skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The discovery and cost structure problems are points a lot of people miss. Textbook publishers are selling professor time in the forms of content discovery, basic homework creation, and basic lesson planning.

One expansion on the principle agent problem: college bookstores handle. Many bookstores rent their land from the college with the agreed rent of $X +Y% of gross. This creates a disincentive for the institution to spend time negotiating with publishers (or ensuring faculty are getting enough use for the materials they assign).
Google Analytics is the best analytics tool out there.

By getting their companies off GA, European governments are weakening their industry.

This probably holds true for many SAAS products. Many of the best are from the USA. Forbidding European companies to use them is a desaster for the European internet industry.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Country_specific_...

This is a link I often check before traveling abroad regarding photography, and what is described is indeed illegal in France.
Sure, still neither of them have Oberon-2 method syntax nor UNSAFE meta package.

Plan 9 compiler was used as means to quickly get a prototype running, and naturally Rob Pike knows the toolchain quite well.

I also agree with the Alef remark.
Can you feel the cup? Can you imagine holding it in your hands, caressing the rim, scooping the inside, and feeling the pressure on your hands? Can you imagine your hands getting wet or even the pain of a thousand shards of glass as the cup suddenly shatters? Does it make a sound? Can you smell the tea? Can you taste it?
It's not natural, adult teeth do not spontaneously die off and fall out; adults only lose their teeth because of disease or trauma. When I was a kid I thought it was exactly the same as losing your baby teeth. Greying is natural, tooth loss is not.

My grandparents (all 4) had lost all their teeth by their late 40s-early 50s. It was due to never brushing their teeth (they never owned a toothbrush!) plus smoking - not age. I currently have plenty of friends and acquaintances in the late 40s-early 50 age range and not a single one has a full set of dentures like all my grandparents did.

https://dentalsolutionsofencinitas.com/blog/tooth-loss-age/

>In 1960, about 49 percent of adults aged 65-74 had lost all of their teeth. In 2012, about 13 percent of this age bracket was in the same predicament.

If tooth loss was just a normal part of aging there would be no way to make such drastic improvements.

My husband also brushes and flosses everyday and regularly has tooth issues. I know exactly why though - It's entirely due to poor toothbrushing technique.
The fine is only $100 if your lawyers and legal team work for free.
Stories of success are meaningless if you don't know how many people failed... If you listen to lottery winners, investing in lottery tickets is the best way to earn money,... somehow noone makes documentaries about millions of people who buy tickets and get nothing.
I've found that most agencies love to preach that they are data driven, but in reality they only care about the perception of being data oriented. They won't care until clients start asking questions, then it will be a panic.
Yeah, that's definitely a slap on the wrist. But now that website needs to stop doing that, or it would face actual consequences.
I wonder how Peleton imploded while iFit (owner of NordicTrack and other fitness brands) has been humming along for years offering the same hardware+ streaming combination.
This roundup has a lot great & lightweight options[0].

[0]: https://stackdiary.com/open-source-analytics/
A tailstrike might only scratch the paint, and it would have to be extremely hard to put an airplane in immediate danger, but it can cause non-obvious structural damage that leads to catastrophic failure later.
Why not just run Wireguard on a raspberry pi, set up DDNS to send your home IP to a Dynamic DNS provider (if you're on a dynamic IP), and then SSH to your machines at home using keys (instead of passwords)?

Setting up a Pi and running the Wireguard install script is about half an hour of work.
Or too many nerdy men who have a hard time coming close to women. Probably both.
Less noise, and no issues on rendering on any machine since Intel i486, except for Gemini, where a Pentium II would be the bare minimum.

Also, you can choose between lots of graphical clients for NNTP/IRC/Gopher/Gemini if you don't like the CLI/TUI ones.
>although by no means in anyone’s top 10 rankings

It's always vying with Cambridge for the top place on student satisfaction.

Also there is limited ability to vary your pace according to difficulty. Once you start a unit there is a schedule you need to follow to be ready for the end of period exams. In fact I'd argue that without that schedule pressure many people would struggle to complete each unit.

You can vary the number of units you take in a year but that's before you really know how difficult the work is. I had to abandon one unit so I could focus on Topology as it was much harder than I expected. It would have been nice to just take a bit longer but that option wasn't available.
Agree. Specifically on the point of "clear, documented and maintainable" I think this is where languages such as Ruby (and therefore Rails) shines.

Since it was "optimized for developer happiness" (https://news.learnenough.com/ruby-optimized-for-programmer-h...) it's more likely to be easier to understand, document and maintain.
I agree with what you're saying. However, I disagree on one bit:

But there, most of the people will the ability to "save the day" will usually be in upper management. The big tech companies may be an exception this: Google has their two "level 11s", and Microsoft had the massively talented team that they used to catch up to Netscape Navigator in the 90s.

The tech companies are not exceptions. You don't become a "level 11" at Google without playing political hardball. In a big company, the CEOs won't even know who you are, certainly not enough to invest in your career or give you opportunities (such as taking on Netscape in the '90s), unless you're willing to go lawful evil and collect some scalps.
Overall, yes. At the very least it's been incredibly enlightening. It's amazing how random websites have 50 "partners" all of which for some reason need to know what I'm doing.
Google Analytics is hugely overrated. Most people don't use it properly, many browsers block it entirely, and you can usually do a better job just by looking at server logs.
> While I get that someone people are slightly foaming at the mouth because of GDPR (and this starts an entire debate about an aging political population that doesn't understand technology AT ALL) going overboard, my question is - do we actually use all the analytics that are provided by GA?

Who are these people foaming about GDPR?
Could have been any one of thousands of dog-themed shitcoins. The hard to believe part is not the percent gain, but that it lasted 5 days before rugpulling.
What is the balance of privacy and analytics when even privacy friendly tools like Plausible are blocked.
C'est la vie.
>That's how you end up with Belarus:

>Run democracy so badly, so undemocratically

>and produce such poor governments that

>people just stop believing.

There were no democratic elections in Belarus since 1994. And people did not stop believing. To the contrary, the population backed the opposition candiate in 2020 much more than it did in 2010.

I am afraid that you do not realise how differnt life in Belarus is. As an example, people are routinely jailed for being independent observers at the last presidential elections. Or for the posession of the opposition flag. Or for reading "forbidden" Telegram channels. Before they are jailed, they are beaten up and are forced to present public excuses on camera. These public excuses are then aired on state TV, Telegram channels and published on Youtube as advertising [1].

[1] https://euvsdisinfo.eu/the-dirty-side-of-advertising-forced-...
Cookie banners were already a thing before GDPR.
Sure that may be the industry, but there is a very healthy ecosystem of companies, all with very different work cultures.
You download a website when you visit it. Both analytics and chrome phone home information about your activity.

They are the same.
Haven't seen mentions of GA itself, but it was obvious from context, as GA is part of wider ad targeting system - and those were explicitly used both by secret services as well as random hackers for target acquisition and initial hacks through vulnerable browsers of social engineering.
There's no proper definition of “order”
Tried looking into it, but didn't find anything relevant yet.
Perhaps it's better for the US Cannonball to end this way than the way it ended in Australia with the deaths of 4 people.

https://www.whichcar.com.au/features/how-the-cannonball-crum...
Weird. For me, every Google result for [entmoot] is appropriate and basically gives the answer to your question I would have given. It's a Lord of the Rings reference.
That’s not really how most organizations work, even in science: a lot of people will be most concerned with the blowback to the institution which has a real cost in funding, careers, etc. That’s often not even a deliberate decision but simply having an accurate sense of the potential costs but far less confidence that the problem actually happened.
> I do wonder if there are still some corners of software development which aren't like this. Perhaps in public universities or government?

Try aerospace, defense, critical infrastructure. They tend to move much slower and methodically about their stacks.
> Proprietary databases like Oracle and SQL Server find value in developing their own drivers. They don't tend to publish their wire protocol.

Just to note, MS have long published the details of their wire protocol, TDS - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols...
> For example, AT&T today actually has (almost?) nothing to do with the original AT&T

Of all valid examples available, you picked AT&T, which is definitely out of set? Seriously?

Okay, they do not control the Northeast (that's Verizon), but other than that it'll be the equivalent of asking if Russia can trace back through the pre-1919 Russian Empire or the current Germany from Prussia.

P.S. Please look at this merger chart: https://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/P1-BZ033_LIONDO_9.... Although it's unlikely that AT&T and Verizon will merge again (unless the US FTC lost all anti-trust enforcement), your statement can at least be proven wrong in this context. Maybe use Polaroid as an example next time?
I see now. Thanks for pointing it out.
> Now, on the expansive flat, straight—and empty, thanks to the pandemic—highways of the Midwest, the Audi was able to reach 175 miles per hour in spots.

And this, in a nutshell, is the reason why the traffic accidents and deaths statistics didn't really improve during the pandemic, despite reduced traffic.
AMD Receives Approval for Acquisition of Xilinx
…but he makes $340k
"Political shifts inside Microsoft could leave it dead and unsupported like Silverlight tomorrow"

Assumption or knowledge?

How do you know this?
> Rest is just making life of web developers/admins/tech company owners harder.

Well, of course, tech companies, especially Google, Facebook, Amazon (and this one doesn't even respect basic work and union regulations and rights) are getting out of hand, making their life harder (if not dismantling them) is the legislator's job.

> Especially with these European intentions I frankly believe this is more of a political war against US and US-based companies.

Again, yes, of course, so what ? The US (tech and government) has been prying on the rest of the world with its tech advance and has been using it to spy and gather data it could not get otherwise. France, the EU, are just defending their citizens' rights and their interests, especially economical, against another threat to civil liberties.
Saying so just tells me that you never been analyzing and optimizing websites with millions of users. Websites on which a whole company depends on. It would be a crazy approach to try and do it via server logs.
You appear to have a very different idea of "best analytics tool" than I do. What is your ranking rubric?
A lot of negative comments here, so I'm going to throw out some positivity/praise.

I do think there is value in putting a name to the process of analyzing what assumptions, mental models, schemata, etc are more fundamental than others.

I don't generally approve of the hero worship of economically successful individuals like Musk et al, or trying to futilely guess at "the" cause of their success. But, that doesn't mean that Mr. Musk didn't have a point when he explained that his undergrad degree in physics encouraged him to look at the "everyone knows XYZ is best/possible/impossible" truisms and figure out what conditions led to that conclusion and whether those conditions actually apply to the specific situation he cares about.

The same thing happens in programming. How many times have you, or someone you know, tried to translate a "best practice" from one programming language or framework to another one only to realize that best practices are context-dependent? If that's ever happened to you, you would've benefited from "first principles thinking". WHY is that best practice recommended? What problems is it trying to help you avoid? Is that problem likely to occur in your new programming language? Can you even apply the best practice in the new language? If you can, will it still actually prevent the problem it was designed to prevent?

Whether or not the chef/cook analogy is accurate, I don't think the main takeaway should be that chefs are "better" than cooks as people. I think the point should be that sometimes "cook"-ing is fine, but if you want to become an expert at something, you need to go beyond following "recipes" and figure out how it all works under the hood.
All of the Scott Adams advents are ported to the ZMachine and they would run better under an iOS ZMachine interpreter.

https://www.ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archive/scott-adams/gam...

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/frotz/id287653015

On PC's, you have (win)Frotz and Lectrote.
Wait a minute. Is that why Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part 7 is named Stell Ball Run? I never put too much thought about the title. Not American too so I have no idea if Steel Ball Run is a popular term.
I think the initial problem was clearly-enough stated, and the GP's point is valid - why bother accounting for the case where your phone is so close to dying that you can't unlock the screen, when just a bit less battery life would mean that your phone dies regardless (and you're stuck outside anyways)?
Then my analogy is unintentionally even more fitting.

But also: TIL.
You know those "cookie banners" are illegal under GDPR too, and done specifically to annoy people into agreeing?
Where were you driving 120mph like it’s no big deal in the US?
You can work on being attractive with good diet and exercise.
You never catch all the law breakers, but fines can be a good deterrent. That’s how it works.
> poorly drawn pictures are being bought

not even the picture. The url to a picture on a random site.
> Is the CNIL actually starting to do its job?

IIRC, They got massive funding with GDPR
But that’s my question: why wouldn’t there be?
Shameless plug: I have been building a self-hosted-only analytics platform for a long time: https://www.uxwizz.com. It looks like a good time to switch to self-hosted analytics.
You could base such system on software transactional memory and persistent data structures (like in Clojure) and in case of a bug just revert the state to any particular point in time by changing one pointer.

Your app crashed? No problem - Rewind 5 minutes earlier and don't do the thing that crashed it.

There's whole unexplored universe of possibilities when we do away with traditional OS design. I'm especially interested in how it would work with Intel Optane.
I started incorporating "Gamer stretches" from https://esportshealthcare.com/gamer-stretches/

The first time I was exposed to the idea of stretches specifically for computer users was from Day9.tv. One of his earlier videos has a few hand and wrist exercises that seemed to help me.
That has changed recently, people in these communities believe that NFTs are only valid if verified by opensea. So you are now buying ownership as opensea is beginning the enforcement of copyright.

They are pulling a bait and switch.
I had no idea this was a thing. How cold are we talking for this to be something that happens often?
I'm far too young to have had one when they came out, but I recently bought a TRS-80 Model 100 to use as a distraction-free writing machine. And you know what? For that, it actually still works well!

Although I'm glad I got a microSD adapter for it; the volatile storage would feel pretty risky for that otherwise. :)
I'd need to try and find more data from porn hub and other sources, but I doubt porn hub is actually indicative of society at large. For example, what percentage of porn hub's audience is male vs. female? In the US it appears only about 30% are female.

https://www.pornhub.com/insights/2019-year-in-review#gender

The idea that pornographic preferences are somehow an indicator of people's actual sex lives does not follow. There is a big difference between fantasy and what people actually intend to do. For example I really enjoy psychological thrillers involving a murderer hiding in nearly plain sight. I have no intention of killing anyone, being a victim of murder, or even knowing anyone who is a victim. It's just an interesting fantasy.
Let's add that NSA has long history of engaging in economic espionage, including against EU.
> and you can usually do a better job just by looking at server logs

Yes, if you only want to count visits and don't have a problem having all bot traffic included. For everything a bit more advanced you need a proper analytics tool.
Actually, there are some nice tools (e.g. GoAccess) that produce pretty graphs. The vast majority of people just want pretty graphs; the more fancy data Google Analytics produces is nowhere near as accurate as the number of trailing non-zero digits would have you believe.

Depending on your userbase, the regular traffic data can be off by significant proportions. I've seen pages where the number of logged-in interactions are higher than the number of Google Analytics hits.
I wonder if the Cannonball Run has led to any injuries or deaths of non-participants in its history. It certainly seems like something that recklessly endangers life and limb of the public, but I've never heard of any accidents attributed to it. I suppose you wouldn't admit to attempting a run in the aftermath of a serious accident.
Are we calling slideshows "decks" now?
For whom and what purpose is it the best?

There are many niche systems that fit specific purposes. Sure GA can benefit from scale and existing profiles with user data gatherer in other context, which a self-hosted solution would not have acces to. But does it address every need better than specific systems? And is the added benefit worth sacrificing your users' data to google?
Interesting, what do you mean by "inductive indexing"? 10 million inserts per second sounds pretty exciting.
Since when people and governments are guaranteed to behave rationally? We should account for every possibility.
You see it as weakening others will see it as strengthening.
> if I use a service which anonymously tracks

Wrong. Google Analytics (at least v3 by default) tracks IP addresses, which are considered personal information. [1]

[1] https://www.cookielawinfo.com/anonymize-ip-in-google-analyti...
What is disgusting about consenting adults wanting to hookup?
For extra fun, you could set up some speakers and have them start playing some appropriate piece of music as you approach. Some sort of triumphal march, perhaps?
The "killer app" for cryptocurrency is ransomware and malware.

Ransomware creators used to ask for payments with gift card codes or sketchy Western Union-style transfers. Cryptocurrency makes it MUCH easier for ransomware gangs to get paid.

This has led to a boom in ransomware attacks and the commoditization of ransomware into an entire industry [1][2]. There are entities that specialize in getting a foothold via exploits, contacting the victims to force payment, taking payments and laundering them, and providing paying victims with decryption tools.

Cryptocurrency has made ransomware a big business for criminal gangs and financially-strapped nefarious state actors (North Korea for example) [3].

[1]: https://techmonitor.ai/technology/cybersecurity/ransomware-a...

[2]: https://www.titanhq.com/blog/the-correlation-between-cryptoc...

[3]: https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/Nor...
Server logs aren't the only alternative to Google Analytics. Matomo, Plausible, and Fathom are all perfectly viable.
I want to love ZeroTier, but after wanting to contribute and reading some code I decided I'd rather use another VPN tech. Not saying it isn't good, but it was very incomprehensible and didn't look modern and nice, which the product should be.
When it mentioned the race being partly inspired by a movie, I was thinking Death Race 2000.

Now that's a ridiculous movie.
Still not clicking on an ad and still disabling every single tracking metric they come up with.

Sorry to see Mozilla losing their standards.
I like this idea in principle and think it could be turned into a great alternative to a hide-a-key, or used to let a pet in though a small door. A typical garage door spring is rated to last 10k cycles, make of that what you will.
I stopped speeding about 12 years ago when I got my first (and hopefully last) speeding ticket.

I've since discovered that it's actually a lot less stressful, you use less petrol and I don't seem to get places that much slower. I'm also happier with cars with cars with much smaller engines - which saves even more money.
And web server logs are fine for troubleshooting and detecting abuse, you don't even need to ask for consent!

Only things like tracking, ads, and sending data to areas without equivalent privacy laws are forbidden. The intent and usage of the collected information is a big part of what is and isn't allowed.
Discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30284372
You mean you shouldn’t admire a CEO who took a company from near bankruptcy in 1997 to the most valuable company in the US in 2011?
Sorry I misunderstood you. What did you mean by ”inadequate”?
ModifiedElephant Apt and a Decade of Fabricating Evidence
I think that self-hosting is the way to go, get a server in your own region/country and don't send the data to any 3rd party.
Sure. I sent you an email.
At this point learning C++ standards is like learning new frameworks. There is no escape other than reclusing to C (maybe not so bad!)
Filtering out bot traffic is easy enough with server logs. A self-hosted JavaScript analytics tool gives you more data, but Google Analytics filters out Firefox users too; contrary to ReCAPTCHA's apparent beliefs, Firefox users are mostly not bots.
If you can only see the churn and froth, that doesn't mean there aren't great waves to surf; you might just need to paddle out to a better spot.

https://remix.run is a prime example. It's new, and better, and simpler.