisions to make, and those decisions aren't about money. In poker, almost all of the important decisions are directly about wagering. When wagering has no real value, neither do the decisions.

Also, in backgammon, you still need to actually win. Contrast this with poker, where oftentimes when playing for money, you don't actually want to reach the end of the hand (i.e. showdown). Which, again, is pointless if there's no money involved since always calling is your optimal strategy.
Hey HN. I wanted to do a write up about handling scrutiny when you suffer from imposter syndrome. I know it's something that affects a lot of people and it can be really difficult to deal with, especially when you're under some heat. So I did a little post-mortem of how I managed and recovered from a particularly bad spell. I hope this helps anyone else who's experienced similar feelings, I know a lot of people I've worked with in the past struggle to talk about things like this.

Mike
Ah goodo.
Tax systems are progressive ... being in a higher bracket is nothing to be angry about.
Not being racist seems to be an awfully hard adjustment for some people. Don't worry, a generation or two will die off and it won't seem quite so onerous.
This is a great point. Will a person who turns these ads off even UNDERSTAND that they're not allowing a Black Lives Matter organization to let them know about upcoming events? How will that be explained to the user? The advertiser might only even be sharing the ads with people set up on a recurring contribution to inform them how to stay involved.
Not to be annoying, but can't this be said about most places? Like continental Europe.
> Linkback/using the widget is encouraged but optional!

It's apparently by design.
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Literally read a post about some terminology that used red/green in them, and how that was biased against the colorblind. Not that some interface used the colors red/green, but merely the terminology used the words. As a red/green colorblind person ... words fail me at the stupidity of that.
Health - meaning exercise, sleep, and nutrition is key.

The next most important- direction. If you can't get excited about where you're going, you sure as hell won't get there quick.
Yes those are dictionary's for definitions of words not a repository of debate tactics; if you'd checked you'd also notice that there's no entry for "motte and bailey falacy", "Appeal to Ignorance" or "appeal to authority"; funnily enough it doesnt prevent those existing either.
The problem is actual disinformation in political ads. Opt-out solves basically nothing, it just has the vague sheen of being a "positive step".

Also, this quote from Zuckerberg galls (emphasis mine):

“I believe Facebook has a responsibility not just to prevent voter suppression -- which disproportionately targets people of colour -- but to actively support well-informed voter engagement, registration, and turnout.”

What is it to "actively support" well-informed voter engagement while taking money from campaigns who make false ads?
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Found this is done wrong in a lot of teams. Wrote this piece.
I think there is a case to be made that it has gotten worse. For example, before social media a lot of social interaction happened in public areas with a more diverse group of people.

With social media you can pick and choose who you interact with, and what content you consume. To make things worse, companies use algorithms that are more likely to show you things you like and already agree with to increase engagement in their platform.

Additionally from my perspective, it seems society is reverting back to a sort of tribalism, where people identify with a specific group and are more and more unwilling to find common ground with one another or to even have respect for differing viewpoints. Things are only seen as black and white, and anyone that doesn't agree is wrong, and must be silenced.
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That article has a comment from someone involved in the proof who disagrees:

"This article is very well written, but I must object to the implications of the statement that "no-one in the world today completely understands the whole proof." Of course, complete understanding is a high benchmark to set. But I would argue that Thompson, Aschbacher and Lyons understand the proof at least as well as Danny Gorenstein did, and Steve Smith and I (and probably several others) come pretty close. See our book which received the AMS Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition. Danny Gorenstein deserves enormous credit for conceiving and daring to articulate the strategy of the proof back in 1971-72. But his overall perspective did not die with him.

Ron Solomon"
When people look at this issue they tend to fixate on the 30/15% 'tax'. Is it fair? Is it not?

The commission is not nothing, obviously, but misses a larger point.

Apple did to Hey what they did to our company. One day we submitted a minor upgrade for an app that had been on in the app store _for years_, a bugfix release, and they told us they would not publish it or any subsequent submission unless we add IAP to the app.

We would be happy to pay apple some fair fee to place our app in their store. We all understand that it's not a charity. But that's just not what apple is doing
here, or not the whole story.

They took an app that was _already_ in their store for years, and froze updates on it. That approach forced much of our company to stop whatever it was they were working on and implement IAP _now_. Mobile devs, backend devs, accounting, marketing analytics/funnelling were all affected. There would be no bugfix releases until that feature was added.

The implementation of recurring payments in Apple's IAP is quite different from that of other payment processors like Braintree or Stripe. As such it has added a lot of complexity to our backend services, and has sucked a huge amount of time from our developers, accounting, and from our analytics team. All so we can implement a feature we _already had in our products_ and were happy with, just their version of it.

We incorporated IAP in the fall of last year, but we are _still_ trying to digest it into our company, still refining how we handle their subs, still mitigating some mistakes we made in the our initial implementation. And their remain some unresolved question for us on the how best to do accounting and market funneling.

The media continue to fixate on the 30% commision, as do must of the comments in this thread. But the issue is that Apple does this by imposing the commission on apps that _already_ have huge sunk costs on there platform, going back years, that already have tens of thousands of users (at least in our case), and then one day send back a bugfix release with a letter that says 'if you want to put an update to this app on our platform, add IAP to it. Now.'
I understand why people is downvoting this, as we shouldn't be doing armchair diagnostics based on so little information, but it's worth mentioning that there are technical terms for diminished motivation disorders, which are indeed common for schizoid personality disorder. Search for abulia or anhedonia if you are interested in learning more about it.
Pretty sure that's what they were saying in the 60s as well
I think "barely even down" is a good reflection of the likely impact to the companies that comprise market indexes. In almost all places economic activity has mostly resumed; fears that nobody would be willing to do anything until the virus was gone have largely been disconfirmed. There will certainly continue to be human and economic costs of the coronavirus, but the costs seem unlikely to affect the financial situations of most companies.
As a Minecraft player, I agree. They let the teams run with more resources, and it has shown in both quality and features in both companies. GitHub recently has been killing in with features IMO
I've been running a relay for ~9 months, and have been blocked by a few websites, but it's fairly limited (I honestly can't remember the last time I ran into an issue).
I am more interested in recordings as I like to follow along, pause, and "beat" their logic (in the rare case I can!) so I prefer YouTube and this channel is about as good as it gets: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC-UOdK8-mIjxBQm_ot1T-Q .. there's just so much great stuff on that one.

Sudoku on Twitch is not well established at all (yet), but if you see someone doing an advanced one (by following the "Sudoku" category – https://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Sudoku) it can be worth tuning in especially as the live nature lets you "help" in the chat if you so wish. Maybe I should start streaming my own Sudoku solves! :-)
Just a reminder not to use code blocks for quotes because they do not format well on mobile or web :)
I think this is true of most PhD programs, but I think that in certain fields—lab-centric sciences, for example—doing a PhD isn't a complete waste.

There maybe better alternatives (maybe a Master's or a community bio lab or something), but when you need access to a lab and resources to do research, the university provides some value.

Then again, is it $150k worth of value? Probably not
> then spent billions in marketing to popularize the idea of using "mobile apps" in the first

They didn't do it for charity though.

> In addition, when you sell on the App Store, you get free distribution in front of the highest income, most desirable segment of smartphone buyers--because that's the customer base Apple has invested billions in building and cultivating over 40+ years.

It's like saying that Google should get 30% of every website's revenue due to them indexing large chunks of the web.
Also, Apple directly profits by having a large amount of apps available for their hardware customers.

Maybe Apple should be paying developers to write apps?
There is no comparison between home-made and store bought yogurt. More than anything a proofer box [0] has made the process better. Author mentions the Brod and Taylor recipe, but not the box. The box is what makes that recipe easy. The "Set it" step is where I find things tend to go awry. The box will hold the temp, which will allow you to control the consistency of the finished product. Also it makes it easier to do larger quantities.

[0] https://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/brod-and-taylor-fol...
Did you read the article? It was all about the camaraderie created by the Trending page, which has become useless.

Git is a tool, yes. But GitHub is “social coding”, which should at least be a little fun.
https://alternativeto.net/software/bountysource/ has a pretty good list. I immediately spot https://freedomsponsors.org/.
Also, don't forget the whole COVID-19 isolation thing, which encouraged people to find ways to pass the time online. I've seen graphs showing the number of users on lichess significantly increased right when the lockdowns started.
When was the last time the functionality and scope of an application was defined BEFORE it was built (and didn't change before shipping)?

The longer I program the more I like small, simple apps that can be chained together to do useful things... and be completely re-written at a later time when the full needs of the company are actually understood. What makes that re-writing or re-architecting a lot easier is clear documentation and modeling of the system at a high level, who the actors are, and what the essential/primary, secondary, and tertiary functions are as well as giving a score that reflects how essential each is to the company's core business (eg: a login/auth system would rate very low unless your product or service is a login/auth system -- this is a component that can/should be outsourced so you can focus on what makes money for your company).

Write the app "just good enough to work and make money" but document the business as completely and clearly as possible with the assumption that at some point in the future a team that's new to the company could write a complete replacement of all of your software (which might just happen if you are successful enough to get a massive investment and need to rearchitect for future growth).
Right on point with your considerations, both on maximum battery capacity and the display being a large factor un notebook battery life. Battery capacity can't be expanded, since it's regulation and we're tied to it. Don't really know what drives display power consumption and how it could be improved to get better battery life.
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