skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My comments are directed at the general performance of Video and Audio components. Zoom implements their own protocol which performs better than the WebRTC. Their codecs are also better optimized, on of the reasons being that VP8 lacks hardware optimization on many platforms.

Background blur most likely require GPU optimization. The implementation on Windows/Mac and Linux looked different for a while. It is possible that they had to deal with compatibility and driver issues on Linux.
Only with a sufficiently narrow browser window.
I just moved my domain mail to Fastmail, and everything arrives perfectly. I'm annoyed that I was bullied into this by the fact that 'unknown' mail servers are third-class citizens, but at least the problem is solved.

Some paranoid thread in me fears that Google will find a problem with Fastmail's IP range and credentials this spring (among others), in order to consolidate the Gmail upgrade cash avalanche, but I'm hoping that's just me with my tinfoil hat on too tight.
It's not only about demoing. As a farmer you have very few days to get your seeds out and very few days to get your harvest in. If you machine breaks down for too long, you might lose a lot of money. So you only get machines from somebody with mechanics and a full inventory of parts nearby. You cannot wait a day for something to arrive when you are on the field, you need to get it fixed NOW.
> If you can make Covid less likely to result in hospitalization than the flu, as he readily admits the vaccine does, you can make Covid not cause hospitals to be overrun.

For perspective: at the peak of the most deadly Covid wave, Germany's hospitals for two weeks had an average Covid share of 5%, while 95% of patients were in for other reasons.

https://www.bundesgesundheitsministerium.de/fileadmin/Dateie...

> Gemessen an der vorhandenen Bettenkapazität ergibt sich eine durchschnittliche Belegungsquote von 1,3% durch COVID-19. Die höchsten tagesbezogenen Belegungsquoten gab es in der zweiten Dezemberhälfte mit knapp 5% aller Betten.
Is that true for Apple?
Do they? Even if you use them perfectly consistently, people need to know what they mean. For some really common ones that might be fine (green check mark on CI probably means the build ran successfully), but the moment anyone gets confused or doesn't recognize a symbol I feel like accessibility drops off a cliff.
Just yesterday, I got two 'Google' verification codes to my mobile number out of the blue. No number, so I've only got 'Google' as the sender to go on.

* My password is very long and complicated and stored in a password manager
* I don't use any device I don't own and can see the moment the SMS messages came
* I have no other indication that I've been compromised

I'm thinking it's more likely that someone else added my phone number as a second factor to their account.

Google: Just one damn easy thing would give me more information about the situation and allow me to act appropriately: Have the email address associated with the verification code in the message.
I love Huginn.

I implemented it where I used to work and it ended up being the glue between a lot of services.

Started using it when our Zapier bill started approaching $4k per month, and it ended up replacing most of the functionality that we were using Zapier for.

Very powerful and versatile product.
I found the root cause:

>"You can help the spike subside by making HN look extra boring. For the next couple days it would be better to have posts about the innards of Erlang"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145 ("Why HN is slow lately", by pg)
> Obviously this is well established in the insurance and finance industries, but make no mistake, it happens everywhere.

Speaking from someone in the US--in both insurance and finance I can get a person on the phone to resolve my issue.

Specific to finance, there are a number of consumer laws that protect me.

If I'm denied credit based on my credit history, I'm allowed to know why. If my credit score is not accurate, I'm allowed the ability to fix it.

Lousy customer support is not a tech industry issue--Stripe, Amazon, Apple, to name three all have great support.
Statistics is just one way to get a correct answer, no? Or it may not even be a way to get a correct answer at all. It seems more of a checking mechanism to filter out answers which are not correct.

A scientific hypothesis is correct or not independently of statistical analysis. It's true before it is verified. Statistics is just a social mechanism for demonstrating its correctness to other people (or yourself.)

It's entirely possible for someone to know they're right,
actually be right, and it be uncheckable with statistics. The only difference between an outlier and a lucky guesser is knowledge. Blah blah blah anything that's measured ceases to be a good measure blah blah blah.
Match.com investors are very clever and rational. Match.com business model is clear. Milk users for money with market segmentation. Building a good product will not make them any money. It will financially ruin them.

The core functionality of these apps is very cheap to build, ideally these apps should be near free.

What match.com does is capture the network. When a new cheap and better network appears, they offer the founders the kind of cash that simply cannot be earned by running their original network. For eg, okcupid was free. There was no way to make money from it. And then as per their plan - they ruin it.
I’ve used Huginn for a long time to do web scraping. But I’ve completely switched to n8n and I haven’t looked back.

Still, Huginn is a very nice tool.
I know cloudflare uses a trick with canvas element to fingerprint the browser. If you disable it, it can be actually impossible to bypass.

It's not so much a social credit score to fear rather than privacy. Any site using cloudflare or Google knows where you're going and what your doing and if they don't then, access denied.

They know so much more than your innocent mind will want to admit.
Duplicate[0] and a retweet[1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30052110

[1] https://twitter.com/amilajack/status/1484970823005868033
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For those of you looking for more content by the author, her blog is solid, but this Tweet thread is a masterpiece: https://twitter.com/molly0xFFF/status/1478513207203536900
Books.

My general preference these days is non-fiction. For discovery methods see this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29609479

Generally my problem is far too much content and not enough time, rather than the reverse.

Online content seems to have rapidly diminishing quality. Search and discovery tools are increasingly disappointing.

More on general "finding stuff" here: https://tildes.net/~misc/szx/what_tips_or_tricks_do_you_use_...
Foobar2000
This is another reason why I recommend to use your own domain (from a 3rd party registrar).

If you can't, at least set a mail-forward to a different mailprovider (I have an old hotmail account) so if you get locked out, at least you can receive mails.

Use Google Takeout at least twice a year.

Another option would probably be to use Office365, I don think it's that expensive and I guess you would have the possibility of getting real support?
There is no possibility you could ever afford it.
Sounds like your browser (or a plugin) might be blocking some cookie or connection that Google uses for security?
My feelings exactly!!
You are actually pointing out a tremendous opportunity that Google has internally and externally.

While there isn't a way to report problems, or get help with problems, and problems aren't tracked or measured, every problem is a singular example that can be hand-waved away with an "it's just that particular user being dumb".

Refusing to support customers is a choice Google has made in order to be able to ignore problems the engineers won't (or can't) solve.
You get a compilation error if you try that.
Some amyl alcohol isomers have been investigated as ethanol replacements because of the similar effects, albeit at lower doses, and an absence of a hangover due to less toxic metabolites. They're also commonly found in fermented beverages. Dose makes the poison and all that.
I submitted security bug to Chrome. It was not very serious or urgent. Somebody looked at it in the first hour, in the first day it was analyzed and in the first week it was resolved. I was kind of surprised, because I was sure that public feedback from nobody is going to be put in a very long queue.
Probably the same people who had two dozen search bars installed back when that was a thing. What some people really need are buttons they can click to send money directly to Russia and North Korea - since they are going to get it anyway, just pay them. Have you seen Putin? The poor guy rides a horse and has no shirt - he needs your money now!
Thanks, I'm still hoping for an SSX sequel :)
Its explained in the link. Go play it. its quite fun.
And the terms… they are standard
No question about it. There are more than enough great, great books that we waste our time (if our intention is to learn) reading much else. You don't have time to read them all. Nothing in a blog will compare.

More broadly, I find a strong correlation between the amount of time it takes to write something and the value, which shouldn't surprise us: The product of years of study and writing and rewriting should be far superior to the same person's hot take on social media. Books > quarterly journals > monthlies > weeklies > dailies > 24/7 hot takes.
Yes, that’s the music part. I find a comprehensive list would be overwhelmingly long, and dominated by poor quality.

I also follow their recommendations of film, radio, and TV.
I think some sectors in finance add value. It boils down to the people your company is trying to make richer.
They offer free IDs at some office far away with restricted hours ( what Texas did when they started requiring IDs, and just coincidentally closing up a bunch of D!V offices and restricting hours). They have experience from when they did the same things during Jim Crow, they know what they are doing.
If you just brute force solve with greedy search (always pick the word that results in the highest average reduction in remaining possible words), you get a solution with an average of 3.47. Even only guessing words on the primary word list (which Wordle uses to pick the word of the day) you can get 3.51. That's as far as I've chased the problem.

I'm surprised to hear that optimal play only gets you 3.4212 (according to the link you posted).
I highly doubt the government's core stance is "Heavens no, we can't intervene in the free market!" when the market is not even a literal "free market" to begin with. That's more a theoretical concept than a practical implementation.

To the government: i) they get a ton of John Deere lobbying dollars, ii) John Deere can always loom the potential of lost jobs over politicians' heads, iii) Farmers are not happy yet still begrudgingly using the system so things are not totally falling apart.... and, of course, iv) this matter doesn't really effect politicians personally.
I use a barebones double-entry system (such as GNUCash or Ledger).
At the beginning of each month, I set a budget, and I deduct all the forseeable fixed expenses (rent, bills, groceries, eating lunch at work). I also deduct a part for savings and investments. The remainder I divide by the number of days in the month, and that becomes the average amount per day I allow myself to spend on eating out, coffee and other small discretionary purchases. The goal is to have the budget continuosly balance out to zero.

For each of the larger, non-monthly expenditures (travel, quarterly/yearly bills, furniture, electronics) I have virtual accounts in which I put money every month, and take it out when the expense comes, so as to keep the balance of the month at zero. I allow these virtual accounts to go negative, but not often and not for long.

I have a "tab" for shared household expenses; 50% of each shared expense is credited or deducted from the "tab", depending on who paid. This 50% doesn't affect my monthly balance. My partner does his own accounting (i.e. none).

If the months balance is trending positive, I can either increase the daily allocation for the rest of the month, move some to investment, or save more towards a large expenditure.

If the months balance is trending negative, I can decrease the daily allocation for the rest of the month, or save less for future expenditures (which I then have to reduce).

I make the budget of the following month based on what I learned from the previos one(s), and a script that calculates how much money to put into accounts for future expenditures.
Makes sense, thanks. Appreciate the feedback.
I'm a bit confused as well.

> he paid Google something for some service and was entitled to phone support and he demanded someone help him

This does not support the conclusion about free users being the product, since the customer was paying based on the statement above.
wg-access-server was a hobby project i put together because I was interested in wireguard and wanted something for my home network.

i opensourced it so that others could see it and perhaps use it for inspiration which this fork seems to be doing :)
Ideally Bitwarden, Keepass or what have you should be printed on a piece of paper and put in a safe.

If anyone gets access to my weapon safe I got bigger problems to think about (no, not the weapon(s) but whatever has caused the situation.)
I've seen enough people try to learn from scratch to know that it isn't as simple as it seems when we stand on our pile of background. It's not impossible knowledge to acquire, but to be an effective engineer, there's a ton of stuff you need to know. Maybe try to remember the first time you learned about trivial things like Git, UNIX pipes, closures, big-O complexity, hashing, graph theory, refactoring, MMUs and ADUs, TCP windows, IP, HTTP, MVC, design patterns, encoding formats, queuing theory... there's a ton of "simple" stuff to know, many of which takes a regular person a few concerted days to get comfortable with.
That didn't work for me.

My domain is still set up with G Suite with SPF and all so Google is technically fully capable of sending emails on my domain’s behalf, but if I got the "me@example.com via example@gmail.com" text regardless.

My setup:

1. log into example@gmail.com
2. set up "Send as me@example.com" with alias
3. enter example@gmail.com as the SMTP username

Headers:

ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; mx.google.com;
spf=pass (google.com: domain of example@gmail.com designates 209.85.220.41 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=example@gmail.com
Return-Path: <example@gmail.com>
From: Me <me@example.com>
What’s new in HTTPie for Terminal 3.0
>Did you read the entire YAML spec before using it

No, not the entire spec, but I glanced through the wiki page and a few tutorials to understand it.

>Choose the one that best fits your use-case and the strictness you need.

Well, how can one choose what fits best if they don't even research the topic?
Help I have developed this site pretty much on my own
with some help from a developer. Five years ago, I was at a meeting at Smith College, my aluma mater. We were discussing some issues and wondered, how are the alums and current students of the other Seven Sisters Colleges (Wellesley, Smith, Mt Holyoke, Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Vassar & Radcliffe)on these issues. Came home started a facebook page that grew to 10,000 people in a few weeks. From that, there was a demand, need that people wanted to meet other Seven Sisters, worked with a developer to build this membership website. Its free to join and we have over 10,000 members. Theres a Newsletter, over 70 facebook groups, a 14,000 person job board and in-person/virtual events. In totatl, we have over 53,000 people engaging in a part of our network. Overall, there are 250,000 Seven Sisters alums in the world, so there is room to grow & people are graduating from the colleges every year. I guess my question is, how do I take a) my website to the next level b) continue to grow and get some sort of funding, as this has been self-funded and I am, essentially the jack of all trades. www.sevensistersalumnaeassociation.com is the website HELP!
For the particularly adventurous bagel slicer, there is also the Möbius bagel: http://www.georgehart.com/bagel/bagel.html
I could not have said this better. This is not distributed in the modern usage.
That said, I have used this in production and it works well up to a very respectable scale if you don't mind the central nature and already have a connection to postgres.

I would use Hashicorp Consul for this these days.
If you live in EU or EEC I wonder if this isn't covered by GDPR?

Aren't companies required to have a way to get a manual review of anything an AI does?

And aren't they also to safeguard your data?

I'm not a GDPR expert but I know GDPR is a bit larger than many expect.
> Archive.org tends to have out-of-copyright stuff

Their lending library has lots and lots of in-copyright stuff. With a free account (takes minutes to setup), you can borrow them (read in an online browser, or via DRM-controlled PDF) for an hour or for two weeks. My impression is that they limit simultaneous borrowers to the number of physical copies the Archive possesses.

If it sounds too good to be true, give it a try. It's only drawback is a poor search engine (just use a general one like DuckDuckGo and add "site:archive.org" to your search)
You posted 8 or 9 of these comments. That's abusive. Would you please stop?

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful. Note this one: "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

Perhaps you don't feel you owe "rich kids" better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.
I'm a fan of the Samizdat sources (you could add ZLibrary as well).

Archive.org's holdings are truly amazing for older works. Newer, in-copyright works can be checked out, though I find the e-reader software, which works well on desktop, is poorly-suited to tablets.

Other sources of legal works include:

- Project Gutenberg: https://gutenberg.org/ (60k books)

- Standard Ebooks: very-well formatted quality ebook, largely public domain https://standardebooks.org/

- Wikisource: https://en.wikisource.org/ Public-domain works, downloadable in ePub and other formats.

There are numerous other smaller collections focusing on specific topics which may also be useful. Searching for "filetype:pdf", "filetype:epub", or "filetype:djvu" may find ebook formats elsewhere.
You are the product Apple sells to app developers for 30% of their income. Notice that you are not allowed to do things that interfere with this.
Is "innards of Erlang" supposed to be extra boring? Programming language implementation is totally interesting and Erlang in particular just does a lot of cool things and it'd be awesome to learn how it does it. I suppose I'm not normal...
China's Olympics App for Athletes Has Security Flaws, Study Says
Google added one of my employee's LinkedIn account address as our LinkedIn URL to our company Google business profile. We have contacted google support about this to change URL to our own but we got response like following:

I understand that you are referring to an incorrect LinkedIn profile which is visible under your business profile in Google. Please be informed that information from social profiles are collected by automated algorithms.

There's no way to manually remove these social profiles from our end. This is something which is driven by Google’s algorithm, based on the visibility, ranking, web presence, etc. of the particular business page. We at Google do not have any manual control over this.

Google and its algorithms are going bad and they have no control over it. It is getting ridiculous.
Please don't cross into personal swipes ("feigned confusion"). We don't want flamewars here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"I'd frequently tell my co-workers, "If you're not paying for it, you're the product.""

But it sounds like this "extremely irate user" was paying for it.
Dark blockchain
I currently use bookdown and have dabbled with Jupyterbook. Why should I use this instead? I don't see any advantages, esp. for scientific and technical books / websites.
This is an incredibly harsh and naive take. Authenticating logins at scale is an incredibly hard problem. There are tons of phishing campaigns and attackers seeking to get access to Google accounts all the time.

That they sometimes get it wrong sucks, but calling their attempts to do so "actual stupidity" is pretty rude.
Money laundering is when you need to turn ill-gotten paper cash into believably legal profit.

Can you explain to me the mechanics about how money laundering like this would work?
It can be true that it was WWII propaganda and a learned behavior exacerbated by parents signaling and there is a biological reaction to sugar. I don’t have kids so just know what I hear, but if sugar is affecting the vagus nerve that could affect behavior.
Weight could insult fat people and clock is somehow colonial (see a neighboring discssion [0]).

It would have to be something like ticking-at-any-size wooden box for measuring unimportant things.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30045114
Ya, this is really just the author not fully understanding `json_decode()`
This is gonna sound crazy… but at some point I stopped trying to budget because my SO and I couldn’t find anything that worked for both of us. My wife wanted to do the envelope method, but it ended up where she would basically leave the envelopes in her purse and I was dependent on her for any purchase. We switched to YNAB for a little while, but my wife would never enter transactions consistently so I would always end up making one large adjustment at the end of every month.

Ultimately this is what we do now: all routine bills/savings/short and long obligations get paid or deposited first, and there is usual only around a potential $100 variation in those numbers each month. So that ends up being a magic number that we both know we need as a minimum. Outside of that, we basically use our joint credit card account for everything else. When it gets close to a certain number we both stop any unnecessary spending until the next billing cycle and then we pay it off entirely. So far we have maybe hit that number three or four times in the last two years? It gives us a high level view of our spending and we don’t get in the weeds about “can we get this” or stress about every dollar being correctly utilized. If we realize that we can’t afford something we either plan for it during the next billing cycle, or dip into savings if we need it urgently.

We don’t leave each other in the dark on any of this though. We both get a notification on every transaction we make, and we’re both very transparent on our purchases.

I’m not going to recommend you follow my method, but so far it works pretty well for us.
Related: The DARC (German Amateur Radio club) is conducting a long term study on local HF noise by deploying 50 wide-band SDR receivers at various locations all over the country:

https://files.tapr.org/meetings/DCC_2020/DK5HH/F_ENAMS-DCC-D...
Pandemic exploited to normalise mass surveillance?