skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> GA is a bad look

Totally agree, but are there "acceptable" CDNs, like unpkg? What about Google Fonts?

> The GDPR gives you a small window to count visitors through cookies as long as all private information (even IP) is anonymized.

If it's not too much to ask, could you expand on that a bit, or share a link? I guess you mean it's ok to send a browser fingerprint for unique visitor stats without having to ask for permission, but I'm not aware of any legal debate let alone court decision with respect to that.

Edit: obviously I can't read ("through cookies"), but cookies for unique visitor counts aren't "functional" are they, so my interpretation is that those cookies need consent; I'd love to hear otherwise though
Vaguely related: there's Firecracker which boots in 125ms on x86 but that's as a VM, so it's an apples to oranges comparison. From what I recall Firecracker powers AWS Lambda so it's an interesting project in that respect too.

https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/
Your father's reading of of Oedipus Rex is superb.

Please accept my thanks.
> I wonder how this will go down with Palantir and Faculty.

I wonder if I can have one day delivery on the worlds smallest violin.
From the site:

> Our on-demand, auto-scaling servers will never slow your site down. Our tracker file is served via our super-fast CDN, with endpoints located around the world to ensure fast page loads.

This suggests that this solution is not self hosted. Is there a solution like this which is really self hosted? This service is one small change away from actually tracking.

Edit: Piwik/Matomo[1] appears to be the most mature one.
[1]: https://matomo.org/
People can host their own DoH server themselves. If I can setup DoH and a VPN over one weekend with a Raspberry Pi, then others can do it too.

I am using DNSCryptProxy on a Pi and it fully supports DoH + eSNI even without cloudflare. Works perfectly with Firefox.

The service picks from 65 DoH servers based against the fastest ping time.

That was/is a lot better than before when in reality my only choice was my ISP DNS. In fact I just learned for the last few years that my ISP was hijacking all DNS requests anyway.
These API changes are actually perfectly reasonable. The new API lets extensions tell the browser what to do to the page in a declarative manner. This eliminates the need to pass private user data to the extension code and reduces the potential for abuse. This is a massive improvement compared to just letting random extensions see everything on the page.

uBlock Origin just happens to be so important and trusted by the community that it shouldn't be subjected to these restrictions. It's a special case.
I hope we don't get access controlled software from large developers. Mobile OS sway me pretty quickly to say 'no' to that. Maybe supply users with curated software, but I think the store model failed spectacularly. They contain more crap than a malicious website could ever hope to supply.
To me that makes it very much a double win.

Palantir of all people shouldn't have been anywhere near the NHS in the first place.
Everyone can use deep learning now
Options can probably first be seen as a form of insurance - you pay a small price to protect yourself against upward/downward movements. It's of course taken to the next level by r/WSB as a tool for leveraged gambling.
This is a win for privacy - the previous model used a centralised "anonymous" database, with the idea being that the data could then be mined for various purposes officially relating to spotting outbreaks and the like. Obviously, this sounds very big-brothery since it would have been a database of who was where with who and when etc.

Not sure if this sudden outbreak of common sense was due to either:

a) technical difficulties of doing something hacky with iOS to try and make the background bluetooth approach work or implementing the backend,

b) something else usurping the need for the data mining (e.g. perhaps the much-trumpeted track-and-trace system where people self-report/voluntarily tell the government who they spend time with)

c) actually caring about people's privacy.

Probably a combination of a + b I expect. c feels like a longshot.
New Lego Mindstorms Robot Inventor Uses Python
I second this. Hobby focused content might seem amateur but it has some advantages in my mind.

Context: My biggest gripe with traditional education is lack of context for why a principle is important or useful. Not a problem when you are focused on a project.

Practicality: The practical aspects of theory are usually limited to core principles and help you see through the fog of all the details.

Narrative: Bringing many topics together in a project narrative give a linear path through the related principles which is less overwhelming.

https://hackaday.com articles, in my experience, have been a good jumping off point and often have solid links for better understanding.

A weakness of this approach is that it ignores the mathematical techniques to solving some of the problems. I doubt you will learn how to analyze circuits with differential equations or phasor analysis on a hobby site. That said, I rarely use these tools outside of an academic setting.

I'm sure someone will recommend The Art of Electronics. Its a great resource once you have the basics under your belt, but hard to use as a learning tool without prior knowledge. It touches on a lot of details by presenting a circuit and summarizing key points about its operation.

Once you have a handle on the basics I highly recommend playing with some circuits in a simulator. LTSpice is free and very high quality. There are other online options too.

You can experiment on hardware relatively safely if you stay away from high voltages and currents (avoid mains power and car batteries, always use circuit protection such as fuses). You will be frustrated if you have no test equipment though, a multimeter is a must-have.
Well, they've tested it in mars equivalent atmosphere and gravity (through the clever use of pulleys) soooo, hasn't he? he didn't bet you couldn't fly a helicopter on /mars/, just it's atmosphere.
I recommend MIT 8.02 - Electricity and Magnetism taught by Walter Lewin [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtlJoXxlSFE&list=PLyQSN7X0ro...
I would suggest things that use the hydraulics analogy, like this: https://ece.uwaterloo.ca/~dwharder/Analogy/
I've been using a similar tool: https://simpleanalytics.com/.

I wish they'd offer more plans between the first 2 cheapest, though. My open-source project is hitting the basic plan limits and the next offer is too expensive for me.
FCC has 'serious doubts' about SpaceX's broadband service
They are really large, however.

I'd like to see a 32 inch 6k OLED TV.
Appreciate your offer mate :-).

A couple of things to consider:

I’m a fellow Indian and while I can’t generalise for everyone, some people are a bit shy and get offended when someone else offers food/groceries because in many parts of India it’s a sign of poverty.

If you can speak to your colleagues and ask if it’s ok, somethings to consider :

1. Long life milk which means lesser trips to supermarkets. Available on www.amazon.in ( search good life milk)

2. Frozen veggies/ ready to eat stuff to save some trouble

3. Not food but can you use some of your skills and make them more productive at work or less stressed? I’m sure they’ll appreciate this the most.

Godspeed!
I'm in Denmark, I believe this is pretty much the best example of the kind of country you are talking about, unfortunately I have some personal problems along various spectrums that mean I am not good at keeping track of things that I cannot control through a computer, anyway Denmark went nearly cashless for a bit and because of my personal problems I did not have a credit card for a portion of that time.

A cashless society would mean a society where some neuro-atypical people might periodically have to worry about starving to death.
This particular mission is a technology proving mission, future missions will use it for forward scouting type stuff, use the copter to find best courses forward, heavier ground probe with all the experiments can take a path with the advantage of foresight. At least that's my understanding.
You're not weeping, and nobody is asking for your tears.

Your contention is that activism for lgbtq rights and BLM is counterproductive, because it's too hostile. The facts say it is working:
https://twitter.com/sangerkatz/status/1270703905144537092
Well, consider the language being used:

> The MOVE members fired at them, and a gunfight with semi-automatic and automatic firearms ensued.

This language is so evasive that it could accurately describe "MOVE shot at police once with a muzzle-loader, and police returned fire with semi-automatic and automatic weapons."

Words like "compound" and "bunker" don't have a particular meaning either--they are just there to sound cult-y and scary.

If this is actually a justified situation, why not tell the story straight? Why not say that MOVE used semi-automatic and automatic weapons if that's what happened?
I agree completely. I miss folders for YouTube subscriptions as well. It seems folders are on the way out in most modern tools and apps.
"Elon Musk's SpaceX has a month to convince officials at the Federal Communications Commission that its service is up to snuff to participate in an upcoming auction for government subsidies to deliver broadband to rural parts of the country. The agency said it has "serious doubts" that low-Earth orbit satellite providers, like SpaceX, will be able to meet latency requirements to qualify for participation in the auction.

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-20-77A1.pdf

The agency made these assertions in a report published last week detailing the requirements and procedures for the first phase of the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund auction set to begin in October. The FCC said it would allow low-Earth orbit satellite companies to apply for funds as low-latency broadband providers, but it said it was doubtful these companies could meet the sub-100 milliseconds latency requirement. "
Why not just use ublock origin in medium mode[0] (or hard mode[1] if you're so inclined)?

[0]https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium...

[1]https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-hard-m...
Made over $1000 in Selling Boilerplates
Apple Rejects Facebook’s Gaming App, for at Least the Fifth Time
Racism of Confederacy Based on Science
>Russian troll farms drove nice wedges across the US on all kinds of issues

Small potatoes and inconsequential. Americans don't need any outside help to drive wedges between, they are already at each other's throats.
Thanks for clarifying. Since HN isn't the right place for a detailed discussion, I would invite you to comment on that issue and try to help us work through it.

As one of our engineers mentions in the linked issue, this bug is hard to trigger (as is the nature of many bugs), and she is working on a solution[1]. This issue has also been reported here[2], with the solution of adding time.sleep(1) inside the loop usually resolving that problem.

[1] https://github.com/streamlit/streamlit/pull/1494
[2] https://discuss.streamlit.io/t/displaying-images-from-opencv...
Unfortunately users like you are far and few between, at least it seems to me, anecdotally.

A great majority of users seem to want answers right away because they're blocked and you're the only one (sometimes) who can unblock them.
You could use Pandoc [0] to render it into HTML and then open that in a browser and print it...

[0] https://pandoc.org/
Because starting a country is really hard. Technical issues aside, you have to convince at least one, and ideally several, countries to accept the passport you issue and engage with you diplomatically.

Besides, there is no real history of country creation without violence to assert borders, and a charter country would assert a monopoly on violence within its geographic borders, which can displease a lot of other countries.

> significantly different from a model like imperialism

You can imagine a direct democracy anarchist commune charter country. Which is pretty opposite to imperialism.
No, really enjoying the WFH. So much more productive, and communication is better. Plus, less stress than trying to work in a loud office environment.
No. The formulas are generated using MathJax, maybe you are blocking their JavaScript?
I don't live in the South East and I'm not in a tech bubble, if that's what you mean.
There isn't a statute of limitations on murder in PA.
I can also add mine, even though more complex, it's still lightweight: https://usertrack.net

I tried bringing together the most useful analytics features (user segments, heatmaps, session recordings, tags/events) in a self-hosted platform with simple UI. A/B testing feature is also coming soon. I built the platform with the optimal use-case being improving conversion rates on landing pages.

My goal now is to prove and teach (even to non-technical users) that self-hosting is easy nowadays when you can create a VPS running your desired software in just a few clicks.

I would love to hear some criticism or why you wouldn't want to try something like this.
Use tailwind classes inside styled components
They aren't 'taxing' it - they're charging for a service rendered, which is a valuable service to me so I'm fine with it.
Hmm, I wonder how deep one should look. Why don't you shoot me an email at hot3eed at gmail? I'd appreciate it a lot!
> Would it kill them to send something like "We saw X on your account ..."

They fear it would kill their fraud prevention efforts because they'd just be giving evil actors a list of instructions on how to stay as close as possible to their undesirable activities.
There is no reason to be so absolute about it. I'm not saying it is a bad book or that you should read "Field and Wave Electromagnetics" before you ever dare touch a multimeter.

As an example of my reasoning. AoE and the Arduino starter kit cost roughly the same in my country. They are of course not comparable, but I'd would definitely recommend the latter to someone completely new to electronics, exactly because the latter gives the tools for experimenting.
Is the UK app also geo-blocked to only UK based Apple/google Accounts like the new German app?

https://github.com/corona-warn-app/cwa-app-android/issues/47...
I enjoyed "There are No Electrons: Electronics for Earthlings" by Kenn Amdahl. It's a light hearted take in the form of a silly story, but it explains things surprisingly well.

Guess I should add that it covers the basics of electricity and the basics of electronics.
I agree, saying that there are no actionable points in GA is like saying analytics in general are useless.
The Art of Electronics is perhaps the best textbook (in any subject) that I have read. I’d highly recommend it. It’s exceedingly pragmatic and will discuss a mix of physical underpinnings as well as applications.
How online newspaper leverage subdomain leasing to dominate the coupon industry
The ratio matters because the second type of error is significantly worse ie: it is much worse to have tuberculosis and be told you do not have tuberculosis. They are looking at type 1 vs type 2 error.

I think that they are saying three things
1) real tests aren't actually trying to minimize both types error of which is the opposite of the hypothesis "It might be natural to conclude that physicians seek to minimize both types of error"
2) illustrating with a very dangerous disease (to give the reader an idea of risk) the difference in types of error.
3) Demonstrating potential trade offs that occur, Type 1 error is so much less risky they are ok with 50x as much error.
Yes, he is quite a wonderful teacher.

One of my favorites: http://amasci.com/amateur/whygnd.html
The centralised approach is 'better' for the stated aims but it is harder to reliably develop.

I suspect that they concluded that the whole system won't be ready soon enough (ideally it should have been deployed by now) and so they are switching to something they can deploy faster.

In any case I suspect that these apps will make very little difference because they will come too late, not be used widely enough, and provide too little actionable data.
So Germany and the UK, right? Any other countries using this already? Preliminary data?
Thanks for the tip! It looks like a fascinating rabbit hole and I want to read all of it :D
The incentive to care (in the US at least) is called tort law. Punitive damages against a company the size of Amazon for what sounds to me like theft should be very large. I'm sure that a lawyer would be interested in taking up this case, based on the size of the potential settlement.
Isn't that the case for the Amazon stores?
Is this the real reason why the app seemed like it was suddenly going to be delayed?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53083340
I asked a few people much better than me and they couldn't think of any standard openings similar to what I was using. A few were able to point out some openings it was similar to, but those were rarely used openings.
Someone who is currently a cabinet minister did memorably say:

"I think the people in this country have had enough of experts"
Hence, everyone is wrong and right at the same time, citation needed of course.
ESA's XMM-Newton space telescope spies youngest baby pulsar ever discovered
Sophisticated investors can use options to construct payout graphs that are not linear, e.g. you can form an M shaped payout with knock out puts & calls. They’re actually used to manage risk, not gamble. Most option activity is large investors limiting exposure, or big banks creating or hedging structured products (which are generally not available to non institutional investors).
Experimentations with Wikidata/Wikibase
Paying with cash also helps small restaurants and cafes. Instead of having to pay 3% and wait 3-5 days until they get the funds which might get charged back they have the money on the spot. No need for all these middle men taking a cut.

Same goes for Uber eats etc. Call the restaurant directly, don't be a dick.
Some programs catch SIGSEGV and automatically prints out the stack trace and starts a debugger for you.
I always thought the V was actually 5 as System V UNIX. Maybe to denote a change that started in that version.
Yep, definitely the important details are not present in this picture. However, firing even one shot at the police who's trying to arrest you justifies use of whatever force necessary to subdue the attacker.
IMO, try to avoid fork - you'll never be able to merge it back anymore, a fork splits the product into 2; think what will happen when you get +1 more "special" customer.

In the 2nd company where I encountered this challenge, I introduced a single global cross-cutting interface, giving de facto hook points in the code. Implementations were specialized per customer; the default behaviors went by "vanilla" (90% were empty implementations). This still led to a mess and complex indirections, but at least we were getting some isolation and encapsulation (a.k.a. decoupling). In particular, in case we lost one customer, we could quickly scrap all the specialized cruft with a single clean cut. And let me tell you, they wanted crazy customizations sometimes, and we were not in power to resist. edit: Also, when analyzing, you could at least keep in mind only the common core + single customer's tweaks; other customers were completely off your mind. And you could try and see how this customer's tweaks interact between them in one place. edit 2: Note that some behaviors were still kept in the main codebase if they looked reasonably useful for future, and just the choice would be in the customizer then. Sorry if what I wrote is too chaotic :/ edit 3: Still, remember the "[refactoring] rule of three" - as applied here, first just hack your new behavior into a personal fork as if it was the only codebase, and only when it works look where to introduce decoupling points. You will 99% always see them much better from position of hindsight than when trying to predict them initially.

That said, I'm not yet aware if there's a way to reasonably mitigate a huge increase in complexity when supporting multiple customers.
I just don't understand how the UK, a modern first world democracy, can be quite so far behind every other country.
They're still debating a quarantine for new arrivals, contact tracing is yet to really start, testing lagged significantly...

It's an island nation, it should have had a head-and-shoulders advantage over continental Europe with full potential for an outcome closer to New Zealand or Australia rather than the US or Brazil.

What went wrong?
Pay them? It's complicated. Sometimes you just don't want anyone or someone but a special one.
Try "Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software." It provides a very simple introduction to electricity. Beyond that, it's just a great introductory book on computing.

https://www.amazon.com/Code-Language-Computer-Hardware-Softw...
The largest collection of animated Chrome DevTools tips
Oh, yeah. Silly me! Appreciate it :)
Out of interest, if you say you honor DNT, how exactly do you handle browsers that do not allow setting this as a user preference anymore (Firefox, Safari)?
Not the parent and this might be different from what they meant, but this reminded me of Lindsey Kuper's PhD work on something called LVars (lattice variables): "We present LVars, a new model for deterministic-by-construction parallel programming that generalizes existing single-assignment models to allow multiple assignments that are monotonically increasing with respect to a user-specified lattice. LVars ensure determinism by allowing only monotonic writes and “threshold” reads that block until a lower bound is reached." (from https://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~lkuper/papers/lvars-fhpc13.pdf ); "The LVars model allows communication through shared monotonic datastructures to which information can only be added, never removed, and for which the order in which information is added is not observable." (from https://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~lkuper/papers/effectzoo-pldi14.p... ); more at https://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~lkuper/
This is actually a problem. I’m in Sweden, but as it’s really hard to transfer my Apple account from the UK (especially with a family account) I’ve never bothered. So am I going to not have access to Sweden’s contract tracing app if one is built?
d) allowing them to leverage existing opensource code from the European efforts, without actually having to admit the dependency

e) speeding up development, because of a) and d), which also means making it cheaper and less reliant on a single supplier

f) the new guy in charge has some Apple contacts he might be able to leverage to, again, speed up things.
Danke schön. Schade, aber mein Deutsch ist nicht so gut.

Most of the users live in Privacy Nightmare and accept it. They also run closed source OS and applications. The truth is privacy has a cost - monetary (Apple ecosystem) or time/experience (Linux etc).

Apple can hire maintainers, Linux users can become maintainers. Those who live in free as beer land has free as beer support.
Ghostery is even a recommended Addon on AMO [1].

What would really be practical were some kind of extension analyzer/profiler that runs newly installed addons in a sandbox and displays attempted connections and payloads. Or a mode where connections need to be whitelisted, to limit the impact of silent addon takeovers.

Too many times I find myself having to download, unpack, and skim through an addon's source to make sure it's not doing anything malicious under the hood.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ghostery/