skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stop spreading lies, exact quote: "as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument"

Important part: "But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force"

And there was no mention that the group were violent, just that they refused to listen. He mentioned that the group might get violent in the future not that they are, so we must strike them down preemptively.
Anything by Rogue Amoeba. I'm not sure there's anything "clever" about the design they choose for their apps. They're nice to interact with, they do the obvious thing and they're well engineered (rarely crash, don't have memory leaks, etc).

https://rogueamoeba.com

Reeder 2. The one thing it had that other RSS apps didn't have is collapsable columns. Accounts was the leftmost column. When you selected an account, it would collapse to the width of a small icon. The next column is the RSS feeds, which would do the same after you selected a feed. This left only the list of news items and the viewer taking up most of the space. Screen real estate is less of an issue in this day and age of 4k screens, so they removed this particular feature, but I always appreciated it.

DaisyDisk. Again, nothing clever, just a beautiful interface that always works and always does what you expect it to. I wish it was a little faster, like WizTree, but that might have more to do with HFS+ than the app itself.

https://daisydiskapp.com

Quicksilver. It's mostly been replaced by Alfred at this point, but there were things you could do with Quicksilver that you can't do with Alfred, such as chaining files, actions and apps together on the fly. I think you can do something similar in Alfred with Workflows, but you have to set it up ahead of time. Quicksilver had a set of built in actions that would let you do a surprising number of things on the fly, like open an application in AppZapper.

https://qsapp.com

AppZapper. I don't know if this one qualifies as a "big name" or not, but it's always the first app I install on a new Mac.

https://www.appzapper.com
Well "otool -L iTunes" shows Carbon in there, and Catalina doesn't have Carbon.
One thing I always miss when I see statistics such as "Your fingers on QWERTY move 2.2x more than on Colemak," is an explanation of what activity you're presumably doing then. I'm guessing the assumption is that you're writing pages and pages of English text. As a programmer in a non English speaking country I have no idea how that translates to my use case. 50% of the stuff I write is code. Sure, there's a bunch of English words in there, but I seldom get further than three letters before I mash my Emacs binding for autocomplete. When I write text, it's often internal emails that may not be in English.

So, perhaps my fingers don't move 2.2x more when using QWERTY. Perhaps they move less?! Maybe unlikely, but I really have no idea.
curl follows redirects, `curl -O` is functionally identical to wget.

Unless I'm missing something in your statement.
I believe /u/gherkinnn has painted a picture that represents both of our desired futures.
Not OP but if you're on the edge, try reading the first few chapters of the ZeroMQ guide. It does not make a lot of assumptions about the reader's background in computing.
I haven't yet tried switching to Colemak or Dvorak, but when I started to get real bad RSI I switched to a split ergonomic keyboard and it made a world of difference. On top of that, it helped a lot to adjust the keymap so the keys I need most often are comfortably reachable.

YMMV, different people have different conditions, etc.
Actually sounds very similar to how the rocket equation works, too.
This looks really neat. Are you aware of any similar projects for the z-machine games, at all?

https://github.com/ktzar/scummatlas
As well you should: simo_dax described the z-transform / laplace transform, not the chirp Z transform.
Absolutely, they deny facts like natural climate oscillations, or that CO2 is actually a good thing for plants, and thus, for humans.
CoMI ranks very highly on my list. The voice acting and score alone are worth it, but despite the change in director it was still in line with the spirit of the thing. I’ve logged countless play-throughs.

Monkey island 4, though... i’ve only played that through twice.
What to Do When You Get Sherlocked by Apple
Telegram has many features way beyond everything you mentioned. Telegram comes out ahead if you’re talking about non privacy related end user features. Even with WhatsApp, WhatsApp is limited to one mobile device. It’s desktop interface is weaker than Telegram’s and is a web interface. Needs syncing with mobile sometimes. Telegram has other nice things like the quick video 1 min memos.

Signal is so much more inferior for the end user outside of privacy there’s no reason to discuss it.
It’s much worse if you can’t maintain your muscles, rather than just don’t. And older people have a lot of reasons that can happen (my dad degraded like this quickly from cancer we didn’t know about at the time).
Siggraph Asia 2019 will officially include the Demoscene Program this year
You didn't mention taxes. Doesn't Apple offshore their earnings as well?
I think running 5mph for 5 hours is a very ... achievable goal for the median person, but I don't think I would put money on the median person, or at least, American, completing that time without additional training from their current condition.

If you took a random sample of people -- or at least a random sample of people 18-50 with no outstanding health issues -- and put them on a "couch to marathon" 6 month training program, yeah, I think you could plausibly get a median finish of 5 hours (for comparison, the Boston marathon has a median finish time of a little under 4 hours).

I honestly wouldn't bet on the median person with no training getting off the couch and moving 26.2 miles in less than ~10 hours.
Which makes sense. cURL is a relatively “dumb” request tool.

Same goes for youtube-dl versus wget. The latter is a relatively “dumb” download tool.
Short direct intro, link to guide for language, here is a link to code examples. This is for me are the things I look for when reading about some new computer language release upon here or anywhere and this just wins upon that first impression. It's kinda like the early days of quality usenet posts nostalgia in the direct and to the point aspect, and I love that.
And I think you are missing the picture that the world is now a global place and you have to act accordingly. I was just in Costco yesterday looking to buy a new phone. The whole Apple removing supposed pro Hong Kong apps crossed my mind. I thought what other phones are there to buy. I the end I never made a decision. But honestly, and Android has it's own issues, but with an Android it is starting to feel like they have a bit more ownership of their devices since they can sideload. Yes I am all about security and get the walled garden approach but look what is happening in Hong Kong and Apples now removal of apps I question if I want to buy their phone. I am a no body, I buy an Apple phone every 4-5 years. I am on the fence here with Apple I get China is a hard market to enter and not upset anyone. So you are right, a company does not have to have morals just look at the phone companies who will charge you bogus fees any chance they get they don't give a shit and are not moral. But they have you buy the balls so people stay. I can choose from many many phone manufactures so Apple better try to please me too.
While I don’t doubt your assertion that a select few are responsible for the bulk of the push-back on such issues, I think it’s good to have some resistance. Humans are so prone to wishful thinking and following consensus, it can be healthy to keep the debate alive longer than one might think necessary. It helps one clarify your position to yourself, for one.
I doubt it. Finding life would be a real mindfuck for religious beliefs and has a real possibility of causing issues in society,
first app i install.

wonder if osx has added these features natively since i started using this app.
You're postulating that reality isn't multidimensional and or one reality is worth experiencing compared to another.
There is probably more middle ground. Many people read problematic, and just hear counter-revolutionary.

If we agree on reducing carbon emissions, and using policy tools to do it, there are a lot of solutions that don't require trusting that a carbon tax will be used for anything but general revenue.

Without limits on what the money is used for, it's the same as a progressive VAT/consumption tax, which isn't a necessarily terrible idea if it replaced the current VATs, income and other burdens, but when it's just another largess fund for connected believers, it's a nonconstructive shibboleth for an identity politics agenda.

Someone wrote here the other day on Scissor ideas that some differences of opinion can only be reconciled through power, and it's a seductive idea, but we all know what the alternative to discourse looks like, so I think it's more valuable to support ideas that contribute to preserving it as the means for reconciliation.
How many people are actually in prison for refusing to pay taxes? How does this compare to the number of people who have suffered some penalty for refusing to pay taxes? What should be done about people who Bartleby the Scrivener their way out of a legal obligation?
It seems like the rule changes boil down to three points:

* Use gender neutral pronouns in most prose

* When directly addressing a user, use their pronouns, as configured on the user profile

* Specifying your own identity is optional, intentionally ignoring the identity specified by others is not

On the one hand, SE can be esoteric enough as it is, more rules will make for less ease of use.
I absolutely think that there should be some level of natural resistance to all new (and existing) barriers to entry.

On the other hand, this new rule isn't particularly difficult to understand (imo) and aligns fairly well with current best practices.
I feel that it's particularly disingenuous to foist this issue as the straw that will break the camel's back, given how thoroughly declawed this rule is. Most infractions won't even constitute an official warning (though I am certain there are people who will test this rule to the limits, which will certainly be interesting to watch unfold).
A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store
You were the one that said it would be a disaster... I'm just telling you what I saw on TV.
I personally find this idea pretty weak.

The main problem I have with it is that these taboos are enforced precisely by the members of the group that would be the "weak" group now. As the most recent and obvious example, the #metoo movement has thrived with the fundamental support of powerful white men. The taboos of religion are, or were, not imposed by a powerful group of priests to a subjugated population, but instead they were enforced collectively.

There is a taste, a natural instinct, for just conforming with mainstream opinions, not out of fear but with sincere conviction, sometimes beyond any logic and reason. Once some ideas get enough traction, and non conformity is met with enough execration, then people just tend to join in with real devotion.
of course Apple is not what it used to be and this is just marketing talk but just look at the "here's to the crazy ones Apple comercial": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjgtLSHhTPg

Can any entity glorify civil disobedience historical figures and bend to the wills of a country known for gross human rights violations? Of course it can but it shouldn't.
Scrivener is fantastic - used it throughout my doctoral studies
I think that the main advantage of using Colemak over QWERTY is to reduce pain and effort.
“how do i sideload my own extensions onto my web browser” is a really weird sentence to say out loud.
I think that sounds a bit naive. A shareholder is typically the one that has economic benefit from the company performing well. You usually become a shareholder because you'd like to increase your economic wealth, otherwise you'd chose a different structure. Usually you have for-profit companies looking out for themselves, and non-profits aiming for a bigger mission that goes beyond profit.

Also, unsure of how it works in the US, but usually shareholders are not bound by any ethics as far as I know. Sure, if they would be unethical, people may boycott the company and it would do less profit. But I don't think there are laws saying a shareholder/company needs to be ethical. It's just good business currently to be ethical.
Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? [video]
It's an older rule[1]. It does technically apply here, but it's not a great look that they're only enforcing it now.

If Gorhill needed to, some of that extra functionality could be moved out into a separate extension. uBlock has done this before with uBlock Origin Extra[2]. Most of the extra features (eg. remote font blocking) aren't a huge deal, in my opinion.

[1] https://blog.chromium.org/2013/12/keeping-chrome-extensions-...

[2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin-extr...
You don't have to install this. I was not aware until fairly recently. The pre-installed Dictionary app is awesome and very handy for all types of research (not just word lookup).
Of course it has relevance to the former. Today’s science is highly politicized, and driven by ideology rather than objective observation. What else can be expected in a government-grant-driven system.
> curl follows redirects, `curl -O` is functionally identical to wget.

No it's not :)

You need to `curl -LO`. See for example github releases:

curl -LO https://github.com/S2-/gitlit/releases/download/v1.4.1/gitlit-1.4.1.tar.gz

downloads the tar.gz, while

curl -O https://github.com/S2-/gitlit/releases/download/v1.4.1/gitlit-1.4.1.tar.gz

will download an html file.

Even better would be to use `curl -LOJ`, so if the filename is not in the url, but in the `Content-Disposition filename` http response header, curl would get the filename from there.
Sequel Pro is the best desktop app I have used to manage MySQL databases by far. I haven't had a Mac in years and haven't found anything near as good on Windows or Linux.
I really have problems following through this complex discussion. But if pronouns are such an issue, this proves that too many discussions on StackExchange are about people and not about technical issues.

They should focus again on technical issues and also find ways to reward questions and answers about really specific issues. It could be observation bias but it seems that questions/answers on very generic topics get most upvotes, although these things can usually also be found on other websites easily and with more detail.
I don't have the source on hand, but there was an interview with the person who designed the unusual reverse-V shaped pacer formation, where he said that if it was up to him there wouldn't be a car in front of the runners. The goal is to have as much air as possible hit the front pacers.
I dont think you realize how much money is in political ads.
Pixelmator! Wouldn't say it's not well known though.
Activists’ phones targeted by one of the world’s most advanced spyware apps
Maybe you were just passing the tourists.
No, he has a point. "Accepted speech in tech/ academia" is supposed (in pg's theory) to be enforced by a group that has recently become more powerful than the previous power holders. But if you look at tech, or academia, or politics, or economy, they're still overwhelmingly dominated by white males. Which falsifies pg's theory.
A 13-minute mile would be a very fast walk, or more likely a gentle jog.
I'll add an answer of my own, to move things along a bit:

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If you have an offline collection of Music and Movies, Meta is a wonderful way to edit the metadata on your collection. You can edit cover art, change the artist/composer/genre/etc information, and use all that metadata to generate new file names. They also make it really easy to batch process a ton of files, with a text pattern-matching system that's more normal-person-friendly than regex (although regex is also available).

Because I'm very picky about these things, I prefer a slightly older release, 1.8.3, which you can download by playing around with URLs. The newest version isn't bad, but they've succumbed a bit to feature creep.

https://www.nightbirdsevolve.com/meta/

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Fission is a fairly simple program for editing audio files: split them, join them, etc. Critically, it performs these operations losslessly, even for lossy formats like MP3's. (As an aside, I wish I had something like this video; I currently rely on ffmpeg with -codec copy.)

My one nitpicky complaint with this one is it kind of takes over your default media file associations. I had to edit the app's info.plist to fix it. I suspect a lot of this is due to Apple bugs.

https://rogueamoeba.com/fission/
Intaglio: A vector drawing program, designed in the tradition of classics like MacDraw. It even supports importing old MacDraw, AppleWorks, and ClarisWorks drawing files. But that doesn't mean it's not an up-to-date application, with support for modern Mac features like CoreImage, Automator, native tabbed windows, 64-bit, retina displays, etc.

http://www.purgatorydesign.com/Intaglio/index.html
iPhones aren't being made worse globally to cater to Chinese government demands. Entertainment, arguably, is.
No one should have trouble believing that Republicans may be more pro-nuclear - even if you're pro-nuclear and take the most cynical possible view of the GOP, it's a way to produce energy and make money, why wouldn't they be? The anti-nuclear push comes from (yes, overblown) environmental concerns, and those rarely bother the GOP.

But your post above very much makes it sound like the GOP is actively trying to fight climate change through nuclear power, and those darn Dems just won't let them. But since attaining power in 2016 the GOP environmental position looks to have mostly been gutting the EPA, rolling back regulations, and braying about bringing back coal ("clean air" indeed!). From here it looks like the GOP is just utterly indifferent towards climate change or the environment and extremely pro-fossil fuel; any interest in nuclear they might have doesn't appear to have much to do at all with it being a path towards clean energy.
Hello,

do you think you could find time make a table of content ? I like .txt files but a language spec is just a tad too long.

Or maybe for the lispers around have a short summary of what was inspiring you to make bel after arc ? what were your ideas, problems (beside making programs more expressive shorter).

Thanks
What happens when you re-upload a YouTube video 1000 times?
I really like this one. I'm going to put it in my wish list.

One great bit of UI on that web site: When you hover over the "Buy" button, it shows you the price. Too many web sites hide the price of software.

Very often I want to know how much something costs before I look at its features, so as I'm learning what it does I can better understand if it's a good value.
Can you please share your keymap customizations?
Whatever. The iPad is still a toy when your ide fails.
Solution: Firefox.
GitX does not pass the native sniff test (were native means Cocoa)
Espresso — rarely updated but beautifully designed HTML/CSS IDE

TablePlus — elegant database app

Antetype — my all-time favorite app. The only UI design app I’ve ever encountered that is built from the ground up for UI design rather than being a torturously adapted drawing app.
How is flooding a consensus forming process with information that is known to be false possibly helpful with improving the accuracy of the process?
Thailand No. It's mostly Vietnam -- and India possibly in near future. Sure, the wage is much lower in Vietnam, but the downside was that the country was known for low-cost textile and toys production until Samsung came along. There was literally no infrastructure for electronics production to speak of in those days and the company not only had to work with the gov't to build it from scratch, but also had to convince 200+ suppliers and contractors to move along with them.
Gangs Control Bilibid Prison in Manila with the Blessing of Leila De Lima
Fair point. There are two genders, and you were either born (male or female) or (with a medical condition).
Roger Ebert was an excellent film critic, but that mean he could make/write a good movie (see Beyond the Valley of the Dolls).

We all have different talents.
Scrapple is $18. Hooray for sanely-priced indie Mac software!

It even has an .edu license for $14.40.
I recently switched to Safari on Mac. Safari has a native content blocking mechanism (on Mac and iPhone) which works quite well without giving the extension open access to the page content. It works simply by a JSON file that describes the blocking rules, and doesn't require running any third-party code on the web page.

So far, I've not missed any features of Chrome except opening accidentally closed tab again. You might want to change few settings though: "show full urls" and "show favicons".

Apple Pay also works remarkably well, just click "Pay with Apple", and the authentication request pops up on your iPhone, requesting Touch ID / Face ID.

I've not seen anyone implement the new "Sign in with Apple", which automatically generates burner email addresses, but that's another reason to switch to Safari.

Also, one feature which I like is the automatic generation of strong passwords.
It used to work great on iOS until Apple crippled it.
The Internet Archive's Whole Earth Collection
Link to full video in case you didn’t watch it live (in which case, what’s wrong with you?):

https://youtu.be/k-XgKRJUEgQ

This is an extraordinary achievement. It was just last September that Kipchoge set the W.R. time of 2:01:39[1]. It’s only a matter of time (no pun intended) till sub-2 is broken in competition. Probably at Berlin. Just knowing it’s possible is a huge barrier to break through.

I’ve run over two dozen marathons and it took me more than a decade of running (I started running in my 30s) before I was able to qualify for Boston. But once I did so, I was able to easily do so many times thereafter. Much of that was finally getting into proper physical conditioning, but knowing something is possible cannot be discounted. (My next goal is sub-3.)

Kipchoge’s next goal is surely a second Olympic marathon gold at Tokyo 2020. At that point he’ll be 35. He’ll have a few more years of prime marathon running after that at best, so I’m not sure he can run a sub-2 in competition but only he knows how much is in him. He’s the most accomplished marathoner of our time, but still, in 2013 the W.R. was lowered at Berlin by Kipsang. We’ll see.

1. https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a23279362/eliud-kipchoge-m...
Folks forget about Dune 1 too.

In 1992, it was one of the first "modern" 4X games (SimCity 1989, Civilization 1991). Even given shorter game development timelines, it deserves more credit than it gets.
Agreed. Their fanaticism makes it hard to view some of these zealots with any credence.

At one point, it was common for exasperated speakers to claim “there’s no point discussing it further; the science is settled”. Which is about the least scientific thing that could ever be said.
See also the web based https://devdocs.io
Postico (PostgreSQL client)

https://eggerapps.at/postico/
The author posts his link at the bottom, I am sure he would appreciate your point, as he may include an addendum. Contact him!
I use it too and save often folks, it crashes frequently.

Still a much, much, much better interface than postman/insomnia.
I don't know what really happened but assuming he just refused then I assume that will in the future more been like a teacher who refused to stop calling his black students negroes than an example of PC hysteria.

But who knows