skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's interesting to me about the number of people who block Google analytics, is the number of people working with those analytics in product management, marketing or SEO, that are apparently unaware of anyone being able to block Google Analytics.
I can't even buy a bloody mask in the US at the moment, nowhere available, so effective or not doesn't really matter...
https://dietpi.com/ might be of interest to you. I use it on my old pi, it just works. :)
Depends on the service, but if they are ad supported, people who block analytics probably also block ads, so they don't really have any incentive to cater to them.
I have laid in about a 3-week supply of nonperishable goods and basic home supplies, and I don't feel bad about this at all.

If the worst that happens is that we don't have to go shopping much for the rest of Lent -- great. I'll be pretty surprised, but i'll be fucking overjoyed, too.
Raft is incredibly easy to write correctly, with tests, since basically everything you need is in figure 2. I've done it once, but then lost all of the code because I got mugged, my computer was stolen, and I forgot to make a github repo, and am rebuilding it currently (current one I'm doing clocks at about 700 SLOC, including tests and it's about 3/4 done).
> Rockets have the nearly unique distinction of having to be strong enough and no stronger

More precisely, airplanes are designed to being 50% stronger than the max load it would ever see. Rockets are designed to something like 10% stronger.
Raising minimum wage is not same as paying equal wages to all (which is what this article describes). No one is trolling and comparison to Soviet experiment is close, if not exactly the same. Please read the article.
Dietpi is pretty similar and easy to setup - https://dietpi.com/
Not everything is visible in normal server side logs, especially if they have a lot of client side actions.
Get your key knowledge holders to dedicate 20 percent of their time to documenting what they know. However, most of them are so used to knowing stuff that they aren't sure where to start or what the need is, specifically. Therefore, make them take requests from people who want to know what they know. Then what you end up with is really knowledgeable people spending 20 percent of their time asking everyone around them what they can document and documenting it. Check in every now and then and ask to see what they've come up with.
Slightly off topic, but kind of on theme at least: does anyone know where to get an SBC (single board computer) with 6GB of RAM... or even 4.5GB (that doesn't cost like $~300)? The raspberry PI is almost perfect, I just need slightly more ram per unit.

ARM or X86 I really don't care...
When I turned off my Windows 10 Telemetry, I expressed a clear choice that I'd rather not give my data, and it's fine for my voice to not be heard. I just really don't care about Windows 10 that much. On the other hand, I turned on all the telemetry for OctoPi, Steam, and a bunch of other softwares I care about. I want my voice to be heard for those cases.

Just curious, what's so inexcusable about that?
Yea, if you are Apple only; go for SwiftUI... but who can afford to be Apple only?

I think there are a billion apps that no one cares about because developers have forgot about trying to solve actual problems in favor of “we have an app”.

For us, it was “learn once, write anywhere” for react, or “write once and actually use everywhere” for Flutter. Native wasn’t even a question for the size of the team on this latest project.

We make money by solving problems; not launching some app built with some language
Show HN: Mrkff – An Information Overload Management Tool
i don't know that it does make a difference to his comment, but on HN it's a standard practice (that i like) to disclose when commenting on your employers and competitors.
Durian: First evidence of rare amino acid in plants
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The easiest way is just to make sure product/business discussions happen over email rather than Slack. This way those discussions can be searchable and discoverable by anyone within the company at any point in the future. We make software for this (FWD:Everyone), but there are dozens of other similar solutions as well. That's the great thing about email, because the standards are open you'll be able to extract more value from that same data with each passing year using products that haven't even been created yet.

Conceptually this is similar to having a wiki, except for that unless your company has people whose full time job it is to maintain the wiki then it will always be out of date and inaccurate; just deploying some wiki software tends to be pretty useless, and even in the rare cases where they are maintained the medium inherently doesn't preserve the tacit knowledge contained within the decision-making process itself.
Why are we talking about a blog post from 2017?
Only time will tell. Abe seems TJ be keen on imitating Winnie the Pooh in epidemic containment, at least in the early days
Just ask people!
Today marks the last day I'll be the (paid) maintainer for a similar project called Fieldscope.

Fieldscope is a similar project that came out of NatGeo. It is currently operated by BSCS.

Fieldscope is now very old and is being rebuilt with modern tech. I did not write the app itself, but kept it alive for 2 years.

Working on it opened up my eyes to all the wonderful world of citizen science. Specially how many (really many) scientific datasets are available for open use.

One of the datasets I enjoyed working with is one that centers around the Chesapeake Bay project. It contains flora observations taken by citizen volunteers. It's very interesting to learn about the history of the Chesapeake Bay and to be able to map how it has changed over time.

I exhort those intersted in open source and science to look into tackling problems in this space. Observing and recording nature is not a solved problem. Better software will certainly help get there. I'm on the process of doing so myself. Makes no sense to waste all this experience without benefit open source and science.

If you are part of a scientific project please reach out to me. Email in profile.
WHO wants to have their cake and eat it too. They designate Covid-19 as the severe disease, and want only those numbers confirmed with tests. Then to calculate death rate they look at everyone who is infected with novel coronavirus, including those that have not recovered yet.

> huge quantities of people with nCoV are completely and totally asymptomatic.

From 72.314 cases, as of February 11, 2020, only 889 asymptomatic cases (1%).

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2762130
I definitely want to keep 2fa secrets on a phone, not my laptop, otherwise it's not a true second factor. If you have an Android build to try, I'll check it out.

Also, part of my ideal requirements is an app built by an entity that I trust as much as Google. Open source is great, and this app is simple enough that I can skim the code once, but I'm not going to do it for every update, and I might miss something. There's still something to be said for that kind of accumulated trust. (I might not trust Google as much as I used to, but I still keep my life on gmail, so I have to trust them pretty far.)
Dart replacing JS would be an interesting timeline but not one we’re in for at least short term.

I also had concerns about Dart/Flutter at first but they almost entirely went away a week after starting.

It’s just really friendly. As far as Flutter is concerned it’s awesome you can see the Dart objects that build the Flutter widgets, the language itself is good and getting better, I’m just really happy we went this direction.
China also has mini-mills that process steel scrap. They are cheaper to run than iron smelters.
HN: I won't use anything Google makes, they always shut stuff down.
Also HN: I'm all in on Go.

HN: Learn a new language every year, it's easy and worth it even the language isn't useful for anything.
Also HN: I won't learn a new language that would allow me to double my mobile dev productivity because someone told me it was bad 8 years ago.
Mandatory vacation. This is something that the finance industry has used for a long time to guard against fraud -- it's hard to cover up something if someone else has to do your job for two weeks straight at some point -- but it also serves as a mechanism for requiring you to cross-train people.

Two weeks of paid vacation where the company isn't allowed to email them or call them for help: I guarantee that documentation practices will increase substantially.
You should get an old server rack at that price point unless space is important for you.

Udoo - https://shop.udoo.org/udoo-x86-ii-ultra.html

LattePanda - https://www.lattepanda.com/products/lattepanda-alpha-864s.ht...

There are a few more. You could also build your own.
All you need is a micro ITX motherboard + ram and a processor and something to power. Get them used and it will be way more powerful.
It’s interesting the way you equate fossil fuels with scarcity and renewable energy with abundance, when renewables are still a tiny minority of the world energy supply. In reality, it’s fossil fuels that allow for energy abundance, while the movement to transition to renewables is accompanied by energy austerity: less driving, less air travel, less meat consumption.
I submitted my first observation one month ago. Love this stuff, especially given that I collected more than 1000 observations of trees during my masters; I'm now slowly publishing the interesting ones.
I would go further and reject the phrase “general purpose computer” as overly vague to the point of being meaningless. Is a bicycle a general purpose vehicle? Who decides what qualifies as a general purpose?
How? In surveys? No one does those.

Plus, people often don't give valuable feedback when asked questions about features they want and use... people are poor judges of what they actually want, and will list things they think they care about and then end up never using or which don't affect their choices.
First US death from Covid-19 confirmed in Washington state
War story: we turned off the “print” button on MSN because it was unused. Users in Japan complained - they were printing articles to read on the train. Turned it back on in that geo
It's almost as if HN is a community made of different people with different opinions and not a singular entity.
Ask thousands of people?
> Doing it wrong twice means you learned nothing from your first failure.

Edison failed thousands of times building an electric light bulb filament.
Right, so ideally I would like to keep something in a safe deposit box (or similar), but the point is I don't want to keep going back and forth to the bank every time I sign up for a new account with 2fa. That's why I want one long-lived secret that I can put there, and have the TOTP secrets encrypted with that one.
You’re not going to preserve their knowledge via a wiki. At best a wiki would be a snapshot in time. They’re irreplaceable knowledge is likely an understanding of how change happens within the company.

The answer is by requiring close team effort. Pair programming for example.

I’d one person leaves the organization, there should be “adjacent” employees who understand what they contributed.
I honestly think that a simple “we are considering removing feature X, please let us know if you’re still using this” can work extremely well. Everyone who cares about the feature will be sure to write in.
The current push of environmentalism is sticking because it is clear that the current level of comfort is unsustainable on our current path. Our habitat is facing an existential crisis. I don’t think its noble to ignore the well-being of other lifeforms, but I think it is inaccurate to say that we are pushing environmentalism for their benefit.
Developer Here

Hey everyone, for the last Startup School (September2019), I submitted this application - Mrkff. It still need work then but I have decided to carry it forward and release Mrkff in Alpha state as I continue to work on it.

Please feel free to leave any amount of criticism and advice. This is the first time I am releasing a product of any kind to the public, thank you all for checking it out.

Also as a note. I have gained an immense amount of respect for developers who work in the Natural Language Processing field. In this product I use several libraries to parse keywords to try my best to find keywords in the page that accurately represent the content.

I had to learn quite a bit about NLP so that I could create proper summaries. The algorithm I designed for summaries isn't ready for production right now since it still produces poor results, but I will be updating and releasing new features over the next few months.

Again, thank you all for reading.
Network topologies for large-scale compute centers – Torsten Hoefler [pdf](2016)
I don’t know why people tried to hide your post. Yes, it’s entirely plausible that Fuchsia is killed in favor of Android evolution not revolution.

Plausible, but i wouldn’t put odds on anything.

LUCKILY, for me because i really like Flutter, I think it hits critical mass soon and wouldn’t matter if Google killed Fuchsia.
Xerox Alto's 3 Mb/S Ethernet: Building a Gateway with a BeagleBone
Does this take into account bots and other non-human stuff GA might block? Server logs and GA are measuring different things.
I have been saying for a while that the world is going to start getting shortages for many items we use as China is somewhere in the value chain for most of the world's production. China can't go back to full production anytime soon as it has just now got some control of the virus spread and it would need to stay in this mode for another 1-2 months if it wants to stop the spread.
Also on the MAX, cough and sneeze without covering it or on hands then touching everything that others will be also touching. Maybe all trains are like this?
This is why I have analytics on the JavaScript side and server side. I can calculate those who block my analytics and at the same time capture a lot of the relevant information
Good question! This is just something I want to do. But it didn't just randomly pop up in my mind. I'm a student, and I have taken the course about wireless network last semester. I got a project assignment to write a little simulation in Python, and here is the link https://github.com/chonyy/handoff-simulator.

I found it interesting while I'm building the little simulation in Python. And i think "What if I can visualize this simulation? It would be really cool!" So, I just built it during my holiday :)

Please do be aware there are difference between the visualizer and the simulator. The parameters in the simulator project is closer to our real world, so i have tuned some of it in this visualizer to make it more pleasing to the eyes.
Google needs to follow in these foot steps and remove it from Android phones.
Eh, I've spent like 15 hours fitting various models to the different datasets of case counts and seeing quadratic growth under containment measures some places and what looks like exponential growth others... Maybe that's "parroting media FUD."
Because telemetry, by default, subverts consent of what I’d like to share: I may care about feature X and would like you to know I am using it, but I may not trust that you’re not also logging me when I do sensitive operation Y that I might not want to share (or even want to share with you that I used feature X at 10 PM on Friday). Perhaps it would be better if programs let you review telemetry data before you sent it, but I am unsure if anyone will actually do this or if people can meaningfully take the time to essentially review and opt out of things they don’t want to share.
I don't think Go was ever really touted as cross-platform, beyond not having to deal with dynamic linking hell. After all, I can't take a random binary built by the Go toolchain for Linux and run it on FreeBSD, MacOS, or Solaris. The only portability gain you get from static linking and the only one Go was ever aiming for was across versions and distributions of the OS.
Probably faxed them to their friends and family too. I sympathize - paper is really nice
Simple rule: Require that new hires should be able to become productive without having to talk to anyone (physically or electronically). The rest will fall in place.
The article claims the surprise result of the last Australian election as a rejection of action to limit greenhouse gas emissions. The consensus in Australia is that people simply didn't like the leader of the opposition as a TV personality. Also, Australian attitudes to climate change have been rather dramatically modified by events since that election.
I was responding to your claim that "And even if you wanted to treat each chiplet as a separate NUMA node, 4 isn't the right number for Rome", which was incorrect. 4 is one of the three possible options for the number of NUMA domains.
Better power management has reduced overall power consumption by almost a watt.

https://www.hackster.io/news/raspberry-pi-4-firmware-updates...
In my testing after compression json+xml were essentially identical for the same payload
Fuschia seems like the type of project that's begging to be canceled.
Subverting the desires of people who would like privacy is not a good look.
Most web telemetry packages are extremely creepy, either by sharing all the data with tons of third parties, or by slurping up insane details to try to specifically fingerprint each user. Trying to tell users that they have to opt in to that sort of tracking for their voice to be heard is inexcusable.

Not all software telemetry is that creepy, but things like google analytics definitely are.
Yep. Looks like we missed the immortality bus by just a few hours. Darn :(
I was diagnosed with Celiac in 2007, and even in the last 10 years there's been a huge expansion in the US of what's commercially available.

But, I think the thing that has helped me the most is learning how to bake. Home made breads will consistantly beat the pants off of most commercial ones; the only problem you may find in Lithuania is availability of gluten free "cup for cup" baking flours, but if you can't find them readily, you can substitute most flours by weight into a standard recipe.

Some notes on gf flours, you will never get the rise you would out of bread flours because they're missing the biggest ingredient for rise, gluten. But you can get pretty darn close with your own sourdough mother made out of a mix of other flours. My usual mix includes some combination of:

- white rice flour
- brown rice flour
- tapioca starch
- almond or teff flour
- xanthan gum, guar gum, or amaranth gum as the gluten substitute
- powdered egg whites also as gluten substitute

You're going to need to experiment, but getting a good all purpose mix will make a night and day difference in the gluten free life.

As for countries that are "better" for gluten free, I would hazard a guess that many asian countries are going to be better just due to their lack of reliance on gluten heavy grains as dietary staples. And lastly, you're going to have to get used to not eating out as much, and being very deliberate about it no matter where you live.
> How is everything with a processor not a general purpose computer?

They are general purpose computers; this does apply to most products
with a processor. However, there are practical differences in what you
can implement on an iPhone compared to a tiny embedded CPU with a
few kB or MB of RAM.

> Apple isn’t selling a device that you can do with as you please

Transferring ownership of property is the very definition of "selling"
something. If Apple want to restrict what people do with their device,
they shouldn't be selling it. They can rent/license it, and a very
different set of laws would apply.

> If you don’t like Apple’s policies you are free to buy an Android device.

I am also free to use the goods I bought in violation of those
policies. That's what it means to own something.

> giving the government more power.

Who is giving the government which new powers? I'm talking about basic
property rights.
Related is NTP which overflows in 2036 because it uses unsigned 32-bit seconds since 1900.
How? In surveys? No one does those.

Our customers certainly do. We get excellent results from asking a few simple questions now and then, providing both a good source actionable feedback on feature requests and any current problems, and often some encouraging comments that reassure us we are basically doing things that our customers like.

It doesn't just have to be surveys with lots of participants, though. For example, we've known for decades that a simple observational study with just a handful of people is often enough to identify most of the serious usability problems with an interface.

The idea that everything important must be reduced to automated analytics and number-crunching is a very strange disease. Even if the numbers don't lie -- and as we see here, that is far from guaranteed -- you still need to be asking the right questions and comparing useful alternatives for the results to be valuable.
A/B testing is where beloved products go to die.

You can't just follow analytics. You have to understand your users.
Well, if they're asymptomatic they don't seek treatment right? So how would you catch them, except incidentally to incidents like the cruise ships.
I was expecting a piece covering the growing gap between the traditional middle class, which seems to be falling, and the upper-middle class, which seems to be doing better in recent decades.

Instead, what we have is a attempt to separate out the middle class into left and right sections. I don't really see it.

> No president has ever incurred the wrath of the clerisy—the media, the entertainment industry, academia—more than Donald Trump. But Trump retains record support among the small business people on Main Street, particularly in the manufacturing and energy-dependent parts of the country.

Perhaps the author has failed to see the split between "mainstream" media and right-wing media over the last decade, and the massive reach the right-wing media has these days - with the largest cable news shows, the largest radio news/commentary shows, and frequently the most interactions on social media. One could reasonably conclude there is a "right" clerisy, with academia replaced by think-tanks, that is very competitive with the "left" version he defines, though this might cause problems with his entire premise.

> The climatistas’ appeal is not likely to improve as they increasingly advocate the elimination of ownership of single-family houses...

Ah yes, the proposals of a single random professor does seem like a good representation of a "climate-friendly density regime".

There's other issues to pick at with this piece ("ultra-green policies", climate policy supported by oligarchs, etc.), but I think it's better to point to someone who covers the same issues to some degree in more convincing manner.

https://mattstoller.substack.com/

Stoller takes a look at the current state of the economy through the lens of monopoly and big business, and I find his analysis to match the world I see with much greater accuracy. Kotkin mentions a lot of the issues in his section on "the embattled yeomanry", but fails to consider causes that lead to this. He'll talk about concentration of wealth, but fails to conclude any negative effects it might have. And it's truly curious how he moves from increasing corporate concentration in one paragraph to fighting against climate policy in the next.