skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can probably get your old card issuer to pull up your statement. I’ve done similar stuff in the past with closed brokerage accounts. It may be an involved process and take a while to reach the right person but worth a try at least!
Weird. Came here to say the same thing. I let mine charge for a couple days and it wouldn't come back to life, so off to the recyclers it went. Such a shame.
First use of Apple Emergency SOS in B.C. may have saved two lives
I wouldn't read too much into that, hairless cats and plucked birds look very different from their fully dressed versions.
Future Cringe
I love it. I wish more and more nice TUI (like this one) were made these days. It is becoming a lost “art”.
Pretty sure they wouldn't let you walk out of a store without issuing a receipt regardless of mode of payment used
Non competes are becoming less and less enforceable in the US.

I left my old company and wanted to start a competing business in a different vertical in the e-commerce space. What actually stopped me was the privacy and inventions and non disclosure agreements.

Pretty much it prevented me from using any know how I learned while at my last company and disallowed me from using any of the same suppliers and marketplaces to buy and sell on (of which there are few in my business domain).

In my experience, these types of agreements can be the actual thing that stops you from doing your own thing.
the original Fallout series
I can’t remember where but more recently some transiently homeless people died (I want to say in Europe) because they found an object emitting heat and used it for warmth, not realizing it was radioactive and was killing them. Quite sad.
https://archive.ph/962BK
Minimum energy to send k bits with and without feedback
Where I live, e-waste recycling is very (over)regulated, so I can see a way out of this problem that doesn't take away from the unprofitability of stealing Apple devices. If Apple allows officially-registered e-waste recyclers (which can't pay more than scrap value for devices) to send unlock requests, they can then sell them on, but thieves won't get anything out of it, barring some grand e-waste conspiracy.

I personally don't like this system, I don't want any third party to have this kind of control over my device, but I have to admit that it's a system that works today and does its job, and with one small-ish tweak it could be even better.
Stopping when there are 2 enemies left is a bit weird. As is picking those 2 specifically.
So, I have no context here at all. But I see you’re asking why Rajesh Adani was made a managing director of the Adani Group. So dumb question… is the name not a coincidence and the explanation obvious?
My theory on the way this will progress is the skills of being an editor will become even more valuable than today.

For article writing, or non-fiction book writing even, step one is finding the data, making connections, and planning out the topics and flow, done by a human. In a way, that's how it's currently done, the only difference now might be making sure to format that in the correct way for AI writing generation to handle it.

The words are generated, and then the human editor comes in and corrects issues that might come up, say not good enough connections between topics. This can be fed back to the AI for next time to help improve.

Fictional prose will still be around, as there isn't much better than being able to read and connect with an author, where reading and connecting with AI isn't quite something we can accept (for now).

But non fiction writing is quite mechanical already. If you read the Economist like I do, you'll know what I mean. That writing and connecting of bullet point lists in the order a creator wants can be quite valuable, and having someone do an active edit at the end will be quite valuable as well.
"Suggested" version on F-Droid is an older one, but you can choose to update to a newer one way at the bottom under Versions.

Edit: I updated my repositories (pull down on main screen) and now 4.3.5 is the Suggested version.
A common misconception, running isn't bad for your knees, poor form is bad for your knees.
It's just a model!
There's an Ars technica article about this:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/01/compu...
Ebooks are basically HTML, so this is one case where bundling a browser engine is going to be necessary in any case.
I was able to get activation lock removed on 2018 MacBook I purchased off eBay this way- I took it into an Apple Store to get its keyboard replaced under warranty and they just asked me to produce the eBay listing with the serial number visible and my shipping address on the order.
This is a silly idea but wanted to throw it out there anyway: What if you listed the laptop for sale on eBay, then bought it back using a friend or another account? Could that be used as "proof of sale" for Apple to unlock it?
Louis Rossman built a business/cult around criticising everything Apple does for exposure and is not a credible source of unbiased information about Apple's policies.
Unless you use __slots__, aren't all class-based objects [specifically python2 new style `class MyClass(object): pass` or all python3 classes] dicts in Python?
This feels like a reasonable solution, though I can’t help but feel a more convenient solution would be to integrate tools directly into the Medium writing experience, and then anybody who uses those tools automatically has their article marked as having used AI assistant technology.
This is brilliant. Hopefully it's not that easy. Worth the ebay fee to try!
The paper receipt most likely doesn't have any information (his name, email, etc) that identifies him as the actual person that was in the store that day and made the purchase. He said he purchased with cash or a card he doesn't have anymore.

Surely you can see how just handing out a generic receipt to whomever shows up and asks for it is a real issue.

Lesson here is, for ANY merchant: pay with a credit card, have the receipt emailed to you if possible. If not take a picture with your cell phone of the receipt, _on the spot_. That's it, you are future proofed.
Heh heh been there, done that. Was reflashing the eeprom on a $800 raid card and sheared off two surface mount resistors while pushing the card back in the slot. That horrible sinking feeling when you already know without checking that you’ve screwed up big time!
> its another inbox to check

Them having a slick way to process emails as well as chat in the same client would be pretty useful. Even though, I know, it disregards an ancient warning [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski#Zawinski's_Law
This ignores things like libel, sedition, treason, classified information, business espionage, insider trading and probably several more.
There's a psychological component to sticking to a diet for sure, but no, a calorie deficit of the same amount will result in the same weight loss rate.

People locked in a box will not be able to cheat and will demonstrate this.
OpenKeychain is an Android app for doing some basic GPG related work. It can verify signatures (hidden in the "encrypt/decrypt" menu)

Also it integrates i.e. with K-9 mail to sign and verify.

https://github.com/open-keychain/open-keychain
The complaint I hear more often is that it has too many features, not missing features, making the UI nearly impossible to keep simple.

What's a split map?
Honestly it's likely one of those things you'd have to test so see what your sensitivity and detection radius is.

If it stayed on or very near the road, I would expect it could be detected this way.

Now, if it washed off the road in a storm, well good luck.

And then you also must consider the natural background rate of radioactivity across that enormous area. Crank your sensitivity up too high to gain range and you might just detect radon or potassium, or whatever else is out there decaying.
> If it makes my laptop useless to be stolen and protects my personal information and finances

keeping information private and/or secret and rendering a perfectly usable device a brick are two completely orthogonal things.

My laptop is perfectly secure, without Apple having a say on what I do with it after I bought it. Including reselling it.

p.s. if someone saw my laptop and a mac laptop left alone in the same room, they would try to steal the Mac, making my laptop even safer by virtue of not being from Apple.
It works just fine with one; see the link from the post to the technical analysis.
Activation Lock creates undue friction during the ownership transfer.

This kind of security should be tied to something like removable storage device where the users data is stored, not the main device itself. That way when the owner dies or loses acess then said owner only loses acess to the data and not the entire device.

IMHO this is Apple trying to force people to purchase new devices and prevent reuse. It doesn't matter what is intended on the surface, but what the actual outcome is. This causes more waste and it's not helpful to the environment. If you are serious about protecting user data tie it to hardware security that can be decoupled from the device itself.

I'm in the business of repairing computers.Apple is setting bad precedence on multiple fronts, More than any other company in existence.
Do you have software engineers? GitHub Copilot is pretty good at writing simple functions and boilerplates https://github.com/features/copilot
Way to write functional-first web applications
Yeah, OP took a shortcut here :)

The nuance is that most languages let you build reliable programs _if your code is correct_ - if you're using defers, context handlers, finalizer, cleaning up state in shared data structure, etc.

Erlang's goal is to be reliable "in the presence of software errors", that is, even if your code is buggy. If a request handler process dies inside an Erlang web app, whatever file or socket it opened, memory it allocated, shared resource it acquired (e.g. a DB connection) will be reclaimed. This is true without having to write any error handling in your code.

The way it's done is that the VM handles the basic stuff like memory and files, and it provides signals that libraries (like a DB connection pool for instance) can use to know if a process fails and clean up as needed. In other words the process that fails is not responsible for its own clean up.

At some point some code must of course be correct for this to work. Like, if the DB connection pool library doesn't monitor processes that borrow connections, it could leak the connection when such a process dies. But the point is that this part (the "error kernel") can be a small, well-tested part of the overall system; whereas in a classic program, the entire codebase has to handle errors correctly to guarantee overall stability.
> Apple is a public company, and public companies are accountable to shareholders, not customers.

Tim Cook himself, a decade ago, might have had something to say about that¹.

> It is possible to do what's best for both, and Apple still does that plenty

My objection is the trend more than the current state. A decade ago it would have been unthinkable to me that Apple would ever have ads in any OS. Today, I’m dreading the moment they go “full Windows” and start shoving third-party ads in Spotlight, then Safari, then the Dock².

¹ https://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/tim-cook-soundly-rej...

² Yes, I am exaggerating to make a point. At least I hope it’s an exaggeration.
Epic soundtrack using orchestral instruments is somewhat interesting as electronic music but to me everything else is pretty bad.

There is a million Industrial techno sounds, repetitive, hypnotic rhythms IDM tracks that absolutely no one listens to anymore. Most the founders of the whole genre have moved on from lack of interest.

We have been able to do really good generative music in Reaktor for the last 20 years. Much better than anything on this page but no one cares.

People in general want to hear the same slight variation in music over and over as background noise.

The people that are saying how great all this is will be bored with it in 2 weeks or less.
Pure technological kitsch.
Now atdrummond's reply is.

It will fade as recency effect wears off.
And for the past 10 years, almost every cheap electronic device has been permanently glowing blue because of them.

EDIT: aren't modern blue LEDs based on GaN?
The thing is, we mostly try to keep applications stateless, unless it's necessary to keep state for performance (think realtime onlinegames, hft, ...).

And in those cases there is simply no need for e.g. supervision trees because there is nothing to restart. You still need stuff like retrying, but this is supported by all major concurrency libraries / effect systems. In fact, Erlang has fallen behind here in terms of what the language offers (not what the BEAM offers, the BEAM is still top notch imho)

State is mostly moved to either the database or message queues or similar, which is pretty good.
I did not know about built-in Apache (cool). Last I have seen this was in a NAS server. I was never into the Apple ecosystem but I recall hearing e.g. about appletalk [0]

What you describe are both real hindrances and somehow not fundamental. E.g. people migrated en mass to centralized social media also for simple personalized websites (which in retrospect might not have been in their best interests).

My sense is that as time goes on it will take an active act of suppression for self-hosting not to become potentially much more widespread and ofcourse if a major and credible player can remove friction points for non-technical people this will only open the floodgates.

As for ISP's, yes, they are a big part of the problem.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleTalk
I had a moment of enstartlement (note to auto-correct: I made up the word, okay?) the other day. I get a lot of vintage/retro computing videos in my YouTube feed — I realized how odd it was that Apple was one of the few (only?) 8-bit computer companies still around. And around in an impossible-to-ignore kind of way.

But only just barely missed going under back in the late 1990's.

What a strange timeline.
You can in iOS as well.
Time for the VP to earn his pay, eh?
Yes, but it was a good HN type article anyhow. So valid clickbait. Like that croissant where you thought it was chocolate inside, but then wasn't, but then it was something good anyhow.
What happened to you really sucks and I am sure you took away a lesson or two from it. But you have a really good point... "if it didn't work for me then I'm sure it won't work for an actual criminal" it's a good point.

In a way, you pen-tested Apple's anti-fraud processes... although at your own expense ;)
I think you're talking about two different things. When they say concurrency is hidden away, I think they mean the programmer isn't dealing directly with locks/mutexes. They are also lying, since async functionality like `handle_cast` is built into the `gen_server` behaviour and every caller is calling either `gen_server:cast` or `gen_server:call` depending on whether or not it is going to block on a response. Whenever you invoke async behaviour concurrency will invade all the domain logic and can't be ignored.
witch hunt level nonsense.

windows and linux desktops are just a bunch of programs running in shared memory and disk space. every program can read or modify the data of any other (see ReadProcessMemory, WriteProcessMemory (ptrace for linux)). simple. all these people claiming that there is an issue simply don't realize this simple fact (well, some do, but they're just even more wrong). the worst part is that devs often give into this nonsense, like they did in all those nightmarish hellscape 2003 pseudosecurity laden programs. gotta love when some program prevents me from doing something for "security" when it actually does not make security any better but is just pandering to some charlatans' concerns.
Last time I bought an used Apple device i checked icloud/activation lock with the seller before paying for it. Guess that's what the resellers should do as well. If it's done remotely, just pay after verifying or refuse to buy.

Of course that cuts into their profit margins but it's not like used Apple thingies are particularly cheap...
A lot of doctor and vet contracts are like that because they are likely to get a large local client following just by joining a practise that the practise has spent years cultivating.
Code Analysis for BrightScript Codebases
The good old "hamburger menu". That menu that stores everything designers never knew how to organize it.
Except that's not what Wyden said about 230 at all. From the parent:

> Ron Wyden goes a step further in his recent interviews (https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/8/5/21339766/zuckerberg-priv...):

>> "There is not a single word — not a word, not a comma, not a parenthesis, nothing — that suggests that 230 was about neutrality. In fact, what we designed it to be is if you had a conservative website, good for you! Do what you want with it! If you had a progressive website, same thing."
Offering a show menu button to screenreader users is accessible but poorly usable. They can’t see the menu. ‘Showing’ and ‘hiding’ mean nothing to them.

And for your keyboard navigators using the visual interface, perhaps this hints that you could afford them a similar opportunity - where, from being focused on the menu, they could either descend into the menu, expanding it, or skip the menu and move focus to the next control. That’s how most OS/application keyboard accessible menus work - they don’t have ‘expand’ and ‘collapse’ affordances at all.
Multiple sources can hardly be considered an effective bar to decide if something as a whole is good or bad for you. The author completely misses major pieces of literature around these and citing something that is critical for you body as 'probably good for you' while not covering a single instance of health problems from deficiencies makes it hard to take this seriously.
MLAT is multilateration, where they use the difference in time of arrival to multiple receivers with known locations to estimate the positions of planes that doesn't transmit their location using ADS-B but only use older Mode S. This is mostly small or military planes.

https://flightaware.com/adsb/mlat/
> They're complaining that an evil maid attack can turn off `AppPolicy.Current.ExportNoKey` and set it up to export the document silently.

If an evil maid has access to make such a change, wouldn't it be easier to just replace keepass.exe with custom version? The source is already available. Just call this function after successful login - ignoring XML configuration, "KeePass Essentials" version, etc.
Its enough to use as additional proof that Oracle is a bad vendor to rely on in the long run, as they have demonstrated that they don't mind massively raising prices at the drop of a hat because "its not enough to justify a rewrite".

Of course, I said 'additional evidence'.... if Oracles many other shenanigans haven't convinced the pointy-haired bosses by now, I'm not sure anything will.
Why would be ok to destroy a perfectly working device that is sent to a "recycling center". Reuse is the correct way.
That doesn’t sound like high praise! The quality of the CGI on that show leads me to deduce they were short-changed rather badly given the reported production costs.
A lot of Zoomers are REALLY into the outdoors now. It's awesome.

"What do humans do now?" "Go outside." is a great answer. I'm going to try fly fishing this year. Might buy a canoe.

"What do humans do now?" "Be free of the grips of dopamine scrolling, finally."
I guarantee the skinny long distance runners and pro cyclists you see all pound far more ultra processed pure sugar than anyone fat you know. It's literally the only way to take in calories fast enough to keep exercising at an intense level for hours.

Regardless of diet you will lose weight if you eat fewer calories than your body is burning. It will be harder if you eat junk food, but quite possible.
Or, you know, people can remove the Find My before they sell it. Because any other loophole will be taken advantaged of.
> We don't need the Erlang message bus to be the only message bus. The Erlang message bus is, frankly, not very good

Genuinely curious why it's not very good. Were you speaking solely from the perspective of non-Erlang processes? And also specifically regarding remote messages rather than local?
> Even Amazon, which deals with physical objects, doesn't really make anything.

Echo, Kindle, Blink and Fire TV product lines would beg to disagree.
In Texas, non-competes are so restricted that employers can barely enforce them. I know people who signed non-competes, went to work for a competitor, and when they were sued the judge threw the case out because the non-compete clause was unenforceable according to Texas Law. It simply said "I agree not to start my own IT business or work for a competing IT business in three years of my departure" without specifying a range of distance that is enforceable.
> How can they help you? How can anyone help you?

Well, that's the fundamental problem. With open hardware that you fully and completely own when you buy it, such problems are impossible.

The move towards hardware (mostly by Apple but not unique to them) that remains firmly in control of the vendor even after you buy it... is not a good one. It means your ownership is relatively ephemeral, any wrong move (or bug) and it's no longer yours to use.

Not a world I want to live in.
> but thieves won't get anything out of it, barring some grand e-waste conspiracy.

A conspiracy isn't required for this to increase theft. Recyclers could start advertising maybe $50-100 per Macbook if they can guarantee they'll be able to sell each mac people bring in. Next thing you know, people start stealing more of them since there's now a middleman that pays out enough per device and doesn't ask questions like "did you steal these" or "why are all of the Apple IDs different". The only way this would work is if the program had the e-waste centers submit a photo ID of the person that brought the product to match against the current Apple ID name and address.
The search works well, but only if you follow a specific input structure of typing in the first letter of each, clicking Country->City->Street->House number and fails with anything beyond that. Anything else, like searching for businesses fails miserably, even though it is indexed properly in OSM and shows up in OsmAnd.

There used to be an app using Google's API to search addresses and output coordinates to OsmAnd, but support stopped after API changes IIRC. Quite a sad statement, that that app had to be made in the first place.

It really is the achilles heel on an otherwise great app. With plugins, it even surpasses Google Maps in terms of extensibility.
OP bought it with a credit card, I'd be surprised if there was no record of any name, address or ZIP code attached to the purchase.
Oracle 2023 Java Pricing Explodes: What Should I Do Now?
Show HN: Interact with the terminal in plain English using GPT-3
Ruby on Rails 100%. I can have a web app with user/pass authentication in less than 1h. Combine that with TailwindCSS and you have a modern looking app in no time.
Having proposed we legalize calling in bomb threats I feel like you've thoroughly invalidated any argument you may have been trying to advance here.
"The thing about Erlang is that you never needed clusters at all."

IIRC, if you read the original thesis, the reason for clusters is just that there's always that chance an entire machine will go down, so if you want high reliability, you have no choice but to have a second one.

The OP is correct in that the key to understanding every design decision in Erlang is to look at it through the lens of reliability. It also helps to think about it in terms of phone switches, where the time horizon for reliability is in milliseconds. I am responsible for many "reliable" systems that have a high need for reliability, but not quite on that granularity. A few seconds pause, or the need for a client to potentially re-issue a request, is not as critical as missing milliseconds in a phone call.