skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know it is confusing to follow which specific Apple products each description applies to. That documentation you linked is specific to iCloud Keychain. It does not describe what Messages in iCloud does. When iCloud Backup is enabled without ADP the Messages in iCloud key is stored outside iCloud Keychain and not end-to-end encrypted. Don't believe me? Believe Apple:

https://support.apple.com/guide/security/security-of-icloud-...

> When iCloud Backup is turned on, the backup includes a copy of the Messages in iCloud encryption key so Apple can help the user recover their messages even if they have lost access to iCloud Keychain and their trusted devices.
I'm building a program in clojure that ties together Twilio, Chromedriver and Azure cognitive services to be able to access different test platforms (mainly ankiweb) to be able to quiz me by phone whilst I'm driving or walking.
Not really, other than the usual causal stuff, for console like games, only streaming.
Overreaction is the mildest thing I'd call it. It's an ongoing series of brutal war crimes, and if it's true that the reaction is considered spot-on that does not make it more justified.

At the same time, it is a demonstration of exactly why this reaction is counter-productive, because you can expect that exact same anger to grow in a Palestinian population where the vast majority had nothing to do with the attacks, nor have ever voted for - or even had a chance to vote for - Hamas (~80% of the current population of Gaza were either not born or not of voting age when Hamas won a minority of the vote), and who before this wanted Hamas out. Expect to see a massive resurgence in support for Hamas and even more extreme groups, and the net outcome being to have made Israel's security situation significantly worse.

It has also massively damaged support and sympathy for Israel internationally. E.g. many political forums I'm in used to see it as distasteful or too extreme to describe Israel as an apartheid state just a couple of years ago, while it is a widely supported view today, and the Israeli reaction is regularly described as ethnic cleansing with little opposition to the use of that term.

Put another way: Hamas has gotten exactly what it wanted out of this, and Israel has harmed its case and harmed its security massively.

If I were to make a prediction, it would be that unless Israel massively changes direction very quickly, the Israeli response to the Hamas attacks will contribute to making resistance to the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement start to crumble.
Fuck Yes: Deconstructing Consent Fetishism (2019)
I've just published https://zekefinance.com, it started as a personal app to handle investments, dividends and taxes, for the Brazilian Stock Market (B3), for myself and family members.

It supports company shares, real state funds, BDRs (Brazilian Depository Receipts) and day-trade with future contracts.

The main motivation was the taxes management (annual income taxes and 'darfs') as this things can be complicated considering the rules of swing-trade, day-trade, profit, losses and excemptions around here.

It was also a personal learning experience in Android development(Kotlin and Jetpack Compose) and Supabase (big fan of it).

In the end, it took me 2 years doing it on my spare time and as I was kept adding features, I decided to published it as well, since I don't know good alternatives (most people don't know how to do taxes in Brazil).

Any feedbacks are much appreciated.
I enjoyed Children of Time, but I also was frustrated as the characters are a bit flat, they don't have any type of arc or change or learn in any way. The main character was interesting but the rest just kinda there. I loved the world though.
Grasshopper (tab manager extension for Firefox)

I'm currently working on it, and I use it myself for all tab management.

I use it in all my firefox profiles since it can be used as a sidebar and as a popup for smaller windows.
Did you change the GPT Vision system prompt at all? I wonder if changing it to state getting help with specifically Ableton, and maybe some guidelines around what kind of help you want could make it better?
Poor guy. Apparently he was suffering from mental health problems recently.

https://m.lenta.ru/news/2023/12/12/new/
>> just like Portugal did

Portugal arrests and jails people for dealing drugs, as well as for public displays of disorder.[0]

>> Police take the person to a police station and weigh the drugs. If the weight exceeds amounts specified for personal use, then the person is charged and tried as a drug trafficker and can receive prison sentences of 1–14 years. Otherwise, the next day, the person appears at the Commission for the Dissuasion of Drug Addiction for an interview by a psychologist or social worker. Next comes an appearance before a three-person panel that will provide guidance about how to stop drug use.

This is the stick which accompanies the carrot. The trouble with decriminalization in Portland is that there's no stick. Sure - make drugs legal, I don't care what people do with their bodies! But make sure they don't become a menace.

Housing the homeless is really a separate topic. I'm all for making sure that no one in this country is ever homeless. The drug culture, however, in Portland is comprised mostly of able young men and women under the age of 30. They're willfully homeless because they've given up the idea of having a life, in favor of the drugs they're on.

You say there are no excuses about housing and feeding the homeless. But facts on the ground are: There is a highly visible group of people who are choosing to be homeless, robbing people and serving their own addiction, and (1) people who are actually homeless not by their own fault are the first victims of this, and (2) the general population here who are extremely caring are absolutely sick of it. The backlash is inevitable, and no amount of moralizing will change that.

I don't believe in "effective altruism" or "acceleration" - I think a 4-day work week or a universal basic income is a recipe for disaster. People need to feel a purpose. Hell, even dogs and horses need a purpose, or they get depressed. Accommodating their worst impulses is worse than doing nothing at all.

[0] https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/is-portugals-dru...
Web Push uses a browser provided "push-service", so if you're using the push API your notifications are already going through Apple.
> I don't buy their take that the safety issues are because Android Auto and CarPlay are buggy and have connection issues ...

Ack. From my experience, connection issues with Car Play are 100% due to the shitty software on the car's side and never on phone's side.

I regularly have connection problems (i.e. black screen in Car Play when entering the car - a Fiat with UConnect 5). They can _always_ be resolved by rebooting the cars's entertainment system. _Never_ by rebooting the phone.
From Wired's reporting, Google already required judicial approval, and Apple gave it without them. "Google confirmed to WIRED that it receives requests for push notification records, but the company says it already includes these types of requests in its transparency reports. The company says requests from US-based law enforcement for push notification records require court orders with judicial approval." [1]

> putting the iPhone maker's policy in line with rival Google

this quote from the linked article further strengthens that point - Apple had to catch-up, not Google.

[1]: https://www.wired.com/story/apple-google-push-notification-s...
In many ways this debate reflects the ongoing, much greater one around politics and governance. Many people would prefer a “benevolent dictator” who wields more power and can “get things done”.. ..but once you’ve surrendered that power to them, it can’t be easily taken back.

Super Admin’s first action: delete other super admins!
> They probably think of it as 'increasing engagement'. To me it's just wasting my time.

Here you've stated the fundamental truth about the so-called attention economy. The core tenet of it, is that money is made on friction. Attention is a finite resource everyone prefers to conserve for their own needs, therefore it needs to be stolen, so it can be redirected to ads, upsells, and other form of behavior manipulation.

That's why supermarkets are reshuffling stores so frequently. That's why so many websites are full of dark patterns and general annoyances. That's why ergonomics all but disappeared from software. Their inefficiency - wasting your limited lifespan in countless tiny ways - is how they make money.
Voice control is imprecise. You are forgetting about us folks whom are not native in one of the supported languages for voice control and constantly have to adapt our accents to the whims of speech recognition. And the right incantation of command for the task.

It's not impossible, just a very annoying way to control something precisely.
Apple has explored deals with large app makers like Netflix as well (https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/5/22421734/apple-epic-netfli...). They even offered 15% to Netflix (https://www.theverge.com/c/22611236/epic-v-apple-emails-proj...)

Certain parts of App Store policy are the result of this sort of thing. For example there is a carve out for media services-- unlike the rest of the app ecosystem, it is OK for subscriber only media services to have an app that requires login to use it. This was a result of Netflix refusing to use IAP.

If you didn't know, it is otherwise not allowed to have a login only experience. You can't even require users to sign up for an account before a user purchases an IAP product or subscription, let alone require a signup before the app is used.

While this is a pro consumer move, it does mean headaches for any user that purchases a subscription without attaching an email address and then expects the app's customer support to be able to identify their subscription. It also confuses users because they'll say they're emailing on the same email as their Apple account, but that doesn't help because a subscription purchase doesn't come with the user's email.
> It seems like the root cause of this runaway AI pathology has to do mainly with the over-anthropomorphization of AI.

ASI X-risk people are the ones repeatedly warning against anthromorphization. An LLM isn't a person, it isn't a creature, it isn't even an agent on its own.

It's an autocomplete that got trained on a big enough dataset of human writing that some of the simpler patterns in that writing got embedded in the model. This includes some things that look like very simple reasoning.
Could one mode perhaps be no velocity, but adjusting the sliders adjust the angle 1:1? So I can drag one rotational angle back and forth and see how the ncube behaves.
I don't game, but Speed test shows < 150ms ping and a < 100ms idle ping. There's no latency doing video chats.
Could you please contact us at https://proton.me/support/contact and elaborate on the issues you've come across on the Proton Drive macOS app? Thank you in advance.
DeepSouth: Supercomputer that simulates entire human brain will switch on in '24
What did this case have to do with any of that?
Having rented a dozen different cars with car play i can say some manufacturers make car play feel just as painful as their in house infotainment systems.
I didn’t read it that way - I felt it was genuinely weighing up the possibility that Apple might feel compelled to act.

I think their principles are genuinely held but, as with any business, they won’t make knee-jerk decisions as they have to also consider impact on shareholders.
You are right - upon closer inspection, even models that were not previously Mistral finetunes are now using Mistral in their later versions. I wasn't aware of it before as I could not filter results in the leaderboard (it doesn't even load at all for me now).
I always turn the button navigation on for Android phones on setup. Only gestures are terrible navigation.
Moderation via the old interface is problematic, especially if you have custom mod tools and actions set up.
Yeah this. One was a secret c@@t - the other is quite open about it.
I have an entire suite of python based CLI tools for data processing and RF/network/packet analysis with various ML and reporting scripts to assist with anomaly detection, OSINT, and mapping. Started out as a side project years ago, is now part of my consulting tool kit. Been working on a v2, so I maybe open source the current set.
Argentina's Milei Devalues Peso by 54% in First Batch of Shock Measures
Because of Rice Krispies?
On macOS you can also access related symbols by long-pressing keys. Obviously for large blocks of text you're still going to want to switch layouts but for a quick IM reply or typing a couple of characters I think it's faster.
Absolutely agree on the two state solution, withe qual security assurances and existence rights for both. Otherwise it will end with a last man standing thing, and hopefully only a very small minority is actually fine with that.

Re bombing: Using unopposed air power to wreck civil infrastructre is pretty much the definition of terror bombing, we can call startegic bombing if you want. Point is, this didn't work once since it was first tried, small scale, in WW1 and at an unprecedented scale in WW2. It didn't work in Vietnam neither. Or Iraq, the Balcans... The difference between an air strike resulting in 20 colleteral casualties and a suicide bomber (which Hamas hasn't used so far if I am not mistaken) doing the same thing is the means and available resources.

For the very same reason I am utterly opposed to drone warfare as done by the West in places like Pakistan and Afghanistan, among others.
Ashley, the first AI-powered political campaign caller
Making it harder to do wrong
Why Americans are going hungry despite a strong economy
The case is about who gets what fraction of the microtransactions - Google or Epic (after accounting for the game dev's share).
Browser for Kindle highlights: https://github.com/karlosos/kindle_clippings_webapp

- No account needed

- Importing `My Clippings.txt` from your Kindle, exporting as json or markdown

- Browsing highlights from books, bookmarking highlights

You can check the demo here: https://karlosos.github.io/kindle_clippings_webapp/#/demo
With the cheapest processor and touch screen possible.
> My thoughts are the python code will be most effective if it can read config or access chunks of data outside the source

Agreed. I've used jinja2 quite a bit for templating C with structured data. It is very effective. Ned writes that he also considered templating engines but was not satisfied when trying to implement more complex code generation inline. I feel like I understand Ned's thought process here but I strongly disagree with his conclusion unless it's for personal use only. Cog is subject to the lisp curse.
Web push notifications do need and use Apple, Google… between the web app and you.
Netflix Releases Viewing Data for 18,000 TV Shows and Movies
Are you saying that viewing number is dubious because the panel is small?

~2000 is a pretty decent sample size. The viewing numbers you should be skeptical about are the very small ones which will have huge error bars, not the huge ones.
I wouldn't play online poker today. Unwittingly playing against an AI in chess is a blow to my ego. Unwittingly playing against an AI in poker is a blow to my wallet.
A USB-C to headphone and USB-C adapter (https://www.amazon.com/Headphone-Charger-Adapter-Charging-Co... - ok, maybe search a little longer for one that hasn't got the "brand" Subynanal printed on it ;) ) isn't much more expensive either...
Not really public right now, but I have created a bunch of small services for tracking various data that is relevant to my life. For example: I only fill up at one brand of gas station (have a membership there) and I am interested which of theirs is the cheapest at which times in my area.
So I have a scraper that uses their public website, dump it into a time series db and analyze it later. Now I pretty much only fil up on Sunday evenings from 18:15 to 18:45 at a cerain station because it reliably always has the lowest price of the week.
> Good to have impartial articles

Did you accidentally click on a different article? It literally uses the word "cult" five times and does not demonstrate any knowledge whatsoever of the main arguments around AGI danger and AGI alignment.
https://github.com/trypromptly/LLMStack - started working on this as a wrapper over OpenAI's endpoints for another product and it gradually became this.

Another project I worked on for my own use was a network isolated, lightweight video monitoring system. Around 5 years ago, I was looking to install a camera in our living room. I couldn't find anything I trusted that worked completely offline without some companion app pinging their servers. So I bought a basic IP camera on Amazon that supports rtsp and a raspberry pi. Created a fenced wifi network and added the camera to it.

Had an FFmpeg process read camera stream on demand and write to local buffers. Wrote a simple python server to listen for incoming connections on a different interface and stream the video on API requests. Then built an android app that talks to the python server to stream video on demand.

Also installed motion (https://github.com/Motion-Project/motion) on raspberry pi to detect motion in the video and store those snippets to local storage. With motion running, the adapter I was using wasn't delivering enough power resulting in storage occasionally unmounting and raspberry pi restarting taking the camera system offline. With motion detection disabled, the entire setup ran reliably for many years.
https://archive.is/tBYSV
> Yes, that was a very very mistaken plan by Netanyahu

While Netanyahu has taken it run with it for quite a while, it actually predates Netanyahu having a significant role related to it, back to the original formation of Hamas, which Israel fostered in Gaza for much the same reason as Netanyahu has repeatedly actively fostered since.

> That said, what would've been your alternative?

Not actively working to antagonize the Palestinian population, disrupt the election campaigns, and make the Fatah-led administration look weak and complicit (by blocking campaigns directly, carrying out a targeted campaign of detention of Palestinian politicians, and directly interfering with ballot distribution and other administration preparations for the vote) as a deliberate strategy to secure a victory by the primary opposition -- Hamas -- in the 2006 Palestinian elections.

Not refusing to cooperate in subsequent PA-Hamas agreed Palestinian elections (where Israeli cooperation is required because numerous voters still live under Israeli administration) to freeze the divided status quo in place, and not cutting off peace talks because of an agreement between the PA and Hamas to form a unity government, hold elections, and participate together in peace negotiations, for the same purpose.

Among other things.
A few years ago, my wife and I decided to adopt a rescue cat from battersea.org.uk. However, it was a frustrating experience as the staff didn't always update the website regularly, and we'd find that any suitable cats would be snapped up before we'd even seen them.

I spotted that the website served its data to the frontend via an unsecured internal JSON API, so I built an Elixir app that would poll the API endpoint and upsert the cat data into the database. Any new records would get posted to a twitter account (a free way to get notifications on my phone).

It worked beautifully, and when a black cat called "Fluff" popped up, we both knew he was the right one, and we were able to phone them and arrange a meeting before anyone else. Fast forward five years, and he's sitting next to me on the sofa right now, purring away.
ISO Pascal not, ISO Extended Pascal, Concurrent Pascal USCD Pascal, Object Pascal certainly did, and several OSes do exist, that were written in them.

Ah, but Pascal dialects don't count.

In that case same applies to the C dialect, non ISO C compliant, full of compiler extensions as alternative to hand written Assembly, that is allowed in most kernels.

However the main point stands, most CS degrees used UNIX alongside the Lion's book, or Minix, thus strenghting C's position on this use case.
I think social media is already filling the role of a nightmare-AI, in terms of boiling away all reasoning in search of prioritizing simple, auto-complete sorts of conclusions. The only thing scarier is something that reaches an internal consensus based on faulty notions a million times faster. [edit] oh yeah, and can also quickly solve 0-day exploits to test its conclusions.
Never even got to the web app because of how aggressively they login-gate every aspect of it.

Normally that wouldn't be a problem and way within their rights but unfortunately everyone (including officially elected politicians) somehow chose twitter/x as their official communications channel. It gives that company pretty much full power to sway any political discussion should it want to while also keeping people without an account (like me) completely out.

I'm not sure how to solve this problem. I would help electing better politicians but every potential candidate also uses twitter/x for their campaigning.
Yeah it's worth nothing that Steam is allegedly responsible for the default 30% cut number app stores get, by sort of arbitrarily picking it, and that Steam is an absolutely crushing monopoly that has so much of a vice grip on the PC gaming space that when you go outside of it, tons of people whine and cry because everything is expected to just use the thing that takes a third of all revenue.

Nobody likes buying exclusives, but it's basically the only way to break into a market under such heavy capture.
A lot of the YouTube channels I watch fit perfectly into the audio-only podcast format.

So I made a little script using youtube-dl that turns YouTube channels or playlists into RSS feeds for consumption in podcast apps. It gets rid of so much of the noise that makes consuming media on the platform itself a pain.

It's more or less deliberately crappy because I spent just enough work on it for it to be useful to me and intentionally avoided over-engineering so that I'd just get it done. The plan is to make it nicer, but I haven't gotten around to it so far.

https://github.com/solarkraft/ytdl-podcast
> But usually you need to go through security again even if re-connecting to a Non-Schengen flight destination.

No you don't. Only if you went to a different terminal or something. You can very easily stay in the airside area (indeed this is exactly what you're meant to do if you're taking a connecting flight).
Several years is a quite small position. Decades is still extremely concerning.
This is why I stick to layouts with separate keys for " and the dead-key ¨
Plenty of european layouts with qwerty and the necessary dead keys, that work on every OS.
> Do you have plans to monetize it? I hope not.

OpenCollective says that the total donations are $1,107.75 USD with 6 contributors. I threw another 20 bucks at them after reading that, but it seems like at least ads or something would make sense purely from a financial perspective, since even with 8M impressions, not that many are interested in donating sadly.

I do really enjoy the site, it has lots of technologies listed and looks very pleasant. Actually used it just this week, since I started building an API with the previous .NET LTS version but a new one came out, so I suddenly started having to install older package versions for compatibility reasons hah.
I live in the UK and pretty much rely on VoWifi to make/receive calls when at home. I can also think of a few places within an hours drive where my reception drops to “No Service”.

You are completely wrong in your assertions.
I have been spamming the "random words" This is fascinating I love this website