skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm. I have to say that Joyce doesn't sound like any English person I've ever met!
His accent is fairly typical of the educated middle class Dubliner of the era and can be heard in recordings of some Irish politicians from the period. Ireland was a dominion of the British empire during Joyce's formative years, and the influence of English RP is obvious. However, his Hibernian roots are also clearly audible, at least to me!
My home internet went out yesterday (I WFH full-time).

“No big deal”, I thought. I’ll just go to Sta... Dammit COVID!
So it's better than both Wondows and Mac experience now?
Maybe we would still have had a ceiling, it just would have been later at 15MB or so instead of 640KB.
Text looks similar to Windows and Linux (both of which definitely run at native resolution).

macOS Mojave 10.14.6

MacBook Pro 15” 2019

Radeon Pro 555X

Intel UHD 630
I spent my entire childhood in the suburbs and literally never was I driven to/from school except for medical/dental appointments. I walked/biked from first grade until I bought my own car. My experience was typical in my peer group.
Analytics may give you the number of paid subcriptions but that is not the reason it exists. Modern analytics systems are build to give you a statistical view of all events/interactions leading up to a conversion or, more important, to a conversion that did not happen. With this information it is possible to optimize all touchpoints a user has with your services.

It is easy to track all aspects of subscriptions including recurring revenue. The data quality depends on the data you send to google analytics and is not "dubious" but in your own responsibility. And google analytics is really good in separating bots from human visits.

If google analytics did only report vanity metrics to you, you most likely did not use it the right way. Maybe you missed the segmentation tools to find groups of users for whom your service did not work out?
IIRC the measurement protocol can be used to send fake traffic by bad actors.
There are also a huge number of audiobooks available on YouTube.

I made a Reddit bot [0] that continually scans comments across the entire site for mentions of science fiction and fantasy book titles. It uses a dataset of book title/author pairs that were scraped from the Speculative Fiction Database, a compendium of all known science fiction/fantasy literary works.

If an SFF book title/author pair is detected in a comment, the bot searches YouTube for an audiobook of the mentioned title, then replies with a link to it should one be found.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/user/EmotionalField
Caches are irrelevant now that the world has moved to HTTPS.
It's not the heat but the UV exposure and people's ability to create vitamin D from it. People in countries that have "eternal summer" tend not to go out in the sun as it's hot. Also skin pigmentation is a big factor.
This seems like a good thread to hijack for a second and complain about the default Ubuntu screencapture utility writing "scrot" into every file name, which is embarrassing to send to people and requires manual editing.
Why is there a “V” in SIGSEGV Segmentation Fault?
Bill Joy – De BSD à Sun Microsystems
Hi Cenk, I have been building a tool[0] similar to Matomo, but the plan was to make the UI much simpler to use but also provide more premium functionalities (heatmaps, session recordings) for cheaper.

My idea was to focus everything on "segments". So for all the data you can quickly create user segments and instantly filter the data to see only stats for the users you want, or compare stats between segments.

There is a public dashboard that you can check, I would love some feedback if you have the time :)

[0]: https://usertrack.net/
Well, you don't specifically need GA for it, but tracking referers to sales, for example...is often actionable. Similar for a funnel view to see where visitors drop off. Especially combined with some A/B testing.
Adding Retries to Your API Calls
Hook into onbeforeunload and call your own javascript to post back to your own site to let you know when they've left.
9y ago they cut off Wikileaks; this is well before the 2016 election.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2010/12/07/visa-m...
Wirecard says €1.9bn of cash is missing
i have to say i love the formatting of this blog. i miss this style of page being more common.
uBlock Origin, Dashlane, Wappalyzer & NewsGuard
Maybe something like the eggbot extensions for inkscape would be a good idea for this https://wiki.evilmadscientist.com/The_Eggbot_Extensions
It was probably offset printing. The plates were etched metal positives from film negatives. A soft intermediate picks up an even layer of ink from the plate and deposits it on wet paper. The paper is then oven dried. (IIRC, it has been a long time)
Ocean oil spills and their impact
Yes and this is not the only error in the article. I'm not even sure what this is supposed to mean:

""" Every operation which preserves a lattice and doesn't use "incomparable" objects is equivalent to addition. """

And the statement at the end: "any lattice is equivalent to another lattice where the relationship is set inclusion." This only holds for distributive lattices.

For another take on lattice theory, and ordered structures more generally:

https://www.azimuthproject.org/azimuth/show/Applied+Category...
GDPR compliance.

GDPR is the European privacy law. It protects European citizens so it applies not only to European companies but any company that does business in Europe (having offices or advertising/selling there).

Google does not give much assurance regarding their GDPR compliance... their text on that subject is mostly CYA and then they make it your responsibility to decide how to use it in compliance (if at all possible).

The GDPR gives you a small window to count visitors through cookies as long as all private information (even IP) is anonymized... OR you can go do a more traditional tracking with their explicit agreement. This last use case is completely useless in terms of visitor statistics, but analytics companies sometimes dare suggest it (as in "this is the way to do things right... so our product is compliant and it's not our responsibility if you break the law").

That aside, I run international non-profit sites and GA is a bad look... and with good reason: Using social network sharing buttons, GA, CDNs, etc. gives too much power to track people to a few companies.
moving from SF/LA/NY

I bet state and city Income tax was a factor.
"I really value unfiltered end user input. No third party customer contact is going to tell you that the user looked for "Export" under the "File" menu instead of where you had it the very first time they used the product. You have to watch over the users shoulder of have video."

To clarify, the users first impression or actions are a one time only event that you want to capture as a developer because they won't do it the same ever again.

The analogy I use is: Suppose the carpet on the door sill of your cubical is unglued so it sticks up a little. The very first time you walk over the threshold you may trip. After that, you unconsciously lift you foot a little higher every time you go into you cubicle.

In your role as a product designer, you want to avoid "tripping" the user if at all possible. When I'm working on a GUI, I want it to be "invisible" to the user - it just works. I rarely succeed 100%, but I try. The developer who says "the user is doing it wrong" should re-access their attitude. (I've developed CAD programs, solid modelers, oscilloscopes, etc. Basically, tools for technical people.)
>Mail in voting and thousands of in person voting booths across the state.

I dread the dystopia when you sent your party affiliation on your phone and you never even have to think about pesky things like engagement, and people, and politicians, and elections as your phone will be automatically be polled at election time for your vote.

This is a democratic dystopia.

To me, this is democracy: https://youtu.be/FRtp-ooeC3Q?t=139 - yelling, cheering, jeering, people in a common space, interacting with their neighbours, fired up!

> I personally guarantee to you that this is due either to a lack of experience in the struggle some Americans face, or to a lack of imagination.

Personally guarantee eh? I can personally guarantee you don't know what you're talking about. I noticed a tendency of a certain class of people, typically who grew up in an affluent household, who are deeply uncomfortable with making any statement that doesn't infantilize people of modest means or modest upbringing. Frequently they will also lecture others who are familiar with growing up poor, or in an immigrant ghetto in an immigrant household, as somehow ... not understanding what non-affluence looks like, perhaps because they themselves don't understand it and they lack the imagination to (as you put it).

I understand what growing up as a foreign-born immigrant in working-class immigrant household looks like, and it doesn't change my conclusion. If people, regardless of income, care about caucus they will make time. In fact, they will be happy to. Sacrificing a little for something you care about is a spiritual experience.
I'd say Scandinavia as a whole. In Norway I had to use my debit card to access public toilets in train stations, with a small fee. I'd be surprised if Denmark wasn't similar to Norway and Sweden.
I don’t know, but in times where search engines are kings, do TLDs really matter?

Some people in the past said shorter TLDs ranked better in terms of SEO, but that doesn’t seem to be true either.
Examples I saw in a website I launched last year:
* High bounce rate showed that people did not find the content engaging / not what they were looking for, confirming a hypothesis I had; this was particularly true for certain sections of the website.
* Time spent on pages was another metric that was helpful to find problems in some sections.
* Easy slicing of traffic sources by referrer and country, showed me that most of my "good" traffic was coming from facebook, so I invested more time there.
I know how I'd do this, but have no reason to do it.
Malwarebytes throwing up the following warning: Website blocked due to Trojan.
Just an FYI
I once had Apple reject an iOS app update citing IP violations because we had an in-app settings page using a stock UITableViewController with default UITableViewCells with UISwitch in the accessory view (on the right) and vanilla text. Literally no styling.

Apparently it looked too much like the iPad Settings app.

Insane.
Server side Analytics are far from reliable. Go and try Netlify, then you’ll see how unreliable they really are.

For us nerds, we can always block things using DNS level blocking but Fathom’s custom domain feature has done really well for the majority: https://usefathom.com/blog/custom-domains-embed-code
"Confirm". It prompts for verification before substituting, in vim:

https://www.linux.com/training-tutorials/vim-tips-basics-sea...
42. Easy.
Yeah, we use CUBE to create caches of aggregate data cut by various combinations of criteria, which allows us to keep UIs with lots of filters snappy, instead of having to hit a view.
Ask HN: Diverging products: fork codebase, create config file or other option?
Hello hello!

I was wondering about your experiences, since this problem is quite common.

You work at a company that has a flagship product. Suddenly they need a slightly diverging product from it (that's how it starts out). For example, the B2B version gets a B2C version, and the B2C has some extra features that the B2B version doesn't need (e.g. credit card payments, slight UI changes). Later on, the team finds out that the B2B version also has specific features that the B2C version doesn't need to know about.

The team is at the beginning of all of this.

The team could:

- Split the codebase with a fork

- Add a configuration file and have checks inside your code

- Do something else

How would you go about this? And what have you experienced before?
Here's a good explanation: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/eupl/news/why-viral-l...

The short answer is that there are certain protections that ensure interoperability, and that linking to software does not make it a derivative work.
I think a big problem is everyone is in, “Central banks are on the case and will save us” mode. It’s still an unprecedented route to take. There’s a lofty exuberance to the Hertz rally, in particular, that seems completely detached from the current reality.
Testing Device
Hetzner Cloud Review
If you are open to hiring a new devs I'd really appreciate it. I have more than 4 years of work experience but no freelance. I can do PHP with frameworks like Laravel, React or iOS native development and I do Flutter coding in my free time currently.
I first encountered .xyz in case of Alphabet[0]. And so I bought it for my own website[1] since I found it refreshing as you said.

[0]https://abc.xyz/

[1]https://flashblaze.xyz
The fall of currencies under the spell of stocks worries strategists
While I agree with that to a degree, and it does provide some protection it does not provide total protection

They will then attack your Domain Register, or your DDOS protection (CloudFlare) or ISP (as more residential plan forbid running any server the ISP will ban you not for political or other reasons but for running a server on a residential plan), have your bank account / credit card cancelled (this has happened) etc etc etc
So far GA is answering two important questions for me - which marketing strategies are actually working (because it's hard to tell when you've got multiple going at once), and also making sure my marketing is actually hitting the geo-regions I need it to.

That said though once I know which marketing tools are effective, there's nothing more that GA does that CloudFlare couldn't just tell me anyway (i.e. am I getting more or less traffic) and I'll probably drop it as it's one less dashboard to look at - like you said that conversion to subscriber _is_ the ultimate metric for success.
Have you talked to a good immigration attorney? There are tens of thousands of people in this situation - perfectly capable of starting companies (at least, able to be one man business owners instead of wage slaves) except some murky rules and laws don't allow them to do so.

It would help tremendously if the rules are amended to allow H1B people to start businesses - say after 5 years on the visa or something. Not that I see any progressive action happening in this area in the current political climate ...
NASA rushing a Mars mission. What could possibly go wrong?
The article doesn't pass the smell test to me.

By his own description of what it does, I'd say the app is highly likely to be selling access to content that the author hasn't licensed, and is on sketchy copyright grounds.

Also, the fact that a vote manipulation app...

https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/4/21122737/iowa-democractic-...

...was distributed via a test platform with the financial backing of former Clinton and Obama / recent Pete Buttigieg staffers...

https://apnews.com/5232ce5601996c1de440806ad30fa4fb

...has likely put Apple in the position of being compelled to more actively police what goes on in test apps. I get the knee-jerk tendency to blame corporate oppression of indie developers since that is usually what we see from the Googles and Microsofts of the world, but Apple has little monetary interest in kicking a successful app developer off of their ecosystem, unless that app developer is blatantly flaunting civil / criminal statutes or trying to scam Apple out of their cut of the profit.

If I had a to guess I'd say this guy is doing both.
Just be sure to check with your legal team regarding using web logs for analytics purposes
The Launch Is Approaching for NASA's Next Mars Rover, Perseverance
I would not call Wikileaks political.
> on your own network connection

ISPs can ban users just as capriciously as any other company. And they do.

Decentralized internet alternatives are both harder to use (and "host your own infrastructure" is already impossibly hard for the vast majority of people) and too limited to be useful.

It's time to accept that and emergent behavior of the internet is to become more centralized, not less.
One Year on Testosterone
Patent does not apply here, copyright does. And the US copyright lasts 70 years after the death of the author, and for companies, 120 years after creation or 95 years after publication, whichever is shorter.
Small shops with card fees is the last remaining hold out for me.

Payment systems should be nationalised and run by a country's central bank. It's a very boring infrastructure equivalent to roads. There shouldn't be a private company taxing every single transaction someone makes. Do that and the small stores can drop the fees.
Tom Gilb once said that "everything can be measured so accurately that the result is better than having no measurement at all" or words to that effect. I'm sure he phrased it better. In this case, some users aren't measured, which drags down the accuracy of the measurement.

Even if the numbers are off by quite a few per cent, I can easily see how some site operators might benefit from knowing e.g. that visitors close one tutorial much quicker than the others.
Ask HN: Is it feasible to draft your own patent application?
For the uninitiated, drafting patents is not a straightforward process. There's a lot of magic strings and legal nuances. To be a patent attorney you have to have a law degree and an engineering degree.

I have an idea I've been trying to patent. If I had the money I would just hire an attorney but I don't have the money. $500 is a lot of money to me. $2000 is a ton of money to me. Maybe you have lived a different type of life than me and saving money has been an option for you but for me wealth creation has been a closed door. There is no reason to continue discussing this tangent.

I tried using FIVERR and that was a disaster. I tried doing it on my own and I'm starting to see how much work just drafting the claims is. It's sort of like in programming how sometimes to know anything you have to know everything.

I want a patent to protect my invention because it would be easy for existing companies to copy. After doing a weeks long patent search I am convinced my invention is novel and non-obvious but an existing company could easy beat me to the market with a good product if my invention starts picking up steam.

Yet drafting a quality patent application seems impossible to do right unless you are a practicing patent attorney. So the idea of being able to create value out of thin air is imaginary. You aren't allowed to patent an invention unless you have $20,000-$30,000 to bet. This seems wrong. Am I being dramatic? This seems like an impossible thing to accomplish at the moment.
I am aware.

To be clear, I am saying their plan is so have the links up before the consolation is finished. These early launches are going to be in a higher orbit which will allow them to offer the service on land before the full constellation is finished as well as provide redundancy.
I remember an article from over a decade ago about booting Linux on an embedded device in 1 second. The key was to modify driver init and bring up the critical stuff first such as disk and graphics and boot user space as fast as possible. Then worry about networking and so on.
> Especially the ones that implore you to trust them

With long established institutions (like banks) you still have lots of competitors to choose from, and legal recourse if you are wronged. There is no recourse when PayPals, Amazons and Apples of the world decide to scrub you.

In my case it was Apple refusing to work with a bank because they don't have branches, apparently. It's a well known private bank, with a gazillion businesses banking with them, a subsidiary of a rather large multinational bank. For ten years my company has been paid by, and paid out to, numerous entities in the UK and abroad, with no problems. But now Apple comes around, all arrogant as they are, telling me to switch banks because they have enacted a rule that doesn't exist in any laws, just because they can? I am not willing to go down that route.
What is Proof of Concept and when does your business need one?
Of course. Fathom filters bots on the client side and then looks for bot signs on the server. If it looks questionable, it doesn’t process it.
> Before multi-cores existed, i recall asking some colleagues there, “why cant we just stack multiple cpus on top of eachother?”

I guess you know this already, but the answer is you were right. You can, but heat dissipation is a real problem. The technique is called 3D ICs. https://semiengineering.com/stacked-die-changes/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-dimensional_integrated_c...
You are going to die in a civil war. The environment will be scorched earth. Globalists made sure of it.
Thanks, so Finnegans Wake is considered a modernist novel? Interesting. Totally out of my depth here but it seems so much at odds with modernist ideas in other artistic disciplines, e.g., architecture.
Riding a motorcycle is generally the same as mountaineering or being a criminal - mistakes tend to be very expensive ;)
1. "Recommended" extensions are a subset of all extensions, so to narrow the comparison from "Extensions" to "A limited subset" feels dishonest. Not all Firefox extensions are Recommended.

2. Firefox took years and years to lock down extensions like Chrome, and people were legitimately upset that they turned extensions into basically privileged webpages in the name of security. They used to be more like software. It wasn't until what 2017 or 2018 that Firefox truly took security seriously and stopped letting extensions run application code.

3. Chrome didn't turn extensions into the 'wild west'! For the record, Firefox 3.0 had "Add-ons" in 2008 a few months before Google released Chrome 1.0!
Thanks for the tutorial. Looks interesting.

I'm a fan of GoAccess. Unfortunately the queries are pre-made and there are nearly no options whatsoever. You can't (yet) filter by date for example.

One thing I realized is, that on small sites, like my blog, an overwhelming amount of traffic comes from search engines or bots which are looking for vulnerabilities. Filtering them out takes a lot of time in any self-hosted or self-made solution.
There are millions of possible answers to this question... Examples:

- Conversion rate grouped by browser and browser version to find browser specific bugs.
- Total revenue per user per marketing channel / search keyword / ... to optimize budget allocation.
- Revenue by mobile OS version share to decide testing procedures to not optimize for users that don't contribute to your bottom line.
- Client side loading times per user location and provider to optimize infrastructure placement.
- ...
well most of the time, my company deals with docker aswell.
but my coworkers have nothing to do with it, it just is fully automated.
the only problem we had, when introducing long running jobs that can be run while clicking a button inside our ui, which runs a k8s job.
that was hairy for my coworker, but with enough shell scripts it started to be easier and easier.
Why would you not allow Apple to decide what banks they want to deal with? If some bank has e.g. bad reputation because of some money laundering or terrorist money scandals, why would a business want to be associated with that?
Mash it into butter and put it on steak. Absolutely delicious. Or make it into a pesto.
It's quite clearly a scientism/superstition feud. Remember that Ireland was extremely Catholic at this point, and the guilt/purity psychology of that would pervade everything.

Wells is arguing that Joyce is being shocking for the sake of it in an internal struggle with his conservative values, while Wells sees himself as a scientific man "never been shocked to outcries by the existence of water closets and menstrual bandages".

(Presumably a reference to Ulysees and the content that got it banned: https://www.bl.uk/20th-century-literature/articles/ulysses-a... )