skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bare metal comes from mainframe days. The largest systems like IBM 360-67 and others were called "Big Iron" - see https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/system360... for NASA's moonshot-era Big Iron. You could run programs on OS/360 or you could, if daring, run code directly on the machine, on the "Bare Metal". It's quite common to run 1-card programs on the Computer History Museum's IBM 1401 --- which was not really considered 'Big Iron' at the time, although today we call it a 'Mainframe' https://computerhistory.org/exhibits/ibm1401/
Terrific, helpful work. Timely and much needed.
This. At a time like this take all your privacy concerns and throw them out the window. Id rather be healthy and spied on than in a woefully unprepared Toronto hospital.
This city and province are about to take a beating. My mom works at a hospital downtown and she says they have no idea what they are doing and no plan for the influx of cases whatsoever.

On top of that, the general public are about as smart as a truck tire so you can't rely on any cultural responsibility from your fellow citizen. Just the other day a crowd lined up down the block in front of a video game store to grab a copy of a newly released game which was available to download.
The User Agent Client Hints API looks like a very early draft. I could not see any proposed timeline for implementation or estimate of when this might become a supported standard.

I would not personally rely on this as a substitute or replacement for User Agent by September (Google Chrome 85).
I had to teach an class recently that required introducing students to assembler. I designed an extremely RISC architecture (we’re talking mov into pc for control flow, r31 is “suggested” for use as a stack pointer) but gave it just enough that they could write more advanced instructions in assembler macros, which they designed themselves. I think it worked out well!
String theory is a framework (to build models) and not a model. It cannot be falsified anytime in the near future — if certain models happen to be falsified by observational/experimental constraints, then the framework provides ways to construct other models circumventing the constraints. Likewise, even if this particular experiment provides support for the models under consideration, clever theorists will probably construct other non-stringy models explaining the same result. So take everything with a pinch of salt.

Now, “falsification” itself is a silly/naive cartoon-ish framework for how to do science. It has its uses, but we mustn’t cling to it too much (which would be cargo culting). We certainly have many other useful approaches as well.

In fundamental physics, unlike models of other limited domains, experimental results/constraints over history keep composing on top of each other. So, it is very hard to build a theory that satisfies every one of the past constraints. In a sense, string theory is the only example we’ve managed, on that front. Other “alternatives” consider a much more limited domain (quantum gravity), for better or for worse.

Whether we must continue investing effort/resources on that front is a political question, not a scientific one. And that is a complicated question, with many aspects to consider. Let’s please not get hung up on the “falsification” bugbear. If we were really nitpicky about falsification, we would completely cease doing/studying/researching psychology, economics and a whole host of complex topics.
“Can’t hear you Tanner... I’m beachballing.”
Sorry for the Necropost but I just wanted to clarify this.

The original post sounded to me as if you'd prefer if there were no rules that give relatives the right to decide what happens to the bodies of deceased loved ones that haven't expressed a particular last will in that regard. I agree that, when someone has set up a (legal) last will then relatives have no say in that. But I think relatives should still have more decision power over the fate of a relative's dead body than, say, a pharma company.

"this" refers to the opinion that relatives should have no decision power over the fate of another one's body. Maybe I have misinterpreted you though and that was not what you were trying to say.

"skepticism" refers to some of the bad reputation of the pharma industry in the public eye and some people's disdain from donating their bodies or organs out of distrust.
> People think that a low percentage of an outcome means it won't happen. They are wrong.

This was proven by the response to the polls (especially the FiveThirtyEight one) in the 2016 presidential election, surely?
Yeah the obvious comparison to point to is that the US patriot act massively expanded the powers of the US intelligence agencies in response to 9/11, and now, despite the threat being nothing like what it used to be the intelligence services have just steadily pushed that power further and further.
Oh man, this plus the obs thread earlier plus zoom. The mind boggles haha.
The is-ought problem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem
we received one single sms in NL via our fancy alert system that gave a warning I don't even remember. we're definitely not doing all that much altogether, other than slowly ramping up the quarantining as things get worse (with a 2+ week lag that we don't seem to take into account, I guess?).
on the market for self-hosted remote backup with partial checkout features & mobile client

am sort of using owncloud for this now but it's slow
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That foot caught in your door could be that of a digital security enthusiast (i.e., mine)!

A night off is often spent at the workstation hopefully long enough to solve a CTF reversing challenge or boning up on my cryptography, be it in coding practice or theoretical studies. Proudly, I have completed the Cryptopals' original six and aim to take it all the way!

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Why are webdev related topics so popular on Hacker News? I don't see pursuit of this topic happening in my anecdata of programmers I interact with in day to day life.

Oh right, not everyone is in my field.
A bigger, site-breaking one from further up in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22685632
I'm having problems analyzing the packets. the analyze option disappears ...
Agreed — Apple’s trying to project a high-minded motivation here, but their real motivation is likely to try and limit web technologies so that companies must still invest in native iOS apps and remain within their walled garden.
glad for the good work, hope it helps the world.
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Yes, except they were charging 800% more for what was a $10 renewal fee.
> Certainly you can. You just have to reduce the effective sector size that the file system can use.

get back to me when you find a high-performance (FAT doesn't count) Linux filesystem that supports sector sizes of 496.
At least in the US, I believe it varies state by state with certain restrictions pertaining to audio specifically, iirc.
I should have said '...during office hours'. I see now that it makes it sound like that's the case even when I'm not working. My mistake.
Totally fair. We definitely want to make that install process very simple and fast for as many people as we can. And it only needs to be done once per machine. :)
That might well be the case, in which case I'll keep using something else.

Suggesting the "whole purpose" of an app that does video, audio and screen sharing is to let someone else control your computer seems strange though - it's one of many features, not a purpose in and of itself.
This is for when "shit I just want my website to look good like those other websites I see on the web but I don't know how or don't want to put in too much effort"
My iPod Classic has no intranet or internet.

What does the "i" mean in that case???
It isn't emotion driven because it's an objective fact that the pandemic response team was disbanded by this adminstration. The same administration that wants to cut off food stamps and a bunch of other programs that are critical during times of crisis.

This was totally predictable. It was the fault of this adminstration on its horrible, science-denying management that it spun out of control to this degree.
Human and emotional aspects of being a developer during Covid-19
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> necessary for an entry level position

I still can't figure out how programming computers (the most complex task a human can undertake) managed to become singled out as the only profession in the history of humanity that is simultaneously assumed by so many to be something you need only a cursory understanding of to be proficient at.
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The source for no pre existing conditions is her aunt, this is not ideal and obviously no one can contradict her without violating privacy.
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Be fair to the original comment, which referenced people saying something about learning a language, and it making learning any others easy, not about learning many languages, and it making learning any others easier.
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It sounds like you've understood it correctly. The data strongly suggests that COVID-19 isn't a deadly disease for otherwise healthy people, and any apparently healthy young people who die from it are most likely "errors and odd cases". (Although framing it that way could imply too strong of a conclusion - comorbidities in the study include hypertension and diabetes, which aren't exactly rare.)
I recommend anyone just starting with bare-metal assembly to get an STM32F0 board and write assembly programs for it. I'm just gonna plug my super small toy RTOS I wrote for Cortex-M0 a while ago.

https://github.com/kahlonel/rt0s
They might feel self conscious. Or maybe they think they understand it fine even though they’ve misunderstood it. That seems to be what happened to the man who was ostracized for using the perfectly legitimate ”play the straight man” phrase. People don’t always make the best choices and sometimes it’s not immediately obvious why they make terrible ones.
Anecdotal data reliable? One case says "yes!"
> they find programming computers simple because they're not really programming

Actually, the "learn javascript in 24 hours" crowd finds out the hard way that programming computers is orders of magnitude harder than they initially thought... but they still insist that it's because gatekeeping programmers are artificially making it harder than it has to be.
Yes, they're programs from the benchmarks game that use a lot of UnsafeMutablePointer, which is:
> provides no automated memory management or alignment guarantees. You are responsible for handling the life cycle of any memory you work with through unsafe pointers to avoid leaks or undefined behavior. [1]

So I think they're "performance oriented Swift code". I'm not familiar with Swift, so sorry if I'm wrong.
[1]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swift/unsafemutabl...
There won't be a competitive Android alternative. The A13 will beat most x86 chips in terms of performance. No other ARM licensee has a chip out that's anywhere close.
There's already a way to break up groups of people and send them home. College towns have known how to do this for decades: Send one or two officers over and break up the party. We don't need high-tech mass surveillance for this.

We don't see this happening yet in the US or Candada because their governments want to look like they're doing something, holding news conferences and nicely asking people to pretty please stay home, but the governments don't want to actually do anything (enforcement).
That is a big and important distinction.
Its open source in the sense that its all javascript :)

I do have a repo that isnt on public Github yet, was going to add it after I iron out a couple more of the bugs that I am sure exist
> If you look at the other blog post on ITP 2.3...

why would you look at the old blogpost for the new behavior?

It's all web pages, regardless of classification or redirects. The new webkit blog post is quite clear:

> Now ITP has aligned the remaining script-writable storage forms with the existing client-side cookie restriction, deleting all of a website’s script-writable storage after seven days of Safari use without user interaction on the site

https://webkit.org/blog/10218/full-third-party-cookie-blocki...

Or straight from the ITP lead's twitter:

> Fifth, all script-writeable storage is now aligned with the 7-day expiry Safari already has for client-side cookies.

https://twitter.com/johnwilander/status/1242516001939324928

(with follow up replies on what resets the seven day clock)
I believe you’re mixing apples and oranges. Trump opposes moving manufacturing to China in general. But, based on his actions he’s not a supporter of government disaster preparedness.

Also, the need for masks was predicted by the government. They just didn’t take action to replenish the stockpile when it needed to be. Let’s not argue “nobody could have foreseen”. They could and they did.
That's some weird pseudo retro: As an old-timer I've seen green-on-black, amber-on-black, later black-on-white. Never white-on-green-black-fade.. Fonts tended to be pixelated rather then blurry (except maybe at 4am..)

And yet, against knowing better, it looks decidedly retro. I wonder where that association comes from.
The Arduino Uno MCU is fairly widely available:
https://octopart.com/search?currency=USD&q=Atmega328p&specs=...

although there are others MCU's with even better availability (e.g. the SAMD21, which also has plenty of dev boards and it seems like Microchip has extensive stock on hand, for example https://www.microchipdirect.com/product/ATSAMD21J17A-MUT?pro... ). One can take any of the devboards a a reference design.
Figure 11, "Reconstruction on abstract face drawings", has a reconstruction of Naruto's face. The results are... unsettling.
There are two other possible factors.

1. Qualcomm has invested in Xiaomi. It’s possible that influences the prices they can negotiate.

2. Like Samsung, Xiaomi has their own in-house SoC development program. Just the threat of an alternative gives them more ability to negotiate pricing.
> Other costs are requests and transfers and those depend on your usage.

That's my point. You can't actually state the price per TB is N, you can just estimate it and hope it doesn't exceed the estimate. For some companies and scenarios it doesn't matter, for others it's significant enough.
Great initiative, thank you!
Not challenging your assertion, however, what doesn't he understand about how the Federal Reserve works?
Almost all of those photos were from the guys personal blog and one wasn't even him.

I'd be way more worried if it was finding stuff like me in the background of someone else's photo in a crowded city or something like that.
Both major parties dramatically increase spending more often than they reduce it. Bureaucracy and waste are incentivized at every level given how budgeting works in practice. They both prop up corporate welfare and military expansion.

We are the only major country in the world that doesn't have a fist fight on their congressional floor now and then... to me, it just indicates that most don't mean what they say.
> It pains me to see something like this in a highly up-voted comment. The point about businesses never preparing for disaster is a good one, and one does not need to imply a party's voters are the scum of the earth to make it. Adding such flamebait does not strengthen the point being made.

HN, like the rest of the internet and greater overall world, is losing its grasp on reality. Considering the average quality and truthfulness of reporting and public discourse, I don't think one should really be all that surprised. I have pointed this out to @dang a few times but he seems to be unable to see what I am talking about.

I mean think about it guys - HN is overwhelming populated by tech folks, for whom disciplined, logical thinking is practically second nature due to decades of practice.

And yet...look at the actual content of people's comments. We are ~all smart and logical, yet if a hyper-intelligent alien with zero context was to observe this discussion, would they not come away thinking that human consciousness runs on some sort of weird reality that is not consistent for all people, despite reality itself being right in front of our eyes?

How is it possible that this is happening? What is going on here? This whole situation stopped making any sense to me a long time ago...am I the only one that feels like they may be literally going insane?
If a attacker knows your RNG state, injecting 32 vs 256 bits of entropy is the least of your problems.
Most of the time when people use user agent for a purpose they think is appropriate, it doesn't even work correctly. YMMV
It used to be way easier. Something like this:

debug hn.com

a 100
mov dx, 200
mov ah, 9
int 21
mov ax, 4c00
int 21

a 200
db "Hello, World$"

w 300
q

Replace 100 with 0 and write it to the first sector of a disk and you had a bootable program (BIOS interrupts only, of course).

Edit: Geezus. It's just an example of how accessible getting something running in assembly language was compared to all the qemu, UEFI stuff in the article.
This looks impressive - shame there aren't any examples larger than postage-stamp-sized in the paper or the video.
None of the authors appear to be native English speakers, so perhaps they're self-conscious about their accents?
I had been thinking recently as I've been using Firefox more that Google maps had got clunky. With a little fiddling prompted by your comment, it turns out Maps sniffs specifically to reduce fluid animations on Firefox (and probably some other browsers).
Those countries have implemented emergency legislation that makes up for employee pay and institutes a bunch of emergency measures that will make the countries come out the crisis rapidly and more robustly.
I don't follow. Unless you're firmly on the MMR bandwagon (which is still a small minority position among economists), printing money and giving it to corporations is ultimately allocation of capital that doesn't go to other productive uses.
They both agree 90% of the time, and both massively grow and expand the size, scale and scope of government and prop up corporate incumbents.
int 21h uses ...

A BIOS CALL. :)

Still not bare metal.

:)

(I'm totally gatekeeping for laughs: write your own BIOS you noob!)
Xiao is loosing money on most of its phones. Phones are a small net loss for them.

They recoup the cost big time on accessories, and other merchandise.

It didn't work in India (biggest market outside of China,) where BBK rules supreme: People will buy the best deal phone, but will not sign onto their overpriced smart vacuum cleaners.
I think you are reading too much into his comment. You are taking it as saying X = Y when I think it was meant as X ⊂ Y, where X = "scared white, Christian, racist, xenophobic people" and Y = GOP voters.

We are in effect a two party system, at least for national offices and major state offices. Someone who falls under "scared white, Christian, racist, xenophobic people" has a choice: Democrat or Republican.

They probably dislike many things in the platform of both parties, but they almost certainly find far more they dislike in the Democrat platform than the Republican one. Hence, they tend to vote GOP if they vote.
You're describing behavior from 2019-09-23

I see the same "oversimplifying" in webkit's 2020-03-24 blog post linked from the original post. See "7-Day Cap on All Script-Writeable Storage" in https://webkit.org/blog/10218/full-third-party-cookie-blocki...
This is exactly what is going to happen.

In our country they implemented a web page, where you can snitch on people who you suspect to be infected.

So as it turns out, it seems that if you put enough pressure (fictional or real) on a group of people, they will submit themselves to draconian rule for the benefit of the collective and at the same time feel good about themselves because they work for the common good. Sound familiar??
very useful actually I'm getting into web dev I would like to learn how to find vuln. in my websites , and this server not only shows me some programming tricks but also some pentesting as well
you guys are doing amazing work
Great engineering to help against Covid-19
Coronavirus test: UK to make 15-minute at-home kits available within days
I know a lot of doctors and some other healthcare workers. This question isn't getting enough play in the media, particularly because many hospitals aren't doing enough to protect workers. I know a resident whose program director ordered her to keep working even though she has COVID-19 symptoms, including dry cough and loss of taste, but she can't get tested for COVID-19, so she's continuing to work because she's afraid of what will happen if she doesn't. Other doctors are bringing their own personal protection equipment (PPE) into work and horror stories about hospital administrators ordering them to remove unapproved PPE are being spread through Facebook groups.

And that's separate from simple incompetence, like not getting tents set up, not separating respiratory distress patients from other patients, and so on. Healthcare workers are not only putting themselves at risk, but also their families and patients.
The only real concern I see is that it allows someone searching to go from photo to name very quickly.
> Authorization to bail out money market funds, multi-trillion dollar unregulated bank-like deposits for the superrich.

A puzzling characterization of money market funds.

> Authorization for the the government through the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to guarantee trillions of dollars of risky bank debt.

Hrm . . . normally the FDIC guarantees deposits. It's in the name. It's also congruent with the previous point. What bank debt is this referring to? Is he sure that the FDIC isn't just guaranteeing a larger limit on deposits?