skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Humans as a necessary evil to make a small Noah's ark of some of what's on earth_ That's a very positive view, thanks for sharing.
I'm going to be in the minority here, but I don't want Apple (or Android or anybody) syncing my documents, photos, or passwords. I'll do my own local backups or backups to a server I control, or at the very least using encryption that I control if it's going to a server I don't control.

iCloud and every other kind of automated syncing is so damn complicated that I don't know everything that gets backed up, when it gets backed up, if it's encrypted, and whether or not Apple (or whatever company) guarantees to me that the data is encrypted in such a way that they can't read it. Even the OP calls parts of it "exceedingly complex".

I was hoping the article was going to have some good tips on how to disable iCloud with absolute finality. Every time I get a new iPhone, or after an iOS update, or after configuration changes I have to go around and click off syncing in obscure places, and Siri too.

Have you noticed that on a new phone, after transferring over your data locally (not through iCloud), it'll start syncing them to iCloud without even asking you? Furthermore, even after you've turned it off, it gets re-enabled under some unspecified conditions that I've never figured out (after iOS updates?), so you have to forever keep checking.

Macs have been auto-saving your documents to iCloud by default since at least 2014 (OS X Yosemite).

I find it pretty amazing how most people are now OK with a third party keeping a copy of every document and photo of their lives.
If you're referring to what I think you're referring to, No.

Those love direct sun and thrive in heat...
Wow, an n=35 study didn't have the power to find a signal while the ones with thousands of people do.

That must mean we have vestigial neurons.
glyphtracer [1] can help with this, but letter shapes are only a small part of what makes a typeface. (Typography is about whitespace, or as Miles Davis said, “it‘s not about the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play that matter”.)

[1]: https://github.com/jpakkane/glyphtracer
That is actually the original reason I switched to Linux in the late 90's. I couldn't multitask while listening to music in winamp while I could still browse and use staroffice while playing music on mpg123 on that old, already considered obsolete, computer I was using at the time.
I've always thought about plugging LLMs into the simulation, even pre-generated naratives could be interesting. But I'd have to give it more thought as it seems pretty hard for such big scale interactions (50k citizens?)

>I like to think too that with sufficient fidelity a simulation of this sort may be useful in real world city planning/economic modeling/geopolitics.

This was one of the early vision I had for this project: Simulating different economies to see which ones fared better. However I have kind of abandoned this as the realy world is just far too complex! Making a "normal" but different city builder seems a bit more achievable.
The chlorophylls always have a gap in the green or in the blue-green, where the light is reflected.

However, in the non-green algae there are various accessory pigments, which absorb light in bands not used by chlorophyll and which transfer the generated photoelectrons to chlorophyll, enhancing the amount of the light whose energy is captured.

The ancestors of the green algae, which adapted to a terrestrial freshwater environment, then to the dry land, becoming land plants, have lost most accessory pigments, because they now received more light than they could use.
My bad. I had missed the fact that it was in the pattern.
From that page: "Git for Windows provides a BASH emulation used to run Git from the command line. *NIX users should feel right at home, as the BASH emulation behaves just like the "git" command in LINUX and UNIX environments."
We're well on our way. Look at the data for poverty over time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_poverty
> The problem isn't knowledge, it's skill and understanding.

Sorry, what? What are you saying knowledge is, then?
Thought the same, maybe a bit of denial going on, but there's no way if America was the manufacturing powerhouse it's claimed to be, this would've happened. They seemed to struggle getting the expertise to finish the job in any reasonable time frame.
I think [0] indicates that it does scale quite well, you can even test by comparing the 2. You can go from cloning to pushing on a repo in half the time. There's branches as well, so while the /timeline[1] seems too busy, you can always drop back to a forum or the bug tracker, which it has already.

time fossil clone https://fossil-scm.org/
time git clone https://github.com/drhsqlite/fossil-mirror

My results were

fossil
time > real 5m43.120s user 2m56.532s sys 0m48.246s
ls -lh > 60M fossil-scm.fossil

git
time > real 10m35.043s user 5m58.427s sys 1m10.555s
du -sh fossil-mirror/.git/ > 829M

[0]: https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/stats.wiki
[1]: https://fossil-scm.org/home/timeline
I've gone over this multiple times.

It appears in larger populations because it's a weak proxy for other things.

It disappears in smaller populations because it's a weak proxy for other things.

The same relationship would exist with the MSRP of the car the test subject arrived in or the cost of their socks.

In a small population study you'd see no real correlation between how someone did a test and the price of their car.

But over say 100,000 people you would because the cost of someone's car weakly correlates with a number of things that are, in aggregate more advantageous for testing and so the confounding phenomena would arise.

In fact, the circumference of someone's head probably has about the same correlation with the price of their socks as it does with whatever intelligence metric your want to use because it's all measuring the same thing - social class, opportunities, economic arrangements, things like that.

It's a physical consequence of our unequal society that then gets used as if it's a biological reason for the perpetuation of the vary inequality that produced it.

Eugenicists called this biological determinism, it's an old idea that doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
Git BASH (from that page) is what they referred to when they said "you literally have to bring half of a whole unix with you to run git".
This kind of scaling applies well beyond brain. I recommend checking out the book Scale by Geoffrey West[1] for more examples.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31670196-scale
Writing is for constructing oneself
On a similar note, does anyone have any recommendations for -

A. Other mitochondrial helping supplements

B. Forums which discuss such things?

I’ll start - I’ve heard good things about ALCAR, citrulline and d-ribose. Reddit’s r/nootropics is my preferred answer to B.
This is so incorrect I'm going to upvote it.
PicoGUS Hand386 Edition – sound card for the handheld 386 PC
I don’t think it is a really useful take. Nobody is going to pass on a food source, particularly when there is such pressure as for hunters-gatherers. Also, it was not some brutal change from nomadic hunters to sedentary farmers. Each step was itself a small evolution (like “it’s funny, the seeds we threw away last year gave some useful plants” to “let’s throw away seeds on purpose” to “these seeds are more likely to be useful if we put them in specific locations”, etc). So there was not really a “first person who planted stuff”.

You need to compare the situation across centuries or millennia to really see the large changes, and humans without a writing system and some kind of stable authority to keep records are not really equipped for that.

Now, it’s impossible to voluntarily stop using a system without which most of humanity would starve. You’re again up against self preservation and each time humans will choose a solution that prevents them from dying.

So yeah, you can disapprove but it’s all academical as it was more or less bound to happen.
std::optional is not a pointer. And it has a safe dereference method called value() if you want the extra runtime check which operator* skips.
Nice, reminds me of https://yeoman.io/ which was popular couple years ago
> You get 3 levels if you include Epic (Epic > Task > Subtask).

Indeed but that's still an artificial limitation, and subtasks are not really fully featured tasks.
TIL Factorio was funded on Indiegogo!

But yes, I'm really not ready for that kind of pressure and marketing efforts. I feel - and even more so since Cities:Skylines 2 announcement - that there isn't enough I can do alone to turn this into a full-time job.
No. Black vs white hat is "did you break this and then use it to <do something illegal>.

The responsible vs. irresponsible disclosure question is "do you tell the responsible party ahead of time and give them time to repair it". From articles it certainly appears that ejmr learned how broken their code was prior to this paper being published.

But responsible vs irresponsible disclosure is not a question of "should this be disclosed at all?", which the security community as whole seems to have determined that the answer is "yes".

The problem is that ejmr was not anonymous, and if you publish something that is not anonymous, it is forever not anonymous.

The only option would be to not disclose that there was any problem, not notify people that their posts were not anonymous, and this paper (the actual "research" about where posters lived/worked?) could also not be published. Because any acknowledgement or indication that the you could get form id to ip in any forum would cause people to go "huh, how did they do that?" a Streisand effect your way to everyone knowing.

This is of course assuming that no one else interested in commenter identities has ever looked at ejmr either, because these researchers did not do anything clever to break the scheme.
> I went to the Colorado school of Mines

Good for you, I just went straight from working on a minesite as a teenager (late 1970s) into geophysical coding for global exploration surveys after writing fleet optimisation and pit design software with a segue between in multichannel marine seismic aquisition | processing .. and then worked on the backend of the pre S&P version of

https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/campaigns/met...

> For every advanced, safe, automated mine like you describe there is another that's exactly the opposite.

Sure, by number, in fact I'd say there's more than one - shitty mines outnumber 'good' mines.

Now, how's that go by mining volume and percentage contribution to the global resource demand?

The Rio Tinto and other Anglo Australian iron ore mines in Western Australia alone put out some 800 million tonnes per annum - other mine sites for iron ore on that scale are few but equally modern - they don't hit that scale by having grubby faced children walk material out via hessian sacks across their backs.

Even the high volume coal mines are open cuts with Bagger 288 scale machines.

When you look at the bulk volume of global scale resource supply would you say that a large percentage of that material comes from "modern mines" or from mines such as Brazil's Serra Pelada [1] ?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoOdhKYj8Bc
The world is wiggly and unpredictable not square. Knowledge is mostly square.

As many experienced people will tell you, Murphy's law is a bitch.
>Canada built a much tighter COVID vaccination verification and retail enforcement system than the USA. Vertical integration, few gray zones and such made those who opted out feel like the walls were closing in, as your province's health authority knew your vaccine status, restaurant demanded a valid, ID matching government supplied QR Code to allow seating, and the government was willing and able to enforce the law.

I don't know how you can in one sentence refer to it as a "conspiracy theory" then in the next describe a massive in-the-open conspiracy to coerce people to get vaccinated against their will. Which prior to covid would have been considered a gross violation of medical ethics.
Local history doesn’t imply D. The D basically means that clients and servers are equivalent. You could have a centralized VCS with client-server asymmetry and still have local history.
Last month, I learned during the Wagner Group Rebellion that yes, it refers to Herr Wilhelm Richard Wagner. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_Group_rebellion
> You could simply be protesting while black or female,

do you have any sources for the occurrence of such events in the latter part of the 20th century?
There's some quite complex cryptographic machinery called Direct Anonymous Attestation that would make this possible. I don't know if they plan on using this though.
> You don't need a special license to buy a dvd and rent it out to anyone. Just as you don't need a special license to loan or sell a dvd to a friend. You bought it and you can do that.

Allow me to introduce you to British Columbia, Canada:

"By law, any person or business that distributes or publicly exhibits motion pictures or Restricted or Adult DVDs (adult motion pictures or “adult videos”) in BC requires a licence. To “distribute” means to rent, lease, sell or supply (or to offer to provide any of these services)."

https://www.consumerprotectionbc.ca/get-keep-licence/motion-...

There's also a whole industry for supplying dvd for rental purposes which charges serial multiples of the retail price per copy and you are legally required to purchase those version and are not permitted to rent out retail dvds.

I learned this when I was going to try to have a used dvd club in a small town and fell afoul of these issues, as it was a for profit venture.
Regarding the panini press sign, let me not be the one to start the 'are hamburgers sandwiches' debate here on HN
Scientists hit with massive bills after speaking at COVID-19 ‘webinars’
And not kosher for the same reason. But even today with 100% artificial rennet there is still a rabinical decret instituting that all cheese are forbidden without supervision.
Regulators can be purchased but I spend a lot of time arguing in that space on HN and even here, with a educated and erudite population, a lot of people generally support the regulatory strategies in place. The ultra-wealthy might be purchasing details but the voters are generally in favour of consumer power being lessened.

> ...this money-losing strategy has been weaponized time and again...

Sure, but that strategy is a side effect of policies designed to protect borrowers and drive up house prices - which are often some of the more electorally popular policies. I typically take the side of the argument that thinks that loss making companies should go bankrupt and let me tell you, people do not like the implications of that once they start getting laid out.

> Needless to say, Teslas are not cheap.

We seem to be having some drift in this conversation. Are we talking about the ultra-wealthy or people who can afford Teslas? I can afford a Tesla. I'd agree that people earning less than me has very little real economic power since they aren't breaking in to the middle class where most of the consumer activity happens.

> Communist countries are not decentralized...

You've misread, I never said communist countries were decentralised. They wanted to decentralise economic power away from the wealthy and repurposed it to the benefit of the people - that was one of the core tenants of socialism. Of course it didn't work, but that was one of the goals - pulling power away from people like Musk.

Democracies are decentralised systems that centralise economic power towards people who best use it. Mainly by voting with their feet. Keeping with the Musk example, there is a big contingent of people who think he makes the best car and they centralise a lot of manufacturing power under his leadership. Democracys are very flexible though and move power around quickly when it seems to make sense.

> doesn't it follow by your own logic that any significant redistribution of wealth in society and social safety net will have to come from the 99% rather than just the 1%?

Sure, but that isn't ourselves to ourselves. That is from one group (traditionally the middle class because most of the choices about resource allocation happen there) and to a different distinct group (historically varies).
There are endless news stories of police murdering some unfortunate mentally challenged individual when they show up. So, no.
I have to say I'm confused by this. After looking through their website I do not really understand what Spectra City is about or how I can get involved.
To be fair mental illness was far less understood and far more maligned than it is today making the likelihood of mistreatment of the mentally I’ll far more likely.
> iCloud and every other kind of automated syncing is so damn complicated that I don't know everything that gets backed up

Same for me, I'm really not used to iOS either but there doesn't seem to be a way to know what's being synced or not, the progress of the sync and any sync logs from helping my father. And if there is, well I'm a software developer and didn't find it so it's clearly not a good UX.

Good luck the day you end up needing your backed up data, you might get some unwanted surprises.
That’s really interesting, what kind of AI implementation have you decided to work with? I am making a similar project but more of an medieval approach. I went with behavior trees since it felt more appropriate and scalable for such a task
Is this UHT milk or the kind that only lasts a week?
Do not mention hotdogs either.
I’ve definitely seen most of this going on in management teams. Especially the forming of committees as a way of bike shedding. ‘We are clueless about the problem but we do know how to make a list of other clueless people.’
Perhaps a small claims court would be better. Large companies really hate those because they have to send an actual person and they might lose.
You haven't made a coherent point yet. You're trying to draw a distinction between zoonosis and animal-to-human transmission. The former literally means the latter.

And then claiming that the numerous independent clusters of SARS that popped up in wild animal markets across the Pearl River Delta aren't examples of zoonosis?
Less than the Solar System population.
Depends on your goals. If your goal is to effect a long-term attack on an organization, then yes, you want to introduce systemic issues that will fester.

But the Simple Sabotage Field Manual was developed in and for wartime. It was meant to provide information to dissenters and occupied peoples on how to surreptitiously affect the war effort. The time scale is far different. You needed the factories and bureaucracies to slow down as soon as possible, not have a slow decline over the years.
It’s also very childish. As if not talking about something would make it not happening.
I’m used to working around tourists, including Westminster. One office is just south of Parliament, I also have sites on the river at horse guards, at Trafalgar Square, near Westminster abbey, and in Downing Street, as well as other tourist locations like Buckingham place, the strand

Working on a few days surrounding the queens funeral was a pain - got stuck near Westminster tube for half an hour, got stuck the wrong side of the mall for a while, but on the whole I find very little impact.

The tourist amenities are on the whole scaled appropriately.

The problem with cruise ships is they dump a thousand people into a small town, they spend very little, use all the space, clog the main instagram landmark, then leave.

A normal tourist visiting the city would have several nights in a hotel, be eating lunch and dinner out, be visiting multiple attractions. This brings more money into the city, spreads them out across different sites, and is naturally limited by the availability of hotels.

Bring your own hotel breaks this model.
Gravity station http://southpolestation.com/trivia/00s/gravityvault.html
I’m similarly concerned about opaque systems. But, chose to trade-off my concern for the convenience.

But, could you simply not create an Apple account in the first place and set up your iPhone without it?

https://mobiletrans.wondershare.com/iphone-tips/can-i-use-ip...
DIE?
Thank you! Could you elaborate on what things you found best? As to me, almost none of the project is ready for HN yet :D
Confirmation bias.

Try highlighting any 5 character sequence. It always goes green.

What you found isn't the word. And is probably a mispell.
More specifically, batch(1).

at(1) runs jobs after a specified time. (A common mistake is to presume that "at" means "will run when specified" when in fact it means "will run no earlier than specified", and depending on system characteristics, could run substantially later.)

batch runs jobs ... as system load permits, without any time specification, in a FIFO queue.

There's also cron, the third Unix scheduler, which executes a set of specified tasks on a regular schedule. All three are related.
I saw both of my parents go through cancer (they both, so far, survived), my wife has MS - so I was quite interested in the "perspective" treatments.

You have the whole usual bunch of idiots that will advertise magnetism and cosmic rays to cure you, then new treatments that may or may not be available in your country (but available in others) and finally the trial ones.

I discussed at length with an acquittance of mine who works in the clinic trial branch of a pharma and she first gave me the usual double blind trials explanation (which I am aware of), but then could not really answer why the pharma companies insist in not having people, for free, that would test if the treatment is not obviously lethal (or heavily impacting).

If I was faced with the perspective of dying soon (or going through something like Alzheimer) I could not care less if the treatment is fatal to me. Again: not that is not working (this is something one can assess statistically through normal trials) but that it is clearly harmful.

This would at least be a clear indication of "don't try it" (or "be very careful monitoring for this and that")) if there are enough patients who react badly
Amsterdam cultivated a reputation for its drug tourism. Why was that ever allowed to happen? It seems like you're angry about all the tourism - a problem a lot of other cities would love to have.

The sad answer is that everyone _left_ Amsterdam by choice - and allowed these tourism centric industries to grow. The money that it brought in was too good and eventually lead to the so called decline you seem to be complaining about.

As for property price rise - people have the same complaint against tech workers. So I guess I can no longer be a tourist and I can't work in tech because someone somewhere is definitely going to be angry that I make more money and the world isn't fair.
The Emergence of Active APIs
Which tool do you use for the proxy? Do you do any content transformation?
TIL. We find oil by irradiating it. Neat.
That's nice. Can you also buy parts and get service for them, or when model is out of production, you can't get parts anymore?
The Process of Book Cover Design
Forums had/have a special "signature" area under your post for that for as long as I remember (2003 maybe?). People occasionally would write in a signature like that and I thought it was weird even then. I always assumed it was a holdover from email mailing lists or newsgroups, but I think people did it just because they liked the aesthetic.
But Netscape didn't create Java. The browser was not created to be an application runtime; commercial interests shoehorned the role onto it.
At the same time it would be interesting to know how many had these ideas before SSRI. If you've been feeling suicidal for a long time, and SSRIs haven't improved your condition, you might feel hopeless enough to commit the act - without SSRIs being any kind of cause.