skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have an old 2004 toyota. If I let go of the wheel, it'll drive itself for a bit before I either crash or retake control. I never realized it had FSD. Full self driving means the car drives itself fully.
> (Conversely, if Safari refuses to implement some alleged 'feature', it becomes much less useful even if Chrome does implement it.)

Ah yes... such as push notifications. Firebase would be so much more useful if Safari supported push notifications...
P2P social network, running on browser. Don't need membership
FoxQL is a social network that runs on your browser as peer to peer. It does not require any setup or registration

There is no magement stuff for checking the content. Users can decide which topics and content will stay in foxql cycle

How to use?

Decide the content that you would like to share with people. Then just clone the content via voting. That's all!

Why yo should use it?

* Fully transparent
* Fully open source
* Full-control is totally hands on the community
Apparently not, since we're reading about it! ;)
yea around when they unconditionally started showing ads in all videos, it seems they always end up with 3 or 4 minimum too. awful really
It is public knowledge that US intelligence agencies actually just hijack computers and equipment on their way to the customer and install hardware backdoors there (Snowden et al., 2014).

It is also known that they have had backdoors in commercial systems as they came off the shelf, but I think usually those were CIA owned and controlled companies like the crypto AG phones.

What is unknown (pure speculation) is whether, for example, Intel CPUs come backdoored straight from the factory floor? On the one hand, that would be a powerful capability to have, but on the other hand, the risk of exposure and subsequent damage to the US economy, prestige, etc. would be non-zero. So it's hard (for a plebian like me, anyway) to estimate how those costs/benefits might be weighed up by the US government.
Since it’s Friday:

https://youtu.be/Ce_WVSTgFJU
My wife took private student loans, which at the time were forgivable in bankruptcy, as a hedge against future financial issues. She accepted a higher interest rate to account for that.

… then the federal government retroactively made them non-dischargeable.

I mention this to highlight that changes in the regulatory environment don’t always favor the borrower, nor are there always concessions made to limit harm to the injured party.
The network folder & file server at least doesn't have an advertising business model incentivized to snoop on people.
Ultimately however you connect to the internet it’s via someone else who can choose to cut you off.
That's nothing compared to Duke Nukem Forever... and it looks like it's going to come out. real. soon. now! (not holding my breath though): https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598858095/system-shock...
You heard it here - with this enforcement action, bitcoin is now safe.
I’ve lived and driven in cities my entire life. If I was a police officer and saw any single event captured in that video I’d keep my eye on the vehicle. The vehicle in that video repeatedly followed up questionable activity with additional questionable activity. It was inexcusable reckless driving. As a human I have zero doubt that many combinations of events in that video would have resulted in my being pulled over and potentially fined. That the driver in the video wasn’t pulled over was simply luck that there were few (1 to my count) police in his proximity. But the video was publicly broadcast and the human is ultimately responsible for the activity of the vehicle they control. So that driver should be fined.
I found this story interesting, largely because of the parallels to today. Scott Atlas to me is clearly cut from the same clothe as Trofim Lysenko, and the use of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin for Covid are the modern-day equivalent of Lysenkoism. I always wonder if these people are smart and know what they're spouting is bullshit, or just too stupid to realize it. In the end, it probably doesn't matter, the outcome is the same.
It seems to be either overly cautious and just frozen in place, or "I'm gonna get myself t-boned", no middle ground in between.
Omnifmt – pretty-printer wrapper to facilitate formatting during development
It would also drain the battery of any phone you forget to switch to wifi-only. Most phones, when dealing with tenuous or absent xG signal, will try harder and harder to transmit.
In some ways games of this period are similar to the movies of the 1920s and 30s, before genres had ossified into their more rigid modern forms. In the same way that you'll find the plot of a 30s movie moving strangely between murder mystery, horror, and gangster drama, there are 80s and 90s games that combine two or more oddly disparate genres in fascinating ways.

A good example is the game MEAN STREETS (1989), which is both a point-and-click detective adventure game and a full flight simulator as you move between locations.
What do you mean by "useful"? I've been using Safari exclusively for years now and the lack of push notifications hasn't been a problem. It's actually good because it shields me from all kinds of shitty websites demanding notification permissions while having no good reason to send any.
This is why, despite it being monopolistic, I hope Apple can continue their requirement on using Safari's rendering engine on iOS. It's the sole remaining defense against a far worse monopoly. Neither the Mozilla nor Edge teams have the backbone to resist Google's web platform initiatives.
Just download xbar, install some plugins through the included plugin browser, and check the source code. It's incredibly easy.

If you can echo something in a shell script you can echo it in the menu bar.
There's a saying in software, you throw away the first version. The main idea is that when you start on something, you don't know what you don't know. The labor of the first version allows you to learn the domain, the limits, edge cases, and what you need to do. Then the second version starts on a much better foundation.

At this point, many teams (Waymo, Tesla, Uber, etc.) have been working on this for years. And there must have been times when the engineers thought, this would work so much better if only... Maybe it's time to gather these thoughts and sort them by low effort/high reward. For example, if all cars had a cheap sticker indicating forward vs back, would that improve self-driving performance by a lot? It wouldn't be that hard to get car manufacturers to add a sticker somewhere. Or what about traffic lights? Maybe adding a cheap light or sensor to it would vastly improve self-driving performance. Or those road reflectors, can they get some minor changes to help the self-driving software?

It doesn't seem likely that level 5 or even level 4 will happen when self-driving is literally defined as replacing what a human driver would do. But what if the computer had some help from both infrastructure and other vehicles? Why not start thinking about cheap changes that can be implemented to fix the blind spots and flaws in the self-driving software? If these changes are cheap and easy to implement and would vastly improve the software performance, isn't that worth it for true self-driving to work?
I am optimistic about it. I think the frustration with the situation will keep building, until it reaches a point when developers have had enough, and things start rapidly improving again.

I think the software world is large and complex enough for these cycles to take a while, but it's very much a case of the old saying:

Bad software creates strong developers, strong developers create good software, good software creates weak developers, weak developers create bad software.

This pattern comes in macro and micro cycles. A good example of the micro cycle can be observed in Windows releases, which generally have alternated between solid and weak starting with 3.1 (counting 95b and 98b as separate releases from 95a and 98a.)

The macro cycle seems to take much longer, and we're just now starting to swing the other way.

The beauty of the software world, as this article illustrates, is that it's feasible to freeze your environment at a good place and keep it there until the next solid software cycle.

It's not possible with everything, but I've found that if I stick to either FOSS or emulated abandonware, I am in a pretty good place. I've abandoned Apple and Windows except for testing, and am very happy for it.
What you don't say is that NASA was uber expensive in their innovation, with things like not using common CPUs because they were not well tested. And nobody takes risks there anymore.

The difference between SpaceX and NASA is mainly that SpaceX cares about cost.

Or we can say that NASA has incentives to absurdly increase cost, like any bureaucracy.

There is no way the DC-X could have been developed without increasing enormously the budget (and taxes from Americans). That was the reason it was not done.
This is anecdata, so take it for what you will, but when my ex-wife needed ECT it was literally a last ditch effort because she refused to return to the hospital. It stabilized her for sure, but the effect was definitely temporary and we had to discontinue the course early because of side effects.

While waiting for the procedure I did get to know a lot of the patients and their families. There were a few people who seemed to be getting markedly better. There was also a woman with a brain injury and she claimed the ECT kept her mentally afloat for a few months, until she needed it again. The thing that helped my ex much more ended up being ketamine infusions, but even that has some risks.

This is just my experience. I don't know that there's a whole lot to learn from it, but I do know that for some patients it worked, though it's definitely not the permanent fix I've heard people claim it is.
Precisely. The impression I got from the video was the car was way more cautious, even more courteous than an overly cautious human drivers would be. It definitely fucked up, but if we define "better" as driving exactly like a skilled human driver, then I expect it to kill exactly as many people as we do.

The counter-intuitive advice people are given for things like an animal suddenly leaping into the road is to just hit it, because slamming on the breaks can and has lead to the car's occupants dying for the sake of a squirrel.

What do we expect a self driving car to do in that situation? Just imagine the outrage and headlines if a Tesla does what humans are told to do, and kills a dog or cat!
Well, Safari and Chrome being the two giants in the room mean they also keep each other in check.

Safari may support Face ID and Touch ID, but I doubt it would be in anybody else's best interest to also support it.

Not that it matters anyway, since on iOS they all use Safari...
This is going to be a controversial statement, but in their prime, CiA had the best artists.
Sounds like a real life reenactment of I am legend.
> Edge teams

What happened with Edge? I've been out of the loop with MS stuff for years, and last I heard you had to select a browser in the EU or something, but was this also made mandatory worldwide?

I'd imagine still being bundled with Windows means their usage is not insignificant...
This seems like yet another thing on the list of “x86 hardware issues that sound worse than they are”.

I’m interested to see what people are able to reverse engineer with these sorts of tools. It wasn’t even that long ago that ucode wasn’t even encrypted with integrity. I don’t think AMD started doing that until around 2010.

I’m also curious which hardware versions this works on, since it’s not obvious it’s universal. I’ll be amused if it’s some forlorn low power chip from 10 years ago.
Alternate/hacked YouTube apps exist that you can install on your TV that won't show ads...

Also, if you cast stuff to the TV, you only need a modded version of YouTube on your phone - you don't need to make any changes to the TV.
I don't know. It's Windows vs Linux all over; I think Open is better, but Intel has never (AFAIK) pretended to do that. If a customer knows "Intel/Microsoft controls this", I personally feel like that's an acceptable tradeoff. And for people who find that unacceptable, there's Debian on POWER9. But if you're picking Intel, it's not like these opcodes change anything; we already have ME sitting there controlling the machine.
Yes, not so smart now…

Edit: However I do marvel at the infrastructure in place to support this, even at scale it can’t be cheap.
Linus Torvalds on how AMD, Intel are changing how interrupts are handled
What bugged me about that blog post is that if we go by her logic, she shouldn’t be writing about Mexicans either. She’s an American with Mexican heritage. She should only write about chicanos and that’s it.

It’s like how only Americans identify as latinx.
I'd say it's a virtual machine employing emulation, just different vernacular.
I use this javascript bookmarklet to remove sticky headers/footers/popups:

https://github.com/t-mart/kill-sticky
As an example of this: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/iter/index.html#for-loo...
Or, if you already use uBlock Origin and would rather use its performant, customizable, extensible filtering capabilities instead of adding (and trusting!) yet another addon, just check the "EasyList Cookie" list in your Filter Lists :) .
Depends on the language.

In Java, you have to explicitly mark a class as conforming to an interface inside the class's declaration. You need to have the source and modify it.

In Haskell, you mark a type as conforming to an interface (called typeclass) by adding functions that operate on its instances and implement the interface's requirements. You can do it anywhere, and write an implementation for an existing type, which is normal practice.

In Python, you cannot easily add interface conformance, but possibly you can make a trivial subclass of the desired class, and mark it as conforming to the desired interface (Protocol), without modifying the source.
Too bad this is only available on a operating system that spies on its users.

(Sorry Apple fans, it does and while their marketing tries to hide it as much as possible, their privacy policies don't lie : https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww/)

It's funny how quickly one can get downvoted for criticizing Apple's misleading marketing. Apple is a data hoarding company like every others, and no “not being worse than their competitors” isn't good enough.
Go around might be the only option available to you if you don’t want to quit your job. I have been lucky enough to experience only a few difficult co-workers in my career but a few of them were toxic beyond belief. And not even “rationally toxic” as in doing it to further their own interests (they would regularly sabotage themselves on top of sabotaging everybody else).
From their profile:

> Co-Founder of NodeBB Inc., modern forum software for the modern web.

So I assume they want notifications for forum software.
Newpipe on Shield TV.
> Ah yes... such as push notifications. Firebase would be so much more useful if Safari supported push notifications...

All part of Apple's plans to enforce their one and only apps store for use on the iOS platform. Wouldn't want those pesky webapps being able to sidestep Apple's walled garden.
It's a company trying to make a profit. Why is this on the front page?
or their phones
These are good questions. I might even say...a mini...questionnaire?

Seriously speaking - you bring up some interesting questions.
I used our tool to respond to your questions, because I think it helps illustrate the point (see link below)

https://www.loom.com/share/22ccb2188c3744cd82f17baa31cfb2e9
Edge is now just a rebranded Chromium, and Microsoft's approach with Windows 10 suggests they are betting big on advertising and the "attention economy" thus very unlikely to push towards privacy protection.
Edge is now a Chromium fork
I think the parent is referring to the fact that MS abandoned their browser engine and Edge is now running on Chromium as of Jan 2020.
I do not dispute that you can use this in your app, my issue is with the server knowing about it (as it is in the demo here) and everything the server can call back from the client. It is not about airgapping but about realizing that current browsers can exfiltrate basically anything.

Your JS app wants to compute the amount of threads it can use on a client, that's great. If your JS app can calculate me switching browsers and using independent websites and their usage, that's cool. Why would you send that back to your server though?

If you do not think that current browser implementations have an issue with the amount of fingerprinting they can do, that is up to you as well. I think that the amount fingerprinting is at the very least difficult though. It is not about building native apps, it is about the amount of information that is send back. Or I'm drunk at this point and should go to sleep, I think I'm done in any case. Sorry about being an ass.
Edge is now a Chromium fork, and is headed by an ex-Googler who cheerfully me-toos every Google web agenda. It's sole purpose is to be a Chrome browser that connects to Microsoft accounts and hence can integrate with Microsoft's enterprise tools.

Despite enterprise teams already finding Chrome's six week release cycle tedious, Microsoft immediately followed Chrome to announcing their four week cycle in the last week, and Edge also failed to protect ad blocking by rejecting the Manifest V3 changes for browser extensions designed to cripple ad blockers.

Basically, at any opportunity Microsoft has had to differentiate itself, it has decided to just do what Google does.
Awesome guy. I emailed him back in the day asking advice about becoming a developer while I was in high school and what he recommended learning.

He answered everything and even gave me some tips/hacks about using the 3D level editor.
How much privacy should we give up for security?
What villainy?

The terms are clear, the real issue is how many people take on such massive debt without reading the terms or having a plan other than "it will work out."
Indeed! Although in our implementation it's entirely opt-in (we don't request the permission access unless the user asks us to).

It's just entirely broken on iOS, but them's the breaks.
How does the extensions work. Does it have a hardcoded database with an entry for each website?
How dare Rafael Reif try to play the race card on the recent shootings in Atlanta.

The shooter has made it clear to law enforcement that his only motive was to "remove the temptation" that these largely Asian-staffed massage parlors were creating for this self-identified sex-addict.

In which case, what Rafael is really angry about here is that folks in the sex-trafficking industry were the real target of this attack, because Rafael, along with so many of his "woke" colleagues at places like MIT and Harvard University, are huge supporters of the sex-trafficking industry, because they believe that it "empowers" women.

Let's remember that Rafael Reif sent a personally signed thank-you note for a lousy $800,000 donation to the MIT Media Lab to one of the most notorious sex-traffickers in US history: good ol' Jeffrey Epstein!

The targeted killing of a dissident journalist by one of Jeffrey's best friends, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, didn't prevent Rafael from taking a million or two from that assassin either. Neither did it prompt him to write a letter to the community about the need to respect free speech and other basic human rights.

But kill anyone working within the sex-trafficking industry ... well, that deserves a letter decrying "racism" that needs to be distributed through sites like Hacker News.

Of course the sex-trafficking that Mr. Reif values the most is not happening inside seedy side-of-the-road massage parlors, but rather inside five-star hotels, for example in Kendall Square located in MIT's own backyard, where so-called "sugar-babies" meet up with middle-aged professionals (which reportedly includes plenty of university professors from universities that charge $50,000/yr. tuitions) to provide them with sexual "favors" in exchange for the "allowances" and other gifts that they receive as part of their "arrangement."

The biggest name in the college-based sex-trafficking industry, SeekingArrangment.com, was started by none other than MIT Sloan School of Management graduate Brandon Wade, who like Mr. Epstein, is one of MIT's wealthiest donors.

Wade, who is worth over $50 million today, claims more than 5 million sugar-babies are currently available "for hire" on his website alone, in an industry that has now reached an estimated 30 million worldwide.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/5/20/sugar-baby-univ...

According to this article, the primary reason why most young college girls are signing up to sell "sugar" (also known as their "body" ... conveniently disguised on Wade's web site as their "companionship") to their middle-aged male counterparts is to help cover the salaries of overpaid university administrators like Rafael Reif and the minions with whom he surrounds himself, like MIT ICEO John Dozier, as well as his predecessor, Susan Hockfield, who reportedly continues to receive $700,000 per year from MIT as part of her settlement after "unexpectedly" stepping down as the former president of MIT ... for reasons officially "still unknown" :)
Text replacement also works in iOS - and they're automatically synced between all your devices. Very nifty!
That's a very long document, which bits are questionable?
500 error on GET https://clickclickclick.click/bundle.js
I would love to work with the author of the website. He/she/it clearly has great observational skills and try to see the world as it is.
> (Conversely, if Safari refuses to implement some alleged 'feature', it becomes much less useful even if Chrome does implement it.)

The fact that Apple refuses to implement basic features in mobile Safari that Firefox and Chrome have had for years now, and the fact that they refuse to allow other browser engines on iOS is the reason why we can't have nice things like progressive web apps.

I recently worked on a health app related to the COVID pandemic. The most common use case would be served really well by a PWA, and as such, there's no reason users would need to install an app on their phones to access the web app's full set of features.

Despite the web app working perfectly on Android and across Windows, Linux and macOS without native integration, we now must dedicate time and resources to develop an additional iOS app just so iOS users, which over half of Americans are, aren't left out.

This is an expensive endeavor time-wise and money-wise, during a pandemic where time is of the essence and resources are stretched thin. It shouldn't be this way, but it is.
That's something I hadn't thought about. It makes sense. We hold drivers accountable, who do we hold accountable if it's partially self driven, but the driver is supposed to be ultimately responsible?

A lawyer would say Tesla, because $, but at least at this point I would still claim the driver is. Especially with 'beta' in the software title, where they're explicitly told to pay attention and take control.

I don't envy car manufactures working on this. They're facing exactly the same battle that Ford did when the 'horseless carriage' was becoming popular. We knew then that humans are honestly speaking, terrible drivers who frequently get distracted, or lose control of the vehicle.

Just look at the newspaper articles from those days: https://pessimists.co/horseless-carriage-archive/

Stanford banned them!

I expect self-driving to follow exactly the same course that horseless carriages did, to have heavy early resistance and lots of bad incidents, then acceptance, then be utterly commonplace. With the same track record of decreasing accidents and increasingly safety measures over time and eventually cease to even be a controversy.
Did they release specs so that customer could build their own ME to manage the CPU? That would be interesting.