skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's straightforward to convert sugar to "invert sugar", with both isomers. So you can get down to 50% calories. Left-handed sugar still seems to be hard to isolate, though. Merck sells it for about US$108/gram.[1] Too much even for expensive restaurants.

However, there's a new synthesis method available. Could have startup potential.[2]

[1] https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/catalog/product/sigma/g5500?lan...

[2] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237860195_L-Glucose...
There is a lot of violent policing in India on who you are allowed to marry. Even if two consenting adults chose to marry, one of their families or both may not like it. These families then take it upon themselves to do everything in their power, starting from emotional blackmail and upto murder to stop the intermixing of castes.
Nexkey | Full Time | Lead Backend Engineer, Lead Deepstack Engineer | San Mateo, CA & Remote

Nexkey is smarter access for every workspace.

Founded in 2013, Nexkey is a startup based in San Mateo, and is well-funded by Upfront Ventures and K9 Ventures. Nexkey is the combination of hard- and software solutions to simplify access and key management.

Our unique hardware can make any door smart - main doors, meeting rooms, garages, and even file cabinets all connect to the Nexkey platform. Our easy-to-use app and cloud services let office managers control smart keys and unlock doors instantly with their phone. Nexkey improves workplace security while reducing office management costs and forever eliminates the need for physical keys.

This position has a ton of ownership. You own our backend.

AWS
Service Oriented Architecture
NodeJS + Express + ParseServer
MongoDB
Nginx
Java

https://www.nexkey.com/open-positions?bzid=e869aedcb86a
or email ray.smets <at> nexkey.com
Same here. Does everything Google reader did for me.
Hi! David here. I'm engineer turned CTO turned founder. I'm product oriented and have love to turn turning viable business ideas into products people are now using. I'd love to work in a mission driven company which values work-life balance and has a healthy company culture.

Location: Bogotá, Colombia

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Product Management, Python, Pandas, Javascript, HTML, CSS Django, Flask, Node.js, Express, Firebase/Firestore, Postgres, Mongo, Cassandra, AWS, GCP, Linux, Git / GitHub workflow and some Dev Ops experience. Practicioner of Lean Startup and Agile.

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NvD8HlBpCLhJguw9zSxoyFx26kn...

Blog: https://daviddelgado.dev

Email: see end of https://daviddelgado.dev/hola/
Even if that's true (it's not), my point still stands. Religion isn't something you change like a jacket.
Frequent clawback? I don't think there has been any clawback this year nor last.
This shows the utility of being able to throttle buggy clients.
> The dialogue here seems foreign to me. Playing a coy game where you realize someone is trying to infer something about you so you dodge the question. It's weird to imagine that people engage in a cultural dance where you need certainty of arbitrary facts before you decide to act like a dick (oversimplified).

Okay but where are you really from?
I get nervous when I see too many of one ethnic group in a reporting structure in a large tech company - no matter what the ethnic group is. It's a red flag if a manager is primarily hiring people from his/her ethic group. And yes, if you end up being the only white person in the group you definitely can end up being the odd person out (and I wouldn't exempt Chinese from this as you have). It's uncomfortable, but you can see this as a cultural learning experience - the opportunity to see how it feels to be a minority. It's not often that we white people experience this in the US.
Ahhh, yeah, I do crack the dishwasher open a bit after it's done to let the steam out and get some drier air in there. I -- perhaps incorrectly -- assumed this was a normal thing to do!
Are you arguing that stereotypes are bad because they have the potential to be racist, or are you arguing that there is no value in applying a high-pass filter despite the high noise to signal ratio in online interactions?
> What Trump did to that debate Tuesday night is what he’ll do to America in a second term.

Translation: I still don't accept the 2016 result, nor will I accept the result of this one. Thus I will create a fallacious slippery slope prediction that will happen when the "Dangerous Man" gets a second term.

> But Tuesday also makes me wonder if we are witnessing the twilight of American democracy instead.

Translation: Another slippery slope reheated from 2016. No matter the result, we're heading towards a 'fascist dictatorship' and the end of democracy will arrive sooner than expected.
I mean there are two effects:

1. Ongoing discrimination
2. Different starting points + law of large numbers.

If you start one racial group off in a country with property and let them acquire wealth for a few hundred years, then free another racial group from slavery with absolutely nothing - even after a long while those wealth differences will persist.
I mean I started that first comment with "It is anecdotal". I realize this isn't hard science, but pretending that it is meaningless because it "is not impossible" that he had a prior condition is also pretty worthless from a scientific standpoint. I don't think you realize how closely professional athletes are monitored nowadays. We obviously can't say anything with certainty while observing from afar, but it is incredibly unlikely his condition wasn't caused by COVID. And since this is just an anecdote, I don't understand the inclination to advocate for the devil and that tiny likelihood of it not being COVID related.
Software Freedom Conservancy’s New Plan for Action Against GPL Violators
Somehow I think that'd just add oil to the fire. I wouldn't mind a dunce hat from digital Ocean
I think you misunderstood. The point is that it's not in his head - he knows his Indian colleagues are trying to figure out his caste. Non-Indians don't have a caste so he knows it's safe in that situation.
Use Tandem to talk with natives, have audio and video chats.

This alone will considerably improve your target language comprehension, especially when it comes with common expressions, slang and small talk
Software Freedom Conservancy's New Firmware Liberation Project
Not sure what you are referring to, but if you're worried just KYC right now and I don't see the risk of them not giving you your money back for paperwork reasons.
I was hoping someone would bring up PBS Eons, such a lovely series. In fact I was thinking about An Illustrated History of Dinosaurs when writing this comment.
Those seem relatively obvious, but I would never have figured out things like white threads or the thing with kitchens.
From a max of 200 MB/s. To max of 1MB/s for each index.
You know, as one of the people who sat in a room with my colleagues, listening them talk about the hours and hour of thinking they had done around how to contribute meaningfully to OSS, revising and revising till they landed on hacktoberfest, I don't find this hilarious in the least. I talked to many maintainers in the first few years of it's existence who truly benefited from the contributions. Nothing we ever did at DigitalOcean was "just for marketing" - everything we did was because we genuinely cared about developers, that's why the company grew. Certainly it's a shame that a few bad actors are ruining the project, but I take real issue with all the vitriol. Maybe it's gone off the rails and needs to be revised or reconsidered, but creating "shitoberfest" twitter and putting things in blog posts like "Finally, and most importantly, we can remember that this is how DigitalOcean treats the open source maintainer community, and stay away from their products going forward." is certainly not constructive. (I haven't worked at DigitalOcean for 5+ years)
Generalisations can be a fantastic time-saver. I optimise for efficiency. If my false-positive rate is too high then maybe the data my brain has trained on is poor. But from what I've seen so far, and from what I've heard from other people, the data my mental model has been trained on is fairly representative across the board in this instance.
I speak hindi, and in fact he is actually encouraging spam and is BSing in the response. He has said to look for repos with low traffic and do a pull request changing the readme and to do it 20 times, so if most will be marked as invalid, at least 4 wont.
This doesn’t solve the fundamental issue that the spam causes maintainers to have to spend brain cycles dealing with it. This “solution” still requires you to mark the PR as “invalid” manually. All it does is close the issue, add a comment, and delete the PR branch (if exists). If you’re already marking the branch as invalid, you’ve already wasted your time.
Note that while still getting support, this is a legacy operating system and was replaced by macOS Catalina (10.15) back in October 2019, which is soon to be replaced by macOS Big Sur (10.16).
Planet Does Not Exist
With the exception of the HR department, those other people/groups do have an interest in ensuring that you'll pay your bills on time.

If you're on a cellular plan where you get the phone free/cheap and then pay it off over the next year or two, that's a creditor relationship. Postpaid plans mean that you pay your bill at the end of the month, so if you fail to pay, the phone company has lost money on you. Prepaid plans, IIRC, usually don't require a credit check because you pay up-front.

Even for the electric company, there are often laws against shutting off your service because of non-payment, since electricity is considered so fundamental to our lives. And again, like cellular can be, it's a post-paid service.

Renting an apartment isn't quite so obviously a credit thing, but in many jurisdictions it's difficult and expensive to evict a tenant, even for non-payment.
I have done one letter typo fixes to doc repos as a 3rd party and felt great about them. One of them was actually a typo in a command line that I found by going through their instructions step by step copying and pasting each line. I was seriously confused when it didn't work!
He is right in a different way; but not in the literal/ physical sense:)

That's why we call our planeT as earth plane.
It's a plane of existence.
Besides not getting any users, you're also not able to offer products anyone wants. Current "US regulated" exchanges are just money onramps with a fraction of the volume/profit seen in the rest of crypto.

Also keep in mind that currently crypto is a lot bigger outside of the US, most of Asia don't want to deal touch things close to US regulators. Eg. it's why Tether is so much bigger than things like USDC (as they actively fight against US regulators in court to protect users).
I agree that the spam is problematic, but I feel the need to call out his "data collection".

As evidence that CodeWithHarry is the cause, he says

> A search for "Amazing Project" is now showing 21,177 issues.

and

> A search for "improve docs" shows 319,251 issues.

???

Improve docs has been a common beginner level PR since the beginning of time. Do you really think that 319k spam issues have been filed in the last day?

Amazing Project is more relevant, but if you take a look at those issues (sorted by newest), you see that most of the PRs that show aren't spam at all: https://github.com/search?o=desc&q=amazing+project&s=created...

If you want to count how many spam PRs were directly inspired by the video, you can try searching "an amazing project" (with quotes), and filtering by newest. It looks like there have only been about 50 PRs directly inspired by it.

https://github.com/search?o=desc&q=%22an+amazing+project%22&...
And I am thankful for it as I'm still running Mojave on my daily driver laptop.
Ask HN: What are some good resources/surveys about different type systems?
I am looking for articles/books/etc that describe the type systems of different languages and comment on differences and similarities among them as well as the positives and negatives of each.
It would also suck more to write a kernel from scratch because you didn't want to follow a simple rule when using the most popular and well developed kernel in the world.
Yes, but with the flu, most people (a) know that they had it and (b) are aware that they should take it easy with the training for a few weeks after they get well again. With Covid, apparently there is danger of myocarditis even for mild or asymptomatic cases...
As someone raised in the north US, living the last ~8 years between Florida and Texas has helped break the “you guys” habit. However, I admit that I still feel like an imposter whenever I use “y’all”.
Yeah, I just upgraded from High Sierra. :)
It makes me think about how we see this sort of thing actually becoming possible with YouTube. Soon algorithms will be able to create stuff that will be sufficiently entertaining. Dreadful.

I mean, I've already spent nearly half an hour looking at zooming into the mandelbrot fractal. But... that's different...
The mallard reaction does not rely on sucrose alone.
I jumped on this thread to say exactly this.

I visited the Vasa museum in Stockholm a few years back. The Vasa is an amazingly preserved shipwreck from the 1600s. There ship is mostly original and looks like bare brown wood like everyone imagines a shipwreck to look like.

However, they have a model and reproductions of parts of the ship showing how they were brilliantly painted. The tour guide made clear that the aesthetic beauty and conspicuous consumption on display was as much a part of the kings arsenal as the cannons. It really changed the way i looked on the past.
I think this may be a small example of the path to hell being paved with good intentions, or of unintended consequences.
It does have another big architectural weakness: no detachable windows (see issue #10121). Not impossible to fix but quite hard.

And while the embedded dev tools is very cool, especially for the headless browser, it only brings in even more windows in the main VS Code window. Notice how dev tools typically take the largest part of the screen. In many workflows it is beneficial to have the dev tools on a second or third monitor so it doesn't obscure the code.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMPRNet#Block_size
I can't imagine the loss. Books fill a void for me, but nothing that could fill that hole.
Question: Say we can produce large quantities of L-glucose. How hard would it be for organisms to evolve to metabolize it? Would it be like evolving resistance to extreme heat (hard) or more like antibiotic resistance (not hard)?
> You know, as one of the people who sat in a room with my colleagues, listening them talk through the hours and hour of thinking they had done around how to contribute meaningfully to OSS, revising and revising till they landed on hacktoberfest

I find it weird that none of your suggestions involved allowing the maintainers of the software project to decide if the contributions were worthy of a reward? I also find it odd that people who had contributed meaningfully to OSS would suggest a numerical bound on PRs as a measure of meaningful contributions.

Perhaps I'm missing something here, but I honestly don't think this was particularly well designed to begin with. The "bad actors" are assholes, sure, but I think you also need to revise your concepts about meaningful OSS contributions.
"Disagree strongly. I am currently in Australia, which shut down early and has been serious about fighting this from the beginning, despite repeated outbreaks from international travel, most recently in Victoria, which prompted a hard and long shutdown...that worked."

Except that it didn't work. You did it once, and it came back. So now you're doing it again.

And you'll keep doing it again and again, unless you plan on keeping Australia isolated from the world until a vaccine has been administered to some huge percentage of the world population. Even if you do keep Australia isolated, it's clearly not a cure, either: the current outbreak happened in spite of your country's travel ban.

Reasonable people can certainly disagree about the trade-offs involved here, but you have to start from facts.
> I'm sure I'm missing some grand idea of why Facebook would make this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRUA0o-rJjU
I was wondering about all of that. Appreciate the clarification.
In person proctoring at a library?
Have you considered looking for another job that you don't hate quite as much?
Turns out someone had a similar idea, simpler, but helpful and effective!

https://github.com/marketplace/actions/check-and-reject-spam...
Build and run web applications without code
There's growing evidence that excess sugar consumption is at the root of many metabolic diseases including heart disease. It certainly doesn't hurt to cut down on sugar intake.

Easiest to avoid eating added sugars and saccharine sweetnesa than to try to engineer something that might have its own set of side effects.
but goddamn I am so tired of this throwing around numbers game. Can we just fucking fight this virus already?

Because the numbers actually matter. We could save lives by quarantining the entire population during every flu season. We don't, because the social and economic costs would far outweigh the benefits. It may well be the case that COVID is so dangerous that it justifies destroying millions of jobs, disrupting children's education, and forbidding physical proximity with friends and family. But if you're going to argue for that you need to use numbers rather than righteous indignation.
I use and recommend Feedbin[1].

The interface is pretty good, privacy is respected as far as I can see, service is hosted on their hardware, not in the cloud, the author is very responsive when issues arrive, and the code is available for self-hosting[2].

It is also how I keep up with people on Twitter and YouTube without having to access Twitter or YouTube.

[1] https://feedbin.com/

[2] https://github.com/feedbin
I wouldn't say "miles better" as it was the slowest of all, despite the custom manufactured player/recorder (C2N Datasette). ZX Spectrum, for example, was able to save and load ~4 times faster using any cassette player with stock ROM routines.
I'll try and give this a shot; I think I need a lot of time for some self discovery and find out what I actually want to do in life and what my hobbies are. All of my hobbies remind me of work so it might be good to have a change
American and United cutting 32,000 jobs as federal aid plans stall
There are two different issues: (a) when you walk, drive or run, your experience the flat nature of the Earth. (b) whether experience is veridical or whether whatever experience in the world mirrors the reality of that world?

There is no need to be critical of those who believe in the flat earth theory, because their experiential evidence supports their theory. How to change such flat Earthers? Well, you need to set up an experiment involving them. Probably take them to space station, then they can get convinced. Otherwise, it is an issue of believing authorities.

There is nothing wrong in believing some scientist. However, when one enters in a dispute with scientists, one should become a scientist himself.
Like a few others here, I use an RSS to email converter, although I'm using a custom-written one. The main difference from rss2email is that I'm not actually doing any SMTP - I'm just dumping files into a Maildir and letting isync do the uploading/downloading. The actual reading then happens mostly with Mutt (which also just interacts with Maildir).

Like some others have noted, using email as a storage mechanism reduces part of the problem (tracking which items are read/unread) to one that's already solved (by IMAP). Additionally, using isync lets me have local copies of everything; this used to be really important when I was a "poor" grad student, because I could do cool stuff like download a bunch of comics ahead of time on my laptop, then read webcomics/mailing-lists on the 2-hour bus ride. I still like having local copies of things on principle, although nowadays everybody is always-connected so it's not as useful.
- Mannerisms could be anything from how articulate the candidate is and the depth of their vocabulary, to how they dress and the types of questions they ask.

Those are all qualitative things that tell me about the person's intelligence, social acumen, experience, worldliness, etc. Those things usually matter for hiring. Has nothing to do with caste or race or gender or identity or age or sexual orientation any other protected status.
This is correct. “Hinduism” is convenient colonialist/reductionist way of framing a culture the British colonists wanted to control and depict in certain tones. Calling “Hinduism” a religion is like inventing a term like “Americanism” and using it to refer to everything that America entails (its history, its inventions, its culture, its people) a religion.
Long-toothed coder/arch/founder worked on things on cards a long time ago, some IBM systems, some DEC systems, a lot of Microsoft stuff, a lot of web stuff, some Angular, AWS, Azure, love Domain-Driven Design, packaged business capabilities, event storming, leadership...

Chicago Metro

Remote Only through Covid

Relocation is suboptimal, but would consider for right role

Vision, strategy, DDD, Event Storming, AWS, Azure, .NET Core/C#, Angular, Restful APIs, OAuth2/Web security

https://www.dropbox.com/s/wykd1mzo7wh3pht/David%20Cornelson%...
Why is this downvoted? Affirmative action carried out on caste basis without consideration about economic state of candidate is a real problem in India. It even harms genuine candidates even from reserved categories. But it is not fixed due to political reasons.

The "upper caste people are successful because they are wealthy" meme needs to die. Many upper caste people are poor as well.. It also doesn't explain why Tamil Brahmins (an upper caste) are seen more successful educationally despite being much less in number than North Indian Baniyas (Also an upper caste).
[edit: Possibly I'm being too hasty in recommending swearing off Open Source contributions. Go forth and contribute, I suppose :) Leaving my original comment below for completeness.]

For other South Asian/Indian people like me, a pessimistic but practical counterpoint to this -- if you happen to be Indian and have a username that marks you as such, just lie low for a bit and don't contribute anything; especially during Hacktoberfest. I promise you that this will actually be a net positive for your career.

Work on proprietary (aka closed source software) and earn money. Open Source was never particularly welcoming to us in the first place, and the tradeoff of marketing freebies versus being viewed negatively as a group is and a society is not worth it.
I have but if I'd much rather have a job that's not so much fun than to have no job at all. I'm worried that I will quit and not find another one or my employer will find out that I'm job searching and fire me. This is my first "real" job so I don't know if all jobs are the same in this regard. I sort of want to change but if I change after a year I'm not sure that other employers will get the impression that I'm job hopping.

I guess it's mostly a salary thing; if I wasn't paid on the very low end I wouldn't care as much about it being not a good fit as long as I'm doing ok.
It's not just the t-shirt, the guys goes on to explain how developer "swag" is something you must have, you'll feel more confident and respected if you have a tech related t-shirt.

It's really sad that a guy who teaches coding asks people to spam FOSS projects to get that so called "swag".
Right there with you. It’s a little disheartening that I hesitate to tell people where I’m based because of the precedent these people have set.
The issue though is that each server itself is starting to have 100 Gbit network connections, not just the rack itself.