skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...which is pointless, because in the last two major MacOS releases (well, now three) an Apple Silicon system will not only remain connected to any bluetooth audio devices and wifi (even if "wake for network access" is set to "never"), it will actively seek connections with bluetooth audio devices that are turned on or come into range.

Not only is this a huge potential privacy issue, it's extremely annoying, because on many bluetooth headphones, it makes it impossible to, say, connect your phone to the headphones.

The issue with remaining on wifi is also extremely annoying if you're connected to a hotspot device. I discovered well into a vacation that my macbook was remaining connected to a hotspot and using up data - despite both "low data mode" (which has a penchant for magically turning itself off) and "wake for network access" set to never.

There was an option to disable allowing a bluetooth device to "wake" the system, which stops the mac from keeping bluetooth connections active during sleep, but that was removed in Catalina.

There's no excuse for removal of such an option, nor is there any excuse for not setting some logic such that only keyboards and mice retain active bluetooth connections.

The dumbification of MacOS marches on, as some anonymous mid-tier executive at Apple continues his or her mission to turn MacOS into iOS. We also lost wifi network priority a couple releases ago as well - a move that is so unfathomably stupid it defies belief. You used to be able to set a hotspot as high priority and then, say, a cafe's free (and far less secure) wifi network as a lower priority, and when you wanted to do something on the hotspot, you could just turn it on, and your mac would prefer that network. Now it's a roll of the dice at best.
// Actual productivity is not something they want to measure here, what they want is control

This doesn't seem to be a logical conclusion. When you hire someone, do you care more about what they are delivering for you or do you just get some weird kicks?
I do not care about the future, I am talking about the here and now and I refuse to foist this upon a hypothetical child of mine.

My goal is to lead a peaceful, tranquil life and when the time comes for my passing to leave as little as possible behind in my wake. Ideally I hope to not suddenly die in a freak incident, so I can relinquish or otherwise destroy my personal possessions prior to my passing.

If nobody notices I ever existed after I pass, I am satisfied.
People prefer a lot of things, it's almost never an indicator for what is better or worse. By most metrics, cars are a worse alternative. However, if the infrastructure has already been built around cars, it's hard to change that.
Any one working for a company that requires this BS should take a hard line: your job is 9-5, there is not communication outside of that work period. There is not “crunch” bs, there are no longer nights, there is no work during the weekend.

If work can only happen in the office at prescribed time, then work only happens then. If you waste your time and money forcing people to work in a shitty and distraction filled environment and then why should they be interested in donating their time to help you compensate for poor management.
Unfortunately the RUC in New Zealand is strongly regressive, with massive subsidies for heavy vehicles.
> How else would it work across different devices? Apple devices can not connect to e.g. Android devices

I was talking about Mac and iPhone having seamless integration - something I have not noticed of any other ecosystem. I have not been able to share clipboards with an android and a PC (Win and Linux) without installing an app, or doing some other hacky things. The integration, while possible, doesn't exist by default. It's not seamless. It doesn't _just work_.

> KDE Connect and other similar tools work fine over a VPN

I don't want to use a VPN? I want to use my regular home wifi or phone network, like a normal person.
No, young poeple don't protest. They are happy to hold a slightly smaller bag. Old people who aren't quite over the cutoff date protest.
A number of posts have mentioned that this could be a symptom of overwork, and I certainly don't dispute that possibility. On the other hand, I have a pleasant job with flexible hours, yet I still enjoy a brief nap in the afternoon -- even on weekends and vacation.
Then, we are in strong disagreement. My beliefs are earth is round, and the cold war would not have been that cold without nukes...
> the solution is natural rubber, which costs slight more than synthetic rubber but lasts longer. So its better for consumers, cheaper all around, and 1,000x better for the environment

Is it? I'm Googling but can't find any evidence for that.

Natural rubber tires still produce tons of dust, I can't find any reference to it being less harmful in our lungs, and even natural tire rubber seems to biodegrade on the order of thousands of years.

Natural tire rubber is still extremely processed. It's nothing like the raw latex that comes out of the plant.

So how is it 1000x better for the environment? Or even 2x better, honestly?

I'd love to believe it, but I'm surprised I can't find any references easily. Everything I can find refers to it being more sustainable to manufacture. Nothing about its effects on pollution.
> In any event, Salafis do not constitute a majority of Sunni Muslims (by far),

True, but they have a lot of influence. I'm not Muslim, but my uncle (by marriage) is. My uncle has never really been the mosque-going type, but his father was. I remember his father complaining that the Salafis had taken over his mosque, using all their Saudi money. And I don't think his experience was particularly atypical.

Also, I don't think this is unique to Salafism. [0] repeats basically the same point of view (contraception is permissible to delay having children, but not to prevent it entirely). That's not a Salafi website, that's a website aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood – the Brotherhood are not Salafi, they represent an Islamism which is more traditional in its scholarship than the Salafis are

[0] https://fiqh.islamonline.net/en/contraception-permissible/

> and Sunni Islam is not a religious system that includes a clergy.

Whether that's true depends on how you define "clergy". Sunni imams or ulama are just as much "clergy" as Jewish Rabbis or Baptist ministers are. The claim that Sunni Islam lacks "clergy" relies on defining "clergy" in a narrow sense inspired by Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy and "high church" Protestantism, and ignoring the broader sense in which the term also gets applied to Judaism and "low church" Protestantism, among others.

> and people who identify as "Salafi" do not automatically or necessarily adhere to rulings in the way you seem to imagine

I'm Catholic–how many Catholics do you think follow the Catholic Church's teaching that most forms of contraception are prohibited? So I was never making the assumption you are assuming I'm making

> The original issue was whether getting married and having kids is obligatory for Muslims, a requirement of their religion like ritual prayer, fasting during Ramadan, etc

In a strict sense, you are right – all Sunni ulama agree that marriage and children are mustaḥabb (recommended/encouraged) not fard (obligatory). However, I think it is more complex than that for two reasons (a) in some Muslim subcultures, certain things which are officially just recommended/encouraged become de facto obligatory, not necessarily due to the letter of religious teachings, but due to social pressures which exist in those religious communities; (b) something which is only mustaḥabb in the general case can become fard in specific cases, and certainly you will find ulama who think that sometimes happens in the matter under discussion, and if the specific cases become broad enough, they can end up outweighing the general case in practice
That doesn't sound like a devops problem, but a culture one.
Someone else recommended "Neutrogena, Ultra Sheer Dry Touch Sunscreen" in this submission, and taking a quick look at the ingredients, it does have some I wouldn't put on my skin:

- Octocrylene (endocrine disruptive + might cause sun allergies)

- Butylated Hydroxytoluene (endocrine disruptive)

- Homosalate (https://health.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2022-08/sccs_o_244....)
That can't be from tires tho, a farm field won't have tires in it more than 3 or 4 times a year. And it probably smells like manure because pumping manure onto fields is one of the most common methods of fertilizing.
I maybe wasn't expecting Bernini level of realism, but "Augustus of Prima Porta" is around 2000 years old which greatly predates Renaissance tooling.
Career is a means to an end. Billing hourly I can look after my family, not get too stressed, and focus on what really matters when I'm off the clock. Even if the EV from swinging for the fences would be higher, it's not worth the risk.
> asked people to tell us which was higher or lower quality

This test didn't measure what you probably wanted it to measure.
Applying the ethics of consent to this topic is probably just shallow reasoning. There are much better frameworks, but if all you have is a hammer I understand the temptation:)
Or he got lucky, as next time he wasn’t even close in his predictions
Or you can go even further back when Microsoft was caught stealing QT code because they couldn’t do video competently themselves and Apple could (circa 1995).

And every Mac geek knew how to work around it either via free third party software or just using AppleScript

https://osxdaily.com/2007/01/30/play-quicktime-movies-full-s...
The EU is about to make it literally illegal for them to do so, so no they can't.
Where I live, the only restaurants that offer delivery are Chinese and Pizza, and this is pretty typical for most locales. What grubhub did was antagonistically create delivery services for literally every restaurant and collect those menus into their own app. If the restaurant doesn't cooperate they will just call the place and pretend to be a customer. They also buy ads so that when you search for <some restaurant delivery> you will get a dynamically generated grubhub page that 'looks official'.
This is very cool, as are a lot of older algorithms, and some newer ones. Probably mechanical computers had lots of under-the-hood optimizations that would be interesting to dig into.

It reminds me of e.g. the CORDIC algorithm, used to calculate trig functions (needed by rocket guidance systems) with a combination of fixed-point arithmetic and table look-up. Doubtless there are many others.

CORDIC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORDIC
Why aren’t advertising platforms like Facebook and google held liable for the adverts they put out?
That’s still less than the 6 devices I have..
The film “In Time” showed this feature back in 2011.
Um, China destroys the hypothesis.
I wrote about this a while ago: in application security, 99% is a failing grade: https://simonwillison.net/2023/May/2/prompt-injection-explai...
A good 2FA setup is important for modern security.

Knowing many sortware developers, a suprisingly large percentage of them still think about security as annoyance. This is especially problematic, as they tend to have a larger attack surface.

Having access to critical resources and also executing a wide range of semi-random tools and code on your machine is ... less then optimal.

With the rise or supply chain attacks, I believe this is a critical and required change.

You could argue that GitHub should not be forcing that decision on users, but if they want to protect their brand, they kind of have to.
Don't let your kids get exploited by Roblox.
I don't think they're bad people. I think the "center for promoting an agenda" type organizations have an incentive to promote their agendas.
That’s bad policy, and obviously harmful.

There we are in perfect agreement.

That policy is also obviously at odds with scientific knowledge.

Policies like that harm high-risks groups immensely too.

Over here, the bad policies were strict social restrictions. Baseless and arbitrary restrictions of the number of people allowed to be at funerals and strict and severe limits to hospital visits. None of these were necessary from the perspective of the reality of aerosolized transmission and how easy it is to strip the pathogen out of the air we breathe.

It’s so absurd that it took a long time to find an analogy. It’s like repairing the flat tire on your bike with a patch of sod. It doesn’t really work, it’s messy, and people will think you’re crazy.
So your saying apple would have to stop making operating systems?

Or are you saying Qualcomm would be required to not provide drivers?

This is a super dumb take, like beyond stupid, and I get that it’s directed at apple.

Here’s the thing: since day 1 apple has been a hardware company, and what makes hardware good or bad is often the software that drives runs it. That goes for every product apple makes.

The idea that you can remove one half of that from the other is beyond stupid.
Or we could, you know, get our heads out of the clouds. The government didn't force us at gunpoint to all get an Amazon-branded brain stem implant. If you think that the net is claiming ownership of your brain, turn off the net and walk away for a while!

We can't collectively re-take ownership of our brains. No, either you re-take ownership of your brain, or someone else is going to own it. All Varofakis' proposal will do is change who the owner is, but it won't give you back ownership of your own brain.

Someone outside can't do it for you. You do it, or it doesn't happen.
Isn’t it a bit premature to claim that? Is there a repro?
My whole professional career was only betrayals following each other. Once I decided "Stop!" and actually doing things to prevent that to happen again: have been unemployed for more than a decade.
Why postgress: readily available/accessible documentation / choice of level of support / free to mix/match of tools of choice (vendor, 3rd party, diy your own).

Per stated alternatives: look pretty clunky compared to DIY setup using HAproxy for awk language based webserver running on a raided/distributed pi cluster with various levels of fail over support. Directly implimenting just what need to get job done using programming language on top of a hardware solution provides for very lean/customized solution. Although, does assume very familiar with HW/SW setup and extensive familiarity of various stacks/programming concepts. SQL front end can be implimented in awk as a front end to awk.

"from scratch" issues:

Not exactly an actively suported specific DB area/db tools package (cockroachDB / TiDB / NoSql / graph DB, etc).

Not an actively supported turnkey database management system under common ide/environment (postgres, Oracle, etc.)

Flexibility limited to level of knowledge of various db areas/tools under common ide/environment (postgres, Oracle, etc.)
Occam's Razer man. Covid is super infectious, so it infected everyone. This is not that complicated.
Show HN: Project Management, but with directed graphs
I was juggling multiple consulting projects and wanted a better way to track dependencies across work programs – so I created a graph-based project management tool. What do you think?
Oh... so the new type, foo, is distinct (not assignment-compatible) from std::vector<int>?
So airpods with a better assistant? Or Google Glass? Just be up front and don't bs me
Choose Boring Technology (2018)
Another reminder I should seriously look into qubes-os.
As a counterpoint to that, 20 million people took the Johnson and Johnson vaccine under the emergency authorization, but the FDA didn’t approve it.

Also buying the emergency approval process in the first place would have required an epically massive conspiracy.
I bring a scarf and knot it under my chin (the normal way: fold in half, wrap around neck, put two loose ends through the loop; but tighter than normal, so the lump sits under the chin just to one side). Provides enough support that my head stays back and doesn't look weird.
Quality control is a cost of business too many companies won’t choose to incur.
If it's not difficult to bypass I don't see how it's accurate to say it "works".

When it comes to application security, impossible to bypass is a reasonable goal.
Apple used to ban advertising push notifications. They began allowing them to avoid claims of anti-competitive behavior.
On android there's an app called Buzzkill that can do it. I have my notifications batched during the workday and mute successive notifications from that one friend who chats with way too many linebreaks.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.samruston....
I find it annoying how social GitHub has become. Posting notifying others when I work on public repos. I don't care for my coworkers to know when I am up at 2am working on open source. I also use separate accounts now.

Vlan is a good idea. Doing that now. Thanks.
Section 230?
Jobs did a great job showing off the first iPhone. iPod + phone + Internet.

And of course iPod was 1000 songs in your pocket.

This is what made it successful. Not bs. We think about jobs as very head in the clouds and saying things like computer is really like a bicycle, but he was very practical and clear

https://youtu.be/x7qPAY9JqE4?si=2OZiIU95haYTyiHn
also brake dust, which until fairly recently used to be asbestos
I'm not sure I follow how base 60 permits more exact computation than base 10.
It doesn't matter. You can't have these conversations without being censored anymore.

My works HR department got sick of having people use "logic" and "evidence" to argue against their policies. After kicking a few people out the door and generally saying you can't talk about this at work anymore, nobody talks about it.
Who patches your VMs? Installs Antivirus.. installs vulnerability protection.. defines your resource groups.. virtual networks.. sets up your Azure subscriptions.. performs billing management.. etc?

I hope its not you. The whole idea was that there is a platform team responsible for providing a service or better yet the CSP does this for you and then you just have to architect as a platform team the things I listed above. It does not happen via magic. But the CSP platforms makes it certainly easier to provide a pre-audited version of the OS and tools.

You should be able to self-service yourself within say a developer like portal as part of an IDP as described here. Not figure out ALL of the infra yourself.
Hey, if you don't mind some unpredictable donation/sponsoring, you could put up a bitcoin address (and optionally XMR and/or ETH, though those latter two may be a bit more friction for you if you're not already familiar).
If the goal was simply to have whatever then you don’t need to do anything, a random rock is perfectly fine. However, if you have specific needs then that creates new limitations. As I pointed out you can grow specific crystal structures faster, but crystals don’t allow for arbitrary structures.

Trying to slap two arbitrary atomic structures together doesn’t automatically work. Sure, you could use some binding agent like glue etc, but now you’re limited to structures which include that binding material. Thus if the goal is to be able to produce arbitrary structures only limited by their stability you can’t necessarily join together separate pieces.
Not just acceptable. For most people it's basically indistinguishable from uncompressed CD audio.
Most Firefox requests to Wikimedia sites say Windows.[1]

[1] https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#all-sit...
If you can't find a jailbreak which GPT-4 will fail to identity as a jailbreak when asked, you're not trying hard enough.
> Can you find any recent dictionary with your definition, or modern printed example of the word used in this way?

sure, https://www.wordnik.com/words/arbitrary: "Based on or subject to individual judgment or preference." is the second definition on the page. You clearly didn't even bother googling.

Regardless, I'd argue that arbitrary as distinct from "random" only has one definition—the one where judgement, choice, or preference is exercised. This is the useful way to use the word, hence my shock. Especially in a technical context where the connotation of petty abuse of judgement makes no sense.

Finally, there are cases where it's indistinguishable from arbitrary. For instance, if you're defining a pure computation on some integer, the distinction between arbitrary and random is meaningless.

Throwing the word away (as I interpret your sentiment to argue for) seems like the worst possible interpretation and just as likely to lead to confusion.
The duopoly difference is real. But either side of a duopoly in a critical global market has tremendous power.

Very hard, often impossible, to be competitive in mobile software if you don’t support iOS.

Microsoft didn’t optimize Windows for third party developers because of legal action.

Supporting third party developer innovation was the foundational Microsoft strategy, long before and after they got into operating systems.

The legal issue was using their platform’s defaults and product bundling to kill the opportunities and economics for potentially competitive platforms (Netscape, the web as an OS platform replacement).
People don't shoplift at their neighbors homes. They shoplift at grocery stores and whatever.

Crime happens at places of commerce. That's just... how it works. Places of commerce have both goods to steal (especially useful black-market goods, like Tide Detergent) and cash-registers to steal from. I'm not saying like "murders" or whatever, but when a neighborhood has +100 police reports in a month, the Real Estate agents notice that and home values drop.

That's just... how it works. Its not necessarily about "which crimes are actually dangerous" or whatever, people just pay attention to crime heatmaps and don't really look into the details.

You stick a store designed to sell to homes, that store _will_ have homegoods, including Tide Detergent, in stock. That Tide _will_ be stolen, its just so easy to steal, easy to sell in the black market. That stolen good will be reported on police reports (so that the store can get back its insurance, or write it off or whatever they plan to do accounting wise). That police report will drop nearby home values.
It's just not my driving motivation. The other thing to note is that its not the exact physical world, this plane is similar though. So these proofs might not even apply.
To add to this, if you do make enough to overcome said hurdles - you are likely in a hyper competitive job. Two great incomes don’t help much if both parties have to regularly put in more than 40 hours/week.
> That's not what I consider a "realistic human statue" ?

the HN title is wrong, TFA says "realistic facial expression". Of course, it's neither a realistic facial expression, so all the comments are still valid. Carry on.
Decarbonization will have negative externalities. Yes, even environmental ones. I'd argue that those externalities are necessary and delay to mitigate them is going to be worse than fixing them later.
That is a minority of browser users.
> I suspect that most remaining FF users are running it on Linux desktop.

Personally, I run it everywhere: on my phone, on my Windows desktop, on my Linux desktop, on my Linux netbook. Not even because of any particularly strongly held stances - it's just a nice browser that I like and it runs pretty well everywhere (plus the devtools are the most usable for me).

That said, I'm fairly sure that the majority of Linux desktop users are also using Firefox, because it's typically the default browser in most distros.