skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It works fine in Firefox (send and receive) as long as you don't need to play on multiple output devices. Currently you can enable a feature flag, use enumerateDevices() and play audio files on specific devices, but you can't hook up WebRTC streams to the devices.

enumerateDevices() should enumerate audio output devices (feature behind pref): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1152401

Enable by default setSinkId pref: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1498512

Alex Chronopoulos: "We keep it off because it does not work for everything. It works when we playback a file but not for webaudio or WebRTC. We want to add those too and we keep it off till then."
Re: the XKCD strip

While "carhouse" may not be a thing, you might be surprised to learn of the existence of a "car condo" (or "motor condo"): https://www.irongatemotorcondos.com/

Yes, really. This business not only exists, but is thriving.
There's so much that jumps out at me in this article.

It asks - 'Do neanderthals have a spiritual life?'.

Some questions: Do we (in the here and now) have a 'spiritual life'? What does it mean to have a 'spiritual life'? How could we possible know whether Neanderthals had one? How do we even know what Neanderthals were even like? Did they really live for 350,000 years? So much speculation.

The reality is we cannot know anything much beyond our present experience. History cannot really teach us anything. It is a politicised story - his-story - the story written by the victors, whoever they are.

All history is an interpretative act. When we look back at the past, it is all speculation. We are NOT being presented with facts. We find whatever we want to find in ourselves in the present; we use some artefacts (genuine or false ones) as a basis for exploring our current situation.

So, IMO, truth has little to do with it, but it can make for an interesting investigation anyway!
I had a brutal PhD viva and 2 years of corrections – here is what I learne
Ah, I was thinking the west coast of the U.S. Sorry for the U.S. centric comment.

From my understanding large fires in Australia probably are climate change given that they seem perennial, but I don't actually know enough to say there.

The U.S. was practically begging for huge forest fires though. Thus my comment.
It's very unlikely to be a one-time event, the effects are going to be seen for a long time. Even a big forest fire is not so big that it significantly changes the forest stock remaining.

Feedback loop thinking helps. This is a situation that creates conditions for more forest fires.

Linear thinking, as an example, would be something like world heats up -> forest is on fire -> post-forest-fire world. Instead we are living in a world where every factor influences every other.
One of those “if you have to ask …” questions. If you do it to extract information from your user to which they would not consent, it’s evil, regardless of how elegant it is or what the tech backing it is.
At least in the context I was speaking to, I don't think it was a "push." Deindustrialization (esp heavy industry) had been happening for a while. Environmental issues were one of the pressures, though that precedes the climate change agenda.

It just happens to be the case that when you look back at carbon reductions, deindustrialization is one of the key contributors. Clean energy too. A lot of europe already had a lot of clean energy though.
Why passenger jets could soon be flying in formation
Samsung SDS made $635 million in profit in 2019 which I think was higher than ARM? As far as I'm aware the 'Samsung Group' doesn't actually have all the companies under that so it's difficult to see what the overall revenue/profit is of the entire 'group'. It has quite a few other companies, like heavy industries, insurance, asset management, etc and I think they all have thousands of employees and are very large companies in their industries so I'd be surprised that when combined the other companies weren't significant. Did you have any data on this?
I have a dream... that one day people will name their projects with names that don't exist on google yet.

If you search for PEP now you'll find python enhancement proposals, and the "Philippine Entertainment Portal" and the stock code for PepsiCo.
To me it signals that it's a platform for the everyday user rather than a small set of pixel-perfect influencers.
Bubble barriers: a smart solution to plastic pollution in rivers
It’s probably an enormous upgrade from the Excel ‘databases’ that plague enterprise.
I'm in a team of one.

I develop ERP/MRP integrations for a manufacturing company. So we have an ERP system which we purchased and I build things on top of it to enhance processes within the company. Production trackers, product configurators, issue monitoring, things to speed up engineering management etc. I'm sure there are other roles like this in manufacturing firms because very few of these ERP systems actually do exactly what you want out of the box.

It's good because I'm not just a code monkey. I (and others) identify issues/improvements, I design the solution, I implement the solution and then I train people on how to use it. There's a lot of autonomy.
Would be curious to compare how much CO2 has been emitted as a result of these fires to California’s annual CO2 savings by going for renewable energy.
So thanks for the inputs.

I got that system design book, but i feel like algorithms and systems design together would require 3-4 months of preparation at least, and I am sure to lose my visa by then.

Some people asked me about my passion, I don't want to reveal that but it's something that normal people would consider 100x more competitive than software, and honestly, I don't feel that. It feels like I'm closer to making it in that than software.

In my passion, to get hired you get judged exactly on what you do, so it's trivial for me to get hired. Everyone asks for your portfolio, I have a good one, and that itself is a major foot in the door.

I am not sure if I will continue in the field, but I am sure what little interest I have in it is waning daily.
Helllo, good question, and the answer is simple, I am more familiar with Objective-C and I get used to it.
It would seem to be quite easy to do something like:

https://img.shields.io/badge/Maintenance-Legacy-success

or

https://img.shields.io/badge/Maintenance Level-Done-success

and have that as a convention.

Additionally to being easy to implement, it is literally a 3 second task for maintainers to add something like this into their Readme.
LaTeX appears to be under active development. Its most recent release was just over two weeks ago: https://www.latex-project.org/news/
How Find Teleworking PHP MySQL Course Internship?
Hello HN,

I'm following a PHP MySQL developer training course, but i have a lot of troubles finding an internship, needed to validate the course.

Companies at the moment, are not really welcoming strangers, even less if it is about an internship.

Do some of you know developing companies that are interested in an internship done by working from home?

Is this even a thing, is it even remotely possible due to the COVID situation?

Because i'm a bit scared that i will not find any internship and the course manager don't care about.

The biggest issue being that the course managers only planned the internship lasting about 3 weeks.

If some of you are interested i can leave here a link of the eportfolio i developed, share it if you find it worth: https://w1mpzilla.github.io/.

Thank you a lot for your help.
Have a great day, Wimp.
According to Wikipedia[1] there was one update in Windows XP 17 years ago, then that one two years ago... that seems pretty much like 'done' to me

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Notepad
Who’s the Most Popular YouTuber in Every Country?
NASA administrator Bridenstine hints Artemis 3 could land near Apollo site
I'll just leave this here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochdale_child_sex_abuse_ring
The implementation of that copy function was rather unusual, since there was no text buffer that the system could copy from, all it had was a bitmap in video RAM. The system would read the 8x8 pixels below the copy cursor, and compare the pixels with the 256 known character glyphs one by one, to determine which character it was. One could call this a primitive form of OCR, although even a single modified pixel would make the copy function fail.

The whole copy-by-character-recognition feature in the Amstrad firmware was such a weird hack that it seems unlikely anyone else has ever coded a similar solution for production use, except maybe in some application where the copy functionality had to be bolted-on later. Amstrad did it that way from the start.
The one problem I consistently have with PDF forms on the Mac is an inability to change the font size in text fields. My work even pays for me to have the professional Adobe suite and that specific functionality doesn't exist. If someone could solve this problem I would probably give them some money.
What Happened to Big Idea Productions?
it is a complex question.

I do think that both journalists and whistleblowers should have certain protections in a free society.

However, I can't shake the feeling that wikileaks exploits the hunger for justice of honest-minded whistleblowers as a front for information gathering, and then choose to use said information however fits their own selfish interests. So I don't like them at all as martyrs of free speech. Assange is no Snowden.

Then again, as I said, I am 100% against certain punishments that I think go against basic human rights. Just the possibility of ending up in ADX should be enough to deny extradition, regardless of who's the alleged criminal.
Bug Tracking vs. Issue Tracking
US: Not your phone, is our phone.
What Russian tech have you ever used?
SEC 8-K filing: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1801169/000110465920...
Try diagramming that sentence. (base: "I behold pledges") Even just the last few words of that sentence:

... exemplified by
all the attributes
which can
win the affections
of its Citizens, and
command the respect
of the world.

have more structure than the pair of sentences:

On @foxandfriends
Now

Enjoy
Not the oldest still functioning light. But the oldest in normal use - there are older bulbs in museums that are turned on for special occasions (by experts doing their best to ensure it won't burn out). This bulb is installed and used as a bulb. (though mostly it is there as a historical element - modern bulbs produce more light and would have replaced it if there wasn't a historical reason to keep it around)
Mizu gateway also does the job:

https://www.mizu-voip.com/Software/WebRTCtoSIP.aspx

It has a nice config wizard and built-in STUN and TURN server.
Yep, and the Year of the Linux Desktop is just around the corner too...
I find it lesser evil. On one side it’s hidden analytics but on the other hand I find it much more superior to cookies that I carry around and which a lot of different entities can track.

I do find way of voting on this matter very interesting. Parsing the logs to get the results - how amusingly nerdy!
It really depends on the purpose IMO. If you are cross matching that data from other sources to track, it is "evil" (in the sense of people describe tracking people, I personally don't care). If you are using it for your own statistics (how many people visited where, screen sizes, duration, where they scrolled at etc.) I don't see any issue there.
"They will be 1 1/2 to 2 nautical miles away from the leading aircraft, and slightly offset, which means they are on the side of the vortex. It's no longer the vortex, it's the smooth current of rotating air which is next to the vortex, and we use the updraft of this air." Taking advantage of the free lift in this updraft of air is called "wake-energy retrieval." ... on long-haul flights, fuel savings of between 5% and 10% may be achieved, "which is an enormous number."
I bought a cheap £20 windows tablet from ebay(an old Tesco Connect 8 tablet), put windows 10 on it, and now I can seamlessly connect it as a second screen from anywhere, the windows "remote screen" feature is incredible for that. With 2 clicks it shows up as a regular secondary monitor that I can just drag things onto.
I can not put into words how ill-informed you are.
I completely disagree.

qBittorrent may be a decent software, but the older uTorrent is a true masterpiece of engineering and design. Incredible fit and finish with zero operational problems. So why would I want to throw away a Porsche and switch to some Civic?

Once BTv2 arrives and gets more or less decent adoption, then, yeah, we may need to find a replacement. Until then switching will not solve any problems... because there aren't any.
Show HN: Scraping song metadata from Jango Radio API
Not true at all - EU does make things simpler but it's still very different legal systems, currencies and even languages.
Meanwhile, in Africa. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/sep/03/a...

"Child marriage in the country has increased during coronavirus – and now a newly-tabled bill would allow children as young as 10 to marry"
> But isn't it dangerous? How does it know you re not preloading the "please delete everything" link?

As a sibling comment points out, if it's possible for someone to delete everything via a link, your users have already lost. Someone could, e.g., trick your users into loading an IMG tag or an IFRAME pointing to that page, or give them a shortened URL that redirects to your "delete everything" page.

GET requests should never have side effects.
I don't do marketing.

Coding doesn't matter.

https://jango-index.ml/src/
https://xkcd.com/2347/
The same is true of the game of basketball, which was invented by a Canadian (James Naismith) in Massachusetts in 1891.
Xee3 image viewer on Mac (https://theunarchiver.com/xee).
Hasn't updated in 3 years.
Meanwhile, in Sao Paulo we are getting to 34C (93F) every day, and even the nights have been extremely warm. And here at the southern hemisphere it's winter now.
"The company is hoping that considering people already come to YouTube for short video entertainment, Shorts will be another way to keep people on the site longer and get both existing and new creators to continue uploading."

But the content creators with the most subscribers and the most views are the ones with longer, well produced videos. Not sure if people who come to the site to consume longer videos will appreciate 15-second short videos as well
I use bc. There's only so much you can add to it.

I also think programmers should try to finish the software they write. https://gavinhoward.com/2019/11/finishing-software/
I'm a believer that these kind of issues should be solved at the consumers end.

I haven't built a web browser, but I built a bot and it's somewhat doable to avoid getting tracked.

A browser could feed a fake user agent and format the browser to be the correct size. After that I believe it's only IP address and cookies which are easy enough to be blocked.

It even defeats the CSS tracking mentioned. "Oh someone downloaded image 6374tracker.png, but they were from UAE and are using Firefox" and are never seen again.

My only weakness on this subject is the low level headers, anyone familiar?
Modern transistors are rather small and would desintegrate at too high temperatures. Not much you can do about it at those scales, any material will decompose.
Of course. The topic at hand, though, is browsers executing untrusted scripts. A wise attacker will leave the rest of the site intact to make the deface less noticeable.

Defacing capability can be used to change the integrity hash—how it appears to the users (other developers) in snippets—to match maliciously modified script, making it trusted.

End developers using this library would thus, at their own accord, include URL to altered script and its hash in their pages by copy-pasting a snippet from the defaced landing page, satisfying browser integrity checks.

A subtle change like that is unlikely to be noticed by end developers, who would have to count on library site maintainers to have mechanisms in place to notice such an attack promptly and (perhaps more importantly) to not suppress the news about the incident.
Yeah, better to say that TeX is (nearly) finished, with LaTeX still a roiling mass atop it.
At least in terms of charging my USB-C devices the experience has been good for me. I know I can carry a single charger (ie: my Dell 100W USB-C charger) when travelling and it will charge my cellphone and Nintendo Switch as well.
Show HN: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant Book
square root, or indeed all non-integer powers, would be handy

> Runtime warning (func=(main), adr=9): non-zero scale in exponent
> According to Wikipedia[1] there was one update in Windows XP 17 years ago, then that one two years ago... that seems pretty much like 'done' to me

That's not really how I read the linked Wikipedia article. It says:

> Notepad was added to the Microsoft Store in August 2019… [and will be] receiving updates through the Microsoft Store. This will allow updates to the app to be delivered more frequently.

I read that as indicating that development is ongoing.
Any vaccine arriving in the near term must be based on a fraud. Any improvement in treatment is insufficient. There cannot be an end to the coronavirus crisis unless it has an indefinite schedule.

We must continue to quarantine. Safety before anything else.
OpenStreetMap Gutenberg block and rethinking the UX of adding locations
Top App Designs of the Week #14
Just noted down your requirement in my Apple Notes, I think I will take a look at it later while render and editing PDF forms.

These kinds of comments are what i am looking for, thank you.
For some strange reason I've had 2 Dragon 32 PSU's in my cupboard for years -alas no Dragon32 - if you cover the postage you can have one if you want?

(Sorry I know that seems tight but I'm out of work right now).

p.s. They are D plugs.. look like female joystick ports..
Why would I want adapters with fake UL marks? The adapter is a very small amount of the cost.
In the words of Thomas Sowell, “virtually any belief, about almost anything, can be shown to be wrong if stated in a sufficiently simple-minded way.”

You’ve stated the paper’s thesis in a very simple-minded way, so your argument means little.
Everyone I know here in Europe thought Nokia was dead when MS bought it.
define p(x, y) {
return e(y*l(x))
}

You can also use #! to load libraries.
Would USA have had to request extradition before he reached Sweden? I would guess not. Makes sense they would not reveal that intention before, if possible. You say they secretly submitted such request, and I don't know what that fully means, but how would there be evidence if it is secret?

I mean, can we know there wasn't a secret request in play, or one intended to be issued? Their later actual (even secret? Leaked?) request certainly validates the concern, no?
does uTorrent support bittorrent v2?
Definitely felt that while writing the post. So I don't plan to use this approach.

Just like JS-based analytics I don't think most users would object heavily to someone trying to differentiate them from non-interactive bot traffic to get an idea of whether they have any real readers or just bots. But I'm absolutely certain that there are people who will not concede any analysis of the visitor's agent capabilities and behavior as legitimate. The browser sets one boundary, general public another, privacy advocates another.

I personally try to err on the side of minimal analytics. But the default idea for people creating sites tends to be that Google Analytics is "fine" and something more privacy-oriented like Plausible or Fathom are the good/ethical option. I'm not sold on that though I'm glad that there are options that are less bad. I doubt most businesses won't throw analytics out entirely but they might be willing to pick something with a better ethics profile.
Intelligence and Investigation Talent Moves (15 September)
I'd like to clarify a little...
With hosting your own, I don't necessarily mean running your own physical server, although that is surely possible. Heck some people run their blog on their raspberry pi.
Netlify is a pretty great service. But if your use case is merely a simple static website, and nothing fancy. Your hosting doesn't need to be either.

Merely pointing out having websites distributed, and not freely at one huge vendor leaves me thinking I'm glad I don't put all my eggs in the same basket.
Not quite. Neanderthals were less social than us. They had bigger heads and bigger brains, so arguably, they could have been more intelligent than us. The problem for Neanderthals was that they could only trust and bond with a dozen or so others, whereas humans could thrive in societies as large as hundreds. There's some speculation as to why this is the case, but one reason may be that we were able to gossip about one another and remember more individuals, thus our trust network was bigger, and thus we could coordinate large scale hunts / attacks, and this is potentially why we could have overwhelmed Neanderthals despite their bigger size and bigger brains. I got a lot of this from the book Sapiens, as well as others, so I don't know exactly how 'up-to-date' this information is.
The headline poses an easy question - as the article notes, between Epstien and the occasional Catholic Church scandal it looks like there are some very powerful people around the world who are, bluntly, pedophiles.

Given the lists of names involved, it is safe to assume some sort of conspiracy is going on. The rumours are fabricated and not plausible, but there is a real kernel of truth to them.

Pedophilia conspiracies are up there with "Government spying on everyone!" as quite likely a fact as some level, even if nobody can point to any specific evidence. It probably isn't that sprawling but really who knows once the billionaires and politicians get involved. It is plausible, the pedophiles have the motive, there is circumstantial evidence. Prince Andrew appears to still be in the naughty corner at the moment.
Zambian Troops Praised
Runtime error (func=pow, adr=6): Function l not defined.
Totally, I loved the combination of Impression Style and Artworks.
Skim PDF reader https://skim-app.sourceforge.io . Some macOS update made Preview refuse to search within old PDFs. Skim still will.