skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would not recommend Plausible (well, their commercial offering anyway). I had a bad run-in with them recently. Their site would not log data from my web site at all (their Javascript just threw an error in the console and would not execute). I filed a ticket. They brushed it off and said they'd had a brief look and couldn't figure it out, and basically tough shit, and told me to just download their open source version and install it locally.

What annoyed me was that if it's not logging on my site, how many other sites is it under-reporting for? YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW. And the fact they weren't willing to give it any serious thought at all. This is bad for an analytics company.

I tried (begrudgingly) and put Google Analytics behemoth of Javascript on my site and it worked perfectly, so I knew it was a bug in their system, not mine.

At that point I decided to try and figure it out so I fired up a proxy and sat there for a couple of hours going back and forth until I did figure it out myself. The bug is in their web server configuration really, not in the actually logging Javascript. Now, it might have been unethical of me, I don't know, but I felt since I'd spent a ton of my time to figure out a serious bug in their product it would be nice if they would throw me a year's free subscription. I felt that was fair compensation. They said no way, don't worry about, basically "I'm sure we'll figure it out ourselves in the future one day, don't call us."

So at that point I decided screw it, I can see they don't care about their customers and product, so I'm looking for alternatives that aren't GA.

That's my 2 cents. Your mileage may vary.

tl;dr: Be aware their product has a bug which causes it to not log data in certain circumstances (the script won't execute) and therefore if you are using their commercial product you might not be seeing all your visitors.
Something a bit more beginner friendly:

agg = {}
for item in mylist:
if item['thing'] in agg:
agg[item['thing']] += item['count']
else:
agg[item['thing']] = item['count']

result_list = []
for key, value in agg.items():
result_list.append(dict(thing=key, count=value))

In beginner land, reduce makes your eyes glaze over and dict.get(key, default) is understandable in principle but still confusing in practice.
Reads are much more frequent than writes in the vast, vast majority of programs.
Incompetent Contractors made a terrible UI and a trainee didn't understand it. Pretty clear cut failure
From when I last looked, my impression was that the specific modular arithmetic you need for ed25519 is basically standard long arithmetic with a constant number of digits + a single CMOV, which is different from essentially arbitrary moduli that (reasonably compatible) RSA needs.
Airbyte: The Money and Licensing of Software Plumbing
Well, and sometimes just maybe. When people feel like that and… but it is not always. Just a feeling that sometimes and just not always. But people do get the feel, and it is not the same thing but not always too. And it is great and good. /s
I support ends to anonymity on most public channels and highly constrained pseudonymity in most channels

I concur with that.

The key constraint that I don't see much is some measure of pseudonymity reputation. It's very easy in most channels to create a new account and continue harassment. So even if you have the tools to say "I don't want to hear from this person", those tools are easily subverted.

I can think of a lot of metrics for confidence that an account has some merit. Age is an easy one: HN marks new accounts, and I think more sites should do that. You can create more complicated trust metrics.

If you add that, an anonymous account is one with zero trust. Add in a tool that says "I only want to hear from people with X% trustworthiness".

It's not a silver bullet. It certainly doesn't stop people from talking about you, which is a harder problem. The only answers I have there would be to enforce libel rules, which is easier if you force accounts to be identified in some way, but the American standard of proving libel is very high.

I'd also really like to see law enforcement take online threats seriously, but they don't. People will make threats on accounts under their own names, and the law will generally assume that they won't act -- which is true, but that doesn't make it legal. And that encourages people to use it as a tactic to shut others up, because "grow a thicker skin" is harder in the face of violence.
>No, it’s because the valuable object is physically scarce, and exists as a material historical artifact independent of any ledger. NFTs have never and will never have these attributes.

Collectible cards are scarce by design. Manufacturers print millions every year. They could reproduce the same card for decades. They could also print them on demand. Whenever someone orders the card, print it for them, and ship it out. It is artificial scarcity.

Collectible cards must be graded and registered to be valuable. An unregistered Michael Jordan rookie card would be assumed to be a fake. They exist in a ledger.

The social contract between collectors and manufacturers is what creates the value. The manufacturer agrees to generate verifiable scarcity, and the collector agrees to purchase seemingly worthless cardboard and ink at a markup.
Because those kids, who are not at risk from the disease, have been scared into compliance by their hysterical parents.

In Europe, this would be child abuse, because masking small children is considered completely useless there.
> You mean if the tulip bubble had never burst? Sure.

Exactly. There is no guarantee the NFT bubble will burst! People might keep enjoying these, and investing a significant portion of their lives.
Anyone who has tried it and doesn't use it, might experience it different than people who use it every day. I've known new users who couldn't walk straight after a bowl, and "pro" users who smoke 2+ grams a day and just keep on trucking. It comes down to tolerances, and probably also your mind adjusting to how it interprets the world under the influence of marijuana which is a mild psychedelic.

Also going to add that the time-dilation effect of marijuana will definitely make you feel less productive but you will realize only 1/3 of the time you thought passed has passed. I'm sure this might play into some of the findings.
Tesla is under federal investigation for letting drivers play video games
I don't think the crypto community thinks it's magically is something it's not. Most serious NFT investors are probably well aware that all they're buying is just a ledger entry.

Blockchain has almost no practical uses right now but it does provide a way to make something digitally unique, even if it's just a JSON with an ID and an URL. Not saying the data is unique but the ledger entry is. Only one wallet can own it at a time and it's easily proven. Maybe it will never have any practical applications but I don't see how that could be done without a blockchain.
2x is always a bit fast for my slow brain, but 1.5x works well for me.
Bitwarden on iOS suffers from high latency user interaction, it’s much less usable than the iOS native keychain for this reason. I assumed the bottleneck is the public API for password managers, but maybe part of it is Xamarin?
Yup I even bought an airbus for my family with my stimulus bucks
You can use the --dry-run option in rsync, with which you can do a pre-run inspection.
Would you agree that people can steal from Amazon for the same reason? Your logic seems arbitrary.
Worth trying, especially with those slow stuttering drones on youtube, and as the strangeattractor says you can always rewind selected parts as needed.
The idea of varied speed viewing has been well known in times past for video as well as audio. There are also the gap compressors that are useful in audio streams that serve the words with variably reduced word gaps. I do wish they also had a stutter, um, ahh stripper for audio that have not used post production editing to eliminate gaps/ums. ahs and stutters etc.
There are a number of training courses that help you in becoming an audio reader that many youtubers should well have a look at.

https://www.google.com/search?q=audio+reader+training&rlz=1C...
> "Funny how people without aeronautics degrees built first rockets."

Goddard and von Braun both had a PhD in Physics. Yeah, funny, isn't it?
> "physical clubs and events that require users to prove provenance for access"

Feels like the "access to physical events" problem was solved before NFTs.

> The "right click and save as" "screenshot" and "twitter photo" people would not have access.

But per original question - if I wanted to use any Bored Ape as my Twitter photo, is there anything stopping me?

Take your point re: additional digital goods being delivered on chain, just feels a little anemic vs the richness of everything else available for free (or behind a membership) online. If users didn't care primarily about price appreciation, not sure whether that part would be exciting.

Maybe it requires the collector gene to be enthused? If so, can these kinds of Web3 applications ever go mainstream as Web2 apps?
After signing up for a trial I went to input my phone so I can use the SMS feature and there is this: "*Currently only supporting US phone numbers.". It would have been nice to know this prior to signing up.
Looking back at my adblock rules[1], FB used to use `aria-label=Sponsored`. Seems they stopped doing that, most likely because it was crazy simple to target and remove.

[1]: https://github.com/mikew/adblock-rules/blob/ed8f0b0511d66c44...
Just as an FYI, almost all leadership of the Church is lay ministry run by volunteers, the top leaders of the Church receive a small living stipend[0] as they do their work full-time, but beyond that the rest is all volunteers.

0. It is between 95-112k a year, which when you consider the current President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is a world-renown cardiologist it is less than peanuts.
Take libssh and start swinging an axe?
Wearing a mask seems like the least unpleasant part of commercial air travel to me.
There isn't evidence that it is low risk either...

I would take a bet that the probability of illness after 10 hours on an aircraft is worse than 10 hours at home, in the car, in a cinema, in a shopping mall, or in a park. Part of the added risk I would guess is because the people around you are not people from your hometown who all have the same diseases as you, but travellers from all over the world who can give you new unseen diseases.

It's sad that we've had aircraft for 100+ years now, and yet there doesn't seem to be data on this.
I'm surprised this xkcd hasn't been shared here yet. Highly relevant: https://xkcd.com/723/
I’m a big fan of PanelBear.com and I recently implemented it on Crontab.guru (500k monthly visits).

It was painless, the ux is clean and polished, and I can see panelbear tracking 5% greater visits over the same time period as GA due likely to people who had adblocked GA.
I also find them to be significantly slower than using the mainstream website and you get lower quality video streams often compared to the main youtube website
Arch user here who's slapped the Pantheon desktop on top of it; I don't use it often, mostly an i3 guy, but when I do it's beautiful and I love the work Elementary OS has put into it. All I need to add are those dancing icons from Cairo-Dock and I can get back to embarrassing my apple friends with how riced my desktop is.
Python 3.6 has reached nominal End Of Life
Except that rapid tests have high false negative rates…
And I've even made an error in my "refactor" with the Farenheit conversions. Tests would have made that evident.
No conspiracy required, just change "party" to "parties" and "someone" to plural "people".

Zoom went from interesting tool to de facto worldwide standard in about two months. I'm pretty sure that in the offices of Microsoft, webex, goto meeting etc there was a collective WTF from leadership and people were instructed to find weaknesses. It doesn't follow that there was collusion or an evil conspiracy.
Woa, I never even realized lisp is something other than a programming language actually. Non-native speaker, but still, the walls of my bubble must be thick...
The same is true in the states. I live in a very affluent country and our rates best in state despite being home to a large university.
irchiver author here. So I investigated for a long time whether a browser extension is possible for automatically screenshotting a page. It turns out it's not because of the limitations of browser extensions themselves, and from the way WebExtensions are going, it will never be.

I've only found a way to do this on Windows right now (since Windows 8.1) due to an undocumented flag that lets you capture images from the browser even with hardware acceleration on (which is the default). Though I trust Microsoft to maintain backwards compatibility even for undocumented features indefinitely.
> there should be penalties for false alarms like this

I’d rather have a false alarm about a dangerous event.
Then a missed alarm for the event.

Especially if the false alarms are very rare.
This video doesn’t go into any detail, but is perhaps the best illustration of the concept.

https://youtu.be/xP5-iIeKXE8

Edit: yes I am late to the party.
you may be interested in these then (vs code plugins):

* Foam - https://github.com/foambubble/foam

* Dendron - https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron

Obsidian is great as well, but there are caveats that may make it not so great with your preferences
This reminds me a lot of the aging rockstar who hates the billboard top 10 hit that he always gets asked to play.
Oh, okay that's interesting. Now I get what you mean with infrastructure. Thanks!
I have a friend who was stationed in Hawaii during that alarm. He is fairly high up in naval ranking.

We met through an extreme sport hobby in which there are personal speed records to set, and setting those past a certain point are quite dangerous to ones body/life. He and I were both past said point back then.

He was living alone at the time and was woken up by the alert. Through his mind went “either this is a false alarm, or I am completely fucking dead and there’s nothing I can do about it”

Did absolutely nothing except put on his gear & went out and set a new speed record far into the “one fuckup and you’re severely injured or dead category”

Fun times.
There are hot companies in need of embedded programmers. Plenty of auto companies, both self-driving and not, it's a big space. Ditto for IoT, which has gone from an enthusiast's hobby to a mainstream category over the past five years. Representing these spaces, Rivian and Samsara both went public in the past two months, respectively. Nearly every FAANG makes consumer electronics, and at least a couple are into cars.
I have had some bad experiences with it, although I will admit it seems to be improved on this point lately. But I used to have a terrible time installing anything with a non-admin account. If tried sudo then it complained not to run it as root. This resulted in permissions hell.

In general homebrew seems more buggy and less responsive and an overall a much poorer user experience when compared to apt, dnf, or pacman.

Also the goofy icons it has make seem like a toy, rather than a real cli package management tool.
> So you agree that DRM is a way to enforce scarcity in a post scarcity world ?

Yes, and one that is fundamentally flawed, and never should have been attempted in the first place in my opinion, but I think you'll agree that an NFT is not quite the same thing as DRM.

> Your words - my software can be copied even though I sell it. exactly the same with NFTs.

Ok, there's a semblance of an argument here I don't actually think is complete bullshit: If one can sell software without DRM, which can be copied by anyone, what exactly is being sold? To which I am forced to reply with things many NFT promoters say: supporting the developer, the concept of legitimacy, etc.

But, if that's all that an NFT is, then it is effectively just a donation. The problem is that NFTs claim to be much more than that, they claim to be a groundbreaking new technology that enables people to do things they never could do before[0], but that's obvious bullshit since people have been selling software in the same way I have sold software for 50 years.

If you're going to claim something like an NFT proving ownership, the only reason for that to have any value is if ownership confers some right or privilege that is otherwise lacking. For software, let's say it gives you access to direct support from the developer.

Again, the problem is that people already do that, and it doesn't require anything near as complicated as the entire NFT system! It's just a bog standard entry in a bog standard database that so and so owns a license. The decentralization buys nothing because if I stop supporting it no one will care that you have that license anyway. You could say that it allows someone to resell that license, but again we already do that today, and I could just as easily refuse to recognize a resold NFT as I could anyone's resold license because there's a history of ownership.

It really just looks like a giant scheme to try and convince people they're paying for something they're not.

[0] presumably not just having a new way to rip off rubes.
LastPass was great for almost 10 years until LogMeIn bought them and they've been messing around with the business model and pricing ever since. I paid $12/year for several years to get mobile access. Then after they were bought I was somehow automatically upgraded to their premium plan for $36/yr. They had given notice but it went into my Promotions inbox and it was months before I realized it. Every year since they've tried different pricing models and it's been frustrating to keep up with.

I had been planning on switching over to Bitwarden in a couple months when my current LastPass subscription runs out, but I just found out that LogMeIn is spinning them off into a separate company again - https://www.zdnet.com/article/logmein-announces-plan-to-spin...
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Or more people would have ran out of the house and gotten hit by falling debris as they fled their house. It’s hard to act rationally in that situation.

I went through all the duck and cover drills through school, and when the house started shaking, I bolted out of there during that earthquake.
> People are certainly entitled to not be tracked, but not to indulge in services for free without payment, tracking or ads.

They certainly are, and the onus is on the web sites to prevent/limit it.

The rule of the Internet is simple: If you put something on a Web site, everyone has the right to visit it. An obvious example: I cannot put up a static HTML page with images, and demand people who view the images pay me for it. Nor can I demand that they download and view the whole page. As someone visiting any page, I am in full control of what bits from that site I will receive and process via a browser. The site's owner has no say in it - his responsibility is to control what is sent to me - not what I do with what is sent to me.[1] He can do this using access control (e.g. accounts), and other methods.

It's your obligation to design the site in a way that you would like it to be used. It is not the visitor's obligation to understand your profit model and try to honor it.

[1] Except things like IP/copyright/trademark, which is a different topic than the one at hand.
Thanks, hopefully I am being honest with myself. I think weed can be very different for different people. Also it's not really mentioned here but Sativa and Indica strains also can make a difference as well as the THC % and method of consumption. I vape half a bowl from my Pax 3, I am in Canada so it's legal and we have THC % labels, I typically go for 25%+ which is not the "cheap stuff". I'd say if someone smoked my stuff with me at 9 AM, who doesn't normally smoke, it would probably knock them out for a few hours. But for me, it's like booting up in the morning. Nobody has ever mentioned or asked if I am high because I am more "normal" high than sober. Although I haven't been "sober" (clean for 4+ weeks) in many years, so I admit I have slightly lost perspective. It also has other effects on my life, such as my total loss of recalling my dreams, although I can tell they still occur, I just can't recall them at all.
Leaflets meant for patients are to be written in lay language. Prescribing information meant for physicians aren’t. I would consider scientific literature to be the same as prescribing information as they are aimed at the scientific community and not the lay public. Science journalists perhaps are meant to fill the gap here.
manager here, but weed helps me unwind and destress after a busy week or day, think i'd jeopardise that work/life balance by ripping shotties during work hours
That's a fairer statement and one I would agree with.

I hope you know your words hold a ton of moral and social weight in this community.

To say "YC wouldn't do that" is strong language, especially given the facts.

To say, "YC would only have invested in such a startup if they believed it could truly be of benefit to people" is better, because it acknowledges that while YC had the best of intentions, it could have made a mistake in funding these founders rather than give an idea that YC can do no wrong.

The founders, the ones funded by YC, created a company that committed financial crimes before they left the company. Those founders should be seen in that light, regardless of their intentions.
This.

There are semi-mandatory courses we need to take occasionally at work; and both the speed, and ratio of useful content, are dismal. E.g. Oracle University releases these 24 or 40hr courses which probably have, dunno, 6 hrs of content? Maybe?

It is brutal to try to spend a week going through something so atrociously slow and informationally sparse. Ability to speed it up (sometimes 1.25, 1.5 or 2.0 times) brings it into actually manageable.
Twitter’s founder admits that shutting down the API was “worst thing we did”
They use Bitcoin to save hashes of the webpages in case they need to prove that they saved a page on a particular date (though I don't see how they could prove that the page they saved is the page that was actually online). That's a pretty sensible use of what are essentially NFTs.
Why not use old.Reddit or I.Reddit?
That's the limited blocker stuff you can do on iOS safari, you can't block as deeply as ublock origin and others.
Ask HN: Paid ROS Tutoring?
Can anyone recommend a personal ROS tutor that has availability 1-2 hours per week for online tutoring? I've taken a few online courses and have read several books on ROS, but want some one-on-one help as well. Can pay an hourly rate. Thanks!
> The hardest to find was a power drill.

Depending on where you live and what you like....DeWalt and high end Craftsman make drills in the USA. Makita makes some in Japan. I believe Bosch does some in Germany, but don't quote me on that.
I've always aimed at making my shadow adtech surveillance profile as worthless as possible. Turning it into a net loss for these companies is even better.
I used a self hosted Matomo (free and open source) for websites and apps, and it was simpler and (because of that) more flexible than Google Analytics.

Less UI clutter is nice also for colleagues.
> because it is not a federally scheduled drug

Is it your view that cannabis is a federally scheduled drug for ethical reasons? Or is your view that it's always ethical to follow laws as written? I guess what I'm getting at is that to me there doesn't seem to be any good ethical reason for cannabis to be a federally scheduled drug in the first place. In fact, given the devastation the war on drugs has caused, it's my opinion that it's unethical for cannabis to be a federally scheduled drug.