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While I won't address each item in your list. I'll say that I love Dockerfiles.

They make it clear what steps occurred to arrive at the resulting image. For any image that is built from an open-source repository, I can find the Dockerfile, look at it and say "Oh, that's how they did it!"

In the article it says that Dockerfiles might not be the best way to build your image. I think some of that may have come from before the days of multi-stage builds. With multi-stage builds you can use a lot of tools (like the Go compiler) at build time without including those tools in your final build.

Can we do better than Dockerfiles as they are today? I'm sure we can, but can I appreciate what I have while knowing it could be better.
I think you misunderstand what herd immunity is.
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The FAQ (https://stopncii.org/faq/) mentions its using PDQ (https://github.com/facebook/ThreatExchange/tree/main/pdq) for images, and MD5 for videos. Companies would then use hashes to scan their platform.

Meta also has a post on it: https://about.fb.com/news/2021/12/strengthening-efforts-agai...
That system is called feudalism! Just the lords don’t even have to take care of security anymore - peasants also pay for that.
It's an Apple requirement (it applies to all rent-a-mac type services), I doubt Amazon would mind splitting it shorter (like they do with everything else) if they could.
Directors and the like would probably refuse to cooperate.

This is mostly prevalent in video games because they lack auteurs obsessed with this kind of thing.
I've not seen any indication that sillysaurusx hates Rust.
Is it still impossible to set your default browser on iOS? That to me is even more hostile than just having me click an extra button once to download it.
Probably not much. All KPIs are heading down now anyways, just look into the RKI dashboard [1]. Doing a quick math exercise underscores this: 70% are vaccinated, 6 million had it (at least, the number is probably higher), so in total 80-85% of the population already had it or is vaccinated by now. Numbers should go down now from now, which they actually start to do, if you look in the dashboard.

[1] https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus...
Is the history of revolutions/social collapse really marked by despots, dictators and royalty not using overwhelming force?
The point makes sense since a lot of the complexity of the current financial system isn't because of the money, it's because of the /people./

The complexity comes from the rules enacted to shield people from bad actors, and that's just going to be re-applied to crypto in some way shape or form.
Then farm it :) Why destroying the delicacy to the last bit. Or are we a farm already? :)
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This interpretation seems to be extremely in bad faith.

Instead, to me it sounds like a fugitive from law that now can't travel easily.
"Can't use $ in password" - i'm curious what the story is
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GeoWorks was one of the (very small) set of windowing systems we looked at for the Atari ST.

This was only a month after Atari was bought, and the folks from Commodore were running things without consulting us "old Atari" types (establishing trust took a few months). There were no slam dunks; every windowing system had its drawbacks. I remember reading a bunch of documentation and not being impressed by anything commercially available.
This is great, but since x86 Macs were already available this is mostly just a price reduction. But it's great to have these available at Amazon.
You can turn off all this nonsense. Most of these mis-steps have been mitigated.

Never going back to Chrome - even though I'm forced to use Google apps @ work, and it has noted incompatibilities with FF.
What a borked view of the world. Yes, the US invades places. Yet the damage in Afghanistan and Iraq, is caused far more by their own people, killing and slaughtering each other over religious grounds.
Many in the US made significantly more on the combination of enhanced unemployment and stimulus checks than they had made working. Greater than 100% previous wage.

You can see the aggregate personal income data here: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PI
>Why does everybody here assume everyone outside the software profession is an idiot

Why does everybody here assume everyone here is a SV software engineer, except for them? You could be insulting someone in high school.

Cancer affects people from every walk of life, so there's a good chance a random non-medical person in a thread like this has some experience that they are drawing on, like seeing a family member die up close and interacting with oncologists.

>Obviously if it only attacked 30% of tumor cells it would be useless

I think both of you made up things that weren't actually stated. It didn't say that 30-40% would be cured or that 30-40% of the tumors would be eliminated.
> Proof of work sort of kind of solves it, but not really, and at tremendous cost. Nevertheless the fact that it gets close is maybe suggestive

It doesn't solve it, and it will never be close. If you ant just one reason, it's easy: enforcement. You smart contracts mean zilch if you can't enter a house some scammer just sold you.
The author is mostly talking about Soviet Communism, China pre-1976, etc. in which the government owns everything there is to own. The China of today isn't "centrally planning a whole society". It's a society in which the government owns a much larger amount of assets, than, say, the United States (as measured as a percentage of the country's national income). On that metric, it's just further along the scale compared to Northern European social democracies (where the government also owns many more assets than in the United States). I think it's a great mistake to assume that just because the government owning everything doesn't work, the government owning anything is also bad.
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Why do you think the only weak people that deserve protection are the wealthy? The idea that the only legitimate function of government is to protect the status quo is strange, and in a world where everything is assigned an owner is a maxarchism not a minarchism.

In a real Darwinian world, rich people wouldn't be able to walk the streets without a huge amount of security, and eventually that security force would kill them, take what they have, and pass it to their children. The idea that the people who own everything are the intellectual and physical champions of the world is a version of the efficient market hypothesis within a idealized police state whose only duty is to keep these people from falling to their level. It's really just a neofeudalism that will result in neohapsburg lips in 100 years and infant kings.
Try clicking on the three dots and then "Open transcript".
>so I think I have an unusually well informed perspective on how things actually work at FB and what sorts of processes/motivations lead to the negative outcomes that cause bad PR.

Could you enlighten as to what those are?

>I think FB has a lot of problems, but as an insider with no extreme political views, it was very difficult for me to convince myself that anything FB has done is morally wrong.

My personal complaints would be:

- Mass censorship over certain topics (e.g. Kyle Rittenhouse)

- Forcing previously purchased goods (e.g. Oculus headsets) to be tied to a Facebook Account

- Paying for zero-day exploits of the Tails operating system

- the Real name policy

- Shadow profiles created by inserting hidden pixels into unaffiliated webpages
It’s an interesting look at AWS pricing since the cost of the M1 Mac Mini ($699) and it’s power consumption (avg 26 watts) are known. Based on hardware costs (significant) and power costs (insignificant) you’re looking at a hardware ROI at about 6 months from the $.65 per hour price. AWS has an estimated 60% gross profit margin, so from there it’s probably possible to estimate some other interesting things about their costs, utilization rate and
depreciation schedule.

Edit: Sorry, my napkin math assumed a unstated utilization rate of 40 hours per week, but that’s not a great assumption due to the 24 hour minimum. Still, some proportion of machines will be idle, though 75% idle seems like a bad guess.
But vaccinations are available, so you likely can't do it legally.
Right, that's why San Fransisco consists entirely of single story buildings.
Just finding this now after noticing the traffic spike (thanks!). Yes we are playing with doing this, however to be honest it's a very challenging task. You can extract the 'key information' from a paper, but abstractly summarising concepts is a bit more challenging. Probably the way forward will be a tool-assisted approach to aid humans to write better.
The end goal is proprietary lock-in, AKA The Microsoft Strategy.

The reality of auto-ML is that you don't need garbage data to learn garbage. All you need is a "developer" who has no idea how dirty or unstable their data is, how accurate/precise the results should be, or where bias and edge cases manifest before GIGO becomes your project's mantra.

The claims of auto-ML and auto-programming are two sides of the same coin. They're both silicon snake oil.
Thanks! That confirms my hunch about Facebook and Google, but I didn't expect Amazon to come out at the top (even pre-pandemic, I would have though their treatment of warehouse and delivery workers and their threat to retail shopping would have affected the public opinion more negatively). Also, Apple in the lower half, below Microsoft?! Guess their users are devoted, but also critical? Also, that was the time of the butterfly keyboard debacle, maybe that played a part...
I was recently on sick leave and had some time to concentrate. I read William Gibson's Neuromancer finally. Glad that we aren't in that dystopic future.
Author here -- that's awesome! Great minds think alike. Always interested in use-cases (that both fit and don't) -- feel free to open up an issue with something representative/what you want and I'm happy to contribute my opinion.
What do masks have to do with any of that? Sketch out for me why mask requirements need to happen before a government imposes any of that, even assuming your premises are completely valid and that's the intent.

Also, would you say that vaccine requirements are new? Where did you go to school? Did you take required vaccines to attend? Are you familiar with other vaccines from history, in particular for smallpox and polio? How do you feel about how those were handled at the time?

Also...I mean seriously, try to get over yourself. "slavery" and "concentration camps"? You must know how hard everyone's eyes roll at this stuff right?
Yes, yes, and yes again. This goes for every "revolutionary" thing, from a new codebase to DeFi to an actual revolution.
As tech founders resign, Congress loses its favorite targets
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Do you have a citation for that? I haven't seen any high quality studies which directly compare long term R0 for vaccinated and unvaccinated populations. While I encourage everyone eligible to protect themselves by getting vaccinated, it seems to have only a limited and temporary effect on reducing transmission.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/experts-vaccine-immunity...
If you've been subpoenaed, you're not talking to a cop, so "don't talk to cops" isn't complicated at all.

The full phrase - "don't talk to cops except upon the advice of your lawyer" - isn't complicated either.
I did the multi-monitor thing for years. Ultimately, I hate moving my head around that much. My current setup is a 4K curved screen, with i3wm. It's enough screen space for up to 9 usefully-sized panes, and also enough for a tall or very wide pane when the situation calls for it. The ability to reconfigure panes from the keyboard is a real game-changer.
Not just landlords, but everyday home owners too. People who got a $X00k mortgage on a house by-and-large are not going to actively support policies which may reduce the asset backing that loan.

There would absolutely be long-term benefits to lowering housing costs in parts of the country, but some people are going to have to feel the short-term pain to make that happen.
Trying to find out why some people don't get Covid-19
> How about the last 40? Are we really better off in totality or just different?

IMO in the last 40 years it has become harder (more expensive) for those who have had it a bit better off to separate themselves both physically and culturally from those who are a lot worse off (regardless of why they are worse off).

All the while the cost and accessibility of erstwhile public goods that temper that desire for that separation, like safety and education, have skyrocketed.

That separation and the inequality behind it has doubtlessly been enabled by a heap of injustices. The effects of this are seen in situations spanning from police brutality to current refugee migration crises.

We haven't been able to as effectively outsource pain and chaos to others (whether in our own backyard or the other side of the planet) while shielding ourselves from the blowback like we once did.

Therefore people feel worse off, not because they are necessarily worse off, but because they fear that the nearing chaos will make them permanently worse off.

The richest <1% don't have to directly deal this problem, since they can easily still pay for that separation.
I don't get it? Most people here are working for companies that have products and services to sell. Sales works by advertising your goods and services.
> Almost nobody is seriously expecting them to be an investment

This one, I mean.
What would be traffic in LA if you build so many new units?
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1. In Firefox settings, tick "When using the address bar, suggest: Search engines".

2. Find an eBay search engine you like, install it in Firefox.

Now, when you type eba{Tab} Firefox will suggest the search engine you installed, and your continued typing will be as a search in that engine.

I don't use this for eBay, but I do use it for Rust, typing e.g. rust{tab}iterator takes me to the documentation for std::iterator and related entries.
> Still pistols have some barrel so they should be vastly more accurate at range.

Way misguided here.

Pistol accuracy has almost nothing to do with the barrel. Not in the sense that you think.

Accuracy is repeatability. That means tolerances. The bore, rifling, the chamber dimension, the jump distance from the bullet to the rifling in the chamber, the natural resonances… but then just or more importantly is your ammo.

You have you ogive (“oh-jive”) of the bullet, the sectional density, the tail shape, it’s ballistic coefficient (actual, not G1 or G7 artillery guesses), your powder burn rate, consistency of the powder, amount obviously, the case neck tension and length, primer hole and primer consistency…

Then you get into dwell time of the action and all the user variables you can’t account for without bolting the gun to a frame.

… so as to pistol accuracy, you can have the world’s most accurate pistol and barrel ever made, and still have shit long distance accuracy. A barrel isn’t going to help you.

Pistol bullets are bricks compared to rifle bullets. A ballistic coefficient of .1 is just never going to be very consistent because at distance it’s dumped so much of it’s speed via air resistance that it’s supersonic time is limited and will enter transonic and subsonic quickly. This isn’t what pistol rounds are designed for. You want bricks with high sectional density for shooting things up close.
I feel like there is a solution that everyone would be happy with. It is to allow many new homes to be built, but to compensate existing homeowners for the fact their property will go down in value due to the influx of new homes.

For example, the law could say "Property taxes on all properties built before 2021 will be reduced to zero, while all properties built after 2021 will have to pay property tax at 5% of the property value for 30 years, before dropping for to 0%".
> I don't know what you would call this system but LA's problem is that the folks that have the power to fix housing have zero interest in doing because it would hurt their self interest.

If they upzone my single family home lot I will make out like a bandit. Developers will be all over this neighborhood, building townhouses galore. The last townhouse to sell in my neighborhood went for 2.1MM+.

Upzoning does not magically make housing affordable. Housing pricing is more complicated than a simple supply and demand curve, although that tells a story at the macro level. And truly affordable housing can only be created by mandating that units sell below market value. This shotgun approach to upzoning will alleviate issues in some neighborhoods—in others it will make developers and homeowners a lot of money.

These oversimplified narratives on HN are so tiring. Local conditions are much more complex and multifaceted than these "upzone everything" posts would have you believe.
haha, author here, I do admit that Matt Levine is one of my favorite writers today
Agreed. BigQuery, Cloud Spanner and Firebase are unique products which no other cloud provider can match even in the slightest. I think these things are a pull factor into GCP and everything else can be easily replaced once people decided to just move everything into GCP.

I got sucked into GCP because GKE is (still) much more advanced than EKS or AKS and that alone was a pull factor for me, let alone the other services which I mentioned.
You seem absolutely certain you are right about certain issues. One of the big draws of America originally was that is was huge and open and you could join a community that agreed with what you mostly.

Yes some people view abortion as a right, others view it as murder. The process shouldn't be to gain enough power to force everyone to follow what you want. It should be to establish rules we can all live by and then live and let live. Mississippi wants strong restrictions after 15 weeks. Let them. New York wants on demand until birth. Let them.

Honestly, if I know your opinion on abortion I shouldn't be able to guess your opinion on taxes. It would be good to allow more diversity in options and long term we can see which ones work.
That’s why they build so small and spread out in Tokyo, and never with wood!
From a privacy standpoint AND the fact that everyone feels that everything must be uploaded to social media for narcissism points is one of my top worries.

My problem is that attempts to legally curb this have gross implications for the rights of people to keep informed about ongoings in the world. We have a right to be able to show corrupt cops as much as we do criminals and rioters. We have a right to showcase protests when going well or when they're destructive. We have a right to film stuff like Rittenhouse's situation and use that information to jail or free him of charges.

And any corporation will exploit this citizen desire for 'privacy' and use it as a wedge to strip us of our power as citizens, nevermind to allow some information that is in line with establishment values but disallow information that runs contrary to it's power.

You can't solve all these problems at once.

Censorship - both from the state and monopoly actors in the private sector, is incredibly worrisome.

What would be the worst case scenario is that our privacy is utterly gone AND censorship, citing privacy concerns, never really addresses privacy in a practical way but does help corporations and states manipulate the public discourse and undermine our very democracy.

As far as i'm concerned - even as a privacy advocate - our privacy is gone. We lost this battle. Theere's things we can do to maximize our privacy and make it better but the toothpaste is never going back into the tube.

But this is a moment where censorship is about to be normalized in an extreme way and this is a fight that shouldn't be lost.
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Hey HN! I’m really curious to find out what awesome apps everyone is building. Any for Web 3? What’s your tech stack?
So in this case it triggers repaints, or maybe I am wrong
i opened only this page in Chrome, profiled it
then deleted the item and profiled it again

Also in my Process manager I see 2 chrome process with 5% and 7=8% usage witht he animated element and if I remove the elemtn I see only 1 process with 2% usage (weird static page still uses CPU, maybe there is still some other crap somewhere I had no adblocking on.

So far the only way I found to debug such performance issue was to start deleting elements until the CPU usage in Process manager drops I wish I knew a better way.
The article mentions that we incorrectly use the term "free market" to describe the optimal market system, but I'd argue we do a similar thing with regulation. We use "regulation" to describe the "ideal regulation", and both these term misuses divide people that might otherwise agree.

I'll give one example: patents. Right now there is a discussion about waiving pharma patents in order to help with vaccine production in other countries. This is framed as a government action against businesses, when in reality it is an act of deregulation of markets. Patents are an incredibly heavy handed government regulation that uses tax dollars to protect state-sponsored monopolies of "ideas" and "inventions", creating a huge drain in terms of legal resources (courts, judges, juries if necessary), have obvious regulatory capture dynamics as that is in fact the stated goal of a patent, as well as creating entire sectors of the "private" economy that exist solely to perpetuate this system (patent lawyers, patent trolls, etc.), not to mention create networks of "safe havens" of theoretically competitor companies that are actually "allied" in their accumulation of mutually-assured-destruction patent portfolios that make it almost impossible for new startups to enter a field since they hold no such cards.

It's unfortunate that the "deregulation" discussion has been largely co-opted by these corporations as opposed to focusing on these IMO much more pertinent issues that could actually have a dramatically more positive effect.
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yes because new york is so cheap
When I ran multiple monitors I often designated one as my "communication" display, which got email/chat on it, and probably browser as well (for reference material), while the other was the active work one with the current task (usually a few terminals). I found the clearly defines areas for specific tasks was useful.

Now I work off a 40" 4k TV without magnification (I'm close to it), and I try to do similar but it's a lot more haphazard. I find that once you have a wall of pixels in front of you, putting stuff in areas helps, but it's also nice to just throw stuff around and treat it as a actual physical desktop (as it's actually about the size now).

The thing to keep in mind is that as screens get larger, maximizing to fill the whole screen makes less and less sense. I can't even see all my screen at once. I could place it farther back and scale it up, but why would I just by a smaller screen and keep it closer then? I want those pixels. I run all my browser windows at about a quarter screen size, and have that app scaled up to 125% (but not all apps), and that almost never has a problem with a site, and I have other info I care about quick saccade away.
I have an slightly-off-topic question: If I want to test that my opensource project builds and runs on MacOS, what's the cheapest way for me to do this? AWS seems like a fairly expensive way do this at $15 USD per day