skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have a source for this provisioned access claim, or in fact that it exists at all?

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It says you can’t install new configuration profiles while lockdown mode is enabled, not that you can’t run lockdown mode with a profile enabled.
Their existing imperative code operations actually produced the wrong results (subtly) frequently or their imperative code depended on the order of the data returned from the database (undefined behavior). Yikes.

That just sounds like very sloppy programming.
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> The two now describe almost the same category of software, but they stand for views based on fundamentally different values. For the free software movement, free software is an ethical imperative, essential respect for the users' freedom. By contrast, the philosophy of open source considers issues in terms of how to make software “better”—in a practical sense only. It says that nonfree software is an inferior solution to the practical problem at hand.

> For the free software movement, however, nonfree software is a social problem, and the solution is to stop using it and move to free software.

edit: of course it's a bit Fine Gael/Fianna Fáil, but it's hard to throw a rock without hitting an OSS advocate who thinks that Free Software is communist fascism.
As someone who has hosted an email server and done calculus, it’s way harder.

Email servers have whole scripts and instructions and tutorials on how to run them with a completeness that is surely missing from this printer. Calculus has whole libraries full of instructional books.

It’s probably similarly hard to learning bash and Linux and networking and c and writing an email server from scratch with only the SMTP spec in hand or learning all of calculus by being told simply that you can calculate the slope of a line and being handed a slide rule.

(That’s how my professor taught calculus btw. It sucked)
>Was it really routine maintenance to BleachBit an entire server after you receive a subpoena from the FBI?

I would hope so, since presumably the storage devices on that server would either be resold or sent to a dump.

The info on those storage devices (assuming backups/existence of that data elsewhere for government data retention purposes) should not be let out into the wild.

In fact, I (and I don't work/exist in areas with confidential data) have a dozen or so hard drives that sit in a closet as I don't have the interface cards (any more) to hook them up and securely delete the data.

Eventually I'll probably purchase a bulk eraser[0], but until then, those disks will sit in my closet as my business is my business and no one else's.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Degausser-Electricity-Required-Mainte...
What's the proposed solution? Put a finger on the scale against the privileged group? By how much? for how long? Lumping any race together and treating it as the same is a problem in my view.
The mRNA vaccines confer good but not perfect protection against infection for a few months after taking them.
So here's the main problem I see with this:

>Anyone who can articulate their ideas in language can implement them

I'd be shocked if even 10% of the users who can't navigate a GUI could accurately describe what they want the software to do. To the user who doesn't know they can use Ctrl-Z to undo, the first half dozen times the AI mangles their inherited spreadsheet might be enough to put them off the idea.
> They got very little sympathy from the pro-free-speech crowd because

Every officially designated 'pro free speech warrior' I've seen in recent times has been strongly for authoritarianism if it suits their agenda. Just ask many of them for their opinion on say Palestine or Yemen and you'll lots of ugly things come out, none of which are consistent with the image of 'freedom' these types like to portray themselves as.

In fact, many of them seem to support anti-BDS laws and such.

I do not endorse censorship attempts, but also let's not kid ourselves about the nature of many of the people who market themselves free speech advocates, please.
No amount of general financial security would get me what I need to start a company that can land rockets.

Even if I can get the group of people I need for free (because all their expenses are paid) I still need land, materials, etc.
In the screenshot in the repo, there's a node with the text "a mind mapping tool". It has 5 children, but the first child "text-based (terminal application)" is above it. So the more children a node has, the further above it the first child is. What if it was aligned so that the first child is at the same height as its parent? Then it might look more natural like a list, and read easier since the children start at the same height as the parent rather than at some arbitrary point above it.

This would help with flow, because then you can read left to right and scan downwards. Right now you have to keep jumping up to find the first child and then scan down to read all the children.
Hmmm, I guess I find it straight forward enough. How can I help?

They've simplified it a ton lately. There's no real JRE vs JDK seperation any more. The Java Language / JVM versions are the same. Version 19 is just out and they release a version every 6 months now.

Any other languages like Clojure or Kotlin will have their own language versions and might specify a range of Java versions they work with.

You can think of Jakarta EE as just a version of some library that won't be relevant to you unless you use it. Like versions of react or angular or something.
Pretty common for any hobbiest who wants to record things too.
Not GP but what makes sense about it for me is that it's a negative feedback loop that stabilizes in a desirable place. If we took the profits generated from a harmful activity, and used invested them into alternatives, than there's a self-correcting nature to it that's appealing. As those alternatives are realized, the pot of money becomes smaller and smaller, and vanishes altogether when the goal has been achieved.

I don't know how well this would work in practice, but it seems like something people could tinker with and possibly get to work.
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Affirmative action is required for government contractors. https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/hiring/affirmativeact Even to the extent of training someone in the right category so you can hire them.
It is affirmative-action, rebranded. The U.S. Supreme Court will likely strike down race-based admissions at higher-ed institutions in the next term, so HR and other gatekeepers will be exploring novel ways to racially balance groups per their preferences.
You probably want to learn about base45 [1] instead, which is exactly designed for the alphanumeric mode of QR code.

[1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9285.html
This is correct: the current position of the medical establishment is that we simply don't have enough data to make an extremely strong argument for vaccines for healthy people.
There's no paywall at all. What are you talking about?
>"They sell and market wool"

As a tiny niche product, sure. But the entire reason Patagonia became successful in the first place is Polar Fleece [0], a product that came about as a "cheaper" (that is, where the true cost is externalized to the whole planet through emissions) wool alternative that could easily be made from hydrocarbons.

>"89% of their fabrics are from "preferred materials", 100% of the down is responsibly sourced, and 100% of their cotton is grown organically."

Meaningless marketing terms. The "responsibly sourced down" and "organically grown cotton" has nothing to do with their climate impact.

Regardless, this isn't about social justice, or saving the penguins, or fair trade. It's just blind naked hypocrisy for a company that is 100% dependent on fossil fuels and petrochemicals to be profitable somehow acting like they are responsible environmental stewards.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_fleece
EA’s new anti-cheat tools dip into the dreaded “kernel mode”
"there is not enough room" is never a good enough excuse in city planning.
Thanks for the review! Try the focus feature (the 'f' key) and focus lock (shift+f) as well if you've not done so already; it can be very useful.
Not directly, but there's several small (integration doesn't really take much) projects that make integrating CDI straightforward. The secret sauce is tying in to the FXML loader, then magic happens.

I've used CDI with JavaFX. It's nice.
Does it matter if it's not true?

You sue for being let go due to racism, show the document, where they say exactly that, and they have to prove that they didn't take race in consideration after saying (in their own document) that they did.
YA is against the inclusionary housing requirement _as implemented by SF_. It is often used as a type of extortion to outright dissuade new construction.

More broadly, in my experience, Yimbys have mixed-to-negative opinion on inclusionary zoning since it is essentially a tax on new construction, though there are a non-trivial amount of Yimbys who think its a good way to produce subsidized housing.

I personally think we should not be taxing new projects implicitly or explicitly at all, and instead we should use property taxes (especially land value taxes) to subsidize housing either via vouchers or via publicly built housing.

The reality of the CA political system makes all of this very hard to achieve and we often find ourselves settling on taking small but achievable steps.
China’s most advanced AI image generator already blocks political content
Tracking the Royal Lying in State queue with little to no budget
I like how "global warming" became "climate change." My favorite trick of the mind.
Hmmm, the specific case I was looking at is the North extension of Nanchang Metro Line 1 to 昌北机场. Which doesn't exist yet.

I'll also have a look myself tomorrow.
Yes, Wiktionary, Commons, and the other sister projects are very useful, to various degrees integrated with Wikipedia in value-adding ways, and generally serve the foundation's mission and the few remaining vestiges of an open internet. If you want an example of an open source nonprofit wasting all their money on inflated salaries and pointless vanity projects no one uses, compare Mozilla.
Thousands of clothing items are an insignificant usage of oil; you are emptying a swimming pool into the ocean in South Africa and looking for sea level rise in Japan. Focusing on that misses core problems, but it does make good marketing and companies _exploit the hell out of that_ to see products. Spoken in plain language: It wouldn't make a difference even if all of Patagonia's clothes were made from bamboo. This is the simple science of the situation, yet people _vacuum_ this greenwashing marketing BS up like hotcakes.

Curbing emissions from power generation is the #1 most effective way to reduce c02 and we have the answers right now: Nuclear, Wind, Solar, and battery storage.

A few thousand jackets are a waste of time and is detrimental to causes that actually matter.
Sure, that would be a reasonable position, but most people the media characterizes as "billionaires" have not actually sold their company for a billion dollars. This is a fundamental misconception.

These listings of "net worth", etc. all include the nominal market value of their remaining ownership of whatever company they founded.

Jeff Bezos has a "net worth" of $160B. That's not because he sold Amazon for $160B. It's because Amazon is worth $2T and he still owns 8% of it.

At what point would you suggest the government should have taken away that 8% ownership so he would not become a billionaire?
Well $10M in 2012 would be more like $13M today, so their budget has only expanded 12x in constant dollars, and they probably have more articles and users than they had in 2012.
California sues Amazon, alleging its policies cause higher prices everywhere
Yeah, it was a big Netflix initiative and they tried a lot of different angles on it. I think the Black Mirror one was the most well known. One of the ones I found the worst was that they paid pre-bankruptcy Telltale Games to convert the first season of their quick-time event filled CYOA Minecraft "Tales" series from TTG's game engine to Netflix's interactive video engine. That was probably a bad idea in general, a combination of an apparently desperate TTG (that Netflix contract was their last project before bankruptcy) and presumably confused Netflix management. (The season was mostly fun in the TTG engine, quick-time complaints aside; the interactive movie form made no sense, especially having already played the TTG season.) I think there were five or six more beyond the ones already mentioned.
> It increases light pollution

Not the conventional definition of light pollution. The conventional definintion of light pollution is sky glow, which is not caused by satellites.

Further, the satellites are around 6th magnitude, which is below human eye visible, but certainly still problematic to astronomers.

> which is a disaster for astronomers.

A "disaster" is overstating it. Take a look at this study for example https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/palomar-survey-instrument...

> "There is a small chance that we would miss an asteroid or another event hidden behind a satellite streak, but compared to the impact of weather, such as a cloudy sky, these are rather small effects for ZTF."

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> Moreover, sending satellites to space is really inefficient. It wastes a lot of energy and pollutes a lot.

Space launch is a miniscule portion of global emissions and there is no reasonable way it would seriously contribute to global emissions going forward. Further, as the fuel costs are such a small portion of launch costs, it would be easy enough to produce the fuel via direct carbon capture and have it still be economic, which is a path forward in the future.

> To increase coverage, the amount of satellite they'll need will be more and more.

The goal is never to serve high density areas. It's to serve areas that are functionally impossible to serve any other way without massive government subsidy.

> And the skies will become more and more full of space junk (each satellite lives for 7 years).

You've misheard. Those satellites don't stay in orbit very long as their orbits are so low. They'll deorbit within a few years, even if completely lost, but normally they'll de-orbit automatically at the end of life, producing no debris.
Then I hope we can couple it with a well funded IRS.

In theory this would be difficult to do unlike the games that occur now because you don't merely need to suggest that you're not earning the income. You can't give it to a family member or it gets it with a hefty gift tax. You can't stuff it into a shell corp because you still own the shell corp. You could donate it to a charity which you control which is a thing that happens now.
> i think you mean presumptuous?

yes.
Because it infects cells with the ACE2 receptor covid is never going to be the new influenza. It's going to kill 100-200,000 people a year in the US indefinitely.
Here's a link that shows how to normalize (python/ openCV is great for image processing): https://www.delftstack.com/howto/python/opencv-normalize/

If you want to dive into computational photography/ computer vision some more, here's a great class for it: https://www.udacity.com/course/introduction-to-computer-visi...
Not a product manager, my area is project management :)
Ask HN: Whose Fault, Apple or Spotify?
I got an email saying the following but it struck me as strange that Spotify is blaming Apple for breaking their app with an OS update. Here’s what Spotify sent:

> Apple WatchOS 9 introduces a bug that will cause Spotify streaming on the Apple Watch to stop working. We encourage Spotify Apple Watch users to not install the WatchOS 9 update until Apple implements a fix. Users already affected can instead download their content to their Apple Watch and listen offline or stream from their phones.
Oh for real? Thanks!
Despite some of my issues with the company, they have a few really cool environmentally friendly programs. The "worn well" program is incredible, basically if you have a piece of patagonia clothing and return it through that program, they clean it up or recycle it and you get a free credit towards anything patagonia sells.

For kids clothes this is a boon, I would buy my daughter a patagonia jacket from the patagonia outlet at 40% off, she grows out if it and I trade it in for a new jacket and get $20-$30 off of the new jacket. Her old jacket gets cleaned and sold to some other kid who can use it(they have a worn well portal where you can buy used gear), great for peoples pocketbooks, great for the environment - win all around.
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My biggest question today, since it's "java day" (jakarta, FX, and NetBeans stories today), is where do folks "talk" about this today.

Conversations, musings, etc.

SO is limited by their Q&A structure. Most of the mailing lists I've subscribed to are dead. I don't do Reddit, but even there /r/java doesn't quite seem right.

I just don't know which bar the java geeks hang out in nowadays.

I'd really like to just "talk" Java FX with some folks somewhere.
By the media turning him into a boogeyman and simultaneously a poster child.
Exactly once, in order to make it look like one of the TVs on our display wall, that was very much connected to a computer, was in fact connected to an old DVD player.
What visual search engine are you using?
And "+18" profiles viewing your Stories, with links to shady sites in the bio.

They're so similar to each other that manual rules would suffice to cull them, AI my ass.
If you want to reduce the influence of money on politics, you're not going to achieve that by punishing billionaires, or by destroying the incentive structure that allows them to exist. If you want to reduce the influence of money in politics, you'll have to understand the specific mechanisms that create said influence, and address them by law.

Wealth is good. People acquire wealth by adding value. We want to incentivize people to add value. Of course, the "billionaires shouldn't exist" crowd understand little and less, and would happily have us destroy this system of incentives without even achieving their stated goals, because they, much like the "defund police" crowd, are more interested in appearing virtuous than in actually solving problems.
Pretty good illustration of the concept that no matter how much wealth you have, it's always the other guy that is rich:

"Even today, he wears raggedy old clothes, drives a beat up Subaru and splits his time between modest homes in Ventura and Jackson, Wyo. Mr. Chouinard does not own a computer or a cellphone."

...

"“I was in Forbes magazine listed as a billionaire, which really, really pissed me off,” he said. “I don’t have $1 billion in the bank. I don’t drive Lexuses.”"

Yeah, raggedy old clothes and a Subaru. Got it. Definitely middle class.
Finally! I can ditch away 32b special casing in my project cleanup and backup automation! As much as I love WavPack[1] (it's great and has 32 bit integer/fp support since forever), Flac is much faster and probably more future-proof. Thanks a lot everyone at XIPH, your work really makes a difference.

Edit: oops, I can't. No fp support yet.

1. https://www.wavpack.com/
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Or maybe you don’t receive it in the form of whatever formally counts as wealth in the first place.
honestly, this is why it's been a bit bizarre to me that oil companies haven't heavily invested in renewable energy.

the move away from oil is inevitable - they'd probably stand to make more money by being at the forefront of the change than they will by dragging it out.
The value of Slack is its integrations with dozens of business apps like Jira. They don't focus much on end user UX because that's not the point of it - they deliver straight business value. It wasn't until recently Discord bots were capable of much other than parsing chat messages and reactions for input, let alone the full menus google calendar puts into Slack. I'd love a Discord frontend to slack (see https://cancel.fm/ripcord for a serious attempt at one) but Slack itself is not going away anytime soon.
They can't without breaking international law.
Certainly this could be used for evil (tm), but it seems like something could also be built out that enables this for good in ways that don't cause issues with Mr. Fibbonaci.
Ok, let's talk in 10 years :)
You speak as if almost all these societal benefits are not paid for by willful trading, and by taxes.

Did this particular billionaire evade taxes? used tons of governmental subsidies, or government-granted monopolies? Does this company look like it did not pay its fair share back?
There is not some fixed amount of money in the world, though, and there hasn't been since at least the point the world abandoned the gold standard. We don't have to worry about someone sitting on all the money and stopping the economic activity that it would enable by doing so - governments and banks can literally create money out of thin air as necessary to keep the economy supplied with cash. The big limiting factor in how well off ordinary workers can be is the capacity of the actual, real economy of factories and stores to supply them with goods and services. That's why it's not a bad thing that people found successful businesses which are worth a large amount of money: by doing so they are, in general, directly making everyone better off by coming up with better, more efficient or higher quality ways of satisfying their needs.

Sure, they didn't do it alone, they had employees and the whole rest of society, but all those workers and the rest of society was there before and yet the business was not. Successful business enterprises don't just instantaneously spontaneously assemble because the world is capable of supporting them, they have to be created and if they cease to exist the world is worse off even though all the workers and buildings and so on still exist. (Also, the parts of society that enable successful businesses - and even basics like food and energy - are much more heavily made up of other businesses than I think people appreciate.)
I'm not sure if I necessarily agree with that statement completely, but the sentiment makes sense when you consider that some portion of the profits from fossil fuel consumption is associated with costs to unrelated third parties, i.e. externalities.
To answer the last two questions, yes. The expectation for companies to continue to grow no matter what, even when they're already massively profitable, is one of the biggest issues with modern capitalism. It's how you get the world's most profitable (non-financial) company switching its focus to nickel-and-diming its customers for services because it's run out of new human beings to sell iPhones to, and how you get every video game company switching to scummy fomo and gambling to maximize shareholder revenue instead of mindshare, and how you get every company jumping over themselves to sell your data even if you're already paying for the product. Companies should be able to get to the point where leaving money on the table for the good of their customers, and society, is a valid move.
> 2. The "popular" kids hated tables for layout and tried to use floats etc. A 3 column layout using floats was considered "the holy grail", because it was so hard to get it to work. Most developers continued using tables until Bootstrap and other frameworks managed to take some of the pain away

Ha ha ha! Yeah, in hindsight I should have skipped this "right way" bandwagon and stuck with tables until this phase was over. I wasted a lot more time screwing around with "float" than I did fixing up table layouts. Even if it would have made me significantly less cool.