skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting point. I have used Apple computers on and off over the years, most recently from 2015- earlier this year. I think you are on to something re: philosophy. On the hardware side I remember when they did away with floppy disks (I'm getting old), optical drives, whole cpu architectures (3x!), etc. They do cut pretty brutally, and I guess when it comes to iCloud this seemingly extends to your files.

I'm not going to say its all bad, but it is less and less my style (the older I get, especially).
It's not a useful challenge. Sure, morals are relative to particular brain architecture and causal history of a particular kind of monkeys on a particular ball of dirt spinning in space. But those particular monkeys are also the entire scope of concern. Your objection will become relevant once we build human-level AIs or meet and start mixing with some space aliens.
Reminds me of a city I used to live in. Their bus system was actually really good on average, but the worst-case routes had two 30-minute layovers. Even in -40F drifting snow it was faster to walk across the city than take those trips, and you'd only really take the bus if you had a lot to carry or wanted to avoid the elements.
> That is simply impossible if an actual executable is installed on the device.

There's one exception, if there's a vulnerability in the hard-coded ROM or the silicon itself. One was found not long ago and enabled newer iPhones to be jailbroken. It lacks persistence and requires lightning port access, but it can't be patched.

A no-click remote ACE at the unpatchable physical level would be the mother of all zero days, and too valuable to use for all but the highest of targets.
And it makes another pot to clean.

But the warmth in the food heated on a burner is nicer than the warmth generated by the microwave (more even, cools slowly).

Maybe we slow down and expect our lunch to take 10 minutes to heat and 5 minutes to clean up?
Really thought this was going to be about bipartite graph matching algorithms, which are useful and interesting, whereas this article boils down to "5s should just date 5s"
I fly 10-15 times a year and I have seen an empty seat on a flight maybe once.
Isn't that covered by trademark? Or what do you mean by appropriate?
Didn't stop 2Pac.
> If you're just trying to make money, then you shouldn't call yourself a hacker.

jart is one of my heroes but strong disagree here. Not sure why we can call ourselves progressive or trans or feminist whether or not we are trying to scrape by. But hacker? Heaven forfend.
Or Dropbox and choose "online only".

For my off site backup I have a computer which syncs everything to local storage. I guess I don't defend against malicious intent or "delete it all" software bugs but that tends to end up as en exercise in insanity.
Raid 1 is probably enough for most if you are backing up to cloud.
Correct. An example can be seen here:

https://github.com/adamkarvonen/chess_gpt_eval/blob/master/g...
Basically the plot of Ghost in the Shell.
No, if you have Time Machine backups your fine (also if you don't have optimize storage - Time Machine may not back up files that aren't locally stored, regardless of sync provider)
Prompting GPT Models to Return JSON
> It should be uncontroversial to state that that arrangement has facilitated extraordinary increases in global prosperity.

No it did not. Market economy combined with the positive feedback loop between science and productivity were the key components. They helped bring about prosperity for at least several thousand years. Recent fad of factory owner(s) hiring other people, paying them wages and skimming the difference is actually a net drag.

> I'd like to hear just one example of a society which does not have capitalism (as defined by the ability to risk capital in hopes of future profits) which is a nice place to live.

And if there is none because our societies co-evolved and at the present moment in history it is the universally dominant economical and political model? You sound like a person who would ask for an example of a non-feudal state in medieval Europe to prove the point that having a king is the best arrangement ever.

You can risk something else than capital ("time of people who do what I tell them to"), for example your own time. With that, everyone can risk something important to them to try to build something better and we don't even need a special social class to bravely take on the risk ("of wasting time of people who have to listen to them or starve"). Wooooot?!

Maybe we would have some such societies, if fascists in Europe and then fascists in US did not take great care to crush them.

http://www.george-orwell.org/Homage_to_Catalonia/0.html
> Thus, if other world leaders enact hardline policies and I am a leader in a country where my constituents are innumerate, illiterate, ignorant, or civically uninvolved,

And I suppose this is meant to describe pretty much every European and Asian country?
90% of mortgages may be locked in under 3%, but no one who has payed off their home is going to sell that and wind up financing another house with interest rates where they are at.
A weak solution of Sodium Hypochlorite (bleach) works excellent.
> to use Rust.

Also probably wasm for a finer-graded sandbox if rewrite is currently impracticable.

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/12/webassembly-and-back-again...

If the module memory corrupt for whatever reason. At least you would be able to unload it as a whole without pollution.
Yeah, if you don't have Optimize Storage enabled then any backup software will be sufficient.

If you don't have enough local storage you need to be more mindful.
Unity has way more services than turning on hardware stats. If you use them they can make some estimate of unique users. Unity would now prefer you give them the information yourself.
What did you use to play against it?
The only thing more helpful is the student being distracted by worrying about being punished for being distracted.
Storing directly on Dropbox is 5x time slower than on 'normal' filessystem.
Eye sea a lot of otto-generated subtitles with homonym miss takes.
Flowers are starting to spread in Antarctica and experts say it's not good news
> Most popular OS, yeah right :(

As other commenters have said, it’s probably not the most popular OS for that particular population.
Eyewitness testimony might be less valuable than we intuit, but I'm not sure where this puts us in this conversation. Should we just surveil everywhere?
I think you are being unfair, this article is I think informative and well sourced. I can think of quite a few acquaintances that would probably benefit from reading it.
I have dozens of old Pages documents that are inexplicably now “Zero KB”. I would not trust iCloud with your data.

(Aside: I really gotta backup my iCloud Photo Library…)
> (especially so for media in the public domain)

And doubly so for older, long-tail content which would otherwise be unlikely to get an audiobook produced of it. There's more to public-domain English fiction than Shakespeare and Dickens, but no one's stepping up to voice-act audiobooks for obscure authors from the 1800s.
How Robust Is Google's Bard to Adversarial Image Attacks?
This is just hard to believe
I understand it's your dream but it's not real. You have people ban the original without the alternative being viable. Banning gas stoves. Banning gas cars. California has been working on HSR since 1996 and all they have to show for it is 0 viable miles of track and endless Stone Henge miles of track
Microwaves are extremely useful for food prep, although for specific purposes. A lot of veggies actually do pretty well parcooking (or fully cooking) in the microwave for instance.

I use it all the time for potatoes unless I’m baking them. It shaves a lot off the cooking time with no I’ll effect
So I guess I'm going to lie about my height now and buy some thick soled shoes. Great life hack!
Your advice is valid if you are an employee at a cloud service. If I was better at managing hard drives than Dropbox and Apple, my job applications wouldn’t be rejected.
Various military's most notably the Russians experimented with body suits that microwaved their occupants to keep them warm in the polar regions.

For some reason the idea didnt catch on, anyone know why not?
I found it surprising how incompatible the implementations are for Scheme.

Are keywords not used as much in Scheme as they are in, say, Common Lisp?
Not shareable. Common block lists would be awesome!
What a cute ad
Unlike the library designers for Swift, Java, etc., I don't think every identifier needs to be a paragraph.

It probably isn't necessary for constant names to completely encode their content either.

There has to be a better way.
they spell it out in the license - don't essentially republish "even the ocean" with a few tweaks and the serial numbers filed off. use their code (and maybe even assets? that wasn't entirely clear) for your own work, not their game-as-a-whole.
How one dimensional.
Ask HN: If nuclear weapon use is unacceptable, then how do they protect owners?
In particular, what would prevent a war between two nuclear powers using conventional weapons only?
Neither "Get Started" nor the FAQ tell me how to run this.
> all it takes is one terrible moment, and one parent screaming to the superintendent that the teacher negligently left little Timmy unsupervised to cause a huge problem for the teacher and school admin.

And that is a big part of the problem. In the saner times, decades ago, the superintendent would tell such parent to GTFO, and that would be the end of it. It worked out well, because adults were more cooperative; now, the parent-school relationship seems fully antagonistic. These days, a single crazy or malicious parent can terrorize the entire school - and a big reason for cameras and student surveillance is thus to give the school some means to defend itself and the other kids.
I meant "moderate" as relative to the kind of wealth that VC-funded companies can achieve, which I would label as "excessive". Obviously, 45k MRR exceeds even high wage standards in wealthy countries, but then again, even those wages hardly allow people to achieve financial independence. They're enough for them to be profitable to the government, and to maintain a decent way of life, but they still have to be mindful about their expenses, investments and financial status.

45k MRR means that you and your loved ones are safe from money being an issue in any situation, which is a liberating way to live. It doesn't allow you to own mansions, yachts and private jets, but I would argue that such wealth is disproportionate for any individual to manage.

If they can maintain this by working 4 hours a day, more power to them. That's an enviable position to be in by any definition, especially if they got there by legitimate means.

I agree that long-term sustainability might be a problem, but they seem to have the drive to keep supporting the products for as long as possible, and the ingenuity and skills to invent new ones, and hopefully the wisdom of investment, so they'll be fine. It's doubtful this would work for many others, but as they point out, this is their own journey.
I’m similar with the addition of advanced degrees and my friends have told me in an unsolicited way that I have fairly high emotional intelligence as well. I’ve always struggled with dating, especially with dating apps — lots of first dates that go nowhere.

I’ve wondered if it’s a function of the medium. When I meet a stranger in person I go into a more “business mode” that is inoffensive but also boring and not reflective of my personality. However, I don’t know where else I’d meet people. It’s especially hard since I just moved to a new city and only know a friend from high school here.
Great project, but it's been around since 2020: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/08/announcin...
I just did it manually, but if there is interest I will make a lichess bot so we can get an accurate elo and everyone can have a go.
I thought it was common knowledge that you shouldn't mix git (and similar VCS) with cloud drives and their cloud based version control (iCloud, OneDrive, Google Drive etc.). The two don't mix well and there's room for all sorts of weird and unexpected behaviours especially if you have multiple devices synced to the same cloud drive.
Disabled kids makes some sense, but if we're going to excuse such poor judgment then maybe they shouldn't be allowed on the internet in the first place. Give them a copy of Encarta.

As for the LGBTQ stuff, it's just histrionics. They never go into detail for a reason; people react to "it causes harm" without evidence all the same. Then you find out it's kids reading gay erotica on AO3 during school ohours. Then the parent is informed and it becomes a traumatic outing. And the "harm" is all the school's fault.

"It's not my fault for doing it, it's your fault for snitching."
The Cambridge Law Corpus: A corpus for legal AI research
The difference is that you know the provider is willing to ship surveillance-enabling footguns. They don't regard e2ee as core and necessary functionality.

Safe and secure providers will never touch the plaintext of any user ever, regardless of the user's configuration (or lack of it).

An example (although not in the e2ee sense) is that time Dropbox allowed logins to any account with any password provided. It illustrates that having a basic test suite over authentication systems wasn't important to them.
Which is why I treat my computer as a thin client unless it is in the Dropbox folder.

For example, every single line of code is simply a scratchpad if I don't sync it to a remote git instance.
People can listen to every book they want in decent quality instead having to wait for it to be adapted as an audio book. Of course blind people would especially welcome this. Audio books would get cheaper, which seems like a desirable trait to me. In the end, all of these AI "conversions" are menial in a way anyway, so why not automate it. Having access to these automations, hopefully subscription free, would also be a kind of freedom for everyone. The freedom to consume information in any form you want. A universal translator isn't all that different from this in that regard.

As for actual creative tasks, that is another matter altogether. I can only hope that real creativity doesn't die out and that TV series and other things don't get any more homogenous than they already have become. At least there are still enjoyable outliers in this plethora of entertainment output. And in some way, audio books can also be creative if they really add emotions that aren't written down exactly. Similar to how the same sheet music can be adapted by different musicians in slightly different ways or instruments and such. Even if all of that could be synthesized, what it means is that selection of the results would become the creative task. Just like stable diffusion and others output hundreds of images for a prompt but only a few are actually interesting. By definition of this automation, you will always end up with more than you can consume and finding the right result for the right people then becomes the next hurdle.

I still wonder though, whether new entertainment really is necessary until the end of times. There probably are already more books and music in the world to last you a lifetime. And after 100 to 200 years of continuous TV and movie output, you probably could just reshow the ones from a decade ago for the next generation, no need to rehash everything. This assumes that there are no new media though, such as maybe walkable VR movies. But even film from decades ago can be remastered in 4k and I begin to doubt that anything above 4k makes much sense. Even 2k is still perfectly fine to me.
how does this compare to nix?
Good point, I was thinking of Hello World.

Regardless, < 10 MB for a nontrivial program is a huge improvement. Maybe I need to revisit C#…
I rode a bicycle everywhere for about 14 years. It was a 21-speed MTB.

I registered it with the city and they issued a sticker with a unique number.

I used two locks: a cable lock and a U-lock.

Furthermore, the bicycle had quick-release for both the front wheel and the seat. So what I usually did is secure the front wheel to the rest of bike and/or the stand, secure the rear wheel to the stand, and then I released the seat to bring it along with me.

I suppose that carrying the seat around made me look menacing, because it would be a good blunt weapon in a fight, which never happened. I imagine that thieves were deterred by not being able to ride off with a seat attached.

Someone did manage to steal only the seat once, which was only a minor annoyance.

When I was done using the bicycle, I wanted to give it to a friend. I'm not sure he really wanted it, but I wrote a letter of transfer so it would be known that the registered bicycle was legally handed over. By that time, the city had changed their registration procedures anyway, probably to an electronic method.
How much would you like to bet on sone Michelin starred restaurants having microwaves in use?
housing is NOT a market.
Finally, something that fixes the housing market.
>> Women only date across and up status hierarchies,...

Pretty bold, and false, statement
https://bottlerocket.dev/en/os/1.15.x/install/quickstart/aws...
> it seemed exceedingly likely to the layman that it would leach out

It seemed exceedingly likely to scientists too. I've been reading about the dangers of microwaving stuff in plastic containers, or using plastic wrap in the microwave, as long as I can remember. Here's a study from 1990, citing several others that go back to 1988.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Migration-testing-of-p...

I'm pretty sure there were earlier ones as well. What's important here is not to conflate leached chemicals with micro- or nano-particles. Scientists and consumer advocates (and many consumers) have been well aware of the former for a long time, while awareness of the latter is relatively new.

> Microplastics, were they unobservable in the 80's?

Sort of. The term is sometimes attributed to Richard Thompson in 2004.

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/discover/are-microplastics-a-big-...

Prior to that (or thereabouts) nobody knew to look for whole plastic particles as opposed to individual chemical components. Therefore tools to quantify or analyze them were not well refined, and likewise for methodologies. The specific issue of microplastics in microwaves is even newer than that. It's evolving science, which is practically redundant because that's what science always does. Cases of zero awareness to high awareness overnight are rare. More often it's increasing awareness, and correspondingly increasing sophistication in measurement or analysis, as each study takes years and someone to fund it.
Maybe we should all go back to hand making our own soap, too, instead of having cut-rate profiteering industry do it.

https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/home/cleaning/a20705805/how...

We should also go back to making our own thread, weaving our own cloth, and sewing our own clothes.

Naaah.
I can support Stephen Fry's right not to have an Ai version of his voice created without his permission.

> Speaking at the tech-based CogX festival in London, he played a clip of a history documentary that faked his voice, without his knowledge. It appears as though the actor is narrating the show but the AI-generated voice was actually created by technology learning from Fry reading all seven of the Harry Potter audiobooks.

https://www.standard.co.uk/tech/stephen-fry-voice-ai-cloned-...

However, the notion that it's somehow nefarious to create a new voice to read audiobooks (with the permission of the person supplying the training data) is ridiculous.
Hi, original author here. Not sure about the issue when whole files are gone but regarding content being deleted inside the files Time Machine doesn't help. The problem is that you won't know which files have been changed. And Time Machine will gradually phase out old backups, only keeping one per week, month, year or whatever the policy is. So at some point the files with your content will be gone and only backups of the files without your content will be stored.
Why do you go around and post the same link? I did not ask for list of crypto projects anyway, I asked for actual products that actual people use beyond betting on the underlaying asset crypto asset.
Wow, these are pretty bad.

The "Sliding CAPTCHA" is simple but tedious to slide the slider to the exact right number.

The "Image rotation CAPTCHA" can be very difficult for some images. (for example I got a wind turbine where the shaft wasn't perfectly vertical in the image, so I had to guess if it should be slightly left or right leaning. I did get it right but I had low confidence)

The "Alphanumeric CAPTCHA" was ok but some of the numbers were fairly obscured. For the one I got (the line ran right though the string, this seems rare, usually it only interacts a few characters).

But not only are these awful for humans it seems like they would be pretty easy to solve for robots. The image one maybe a bit hard, but that was also the least confident for myself.
If you have never looked at Dwarf Fortress, I recommend you take a look. https://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/

Note: Dwarf Fortress is enormous, like trying to look at those 7000 item long Factorium expansions while not going crazy, and I suggest it not as discouragement. Simply ideas about those types of goal based behaviors.

Much of the behavior is based around creating caverns of various types, and then sending workers to find resources, gather resources, process resources, and then use those for even greater complexity tasks.
Sure, it's awkward, but how about "1793 to oh-five"? Instead of inserting incorrect content.
My mom is 70 and for as long as the app comes loaded on her phone, she'll never learn this lesson. She doesn't even begin to have enough understanding about stuff like this to be skeptical about it. There have to be protections in place for her, and people like her who are likely to believe anything a company claims without ever reading the fine print.
nuanced suffering…

fascinating!

some like to passively claim nuance and ascribe motive than to take a real, hard look at it all, including the self.

but that’s none of my business.
Thank you for not including telemetry or other surveillance in your app. It's rare these days and appreciated.
Sure, but in my experience the person I am talking to wants to keep the conversation going longer than I do, and they won't let the conversation trail off.
Interest rates are not that high currently. Sheesh you give people a taste of 2.5% and they act like 7% is usury.
Both the scalper and the buyer might be attempting to use the same code in the presale in that case. I'm not sure how they handle that but I imagine that invalidates it for both parties.
This has nothing to do with iCloud.

It's an issue with Xcode/Swift Playground not supporting concurrent access to a shared project.

Any app on any platform that doesn't support this use case will exhibit similar behaviour.
Polling an ensemble of experts is much better than asking a single one, and there are some that vote 'not sure' or similar in those polls so it's hardly a coin flip.
Even more interesting is the fact that he and Harry Houdini were friends, but they were split over the life after death question. Houdini was sick of all the charlatans, and made the focus of his life’s work in his final years to prove them wrong. It obviously created a wedge between them.

Houdini by that time was a megastar. He was easily the most famous person in the western world for about a generation. His fame dwarfed that of people like Doyle, Agatha Christie, or Oscar Wilde.
>Gastrointestinal (GI) cancers are the fastest-rising early-onset cancers, increasing by almost 15% from 2010 to 2019. This increase is a global phenomenon.

Or, maybe, there's something to this.