skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the suggestions!

There is an option to display a consent window before tracking. Currently I have it disabled on my site, as it's more for demo purposes.

I do agree that it feels a bit creepy to see a recording of yourself, but for static landing pages (where no private data is shared) it poses no privacy risks. I do plan to working on improving the privacy of the platform itself, by allowing better granularity of the things that are tracked (eg. you don't care about recordings? you can disable them).

Currently all the tracking is done cookie-less, there is some more info about privacy here: https://docs.usertrack.net/personal-data-information

> Overall it's better than Google having all that data, and congrats on building something cool, I like it minus the minutiae that you capture.

With userTrack I don't try to replace Google Analytics with a self-hosted platform that is only more "creepy", but also offer a self-hosted alternative to services like Hotjar and FullStory. The difference is that those services not only have the data across multiple domains, but also store the entire HTML content and all changes on the page, meaning that if you have a Chrome Extension that adds some private content to a page (eg. you have a snippet extension that loads reply templates and displays them on the page), this content will also be stored and sent to their servers. userTrack only stores the URL of the page and all actions done (clicks, movements, scroll, window resize, optional text input), meaning that it doesn't actually track your private information if it is added to a login-protected page (eg. your private user dashboard).

Overall I think this can lead to a huge privacy boost for both users and webmasters, while still empowering webmasters with data:
* No single authority has the browsing data of a user across domains
* No more 3rd party cookies and requests, you can host everything on the same domain as your site
* You decide how intrusive you want the tracking to be, not the platform.

I still have work to do when it comes to privacy, but I do see this as being the future for responsible webmasters.
Tafl games do include variants with dice for movement.
Follow up: The latest Firefox update seems to have solved the issue. So far.
> Why would that be bad exactly?

Because shooting looters is disproportionate. You arrest them and charge them for burglary, and then determine mitigating factors. The looters aren't shooting people. As for why it is bad to kill someone that isn't a killer, we have to go back to general moral philosophy and common law. Extremely generally, aside from the moral cost of taking a life, it's also because it is systematically escalatory that invites a further escalatory response.

> Anyway, I am glad that you did not have to survive through something like that.

Me too, but I fail to see the relevance. I understand that someone living through that might make someone more willing to shoot looters, but that doesn't mean it is proportionate or appropriate.

> In times of mass-looting?

Yes, in times of mass-looting, it would be better to have a functional police system that would be able to arrest, charge for burglary, and then determine mitigating factors by looking at the overall context. And I agree, our current police system is not up to that task.

> What would you suggest for right now?

I think we should not move past that the answer is not right now, but a few days ago - we should not have a system where it is even thinkable that police officers can kneel on people's necks and kill them. That exposed that it is a dysfunctional American police system (in that area and many others). Societal cohesion does not operate based off of the overwhelming strength of a police system, but common trust, mores, and belief in the overall system. If you break those bonds by kneeling on someone's neck and killing them, then many other things can break as well.

As for right now, the aim is to re-assert control in a non-escalatory fashion, and then let justice-driven investigations run their course. That's the right thing to do.
Why did the cops shoot tear gas at peaceful protestors yesterday, when they didn't two weeks ago when armed militia stormed the statehouse?

The cops brought this on themselves. There's nobody to blame here but them.
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I know they're huge and I'm just pissing in the ocean, but I do just about everything I can these days to buy elsewhere. Several months ago I started ordering from a local bookstore with a lackluster interface and slightly higher prices. Books sometimes take a week or more to arrive (gasp!) and I drive two miles to the shop to pick them up. I've been patronizing Amazon since roughly 1999. No longer. Amazon is a cancer.

EDIT: changed "them" to "Amazon" for clarity.
I guess that just adds more to the "I don't know how I feel." part. If the demand is there, then they will sell. Otherwise, this person would own a bunch of empty property. But is there something already stopping that? Is there anything stopping Jeff Bezos from just buying up a small community and disallowing anybody to live there without paying a ton extra? I am very unfamiliar with real estate so this is a genuine question.
Making a miniature IBM 1401 scale model
You really might be on to something here. But what would we call such a revolutionary idea?

Oh I know. We'll call it Cascading Style Sheets.
I never dismiss those dialogs anyway. Just make sure your site works with the browsers reader mode and I’m fine.

But on the top of my head only display the dialog if the browser cache is cold. Could embed a timestamp in some cachable resource. (Edit: Perhaps this counts as a “cookie“ in the legal sense)
No, actually my friend. I posted this in a group chat and he tried it.

I don't have a personal issue with TikTok. I just don't use it because it seems like it could be another addiction (I'm already addicted to HN and Reddit, as you can see by my comment history).
And if that’s the answer we’re going with—that looting businesses is part of a general violent insurrection—then Trump’s threat to suppress that insurrection with military force becomes more justifiable, not less.
This is wildly false. “quit for a good cause” means things like they changed your hours to ones you cannot work or something where you job changed in a way in which you were not capable of performing your job duties. Or things like you were a victim of discrimination or harassment. Leaving for another job is definitely not one of them.
This was specifically about the US. Where you possibly referring to a different country?
In all probability, union rules stand in the way of making any quick arrests. Their hands are tied. It is better for them to appear slow and do things by the book than try to appease the irrational mob. They'll eventually get to where the mob wants to go rather than ending up with the cops "winning" in some way due violations of union rules and procedures.
May you never experience the generations long frustration of any of the people driven to burn down a police station just to get their voices heard.
Yes. DDG actually pulls search results from Bing and a few other searches. They don’t actually scrape the web.
A lot of it seems to be seller bots auto-pricing items based on availability.

For example, Bounce hasn't made dryer bars for years. But you can find them on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Bounce-Dryer-Bar-3-83-Oz/dp/B003VYPKZ...

The store price was around $6. Currently listed on Amazon at $300. But it's not COVID-related. It's had that price for at least a year.
in the past, riots have strengthened public support for more armor, more weapons, bigger budgets, less oversight. But there are less calculating possibilities as well.
I find the instant messaging is even better(for informational conversations).

It gives you time to think, can decrease miscommunication and the psychological element of conversation(giving more clean space for the informational element) and increase the depth and details of a conversation.
> That's because it's illegal for a citizen to resist arrest (even unlawful arrest),

This varies state-by-state, actually. Even in those where it is legal, it is very foolish, of course.
When people risk being killed during a jihad, it kinda implies that a text does not refer to a greater jihad aimed at improving one's soul.
Funnily enough this is the code I was reading today

https://github.com/constructor-igor/cudafy/blob/11cdd4def4e7...

s = a ^ b; // sum bits
r = a & 0x7f7f7f7f; // clear msbs
t = b & 0x7f7f7f7f; // clear msbs
s = s & 0x80808080; // msb sum bits
r = r + t; // add without msbs, record carry-out in msbs
r = r ^ s; // sum of msb sum and carry-in bits, w/o carry-out
Which police forces use Cobra helicopters? These are gunships that have no utility what so ever.

As for Blackhawks I’ve never seen them used by police forces, those in civilian use are not surplus military helicopters or even the UH-60 but rather it’s civilian version the Sikorsky S-70 which are used by fire departments and search and rescue crews.
thanks. found this, many takes on the subject: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3118898/is-debian-the-gold...
So, your source is a singular example? From nearly a decade ago? Right.
Objectively - how is this advocating for violence? I have not been following this deeply but it seems like there is already serious violence occurring where dozens of people have been charged with probable felonies and buildings have been set on fire? Isn't it the responsibility of the local government to protect private property? It certainly seems like the situation is out of hand when a police station is burned to the ground.

The National guard has been dispatched in similar situations e.g. Rodney King riots. Ostensibly the reason for the deployment is to "ensure peace"

I understand Trump walks a thin line, but in my opinion he is very skilled at never literally advocating for violence or overtly racist actions.

I absolutely do not condone excessive force against anyone, but I fail to understand how this specific tweet is glorifying violence. I'm just trying to understand
Can you point out some books/authors/papers to close the gap between statistics and NNs?
does it protect you from taking a picture of your phone?

i'd rather have a foundation of properly functioning, award winning cryptography than "features" designed for people who haven't thought through their threat model sufficiently.

castles made of sand melt into the sea eventually
If you have tons of Swift code that needs to run in watchOS, iOS, iPadOS AND the cloud, this would kinda make sense... but how frequently is that the case? When I was still doing mobile the goal was to write as LITTLE client-side code as possible and put as much logic/heavy lifting on the API side as possible because we can make changes there far quicker than in the native client. And almost all of the client-side code was about GET/POSTing to the API or interacting with the SDK to draw things on the screen -- almost no business logic. That said, I didn't work much on apps that were supposed to work without a data connection for long periods of time... in that case it's more likely you'll run into scenarios where you're writing business logic in the app (in Swift/ObjC) but even then the goal was to keep that kind of code to a minimum (or less).
did you catch this part though :

“We’ve seen north of 180, 185 degrees,” says Gubing. “So that’s substantially more than we’d [normally] operate.”
Reaper was designed to kill from the start.
Doesn't that mostly have to do with the amount of training, responsibility, leadership etc. that comes with military hierarchy? It can still get pretty bad (coverup and/or violence wise), but it seems that at least they have some sense of the relationship between violent actions and their consequences.
But the police don't look like thugs and villains when they murder black men? Note this murder came off the heels of the protests at several state capital buildings where armed white males were in the faces of the police and shouting (images available on the internet). Not a single tear gas canister was fired. It's time for all of us to realize there's something sinister going on. The state is singling out a certain class of people for an extremely violent response. The point was driven home to me when I saw the CNN news crew get arrested. It's all on camera. It's all there now for the world to see. I'm afraid there's something really bad underfoot. We'd all better be paying attention.
Enjoyed the writing style of the post and the clean design of the app. Cheers to launching!
May you never experience having your livelihood burnt down because of an unrelated issue.

It seriously blows my mind anyone does think this is justified or supports it. That is way beyond reason, even from an understandably aggrieved point of view.
People who voted for Trump wanted chaos and now he is giving it to them. If he keeps going he might get re-elected.
> It seems that the US citizens are fine with state mandated violence as long as it does not include them. Nothing happened regarding https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21018041 for example.

I don't think it's fair to paint this as unique to US citizens. I'd go as far as saying this is generally true across the world, with few people protesting state sanctioned violence abroad, and significantly more people protesting domestic state sanctioned violence.

I don't think that's unusual. I think it's normal that we care more about our own lives than we do others lives, we care more about people dying at home than we do abroad.

I'm not saying this is a good thing, but it is normal human behaviour. A good example of this is watching how peoples perceptions of this latest coronavirus unfolded.

There's too much going on in all of our lives to have time for every bad thing happening elsewhere. You pick your battles. That's ok. You still have to live your life for yourself at the end of the day, nobody else is going to live your life for you.
That's very interesting information, thank you for taking time to research this and explain it in a friendly and informative way. I am from Texas, so I admit most of my knowledge comes from my own state's laws. If I'm not mistaken we are in agreement that the looters lives should not be at risk in this situation and that Minnesota law will likely not protect an equivalent of what the Korean population did in LA during their riots, when they took to protecting their shops by getting on their roofs with rifles.
Reselling at higher price is only profitable if the original seller are selling at a price that is too low because they failed to raise the price properly, and in that case the resellers are correcting the prices.

The advantage of having higher prices is that only people who REALLY need an article will buy it, so limited supplies will go to them.

For instance, if FFP2 masks are in a limited supply and cost $0.01 each, then everyone is going to try to buy in lots of 1000, and they will run out immediately, with the supply going to random people who probably will not even use most of them.

But if FFP2 masks cost $100 each, then people will buy and use them only when strictly needed, and they will be available for those who absolutely need them and are thus willing to pay any amount of money.

The only problems are:

- People who irrationally try to price gouge when the price is already correct, costing themselves money and making the article unavailable

- The potential inability of people who are highly needy to obtain loans or have sufficient basic income to purchase high-priced supplies

The former is fixed by providing the forecasts that are used to set prices, thus providing a credible insight that there will be no shortage at current prices, while the latter by having better ways of ensuring that loans are repaid and generally making it easier to give out loans.
Have you found it useful to non-mechanical problems?
Applied science is a channel in a similar vein. Tackles a lot of interesting engineering projects and walks through all of his results till getting his final product. Really interesting stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/user/bkraz333
> Alumni have been furious for years now, this isn't helping.

This is why I stopped all the donations to my alma mater. Why should I donate to an institution whose tuition has risen 300% over the last 15 years? If they wanted donations, they shouldn't have taught us about inflation then because now we can see them for the predatory scumbags they really are. And this increase in cost doesn't even pay for professors. They are getting shafted to the point where that is no longer a viable career option for any but a lucky few. Hell, for the quarter million plus it would take to get my bachelor's degree today, I'm pretty sure I can hire my own dedicated professors, get better instruction, finish earlier, and learn more. Or spend a tiny fraction of that living in Europe and then attend university there for free or a few hundred dollars a semester, which probably includes a bus pass and is less than I would spend on books in the US.

Only in a society of extreme anti-intellectualism would public K-12 education be such complete and utter shit and university cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and be unaffordable by basically anyone not in the upper class or lucky enough to get a scholarship. The children are our future and extreme stupidity is already here and has been here for a long time, so there is little to no hope of reversing this trend of anti-intellectualism and stupidity that most of the nation is beholden to.
He's fairly good at riding that line of plausible deniability.

Just yesterday, he retweeted a guy calling for Democrats to die. "Well, not literally of course"... wink wink.
> Instead of talking about anecdotes or making lame personal accusations

You are then fully aware that you are covered by a gold plated healthcare plan and your experience is utterly atypical.

HN guideline prohibit me from saying what I think about people like you.
This is pretty cool, I'd wonder how it compares to an open source accounting library like double_entry. I guess I'd be hesitant to integrate with an external service if I could accomplish the same thing with a library.

Have no idea if there's a market for this (I'm certainly not a customer), but something none of these libraries are set up to do is convert these balances to erc-20 tokens. The combo of a SaaS with a simple API like this and a trusted mint to sync balances to erc-20 tokens could be interesting.

[0]: https://github.com/envato/double_entry
I haven't used Windows since I needed it for obscure engineering software in college, but I did find that the frequency of security updates combined with Windows reputation made me feel more uneasy rather than positive.

I felt less like "Oh good they're being proactive" and more like "Do they introduce 3 vulnerabilities for every one they fix?"
And, in the United States - the most lethal animal of all is the ... Deer. (about 120 deaths/year, which shows how safe most Americans are from animals)

https://www.askmen.com/news/entertainment/deers-kill-more-pe...
I just want to point out that you're wrong to say these places "didn't do anything". Or rather, I would contend that they did do something, aka nothing, which is what led to this situation.

"First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a 'more convenient season.'" - Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., 16 April 1963

I'm not advocating for violence or destruction, this result right now sucks to the nth degree. But I am advocating that folks start paying attention to kneeling football players and other peaceful protestors instead of telling them to shut the fuck up.

Because you know what else sucks in addition to businesses burning? Folks dying for no other reason than the color of their skin. If you're asleep when it comes to human costs, but awake when it turns economical, take a look deep inside yourself.

If you make peaceful revolution impossible, if you deny justice for too long, this is the result. Don't pretend that society at large "didn't do anything". By doing nothing, we all did a whole lot of something.
Since there clearly aren't penalties for corruption (even corruption-lite like this), it's no surprise that it persists. While we can understand why they do it, that does not make it acceptable, and there have to start being consequences.

I can't help but feel that strong independent oversight is necessary, as the status quo is clearly insufficient.
Knowing closely two countries: USA and Mexico, I just know that people in the know and with the means to do so (top %1+) just avoid public education like the plague. (Up to high school, then it's just a matter of going to a top college.)

At some point you have to consider the history of public education and it was just a tool for controlling and repressing individual thought, give busy work to lower class kids so they stay out of trouble, don't grow up to question the system. What is usually taught there? Obey authority at all cost, getting status symbols from authority is most important (not actually learning), do not interact with people different from you (why the grade separation? shouldn't people learn at their own pace?), learn not what interests you, just follow the damn syllabus choosen by someone else, don't stand out, just memorize stuff, don't read actual primary sources, just the predigested/rehashed summary. I mean, sure there might be exceptions but it's pretty much the same everywhere

What countries you think are doing a great job and why?
Police helicopters don’t regularly kill dozens of people. The helicopter is more akin to a cop walking around with a sidearm. Still not great, but less overtly threatening.
Part of the issue is if you're hostile to the speaker, you can interpret a call for peace to mean a call for violence. Try to imagine for a moment, that this comment was not made by an evil racist orange man, but someone you like... maybe Ghandi. If Ghandi said: "Looting leads to shooting." Which interpretation would you more likely choose?

1. Please don't loot, it escalates violence and people will get killed

2. Let's kill all the looters

Whether it's Trump or Ghandi, we're imagining we know something about the internal state of the speaker's mind that we don't know.
> It is bad because the value of human life (even people you don't like) is infinitely greater than material goods

The human life of the people looting your property is more important than the well-being of you and your family who will be in debt after that, I see.

Regardless, this seems to be your personal value, something that I (and most people that I know) do not seem to share - even the US constitution and laws do not seem to share it, after all it is legal to shoot someone invading your home. I have no grief to give to someone who died while trying to invade my home and loot my property. They are dead due to their own choices.

> A looted store can be repared, restocked, rebuilt

For free? It can be a lifetime's worth for some. Are you willing to pay it out of your own pockets? If there were enough people willing to do so I would support your statement, but that does not seem to be the case.
That. Or it could be a bullshit claim. I'm going to go with the more likely scenario here.