skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will recollect an apple on a plate. I can maybe tell you the colour of the plate if I'll remember it. But the image will be 100% blank. Nothing there but darkness.
You know those spy films where the hero memorised all the exists and items on the table so he can use them later?
I'll be lost and/or dead in those situations. My sense of direction is horrible at best. I get lost on a straight road with a GPS (this is not an exaggeration - I do).
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If you've got back up media, you can still get the OS/390 Backup Facility from Arca Noae:
https://www.arcanoae.com/shop/s-390-backup-facility/

(Arca Noae is IBM's licensed purveyor of OS/2.)
don't run google ads either
i just hope WebRTC Insertable Streams spec matures 10x faster now - https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/6321945865879552 .
True end-to-end video conferencin privacy through the browser!

This is the time when its truly needed. Firefox, Chrome and Edge should just sit in a room and not come out till its done.
Even better is how they listed their own product last in the list of alternatives. Personally I think the self-hosted open source alternative will yield the appropriate compromise between what the business wants and preserving (some) privacy. In my experience these kinds of changes are unfortunately at the mercy of a top-down request which often trickles down from the C-level executives. Maybe if you turn this article into a pretty power-point presentation, you'll get their audience.
Thanks for the mention elliebike!
Yes

> Give Plausible Analytics a try
Plausible Analytics is built with simplicity, speed and privacy in mind. We’ve used Google Analytics for years and understand its pitfalls
So you're saying we need to check all the mild cases for that 0.1% chance that they have the attenuated strain. You say that even the mild cases have the dangerous form of the virus most of the time.

Do you think we could find the attenuated case more easily of we tested immune compromised people that have mild to no symptoms? Because if they did have the dangerous form of the virus, the symptoms wouldn't be mild. So we know that if you have the virus and are immunocompromised and have mild symptoms, it's probably not your immune system that is strong but the fact that the virus strain you have is attenuated?

Or does that not work because the amount of people you can test that have those conditions is just too low to find any?
Paying for a few extra cows doesn't seem like it'd break the bank.
Ok, basically a Bloom Filter for test results. Pretty cool :)
Google Analytics data isn’t tied to ad targeting. Google doesn’t profile you based on data from sites you visit with GA.
> This must be done before the program runs

I have no experience with VMS, but I always thought a similar limitation was weird on Windows. On Unix you can replace an active descriptor with dup2(2). On windows, whatever HANDLEs you have at CreateProcess you are stuck with forever. You can replace the CRT's integer descriptor or SetStdHandle, maybe they have freopen these days too, but these are usernode abstractions. Sometimes I would like to swap the kernel structure backing a HANDLE after it's created.
Yes. In January and February, we were "meant to" all keep traveling, spending, going to conferences, and parades. I'm not sure how a passive "meant to" helps. And we were all "meant to" not wear face masks, until just now.

These things are common sense. If you don't believe a face shield will help, why bother sneezing in your elbow?

We have three modes of potential transmission:

1) Large droplets, where face shields increase the effective distance from others.
2) Contact, where faceshield prevent you from accidentally touching your face.
3) Aerosol, where faceshields don't do a thing.

But reducing 2 out of 3 modes of transmission for a buck or two makes complete sense.
Why would you need a third party for that? That is basic information your web server already knows.
It depends on the threat model. If I need to prove to a court in the US, then I'm signing paper and faxing it. To do it differently would be more expensive to prove.
Yup - assuming you had filesystem support anyway. Seastar has a useful tool named “fsqual” for determining whether a given filesystem is capable of using kernel async IO in a non-blocking fashion.
Exactly correct. Corporations like Google and Facebook successfully turned privacy into a luxury good available only to the oligarch class. See for example Zuckerberg buying all the mansions around his, to protect his privacy, with the money he made proselytizing "privacy is dead" and selling us out to advertisers.
I've enjoyed books recommended at "teachyourselfcs".
It sounds like a nice product, but sadly it's not exactly why GA is so popular (being a 'nice' product, that is). It is popular, because it's free, relatively easy to implement on any website, requires no self-hosting and powerful, once running. I've checked your website for pricing, but not only there's no word about free tiers, but there isn't even anything on the pricing at all. So, when it comes to majority of GA users, it's not a competitive solution.
China, the best bogeyman to discredit anyone you don't like. Is that the 2020s version of a "commie"?
Fintech.
Only on HN is $54k/year considered "low paid".

The US median income is $31k. $1050/week is an enormous pay raise for well over half of the working population.
Status page has "Google App Engine" as available, but my app is barely functioning.
If you don't care if people are reading your blog, why bother posting it online at all? Why not just blog into a local Word document, like the character Creed on "The Office"?

If you do care whether people are reading what you write, then analytics is the obvious way to find out.
Recommendations related to Covid-19 on MOSP
The Graphing Calculator That Ships with Mac OS
I don't think DMA is an option in VMS land. Just a lock held for regular interrupt driven packet delivery. Been a while since I've dealt with it.

This provides an in-depth description of the VCI API which is used to write your own ethernet frame handler. Some descriptions of when IOLOCK8 is held.

https://rtk.mirrors.pdp-11.ru/_vax/openvms.org.ru/vci1.html#...
Coronavirus Is Evil, but Does It Come with Some Benefits?
Why do you assume that a good CAPTCHA should positively discriminate Chrome users?
Akaso Pro 4k - The thing is a knock off gopro but it has the embedded webcam drivers so it's plug and play. I spent about 4 hours trying to get the Costco version of the GoPro4 to work with a bunch of drivers from some guy in Europe. Did not work. Any GoPro solution sounds hacky

The other thing is old phones and tablets. Wipe them, root, install something like Lineage and then get an IP camera app, dead simple and provides a second display for what you're presenting on the camera.
>It’s a bloated script that affects your site speed
Once I removed GA, the speed increase was surprisingly very noticeable. That alone was enough for me to keep it off.
Some open source alternatives:

- https://ackee.electerious.com/ (Node.js based)

- https://github.com/zgoat/goatcounter (Golang) (Commercial Licensed)

- https://snowplowanalytics.com (Core-ware)

- https://count.ly (Core-ware)

https://www.visitor-analytics.io is also a great GDPR compliant alternative (Not open source).
I am actually working on a Jitsi meet fork dedicated to agile Team https://meet.retrolution.co/

So far I added features such as Poker planning and post is drawing. Any feedback welcome ;-)
For your information MOSP is a platform for creating, editing and sharing JSON objects. You will find more here:
https://github.com/CASES-LU/MOSP
We can do our part buy buying less beef.
Yeah I was a lot less 'oh man it's an advertisement' when I saw multiple options listed.
Exactly. Standards cannot be lowered everywhere. If you don’t have the knowledge to pass your examinations then take additional time to achieve proficiency.
I could use a mobile app to do that.

In my country, to leave your home to do shopping in this period, you are required by military ordnance to fill a form stating the reason of leaving your home. You can show it on your mobile phone, but you have to print it, sign by hand and take a picture of it.
Any of them dogmen around too?
Ask HN: What are the most timeless development tools, etc., and why?
Curious to see what people think are the most “timeless” tools, languages, frameworks. How old something needs to be to be “timeless” is subjective. Would be interesting to see if there’s convergence on particular areas. Might provide a nice overview of tools (or even processes, methodologies) for a younger developer to focus on.
None of those things are helpful when it's a restrictive commercial endeavor. There are many things that are technically very fancy but simply unreachable by most people due to administrative restrictions. Those restrictions are a far bigger barrier to usage and success than the technical capabilities, especially in a dynamic, fast-moving and interconnected world.

I suppose that is also why this was posted here on HN: being tied to the grace of some commercial entity isn't exactly pleasurable.
I'm inclined to believe that for now. Though I fully expect that a bunch of security researchers will be taking a very close look indeed at exactly what data is still going to or through China. I am open to changing my mind upon seeing evidence that, after being informed of the problem and promising to correct it, they failed to resolve the issue and continue to send data to any country it doesn't need to go to.
According to google, it is:

“Google uses the information shared by sites and apps to deliver our services, maintain and improve them, develop new services, measure the effectiveness of advertising, protect against fraud and abuse, and personalize content and ads you see on Google and on our partners’ sites and apps”.
The million-dollar question: will removing GA hurt my search raanking?
Exceptions set dangerous precedents.
During a crisis the primary goal is maintaining societal stability. Exploiting the rich and the desperate deteriorates that stability. People would rather have a lottery than an auction in these scenarios.
https://goaccess.io/ ?
I've seen them, and they do seem to have a nice product, but similarly to plausible, it isn't a direct competitor. Having to pay $19 per month for a website analytics that doesn't (perhaps yet, but aspires to, hence the need for analytics in first place) bring any income is most basic and huge disadvantage versus GA.
Congrats on the launch! I especially liked the Typeform for early access!
Bernie Sanders Suspends Presidential Bid
I bought a webcam off of AliExpress that was supposedly shipped from the US and they said they had stock. It was ~$25 so I'm not expecting much but it will be something. I'm doing facetime/facebook video chats with family members so they can see my 15 month old son. We have been using the built-in camera in either a phone or laptop but my son keeps trying to reach out and smash the keyboard or touch the phone screen. The idea is to use a webcam and then hook the laptop up to the TV so that we can be visible.
Take this post with a pinch of salt... Out of the 10 points made, I'd argue only 2 are actually valid and another 2 are "technically correct but..."

It’s owned by Google, the largest ad-tech company in the world

Yes. Google provides a free service and in return gets a view into your traffic. Very fair point, but not terribly controversial IMHO

It’s a bloated script that affects your site speed

Um, not really. I'm a big web performance advocate but 45.7KB of JS is small for the service provided. You do not need to use Google Tag Manager either so if you care you can reduce the JS footprint to 18KB.

It’s overkill for the majority of site owners

Yes. I'd agree with this. You probably do not need it if you are not a business.(Given the source of this point I'm guessing they do not offer most of the features of GA)

It’s a liability considering GDPR, CCPA and other privacy regulations

Hard disagree. You can limit PII in GA to large degree like not gathering full IP address, and reduce logging.

If GA is your only reason to have a Consent option then fine, its a burden to do. However if you have any other analytics or services that use cookies its a minor check-list item to cover this.

It uses cookies so you must obtain consent to store cookies

They are repeating their previous claim in a different form here... skipping.

It’s blocked by many plugins and browsers so the data is not very accurate

Technically correct, but you don't need highly accurate data to make product decisions. GA does sampling after a certain threshold anyway.

It requires an extensive privacy policy

No. It does not. You should acknowledge it and talk about why you use GA and you can link to GA's privacy policy. Plenty of boilerplate text you can copy to cover this if you really care.

It’s abused by referral spam that skews the data

Maybe your experience if different but this is hardly a problem worth noting. Certainly not a GA specific issue.

It’s a proprietary product so you need to put your trust in Google

Yeah. Same with any service you use, but ok.

It worsens the user experience due to the necessity for the annoying prompts

Again, most 3rd-party services on your site mean you need to go this path. There are good and bad ways to do this.

I'm sure this service is worth trying. I would also recommend looking at Simple Analytics: https://simpleanalytics.com/
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The derivative of x->x (identity) should be 1 regardless of your definition of derivative.

Subgradients are only applicable when summing convex functions. Here relu(x) - relu(-x) is a sum of a convex function and a concave function.
HN is an Internet forum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_forum
Pricing is close to the bottom of the home page.
What's your favorite free game that runs on Linux, and teaches you something?
Well, there is a balance. In many circumstances, the same service used by different applications may over-fetch or under-fetch data [0]. OData allows the application to describe exactly what they need including things like filtering, ordering and aggregation that might be less efficient to perform on the application side [1]. Having performed the OData.org Basic Tutorial [2] using just curl, I was positively impressed by the concept and simplicity.

0. https://towardsdatascience.com/graphql-grafana-and-dash-7aa9...

1. https://www.progress.com/blogs/rest-api-industry-debate-odat...

2. https://www.odata.org/getting-started/basic-tutorial/
Anecdotally, VMS had a command to exclusively allocate resources which I learned on a predecessor OS RSTS/E. Predecessor in the sense that some command syntax carried over; I have no clue how much RSTS/E source if any made its way into VMS. Regardless, the idea was you would ALLOC the line printer or tape drive to prevent anyone else from stepping on you.

At Digital's NCC booth in 1981 or 1982 (I forget) they were showing off clustered VAXes with the nodes named after colors. I jokingly typed ALLOC RED:: and discovered that allocating an entire node to yourself crashed the cluster.
Yes, but you really have to read the whole thing to see it. Even then, they listed their own product last on a list of alternatives. I equate it to how Privacy Badger approached their product (although it's free): your privacy is compromised, so try their product which will protect your privacy. This type of "honorable" advertising is OK in my book.
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I wish they would just serialize cypher output in formats that work with common graph data science libs... rather than wrapping everything slowly into their own ecosystem.
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Just to be clear, I'm not dismissing the devastating effects this pandemic has brought. More lives will continue to be lost for the foreseeable future and it will likely have lasting economic implications. But if governments around the world go forward with mass-surveillance, it would be 9/11 all over again. As a direct consequence of 9/11, many innocent lives have been lost. But it's the policy decisions after the incident that has had an even more lasting and devastating effect on our democratic society. People need to keep these things in mind, especially in times of emergencies.
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Finally properly waiting for iframes to load in Cypress
Didn’t his answer boil down to “The math is the physics. That’s the explanation. That’s how it works. You can’t just make up an analogy because the math is the analogy”
If the answer is yes, then the next call to action should be stop using Google.
In the movies, a chest wound (like a gun shot) on the right side means, "Phew, it missed their heart!"

IRL, that injury on either side is equally worrying.
I think "many" might be overselling it a bit relative to a population of ~330M.
Are you suggesting that China isn't responsible for repeated, massive state-sponsored hacks? That they aren't actively committing industrial espionage primarily through said state-sponsored hacking?

If you're not saying that, then why are you pretending the fact that Zoom is sending keys THROUGH CHINA and developing the product IN CHINA is not a big deal?
wechat posted on twitter, good luck finding it though
“Beginning database design” By Clare Churcher is a really accessible book on these issues, very practical (starts off with simple spreadsheet tables!) and takes you through step by step to understanding the problems with and the need for the different levels of normalization.
We need to know if these are organs for circumventing the law of its member countries by spying on each other when spying on their own citizens is illegal.

Privacy is fundamental to democratic elections and enemies to democracy should not be tolerated.
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> If I used to produce 100 units per month because that's how many I could sell, but now I know I can sell 10000 units per month, that is incentive enough to increase production.

For what it's worth, this isn't how "supply and demand" works in economics.

The idea is that a given firm is already producing as much as they can at that price. There's not usually a ton of slack just laying around that could respond to a spike in demand. For instance, my wife who works at a soap factory right now, has seen a ton of demand. They would love to increase production to accommodate but it's just not immediately possible, without retooling the factory. They're managing to increase supply a little, by not offering as many varieties of scents and such, but that's the extent of what they can do immediately.

The reason prices increase with an increase in demand, according to standard economics orthodoxy, is because that allows more firms to enter the market, as well as existing firms to do less efficient things (more workers, more expensive supply chain, etc), to meet that demand.
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Indeed it is, I stand corrected :) However, when I was looking at it, I've skimmed through the top menu (nothing), scrolled down to the footer (noting) and finally clicked the Documentation link (nothing). Apparently the pricing info isn't exposed well enough.
They could be making money by letting hunters harvest them in accordance with a wildlife preservation plan, instead.
Well the Chinese government are commies so it is probably the same thing.
> I agree - but that wasn't the point you raised in your original post.

The point is: debt/loans are not a silver bullet that will magically solve liquidity/solvency issues for small businesses. They come with important drawbacks and restrictions as well as legal liabilities. Buyer beware.

About the restaurants: what is the restaurant owners incentive to get a PPP loan? It doesn't really make sense to go through the pain of getting a loan, just to rehire/keep employees for 8 weeks doing nothing, while at the same time not being able to pay their rent/lease, and having no idea when/if they'll be able to reopen.

Debt + high business uncertainty is a bad combo.
Derivation of Maxwell equations from the corresponding Lagrange form does not require to know differential geometry. But some understanding of that is useful to realize that it is the Maxwell equations that sort-of follows from the constness of the speed of light which in turn reflects the underlying geometry of the model of space-time.

And the speed of light is constant only so far as that model matches the reality.
If this is your personal website, one option to consider is dropping the analytics completely. Do you really need to know exactly (and it’s not even that exact, since people block or can’t load your analytics) how many people viewed your blog posts? Anecdotally, if you put your email at the bottom of the page you’ll get a pretty good idea just from the number of people who send you one.
If it weren’t controversial nobody would be discussing it.
If you're going to tear down a competitor's product and shill your own you should probably be up front about it.
Hey! We're not exposing anything like Kafka to our end users. We think all of the underlying technical infrastructure should be abstracted so the users can focus on their core logic.

We're also not currently exposing any external Swagger / OpenAPI docs for a similar reason, but it's simple to integrate and we've considered generating it for our more technical users.

If you're interested in joining the team as an engineer, we're hiring!
https://www.notion.so/Paragon-is-Hiring-ab5739dac1c4490db920...
It kind of is when the issues continue to climb as suggested in the post you responded to
Fabulous read, very sad to hear of the decline of Springer-Verlag, formerly the hallmark of quality publications in mathematics.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22256275
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> “ok, so what you think curl of that would look like?”.

When making a milk shake, open the blender's lid and look down so you see a whirlpool.

Take a small pinwheel, and dip the pinwheel's face flat and level on the surface.

Move it around, and notice it spins faster in the center than on the side.

Write down the pinwheel's speed at all the points.

https://mathinsight.org/curl_idea

... ... ... I think I got that right.

I also replace derivatives with the little triangle, and integral with sum to clear things up. The calculus part of it makes the resolution aspect of the concept, going from scanlines to 4K, irrelevant.

With vectors and multiple dimensions, the normal way is to think of small components building up to a scalar value. X and Y components creating a hypotenuse.

Another way I think of it is I have a sensor, and get one scalar reading. Can that one reading keep spitting out values? What resolution do I need to simulate that reading? Can I just use x and y and get a hypotenuse? Or does it go to infinity?
Thanks. I didn't check the homepage and looked for pricing info in the navigation links, felt it was needlessly difficult. Pricing should be easy to locate from every page for a product like this.
This really shows how popular perceptions of Google have changed for the worse over the years. I remember when RECAPTCHA was first launched, everyone knew right away that it was just helping Google train their vision models, but at the time we all thought it was cool, like "Wow, I'm helping the cause of AI research at the same time as stopping spam". But now it just pisses everyone off.

Hell, for a little while Google had a game (can't remember the name of it) which was labeling images with another person to get points and people loved it.
to learn chess, there's scid and the stockfish engine included in distros such as debian and ubuntu.

There's also the lc0 engine, which is the open source version of the mighty Deep Mind AlphaZero chess engine - linux installation instructions for lc0 are here: https://github.com/LeelaChessZero/lc0/blob/master/README.md