skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
e2ee for iCloud is opt in (ie disabled by default) so approximately 0% of iCloud users use it.

Until it's on by default for new iCloud accounts and previous non-e2ee iCloud accounts get automatically
upgraded to use it, the fact that it is offered is basically irrelevant.

Additionally if you are using it to protect your iMessages, it's ineffective, as your iMessages are stored on Apple servers twice: once for each end of the conversation. Unless both you and the other end of your conversation have both explicitly opted in to e2ee for iCloud, a single party enabling the setting does nothing for the security of iMessage, given that approximately nobody uses the feature today.
Imagine how outraged authors would have been if people read their books, read other author's books, and then combine what they had learned to create new combination of thoughts. Or if someone were to create a new painting based on things they had learned from studying a previous artist. Truly awful that technology is doing this thing that has never happened before in the history of humanity.
French is one of those languages where primary school will have tests on how to write/pronounce straight numbers. Like 71, 82, 93. And some will fail, because it's bonkers.

Quickness is definitely not prioritized.
Some people (often autistic) need these types of noise to get through a day because they are sound sensitive. So it was originally added for them.

Much like a lot of accommodations for disabled people, it turns out to be useful for a lot of other folks too. :)
On quantity over quality, quantity is far more readily measurable, which turns up in all sorts of incentive systems, whether from market mechanisms, command economies, or internal management policies. Which is to say that it's far beyond just ego, though sure, that probably plays a part.

On Malthus, there was a good piece posted to HN a few days ago by William E. Rees which does an excellent job of anticipating and rebutting the standard rebuttals (several of which featured in the few comments posted to the thread before the submission was itself flagged off):

"The Human Ecology of Overshoot: Why a Major ‘Population Correction’ Is Inevitable", World 2023, 4(3), 509-527; <https://doi.org/10.3390/world4030032>

By William E. Rees, School of Community and Regional Planning, Faculty of Applied Science, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2, Canada

<https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4060/4/3/32>

On technical solutions: I've been watching that space for going on 50 years now, and whilst there's been some impressive progress (information technology most especially, solar PV and rechargeable batteries), there's a great deal which hasn't panned out, at least not yet: nuclear fusion, nanotechnology, a whole host of lower-impact / sustainability practices (urban spaces, residential, commercial, industrial; agriculture; transportation ... all with a common thread that large-scale coordination and going up against entrenched interests is unbelievably difficult).

The population pyramid ponzi is its own issue, though that's also largely how ecological communities operate. The goal of having people live well in to old age puts an immense strain on those who can work, and if the elderly do continue to work themselves, requires accommodations to both capabilities and skillsets which challenge current business organisation.

There's also the political dynamic of elderly populations, on which an essay / podcast I'd recently heard by David Runciman has been bouncing around my skull ever since: "Democracy for Young People". In it he notes that in democratic polities elections favour the rich, well-educated, and old (and correspondingly disadvantage the poor, uneducated, and young):

[T]he reason you have elections, is precisely because of those ancient fears about being ruled by the poor, the less well educated, and the young no longer hold. You don't need to be frightened of being ruled by the young anymore because there aren't enough of them. Democracy was until very recently always understood to mean politics for young people because there are always more young people. Democracy is now politics for old people.

<https://www.talkingpoliticspodcast.com/blog/2018/129-democra...> (includes transcript)

Which puts an interesting spin on how to resolve issues, not only at local, regional, and national scales, but global scales, where the disproportionately affected are the overwhelming majority who are young, poor, and undereducated, comparatively.
> An incorrect jumping off point is worse than none at all.

incorrect.
That and sometimes you just want a short-@55 movie: https://youtu.be/-UKbwz6s6VY
> Please do not mistake this for me claiming that running this pool with three disks is anything other than a situation to remediate immediately.

About a decade and a half ago I setup a 48 drive Sun 4540 this way. The OS needed 2 dedicated drives on the first controller so I assigned two neighboring drives on that controller near the intake fans as hot spares. The remaining drives were organized into mirror pairs with each drive on a separate controller. The final root was a concatenation of the pairs.

This setup proved to be very robust. Although I left the company when financial troubles pushed the founders into a messy divorce, one of the founders asked me to come back a few years later after they restructured. The 4540 had been moved to a new colo but otherwise ignored because none of the admins knew Solaris or bothered to check the monitoring systems.

When I returned I discovered in the time I was away 4 drives had failed but ZFS/smf happily took two of the failed drives offline and replaced them with the spares. The two other failed drives left their respective pools degraded but functional. Replacing the failed drives was easy once they arrived.

Although neglected for years, none of the applications or databases that relied on that server ever suffered any downtime from the drive failures.
This home isn't in North America.
What about instead of doing this, we take the billions it will cost to develop a new plane and build renewables.
Cellebrite’s internal processes would still be subject to discovery. Defendants have a right to show that the extraction process was flawed otherwise it could lead to wrongful convictions.

Secret / Magic / black box processes can’t generate admissible evidence in criminal proceedings in the US.
Because many of these tracks do not loop properly and make you wake up from sleep
Parkmobile sells your personal data, and pretty hard too. The email I gave them receives a metric ton of spam. It's infuriating.
> Not sure how fully featured it is

The crate you have linked contains just a single line of source code. Here it is:

pub struct SourceReader {}

Media foundation API reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/medfound/med...

> rust directly supports modern intrinsics

C# also directly supports them, but it doesn’t help with usability. The support alone is not enough, the API needs to match the C compiler extensions defined decades ago by Intel and ARM.
I guess you use curated lists (the same as ublock uses), or do you maintain your own?
Which part is standard? I randomly zoomed into Helena and I see shrubs growing up the sides of houses and I don't see metal roofs.

https://www.google.com/maps/@46.5947587,-112.0458768,3a,81.4...

My local FD in California certified my house annually during the decade I owned it despite the fact that it was surrounded by pines, mostly dead, some touching the house.
Things usefulness don’t depend on how they were constructed.

AI’s are producing lots of useful things. Classifiers, controllers, etc. as well as art which viewers value.

There is business value and there is utility value. The latter does not require the former.

And even then, not being able to copyright something doesn’t preclude business value. It just changes the landscape for a business using AI generation.
> its field strength is a whopping 43,000 Gauss.

10,000 Gauss is 1 Tesla. 43,000 Gauss is 4.3T.
I wonder if there are better ways for comparing sounds levels in relation to human comfort. I think variety, pitch, information content, etc are often more important then sound power. Like the old thing about whispering being more disturbing than quiet talking. Or personally I'm way more annoyed by bass from my shitty neighbors playing music in the middle of the night than something like the air conditioner which is louder.
According to the README, this seems to be the data used in Lynn and Vanhanen (2002), which has received a.. fair share of criticism.

The wikipedia article on their book has more context:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_and_the_Wealth_of_Nations
supplemental if you care about details

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Fourier

https://betterexplained.com/articles/an-interactive-guide-to...

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Audio/fourier.htm...
I imagine there would eventually be a way / option to automatically rewrite old blocks. Or at least I would hope so because usually when your adding new disks the array is going to be near full
Came here expecting to see the usual nonsense "b-but computers are exactly like people and deserve the same rights!" comment, was not disappointed.
> It really sucks to be an end user in such environments, and it's just too easy for IT security to absolutely lock out legitimate users who are following the policies as best they can with earnest intent.

Yup. I'd add to your list: multiple corporate auth systems/domains that are supposed to be in sync, but sometimes aren't. When that breaks, you end up having to turn the Internet off to even log in to your work computer, and find yourself flying out to another country so the IT people there can fix the mess, and this is cheaper than them spending a long time trying to help you remotely, while you can't do any work.

Don't ask me how I know this.
My point is that below category 3, you're going to have some power outages, debris cleanup, and mobile home damage.

TS-level wind will be handled by any well built structure.

The rainfall, on the other hand...
Yes, who would also yell at you when customers can't access their cat pictures.

Of course it could be an accident, and you didn't know. But if it was clearly malicious compliance, personally and I think I speak for many, I wouldn't continue to have on the team somebody with these kinds of traits.
huh, TIL. I've also had books that smelled like vomit, though I forgot about that altogether until this comment chain. Thanks!
> You go to court with facts, not a compelling story of how you acquired the facts.

That’s not correct. Check out parallel construction[0] to see the lengths cops will go to in order to make it look like they have a plausible process to have acquired evidence.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
Yes, and it used to be thousands.
Even recently.
Upvoted for the sharp sarcasm that's dripping from this comment.

It was sarcastic, right? Right?
Democracy for Young People (2018)
This piece is both audio and text. I recommend listening to it if you can if only because David Runciman is such an excellent speaker, in my opinion.

What especially captured me about this piece since listening to it a few weeks ago, and what's been bouncing around my skull ever since, is the political dynamic of elderly populations, and Runciman's notion thatin democratic polities elections favour the rich, well-educated, and old (and correspondingly disadvantage the poor, uneducated, and young), by design and intent:

[T]he reason you have elections, is precisely because of those ancient fears about being ruled by the poor, the less well educated, and the young no longer hold. You don't need to be frightened of being ruled by the young anymore because there aren't enough of them. Democracy was until very recently always understood to mean politics for young people because there are always more young people. Democracy is now politics for old people.

Which puts an interesting spin on how to resolve issues, not only at local, regional, and national scales, but global scales, where the disproportionately affected are the overwhelming majority who are young, poor, and undereducated, comparatively.
No it isn't. Insurance is about spreading random risk - hedging against unknowns. It is not about redistributing risk from people that are at higher risk to people that are at lower risk.
Remarkably honest and unbiased.
> Keywords: Female Ejaculation; Female Orgasm; Gushing; Squirting; Urinary Incontinence.
It's pretty well known that memory is lossy. Otherwise witnesses would correctly remember specific details of a crime: in reality, people remember incorrect details quite often.

I wonder if some language patterns are an emergent effect of the way memory is created and reconstructed. There seems to be some mysterious isomorphism here, but no one has really gotten a handle on the specifics of either phenomenon.
If it's not relevant to why they'd do this particular job well, it's leaning towards entitlement.
it’s cause they don’t include porn in the public feeds anymore but hey what do you know it still brings the traffic! so pg chic pics get bubbled up.
Excellent long-form article. A very thoughtful look on studio/streaming economics, the vanishing long tail, and the writers strikes and AI, short-films and bandcamp and discoverability … a lot to unpack.
It's terrible in that:

1. it is not positive expectancy (because naive strategies like this never are)

2. it involves trading in less liquid instruments, which means you lose more money to transaction fees

3. you're _selling_ options. Even if these are covered in theory, there's so much scope to screw this up implementation-wise, that it's just not worth it.

I see no redeeming features for this particular "strategy".
It's not about fixing poor sleep. Chronic sleep apnea causes other downstream effects like pulmonary hypertension and right-sided heart failure, which are the main things we're trying to avoid by using CPAP machines.
Skill vs. Luck in Games
Paper conclusions are always leaps.

They are an embarrassment to science, and journals should ban them or move them to the editorial pages. Doing a bit of research shouldn't be a license to speed BS under cover of fact.
Don't see how this is funny.
It's also part of the orbit of the "Ulster Institute", Richard Lynn's racial supremacist think tank. David Becker, the author (or one of them) of this website, is one of his co-authors.

Rebecca Sear's critique:

In 2002, Lynn and Vanhanen produced a dataset which claimed to provide average ‘national IQs’ for nation-states worldwide. Despite extensive critique, this dataset, and subsequent updated versions, have been used in a large number of empirical publications. Here I evaluate the latest version, produced in 2019 by Lynn and Becker, and show that this dataset is not fit for purpose. The primary data sources are inadequate for estimating ‘national IQs’. The majority of data included originates from samples which are wholly unrepresentative of their national populations. Many are convenience samples with small sample sizes, often including only children and often including individuals chosen because they had particular characteristics (i.e., samples which were deliberately chosen to be unrepresentative). Data were collected using a range of different cognitive tests and from such diverse populations that it is impossible to generate comparable measure of cognitive ability. There is also evidence that further bias may have been introduced during manipulations of primary data into ‘IQ’ scores.
Totally skill :\
I really wish Spotify would understand the difference between white noise and actual music, using Spotify on my smart speaker when I go to bed playing a continual brown noise loop completely screws up the recommendation algorithm.

YouTube has a similar issue. Viewers who watched "60 minutes of white noise" also enjoyed "8 hr tv noise loop". Yeah... thanks for the rec.
I must be the only one who doesn’t understand anything in that article
The soil and flood events are going to be the gotcha from this. I was in LA at the beginning of the year for the unreasonably and torrentially rainy week. Definitely not a soil that takes well to rapid rain.
My dad taught our native language to immigrants. I mentioned to him I'd read about a research paper where they'd conducted an experiment which indicated that toddlers recalled events using the words they knew at the time of the event. That is, if they had played with a ball before they learned the word for ball, they would not use the word ball when they were later asked to recall the play session.

My dad responded that it was known within his domain that immigrants who forgot their mother tongue would forget things they learned in their homeland, including stuff they had studied at school or college.

This was some 20 years ago, I haven't dug into it since then, but seems unlikely to me that memory and language isn't tightly linked.
I thought it was related to Clone A Willy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKEXJkdSSMU
>otherworldly color

orangeish, as I saw it.

I was in India and read the news and saw the photos too.

Both freaked me out. And the Australia fires had been around the same time, +/- a year or so.

Similar damage.
Insurance is about spreading unknown risk. If it is known that you have a higher risk of being paid out then you pay a higher premium. You are hedging against future bad luck (future in the sense of the point in time of the discovery of claimable damage, not when the damage actually occurred, of course).
What happens to that internal monologue when it is obstructed? Like talking on the phone while walking?
> Secret / Magic / black box processes can’t generate admissible evidence in criminal proceedings in the US.

Speed cameras?
You can just generate white noise locally, why bother with a recording?
An app I use, at least on Android, is "Atmosphere: Relaxing Noises." Outside of a couple banner ads I don't get interrupted or anything and it has a lot of mixing options. I highly recommend it. IDK if they have an IOS version or not
> Which part of the "click print, cut or rip out a corner, put it in your wallet" a nightmare for a normal user? (I'm not one, can't judge.)

- click print - you lost 50%+ of your users there, as approximately nobody has a printer on stand-by at home; if they have it at all, it's a hassle to turn it on, and half the time it's probably broken (ink dried out, etc.)

- put it in your wallet - where? Also, what if you lose your wallet? At least with everything else in it, there's a reasonable process of recovery, usually involving visiting banks and government institutions in person. No such thing for webshit MFA.

This is worth repeating: literally nothing else in your life works like this. There are no other documents that you need to hold on to for a decade or more[0], that are in any way important, and loss of which can't be recovered from. It's an impossible ask for most people, because nobody has habits or even required perspective for such use case.

(What I usually hear from people is, "you should put it your safe". But I don't have one, and I've never (that I know of) met a single person who owned a safe either. It's some American thing, I believe.)

--

[0] - My Google account rescue codes are over a decade old now. I had to use them last year. It's a miracle I still had that piece of paper in my wallet - I've long forgotten about it, but it happened to be put next to a single-page reference for time travelers, so it got transferred to new wallets along with said reference.
At some point AI is going to be some kind of ingredient to most creative endeavors.

It will be interesting to see how courts find ways to divide copyrightable from non-copyrightable works, across the smooth spectrum of no-AI to all-AI works.

Especially given individual art & media works can vary along many other dimensions making catch-all classifications either difficult or arbitrary.
You can interact with the visualizations and demos here: https://mirrorball.frost.kiwi/
The death of a living entity is a black hole in itself: matter just get rearranged. Assuming black holes are just galactic sized blenders that leak matter out, eventually.
Language and words are so important.

"… they discovered the best way not to be unhappy, was not to have a word for it."
— Douglas Adams, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

And Newspeak similarly sought to remove the concept of "bad", by making it "ungood" (Orwell, 1984)
So you're saying that you are unhappy that Jetbrains doesn't officially support JDK21 yet? Cool story bro. It's a tool preference. Same deal with any other language. Nothing is preventing your developers writing code for JDK21 today, even with the Jetbrains IDE. You can write and compile JDK21 projects and ignore any related highlighted syntax/semantic errors.
tbh you don’t have to finish the Cosmic Ocean — by that point you’ve experienced the whole game. It’s your own expectation that you need to “finish” that’s causing you grief.
I don't know if you've ever been in a very noisy environment, but the tinny speakers on your android/iPhone absolutely won't cut it if you need to drown out lower frequency sounds - so for me, it's extremely convenient to be able to instruct my smart speaker to open my Spotify brown noise playlist.
(From the link I posted)

There’s a quick way to access all of this if you’d rather not dive into menus every time you want to turn on white noise. Once you’ve set your preferred sound from the options above, follow these steps:

Navigate back to the Accessibility menu.
Scroll down to the bottom and tap Accessibility Shortcut (under General).
Tap Background Sounds to select it from the list.
This will set white noise as your accessibility shortcut so your preferred background sound will play anytime you triple-click the side button, even with the screen locked. You can map this function to Back Tap, too, if you prefer.
Hmm, I’ve read that the combination of SMR drives and ZFS is a surefire way to lose data though.

Apparently, if you need to rebuild the array due to losing a drive, it will take so long (and stress the remaining drives so much) that the chances of losing another drive in the process are non-negligible, thereby losing the data on the entire array.

Therefore, it might be wise to consider CMR drives for your use case.

As a general tip, all three manufacturers have specific NAS-class drives, which cost a bit more but are more reliable and usually CMR:

- WD has their Red Plus/Pro line (the non-Plus/Pro Reds are SMR, so avoid those)

- Seagate has their Ironwolf (Pro) line

- Toshiba has their N300 line

edit: ah, you just have them in a mirror. In that case, the magnitude of the risk may be less as you only need to copy data once to rebuild. I’m not sure though as I’m not an expert on the topic.
It's way simpler.
PFAS afaik are used in the process of making teflon pans, namely in getting the teflon to stay attached to the pan's metal itself.
I was actually raised vegetarian and generally prefer vegetarian dishes.

I've also been paying attention, and know that many things that are sold to us as greener, arent.
I think it stems from the same reason people care about what others think of them. That has some benefits, but people care about it directly rather than the indirect benefits it brings themselves.

Because if you care about what people think of you, why could that change just because you’re dead?
? Are you suggesting fires rotate counterclockwise in the Pacific or ?
“ you should be grateful if your loved ones keep you in their thoughts for those ensuing decades.” I wonder how exactly anyone can be grateful after their exit from life, far as we know that don’t matter after to that person
I have compiled it with the command:

cmake .. -DGGML_CUBLAS=ON -DCMAKE_CUDA_COMPILER=/opt/cuda/bin/nvcc

to use my NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER.

I have converted the model to use FP16.

With these choices, the time per iteration is between 8.5 s and 9 s and the total time for making an image is around 200 s.
It's unbelievable how effective this extension has been for me.

YouTube has become something I catch up with, just like RSS.