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The confusion comes in the color versus the process. I've seen some recipes call for "cook down onions until translucent and caramel in color". This is the most accurate definition of what most recipes want when asking for caramelized onions.

However the true use of the word "Caramelized Onions" are onions that have gone through the cooking process of caramelization. This process requires three things: sugar, heat, and time. Just like making candy caramels, you are performing the same process to onions. This makes true caramelized onions actually sweet, with savory notes throughout.

Most recipes bastardize the word "Caramelize". They tell you to caramelize onions, when in reality you don't actually want caramelized onions (which in many cases would actually ruin the recipe), instead they want softened onions with browned to a light caramel color, which is a completely different thing.

This is like a recipe needing turkey but asking for chicken. Like sure, it will probably work, but it is clearly different and not entirely substitute.

French Onion soup is the most common use of real caramelized onions, which is sweet and savory soup. It could not be made with browned onions, that would ruin it. Coq-a-vin is another popular recipe that uses caramelized onions, which complements the prominent wine flavors of the dish into a sweet, savory, gamey (usually made with game hens), and earthy delight of a meal. The caramelized onions are what pull that dish together and critical part of the recipe. This meal takes a long time to cook, similar to a gourmet version of American potroast.
Why Einstein’s E = mc² is only half of the equation
Once every two minutes for a year ? Is my arithmetic right there ?

That seems excessive.
...and hello reality. [0]

The question is how long for. But one is that it will have to take more than that to replace Google, since Google is more than just a search engine.

[0] https://www.similarweb.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/C...
- CEO of Microsoft is a child of middle class Indian immigrants

- so is CEO of Google

- CEO of Apple comes from working/lower-middle class family

- CEO of Johnson and Johnson (12th largest SP500 company) is an immigrant from Spain, coming from middle class family

etc etc etc
The raws look fine in Chrome on Ubuntu as well.
prosocial evolution is a lot better term than "self-domestication". of course, it's also completely unexceptional, so perhaps not favored in the academic (publishing) ecosystem.
The problem with that is a lot of communities are work to mod, and most people wouldn't bother.
What kind of use case does this solve?
i use hotmail instead of gmail
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they will even run ads to find them
Personally, my knife fighting skills aren't anywhere near up to par for that.
I use Tailscale on all my devices so I can access my "home" computer and the applications on it from anywhere.

My impression with the "VPN for outside traffic" is that somebody who wants to gather a lot of sketchy traffic for monitoring it might just start a VPN service to concentrate it.
The pros and cons of using ChatGPT in clinical radiology: An open discussion
RME?
> There are some cognitive scientists who believe that the ability to use language is built into the human brain, and (natural) language acquisition basically involves just setting the "parameters" of that built-in system.

This, by the way, is essentially what Chomsky means by “universal grammar,” in his writing - the inborn language capability and its fundamental structure. His theoretical framework even went through a period where it was called Principles and Parameters.
It's had competitors forever. The lockin is from UI, file formats, compatibility generally (e.g. functions), scripting / existing infra around it, and its utter dominance in the market ("nobody got fired for buying Microsoft")
> Something that lets us all communicate isn't inherently bad.

I’m not so sure this is the case. Seems like we are testing the limits of our social programming when exposed to networks _vastly_ beyond our capabilities historically, and we’re seeing the various ways that our social behaviors break down naturally. That there is a profit motive in encouraging and accelerating this breakdown might be orthogonal to the idea that it isn’t meant to exist at this scale in the first place.
i wonder if this is a case of humans having domesticated them in the past (probably for war), then that population ended up going free for whatever reason, and they still have the traits because they're elephants and nothing will eat them
Makes me curious what animals were like before we started killing everything that looked at us funny and eating anything that didn't immediately run away
So much stuff thrown within this submission comments. One can wonder how much of this is misinformation, because someone once said something and the other one echoes it back...
"Nintendo shut this loot box thing down around a year ago"

Not true. A couple months ago, I played MKT for a while. The loot box is alive and well.
1. There is no "mis" for hello fresh recipes, literally everything is presented in a bag to you. There's often no measuring or any dependencies other than oil, salt, and pepper.

2. cleaning while you cook is not a time saver for producing the food, only a time saver when considering overall time in the kitchen.

In my experience with meal kits over the last two years, the biggest time savers are nothing like what you said.

1. Meal kits try hard to not use multiple pans, as not all kitchens have that. Parallelize cooking where possible.

2. Parallelize chopping with cooking by getting some help.

3. Pre heat your oven before actively starting cooking in the kitchen, ie don't stand idle.

Even still the recipe times are incredibly optimistic.
SPAs are also useful even where they aren't strictly needed, which upsets the purists. Once you have decided that you orient your teams around SPA architecture, going the extra mile for whenever an MPA might do things better (by some metric) becomes a tough sell. The things that web developers believe should matter to users don't necessarily matter to the business as a whole. This is another instance of "worse is better".
I think there's a case to be made for simpler languages, but not the way the author portrays it here, and not the way eg Go does it.

IMO the biggest problems with almost all popular programming languages are

1) null

2) exception based error handling

such that, when you call foo() where foo is

String foo(){ blabla }

you can get a String, null OR an exception (!!!) and most compilers happily let you treat it as if it only ever returns a String.

I hope some day null is no longer a thing, and that Functional Programming types like Option, Either, Try etc in the native libraries is the new default.

incredibly, there's still no consensus as to which exceptions should be used for what and when, though these days the most common approach is to simply stick only to RuntimeExceptions, which is terrible.

Functional error handling using Option, Either, Try etc are arguably much simpler, safer and more powerful than exceptions.

Simpler because they don't rely on dedicated syntax- they're just regular objects no different to any other object.

Safer because unlike exceptions, they force callers to handle all potential outcomes, but no more. (no risk of ignoring errors and no risk of catching a higher level of error than desired, ubiquitous bugs in exception based error handling)

Powerful because they support map, flatmap, applicative etc, making it easy to eg chain multiple computations together in desired ways, which is unwieldy and bug prone when using exceptions.

It could be that, when learning Java, Python and any other language, we learn that methods return objects... and that's that. No weird dedicated syntax and magic, special treatment for returning anything other than the happy path, and the HUGE complexity that comes with it, eg the dedicated syntax itself and how it behaves, differences between checked and unchecked exceptions, hierarchies of exceptions etc etc.

In addition to that, when lists and booleans implement map, flatMap etc, you can actually reduce syntax of languages even further- there's no need for looping syntax like for, while etc, and no need for if else either. This is probably too extreme for most people, but think about it. There's literally no reason to have this syntax in the language if the types in the library give you the same functionality.

So my dream languages would be something like Kotlin ie with inferred type safety, immutability by default etc but without support for null at all, no exceptions at all, no looping or conditional syntax, and a better, smaller, simpler library.
This is overblown. The vast majority of improvements to human lives can from textile and agricultural revolutions. Physics supplemented these, sure, but it wasn’t thanks to a few dudes hiding out in a lab doing theory.
Many are, a substantial number aren't.
> To be honest, those people seem to be thriving socially simply by virtue of keeping up with their friends and coordinating social activities.

> The most unhappy people I see are the ones consuming hours of Reddit and Twitter every day.

I think you make a good distinction here. We always seems to lump "social media" into one big blob when talking about it but like you said I think there is some nuance here. I see Reddit/Twitter as a different kind of social media than Facebook/Instagram. On Instagram/FB it's all about the "real you", I have an account with my name on it and photos of me. Reddit (and to a lesser degree Twitter) on the other hand is all about being anonymous and interacting with strangers (as opposed to your friends) on the internet.

There's a time and place for both types of interactions but I feel like the "anonymous stranger internet" is what's really driving most of the negatives we see in social media.
> Giphy has plenty of competition and gifs seem to he waining in popularity anyway.

Am I in a bubble? I post and receive like 20+ gifs per day with my IRL friends and family. The rate has shown no signs of declining.

[EDIT] And what's replacing them?
I'll say no, but only because cryptocurrency is a single toddler to traditional finance's group of cigar smoking, sociopathic men with the scars to prove they've learnt through experience how far they can stray from legal boundaries before too much attention is brought.
Sadly they have been squeezed out of many locations, and I can not always find one. I know where I can usually get them and try it as my first option. It depends on where you are.
> The power of Uber doesn't lie in it's app

I'm not sure what else Uber could possibly have. Name recognition? More people know Google than Uber. Install base? More people have Android phones than have the Uber app. Drivers? Uber is trying to eliminate its drivers, as this deal shows. Uber is defenseless against Google.
A fair point, but it seems like their issue is with monetization at all, and not with it being a poor business model.
I know the topic brings on a wave of heated opinions. Our kids all slept with us, or in a baby bed next to our bed, from birth until they wanted to sleep in their own bedroom, usually before two years old. No need for a crib or worry about sleeping positions.

I didn't suggest hovering over children 24/7. But consider that people have raised kids for millennia without cameras and monitors, more connected with the child and not remotely observing and assessing.
History is littered with global reserve currencies outright failing or losing its global reserve status. USD failing wouldn't surprise anyone looking at financial systems through a historical lens. Years after it happens (and I don't think anyone truly believes USD is the last global reserve currency humankind will see) it will be painfully obvious to everyone how unsustainable our inflation driven economy is.
Academia places unrealistic goals on brilliant people and pays them so meagerly that they have to often find other sources of income. On top of this, some of the advisors are outright unbearable with their demands and work expectations, the world seems bleak for even a motivated researcher. Amidst the scarcity of grants, measly pay, extremely competitive environment, uncertainties tied with job market, failures in experimental methods, intractable theoretical adventures, publish-or-perish culture, and the better alternatives available for someone with a skill-set enough to pursue grad school, it's hardly any surprise grad students have mental health issues.
If I could ever get one for £150 I would have bought one without thinking. I think £150 / $199 is the sweet spot.

Another problem is I only need it during the pandemic. Otherwise I might only need about 10 page per year. And all of a sudden that £275 investment becomes quite expensive.
I enjoy watching his content and the levels and arguments he makes, the only thing I don't like is he believes because he is spending 2m a year, that everything he says is fact, and based on data so it's impossible to be wrong.

That kind of thinking is so odd. He thinks every eating plan is stupid, because it's not his eating plan.

As if eating that many pills and his weird food is the only way to optimize one's self.
Happy to see someone beat us to the punch for posting this to HN!

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This is my favorite internet Chef (well famous chef on the internet now - hes accomplished, funny and cooks like my granda did -- He says "just make sure you measure EXACTLY" (as he puts in random amounts of shit and doesnt really measure a thing).

https://www.youtube.com/@ChefJeanPierre
Classic self-fulfilling prophecy. I don't think the spying made any friends, on the contrary. And in effect it didn't increase security either because people are way more distrustful.

It is an overall net negative strategy.
The best way to cook poultry (which does take longer than most estimates, I agree) is with a probe thermometer.

The real problem is maintaining a balance between fully cooking thick thighs, compared to the mostly-surface-area breast, even after spatchcocking.
I don't know - I have two kids, one 17 and one 19. The 19-year-old graduated valedictorian from his high school of 700 last year, did extracurriculars and scored in the 99th percentile on the SAT... and was still rejected by the "top" colleges he applied to (Stanford, MIT). The 17-year-old got a B this year, and she's devastated - if getting everything nearly perfect isn't enough, what hope does everybody else have? It wasn't like this when I was a teenager in the 80's.
What a bizarre response. More anger than anything else.
Ah yes, we'll just regularly distribute one time pads to our friends and family and they'll do the same to us. No biggie.
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I think the simple answer is that there is a disconnect between what caramelizing onions means for serious applications (i.e. french onion soup) and not-so-serious applications (your average philly cheesesteak or omelette). Just cook 'em down a bit on higher heat if your application is not so serious.
There isn't that much of a difference between the taxi driver sitting in the physical car or at home.
Only when you Location A is in low demand, you could "hop" into a car at Location B.

But the goal is to completely eliminate the driver, which increases efficiency a lot.
> the greenhouse effect is a misnomer.

You're taking it too literally. Greenhouses get warm because there's a barrier that reduces the amount of energy escaping from the inside of the greenhouse to the outside.

The greenhouse effect is similar in this way in that the CO2 in the atmosphere acts like a barrier that reduces the infrared energy escaping from the surface into space, as you mention.

Sure it's not really the same. But people like short catchy names and phrases, even if they're somewhat inaccurate. Note how many say they Googled something when they didn't actually use Google.
But that concept can also be expressed in English – which you just did.

If you simply run the English description you gave through a Huffman coder, you should get a compressed version that is the same length or even shorter than the Ithkuil word (English usually compresses to about 1 bit per character).

Is Ithkuil anything more than a compressed encoding of English? Can it express any concept that English is fundamentally incapable of expressing?
We do hope to support more countries in the future. Right now the committee of attorneys that make are agreements are largely based in the US, and the agreements are made with US law in mind.

I expect that the agreements will just work for some countries, require minor changes for others, and in some cases need to be basically rewritten from scratch.

If you do take the agreements to a local attorney and find out what does and doesn't work in your country, we'd be really grateful if you shared that feedback. We've had a few people do that already, and it's helped in our plans for expanding into natively supporting other countries.
> This is still the case in C11, Section 5.2.4.1. Did this change in the most recent standard?

Well, no, it's still marked "just" obsolete. For it to be deprecated or removed there would need to be anybody caring about it enough to put some work. But since it doesn't affect vendors at all (they can just ignore) and users don't complain, it's just a forgotten "law" - still law, but a dead one.

> I was thinking more like the file-local namespace clobbering offered by Python e.g., from LIBNAME import actual_function_name.

Oh, that's... way more than just namespaces. Way more. That would require more fundamental changes and additions. C++ just added modules in C++20 (not sure how well those will catch on), but I don't think something like that is to be expected in C for feasible future.
> The thrust of this argument is that centralized authority -- perhaps uniquely centralized, as Bengio proposes an agreement between Russia, China and the USA as an example -- is the best safeguard against rogue AI.

Ridiculous take. AI ain't nukes, you don't need a thousand centrifuges to separate it from raw AI ore. A huge amount of tiny actors are sufficiently equipped to work on it.
There's no network effect from having the Uber app. All Google would need to do is push a notification to every Android phone that has Google Maps (so, all of them) that says "book your next trip through Google maps and the first ten rides are free!" and they're in business.
Mentioned elsewhere in this thread, but the lack of bug fixes imo makes it definitely seem dead. I'm all for stability and sticking to a core vision/set of principles, and agree with your point about the Javascript ecosystem. But not even having small updates to fix bugs here and there doesn't exactly scream "this project is alive but done".

Personally I do believe that the core team are working on things away from the public eye, and that's fair enough in order to keep focus without having to deal with everyone giving their own opinion or criticism. I just wish there was significantly more transparency in the process, and a few bones thrown to the community in the form of fixes.
There is really no point discussing the average person, the average degree and the average college and price and definition of "worth". Is a degree in a sought after subject from a well respected institution for a low price for someone skilled in that area worth it? Of course and likely always will be. Is a degree with none of those characteristics worth it? No, and likely never was.

People need to be encouraged to do those calculations: Am I good at this? Will a degree make me better? How much will it cost? Do I value this thing enough for it to be worth it?
> The most unhappy people I see are the ones consuming hours of Reddit and Twitter every day

Or god forbid Hacker News!
Tech China’s internet giants bet big on A.I
It’s quite suspicious that they are firing 2.500 people now while also said they wouldn’t move 2.000 people to Florida. Might be related
The difficulty with Roblox is that they merely act as a platform. Plenty of their games have some variety of lootbox, but they are created and published on the Roblox platform by 3rd parties with more shallow pockets. Roblox benefits from that game mechanic, but isn't its originator. I'm not saying the exculpates them at all, but it makes the court battle a lot more difficult.
When loot boxes came to Overwatch (the old one), I thought "hm what a great idea, it helps monetise the game, while offering just un-important cosmetics", it did not affect gameplay, you did win them through actual gameplay too (and it was not that hard to win them, just play the game). The good old days of Overwatch 1.

Now they killed the game with the battle pass stuff and I just refuse to take part in that. Bring back loot boxes!
> Why do we use GPG ASC signatures instead of just a checksum over the same channel?

Could you elaborate on what you mean by this? PyPI computes and supplies a digest for every uploaded distribution, so you can already cross-check integrity for any hosted distribution.

GPG was nominally meant to provide authenticity for distributions, but it never really served this purpose. That's why it's being removed.
> But there were small cars, like the Nissan Sentra and friends.

IIRC, a Sentra was Civic-sized. I drove a Civic before my Metro, and it was literally twice as powerful and much more fun to drive.

The Metro took smallness/cheapness/fuel efficiency to the maximum extreme (for the US at least). It was not fun to drive, and I was constantly reminded about how under-powered it was. IIRC, the thing struggled with hills and couldn't even make it to 80 or 85 on perfectly flat, level ground.
Yes, but we shouldn’t pull that theory out our mathematical asses. We should always be falsifying things not trying to make an unfalsifiable theory work because the math is interesting.
Apple announces multibillion deal with Broadcom to make components in the USA
this is right but i think your perspective is off just a little

the bears, wolves, tigers and lions you listed are things that are still alive, humans probably got along with them more over the past 10-20,000 years than they did all the things they hunted to extinction. i think its rare to find a large animal, bigger than a small dog, that doesn't look cute in some way [to humans] when its not angry. this was their defense mechanism.
>Of those 1069 unique keys, about 30% of them were not discoverable on major public keyservers, making it difficult or impossible to meaningfully verify those signatures.

I don't know if it applies to any of those 1069 keys, but note that there is a way of hosting PGP keys that does not depend on key servers: WKD https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-koch-openpgp-webkey-s... . You host the key at a .well-known URI under the domain of the email address. It's a draft as you can see, but I've seen a few people using it (including myself), and GnuPG supports it.
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