skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have "seen videos", but have you ever actually been to Dubai or Sharjah? The lowest tier of workers toiling in squalid living conditions is not the entirety of Indian-subcontinent workers in the UAE. For decades the Emirates have had a huge population of Indian-subcontinent (and Filipino, and Eastern European) migrant workers who work all the service-economy jobs so that the local Emiratis don't have to, and yes, these workers like the malls, too. Even if they don’t have so much money to spend in malls, malls are still the place that anyone goes to have a stroll around on a day off, because as air-conditioned spaces they serve as the local parks and squares.
Install Firefox. With Firefox you can install extensions, including uBlockOrigin, which will allow you to block the advertising popups.
I love programming but it's starting to get to my spine. I'm self employed which is great cause I get to spend my micro breaks on a mattress (and stepping away from the screen seems to help me think over what I'm working on -- diffuse mode thinking).

Considering getting a real job but something tells me most offices aren't suitable for lying down. (I read about someone on a polyphasic sleep schedule who took her afternoon nap during the lunch break and she had to hide in the server room!)
Flagged--this isn't the title.

Also, "false" isn't a correct description of what happened.
I don't use these apps.

It were design teachers that hired me, so I guess they knew and still wanted their students to learn a bit programming.
The Vietnamese side of my family are refugees too, two MDs, 2 engineers, and one CS professor. Not bad for growing up in public housing and on food stamps.

They see Communism rising in America and support Trump.
Steve Shirley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Shirley was able to found a computing consultancy business in the 1960s staffed entirely by women that had been fired when they got married, as was the usual practise at the time.
It's not clear what the icons in the top does? Tooltips or simply buttons with text when the screen is wide enough to support it would be great.
Ask HN: JavaScript library to add video chat?
So, I have been building a bunch of very basic little games recently to play with family and friends while we are unable to visit in person. We set up zoom with like 5-8 people, and switch back and forth between the video call and the game in the browser (I'm learning about React + SVG + WebSockets...)

But what I really want is just to embed video chat into the game itself. Is there any library/service I can use where I can just drop it in? I looked at twilio, but it seems so complicated. What I want is just to add a few lines of JS and get video call functionality.

Is there a way to do it, or am I asking too much?
You’re basing your experience on AWS from 2007?
The Model 3 also dropped by $2K. The $1000 increase (in July) is for full self-drive. Autopilot is already included.
This will happen again and will always happen if product is prioritized above sound technology base. Any time something is developed incurring tech debt.

To solve, the company will need to go into investment phase again. Invest into sound technology, paying off all the tech debt, building resilience and self-healing into services.

Product development will suffer, but that's how debt works.
Chainlink Awarded as Technology Pioneer by World Economic Forum
What's the deal with no signatures on OpenWRT firmware images.
Saying that the German people all knew of what was being done is not historical, nor the experience of my family. When my great grandparents were taken from their home in 1943 along with all the other Jews in town (other than my Grandmother who was married to a non-Jew, and my mother) they had no idea where they were being taken. Of course they all died but no one had any idea until after the war was over and even today we can only speculate exactly where. My grandmother later survived a year in a camp, and my mom hid in a basement for year as a child. No one in their small town had any inkling of what was happening inside Germany other than what the propaganda was telling them, although there were people with hidden radios in town, even the Allies did not say anything useful.

To say everyone knew is incorrect; to imagine you could change things if you knew is also wrong. Can we today stop our government from cramming children into cages and then forgetting them? Yet we have modern media and still horrific things are done in our name and we either ignore it or feel helpless to do anything.

History is bad enough without changing it just because we have moved beyond, nor is forgetting its lessons and winding up in the same boat again. Guilt belongs to the guilty not the collective; it's up to the collective to ensure it never happens again and keep the guilty from getting away.
The article specificly says the issue was in code that used to be in tails and isnt anymore. Additionally, the motherboard article describes the payload as a video file uploaded to dropbox, which doesnt sound like webrtc.
Since everyone else is replying to hate on this machine, want to throw in that I loved it. My situation maybe wasn’t typical, but living on the road it was such a joy to have something that for all purposes disappeared into my pack and was totally capable for my basic needs. This style body w/ better arm chip is for sure future of “gen pop” Apple laptops.
You'll have to pry my Slackware desktop from my cold dead hands.
That's the problem with evolution. Any protein in the body ends up with multiple completely unrelated functions.

If it's in the blood stream for enough generations, the body will find some alternate use for it. It's like a compression algorithm on your DNA.

...and so when we try to use meds to counter certain proteins or block receptors, we discover that it has a dozen totally unrelated impacts. "Oh, that blood pressure medication? Well let's just have it also randomly give you prostate cancer!" (real example).

Organic evolved animals are the worst type of spaghetti code - if there was ever something you'd want to redesign from the ground up, it's us.

Then add to that that there isn't even any "standard" type of human. We're all different - and even different groups of us have different smatterings of genes. Sometimes it correlates with our ancestors background - sometimes it doesn't. Who knows! Evolution! We're all each just individual experiments running around to see which genes can procreate the most.

...and it's not even as though each of us is a single experiment on a specific gene, that would be too easy. We're each an experiment on a unique collection of thousands of genes that evolution hopes will average out the results across the entire population. Try to wrap your statistics PhD around that!

Then also factor in that modern human evolutionary pressures are totally different than they were even a couple of generations ago, and it becomes clearly evident that evolution is in a complete state of dysfunctional disarray.
> And, no, dolphins and whales do not fall into the category of less intelligent sea creatures. Both are land mammals that recently (evolutionarily speaking) returned to water.

Maybe, but what about cephalopods? If aquatic seascapes are not conducive to intelligence, how do we explain octopus intelligence?
How to Topple a Statue Using Science
I completely missed that section in my excitement. I skimmed the "Implications of ARM section" when the article started talking about the fact that Apple can tune the architecture, which I found irrelevant and uninteresting. Saves me the trouble of digging up Linus's statement.
Let the non-red teams use pre-existing scripts, code, etc, to harden things. This of course would make the competition a level playing field and would make it much less fun for the red team. Attendance would drop off quickly and companies would no longer sponsor these events, as the primary purpose is to recruit people out of college.
Speaking of dehumanisation and abstraction, Roberto Begnini's "math problem" scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LhuGKejDq8&t=116
came to mind during March-era discussions of possible Covid responses.
https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/20/dropbox-security-bug-made-...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/09/07...

lol
One of my open source projects became quite popular so I wouldn't say that my approach reduces my degree of perfectionism or hurts my projects' chances of adoption; if anything, it has the opposite effect. It provides me unlimited time which allows me to think really hard about every decision I make - It gives me the freedom to always choose the most long term solution. I'm not trying to get lucky catching the next big wave and timing it just right. Not looking for a lucky break. I'm trying to work towards a reliable result in the long term and I'm getting closer every year.

Not caring too much about the economic results behind the work is absolutely critical for this approach to work at all. If I broke down or considered giving up every time I experienced an economic disappointment or my project didn't get any attention, I wouldn't have gotten anywhere near as far as I did today.

It took me 10 years before I could monetize my project such that I could work on it full time. It was literally a decade of almost no income at all and almost nobody taking my work seriously. Then suddenly one day in the 10th year I started earning good passive income from that project.
If I was even slightly focused on financial results or even popularity score, I would have given up on year 2.
The First Internet Bench
You can rent things for pretty cheap compared to the purchase price, like the buy vs rent calculation there is so heavily skewed to rent that it's insane that people still buy property.
You might get better answers if you tell which OS you wonder about.

Also, maybe look at how open source projects have solved this issue. Their tools might be useful for you.
I think you're going to want a system of nested spheres. Each "layer" of nested sphere has a pressure gradient. With Martian gravity (~0.4G if i recall correctly) and geodesic designs you can make really big structures (tens of kilometers).
How is this a valid comparison?

You have active cooling for the sandy CPU the iPad does not.
I'm both excited and troubled, mostly because I fear the loss of LTS on x86-64: how long will Xcode, macports, and even brew support both architectures. Apple isn't one for backwards compatibility so this might be rough few years.

I shudder to think about how long it will take to debug all of the Python3 wheels and Node packages macOS devs are accustomed to. I already have issues with versions of both language's packages failing to install with other versions, and that's on the same platform, OS and CPU architecture.

Still, I'm excited. Intel is way overpriced compared to Arm at similar performance and power.
I get it now, thanks y'all.
I don't believe the U.S. would risk a nuclear confrontation with China just to please India. Why would the U.S. care if India showers China with nukes?

There would only be a shrug.

I do believe there's a fair chance that India and Pakistan will start a nuclear war in the coming 20 years or so. Maybe several tens om millions will die, but that's peanuts compared to India's population of 1.3 billion and Pakistan's 100 million.

No one will care. At least not enough to start a war over.
Good time to remind everyone that the password prompt from Dropbox (in the screenshots, located right below the "Turn on notifications" from the OS) is fake. They pretend to use the password only to turn on accessibility permissions.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/dropbox-responds-to-mac...
In SOHO devices like the R7000, the web server must parse user input
from the network and run complex CGI functions that use that input.
Furthermore, the web server is written in C and has had very little testing,
and thus it is often vulnerable to trivial memory corruption bugs.

I wonder why these network equipment manufacturers are still using CGIs in their firmware?! Is it because the MCUs they use in their hardwares are too weak to run modern version of the linux with reasonable choices to build a custom compiled version of the web server in Rust not C?
The Arrow was circa the late 50s. You claimed it would be a white elephant when finished, yet now the measure is that it wouldn't be relevant today, sixty years later?

The Arrow was specifically built as a far North interceptor aircraft, a role later filled by a variety of aircraft over the years (which in a probable war state would effectively rotate in constant sorties to the far North) -- the F106, F15, F16, F18, etc. It's a sled to move a missile closer to a target and not much more.
Vocdoni – voting system technical overview v1
Sure, and I bet a 486 (so a comparable processor for the time) can run off of it's I/O pins. A quark is a 486 core.
Even in standard CRISPR/Cas9 systems, Cas9 sticks around for quite a while - which is one of the issues in using it for actual medical treatments. You don't really want a programmable DNA cleavage engine roaming around in your nucleus...

The primary benefit here is that you can temporally synchronize Cas9. In standard systems, you introduce Cas9 into the cell, and you have no control over when it performs cleavage, since it's essentially a greedy cleavage mechanism - as soon as it finds a match, it cleaves.

This system basically introduces a semaphore, so that you introduce Cas9, allow it find a match and pause. You can then signal for cleavage to begin. As stated in the abstract, this is useful for e.g. studying the kinetics of DNA repair, since you can control when DNA damage (Cas9 cleavage) is happening.
Do you realize how many software as a service vendors the average corporation is tied in to?

You’re always tied into your infrastructure once you have any type of scale. The pain of migration is huge.

I once worked with a company whose entire workflow was integrated with six or seven vendors through APIs.

Have you ever worked in the healthcare industry? The level of lock-in they have to their EMR/EHR would make you cry.
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> This bides well for cyclic theories of cosmology.

But the second law of thermodynamics really doesn’t. I should note the radiation pressure does not have much to do with gravity, either, unless the only thing you’re focusing on is whether a star is going to collapse.
Yes it was made in a time when there was few big budget animated movies with adult themes.

The art direction is still great. Gorgeous backgrounds and animated gems such as tetsuo transformations are still impressive today.

The story suffers from the fact that it is a much more condensed version of the comic book series.
> The US concentrates this in sectors that are high tech, expensive, and profitable. Low margin, low profit manufacturing has been offshored, but manufacturing hasn't been stagnant at all.

Slight refinement: it’s a barbell: production of low value goods that are not worth shipping has remained, e.g. paper. But that’s just damning.
Exactly. They have signed an NDA with Broadcom:
https://openwrt.org/meta/infobox/broadcom_wifi

"DD-WRT has a license agreement and NDA in place with Broadcom that allow usage of better, proprietary, closed source wireless drivers (binary blobs) which they are not allowed to redistribute freely."
I wonder what name are universities going to choose to replace master's degrees, it's a small change to make the environment less hostile and all of that.
For several years, I've been running Yandex Browser on Android with uMatrix, uBlock Origin, HTTPS Everywhere, BItwarden [password manager] and Privacy Bedger.

What are these "pop-ups" and "ads" you speak of?

Yandex Browser is also Chromium based, so loads faster than Firefox and has an absolute killer text-reflow feature [something Firefox used to have but, in a fit of insanity, got rid of several years ago]. It also supports pretty much any extension from the Chrome Webstore you want to install [and the ones that don't one-click install you can usually sideload in 'Developer Mode'].

Give it a go. Sometimes you've got to look further than the end of your nose for solutions to your problems!
> It may employ fewer people, but the productivity and economic benefit of the US manufacturing sector has simply not declined at all...

Unfortunately wanting something to be true, and it actually being true are not the same thing.

Even if a whole bunch of your peers say the same thing, it still doesn’t make it true.

I’m not really sure what to say... please go and do some actual research on this topic.
Noted, and bad, but I don't consider altering links to be "inserting spam".
Is a 5k price cut at its price point really going to make a difference?
You need to ask what would you have done before condemning the German people. It's easier to believe the "safe" truth even if you have doubts about it than set yourself up for a knock on the door and a trip to a concentration camp as happened to very many Germans, both before and during the war. Most of us are cowards and wouldn't intervene if someone was being mugged on a public street. How much more courage does it take to stand up to a totalitarian regime.
The first PhD in computing was David Wheeler in 1951 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wheeler_(computer_scient...
From your link:

"“Corticosteroid treatment should not be used for the treatment of COVID-19 -induced lung injury or shock outside of a clinical trial,” the commentary concludes."

So they're saying: don't use it until there is sufficient evidence that it works. That's not a "miss for them". It's a prudent and conservative recommendation, which is exactly the kind of recommendation they should be making.
Ask HN: Machine Learning in Operating Systems?
I recently listened to a podcast where the interviewee mentions they envision a possible future where ML is used in operating systems whereby the OS learns the usage patterns and adapts over time. One example was using different scheduling algorithms at different times of day depending on expected load. Does anyone know of any projects or research on the subject?
What JavaScript Developers Should Know About Curl
I want to break this list of things down a bit;

CSS Grid / Flexbox - Flexbox was defined in 2009, and was added to browsers about 10 years ago and iterated since. It was literally in the first public version of Chrome. This is not some new tech that's blindsided everyone. Grid is a couple of years old.

React - First released 7 years ago and iterated since. Reasonably mainstream for 5 years. That's not a very dramatic change.

WASM - Around for a few years now in browsers but tooling for different languages is still patchy. Entirely unnecessary for 99.9% of web development. Most people are still in the "use it because it's cool" phase rather than "use it because it's actually useful".

extensions to the web API - Various, obviously. Can't really argue this point.

lots of new JS features - Various, but not actually very fast moving with new features. Most things are made available earlier through transpilers, so you can use a feature without it being in mainstream JS engines if you want to. Can't really blame the web if you make that choice though.

countless frameworks - You don't need to learn them all. Pick any number to use between zero and all of them depending on how much time you want to spend learning frameworks. Again, this is a choice, and if you're finding it overwhelming it's because you picked the wrong number of frameworks to learn.

plugins and build tools - Same answer again. Pick something and learn it. Update your skills every few years if you think your tooling is holding you back.

more homogeneity between browsers - This reduces complexity. To complain about that in a list of things to taking up your time is weird.

The web isn't that fast moving. I completely agree with your point about focusing on things that benefit the user though. I would argue that frameworks and build tools that enable me to iterate features faster do that though.
Thru ResearchAndDevelopment we continuously explore new solutions and
I hear you, but then I bet you don't use "password" for your password either. :-)
Vertical monitor?
Amazon’s AI-powered ‘distance assistants’ will warn when too close
My VW TDI consistently got better than EPA rated mileage ;)
My understanding is that, when you are fatigued, you might experience higher levels of dopamine because the brain works in mysterious ways. The reverse also seems true: low levels of dopamine can make you feel tired or sluggish despite being well-rested.
react-testing-library and Tailwind are two tools that I use that I feel the userbase are a bit cult-like.

I don't know if it's "not invented here" syndrome so much as people use tools based on people, not always just merit.

Kent and Adam had similar self-promotion engines running with long-form free video tutorials and strong social media presence, blog posts online, etc. Perhaps this style of promotion more of a tool more than anything is effective at changing the status-quo tools?

(Not saying they're necessarily better or worse, just my observation of why they may have become popular)
The question you ask, given the opinion you express on your blog here[1] seems extremely insensitive of the feelings of others. Can you share the reasons for this insensitivity?

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20200616121527/https://www.shaul...
Negligible compared to the 738 million iPhone users.
All webbrowsers on iOS are basically safari reskinned.
Browsing wikipedia I found the concept of "Civilian police oversight agency" [1]. For example the City of Minneapolis has the "Office of Police Conduct Review" [2].

So it looks like the institutions you are alluding to already exist, they probably need to be empowered more somehow.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_police_oversight_agen...

[2] http://www.minneapolismn.gov/civilrights/policereview/
Sorry for the probing question but why did you take your friend's prescription?
Ted Talks to help you understand racism in America
That's not spam and I personally don't even have an issue with it
All true, but the trade-offs here are clear. This drug is being looked at for patients who are in the hospital on oxygen or a ventilator. At that point side effects aren't very relevant since their odds of dying are somewhere between 25-40%. Anything that significantly reduces those odds is going to be worth it.
I get the sentiment but the reality is rich kids can also have massive advantages in test taking. As someone who has taught SAT/ACT prep courses I can tell you I have seen many kids improve their scores by in some cases hundreds of points after taking multi-thousand dollar prep courses. And I believe GPA is actually the only thing that reliably predicts college performance.
> Is it fair to say that it is a faux pas to be hyperbolic around charged issues in public?

I wouldn't call it faux pas per se. Just that you can't be expected to be taken seriously if you are.
> The $1000 increase (in July) is for full self-drive.

Has Tesla actually delivered "full self-drive" yes, or is the name just marketing?
This is a limitation of iOS. Android browsers can support extensions just fine. In fact, every browser on iOS is just a skin of Safari since the App Store doesn’t allow 3rd party browsers.

Safari does have a “content blocking API,” but it’s far more limited than desktop extensions.

People like to glorify Apple for being “privacy friendly,” but with Android you have the power and the tools to improve your privacy significantly over iOS.

If you really need adblocking, I recommend AdGuard for iOS (which uses the content blocking API) and Pi-hole (for whole network DNS filtering). Good luck.
Are there any other examples of "equivalence principles" in physics?