skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just two numbers of total hits the article is comparing.

The author extracted the browser information from the server logs (presumably from the User-Agent header i guess?). If they were able to do this, i'd assume they also filtered out bots from the tally :)
So I guess a better title would be that it popped.
1. Wiki w/ comments

2. Corporate university

3. Culture of anti-knowledge hoarding, pro automation, well-documented procedures and no "we need Joe, only he knows how to do vital task X."

4. Succession planning
Any specific stories?
That means a (properly) relational DBMS can be completely locked down because the relational model is not Turing complete.
https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=jumprite
I assume riveted seams don't work for pressure vessels? Would the air plane cabin be welded?
HN comments........
Sounds like it.
You can use (yaml, hjson, jsonnet) for the same purpose. What sets json 5 apart?
Is this a publication that normally publishes articles that are clearly well outside their authors' area of expertise and presents them in a semi-academic style after clearly doing no fact-checking?

Never mind silliness like analyzing Trump's "record support" in a survey begun during Trump's tenure, the way he presents wrong statistics with the help of the word "particularly" is downright ridiculous. People who like pizza tend to be shorter, particularly children.
Unsustainability of long supply chains. The coronavirus is just chapter 1.
You don't punish a naughty dog when they get something right. You punish them for the things they do wrong. People should just grow up.
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> This class has become increasingly hereditary, in part due to the phenomena of well-educated people marrying each other—between 1960 and 2005, the share of men with university degrees who married women with university degrees nearly doubled, from 25 – 48 percent.

A large part of that may be due to availability. In 1959 (closest year to 1960 I found data for [1]), 6% of US women had degrees, and 10.3% of men.

If every person wanted to marry someone with a degree, there would only be enough women with degrees for about 60% of men with degrees to marry women with degrees.

If the actual number was 25%, then men with degrees were marrying women with degrees about 42% as often as was theoretically possible.

In 2005, it was 26.5% of women and 28.9% of men with degrees, allowing in theory for about 93% of men with degrees to marry women with degrees, if everyone with a degree wanted to marry someone else with a degree.

If it is actually 48%, then men with degrees were marrying women with degrees about 52% as often as was theoretically possible, up from 42% in 1959.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/184272/educational-attai...
I think most people use Reddit to just browse the subreddits. GoodReads is about searching for books an adding then to your shelves, many of those might be books that someone just mentioned to you in passing, or you don't remember the full/correct name.

Different usage than reddit
Killing progress of economy would make the planet much much worse off long term.

Notice how the richest countries have the cleanest environments - that's not by happenstance, it's because with basic needs met, people are willing to spend effort on the environment.
I don’t want to be a jerk, but many material processes that have enabled us to make better performing materials has been directly related to investing more energy into a raw material.

Take for example, iron vs. steel, cast vs forged, wood vs. carbon fiber.

So I will be surprised if the future is a huge departure from history.
And by that standard, the avionics controller for a missile is general purpose.
We don't work on cryptocurrencies. Right now we work on automated testing & verification tools for "cyber-physical systems". Our target markets & customers often have safety-critical considerations.

We use Agda to create proofs for some of the components of our platform.
SpaceX is apparently aiming for a 1.4x safety factor: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1215719463913345024

But my point here actually was the difference between "at least x times stronger than it needs to be", and "exactly x times stronger than it needs to be". Usually things are manufactured to the first spec, rockets are much closer to the latter spec because keeping weight down is so important.

I suppose airplanes must also be closer to the latter spec than most things, but they should still be more forgiving than rockets.
So...Boise? (Winco is based in Boise...and I have no idea how widespread that store is actually)
Yes. More info about why is here: https://flutter.dev/docs/resources/faq#why-did-flutter-choos...
So does Michael O Chruch's "3-ladder system of social class in the U.S." need revising?

https://web.archive.org/web/20151006183427/https://michaeloc...
It's from 2017 but even more valid today. GA is blocked by most ad blockers thus no company can rely confidently on it anymore. uBlock blocks also a few other tools like MixPanel that helps companies understand their users behavior and how they use their product.

I can't believe how ignorant people that say "use server logs" are. They clearly haven't done any online marketing or run an online business, yet they want better and cheaper products - even free if possible.

How do you think a company gets to improve and optimize their product? By surveys? I think many assume the entire analytics required for a business is just reading a few GET requests from the server logs and categorizing them by user agent.
Our fossil-fuel-backed energy “abundance” is the same as the mortgage-backed financial “abundance” we had in 2007 and the international-kidnapping-backed labor “abundance” of pre-Civil-War America. It’s a loan the oligarchy takes out with no intent to pay it back. The alternative is not “austerity”, just living within one’s means and not externalizing one’s own cost of living.
Yes, but I said 'only' your biases.

Top post specifically ask what do the actual people who might want this think.

Closing your eyes and pretending you are blind as an answer....

Compared to what does /r/blind think?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Blind/search?q=TranscribersOfReddit...
FWIW the numbers for my blog are broadly similar, with a larger sample taken when I had a blog post on HN, with about 2x higher unique user numbers from Cloudflare analytics (server side) than Google Analytics.
FWIW, and this is just my personal experience, but I find Dart to be very similar to Typescript, and we have JS engineering teams building out new mobile apps in Dart ;)
Laws against facial recognition are futile (a bit like trying to ban tracking on web or encryption).

At most you can ban outcomes - persecution, discrimination, etc. But when every Guatemalan farmer can setup their own facial recognition startup - the genie is out of bottle.
In surveys? No one does those.

We do. We have real customers do real surveys of our real web sites. In person. We even do shadowing to see how real people use our sites in their daily work.

It's uncommon in SV due to laziness and an unwillingness to talk to actual human beings. Which is dumb because there are companies that will handle this for you.

But SV is stuck in this mindset that everything can be solved by an algorithm. It can't. The tech echo chamber really needs to get over itself.
Or have a company do it for you. There are plenty of them out there.
In general it's quite easy to filter out bots and crawlers from your basic access logs, as most bots and crawlers will identify themselves as such.

If you're running anything with an API, then unless somethings horribly wrong it's even easier: look at the number of requests being made to an API endpoint and spot check a few of the user identifiers (tokens, keys, whatever you're using) to see the variety of users.

All of this is assuming you're trying to merely investigate the volume of use of a feature, not trying to diagnose demographics. If you're trying to extract more fine-grained detail, I don't have as many answers; I hope others will chime in with constructive ways to get things like geographic demographics via server logs.
would it be naive to say that sites can get around the blockers by proxying their analytics through their own domain? Isn't the lazy way of sending everything directly to ga from the client the cause here -- and any thoughtful site owner should be able to circumvent this if they truly care to?
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Yes, the browser has a print function, although you may need a CSS code specific for printing rather than screen, if you want a good result. (If you do not use any CSS at all (which is not so common these days), then you probably don't need a CSS specific for printing either, though.)
A quick tweak of the css breakpoints might be a good idea - on my iPhone 11 the home page text is just slightly off screen in a one character wide column about six miles long (and a bit difficult to read). I can believe the product is super interesting but I can't actually tell in this format.
I recently got tired of Google Analytics (for a number of reasons) and switched to Fathom Analytics.

Now, Ghostery says I have "zero trackers" on my personal site.

Fathom doesn't collect personal info about my visitors. They just show me my aggregate metrics (popular pages, top referrers) which is all I need anyway.
I'm medically handicapped. I was comparing myself to Stephen Hawking, not Katherine Johnson.

I was talking about why I reflect a lot on such things.
Turned it off via PiHole, so my ChromeOS laptops and Androids are covered at home, still trying to get Wireguard set up on the PiHole to allow remote VPN, while suffering double-NAT/CGNat through my AT&T hotpsot as home connection. Turns out it's not a slam-dunk!
I don't think there are any governments that have that policy. For instance, there are complaints when someone gets polonium poisoning, in spite of people thinking it's because of a government. There are complaints about the occupation of Iraq, from governments. And so on.
I've one smart body composition scale. It shows my mom's age 1/3 of her original age and my age has 5 year plus.

It means I am older than my mom according to Mi smart Scale.

Anyone knows what they use to determine that?
> the Queen's Cough

I wonder if that name is derived from "the King's Evil".

The King's Evil was scrofula, which is basically infected/inflamed lymph nodes cause by tuberculosis.
A model that can't predict inputs can provide a mapping from any given inputs to a predicted value. We can then, after the fact, demonstrate whether the actual value is equal to the predicted value (i.e. within expected error bars). Repeated failure to predict at the expected probability of your error bars would falsify the model.
(i.e. commit to what your model is, then run it with now known inputs after the fact)

It's possible some of these inputs may be of the form "the Gulf Stream continues to operate within historically observed parameters", i.e. we make no attempt to claim accuracy for the model outside of its studied conditions. That's fine: there are a large number of accurate models which are known to have breakdown conditions.

It is literally impossible for any model to be robust to unknown unknowns. All we can do is endeavour to drag them into the light and become known unknowns, then attempt to quantify them as known knowns. Sadly, our ability to experiment repeatedly in the same conditions with the environment is deeply limited, in a way much akin to astronomy.
A per-project or per-process README would be a good first step. Ideally keep the notes/instructions as close to the place where the work will get done. It's important for someone to test the instructions in the README on a new machine --- 9 out of 10 times you'll find a step about authentication or some system dependency was not documented. Credentials are extra tricky, so you'll have to think extra hard how to make that work (e.g. some sort of central key store, shared password manager, or ENV vars that need to be defined so you avoid putting any sensitive info in the README).

For something even better than a README, you could document the steps of a technical procedure in a Makefile (or Fabfile) that your colleagues can run. It's important to keep the scripts readable and stupid (as opposed to abstract and powerful like ansible), so that people can read the steps. Some people refer to this as "runnable documentation."
For what it's worth, the Taliban had by 2001, brought relative peace and stability to a country that had two decades of civil war, including the Soviets and lawless warlords and humanitarian crises, and wonton destruction/chaos that existed in the '90s. The Taliban itself was not directly involved with 9/11 (and I don't think they had any interest outside of Afghanistan), however, they had some complicity since they allowed OBL and Al Qaeda to train in Afghanistan (how about the responsibility of say, Pakistan or Saudi Arabia?).

Yes, the tradeoff was that they had a puritanical interpretation of Islam and had a horrible human rights record.
Teeth from 50-tonne megalodon sharks found in abundance in north-west WA
There are a lot of things that are only produced in China, but how many of those things can reasonably be produced somewhere else even if they're currently not? Production issues in China are bad for China, but from an economic perspective they may even stimulate the countries that production moves to.

Also, the efficient market hypothesis says that any public information should already be priced in.
So what happened to "we don't negotiate with terrorists"?
Why on codepen?
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The pushback will come from two places: people who can't write (the overwhelming majority of people) and people who usually act impulsively and without a sound basis (also the great majority of people). The presence of these classes of people in a company will lead to the punishment of people who can and do write, for two reasons. The non-writers won't be able to tell that the writers have done something useful and therefore won't be able to highlight it as an accomplishment in peer or manager evaluations. The irrational actors will get all the accolades for "having impact" even when their random, unjustifiable activities have clearly harmed the company. Meanwhile the people who were writing the design docs will be judged for having less impact.

The way I like to measure this is there should be more writing than programming going on within the company. Some investigations, research efforts, or designs will lead to nothing, however every implementation should come with research, design, and retrospective documentation. In that case there will always be at least as many written artifacts as programs.

The way to prevent the nightmare of an illiterate workforce with only oral history is to hire people who can write and practice documentation-driven development, instead of hiring people who can memorize leetcode trivia.
"I don’t like it when car companies don’t allow subcompact crossovers to do heavy towing"

Unintentional irony? You are apparently not aware that this is a perennial topic among car enthusiasts, because people noticed that small vehicles usually have much smaller tow ratings (if any) in the US than Europe, even though they seem to be mechanically the same. In the US, people use massive trucks to tow, and from what I've read, in Europe, they don't seem to need them.
Web apps on iOS is "a decision tree where at every step you loose".

I love web apps, but still haven't used a single real PWA on iOS.
> HN: I won't use anything Google makes, they always shut stuff down.

You are talking about an extremely vocal minority, who inevitably ends up creating echo chambers.

Like everything on earth there are both good and bad vocal minorities. I follow this heuristic about vocal minorities: ignore them when it comes to trivial issues. Online vocal minorities like fanboys who harass directors, writer, or actors are good example of this group. Same goes for the people who constantly complain about Google shutting down some free products. OTOH, I keep close eyes on activists, who are vocal minorities and are fighting for important issues. Activists might not be on the right side of history on every issue, but these are the people who fought for civil rights, LGBTQ rights etc., often at their own personal expense.
It was just the most convenient for me.
I was a sysadmin, consultant before going EE/CS and AWS consultant after that for Fortune 200. AWS is extremely overpriced for running a stable amount of resources. For a lab, it's trivial to buy some used, power-efficient enterprise servers to run in a second-tier co-lo, install Xen or KVM on bare metal managed by an IaaS solution similar to CloudStack. On top of that, a PaaS like CloudFoundry or CFCR.
There are complaints, but polonium poisoning is a tool of a particular government. The perpetrators who carried out the murder did not face justice, they were given shelter by said government, and very likely rewarded for a job well done.

Other governments use drones to bomb people in various countries with impunity.

If a private citizen does any of this sort of murder of their own accord, they go to jail. The difference between government and private citizens is that the former can exempt itself from the consequences of these heinous acts. That is what is meant by the term “monopoly on violence.” [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence
That somewhere else is rapidly becoming a bigger problem than China right now.
there are bots that patrol Twitter, upload permissive content with the correct attribution and link back to the source. See more here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Flickr2Commons
Sure thing, I would not object to your freedom to root your phone or something. I object to being portrayed as a victim [1] - I like the arrangement as it is, and I entered it willingly, having a choice.

[1] "Which is similarly unacceptable, you own it, you decide what runs on it. Madness that it could ever come to this."
Ask HN: Need feedback for the multi-city trips generator
Hi there. I working on service, that generates multi-city trips for the specified time-frame and a budget using data from low-cost airlines (currently Europe: Ryanair, Wizzair, Norwegian).

How is it different from Skyscanner, Google flights, Expedia or Aviasales? Service generates and shows all possible routes in the desired cities. For instance: Warsaw -> 3 Nights in Paris -> 2 Nights in Amsterdam -> 3 Nights in Budapest -> Warsaw for 89$.

MVP: https://travelingbug.space

Video demo: https://www.instagram.com/p/B85sjAHBeki/

Blog (Russian): https://medium.com/travelingbug

What do you think about it? Does this idea have a chance to live? Does it make sense to continue to work on it?

P.S. Sorry for that, but it is just MVP. It doesn't have autoscaling yet. If everyone start to generate trips it will not be available for some users. There is no tech difficulty, the question is only in money.
"X is not a good look" should be left in the echo chambers of Twitter. It comes across as smug, because you assume you're an authority on what a "good look" is, that is, what the correct thinking is. But you're doing this while the reader is noting that you failed to express a real argument, so they're not sure you even know what the correct thinking is, let alone why it ought to be correct.
I think you've got something there. This would likely need to leverage decentralized tech (perhaps blockchain could actually be useful for something other than crypto-currency?).

Then there are the challenges of getting people to pay attention and to care about the results.
so that makes spying and pervasive tracking okay? because it makes money? no! businesses have managed without previously. the world won't end without GA.
If you consider that many countries will be affected by the virus, then the move will not happen in the near term. It might happen after the global recovery though.
I'd expect serious bots to masquerade as whatever the latest chrome user agent is.
Narrator: not enough...
Do you have a source for that? I am aware, according to the Brookings Institute, and world renowned economist Professor Raj Chetty, that it has been relatively flat for decades. Your parents wealth, and where you are born are the two biggest factors for economic mobility. Always has been, most likely always will be, so this isn't necessarily news or novel. So again, not sure divisive rhetoric and entrenching a feeling of class warfare is going to help anything. California, for example, where most people on this site are located and where a large majority of US-based socialism supporters are located, has some of the best mobility in the country. In fact, the single best thing you can do for your economic mobility is to simply move to a higher mobility area (surprise surprise).

http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/assets/documents/mobi...
http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/assets/documents/move...
He's just an opinionated software engineer, not a forefront of sociological and economic thought.
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IIRC, many places (not all) in the world, tree density strongly correlates positively with property values. Does this hold true in Barcelona?
What doesn't make sense? You can't solve fluid dynamics (in the vast majority of cases) with a computer algebra system. So if you want to compute forward sensitivities, automatic differentiation is a very reasonable way to do it.
While the DBMS itself isn't Turing complete, you probably need a Turing equivalent machine to implement the DBMS. Turing machines can implement less complex types of automation, but the underlying machine is still Turing complete.

I wonder how difficult it would be to make a purely electromechanical decision table. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_table )
Fair enough.

Your snark is unwarranted though.
Thank you for looking at it. I underestimated just how much css I would need. Thank you for bringing it to my attention
Agreed. At some point the Taliban and Pashtun nationalism become quite intertwined (even in areas of Pakistan). This made it so that probably not a insignificant porition of the Pashtun people sympathize with the Taliban if nothing else.
I'm confused, on my stock Android phone, I use Firefox with ublock origin. So the Play Store blocking ad blockers cannot be that effective?
"geeks don’t care about the value they are creating/not creating all too often."

This is a two way street - mostly you don't actually want to hire someone who cares about the business, because they're not as easily exploited. I'm saying, yes, not caring about business value is a negative from one perspective, but culturally organizations have adapted to that and the person best suited to being plugged in to a position is someone who will work tirelessly on whatever you give them without caring one way or the other about the big picture. If they actually are interested in value, then they are going to be demotivated on a doomed or dysfunctional or immoral project.
> Can you export slack logs as plain text, or something easy to process like JSON?

I think you can, the main issues are that:

- Conversations aren't forced to be threaded, and there is no way to go back and do anything with conversations that weren't threaded; it's just lost data.

- Because Slack doesn't export data into a standardized format, there isn't a big ecosystem of tools to do stuff with Slack data. And it's not clear that there will be in the future either -- Slack's growth has started slowing substantially and it's only around 13M DAU, which isn't really big enough to build a business on top of.
If anyone want to know the heads or tails of this, read the book 'Lifespan' by David Sinclair. It has good explanations and awesome research findings on ageing like this study.