skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do people accept this nonsense when it's Apple?

Because it's a very effective theft deterrent. All of my Apple devices have Find My turned on. If someone steals my MacBook or my iPhone, I can track them with the app. I can also remote wipe the device and brick it until my password is entered. If Apple agreed to remove the Activation Lock for the thief then they would get the full benefit of stealing it. Since Apple has an ironclad policy of refusing to remove the lock, there is nothing a thief can do to remove it.

If the thief cannot unbrick the device in any way, it is worthless to them. This deters stealing.
I think it would be pretty clear even if they just add one sentence:

> Find My includes Activation Lock — a feature that's designed to prevent anyone else from using your device if it's ever lost or stolen.
IIRC in that era, the leftmost part of the title bar could be clicked to get a menu of options that contained Minimize, Maximize, Move, Resize, Close, and maybe one or two others. If you chose Move or Resize, the mouse would change cursors and just moving the mouse would change the window, then you'd click to get out of it.

I'm pretty sure this had a button there in like Windows 3.11 or 98, that I think was later hidden so you'd just click the title bar to get it?

Edit: https://www.functionx.com/windows/Lesson06.htm

You'd click the application icon in the title bar, then in WinXP you could reach it by right-clicking anywhere in the title bar.

And in the Windows 3 era, it was an actual button (IIRC the minus on the left wasn't minimize, it was this menu, and the down arrow on the right was minimize): https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/w/win3x.htm
I thought Silicon Graphics Irix was pretty nice back in the day. I used to work with Onyx and Onyx 2 machines. Amazing hardware at the time.
> Adding more teachers basically means you’re pulling from the bottom of the barrel,

Ask the good teachers what would make the job more attractive to them.

I can make wild guesses...

* Better pay. (Seems 100% obvious to a techbro forum.)

* Better administrations.

* Better career flexibility.

* No colleagues of the crappy variety.

* Less curricula mandated by politicians.

* Students taught well in prerequisite classes.

* Families helped with difficulties that translate to behavior problems.

* Covid sensitivity (e.g., no forbidding mask use in a classroom of germ factories during a pandemic).

...but you really have to ask the good teachers, not guess.
That is confusing... I'm not sure what the unit of measurement there even is. Something like pixels would be nice, but that can't be it with a default of 1!

about:config is invaluable, but better documentation on the options would really be nice.
It's not gone though. He has it back.
I'd be shocked if this wasn't planned out from the time they launched the plan.
http://www.plottingtool.com/app.html

It's a fully client-side, Tableau-inspired data visualization & exploration tool for CSV / tabular data. I built it around 7 years ago with just ES6 and d3.js (no React etc) but never really finished or "launched" it - perfectionism led to a neverending todo list, and with a target market of only myself I didn't have a strong pull toward solving a real-world use case. I even took some time between jobs thinking I'd build it into a real product, but only managed to burn myself out instead (quite a surprise to learn that could happen on a passion project!)

But it does work - drag in a CSV file (ideally <100MB) and you can make some cool charts and quickly explore a dataset, all without the data leaving your machine. The features aren't very discoverable, but it has stuff like adding derived columns, various fancy charts, row/column sorting, custom colors, etc. I'm sure there are far better tools around these days, but I've still come back to this thing a surprising amount in my day job when I want to whip up a quick histogram or investigate some trend in a medium-size dataset.
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I have the 845 G8 and can echo most of your sentiment. It's a fast, well made and easily repairable/upgradable machine (ie. no soldered RAM modules).

However, HP's software is less than stellar. What annoys me the most is the fact that the latest BIOS update completely broke USB-C dock and monitor detection.
So correct me if i'm wrong, this mean that it basically is man in middle relay sitting between you and resource you are trying to access, and knows things you want. Basically an aggregator of data under guise of privacy.
When your laptop has been out of the country in the hands of a stranger for an extended period, it's very much out of your control what it does.
https://github.com/adamhl8/python-shellrunner

I write a lot of shell scripts, but hate how difficult it is to write things that are readable and not error-prone. I wrote a python library that allows you to add safety to any shell command while also letting you take advantage of a "real" programming language like python. Basically, this allows you to sprinkle as little (or as much) shell into your python scripts as you want.

Would love to hear any feedback on it :)
I saw that, but wouldn’t the urine get all over their fur? I’m quite curious about how they groom…
My stairway/upstairs lights are on a 4-way switch. I’ve never researched it but presumably one could build out a 5-way or 6-way switch by adding more switches wired the “middle” way. I’m sure there’s a term for the two wire switch in the middle but I’m no electrician.
That does make it easier to resize a window from the bottom left corner, which is indeed where you want to resize the window from in the majority of cases.

However, if you want to resize the window from the top or from the left, that does not help you much.
All they need do is go into recovery, wipe the machine and setup fresh.

I have done exactly that on an M1 Air I purchased, and that the person who sold it to me bought it new.
And entered an incorrect password 90 times?
It's a disgusting waste of resources and extremely anti environmental that Apple bricks its devices.

Loads of old second hands Apple devices can never be used again.

I suppose that's exactly what Tim Cook wants.

Shouldn't be legal.
The point of the feature is to stop theft. Surely we don't need to prove theft is a problem that exists.
https://hodo.graphics

Mobile friendly meteorology data and forecasting tool.

Meant to be a better mobile option than a site like the College of DuPage model viewer.
From the post it sounds like the person who picked it up wiped the laptop and set up activation lock with their own account.
It’s not like we learned it for fun, we had to in order to pass. I don’t think I (nor anyone in my class) would ever learn strictly school related subjects (calc, chem and etc.) just for fun. And I went to an extremely competitive public school.

Everything else though, like programming, video editing, some crafts and etc. is an entirely different thing. I would definitely argue without former, I wouldn’t be somewhat well-rounded as I consider myself right now.
They should have just donated it to the public school system
Who knew MS Paint would still be in the running after all these year?
> There are even venture funds that invest in Apple-related scams.

Can you be more specific?
Recursive agree to all the above, purely in terms of UI/UX.

Firefox currently has about 20x20 pixels next to the tabs to grab and move the window, and "always show scrollbars" is off by default. This would be reasonable on a phone, but not on any kind of machine with a mouse.
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I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned the bane that is "progressive scrolling".

"No, we won't actually load the text at the bottom of the scollbar until you scroll down to it--and we'll only load it in a dribble." @#$%^&*()_+!
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Try the card first but yes, you can do that.
> These complaints were only justified, if the company had promised open source forever and had anchored altruism and minimizing profits as their reason of existence. And if they had done that, who would have believed it and would the company been able to achieve its goals? The answer is obviously: No, non-profits don’t get venture capital (VC) funding, and VC funding is critical to building the software in the first place.

So close to getting it right... Consider the countercase, where the company says up front that the product is only open source temporarily. Would anyone use them? Maybe, but they'd have a way harder time getting any buy-in.

> The complaint is usually not about a company providing open-source software, but rather about (a) withholding the closed complement and (b) eventually dropping the open source license for future development. Again, without the closed complement there wouldn’t be the commercial open-source software in the first place, so complaining about it is pointless.

On the contrary, pulling a bait-and-switch is actively harmful to the ecosystem because it steals oxygen from would-be competitors:

> Let it sink in: Without VCs, there would be no Terraform, and without Terraform, there would be no OpenTofu.

Or, without Terraform, there would be other options instead of TF having been very nearly the option until they decided to shoot their own foot off. (Yes, there are still other options, but it's telling that ex. pulumi uses TF providers)

> Most commentators view the licensing away from open source as a negative event. I’d like to argue that it is a milestone to celebrate. By licensing away the company signals that the product has achieved a mature state and that the help of an open source strategy is not needed any longer: The company has proved to the world that the software can be built and that the economy at large cares and thinks this software is a good idea. This is an important achievement!

The switch to rent-seeking mode can mean that they think they've succeeded, but actually it's more likely to mean that they've realized they aren't making enough money, so... no, even if we were willing to celebrate other people succeeding when that means them pulling the rug, it's not actually true.
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Active Desktop and IE Windows Explorer, for one thing.

But also, generally, the difference is that Windows 95 still feels like a "workstation" computer, designed for maximum readability and clarity, while staying in the background and not drawing any attention to itself.

With Windows 98, the OS begins trying to look pretty, which means having more elements and style choices which take attention away from the work.
I don't know if it's entirely uncensored but it doesn't have the moderation API in front of it or the other manual tweaks OpenAI added to ChatGPT so largely it will just do whatever you ask it to without paragraphs of disclaimers.
There are plenty of non-AirTag trackers, and they by and large have no anti-stalking measures. In fact there is an entire market of explicitly non-traceable stalker ware, and that market existed long before AirTags.

Meanwhile there are explicit legal protections for gun manufacturers despite the vast majority of murders in the US being with guns that people have no real reason to have (see: the rest of the civilized world, and its lack of active shooter drills and training)
He has it back in a broken state. The person who took it rendered it inoperable before returning it. Even without activation lock there are numerous other ways if you are holding the laptop in your hand.
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I don't see how that's relevant; there are many ways bad passwords could have been entered. We have no way to know the package wasn't tampered with during shipping. The unintended recipient could have handed it off to a friend to handle the shipping back to the original owner, and that friend could have been bored. Whoever levied the import duties could have also opened the package and been bored enough to start typing in random passwords, before repacking it and shipping it onwards.

Where did "90 times" even come from? I can't find that number documented anywhere in regards to Activation Lock, even googling specifically for that number in case there were anecdotes online.
Sorry, opposite of what? You seemed to have inserted causation where none is implied.
Why would you give a third party control over your device? You're just renting overpriced devices from Apple at this point, one of the many reasons I stopped buying iPhones (that and they're just awful anyway, the UI/ux is offensive.)

By using this crap you're allowing Apple to brick your device on a whim etc if they feel like it.
At 8 years old I'm not sure what the downside is to waiting a bit. It's not like she's accruing vet school debt right now.
The statement links to a court filing and in that filing there are exhibits that have depositions about encounters with Eben Morglen in the work setting. The deposition reports frequent yelling and intimidation from Morglen.

The deposition also includes details about the victim that indicates they were young, inexperienced and perhaps somewhat fragile.

A stronger personality might have pushed back more effectively or would have left for other employment.

Sadly, the reported behaviour would be familiar to many who have been in the workplace for a number of years. Not to say it should be accepted or normalised but certainly not unique.
https://ajuc.github.io/outdoorsBattlemapGenerator/

Generator of encounter maps for tabletop RPGs. You can export to .dd2vtt format which you can then import in Foundry VTT.

There's also a new version with programmable pipeline of generators, but it's even more unfinished:

https://ajuc.github.io/kartograf/
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: When Arthur encounters Slartibartfast on the planet Magrathea it is explained that mice have spent a lot of their time in laboratories running complex experiments on humans, contrary to the humans thinking that it was them running experiments using mice. Slartibartfast explains to Arthur that "the business with the cheese and squeaking" was just a front for their true intelligence, and that they allowed humans to perform some "primitively staged" experiments on them in order to check how much humans had learned, and to give them "the odd prod in the right direction".
Subpar results; it's harder to translate than to check a translation.
https://sheetsinterview.com/

Lots of rough spots. Especially the UI is not great right now but I also could not find a lot of traction so far.

Also: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sheetshortcut/fnbb...

An extension to show shortcuts as a popup for google sheets or excel 365. Never really polished it or created a landing page around it.
I love the Atlas. The search is brokey for me -- I can search but can't click on any of the results. Win 10/Chrome.
This is the main reason I switched to MacOS. Was sick of everything on Linux being contentiously broken out of the box with the excuse "Oh you are meant to just configure the icon colours and toolbar padding yourself"

The programs can still be open source so you can recompile with whatever look you want, but they should bundle a working experiance by default.

But linux users seem more obsessed with curating custom themes over having things actually work.
Curious as to what the second vent on the right of the chassis is for? A second fan placement? Just a passing curiosity as I noticed it when assembling!
But maybe this guy sold his computer to someone else and then stole it back, or something else crazy. The point is that having an ironclad policy in this case is a feature for most users, not a bug.
That's crazy. That literally happened since I posted the link! Going to fix it now, thank you so much.
Those come with the operating systems. They are not tied to the default file managers.
I'm in Japan. From what I've heard, chargebacks are nearly impossible to initiate here. Besides, I bought it with a corporate debit card, so it wasn't an option either.

With small claims court, I doubt my Japanese fluency is sufficient, and researching how to go about it would take more time than it is worth.

The article was worth my time because it makes others aware of the situation.
This is a great idea for a game, btw.
It’s not a good thing to lock out users who are clearly and demonstrably the owners of a device. Automated protections are good, but there should be procedures in place to handle cases like these.
Enterprises don't pay $1000 for their laptops anyway. They demand big volume discounts. I really really wish I could buy a ThinkPad for what my work buys them for. But I can't.
Tutoring is not personalised learning. It's personalised teaching.

The success of tutoring is the ability of the tutor to completely understand where the child is at, to figure out what the blockage is and to work at unblocking that specific thing.

For example, if the student "knows something", but it happens to be false, then spotting that, and removing it, is the key to unlocking the future learning. Or identifying a weakness in times tables may unlock the ability to do more advanced algebra.

A good tutor doesnt really teach new things. They pave the road already taught, critically filling in the potholes and removing the speed-bumps.
Any number of things could have happened.

Fact is, he let someone else take control of the machine.

Apple really should explain this to people. It is a scenario nobody wants to be in.
Private aircraft have to clear customs too.
The Vega Lite plugin does this: https://vega.github.io/editor/#/custom/vega-lite

I think Google maps does this for manual bike routes too?
DARPA thinks modern solutions are important: https://www.darpa.mil/program/underminer
It sounds like the other person tampered with the computer. Either by swapping HW, or adding their own iCloud info.

I believe at least with older MacBooks, if you swapped the logic board, it’d effectively remove any kind of association with the iCloud account / MDM. I wonder if OP can do that.
I have an iPad I left on a shelf for a while that is now a paperweight because during that time, in what I assume was a transition from iTunes to Apple accounts, the account it was logged into ceased to exist.

I was actually able to reregister an account using the same email address as the one I previously had, thinking maybe that would work, but still couldn't log back in.
Honestly the worst xml I've encountered regularly is apple's xml plist format where dictionaries are

<key>..</key>
<value>..<value>
<key>..</key>
<value>..<value>
...

Taking something that supports explicit structure and making it purely ordering based.
+1 to "do some research, rather than just asking for links"
You are probably in a better place than me to really push them on Linux support.

Mediatek's Linux support seems reasonable, but I've only had experience running the AP cards in OpenWRT, not the little baby client cards.
You basically need to allocate a whole developer’s worth of time to maintain end to end tests. If you’re lucky, they will also have time for your integration tests.
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Unfortunately, this wasn't covered by the travel insurance that goes along with my credit card.

I didn't purchase additional travel insurance, and I'm in the fortunate position that I can eat the cost of a replacement, so it probably isn't worth it.
Tab / Bookmark Manager OS
it's a fun thing to do

here's a 'hyperdimensional' plotter i built when i was 18?

http://skylab.org/~felix/hyperspace/animation.html

you can surprisingly get very far with a little JS

these days I default to plotly for most things, the wolframalpha.com when i'm really lazy. i do have a friend that has been smitten by mathematica for the past decade though
I would quit my job in an instant to become a high school teacher if the pay was better. But more than I want to teach, I want to be able to support my family. I save most of what I make in my tech job, and I'll look at becoming a teacher 20 years from now after the kids are on their own.
This is true, but no one in the industrial world is using macs. You even address this in your first paragraph. No IT group in their right mind is going to add a 3rd environment to manage (apple). Beyond being a headache to have multiple operating systems, update orchestrators, etc. it's also a nightmare because you can't get a 24h on site support contract from Apple. I'm surprised labview was supporting mac users in the first place, that's just a waste of development resources.
It very much was unknown to Columbus - The first spanish "Dollars" were minted with New World silver.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaler#Etymology / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaler#Spain_and_France
I currently get 600 using an Intel AX201 card and 900 from a better router.
80x25: https://github.com/gurushida/80x25

An unfinished ASCII art point-and-click adventure game to play in your terminal.

I wanted to build a Monkey Island style game engine, but my total lack of drawing abilities only allowed me monochrome text art as a way to get some graphics.

The game engine in itself is closed to done, but I got stuck on the scenario and graphics to finish it.
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This assumes you're following the news. If you're not, one citation, or twenty, won't help any.
Speakers are probably a good option but if you want to achieve a similar effect, in my experience open backed headphones like the ones made by Senheiser have definitely decreased my tinnitus. I found that with my old closed backed headphones my ears would get watery and occasionally one of my ears would get very irritated and sensitive to sound, which made the tinnitus much louder. Since switching I have not had another instance of this.
I think this will happen, will be as inconvenient as you envision, but I think it will be for the best.

We're not socially ready for one AI winner. The resulting giant would be too powerful and too influential.
Actually, it is not broken. It is working as designed.

He simply does not have control of it.
Do Intel or AMD forbid you from mixing and matching wifi cards ? Why the unnecessary fragmentation ?