skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I also needed to pay ¥11,100 of import duties on it - it didn’t seem to matter that the MacBook was mine.

I traveled to Mexico a few weeks ago. In my luggage I had two MacBook Pro laptops and an old ThinkPad. To my dismay the people at the airport in Mexico demanded quite a bit of money, telling me that because I had brought more than one laptop I had to pay import taxes. I am a tourist from Europe traveling with three laptops. I begrudgingly paid up. It’s abusive and stupid to demand import taxes in situations both like that in the OP story and like they did from me.
Apple creating e-waste like this should negate every single claim they make about environmental friendliness.
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Just tried it out. There are things I would change but it's really awesome. I actually like this more than Partiful because I didn't have to think.

I would way rather get these over Evites or Eventbrites.
In your stubborn response, have you considered Jesus?

No no, seriously. You need a counter party to your debt. What about a divine figure?
LinkedIn is as much a discussion site as this
Yet another company whom never relinquishes real ownership when they "sell" it.

At best, any Apple "purchase" is at best a rental.

Stallman is right. And always has been with tech.
The family respects it a lot. We don’t have any extravagant expenses. We try to live only on salary and RSUs go untouched. The partner would work in a heartbeat but we’d take an absolute nose dive in quality of life as we’d be running from work duties to house duties to kid duties to work duties (based on prior personal experience) While I personally would be willing to suffer such a life I don’t thinks it fair for kids to get the tiered, grumpy and curt parents. We brought them into this world and we owe them better if we can (if my backs against the wall sure all of that can go out of the window )

We have one life and there is something to be said about raising kids in a home environment that is “healthy” especially when we brought them into this world. I feel especially strongly about this as my kids are still little (< 10 years)

Totally understand that this may not be a point of view shared across the masses - specially here in USA where the general attitude is everybody is doing it so you shouldnt crib about it. For us our kids are a big priority and not sacrifing the evnromment they are raised in is a core value. Fyi I don’t mean environment as physically the size of house we live in etc it’s the softer thing - the home atmosphere. I live in a small apartment and we are cool with it. More importantly we live in a happy home.
No but Apple is much easier with unlocking business managed Macs when you have AppleCare Enterprise and can prove the company bought it.

Besides, if that happens it's the company's problem, not yours. And they tend to care much more about the data on stolen devices than the hardware itself.
Sadly neither the Fastly nor the Mozilla blog clearly states this out, or lists down the origins/services for which this is enabled.
https://imgur.com/a/I9S6j12

http://urza.sytes.net:8080/cfusion/Enigma/Core/View/Constell...

iirc, the original ideas came from some clever team from MIT or similar setup. Used for bringing Sketchup and Blender models to life via JS. Intended for local LAN implementations.
I was just thinking about this. I think LGPL was a great idea, but unfortunately, business rejected it, because contrary to free market ideology, they are interested in having control over their users (and don't want to show others their code).

But assume alternative timeline where LGPL is not rejected and sharing the source code with users of software becomes the norm, just like say, nutritional labels are the norm in the food industry. Then you could have a nice free market solution, where the commercial software (software done for money) would be available under LGPL and commercial license. To evaluate software, you use LGPL (because you can verify before you buy whether the software actually does what it says it does), and to buy and use the software commercially, you use the commercial license.

Compare this to today, where lot of components are under BSD license, so you can easily evaluate them, but you cannot sustain commercial operation around them, because you will get outcompeted by people writing the code for free.

I think Stallman has recognized (aside from his moral beliefs, let's just focus on pragmatic capitalism here) early on, that closing the source and code as a property are fundamentally incompatible. If you want to license somebody else's code, that is, treat it as private property, then you need to be able to evaluate it, and see its source. And he thought that companies, which are normally used to private property, will prefer clear licensing deals (i.e. they understand what they're buying) to having control over their users. Therefore the solution - dual LGPL and commercial licensing.

What he didn't thought of is that programmers will rather work for free (and fun) than punishing bad actors, which are the companies that close the source (to mislead their users). That's why we ended up in the world where BSD rules, but at the expense of private companies and properly maintained software.

What we see is capitalism failing, if the correct social controls of the property are not there (this actually goes into fundamental contradictions in capitalism, but let's put that aside). I think the government should mandate that everybody who provides software should also provide the source code (so that the software can be properly evaluated), and focus on enforcing proper licensing deals. This is what happens with other forms of "intellectual property" - patents, copyrights and trademarks all require that you disclose what you're selling before licensing it to someone.

Unfortunately, businesses largely reject free market in favor of screwing other people over. So the companies that wanted not to show the source code to their users (so they could sell more software) won, and it is at the long-term expense of having a functioning software market (and commercial companies themselves).
I don’t want to sway people from the WiFi issues.

I saw others in the forums without problems.

I can definitely say for sure, I ran at least 20 speed tests between it and two phones in the same locations and had much lower bandwidth on it.

Hoping this is just an amd issue that will get better.
Nothing beats good old fashioned one on one tutoring.

You don't need fancy foreign math syllabuses or newfangled gadgets

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_2_sigma_problem
No disassembly required, the serial number is printed on the bottom exterior of the case.
Ouch.

For reference, LabVIEW is used by many types of engineers, especially industrial process engineers to develop custom control systems, say controlling the automation of steelworks. It involves visual programming and process engineering. This will hurt industry because it regresses development and production environments onto a monoculture of Windows with some Linux. A problem of supporting and using non-Windows platforms is that many custom tools, drivers, and interfacing environments only support Windows.

As another point, securing industrial systems is critical, so production systems running LabVIEW should be locked down using extreme measures because of the potential harm of compromise. Remember Stuxnet. (Which would make a neat Hollywood movie.)
You can set hard limits on the api when you configure billing, so you know your monthly bill will never be more than $X
https://godspeedapp.com/

Godspeed is a todo app that's fast and 100% keyboard driven. I'd say it's about 3/4 baked. I use it every day, but I haven't quite gotten it over the line to a 1.0 with a payment page and all that.
i feel like the wifi issues are kind of overblown, i mean 300 down is still blazing fast -- but that is just my usage
What is the gesture for "let's go to page 196 of this 320 pages document"?
> Things didn’t work out as expected, thanks in part to technical problems and a lack of consumer demand

I never understood why consumers were supposed to care. With LTE, my cell phone got an internet connection that's faster than my home connection. I don't care if it gets faster with 5G, and most people I talked with felt the same way. The only people who ever tried to convince me otherwise worked for Samsung, or other companies with a vested interest in the rollout.

I can understand the benefits for things like autonomous vehicles, but I never got why people would want 5G on their phones. Since there aren't currently many/any vehicles that benefit from such massive speeds, it makes sense that there just wasn't much consumer demand.
It’s etched in the bottom of the laptop and I think is easily swapped between chassis.
>Why do people accept this nonsense when it's Apple? They wouldn't for any other company.

Because 99% of the time it saves one's ass.

Three times now I've left my iPad in a shopping cart. All three times my phone has gone "WAIT! WHERE'S THE IPAD?" as I left the parking lot and all three times I was able to retrieve the iPad.
I know absolutely nothing about "education reform". I knew this thing was a grift instantly when it was announced. Mark Zuckerberg teams up with Chris Christie. What could possibly go wrong?? So shocking that this doesn't work out!
You can also lack the authority depending on the codebase and seniority. I still freshly remember a one line fix in a large game codebase I could have fixed right then and there, but had to simply file a bug for because that part of the codebase was managed by some other studio.
While it may be better to have love and lost than never loved at all, you are not going to see people celebrate the breakup of what they thought was a good relationship.

It is true that VC money has created a ton of great open source software that would have never been created otherwise. But it is not a forgone conclusion that the software eventually going closed was a requirement of that VC investment. Nor do I see it as a sign of good health for the software or the company. It might be a sign that the company has given up on future growth and decided to milk existing customers as much as they can. It might be a hail-mary pass to try to bring in income because their current model isn't working. It might be a swinging of tides against a business model that many companies tried, but far fewer succeeded at. It might be an emotional knee-jerk to what they see as unfair use of the software. But I really don't see the argument that it is a mark of success.
Profit. A locked device that can’t be unlocked is unusable, probably stolen, and therefore cheap. An unlocked device is worth something.
Introducing Nopia semi-modular MIDI chord generator [video]
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It is a good security policy in general to not disclose reasons for denials, because doing so gives attackers a hint as to what they need to target. (But yes, it is better customer service to disclose.)
I typed out half of a real long message and then realized this could probably explain it better than I can

https://www.techopedia.com/gambling-guides/what-does-ev-mean...
https://archive.ph/cbvpB
I agree, yet it still makes me feel a bit sick and sad. Thank you for your contributions to medical science.
Lunar dust could be 'melted' to make solid roads
I think I remember study that compared the population in mushroom growing regions of Japan with other regions that didn't grow or eat as many mushrooms. I think they showed a similar result in cancer risk reduction, especially for the farming families with the highest consumption.

There are also studies that show the possible mechanisms behind the effect. One is PSK (used in Japan and originally isolated from shiitake) and another is turkey tail. Both are used to treat cancer by improving immune response in conjunction with other treatments.
5k monthly revenue (or even 100k) isn't big enough for OpenAI to care. It's barely big enough for a competitor to care.

I suspect that OpenAI doesn't have the bandwidth to build most uses of ai and so is in the bill gates platform land: the ecosystem should be pocketing more money than the owner of the platform is.
That's a good guess! Checked eBay and iCloud locked M2 MacBooks Air go for around $400.
https://github.com/psugihara/FreeChat

llama.cpp native chat app for macOS

runs well with metal on m1/m2, pretty slow on intel
This thread got me researching locks and I think the Lockly is promising. With the current models you can buy the WiFi module for $80. The Pro model costs $50 more than the base one and includes the module but you should be able to add just the WiFi since the locks themselves are the same.

This may not be true for older models that may exist, so I would verify.
Ask HN: Has your life changed as the result of advice from an "Ask HN" post?
We see a lot of posts asking for advice: career changes, how to deal with burnout, mental health, and other life circumstances. I'm curious whether any of these ever resulted in significant lasting positive change for the askers. Any stories to share?
AppArmor can restrict /proc, see example from docker: https://github.com/moby/moby/blob/master/contrib/apparmor/te...
All the time, if T-mobile’s network is busy the bandwidth is allocated to T-mobile customers instead of MVNOs
Most of article is pay walled.
[belated stub for offtopicness]

"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Imagine if people from dubai complained about having to pay import taxes to bring a few extra ferraris into the states, we would call them insane, yet a macbook is likely many months comfortable living in most of mexico.
> The pricing is too good to be true with you think about it rationally

In what way shape or form?

> If they raise prices they seem much, much less attractive than using AWS or Azure.

They're already significantly more expensive than Azure. OpenAI charges something like $30k a month for dedicated capacity on a "call our sales team" basis: GPT 3.5/ GPT-4 on Azure comes with that for free.

And GPT-4 is already slow and expensive enough that no one just chooses it arbitrarily... they're using it for things no other model can do. They could charge double for GPT-4 and GPT-4 would still be the only model that can do those tasks: you wouldn't get to just switch off to some other GPT-4 equivalent provider.

> Amazon seem to have a much better business built around their Bedrock offering

Amazon is literally doing the same thing with Bedrock! They're offering Anthropic at competitive prices to OpenAI for a model that's no cheaper to run based on their own dedicated capacity numbers.

> OpenAI offering just models doesn't seem like it can last forever, and to compete with AWS or Azure at enterprise level they need to build all the things Amazon/MS have built.

OpenAI is not trying to become Azure: They actively go out of their way to hide the fact they even offer half the things they offer to enterprises, instead relying on Azure absorbing demand as much as possible.

OpenAI wants ChatGPT Plus to be the new Prime, as in no one should be able to afford to not pay OpenAI for their immensely valuable offering.

Except unlike Prime, the offering is software, not commerce: If Amazon could get AWS-like margins from their e-commerce business, AWS would be a footnote.
In retrospect I don't think I learned much of value by banging my head against the wall trying to work around defects in the shitty Sequent Dynix Pascal compiler used in my CS1 course. I wonder how many students get so frustrated dealing with pointless platform and environmental obstacles that they can't learn the core material effectively?
Well it was
never a convention. just an in-group behavior in some incredibly small niches.
Thanks for the feedback! The foam positioning issue you ran into is definitely not good, and I've flagged it to our Supplier Quality Manager.
They really shouldn't. An invoice does not prove current ownership. It proves historical ownership.
Totally agree, "open source strategy is not needed any longer" doesn't make any sense for many projects where open source of that particular software or information is the primary purpose. It's not solely an economic engine.
The serial number matches mine. I suppose they could have scratched it off and repainted it, but that seems doubtful.
Came here to say this. My understanding is that locked Macbooks are unusable, only have salvage value, and are therefore sold at pennies on the dollar. (Many such laptops are quite likely stolen.)

When the OP mentioned a different login, etc, I started to wonder if he'd been sent a different laptop. This fits in with the other guy asking OP to cover the courier costs, etc.
Right- a broad category of companies. So what is an ODM device?
I started a command line tool to manage your references called Zoia a little while back. I found Zotero to be a bit cumbersome for what I wanted so I decided to write something of my own. I got it to a semi-working state with some basic functionality, then got busy with other things. But I still like the idea and would like to flesh it out if I ever get the time.

https://github.com/joe-antognini/zoia
Ruling by Bullying?
"Jawboning as a Global Regulatory Phenomenon?", I leave it there.
Could I introduce you to space bar typing space or pressing a button instead? Could I introduce you to someone who uses eye tracking and voice control not having the keyboard dexterity you assumed?
I eat cooked mushrooms with nearly every dinner. Definitely don't have much in terms of raw foods and rarely eat salad.
In general, the rule of thumb is to never eat any mushrooms raw. But there are a few exceptions, including button mushrooms. I won't eat raw mushrooms, except maybe truffles (if you really cook truffles then what's the point?).
I've seen lots of shops running labview, but never on a Mac. I doubt NI's losing many customers with this move.

Maybe with a focus on Windows they can finally implement zooming in and out of VIs. It's like a text editor that doesn't let you change the font size. Probably in the pocket of Big Monitor.
>I never understood why consumers were supposed to care.

the industry didn't really demonstrate this well, I think.

all the demos were things like tele-operated tractors; impressive technically but boring to an audience of every-persons.
> and you don't have to deal with "As a large language model…"

what do you mean? is the API uncensored?
Genuinely curious — is there some jurisdiction where the law is "if the pedestrian is in the wrong it's fine to go over them"?
Serial is on the bottom of the case of the laptop. OP would be able to see the serial of the mac he bought either from his original order email or from his list of signed-in apple devices, which he mentioned his mac still showed up on.
Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen encryption
What stops them from just keeping the laptop altogether? Unless the departing airport is also in UAE, I highly doubt the airport would send interpol to confiscate a laptop.

Since they did return the laptop, maybe assuming benevolence is way to go? It took them long time maybe because they waited the airport to send their laptop back first.
No, they likely had a liquidation preference so at least got their money back in 2023.
What’s the grift? He dumped in a ton of his own money and essentially had to write it off. Hubris sure, but where’s the money making scheme underneath this?
Apple products being bricks described as "functioning as intended and therefore a good thing" by Apple fanatics is laughable
Porting from MFC to WxWidgets
Can we include projects with no intention to finish or support long term or frankly even share to an audience other than myself until now for some reason?

If so, I made this little app to help me quickly learn ukulele song chords nearly a decade ago: https://ukey.vercel.app/

Code: https://github.com/namuol/ukey

The idea was to translate generic guitar tabs into visual chord diagrams for ukulele simply by copy-pasting note notation. Technically it could be adapted for other fretted instruments with a few lines, because it actually generates the chords mathematically with the help of the excellent Teoria library.

This sometimes leads to questionable finger positions, but you can tap any chord diagram to see if there are alternative fingerings, which makes it easy to find the most comfortable way to transition between chords.

On a similar note, you can transpose the song until you find a key that avoids the most difficult chords.

At one point I considered automating this process by creating a simple heuristic to determine the “difficulty” of a chord fingering, but I decided this was too subjective and varies a lot depending on the adjacent chords and frequency of switching finger positions.

Needless to say, I never really learned to play ukulele…
Apples and oranges, bud.
If they were then turning around and taking them back out after their stay, that seems like a perfectly reasonable complaint.
Eh...I got the soft warning dialog again just now. Re-cleared the cookies and I'm good.
It doesn't matter, they didn't do this. OP confirmed it was the original serial on the mac he got.
HN is full of useless rabbitholes...
Surprised to see "Code signing with a hardened runtime is almost a must." under Steam (Mac OS). I released a game on steam and never had my distributables signed and never had a single complaint. Every player launches Steam games through Steam, and when that happens there's no need for signing.
Organize. Campaign. Reach out to other parents. Name and shame. Apathy is hard to overcome, but most people already want good schools. Even people without kids don't want to be surrounded by uneducated people and don't want to deal with the problems they cause. Making time for local politics is a hard sell, but I've become increasingly convinced that it's our best chance to enact meaningful changes and improve our day to day lives.
There's nothing ideological about SAFe. It's simply a collection of best practices which work reasonably well in most organizations. You can pick and choose which pieces to adopt and which to ignore. Like any methodology, it can't compensate for toxic management, technical incompetence, or lack of product market fit.

If you don't like SAFe then please be specific. Which parts of it don't work if actually followed as documented?