skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tangential but...

"Analytics" is rarely useful or unuseful because of the tool. These tools need to be treated as data collection, not reporting.

If your goal is to inform certain decisions, track success or identify problems... a spreadsheet (or napkin) is usually where that happens.

Say you do analysis systematically, make a list of questions and use your tools to answer them... usually you find that the tool itself doesn't matter much, and GA doesn't answer most of your questions out-of-the-box anyway.

Say you want a "funnel." That usually consists of a handful of data points. GA usually doesn't have them by default, without tinkering configuration, etc. Decide what they are beforehand. Understand them. Use GA (or whatever) to get the data.

Finding the tool for the job is much easier once you know what the job is. GA is extremely noisy, bombarding users with half-accurate, half-understood reports.
Chrome Enterprise is free (it’s just a zipped file with GPOs and the MSI installer for Chrome). These policies should apply on the Chrome you already have.
Yes but that plus 14 years of experience will add up to at least half if not most, super depends on that starting number. But really a comparison to today's numbers is most telling
I’ve never been nor kept up with SEA, but this is still surprising to hear! I would have assumed WeChat type mobile payments situations were well in place, is cash really that dominant or are there other factors?
"Quantum Country is a new kind of book. Its interface integrates powerful ideas from cognitive science to make memory a choice."

What were the powerful ideas?
Unlikely.

Firstly, it's definitely not written in eye dialect (it's basically a dialect or language of Joyce's own invention)

Beyond that, even if you were to consider accents of Joyce & his contemporaries, along with the changes of accents over 100 years, Joyce—from a Catholic, but well-off background—had an accent[0] much closer to a modern English accent than anything else.

He also lived in Italy, Switzerland and France for most of his life.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhW0TrzWGmI
I just wish there were more 5K displays out there. A few months ago I bought and returned a 4K display because I'm so used to 1440p so that I lost some real estate with 4K at 2x scaling.

At the moment I have to upscale the fonts on most websites (e.g. 130 % on HN). Fonts look very nice (although not as nice as on the 4K display) but most UI elements are very small. Fortunately that isn't a real problem since my workflow is keyboard-driven anyway, so I rarely have to click on any buttons.

In the end it's still better than the 27" 1080p display I have in my office where you could see every damn pixel. I really don't miss working there.
Unusable is waaaay overstating it. It's no harder to use for the average user than Windows or OSX. Gaming is actually easier these days on Ubuntu than it is on both other platforms. And it's just getting better and better every year.
Yes, it’s telling that even mentioning the full context will upset people. Hence your downvotes. People really want to believe that the Philly PD was firebombing black neighborhoods for fun.
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It’s like a physical key, also inside a combination lockbox, hanging from your keychain. It follows the Unix Philosophy in this regard of doing one thing very well and I think that’s a large part of the appeal.

Granted it does many things well, I think the most common case with Yubikeys is we only use them for one or two of their possible functions, and they’re cheap enough that this is okay; like a screw driver with half a dozen bits in the handle, but I just use the Philihp’s Head bit. In earlier Yubikeys, they could get stuck in PIV mode (like getting a bit stuck in your screwdriver), but I doubt anyone ever noticed.
This reminds me of Vladimir Nabokov's opinion of Joyce.

Here's Martin Amis, speaking at Nabokov's centenary celebration in 1999:

"[O]nly once, I think, did [Nabokov] bow to a superior talent. Of James Joyce he said, 'My stuff is patball to his champion game.'

"Now, how sincere was Nabokov being? In my view the bidding starts at 50% and then drops sharply. Anyway it's a judgment he whittled away at elsewhere. That 600-page crossword clue Finnegans Wake Nabokov considered a tragic failure: 'a cold pudding of a book, a persistent snore in the next room.'"
8086 also had hardware div.
Are you sure? I did a cross-comparison recently and found LuaJIT still to be factor 1.3 to 1.5 faster than V8 in geometric mean (I used the Node.js implementation on the CLBG).
Obviously incorrect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Indian_banknote_demonetis...
Not buying from them is the plan, along with oil from anyone. Long term I see this happening, almost inevitable at this point.

All you have to do is shut down the shipping lanes and stop the import of energy. We could do that from 1000s of miles away, far out of the reach of their navy. Of course they could go nuclear...

The best strategy is continued and increasing isolation of a bad actor, it will take time but they know they are looking out, seeing trouble ahead, and realizing how dependent they are on the US for survival. The changing opinions here is worrying them.
I see we have abandoned the facade of neutrality. The right to protest is the same regardless of your cause, as is the duty to remain peaceable.
It is interesting how even people in this industry are sometimes orders of magnitude off when thinking about how quickly a modern computer is able to do something. Personally, I think it is because web development has trained people to believe that computers are slow.
> "6 times 9"

Half the people I know in SF couldn't do that at sea level.
For anyone else wondering what's going on there, certain types of semiconductors have a minimum off time. They have to work around this by varying the frequency of the PWM. Usually it results in a kind of space age sound as they accelerate. In this case they have chosen something more interesting.
I can understand the stance of "master" being unintuitive. The racism part i do not understand. It seems very narrow minded, to bind words which have roots tracing back thousands of years to one special meaning in recent history.
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OT: why do you care which bank you're in?
Actually, where the laser is concerned - probably not. Most commercial laser cutting machines have a print driver that handles all the conversion between Creation and Output.

I only ever deal with GCode when outputting to my CNC.
No, the 14% figure is for people that self-requested testing. You can see it as an upper boundary, but it won't be the actual figure, which is likely around 8% or so.
Show HN: MediaRecorder Power Up
“In fact, a screenshot from Kearns’ mobile phone reveals that while his account had a negative $730,165 cash balance displayed in red, it may not have represented uncollateralized indebtedness at all, but rather his temporary balance until the stocks underlying his assigned options actually settled into his account.”

How the hell is this a thing? Who approved this UI?
Meanwhile, Wall Street is still at large.
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I would understand if you said it's on par with other platforms but saying it's easier is bs
Twitter and Reddit have endless amounts of pornographic content and seem to be allowed on the app store just fine.
Here in Norway, had the loss actually been real, he could have declared personal bankruptcy and moved on with his life. From what I can see the US has something similar, though I'm not sure how effective it is?

Tragic event regardless, and a stark reminder to us programmers that we should always keep in mind what exactly we're doing, what are we telling the users, what are we letting the users do.
So as a minimal example, yes, that is short. But it mixes model and view which, in very large applications, may produce codebases that are really hard to maintain. Are there examples that are much bigger, for example, with at least a few hundred widgets?

By the way, the library used in that blog post is also truly native and cross-platform. Keera has apps and games that work on Windows/Mac/Linux/Web/iOS/Android, all from the same code.
Poorly. Having to navigate between the two crush my development productivity and i think made me regress those past 3 years. I aslo use engaging with users as an excuse to forget, procrastinate the part of development i don't enjoy. I really like the people i'm working with and the project we're on, but this was not sustainable for me so i'm leaving, i will be replaced by two people, one engaging with users and able to execute small, limited task, who will have to learn our platform for at least two to three months, and a full-time developer later on.

My advice is unless you are really driven by your product: don't do both if you can afford to.
Kinda what voting is for - to change the current gov't.
It's a guess, but a plausible one. We know the virus is destroyed quickly by UV light, which is stronger in summer. People spend more time outside in summer, and we know transmission is reduced outside. Other respiratory viruses spread poorly in summer.

It's hard to compare with Brazil, because the stats coming out of there are poor and they're making less attempt at controlling the virus compared to almost any other country.
Hi developer here,

I made this small library because I need to switch audio/video tracks while using MediaRecorder.

Normally changing srcObject will stop the MediaRecorder now it wont stop and you can easily change video/audio during recording.

Feel free to comment or improve. All questions are welcome
I'd highly recommend reading Ed Viesturs' account of his ascent of K2 - "K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain", it also details the history of K2 mountaineering, amazing read.
Why would you allow Apple to decide which bank you must use?
Baidu Breaks Off an AI Alliance Amid Strained US-China Ties
But there was also the need to re-install the OS because everything you added somehow got its fingers into everything else until it was impossibly slow. Even if you were unusually cautious about how many toolbars to install.

Phone apps were a new art form, quite unlike 90s programs. Both had serious resource constraints, but trying out a badly written iphone app couldn't result in being unable to make a phone call that afternoon.
IIRC Simpson's Malts do a line of Chevallier malts.

eta: I may have misinterpreted... If it's malt you're seeking, maybe my comment helps. If it's grain for growing, I'd love to talk seed-swapping if you do lay hands on any.
Same. Had a very successful expedition on Denali; until we reached high camp. Making great time, beautiful conditions, strong team, great chemistry, and very little issues with altitude.

Then, the shiteth has hitteth the fan. Socked in for a few days with no weather window. Had to bail, with the summit in reach.

Lesson learned, the mountain will always be there.
There are a lot of cases were the input source is trusted.

The author doesn't mention it explicitly, but I think that's his case.

For his situation, I think it's a good use of the tool.
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One reason is, that cashless transfers costs money; e.g. the card processing companies in their contracts disallow the vendors to increase the prices for customers using their payment system, compared to other means of payments. So effectively all the cash paying customers subsidy the electronic payments systems, while not having the convenience of not using cash.

This part of the contract is not followed in SEA countries. If you want to pay with something that carries a fee, you are going to pay the fee on top of the price. Logically, most people will choose to pay cash then.

The second reason is taxes. Most small vendors do not bother with taxing their incomes; they are too poor for that anyway, every coin helps. With electronic ledgers documenting all the transactions, that would be much more difficult. The local IRSes do not bother with chasing these people, they know that the price would be higher than revenue; so they check only businesses with significant enough turnover.
He did a version of this at TEDx PSU in 2013, it's really interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB6rMkiNKtM
I think it's likely that they don't put much value in delivering a quality product in these markets, where the revenue is relative peanuts compared to first world countries. It's enough just to exist there and claim the territory for the brand. And they can always just blame the sub-par experience in these areas on bad infrastructure. Retaining talent by keeping their engineers happy with pet projects is probably much more important to the company.
For parked domains you can't tho, you point the domains to google adsense.
Your comment opened my eyes in a sense. DoH could be both huge net positive for people in country like Russia, where not law mandetes logging every internet request and indefinite storage of them.

At the same time it could actually hurt privacy of people already protected by law in developed countries.
I mentioned it because it's a big deal if you're an engineer, give the "wrong" answer, and events escalate.

I've had nothing but problems with Clipper cards and tagging on and off the Caltrain.
It is unintuitive. There's a video [1] demonstrating just how difficult it is to get moving air to do any work when you have as little air to work with as you would on Mars.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYe3sIaNHVs ("How Strong is The Wind on Mars?" by Cody'sLab)
To be specific, don't indent paragraphs, and separate bullet points (paragraphs) with blank lines. https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
In order to allow external testers, not on your company Apple account, you have a sort of mini review. It’s not the same as a full review although I don’t know the difference.
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These bought Stylish [1]. Privacy Policy is extremely unclear [2]:

> We do not want ...

does not mean we do not do

> any data collected from you simply by your use of our product will never be used to figure out who you are or to send you targeted ads, and will not be shared with any other parties for those purposes.

does not mean impossible, yes, that's was not on purpose (like facebook cambridge analytica)

> Standard web server log information (i.e., page views)...

> ... browser type, operating system, device model name, device screen size, time and date. We further collect IP Address (trimmed for anonymization).

I can't process this.

Compared with Stylus [3]:

> Privacy Policy

> Unlike other similar extensions, we don't find you to be all that interesting. Your questionable browsing history should remain between you and the NSA. Stylus collects nothing. Period.

[1] https://robertheaton.com/2018/07/02/stylish-browser-extensio...

[2] https://userstyles.org/login/policy

[3] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylus/clngdbkpkpe...
Most yes, but I don't think it is only 1%. Virtue signaling is for increasing your standing towards a social group through a feigned declaration of values. You can be sloppy with your privacy and still think it to be of utmost importance. Nobody pats you on the back for being privacy aware in the mainstream. On the contrary, it is looked down upon becuase it is associated with tin foil hats right now.
Spaced repetition [1], they send you questions over increasing time periods to consolidate what you learned in the long term.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition
I did a write-up of solutions that I'm aware of here: https://github.com/zgoat/goatcounter/blob/master/docs/sessio... – happy to add more if anyone knows of any.
For those uninitiated to the artistry and elegance of careful compositing and layout, do you have any examples?

It seems to be fairly easy to find exemplar typesetting on the internet (probably due, at least in part, to the phenomenal effort that has been poured into TeX/LaTeX and their ilk) but it's hard to find much that is considered to be a good representation of what careful human composition and layout can produce.

The only example that I could think of would be many of the books by Edward Tufte but I think much of that compositing has/was automated and "just" guided by a particular style that the author wanted to achieve.

The algorithmic approach to replacing human judgement has definitely resulted in a sort of race-to-the-bottom simply due to the economics (think about how few eyes would review a story before "print" today versus when this video was shot) so I wonder what sort of skill might've been lost and how it might be able to be recovered.
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I feel like the ron format is just too verbose, and JSON would be comparable to your Lua example. As long as you don't serialize stuff like polymorphic classes (and you don't have those in Rust anyway), you don't need to put the name of every object into the serialization file.
Microsoft tried to sell its face recognition surveillance system to the DEA
Linus made a recent video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T_-HMkgxt0
From what I understand, in the free market system we consider things to be anti-competitive, anti-consumer, etc. when a corporation has some kind of market dominance acquired through earning the trust of consumers, and once they have obtained that trust, they abuse it by imposing a set of self-serving conditions on the market which serves their own interest in some way at the cost of some other player in the market - either consumer or competitor or someone else.

To enable this countries and regions have drafted laws to govern what business and trade practices are permissible.

Some non-rhetorical questions out of curiosity because I genuinely don't know:

Is it illegal for supermarkets to only partner with certain brands and carry their products over those of their competitors? If there is only 1 Walmart within driving distance of 50,000 people, and that Wal-Mart chooses to throw out all toilet paper brands and sell their store brand, is this allowed under current law? What if they allow the brand to stay if they pay an additional whimsical commission to Wal-Mart? Is that legal?

Is there something that makes the App store different from the physical store equivalent?

Putting aside the letter of the law, does it violate the aforementioned "spirit" of the law? i.e. ought there be laws against this kind of behaviour? I am sure there are good arguments for both sides.
I would describe Wells not as modernist but as a hangover of a certain strain of Victorian thinking: a basically rationalist, socialist worldview, optimistic about the prospect of improving the world if we could just drop all our silly prejudices. John Stuart Mill, George Bernard Shaw, the Fabian Society.... This perspective didn't fare very well in the early twentieth Century. Orwell describes Wells somewhere as 'too sane to understand the modern world'.

I'd count Joyce as a canonical modernist. (If he isn't, who is?)
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Totally agree. It's obviously a high risk portion of the mission but I'm glad someone had the guts to propose it.

Derek from Veritasium did a nice little story on it last summer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhsZUZmJvaM
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> you just racially profiled me based on my opinion

This argument makes no sense. I based my words on your statement not your person and it wasn't even addressed to you. I picked up your argument and from personal experience explained why those people that you described see it like that. Making a very wobbly assumption based on criteria that puts one in a protected group is profiling and it gets old when you keep hearing it again and again. Moreover the same reasoning can lead to far more offensive conclusions then calling someone a rapper.

I never mentioned your race and it would make no difference to the argument: a black person in Africa will have just as little experience being profiled as a white person in the US. My "prejudice" wasn't towards you but towards the people who think making such assumptions is normal. Pulling this absurd "you racially profiled me based on my opinion" card now suggests to me that minority or not perhaps you also do not understand the real issue.

I would have thought that people who suffered this kind of profiling understand why it's a problem and actively steer away from doing it or even condoning it without the need for further explanation. And I get it that some are doing it without realizing it's a problem. I'm not assuming bad faith, just lack of understanding.
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Google is launching a way to buy Android app subscriptions outside of the app
I've recently been pondering whether to create a log receiver that will produce Prometheus metrics as well as logs for Loki.

Why?

Because there are several open source projects that if joined up in a relatively simple way would provide a full RUM / Analytics solution.

For collecting the analytics: Akamai Boomerang, which is a descendant of Yahoo tooling https://github.com/akamai/boomerang and BSD licensed

Then insert a collector that will produce Prometheus metrics and write log lines. The metrics will provide the timing information and in many ways will be richer than Google Analytics, and the log lines will provide the potentially high cardinality of string based data like user agents, URIs, etc and Grafana supports PromQL queries against logs such that you can gain metrics from the log lines too.

Then add in a free Grafana Cloud https://grafana.com/products/cloud/ and configure Prometheus to scrape from the collector, and Loki to consume the logs.

This is an end-to-end cloud hosted RUM / Analytics solution that for a single user would be free and one can even add alerting.

The missing link is that collector, to consume the Boomerang output and produce Prometheus metrics and log lines for Loki.

All of this is open source and can be self hosted, the only piece you would have to host today would be that custom collector to receive the Boomerang requests.
Because a video captures the actual behavior, and writing is subject to what the author thinks is relevant. It might miss crucial bits of info, that cannot be left out in a video.
> I'm on Windows and can confirm 1. is an issue. Windows lets users scale UIs to be readable at high DPI on small screens. Doesn't work on all UIs (e.g. QGIS). So maybe not all OS's, but two important ones.

Haven't seen any scaling issues on Windows in years. Last time was Inkscape but they fixed that.
Engauge Analytics is a good alternative, and privacy focused: https://engaugeanalytics.com/
A functioning government more or less is a negotiation and arbitration platform between large economic players - the state being one of these, of course.

So I'm not sure what 'buying the government' actually would mean or how it would be different...
Where are the people arguing that it’s fine because private companies can do whatever they want?
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Representative democracy doesn't really represent me.

I want to go online and fill out a long, myers briggs like personality test that judges my political leanings, and then have that data fed to a script that votes on all the issues for me directly, skipping the middlemen. Collectively those scripts would be a far better representation than any human.

Replace all politicians with tiny shell scripts.
Excuse my ignorance but how does personal bankruptcy work? Does this allow you to accumulate debt and move along?
Do you have the specific model numbers? I'm buying a new monitor soon, and considering using a 4K TV. Would be great to check out the ones you're using!
I too wished for a simpler, less invasive but still Javascript based, esthetically pleasing and free analytics solution (I am a cheap student) : https://github.com/Karalix/feu-analytics

The Firebase free tier seemed perfect for my use case. It is far from being perfect, but Good Enough For Me™