skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reality distortion field has got you good, man. I won't be responding further after this, but in one last vain attempt to get through to you let me point out that the part you quoted means the opposite of what you seem to be implying. The "available-after-authentication data category" is not end-to-end encrypted and Apple can read it without needing your password or your device. (This obviously must be true because much of the data in this category is available in the iCloud web interface from any web browser, and is not lost even if you use the password reset function in the web interface to regain access to the account without entering any previous password or using any Apple device). Just because HSMs are used in some way, that doesn't automatically make it end-to-end encrypted and doesn't mean Apple has no way to read it. In that sentence Apple is literally telling you that the iCloud backup key is not end-to-end encrypted.

As for the "guide for law enforcement", let me quote a different part that you conveniently ignored. Emphasis mine.

> I. The following information may be available from iCloud:

> [...]

> c. Email Content and Other iCloud Content, My Photo Stream, iCloud Photo
Library, iCloud Drive, Contacts, Calendars, Bookmarks, Safari Browsing History,
Maps Search History, Messages, iOS Device Backups

> [...] iCloud content may include email, stored photos, documents,
contacts, calendars, bookmarks, Safari Browsing History, Maps Search History, Messages
and iOS device backups. iOS device backups may include photos and videos in the Camera
Roll, device settings, app data, iMessage, Business Chat, SMS, and MMS messages and
voicemail. For data Apple can decrypt, Apple retains the encryption keys in its U.S. data
centers. Apple does not receive or retain encryption keys for customer’s end-to-end encrypted
data. iCloud content, as it exists in the customer’s account, may be provided in response to a
search warrant issued upon a showing of probable cause, or customer consent.

Yes, Apple can and frequently does respond to warrants with decrypted iMessage data obtained from iCloud backups. This is well known, corroborated all over the internet, and not a secret. https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/02/15/when-...

I'll bet you'll be confused by this sentence in the part that I just quoted: "Apple does not receive or retain encryption keys for customer’s end-to-end encrypted data." This is true! But iCloud backups are not end-to-end encrypted without ADP, nor are Messages in iCloud keys when stored in iCloud backups, as I have already conclusively shown. So it's irrelevant.
I think that if you’re asking for information based on documents or other information in your MS instance, every answer should come with a source or snippet of where it got that info. Otherwise enabling this for the general (office) public will be a disaster.
Highly recommended video of Karpathy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2ZK3ngNvvI

essentially, don't get paralysed on designing the perfect path on how to invest time/energy. just focus on putting in the hours everyday.
Fortran, not COBOL, but I came across a similar thing when helping to update code for Y2K. An insurance company used a 2 digit field for year of birth, assuming that it would always be prefixed with '19'. I sort of forgave them because the code had originally been written in Fortran 2 sometime in the 60s, and who would ever assume that their code might still be in use 40 years later?
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> what stops me from buying a second hand mac or a second hand iphone (for $150 each) and start 'doing business' with iMessage?

Nothing, that's why iMessage is full of spam already.

What scammers do is buying boxes of old half broken iphones and they turn them into relays exactly as you said.
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Australian authorities have 2 years of IP connections and other metadata.
You can't "just" do stuff like this. You need the right guy and big corps have no clue who is capable.
>One benefit of an AI accelerator on CPU die is that the accelerator gets access to system memory. If you build the system with lots of high-bandwidth system memory, as Apple does with their M3 Max systems, then the system can run more capable AI models locally.

Should Nvidia be afraid of Apple? Is OpenAI going to ditch their A100 for Macbook Airs?
And I got flagged for speaking out against this ridiculous moral orthodoxy. Good.

I'll just take my speech to another site, before I get banned from this Hacker News completely.
Use the bus without a ticket? Drive without insurance? Road tax?
Sure ... "uranium" without the radon gas breakdown production, heat generation from steady persistant radiation, without an isotope that can be used in an atomic weapon, etc.

All that aside .. just like uranium.

Oh, except it's not a natural element like uranium that's been present as part of the earth for 4 billion years, it's a synthetic first created here by humans somewhat more recently.

But sure. Just like uranium.

The polyethylene family is not like the PFAS family being discussed here - the biggest environmental issue with polyethylene to date is that it requires the introduction of specific bacteria in landfills to make it degrade. It does seem that it can be treated to recover usable oil .. which is either a pro or a con - but no known health issues (unlike, say, uranium).
And that's also why Beeper supports Discord in their primary product (see https://www.beeper.com/cloud#w-node-_2123a13e-0a0b-7de3-82e5... )
That and there are some processes that should never be swapped, and yet they are. I think it should be possible for a process to request that it is never swapped, or to suggest sections of it are never swapped. Even a swap blacklist would be a great start.
Or any other ui toolkit.
From the description I’d say it’s the exact opposite - they can tell the difference between professional standards and arbitrary, made up bs older folks tend to mindlessly accept.
I would say that over a certain number of devs the output decreases.

I think it was 500 people working on Windows XP?
A hundred for Windows 95. Etc.
That's a fair point, but we should also note that the mighty thinker Aristotle speculated seminal theories of relativity, continental drift, and evolution. I mean Freud's discovery of the unconscious as OP presumably means the discoveries of Einstein, Wegener, and Darwin respectively. Freud's scientific conception of the unconscious was a breakthrough beyond his progenitors.

I'll only admit I've cheated a little: that Freud's contribution was a scientific one is not an assertion that is "generally regarded as correct." But Freud believed himself to be a scientist and frankly I agree. It's not like Einstein, Wegener, and Darwin are uncontested figures, but certainly Freud is much more so.
Super interesting. I thought Ulam was famous for Ulam sequences. I didn't expect this!
Hey! I have been following the work of undo.io for a while and have watched various talks your colleagues gave. I have always been curious about how udb works under the hood, but I assume it to be specific to Linux.

I wanted to support macOS from day one, and it limited our design choices. But hey it works on my M1 Mac with smooth graphics!

What would be the best way to connect with you? Tried to DM you on Twitter
Do you get the core concept of vertical farming? It’s just stacked layers of farmland. Greenhouses cannot pack as many layers vertically. It’s pretty straight-forward.

If you’re strictly optimizing for just sunlight then sure, greenhouses sound fine. But there’s more factors at play here - like the cost and availability of land now and into the future.
Thanks for writing this post!
How does xenophobia either value or protect the West's own post-parochial culture?
>these can start to close the gap on battery life between PC and Apple

I was hoping the same.

But after seeing the benchmarks from notebookcheck.com it's clear they can't. For the same perf you are going to consume more. And part of the problem I think it is the compute part of the CPU being done on Intel 7nm vs TSMC 3nm.
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This is the first time I hear this perspective, I believe the opposite, I think he's a very smart person. If you remember one of the episodes with Stephen Wolfram, Lex was able to keep up with his theories and showed some intuition as well, which even impressed Wolfram.

But more importantly, why do you feel the need to put someone down like this? Do you regularly talk about people in this way? Do people talk about you in this way? Just curious.
I do think it's very weird that the upper bound is presented with confidence, but the lower bound is not, yes.

I also think that it's weird because the one-third figure itself appears to have materialized from nothing but hype and wishful thinking, so why is it an upper bound? No singularity required -- even just human-level AGI would clearly be more than a one-third GDP impact.
If, for example, someone has a computer capable of computing with a large number of qbits a lot of cryptography has less substantial break requirements.
Google has now an CEO who is outsourcing everything to cut costs.

Google already had a quality problems before due to culture of zero support and dropping projects after their managers' got promoted, but now they have a problem with keeping up to any standards.

That's how it works when you offshore everything - where the main criteria is price and nobody cares about quality at all. They could offshore to mid cost countries, but they offshore to cheapest bidders.
Kumo – open-source high-performance MTA
Actually if it is drinkable it is a shame they are dumping to the ocean, it should be bottled and consumed by the population.
Which episode was this?
Women code breakers were literally called “computers”:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/history-human-...
Soak in 95% ethanol overnight and then everything comes off with an easy wipe if you can get to it. Definitely safe, but I’m curious if these other solutions dissolve completely without a wipe?
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Well... Back then in my shop they would just assign programmers to things, together with a couple of mathematicians.

Math guys came up with a list of algorithms to try for a search engine backend.

What we needed was matrix multiplication and maybe some decision tree walking (that was some time ago, trees were still big back then, NNs were seen as too compute-intensive for no clear benefits). So we thought that it might be cool to have a tool that would support both. Phi sounded just right for both.

And things written to AVX-512 did work. Software surpisingly easy to port.

But then comes the usual SIMD/CPU trouble: every SIMD generation wants a little software rewrite. So for both Phi generations we had to update our code. For things not compatible with the SIMD approach (think tree-walking) it is just a weak x86.

In theory Phi's were universal, in practice what we got was: okay number crunching, bad generic compute.

GPU was somewhat similar: the software stack was unstable, CUDA just did not materialize as a standard yet. But every generation introduced a massive increase in compute available. And boy did NVIDIA move fast...

So GPU situation was: amazing number crunching, no generic compute.

And then there were a few ML breakthroughs results which rendered everything that did not look like a matrix multiplication obsolete.

PS I wouldn't take this story too seriously, details may vary.
Amazing job! I've one question: how did you find the price of every products? I mean, every product page has a different id or class that identify a price. Do you use a regex?
I would trust Cinebench more than Geekbench. It's funny how Cinebench is biased against Apple, while most other benchmarks are not. And that is for both mobile and laptop CPUs.
>. Nothing stops you from using another phone,

Do you realise phones cost money and not everyone can afford an iPhone?
Yeah, it is TSMC, see:

https://3dfabric.tsmc.com/english/dedicatedFoundry/technolog...

Older explanation, but lots of this stuff is just now shipping: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16051/3dfabric-the-home-for-t...

Not that AMD doesn't deserve any credit, they have considerable multi chip experience under their belt and undoubtedly served as a guinea pig/pipe cleaner for TSMC's advanced package.
I've been using Firefox and only Firefox on Android for HN for... at least 5 years.

What are you going on about?

HN is a basic site, Lynx on MS DOS could render it.
They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

(Aristotle)
>Aside from which, Apple's CPU cores do seem to be straight up more power efficient than anybody else's.

That reads TSMC 3nm seems to be more power efficient than any other process.
Honestly the FDA should fast track approval of it if it's got a >50% chance of cessation of lifelong suicidal ideation for more than 24 hours. It's pretty much impossible for me to convey, to anyone without it, how exhausting it is to have part of your brain actively and intrusively contemplating (and advocating for) suicidal action since kindergarten.
And it is now possible to play it in modern computers, compiled from source, as reported 4 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37082304

“Rewriting wipEout”: https://phoboslab.org/log/2023/08/rewriting-wipeout

As I wrote at the time:
“WOW! Just a `git clone`, download and unpack the .zip with the assets (end of the blog post), type `make` and it compiles on Linux without warnings into `wipegame`, run it and it works first time!” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37086874
Interesting article from the launch in 1977 and some gyroscope problems they had early on

https://www.nytimes.com/1977/08/21/archives/voyager-heads-to...
Bizarre take. I had no call in electing any politician that has any influence over Apple or Google, nor do I really have the choice to pick beyond the one of the two systems. Neither does the rest of 95% of the world.
Intentional eggcorn?
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The XCDs need to talk to each other very quickly, way faster than the HBM, to act like a single chip.

Also, the physical interconnect between the XCDs is different than the HBM.
Australian here. We recently had a kitchen bench top made from engineered stone installed. I was previously entirely oblivious to the risks involved. Suffice it to say that we would have chosen a different material had I known the health burden of inhaling the dust during preparation/cutting.

The contractor who installed the bench top for us was however very diligent in alerting us to what safety measures we should follow should any on-site cutting be required at our place. Which it wasn’t in the end. So at least he was aware that the sawdust is a major health hazard.

But that’s one contractor, which does not represent an entire industry. Engineered stone is fashionable and I imagine there are many black sheep out there doing it for cheap with under-trained or unsupervised personnel.
So just make sure the moves and edits are in separate commits?
Therre's a diagram in TFA, comparing the construction of a conventional lens with a metalens.

The diagram shows two labelled parts that I didn't understand:

a) Glass plate with bandpass filter

b) Near-infrared contact image sensor

The legend doesn't say, but I suspect the diagrams show a distance sensor, not a camera. So I assume the infrared lasers have been omitted from the diagram. Also, I'd quite like to know a bit more about the optical bandpass filter. I suppose any "transparent" material is effectively a bandpass filter; this one presumably passes near-infrared, so is it like the dark-red plastic filter on a TV remote?

Why's the sensor called a "contact" image sensor?
> I consider sending anything up to the cloud without user's consent is pretty hostile.

If not illegal.
I would strongly wish to urge you to continue to avoid contentious topics like ongoing wars or domestic US politics. These topics nearly destroyed /., if you've been there 2014-2016 you know what I mean, and it took them many users, great efforts, and changes in the moderation system to get it on track again. I left /. forever at this time, and many other did, too.

If you insist on highly controversial topics, you should at least provide ways for users to block other HN users and all of their submissions in a symmetric way (if X blocks Y, X and Y cannot see each others posts). To give you a sense of perspective, I discussed the current Israel/Palestine situation on Reddit, and had to (i) mute more than a dozen subreddits, (ii) block about a hundred users, and (iii) report half a dozen users. I received private messages by people I haven't even discussed with that literally threatened my family with rape and death. Of course, these accounts were removed, but the danger of leaking one's real identity and corresponding real-world consequences are still high on pseudonymous sites. Not everybody on HN is a tech billionaire who can afford private bodyguards.

For many people, me included, it is not a good solution either to just have an ability to hide a thread without voicing any opposition to the partly horrendous discussions in it. Although I want to leave Academia (and probably will), I'm currently working as a philosopher on moral decision-making and related topics in meta-ethics, and that means that I feel obliged to sometimes participate in such threads, if they exist. But my take is that, if possible, they should be avoided. There is no lack of social media where people can discuss politics and ongoing wars.
Venus and Earth are more often used compared to Mars. The window is more frequent, it's more massive, and takes less delta-v to get to.
That's great news for me. I think they should keep their website up to date.
> "What a shameless, audacious assertion!" RSF Secretary General Christophe Deloire said in a statement sent to NPR. "Linda Yaccarino and her team are deluding themselves."

Look, Christophe, if you were Yaccarino you’d delude yourself too; only way to get through the day.

Yaccarino is one of the more fascinating parts of this saga, to me; I had assumed that she would do one of:

- Quit immediately

- Go all-in as Musk's mini-me, rambling about woke mind viruses and retweeting that catshit guy and so forth.

- (Low probability, but you never know) Convince Musk to spend more time with his imaginary car tunnels, actually run the company.

Got to admit that I did _not_ expect that she'd just kind of ignore that the whole thing was happening, and correspond from an alternate universe. Even more astonishing; _this actually kind of worked, for a while_; some advertisers did return for a bit.
I found a little strange too, the author complains that it is a slipping-of-the-mask and suggests that to stamp out xenophobia we pillory those openly exhibiting it...surely that just takes us back to square one.
Pulumi and Crossplane

Or OpenTF if you want to same thing minus the licensing mess
Awesome. We are looking forward to that.
These are some of the more challenging parts when self-hosting pg.
For those with hyperemesis gravidarum this will be welcome news... but, man, do I wish they'd thought of a better name than the Latin for "puking a lot when it's associated with pregnant women".
Its worth it in the same way that HAM radio is / is not worth it. You do it as a sort of lifestyle choice.
In a *Privacy Not Included* first, all Google products -- get our warning label this year.

Wow! Why did it take decades to finally admit the obvious? The credibility of this label hangs on the fact it is the last to know.

And does this include products Google continues to subsidize beyond reason and credibility? To the tune of almost half a billion dollars a year as it's market share has declined to insignificance?

Vote me down but you know who/what I'm talking about.
There is a bit of a controversy around this. And I don't say you are wrong. It's just that I personally consider that Castilian should not be used and does no longer exist. Here's why I think it like so:

Castilian originated as one of several Romance dialects in the Iberian Peninsula. It developed in the Kingdom of Castile during the Middle Ages, distinct from other regional languages like Catalan or Galician. With the unification of Spain, Castilian gained prominence, eventually evolving into modern Spanish. This was not merely a linguistic shift but also a result of political and cultural dynamics. The language we now call Spanish has absorbed influences from Arabic, indigenous languages of the Americas, and others, diverging significantly from its medieval Castilian origins. For this, Castilian has now disappeared, you just need to read how Castilian was written to see it has nothing to do with modern Spanish.

Today, Spanish is spoken by over 500 million people worldwide. In contrast, the Castilian region of Spain has a much smaller population (~3M). Referring to the language as Spanish acknowledges its extensive global presence and its modern version. Just as we refer to the language originating in Tuscany as Italian, not Tuscanian, calling the language from Castile 'Spanish' aligns with common linguistic naming conventions. Languages often take their names from the nations or cultural entities they are associated with, not their specific regions of origin.

Modern linguistic institutions, like the Real Academia Española, regard 'Castilian' and 'Spanish' as synonyms but recommend 'Spanish' for its inclusive and global character.
Thanks for the interesting read. Your app Cahier looks cool! I'm developing a note-taking app[1] using Qt C++ and QML and love that combo. Creating complex UIs with animation is much more straightforward with QML and since the model is still on the C++ side and most Qt Quick components are compiled to C++ the performance is close to Qt Widgets.

[1] https://www.get-plume.com
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You don't seem to understand where that 1atm air pressure on the surface of the earth is coming from. Hint: on the surface of the Moon there is none.

In the ISS the air pressure is artificially kept at a certain level. To make a proper comparison, you should check what water would do outside of the ISS.
I just answered with my point of view in the parent comment