skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not an Hotjar expert, but looking right now at the source code of your hotjar.js file it doesn't seem to be per installation but rather one config for all running NocoDBs.

This sections in particular are quite concerning to me:

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rec_value: 0.01,
state_change_listen_mode: "manual",
record: true,
continuous_capture_enabled: false,
recording_capture_keystrokes: true,
anonymize_digits: true,
anonymize_emails: true,
suppress_all: false,
suppress_text: false,
suppress_location: false,
user_attributes_enabled: false,
legal_name: null,
privacy_policy_url: null,
deferred_page_contents: [

// all the other code

window.hjBootstrap(
"https://script.hotjar.com/",
"modules.5a9f57d95ecbb1bf1965.js",
"2297736"
),
(window.hjLazyModules = window.hjLazyModules || {
FORM_SELECTOR: { js: "form-selector.392b5f4f766aeb35682b.js" },
SURVEY_V2: { js: "survey-v2.7218c468a82710c2c26b.js" },
SURVEY_BOOTSTRAPPER: {
js: "survey-bootstrapper.f41ed221e5747a5a4a7b.js",
},
SURVEY_ISOLATED: { js: "survey-isolated.8af10abbd1a5f80490de.js" },
HEATMAP_SCREENSHOTTER: {
js: "heatmap-screenshotter.e571353a90a331625bf1.js",
},
HEATMAP_VIEWER: { js: "heatmap-viewer.2fb5d2a22502dfdfdac6.js" },
SURVEY_INVITATION: { js: "survey-invitation.1ae4ed40ba57f9c20afc.js" },
NOTIFICATION: { js: "notification.5e4044e77b0558775cb4.js" },
INCOMING_FEEDBACK: { js: "incoming-feedback.2856389193450b0481d4.js" },
PREACT_INCOMING_FEEDBACK: {
js: "preact-incoming-feedback.80672cee08360a8c286c.js",
},
SENTRY: { js: "sentry.f1958c523a41d4a73968.js" },
});

It seems to load additional js files like --> https://script.hotjar.com/heatmap-screenshotter.e571353a90a3...

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Hotjar website has following thing to say:

> Hotjar should capture the majority of user sessions in Heatmaps and Recordings. We cannot guarantee that a specific user will be tracked.

see: https://help.hotjar.com/hc/en-us/articles/115011624047-Does-...

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Can't say if it would have sent data to your hotjar account or not since it was blocked in my browser, but to me this all seems like an involuntary data collection. But again, I am no Hotjar expert. Maybe someone else can chip in here.
> nice green leaf was forced upon him by his publisher

As pointed out in comments elsewhere in this discussion, this factoid seems to come from a satirical parody "interview".
It was quite common back then for BBSes to require your phone number and home address as part of the signup process. I don't remember anyone finding this unusual or complaining about it. Then again, people wrote into computer magazines and were fine with their addresses being published if they were seeking others with the same computer to contact them. The scene in general was very high trust. Even the pirate and phreak communities were generally trusting of members.
Similar but different vein, a bunch of friends have started "TIL" (today-i-learned) micro-blogs, with a one or two sentences each day of something they learned, found out about. Most are a mix of technical & real world things. For many, it's just a single markdown file they check in to github.

It's a fascinating & interesting ultra-short thing to share! I love it a lot, really interesting connection to folks, to keep tabs on where-abouts they are, what they are up to, while not requiring long posts.
Well, I report the opposite. I guess the data is useless.
I can attest. In an engineering fraternity in college, I nitpicked a prospective member's grammar in an email, and in my message had made a punctuation error and lost all authority (not that I had much to begin with). We later laughed about it.
React famously claims not to be a framework. Many, myself included, would argue that it is very much a framework in every way that matters.
Yep people will pay through the nose to move from capex to opex. It baffled me at first, I think it baffles me less (but still a bit) now. Maybe one day I'll understand.
I wish there was a portable version of V8 similar to OpenJDK Zero which would allow Chrome to run on more platforms.

It‘s really a pity how Qt applications such as kmail became less portable when the underlying web framework was switched from WebKit to Chromium/Blink.
Yeah, it's a shame they were conflated in the media.
How many more people does it take to manage on-prem (or dedicated or colo) versus managing AWS? For many businesses, the answer is "less than the cost of AWS".
Lawsuit against the IRS seeking a refund of taxes paid on Tezos
There is zero disguising the intent of your comment. The bit about Pelosi "dancing" was particularly telling. There are a number of other replies that come straight from MAGA-verse, full of outrageous lies but that is where US politics are right now.

The US had a catastrophically poor response under the prior administration. That wasn't because of the media. It wasn't because of Nancy Pelosi. It wasn't because people dismissed theories by racists and imbeciles (the "lab leak" theory was overwhelmingly put forward by the absolute slugs of humanity, so there isn't a lot of surprise that it got smeared along with it, however unfortunate).

This whole "see, we wuz right!" thing is a bit bizarre given that no, people didn't ignore evidence early on. They ignored a theory based upon literally nothing, generally put forward by people arguing that it was somehow weaponized and intentional. If there is evidence it should be pursued, but that doesn't give credence to hysterical conspiracies.

Again, it is remarkable reading your comment and then understanding that you're decrying "partisan" positions. It goes beyond irony.
If you use an external database you are not going to get time travel debugging, nor will you have a perfectly uniform internal representation of values. Beads has a primitive type of physical units of measure, so you can store 3 Newtons which internally will be stored as the magnitude 3 plus an array of fundamental units with their exponents. This datatype is not found in MySQL, so external databases work okay as long as you aren't trying to time travel, and either limit yourself to very traditional COBOL era datatypes, or convert everything into string form like JSON has to do.

Beads also has addresses that can be written to the hard drive, because addresses in Beads are not pointers to RAM. How can you store a traditional C pointer into a MySQL database? You can't, you have use a key. which creates baggage.

The virtues of having a simple database inside the language, and a layout/drawing/event model are myriad, and I invite you folks to take it for a spin.

Some of the batteries-included integrated environments like VB6 and Borland Delphi are beloved by their users. Simplicity is wonderful, and i have tried so hard to make Beads simplify the very difficult task of making graphical interactive software.
The point is that the process the person you’re responding to is saying also applies if the company is not willing to work with the union. You did ask how else a union would organize without being blessed by corporate as this one is.
Shirley, the Ultimate Norm (2009) [pdf]
it depends on the drives. CAN you destroy drives by plotting? yes. But other drives can take quite a beating - and generate 40K plots worth of data before reaching failure point.

additionally, farming (serving plots) is done with regular drives, and those are very lightly read from and used once the plots are loaded.
> somehow find the time to build out infrastructure that you can swap out to another provider on a whim?

You can very much do that while staying in the cloud. It's all about engineering for flexibility.
kánnabis also made it into Proto-Germanic, where it turned into *hanapiz and ultimately the modern English "hemp".
Why would you think that's just a "far right" thing?

Actually I don't get what you're insinuating at all. Is anyone opposed to safety protocols?
> or links to debunkings of fringe theories

Sadly won't be helpful, and may actually make things worse:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belief_perseverance

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backfire_effect

* https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/why-facts-dont...
Oof, yes, its not about inconvenience...
I saw this referenced in the job ad for a "Software Engineer: Web" on the Oxide careers page yesterday.

More of a meta comment, but it's funny how interesting things link to more interesting things, and the "HN web crawler" inevitably finds and identifies them.
We haven't found an animal host for SARS-CoV-2 yet, after more than 12 months. It took six months to find an animal host for SARS and less than a year for MERS. The incentive for the Chinese government to find a SARS-CoV-2 animal host is much much higher than for either of those viruses. Failure to find the host is not proof of lab origin, but the longer the search goes on unsuccessfully, the more the probabilities shift.

> it was and will always have been the correct call to ignore the speculation about how the virus might have come from the Wuhan virology institute.

No, it was not the correct call, because it means that possibility was not investigated when it should have been.
So I guess it's just a coincidence that the predictions about global temperature rise that the models have been making for decades are coming true? And, if anything, it's turning out that they have been too conservative in their estimates of the rate of warming?
It just looks bad because I made it one line; by comparison if I hadn't seen the pre-parsed form 5+7 I would not be able to immediately grok what is going on in your parsed one-line XML, either; there's a lot of "line noise" there too. Moreover it feels like the XML you have has lost the structure of the meaning, by having the tokens 5, +, and 7 be linearized. You probably want a tree with + at the root and 5 and 7 as leaves. That XML encourages these sorts of "oddly flat" representations is one of its weaknesses.
In the end some people enjoy writing and some don’t. Over the years I have learned how to write reasonably well but it’s still a chore for me.

I envy people who enjoy writing and I see a tremendous value in writing but if you don’t enjoy it I don’t think it’s worth to force yourself.
Because unfortunately gender matters when trying to raise money to start a business. Investors factor it in to their investment decisions. Sometimes they do it on purpose (i.e. Are you going to have kids? Will men in ___ industry take you seriously to do deals with or want to join your team? If I give her money, will she sleep with me?) and sometimes they don't do it on purpose (i.e. Misgivings of whether she can "lead", "be tough", manage money, take risks. More doubts than a man with similar or lower credentials).

Last I read something like 97% of venture funding goes to men. 57% of bachelors degrees are earned by women. So it's not like there is a lack of women who can set and accomplish long term goals and manage money.
Huh, I will likely never read any of it, but it’s a simple way to give back a little bit to Mozilla.
Hah. Well, I'm in Australia. I guess it is per region then
https://www.joshwcomeau.com/
> They made a claim which I personally do not believe, although someone else might - that as they were sailing around Libya they had the sun on their right.

I love this about Herodotus. He takes the accounts he's given and records them as they were given to him, without editorializing the parts which seem in-credible.

It often leads to fanciful stories, as another commentator mentioned, they get more fanciful the more indirectly they are sourced - but they also mean that no information is lost. In this case, the unbelievable information he left in the account becomes the information that lends it credibility.
The benefit of generic iterators or implementing iterators lazily? The benefit of generic iterators is that they make SOLID programs easy to write, especially when converting data. It makes any kind of data ingest or hand rolled parsing/semantic analysis easy to write, read, and hard to screw up - which is 90% of business logic.

Lazy evaluation is the only reasonable way to implement iterators so you don't have to pay the costs of intermediate data structures or sending data over channels. Insertion into a data structure isn't free. Function composition is.
My experience matches yours. Bulk inexpensive hardware that you can buy by the pallet is consistently very reliable over several years in my experience. I've had more reliability issues with gold-plated "enterprise" hardware and cloud services in practice.

Supply chain management and coordination is, IMHO, the most difficult part of it and is often overlooked in these discussions. Herding vendors to deliver hardware on your timeline from overseas supply chains doesn't always turn out the way you want, even with the best planning.
"this doesn’t seem a convincing argument on its own"...

you're right, I should have said that "man made gain of function viruses-that-infect-humans are quite common in research and many times moreso than random mutation zoonotic species-jumping viruses are in nature"

"Gain of function research seems valuable"...

and then I will note that I must have scored a point in that sentence even as I wrote it, because the next thing you do is hurry to defend gain-of-function research. I wasn't attacking it, I was simply pointing out that the public is not aware how prevalent it is in urban virology centers in their own cities. I'm a sciency type, I like research, but I'm sure the average Joe would take a much dimmer view.

"This gains plausibility from the fact that it wouldn’t be readily distinguishable from a natural virus, as it would just be a combination of the two genomes. However this is exactly why we can’t say for certain either way whether the source is natural or not - they’d be indistinguishable genetically."

you really need to read the Yuri Deigin page I linked: for exactly the reason you cite, it actually is plausibly readily distinguishable as man-made because the bats and the pangolin viruses that were spliced together don't occur in the same geographic areas and the Wuhan lab published papers about them before their more recent info was wiped from view, and in nature the likelihood of such a clean crisp (CRISPR!) gene splice would be astronomically the worst luck ever as a mutation, but quite likely for exactly the research goals you defend above.

"It is more likely on the face of it that evolutionary pressure on the virus to spread and the natural process of mutation and selection caused the mutations in question, simply because of the volume of natural mutations versus artificial mutations."

again, nope, artificial splicing (not mutation) is quite common and becoming much moreso as the cost of doing it has dropped within reach (something like $100K IIRC) of just about anybody. Natural mutations that follow the path of precisely covid-19's genetics, quite uncommon.

Read the Yuri Deigin piece, listen to the youtube. If you're in too big a hurry, skip the first 25% of each and jump in later, still completely clear to grok.
One thing I'm still unsure of regarding table saws: is there really much risk of injury if you follow all of the typically recommended safety practices?

Every tablesaw injury I remember hearing about involved the operator failing to follow some of those guidelines.
Pipewire is replacing PulseAudio and I can finally say, it works great. Pulse was a great idea for its time, but it was poorly written and it took 10 years for it to get to a point it didn't make you wish you could avoid using it.
I think there's a genuine spectrum between man-made bio-weapon (not very believable IMO), through gain of function research (I've read enough that - if true - the RNA evidence suggests that it probably wasn't this), through to leak from animal studies.

Gain of function, if it isn't ruled out by RNA or other approaches, isn't quite man-made and is at least somewhat plausible. Gain of function research on the flu is (as I understand it) how the flu vaccine is created ahead of the season.

https://jme.bmj.com/content/41/11/901

Evans NG, Lipsitch M, Levinson M
The ethics of biosafety considerations in gain-of-function research resulting in the creation of potential pandemic pathogens

Journal of Medical Ethics 2015;41:901-908.

This paper proposes an ethical framework for evaluating biosafety risks of gain-of-function (GOF) experiments that create novel strains of influenza expected to be virulent and transmissible in humans, so-called potential pandemic pathogens (PPPs). Such research raises ethical concerns because of the risk that accidental release from a laboratory could lead to extensive or even global spread of a virulent pathogen.
While this might be true (neither saying it is or isn't) it is interesting that a lot of gamers will go to extreme lengths, both time and money-wise, for a few extra FPS but still most don't use the energy to switch to Linux. I wonder why.
There's a bit of a fuzzy overlap between "man made" and "lab leak".

Specifically, the lab leak theory more or less assumes that the virus was collected from the mine, taken to Wuhan, and some research and experiments were done on it, resulting it some changes. Certainly the lab was doing research; there's an ongoing debate over what they did, who funded it, whether what they did technically qualifies as "gain of function" research, what practical impact the research could reasonably have been predicted to have, etc.

Still, if your theory is that the lab took a bat virus, performed some research on it such as "serial passaging" to determine if it could mutate to become more infectious to humans, the virus does mutate (thus proving the hypothesis), and then a sample of the mutated virus is accidentally leaked...

...that seems like a plausible theory, and it's now showing up in mainstream discussions; eg, https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-lab-esca.... But I could easily imagine that being considered a suggestion the virus was "man-made", and censored.
Sure, knowing that OP went to Whatever County in State Foo would be so much more valuable to her target audience... smh
https://beadslang.org/blog/2021/3/23/rip-segmentation
Yes, I can't imagine spending $10k on the promise of some half-baked FSD--especially when regular Autopilot is a reality today, and it's freaking fantastic. I, too, use it daily.
Our local Nextdoor is similar. Someone called 911 on a deer. When he was asked "It's a deer, why did you call 911?" he stated a charging deer could easily kill a child. Which is something that while technically true, deer only tend to kill people when it involves vehicle accidents (car strikes deer) - not because a deer trampled am unsupervised toddler.
The only primary source for this story seems to be a parody issue of The Paris Review.[1] And his list of articles and interviews doesn't mention it.[2]

[1] https://www.theparisreview.org/the-art-of-fiction-carle

[2] https://eric-carle.com/about-eric-carle/articles-interviews/
I feel like Arnold Lobel is missing a look in here
Also in NZ and it is marked a sensitive both when not logged in and when logged in.

Maybe he marked it that way himself to prevent other people reporting it and risk getting his whole account marked as potentially sensitive.
Game servers is an especially bad fit for AWS. They often need a high single core performance for many players + high simulation tick rate. They (mostly) don't need ECC RAM or reliable storage. They do need networking optimized for latency not throughput.

Another example is EA hosting all their Battlefield servers on AWS. Can't imagine what this is costing them for subpar performance (rumor is they had to deactivate their anti-cheat system fair fight to get acceptable performance).
Is there any 'legitimate' source of information?

Methinks it's all just some form of propaganda, or another, camouflaged as crappy infotainment. So if you are into being brainwashed, you could also don your sunglasses, and have at least some fun, skimming between the lines.
First and foremost: your employer should be expensing this, not you, individual developer.

In the advent you are paying yourself, imagine how much money you can make by spending less time trying to find answers to complex problems, particularly sifting through old StackOverflow answers that aren't always relevant anymore (or jQuery centric!)

As with all things, lets wait and see of course ! However, I think thoughtful monetization here can be reall good for the web, in the long run.
Just throwing more money a any particular situation is no guarantee the situation will improve. In this case, the Wuhan lab is controlled by China and will conform to Chinese laws and regulations.
Thanks for clarifying. That’s exactly the problem that I’m facing. There really needs to be a third option that doesn’t follow the Intercom style of docs that is also suitable for marketing use.

In an ideal world, navigation would be chapter-style, similar to Stripe’s docs.

I’m currently using Docusaurus as my public docs site, but it isn’t ideal because 1) it’s cumbersome to manage a lot of uploaded content and 2) it is not particularly easy to manage the navigation.

I’m thinking of rolling my own within my marketing site (that’s built in Gatsby) and using a suitable CMS but I’d certainly like to avoid the time investment.
The flip side of this is very large enterprises with fleets of thousands to tens of thousands of servers and tech staffs in the hundreds to thousands that with 50 years experience self-hosting, still manage to TCO some 2x - 10x above AWS / Azure retail list pricing, while also taking 9 months to provision a VM on a server.
This is almost exactly reflective of our experience here in Australia, too.

The midwifery service was genuinely amazing and our midwife also positioned childbirth as a natural thing, not a "medical event" (by default anyway).
The articles mentions many basic advantages of using cloud platforms as simple infrastructure, without entangling your usage with vendor-specific, proprietary services. Scalability is an obvious one.
VLC and Krita are both great and popular, but I'd guess that VLC is a closer analogue to Blender as far as market share vs. commercial alternatives (e.g. Maya and Cinema 4D in the case of Blender.)
That’s interesting. I had some credits on Amazon so I got the book. I’ll check it out and see about working with my 5yo this summer.

And that’s pretty amazing for your kid. That’s waaaaay above normal. We read every night to the kids, but we aren’t a huge reading family (if that makes sense)
If the movie Undercover Brother is to be believed, then yes. Typically on a slice of Wonder Bread.
If you happen to be somewhat familiar with GraalVM, could you please give us a very brief comparison to it as well? I am very interested in the topic, but it seems very hard to get into it.
It is a pointless generalization. Not every React SPA is the same. Some scale, some don't. Some use server rendering, some don't. React may be a perfect fit for your app, or it may not. It's not like a "naively implemented" app using vanilla JS or server templating or any other framework will be automatically fast and scalable. Quality of input = quality of output, regardless of what abstractions you decide to use in the middle.

Every "<technology> is good/bad" article eventually reduces down to an internet flame war ignoring all nuance.