skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great article! Your dashboard is not ugly, it's special :)

I also broke up from Google Analytics, but I didn't sacrifice the insights, I even gained more. I created a self-hosted analytics[0] platform to replace Google Analytics which is not as complex, but powerful enough to give you all the data the you need. I also had the fear of missing out if I removed GA, but I realized that I only use a small subset of the data they store, and after implementing those in my dashboard I no longer found the need to check out GA. Today I rely solely on userTrack and removed all Google 3rd party includes from my site (just yesterday I uploaded the Google fonts files to my server, so I no longer include them from Google's domain). Another surprising benefit is that my dashboard loads a lot faster that the GA dashboard.

[0]: https://www.usertrack.net/
Given that this is an election year, I imagine that he is absolutely going to intentionally try to get himself banned - then spin the whole "liberal-bias-censorship" card.

...and it might work. These sorts of stories play riiiight to the centrist/libertarian/independents - whom he's grooming to not be afraid of showing up in person to the election booth in November.
let the white house spin up its own activitypub instance, then.

shouldn't public communications occur on public infrastructure?
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> friendly patrols are a bad idea.

Absolutely and I think there are models of policing that reduce petty crime and obviously people would rather have less petty crime than more. We are all in agreement here.

I just want people to be aware that the policing of their imagination is not always the policing of reality and oftentimes what your gut instinct tells you might work will have pretty large and distorted negative impacts.

I really do think we're all on the same side here. Nobody likes crime and nobody likes police excess. The problem is just that sometimes where we grew up and what experiences we've had can lead us to underestimate one impact and overestimate another.
You may be right.

My only nit with what you said is with this: "when people are looting, it's unfortunately almost inevitable that there will be violence."

I would say that looting is violence. I would further add three things. 1. that self defense is justified when violence against your person and property is committed. 2. Even more importantly, it is the job of the police to stop these violent crimes, at gunpoint if necessary. 3. Even more tellingly, if anybody here's livelihood or home was getting looted that person would be calling the police to do their job.
> Sometimes "unsubscribe from all" is completely ignored. Which really angers me.

I have a big problem with this and never know what to do.

Person buys my course after following newsletters for a while. All good.

I put them on a followup list that helps guide them through the course and keep them on track. All good.

They get a newsletter they don’t like and unsubscribe.

Now they stop getting followup guidance emails for the course. This is a problem. Almost certain not what they wanted to happen either. But okay I honor it.

A while later I make a huge update to the course or migrate to a new platform. I need to tell every buyer that their account is moving. But some have unsubscribed from all emails.

Do I add them back or not?
It did not "hide" the tweet
> * what's the scale of the forums that work fine?

Why, as a user, do you care? As a user, this question is irrelevant to my interests.

> * what if other people want to consume more content than "a few bloggers" produce and recommend?

They physically can't. There's simply more content in existence than a human being has the physical ability to consume. And you'll run into problems with depression, medical issues caused by sitting, and internet addiction long before you run into your physical limits to consuming content.

Quantity isn't the problem, quality is.

> * when you say "does better", what do you mean?

Finds higher-quality content that is more entertaining and/or informative tailored to my needs.

Yes, my needs are different from other users, but the whole value added that ad-based sites claim is that they spy on users to tailor content to their needs. My claim isn't that the content I find is better than anyone else's, it's that my way of finding content does a better job of finding content that fits the users' needs than ad-based sites do.

The problem is, at a fundamental level, ad-motivated spying doesn't even have the goal of meeting users needs--the goal is to meet advertisers' needs, and that only incidentally meets the needs of users sometimes.

> * is the best medicine made by pro bono pharmacists? are the best buildings made by off-duty carpenters? are the best movies made for free? with the best special effects? are the best novels free? the best graphic designs?

Are the best of any of these things supported by ads inside a walled garden platform? You do make a good point: none of these things are typically supported by the business model you're defending.

> would everyone agree with your assessment of what is 'best'?

If you don't agree that "like and subscribe and by the way I've been playing Clash of the Clans lately" is such garbage that it's questionable to call it "content", then we disagree at a fundamental level so there's not much of a discussion to be had. Suffice it to say, I think most people agree with me.
Why would it include Taiwan? They are separate countries not separate "systems"
Is there any "SaaS as a Service" that can be used to put up a MVP of your SaaS idea?

Basically a whitebox SaaS open source that you can use? I only know of KongHQ but that's a SaaS marketplace, I don't think that's a good idea because with that you are treated as a vendor (no control of your users/ecosystem).
> The issue is that the rules are being enforced selectively.

It's not only acceptable but actually ethically correct to hold those with more power to higher standards of responsibility.

It's therefore not only acceptable but actually ethically correct to enforce these rules more proactively against the President of the United States than some Russian bot account.
And from the other end of the spectrum, at my University of California campus, the top salaries are all in the 300k range, and all go to world-class engineering and sciences faculty who bring in millions in research grants each year. The chancellor, deans and one coach also break 300k, but that's it.

So, different schools, different governance models, different outcomes.
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I try to be reasonable here. If it's something from a business I transacted with in the past or recognize the name, I will unsubscribe. I don't consider it spam. And I don't want to hurt their reputation.

I'm the same way. Except for two: Staples and eBay.

Staples will send me three e-mails asking me to review a product that I ordered, but that Staples hasn't even shipped to me yet. Spam.

Recently I purchased one item from eBay using the Guest Checkout feature because I don't have an eBay account, and don't want one. Now eBay sends me e-mails all the time. In order to unsubscribe, I'm instructed to sign in to an account I don't have. Spam.
Yes there is. In CA and many other states the at-will employment doctrine has an implied contract exception. That means employers need a good faith business reason, or good cause to fire employees, but not contractors in this context.
I find this an issue with nearly every TV show or movie ever made. The intro music is typically far too loud, and as you say dialogue is significantly quieter than the action scenes. I basically have to watch with the remote in my hand.

I've considered making a bastardised IR Arduino/raspberry pi remote based on sound levels. But of course I can never muster the motivation and don't have practical experience.
If you had scrolled down a bit on the Wikipedia article you might have found a rather well cited section that shows the causal link you imply here is extremely weak in follow-up studies.

Sure you can say intuitively "if people see crimes go unpunished they may be inclined to commit further crimes" but the problem is that policing is an aggregate function of society, not an individual one.

Communities rightfully question the efficacy policing petty property crimes with the total value of white collar crime vastly dwarfs the value of property crime. Often these white collar criminals are connected to or directly the cause of economic devastation in these communities, yet the communities themselves are the ones who bear the brunt of over-policing and the violence that causes.
It literally is part of the definition https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/violence
Google will let workers expense $1k worth of office furniture
Tile Writes to EU Accusing Apple of Abuse of Power
First article discussion for How Shopify Uses Nix series:
"What is Nix?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23251754
So, state police -- on a loudspeaker -- are "ordering" people to "leave the street immediately."

The reporter admits he was told "to clear the area."

The loudspeaker -- again -- explicitly states to "go back in the direction you came from."

The reporter admits on air that they were "requested to move back."

The cameraman also admits on air that "We were just out here reporting the CLOSURE OF THE STREETS."

The dumbasses -- despite all this -- refused to get off the street, instead saying things like "we COULD move back to where you'd like..."

Being a reporter does not give you special permission to violate a direct order by state police in the middle of a riot (with a burning building in the background.)

If you're told to get off the street, get off the street... IMMEDIATELY. If you don't, you'll get arrested.
With all this talk about Vitamin D and K deficiencies, which inevitable meanders onto Magnesium and fish oil supplements and whatnot; maybe it's time for a "vitamin subscription service"? Enter a bunch of information (location, lifestyle, diet, health issues) and get tailor made supplements sent to your home every month? The levels of some vitamins could vary depending on time of year (more D in winter) or circumstances (more Mg when more active in summer).

Ideally all packaged into one tablet or something. I take an unholy cocktail of supplements to help curb my migraines, that's 5 tablets/caps a day. Not much fun.
Because, for better or worse, the sources of truth that normal people historically relied on for their barometer of what is true or not have been democratized by the internet.

We live in a world where a substantial number of people believe the earth is flat, that 5G cellular is a mind control scheme, that vaccines cause autism, that COVID-19 was created by a political party, that the concept of climate change is manufactured, or that major national crises are actually just actors being paid to further a political narrative.

Most of these ideas aren't new, but in decades past you might have heard about them from a conspiracy-therorist neighbor, a low profile website, or an alternative magazine with little reputation of its own.

Now, these ideas are spread on the exact same platforms as objectively truthful / scientifically sound media. Your Youtube conspiracy theory channel is right next to the BBC's videos. Your viral Facebook post could be from the New York Times, or it might be from a propaganda organization - or worse, an account that looks like a normal person but which was specifically created to spread misinformation that seems plausibly truthful.

Credibility is distributed and anyone can publish to a huge audience, which is wonderful sometimes, and othertimes deeply problematic, because the viewer often doesn't know enough to distinguish fact from fiction and can't trust the publisher at face value anymore.

Its uncharted territory. The cost to distribute is zero, and ideas spread far and wide - but that means that there are equally as many incredible sources on any given topic as credible ones, and telling the difference is hard, and sometimes not knowing the difference is dangerous. Dunning-Kruger writ large.
As of 2016, Google refused to get involved in business ownership disputes, and left the final determination to whoever claimed the business first:

https://cdn.verticalmeasures.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/...

Has this improved since then?
That's interesting. I interpreted it the exact opposite way. That looking at the words - they don't seem so bad, so the liberal-minded HN users downvoted to keep the details away.

Funny how personal bias can twist perceptions.
Neither. The population are, or at least should be.
I find it really difficult to even engage with the issues on this when there's such a toxic conversation around. I literally don't care what the ideological concerns are, if you're going around throwing out accusations and calling people "Marxists" I just don't have the motivation to hear your points.
VR can trigger reflexive behaviors in people, e.g. trying to avoid an incoming projectile, putting their hands up to protect their face, stepping back from a high place. Many folks can get deep suspension of disbelief from just text. Many folks can't. I don't think it's reasonable to say, "Well, I do just fine with X, so that should be good enough for anyone.", as your comment seems to be implying.
They were a big part of my childhood too through their simulators like F-117A, and also through their published titles. They had a massive breadth of games like Darklands, X-COM, Transport Tycoon, Ultima, Pirates!, Master of Orion, Civilization and Colonization.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_MicroProse_games
And if a looter is threatening your life?
Not knowing much about binary executable formats, what does this mean for binary executables or libraries? How easy is it to insert e.g. a remote shell or keystroke logger into an executable or library using only a prefix? Or would that require arbitrary in-place edits to a file?
Contractors for Google are still employees working for a contracting company. They could sue if they were discriminated against for membership in a protected class.
Yeah, not to pile on... but you're being downvoted because what you say is simply false.
But arson is.
Right. Which is why I think Twitter has chosen the best (of nothing but bad) options in handling this. That is, carry the message (since it is newsworthy) but annotate it.

>What you are saying about Twitter could be applied to TV networks, radio stations, and just about any other medium or platform that people use.

To a degree. But those businesses don't have positive social interaction as their core value proposition (reason to exist). People don't go to CNN.com for the purpose of being social. Thus anti-social behaviour on CNN doesn't affect their core value proposition in the same way.

>A web host like AWS, for instance, could conceivably receive enough flack

True, but groups organizing to lobby for a political/social purpose is a bit of a different beast altogether than one users actions directly affecting other users. In other words, there's no way (absent a bug/failure/poor design) that one users' usage of AWS should directly affect my usage of AWS.

All I'm saying is that social networks are very different from the other examples because they are, well, social.
More likely they will hire more contractors in the fast ramp-up after things start rolling again (quicker to onboard a contractor).

Contractors are the first to get filled and first to let go.
> As for FPGAs - forgive my ignorance - but can they even handle that kind of load? In my head I just see them breaking-down under the sheer thermal load.

They worked for Bitcoin before miners switched to ASICS; I imagine they'd be fine in this application as well.
I'm sorry but no privacy policy and not an open-source/free-software? I find it hard to believe it is "free" as in free beer...

Shameless plug: if you want a self-hosted AGPL-3 alternative with optional PGP support, checkout "mailer": https://github.com/rclement/mailer
> I think the level of impunity of "I am the law" instead of laws being laws, has taken over far too many in the police department.

For a more organized version of the mentality, see the Constitutional Sheriffs movement. I forget where I first came across the movement but here's a top Google result about it:

https://publicintegrity.org/national-security/the-army-to-se...
Here's a nice podcast about Prefect that talks about its and Airflow's approachs:

https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2020/04/29/prefect-data...
> he should post this statement on the White Houses's site

All "microblog" type posts made by a president should be posted directly through the White House's own web site, and not be communications through a commercial service.
I am pretty sure you would disagree if someone started smashing your front door or car. It is at best technically true in a deeply misleading way like calling a surgeon "a professional cutter and organ remover from the helpless".
You can't tie your shoes while running
I listen to both sides, and I don't pay attention to what people say on twitter too much (it's the not "real" world). again, I'm not saying this tweet is equal to what trump said, it's clearly not --- But if someone had harmed or killed one of these kids because of this dox, I'm not sure your objections would stand. And with 2.1M followers, that is in realm of possibilities

Do you think twitter has a liberal bias?
Applying Maslow: The hierarchy of venture opportunities in emerging markets
AirPrint is great for iOS devices, where you can't install printer drivers.
Nothing is being forced on anyone. If Trump is unhappy with their fact-checking, he can take his business elsewhere. Or start his own microblog service, since he supposedly has so much money.

It just blows my mind that I used to have nearly identical arguments with left-wingers.
Looting will and must lead to the police taking action to do their most basic job—protecting the life and property of the people. This means almost certainly people will be shot, some guilty, some innocent.
Good work.

I was thinking about building a tool with opposite functionality - Getting chat messages delivered on email.

Reason - To switch to a full-linux based phone, as clients for those platforms aren't available. I rarely use chat message so, intuitiveness is not the concern. But when I do get a message, I would like it to be delivered via an encrypted email service.

Little thought went into this - Parsing messages from web app of the respective chat apps on a SBC.
He was released 30 minutes later with the governor admitting it was a bad arrest.
When in doubt, they're opted out.

Do you really want to open yourself up to being banned by your new platform, or facing a lawsuit over pennies in revenue?
Great analogy to relate towards policing that everyone is familiar with.
All carbohydrates become sugar, sugar elevates insulin, constantly elevated insulin leads to diabetes.

I'm not sure all the causes of Type 2 diabetes but I would wager that the current epidemic of Type 2 Diabetes is caused by too much sugar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsHcLIxg8KA
It's not a great law and it was passed almost two decades ago. This is actually one of the parts they got mostly right.
To folks saying "they're highly organized", listen to Walz's press conference -- they're not organized, the National Guard didn't get a plan so didn't go in, it's a series of excuses.
> Check out the 1967 Hong Kong protests. The UK directed their appointed governor to suppress the protests.

You mean these?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/05/opinion/ching-cheong-hong...:

> The May 6 riot was started by the local chapter of the Chinese Communist Party (C.C.P.), which hoped to bring the colonial government to its knees. The year before, its counterpart had done just that with the Portuguese authorities in Macau, becoming the de facto ruler there....

> The local C.C.P. created more terror by issuing a list of people targeted for assassination. These included a senior Chinese official in the British administration, a top business leader, a representative of the landed class and Louis Cha Leung-yung, the publisher of Ming Pao, a Hong Kong newspaper that had criticized the riot. Lam Bun, an outspoken radio broadcaster who had also condemned the disturbances, was burned to death, along with his cousin, on the way to work....

> Sino-British relations came to a standstill. According to a highly reputable source who spoke on the condition of anonymity, it appears that Zhou Enlai, the Chinese premier, asked Mao Zedong if he intended to claim Hong Kong back from Britain. Mao said that it wasn’t time and that he would honor the treaties China had signed allowing Britain to rule Hong Kong until 1997. Zhou then ordered an immediate halt to the riot in Hong Kong.
I love my Apple watch but I am astonished at your faith in their ability to do noninvasive glucose measurement. People have broken their picks on that particular coal face for decades.

For that matter DM2 is an area of quite active research (and, like diagnosis, has been quite active for decades) as the financial payoff for any success is enormous.

The only downside for transdermal diagnosis is the lack of consumables, which makes it a tough market to enter and to be funded for. That is an area that's good for Apple as they are already selling the platform, so this would be a feature that would add to sales. And one I'd use.
You & I can proffer this advice until we are blue in the face, but what people want is one magic pill that solves all their problems. So that's what they will keep trying.
Maybe @dhh could use this idea on hey
I wrote this on the duplicate topic here, copying as I believe it matters:

I know it is "never too late" for things like this to happen, but it's definitely late.

One of the main reasons for bad things to happen is the lack of education (which, in turn, leads to resist to change) and, therefore makes people prone to believe to unbelievable things.

Social platforms like Twitter should have long had things like "fact checking" ANY statements and should have restricting not only violence glorifying posts, but also the ones with racial or sexual discrimination and all the others .

It is late, but I like seeing it happen at least for the person with the most "glorifying" record in dividing a society.
I have set it up, configured and performed all the upgrades just by myself in a small startup, performing very complex daily tasks.

I miss features, sure. The whole execution timing might be confusing the first time, sure. But I can't figure out why i see so many comments regarding deployment difficulties.
Thanks, this was exactly what I was wondering.
I donated $20 to doctors without borders four years ago (a friend wanted that in lieu of bday presents). I've since gotten close to 50 letters from them and other charities. That cost far outweighs the $20 I gave them.