skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> this author’s opinions on how local Docker shouldn’t be part of the “core development cycle” don’t match my environment

Yeah, I think that's why making any blanket statement about this stuff doesn't work. Personally I went through a phase of Docker-ising everything I did because it made so much sense but really it just got in my way. My development work mostly consists of Node and Rust, both have self-contained package systems that mean encapsulating everything in Docker is unnecessary. But that's not the case for everyone!
A possible solution: Human reaction time is on the order of something like 215ms, if the change happened less than 100ms ago or so, the user probably wanted the previous result as opposed to the current one. Add a additional dialog to confirm?
How much do we really know about that?

Recall the apparently 'exponential' increase in cases was in reality an exponential increase in testing - when viewed as a proportion of tests yielding a positive result the virus was spreading not especially fast, and the positive percentage went up quite slowly from a non-zero base.
They've got until December for support in any browser, Chrome and even Adobe are dropping it then.
Dell and VMware’s strained marriage may finally be coming an end
I'm sure they sneezed immediately before testing.
I'd love to see tech improve for live theater. We just did a short play festival on Zoom, streamed to YouTube to reduce strain on the server (and to archive). It worked pretty well, for a relatively low-tech production specifically designed for the medium.

I did miss having audience feedback, most notably laughter, which is one of the best reasons to do live theater. I treated it as a radio play, another successful medium with somewhat different rules.

Working on a full Shakespeare play is harder. The group scenes are notably difficult, since you don't get to the usual physical cues about who you're talking to. Feedback from background characters is important in helping the audience connect, and that's harder with a big Brady Bunch screen of faces, and no eye contact. In rehearsal last night, it was hard to have the final reconciliation with Romeo's father as just one face among many, and it was sorely tempting to "indicate" sadness rather than organically being in the moment. (Turning off our own faces helps: if you're feeding back on what you see you're going to try to force yourself to look like what you're feeling, which always looks false.)

This was a project already in production before lockdown. We'll probably just move it to Zoom, which is very sad because it's only a fraction of what it could be. We probably won't move on to our next scheduled show until next year. We'll keep artistically alive with projects like that play festival.

Fortunately for us, we don't have a theater to pay for, or salaries. The professional theaters are desperately trying to keep out of bankruptcy, both themselves and their staff, but this is going to be very, very bad. Tech will help replace a tiny bit, but this will devastate theater for years, even if we get a vaccine by the end of the year.
Seconded, I missed that time-sink game so much, haven't been able to find a replacement.

For some reason all the newer tower defense games use a fixed playing field whereas the original DTD allowed you to build your own defensive walls.

Edit: We really need a Flash Archive
Chicago used to have extremely high industrial employment, so the general downward trend across the United States was amplified in Chicago. The population peaked in the late 1950s and has been dropping since, although the rate of decrease has been dropping as Chicago has transitioned to a very diversified economy. The north side of the city is now very stable population-wise and the downtown area has seen incredible growth (in the last 3 censuses, Chicago has seen higher downtown population growth than any other city in the US), while the south and west sides continue to struggle. These are the areas that were the most industrial.

Houston has seen tremendous growth primarily through annexation. It is now more than 3 times the geographical size of Chicago. But annexation of residential land in Texas is now far more difficult, so the geographic size growth of Houston has dramatically slowed [1]. Once all the undeveloped land is used, Houston will have to rely on densifying for population growth. Current restrictions make it unlikely to ever be as dense as NYC, Chicago or LA, but with its massive size it wouldn't need to be to attain 5 or 6 million residents. On the other hand, it is already facing growth challenges that may reduce the carrying capacity of the city [2].

I'd guess that Houston surpasses Chicago in population within 15 or 20 years, but it remains to be seen if that is going to be permanent or not.

[1] https://www.houstontx.gov/planning/Annexation/docs_pdfs/Hous...

[2] https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/transportation/article...
Philosophies do differ widely.

There's some suggestion that young and old Jobs had markedly distinct management styles.

That's ... also discussed in a talk somewhere that I've heard recently, though I don't recall by whom at the moment.

More generally, there's been subsstantial research of highly innovative companiess, most especially the research labs at DuPont (Hounshell, https://www.worldcat.org/title/science-and-corporate-strateg...), AT&T (Gertner https://www.worldcat.org/title/idea-factory-bell-labs-and-th...), the Manhattan project (various), and more. The lighter touch seems generally preferred.
It's only been 10 years since its downfall was obvious to everyone. If any one offers it as part of their service to you then just realize how little of a crap they care about you.
We are delighted to announce that Zoox is teaming up with Amazon
shrewd readers will notice that the Dolphins didn't need the boat
An incognito mode sounds like a pretty easy idea, have a switch that turns it on and none of your listening gets added to your personal data
Thank you, I noticed this soon after I wrote my comment. It took a while to understand that from the blog posts.
> Maybe it has something to do with it being dominated by the representation of wealthy Western interests.

The IMF has its biases and is far from perfectly equitable (and this was quite clear already in their response - or sometimes lack thereof - to the 1990s crises) but expecting it to single-handedly do enough to "address global economic inequality" is just not very fair.
There is no easy way to solve the problem of mis- or un-diagnosis, except better training, better awareness and hopefully better diagnostic techniques
Ah, OK. I certainly had that wrong then. I had it in my head that the language was incubated at Mozilla and major efforts like documentation were funded by Mozilla / worked on by Mozilla employees.
Apple retails stores top every list of revenue per square foot. It's not even close[0].

Crowds may be anecdotal, but the crowds clearly do translate into revenue for Apple.

The link spells out revenue per square foot for Apple as $5546, vs an average of $325. Second and third places bring in $3721 and $2951 per square foot.

[0] https://chainstoreage.com/news/most-profitable-retailers-sal...
Almost 17,000 Protesters Had No Idea a Tech Company Was Tracing Their Location
The Coordination Problem – Quick Lesson from Game Theory
Almost like they're trying to make each account customized to a single listener.
41% of businesses closed on Yelp have shut down for good during the pandemic
Ha, Yeah just mentioned incognito at the same time as you, totally think this should be a thing
If organization is your goal, I'd recommend Nix over Docker. You can separate packages without having to maintain tons of separate containers.
It would be crazy to see Apple entering the cloud market with ARM based servers
Ah you're somebody's troll account.
The reality is that you night be illegally targeted and profiled based on data that is freely accessible. Robbery is illegal, yet it still makes sense to avoid behavior that can get you robbed.
I wonder if the time-scale is relevant. Are we talking about different things when "keeping the pressure on" for project that weeks or months in duration and "maintaining intensity" for a specific effort measure in hours? Could you deescalate the latter while maintaining the former? How does that work with stress and cortisol and other factors?
Good point, this isn't an entirely new trend.
I honestly don't know, it just made sense as a possible solution given the limited insight I have.

Before AWS, I didn't expect Amazon to become the power that it is with regards to cloud either.

Perhaps Apple can provide some unique attributes of cloud infrastructure that's specifically useful to people who otherwise operate within their ecosystem, without feeling like they need to compete with Amazon/Google/MS in every aspect.
Someone who can't figure out an Onion headline is dangerous. They'll uncritically believe just about anything; it's what gets us "FW: FW: FW: FW: OBAMA IS KENYAN" shit.
"African American males made up the majority of protesters "

This is very clear. No idea what you are talking about.
In addition to being an amazing result, props for including a variety different sets of skin tones in the hero sample box. It's extremely good to see that there was thought put into reducing any potential bias for this compression algorithm which has unfortunately been an issue in the history of image capture [1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/lens/sarah-lewis-racial-b...
Available for free here: https://archive.org/details/james-burke-connections_s01e01
Not quite without flash, but check out Flashpoint.

https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/datahub/Game_Master_List

https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/
Yeah, that whole thing doesn't exist for my generation. We've never had savings accounts that beat inflation in our lifetime.
If you assume that everyone has perfect Opsec, then there is now need for law enforcement at all, because all crime would be undetectable.
I honestly didn't realize there was a way you could use Flash in Safari for the past few years. I just opened Chrome the last time (~2 years ago) I encountered some Flash content.
Top Practices for Runbook Automation
and it's not like you would easily get 256 x86 cores in 4 units for the same amount of cash
Reduce Engineering Problems with a Resiliency Mindset
I can think of many restaurants with really good food that went out of business... that's a terrible analogy. Certainly a very helpful ingredient, though maybe not even the main one.
WebAuthn support is the real worthy upgrade
What's your preference instead of Docker? Just run everything on the same host OS? Nix? More conventional VMs? Servers with specific configurations?
The part at the end as well.

https://www.thurrott.com/mobile/microsoft-surface/64095/welc...
To what end is the targeting and profiling illegal? Simply having publicly-available analyzed is not illegal.
You didn't build that.
My first thought when I read “feel” in your comment was, “I don’t really care what they feel; if it’s in the job spec, they learn it or get a new job.”

That may be a bit harsh, but I’d rather them learn something they can use forever rather than the flavor of the week. Additionally, by learning SQL, they’d be able to apply that domain knowledge to building out queries in the flavor of the week since you know some limitations of the underlying.
Is this really true though? Most states report separate numbers for cases and confirmed cases as well as deaths and confirmed deaths. In Texas there is something like a 3 order of magnitude difference between the number of reported cases and the number of confirmed cases and you can see wild discontinuities in the reporting data as they periodically change their methodology and or criteria. New York, for instance, was reporting deaths were Covid-19 might have contributed rather than confirmed deaths.

My biggest problem is that while it is trivial to find mountains of Covid visualizations, raw data with clear explanations of it's criteria and methodology is very hard to come by. I think it's quiet likely that some locations are over reporting and others are under reporting.
Here is a good paper by a Bangladeshi art historian: https://www.collegeart.org/pdf/programs/international/haque....

> Decolonization, as we call it, is rather a modern phenomenon that has been bubbling up since the late twentieth century. There are calls for decolonizing everything, art history included.

> The concept of decolonization is twofold. First, it means the end of colonization—being
independent politically and administratively... The more important aspect began after that point, that of countering the influences of colonization that remained in the society and culture.

> If that is so, looking for answers in past glory, or only rectifying the purity that was denounced or distorted by the imperialistic process, is not sustainable. We need to create new vocabularies and new understandings, but not running in only one direction, rejecting everything that is Eurocentric.

Then there is the question of: where do you stop decolonizing? Before the British there were the Mughals, who introduced much of the basic culture, food, etc. Before that the Sena, who introduced Islam. Before that, the Pala, who where Buddhists.)
I am not a PHP fan. However, in what language does one not use a framework to build applications?
Yes, it would be an extraordinary result, if it wasn't deeply suspicious for exactly the reasons it's extraordinary.
I can conceive perfectly well "of a people" who don't have a concept of all kinds of things. It doesn't mean those things don't exist. Winkyface.
Normally to show thumbnails you need to parse the whole image anyway. Unless that is the format doesn't have downscaled data already (progressive jpeg/PNG)
> The military is far far from perfect. The police still manage to be worse. And that's fucking terrifying.

Having been personally subject to police violence for my life as an activist several times: I only sort of agree, which is why I said look as Jermey's work and draw your own conclusion.

I can tell you right now: my experiences do not even remotely compare to that of the normal civilian in Vietnam or Laos during those wars, I went to school with many of the children of that generation and it would be outright offensive if I tried to compare our experiences; let alone that of the Iraqi or Afghani people who are living in a literal nuclear waste land due to the constant bombing and use of depleted uranium munitions on their land while being 'shocked and awed' into submission.

Many of who I'm sure would tell you were just as oppressed by the Saddam regimes as well as the 'Taliban' but have found themselves in perhaps the worst of all possible situations in a horrible Humanitarian crises as they were 'liberated' by the US. While the world continues to ignore that.
I always got the impression the schools were like after-school daycare for kids. A lot of the demo computers as well as the demo XBoxes were always full of kids playing Minecraft, Overwatch, etc. The other ones might have kids watching Youtube or Twitch (never Mixer) of the same types of games.
> once I granted them access I was done

That works fine for most apps. But if you need to work with documents in varied locations, you have to grant access repeatedly. In recent memory this caused me headaches with a LaTeX editor that used links "../" to media outside the document files I was editing.

> many are that the developer does not want to make them work.

I don't know, friend, I can't read their minds :)

> the cost of progress

I imagine that's largely true. I was more productive without it, but it's a bit academic since the option did not yet exist to lock the machine down back then. If it had, would I have chosen to sandbox myself? Mmm, probably.
Not necessarily.

What if your laptop is arm but your production environment is x86 ?

You might think "well i'll have arm containers on my laptop and x86 containers in production" but then it means that dev and prod diverge: you're running different software, that might have different behaviors.

One of the core ideas of docker was that you could have ideally the same artifact both in developmend, testing, staging, qa and prod environments.

There's little way around the core problem: mac os x badly suited for running docker containers. The most performant way to run docker containers is to run them in native gnu/linux (hence: gnu/linux laptops)
Apple stores do more than sell hardware and handle repairs. They offer numerous classes for users on how to use different apps on your phone, how to create music and movies with GarageBand/iMovie, how to take pictures and edit them, among other things. So people standing around waiting could be waiting for a scheduled talk as well.
> Seemingly they missed the lesson web developers learned ten years ago that you can't change content that the user is currently looking at without any interaction done, unless that's to be expected from the user.

Did web developers learn this lesson? Because I still see this literally every day on the web.
LPad was innovation too and that broke everything.
I find Docker very complementary to Node, not because I'm putting my code in a container but for all the databases and other software. When I'm running tests I automatically spin up a Redis or a Postgres or whatever database(s) are required. This lets tests run in parallel, projects co-exist etc, without any cross-contamination or shared/mixing of dependencies.
Completely agree. In case it's helpful, we're working on a cloud dev environment for Docker that addresses the resource issues by running containers in the cloud instead of locally: http://kelda.io/blimp

Of course, if you can avoid docker for local development, that's definitely easiest in many cases.
It never occurred to me to compare policemen to teachers.
But imagine if teachers could levy fines to students and use the proceeds to pay their overtime.
Or could walk to a child and steal their lunch money or whatever they have in their pockets (civil forfeiture).
Stable simple waveforms are observably more consonant than those with many transients.
Nobody would have this dumb, stubborn discussion about rhythms.
Flash's whole raison d'être was as a patch for W3C gridlock. The final emergence of HTML5, ES6, and just simple ideas like video tags did a lot more to kill flash than anything Apple did. Apple not supporting proprietary browser plugins on early iphones (which it still doesn't) probably helped to move us forward to open web technologies a bit faster, and meant the whole internet was less beholden to a single company. One shouldn't forget how many otherwise simple websites at the time were unusable on platforms that Adobe didn't support, or supported poorly. The several x-platform mobile frameworks that we can choose from are almost all based on a rich and open ecosystem of modern javascript and web technologies that Flash was the alternative to.

The electron article you linked to strikes me as speculative hyperbole. All the "threatened" electron apps mentioned in the article are still around, eating up RAM. I updated two of them through the App Store this morning.
Kind of like the Illuminati. Or Bill Clinton's criticizers - speak up and he orders a hit! /s
On the contrary, the global economy has become hugely more equal over that time. The past century has seen by far the greatest reduction of poverty in history, although that's not to say the IMF is the only one responsible for that.
> Cost to fix a shaky piece of kit: $100

if they spend an hour or two fixing a screen your kid smashed for free, the screen costs $30-$50 wholesale, 1-2 hrs of labor, and fixed costs for the day like power, insurance, lease payment, etc...
docker on mac does indeed suck! but that's because you gotta run linux to run docker. Docker for dev on a linux box? Great stuff!
The difference is likely just whether or not you financially back/support all of the firmware/software/support services offered by System76
None of the others triggered for me but this does. I’m running the Big Sur beta and notice that spotlight search is comically wrong as well.

What gives Apple?
Just checked, seems to use HTML5 video now. Works for me and I don't have Flash.
>A black man has little recourse if he is assaulted by a police man, or if his wife or child is killed by them

To be clear, those are not statistically significant events. In fact, they are insignificant at the population level, and there is no discrepancy across racial lines (as in, the numbers do not show Black Americans being targeted more than other demographic groups).

One of the challenges is that if a demographic group disproportionately engages in criminal activity (more or less), then it will necessarily have a disproportionate negative (or positive) interaction with the entire judicial system (police and courts) - but you cannot fix that with police reform. You can still make the case for Police reform and there are a lot of places of improvement (e.g. the practice of 'swatting' should NOT be a thing - police and judges that issue these warrants should be MORE discriminatory !!!), but that will not lessen the proportion of negative interactions.

>Families are torn apart by drug laws and prison pipelines.

That has NOTHING to do with police. Police enforce laws on the books - typically municipal and state laws. Most cities have progressive Democratic leadership (from mayor, to council, to police chiefs) and those cities also had the biggest issues with protests against police brutality.
Same for vacuum cleaners, I am keeping my old one because I cannot get a new one that cleans comparably. On the other hand, you think a Dyson cleans properly, so ...
Of course the other question is: will there be any malls left open for stores like these? I suspect this a calculation many retail stores are toying with at the moment; we're in the middle of a fundamental shift in retail to online and local stores.

We've already seen one mall owner in the UK go into administration.
Realistically, people would build tooling — either free, ad supported, or SaaS-based — that lets the average person synthesize publicly available data. Just making the data available allows motivated individuals / groups to do a lot of the work upfront, and then share the fruits of that work with everyone else, either for free or for a fee.

You see this already today with data from census bureau, FRED databases, COVID tracking tools, think tanks, etc.
It's a mixed bag. The ideal usecase for Flash vs React is very different. 10 years ago with AS3 I could put together a graphically rich game with decent sound or an intercative graphic very quickly, it would be performant and available as a small download -- much easier than doing similar today though libraries like phaser have certainly helped the situation a great deal. It just wouldn't make sense to try to make a sprite based platform game in React. On the other hand, complex forms, modular UIs and dynamically loading content -- areas where React (etc) excel were possible in Flash (espescially with adobe's Flex UI framework) but never looked any good or behaved in a satisfying way (my feeling is that pursuing this kind of thing as a kind of 'look at us we can do serious software' move caused adobe to take their eye off the ball wrt where they could provide real advantages over web-standards based solutions). Further, colaborating across teams of any size on AS3 based products was hard -- you'd have to pretty much roll your own CI/ deployment stuff (which I guess was the case with JS at the time too).

In summary: Horses for courses.

As a language I really enjoyed AS3; solid class system, strongly typed, good refactoring tools and crucially a decent and standard library.
Even if they are deliberately parked there, I don't think the fact that they are owned by Zoox makes any difference to the ego vehicle. It's likely they did it just to introduce this scenario predictably during the videoshoot. They could have used non-autonomous vehicles for the same purpose but arguably with more credibility.