skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not the OP but React-native support for the web is also very early stage, I don't think I would use either for building a web platform.
Agreed. It makes sense in preparation for some scenarios that could actually cause major infrastructure damage (e.g. an earthquake). But in the case of mass quarantines, turning on the faucets should continue to work (as it still does throughout China). If you’re worried, fill up some large containers with water once the quarantines are announced, but there’s really no need to stock up on bottled water now (unless you’d like to prepare for other kinds of emergencies too, which is not a bad idea!)
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22425495.
Require airlines to reverse a proportion that can only be sold closer to the flight time (unless to a disabled person) or once the upper section is full. It seems like a solvable problem.

As you note, the problem already exists - I don't see this making it much _worse_. I regularly face a similar problem on trains (I _need_ a seat due to limited mobility, and seats are a scarce resource). The train companies cope - I don't see why airlines companies can't, or couldn't be made to.
You don't have a point. A correlation doesn't have to apply for every single instance, not even for the majority.
How else was it supposed to work in this case? The whole point of the story is that Clearview was bypassing Apple's review process by using a signing key meant for distributing an app _internally_ to distribute the app to third parties outside of the store. Apple couldn't know about the misbehavior prior to disclosure because the whole point was to keep Clearview outside of their review process.
I think that’s a nice way to put it -anarchy, capitalism and communism. Curious if you have a name for the 4th permutation that you didn’t explicitly specify- no freedom and no equality
It might be simple to implement the various operations but it's not easy to get perfect and reliable. I rather have a production-ready library used by major projects instead of something I write myself.
Rivets were the fastener of choice for pressure vessels in the steam age.
Exactly. A fair number of companies try to use enterprise certificates as a way around Apple's App Store restrictions.

The big question is why this company didn't just distribute the software through the App Store. Is it a violation of Apple's App Store policies?
Why not write all in Js then you don't need a server side? Plus much simpler code
When you say "pedantic value", do you mean "pedagogic value"?
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> “if you wanted your voice to be heard, you should have turned on analytics”

It's true though. If you want to be recognized, you can't be incognito. That's like refusing to vote and then complaining about politics.
> There was also one BSD user in the sample, who blocked google analytics.

There's always one
If your water is coming out brown, like in the example, boiling is likely insufficient. (You really don't want to gamble with needing a doctor/ER at that time.) It also assumes you have a means to boil water. A filter might help in addition to boiling and/or drops, and a filter is one option the article suggests as options for water.

I think we'd do a disservice to people by discouraging them from having a modest backup plan for water during a possible pandemic quarantine. Remember the rough "3" rule: 3 minutes without air, 3 days without water, 3 weeks without food.
They also won't have to include the print stylesheet (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/Printing#...)
Depending on what qualifies, ARM is there today, or will be soon if Apple has anything to say about it.
The "Doomsday Clock" is a biased and meaningless political statement. There are no objective criteria for measuring our proximity to Armageddon. Relations with Russia are poor but we're nowhere near nuking each other.
"How I use a software is not an indication of how I want to use a software."

Exactly. The ergonomics of much software is pretty damn terrible with users struggling to get done what they want to do. Thus, developers who rely on telemetry only cement-in bad problems.

It's for this and privacy reasons I always turn telemetry off.
> Also, that article is entirely around a quote from Clapper's office

No, that quote is merely an update to the article. The bulk of the article quotes people who worked on the Secrion 702 data integrations at the tech comanies, quotes from a former government official who made the requests, quotes from a New York Times article that interviewed other people who worked on the system, quotes from the heads of the companies involved, quotes from former lawyers of the companies, and quotes from investigative joirnalists who specialize in national security. It also mentions that multiple government officials, including Senator Wyden who has long been concerned with government surveillance and has been read into all the programs, confirmed phone metadata collection but none confirmed Greenwald's ridiculous misreading of the PRISM slides. It also gives a layman's description of how Section 702 works, which is what enables this collection. Notably, Section 702 does not enable the government to do what you claim PRISM does. Finally, the article also answers your previous question by giving an example of a company fighting one of these requests. Your characterization of the article is mind-bogglingly inaccurate.

MUSCULAR cannot take arbitrary data off the companies' servers. At best, it can intercept their communications off unencrypted international WAN links. According to Snowden's leaks, this was used to collect email metadata for connection chaining (not email contents), a program that Snowden's documents said that Obama shut down.

> More recent article about Clapper's perjury

That's an opinion piece about a single incident. That incident involved a series of questions asking Clapper if the NSA built dossiers on Americans. It doesn't. Eventually, the questions loosened to whether the NSA collects any data on Americans. They do, but by that time, Clapper had been repeatedly saying No for some time and had not realized that any data also includes what he referred to as metadata. Notably, the phone metadata could only be queried in some fixed set of ways according to Snowden's documents, and tying that data to an individual required a separate request, so the phone metadata couldn't be reasonably thought of as constituting dossier information.

But the bigger issue is that you have absolutely no documents saying he lied about PRISM, and you once again exaggerated by saying he perjured on specifics of multiple programs.
The A, B, C and D are exactly the sort of places where he raises an issue and then starts handwaving over the quantitative questions that should be the next step, while at the same time dismissing and even belittling the work who have looked into these issues in more detail. For example, when he claims effects will balance out, it is just his opinion - he does not offer a quantitative scientific justification. He starts with something that is science-based, but he doesn't follow through.

There is also something of the motte-and-bailey fallacy when he claims that the modeling is not accurate enough to be trusted, while also telling us how things are going to work out.
It's Quillete -- libertarian right wing.
second order consequences
So... client side analytics? Like Google Analytics?
Nice, I guess? In the era of gigabit broadband and zoom/chime/hangouts/etc i'm not sure why an engineer would even need to travel half way across the world to even need to be "well rested".

Is there something more you're trying to say here? That we are less valuable or something?
I work as a software engineer in finance and have to take two weeks of mandatory vacation, but this doesn't deter our team from not writing proper documentation, or writing down domain specific knowledge.

When someone is on leave who has specific knowledge, this is just planned into the sprint. As in "xxx knows most about this feature, so let's wait for him to return".

Even when we do write documentation it just gets lost, or developers don't bother looking anything up.
Some corporations also invade privacy, like some governments do. And some protect it.
Many good responses, but I should also point out: Retention. A bunch of screencasts isn't going to replace someone who got frustrated or just needed a change of scenery.
Can’t you just load that when they click it?
You haven’t engaged with anything I said, just listed fairly meaningless things that, I don’t know, were supposed to garner sympathy?

Or maybe somehow hardship qualifies you to downplay the incredible acts she committed with “I hate when people do the same thing to me because my being female is totally comparable to being a black female at NASA in pre-desegregation south”?

So don’t worry, you won’t be engaging with me at all.
I forgot the /s

And the \n
Isn't that basically what ECMO is? like a super intense way to do all the things we need to live via our blood outside the body
What differences in behaviour would you have expected to see in the CDC if their budget wasn't cut? I'm not seeing it. This thing spreads too fast to meaningfully stop it, China, Korea, Singapore, Japan, are all examples of this
This defaults to the assumption we are still talking about computing / programming skills and domain knowledge related to that. As another poster mentioned, do you think you would be constantly headhunted if you had a very narrow skillset in something more niche like nuclear fusion?

The lens of the HN community is technology == computer science, when the main tool you have is a hammer. Everything looks like a nail.
So you are arguing that the CURRENT risk is way less, with no consideration given to the exponential spread of the disease as we have seen in China and now South Korea, Italy and Iran? The only thing keeping the exponential spread in check is everyone literally bunkering in place for weeks, but there is no logical reason the spread won't pick up again as soon as people are forced to go out and interact again.

The virus seems to persist for quite a while so you can't simply wait a couple of weeks (or even months) for this to blow over - best case is the seasonal change will slow it considerably, but that isn't a guarantee either. Historically, viruses with these characteristics weaken over time because they don't benefit from killing their host.

So hopefully 2 years from now this will be another annoying virus that comes and goes, that is the best case natural outcome. Maybe we have some breakthrough in vaccines or luck with off-label cures like the malaria drug in trial now, but those are longshots. So it is LIKELY that this is going to be a long and unhappy situation globally.
I have made this tool, which tries to help with this kind of situation: https://aamu.app/

It already has quite a bit of features, but more features come quite regularly.
I don't know how you can rationalize "this was so bad that China cut off half the supply chains in the world" with "its just a flu bruh"
It really sounds like you’ve never worked on a product team that actually used analytics tbh.

> In practice, I’m just doing workarounds to accomplish things the telemetry won’t explain on its own

This is one of the most obvious things people are looking for in analytics. People will always use your product in unpredictable ways to get the whatever functionality it is that they really wanted. This is one of the things product managers are most interested in knowing about because they either want to properly implement that functionality, or they already have it and they want to know if they’re doing a bad job of getting their customers to adopt it.

It’s incredibly unlikely that you’re such an ultimate power user that what you want out of the product is so unique that you’re inventing your own usage patterns that others aren’t also following.

I completely agree that you should have the right to not share your information with anybody you choose. But if you choose not to share any information about your use case with the company that makes the product, then you don’t have much right to complain about it not doing what you want it to.
Customers should not have to surrender their information to be accounted for by the business they pay.

Giving a business your data is an act of charity. It should never be an expectation.

Yes, it costs more to collect the data manually. It usually costs more to behave ethically when you aren't legally required to.
Great overall summary of what happened though somewhat misses what hit the market ultimately hard- and doesn't necessarily prove that if you were rational about the risks, you should have sold short [1].

The market tanked fast (a sign of efficiency in fact) when it became clear that containment within China had completely failed. Cases were dwindling (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/), due to China's strong protection measures, but all of a sudden there was an upswing due to international spread.

It's interesting to read Ray Dalio's analysis on this whole thing: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/our-early-thinking-coronaviru...

Finally, note that personal protection is different from stock market protection. It's more likely than not the SP500 will fall another 7% to 2750, but that doesn't mean shorting is a profitable strategy.

[1] Maybe buy protective puts (perhaps volatility was far too low), but that's another story.
At least a company will have a record of where a pizza delivery driver spread the virus while asymptomatic.
IOS is super easy to block ads. There is an api for Safari so apps can use it. I like to use https://giorgiocalderolla.com/wipr.html
Additionally, that page tripped Canvas Blocker a half dozen times..so I intentionally told it where to go.
That one needs to up their anti-fingerprint game. Showing up as BSD narrows your identity group very significantly, and I would wager is enough to identify you uniquely in many cases when correlated with all other information.
This is essentially the app my company built:

https://insideropinion.com/

Essentially, we monitor network communications and rank participants in the network by expertise, skills, workstyle, etc. Then we rank content they discuss / share based on expertise (for search). The system will also rank the participants (employees), and monitor the influence.
People are bad at analysing metrics, too. You make a change and users spend half as much time on a page. Did you make the page twice as easy to use, or so bad that they gave up?
Marketing is supposedly a large part of spend too, or should be from what Ive heard. Doesn't matter what your building if no one has ever heard of it, and I've heard some comapnies spend huge sums on marketing alone.
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I've struggled with this personally at our company. A sibling comment mentioned a README for each project/process. That's definitely a solid start for building this up from nothing. Copy open source project README files:

1) what is it? (A web project, an automation script, an ansible deployment repo?)

2) what dependencies do I need to run it? (Make, NPM, Java 1.8?)

3) how do I run it? (docker-compose up? make && ./a.out?)

We started with this. Then for the bigger projects/monorepos, we started adding README files in relevant subfolders.

Recently I've been converting these README files in the larger projects into mkdocs subfolders that get hosted in our repository tooling (GitHub/GitLab pages).

Start small. Go slow (if it's institutionally difficult). Build up to more complexity as you get more written material to work with.

I've started creating an "index" project, that links to all the projects that have documentation.

And finally, focus on the pain points first. One of our monorepos was fiendishly difficult to deploy correctly, either locally or in a test / production environment. The very first tutorial I wrote was setting up that environment in a step-by-step, repeatable manner, and it's by far the most oft-used documentation we have. With that out of the way, I can focus more on the esoteric details (and, yes, unfortunately, it's a bit of a thankless, "skunk works" project, but it's worth it)
3-D printing materials like gold would destroy the world economy, that should get interesting.
FWIW, iter() handles the logic of testing for an explicit EOF marker, so another way to write it is:

import sys

with open(sys.argv[1]) as fin:
for c in iter((lambda: fin.read(1)), ""):
sys.stdout.write(c)
Israeli scientists: 'In a few weeks, we will have coronavirus vaccine
Oh cool, I missed this in the 1.14 release notes. This partially fixes it, but it's not easy to implement multiple interfaces with overlapping functions because you still can't implement multiple functions on the same type with the same name.
That's not what Dunning-Kruger is.
> No, because the way the system works

That's not how the system works. The system allows collection of data to/from specific non-Americans outside the US. Amnesty International didn't know that it was for specific individuals at the time they filed their suit, but Snowden's leaks and later the DNI confirmed it.

> I'm bundling it up with the other programs Snowden leaked

Once again, only one of them (phone metadata collection) was illegal. The other programs he leaked, including PRISM, are so legal that nobody with any sense would attempt to challenge them.
> In real life, however, many Mondays and many party congresses passed after Perimeter was created. So why didn't the Soviets tell the world, or at least the White House, about it? No evidence exists that top Reagan administration officials knew anything about a Soviet doomsday plan. George Shultz, secretary of state for most of Reagan's presidency, told me that he had never heard of it. [...] The silence can be attributed partly to fears that the US would figure out how to disable the system. But the principal reason is more complicated and surprising. According to both Yarynich and Zheleznyakov, Perimeter was never meant as a traditional doomsday machine. The Soviets had taken game theory one step further than Kubrick, Szilard, and everyone else: They built a system to deter themselves. [...] By guaranteeing that Moscow could hit back, Perimeter was actually designed to keep an overeager Soviet military or civilian leader from launching prematurely during a crisis.

https://www.wired.com/2009/09/mf-deadhand/amp
In addition to what you said, I feel that may be Google's view of a viable project (business-wise) is different from many others, hence any real drive to continue these POCs long term.

If we look at main projects/products at Google like Chrome, Search, Gmail, Android, YouTube, Maps, Kuberenetes none of them has any serious competitors out there (except for Android perhaps). I mean, sure we technologists are more aware of alternatives and open to try new things but almost every average user I know is utterly uninterested in an alternative. There's a perception of Google as simply being the most technologically capable company on the planet for average users and that any alternative simply can't match, let alone surpass, Google's offering. Sometimes, when I think about, there's some truth to the latter part of that sentiment. Google does a good job with the projects that actually last.

So, perhaps any project that can't have a similar traction in the market probably doesn't get a whole lot of attention on a collective level.
It's a complex problem and, yes, you are correct, you can't just stop overnight. I won't claim to know exactly how to execute the removal of government from the equation.

Perhaps it starts with an announcement of a reduction of guarantees over a period of time. For example, US $40K maximum and it goes down by $5K every year until reaching zero. That would provide for a gradual reduction and a transition from a "we can't lose because the government guarantees it" mentality to universities being forced to exist in the real world.

I say "exist in the real world" because it is easy to forget that lots of people leave university with very expensive yet useless degrees. It's easy in a place like HN to think of STEM degrees. There are lots of other degrees universities get paid lots of money to deliver that do not have the earning potential of STEM degrees. Again, because government guarantees the loans universities are able to charge silly amounts for these degrees.

Not a simple problem, but I think we know that distorting the market through government involvement isn't helping anyone.
If the infrastructure decays so much that there's no drinkable running water, chances are you power and gas are also out.
Tonight after purchasing more groceries than I've bought in the last decade, I'm reflecting on how strange it felt. I've never filled a shopping cart. A grocery basket, sure, but an entire cart with the bottom shelf filled with bottled water, never.

I lived through Hurricane Sandy in NYC. That was something. But I never felt the urge to go preemptively shopping before. Food has always been in abundance and regularly available a few blocks away 24/7. Shoutout to Westside Market in the UWS. Yesterday I became convinced I needed almost a months supply of non-perishables _right now_.

Tonight, there was no other customers shopping with urgency at my local Target as I was buying six spare toothbrushes with two bottles of NyQuil and two cans of saline nasal spray along with all of the food I could fit. All of the aisles were well stocked, mostly. They were less so once I went by. There was one lady with 7 cans of lysol spray, but we just winked at each other and hurried off. I think both of us were trying to not get any more shocked glances from the people just strolling trying decide which flavor of double stuffed Oreo's to buy this Saturday night. Deep down those people know what's going on, but aren't yet ready to take action.

Sure, I'm early and feel guilty because it was so easy to get everything right now. But also feels really good to have it stocked away in my pantry. If I don't use these supplies my local food bank will get everything I don't need.

I'd like to ask of you to consider doing the same! If all of this preparation is unnecessary, there are hungry people that will appreciate it later on. If the possibility to make something good come out of this possibly tragically bad situation motivates you take some time to get ready, I'm pleased.
Ask HN: What triggers did you pursue or miss while growing up?
Were you able to revive old ones or discover new triggers?

What did they lead you to learn, do or become?

Looking for stories that can inspire children. For context you can check this out:

https://apsandhu.com/essays/triggers.html
I get where you're coming from, and this is a problem, but this isn't a practical or pragmatic stance. Typical web/app tracking is orders of magnitude cheaper than research.

> Yes, it costs more to collect the data manually.

Not just that, but you also get data biased to people willing to spend two hours answering questions for a $25 Amazon gift card.
I wonder what Apple would do if someone created a corporation to distribute apps with the enterprise license and every time they want to distribute the app, the corporation would make the potential user a member of the corporation first.

I mean this is all just legal bullshit preventing us from using our own devices the way that we want right? Why not use the same bullshit back against them…

I don’t have a dog in the fight between Clearview and Apple or law-enforcement’s use of AI. I’m just irked by this particular restriction on Apple devices. You just can’t really have a mobile presence without addressing Apple and even if they don’t have a technical monopoly, it annoys me that they still have this level of control over the market.
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