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1. Command key requirement keeps you from accidentally deleting files

2. I actually really like Enter to rename now that I’m used to it. Renaming is a common operation in many instances.

3. Yes, space key opens quick view. It works with most common file types and is very fast. I don’t see a problem here.

4. This is a good point. The answer used to be Cover Flow but they unfortunately got rid of that very nice feature.

5. The home folder is not commonly used in their UI paradigm.

6. I’m not sure I’ve seen this behavior.

7. This is a good point.

I’d agree that “Finder is just horrible to use for someone who expects Linux- or Windows-like behaviors.” Once you’ve learned it, though, it’s mostly fine and, in my opinion, a bit better overall than Windows Explorer.

Yes, it could be improved. They really need a better cover flow replacement for browsing a folder of images or documents, for example. And they clearly haven’t been making much of an effort over the past few years to improve Finder beyond minor tweaks here and there. But it does its job overall, and long-time users (like myself) will miss features like Enter-to-rename if they adjust them to match the conventions in other operating systems.

There are also alternative file managers for Mac OS like Commander One and Path Finder for people who want more features.
Prepping up to meet China's expectations?
I business agreement isn't an arbitrary date. Those dates should be clearly communicated to engineers.
Does Apple have a legal or regulatory requirement to scan iCloud photos for CSAM? I poked around but didn't find a quick answer.

Reading through the two linked PDF's, I got the impression that they're aiming to use cryptographic techniques to meet a (possibly self-imposed) requirement to scan for CSAM while revoking their current ability to decrypt photos stored in iCloud. I guess they may want to revoke this ability so that they can no longer be compelled to hand over customer's photos except those for which the requirements of this new system are met.

I guess if it results in an increase of the privacy of iCloud content, that's nice as far as it goes. But it does skeeve me out to be reminded that my phone can (and does) paw through my stuff.
Yes, and from around 3000BC to 1980 humanity has not been carbon neutral.
Politically speaking, this is an amazing issue to argue.

Some on the political left have been arguing 'My body, my choice' with regards to abortion. But now it's often those on the right that are making that argument.

It can make both sides uncomfortable.
Canola refers to a specific process invented in Canada, which would explain its prevalence in North America but not Europe.
This is false, the scanning occurs on the phone. Plus, as has already been discussed at length, the NCMEC database is loaded with false positives.

The "nothing to hide" argument tends to fall apart when the database being used against you is full of legal imagery (which often isn't borderline or pornographic at all -- some of the flagged images literally don't show people).

Slippery slope to non-CSAM material? That ship has sailed already. The databases are a mess. From day 1, it detects non-CSAM.
There used to be a great column in alt-weeklies called The Word Detective, that dealt with tons of these I've the years (to insure promptness, port out starboard home, etc).

The author (one Evan Morris) always reminded people that acronyms were extremely rare before about WW2, and so acronym etymologies for old words are virtually always made up (Morris blamed tour guides for keeping them circulating).
Hey HN:

Thanks for everyone who has tried to visit the site. The surge in traffic was unexpected, and I realize that it slowed down the load time, so I've added a 'boost' to the site.

Besides that, I should also clarify that this site was built to be 'web first'. It currently does not work on mobile (I didn't design it to work on mobile since I was only working on it for 2 weeks).

Hope the site loads better now. Will try to respond to other comments below
With respect to ARexx, the language is certainly awful, but the ease with which even regular users could use it to script programs matters. Biggest of them all, though, was that we quickly got a cultural expectation that "everything" should have an ARexx port. It was brought up in reviews. Many applications were built around an IPC model where they took an even in without really caring if it was an ARexx command or a GUI action or keyboard event, and dispatched commands, and so often it then became easy to expose "everything" to ARexx scripts.

> So I'd love to see a proper AmigaOS port to modern PC hardware, and it would totally rock - but I just can't see it gain the same momentum it had back in the day.

I've long toyed with the idea of trying to pull pieces out of AROS to do something like that which takes the good bits without the bad (e.g. losing memory protection is not something I'd like), but it's tricky. I think a "Linux reskin" by someone who actually is familiar with both would be the best bet. But it'd be a lot of work.

Maybe an "Amiga layer" to provide some of this. E.g. quite a bit of functionality could be done by a combination of FUSE filesystems to make things (e.g. assigns, datatypes) accessible to all apps, and then you can build libraries and tools separately to expose them in nicer ways where needed.

For screens, I think many of the programmable window managers would be a decent basis for providing APIs like that. E.g. bspwm, while predominantly a tiling wm, does support floating windows too and pretty everything can be controlled over IPC.

For ARexx, we have dbus, and while dbus has always seemed overengineered to me, providing a wrapper that provides a simplified interface might well be doable.

But you're absolutely right about the culture differences, and I think that's the biggest challenge. This worked on the Amiga because "everyone" coalesced around a set of standard tooling. To get something like that to work today I think you'd have to have a group of people willing and committed to expend a lot of time working to get support for these things into existing open source tools before people would start to see the benefits.
It is pretty strong evidence that the step from going from other molecules to RNA/DNA only happened once. Our molecules definitely changed their environment, so it is probable that they out-competed their mirror molecules.
But GP is right about what I intended. I don’t mean to question the safety or efficacy of the vaccine. I only mean to suggest it’s a difficult problem to solve when even the health care profession, which I would style as more familiar/comfortable with administration of life saving treatments, seems to be struggling with uptake.
No, the greens don't get away that easily. Fossil fuel companies are the prime cause, but the opposition were every bit as aware of the consequences of not shifting away and every bit as culpable for frustrating that shift.

They chose to ignore the consequences because shouting "nein danke" at everything makes you look principled.
Show HN: Paper Time – Listen to abstracts of CS papers, like a custom podcast
This site is very strange.
Yes yes please. I’d love to have it any design app!
And convenience.
Ummmm… I have bad news:

“These features are coming later this year in updates to iOS 15, iPadOS 15, watchOS 8, and macOS Monterey.”

https://www.apple.com/child-safety/ :^)
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This pushed me over the edge to get the last remaining thing I use my iPhone for working on my Pinephone: maps. Marble (from KDE) is really good and even has offline routing support. I think I'll buy a GPS unit just in case (I was planning on getting one for a boat, unfortunately I haven't seen any that do both sea charts and turn by turn but I'm all ears if people know of any.)
My iPhone is formatted with an empty battery and in a drawer now. I worry for other people though, the privacy implications of this are insane. This is a huge misstep even for Apple.
I haven't deployed anything myself on Bubble (only tried their editor briefly) but since this submissions URL is reggit.bubbleapps.io I'd wager that yes, Bubble does handle everything for you once you've actually built your app in their editor.
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IP-based geolocation is a crapshoot. I frequently get teleported to Eastern Europe, Finland, USA, or Canada, despite living very far from all of them.
Why do people still think they have _any_ power over user-hostile corporations and its proprietary code?

Apple can (and likely will) say they won't do it and then do it anyway. It's a proprietary platform. They already have it, now. All they are claiming is an excuse not to be caught in a certain way they wouldn't like at a later point.
LOVE can do 3D now too.
I know, I was going to upgrade my 2016 SE to a 12 Mini. Now I'm not interested at all.
Do you have a link to these? I'm curious if my name is unique
This is implying all the concerns about possible future uses of this technology are unreasonable slippery slope concerns, but we're on our like fourth or fifth time on this slope and we've slipped down it every previous time, so it's not unreasonable to be concerned

Previous times down this slope:

* UK internet filters for child porn -> opt out filters for regular porn (ISPs now have a list of porn viewers) + mandatory filters for copyright infringment

* Google drive filters for illegal content -> Google driver filters for copyrighted content

* iCloud data is totally protected so it's ok to require an apple account -> iCloud in China run by government controlled data centers without encryption

* Protection against malware is important so Windows defender is mandatory unless you have a third party program -> Windows Defender deletes DeCSS

* Need to protect users against malware, so mobile devices are set up as walled gardens -> Providers use these walled gardens to prevent business models that are bad for them
I find it amusing I’m being downvoted. I’m not questioning the safety or efficacy of the vaccine (I’m vaccinated). I only mean to highlight what a difficult problem this is to solve when even health care workers are struggling with uptake. People, including HN, are truly wrapped around the axle on this issue.
Please talk to non-tech people around you about this. This overreach simply cannot stand, and from a company that sees success from touting itself as a privacy-centric alternative? These really are some dark times. I imagine that if the world had Stasi fresher in its mind, this would never have happened.
I recently listened to a Darknet Diaries episode on messaging app Kik. This app is apparently being used by many people to trade child pornography. In this episode, there was some criticism expressed on how Kik doesn't scan all the images on their platform for child pornography.

I would really like to hear from people who sign this open letter, how they think about this. Should the internet be a free for all place without moderation? Where are the boundaries for moderation (if it has to exist), one-on-one versus group chat, public versus private chat?

To quote this open letter: “Apple is opening the door to broader abuses”. Wouldn't not doing anything open a different door to broader abuse?

Edit: I would really love an actual answer, since responses until now have been "but muh privacy". You can't plead for unlimited privacy and ignore the impact of said privacy. If you want unlimited privacy, at least have the balls to admit that this will allow free trade of CSAM, but also revenge porn, snuff-films and other things like it.
Algorithm is really neat:

Unlike most algorithms applied to this problem, it neither represents surfaces parametrically (i.e. s(x,y,z) = f(u,v) ) nor implicitly ( f(x,y,z)=0 ) nor using a mesh of triangles but instead uses differential forms.

As a result, it makes no initial assumptions for the surface's topology ... most other minimal surface solvers require some sort of "starting point" sheet to minimize from and said starting point implies what end topology you'll get.

This algo seems to only require the boundary and work out a solution from it.

Quite surprisingly they also claim to have found a way to make convex a notoriously non-convex problem which, when you try to optimize it, typically yields local minima.

Their claim to have transformed the problem into a convex one allows them to find the global minimum. I would have intuitively bet that this would not be possible.

The math is TBH too heavy for me to digest, but if the claim holds, this is quite an impressive feat.
Ask HN: How would you build a business around a bunch of servers?
My SME employer has been working on a deal with a client for the last year or so to host a long-term project. To prepare for this, they purchased 30 enterprise-grade servers (plus supporting equipment) and hired a small team of ops staff to maintain and manage this new infrastructure.

For the last few months the client has been dragging their heels and using the pandemic as an excuse to drive down the price on the project, but costs still would have been covered and they seemed pretty happy with the new price on offer. Work was started in good faith to help hit a specific deadline set by the client, and everyone was collaborating well.

Until earlier this week, when the client pulled out of the deal completely and has shut down their side of operations. So my employer is left with a bunch of hardware idling and is now looking to rent them out to other clients.

Now, there's enough cash left from the initial investment which gives the business about 6-months of "runway". So this got me thinking what cool things could be done with these servers to jump on the next bleeding-edge tech and start to recoup costs and eventually turn a profit.

The servers are a mixture of "compute" machines (many/fast cores, high memory, fewer drives) targeted at analysis workloads, and "storage" (fewer cores, mid memory, many drives). They have 10G connections between them and to the outside world.

In this situation, given 30 6-month-old enterprise servers, a small team (3), and 6 months, how would _you_ make best use of these resources to build a business?
* Weight of the average Small family car (C) (same class as the Nissan Leaf): 1,365 kg ^[1]

* Weight of the Nissan Leaf: 1,560 kg ^[2]

Difference: 1,560-1,365 = 195 kg.

So about two washing machines in difference... :) And that's by giving you credit by comparing the heaviest average within the same car class. The lightest one yields a three washing machine diff.

[1]: https://carroar.com/average-car-weight/#:~:text=An%20average....

[2]: https://www.guideautoweb.com/en/makes/nissan/leaf/2019/speci...
This seems fatalist and goes against what we have learned from internet society: making a ruckus is exactly how you sway large companies.
How do you prevent photo's from your kids ending up in such a database? Perhaps you mailed grandma a photo of a nude two year old during bath time during a Covid lockdown — you know, normal parenting stuff. Grandma posted it on Facebook (accidentally, naively, doesn't matter) or someone gained access to it, and it ended up on a seedy image board that caters to that niche. A year later and it's part of the big black box database of hashes and ping, a flag lights up next to your name on Apple's dashboard and local law enforcement is notified.

I don't know how most people feel about this, but even a false positive would seem hazardous. Does that put you on some permanent watch list in the lowest tier? How can you even know? And besides, it's all automated.

We could of course massively shift society towards a no-photo/video policy for our kids (perhaps only kept on a non-internet connected camera and hard drive), and tell grandma to just deal with it (come back after the lockdown granny, if you survive). Some people do.

And don't think that normal family photos won't get classified as CEI. What is titillating for one is another's harmless family photo.
For others who may be unfamiliar with HTTP artifact binding, I found this blog post useful: https://everything1know.wordpress.com/2019/02/19/saml-2-0-ar...
Try to edit your post and add a \ before each * so it is not interpreted as italics here.

Have you tried to simplify it? My guess is that the problem is not in the last "+(8871)".
In this day and age I am basically guilty of heresy for speaking out against the insanity of our times.

Nobody should be prosecuted for possessing or viewing any text, image or audio recording, unless they created it themselves by abusing someone. That is a fundamental principle of a free society which has been acknowledged for if not decades, hundreds of years. By all means prosecute the distribution of such material - but to prosecute possession is returning us to the Middle Ages hunting witches again.

It is only because of radical, extremist feminists and other moralists creating moral panics in the 1970s and 1980s are we faced with the present situation in the 21st Century, which is extremely dangerous in a highly interconnected society such as ours, where it is very difficult if not impossible to stop people from unintentionally coming across such material.

We might as well have a nuclear reactor in our own homes, yes it's very useful and provides lots of free electricity but one day it can melt down destroying the entire family? Do you see the analogy I'm making? Because the Internet is just as dangerous. The penalties for possession of such material and being put on the sex offenders register are so horrific, it's totally unreal. It's like a real life nightmare. I cannot believe I'm typing this here in 2021. What has happened to our country?

We criticize dangerous products that are unsafe and burn your house down or electrocute you, but why can't we criticize the dangers of the Internet and all the ridiculous draconian laws involving it? It is as if the law itself and the crazy ways it's made is beyond discussion?

Nobody should have to fear their own computers (unless they are doing major hacking/fraud/sending death threats, etc...).. This simply cannot be happening in a free society. It looks like we are no better than China - it's just over different stuff here in the West.
Ask HN: What surprising things do you run on your CI pipelines?
I am seeing all sorts of funky hacks and workarounds in our CI pipelines in my new job. I wonder what all do you guys run on your CI pipelines that are not really CI or CD work....

personal uses, tricky optimisations, hacks etc.
The thing is, 90% of software is “unique”, in the sense that it solves a specific business requirement
Ask HN: Resources to learn about automation systems?
My work requires working with different types of automation systems, mostly with building automation systems but also industrial. What are some good - and preferably free - resources to learn fundamentals as well as more advanced stuff?
There are events businesses, flash sales, and pop-ups that rely entirely on an email for marketing and communication.
Email is good for anything for which exclusivity is a factor.

Naturally, I can't name names ;)
It's absolutely relevant and was my mistake. I would have corrected it if I had seen it in time – apologies to the author.
I love no code! Wait. Wait. Hear me out... Building software is easy. Changing people's minds is damned near impossible.

As an engineer:

- I'm constantly handed shitty (or a complete lack thereof) requirements from non-technical people. No code lets people figure out that they haven't thought something out nearly as much as they think they have. I no longer am the bearer of bad news.

- I constantly see business people undervalue the design process or skip it all together. No code is making non-technical people realize that they have to plan out before they just throw engineers at a problem.

No code is changing the dialog around this. I see that as a net positive. Of course us software engineers know the problems around no-code - we'll deal with them as we deal with all problems.
This is effectively just (understandable) CYA on Jollas part, likely due to the some countries respecting the insanity that are software patents.

In practice only the act of buying the actual Sailfish OS license in https://shop.jolla.com needs to be done from the the EU/supported countries. That can be done via a EU VPN and none of the Jolla provided services (RPM repositories needed for system updates, etc.) are geoblocked. I went to Japan with Sailfish OS phone twice with no issues at all.

For reference:

- getting SFOS from outside of EU:

https://together.jolla.com/question/184861/ask-purchase-sail...

https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/has-jolla-abandoned-sailors-i...

- stats from the community Sailfish OS software repository showing a lot of traffic from countries outside of the officially supported area

https://openrepos.net/statistics/global
In this day and age I am basically guilty of heresy for speaking out against the insanity of our times.

Nobody should be prosecuted for possessing or viewing any text, image or audio recording, unless they created it themselves by abusing someone. That is a fundamental principle of a free society which has been acknowledged for if not decades, hundreds of years. By all means prosecute the distribution of such material - but to prosecute possession is returning us to the Middle Ages hunting witches again.

It is only because of radical feminists and other moralists creating moral panics in the 1970s and 1980s are we faced with the present situation in the 21st Century, which is extremely dangerous in a highly interconnected society such as ours, where it is very difficult if not impossible to stop people from unintentionally coming across such material.

We might as well have a nuclear reactor in our own homes, yes it's very useful and provides lots of free electricity but one day it can melt down destroying the entire family? Do you see the analogy I'm making? Because the Internet is just as dangerous. The penalties for possession of such material and being put on the sex offenders register are so horrific, it's totally unreal. It's like a real life nightmare. I cannot believe I'm typing this here in 2021. What has happened to our country?

We criticize dangerous products that are unsafe and burn your house down or electrocute you, but why can't we criticize the dangers of the Internet and all the ridiculous draconian laws involving it? It is as if the law itself and the crazy ways it's made is beyond discussion?

Nobody should have to fear their own computers (unless they are doing major hacking/fraud/sending death threats, etc...).. This simply cannot be happening in a free society. It looks like we are no better than China - it's just over different stuff here in the West.
Evidently the episode you listened to was loaded with false information, because Kik has used PhotoDNA to scan for CSAM for 7 years. [1]

[1] https://www.kik.com/blog/using-microsofts-photodna-to-protec...
I really wish fixing the Maildir store implementation would be a higher priority so that the local mailstore can be shared with other mail clients.
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I’ve got the feeling that they’re already doing this on their servers for photos that are uploaded to iCloud (which I believe is pretty standard for services like this). By moving this scan to the devices themselves they can offer end to end encrypted storage without losing the ability to scan for child sex abuse images. Hence, I wouldn’t be surprised if they launch end to end encrypted iCloud storage within the next year.
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Why is everywhere I move the mouse a pointer cursor?
Spaniard here. The donation page thinks I'm mexican. Changed to es-ES but didn't work at the first time. The paypal link seems to do nothing.

Tried browsing from google.es and again it was set to Mexico, though this time I was able to donate after changing to Spain.
I was told to take a hike after reporting a feature regression. So I will not be donating. :(