skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> TLDRV They divert the rainy season water to natural aquifers and hope it reappears down river in the dry season.

Simple diversion of water is not what was discussed. Thank you for the summation, but you summarized the non-relevant information.

> The small scale of the effort currently makes me a little skeptical that it's achieving anything. Underground water is impossible to measure.

Even if you are not familiar with how vegetation works, there is proof contained later in the article. They discuss how removing portions of peat land caused the surrounding plants to dry out and die.
> (1) code search supports case-insensitive matching.

I'm not quite sure why this matters. Either you are case folding before you store and both cases are the same or you are expanding the query to consider all cases and both cases are the same. You are effectively storing "UTF-8" anyways. It is just whether you are storing 3 bytes or 3 characters.

> (2) the search algorithm uses distance between trigram occurrences to reduce the number of matches.

Could you not still measure this distance in codepoints? Or is there a benefit to tying this to the length of the trigrams?

> The same consideration holds if you want to support searches where "a" also matches "á" and "ã".

Well IIRC á can be two codepoints as well (if it isn't normalized) so don't you need to handle this case anyways?
I think most adults you talk to that don't like it, don't realize it was a children's movie. Compare WW's intro in Justice League where she's breaking skulls against walls against the intro in 1984 where her violence is Disneyified.
You seem to be concerned about actual CSAM "users" getting caught. What is being argued is that this creates a scenario where authoritarian governments can slip embarrassing photos into the list and find where they originated, find memes, etc.
Pressure from government(s). We are just one stupid terrorist attack to make this framework acts as a dragnet for catching “terrorists” and “terrorist sympathizers”.
But the CSAM technology won't be limited to photos uploaded to iCloud. That's where it starts, not where it ends. This technology exposes all users of iOS, past and present, to the whims of the current definition of "legal".
Mayor of Community Neigboring Ferguson, MO Plans to Give Residents Bitcoin
Mayor of Cool Valley, MO, which is a St. Louis suburb neighboring Ferguson, plans to give all residents $500-$1000 of Bitcoin this year.
#TIL GhostArchive.

https://ghostarchive.org/index.html
Africa has been using sand dams and India, Johad's for this.

You just slow the water down and save it in the ground. This is fine for small scale farmers and communities and seems to work.

On a larger scale -

Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) map (It includes a lot of models but also active sites)

https://ggis.un-igrac.org/view/marportal

This article is poor. Talking about Lima was silly and it as usual avoids the actual reason water is scarce, high populations with high use techniques. And where's the pictures, a big part of the amunas is they look awesome, like England and their stone walls lets not pretend it's the most efficient way of doing it. They look cool. That's a important part of communities.
And of course it's absolutely unprecedented for two governments to ever collaborate /s

"Five Eyes" ring a bell?
There are many Christians, and the people you know are not an adequate random sample for statistical inference in general.
First things first: you could develop a custom interface within your app, think of games for example, to show the battery level, or simply an icon when it's low, in a specific way instead of the system's style.

Then, depending on what your app does, you can act on a few things to reduce, or not, battery usage when it gets below some thresholds: reduce GPS precision, remove some animations, limit framerate, make less networking requests, ... It could be limited by the system, but it would probably not be as wise regarding to what is important in the context of one app vs another.

We have numerous cases where we adapt to the battery level so the user can get the best of our apps and not empty their battery while they still need it.
A searing and possibly legit indictment... what can I say...

> incurious

Hurts to read this. But maybe you're right: my mind kind of shut off when I read the abstract (client side scanning). I can't say I've looked into the details.
It can't be almost irrelevant and crucial, that is nonsensical.

It is irrelevant because your appetite will also go up. Nobody talks about other advantages on well being, only about your weight.
> There are several approaches to exams and grading. Testing what the students have learned is a common one. In that approach, the highest grade is the expected one. You earn it if you have learned everything you are supposed to, or at least 90-95% of it. Lower grades are signs of failure.

> In another approach, the exam is supposed to challenge the students. When I was undergrad, you only needed 80-85% of available points for the highest grade. Even the best students were expected to fail some assignments, because they would then learn from their mistakes. It was nice when it worked, but sometimes the problems just too difficult for no reason or required an insight nobody would ever find, expect by accident.

On a more holistic level, the second approach seems better in some ways. Except for exceptionally talented students, it removes the ability to achieve "perfection," so good students would become a little more resilient because their exposure to failure.
I don't understand this logic, why would authoritarian governments need to fake political dissident material as child porn for matching? The examples you quoted directly invalidate this argument. The authoritarian governments can directly ban political dissident materials, and they don't need child porn as the excuse.
The vaccinated will be dead within six months to three or four years, freeing up plenty of hospital beds.
I don't think the metabolic impact of a starvation diet (only getting less than 1000 kcal while expending 3009 kcal, that's a 2000kcal difference!) can be compared with a normal weight loss diet, e.g. net negative of ~500kcal.
Reminds me of Thanos... We are on a path to drastically downsize the human population. We could stop it but that would mean millions of wealthy people have to make less but they are going to need money so they can buy the only land that remains livable.
"One million robotaxis in 15 months" is not thinking aloud, it's a very concrete prognosis.
Because Xi Jinping looks like Winnie the Pooh and there's a controversial China meme surrounding this fact.
Here's the link to those researchers' words directly: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/19/apple-csa...
It's the high chargeback rate.
So, in other words, that means that, even if "calories in, calories out" might be trivially true, which I would still imagine it is because thermodynamics, it's not actually useful as weight loss advice?

Because the human body is not a passive system. It has all sorts of autonomic processes designed to control both calories in and calories out, and they have a tendency to subvert and/or counteract anything you're consciously doing to adjust your overall energy intake and expenditure.

I'm obviously no health scientist, but, just thinking out loud, that seems pretty believable? Partially because, of course, nothing's ever that simple. But also, speaking purely speculatively, I can't imagine my body responds to me consuming a 1,500 calorie holiday meal by immediately producing three more pounds of fat tissue, and then making it disappear the very next day. So, even from that, it seems implausible that the body's arsenal of ways to deal with simple day-to-day and hour-to-hour variation in energy consumption has to go way beyond simply growing and consuming new tissue. Which is what it would seem to imply if useful weight loss advice really could be as simple as "calories in, calories out."

Elsewhere I linked an article on the variability of the brain's calorie consumption, and one of the sources it cited was a table of calorie expenditure per hour across several activity types. Including things like reading a book or preparing a meal. It wasn't nearly detailed enough to know for sure, but, based on what I saw from a cursory glance, it seemed at least plausible that your body could completely counteract several hundred calories' worth of reduced food consumption by, say, simply making you unconsciously be a little bit less fidgety throughout the day.
"prophylactic" == "preventative"
Will it ? My question is is PIX our money or the banks ? The point Of credit cards, aside from the ability to use money not immediately on hand, is the ability to shift the liability off of oneself and onto another who has interest in getting their money back. If fraud occurs , the bank more incentivized to get their money back and the debtors money is protected.
So Whatsapp tells other participants in a call what your battery life is? By itself, I suppose that's pretty harmless. But it's really none of your business what the status of my phone is in general.
Nitpick: What I think you're talking about is not E2E because there is no recipient (ie in this scenario Apple is not able to decrypt your data). It's just bog-standard encryption so your files are private or only shared with people you choose.

We can only recognize the current situation, not a hypothetical future one.

I for one think it is unlikely that Apple will willingly lock themselves out of that mountain of intoxicating user data.

I believe their privacy stance is just marketing. There's countless examples of them not caring about real security issues, eg https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/

Even if they do ever implement true encryption - not E2E between customer and Apple - personally I wouldn't trust it because of the unauditable on-device scanning/snitching.
NYT article came out on Friday, December 4.

By Thursday of the next week, December 10th, Visa and MC had cut them off. Discover had followed the next day, the 11th. The Washington Post article linked below includes a statement from MC which reads:

"Our investigation over the past several days has confirmed violations of our standards prohibiting unlawful content on their site. As a result, and in accordance with our policies, we instructed the financial institutions that connect the site to our network to terminate acceptance."

See: https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/pornhub-crack... and https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/12/10/pornhub-m...
I've turned off auto-updates and I'm reconsidering my decade long allegiance to this brand. I love apple, I love the look and feel, but I could contribute to Linux to make it better. This is the final straw.
> Apple wanted to fix this and introduce end-to-end encryption on all photos uploaded to iCloud

Apple has not come out and said this.

This may be what people hope is the motivation, but I would think they would be immediately coming out to say this if it were the case, as it could be used as ammunition against some of the criticism they've been getting recently.
My experience of losing >150lbs agrees with this statement. Ruthless, excuseless calorie counting was the only way to lose weight, and by far the hardest part was summoning the will to not eat more. There are strategies for hacking that last part, but it seems to be incredibly subjective as to what works for any given individual.
We have no evidence this is true, and Apple has certainly not taken any of the plethora of oppurtunities they've had to make this argument. So there's no reason to believe this to be the case.
Anything to slow the spread seems to be an option these days. Two years ago the idea of vaccine passports would be unimaginable by the gentry, yet here we are.
Thanks for the tip, I'm still going to wait a bit, let's see how it is going to turn out. For now Apples plans are not that bad, but that can quickly change once Pandora's box is opened.
I'm assuming your Twitter feed has become full of information supporting the idea the Elon is a fraud. You are falling into the same feedback loop that people who think Trump really won and the people who think that White people should apologize for existing.

You need to create new social media accounts and try to look for information supporting the opposite idea. I'm not suggesting that Elon is totally honest about everything he says, but there is more to him than what you seem to have heard.

I'm saying this to help you, because, you have been misinformed by these feedback loop algorithms. If you keep your identity tied to this idea that Elon is a total fraud you are going to become more and more upset overtime as the evidence to the contrary accumulates.
Oracle has done wonders for Java. It has kept it from languishing like it was under Sun.

Most of this just sounds like complaints from someone who doesn't know the ecosystem and doesn't want to learn it. Someone who thinks your choice of IDE matters for a project, when in fact it doesn't.

> Keeping massive amounts of notes because I'm sure in two weeks I'm going to forget which arcane command I need to keep my Java build environment working.

gradle build
mvn package

> Having to work out which Java runtime environment I need

Do you not have to figure out which version of .net core, .net framework, .net whatever for each project?

> Having to register on the Oracle website to download their runtime,

brew install openjdk@<YOUR_VERSION>

> I can get a new engineer setup to write and deploy .Net in minutes

Here's what I do, and it takes 3 minutes:

my_package_manager install openjdk_version_i_need
my_package_manager install maven
my_package_manager install vscode
code --install-extension vscjava.vscode-java-pack
code /path/to/the/project

> recommended one is again verbose, ugly, and more complex to write and understand than Tasks and Async in .Net.

This is probably your only valid criticism until Loom is launched.
Most of these are mental health issues.
I think this is highly likely to be the thing causing these changes in the porn industry.

I’m skeptical that we would be seeing the large scale changes to sites like Craigslist, Pornhub, and OnlyFans just because of a NYT article and some prude Christian activists.
I'd love to see a dramatization of the making of the Macintosh. I read Revolution In The Valley not too long ago and it's fascinating to read about the personalities of the people who created that machine. I think it would be a nice compliment to Halt and Catch Fire--a Mac version to their PC-Compatible show.
Maybe because it makes the meat taste different?

I can tell a taste difference between grass-fed or grain-fed beef. I speculate that seaweed-fed beef would taste different.
Stop with all those permissions already: users are tired of those popups, they don't know or understand what they are asked about, and even when a pro user gets one, it's not possible to really know what will happen/break when it is allowed or denied, so this "solution" is not one, it's a bandaid and it's broken.
Yes, but it's harder to "herd cats" than to control an oligopoly (Visa & MasterCard).

There are crypto enthusiasts in every jurisdiction, with various motivations, including legitimate ones. They will speak out for any undue burden.
Claimed AT&T hack of 70M customer records including SSN, name, address
Do minorities (as in groups, not race) matter? What happened to our pluralistic society?
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How would people feel if this was "designed" by an algorithm? I don't know whether it was, but ML could discover that people pay more when their battery is low just by having that data and doing some hill climbing.
Why so you use the word "cool aid" to describe a fact about objective reality?

iPhone is packed with software literally named "Digital Rights Management"
A lof of people care. Not all choose opensource because of religion/beliefs. It's the most sane choice when you want to ensure business continuity as the company who owns it can do whatever they want with the product/service including sunsetting it. When it's open you at least have a choice.
I think that at least for long distance calls, landline calls have been digitized and packet switched since the 70's, didn't they?
If you have descendents, perhaps being on the side of the people who want to increase pollution and carbon dioxide output is not a good idea?

I'm not an American, but the Right there seems to be actually mentally ill - not an insult, I mean they sound like crazy homeless people screaming incoherently in the street.

Listened to multiple Republicans like Boebert lauding the Taliban and the deafening silence from the rest of you makes your stance pretty clear...
The problem is once you add this functionality, the cat's out of the bag and replies to requests to further invade users' privacy on-device change from "we can't" to "we won't", a position Apple can't possibly hope to maintain, esp. with the likes of China or the US government.
Calories are calories is much more true than people give it credit for. Here's a guy who ate nothing but twinkies and not only lost weight, but had all his health metrics improve: http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/...
This is how:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Enabling_Sex_Trafficker...
Yes, it tastes different.
Great point! One lb on Earth is .17 lbs on the Moon, which leads to 5.9 * 4,100 = 24,118 calories per lb of fat on the Moon's surface.
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And it was at that time they got the idea to actually do it! :D
It was also more hackable. You could litterally open up one of those grey phone company stumps with a 7/16" socket, and then just start rewiring the connections. I had a friend that knew which cables ran to their house, and could use a couple of wires to jump them to another line. They were able to "borrow" someone's line and routed to the 2nd twisted pair for their house. They rewired the phone jack in their room to have a 2nd line. Everything was good until they forgot to unplug the phone while they were not home, and someone rang the other house and it rang in their room while the parental units were home.
It would be unethical if in the process we also put innocent people in solitary confinement (or even in non-solitary prison), which we do currently.
It's not entirely just because of the NYT article, but the article was the big PR victory for a massive and almost entirely fabricated campaign against Pornhub run by a religious wingnut masquerading as a human rights activist.

Kristof's piece wasn't the first I'd heard of the "Traffickinghub" campaign but it seemed to be the first time a lot of people around me did.

What wasn't widely known at the time was that basically all their "data" was either exaggerated or outright fabrication, with near-zero sources, and backed by religious fundamentalists. That didn't start coming out until the damage had already been done.

"Won't somebody think of the children?!" works every fucking time though.
> Is it worth continuing to push sex workers into illegality

I find this argument perfectly compelling with regard to 'traditional' definitions of sex work. Legalize and regulate prostitution, just like the Dutch.

But I also have no problem with strict regulation of platforms for user-generated explicit content. The argument that Onlyfans performers constitute a group that needs protecting from regulation holds less water than the argument that kids need protection from exploitation. And I don't just mean trafficking - I consider a platform that attracts minors and enables them to monetize sexual images of themselves to be exploitative.
Having worked for a large corporate I frequently saw decisions that did not always make sense, with the justification being that the company was an innovator and market leader, and that they wanted to be like Apple and tell the customers what they wanted. Market research and such were not considered useful.
I mean they were greyballing city employees in some cities -- I don't know if that's 'personal pricing' but it's certainly an adversarial personalization feature

VW during dieselgate had the ability to detect the testbench. I might build this here if I were concerned about getting caught. Uber built a remote kill switch for their tax docs in canada, this isn't unprecedented for them.

also nobody denies location is used to personalize pricing, so wtf are they talking about. customizing the user's experience based on location is 100% personalization?

the problem here is less the accusation than the total lack of price transparency + accountability on these markets
But your basal bodily need (aka basal metabolic rate) does not really drop, as its bulk does not involve active digestive functions, but primarily circulatory processes, respiration, keeping your body's temperature up and so on - all the things that are non-negotiable to keep the body alive around the clock.

The number varies slightly with genetics and age, but does not vary notably between fasting and eating, nor between sedentary and active lifestyle, and averages at about 26 kcal per kilo body weight. This parameter is what makes up the resonable daily intake limit to aim at (or under) to let the body consume itself through catabolism (ideally lipolysis) in the safest way possible, without having to involve exercise.
What I wish I knew about equity compensation
In a few rare cases people and dogs have died from just swimming in water contaminated by toxic algae. So not intentionally drinking it, but it's easy to accidentally swallow a little bit.
We know they were working on it several years ago, but abandoned efforts over two years ago due to FBI push objections[1]

Maybe they have restarted those efforts, but with some modifications (like this?). It's hard to tell since Apple is a very secretive company, but the exact design of this system does strongly suggest end-to-end encryption of photos. (Why attach a decryption key to positive matches if the photo isn't encrypted?)

I guess it's also possible this was a project kicked of years ago before they abandoned the idea of end-to-end backups and it lived on as a zombie.

BTW, while I see Apple's PoV here, I don't think I agree with it. I think I'd rather they stick with the status quo. I'm curious what other people prefer: un-encrypted and subpoenable iCloud photos, or on-device CSAM scanning?

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...
I have to log in to read this? Society is crumbling around me!
So your argument is that I should be concerned because they may change the feature to do something different than it does now. But you could always say that. They could make it do anything in the future.
Not that there was even much ship design to begin with. The ship Picard travelled aboard felt like a ripoff of the Nebuchadnezzar, the ships in the battle at the end were all the same ship from Discovery.
> You don't need a bank to use an exchange.

And what do you suggest to use? Trade crypto to cash? And then how will I put said cash on bank account without getting on check list?

In UK even if you have 1000 GBP in cash they look at you like you're drug dealer.

> I believe revolut operates in the UK and allows you to trade in btc.

Revolut itself is shady and at least until recently didnt have or used any banking license in UK. And it's can ban you at any moment for no reason.
"May have" - they don't know. Why bother reading?

Having seem Greenland rain mentioned five times, I've had enough of this stuff for the day.
Yes, it says "ghaff's phone battery level is low. Call may end soon."

I think this results in a much better experience for everyone on the call.
That's the problem with wealth inequality: outsize wealth comes with outsize political power. The money doesn't matter.
At the same time, you can't expect Wiki editors to be expert in all cutting-edge domain of knowledge to be able to determine which academics are or aren't notable.
Legality of Electronic Signatures in the EU and the US (2015)