skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That doesn't seem logical if the alternative is not having the lights at all.

If the norm becomes (radio clearance and no red lights), I suspect pilots will become conditioned to equate no-red-lights with landing clearance. Not 100%, but maybe at least 1% of the time. So if that happens and the red lights stopped working, you have a problem that wouldn't have existed if the red lights were never introduced.

Perhaps a more resilient system would use green lights to indicate landing clearance. Then if the lights failed, the default would be radioing ATC for guidance?

(I have no qualifications on this topic. I'm just guessing based on a bunch of Mentour videos I've watched.)
As I pointed out in another comment, high rise vs. suburban sprawl is a false dichotomy. I asked specifically about high rises, which OP is also about and clearly defines. For the record, I'm in favor of "missing middle" development (
https://missingmiddlehousing.com), including but not limited to mid-rise buildings. AFAICT the OP author has no issue with that kind of development either. Don't jump to defend high-rise bro by talking about suburban sprawl when you know there's more than one alternative.

ETA: "where I live" is anecdata that only makes your arguments irrelevant to this discussion.
The First 10 Prolog Programming Contests (2005) [pdf]
“It’s not a marketing failure” and blaming it on perceived vulnerability to cancelation of the service are mutually contradictory claims.
As long as you turn off the Fisher Price interface
Idk, I have had many jobs with great health care and never been loaded. Two kids now and out of pocket expenses never exceeded $500 for either of them. You're clearly very ignorant regarding this topic and should work on that before making such incorrect assumptions.
It would probably be even more cost effective if they didn't allow the mentally ill or people with congenital bone deformities or diabetes or long covid or high blood pressure.
Well, that's not what you did, no matter your intentions.

> Apple Has Begun Scanning Your Local Image Files Without Consent

Begun? Nope, ancient process and system that has been there for many major releases.

Consent? Definitely gave consent, both at the macro and the micro level. You can't actually get up and running or use Finder unless you gave that consent, because it's the first thing that you have to do when you boot up for the first time.

So both of your key statements are measurably false, and your blog is riddled with fantasies and propositions that don't have the facts to back them up.
Ehhh. Nobody's "simping for Musk" in this thread.

You should just evaluate Twitter on its own merits. Don't worry about the fact that Elon Musk doesn't march lockstep to woke orthodoxy.
Saboteurs?
There is no way to regulate aggressive driving other than to take people off of the roads.
An increasing minority of democrats do. Republicans tend to have a religion already so they try to leave that stuff to the church.
The snowpack is an important part of the storage infrastructure. It used to last well into summer, but rising temperatures have put an end to that. So things are worse than the reservoir numbers alone can show.
When a software startup fails it’s rare that we ever get to find out the real reason for it. The straw that broke the camels back gets the blame - the recession, some hackers, Google, whatever. Nobody goes to the newspaper saying hey, we neglected every possible aspect of care and maintenance over the years, put a bunch of interns on fixing issues using spreadsheets and raw SQL and bled our customers dry over a decade until they all left. Usually the bigco that got suckered into acquiring them gets the blame and the founders are on a yacht in the Caribbean.

Tech debt won’t kill a company but it will strip away its immune system leaving it vulnerable to the slightest hiccup. Then the deadly hiccup gets the blame.
Similar to the problem of the one-way speed of light: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-way_speed_of_light
AFAICT, MBS himself is not a religious extremist, just a power-hungry tyrant who doesn't tolerate dissent. There's a difference. The dynamic has long been that the royals running the place are much more liberal than the Wahhabis who enforce the religion, and have slowly been trying to liberalize things. It's another great example of why democracy isn't some kind of silver bullet that will magically make populations accept socially liberal values. If Saudi Arabia lost its monarchy and became democratic, it'd be even worse than it is now.
Pro Tip: Don't build "your life's work" around a third-party API over which you have no definitive control. Moving forward, the author would do well to keep that "top of mind."
It's interesting how the online gameplay has changed between the different versions of the game as network latency has improved.

For example, being able to micro manage archers to dodge other archers, and time their shots is something that wasn't possible previously.
No then the enforced religion just becomes atheism
It’s my fav! Loved the media center ui too.
I've watched a really elite group of engineers fall apart slowly because one leader decided to start committing systematic fraud and coaching his delegates to commit fraud.

It's well done, because it's almost impossible to prove.

Those of us who still care about system health and helping users just wait two years after they launch something, ask leadership for permission to delete it, and keep trying to build abstractions that reduce the harm misconduct has on our parts of the system.

The problem is they keep getting promoted because no one notices that almost nothing they've built is still in production.

A few of us have tried raising the issue to leadership but no one in leadership wants to know. It's a bit spooky. My current theory is that no one has the power to deal with it anymore, and at higher levels, launching garbage features that get deleted is actually desirable.

Theory: senior leadership keeps saying "drop what you're doing and build X". This group does that, but in a way that's half baked enough that we can kill it later. Middle management benefits because senior leadership is happy, and deleting it is fine because leadership forgot about it.

I wish I knew a way out.
You can still use multiple windows, but it hasn't been the default for a long time.
As discussed previously on HN:
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Searle's thought experiment is due for an update. The entire force of the argument is simply to refute using Turing's Imitation game as a means of determining whether machines can think.

In Computing Machinery and Intelligence, Turing wrote:

"The new form of the problem can be described in terms of a game which we call the ‘imitation game’. It is played with three people, a man (A), a woman (B), and an interrogator (C) who may be of either sex. The interrogator stays in a room apart from the other two. The object of the game for the interrogator is to determine which of the other two is the man and which is the woman. He knows them by labels X and Y, and at the end of the game he says either ‘X is A and Y is B’ or ‘X is B and Y is A’. The interrogator is allowed to put questions to A and B thus: [question/answer follows ...]

"We now ask the question, ‘What will happen when a machine takes the part of A in this game?’ Will the interrogator decide wrongly as often when the game is played like this as he does when the game is played between a man and a woman? These questions replace our original, ‘Can machines think?’"

https://academic.oup.com/mind/article/LIX/236/433/986238

To misquote Djikstra, the Turing test is as relevant to question of machine intelligence as an underwater mobility test is to the question of whether a submarine is an artificial fish.
I'm not sure what you mean by money substitutes?

Bank notes that promise to pay gold to the bearer on demand are _money_.

Just like today checkable bank deposits are _money_, and your bank promises to pay them out in central bank cash on demand.

If you like decaying money, you might like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freigeld
I think the global problem is that medicine has improved so much that, unlike a hundred years ago, it's impossible to provide the full extent of modern medicine (which is huge!) to everyone, so some form of rationing/filtering is inevitable and necessary.

You can do the rationing through market forces, where people who can't afford it get less care; you can do the rationing through some other allocation system (e.g. priority systems, or long queues, or lottery, or committee allocation) which in effect still mean that not all people get everything.

If you want to say "In our society, everyone gets healthcare" then you have do define "healthcare" narrowly, which includes some services but not everything technically possible - I mean, if we have services that take more than a man-month of labor for each month of prolonged life (and there are some) then that's not possible to provide for everyone always even from a purely mathematical standpoint.

On the other hand, if you want to attempt to provide (nearly) everything to (nearly) everyone and avoid planned rationing of the available healthcare resources (which still comes up to more care for more people than it was 50 or 100 years ago) then the overload catches up to you as described in this article, and you get a collapse of the system.
Yep, functions! I used to write a fair amount of Awk code back in the late '80s and early '90s. I treated Awk as a "real" programming language and tried to make the code nice and readable. This of course involved a lot of use of functions.

I only have a couple of surviving examples of the code from back then, but here they are for the curious:

https://github.com/geary/awk

LJPII.AWK is probably the best example. It made a nicely formatted printout of source code on my HP LaserJet II printer. I wish I had one of the printouts it generated, but they are long gone.

Hmm... I wonder if my Brother printer supports the old LaserJet II control codes? Or maybe there is an emulator online?

The code was written for Thompson Awk (TAWK), so some bits would need to be adapted to modern Awks.
There's a long tail of expensive health care events that have little to do with lifestyle. As a model, it's intriguing, but I wonder how financially feasible this is. If everyone ate their kale, and did their squats, what would health care spending look like? Certainly better, but we all succumb to the ravages of time and most health care spending is back-loaded in life.
Big Eric
I'd be interested! I'll email you.

That said I think we forget that barriers to using the internet were the gates that kept it a cozy medium-sized community. I knew older programmers than me who were content learning languages and frameworks by buying books or renting books from the library, but only socialized with colleagues, friends, and family in purely offline venues. Only a certain type of person put up with the jank of the internet and the early Web and that's the kind of person who was writ large on it.

Just how in real life we don't invite the world into our homes or grab lunch with anyone off the street, likewise our internet presences are now becoming circumscribed to specific groups. The trick is to make the barrier to entry just high enough as to select for compatible people but not so high that the group becomes a clique.
I agree this is a pretty glaring issue, I disagree that its a deal breaker for me.
> S3 Intelligent-Tiering

Has anyone used this? I use S3 but don't really keep track of all the new storage classes that have been added.
I think this misses the bigger problem. Much like the MIC, big tech is a matter of national security. If the USG doesn’t get involved with their own home grown tech companies, nothing is stopping other state powers from doing so.

Freedom of religion came at a time when long-distance communication traveled very slow, in a country with oceans for borders. In a typical (old world) situation religious consolidation makes sense for a state, religion is the only thing that significantly threatens state power besides other states. This was even more true 300 years ago. Today’s tech companies aren’t a challenger to state power; people mostly hate Mark Z. & Jeff B., rather tech is the very fabric that the state is made of.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28441887 (251 points | Sept 7, 2021 | 118 comments)
It was on the most recent version of iOS at the time of the last major backup prior to the loss (Late June, 2022). So macOS Version 12: "Monterey" and iOS version 13. (So it's a backup of an iPhone, accessed via finder)

I had a look but... I didn't see anything covering this.

Just to be clear: it's a situation where hashcat goes "yup, here's the password" but typing that into finder to restore gives an error.

I'm hoping maybe there are command line tools to recreate the gui functionality that might give additional explanation why it... feels... the key is wrong.

(I hate to sound so odd, but... I feel like I'm a teenager struggling with the CLI for the first time in a very long time. I've never had something this unusual happen, and I'm struggling to understand how a tool like hashcat can say yup that's the password... then have it not be accepted.)

I'd really prefer not to post a screenshot with the key but I guess I could if that's what it takes... this is years of photos, all lost, if this key is not accepted.

To be clear, I have a dicionary file with 4 possible keys to reduce chances I was fat fingering, and it explicitly said one worked

>Session..........: hashcat

>Status...........: Cracked

[snip]

(Maybe there's a more specialized forum? I haven't had luck with Reddit for anything this advanced in the past)
Red tape isn't the phrase I'd use in this context since your point is that the switch will work 100% of the time even after being thru a literal hurricane, so the difference isn't merely the tape, but that there's been proper testing and engineering all the way down, which drives the cost way up.
When every house has a teleporter, perhaps your model might work.
> The Fed is primarily a clearing house and lender of last resort, which is needed because having individuals like JP Morgan rescue the financial system when it goes haywire stopped being possible long ago.

The Canadians never had such crises, and neither did they have a central bank. The American banking system was uniquely fragile, thanks to its widespread bans on branch banking: if most or all of your banks only have a single office in a single city, they are bound to be more fragile.

> Count how many times the word "panic" occurs before the Fed was formed (1913) versus after:

Language evolves?

Recessions were deeper after the Fed was established.

Btw, have a look at this https://www.econlib.org/archives/2011/12/why_no_mini-rec.htm...
I think people that could sustain themselves through that (read: "sustainable") will indeed be better off than those that cannot, yes.
>> As just one example, court rooms still have people swear on Christian bibles. I believe it has recently become optional.

You watch too much TV. Most courts do not have you swear "on" anything, you simple raise your hand "Swear or affirm under the pains and penalties of perjury you will tell the truth" some do not even add the "under the pains and penalties of perjury"

if there are any courts in the US still using a Bible they are in the EXTREME minority.

>There are also many government buildings that fund the creation and installation of religious statues and bible verses on plaques in their halls

Pretty sure that is also not true... Governments have allowed the installation of such things but they are often funded by private groups. I would love a citation where the GOVERNMENT paid for out of tax payer money a religious installations is say they last 20 years.. (paid for, not approved)

>>effectively enforced such as prison review boards giving credence to someone that has become a Born Again Christian when considering parole.

Citation...

Parole Boards often require the offender to Admit guilt and ask for forgiveness, this has being interpreted by extreme anti-religious groups as them "requiring people to become born again Christians"
Summary of causes per the article: treatments delayed due to covid coming back to haunt, out-of-practice immune systems, provider burnout, all of which should normalize in time.

The tone of the article doesn't match that of the title.
Just updated and it seems to be fixed. I wish I could amend my complaint.
In my experience, Thunar and Dolphin are comparable, with some features (e.g. bulk renaming, custom actions) much easier to use in Thunar. It's probably the thing I miss most about Xfce after switching to KDE.

The others are indeed minimalist. My point was mainly about speed. A lightweight file manager is always a key consideration when I try a new desktop environment.
The Dark Side of Solar Power (2021)
I’d like to thank both of you and the GP for posting this. As someone getting older, it’s important to know things like requesting no sedation is even an option. I’m much more concerned about damage deeper in than any potential discomfort “at the exit” … I’ve eaten some questionable food in my life and experienced a surprisingly diverse set of gastrointestinal sensations as a result… and the very idea of a doctor being sloppy with the technique pushing something backwards past those “corners, due to the majority of patients being sedated and not noticing, is genuinely giving me more mental discomfort than any sensation my guts ever had.

Thank you both for the frank and valuable comments. Also I think you have an interesting point about the “volunteers”/“recruits” thing. I suspect it’s less of a taboo about butt stuff and more that the procedure has some small risk of a potentially very serious complications (bowel perforation is serious business) and therefore should never be done on a person unless necessary… which is a noble idea but it does have potential repercussions like the current scenario where lack of non-sedated patient feedback leads to sloppy technique which arguably increases the risks of bowel perforation… sort of creates a vicious cycle that doesn’t help minimise patient risk.

I’m also finding it amusing trying to think about how they could thread the ethical needle on this if they ever tried such a thing. Any obvious sexual paraphilia that involves wanting to get the procedure done is sort of going to make the medial consent forms a little hard to rely on due to it being perilously close to knowingly performing a sexual act on them. Ive had a pretty good chuckle pondering legalese variations of “you swear that you are ok with having long objects inserted into your rectum and this is in no way a sexual fetish”.
You can disable it, just like any launchd process (similar to systemd units). The default is to have it automatic, and that default is part of the OS installation (which often means OS updates reset the defaults).

To actually manage something that for the general consumer (for which it is targeted), you'd mostly be using MDM profiles. Those can be created, installed and managed for free, using both Apple software and third party software. This can be done using both up-to-date mobileconfig policies or on older operating system releases using MCX profiles (similar, but different and a bit older, more like GPOs).

In practise, you might have a better experience doing either of the following:

- Don't use the features that depend on this, this essentially makes it moot

- Don't use the OS since it is catered towards a market that wants those features and expects them to work consistently on every device (or so Apple assumes), which results in considerable engineering effort being made by Apple to make the feature(s) work instead of not-work; any modification isn't assumed to be a user configuration but rather a defect that needs to be remedied (hence the "use MDM profiles" note).

As for just the networking part, Apple lists a bunch of guides for network consumption which is mainly aimed at network administrators. Any outbound firewall in your network can be configured to block the traffic as desired. If it was purely about trust, this would also be the only 'correct' way as an 'untrusted' OS isn't suddenly trusted just because you turned off a daemon. Either you trust it enough to let it roll, or don't trust it and do the policies elsewhere (off-device). But that goes for any hardware/software.

Addendum: this is the first page you'll find when you ask a search engine for ports used by macOS: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202944 which right at the top contains a link to https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT210060 which explicitly has an entry for *.smoot.apple.com. Since your image will need to be analysed to be able to do a lookup it will first have to extract features from it. If it finds something like an address or coordinate or text or anything that it can't resolve locally (i.e. because it is temporal data that couldn't be preloaded), it has to reach out to a service that is kept up to date. Those are the pages that are so easy to find, even Apple's chatbot on the support page redirects you there.
As a patient, I wish I could utilize healthcare (eg: access to a doctor) without all the intermediary parties. But like software development (where we specialize in front/back end), it's a group effort, and no one doctor can be the answer to everything. Plus you need special equipment. You need prescriptions. It's a problem perfectly designed to middle-feeders to get their cut, since the problem demands so many different stakeholders with their own specialties.
Timnit’s backpedaling regarding her email and her ultimatum was absurd. You seem completely unwilling to factor Timnit’s own behavior into the chain of events, so it doesn’t make sense to continue this. This elimination of personal responsibility when it’s inconvenient to the narrative has become endemic among the activist employees. To your credit, it seems like your heart is in the right place with wanting to help her and others.
Hospitals exist because CAT scan machines are expensive, and it makes sense for patients to drive to the CAT scanner, rather than the CAT scanner drive to the patients.

Lather, rinse, repeat for every medical device. Sleep analysis tools, XRays, surgical tools and instruments, etc etc.

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Furthermore, doctor time is expensive. It makes more sense for patients (who probably make less money than doctors) to spend their time driving. Not for doctors to be driving around making house calls like a maid or milkman.
If you have engineers doing that, you have bigger problems on your hands.
I would guess the model has them loose money but pay themselves fees then when they are too low they ask for a bailout. I can’t imagine it’s possible to make money in Medicare patients and Medicaid pays less than a doctors salary.
> "... drive enough revenue ..."

Pretty clear where your values are here. Personally I quite like a system that's explicitly not being designed to drive revenue, and would like to interact with other people that also want to be in a place with a higher value then the dollar bill. Im perfectly happy to let people with your values stay on twitter away from me.
> Speak a language your management understands

Yes! And if they don't care about velocity and reliability, don't tell them that. If they've been going on about hiring and employee retention, tell them how this tech debt thing is going to have such a huge change that you can turn it into a kickass conference talk and hire more 10x programmers, which is a bigger value to them than "I made the app more maintainable". They don't care much what your team does; just give them something they want to buy.
Use tampermonkey if possible. Or better yet, extend software that doesn't break, like Emacs.