skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>there is a disproportionate number of developers who for one reason or another need to use MacOS professionally, such as developing iOS apps. A lot of us use Macs because we have to in order to target Apple platforms with our products.

Then you need to stop whining and use the tool you have to use to do your job.

I don't like Windows, but there aren't many jobs out there where I don't have to use it in some capacity. Luckily, I get to do my development in Linux, but I still have to use Windows for Office applications, Outlook email, running Linux VMs, etc., so I can't get away from it entirely. It's one of the things I put up with so I can make a living, just like I also have to put up with a commute, getting up in the morning, etc.

If you don't like developing iOS apps, then move into another line of work. I don't have any interest in developing Windows apps in C#, so I don't go into that field, and stick with work which lets me do at least some of my work in Linux. But to be fair, if I was forced to choose between writing C# .NET Windows 10 apps and cleaning toilets for a living, I'd take the Windows job.

>A lot of us are frustrated by the fact that with each generation, Apple has made an inferior product that costs more money at every tier of their Mac catalog.

That's their entire business model: sell fancy-looking stuff at inflated prices to non-technical people that they're able to operate, and who also are willing to spend a lot of money on that image and that brand name. It's like getting a job as a Bentley mechanic and complaining that Bentleys aren't as practical as a Toyota or F150.
That would be hugely ironic considering https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1. Then again, Shuttleworth spoke pretty positively about Microsoft when he closed the bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1/comments/1834
I have to admit I haven't used a low DPI screen in macOS since Maverick times, so you might be right. PDFs in Preview look perfectly fine to me.

Maybe Apple actually optimized rendering for hiDPI displays since probably that's where the majority of users are these days.
>If logically followed, it very obviously means they can never remove any person from their platform for responding to a public official, at the very least. It entirely supersedes any restrictions that Twitter puts into their terms of service on behavior.

Yes, that is the cost to Twitter in hosting an official government account. If they do not like this, they can choose to not host an official government account.

Same way as if a venue decides to host an official government function they forfeit their normal ability to ban people for as long as that venue is serving as an official government location.

To give an extreme example, even a school cannot ban a registered sex offender from being on the premise as long as the school is serving as a voting place (assuming the individual still has their right to vote, which may possibly have been removed but isn't guaranteed).
Hah, the new Macbook laptop with only USB-C connectors: Slimmer and weights 2Kg less. But now you have to take with you 3kg of USB-C to everything (hdmi, mini-DP, USB-A, thunderbolt, ethernet, MicroSD, SD) adapters, each one costing you $15 at least. Oh, and this "feature" costs you $100 extra on the new MacBook laptop.

I hate Apple.
Wonder what the number of personal bankruptcies at 27 will be...
> I'll report back if he replies.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20395196
Really top quality journalism by the BBC to conveniently redefine the definition of homemade to "pre-made parts and watched over by people who know what to do" in order to get more clicks through 'shocking' headlines.
Specially when religious (or other kind of) minorities where Twitter HQ are located won't necessarily be somewhere else.
Unfortunately any built-in adblocker is totally unacceptable to me (unless Mozilla has hired gorhill!)
Fexpr
Something like FaCT? https://github.com/PLSysSec/FaCT
>Once upon a time, games like World of Warcraft and Second Life included their own voice chat systems directly within the game.

I played WoW near launch in 2004, all the way through 2017. Voice chat was not an early feature of WoW - this was not added until much later (I believe 2016/2017)

Pre-Discord days were predominately Vent, with Mumble gaining popularity a little later on. Many guilds also used Skype. Up until the end of my playing - no guild I knew of used the in-game voice chat.
I mean even as a designer when I’m doing mockups it’s extremely useful
Covering every square inch of ireland with trees will have no noticeable effect on global climate. It's just not that much land.

OTOH, having native forests back would be appreciated by many of the irish, who while sympathetic to the Church of Climate Catastrophe are perhaps less willing to wear the hair-shirt of Sitka treefarms across the land.

(The Irish would have to purchase the spruce climate indulgence so that bangladeshis + nigerians can add that carbon to the atmosphere by buying cars w/ ac...)

Too often, the thinking goes:
1. Something Must be Done
2. This is Something
3. Therefore, we must do This.
Look at what just happened with Zoom. The web server could be used by a malicious third-party to gain access to the system.
Don’t blame the students for click bait journalism. They still did something worthwhile with their time and probably learned a lot.
Almost certainly older than civilization itself - female chimpanzees will trade sex for food. Presumably proto-humans did the same.
Probably not, we're too inundated with student loans to have time for a culture.
From my understanding, Apple has done sort of what you're asking for, they've hooked up the physical wiring of the camera LED to the camera itself, so it is physically impossible to power the camera without the LED being turned on (as opposed to the "turn on LED" being part of firmware logic that could be hacked).
The difference being that the smartphone camera isn't pointed at your face or room the entire time the device is in use.
That's what the Purism laptops have. But they're linux-based (although I hear Mac OS is based on linux kernel).
> they have violated that person's right

That's the thing, there's no such right. There's a prohibition on government from silencing people based on their views. But this prohibition doesn't extend to private companies or private individuals, if they're acting of their own accord.
Definitely; tldr returns 0 on success, 1 on failure.

tldr_or_man() { tldr $1 || man $1 }
I think that's called rent-seeking.
That's what Social Security / safety net / charity is -- sharing with people in need.
If you go into the bathroom of a restaurant and see cockroaches, would you feel comforted by management telling you to give them time, because they will definitely get rid of them and to not be too worried that they haven't already gotten rid of them?
I use Windows, and I'm not actively spied on (at least by MS, my employer is another matter). Enterprise editions of Windows don't have spyware (nor would it work behind corporate firewalls, or on closed networks).

At home, I use Linux. No, I don't "need" access to Adobe software. I do my work at work, using the tools they provide me.

>MacOS and Apples seemingly honest dedication to privacy

Seemingly. You can get real privacy if you use Linux, and you can use it on all kinds of hardware.
Let’s go whaling: Tricks for monetising mobile game players with free-to-play
That's not a fallacy he fell victim to, that was campaigning and electioneering. It was hot on the tail of a big news expose about $600+ toilet seats and $40 bolts that the pentagon was buying. Plus America was starting to accelerate the the transformation in to a services and information based economy and we not just knew but were planning on sending manufacturing to Latin America. That waste had real resonance with workers and a lot of other folks at the time. "They're sending car manufacturing jobs to Mexico and the eggheads are studying cow farts.. (with some giant sounding number of dollars)" They still do this, you don't have to google far to find criticism over how much it cost for the Obamas to vacation in Hawaii or what the secret service spends at Mar-a-Lago.

Now there was no way Ross was going to go through the budget and pick out the crappy wasteful things, but that message had legs. Enough such that congress doesn't do a budget anymore...
Fun fact, Edward Hoare, one of the owning family, is a mind mapping enthusiast who created the https://www.thortspace.com “collaborative visual thinking tool”.
This paints a picture of people quietly lifting their furniture and goods, buying a house on a good hill in a good neighbourhood and moving there and life goes on pleasantly.

How will society react as a whole? We're talking about multiple billions of real estate and infrastructure wiped out.

Will it even be possible in a practical way for people to move uphill?
The #1 problem with commenting online (including this post) is the nitpicking of semantics. Truly the best way to generate engagement online is to be "wrong".

Congratulations to the pilots and those who assembled the plane, it must've been an amazing ride.
Do you think welfare state actually distributes funds to whoever needs them? They are giving funds away to everyone who can check x boxes on a form, no one in the government ever verifies if the person actually needs the money, like a charity would do.
is there any open source alternative to firechat (https://www.opengarden.com/firechat/), which seems to now require internet account creation prior to use?

something imbued with cryptography that communicates purely via local peer discovery/hopping such as wifi/bluetooth/optical signaling, etc.
Sorry for the delay. Yes, please send an email to jobs+hn@cignition.com

Include a resume and whatever other information you want to give us!
Sounds like a series of cases where courts ruled that religious reasons were not justifiable to allow discrimination, as per the Constitution.
This answer and your other answer are basically non-answers. You haven't listed any specific reasons why using them is difficult. Unless you have a specific scenario that applies to enough people, EPRs are the best way to handle this currently in a way that gives the users control over what happens. You shouldn't need to work around these controls.
Social media costs $0. Venmo costs $0. Internet access costs under $50/month, and is one of the most valuable purchases anyone can make in modern society.
Caps lock is still used by French people on the azerty keyboard since you need to press shift to access numbers.
Mac OS is in no way based on the Linux kernel.
iptables on your phone? I think you would need to root your phone, if it's Android.
Schools with worse equipment and worse teachers can sometimes do very well. They might have far less classroom disruption because the rules are different and the families are different. In a school that is free for all to attend, the most important quality of a teacher is probably the ability to control mayhem without having the authority to do much of anything to stop it.
What about the mic?
Presumably it’s some reporter and not facebook doing the terrifying.

>made them understandably fearful of making a living

These fb moderators have much less to fear than a factory worker, taxi driver or a convenience store clerk.

The fb mods are vastly more likely to be killed in a traffic accident on their commute than to get targeted by terrorists because they banned someone.

How should such a fundamentally unreasonable fear be compensated? Seems to me that it’d be enough to just offer counseling to distressed employees.
A smartphone is significantly more secure than a computer. I install lord knows what NPM package from God knows where on a weekly basis. Only since very recently does mic or camera access cause any kind of system prompt on Mac.

Smartphones , for all their faults , at least are far less vulnerable to viruses than pcs.

Or at least iOS vs Mac.
Nice packaged solution, if your problem is that you need to run macOS on a five year old midrange Dell notebook. If you are just looking for a cheap macOS solution, 2012 Minis seems to go for around $250 on eBay ...
You're right! That sort of negates the opening statement though:

> This tracking method works without needing to use: [...] Your IP address or user agent string

The author even notes in the source, "Normally you would derive this from randomness." I wonder what the reasoning was for this strategy?
I’ve read this as well but my macbook senses ambient light and adjusts my backlight accordingly. Isn’t this through the camera - with no LED?
There are three types of waves that travel through the earth's crust during an earthquake at different speeds: primary, secondary and surface waves, which arrive in that order.

Perhaps one of the first two waves woke you up, and then the surface wave is what "felt" like an earthquake to you.

In fact, earthquake warning systems detect P-waves early, send out alarms, and give people a few seconds to stop subways and get outside before the surface waves roll in. It's not the same as earthquake prediction, though.
Can you expand? I'm not sure what your comment means.
I remember getting bluetooth spam in Chinese malls like 10 years ago.

Used to be near impossible to walk around with bluetooth on, then the popularity of Android and Iphone (both of which don't support obex or obex ftp) quickly drove popularity of spam devices to nil
Citation needed for #1
Worth mentioning in case anyone in HongKong or China needs it: Streisand can help you set up a VPN to avoid censoring[1]

https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand
How feasible (I guess in terms of costs) is it to build a real home-made airplane? I guess the obvious place to start is to reproduce the Kitty Hawk plane with modern (ostensibly lighter and cheaper) materials?
It was the collision of Microsoft trying to limit "run as admin" and Windows developers taking users running as admin for granted for too long. There had to be a period of pain as "if it ain't broken don't fix it" developers got around to not asking for unnecessary permissions.

These days you mostly see the prompt when you're installing or updating an app, which makes a lot of sense.

What I mean is, this is Microsoft's fault so far as users got in the habit of running in admin in the first place, but I doubt you would've been able to do better given where Microsoft was with its software ecosystem going into Vista.
Apparently an Iranian EDS employee helped to lead the mob to break down the prison and helped to shepherd the imprisoned EDS employees to safety.
Sweet. Is there a way to test this?
macOS is based upon XNU, which was based upon the Mach kernel (with bits of BSD userspace), not Linux.
You can already use node + Carlo if you want something without the browser piece. Of course, then you need to worry about multiple versions of node and the browser, and distribution becomes more of an issue.
Docker on FreeBSD works just like on MacOS; you'd use Docker Machine to run the containers on a Linux VM.

containerd is intended to be multiplatform from the start, so hopefully the FreeBSD support will come.
Mac OS was originally based on BSD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution
International Air Travel is one of the most heavily taxed, if not the most heavily taxed, activity. It's not unusual for the taxes to exceed the ticket price. Here I just looked on kayak for a flight from SFO to Berlin. Here is the price breakdown:

Ticket price USD 465.00
Taxes, Fees and charges USD 540.52
---------
International/Domestic Surcharge USD 350.00

APHIS User Fee USD 3.96

Immigration User Fee USD 7.00

Customs User Fee USD 5.77

United States International Departure Tax USD 18.60

United States International Arrival Tax USD 18.60

Passenger Civil Aviation Security Service Fee USD 5.60

Air Transport Tax USD 46.58

German Aviation Security Charge 19.15

Passenger Service Charge - Intl USD 23.95

Passenger Service Charge - Dom. USD 36.81

Passenger Facility Charge USD 4.50

Total price USD 1,005.52
> So is it the fact that a member of government clicked the block button the violation?

From the decision: "The First Amendment does not permit a public official who utilizes a social media account for all manner of official purposes to exclude persons from an otherwise-open online dialogue because they expressed views with which the official disagrees...."

I believe the problem is that Trump uses the account for official purposes. I assume that any account that carries out official government business falls under this decision.

> If it was a President whom the moderators at Twitter supported and they willingly blocked all of this President's critics on his behalf, would that make it legal?

If it were on his behalf, I assume the court would consider this equivalent to the President himself blocking them. If Twitter themselves blocked people independently and without colluding with the President, I have no idea. I assume private businesses can continue to block/ban whomever they see fit, but if a public official were to only use platforms that automatically blocked dissenting views, I don't know what the court would say. It's an interesting question.
They're probably trying to make sure they don't charge so much that flying out of France becomes more expensive than some nearby city in a bordering country. But even so, these taxes are very, very low. Honestly, I wouldn't mind paying 10 Euros on a flight if I knew it was helping rail systems. It's cheaper than the stupid "convenience fee" that I have to pay for concert tickets.
The key is to not introduce git in the context of a real codebase. The codebase is precious, and git (for a beginner) is a a bunch of confusing, sharp tools. The cost of a misstep is too high.

Working with a "throwaway" local repo was crucial when I was learning git. It was just a handful of gibberish text files in a few directories, and I experimented with "what happens when I run this git command?", comparing what actually happened with my expectations of what would happen.
It's not really about life plans or discrimination, it's about getting a sense of what the person is like outside of the professional skills and experience. Everyone brings extra baggage when getting into a job.

Does he/she have interests outside of the tech world? Maybe contributes to open source projects? Maybe likes learning new things constantly? Etc.

I've been hiring people for almost 20 years for my company, working as a manager in other people's companies, or sharing a project with other freelancers. It's undeniable the chemistry between team members is an important factor.

It also works the other way around, for the candidate to evaluate what kind of person his/her next boss will be like.
I'm sure there is at least some time costs dealing with fraud claims or chargebacks from their payment processor.
No, the ambient light sensing is done with a light sensor on the body - look for the tiny hole drilled into the chassis. It doesn't use the camera.
Planning Transportation Projects Using 'Ultrasound for Roads'
Is anyone noticing that port `19421` no longer has anything listening on it? We are noticing some machines suddenly stop listening on this port but they have not downloaded any update. In zoom patching the running web server without user interaction?
I haven't been able to use any activity pub apps with pixelfed.
> AVPDEFWXYZLGBTQ

RISC-V, is that you?
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/347895/where-is-th...
For local development, Chrome has a flag that lets you force specific origins to be treated as secure:

chrome://flags/#unsafely-treat-insecure-origin-as-secure

I don't think Firefox has anything equivalent though? This bug on the topic is unassigned: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1410365
The next macOS release will probably be incompatible with 2012 minis.
This! This is so hard to explain to others who are trying to get into learning a new instrument. The most frustrating part is that rarely will I see the results of my practice on the day of practice, especially for tricky sections, which can make the sessions feel kinda useless. Then I'll come back a day or two later and suddenly my hands know what to do. "Okay let's start at marker B and... oh, okay!"

The hard part then, of course, is letting them get on with it, and only correcting actual mistakes. If I try to analyze what they're doing the whole thing kinda falls apart. That moment when I can switch from focusing on notes and rhythm to ... more like conducting from afar is the moment when a piece really starts to feel playable. But getting there is always a challenge, and pushing through that challenge is the toughest part.

It's really kinda fun to go back to a piece that I used to know really well and dust off the cobwebs. "Now how did this section go? .. I have no idea what chord that was. Hrm... maybe if I start from a phrase earlier and play into it... oh... oh that's how it went!"
How come so much of your comment history consists of complaining about “reddit comments”?

I’m not an argumentative ass because my opinion differs from yours, that’s all in your head.
Classes and methods are abstractions. They hide code. It's like putting your dishes in the cupboard instead of leaving on them a mess on the counter. There is a small initial payment to know where they are located, but then for the rest of time you benefit from the mental space by having them out of mind until you need them.

With modern IDEs, going to class/method definitions is a breeze. In my experience people who write big walls of code are often those who don't know how to leverage modern IDEs.
it is impossible. try making a home made plastic mug to see already
I think it's not unreasonable for a techie to be the admin of their own phone. (I still don't get how this is an unpopular opinion.)
A Q&A with Cruise’s Head of AI, Hussein Mehanna
I'm glad he's able to fly a plane but at this point it really feels like we're cheering on the mid upper class for their accomplishments. I want to see some kid from the slums build a real plane from spare junk yard parts. That would be much more impressive to me.
That's kinda the problem. It's a secure enclave (potentially a good thing) but a far too complex one with too many responsibilities and capabilities.

I am of the opinion that the secure enclave for fingerprint reading should be something that updates ideally never, and requires a hardware jumper to be set if one is absolutely necessary.

Ideally I'd like the firmware to be open source too. Those are two related but different issues though.
It's not easy to lift furniture quietly, but yes, like any other move, because the flooding will be gradual. As far as how society reacts as a whole, look at how the Houston and Baton Rouge metro areas absorbed refugees of hurricane Katrina, a sudden event. I'm only speaking for my country as you asked. Things won't be so peachy in Bangladesh.
Frankly I don't think it's the camera that people should be most concerned about - it's the microphone.
Hah! "pylint" will complain about "constants" not conforming to the upper-case naming style. In some cases "constant" seems to mean simply "declared outside function scope".
What are your thoughts on this chart?

https://media.boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/blog...
Don't let the "kit" part put you off. It still requires a ton of effort and skill. You aren't getting an Ikea plane in a box, you're getting a bunch of rough cut aluminum and some plans. You still have to trim and debur the parts to their final specifications, align everything, and rivet it together all without damaging things.

Source: currently working on an RV-8 in my garage.

For those interested in what you have to do, here's another builder's blog (not mine) https://www.rv8-hangar.com/latest-progress-2/

The contents of a typical kit: https://www.vansaircraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/rv-7...