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Re:Playa Phone on Monday August 31, 2026 @01:00PM (#49512031)
NYC has something just like this - https://www.link.nyc/home.html
Re:Cartoon Network Flash Games on Friday May 08, 2026 @02:50PM (#48067168)
I loved that Dragonball Z game so much. Would love to play it again to see if it’s anything like I remember!
Re:Google Flow Music on Friday April 24, 2026 @10:45PM (#47898166)
There are things to hate about AI besides the slop it outputs. To name a few: - The training set being mostly art made be real humans without their consent or compensation - The work that is taken away from skilled, talented musicians - The environmental impact of global AI deployments - The further consolidation of power in the hands of the very few who DO have a motive

AI being "fun" for kids who aren't able to grasp the negative externalities of using AI doesn't make it something to admire

Re:Meta to cut 10% of jobs, or 8k employees on Friday April 24, 2026 @12:01PM (#47892046)
Sure but these are low-risk bets for him personally. When they don't work out 8,000 folks pay the price and he is still one of the richest people on the planet who will never have to worry about money, food, housing, or healthcare.
Re:How Netflix Uses Java on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @12:33PM (#39526844)
At Netflix scale, there most certainly is a service discovery registry where each service registers itself. The registry can be used for other services to find out how to reach each service, what regions those services are deployed in, how many instances of each service there are, what operations that service supports, etc.

https://devopscube.com/service-discovery-explained/

The author addresses that comment in an edit - seems like the commenter stretched the truth a bit. Manually cross-posting shouldn't be a suspendable/bannable offense
Re:Ask HN: How do you test SQL? on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @06:08PM (#34603682)
I've used this same approach as well. Testcontainers is a nice way to help with this!

https://www.testcontainers.org/

Re:Podman Desktop: A Free OSS Alternative to Docker Desktop on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @05:36PM (#33539064)
Biggest benefit is that it's open source and free - for business use Docker Desktop is a paid service
Re:Dark Sky iOS app will no longer work from Dec 31 on Monday September 12, 2022 @06:37PM (#32818106)
Most of the functionality is coming in iOS 16: https://www.macrumors.com/2022/06/08/ios-16-weather-app-upda...
Hmm not sure what you mean. The hashes are shipped with iOS, and then (if parental controls are enabled) compared with the hashes computed against the unencrypted data on-device, and displays a warning to the user and their parents.

I'm not sure how the image is displayed on the parents' device - it could be sent from the child's device, or the image used to compute the hash that the child's image matched could be displayed.

The hashes are computed from images that live in iCloud - how is this different?
No, they will host the hashes computed from those images.
I don't think so either - but the ones that are being punished aren't in that position because they're happy with or believe in department policies.
Seems counter-productive. "Hey you're clearly miserable and not doing your job properly, so we're gonna make sure that you spend more time on the job being miserable while doing it improperly".
Re:How to Become a Data Engineer in 2021 on Monday January 11, 2021 @10:34AM (#25730246)
This is an anecdote - plenty of firms are using Scala in their data engineering stacks and it's a great tool for the job.

While maybe not strictly necessary per se, it's a great way to get a foot in the door, and provides a great way to foster advanced type systems and functional programming (I personally find it to be a really fun language to write in to boot).

Re:Alphabet announces Q3 2020 earnings on Thursday October 29, 2020 @04:59PM (#24935797)
I'm in New Jersey which is pretty consistently and firmly blue. Hammered with ads from both sides.
Re:Alphabet announces Q3 2020 earnings on Thursday October 29, 2020 @04:43PM (#24935550)
My youtube experience has consisted of about 50% political ads for a while now - would be interesting to see some insights into their total share of the pie.
I'm hoping that this is a server-side bug and not by-design. I would be extremely disappointed to see a widely-used enterprise product by a company with such stature to be designed with such little forethought.
Re:Face ID and Touch ID for the Web on Monday October 19, 2020 @04:24PM (#24830572)
This wouldn't just require them to have your face and fingerprint though - This would require them to

1. Have access to your phone

2. Be able to spoof the phone's authentication mechanisms (whether that be fingerprint / face)

In this regard, it passes the 2FA test (something that you own, and something that you are).

While it's true that you can't really change your face or fingerprint, this facilitates moving away from the "password repeated across multiple accounts" landscape of insecurity.

How is this different from them calling up a known associate and asking them for my location?

Until there is real privacy enforcement here, and it's clear that location data is owned by the person being tracked and not some third party that happens to have their hands on it, I don't see this pattern going away.

Re:Face ID and Touch ID for the Web on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @04:08PM (#23633238)
Re:Introduction to Apache Airflow on Friday May 29, 2020 @11:30AM (#23351129)
Been using airflow in Production at a small start-up for almost 4 years now and been very happy with it (small dockerized deployment, and simple syncing with github) - what big company problems does it solve that make it unsuitable for use at small companies?
I picked up Unravel 2 and have been playing it with my non-gamer girlfriend - she's had no problem picking it up and it's quite fun and challenging for both of us, both from a technical perspective (Most puzzles only require precise inputs from one player) and a mind-twister perspective. I believe it is only two player co-op, though, so if you've got more than one kid to entertain then this one might not be for you.
Re:Firefox 74 on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @08:14PM (#22541520)
While this is true, it is obvious how the other names he listed would benefit from such tracking. It is not clear to me why Apple would do this, as it runs opposite of their product marketing, and their business model does not obviously benefit from tracking the way the others do.
My knee-jerk reaction was to see it as that, and usually that's the side I take, but the poster really isn't suggesting that learning these things are necessarily bad.

That's probably how most people will take it though, unfortunately.

While I agree that having Discord should be innocuous, a parent who has no idea what Discord is should know that it could be used to talk to (potentially dangerous) strangers online.

A simple "Hey (son/daughter), the police told me that if anybody on Discord tells you to download LOIC, then you're probably in with the wrong crowd" is what I would hope would come of this (along with the typical internet stranger danger shpiel).

I also am scared of the worst case scenario you present, but this brochure doesn't seem like that to me.

This is what the cynic in me is worried about. As somebody who grew up with parents who had no idea what I was doing on the computer (no fault of their own, they just didn't have access to the tools I did growing up), I can see them being worried. Providing advice and materials is exactly what I would hope the police would provide to them (which is in-line with what this brochure says).

I acknowledge that this brochure _might_ represent fear-mongering, but based on what's actually written in the brochure, it doesn't sound like the police are looking to put kids on a list.

I know this is the internet echo chamber, but the police in my community, and everywhere I have lived, provide a lot of outreach opportunities to under-educated and under-privileged (east coast, USA, for reference).
I didn't read that it was suggesting these things are wrong, but that the police (who I would and it seems here that they are) are educated on the topic, and can provide advice and materials to potentially prevent wrongdoing here.
Don't really see the problem with this - the optimist in me believes that this can be helpful for parents who might be in over their heads. The leaflet isn't necessarily asking for vigilance to put kids on watch lists, just to give parents and kids some information on what is/not wrong to do.

"let us know so we can give advice and engage them into positive diversions"

Sounds like police actually trying to have a positive impact here.

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