skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can anyone recommend a similar service that provides true high-quality video chat functionality on par with FaceTime but not requiring Apple hardware (but still easily usable on mobile)?

We're looking for such a service for use in developing countries where iPhones are rare and connectivity is often mediocre at best.

Tests with the like of Telegram, Duo and others have been okay-ish for voice-only calls but pretty bad for video. Mostly because of lack of Apple hardware on the other end we are until now unable to conduct any comparative tests to see whether FaceTime would outperform these apps in terms of quality and stability.
Optional doesn't give you that automatically. In C++, you can happily dereference a std::optional without checking it.
Peoples goodwill and trust towards Apple used to be overwhelming and viral on hn and in privacy communities. I don’t think that’s as easy to get back as people are saying - what they had was rare and powerful
What does CSAM have to do with anti-trust suits?
I would argue the average human driver is actually a good driver. People argue that Tesla training their system to mimic a human driver is a bad idea because then it will replicate bad human driver behavior, but the fact is that human drivers don’t end up killing themselves or others the vast, vast majority of the time. George Hotz of Comma.ai brought up an interesting point about this on one of his Lex Fridman podcast appearances. He said from the driving data they’ve gathered, it seems that average drivers are good in the same ways, while especially bad drivers are bad in unique ways. The result is that the bad driver behavior in the data is pretty much overwhelmed and washed out by the abundance of good driver behavior in the data. Add to this the fact that self-driving systems still have things like automatic emergency braking, and I’d say you’ve got a pretty safe driver.
hooks are amazing, wtf
I can't speak for Peru specifically, but natural ecosystems play a huge role in absorbing and holding on to rain water, ensuring it doesn't all just flow back into the sea. This has been known for ages - I remember a friend who did environmental sciences telling me stories of cities in developing countries that cut all the nearby forests and as a side-effect also ruined their water supply.

So with that in mind I'm a bit surprised at the skepticism on display here.
I used Deezer for https://audile.app and have been really happy.
Prefer to avoid snaps too. First time I'm hearing of dehydrated. I've dabbled a bit with acme.sh too and it's good (can do ECC certs and it's a single shell script).
Hmm, what are your thoughts on the Compose format (that's used in Docker Compose and Docker Swarm)?

I agree that the format Kubernetes uses is probably a bit overcomplicated, which is why I've also sometimes used the aforementioned Compose format with tools like Kompose to save some of my time.

In that regard, it's perhaps not the fault of YAML itself (even though the format has its own complexity problems), but rather of the tool using it.

What personally keeps me away from HCL for the most part is the fact that a lot of the time you can find Compose files for various pieces of software online and only have to change some parameters for the most part to get stuff running vs having to rewrite all of it in a different format.

Are there any Compose to HCL tools out there yet?
Ovations I could live with, it's the crying fests that kill me. I initially appreciated Discovery getting more serious about emotional life of the crew, particularly around traumatic events - but Burnham is overdoing it in an immersion-breaking way.
My background is in complex systems physics. Surprisingly, a lot of the work in this area (and most of my own work) revolves around using graph theory and data science to study problems in fields, ranging from epidemiology, linguistics, social and political science, information diffusion, social interactions, etc.

Earlier this year I started a substack where I work through some of the ideas and algorithms using real world datasets: http://graphs4sci.substack.com/
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Somebody has to write the grant proposal. That's the person who will excel the quickest, regardless for talent in the underlying discipline.
I live on the second floor. If I am not expecting anything ( delivery, somebody with an appointment ) I am not answering the door.

No drama.
most of the claims about "mostest" in this article aren't correct
Patent holders are still largely white, male and wealthy, research shows
Yeah and FYI it is not my position on the issue and adding because I found the thread curious.

I just can’t even begin to imagine what a gigantic company like Apple’s real government relations are like however.
This might be a good time to discuss whether payment processors should have the ability to restrict legal trades (CP is a few bad apples). This applies to things like sex work and porn but also censorship of political views.

I think it's stupid to pay for porn when there's so much available for free but who am I to judge what people do with their money and body as long as it's consensual adults? Plus if we are to enjoy the free stuff, we also gotta make sure the content creators get paid. Cuties was allowed but onlyfans isn't okay?

Also this tweet thread doesn't seem honest imo. It seems more like a political attack against christians. The author wants to lump all christians as one but doesn't want that to be done to all sex workers? As someone who's lived in both Hindu and Muslim majority country, the whole anti sex work and anti porn thing isn't a Christian exclusive thing. Anecdotal but my Christian side of friends and family are very tolerant of gay and porn unlike my Hindu and Muslim ones back home.

The Tweet author thinks Nick Kristof is right wing? I can't take this thread seriously if the author can be so blatantly wrong for political purposes.
I am more of a fan of solar geoengineering, particularly building a chemical factory on a carbonaceous chondrite asteroid, blowing big plastic sheets, coating them with metal or carbon, then sailing them to Earth-Moon L1.

That project might have $800B left over if you gave me $1T to start. Big questions are: do you send humans (maybe 50 of them) or do you make the system autonomous enough that a 20 minute time lag to communicate with the factory factory doesn't slow down development?
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Re-thinking them in real time is good for you, and a much better exercise than memorizing them.

To remember notions, a necessary but less noble capacity, we have invented tools well past the Memex. To be "smart", not yet.
By the same token we should shut down the internet, the USD and also credit cards because CP use them.

CP also breath air, time to make it illegal?

There is no point foregoing privacy if authorities don't even try to precisely target bad actors but decide to nuke the whole area with a 100 Megaton Tsar Atomic Bomb instead
You mean biggest fraud? Tesla Bot of course
The newly announced Tesla humanoid bot is around 2:05:11. Expected prototype in 2022.

The demo was an obvious troll but it looks pretty exciting. I'd rather have resources put into actual innovation than learning how to increase the likelihood someone will click a button by 0.01%

https://youtu.be/j0z4FweCy4M?t=7511
Well yes, but why should a company like nVidia or AMD make a driver for an OS with a user base that's a rounding error?

Even if they just release all the information required to make one, you still need the labor to write the drivers.

I think what parent is really asking is if there is something like rump kernels[0] for GPU.

[0] is this even a thing anymore? rumpkernel.org seems to have become a generic IT news aggregator.
It’s the most sane client and should’ve been a standard one.
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Because the objective of a 'headline' is to get people to continue reading, essentially it's clickbait. Which descriptive choice gets more notice and is more likely to provoke continued reading "two women" or "Two Bored...Housewives"?
The payment processors banned MindGeek soon after that NYT article. Do you think that was a coincidence? MasterCard's new rules appear to be a direct response to the concerns the article raised. Is that coincidental?
Yes, I just wanted to briefly highlight one specific problem (fertilizer), but indeed there are many more problems leading to the biodiversity crisis; soil turning being just another piece of the puzzle.

And the way it gets typcially used in agro-industry does in turn have even more negative consequences then what you mention (which as far as I'm aware is correct); erosion for instance is getting a serious problem in some places. Combined with heavy sustained percipation in areas which don't usually see that (also as a result of climate change) it can lead to the complete topsoil just flooding away. And then more fertilizer is needed to make the land useful again, while the part which flooded away is fertlizing/polluting downstream areas. And so on, and so on. There's quite a lot of these chains/cycles all contrbuting to, in the most pessimistic view, a man-made complete downgrade of the whole planet.
How far away is crypto from being a viable alternative payment processor? The problems I see are the translation layer between fiat and crypto, the fluctuation of value of tokens, the long confirmation process of many tokens, the environmental impact, and the physical infrastructure (atms, etc). Each individual problems seems solvable, and it would be a significant historical event if banking was moved to these decentralized platforms.
The most concerning source of nitrous oxide isn't even mentioned in the article and that's the thawing of the permafrost.

Thawing permafrost is releasing massive amounts of CO2, Methane, and Nitrous Oxide, and the thawing permafrost is locked into a positive feedback loop, the warmer it gets the more the permafrost thaws, the more greenhouse gases get released, causing it to get warmer.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/06/harvard-chemi...

Positive feedback loops keep running until they exhaust their energy source, which in this case is locked up greenhouse gases in the frozen permafrost. The permafrost sequesters about double the amount of greenhouse gases that is currently in the atmosphere. 24% of the landmass of the northern hemisphere is permafrost, and it's also the areas of the world that are warming the fastest.

Let's also not talk about phytoplankton populations, which account for 50-80% of all the oxygen in the atmosphere, their population is declining due to ocean warming and acidification. When that population crashes, it will not only impact the oxygen levels in the atmosphere, but phytoplankton are the basis for the entire marine food chain, which 40% of all humans rely on for their main source of protein.

Melting glaciers, thawing permafrost, warming oceans, acidification of the oceans, phytoplankton population decline, these are all positive feedback loops that have started due to human's releasing greenhouse gases. In 10-15 years the thawing permafrost will be outputting about the same amount of greenhouse gases as humans output, it won't be the same mix of chemicals, but it will have the same impact on warming.

Unless someone invents a technology that can capture and sequester abut 45 Billion metric tonnes per year of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere the positive feedback loops will keep chugging along. Unfortunately we only have until the phytoplankton population crashes to invent the greenhouse gases capture and sequestor technology, because once that population crashes and the associated oxygen they create crash, life on the surface of the earth for creatures that need oxygen will become untenable.
Anecdotally the Uber app has gotten a lot more buggy in the past year or so for me. Not to mention the increased cost + waiting time ( though those might not be just engineering related)
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> "but they are primarily repackaging and improving technologies that already exist."

Did you mean: they are innovating? IMO there's not enough appreciation for getting to commodification and scaling the existing tech. It's a very difficult problem, from what I understand.

> I'm dismissive because building a useful, mass-market humanoid robot would be an achievement of incredible magnitude

Agreed. But they don't have to start with "mass-market humanoid robot", there are 1000s of niches where then can execute "land and expand" strategy. Same playbook as with Tesla or SpaceX: start with something niche (sport car for rich people/gov contracts), iterate to expand ($30k EV/satellite internet everywhere).
Previous discussion from 13 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28240882
To add to your point #1: I recently transitioned to one meal a day in concert with a very minimal/maintenance strength building routine, of the kind others have described here. The combination has made a huge difference. I'm much leaner and more fit than I've been since my 30s.

Obviously the trick is making smart choices about that one meal, which isn't as difficult as I thought it might be.
"So why the rule changes? Because last December the New York Times published an opinion piece by Nick Kristof caller “The Children of Pornhub” that accused the site and its parent company of profiting off revenge porn, child porn and sex trafficking....which, to be clear, they kinda were."

Kinda, huh? Of course the more important point, according the thread's author, is that:

"Kristof’s story might have been correct on some of PornHub’s abuses but it was deeply manipulative and painfully wrongheaded about sex trafficking in porn and, like almost anything he writes about sex, a filtered version of Christian dominionist propaganda"

Sure, okay. In the future maybe these sites shouldn't sexually exploit children. Then they won't be exposed to such right-wing attacks.
Huh, I naively expected constants to be loaded similar to 32-bit arm, where usually they come from a table of constants placed just after the function code itself. But both clang and gcc emit a series of mov + 3 movk for arbitrary constants. I guess the constant table is no more efficient on the size of the text segment, at least if the constant is unique, but adds a memory access that is not sequential, and might make the same cache line fight between I & D caches if they're exclusive.

Even if the same constant is used multiple times in the same function, it's still done in the same way. gcc with -Os can manage sometimes to turn it into a single constant load (moving it out of a case statement) but I didn't see either gcc or clang switch to pulling it from a constant table.
With that move I don't see how Apple will be able to refuse when a government asks it to scan for images of Whinnie the Pooh for example. They say they won't but they are too reliant on Foxconn's Chinese plants for manufacture, they could easily be blackmailed into compliance. (Android devices with a Chinese OS probably already report a wide array of stuff to the government)

This is another step towards total global surveillance of citizens. I don't see what can be done about it, technology makes it possible so it will happen, it is just too juicy for governments, they can't resist it.
Is it possible to get the beos/haiku window manager/ desktop environment working on Linux?
It's easy for a large company, especially its leadership, to be out of touch with their customers. Many instances of this are listed in another reply, but it's not all that unusual. I would definitely believe that Apple thought this solution was more private than the kind of scanning Google and Facebook does. Especially now that they're drinking their own cool-aid about being a "services" company where the line between "my device" and "your cloud" starts to blur.

Edit: It's also notable that news of this was leaked before Apple was able to officially announce anything. This means that Apple's marketing department was not able to control the tone/narrative as well as they normally do. The first thing many people heard was "Apple will be scanning your phone" without any of the nuances that came later.
Government Regulation is not an important tool, and it will ALWAYS be abused in harmful ways. This has always been true, and will always be true

The Stronger and more centralized the government, the more abuse and harm will come

Weak, distributed government power is the only resolution to corruption, people never want to admit that however.

Government should be limited to the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense of Individual rights, and nothing more
FYI, there's a school of thought which has concluded that global warming will lead to another glacial period within the current ice age, because higher temperatures disrupt ocean currents -- particularly the Gulf Stream, which redistributes warm water from the Gulf of Mexico to northern Europe. As the Gulf Stream makes its deposits of warm water along the coasts of Great Britain and northwest Europe, it keeps the temperatures in northwest Europe warmer than in eastern Canada, even though they both are roughly the same distance from the equator. The hypothesis is that, if Arctic ice melts as a result of global warming, huge amounts of fresh water will pour into the North Atlantic and slow down the Gulf Stream, cooling Europe, and triggering a feedback loop with colder and longer European winters, and more and more ice building up on the planet's surface.[a][b]

[a] The book "Ice Age" by Cambridge-trained astrophysicist John Gribbin and his wife Mary has a good high-level overview of this school of thought: https://reanimus.com/store/?item=1420

[b] Recent studies of circulation in the North Atlantic already show a significant reduction in currents flowing north from the Gulf Stream: https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2020/09/new-s...
In my understanding, iCloud is not E2E encrypted. They hold the keys. They can scan content on ingress if they want.
This is very nice. It looks well-designed for a moderately-technical teacher to create stuff with a lot of reasonable defaults and assumptions over configuration.

Here's the gallery of example stuff you can do: https://docs.manim.community/en/stable/examples.html
> People heard using 'goto' is forbidden so many will get upset if one is found in a code base. You can use gotos and in some situations it becomes a better tradeoff.

I'm going completely off-topic on a tangent, but no modern language even supports the goto from the "Goto Considered Harmful" paper. All you can use nowadays (unless you write assembly) is a much weaker version that has none of the problems you'll find there.
You can join Facetime calls without apple devices in iOS 15
UBI would be easily affordable if it was low enough. I don't know about the US but in the UK the progressive tax system means you don't pay any tax on the first £12,500. Scrap that and give it back as UBI instead then it would add up. The trouble is I don't think this is what the proponents have in mind.
In this case, these are very complementary and can even be considered the same thing. the core Android auto idea is to give a driving interface with limited features, less distractions, large legible texts etc. It is by default displayed in the car displays but there can be cars which do not support this. For those situations Google had a solution to display the same interface on the phone. This was especially useful for people to get used to this technology before upgrading their car. Google probably decided that there are enough bee cars and enough after market units with this technology that they don't have to support this anymore. I think it is too early considering there are a lot of older cars on the road and there is a acute shortage of new cars.
The world really needs an alternative to these tweet serials. They're extremely annoying to read.
Young covids (crows, jays) make lots of small, non-call type noises too.

Maybe it's just about learning to effectively use the voice?
I read an argument that Zune was essentially MS showing RIAA et al how bad a product that met all their DRM demands would be. No idea if its true, but I find it interesting.
Why is the burden of proof what's important? Can you prove that it isn't.

How does one go about proving the intent of a company? That concept is irrelevant
That's careless writing (or reading). Elsewhere the article says clearly that what's required is to either get vaccinated or apply for an exemption.
It is legal, but with caveat that you have to provide decryption keys on court order and refusing to do so is illegal. It wasn't heavily used against anyone as far as I aware, but it's can always change.
It' great to have alternatives although I need nothing more than what Let's Encrypt offers.

PS, do you think there is a chance for a similar service to be available in the future, but for EXE file signing ;)
I think EVs are an easier sell than getting rid of beef in diets. The cars are faster, quieter, and need less maintenance. Charging is the only problem left.
Am American, can confirm. Would much rather work with the Polish, Indian, and Russian contractors I've worked with than our domestic snowflakes.
That implies that the end goal or simply next step is not to scan all photos and the device whether or not you use icloud
What does politics have to do with politics?
Discord's video quality is rather high, at least on the desktop.
Note: not defending Apple's implementation here.

> why they enables CSAM in the first place?

Apple's privacy measures, such as not scanning your Cloud photos, is what helps enable CSAM.

Sexual abusers very often take photos and often upload these to their communities, and Apple has given them a secure device with which to do that. This is becoming increasingly widespread — the number of reported CSAM material grew by more than 50% last year, to nearly 70 million images and videos [1].

Due to Apple's privacy, the numbers look like this: Facebook reported over 50 million combined images and videos, Google reported 3.5 million, Dropbox, Microsoft, Snap, and Twitter over 100,000 images and videos. Apple reported only 3,000 photos in the same period, and no videos. [1]

Sexual abuse is experienced at some point in childhood by around 1 in 9 girls, and 1 in 53 boys. 93% of perpetrators are known to the victim. In 2016, CPS substantiated or found strong evidence to indicate sexual abuse of 57,329 children [2]. That's CPS, meaning in the US alone.

> They must have known the consequences, PR and otherwise.

The PR consequences of that have gone largely unnoticed, interestingly, and it's more so their attempts to curb it that are getting flak from the media.

I suspect this is because we can't create statistics on what we can't detect. There can be no "Apple is enabling, and allowing to continue, the sexual abuse of 50,000 children a year."

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/us/online-child-sexual-ab...
[2] https://www.rainn.org/statistics/children-and-teens
I think there is something to this sentiment.

People support things that reflect positively on them, even if they are personally against it for some specific reason. This was going to share UP lines in some areas (the peninsula, for example). There is no way people in San Carlos or Menlo Park were going to uproot their homes… but they expected everyone in the valley who needed to move, to move.

The metoo phenomenon had some of this too. People who engaged in some of the things the movement stood against were some of the same people caught up in the zealousness.

Also see Yimbys vs NIMBYs.
Uber prices seem to increase when phone battery is low