skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple isn't in the business of giving user's choice. I think their argument always has been against the inertia of familiarity and in the case of the butterfly switches and touchbar it's bitten them in the ass but they can't undo the choice for whatever reason
>when you compare against the current option

To me the current option is no participation because I see no explicit ads. The web is pull and not push, and my browser renders whatever I want it to. As for the revenue, they can keep it for all I care, why would I want to make money browsing the web? It'd be like making money for talking a walk in the park
Sad to see this happen, but honestly their SaaS products (Docker Cloud, Docker hub etc.) were absolutely terrible.

The UI and UX felt like some half assed intern rush job.

Terrible bugs around things like login and teams that just never got fixed.

As if no one really cared.
At first I thought it was about the Abalone board game and I was very confused.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abalone_(board_game)
Database/SQL/Data Enginer consultants, how did you get your start?
Did anyone here use their SQL skills to move from a 9 - 5 to consulting? If so, how did you do it?
teh_klev says". The abalone was cooked in garlic butter and was utterly delicious. I'm not really a huge fan of things that live in shells in the sea, but I could certainly get used to abalone."

But anything cooked in garlic butter is utterly delicious! The abalone is merely a carrier for the hot garlic butter.
Why is this called Workouts?
If a company claims to support multiple religious choices, isn't it inevitable that some of those will conflict?

They can probably avoid the more metaphysical questions but as soon as they have a canteen there's going to be issues if any group assumes their religious rules must be applied to everyone's food (and indeed what they're eating outside of work).
Perhaps that's why they're getting into real estate.
CCPA is certainly a headache at work and brought in consulting to assist but I hope it spreads beyond California and more! As a consumer I want to be able to opt out of any/all data collection related to my personal details. Fully support it regardless of the "costs" it brings to the company. Data should have been regulated from the get go.
Ask HN: Why do so many startups claim machine learning is their long game?
I work with and speak to many startups. When I ask questions around the product value, especially in context of defensibility, they assert that their "long term play is using machine learning on our data". This has been pretty consistent in the last few years, regardless of the nature of the product or the market for which the product is targeted. This typically comes with assertions such as "data is the new oil" and "once we have our dataset and models the Big Tech shops will have no choice but to acquire us".

To me this feels a lot like the claims made by startups I've encountered in past tech-hype-cycles, such as IoT and blockchain. In both of these areas there seemed to be a pervasive sense of "if we build it, they will acquire".

The question I have for HN is in two parts:

1. Why is it that a lot of startups seem to be betting the farm, so to speak, on "machine learning" as their core value?

2. Is it reasonable to be highly skeptical of startups that make these claims, seeing it as a sign they have no real vision for their product?

[EDIT]: add missing pt2 of my question
> Unfortunately, the only reasoning I can see that "a union for programmers is a terrible idea" is that you "don't want to read newsletters or listen to speeches or be involved at all in the grubby etc".

Really? My argument is very straightforward:

> The solution is a balance of power between labor and management. In my case, I feel I have plenty of power. In the case of Google employees, I feel they have plenty of power. Broadly speaking, programmers (in the US) have plenty of power.

> I don't think "unions are bad," I think they are a valid tool to correct power imbalances but they're just a tool, sometimes there is no power imbalance, and a union for programmers is a terrible idea.

I'm not a cog in a machine. I have a significant amount of control over what I'm working on and who I'm working for and how that work gets done.

> What I would find far more convincing is an explanation of how a workplace like Google would be worse if it were a union shop. Lower pay? Nope, union shops consistently draw larger salaries for their workers. Less workplace safety? Nope, union shops consistently have fewer injuries than non-union shops. Fixed salary schedule? Nope, a technical union could easily be structured like SAG -- e.g. Tom Cruise doesn't have a salary cap. Can't fire a bad apple? That seems like a bad idea until someone decides you're the bad apple.

This is exactly my point. Unionization for programmers is about MORE money, LESS work, and LESS accountability. It's an employee cartel. The idea that agitating for a union is a moral endeavor is laughable. It's a moral endeavor when you're a serf or a coal miner.
GP is on track to become my highest rated comment on HN, which suggests more people agree with me about this than anything else I've said here.

There are some of us that think the distraction economy is making the world a worse place.

OS notifications have a higher participation rate than side-bar ads because 1) nobody has learned to tune them out, and 2) theoretically speaking, these are the things we opted not to filter out, so we are more inclined to peek.

I know people who will stop mid sentence of an interesting conversation with you to figure out why their phone is chirping at them. I'm sure you do, too. It's painful to watch even when it's not you.

My reaction to "it's opt-in" is a little bit like my reaction to "tobacco is opt-in". It's not reassuring, maybe even a little troubling. The best reaction you can expect is, "And?"
Linux foundation bans person for tone-policing
My wife INSISTED … NO DIAMOND. Her engagement ring cost $70 at JCPenney.
Cause of Harmful Dendrites and Whiskers in Lithium Batteries Uncovered [video]
I put in a comment on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16243276 on this approach, probably not novel even then, and ideas are pretty much nothing. However it's awesome to see something actually get built kinda validating it!
The equivalent of sudo is right click / run as administrator. You can run a command-line shell like cmd or PowerShell, or a file manager this way, and it will allow you to write everywhere.
Thanks for the correction. It seems this became the case with the acquisition of Fox, since Hulu was apparently 1/3 owned by Disney, 1/3 Fox, 1/3 Comcast. With Disney outbidding Comcast for Fox, they became 2/3 owners and Comcast decided that it made sense to exit.

I think the ultimate reality still stands, just s/Hulu/TBD Streaming/g. Comcast will roll their own competitor at some point. Rent-by-mail is one thing, but when it's just moving bits around, it doesn't make sense to outsource to a licensee like Netflix anymore.

Unless Netflix can figure out how to lobby and legislate with the same supreme competence they apply to systems engineering, their long-term prospects as an independent entity are bleak. The copyright regime will be their downfall.
That’s the estimated US iPhone install base. Apple said it was above 900M globally in January.
I’m going to wait on this until at least a few months have elapsed and the reviews / forums indicate the keyboard is fine.
> Can you imagine if Mozilla went with the nuclear option and replaced "private" tabs with Tor tabs?

That's one thing I really like about Brave. There's an option for a private Tor session.
AI does not, in and of itself, have a goal. AI exists to be used for some human's goal. If the human's goal is to understand the level of association between women and technology without confounding factors like decades of marketing video games and computers to boys more than girls, the historical bias of such factors in the data fed to the AI becomes extremely important.
SnowHaze seems to have a quick toggle available. https://snowhaze.com/en/index.html
Researchers rediscover fast-acting German insecticide lost in aftermath of WWII
April 26th, 2018 — the new logo was released publicly 566 days ago [1].

People didn’t like it much [2]; it gathered mixed comments in the Gophers Slack group.

[1] https://blog.golang.org/go-brand

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/8f5n19/go-brand/
That’s not how it works. That’s why you are getting downvoted.

Firstly the rise is not the same everywhere - some places will have vastly higher sea levels. Secondly Venice didn’t suddenly get flooded by going from from 0cm too high to 1cm too high this year; the issue with climate change is not just the level but also the highs from more energetic, wetter storms etc.
Docker Hub is hosted on AWS and Docker doesn't charge for egress. I wouldn't be too surprised if private registry revenue doesn't even cover AWS egress (even with huge discounts Docker likely has).

Other registries like Bintray or GitHub Registry charge $0.45—$0.50 per GB egress, while Docker Hub charges a much smaller flat fee.
Having 4 USB-C's is a bit like having 4 Ferraris. Sometimes you need something a bit more practical. People will still be using USB-A for the next 10 years. Having to use a dongle for USB-A on a 16" macbook is pretty ridiculous. There's still a billion USB-A accessories out there and will be for a long time. Apple jumped the gun in a major way. This wasn't like dropping the floppy disc or CD-rom drive considering how small the USB-A port is.
Then what's the point? Just get a normal bank or credit union account and be done with it. Why leave your financial future in the hands of a company with zero customer support or care?
That could actually be a hard thing to achieve given the other design constraints.
Excellent points on the futility of stable assets. Bitcoin seems to have evolved into a solution to global inflationary policy, specifically as a 'store of value coin' and countless altcoins seem to be attempting to replicate btc's success as a SoV coin. Clearly there is a decent level of demand for these SoV coins as an alternative to state fiat money.
Interestingly, Libra's not pegging to the USD for its 'stability', but to a basket of assets which the USD makes up a %.
If the ultimate SoV coin is not Bitcoin, might it be a coin pegged to a basket of assets that have historical precedent as stores of value? Precious metals, reits, btc, etc
> The goal is to build a model that accurately reflects the real world.

This is incredibly reductive - we use models for MANY purposes - prediction, inference, description, evaluation. Until you outline a specific use case for the model, understand where the data its trained on comes from and how it may or may not reflect reality, and think about whether the phenomena which you're measuring are important/sufficient for your application you CANNOT possibly justify your broad claims.
The changes in the weather patterns observed over the last few decades are more complex than just warmer temperatures, and it will be many decades before it is clear if climate change contributed to the intensifying storminess we're seeing. But the new research is a reminder that these extreme weather events are likely to increase in frequency and intensity as the planet warms, and that scientists need to keep an eye on that.
Do you debug and use the keys to control it? This is my biggest gripe, since most IDEs (and browsers if web dev) map debugging to the Fn keys, so I end up using them a LOT. I hate clicking the debugging icons, particularly since I tend to use a few different editors/browsers and they are all in different spots.
Because of a nationality I hold, I often get some vague replies from financial institutes or online payment gateways when processing my transactions or credit that due to some "internal" or "unknown" reason their service is unavailable. That's mostly a workaround for EU anti-descrimination laws.
He's parroting NRA talking points.
I've been using Brave for a few months and I've never seen it substitute it's own ads within any applications or websites.

It instead uses MacOS notifications to show ads which open new browser tabs when you click on them. So it does block ads entirely and then shows it's own ads through a separate channel.
Cratedigger.js – 3D vinyl records exploration and crate digging experience
Conceptual acid test: Go to https://archiveprogram.github.com, then disable all CSS.

Observe: resultant web page is unusable.
>Can you imagine if Mozilla went with the nuclear option and replaced "private" tabs with Tor tabs?

Considering they don't even have a built-in PGP implementation in Firefox, which would make so much sense, I honestly can't imagine what you described. Tor is a relatively complex technology that requires knowledgeable use on user's part. (I.e. you're not supposed to resize windows, the browsers can't do certain things, it gets chewed up by Cloudflare and so on.)
After selling enterprise biz, Docker lands $35M investment and new CEO
Yeah, Rowling is famous for how much she planned her novels in advance. The advice that I am passing on isn't "Don't plan your writing in advance"; it's "While you are in the drafting stage, do not pause to go back and do editing work."
Caravan: New Open Source Bitcoin Multisig Tool
Yes, it will be slow. My family has a guest house on the beach. It's on short (5 ft) hill about 30 ft back from the ocean. The back sits on the hill and the front is help up by support beams. The yard is barely (1-2ft) above the average high tide mark. I was visiting during a storm and was in the guest house looking out of the window and it dawned on me that if (when) we get a bad-enough storm during a high-neap-tide, the support beams holding up the front room be washed ou. It would only be partial damage, and most people would probably consider it a "once in a 100 year storm", so I'm sure the damage would be repaired. With sea level rise, a 1:100 year storm will quickly become more like 1:50 or less, then 1:20, then 1:10, etc. At some point, we (or future owners) will give up rebuilding. If you only want a small get-away cottage on the water, then I'm sure sea level rise will be slow enough that you'll be fine. If you want a home on the water that you can pass onto your kids or grand-kids as a family investment, then I'd stay away.... or at least, consider the geology/topography/distance to the water.
I don't have video/audio working on this install, so I'll try to get that set up later and make a video.

I do have a video of the wifi in action though: https://tmp.thekyel.com/month/wifi.mp4

I reached out to them a couple of times, and they asked if I had rfkill installed, I told them no, but it shouldn't matter if it was a hardware switch.

They told me that they would look into it, and then never responded after that.
Ask HN: How to Deal with Death Anxiety?
I started having frequent anxiety / panic attacks related to death about 2 weeks ago, and am not sure why. First layer is, I am afraid of my own death, mainly because I am afraid of the unknown I believe. Second layer is I am afraid of the impending doom of humanity, even if it is in a trillion years when the sun expands and covers Earth's orbit. Do any of you know coping mechanisms to deal with this? I am hoping I am not alone in this issue, because it is really scary.
What's the arbitrage? You can do great artbitration 1-yr old laptops also, except they have the same problem -- no one wants them.
This comment chain is in reference to law enforcement and the justice system. I would hope that our law enforcement and justice systems are operating on real world data, rather than a hypothetical world's data.
Make your repo private might be one way.
Or course you do, but you also seem to think no one should be using the web if they want to make ad revenue.

>If you don't want to provide free content then stop publishing on the web, a free medium.

How would that not also apply to television?
The cynic in me would like to see a graph of cost of wedding as a percent of total annual income compared to divorce rates. I have a theory those two things are correlated.
A difference between on-prem solutions like networking hardware and outsourced services is that the on-prem solution doesn't phone home (at least not the processed data hopefully).

Different idea though: Shouldn't GDPR data processing agreements cover these sorts of cases?
Helm Classic was introduced at the first KubeCon... Wayyy back in November 2015. Kubernetes 1.1.1 was released earlier that month, and 1.0.0 shipped only 4 months prior to that in July.

Back then, Kubernetes had no concept of a ConfigMap. ReplicationControllers were all the hype (remember those?). The Kubernetes API was changing rapidly. When Helm 2 was being built, we needed an abstraction layer from the Kubernetes API to allow ourselves some room to guarantee backwards compatibility. Tiller was created as that abstraction layer. It provided us with a layer where we could control the input (via gRPC), the output (also via gRPC), and provide some backwards compatibility guarantees to users. We're pretty proud of the fact that Helm has maintained a strong commitment to backwards compatibility since 2.0.0.

Over time, Kubernetes' API layer has become more stable. Helm 3 is our opportunity to refactor out some of those protective layers we put in 4 years ago. Tiller being one of them.

Hope this helps provide some context.
> But that's what video post-processing is for. You can do all the touch-ups in real time in software.

Really? Which button do I click on Zoom or Hangouts or Skype to make that happen?
Long names are long (2016)
As to a cross-platform GUI framework: I don’t see them doing that, just as I don’t see Microsoft or google doing that.

? Flutter and Xamarin already exist.
Yikes. F This.

"ICANN made this deal much more valuable by removing all price controls on .org."

Just thinking of all the Non Profits who have .Org and are going to get conned out of fees in the name of capitalism. Obviously making price increase assumptions here but this sucks. Is there anyway to stop this?
You forgot the second part :-D

I think the answer is pretty simple: it sounds good, and it's hard to challenge. It's essentially a promise that they will invent a black box with magic inside. Since nobody can see inside the black box, it's hard to argue that there isn't actually magic in it.

The long-term problem, of course, is that there aren't that many actual magicians in the world. Most of the people who bill themselves as magicians are either people who just think they're magicians, or people who know they aren't but don't mind lying about it.
Sending traffic over Tor and using the Tor browser are different things: The former is just a proxy, the latter an anonymity tool. Is Brave doing the former or the latter?
The problem is that these systems are fundamentally unable to distinguish causation from correlation. Which is admittedly a hard prob even for humans, but at least we have some capacity to tease these out.

In this case, the increased crime in these communities are not caused by their minority status, but rather from a multitude of other factors with historical and societal origins.
I never meant to imply they didn’t, but I never really used them because they weren’t very discoverable. With the Touch Bar I can tell just by looking at the “keys” what they do, whereas with fn-keys all I see is F1, F2, Fn... none of those tell me anything.

I can find out, sure, but my experience tells me I won’t, so for me the Touch bar is a win, simply from a discoverability standpoint.
I do a surprising amount of development on my phone these days. I was using GitHub's mobile website for this but I've recently started using Working Copy on iOS.

CI means I can even ship a change as a branch, open a pull request, wait for the tests to run and merge the branch.

Not being tethered to my laptop in order to ship small, safe changes is really nice.
If you have public GitHub repos, people crawl them all of the time. I've seen at least three top-of-HN articles that say something like: "I scripted through 10 billion LOC on GitHub, here's a bunch of passwords", or something to that effect. Just set your repo to private if you don't want it in the vault, and if it's open source anyway, who cares?
One nice thing about not having a billion ports that can all fail is that now most long term interface failures will happen on easily replaceable dongles. I guess the downside is that the port that connects all the dongles failing is probably really really bad. So you would have to hope that is at least beefed up.
That doesn't make it more ethical. Presumably if the sites wanted to operate under that model they would be already.

In any case, Brave's effective CPM that they pay out to publishers it complete shit even compared to bottom-of-the-barrel ad exchanges. It's objectively a bad deal for publishers.
The whole point is to ensure your vote gets counted correctly, yes? If you wanted to vote Democrat and discover your id in the Republican column, you let somebody know. Then they re-check the ballot and can say "no, you marked Republican. That was your mistake and we didn't count it wrong." Or they'll say "gee golly, yes, we counted your vote wrong. Our mistake. We'll correct the counts."

If your id isn't in either column, you also let somebody know so you can re-vote. This makes sure your vote doesn't get "misplaced", either by malice or incompetence.
Many PC laptop keyboards have full-size keys for all four arrows. Tiny keys for a feature I use so frequently is user-hostile, whether it's 2 or 4 of them.
According to their selection criteria, low-activity public repos without many stars will also be skipped.

So, "share only code no-one cares about and don't work on it much" seems to also be an option.
Thanks for the discussion

> If nobody has a convincing argument for the proper balance in that tradeoff-space, though, it makes me wonder if it's simply a matter of personal preference / opinion for everyone involved.

I would suspect that it is, so I guess we've gone a bit meta because the "accepted" way for large organizations of humans to make these trade-offs is politics

So then is it right to say the solution to "too much politics at work" is office politics to decide the right amount of politics at work?
My partner is very smart and pragmatic, and opted for a non-diamond engagement gem. A few years later, an upgrade to a diamond was demanded, on threat of divorce. Peer pressure is amazing on this topic.

(It's fun to have this conversation with gender-neutral pronouns.)
I switched from MacOS to Linux for my personal computer.

I find I enjoy my Linux laptop a lot (the i3 Window Manager is amazing). However, there are two things I really miss from MacOS: iMessage and AirDrop.
A difference of even 2 feet makes a difference across huge swaths of US beachfront property. A storm surges can get up to 34.8 feet at current sea levels. Moving that to 36.8 would both more frequently destroy structures within 35’ of sea level, and B put massive numbers of new buildings at risk.
I am using a 7 year old 2012 Retina MacBook Pro, it even got the update for Catalina. My wife is using an even older 11 year old 13" MacBook.
2 leads to 3 because in a naively designed system, being a man is a stronger predictor of being a good programmer than being a woman, because there are more men than women in high-ranking and high-paying programmer positions.
I'm imagining Siri with the voice of your partner.
Well I enjoy the topic I moderate so that's why I do it.
How...is this even allowed? Do people like us not get any say in this?

Fuck the ICANN.
But the truth is you should always treat your environment as untrustworthy. I don't think you should deduct him points for blocking his webcam.

It is an ADDITIONAL privacy step. He runs a company with thousands of employees, and with any company like that you never know if someone may decide to become a bad actor, and physically compromise him.

But yeah lets continue to hate on facebook.