skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It certainly wasn't silent, but that wasn't a condition for the parent's question. It was a well-documented (and much derided) decision though: https://mashable.com/article/china-government-apple-icloud-d...
I would guess its this story https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/10/us/politics/justice-depar...

But that doesn't match OP's description very well. It was a grand jury subpoena and only for metadata.

"As the Justice Department investigated who was behind leaks of classified information early in the Trump administration, it took a highly unusual step: Prosecutors subpoenaed Apple for data from the accounts of at least two Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee, aides and family members. One was a minor."

"Apple turned over only metadata and account information, not photos, emails or other content, according to the person familiar with the inquiry."
Those textures don't look too bad, but I'm reminded of a game that just came out (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1730590/The_Entropy_Centr...) which is basically Portal, with fancy graphics, minus any of the good writing.

Instead of the silent protagonist they have a Marvel movie-esque protagonist who keeps doing "well THAT just happened" lines after every joke so none of them actually land.
Hearsay:

In Washington state, a Vietnam vet pilot started working on forest fires after the Vietnam war and has been doing work in it ever since, though he's going to retire whenever he wants as he's past retirement age now.

What he says has changed is:

* lack of smoke jumpers -- the state thinks it costs too much to have adrenaline junkies waiting to fly out and put out a fire.

* lack of will to fight forest fires as they are deemed "good"

* inter-department fighting between federal and state managed land. Doesn't matter what state does if federal has land right next to it that they think is "good" to burn.

--

Also, my wife's cousin is an Alaska smoke jumper. He says that smoke jumpers in the lower 48 are waaaay more safety conscious than they used to be and they're vastly more unwilling to get into the fray of the fire than previously. Whether that safety is warranted or not, I do not know, but it definitely could contribute to the problem.
Oh, experienced plumbers get pretty sanctimonious, at least in online forums!
All the big cable and fiber internet providers I've worked with in the US support IPv6, even evil nasty ones like Comcast have supported it for a decade now.
Retail Footfall Counters
Those guys are doing very well on retail analytics; people counting, shopper flow, queue management and waste management.
Still not convinced sqlite is a good default, you can also run mysql/postgres locally which allows you similarly eliminate network hops and gives you the option to separate out things down the road. I'm not sure how Sqlite handles concurrent readers/writers these days but you'll probably at least end up scaling concurrency even in the early stages for things like async tasks.
I have never formally interviewed for freelancer roles. I don't interview car mechanics or plumbers -- I pay them to fix a problem and expect (sometimes wrongly) that they know their business. When I get a freelancing lead the customer doesn't usually care about my experience, education, age. They want to know if I can fix their business problems. Either I can or I can't. If the customer does try to start an interview with me I change the subject to focus on what problems they need to solve. My job as a freelancer/consultant amounts to quickly understanding the problems, setting priorities, and fixing things. I'm not auditioning for a f/t job.
> The reason everything is ugly is because we don't have trees and nature anymore - we just have roads and parking instead.

I've spent a bunch of time on the 1940s.nyc site and the most striking difference between 1940s NYC and 2022 NYC is the lack of trees in 1940.
Stable Diffusion 2.1 – renders people again – (Python package for Mac and Linux)
Stable Diffusion 2.1 fixes the bug in 2.0 that caused people to be rendered poorly.

Example of a fun way to make desktop wallpaper (make sure you set the desktop to tile the image):

>> pip install imaginairy

>> aimg

imaginAIry> imagine --model SD-2.1 --tile "fruit salad" "blueberries" "colorful abstract art" "christmas desktop background" -r 4
Have a look at the followup article that touches on distributed SQLite with LiteFS. :)
Why is data residency law cool and progressive when the EU does it and Big Tech complies, but Bad and Dystopian when China does the same? Tim Cook has said on the record that iCloud is the same regardless of data center.
So if I'm understanding the description above correctly, the chain is:

turn crank -> bootstrapping air compressor -> air tank 1 -> 1.5MW emergency generator -> bigger air compressor -> air tank 2 -> 7MW main generators

Pretty rube goldbergian.

Here's an interesting parallel: the process that a computer goes through when it booted is itself an incredibly complex, intricate, and rube goldbergian process. Unlike a power station black start, this process happens completely automatically every day when someone turns a computer on, yet it is no less rube goldbergian and in many ways probably more so.

The boot processes of computers have always fascinated me for this reason, and I suspect black start processes fascinate me for much the same reason. It's not unlike why people enjoy watching videos of rube goldbergian contraptions.
He.net needs a fixed non-CGNAT IPv4 address, with protocol 41 open, and this is quite difficult to get.
So there's no level of security that will ever be enough for anyone. The number of people who know the source for the current version of every piece of software, firmware, and hardware they use almost certainly approaches 0.

I don't know what people expect. These moves are good things and everyone is whatabouting situations that there is 0 evidence has ever happened or would ever happen. It's unfalsifiable, impractical, and honestly just annoying.
You forgott latency...not usable for rt communication.
and see this one

https://linkretail.com/how-does-people-counting-work/
> latency

Well, the Moon's semi-major axis is about 380000 km, which means latency is lower-bounded to about 1 s.

Similarly, Mars' closest approach is 54.6 million km. That means a latency lower bound of 3 minutes.
There are thousands of them of some forums i cant really post here. Find the post "cubic vs diamond" of user omlala on reddit if you want.
2nd grade, Apple II at school. I was hooked. Started tinkering with computers everywhere I could. Dad spent like 5k in 1993? getting a 486 DX2/66 with 16mb of RAM, 340MB hard drive and a gorgeous 17" Sony Trinitron monitor. That machine was a powerhouse at the time, I spent as much time as possible on it.
I think what you’re looking for is “defaults read”
Crush? Maybe temporarily until people realize that under most circumstances, helmet use is no more troubling than seat belt use in a car. Adequate helmets can be had very inexpensively. Helmets can easily be locked up with the same cable lock as the parked bike is locked up with (I personally never do - nobody steals a helmet around here).

Circumstances where helmet use is an issue: Very cold weather where you may have enough warm stuff on your head that the helmet rides too high (I wear it anyway) and fancy hairdos that would be crushed by a helmet - not an issue in my country since the sporty set that rides has little overlap with the fancy hairdo set - may be different in which bike commuting is more encultured.
The satellite is only 300 miles up. The processing power on the satellite itself probably matters more for latency. At 200Gbps max (2x100), it's probably no slouch.
When infrastructure makes it really hard for people to produce things, then there's no ecosystem for it and very few people get interested in producing things.

At-home hosting would open up tons of applications. You could have at home video cameras that are actually private (no third party connection). You could share photos with family and friends from a home photo frame - directly. There could be tons of applications that normal people would be interested in.
> 8.5 billion lights years away—more than halfway across the universe

Why is it halfway across? The universe's diameter is 93 billion ly. Shouldn't 8.5 billion be more like "ten percent across"?
Huawei is one of a handful of companies in the world that spends more than $20B USD on R&D per year, which just happens to be approximately ~20% of their revenue.[1]

I know the $1.5B from CHIPS is effectively a kickstarter of sorts, but the sheer size of the R&D budget of the baseline should be kept in mind to understand how much further US private industry needs to catch-up, let alone overtake.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-25/huawei-ri...
The migration process is explained here: https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/security/sec973254c5f
A faster way to preserve privacy online
FWIW it's a normal part of growing up (teenage angst). Looked different but not really when I was younger.

The key question is "so what?", for example "so what they all have these fake personalities", which somehow takes years to understand.
We want Bun to feel more like an upgrade from Node than switching runtimes

Basically everything that doesn’t rely on node’s internal “bindings” C++ stuff should eventually be supported
'easy' and 'just' are doing a lot of work in your assertion here!
Part 2: https://pastebin.com/dEzpXLcL
Apple claims iMessage can alert you if state-sponsored spies are eavesdropping
Note that the entity running the ads, in this case Signal, still has no way to identify _who_ was shown the ad. Only Facebook knows that.
Mayne RFC exists, but it os not used in teal world anywhere. In all servers, I configure IPv4 and IPv6 separately. Network setup is separate. DHCP daemons are separate. Firewall rules are separate. Network monitoring is separate.

I would switch to that "IPv4+" system if it existed.. I am willing to use latest software/standards to future-proof my setup, but duplicating all the work is too much for me.
There's an approach called "displacement ventilation" that could help. The basic idea is if your contaminants are mostly warmer or more humid than room air then convection will move them to the top of the room where they pool and can be removed efficiently. This is opposite of the mixing strategy in normal US HVAC and has some disadvantages but may work for you.
300 dollars if you life in switzerland is enough 30 for 10.
Probably. I would like to see how it's done, build.rs does seem like the most sensible place. Debugging build.rs is painful.
Ah thank you, I somehow missed that! Amazing job on this. You could literally create whole new companies from this system.
It's pretty much already happened. Tor Browser is little more than stock Firefox with some of the settings changed.
- NAT punching does require cooperation of programs on the protected machines, though, no? How is it different from them inviting traffic in any other way (like, requesting a page via https from an infected server could hijack the client on the protected machine if the client has security holes in the right places; the https client is willing to get traffic here, just as some VoIP program is willing to receive a call)?

- And is it any different from a stateful firewall on IPv6?
I mean, it seems to be happening right now, so we will see how things go on from here...
The world's stupidest, smallest smartphone
Doma lays off 40% of its employees
The folks in Eastern Canada would happily disagree that their bright and primary colored homes are ugly, and after having seen them in person, I also think they're beautiful.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/44/0e/32/440e32a0e0c8fdececf6...

I get where you're coming from with grays clashing less than the highlights. But given the choice, I'd always take the loud bright colors of the Maritimes over the inoffensive neutral shades of our West Coast.

https://www.tqconstruction.ca/wp-content/uploads/vancouver-s...
Yeah, air pollution is a related but not identical issue to climate change. Emissions from ICE vehicles affect both air quality and atmospheric CO2. Particulates from tire wear (for example) affect primarily local air quality and not atmospheric CO2.

And even setting aside climate change, we should also be worried about all the pollution we're breathing in. Lots of health issues there.
Machine Learning Becomes the New Launchpad for Ransomware
They did that recently on the TV show Avenue 5.
Defaults is a tool which can read and write system and other application settings. By default it works on the system settings. One can either pass a bundle id or a path to a plist file to read and write other settings.

You can see a huge list of settings by typing „defaults read“
Finally, a great comment in this thread.

Arguably lack of IP address block portability is not that big a deal [now that we're well used to it]. But IPv6 did not solve the CIDR route table size issues, and that's a big failure.

I have long thought that IP packets should have a source and destination ASNs as well as actual addresses. That would mean that we'd need more DNS (or similar) lookups, and a bootstrapping system for that. A scheme like this would greatly reduce router table sizes and would allow for IP address block portability.
Sorry if I’ve misinterpreted something you’ve stated - but as somebody from the “area”, I just wanted to mention JD Vance is an astroturfed loser in the most major way & absolutely nobody should aspire to be like him.

Like, I’m pretty sure I’m from the poorest district in the state/area.

Vance is a fucking loser any of the even mildly intelligent around despise.
The tricky thing with Apple is that they sell phones in China, given that that govt demands visibility into what it's citizens do, it is reasonable to assume that anything Apple launches to secure your data from prying eyes will have an asterisk to accommodate a big part of their market.
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Interesting, thank you very much.
I suspect that they are asking about finding settings which get used, but aren't documented. Like, how to find hidden settings that programs will use.
They never told customers it was technically infeasible. From the contemporaneous Q&A from the 2016 letter opposing coerced access:

“ Is it technically possible to do what the government has ordered?
Yes, it is certainly possible to create an entirely new operating system to undermine our security features as the government wants. But it’s something we believe is too dangerous to do. The only way to guarantee that such a powerful tool isn’t abused and doesn’t fall into the wrong hands is to never create it.”

- https://www.apple.com/customer-letter/answers/
Apple offers local backups. Every cloud backup depends on "trust us", even if open source, externally audited, etc. They can offer a third party online sync option but that seems like functionality would open up more security holes than it fixes. You would just have bad actors convincing users to sync to their servers.

If you don't trust Apple, you should also not trust other cloud back up services. Just turn off iCloud
How does one perform deployments with go+sqlite? With a client-server database such as postgres your app and database are on separate servers, and you can perform a blue-green, canary, etc, deployment of the app, spinning up new servers running the new version alongside the servers running the old version, before shutting down the servers running the old version.

But with sqlite you'd have to perform a hot-upgrade, surely? i.e. shut down the old version and quickly fire up the new version, with a small window of downtime in between.

Note: I see Litestream/LiteFS allows distributed deployment (both in beta).
Shouldn't people demand more and more privacy protections? It's not like these changes solve the problem. Since Apple is managing so much data, they must keep it secure and give users the ability to maintain privacy and confidentiality, even with respect to Apple itself. I think the goal post has stayed pretty constant, Apple just keeps moving in a zig-zag pattern that occasionally involves backward steps.
That’s the speed of light, an aspect we can’t improve. The article is about bandwidth, an area we are able to affect.
That is untrue.

If Facebook were not shy about their algorithmic approach there would be nothing wrong with these ads.

Not so much "...ads that were designed to be banned..." but ads designed to test an hypothesis.
No, that's absolutely not technicalities. By omitting the real timelines the article suggests that the efforts to eliminate Cyrillic are somehow connected or caused by Russia, and you're making the same mistake. But in reality the main cause for switch to Latin was and is the nation-building process happening since the collapse of Soviet Union.

Maybe the Russian actions could accelerate the process, but honestly, at least for Uzbekistan, the switch to Latin alphabet was mostly done in 00s already, not much to accelerate here.

> They've been doing such things as curbing Russian-language education, shutting down Russian TV/radio stations, fining people for conducting commerce in Russian, etc...

Y'know this sounds like a Russian propaganda talking points, right?

Uzbekistan certainly didn't do that, and I think Kazakhstan didn't do that either. They mostly used positive reinforcement instead of negative (e. g. "you can conduct commerce in Russian, but you have to provide service in Uzbek too").
Lepton 2.5 is 80x60, Lepton 3.5 is 160x120.

https://www.flir.com/products/lepton/

Scroll down for full specifications.

Key property is also thermal sensitivity, which for Lepton 3.5 is <50mK. Better sensitivity and you will be able to see finer gradients or need less temperature gradient to observe.
Check Library Genesis (on the open web) before resorting to z-lib, as that's where z_lib got most of their content in the first place.
You can access the data in an encrypted backup, which you can request from an iPhone from Linux using the open source libimobiledevice: https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice

Here's an overview of how to remove the various layers of encryption (starting from the backup password): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1498342/how-to-decrypt-a...

And how to do it if you want to access the WhatsApp chat database: https://yasoob.me/posts/extracting-whatsapp-messages-from-io...

Also some Go tools to inspect iOS encrypted backups https://github.com/dunhamsteve/ios
Signal in space travels 3 times quicker than fiber optics. This means that in some cases the latency may be lower than fiber.
Oh, I totally agree. (The austere grandeur also reminds me of Christopher Nolan's work, too). I just think in Dune he's reusing a good amount of his past visual language. Some of the ships look a lot like the Heptapod vessels from Arrival. The part when Arrakeen is on fire reminded me of the fighting in Sicario after the Juarez mob boss is arrested. Wish he had invented more novel elements, and again, more varied use of color.

Your points about the giant Joi hologram in 2049 are valid. I wish he had done just a bit more of that. (That scene, with its neon blues and purples, was also distinct from the usually grey Prometheus palette that Dune dipped into too much imo.) Personally I felt a lot of the desert scenes looked a little artificial, maybe it was the color grading or lack of scale. The best desert scene imo is the second sandworm encounter where the rock mouse establishes the scale.
Which Side of the Southwest Airlines Seat-Saving Debate Are You On?
I've not use this myself, but Ben Johnson's https://github.com/benbjohnson/postlite in front of SQlite might allow you to use PostgREST? I recall him saying on a podcast that his goal was to be able to point the large ecosystem of PG tools at SQlite.
iPhone 14 doesn't even have a SIM card anymore, it's strictly eSIM (and previous models could optionally use eSIM).
Laser link (not RF) implies a whole bunch of things:

1. speed of light through atmosphere, so basically c
2. line-of-sight is required, likely stationary base stations. Probably also subject to atmospheric and weather conditions
Given what we learned from the Snowden leaks, I would be willing to believe that any PR in apples favor is awarded by the govt for exchange of their cooperation relating to providing the govt data / access they request.

I don't trust any corporation to actually side against the govt.
Ext3/ext4 systems do this by default and reserve 5% of space for root.[0]

[0] https://docs.cloudera.com/cloudera-manager/7.4.2/managing-cl...
How would you navigate ‘but I need $x.exe’?

Dont get me wrong I’d love to say lolno to these types of requests, but basically everything requires npm these days, while also being basically impossible to audit every dependency you install. I’m a huge fan of good security shouldn’t impact too much on productivity, but dependency trees make me lose sleep at night (waterhole attacks, EOL packages that are painful to remove, etc).

Pentester by trade with a background in software dev.
Even then the OP will ask us to prove that you do have all the versions of code and that there was no self destruct mechanism that wiped itself clean. You can’t prove a negative. That’s the point of those assertions. It’s not without reason that most conspiracies use this tactic.
Not mentioned in this article: from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_service#Modern_civil_ser...

Modern European concepts of civil service was essentially influenced by the Chinese bureaucracy who selected members based on learning advancements rather than aristocratic birth.
It works very well. We are running a search engine for chemical properties in Go+SQLite and the speed is simply incredible to the point people think it is a static website.

Here is a page with quite some queries to render:
https://www.chemeo.com/cid/58-801-8/Pentane
I’m syncing almost all data via Nextcloud. That includes actual files as well as contacts and calendars. The files are obviously on my iPhone, but not in iCloud. In fact, iOS makes CalDAV and CardDAV as easy as they could be. It’s natively supported, whereas Android requires an extra, paid for app (worth the money though).

Other synchronisation like Joplin and Zotero happens via WebDAV. My iCloud is basically empty yet I have every file I could ever need on both iOS as well as iPadOS. Some apps I don’t care for sync via iCloud, that’s all so far. I’m not bought into the whole ecosystem (i.e. apps) too much though. If all you use are apps that only support iCloud, that’s a problem indeed.
Which doesn’t exactly invalidate them.

Sometimes manifestly unjust laws are challenged via an index violation of the law with the specific goal of getting the law thrown out.
> Apple took away too much of the user's control;

Apple didn't took away anything. It wasn't there in the first place and never promised.
Kind of like Germany gutting its energy infrastructure, making itself wholly dependent on nat gas from a revanchist, authoritarian regime?

Hope you're doing well, Herr Scheuller.
You want them to break Chinese laws? Don't think they have popular support for that.
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