skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A pizza stone needs an oven, typically a quite hot oven, and some significantly long pre-heating. The stone gives a crisp bottom.

For the actual, final baking, I'm not using an oven and am using just a common, restaurant style, all steel saute pan with a circular flat bottom about 8" in diameter. So, I get the bottom of the pizza crisp and as brown as I want. And I cover the pan to create an oven that does cook the dough some more and melt the cheese.

All of this is my response to the OP about shrinkflation. I've outlined a response -- 20 minutes, 9 cents of flour, crisp bottom, sauce, cheese, and sausage of your choice, etc. My post is just in response to the OP's shrinkflation and not throwing down a gauntlet as the world's greatest pizza, better than NYC, Chicago, Naples, etc. For one, do some arithmetic on the 1 kg of flour, split 8 ways, and the 7" diameter -- get a relatively thick pizza, and people who want pizza very thin might not be happy.
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"Can this fight ever be won?"

No, the point is to make the people subverting this for their own nefarious gains (looking at you, NYT) put so much effort, money, and time into it, that eventually they die a slow horrible death and, maybe, just maybe, something better and more relevant and less evil comes along (or maybe NYT changes their ways - either works).

I mean, look at this thread, so may great undermining methods! Beautiful.
Tell that to Elon Musk’s Tesla
I wrote a tool that I've been using for the last few years now.

It uses similar concepts used in Docker (even sharing tech).

https://godarch.com/

https://pknopf.com/post/2018-11-09-give-ubuntu-darch-a-quick...

A deterministic OS, with the package manager of my choosing.

I run the same exact bits on 3 different machines.

Each reboot is a fresh install.

Here are my personal recipes: https://github.com/pauldotknopf/darch-recipes
She was always thus. The act she put on was to get sympathy and help when she was on the receiving end. There is no other mystery about it.
I use Ansible for that, since it has great support for Windows and Windows is usually more annoying to configure than Linux (you have to disable telemetry, remove dangerous bloat software, etc).

I even have a playbook for setting up a Wintendo machine with the Steam client (big picture mode) replacing Explorer.exe as the shell. If there is interest, I can publish it as open source.
A release from May 29, 2019 is considered “fairly old?” If we were talking protection against the latest vulnerabilities, fine. But for tech compatibility? I think we just found the “hell no to backwards compatibility” web developer in the crowd.
China's PBOC Says Its Own Cryptocurrency Is ‘Close’ to Release
Entertainment industry control consoles in audio, video, and lighting blend the two pretty well. Hardware faders and encoders for actually manipulating parameters. An LCD right next to each physical control showing its current assignment and meaning. Keyboard buttons for selecting pages and layers, playing back automation, and command-line programming. Touchscreens for situational awareness, drilldown to detailed views, configuration, routing, and navigation of complex hierarchies.

Yamaha has a nice idiom called "touch-and-turn" where there's an unassigned encoder right next the screen which manipulates whichever parameter you tap onscreen. Navigating the touchscreen is at least as nice as visually scanning a large format analog console to find the right handle, but a knob is the right way to actually tune it. It works well.

Your hands spend little if any time on the touchscreen during the show, but it helps you understand what's going on with the physical control surface and grab rarely accessed parameters, not worthy of dedicated console real estate, when needed.
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If only its package management were as easy as its syntax...

I wish pip worked the same way as npm: -g flag installs it globally, otherwise it creates a local "python_modules" folder I can delete at any time. And optionally I can save the dependency versioning info to some package.json...

Instead, pip is a nightmarish experience where it fails half the time and I have no idea where anything is being installed to and I'm not sure if I'm supposed to use sudo or not and I'm not sure if I'm supposed to use pip or pip3, etc.
If all your hotspot does, be it iPhone, Linux box or anything else, is forwarding VPN traffic between your devices and your cloud instance (your VPN exit node), why should you care about hotspot vulnerabilities?
Wintendo?
I do not agree; I think that if you can type fast then you can do it faster. (I have timed it, and so has at least one other person I know, actually.)
What I'm saying is that you would have to convince people that red meat is bad for them before they'd be willing to pass a law against it. If they're not convinced of that then they'll just buy it from whoever sells it and it doesn't matter if one seller here or there carries it or not as long as somebody does, which somebody will as long as people want it. But if you successfully convince them that it's so bad for them that it should be illegal, wouldn't they just stop buying it at that point, even without a law or any action by retailers?
You make an argument for empiricism, which is only one way of evaluating the truth of arguments. For example, mathematics traditionally doesn't involve empirical study: It begins with a pragmatic premise instead, like "assume the following..." and then proceeds to expand on that assumption or find its inherent contradictions.

One of the "crises of mathematics" is that computerized proofs by exhaustion, by applying brute force to find all possibilities, make the field more empirical in nature and hence subject to experimental error.

When pragmatic arguments are used to create a premise like "this design will work best for the software", the question that needs asking is whether all stakeholders can buy into the most core assumptions, and whether all assumptions retain conceptual coherence when taken together. If the UX designer, the developer, the product manager, and the end user agree on a pragmatic theory, and all theories in play align without issue, there isn't an problem as to whether it's "really" true - and with software, the concepts and data are thoroughly enmeshed in pragmatic thinking from the very beginning: numbers are modelled to limited ranges or precisions, strings are encoded according to arbitrary mappings, and so forth.
Linux Distribution - Manjaro
Tiling Window Manager - i3 with gaps
Coding and note-taking - Vim + tmux

Apps:
reddit - rtv
rss feeds - newsboat
email - mutt
music - mpd + mpc + ncmpcpp
video player - mpv
image viewer - sxiv
>Where is this special list of important pages? Are the sites I want to use not important? Does your comment need to be so simultaneously defeatist and hostile?

Or, as I like to call it, pragmatic.

Visits are a power law distribution, 80% of people's visits go to 20% of sites, and so on, recursively. s

So unless e.g. the top 1000 (which may vary depending on country) people want to use are there, e.g. the social media, news sites, booking, video, shopping sites, banking sites, you're just talking about a number of niche websites.

Sites that "still work with JS disabled" are in the minority on those lists.

Essentially you're saying "don't use all those sites with the content/services you want", use all those others that don't have tracking (but which you don't really care for).

E.g. pointing to Diaspora vs Facebook...

The best I've seen people come up with on this front is DDG vs Google.
Hawaii. Texas.
Isn’t an O-1 visa designed for situations like your friend?
which is why you should switch to firefox asap.
It's related to intelligence in the sense that being able to predict well requires intelligence and helps compression. If you have an intelligent model that predicts new words with high confidence, then you can use fewer bits to encode them. If I were to be even more handwavy, I would say having the ability to summarize effectively is a sign of intelligence.
Exactly. And if in 2-3 years the company is doing spectacularly well it’s now additional headroom to raise without losing control.
Use Conda envs!
In your model I have a choice to opt out of tracking. Where is the downside?
Definitely EVE Online's MMO secret weapon is Python: https://www.eveonline.com/article/stackless-python-2.7 - as well as its numerous ecosystem utilities like Pyfa, Evernus, used by tens of thousands per day.
Is there any particular bottleneck towards getting this to work with Python? Would not a simple pip wrapper be enough for the task?
Yeah, not just the real optimized motion but the simulated optimized motion looked significantly better than the original unsimulated animation.

Makes me think for actual animations they should simulate physical systems and then apply optimized control inputs to approximate the animation which the animator inputs. It would result in more grounded and realistic feeling animations.
Of course it's not the rich people being genetically superior.

It's the chance of a genetically fortunate person (with a great nature-given voice, or intelligence, or strength and perseverance) to become rich through it, and maybe pass it to children. This chance is not very high, of course.
Packaging is definitely recognized as an issue; e.g. here: https://cecinestpasun.com/entries/where-do-you-see-python-in...
That's what virtualenvs are for. Admittedly they're not a perfect solution but the tooling is quite good nowadays.
I didn’t downvote you, but that’s a pretty extraordinary statement that could use some explanation. How do you see it being used such that it reaches that level of ubiquity?
Seems like the TWTF is that in normal browsing mode, sites are allowed to use considerably more than 120MB of "temporary" storage on the filesystem.
The title is incorrect, they were not firing rubber bullets but rather they were using compressed gas pepperball markers.
Mode errors become easy to ignore at some point, but I actually noticed that I was definitely making a decent amount of mode errors for the first 2 years of my vi life.

I wouldn't be surprised if most people don't actually notice this, but I'm sure it happens.
I feel uncomfortable with the fact that people feel a third-party solution is the best way to solve this mess. It can also get messy when packages installed with pip, pip3, conda and apt are all entangled with one another in various ways.
Imagine these being swapped out for the normal cables at an airport or mall "charging" station .. hundreds of people using those cables every day for charging .. all easily compromised..
I love everything about this, especially the feeling of nerdy nostalgia. Looks great on my e-reader.
Ask HN: What decentralised web projects have the most potential?
I'm very interested in this idea of decentralising the web, but there seems to be so many separate projects to do this - IPFS [1], Dat [2] and Solid [3] to name a few. Which of the existing projects (if any) to do you think has the potential to gain mainsteam usage?

[1]: https://ipfs.io/

[2]: https://dat.foundation/

[3]: https://solid.inrupt.com/
Considering Python can power the largest web sites (Netflix, Instagram), I don’t understand why there’s so much use of much more complicated platform/languages (eg java, .net)?

Note: I am an amateur which is likely the reason for my ignorance.
Use virtualenv. Always.

Python 3 comes with it as "python -m venv". Once in the virtualenv, you don't have to worry about the various pip forms and effects, you can just pio install.

You can get fancier than that of course, but that's what works with stock python, on all OS.
I use a bash install script in my dotfiles that installs all the software I need using homebrew, restores data from a backup and clones various repos.

I always try to keep any application settings that are important in the dotfiles, but the backup (some basic rsync commands) has a bunch more stuff in case I didn’t get around to adding something yet, and have to add it manually afterwards.

I’ve actually had to use it in the past few weeks so it’s quite up to date:

https://github.com/mjgs/dotfiles
This is one of the many intersections between capitalism and imperialism. Marx said that capitalism would destroy itself when the rate of profit declined as it extracted too much from the working class. However, all the bourgeoisie economists claim Marx was wrong despite this simple and compelling model. After all, the rate of profit didn't decline. How did they (the capitalists) do it?

They did it by expanding markets constantly, invading third world countries to "liberate" their labor forces, synthesizing want via advertising, and many other means.

Now that we are in a globalized economy, we are running out of new markets and cash is just sloshing around. The capitalist class has slashed away as best they can at the welfare state, reducing the possibility of radical redistribution that could right the ship. Maybe now Marx's prediction will have a chance to come true.
How many people want to move to AL or MO for jobs, compared to bigger cities? Your application pool would be considerably smaller.

In many cases they move people who have lost their work visa extensions after working for 5 to 10 years, yet haven't received their greencards because of country quotas.

Example:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/12/microsoft-might-be-forced-to...
In the same way that ublock is a must-have extension for many people, I won't browse without cookieAutoDelete [0]. Mostly I don't bother authenticating with websites anymore, and (I think about 3 maybe? And I just reauthenticate when I want to use those) and for mobile browsing I mostly use Firefox Focus [1]. The ad networks are down to browser fingerprinting now, which will be devastatingly accurate but realistically be the next frontier in the privacy war. I habitually roll IP addresses from different VPS service providers but I'm not sure there's much more an end user can do currently. Fascinated to see how this front will develop - if things like GDPR are coming into effect, then it's only a matter of time before a gratuitous misuse of data is closed in on, though I suspect it's too late for the current generation.

[0] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autode...

[1] - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/focus
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Here's a simple but less-than-completely-documented way to keep Python package management under control:

1. Don't install anything globally. Don't pip install --user, definitely don't sudo pip install.

2. For each project you want to work on, create a venv. Yes, there are tools for this, but the base venv tool is totally fine. (venv should be included in your Python, but a few distributors like Debian put it in a separate package - install it from them if needed.) Use python3 -m venv ~/some/directory to create a venv. From here on out

3. As a first step, upgrade pip: ~/some/directory/bin/pip install -U pip.

4. Install things with ~/some/directory/bin/pip install.

5. Run Python with ~/some/directory/bin/python.

Slightly advanced move: make a requirements.txt file (you can use .../bin/pip freeze as a starting point) and use .../pip install -r requirements.txt. That way, if you get any sort of package resolution error, you can just delete your venv and make a new one. (Downloads are cached, so this isn't super annoying to do.)

A "project" can either be actual Python development, or just a place to install some Python programs and run them out of the resulting bin/.

(Edit: Yes, I know about activate, see the replies below for why I don't recommend it. With these rules, you get to say "Never ever type pip, only .../bin/pip", which is a good safety measure.)
I wonder if this is a reason people find prayer so meaningful, aside from any metaphysical/supernatural beliefs. Though I've left organized religion and am probably some sort of agnostic theist, I still occasionally pray. I don't ask for outcomes anymore, as it's pretty clear to me that tragedy and fortune visit the pious and impious all the same. Yet, it brings me some comfort and clarity to externalize my hopes, fears, and joys, all the same. Perhaps our rich, egoistic inner life as humans is really useful for the steady-state of the systems we've invented for ourselves, but unsuited for navigating disruptions. For that, we created mechanisms to dissolve our fragile egos and externalize our thinking.
What you are describing is a virtualenv and a requirements.txt file. There are tons of other options for Python that do the same thing.
Naked Capitalism is my goto blog for what's really going on.
I agree but is it intentional? Seems like a lot of folks rail about how npm works (not just because of the "micro package" philosophy)
According to immigration lawyers, it is very hard to get docs through O-1. You literally have to be international star. She is not, but still, she is level above what many musicians achieve in their lifetime.
I couldn't agree more with this. I was forced into doing some UI coding and although I could never full embrace js, the package management aspects (esp having the sane default of not installing packages globally) were definitely superior to python.
I wouldn't blame it on Ballmer. All these decisions were made when Gates was in control. the designers of NT and windows 95 had a chance to clean up and didn't do it.
Sounds like a different visa category.
The problem with flyover countries and other places inside the US is the same fickle immigration rules apply. And how many people around the US want to migrate to Alabama or Mississippi?

>At the same time, if the companies export their labor to exploitative countries, their goods and services can be tariffed.

This isn't manufacturing. I really doubt local techies in Canada or India are being exploited.
Funny that I seen a few articles titled somewhat like this in reference to javascipt.
Java and .NET are no more or less "complicated" than Python or PHP or any other language/stack. The most suitable language for any app/service is what the founding team knows very well.
You are right, it is a different product, it isn't inherently better simply because it's perpetual. But it is quite interesting and provides different trading strategies to the standard futures contract. See https://www.bitmex.com/app/perpetualContractsGuide for a good explanation for how Bitmex's implementation works which is the most popular version.

I think a lot of exotic derivative contracts will be innovated in the crypto exchange networks, and those that become popular will eventually applied to traditional commodities and equities once the bureaucracy comes up with regulations in 5 to 10 years.
Agreed. It's also why federal programs are so ineffective: how can you possibly try to administer a fair and effective high-touch social assistance program across 330 millions people across very diverse localities?

No, you need local programs that take into account local economic conditions, social situations, etc.

I'm a libertarian at the federal level, but I'm much more receptive to local government interventions and have voted for local tax increases when I live a place that seems to be well-run.
It’s unfortunate that it’s third party, but conda has the unquestionable advantage of being the only Python-centric packaging system that has a reasonable shared binary library story
Can confirm, as someone who has been a voluntary subject a couple times. But it's kind of weird, because deceptive design is so typical that I find myself speculating what the real study is while being studied.
young people are conformist and sheepleistic
... the same thing happens if you mix stuff in your usr/bin directory that isn't managed by your system package manager.

The solution is: don't mix your package environments. Use a conda environment. Just like in Linux, you'd use a container. If you wait for the Python steering committee to fix pip you'll be waiting a long time.
> Real, lasting change only comes when people make conscious decisions to improve their lives with no external input whatsoever handed to them

that doesn't sound right. most people want to improve their life. it's not about making the decision, but about knowing what steps to take to achieve it. and why wouldn't someone take help for that?

you seem to think that making a conscious decision is all it takes. far from it. in particular, when the steps to achieve it involve time and effort that you don't seem to have time for.

i made a conscious decision to increase my income years ago. it wasn't effective until i found partners who helped me get clients (iaw i found a sales person who would work by sharing profit instead of taking a salary), so that i could focus delivering the service.
I explained more in the other comment, it isn't inherently better as you say, but it's different and innovative.
The article says they are using the quota trick.
Texas Revolution?
So Apple's take is probably: A bunch of people get mad when their iPhones stop working, start running slow, etc; research data shows that when they need a battery replaced, they're more likely to go to the local third party (non-authorized) repair shop and get it replaced. We have no idea how skilled or unskilled these repair shops are, even if they use genuine Apple batteries. Our best bet for maintaining the reputation of our product is to make sure only Genius bar or AASP staff install the batteries and run the necessary diagnostics post-install.

I don't agree that they should be doing the battery authentication thing, replacing your battery is pretty easy and simple; but you have to look at this from Apple's standpoint:

Yes, Louis Rossmann runs a repair shop that is better than the Genius bar in every way and, should he join Apple, all of their repairability issues would disappear overnight. The issue is that many (most likely a majority) of local computer repair shops that get asked "can you fix this battery error on my iPhone" aren't on par with Louis Rossmann and will make mistakes such as improper installation, not re-sealing the phone for water resistance, using non-genuine batteries, etc. Apple could, by all means, make the process easier, cheaper, and more idiot-proof, but that would require engineering efforts. The best course of action, both for making money from repairs and not losing money to engineering and possible product changes ("don't sacrifice form for function", at least under Jony Ive), is to get the software to verify that Apple had complete control over the replacement battery from factory to phone.
Ask HN: Where to find early users in content monetization?
I am the founder of Goblin (https://goblincompute.com), and am looking to onboard early users who want an alternative way to monetize their content to ads.

The ideal user I imagine is a newspaper that publish subscription-only content and want to offer an alternative for users who use ad blockers to read content while maintaining their privacy.

The closest I have found are groups that cater to adtech/adops which is somewhat different. I have a few other leads that I am pursuing (online news publishing events and newsletters). I feel that the ideal target would be someone who does product/decision for paywall projects, and am also going to pursue individual leads that match that.

Any other recommendations?
>Imperialism and colonialism have caused much more harm to poor people in India or wherever than a bunch of smart people seeking a better life.

That’s impossible to quantify because those people seeking a better life also abandon their home countries.

LOL dude, what do you think remittances are gonna do other than pay for their kids to get educated JUST SO WE CAN BRAIN DRAIN THEIR KIDS TOO?

I don’t understand why the left is not anti-immigration because immigration so obviously hurts developing countries through brain drain.