skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have a point, but most of the items I mentioned involve ICU (gunshots, car accidents, fake ambulance calls for lunch) which should be down during lockdown.
How does Cloudflare NS deal with caching resolvers?
How does embedded script provide better data? You mean if the page is delivered from network cache you still get analytics or something else?
And the stock is not even really dipping.
I use Greens, which are even louder, but nothing compares to the volume of the buckling spring "PING" noise
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I can easily tell which of one of my family has fiber internet versus not fiber internet just by the consistency and quality of our FaceTime calls. Even between the US and England, the fiber to fiber connections are far more high quality and stable than cable and other types.

The ISPs can claim whatever numbers they want, but the real test is what it feels like when you use it.
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I have these, for an office. Yes they are silent if you slowly push and release a key, but thumping away at 50-60 wpm still makes a huge amount of noise, even with o-rings installed (although a lot quieter than blue switches which I used to have).
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And on the flip side, there are people like Noam Chomsky who reply to all emails they receive:

https://www.reddit.com/r/chomsky/comments/6a23eg/how_long_do...
Half-informed layman questions:

If this 30% recovered don't have antibodies, how did they beat the infection?

Does the immune system have some other mechanism to defat a virus?

Or does the antibody production taper off very fast for some people?

Or can the virus just die out by itself somehow?
Yeah, but this version is not necessarily optimal. If you have 4 positive samples, then you will test 2+2+1+1+1+1 = 8, instead of 4 in the naive case.

It feels like a problem for information theory.
While what you say might be true, you took literally the last two lines of a much longer post (that were used as final note regarding the topic in question) and in turn used that to say nothing relevant either, "hurr durr complex capitalism let-do scoobydoobydoo", but of course making me say "hurr durr liberty" in the process.

The points I made are quite clear:

a) A serious reading of the data we know shows a different picture of the fear inducing narrative being peddled
b) Experts say the most irresponsible things - in quite enigmatic situations for someone with deep expertise in the subject being talked about
c) Lockdown and home isolation are probably detrimental in terms of an individuals immune system - as in, going out is good
d) There are other approaches that seem to have worked quite well
e) You're going to die
f) You shouldn't trade certain things for a fake sense of security even in the face of uncertainty

There are other questions that are complex, like millions dying of structural inequality every year and no world wide response to that (and on that point, no moral outrage by the civic chevaliers on that either), we could go on in false moralities all night long.

Although I'm not religious, I imagine saying "Thoughts and prayers" does help people who are in distress.
I wonder if you might talk a bit about what more is in the book than already publicly available in the awesome-dynamodb roundup?

If someone had already successfully using dynamodb in production for a year or two what would be the main value of your course?
The first reason is about Google being evil. They may well be. However unless your alternative is as good, or better or has a unique selling point that GA doesn't have you will find people won't use it.

Don't tell me about how your competitor is bad. Tell me what you offer in comparison to your competitor.
Passing by just to say I <3 Jitsi. (being a user for no more than a month now)

That pop-up alert that tells you that you are speaking while on mute is incredibly smart.
With ventilators running out, doctors say the machines are overused for Covid-19
Probably best to buy hardware from privately owned companies then if your worried about this kind of thing. I don't mind paying an extra premium for hardware if it means I wont be bombarded by ads or be spied on.
OK, but why does that require the database to have non-nullable string types?
mosh does persistence better, if you're connected to tmux over SSH it'll still disconnect as your IP changes on a roaming connection (like it does on my daily commute on the train). mosh does not, it stays no matter what. Also no need for autossh or similar to reconnect when you unsuspend your computer.
I’m curious about the “insecure” part of it? I haven’t heard of any large-scale security incident about it.
You are making a moral argument whose basis is capitalistic supply and demand. But there is no reason to assume that laws of economics are a decent, humane basis for building a moral framework. Obviously, market economics has pragmatic usefulness, but it's a cruel thing to base your humanity on.

> Life isn't going to be the way you want it and you have to adjust.

Life is what we make it, and mutely accepting the parts of the world we don't like is what enables those misfeatures to persist.

Personally, while I see a lot of value in capitalism, I also see value in striving for a world where more people are able to make a living and do what they love.

If supply and demand means that musicians can't put food on their table, is that flaw in music, or the supply and demand system?
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> 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.

For that reason, I think Biden should really pick a VP with populist bona fides, or at least someone who's willing to imagine something beyond a slightly tweaked status quo.
It's a reasonable hypothesis, but I think it overlooks the scope of information that is now shared electronically and the ability to collate it. Noticing the people from whom somebody get mail is very different from having access to a huge amount of private communication in a queryable database.

As people have said before, a modern smartphone is like a diary times a thousand.
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For a light site, Google Analytics may be the majority of its “weight”. It’s not huge, but I’d like to think my readers came to my site for the content and not the analytics so it’s a bit ironic that the ratio doesn’t match that.
Oh theres lots of things stopping a drone delivering a package to my porch, including but not limited to me, I dont want Amazon's drone blowing junk all over the place on my front porch, messing up door decorations, flower pots, whatever it is. Getting caught on a branch, a gust of wind blowing it into a column and causing property damage, my dog grabbing it (my dogs catch birds in the yard, they will certainly hunt this thing). I know the ideal scenario from drone delivery is magical but reality is had, same with autonomous vehicles.
I think if they can just be clear that they will do 10 million impressions per property per month for free forever that would clarify the free tier (and match google I think).
COVID-19 is not a normal respiratory infection. It seems to prevent your RBCs from holding onto O2 and CO2 mimicking high altitude sickness. The disease acts like HAPE (high altitude pulmonary edema). The damage and inflammation is coming from the blood's inability to properly perform gas exchange in the lungs. Other damage could actually be coming from ventilators with pressure set too high (lungs of patients are mechanically normal, atypical for ARDS). Patient oxygen stats are also weird, they're hypoxic, but not necessarily short of breath.
https://vimeo.com/402537849
https://twitter.com/EricLeeMD/status/1245054768185303041?s=1....
https://twitter.com/cameronks/status/1243582723945566208?s=1....
https://www.cureus.com/articles/29004-acetazolamide-nifedipi....
Yes we want to test asymptomatic people too. Some countries like Germany and South Korea are doing are better job of testing widely and so they have many more mild/asymptomatic samples that can be screened.
If you are downtown at the pub, I expect it could ask you if prefer the delivery there.
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I’ve never heard of Plausible either but the instant I browsed to the article I suspected they were a competitor. I skimmed the table of contents and saw the last item was recommending a product with the same name as the website, and my suspicion was confirmed. They’re perfectly up front and obvious about it, not hiding anything.
I don't see anything in what you said that explains the assumption that a popular post is a high-quality post.

Certainly if you're looking to build an audience, then the popularity of your posts is an important metric that will help you craft additional popular posts.

But it seems to me that the the only _quality_ indicator isn't a metric at all - it's actual feedback from people who have read what you've written.
I have a blog hosted on GitHub pages, and I only want to know what pages are viewed the most. Before using GA, I have considered multiple alternative. For self-hosted alternatives, I don't bother to use it because I don't want to maintain a server just for my blog. As for other paid hosted alternative, I avoid them because I want it to be as cheap as possible. So I eventually choose GA, but in a different fashion, because I do care about its bloat. I simply write a short JavaScript using Measurement Protocol[1] to only send pageview to GA, which works very well for me.

[1]: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...
It is pretty straightforward to train a neural network to solve these -- e.g. fire hydrants, traffic lights, cars.

I would have thought ReCAPTCHA would take into account human factors (e.g. speed of clicking) as higher priority to the accuracy of the selection.
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I'm not following your argument.

I agree that increased scrutiny does not make the problem ok, but does reveal the problems more quickly.

But the only reason those points matter in the "Should I use Zoom?" question is if you're assuming all other products have the same flaws and just haven't been looked at. To which, I'm pretty confident they don't all share these problems, particularly but not limited to the "blatantly lied about the basic security features".
> "The correct proposition instead would be to stop analytics on your website, period."

Analytics are for optimizing your business and presentation, for finding out how big your audience is, how it responds to new content or features, etc. And for users it's not a loss of privacy if the data is anonymized.

Even for your personal blog, if you treat it as a tool for reaching an audience, then analytics are useful for growing that audience. When you put effort into writing articles, you want to see some results, after all it's an investment. And even if it's a hobby, seeing the size of your audience can serve as motivation. Even if it's a hobby, as long as you publish it online, you want others to read it, so it isn't a hobby that you can do in isolation without feedback.

In fact analytics can be a legitimate interest under GDPR. Usage of Google Analytics might be in a gray area due to it being a third-party and it's debatable if they are GDPR compliant, but usage of analytics in general is perfectly legit without explicit consent, as long as the data is anonymized.
Or you can have comments or some social platform for interacting with users, which is more rewarding, direct, and useful for future direction or content suggestions.
How much of the book is directly applicable to Cassandra? I understand that Apache Cassandra is regarded as the “open-source” version of DynamoDB?
> Elaborating, he explained that privacy wasn't even guaranteed a few decades ago: he used to live in a small town without home phones where the postmaster saw who everyone was getting mail from. "In a town of 3,000 people there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing."

Terrible, stupid analogy. If I wanted to have a private conversation with someone, I could just close my door or make sure no one was eavesdropping in the bushes. Perfect secrecy. In the digital realm, there's always a danger that my message will be recorded, decrypted, or analyzed and I have no idea how long that message will live. Internet communications are insecure, but that is not the default in real life person-to-person interactions.

It does work in some sense: everyone in town will know you bought that fancy new thing, etc.—there's less privacy there—but as far as communication has been concerned, the default was private: no one other than the participants hears the message.
Hacker News also happens to have a monopoly on certain search terms ;)
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I think most people use git for code versioning, doesn't matter what the code is for
My only problem with this article is there is no such thing as "Legos". Jess is brilliant and explains things super well here.
I too don't controll my server, but it turned out that my hosting provider (one.com) has pretty nice access analytics, e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶p̶r̶o̶j̶e̶c̶t̶s̶ ̶I̶ ̶h̶a̶v̶e̶ ̶w̶h̶e̶r̶e̶ ̶o̶n̶e̶.̶c̶o̶m̶'̶s̶ ̶o̶n̶l̶y̶ ̶r̶o̶l̶e̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶D̶N̶S̶ ̶r̶e̶d̶i̶r̶e̶c̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶a̶ ̶c̶h̶e̶a̶p̶ ̶V̶P̶S̶ (Edit:Nope it does not, how could it). When I discovered this I dropped GA for most of my projects. I have one remaining project that still uses GA but only bcs I haven't gotten around to fix it. Maybe your hosting provider has analytics too? I had to poke around in the dashboard for one.com to find it.
I've used GA before for this same blog, and the bloat was perceptible. Not only that, but the GA interface was poor and there was a lot of spam. Adding onto that the various ethical concerns (privacy and Google's questionable politics), I decided to go with something else.

Also, to reemphasize, the primary purpose of the blog and its infrastructure is to serve my own amusement and to indulge my technical interests.
If they aren't accurate then go make some money.
I'm not surprised you're being downvoted. Of all the institutions that are on shaky ground these days, the medical ones are the ones who should most consider an overhaul as a result of this fiasco. Unfortunately, they seem too concerned with protecting their monopoly to accept any criticism or suggestions.
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I had to scroll a bit more than this thread would prefer to find the pricing. It says "get started for free" but the lowest pricing tier is $14.00/mo. Looks like "free" is only the 7 day trial.
Congratulations on getting your subtle advertising on the front page. I admire your restraint in only mentioning your product at the conclusion of a long article - nicely done!

That said, you state what many have been been saying for years - GA is overkill for most sites and gives a stupid amount of information to Google. But sites are giving up their users information to any 3rd party analytics package, not just GA.

Hosting your own analytics is the only ethical way to go, unless you really, really need the demographic data that GA provides (which you probably don't).

Having passive feedback that people are actually reading your posts is nice but a simple hit-counter would probably do the job and relieve your readers of losing another little slice of their privacy.

I'm going to take a leaf out of the poster's book and mention my own project in passing: https://sheep.horse/visitor_statistics.html
I can't reply to the parent anymore, but I just went back to HN after a week of busy work: thanks a lot for the details, jmechner, that's quite interesting :)

I don't have enough time on my hands to dig into the old source code (nor I am particularly interested in the Apple II), but I'm glad to know it's available, should I or some others be suddenly curious to dig in. I much prefer such code to be opened than to be lost to history!

So, it's a bit like register banks [1] or an MMU, where you have to page in and out part of the address space, I guess?
I've seen some people [1] argue that we needed less powerful machines and to break backwards compatibility, for people to get creative again. Maybe there is some truth to that?

[1]: http://www.keil.com/support/man/docs/c51/c51_le_regbankspec....

[2]: https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/generation_gaps/
What does OpenVPN having a shitty official client have to do with wireguard?
Seems like a fair number of articles on HN lately are of this vein. A pitch veiled as a criticism of another product.

I know a lot of people agree with the premise of ditching Google Analytics but don't necessarily want to read a biased pitch piece about it.
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At least the original reCAPTCHA was used for OCR'ing public domain books. Even if it had the effect of training Google's OCR tech, it was at least making literature searchable and indexable for the public good. Modern reCAPTCHA is nothing more than training for Google Maps and, seemingly, self-driving cars, both of which are commercialized.
This is cool! Now someone make an app out of this please :)
They aren't. The lawsuit is really being filed by lawyers hoping to get a windfall. They don't even need to have much of a case, at worst Zoom will pay their fees and more for the nuisance to go away.

However, they do need to pretend for the court that this more than just a lawyer led money grab and that they actually represent the interest of a plaintiff. Enters Michael Drieu. If you read the complaint [1] you'll see Michael Drieu claim damages of ... $300. He's basically enabling a shakedown out of either malice or stupidity but not greed.

So no, it is not as if the shareholders of Zoom were up in arms against the company, this is just ambulance chasing with a puppet plaintiff.

https://www.scribd.com/embeds/455562311/content?start_page=1...
Because the CCP has no qualms about threatening an employee’s family to insert a backdoor or exfiltrate information, for one.

The decoupling has begun. Sentiment in the US toward China has never been as negative as it is now, from both sides of the aisle. I wouldn’t be surprised if we even see sanctions against China after the dust settles on this COVID fiasco.
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They claim HIPAA compliance due to e2e encryption. That is far from an oops.

They updated their documents since, but last week they had documentation up that said they were HIPAA compliant due to end to end encryption.
It's not "instant" but it's usually possible to collect some yeast from your kitchen. https://twitter.com/shoelaces3/status/1244252079041974272
This looks promising. The pricing seems like it only works with tasks that are very rare and high value though. Do users have the ability add their own building blocks?
Fun! I wonder what the actual goal of the project is though.
Interesting data. Wonder what this will look like at steady state once things revert back to normal. Everyone talks about wfh but in reality I think a lot of people are cooped up and craving human interaction even in remote-first teams before Covid.
Just out of curiosity, what is the all high and mighty company that you work for?
I wrote a blogpost about webanalytics and authentication.
https://www.mathieupassenaud.fr/webanalytics_enemy/
Using "authorization code grant" is not as secure as we imagine with those kind of analytics
Sure, but that's still "a scanner attached to a modem." Nothing about a scanner implies that it must buffer the input, just like nothing about a printer implies that it buffers the output.

There are/were "line printers" doing "latch a character from the input line, print the character, unlatch" serial output (which were so common that Unix pipes are designed around the foibles of outputting to such devices.) Most POS thermal receipt printers are still line printers!

I don't know as much about scanners, but I can't imagine that the original (digital, attached to a computer) scanners weren't also "serial scanners"—i.e., rather than a 1D scan head with a long CCD strip that could latch an entire line at a time into a shift register, they would have had 2D scan-heads that would scan one pixel at a time, in a "read brightness, signal ready, wait for return line to unlatch" serial loop. No memory required, just terribly slow.
If you want a look at the Table of Contents, check it out here: https://s3.amazonaws.com/dynamodb-book/table-of-contents.pdf

For a third-party breakdown of the book structure and content, check out Shawn Wang's review here: https://www.swyx.io/writing/dynamodb-book/

Shawn lists a four-part breakdown that's pretty on-point:

- Background and basics (Chapters 1-6)

- General advice for modeling & implementation (Chapters 7-9)

- DynamoDB strategies, such as how to handle one-to-many relationships, many-to-many relationships, complex filtering, migrations, etc. (Chapters 10-16).

- Five full walkthrough examples, including some pretty complex ones. One of them implements most of the GitHub metadata backend. Nothing related to the git contents specifically but everything around Repos, Issues, PRs, Stars, Forks, Users, Orgs, etc.

The first nine chapters you can probably find available if you google around enough. It's helpful to have all in one place. But the last 13 chapters are unlike anything else available, if I do say so myself. Super in-depth stuff.

I think it will be helpful even if you've been using it for a while, but it really depends on how deep you went on DynamoDB.
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Is there something novel here? This broadly feels like something that could have been written 5 years ago. And surely was. Written today, it seems weird to me that it's so heavy on theoretical possibility and so light on actual data.
> according to a study by CareerBuilder, nearly 70% of employers screen their candidates using social media and what’s more surprising is 57% of employers are less likely to even contact applicants who lack an online presence [0]

[0] https://www.lawdepot.com/blog/should-employers-look-at-socia...
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There is no comprehensive opt out to Google tracking. If you disagree, show me the button that opts out of doubleclick (and all Google subsidiaries and data sharing partners) targeting ads at my home IP address, cell phone, car, etc.
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PINs can be shoulder-surfed, fingerprints are immune to that at least.
I haven't tried this at scale, but was pleased with 6 participants on my $200 r710 hardware with 10megabits upload connection service. Memory usage is minimal, couple GB tops. Not running high-res, but was good enough. I mean they develop this and make it freely available for self-host, I'm pleased.