skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a physical indicator LED for the camera. The LED indicator can't be seen if the camera isn't in use. Try launching Photo Booth and you'll see the LED indicator.

But, the latest Macs don't have a LED for the mic, which is a disappointment. Good old MacBooks had a LED indicator for the mic.

EDIT: sorry, my memory failed me. The old MacBooks didn't have a LED for the mic. On white plastic MacBooks (2006), there's two black dots around the camera. The dot on the right side is a LED for the camera. The dot on the left side is the mic, not the LED indicator for it. Thanks for correcting me!
> People who are working remotely, ... The camera pointed right at you is poised to capture extremely private and intimate moments

My private and intimate moments are had while my work laptop is off. The web filter blocks youtube, so I doubt private and intimate websites are allowed between zoom meetings.
The original refactoring browser/editor was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisualAge it was later Open Sourced as Eclipse but it predates it by over a decade.
I hate to throw a purely negative comment up as a naked response to a post, but this is really just a contemptful screed about people engaging in online interactions the author doesn't jibe with. It's not even like they're presenting their opinion to elicit other perspectives-- it's presented as an objective list of unhealthy habits and patronizing instructions to align your behavior with the author's values and priorities. Not sure if the author intended this to be publicly consumed in this form but I'll skip their other blog entries.
> the main one is that having giant above ground parking lots is awful in the first place

Sorry, I should have specified: I’m looking for reasons the property owner wouldn’t want to install solar canopied parking lots besides just cost.

E.g. Walmart is famous for their enormous parking lots and large corporate campuses in the suburbs often have large parking lots too, as do outdoor malls. It seems to me they would stand to benefit from installing canopies with solar panels seeing as how they’ve already dedicated vast swaths of their property to parking.
BPs are a weird case, its decent UX and good accessibility tricks a fair few non-programmers into a lot of subtle footguns, and sometimes in the pursuit of avoiding writing a few lines of code they will opt to handicap themselves with spaghetti monsters.

https://blueprintsfromhell.tumblr.com/
I’m not sure what it is, but you’ve got some odd font-size bugs going on.
Some work environments prohibit cameras because they may capture sensitive information or activities. On business laptops, a “camera delete” option is often available for this reason.
Yes, some security researchers at Johns Hopkins found an issue in older models (before 2013) that was since fixed and now it's should be impossible to circumvent it by software. https://daringfireball.net/2019/02/on_covering_webcams
Sears used to take clothing back and replace it if it had any wear on it. In the 90s I bought a couple pairs of jeans at sears and just kept replacing them until they stopped doing that.
Playing devil's advocate, I think that these may be some great goals for a small team but I don't see how their roadmap really solves their intention. It is like Microsoft saying they want everyone to use Windows so they are going to add graphics support to the Windows Subsystem for Linux. People already using Linux aren't going to switch to Windows for that, unless they have to for a job.

People aren't going to switch to Nix unless they have a reason to, and frankly what they are proposing won't capture a lot of users. Maybe some Mac people who want more packages available, but that is about it. I like the idea of Nix, but it is going to take a lot more to get people to adopt it. Nix packages are ugly. Rather than build the API around package management like winget or to some extent pacman, they instead added a bunch of scripting so each package ends up looking like a clusterfuck. A lot of the features aren't even documented well.
The HoAs in the US are crazy. Why are they against PV?
Shouldn't at least several people go to prison for this kind of thing? If my personal accounts were 'works of absolute fiction' I certainly would, what gives?
Oh that page isn't mine, I just found it as a good explainer for nix templates.
Not at all, only pointing out the skewed perspective surrounding this topic.
I never said it wasn't an alternative. Or put down your choice. I was just including the addendum that no-one should expect to be able to do bring any of their existing [and possibly built up over years] 'stuff' with them, should they decide to move to the fediverse.

>It's not like Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook or Instagram offers this feature either, and they seem to get along just fine...

They're the incumbents, with billions of users. They don't have to give a shit. Wannabe alternatives, on the other hand, do.

People always bang on about 'vendor lock-in". But no-one seems to consider 'vendor lock-out'.

If you're going to start a rival to a company with millions of users, many of whom have been on there for years, it smacks of colossal arrogance to expect them all to flock to your new alternative and just lose everything they've built up over the years on the rival site.

And the irony is that; all the companies you mentioned make it easy for you to export your existing data. But none of their fediverse rivals avail of that to actually offer you a way to import it.
I mostly like ZenBooks, but they really need to spend an extra $5-10 on more durable charging components. Mine had the charging receiver inside the laptop fail from wear, so I had to pop it open, remove the broken one, and solder in a new one I'd bought online (around $30, but it would have been a couple hundred bucks to send it off for repairs). Of course then the hinges failed a few months later... It's very frustrating for a "premium" laptop to cut corners on stuff like that.
Lol… peak ignorance and naïveté.
Even so, they'd still be better off because at least the option would be there. It's no surprise Apple and other corporations still decide the "best way" for the consumer is to remove options, not keep/add to them.
cause of accident was bird strike, the plane was already mere feet from the ground when the engine failed.
>> Nuclear plants may or may not be reliable, but outages at multiple nuclear plants are usually not corellated.

Japan has seen a decade-long shutdown of most plants following a single incident.
> Kvochur immediately selected full afterburner for the good engine, but at only 180 km/h (111 mph) he had insufficient rudder and aileron authority to counter the thrust asymmetry and the result was inevitably an irrecoverable departure.

Multi-engine aircraft have a known minimal control speed, below the speed you cannot maintain directional control in case of an engine failure with full power from the other engine.

The theory is that you can only be below that during the takeoff roll and in case of a problem you have to abort the takeoff (close both throttles) to maintain control.

I've never flown military jets, but I expect they have this same concept. Then going full afterburner while below minimum control speed is what put him in an uncontrollable roll.
My understanding of the argument of The Case Against Education is different. "Signaling cheaply" is a difficult problem because cost is part of signal. Consider: can people signal more cheaply instead of buying expensive wedding rings?

Rather, the argument is that while wedding rings would always be somewhat expensive, currently it is too expensive because purchase of wedding rings is subsidized by public tax. So public subsidy of wedding rings should stop. Then it would be as expensive as needed to signal, instead of being crazy expensive, and public money won't be wasted.
It was bought by Solution6 I don't know what they call it now. I want to make a. FOSS alternative to it. Time sheets client matter accounting.

https://www.accountancyage.com/2004/08/19/solution-6-disappe...

They merged and it became MYOB now.
Those numbers don’t include those not currently looking for work. Which is substantial.
Lol. This reminds me of the Windows days where you'd make desktop shortcuts and you could rename them. Why can't I rename my android home shortcuts?
Playing with p5 is great fun and easy to get started with, so that might be a good starting point.

If you're interested in using deep learning and pushing more towards the generative AI side, I made a free course for that: https://github.com/johnowhitaker/aiaiart, and I'd be happy to chat through the landscape and help you get started :)
Holster wearer, too. Phone stays horizontal in it though.
No more ruined trousers pockets.
> Tires don't recycle into anything useful;

Would be good to get a source on that claim. Or if not a source, then a reason why tires can't be recycled into anything useful.
It needs a more friendly app installer gui
Anything goes to distract masses from the elephants in the room: healthcare prices, housing prices, education prices. Instead of demanding from the gov to end the healthcare racket, people are supposed to fight "inequities" (what a word).
I agree. And al of that leads to information fatigue. After reading many studies, I'm even worried about "common sense" nutrition knowledge, for example:

* I'm worried about increasing my fruit and vegetable intake, because that will raise my pesticide burden. It is not clear whether the benefits of fruits and vegetables make up for the increased probability of cancer of pesticide consumption. Organic produce is not a solution, as the pesticide burden is even higher.

* Increasing fish consumption of even "healthy" dishes will increase heavy metal consumption. Is it worth it?

* Taking Omega 3 supplements greatly increases the risk of prostate cancer. Is it really worth it?

You can't rely on anything to make dietary decisions for longevity. The best one can aim for is dietary advice to maintain a healthy weight. That, at least, can be quickly proven empirically.
I'm going to suggest Paul Bourke's "Fractals, Chaos, Self-Similarity" website, because I often go there to get inspiration and code snippets - http://www.paulbourke.net/fractals/

Somebody else has already mentioned the excellent @beesandbombs on Twitter. I sometimes spend too much time trying to work out how Dave achieves a particular effect - https://twitter.com/beesandbombs

If you're going to be drawing into the browser using the canvas element, I suggest you check out the Slaylines canvas comparison test page. There's a link to the GitHub repo which includes links to all the canvas libraries demoed there. Try out several libraries, settle for the ones which fit easiest into your preferred working style - https://benchmarks.slaylines.io/
>The places to look for deliberate design for failure to drive profits are markets in which there is an effective monopoly or cartel and the manufacturers no longer have competition (like the Phoebus cartel).

Not true. Entire industries can move in lock step without formation of a cartel. Phones, cars and fashion is one example. All of the aforementioned products are designed with planned obsolescence in mind.

It's sort of a behavioral phenomenon, the same way a flock of birds stays synchronized in the sky. Additionally, competing Companies in industries can still deliberately design things that fail earlier without losing profit margins simply because humans are too myopic to judge the difference between a phone that fails in 8 years vs. one that fails in 3.
I think they were really betting on autonomous driving, fueled by Elon Musks lies and hype. They built up the digital infrastructure and so much clout their company name & product became a verb on the level of googling.

But now taxi-level 100% autonomous no-driving-wheel cars are farther away than ever. The current broad generation of machine learning and sensors reached its maximum and it‘s looking bleak.
The controversy was mixed up with the overall dislike of single–player games that required you to have a constant internet connection, which had gotten started a few years earlier. SimCity, released by EA in 2013, got a lot more hate because of it than Darkspore did, but at least you could have more than one city at a time and when you finished with one you could still play it as many times as you wanted. If you could stomach it.

Darkspore just didn’t have the cachet that SimCity did, so it didn’t attract as much attention.
I remember reading somewhere that Taiwan has rigged all the TSMC fabs to explode and flood in case China invades it. The fabs however are less important than the innovation and technical knowledge to run it and is stored elsewhere and also with the human resource. These can be quickly transported to ensure they can setup elsewhere and prevent the tech from falling into China's hand.
some things never change?
I loved the Wc3 editor as a kid, reversing obfuscated JASS from all the protected maps to try and learn stuff was like IDA Pro to 9 y/o me.
That’s a really neat idea, what better way to intuitively understand what a program is doing than a familiar physical environment in front of you.

Reminds me of the esolang Taxi, where you perform computation by giving directions to a taxi driver carrying “passengers” (data) around a city [1]

The city metaphor would probably create a whole new genre of software-art too, where you can optimize for beautiful layout/architecture as well as efficiency.

[1] https://bigzaphod.github.io/Taxi/
That is possible, yes. But that doesn't make the question of "why?" meaningless, as the GGP was suggesting.
A company only needs to be able to claim that they really believed someones fair market value estimation of a company and they are good.
That gets you some Cargo.toml/lock files, from which you can build on another system. But there are some system dependencies, like dynamic libraries, which are not described nor pinned. Nix forces you to describe 100% of the build/run inputs.
If that were actually the case there would be far less inequality.

The reality is that money and land are used as weapons to distort any concept of letting genes express themselves in a non distorted environment. Humanity has never suffered from a lack of "good genetics", the entire point of "genetics" is to ensure compatibility with the surrounding environment.

Poverty by far exceeds what is explainable by genes.
"It should be possible to configure pretty much everything via GUI (in the end Windows and Mac OS allow this)"

Yes, this sentence only shows that the author has extremely limited Windows and MacOS experience, because there are plenty of things that cannot be configured through the GUI in those.

I no longer use Apple computers, so I do not know if this is true any more for the recent MacOS versions.

However, when I had an Apple laptop, I was extremely surprised to discover that there were plenty of things that could not be configured through the GUI, but they could be configured with some undocumented command options added to command-line utilities whose origin was in FreeBSD, but which had been extended with additional options for OS X.

I no longer remember all the cases where I was forced to use Apple CLI tools, but at least one of them was needed to be able to associate to some WiFi access points, others than those overpriced made by Apple, because not all the WiFi configuration options could be modified through the GUI.

Also in Windows, a couple of years ago I had to install Windows Enterprise on several kinds of embedded computers and in each case I had to spend several days until convincing Windows to work acceptably, e.g. in order to work fine with a very slow SSD.

In every case, the Windows Knowledge Base was not good enough to solve all the problems, so I had to do many Internet searches through forums of Windows users who complained about the same issues, in most cases without receiving any useful reply.

Fortunately, in every case I have found some reply with the right solution, and in all cases the solution was not in the Control Panel or in any other GUI tool, but in invoking some obscure Windows command-line system-management tool, using some magic command-line options.

The only difference vs. Linux was that the Apple and Microsoft CLI tools did not have adequate documentation and only some gurus were aware of what can be done with them.
French data protection authority fines Criteo of €60M
Yeah, you don't want heme iron if you're an adult, especially if you're male.

At least multivitamin manufacturers get that right (that surprises me). No adult multivitamin contains iron.
how about

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Like I said for low pay jobs I get it.
I disagree. From my experience our best minds tend to work on the most important problems. And in America most people living paycheck to paycheck are doing so by choice, so that’s really more of a cultural problem as opposed to economic.
LTT channel recently lost 1 PB of videos on ZFS on super expensive server with ECC RAM.
Yup. Surely the English Channel shouldn't be there.
Every once in a while, we get a "How much would Microsoft had made if they had held their Apple stock until now" article.

Here's one from 2020:

>Microsoft held approximately 18.1 million shares in Apple at the time it started selling them. Since then, multiple stock splits have taken place: one on a 2-for-1 basis on February 28, 2005, and one on a 7-for-1 basis on June 9, 2014. This means those 18.1 million shares would have been 253.4 million shares as of today.

Multiply that by the current stock price of $503.43, and the result is a whopping $127.5 billion stake.

https://thenextweb.com/news/microsoft-once-owned-a-chunk-of-...
I found it it was
Bred Victor 2012 talk = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv66718DII
Laszlo Pandy 205 - implementation in Elm - Reactor
Fish should come with CoAs. No ifs or buts about it.
Overwork is bad macro economics and good micro economics. Funny, isn't it?
Yeah. This is a big problem with the "metaverse". Peering into a high-resolution 3D world via a hand-sized screen is tunnel vision. We're still a long way from the "swim goggles" form factor in VR headgear, which is what Carmack says is the minimum for reasonable consumer adoption levels.

Playing "Papers Please" on a phone requires a good memory. Do you remember what the recognized visa issuing cities for Kolechia are? You need to know that. If you have to swipe to the rulebook to look it up, your productivity will drop and you won't make enough money for the day to keep your family fed.
The machines may be rigged to explode, flood, or otherwise hose themselves, but active sabotage is largely unnecessary. If China takes Taiwan by force, two things will happen: 1) the US will heavily sanction anyone who trades with them, so even if they manage to keep the TSMC fab online it won't do them any good in a commercial sense; and 2) without ongoing service and support from ASML and many other Western vendors, the equipment will work for about as long as the leased aircraft that Russia stole from Airbus's and Boeing's customers.

They might get six or twelve months of production out of TSMC's facility, and then things will start to break that they will not be able to fix easily. Invading Taiwan will cause economic damage measured in hundreds of billions of dollars at a bare minimum, and much of that damage will be suffered by China.

Bottom line, it would be insanely stupid of China to attack Taiwan. Of course, many people (including myself) said the same thing about Putin and Ukraine, so...
Serious question: why is the US trying to (or is already preventing) China from acquiring EUV chip tech? What’s the reason for such an aggressive intervention in a free market?
The critical part of nix that the developer failed to notice is user friendliness.

Sure I love to program, but that doesn't mean I want to program every aspect of my OS just so I can start writing a web app.

If you increase user friendliness of the app with a GUI or easily understood commands not only will more regular people start using it, but MORE developers will start using it too. Many developers just want to work on their own project with an OS that just works.

Hence why more devs use mac and windows over linux.
What's your proposal for dealing with rapists/murderers/child abusers/etc? If it doesn't involve shooting them to Neptune, explain how you will keep them permanently out of my life.
> Now replace 3,000 neurons every second over the course of a year and now your entire brain has been digitized. At which point did you stop being you?

Slowly, over the year, I would have died. You are describing a brain wasting disease.

I'd ask it another way: if somebody could replicate your brain's neurons outside your skull, let's say inside a super-strong nuclear-powered titanium robot with x-ray vision, at which point are you happy to shoot yourself in the head and let your superbot digital counterpart continue to "live your life"?

Or is this digital counterpart not supposed to take up your mantle until after you die naturally?

If you try to prevent your digital clone from acting independently, can it sue you for it's freedom? Can it accuse you of false imprisonment or coercive control, and seek help? (There are plenty more Blake Lemoines out there who would take up it's cause against you)

If "digital you" hasn't yet won its freedom to act as an independent person, and it then commits a crime (eg wire fraud or conspiracy to commit murder via bitcoin hitman) does "real you" go to court or to prison?

If "digital you" doesn't win it's personhood and "real you" gets killed in a freak accident before signing a will that gives yor digital clone the right to inherit your personhood, do they have to become someone else?
in the Netherlands there are coops that are no more than a group that pool their money to build a 'sun meadow', and then have a share in the installation, and thus ongoing costs and returns.
I am curious about your judgement on NYC's climate change resiliency. Did you see the flooded subway stations last time the tide swell? I see NYC as very exposed, and property owners plans based on faulty assumptions about how much the rest of the country would be ready to chip in. Katrina comes to mind.
I've been thinking about this before that you can do more when you work with the abstract syntax tree instead of the plain text and I was wondering whether someone actually did something with this. It's really cool to see their work.

I don't know whether they went that far, because I didn't watch the video on the site completely yet, but when you work with the abstract syntax tree, every change becomes a manipulation on that syntax tree. When you think about source control, you can use that concept in there too and store the changes on the syntax tree instead of individual edits. And when you do that, you would get a lot smarter merging, rebasing and conflict resolving.

For example, suppose you have a variable and branch 1 renames that variable and branch 2 introduces a new use of the variable. If you merge branch 1 and 2, or you rebase branch 1 on top of branch 2, you will not get a conflict, but the code will be broken. If you work based on the abstract syntax tree, the merge would automatically do the correct thing.

Another example would be that branch 1 renames the variable to x and branch 2 renames it to y. In that case, you would get a conflict upon merge, but not upon rebase. (for rebase: last committer wins) In the case of the merge, the system would know that the conflict is the rename of a variable to 2 different names, and the user would be able to decide on which name must be used.

I think it's really an idea worth exploring further and could have a big impact on the quality of code and on the efficiency when working in teams.
Bill showed mercy, having already won.