skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are able to turn on end-to-end encryption on your iCloud account by going to the setting ‘advanced data protection’.

https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT212520
Not microwaving plastic is an insanely easy lifestyle adjustment that virtually anyone can do starting immediately without effort. Changing diet or exercising may be much more impactful, but they require significant time and effort - gargantuan amounts compared to just changing from plastic to glass lunch boxes.
China’s is done as you’re transiting. My luggage was sniffed, my hands wiped for explosive residue, and I was x-rayed, all without having to stop for more than a few seconds.
True, but either way the exploit needs to be addressed.

While I agree the attack vector is pretty awful, I was just curious exactly what the exploit was. The article doesn't even mention it.

It links to Apple, which is likely that 0-day 0-click that Pegasus uses (BLASTPASS). They report that as a flaw in PassKit though, which would not affect Android or Windows.

That's why I was thinking the WebP overflow?

That is actually worse, and makes the discussion here even more off-topic, because that has nothing to do with JavaScript. I has to do with decoding WebP images.

https://www.tarlogic.com/blog/cve-2023-4863/
Possibly a misleading title, the paper [1] is mostly of Microsoft affiliated authors, with one member of PG.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.03926.pdf

edit: I'm not sure what's particularly exciting about this paper otherwise, it just seems like they parsed the PG html format and then applied some previously developed speech model to them.
> I don't trust myself enough to not lose the encryption key

If you're using a password manager, you can put the key in there. In effect this backs up the key (encrypted) to every device you install the password manager on, plus a cloud backup depending on what manager you're using.
> The sky. The ocean. Glaciers. Human eyes

All structural. Blue eyes are depigmented, so the iris is basically "transparent" if I remember correctly. Thus they change with the light. The effect is more striking in green eyes that can turn grey.
Plotting eigenvalues of matrices with two parameters
Surely a company stuffed with billions of dollars is incapable of solving this either by enabling conflict handling or some ingenious methods.
Any examples of those non shady businesses with real products that real people are using for stuff beyond betting on some crypto assets?
They say talking to strangers helps you work on social anxiety, and that people really won't remember you, but I get the impression from this thread that people will remember you for the rest of their lives and tell all their friends about how weird you were.
I find it difficult to trust Apple as a steward of its customers' data.

Speaking second-hand here; my brother is an Apple devotee and a music buff. For many years, he collected recordings of live music shows. They were rare if not entirely transient (in that it would be impossible to reacquire them if lost), and he had a good library of them. Stored on his iMac. Then (as he tells the story) one day iTunes decided to replace all of his rare recordings with the equivalent studio songs. They were gone, and the support personnel he contacted told him they could never be recovered.

He still uses Apple computers, but I don't think that wound will ever fully heal.
If you're patient, you could also use cold water :) It seems to me that time management is a bigger part of food preparation than any specific technique for cutting or cooking.
> Your airports have security because your leaders learned the same things on 9/11 that the US did.

I have to imagine that politics and power plays also contributed to these changes, as they did with the creation of Homeland Security, the apparent changes in surveillance, the uptick in militarization of police forces, the apparent changes in our attitudes toward incarceration, interrogation, and torture of suspected terrorists, and so on.

When irrationality takes over, people want to feel safe more than they care about being safe. So, as a politician, if I want to achieve and maintain a high approval rating, I must attend to people's beliefs more than I must attend to their needs.

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, then following the lead of a strongman country is a shortcut to achieving my political ends. And in these cases, if other world leaders make these changes and I choose to do nothing, even if doing nothing is the right course of action, I should probably expect my approval rating to drop.
I doubt gregarious people need more data to cold start social interactions (I certainly don’t)

Similarly, non social people aren’t that way because the data suggests it’s better, and data isn’t going to change that

Rather some mix of biological differences in attention, cognitive arousal styles and environmental conditioning determine sociality

The more interesting question to me is “what are the environmental and structural contexts that maximize ‘high engagement’ prosociality?”

With the follow on “via what means would we modify our current environment to realize that optimization”
> As far as storing your contact list online goes, you can always opt out of that by not creating a PIN, or alternatively use a high-entropy one, which takes SGX out of the equation entirely if you don't trust it.

Do you have a source for that? That has not been the case previously.
Please see this thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/htmzrr/psa_disablin...

Unless they've changed something recently, if you don't set a pin, one is created for you and all of your data is still uploaded and stored in the cloud. If you do set one, no matter what it's set to, your data is uploaded and forever stored in the cloud.

The confusion surrounding this issue seems intentional (note https://old.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/htmzrr/psa_disablin...)

What's harmful is misleading vulnerable users about the risks they take by using Signal. Signal has a responsibility to make it very clear to everyone using their product what data is being uploaded to their servers and stored, and when that takes place. Signal promotes their app to people whose freedom, and lives may be at stake, so it's critical that those people are allowed to evaluate what using Signal could mean for them. They can't do that while Signal outright lies to them and provides misleading answers to direct questions.

> These are nice projects, but no. We're talking about a Mozilla-equivalent to Facebook (WhatsApp, Messenger) here, not Zoom (which Jitsi actually does quite nicely)!

What does facebook messenger do those those apps don't? They support voice and video calls, but also instant messaging, file sharing, screen sharing, group chat, etc
Speaking of E2EE, does anyone have suggestions on a good alternative?
A well read audiobook by a professional is a joy.

AI read audiobooks are unlistenable.

I’d argue that no one should be getting AI to read audiobooks it’s a terrible experience.
Indeed, just print multiple copies on paper. The digital attack vector and physical one almost never intersect.

I think it’s less about protecting yourself against targeted attack, and more as a defence gains snooping and physhing and some gathering dirt.
Coltrane Day on NTS
Can I store the hidden git folder outside of the repo content? Not sure how to say.

My problem is, that for the time being, some of my files needs to be on iCloud Drive because I rely on one app to edit/create them. Everything else I moved out of iCloud Drive.
I go days (sometimes low number of weeks, maybe) without seeing my own face. It's not very deliberate; I just rarely have reason to see my own face. Anyone else or am I an outlier?
Messages store/sync with iCloud is another absolute abomination for me. Endless frustration. Messages on my devices do not properly offload, syncing is broken to the point messages are missing, and stuff like search/attachments just break sometimes. I've waited at least two major OS updates and nothing's improved. You think they'd focus on such a core functionality.

Sure, I have 126GB 'in the cloud' apparently, but come on. The only fix I could see was to start fresh: so I set up a fresh Messages app on macOS, left it to sync overnight with the screen on until the "Downloading messages from iCloud banner" went away and made sure the important conversations showed "0 images in iCloud".

I then exported what I could via unofficial tools but I still feel like I've lost data, which is painful for me. Such as, searching my earliest known message via another backup showed it in the search results on macOS, but clicking on it showed nothing but a blank conversation. It wasn't even in Messages' SQLite DB after multiple "Sync Now"s and restarts. How the heck did it get that bad? Are the PMs at Apple just that misaligned?

I finally tried deleting the most problematic conversation, which went "ok" on the Mac at first, but caused the apps on my iPhone and iPad to do nothing but crash on open. When the Mac synced next, the conversation reappeared with our past messages, but with random gaps in the history (e.g. messages from yesterday, then a week ago, maybe a month before that, etc -- so a incomplete/weirdly ordered deletion). What a bloody mess. I ended up doing a "Disable & Delete" on iCloud Messages. Now I have to wait the the 30 day waiting period for Apple's systems to wipe hopefully wipe the data in that bucket if I feel like trying again. All this certainly does not give me confidence in using iMessage (even with Messages in iCloud turned off) in the future.

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I'm just.... very very frustrated. How can they take the most precious of their users' data and give no fucks about it? The same thing with "shared photo albums" where it's not (or wasn't) immediately obvious that they re-compress all images and videos to much lower quality because I guess they didn't feel like deciding whose iCloud storage it would take up. So now my friend and I have photos and videos that are irrevocably, unless we go digging and find the originals we hopefully have elsewhere, compressed.

And now iCloud Drive as in the article? A team needs to be formed at Apple to have a long hard look at how they're handling their users' data and ensure it's done with the utmost of care. This should be a wakeup call to other companies as well. Users are entrusting you with their live's precious moments, or even their worst of times that may need to or want to be recalled upon later and you should be a good steward of that data. In the case of Apple, at least provide a reliable way to backup or export data such as Messages in iCloud, then perhaps I'd have a bit more than my many wasted hours fighting with your software and hoping that I have everything.

"Move fast and break things" really was a terrible mantra.
That's entirely possible. I'm probably in the process of graduating to graybeard, because I've been witness to a few cycles in computer science already :)
Where the GUI is has changed over the years/by distro, so I use Ctrl+Alt+(right arrow) to cycle between them until I find it.
I mean, you got too real like Casey in Manchester by the Sea ;)
But there’s no need for them to contribute. The meaningful contributions they make are not going to be compensated, and their compensation is unrelated to labor. The jobs are pointless.
Why not use a motorcycle engine?
Needs a (2006).
Generally paper containers are covered in PFAS.
On iOS:

Settings > AppleID > iCloud > Advanced Data Protection

You'll see 'Add Recovery Contact' and underneath it you'll see 'Recovery Key' 'Off>'

Tap into it, agree to the notice, you'll get a 28 alphanumeric key and then re-enter that same key to finish the set-up.
This is great advice. I was planning to become more iCloud centric after having a hassle with Google Drive no longer mounting on my 2013 10.14 Macbook. (This necessitates a clumsy 2-step process to use Drive on this computer.)

Now, I’ll live with this hassle and Drive supports conflicted copies.

Dropbox has always worked the best. But I’m through with them thanks to their heavyhanded shakedown of me by reducing free storage from 5GB to 2 in an attempt to get me to pay. Alter cockers don’t pay: we can’t just go on LinkedIn to get a raise.
Have you looked at that form? 5 minutes once a month is what it takes to claim your own tips.
"He still uses Apple computers". That's the problem right there.

Apple users have an abusive relationship with the brand. They forgive everything.
And for many people, a paper that enables they recover their account feels (and likely is) much more assuring than the possibility of never getting in because you forgot things like when you created the account or any number of years-old purchases. The paper will live in a safe right next to other important documents like their Social Security Card or Passport.
This article is disparaging Project Gutenberg so badly that to me it almost seems to be trying to hurt the cause of the actors currently on strike.

Spreading FUD about text-to-speech technology that is not completely lifeless is a bit like blaming google translate or OCR programs from taking away jobs. Making stuff that takes a lot of effort virtually effortless is a massive gain to humanity, especially for people who depend on technology like this to access media (especially so for media in the public domain).

It's such a weird argument that honestly it feels like a trap designed to hurt the striking actors. I hope none them are stupid enough to latch onto this article to support their argument because as an actor saying you're afraid a robot might be better at understanding and conveying the emotion in a book is not a good look. Even more so when you're aiming at accessibility software.
Here's a list of some: https://gist.github.com/hanniabu/32b0f933618a3229efe3fbc01cb...
Is there a way to backup icloud (esp photos)?

The old saying is - it’s not backed up if it’s in less than two places.
I would suggest it’s simply because flights are often much longer than a subway ride. Making small talk for six, eight, twelve hours isn’t really fun for anyone.
This is nothing to joke about. ;)
> No true Scotsman argument

I was wary of the phrasing when I was writing it because of that but I don't think it's a "no true scotsman" argument because there is a real legal definition of monopoly that they clearly don't even come close to satisfying. I probably should have replaced the word "true" with "real" or "legal".
And trivets, to prevent your kitchen worksurfaces from succumbing to the fate of a myriad ring-shaped marks. This is obviously moot if you are lucky enough to have a granite worktop :)
Technically terrible.

It's also an outdated solution, AI does captcha better than humans.

It looks like the EU enjoy so much ruining the web experience of people for no reason, that they feel the need to own a crucial piece of annoyance like a captcha. Weren't GDPR and cookie banners enough damage to the world?

Also, after the Cyber Resiliance Act (aka the biggest threat to the existence of OSS software in eu - all in the name of BS security) the EU are the last people that should talk about open source.
Discord stopped being “Gamers-only” quite some time ago.
> Each command being a concurrent actor-process would make a lot of sense to me.

I've tossed around doing MUDs in Elixir before. I'm not familiar with MOO though.

State has to be owned by a process - who owns the state of the world? Process per "thing" is too fine grained - you're going to have race conditions and deadlocks. Process per "room" can work, but it's still not easy. There are still some cross-room coordinating actions you need to tighten up, and this makes general scripting very hard.

Keep in mind, when data is passed "between" processes it is deep copied. This can be a big problem depending upon your process model and how many things your players can carry around.

As an experiment I made my own software transactional memory. It worked, assuming no network partitions, but designing and testing it to work in an environment with those was beyond me.
Yes, that's what I was saying.
What's dark about that? I wish they'd bring back a dress code.
> It's survivorship bias...

tbf to TFA, it is exactly about how one could be one of those survivors if one did those totally not simple things. It is a crash course survival guide for a build-in-public solopreneur, if you will.
Yeah, people leave things in their carry-ons they should have checked all the time. They don’t pay attention to the guidelines and put it in their checked bag with a little sticker because they wanna save their $50. I actually do think every single one of the guns the TSA caught, if allowed on the aircraft, would have proceeded to their final destination with their passenger without incident.
No limit to maximal lifespan in humans: how to beat a 122-year-old record (2022)
Over 50% of .dom domains are squatted or unused
Domain squatting is a $2bn industry but there are still ways to find a good domain name
Back in the day, terminal emulators were fast enough that they were up to date by the time each 50Hz/60Hz period came around - why on earth are they now so much slower?

A couple of days ago I spent a while trying to figure out why a piece of hardware appeared to be outputting serial data in bursts. After eliminating issues with the underlying hardware and buffering in the USB stack, it (too slowly) dawned on me that the issue was entirely due to how slow terminal emulators have become (this was on a fastish PC).

Updating a screenful of text at 60/120Hz, why/how is it so much slower these days? (and what benefits have we gained in return for the slowdown?).
That’s absolutely horrific. They should be sued, but it would take infinitely deep pockets to win.
What’s the best alternative to iCloud Drive for macOS?

Dropbox is so heavy and uses system resources, I’d love a lightweight one that I can trust
Open source, in the literal sense of the word.
This looks interesting. Can this be easily embedded? Could I let my users do some minor customization of my app by giving them an Imba editing window?

Currently thinking about something like Workerbox https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33673047
Early memory when I was 7-8 years old was the kids that were being raised under the 'Santa/God/Cosmic Mushroom' is watching you had a poor moral compass and they'd do really shitty things impulsively. And when caught out would make excuses. Kids raised with a sense of personal decency would do that less and tend to be just mortified when they did something shitty.
Not everything.

But not going back to Windows.
Honestly, all I ask from a terminal emulator is to have a slick and fast search UX (similar to item on macOS)
As someone not weary of using plastic in microwave, for some reason I am very distrustful of silicon used in cookwear, especially equipment that interacts directly touches hot metal like lids, baking sheets etc. I don't even know the science behind it. But I've seen enough semi melted silicon spatula tips to feel like it's not a good combo.
If 10$ per hour seems like a low wage for you, that explains it.
I believe the human voice-actors are justified within this context. No comment on anything else but how does a “free market” come into play with this? It seems consumers should be able to choose between an AI narrated and human narrated audio book - given equal access to both.

I personally am not a big fan of AI but playing devil’s advocate to a degree it seems AI narrated books may be useful for translating works into less common languages.

I hope we can widely implement “generated by AI” labeling for works/items to notify consumers.

Edit: fwiw I have a difficult time listening to audio books read by humans in the first place. But that’s largely irrelevant
I don't overly care for the success of the label, but the only reason to sign to larger labels is to improve your exposure and sales. Those people buying your music are what puts food in your mouth. You don't have to bow and conform to their every whim, but continuing to accept their money while sniffing haughtily that you're not about that is disingenuous and fake naivety.
Well Newton was seriously into alchemy so you never can tell.
I want Apple to never make this available to 3rd parties. I wonder if, and hope, MDM can disable this support function too.
the source is open and fairly unrestricted. the assets and game itself are not though.

> Non-legal summary of license: Anyone can use or compile the code EVEN WITHOUT OWNING THE GAME. The code is open to everyone. If you're doing noncommercial or commercial things with a low budget ( < $50k/year), you can do anything, so long as you credit us. Don't sell anything unaltered (don't sell our sprites or music unaltered, or compile and try to sell the game unaltered.)
People paying off student loans probably can’t afford houses anyway different demographics.
In case anyone at Apple is reading this: I filed feedback FB11889594 in December 2022.
If the ads were nothing but a picture/plain text with refer link it might be possible to argue that their payments to the websites are need to fund them and blocking was simply an issue of denying revenue. But this is unvetted third party code that is often malicious and could infect your computer enable identity fraud steal your data, encryption your documents and extort bitcoins to get your family photos back, not to mention the supposedly benign ad tracking code that enables mega corps to stalk you around the web and in some cases track your actually physical location and sell that data at a surprisingly low rate to anyone that asks for it. Sorry but no. Not using a ad blocker on the open web is like not using a condom when hooking up. Sure it may feel better not to but the risk are to high.
Hiive Private Market Report: Liquidity Remains Scarce in Buyer’s Market (2023)
Unfortunately, her physics videos are worse than people realize too, at least the quantum physics ones.

I've been learning a lot of quantum physics and she's a mixed bag. On the one hand, most people's (and even textbooks') understanding of quantum observation and the quantum eraser experiment are incorrect, and Sabine is one of the few voices on Youtube that calls them out instead of joins them, which is why I suspect why she is so popular.

On the other hand, she embraces the very niche superdeterminism hypothesis. This hypothesis basically says that cause and effect and reversed for any Bell's Inequality related experiment in that using uncorrelated data as inputs into the experiment causes them to become correlated because you used them for the experiment. In other words, she believes that the universe is puppeteering Bell's Inequality experiments so that we can't trust results from those experiments. This has serious issues related to non-falsifiability, where we could technically do this with any experiment we don't like the results of.

However, that's not even the worst part of it. The worst part is that she does not explain her niche viewpoints in her videos. If any of the more popular hypotheses about entanglement are correct, then Einstein's hidden variables hypothesis where entanglement acts like a pair of gloves will be disproven. However, in her videos about entanglement, she constantly refers to entanglement acting like a pair of gloves like it is a fact, because her niche viewpoint is the single viewpoint where it is not disproven.
I use these too, but as they have microwave safe plastic lids they're perhaps not the best example for those paranoid about plastic exposure: https://www.ikea.com/nl/en/p/ikea-365-food-container-with-li...
I had an uncle who had a hobby of rewriting entire novels, but often inserting his own tweaks to the story or characters. One day, all his work was replaced by the original novels, sans his edits. He was mortified and very bothered by it, but when I asked why he didnt just switch to Linux, he said that he 'hates computers'.
Install Ubuntu then.