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More accurately, no longer does by default (after much pushback).

Local & state agencies can affirmatively choose to opt-in to sharing with ICE/HSI, except in California and Virginia where it is banned.

Re:hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate on Saturday August 22, 2026 @03:41PM (#49403098)
Agreed. seatbelt/sandbox-exec has been “deprecated” for many, many years yet it still underlies all of the system’s sandboxing and Claude et al. use it for their own sandboxes. (And so do I — writing seatbelt rules is the only chance I get to write lisp-flavored anything these days.)
I encourage anyone interested to read the actual facts about this incident, which differ significantly from the above recitation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dengvaxia_controversy

While that’s true, IMAX also doesn’t make its digital projectors. They buy off-the-shelf Barcos and then integrate them into a larger system.
Re:Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs on Thursday April 16, 2026 @01:38PM (#47796851)
AppleCare+ annual is perpetual as long as you keep paying it (and Apple offers to switch to that when your 3-year lump sum expires if you choose that instead). I’m guessing it ends whenever they officially discontinue hardware support, which has traditionally been about 7 years after the last unit is produced, but I haven’t reached that yet to know for sure.
Re:Ask HN: Favorite Non-Spammy iPhone Games? on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @07:38PM (#47330165)
Sumaddle is a wonderful puzzle/logic game.
Re:Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @09:19PM (#47146483)
This headline unfortunately offers more smoke than light. This article has nothing to do with the current tête-à-tête with the Pentagon. It is discussing one specific change to Anthropic's "Responsible Scaling Policy" that the company publicly released today as version "3.0".
The president can only pardon crimes against the United States. Even if removed to federal court, state charges remain state charges and the judge & jury must follow state laws. Only the venue changes, with the intent being that the federal judge will potentially serve as a more neutral arbiter.
No, because there is no information to report at present. This site contains a live map of the hourly position reporting from the OI vessel:

https://www.mh370-caption.net/index.php/armada-tracking/

Absolutely fascinating that this report is very detailed about _certain_ things... but edits the source video to fade out right at the relevant instant and then completely omits the fact that the agent called her a "fucking bitch" immediately after executing her. (The released source material is several seconds longer.)
This article is 4 days old and Ocean Infinity has already given details — technical problems with one AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) and poor weather and wave conditions. There will be many such changes in location and speed during this mission, including when deploying and retrieving each of the 3 AUVs.
Anchor to new information (HN strips it from the URL): https://github.com/IQuestLab/IQuest-Coder-V1/issues/14#issue...

Context: Earlier this week a new model was released and researchers discovered that during training it had "cheated" on SWEBench by issuing git commands to find information it should have been blinded to.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46472667

There are multiple statutory routes to activate the NG, and nearly every time Trump has done so, it has been through a “federalized” route. Even red-state governors have requested this because it transfers the financial and legal obligations to the federal government. NG units activated by the governor must be paid, housed, transported, defended in court, etc by the state.

The catch is that the routes, as of yet, purport to impose operational restrictions on the federalized units. The administration isn’t exactly strictly following them, but they still exist and district judges are attempting to enforce them. The administration is hard at work developing a “colorable” basis to invoke the Insurrection Act in order to remove nearly all such restrictions.

Re:Ask HN: Can you uninstall Notion from macOS? on Thursday October 02, 2025 @07:33PM (#45456848)
One technique I occasionally use is to look at the “zap” stanza of an app’s homebrew cask formula:

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/f44500902e420...

Based on the “notion-updater” I’m guessing there’s also a launchagent/launchdaemon that is “updating” (read: reinstalling) it whenever you manually delete it.

Budget resolutions for quite some time have used the reconciliation process, which only requires a simple majority (but imposes some restrictions). The problem is that they shoved through the “OBBBA” using the process intended for the budget, and now it’s no longer available. You can only use the process once per year per subject (spending, revenue, debt limit), and the OBBBA used up all three.
Re:Ring reintroduces video sharing with police on Friday July 18, 2025 @05:57PM (#44610259)
> I think a bigger issue is that AI is being used to censor footage from the owners of the camera themselves. There's been stories about gunshots being censored from the owners of the camera by Ring.

Can you provide sources for this? I just spent a few minutes looking and couldn't find anything, but I'd be super interested in learning more about it.

Re:Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down on Thursday July 03, 2025 @11:41AM (#44456185)
I agree that it's not the usual response, but given Musk's strong promotion of natalism and the fact that he has used IVF to select XY embryos for _all_ of his offspring...
It doesn't really solve the underlying issue. On long-duration flights, pilots have to rotate who is in the cockpit and who is in crew rest. They receive food and beverage service from flight attendants entering the cockpit. On very rare occasions, they are asked to enter the cabin and examine some part of the plane to determine if something is an emergency or not. Mantraps are perhaps a future requirement for cleansheet designs, but even that seems unlikely to me.
My understanding of the purported reasoning behind the reversal was:

- They required airlines to implement cameras to monitor the hall leading up to the cockpit so that the pilot in the cockpit can verify who is requesting entry (without this, they still must follow the rule — Ryanair chose not to retrofit, so they continue to use attendants who can look out the peephole).

- In testing, they decided that the extra time that the cockpit door was unsecured during the switchovers in tight spaces was more dangerous than trying to solve the suicidal pilot issue with better mental health monitoring.

(My own note, we know that suicidal actors have no problems taking weapons to their copilots or whatever attendant is stuck looking out the peephole, e.g. FedEx 705.)

I can't tell if this is droll sarcasm, but just in case not...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer

Re:What’s new in Swift 6.2 on Friday May 09, 2025 @05:12PM (#43940912)
The HTTPStatus enum example is a good one, but the backtick syntax is _rough_. I would only ever use the Type.case form in practice. The test stuff is basically a way to create BDD-style test names, which is kind of just a preference thing. I can’t envision myself using it for anything other than weird case names (I already use case `default` quite a lot because it’s such a useful word), but maybe some interesting DSLs can come out of it? I would not have prioritized that change personally.
> or for someone not at all knowledgeable who is looking for an overview before they plan to do deeper learning/studying through reading

Yep. This is what I have used them (sparingly) for — a scaffold to build the deeper learning onto. My brain struggles to retain information when it doesn’t have a high-level understanding of how/why a system works and how individual parts connect and interact, even if it is all eventually revealed later.

Re: on Sunday April 13, 2025 @11:25PM (#43677791)
It’s possible I’m missing visibility into some part of the industry, but I don’t think this has been true for quite some time. There are multiple providers of Ground Segment as a Service that satellite operators can buy radio time from across the globe that are in the billions of yearly revenue. Most satellites are transmitting to the nearest ground stations in one or more networks live and transported over IP unless that capability isn’t required.
Almost certainly blocked by NDA; that is her inviting Congress to issue a subpoena so she has legal cover.
Arianespace ≈ ULA, yes. Ariane 6 ≈ SLS, absolutely not. There is no official figure yet, but even the most pessimistic estimates place its per-launch cost at $150m (as opposed to $2b for SLS — with a hazy goal to eventually trim it to $500m). The rumors are that Ariane 6 is already well below $100m.
Re:US credit card defaults jump to highest level since 2010 on Monday December 30, 2024 @04:54PM (#42553985)
That is not an independent variable. For example, lenders could have decided that the market in 2023 was on the way up and not writing off as much debt would allow them to collect more delinquent accounts in the future. In 2024, they think that anyone who would have been able to pay them has done so, so they wrote off the defaults they postponed from 2023 and also increased the speed of their write offs because their predictions about the economy changed. While it tells you something, it’s certainly not an accurate measure of spending habits or ability to pay.
Re:M4 Macs can't virtualise older macOS on Saturday November 16, 2024 @04:25PM (#42159498)
They added custom instructions to Apple silicon to more easily emulate x86 behavior (e.g., https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/acc...). They may have now removed them because their analytics say that Rosetta2 use on new devices is minimal.

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