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Here's a technical question about nixtamal for HN readers. I wouldn't expect an answer in foodie forums unless Nathan Myhrvold was active:

Every recipe for cooking corn into nixtamal calls for cal as a percentage of the weight of the corn, and then to cover by a certain amount with water. The specified cal is all over the map, and the amount of water corn can absorb varies.

For comparison, many bread bakers can't manage to take their starter into account when calculating dough hydration. They still have an understandable number they can vary, but it's not calibrated and of less use to others.

For comparison, most brine recipes calculate salt as a percentage of the water, without regard to the target protein. Even Thomas Keller's newest cookbook "The French Laundry, Per Se" notes that all fish in each restaurant passes through a 10% brine for 10 to 30 minutes.

Paul Bertolli in "Cooking by Hand" advises computing the equilibrium salinity of a brine left for many hours or days. One computes a water percentage for the meat, accounting for bone weight and muscle solids, and adds salt to the brine under the assumption that the meat will reach this equilibrium salinity.

Just as anyone who fears a complex recipe is ducking less dexterity work than five minutes of practice for a concert pianist, any cook who fears this calculation is ducking less conceptual work than any reader here engaged in five minutes of programming. This is a trivial spreadsheet.

I could be wrong, but I'm not aware of a chemical mechanism where the cal in nixtamal all binds to the corn, ignoring the water. My nixtamal recipe is 4:1 water to corn (enough for every variety I've tried) and 0.5% cal by total weight of the water and corn. This is less than many recipes but it consistently works.

If equilibrium pH is a good proxy for what happens to the cal (as CO2 levels are a good proxy for Covid exposure risk), then I should be tweaking my recipe each time, and recording the equilibrium pH. This would be a simple linear regression, leading to a percentage for corn comparable to the percentage Paul Bertolli applies to meat.

I get by without knowing this percentage, because I use a fixed water to corn ratio by weight, and cal percentage is not as critical as bread dough hydration. Too little cal doesn't work; some find the taste or texture of too much cal objectionable. One also varies how completely one rinses the next day, as cal helps the tortilla texture and acts as a preservative.

Does anyone here know more about this?
Then OOP is no true scotsman, because no language implements all the principles.

Or in other terms, without an implementation, OOP isn't even usable, it isn't even real. Just maybe a desirable ideal somewhere.
In Mimblewimble blockchains you cannot "burn" coins, as the receiver output must come with a rangeproof that also proves the ability to spend it.

Of course, you can still throw away the recipient keys after use; you just cannot prove that you did.
Could you elaborate on this a bit? When you say "smart", do you mean "having knowledge of the escrow"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sriracha_sauce_(Huy_Fong_Foods...

>"History

David Tran began making chili sauces in 1975 in his native Vietnam, where his brother grew chili peppers on a farm north of Saigon.[5] In 1978, the new Communist Vietnamese government began to crack down on ethnic Chinese in south Vietnam. Tran and three thousand other refugees crowded onto the Taiwanese freighter Huey Fong, heading for Hong Kong. After a month-long standoff with the British authorities, its passengers disembarked on January 19, 1979.[16]

Tran was granted asylum in the United States. He started Huy Fong Foods in 1980, naming the company after the refugee ship that brought him out of Vietnam.

The sauce was initially supplied to Asian restaurants near his base in Chinatown, Los Angeles,[3] but sales grew steadily by word of mouth.

In December 2009, Bon Appétit magazine named the sauce Ingredient of the Year for 2010.[17][18]

In 2012, over 20 million bottles were sold.[3]

Huy Fong Foods says demand has outpaced supply since the company started making the sauce.

The company does not advertise because advertising would widen that gap.

Huy Fong has boosted production since 2013.[19]

Sriracha sauce has grown from a cult taste to one of the food industry's most popular condiments. It infuses burgers, sushi, snacks, candy, beverages, and even health products. Tran said he was dissuaded from securing a trademark on the word sriracha since it is difficult to obtain one named after a real-life location. This has allowed others to develop their own versions, using the name. Some of the biggest corporations in the business, such as Heinz, Starbucks, Frito-Lay, Applebee's, P.F. Chang's, Pizza Hut, Subway, and Jack in the Box use the name without licensing it.[8][20] In 2016, Lexus partnered with Huy Fong Foods to build a single promotional Sriracha IS sport sedan.[21]"
"as more autonomy is added into vehicles, the latency of a centralized gateway is proving unworkable. Tighter interdependence, scalability, and flexibility are all required, which a zonal architecture allows, and OEMs are at varying stages of adopting this approach. Strikingly, the automotive zonal architectures look a lot like scaled-down HPC data centers."
Every bit of this is great, but I especially liked:

> To the people who have been abusing the system: you are of course free to have your own opinions, and you are free to express them on your own site or anywhere else that will have you, but this is a warning notice. Do what you like but don’t do it here. You are free to contribute your thoughts on other topics if you honestly have something to add or some question to ask, but any sign of attempted pandemic flaming will be deleted as quickly as I see it. Go away and tell everyone that Big Pharma muzzled you, if that makes you feel better. But in the end, you’re already going to be the last people standing after the vaccines wipe the rest of us out, right? Isn’t that enough?

I think that's the proper take. No one's denying anyone's right to express their opinion. They're just not providing a platform for factually incorrect ones.
One thing I have noticed when WFH is that random calls are more disruptive than someone calling to your desk. When someone calls to your desk you're already in that environment. When someone calls you when WFH they're entering your environment - if that makes sense.

I also notice that status update meetings seem to be more common.
Not the person you're replying to (and I don't play GTAV), but you can look here to see if it works in Steam via Proton: https://www.protondb.com/app/271590

It's rated Gold, and appears to work out of the box for some people, others have had to add an option to the command line that Steams uses to run it, and some people have seen some problems running it.

If you do end up going this route and try it, please file a report on protondb letting others know how it went.
Sign in… no.
This is a bit like complaining about restrictions on "sending atoms to the EU" when they decide to impose tariffs or safety regulations on consumer goods. Businesses shouldn't get to flout regulations just because they happen to be digital.
>It was a time when there were icons on buttons, like a check-mark on an Okay button, and icons on individual menu items.

tbh I wish we would go back to this. Even with the variation in styles, those icons provided language-agnostic "names" for things. If you're using a computer stuck in a different language / with different layout patterns, a checkmark in a primary position is much less ambiguous than having to guess if this is a yes/no/ok/cancel/abort/retry/fail/ignore of some kind.
New Tesla Model Y For 2021
I think there's room for both. Going on a $ per kg metric is drastically oversimplifying the other factors that go into launch vehicle selection.

SpaceX rideshare is great if you have a mission that you want to launch to a popular orbit or an orbit near enough to a popular one that you can close the gap with on-orbit propulsion. However, the cost savings come with disadvantages. You don't get to pick your launch date, and if you miss your launch, SpaceX isn't waiting for you. It could be a long time before the next rideshare that's going to the orbit you want is available.

If you want an oddball orbit, or you want the flexibility to set your own launch date and maybe delay it if you have program delays, the smallsat launchers could make a lot of sense even if they are 5-10x the cost on a per kilogram basis.

Space missions are really expensive, and it's not the launch that's the driver of that anymore - it's the engineering, customization, and other overhead involved with developing and operating a spacecraft. You can (and should) use off-the-shelf hardware such as a finished satellite bus from somebody like SSTL or Blue Canyon, but you still have to develop the concept of operations, requirements, payload, operations plan, operations infrastructure, and staff the operating team (which is often a 24/7 endeavour, or at least an 8/7 endeavour with on-call night staff).

To put it another way: if your total lifetime mission cost is going to be $50M-75M (not an unrealistic figure for a novel SmallSat mission) and you're looking at $1M for SpaceX versus $7M for RocketLab (to use the numbers from the article), the answer may not be immediately obvious. There may be serious advantages to a dedicated launch at the cost of growing the program budget by about 10%. It's totally situational.
In my opinion, this is absolutely the right way to go.

I know it's a completely different field, but I moderate a fairly large mountain biking forum, and I often have to remove comments that recommend techniques that could result in injury or death. It's often new riders who find that Technique B works better for them than Technique A, but they don't have the experience to understand why Technique B is dangerous.

I can't imagine how much worse it must be in Dr. Lowe's field.
I don't see any first amendment / free speech talk. Has it been deleted or something?
When you eat lots of fat and protein as a T1, you just get a slowly rising glucose that needs insulin and is harder to control compared to carbs with less fat.

T1 is really complex even with a low carb diet, if you don't only eat vegetables, but meatier food.
> Expect the balance of wealth and power to shift accordingly

Haha, no, absolutely not. Power and wealth will still be accumulated primarily through persuading and influencing others. Good luck accumulating significant capital without that!
I believe the synagogue shooter was paid in Bitcoin. So not pure hyperbole.

Edit: might have the details confused about above point, but the general thrust of things is pretty clear.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/03/19/neo-nazis-banked-on-bit...
They'd be in even more anti-trust trouble?
> So far I think none of their statues have been torn down because of the fact

Even Abraham Lincoln's statue got torn down in Portland, OR last year. Not because he was a slaveowner but because he oversaw expulsion of Native Americans from their land and executed 36 Native prisoners. I would not assume that any president's statue is safe from public ire.
This will depend on your views on politics/society/humanity. I know that there one side of the argument that workers should be basically hot-swappable and rack-mountable. I am often a bleeding-heart liberal and am pretty far to the other side of things. Underneath everything here it's more a question of feelings and values more than any sort of logic. Different countries' laws may come down on different sides of the argument here.

A virtualized server from Amazon does not need food, clothing, and shelter to survive. It does not have a family to support. Simply, it is not alive. and laws around humans and commodities should probably be very different.

More cold-hearted practical arguments for businesses: the virtual machine cannot vote in the next election, it cannot contact the local news media to complain about working conditions, it cannot unionize. If things get very bad it cannot buy torches and pitchforks.
A blanket ban of all Chinese content would be acceptable to me.
> You can't just say "Stop me!" and "Stop, me!" are identical. You have to define which comes first.

Why? All real-world applications of sorting must handle sorting identical objects. Saying that "Stop me!" and "Stop, me!" are identical doesn't cause any problems that aren't also caused by saying "Stop me!" and "Stop me!" are identical.
> So you are basically arguing a strawman here.

gpsd is an example that immediately comes to mind that was set to start on-demand. Which is ridiculous.

So it's a straw man that actually exists, making it not a straw man.
Deep, Solitary work does not mean non-collaborative.

You can, without talking to a single human being, complete design reviews, claim and fix 1000s of bugs, review PRs, update and ship documentation or releases, etc etc.

Deep Solitary just means "asynchronous", "uninterrupted", and "self-scheduled" in this context.
I wonder what the reaction would be if similar post-sale downgrades happened in other industries? Imagine if a car company issued a critical safety recall, and the fix cut the vehicle's MPG in half. Would the manufacturer be forced to buy back the vehicles? Issue partial refunds? Replace them with newer models that perform similar to how the original was meant to?

(Not a perfect analogy I admit - opting out of a CPU security mitigation typically isn't going to risk anyone's life. At least not on most servers.)
Luckily people can, and corporations are people. That is to say, corporations can donate to PACs and PACs can donate to candidates.
I don't see it as a flaw. It's all part of the game and the fact that things like this can happen just makes it more intriguing. Obviously only valid if you, like me, see it as a futuristic/cyberpunk financial experiment or art project.
They resent the fact that Europeans are trying to control what they call food. Europe can easily add PDO Region/Name or whatever labeling, just like a manufacturing label -- but they'd prefer to try and alter the language to protect their industries... Notice how they're not creating new names, they're trying to reign in generic names.
I thought it was the italics. In which ever case, this conversation has definitely been fruitful and enlightening. Thank you for your contributions.

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To be clear, we're talking about doing this in advance of something bad like that happening. Legal damages like that mostly attach to a sort of "snapshot state" — whoever held each thing at the time that the damages happened. So you can't get away from the debt by throwing away the condo. But if you already had thrown away the condo before the building collapsed, I don't think it'd be your responsibility.

(Compare/contrast: what if, instead of burning the deed before the collapse, you instead transferred the deed to another condo owner? Or, say, to the HOA itself? Both of those are just as simple in the crypto case as "throwing away" the token is. In the real world, transfers like that need to be witnessed under contract law. But in the crypto world, most tokens don't have sophisticated logic for recipient-agreement-gating transfers like that. You can send most kinds of tokens to people whether they want them or not.)
Too Many Tears
Sure. But when you get pissed off at those algorithms, you can turn to the government to force the entities behind the algorithms to change the result. That's the whole point. It's not algorithmic in the end. Code is not law, and if it is, that's a bug, not a feature, to most people.
> There is also even less social context to draw upon which is a problem for people who struggle in understanding social nuance.

I find that very beneficial though as people know that written situations lack context (so they add more info) and are more accepting of misinterpretations (so there is a lower penalty).
I'll do that, thanks.
Tesla to 'recall' nearly 300k China-made Model 3 and Model Y vehicles
Well in that case, nothing incentivizes more crime than USD.
> By and large, they accomplish this feat by keeping around dlls from the 90s and reusing them. This is a primary reason why windows installs are now pushing 10+gb.

Not really. I mean, sure, from my Win10 installation (which is around 11GB), 6.8GB are DLL files HOWEVER pretty much all of them are inside the WinSxS which aren't the "DLLs from 90s", but duplicates of various DLLs that applications bring along.

Outside of WinSxS the only other place with lots of DLLs is System32, the bulk of which is taken by AMD's drivers and the rest of the DLLs take around 800MB. Then there is SysWOW64 where a similar layout can be found with most of the space being taken by AMD's drivers and around 500MB or so for the rest of the DLLs. Inside other Windows directories there are also around 900MB of various .NET installation DLL.

So in total, the Windows DLLs, including .NET are probably around 2GB. However keep in mind that i have a ton of stuff installed, with pretty much every VC and .NET runtime that existed and my installation is a bit older than 3 years old, on a fresh Win10 installation will probably have less stuff in there.
On the other hand, it's fully auditable and transparent. Who knows if my bank's software is stealing a couple dollars from me every month due to "software bugs" as well. I'd need to setup a bot to check my balance every day to make sure.

Point is not whether my bank is malicious, but just that there's bugs everywhere and we'll have a few big "rug pulls" as this defi stuff is in prototype phase, but it will eventually grow mature. A flaw in Windows can lead to incredible losses too, but we've grown past that.
Not really. Astra's (and the entire small-launch market's) niche is different than SpaceX's. The focus of small-launch vehicle companies is not cost-per-kg, it's cost-per-launch. The Ride-Share model for large launch vehicles works great, until launch flexibility, short lead times, and unique destination orbits become key customer objectives. Or to put it another way, SpaceX is like the US Postal Service. Small-launch vehicle companies are like FedEx. Small-launch vehicles are the couriers to space.
Is there any mechanism to prevent you from forming your own super-echo-chamber? ML filtering only what you and your similar profiles like seems possibly have problematic outcomes, no?

Interesting, and inevitable, project, but I have my concerns.
Clock Skew Based Client Device Identification in Cloud Environments [pdf]
But in many cases, there are ways to dispute and/or retrospectively fix or amend a transaction that is mis-classified.

In the exceptionally rare case that something is exploited within a cryptocurrency, there is no recourse for the victim.
Copying is one thing. State-sponsored wholesale transfer of trade theft is another. Now, I don't doubt for one second that the US/CIA has not done anything shady like that in the past but I do not believe it has ever been on the scale of effort that China has undertaken. And I say to my own country's detriment - more power to them. While the US fumbles with domestic politics, social justice endeavors, and enriching other countries, China has risen to take its place by taking the opposite stance and focusing all its energy on making itself the foremost global economic giant.
I hope we understand that influencing others can happen without meeting them in a room on their schedule? If we do, then perhaps the general zeitgeist will evolve to recognize the superpower therein?
Should such crippling warrant a recall and refund? Not sure how a small company could get away with something like this, but for Intel it is just a patch?
I don't think web workers are a good design. They are maybe simple, but lack in flexibility and capability. E.g. if I am not mistaken, you cannot control animations from a web worker. You also have to communicate with them using strings, therefore there is considerable overhead.

JavaScript and the related ecosystem in the browser lack a number of things, that are then patched over using additional complexity such as web assembly, bug handling/ feature workarounds in applications, mobile apps that you basically have to develop, because the web isn't useable/ performant enough for some stuff. Of course we have some extra experience now and it is easy to criticize in hindsight. E.g. the decision to make JavaScript less LISPy was perhaps a good decision for it's large adoption but longer term the homoiconicity could have been used for easier generation instead of e.g. stuff like WebAssembly. We also know, that stuff like Clojure(Script) is possible now. We also know, that we really want a native 64bit integer type instead of hodge-podge solutions with reduced precision of 53 bits or big decimal with worse/ complicated performance characteristics.

For the last 12 or so years, the web and related technologies became an application platform and a video delivery network with demands that rival native applications. We even use JavaScript on the server side through Node.JS. This has enabled tremendous things to happen but it is also perhaps the least stable platform to develop for. The web actively breaks some of the more complex applications that it has enabled precisely because the foundations are not solid enough. The current state of affairs is we keep piling on new and shiny APIs and technologies, that perhaps have considerable merit but we don't really fix the broken things in a way normal devs could keep up. I mean, how do you imagine to keep up, if even GMail, Google Maps, YouTube, Facebook and all its web apps, even major news sites and other applications backed by big companies still have rather obvious bugs in these products? I guess, "move fast and break things [for the later generations to fix all this mess]" it is.
But nobody in crypto would willingly trade their crypto for something backed by fiat and therefore inflating. Right?
Sure, they make donations to super PACs, which ""don't coordinate""[0][1][2][3] with campaigns.

[0] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-and-democratic-polit...

[1] https://www.rollcall.com/2019/06/06/what-is-mcconnelling-how...

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/10-ways...

[3] https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-politics-superpacs-impa...
Patient outcomes for the insulin aspart pens and the vials of generic insulin at Walmart are so different that many doctors refuse to prescribe the cheap stuff except as a very last resort.

There's no simply substituting. These are two different brands of a generic statin pill or something. Although it's all insulin, these are very different drugs. The dosages for the same insulin in the same patient can vary, and the calculations or charts for what to take when vary across types of insulins. The handling instructions vary. There's different patient training for a pen vs. a vial and syringe.
They are barely the same thing.
> Much of the world literally does run algorithmically.

I think you're missing the parent's point, which is around the world running on legal contracts.

It's that legal disputes are settled non-algorithmically. If someone harms you through fraud or other illegal action, a judge can order a transaction reversed, etc.

None of this has anything to do with algorithmic trading, or using algorithms in finance generally for efficiency.
It literally does not. The world runs advised by algorithms, but not governed by them. It's a fundamental difference. When algorithms in the real world create lose-lose outcomes, people override them, which is why when your credit card gets stolen you don't end up paying for stuff. You can bake that logic into a software contract, but if the design of your system is that the totality of software contracts are the final word, you have the same problem; you can't predict all the corner cases. It turns out a lot of the human beings that work for companies engaged in the financial system actually do stuff to solve problems.
Because this is the kind of story that cryptocurrency detractors love, and that aligns with the general sentiment towards cryptocurrencies on HN.