skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't disagree with any of your points, but they aren't relevant to anything I've said. I never said Docker is the only one doing this. It's also not a surprise Docker in particular is doing this - Docker has a long history of doing bad things.
Celonis acquires startup Integromat to accelerate move to process automation
Metaprogramming has a runtime cost that macros (even crappy C-like ones) don't. In the case of an interpreted language, this is an important feature.

Having said that, I haven't seen metaprogramming being overused or abused much in Python.
I mean, if you binge The Witcher TV series you’ll probably trigger your apple voice products a lot. It’s the unfortunate consequence of choosing real names for virtual assistants. Only google home is really immune to this.
One has to understand the root of the cause if you wish to treat the illness. It is no secret that the removal of the Fairness Doctrine paired with the deregulation of media and the removal of Congress's oversight and license requirements helped fuel the right wing media rise over the last 15years. Pair that with the rise of internet based style ad measurement and audience feedback, and you create a media tailor made for propaganda where you reward sensationalism.

Attention is the currency of media.

You dont actually believe that the Right is able to thwart decades of decency and abidance to a common good based on solely on will do you?

They do it by lying and thus enraging people into believing that the other guy is coming for them...that the other guy is evil. That is how you control a so-called democracy, you divide and distract and create a sideshow while you do the dirty work, sometimes in the open (like this) or mostly in the back, like the judiciary packing.

I just ask that you dig deeper and look for the root cause, not he symptoms. Only when we realize the cause can we make the appropriate changes and restore health.
yup. I've been here for years. Only comment when it is relevant, so maybe once every couple years.
Beware the trap of distinguishing "objective" measures/data in a space that almost by definition concerns itself with subjective experience. I also would question any assumption that such data is less prone to racial issues -- see for example volumes of literature on inequities in healthcare access and treatment.

It's great to be using quantitative measures, and almost a necessity, but as someone in this area who has done clinical work as well as research, I can say from personal experience EHR in mental healthcare has fumbled repeatedly with handling the complexities of behavioral information.

Good to see attention in this area though.
I understood exactly the opposite point from the article - it's saying the exact thing you're saying, people will accept a CONSTANT AMOUNT of crap to get to their goals, and technology doesn't change this. It only changes how far people can get with that constant amount of crap they're willing to put up with.
Well, Dijkstra together with Zonneveld wrote the first ever implementation of ALGOL 60, and, in fact, heavy-handed the recursive procedure calls into the language. If not for him, who knows, Quicksort may have not been invented for another decade or so.

ALGOL 68, on the other hand... "The more I see of it, the more unhappy I become." [0]

[0] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD02xx/E...
Fixed now. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24774543.
I picked something off Thingiverse, and it's no longer up there. They do have some (IMO better designed) stands on there, however. Many of which support using the magnetic USB-C charging adapters, which I'd personally recommend for the controllers.
What are the best ways to reach customers?
> A 2 season show that was canned on a cliffhanger? Will NOT TOUCH

I think that you are almost-but-not-quite hitting another problem of binge consumption patterns that I think might be very central to the problem of Netflix show cancellations:

If I'm a long term subscriber and I'm used to bingeing finished shows: will I even want to start a show before it's concluded or would I rather wait a few years and then watch it completely? Inter-season gaps are bad enough in broadcast, but with season-bingeing they extend to >11 months and that's just not very attractive.

If Netflix isn't excellently careful with what subsets of their data they look at this effect might blindside them very hard: are people maybe not starting S2 because they loved S1 so much that they'll deliberately not switch on S2.01 upon availability but would rather start with rewatching S1 it in its entirety once S3 hits? This information is not in the tracking data, better focus on intra-season dropouts. Success metrics can be hard.
We are the dragon.
A superficial analysis would say that there is a balance between the two dynamics of "Don't put all your eggs in one basket" and "A chain is only as strong as its weakest link".

A slightly deeper analysis would ask first "What are the incentive structures in a system where people can seamlessly migrate from one provider to another?".

We have already seen that Facebook, as a monopolistic provider, is too big to fail, and it can keep paying the meagre fines for its non-compliance with the rules, while lobbying and threatening[0] and exploiting its election-influencing power to ensure the regulations don't significantly limit its assault on users' privacy.

It's not hard to imagine that if 20 different companies were competing for users, they might act in ways that better protect users' privacy. In fact the competitive pressure on them would be twofold, since not only could users move to different providers, but users could also refuse to connect to a friend on a network whose policies they do not trust.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/sep/22/facebook-...
To each their own. I thought it was a really poorly executed western. The episode where he does the prison break was particularly shoddy.

The unreal stuff was cool, but that doesn't seem like an important factor.
>A Wyoming voter has vastly more power then a Californian voter in every federal election. When the Founders set up the Senate, Virginia was something like 15x more populous then the least populist state. California is 66x more populous then Wyoming today.

Which is why CA has 53 congressional representatives and WY only has one.
Why couldn't dash buttons work on the LAN for whatever use-case you want it to?

Wouldn't impact its intended use case at all. Other than the fact that it could now be used for something useful I guess...
As a German, I have to say: now that’s a hard to parse HN headline!
On the surface, this seems like an elegant solution. However, it also seems to me like it would need exceptions.

Since we are talking about online games, the topic of how to deal with people caught cheating (as in using third party cheating tools) comes to mind. It is typical to ban those people. If a ban was synonymous with a refund, there is little incentive to not cheat.

If the law allowed for exceptions like this (e.g. banned with cause), then it'd be pretty hollow as the company is also the final arbiter of what cause is.

It is possible I am missing something though as this is not something I have put a lot of thought into.
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JPEG initiates standardisation of image compression based on AI
>Even with all their metrics, all they can do is guess.

Sure. But you have to come up with something, otherwise you'll never cancel anything, by extension, never have room to invest in shows that could drive your subscriptions.

>A show with fewer viewers might attract hardcore fans who will cancel their subscription if the show is cancelled

Sure - and maybe there is a way to have some fuzzy prediction or metrics that some show has a hardcore fan base that is worth keeping around even if it's not broadly popular.

So I agree with you it isn't perfect, but again, you still have to come up with some objective measure because you need to make decision on which shows and movies you should be investing in. You only have a finite amount of money available to produce content.
Shameless Plug: I wrote a cli-plugin for docker, docker-lock, that will track the image digests (SHA's) of your images in a separate file that you can check in to git, so you will always know exactly which image you are using (even if you are using the latest tag). It can even rewrite all your Dockerfiles and docker-compose files to use those digests.

https://github.com/safe-waters/docker-lock

Would love for anyone dealing with this issue to check it out!
Your pricing is pretty bad. For it to be adopted, it should be like loom, flat fee per user/month and not minutes based.
Ah yes. Fixed now. Thanks!
I think properties are somehow valued based on the rent potential, so landlords are disincentivized to move base rent and would rather offer 1-2-3 months free and keep rent at standard rate.
Being a child of the 6502, I could never respect the Z-80 for taking FOUR FULL CLOCK CYCLES to do a miserable NOP.
Programming myths you should ignore
The only reason that happens is because the Apple Ecosystem is so integrated and known.

You are basically required to get a new Android every two years if you want updates and new apps to work. iPhones can go for a lot longer then that while working perfectly fine. Android Tablets are worse.

Mac OS X does seem to have a shorter lifespan compared to Windows, in part because Microsoft does a lot fewer major releases. In the time there has been 3 major Windows Versions there has been at least 6 Mac ones.

You're pushed to upgrade because everyone knows about Apple's new crap, specifically their customers. You think someone who has a Samsung S20 knows what the newest phone is?
At least the TOKEN command was perfect for me, thank you! Instead of passing ID and SECRET, I wrote the values from the Spotify Developer Dashboard to a file like so:
$ touch .spotify_credentials && chmod 600 .spotify_credentials
then edited .spotify_credentials with client_id:client_secret, then
$ curl --basic --user "$(cat .spotify_credentials)" -X POST -d grant_type=client_credentials https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token
which was successful
> most at high risk don't know that they are

This is not factually accurate. The majority of deaths are those 65+, most people in this group are aware of their age
I can give another example.

Sometimes kids overwork their heart and coach is supposed to stop the kid to protect their health. Coach can't tell the kid in front of the group "You worked too hard, come stand here and rest", this would make the whole group to feign being overworked. Instead the coach is saying "You're not working hard enough, come here and stand in front of the group as a punishment for being lazy".
Considering prices have surged over the last two decades, landlords are making money hand over fist. Tax is teensy thanks to prop 13.
Such transfer actually made perfect sense until recently because they didn't allow to change username. It was brought up on their forums numerous times[1][2] over the years and they only introduced editable profile name in March this year. Until then they advised to create a new account and ask their support by email(sic!) to have your playlists copied.

[1] - https://community.spotify.com/t5/Accounts/How-can-i-change-m...

[2] - https://community.spotify.com/t5/Accounts/I-simply-want-to-c...
It is unfortunate the insult comic aspect is so prominent in how people remember Dijkstra.
Worth noting that you need to pay 9$/month if you want to publish your project.
Given the intense disinformation efforts coming from both the Trump campaign as well as third-party state actors is it any surprise that FB would aim to try to take itself out of the equation as much as possible? What is the upside for them here?
Anecdote time: an NLP specialist I once worked with told me about some research he did into determining the "goodness" or "badness" of press releases and SEC filings. Buy on good news, sell on bad news, hopefully fast enough to beat others to it.

After a great deal of crunching and study he said they did come up with a model that could do it reasonably well. Then realised it could be replaced with a simple rule:

Are there a bunch of numbers at the top? Good news.

Are the numbers buried way down? Bad news.

Another simple rule, by the way, is timing vs executive compensation events. If there's an announcement just before a big block of options or RSUs are vesting, then it's good likely to be good news. If it's being posted far away from vesting dates, then it's likely to be bad news.
Handwavey explaination: the particles pair up because of vibrations in the crystal. It's modeled like a bunch of metal balls on with springs between them and you can imagine tapping one end and sending a wave of vibrations through. However, these springs are a bit non-linear and so I imagine that if you pack the atoms closer together then you will change the spring constant.

The other knob you can use to change the vibrations is the mass of the balls. This can be done by using different isotopes of the same element and the critical temperature goes down with mass.
Hmm. Good thinking. But in case your first click lands in a dense field, that method won't cut a notch in the fabric for you to chisel at. Like a dummy, I'm taking the waiter-pulling-tablecloth-off approach here, but lets see if I get stuck on it.
He was referring there to discussion caused by inconsistent rules resulting in people being unsure what the intention is, not that discussion in general is intended to be prevented.
No by Bush and crew I meant Bush and crew and you know exactly who I mean.

2001 didn't center around 2020 partisan politics. This is not a defense or condemnation of Biden.
Google Screwed over Travel Apps in Anti-Competitive Practices
I think this business model where someone buying purchasing a physical product must register their data with manufacturer or 3rd party service and be constantly online should be made illegal. There is no business need for this apart from spying on people and gathering data to improve manipulation of messages to trick people into buying more into the manufacturer ecosystem. We need to stop this.
It contains an appositive, which normally requires commas in writing, and is likewise clearly delimited in spoken language:

German Made State Malware Company, FinFisher, Raided
Faster Bulk-Data Loading in CockroachDB
The thing is that if you commit to some well supported DVCS, UI differences between them are not that earth shattering, compared to VCS that need a server.
StandardML
This article is interesting but it would be far more helpful to link to a solution for each point.
Irrelevant in my case, as getting any Oculus product is out of the question since introducing the new Facebook account requirements.
I like this, too:

> “It’s clearly a landmark,” said Chris Pickard, a materials scientist at the University of Cambridge. “That’s a chilly room, maybe a British Victorian cottage,” he said of the 59-degree temperature.
Is there a (widely available) device that can track your dopamine levels?
I watched both. I didn't particularly enjoy the first (just not my thing), but the second was boring. I did see it through out of curiosity, but I agree it's no surprise that it was cancelled.

For many of these productions, if the story has been told and it ended on a high note, then I think it would be better to draw a line under it, and move onto a brand new idea and explore new concepts rather than squeeze every last little bit out of something that's not going to advance much upon what's already been done. Better that than jumping the shark.
I recently watched the entire series again, you can see the show drop off last two seasons - and I commented on this before knowing about David leaving towards the end. But credit to them they didn't completely run it to the ground like most shows.
The cancellations of Santa Clarita Diet and One Day at a Time were completely unwarranted in my opinion.
This was achieved in a diamond anvil cell, a sample smaller than a millimeter is squeezed between two diamonds in a special apparatus. This is how you achieve world record high pressures, not even remotely in the realm of possibility for engineering a material.
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>Dash buttons

Those weren't innovations, those were solutions in search of a problem. Probably contributed to their discontinuation. Also, what "innovation" of the past 20 years has been truly innovative, life-changing, and a net positive for humanity? Pretty much everything that has come out of Silicon Valley has been at best neutral for society (creating new markets and revenue for businesses aren't a positive in my eyes).

We need to stop pulling the "stifling innovation" card. Not stifling innovation has led us to society's cancerous relationship with technology.
I think the sender of each email is definitely giving explicit consent. When I type out "To: foo@example.com", I'm directing my email provider to send my email to the example.com server. That's fundamentally different than the Facebook model, where some information is public and anyone at all can request it, even if they're not in my address book.

I agree that you could probably make Facebook with no public pages work, or something like Twitter where there's minimal public information in the first place.
I was also inspired by Feynman to develop my smell sense. I was able to replicate his experiment with finding an object that was held. But that was only the beginning...
It's impossible. The vast majority of the most vulnerable need at least some help and interaction from others on a regular basis.
Instead of github you should say code repositories. We used subversion back in the earlier 2000s to do remote work with contractors. It worked just as good as GitHub for remote collaboration.
If you accept someone's totally unverifiable philosophical presuppositions, and believe their assignment of probability numbers to various things in their totally unverified framework, then...
That is surprising but hard to argue.
I pity the user who ends up getting sucked into playing this game ...

(5 hours later)
that user is me.
The Master System II sold in Australia had Alex The Kidd as a built in game...
good for you. Vote with your wallet.
How old is too old to jump into software development?
Hello HN, I am tech hobbyist and a long time lurker here. In my free time I did lots of projects like games, arduino based appliances, even freelanced a little bit. Problem is that I do not have any official experience that I can put on my CV and my job is unrelated to tech (employed in medical field).

I am interested in switching to tech career, but afraid that it is very unlikely at my age (34). There are many similar questions on HN, stackoverflow and quora but most answers are about learning to code rather than career and bread-winning side of it, so lets want to clear this up now, I code C, C++, Python, JS, Rust, Java and stay in touch with latest trends but have no official qualification to prove this. Decided to switch to coding for mainly for challenge and ability to work from home and spend more time with family, want to hear from field experts.
I have been reading the beta version of the books and it's really really good. Highly recommend to anyone looking to up their resume game. Great stuff @gregdoesit
Tenured professors, particularly of EWD's stature, get a lot of license to say what they want. I can certainly a few of my instructors who were rather colorful in a variety of ways.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC#Explosive_growth:_the_ho...
I think the “devolving into will they / won’t they” is orthogonal you the number of seasons. Many American shows are often set up around this plot line from the beginning—it’s a reflection of the vapid quality of American television in general (I blame the LA monoculture in particular). It’s not inherently a devolution; it’s just a “safe” plot line that most shows are unwilling to stray from. I have no doubt that a talented writer (who is willing to step outside of the Hollywood cookie cutter) could make a good show that lasts many seasons with many episodes per season provided the studio affords them the freedom to stray from the mold.
absolutely agreed! we still have ec2 stances and workload, but for some stuff it was the perfect solution.
You just have to look at your Windows Registry to see the reams of COM objects that are registered.
They did this to drive you away from watching expensive (to license) content or to help drive down views for content negotiations. To limit exposure to how little they have in their catalogue. It has zero to do with anything else. It has now just been beaten into us as “okay,” when it’s not and never should have been.

You must be lovely to work with all that brilliant assumptive power you’ve got.
What science and democracy have in common: us, hopefully
I'm really curious about the processes used to make these. Part of it is because it uses huge features, of course, but I wonder if there are other things to it such as the materials and the encapsulation.
The power cord from the Master System II was a direct plug in. I must have played thousands of hours wired like that.
This is ridiculously accurate and totally makes sense.
Indeed, as featured here:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24667093

(A pity the Corel Draw license in the bundle is for a -subscription- model license.-
... not a lifetime license.)
Great Barrington Declaration: Epidemiologists say life should resume as normal
Yes. My children use a Wacom tablet with Krita. It was actually less trouble to get it working on Linux than on my MacBook. On Linux I just had to plug in the Wacom table and I was immediately able to start drawing in Krita.
“Homage to God rays” – music composed to honor the video game graphics effect
Yes, and if you have trouble getting a refund for your defective device, there’s a bunch of state attorneys general who are interested in anything Facebook right now.
It's not really an alternative in that sense since it's tethered, needs a computer and a completely different ballpark price wise. If you have the money, a good gaming PC and the possibility to set up a dedicated VR space I would definitely buy an Index or HTC Reverb 2 though.
I did, and it looks like they wrote something that's just wrong, not against HN guidelines. It feels pedantic to make a stand here, but I don't think this is what flagging is for.
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You're still looking outside yourself for the answers. Nobody else's past choices are going to help you. There is no template. No blueprint. You've got to make your own. Trust me.
Thankfully URL surgery into this archive allows people who want to remember more than a soundbite to do so.
Personally I find FaceID far superior to TouchID - wet hands, gloves and so on used to get in my way, whereas FaceID rarely fails (apart from one pair of sunglasses). It's only now that masks are commonplace that it's become an issue.

So, for me "failing at design" is "winning at design" as far as that particular feature is concerned.

Given that, even if they had decided to change course in January, making a design change and scaling production to millions of devices was probably beyond this year.
I'm using Chrome on Windows. No mouse wheel. (I don't even have a mouse, just a touchpad.)
It seems to good to be true?