skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this that big of a problem? Is China pumping out tons of counterfit whiskey along with knockoff Gucci bags?

Cool stuff though.
Without taking any due praise away from Iceland's efforts, it's disingenious to compare Iceland's testing to other countries as a pure percentage of population. Iceland has a population of roughly 364,000. South Korea, for comparison, has over 51,000,000. 3% of one is not comparable to 3% of the other.
Scary shit! Thank you for the sleepless nights! :D
I use Safari with no plugins. Even Disney World has a broken website for buying tickets for me. The web is breaking because it's gotten way too complex and the fight against trackers is leading to random failures of things that used to work.
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I believe fable, f# transpiled via babel, would also fit into your list of elm reason and pure script
All screw up, but some screw up more persistently then others. What it clearly demoinstrates is that our socio-economic systems of choice clearly do not incentivize providing proper care for the people it is meant to serve.

Some still act as if this was an unforeseen event. All of this was predicted years ago after the previous SARS outbreak and well documented by the scientific community, yet governments worldwide turned a blind eye.

My own 'health' minister even went as far as destroying the strategic stockpile of FFP2 masks (yes, actually destroyed as they went over their 'best used before' , not that that turns them useless overnight) then aggressively 'saved' on all social and healthcare programs and decided not to refill the strategic stockpile.

Her latest blunder: panic ordering a contingent of masks from some dodgy north-African dealer without doing any due diligence, and of course in the process not only getting conned out of 3.5 million euros, but having hospital staff waiting another week on adequate protection. It boggles the mind.
The typical way this is done these days is by media queries in CSS, so you'd write a rule for styling based on screen width, like

@media (max-width: 550 px) {
body {
background-color: white;
}
}

turns the background white on small screens.
Is there any explanation as to why this thread is "flagged"? It seems like the original article and the discussion here are of good quality even if some of the ultimate conclusions maybe flawed.
That doesn't seem to be completely true. Basecamp has a "hybrid" app, where they use native frames to load web pages for content https://twitter.com/dhh/status/940358921960677376
Came here to say this. Do any of the privacy laws allow for deleting your profile without proving to the company who you are? Could you have the government make the request on your behalf? Sending Clearview your license sounds like confirming your credentials in a haveibeenpowned-like honeypot. Seems irresponsible for the author to even suggest that to readers. There should be other ways.
It was open sourced as WebKit because it derived from KHTML, which was copyleft, and it took lawyers getting involved before Apple played ball and released it as open source.
> When I look at the whole situation it looks like a bunch of meatheads whose answer to everything is brawn and military superiority.

I'm not overly familiar with how the US medical system works at a detail level, but is it illegal for individual hospitals, clinics, dental offices, etc to independently stockpile critical supplies?
It's a confusing piece that seems to be arguing that blogging had a dip in relevance due to... well it's not stated. But now it's somehow back? As if blogging hasn't been a quiet but critical substrate iterated on over and over by both individuals and businesses.

I try not to be cynical about this but, within the cultural context of HN this reads a lot more like someone is trying to write "mainstream tech interest" articles get Other Life onto HN to submarine a ton of links to the new project white-nationalist info (you may recall in 2018 they declared they felt the political left was actually more rife for nationalist and fascist recruitment, hence this seemingly sharp left interview with Moldbug and a shame-and-sympathy piece about "internet trolls" in the roll).
> That is to say "no layers" or "right on the substrate".

Ok, I feel very pedantic saying this, but the substrate is the thing that is mostly semi conductors :P.
I think part of the problem is that the hacker news community has to accept that we are in minority in terms of opinion on this. The general public is either okay with it or doesn't care. Anyone who has tried to explain this to a non-tech person knows what I mean.
I was really impressed with the Pixel 3A myself... I'm still holding on to my 2XL, I got a 3A for my daughter last fall after her Galaxy S6 bit the dust.

I don't think I'll convince myself to spend over $400-500 (or value equivalent) again... I didn't like spending as much as I did on my 2XL, and the features just don't seem worth it to me. I'm also holding on to the 3+ year mark this time around... my last couple phones really haven't been much of an improvement...

Nexus 4, Nexus 6p, Pixel 2XL... each has mostly been out of frustration with failures from the prior generation's battery failure (the Nexus 6p caught fire at the repair site for a battery replacement). TBH, I feel it's time to require user serviceable batteries for all electronic devices with a rechargeable battery, leaning into right to repair on this.
It would be nice for Sia to be useful for something.
> Actually the main selling point of containers has nothing to do with "proven interworking", but the ability to deploy and run entire applications in a fully controlled and fully configurable environment.

Which is exactly the same selling point as for static linking.
I've always thought:

All possible abstraction removed = bare metal
I asked this in a sibling comment to yours but couldn’t the government, who issued your ID in the first place, make requests on your behalf to enforce the privacy laws they’ve created?
Most designers use Macs, sure. But just giving a link to product owners, QA, clients, and developers is a whole lot easier than trying to get them to successfully use Zeplin or manually keep track of what static images I've copy/pasted in tickets etc.

Also: I use Mac at work and PC at home. So now you know one designer who uses Figma on PC.
Why spend less when you can spend more
> Someone died of COVID

possibly

> and didn’t have other health factors

an aunt is saying so

> who was young

the only thing that can be regarded as certain
What's most likely to deprive other people of life at large scales: famine, disease, war, weather the biggest 4? Govt has plenty of contingency plans, but those three should be towards the top of the list.
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Thanks. I also had in mind the idea of a topic that's taught as if it was important to the field, but isn't, independently of its accuracy. So "question doesn't arise", rather than "different answer".
My bank logs me out after ten minutes of idling, not seven days. Not sure what kind of crazy bank allows you to persist login session / personal data indefinitely.
dgit dev here. Good question. For starters, dgit is not 100% tied to Sia, it's just a great decentralized file hosting service so we started with it as the first default.

But to answer your question, anyone can host Sia nodes. Here are their docs on that: https://support.sia.tech/category/0OpBuOHIVD-hosting
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You don't mention anything about potential (permanent) lung or organ damage. That seems to happen though I don't know if there's a clear picture yet of how frequently it occurs.

> What beneficial influence on those already good chances do you expect to see by worrying yourself halfway into a panic, about something over which you have no control in any case?

I am amazed by how often people will accuse others of being panicked or hysterical in relation to covid-19 when they've demonstrated no such traits.

Pretty much everyone who took it seriously earlier on, got told they were panicking or being hysterical, when it was just that they were informed of what was coming and took it seriously. Taking something seriously does not equal being panicked.

Where is the panic in this thread you are referring to?
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When will Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager get onto this list of trackers? Lots of web apps are using them.
How long do they get this information, and who has access to it?

The privacy culture in Canada is different from that of the US or Germany, with some major privacy players today having close law enforcement and intelligence community backgrounds.

For example, the executive director of the Canadian Centre for Civil Liberties in the article also happens to be a former provincial attorney general responsible for some pretty hysterical anti-civil liberties regulations in regard to law enforcement discretion (automatic roadside vehicle seizure for speeding, "pit bull" ban), in addition to his ideological anti-firearms advocacy in a country with some of the strictest and most byzantine gun laws on the planet. The federal privacy commissioner is a former federal assistant deputy attorney general which arguably makes him a member of the intelligence community.

Regardless of your political leanings, it's hard to make the case that former prosecutors and intelligence community members make credible privacy advocates.

In Canada, there is a popular contempt for the notion of "freedom," in the American sense, as the concept implies there may be limits to bureaucratic remit and to the total sovereign power of the crown. Such freedom is a myth only the young or uneducated believe in. There are a few rights carved out of the total dominion of the crown, but those are exceptions. It's a very different culture here.

In terms of using cell tracking data to manage the pandemic, the case for what difference the data would makes needs to be clearer. Leveraging the crisis to get the data ("squeezing the toothpaste out of the tube") is standard bureaucracy playbook here, and everyone should be skeptical of it.

"Because crisis!" is not a reason or justification people should accept for anything, and we should push back on anyone who seems to be leveraging hysteria and who won't provide a sound and transparent rationale with clear limits.
I seem to recall from my work with low power microprocessors, it had to do with how your compiler instructs the cpu to preform bit wise operations. I believe it has something to do with the internal pullups drawing power due to the state of the data in the register at rest.

Eg it is more efficient(or less) to instruct a loop to count down from 50 to 0 rather than up from 0 to 50, both methods result in 50 cycles but one is more efficient.
So I choose to jump off of an overpass and happen to land straight in your vehicle's path and now you're somehow negligent?
Maybe that is so, because teaching people assembly allows them to pull magic tricks on companies. An example I can think is Apple banning all dynamic code generation and execution on ios apps.
Right now? The government. Non-essential travel and outdoor activities are banned.

If I lived in a rural area I'd probably be outside working on a new deck or garden, but I live in a city and I'm stuck in an apartment.
But now it's somehow back?

"Covid19: Giving us a new golden age of blogging as its silver lining."

;)
I know white nationalists were swinging for the intellectual left, but this feels really heavy-handed for someone who's clearly got a lot of practice.
You are right, not water tight argumenting on my part. I wonder, whether slippery slope is OK, if the action in reality can be seen as a slippery slope that society is probably sliding down.
It is rare (so sad) but yes, there is. I work in such a company and I am not the employer.
I got a login wall, but Safari's Reader Mode gave me the whole article without needing to create a login.
You may be surprised to learn that your face is your least identifying trait online. You network of friends/followers/likes identifies you far more readily—even if you use a random username.[1]

Managing your privacy is a lot like CPU side channel attacks. It forces you to re-evaluate your fundamental assumptions about what information can be exploited.

[1] http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p377-korula.pdf
I think that is reasonable ... maybe if the prompt is ... reasonable.

I'm kinda averse to the OMG COOKIES and other super technical warning type prompts that worry users, but really don't successfully educate them or direct them too good outcomes / choices. Granted education / good outcomes aren't easy tasks there, but what's the point of a prompt if the decision is made by an uneducated and just annoyed user?

I like the idea of empowering users, but not so sure about how we do it on the web / the best way to do it.
I think confirmation in the blog post yesterday would have provided a lot of clarity.
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This is probably thinking too high tech for some basic human int collection. It's easy enough to collect imei numbers at a checkpoint. It's also easy enough to find out from family members and friends and business connections (everyone works for someone, has a family, and friends, and even if none, there's always a bank account that paid for the airline ticket somewhere, attached to a passport).

Think low tech. Taiwan didn't even have a computerized registry when I was born, so everything was done by hand (I can confirm this because when I had to look up my birth certificate, it wasn't in the records! and they had to look up the records by hand - but the records exist and are easily findable by humans)

also, don't neglect a simple phone call from the police to your boss - that's a super easy way to find out what's going on. Especially for Western folks who seem to be tied to their work.
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The web is breaking because we are reaching the point where developers are able to assume WebKit/Blink and get away with it. It is imperative that technical folk adopt Firefox to hold back the tide.
Which is a shame, but I would lay the blame squarely at the feet of the team who built a checkout that throws errors when their analytics events don't fire. QA should really include a manual run w/ an adblocker...
In a lot of cases you shouldn't even use Javascript for this, responsive layouts can be built using CSS media queries based on viewport size.

More advanced webapps might occasionally need to do something fancier than that if the mobile vs desktop functionality is (for some reason) substantially different instead of just rearranged.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Media_Queri...
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I'll believe those numbers jump when I see them. If I had to pick a media winner in all this, it's podcasts.
It’s a company owned by his family, bearing his family name that he ran personally for over half a century. How could a blind trust make him forget how to benefit it?

When his presidency is over, he knows exactly what company he will be going back to. It’s not like it’s a bucket of anonymous stocks, that he doesn’t care about except for it to gain in value. People with family businesses care more about the success of the business, than simply being rich.
> This is demonstrably false, unfortunately.

You can't just wish away all of advertising before 2005. It wasn't perfect, but it was fine. Publishing has been collapsing since then and the reasons aren't confusing.

Yes, _as an advertiser_, having targeting is great. But as a mining company, dumping waste water in the river is great. Who cares? It matters what effect your actions have on the system as a whole.
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Ask HN: How do you deal with feeling alone and/or not reaching your potential?
Hey guys, I'm a backend developer in Elixir currently working as a contractor for almost 5 years on multiple projects.

Even when I previously worked in a bigger team, I felt technically alone anyway - usually, I’m the only backend developer in the team. I’m missing some kind of feedback loop, a group of people I could grow my experience and improve my problem-solving skills.

I love to talk about technology, think of better solutions to the problem and implementing such solutions into real-life projects. I’m learning new stuff, going deeper and deeper, but I’m not sure If what I’m applying in my projects is the best solution or even the right way of doing things and I know I’m not reaching my full potential.

Did you manage to create a group of individuals you can talk about technology with and get feedback from and grow with?
This is all a byproduct of globalization, moving manufacturing overseas. I don't know why you have such a partisan view on this situation. Demonizing republican voters doesn't help anyone.

Blaming the "white man" for all the worlds ills is more racist than anything the GOP have legislated.
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Case in point: The Nazis used census records to identify Jews. Who knows what pieces of personal information the next madman will consider relevant. They'll certainly have much more of it to choose from.
In the US, 33,000 people a year die in car accidents. That is an actual large number. But statistically there are other factors that determine the likelihood that you will be in that accident and for most statistically it is a low number, or low enough to be considered an acceptable risk.

Sure an individual story of a horrific crash, the pain and suffering is heart wrenching. News outlets love to play that up. Yes, it could also be you, but when you put it into a larger picture it tells a different story.

Then there are the stories of airplane crashes. They get massive coverage yet, statistically, planes are safer than being in a car.
The difference being jurisdiction. Google operates within the EU. Most robodialers targeting the US are not in the US.
Yeah, I think she's using "virus" colloquially to mean a not-very-serious virus such as the common cold. As in "Oh, she's just got a virus".
I was responding specifically to the question "I would have to REALLY love your service to want to carry around an extra device to use it." Some people's banks require their users to carry around a rotating 2FA key dongle, for example.
On the other side, GitHub minted 3 billionaires in the acquisition by Microsoft! Chris Wanstrath walked away with 1.8B and probably would have been best positioned to defend the community which enabled the exit. Funny how the open source ecosystem mirrors the world at large
> Anyone who believes for a moment that the information they collect can't be deanonymized is deluding themselves. This is a precursor to some straight-up Orwellian evil.

What are you visualizing? I get it we need to ensure our privacy and that in these times we lost civil liberties that never again reappear, but I'm wondering what you're thinking with "some straight-up Orwellian evil".
It's an interesting tension.

One reality is that you can model the domain really well, keep it decoupled from the UI, and be able to maintain the app for the long term. Unfortunately if you have any neurotypicals involved they are going to feel mentally and maybe even physically uncomfortable from the discipline and won't rest until it is all tangled up again.

Another approach is to make the system very shallow, design the data structures to represent the UI you want directly, and hopefully gain enough in simplicity that you can deal with long-term evolution in creative ways such as end-to-end versioning.

The difficulty of reconciling the two has been one of the problems with UML, RDF, Graph Viz, Low Code, etc.

Some of the description of a system is unrelated to how it is visualized, yet, if you don't support manual layout and routing the visualizations you make will be meaningless. (In 2020 people are still too polite to tell the makers of hairball graphs that they should go back to the drawing board, but in 2005 there was a "emperor's new clothes" phenomenon where people didn't trust their instincts -- at least now they'll be honest with somebody else.)
You mean links or any of the text/original content on the site? When it comes to the links, you of course don't need to explain that you found them through our site (unless you'd e. g. grab all of the links from one of the categories in one go I guess). For the original content, if you want to use material from us word-for-word then please do your best to link to the site or otherwise explain where you got it from. If it's just a general idea (like "try to keep up with your routines") that you got from us but describe in your own words, you don't need to credit us. If it's any help you can also look at the content policy https://homenauts.com/our-content-policy/

Btw, you can also refer to our Twitter account if you prefer https://twitter.com/homenauts
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Yup, I am surprised at the numebr of people here who think government should have stocked up on ventilators. Ventilators are not such a common requirement to defeat a virus. How do we know what virus will emerge next? COVID-19 needs a ventilator to mitigate side effects. But does it really make sense to stock up on hundreds of thousands of ventilators, when you only really need a few thousand in any given year? What if the next virus is an hemmorhagic fever, or something completely novel? How do you prepare reasonably and with finite resources for something we do not know? No one can answer these questions.

The fact is that if we had bought hundreds of thousands of ventilators and not enough fluid replacement (for Ebola for example) and Ebola was the pandemic, not COVID-19, then everyone would blame the government for preparing the wrong thing. How can anyone know?
Somewhat distantly related, have you seen https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/fjzjpc/relationshi... ? (also see the old sars paper my comment cites and the surrounding thread)
Zeplin is just a link too.

That's what we've been using quite successfully for GUI apps development: designers work in sketch, everyone else consumes the result through Zeplin.
If you want to just change the styling and layout of the page depending on the user's device, then you can use css's media queries[0]. But if you want to serve two totally different pages (one for mobile and another for desktop), then I don't see how it can be done without JS or reading the user agent.

[0] : https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Media_Queri...
Search on twitter for "computer science" and "gatekeeping" and ask all those people, I dunno. I gave up trying to reason with unreasonable people a long time ago.
I don’t see any mention of issue/wiki support? Without that my GitHub workflow would be dramatically changed.
Safari is WebKit. The trouble probably isn't the engine, it's ITP messing with some analytics thing.
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Javascript-only is not an upgrade.
I've been saying for a couple weeks that the mortality rate will turn out to be much much lower if/when we ever get proper data on this. Probably very close to the common flu (0.1-0.2%). But the media companies are all having a great time scaring everyone with their 3% figure in the meantime.
Do you have insurance?
The U.S. seems to have dropped the ball on testing. That's really the only mistake that seems likely to matter that anyone might have conceivably not made.

Global supply chains are a fact of life. The strongest fighter against over-dependence on China is Trump, and he was ridiculed as "protectionist". Trump's travel restrictions were similarly ridiculed.

Strategic stockpiles are spotty. Sometimes the thing you stockpile is what you need; often not. Did every other country have a stockpile of masks except the US?