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Editing system folders localization file on macOS Mojave
Hello there!

I'd like to rename the "Pictures" folder in the home directory to "Pictures & Videos".

I tried editing the system folder localization file with PlistEdit Pro, but it doesn't seem to work — the folder remains intact after the restart :(

Any advice?
Just wear a mask.
Maybe local hardware stores would let you post a flyer?
They aren’t selling a seat, they are selling a guarantee. Pretty simple.
Is a list of movie titles and durations also copyright infringement? They require the entire work to determine, obtaining the lengths is a mechanical process with no creative input.

IANAL, but this comes close to the API/phone book/map arguments where you can copyright a specific expression (a specific map, phone book, with a curated selection) but the facts themselves are just that, facts, and not copyrightable.

The hash is not the movie, cannot be transformed into the movie. You can search it on your favourite piracy site to find the movie, but a similar functionality could easily exist for title + length
You might be lost. This site is for adults with intelligent comments.
It would be amazing to see the Gameboy/N64 emulator hacker community expand, and NEW games begin to be developed based on these docs. Maybe Nintendo could double-down on this and turn it into good publicity
I mean, they aren't reinventing the OS, they're basically just a sum of namespacing capabilities in the OS. They have the same basic purposes as chroots/jails/etc: isolation of components. That these are overused to avoid having a properly configurable userspace is not an indictment of the capabilities themselves.
He's also flying a plane over a city surveilling everyone -- "the most comprehensive surveillance ever imposed on an American city in the history of the country" in one attorney's opinion.

He also said, "There is no expectation of privacy on a public street, a sidewalk. . . while you are outside, there is no expectation of privacy."

I didn't infer the worst, which might be malice or self-serving, not incompetence.
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Lots of possible differences remain. Entering private property to secure the trash - an officer of the court can normally do that without being considered harassment or trespass.

Being an officer of the court is important, and attempts to blur that are disingenuous. Cherry-picking one facet of the incident is not a good argument. What-about-isms likewise.
> We've been getting our prescriptions delivered for months now

"We" as in who ? I feel like vast majority of the world isn't included your "we"
History of the Board Game Monopoly
Check out Rails (ruby) and Phoenix (Elixir)(Rails' successor, personal favorite of mine). Many frameworks on many languages tried to mimic rails but most failed to achieve desired level of polishing/comfort/completeness/etc
I honestly prefer Golang which took the minimal approach instead of all the coolest PL features. The language is so much better for this choice.

Check out https://cuelang.org for futurology
You can handle midi in/out/thru natively in supercollider, too.
I think that there is a wide spread in overall software development process that can lead to good product quality. Some teams will automate testing to a greater degree. Some rely on consistent manual testing. Others seem to hire and raise fastidious developers that produce fewer defects to begin with. Each strategy takes a while to build into the culture, and during that build-up seems to be a heavy cost. So I think that it’s hard to judge the benefits of test automation separately from the software development organization and its product.
AI, NLP and ML are bottleneck first by memory accesses and second by CPU.

Whatever language you end up using, the low-level implementation must allow you to precisely control memory layout.

This is what is being done with C++ + Python but pure Elixir doesn't allow you to control memory layout and will kill your performance.
In my experience emulation shouldn't to much affect the selling of a "remastered" version or similar.

And "just" emulation doesn't sell good, even Nintendo just adds it as an additional goody to their online service (NES/SNES).

I believe at least for Nintendo it doesn't really matter much.
Thanks for that. I tend to idealize my career but in reading your comment I stopped to think of both the good and bad parts of my working life, from the sublime to the boring and odd job tasks. Working life really is a mixed bag.

You mentioned Lisp. I just retired last year, and just turned 69. I only use Lisp now (three planned projects for the macOS store, one almost done, and all my writing is concentrated on Lisp) and am dropping other programming languages that I used to also love, including Lisp languages that are not Common Lisp.

I also agree that the Internet is not what it could be but I still find value by finding a few people who I really enjoy, follow their writing and podcasts, and ignore 99.999% of everything else. I also find that reading books is much more rewarding that browsing the web.
> emulator and hardware developers [...] now have to screen new contributors to ensure they have not been exposed to this material.

You cannot prove a negative. The most a project can do is to have people signing waivers that state they have not been exposed and/or will not copy stuff, effectively discharging responsibility on the individual.
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USA acquired an extradition order for a UK student for hosting links on a website under this sort of argument. His actions were not unlawful in the UK.

An extreme overstep of jurisdiction by the USA government on behalf of MPAA.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_O%27Dwyer
.. and others will pick up where they left off.
I don't work on emulators, but I do work on Wine. We explicitly forbid any contributions from anyone who has seen any Microsoft source code. The risk of introducing work derived from code owned by Microsoft is too high. I don't know how strict emulator authors are about this--they're non-commercial and so have less at stake than we do--but if I were an emulator author, I would cut ties with anyone known to have looked at this material. The whole reason emulators are legal and ROMs aren't is because emulators are original work not owned by the console developer. Once you start introducing derived work, that all flies out the window, and Nintendo can crack down on the emulators themselves.
https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/security-behind-nhs-contac... is the closest link I can provide.

In the section subtitled Here comes the crypto, second paragraph, it says "it records the model of your phone (for example ‘Apple iPhone 10,2’)."

So, you're wrong about these arguments being straw men. However, the reason for doing this is reasonable enough: you need to model what the bluetooth signal strength measured by each phone actually means in terms of physical distance; and that means knowing the phone model.

The real argument is not technical; it is that the UK government has proven itself repeatedly incapable of avoiding mission creep in these kind of laws and systems. My go to example "Half of councils use anti-terror laws to spy on 'bin crimes'"
– https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3333366/Half-of-coun...
I think the main issue you face here is that there is already a big C/C++/Fortran ecosystem around distributed computation, one that happens to be very well impedance-matched to numerical linear algebra, and one with which experts in numerical linear algebra are intimately familiar (MPI).

Why bother with Erlang as a thin wrapper over C++ when C++ has the necessary facilities already?
Be nice, feelings that bots have too.
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Facebook’s Oculus Developing Smaller, Lighter Quest VR Headset
No, because the word "directly" is not in the law.

Please cite you scotus ruling.
@gm Did you automate this somehow? If so, I would love to hear about it.
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There’s a misrepresentation here that comes from the easy mental mistake that all ‘those’ people think the same thing.

Yes, there are lots of gun owners whose beliefs are pro authoritarian.

There are also lots of gun owners who are more anti-establishment.

We don’t have two or three monolithic groups in this country, although it seems many people would like to portray it that way for whatever reason.

We have an insanely diverse patchwork of non-exclusive groupings and categories with a wild array of beliefs, customs, and behaviors.
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There is a murder in Baltimore just about every day. It is an incredibly violent city.

This interview with David Simon "The Wire" provides insight.

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/04/29/david-simon-on...

Beating up on the police department has become a favorite past time of the politicians, with the predictable result that officers are unwilling to go after criminals unless it is very cut and dried. This is likely why this plane is being pushed - it would provide clear evidence without hard police work that is impossible to do in the political climate of the city.
>Our company has a strict "NO T2" policy,

Can I ask why? I don't see the downside.
I'm not confusing it, perhaps MPAA is.

And if Popcorn had made your point, then they'd have made a good faith counter notice. You're directly addressing the takedown notice by disputing its basis in law.

But a judge can't work off what a party ought to say, they have to adjudicate what they do say.
The article mentions that this would be unwise due to these documents being released illegally. Reverse engineering some existing system for the purpose of interoperability (as is common among homebrew enthusiasts) is legal; hacking into a Nintendo subcontractor's IT and leaking internal documentation obviously isn't.
Maybe not exactly the same, but more.

We're not talking about reducing the marginal price on new technology that needed capital investment- we're artificially reducing overall capacity. Airfare already had seating efficiency priced in.

For the math to work, best case, you'd need to reduce capacity of a 737 (3+3 across) by 1/3 (no middle seats). 1/2 for sets of 2 or 4 seats.
Did Saddam and Satan get back together?

Most of what I know comes from South Park
Hey I'll be doing a college project on static analysis and while I'm familiar with semantic analysis wrt compiling I was wondering if you might drop a few more of these terms like interprocedural pointer analysis so that I have more techniques to research
Sometimes "==" is used under the hood ( switch/case i think?) and it's hard to avoid it completely even if you always use "===" in the code
It is: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/05/2020-05-0...
What's the advantage of this over torrenting?
> $99/year is peanuts, that's less than 1 hour of developer time

lol, I wish.
The Air is not smaller nor thinner than the Pro, it just weights a bit less. On the other hand performance and thermals are just a joke
As simple as possible, but no simpler. As the previous comment was getting at, there is often a point of irreducible complexity. Modelling that efficiently is a mark of a good language.
Don't have a link at hand right now but: the Dolphin (GameCube/Wii emulator) developers posted a statement on Twitter saying if they would use these instructions instead of doing the reverse engineering on their own, Nintendo would shut them down.
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That too, but there are indeed games running entirely on blockchains. Many of these are online gambling operations.
It's sad that php as such a bad rep that I figured I should say "I code in Go. Php? Yeah I can do that too" so I don't get some eye rolling and an instant prejudice I'm a cheap coder.
For it's age php is great and pretty easy to setup (having to intall separate modules for imagemagick and cryptography is just a tiny assle). Composer should really solve it's large memory usage problems, but other than that it's pretty good.

It's really good for it's intended purposes and is getting a lot better in latest versions.
"No true Scotsman," I'd wager.
Dang, my question was going to be, if you have found the secret to monetizing that kind of thing :)
It is also worth noting the number of packages published on packagist.org [0] (kind of npmjs.com for PHP), which is rapidly growing.

[0]: https://packagist.org/statistics
Nah, Dolphin is 100% open source and above board, they're going to avoid this stuff like the plague.
> Self-driving cars will be the norm. Humans will not be allowed to drive.

> Humans will work fewer hours, fewer humans will work, and fewer workers will work from work.

I think these two things have been predicted every few years for the last 60 years and we're nowhere close to getting them. I'd say it's even the opposite for working hours, people are working more, paid less and retire later than in the recent past. If you added AI to the list you'd have a wonky predictions bingo.

https://www.cnet.com/news/alphabet-google-waymo-ceo-john-kra...
Well put. A lot of people miss this fact. Also, the US/UK trying to pin the blame for their own incompetence on China suggests that reality attachment in these places, at the government level at any rate, is seriously sub-optimal.

In the US, the Trump administration’s bungling incompetence handling of the outbreak is truly staggering. Wildly contradictory statements from moment to the next, no coordinated pandemic plan, “hijacking” PPE shipments enroute from China and Malaysia to the countries that had bought, and paid for, them...this is rogue/failed state level stuff.

Other western countries also messed up big time. In Canada, France, the UK and Spain people in longterm care homes were abandoned and left wallowing in their own filth as COVID-19 burned through these facilities like wildfire, killing scores of elderly inpatients, many of whom were left to suffer and die alone.

It’s striking how some of the most “advanced” countries utterly failed to prepare for and manage a very foreseeable pandemic.

Then again, is it really that surprising that this happened in places where health care systems have been chronically underfunded for decades as permanent homeless camps have become normalized and the middle-class economy replaced by low-wage precarity and easy credit?

It’s like after four decades of “there is no such thing as society” governance the health and well-being of people, of the public, in these places has become an afterthought.

The scramble to blame other countries or pretend that “there is nothing we could have done to prepare for this” is theatre designed to deflect attention from the fact that dictatorships, like China, and places with authoritarian governments, like Singapore and South Korea, care more for the health of their citizens than many of the western liberal democracies, where austerity and massive neglect of public services and infrastructure have become the norm.

Like the market crash of 2008, the coronavirus outbreak of 2020 is showing that the social and economic system underpinning the west is seriously broken and can’t handle even the slightest amount of stress.

It needs to be replaced with an arrangement that reins in the ability of the avaricious banker and CEO class to dictate how the economy should be run. The health and well-being of all people in society needs to come first or these places will degrade even further.
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Perhaps this will change your mind to some extent

https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-10933-what_the_world_can_learn_f...

Specifically talks about how Hong Kong protestors have almost no formal hierarchical structures (to avoid the Chinese state arresting the leaders), yet remain highly functional and effective.
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The only time I ever got an email from a real human at google was when I tried out google cloud for a weekend when it first came out. I had a detailed plan to benchmark different instance types and compare them to AWS for an upcoming project.

I got about two hours into this and my account was deactivated, one of the cloud engineers sent me a truly nasty email saying that bitcoin mining is not allowed on google cloud and I should stop abusing resources and being so irresponsible. I replied and asked how on earth they came to the conclusion I was a bitcoin miner and explained what I was actually doing, but never heard back from them again.

It was so bizarre, I felt like I was back in the 3rd grade getting in trouble for knowing more about the Apples than the computer teacher.
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1, its an iPhone App
2,The App is located on TestFlight.apple.com
While you cite news reports of anecdotes, the truth is we have very little data one way or the other.

Our best guess is that it's just the people immediately next to you ( plus any surface you touch)... but we don't have high confidence in that.
I think this is a good opportunity to assess the commutment of github (microsoft) to support free software. I am not a lawyer, but it seems clear that this an abuse. I bet that the repository will become available again. IMHO the duration of the takedown is a good KPI of the trust deserved by github. More than 24 hours would be bad. Less than 4 hours would be good.
> just do whatever you want in the moment, bit by bit

I thought we were talking about technology. You gave a recipe for spaghetti.
How to trigger races reliably in the Linux kernel
Back then Perl and JS were only really used in web dev, Ruby wasn't really used at all, and Python was still fairly niche (although gaining ground). There were a LOT of C, C++, Java developers back then, especially in the enterprise space, who'd never touched any of the above.
I was referring to academic research in software engineering or PL related areas.

I think your view of academic research is nice but perhaps a bit naive. Academic research in most countries is filled with pressure from private money to achieve valuable outputs to feed the private sector.
Kudos and good feelings, and probably operating costs going forward. Palantir's shady reputation could benefit from some good feelings.
Tell HN: I've got an idea for an (easy?) improvement on video conference apps
(I won't develop it myself because it's not an app itself, it's an improvement on current apps.)

There's plenty of shows nowadays (regular TV but also on YouTube) that use video conference apps because they can't meet guests because of the social distancing, or they don't have guests but the hosts can't gather together. They straight up record what comes out from the app, and just use that as the video they publish, which looks and sounds awful.

I don't know how original my idea is, but here it is:

All the client apps would record their raw video+audio to disk while the live conference goes as usual, and when it's over, all clients automatically send their unedited video to the host (whoever that is), so they can edit a better looking version without audio/video artifacts, dropped frames or stutters, with better quality, better editing choices, etc. It could even be automatically edited the same way as was shown live, but with the raw sources and therefore better quality, and without the need for manually post-producing or editing. This feature being seamless is important for adoption.

This seems relatively easy to add to current video conferencing apps, and it would definitely improve on the visual quality of shows nowadays.

Of course, it can be argued that shows WANT the lo-fi experience of conferencing because it makes celebrities seem more down to earth, like they're going through the same issues as you during the pandemic, etc. Even if this is true, the feature I propose would be useful after the social distancing, because skype calls were also used before, in pre-recorded shows, with the same quality issues that could be easily avoided in this way.
Then there's the flip-side to this. How many times does this happen, and the company doesn't post on social media about it?

I think there's more people/companies in that category, but by a factor of how much.
It's not built into the language? How can we be sure this project with 2k Github stars won't segfault, memleak, deadlock, or have some other horrible bug [1]? I haven't done full due diligence, but I'm already suspicious. The open tickets don't look good [2].

> You mean that you don't know how to

I'm not convinced you found an appropriate answer either.

In any case, this should be a language feature.

[1] It looks like it relies on bindings to an unofficial native code extension.

[2] https://github.com/amphp/amp/issues/300
$2M Home in Palo Alto (CA) vs. Columbus (Oh)
AFAIK in London the data are extracted from the archives of the local councils that planted the trees in the first place and were responsible for maintenance afterwards. I can imagine a best-case scenario is that they already have maps of the borough where they mark all the trees, and it's a matter of digitializing those maps and combining them.

It still takes time to combine all these data, presumably, but there were some useful studies on the ecologicical effects of different types of trees that came out of these data.
They are likely limited by the programming complexity that would require.
People find value when they pay for things not get them at a discount. If a product or service was truly valuable I would expect to pay a larger amount not one dollar. If this is just a trial to get started I understand. Just some feedback
~$29 on January 1st, 2020. A $1 target is pretty brutal. Though, for airlines, bankruptcy isn't all "bad". It invalidates their labor contracts, and allows them to renegotiate in an environment where they have a lot more leverage.
While Goop gets made fun of a lot, I was pretty impressed by their masturbation episode with Betty Dodson. Bold and done in good taste.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2020-01-...
Welcome to life - where stuff costs money.
Id wait for the next set of chips. There is IPC and clock gains to be had, but unless you are often cpu-bound, I think your money would be better spent or saved
There's a fair amount of trees listed on the map for my local area, but the main tree, that's locally famous[1] isn't listed, as it's technically on private property.

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[1] https://bigginhill.co.uk/cedar.htm
> Barely version control (with appropriate "update" commit messages). Kept me sane

Does not sound like it would keep me sane…
We are talking about a 3.1 lb MBP versus a 2.8 lb MBA with basically the same dimensions. In addition, the Air has a dimmer screen, fewer ports, inferior display color space, and from what I've read, inferior thermal headroom. The two things the MBA has going for itself is better price and price to performance ratio. It also has a longer battery, but the gap is thinner than it once was (11 hours vs 10 hours).
Lisp software from the 80s is available to play with too, you don't have to restrict yourself to just reading about it.
I don't work on emulators myself but I know a few people who do. Their position thus far as been to stay as far away from the leak as possible. What they're hoping for is that someone will use it to improve the documentation on the various *brew wiki. Then that documentation could be used to improve the emulators.

Directly using the code to improve the emulator is a huge liability. It makes it very easy to make a copyright violation case. For an example, look at ReactOS, that had to cease development to eliminate copyrighted code back in 2006[0].

[0]: https://www.linux.com/news/reactos-suspends-development-sour...
Maintaining China's dependence on democracies for advanced computer chips [pdf]