skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure how you draw that conclusion. Its made to sound controversial (by a would-be competitor).

My point is that it is really not when you look below the surface.
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Thank you! Our cofounder @fooly_wk did it himself. We've built everything in house.
> the police will never get the funding or oversight needed for improvement. The cycle continues

More funding turns into more MWRAPS, not better oversight.
I honestly couldn’t care less which of my blog posts are popular. I write about things interesting to me, which I assume is often too boring or technical for most people. Sometimes people post my stuff to Hacker News and it does well, sometimes it doesn’t, but if I tried to “optimize” this by matching what the site seems to like I wouldn’t write some of my favorite posts.
I will not arguing against protecting ones website from bots, nor am I saying, that VPN traffic is not spammy in practice. Up until that point I am with you. However, making use of ReCaptcha is certainly not an ethical and therefore not a justifiable way of doing it.

Doing all of the stated things these days has become a minimum for protecting your privacy online. The current situation is a quite bad for privacy conscious people. Even if we only trust first party scripts and do not allow them being loaded from a subdomain, which actually has all the third party scripts again, we still face issues, for example fingerprinting.

I can only laud websites, which can be used completely without third party scripts or perhaps even without scripts at all, making sure it all works with REST, offering alternatives, when scripts are blocked.

It's good to see some "competition" in this area, even, if I do not trust cloudflare either. More competition means less Google monopoly. Hopefully in the long run it will lead to better solutions for casual users.
Anything involving string handling or parsing is good to do with TDD. It is so easy to get those things wrong, security is a concern, and some day you'll find your parsing code is frustratingly slow and have to rework it.

In some cases the real uncertainties are in the behavior of the environment. (e.g. back in Java 1.1 when AWT components had an 'invalidate' method that was documented to 'invalidate the component') Some GUI frameworks lend themselves to testing (a Vue application contains many pure functions that can be tested alone), others make it hard.

Testing comes in different levels too. Sometimes automated integration tests are better than unit tests, even if they take longer to run. (Like that time I wrote a micro-ORM for one version of mysql, and took about two hours to port it to the next version of mysql and to MS SQL since I had tests)

Sometimes testing out the core of a multithreaded app for 300 seconds with 200 threads is a good way to know that if race conditions are there they are very rare. On the other hand you just can't run a test like that on every build.

I often write test suites for the standard library when I don't understand what it does. For instance, I got a good understanding of how asyncio works in Python by writing test cases that use coroutines in unusual ways, which helps me write coroutine-based frameworks.
This is at least one place where JPG compression helps. In PDF Xchange, I drop in my scanned clear signature (a font), then merge & pdf print the page as 50% jpg quality.
The mutual defense pact our president has repeatedly tried to weaken and or remove the US from? Yeah, that's going swimmingly.
Discovering that users are having difficulty finding pricing information... might be one useful piece of data you could garner with a good analytics tool.

Also I just checked out the pricing's placement and that is utterly terrible UI - the site uses light greyshade striping in the background for difference sections and then has the pricing block proceeded by a very dark background block with no information immediately visible - this is a clear visual flag for the rest of a page being irrelevant and a footer.

And, just to clarify, the site's actual footer uses the exact same coloring for the footer along with a similar amount of excessive top-padding.
Many in NYC were unable to get a test. I was extremely sick mid-march and was unable to get a test because it was before New York started ramping up capacity. NY blood center requires a positive test result before they'll consider you for plasma donation.

Mt Sinai's study also accepts people that did not get tested for covid-19 at the time of infection. They will accept plasma and then test it for antibodies, which has the handy side effect of telling you if you already had covid-19. I'm scheduled to donate there next week.

https://redcap.mountsinai.org/redcap/surveys/?s=RCC7FNHK3Y
I've definitely noticed a drop in the manufacturing quality of their books published in the last few years.
If you're interested in Wolf conservation and re-introduction and live in or are visiting southern California, I can recommend (once the whole current mess is over) visiting the California Wolf Center in Julian, CA:

https://californiawolfcenter.org/

If possible, I recommend going in the winter when it's cooler out (best when it's actually raining a little) - the Wolves are more active then.
I've been able to install regular Kubernetes on 2 Raspberry Pi 4s but I'm running into a lot of Helm charts that don't support ARM architecture so it was awesome watching their demo and hearing about their issues. I'll have to try Arkade and see if it works for my cluster.
Millennials are getting stung by back-to-back economic crises
I have a hobby blog that I'm trying to run for <$5/month. I run it on Github Pages because it's a static site and GH takes care of just about everything. The only thing I don't get is analytics or server logs, I'm planning to build that myself with standard AWS components. I considered other options, but I didn't want to use GA (for many of the reasons mentioned in the blog), other tools like Plausible were outside of my budget, and the open source tools looked like more hassle to self-host than reinventing the wheel myself:

Browser (~3 lines of JS) -> API Gateway -> SQS Queue -> Lambda (ETLs queue into) -> Athena.

I was originally just going to use Postgres, but RDS/Aurora are expensive and running Postgres in EC2 is going to be at least as much work (configuring SSH, process management, backups, monitoring, logging, image building, networking, etc).

My custom plan is ~$3/month all-in provided I stay below ~1M requests per month, and even then it scales very cheaply. Also, this design is highly scalable, although I doubt I'll ever take advantage of it; it's mostly just icing on the cake. The main motivation is that these components are available on the free plan ("forever", not just the first 12 months) and/or the pricing model makes the charges negligible for my super-low-volume use case.

Note that this doesn't give me pretty dashboards; the interface is SQL. Fortunately, there are other analysis tools that I have at my disposal which can plug in to SQL.

Lastly, of course my $5 budget doesn't do justice to the actual value of my time; it's more of a fun challenge. If I really just wanted web analytics, I should shell out the $6/month for plausible or similar.
What kind of tone-deaf person made the original suggestion to colocate sales and engineering?!?
"Agile"? :)
After agressive sanctions from US government for EU, the targeted EU travel ban and current presidents rhetoric, I have zero trust in any kind of mutual defense or military assistance coming from US in the time of crisis.

Remember, people of Italy are currently being helped by Chinese doctors while US president ignores and belittles the problem.

The talks between France and Germany about creating an independent defense pact also reflect the complete lack of trust into what NATO has become. So much was lost in so few years.

And that also ignores all the nasty surveillance stuff they've been doing these last few years - where the Five Eyes pact was used to surveil our own citizens by our own government by piping data through US. If there's one thing I'm sure of is that China won't share their spying data with my own government ;P
Yep, entire post is pure marketing signaling and nothing in the way of details.
All project management eventually ends up in Excel. So I'll say Excel.
I live in a European country where the eco-dictators [1] go to extensive lengths to protect wolves. Basically it's a crime to hurt a wolf unless you can prove that it attacked you.

I hope the wolves also read the law:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wolf_attacks

[1] I say this as a former sponsor of Greenpeace and former voter for the Green party, but some things are out of hand now and humans appear to be less important than animals.
Ask HN: Covid-19: Recycle N95 Masks (and Other Med Equipment)?
Soaking masks in alcohol or other methods can sterilize them. Could we not sterilize, then reuse them? This might save a great deal of money and effort.

http://blogs.hcpro.com/osha/2009/05/ask-the-expert-n95-respirator-reuse/

Similarly for other gear?
This is why,overtime, I have scanned few more versions of my signatures & converted them to a font.
I don't think Chrome has ever been my daily driver.

That said, I also expect to be treated with more suspicion when I behave more like a bot. So I'm neither surprised nor bothered when Firefox Private gets me an uptick in ReCAPTCHAs. I understand that this is a highly unusual expectation.
Is there any way to make personal data usage within companies more transparent and verifiable? Are there known studies/works in this line of thought? In an ideal world, what can we do to make data usage more transparent?
True, so you fflush before dup2.

Not having dup2 is annoying though. With win32 you cannot make the change automatically propagate to child processes. You need to specify the handles in every CreateProcess call. Sometimes that happens deep inside a library and you can't modify it.
A Human Perspective on How Businesses Can Respond to Covid-19
“From X” doesn’t sound like a flat fee, but either tiered or usage based, where the $6/m is the lowest possible you can pay.
Why hasn't this institutional supply been redirected to the consumer market?

Same question regarding all the food normally sold to restaurants and companies that are now closed.
Probably? I think it's self-reported. If I was mostly working for Airbnb as a photographer, I might put them as my employer on LinkedIn, freelance or no.
Headsets are definitely in short supply. I bought a mid-range Jabra in March for about $150-160. The same model on Amazon is now over $200 and has increased by $10 since the last time I checked just one week ago.
I've been using Mosh for years and it's one of the first things I install on all servers I setup. I also install the client on my android phone via Termux and it's absolutely great on laggy and unreliable mobile connection. My only gripes are the lack of scrolling buffer (need to remember to use tmux) and the lack of support on iTerm's fancy tmux integration. Other than that it's an absolutely fantastic tool!
Can it though? How can a program manipulate the scrollback buffer of the terminal that it's running in? Other than by printing more output. But once it's updated the current line, it can't go back and add more lines - those lines have already been printed on the scroll.
Female Vulcans also experience the pon farr.
Are the predictions predictive? People come together to predict things that don't come to pass all the time.
What about net neutrality and "common carrier"? These seem to be well established goals and values.
There's another Obama, you know.

[Edit: Though I don't think that's what Hongwei meant...]
On Zoom you can activate raw, non-preprocessed sound. (I never tried it and don't know whether it works well for music)
"Exploiting the rich"

I don't even understand how that works.
Especially the amount of warping you apparently need to do to text to make it hard for a neural network these days.
Have there been observed correlations with zinc deficient patients?
I'm not saying those people don't exist - just that I suspect they are a significant minority when compared to the group I spoke of.
> a few extra cows

If the solution here is just writing-off the lives of animals, then why bother defending the lives of the wolves?
I assumed the parent was talking about the COVID-19 crisis. Or is there a Zoom-related crisis I missed?
In general, you should be very careful about what third parties you allow on your page because you're delegating to them the ability to do anything that can be done from JS. I trust Google to take this seriously and not open me up to XSS, but I would be much more skeptical about Scroogle Analoytics.

(Disclosure: I work for Google, and have run Google Analytics on my site since before I joined)
The fingerprint is not there because it's better than the PIN but because it's better than nothing, it makes people want to use such a protection. Before biometric sensors almost nobody bothered to set a PIN. Few people want to type a PIN every time they unlock the phone especially if in clear view of others. Biometrics just made security convenient enough to use.
This is a prime example of why letting prices go up to a certain degree on certain items is a good thing.

Case in point: you wanted to buy a new webcam, not because you needed one, but because you felt it was time to do so. You can't, because the prices are too high. But for someone for whom a webcam is essential (think a doctor providing televisits to patients), a high price isn't as much of a deterrent (within reason).

Because you couldn't/wouldn't buy at the higher price, there was stock available for the doctor who absolutely needed the device.
Most of these are a coin toss. Clinton had better odds against the same person in 2016.
GA also has support from many third party libraries because of the popularity that you can just plug-in and get started with.

e.g.

https://github.com/react-ga/react-ga

https://github.com/angulartics/angulartics2

https://github.com/MatteoGabriele/vue-gtag
If you are modifying HTML directly, no cache is involved.

But if you are modifying something that is used to generate the HTML, what you deploy is a complete cache of the operation of building the site. The fact that you could throw it away and build a new version is what makes it match the definition—just because no piece is colloquially known as a cache doesn’t stop it from being just that. Build artefacts are a cache of the operation of compiling the source.

To demonstrate this, putting the “requests” part into it: imagine hooking the static site generator up to the server directly, so that a request to /widgets.html turned into “run the static site generator, but only ask it for what it would output for /widgets.html, then respond with that”.

The terminology I used is quite correct and widespread in the industry at large—it’s just that it’s not at all in vogue in the JAMstack world.
It isn't about proportion of population, but whether they are only testing people already admitted at the hospital, which will drive the estimate up, or testing the wider population, driving the estimate down. SK is doing the latter through contact tracing.
You start a war to get more power. You start letting virus to go and start ...
From a purely functional standpoint, that is -- does this software do what I need it to do?, I have had absolutely no problems with zoom.

What issues have come up for you?
Title selection has never been a super honest deal. It's meant to get you to read the article, nothing more. In the US at least it's a well-oiled machine from the late 1800s. I guess other countries have probably been doing it longer?
What, in your opinion, is the pro-human way to address the problem to be solved?

I'm always curious to hear what other approaches might be worth considering. CAPTCHAs tend to tick the boxes of performing well enough for website-controllers and being low-effort for them to deploy.
I see 2 clear images of dogs. 2 possible dog images. And zebras humping.

Nice.
Migrating ZooKeeper into Kubernetes
Why is the need for an account a showstopper?
I moved to Jitsi a few weeks ago and have been really pleased. Getting people not used to video conferencing on an in-browser call is much simpler
I know that Glasser and Qin at Princeton are working on geometrical view of plasma physik. They aim to get a view of particle-in-cell methods (basically a way to discretize the Vlasov equation using sparse sampling) using a geometric view point expressed using discrete exterior calculus. But I am not sure how much of that is ready or published.
Does this mean that https://www.predictit.org/ isn't authorized to operate in any state?
> Recaptcha is $1/1000 challenges

This seems unwise, because many captcha farms charge less than this. A quick Google search shows one service offering $0.50/1000 challenges. If it's 2x cheaper for an attacker to solve a captcha than it is for a provider to display it, it sounds like the attackers win.
Don't feed the troll, this person is a Winnie the Pooh shill.
Your choice is, of course, your choice, but I'd strongly suggest GA for this use case. I understand and agree that Google is in fact evil and we should avoid feeding the beast, but a hobby website using GA is too minor to care about for any of the privacy reasons the author states and if it's fully static pages then ideally the performance will already be light enough that the bloat of GA isn't going to make a difference.
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I've done something similar to this that has worked for me without a lot of effort besides the first time setup. I use Fathom which is open-source and available to use on any hosting service. I use it with DigitalOcean so it's $5/mo and I get to run it on as many websites I have.

Might not be very helpful in your case but I'd recommend thinking about using a simpler setup than SQS Queue + Lambda, if that works for you ️
If each of those methods consumes `self` instead of taking a reference to it, then the methods are effectively pure, and don't require copying.
I really don't think so, I've never heard of this company I didn't know what they sell. I had to poke around the website and read the comments here to realize. That's really the exact opposite of being up front.
How is this different than Fathom? (https://usefathom.com/)
My thought is since this is a new virus it will spread faster, and hit peak sooner. Also, those who are most affected are a small portion of the whole population, which will again imply faster time to peak.
The "Open" was added to suggest harmony with POSIX, Motif/CDE and other standards. OpenVMS was a proprietary OS used on VAX and Alpha computers long before DEC was bought by Compaq (and then HP) and the name was not suggesting open source the way OpenSolaris does.
Right, the legal system considers it secure.

I'm talking about the technical sense. Where there is no encryption at all, anyone with a phone line splitter can listen in, and the machines are usually not in a secured area so anyone could just pick up the fax and walk away. Not secure at all.
Yes, predictions made from March 2 data about the COVID-19 are objectively outdated, because it's a rapidly changing situation.

By March 2, 4000 died around the world. Today, more than 1200 residents of just Queens, New York have died.

Lots of leaders around the world made the wrong guess with overly optimistic thinking, like what is in that paper.

> Look, you keep moving the goalposts.

Based on the March 2 view of the situation, what it says is not without justification. The paper doesn't claim to be asserting unvarnished truths. It makes some forward looking statements that are in the rational range, based on what was known.

The arguments in that paper do not hold today; it is not appropriate to wield that paper due to its connection to expertise.

It's like referring to last month's weather forecasts in the middle of a hurricane.
Pencils, keyboards, magnetic tape, System/360.

I’m not sure those are things for a younger developer to focus on, though.
I am moderating lockdownconf with Quincy Larson from FCC coming Tuesday
How to build multitenant application with DRF application
Bitcoin Cash undergoes 'halving' event, casting shadow on miner profitability
Communism is still bad, my friend.

China unleashing this pandemic is bad, too.
Substantial to you, not this site.
I had a look at contributing to jitsi, starting with translations for their mobile app, but the CLA turned me away. I really dislike those things.

However, I like the product they are building. Keep it up! I hope the firefox issues will soon be a thing of the past (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?status_whiteboard_t...)
Shareholders don't sign user agreements.
Spinning out the content might have staved off losing content for a year or so, but pretty much every single one of their 3rd party content providers has their own streaming service now, so the writing was on the wall for content deals even before their original content division started.
Top Features to Look for in an Ergonomic Chair
Meh, I'm using the integrated webcam in my work Dell Latitude . It's sufficient.

I really don't see the need for super-high-res webcams for work meeting (unless you have to stream a whole room).
I didn't choose it at random ;-)
I do, in that link provided in an edit, after getting around google recaptcha (wow securitytrails.com has a shitty website...)

Edit: here's a screenshot: https://twitter.com/danehrlich11/status/1247206209876353025/...
HN can be very arbitrary about this.

This submission's topic is one step away from this one at over 1800 points a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12907201
Actually this isn't true anymore, they have since added the _option_ to not require an account when using the web client. The Web SDK still works like before and also doesn't require an account.

But I agree, the way it was handled was harrowing.
For what it's worth I find it minorly annoying when people send me emails about my posts. I'm happy for people to comment on them, but typically an email is an invitation to have a private discussion and I'd much rather talk publicly (https://www.jefftk.com/p/comment-dont-message)
Serious hypothetical question: suppose you're able to capture all Zoom calls. If you're a foreign government, how do you scale the analysis, and what can you generally do with the information?

It'd be hard to get a useful amount of trade secrets or know-how. You'll see partial schematics and design docs, but without much context. At the executive level, you could at least scale the analysis to have actual people monitoring the calls. You could get broad strategy (e.g. launch a mid-range 5G phone in 2021 Q1) and enough financial information to make some well-informed trades.
In my view, Sanders wasn't viable to win the primary once there were only two candidates. But I think he might possibly have had a better shot at beating Trump than Biden, because Trump is a populist. Running another populist against him divides those who are looking for "something different" as opposed to "business as usual" - especially of some of those who voted for "something different" decide that they haven't actually gotten much from Trump.

On the other hand, there are people who think that Sanders was too extreme to be elected, and those people may well be right.

TL;DR: I don't know. I'm not sure either Biden or Sanders could beat Trump.
Does the professor’s claim that the “origin of species” is more important than Maxwell’s equations got any real takers? Or is it just his personal opinion?
You can still activate this functionality in the settings, it now only deactivated by default due to the public outcry over Zoombombing etc.

Amusing that many of the changes lowered accessibility significantly (e.g. my grandmother wasn't able to join the meeting anymore after passwords became default). I still don't get it. Skype was way worse in my opinion and nobody ever cared about it.
Coronavirus pandemic pushes US and China closer to cold war