skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> calling the acceptance of trans people a sign of societal collapse

> tries every tactic in the book to discredit a group of people

At the risk of taking the bait: this is clear evidence you've never listened to the show. If you want to take issue with his specific opinions on trans women in fighting sports, or specific choices of guests, fair enough; but the "guilt by association" and "indictment by meme" is exactly why we all benefit from free and open discourse, including being tolerant and charitable to opposing views. Witness the "cancellations" of trans-ally voices like ContraPoints or Lindsay Ellis (the latter of whom was so traumatized that she quit YouTube permanently).

If you want to draw a line somewhere, and withdraw your participation by boycott, or even ostracize other participants, that's your right; but don't pretend you're not attempting to influence societal discourse, and prevent third-party conversations and associations.
Have you considered implementing parallel processing instead of the loop for your processing?
Would you have them eat cake too?
I wish companies would quit virtue-signalling about this stuff and say something actually profound for once. What would you do if you were subpoenaed to hand over someone's data in the country you operate out of?

Oh, right. You'd hand it over without a second thought.

One big yawn to this and all the other "privacy is a human right" companies that crumble as soon as some form of authority decides that their jurisdiction overrides your "human rights" or whatever. If you want people to believe this dreck, actions speak louder than 3-paragraph blog posts and a handful of random comments.
Evil is thrown around way to much. If you are going to use it for dishonest business practices what’s left for ISIS?
> One can create almost anything using computer programming.

First, there are many things you cannot do with computer programming at all. Second, even if you can, it isn't always the best tool for the job. That being said, computer programming is used a lot in certain art forms, like computer music, generative art, interactive installations, etc. Also, look up “creative coding“.
AFAIK it's 12 every month (I have hundreds by now) but I've never reached the limit. They're vendor-locked so you need one per vendor.
Not sure about the environment we are talking right now, but vim has 26 letter-,10 number- and 4 special-registers.

Oh, and ofc it can do a lot more with them than just using them as paste-buffers (use in macro, append-to-register, use in scripts, ...)
Just going off the list, it seems pretty likely that at least some of the guests requested Spotify to remove the episodes.
"Annual plan, billed monthly" is demonstrably not maximally misleading.

If it said "monthly subscription" without clearly identifying the annual commitment, that would be maximally misleading.

I will grant you that it could say "Yearly plan", not "Annual plan", and be less misleading; they do appear to use this alternative phrasing in A/B tests.

If anyone from Adobe is reading this thread: make that change.

(And sort out your Photography plan: make a slimmer version of Photoshop that really does have just the features photographers need, and offer a plan for that.)
Seems like a nice project would be to get every single episode, convert them all to text, and then scan the missing episodes to figure out why it was removed. I can guess for the Milo, Gavin, Alex Jones, and Molyneux episodes. That's a yikes
> I reject the idea that everyone should know from these words that they will be subject to an enormous early cancellation fee if they forget to cancel before the 7 day trial period is over.

I hear you, and I want to dig in on that a bit if you'll be kind enough to indulge me.

I'm currently helping a SaaS vendor define their pricing plan, so I'd like to know what you would like to see in order to feel comfortable with an annual, paid monthly plan. If you have any thoughts on the two questions I asked, I'd really appreciate the feedback!
Andrew writes [1]:

I have been reading Richard Fabian's book, Data-Oriented Design, and finally things started to "click" for me. I've had these ideas swirling around in my head for years, but only recently do I feel like I have an intuitive grasp on how modern CPUs work, especially with regards to L1 cache, and the relative latencies of uncached memory loads vs computations.

[1] https://ziglang.org/download/0.8.0/release-notes.html#Rework...
> Apple built the theme park, and now they want to dictate that the independently-operated hotdog vendor may only purchase buns from Apple, and they further dictate that if they use the buns (totally optional), then Apple is entitled to 27% of the total hotdog purchase price.

You basically just described McDonald's business model. And yes, that's fair. Because if you as a hotdog vendor want to sell in Apple's theme park, then you play by Apple theme park rules. You can sell your hotdogs on the street if you don't like Apple's terms. What's so hard to understand about that?
It can be both censorship and exercising intellectual property rights. Only buying something to burn it is obviously censorship. A legal monetary transaction can be a means to censorship
Yep. And in doing so, he ruined his rep and career because he didn't have the balls to go against "President" Cheney and the neocon hawks. Powell showed his true colors that he was an obeyer and purveyor of lies, neither a teller of truths nor a leader, and beat the drums to war at the UN based on "facts" like WMDs that didn't exist. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, it had everything to do with Cheney seizing a crisis to pocket money. W was a feckless, Idiocratic pot smoker riding daddy's coat tails.
I disagree. Anoyone that say any decision was only about one thing (in this case, money) doesn’t have a very nuanced view of the world.

It could be about fear (of being back at a place where he wanted food)
It could be about legacy (he wants to give the money to children, family, whatever)
It could be about money (I will have felt I’ve made it when I have a Yacht)…but he seems to be a smarter person than that.
It could be about not ever having to work doing anything he doesn’t want to ever again.
It could be about distributing is thoughts as far and wide as he can.

but just saying it was ‘ultimately a matter of money’ is a non-statement.
Thanks! One of the main benefits of this approach for me is that I can easily set up all the sample data programmatically in the database. It would be near impossible to manually set up all the data and charts by hand. And when it comes to updating the screenshots for new product releases, it would be very time consuming to redo all of this again.
> but Flatpak has a ton of people on here who hate it.

Not a Flatpak-related reply, but generally speaking: when it comes to tools for your work, don't listen to forums like this. Just use what you like and see how it works in the market. If Flatpak works for you, use it.

Otherwise you'll end up tied into obscure LISP dialects and other stuff that really doesn't work well in the real world.
IP and MAC are separate layers. So yes, ipv6 works fine over 802.11 as long as your router supports ipv6 (I think by now all home routers probably do)
Love that. I wonder how much money is flowing from consumers on forgotten subscriptions. My bank should have a separate highlighted section for any recurring charge.
on Reddit everybody can do everything, here people mostly can do one thing: code

so i was wondering what people of HN want to know how to do besides coding
> I don't really understand why anyone who claims to be a proponent of a free market economy has an issue with a private corporation deciding what type of content they want to broadcast.

Left-wing market anarchists (e.g. the C4SS) would respond that anything involving "intellectual property" is an inherently unfree market that unjustly upholds monopolies on artificially scarce immaterial goods through the threat of state violence.
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You're right. I am thinking about when the re-branded the "free as in beer" RedHat as "Fedora", with only a 6-month cycle.
Monthly subscription would simply be a legally indefensible lie.
Refractive index isn't a problem, but the problem is the index gradient over wavelengths(Abbe number). VR goggles and some digital cameras does software correction but that is unheard of, in, e.g. film photography.
It is reason that permits us to correct those errors, not phenomenal experience. Our perceptions and "experiences" deceive us all of the time, and through reason we have found many of those flaws. Consciousness is the final boss fight, and the battle has begun:

http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00...
Yeah between the “take whatever you want” and the sensory experience of seeing and touching and opening books of different sizes, textures, thickness, etc it’s mind blowing to try to replicate.

Just something as simple as having books shelved higher than you head and getting to use a stool to get up to them - that makes finding books so fun!

The more I think about it, the physical is just so important to the experience. I guess it’s for this same reason I hate ebook versions of picture books. The interaction just cannot match what you get to do with a real book.

Not to say this isn’t a worthy goal or interesting problem-every kid should have an awesome library nearby. Just wow, going in person is amazing.
Thanks for the link to the tough soles site.

As an avid hike, Ireland was not in my bucket list. will definitely add it to the list.
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hello everyone i am the developer of blurweb.app, after a year of being live and being used by more than 3000 people

I got many request of people interest to hide url while screen share so i build blurscreen.app

please check it out and let me know what you think
Publications from the lab: https://www.lewisneurolab.org/publications
> I don't really understand why anyone who claims to be a proponent of a free market economy has an issue with a private corporation deciding what type of content they want to broadcast.

I don't know if this is your opinion or not, but in general, this argument might hold more water if "activists" weren't gleefully trying to shut down relatively free-speech sites like Gab and Parler and others.

You can't have it both ways and claim that business can allow whatever content they want and then try and shut down businesses who do just that.
Not necessarily disagreeing with your sentiment but...

One can dispute and critique their own "team". As a matter of fact the inability to self critique is what lead us to this current state of unnecessary tribalism.

If I consider myself "left" I should still be able to criticize the "left". The problem is the mob cancels anyone critical so we're now eating ourselves alive and pushing away anyone that does not toe the party line verbatim. That's a great way to send teammates to another team.
Ossia Score 3
I wish the ground on the bike lanes was a different color. Color is a nice cue that you’re entering the bike lane when walking
Something like an electric Smart ForTwo or Japanese kei cars would suffice for a huge segment of the population.

There is some wiggle room between the “I must have two giant SUVs for my one kid family” crowd and the “all cars are evil, let’s ban cars and your 70yo grandmother can just take the bus or ride a bike” crowd.
I’ll admit to liking Django, but I don’t use it in every project. I don’t think Django has dominated the Python community to the extent to which rails has dominated the ruby community. For example Serverless applications, ML, the scientific community, and shell scripting all use Python without Django, and they’re pretty popular uses of the language. Also FastAPI appears to be doing pretty well
Anyone else confused by the end where it mentions SDFs,
says

> if you write JavaScript, I think you are already familiar with the idea:

then shows sorting an array with pairs of elements a and b in javascript and says

> And we are calling it “signed distance from b to a”.

what do SDFs have to do with sorting an array?
Airlines are granted licenses to use of public property (airport gates and airspace itself). Therefore their allowable actions should be limited to those in the public interest.
One of the more under-rated features, was that it could turn any site into an RSS feed. So if you had a niche site you enjoyed, but didn't have an rss feed, you could still plug it into Reader and get any new articles as if it had a built in rss feed
I figured for use on a phone, it would have to be finished into a proper OS, not just a kit. I'll have to wait for the video to see if that's true.
So... just an inexpensive lisp machine? That's actually really interesting.
I was a bit confused, as this is _not_ about Graphene OS - a privacy and security focused Android distro: https://grapheneos.org/
I did. I got a response very quickly. The response said absolutely nothing of value. It just said "We responded to your support request then terminated your account" but used 1000 words to say it.
Screw those guys.

At least for amateur/hobby work, I've used the following for years and love them. I also try to regularly donate to them.

Instead of Illustrator for drawing, use Inkscape https://inkscape.org/ and/or Krita https://krita.org/en/.

Instead of Lightroom for developing digital photos, use Darktable https://www.darktable.org/

Instead of Photoshop for touchups, use GIMP https://www.gimp.org/.

Instead of Acrobat Reader, use MuPDF (mobile) or Atril https://wiki.mate-desktop.org/mate-desktop/applications/atri... (Linux)
>I don't really understand why anyone who claims to be a proponent of a free market economy has an issue with a private corporation deciding what type of content they want to broadcast.

Not everyone who supports free markets is a market fundamentalist. It is not hard to understand that people may support free markets for most goods but oppose them for healthcare, education, senate seats and slaves. Do you really have a hard time understanding that?

>Exactly what he sold (NDA, limitations on his speech in his free time etc.) we'll probably never know, but whoever calls this "censorship" needs a reality check.

Censorship is the suppression of information. You may consider it good, you may consider it bad; it may be done by public institutions, it may be done by private institutions. NDAs are literally a form of censorship. I am not sure what you even mean by censorship if you think that isn't censorship.
> people who don’t watch Rogan and simply base their opinions on second-hand information

This theme stretches beyond Joe Rogan
I've been thinking it would be fun to make a self-hosted web clipboard that lets you paste text/files into a simple web page, and have them available on all your devices. Sort of like cl1p.net but e2ee and it would maintain history.

You wouldn't need an account because your password could be hashed to yield a unique URL.

Only reason I haven't hacked it together already is because I don't trust myself to get the crypto right yet.

Anyone aware of something like this already existing?
I share your frustration but it's unfair to look at it this way. If you attend some city planning meetings you'll see how entrenched and irrational the opposition is to any cycling infrastructure that could be perceived as affecting car traffic or parking. It's like pulling teeth, and I agree it's a tricky compromise, but we should consider any ground gained a success.
In pure HN comment degeneracy: they could then claim to be victim of a hash collision and you won't be able to prove it while maintaining privacy.

Also a hash doesn't provide privacy in itself. It just make enumerating people in the database more difficult.
Your subscription is churn. Every decision they make has net positive and negative effects in the numbers, but you saying ‘You promised my X but gave me Y’ is table stakes when dealing with subscription umbers as big as spotify has.

They probably did the calculus and determined they’d lose LESS people if they scrubbed the catalog than if they didn’t. It’s not a political statement to them.
Inbox by Gmail. Bundles were great. The ability to view just the pinned emails was very useful for prioritization. And you could enter your own reminders instead of sending an email to yourself. Some of the other features (like email snoozing) made it into the main Gmail product.

Also, I miss Windows Phone. I was really hoping that one of the alternative OSes that were floating around 2014 or so would make significant inroads into the US phone market. Windows Phone, Blackberry 10, Sailfish, Firefox OS, Tizen, Plasma Mobile. I got to try several of these! That was an interesting time.
A gradation of evil is still evil.
Thunderstorms and Margaritas
Haven't I been clear enough? If you're going to charge a giant early cancellation fee, that information should not be hidden behind a link and fine print. It should be explained on the payment page, briefly and in plain language.
> devs alledgedly flipping off users on twitter

What’s this a reference to?
My bad, I actually had the "production" trace command set to look for `XGetSelectionOwner`, but mis-pasted into my comment ;) Will that fare any better? It did make a few more PIDs/culprits end up in the trace output for me after all.

You are correct that "bringing your own function"/shared object will break that particular bpftrace script, but I would assume one could find a way to set up a probe in the X server, where all clients messing with clipboard state via some kind of IPC have to pass thru? (Again, I can only wildly speculate how X11 works under the hood - kinda shameful that I never bothered to look over all these years :-S )
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Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11.

If Team America World Police imperial global colonization authority with military bases all over the world like the friggin Roman Empire must right every regime, then it needs to invade Russia, North Korea, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Myanmar too.
Eventually managed to exfiltrate it. I didn't have another bank account outside of Square, so I had to go and open one and was eventually able to get the money out.

Funny though - I tried to transfer the funds to my other Square account and it said "We cannot transfer funds to Square because of their excessive fees." WTF.
So, if that's Apple fault on Android it must be really good, right? How is the Android side of things going?

BTW, there's this thing called MasterPass. It's MasterCard's payment system that applications can request you to authorise the use the cards in the MasterPass wallet.

It's quite good experience, they are also very aggressive to collect all your cards in there so if you don't already have a MasterPass there's a option(on by default) in the CC entering screen to add the current card in the MasterPass wallet. There's no explicit account creation step or anything like that, if you tick that option the next time you encounter a payment you will have a MasterPass(At least that's how I remember). I think they must be using some kind of keychain magic to make it possible because it's almost as frictionless as Apple's. You only enter the SMS code if you choose to give access to an app.

The only problem is, there's no easy way to manage your payments and cards in the MasterPass. The payments are credited to your cards so it's good as your bank UI. There's a website that claims to be an UI for MasterPass for managing your cards but it's not on the main mastercard.com domain, therefore I never tried to use it as I can't tell if it's a phishing attempt or a legit one. I guess if I call them they can tell me but I would have expected to see at least a link to that website from my bank website or mastercard website.
Sleeping while annoying or stimulating things are happening. Like sleeping on a windy beach or sleeping through an interesting movie.

I have friends who can do that, and it seems like they're always ready for the next adventure. It get the feeling this is related to the fact that they slept through the most recent thing we did that wasn't as adventure-ish.

I hope it's a talent or at least something that can be developed because I want to be able to do that someday...
It seems that the writer rejoices in the fact that uneducated morons spewing bullshit have a wider audience than professionals in their own fields.

He seems to fail to understand that this has happened before, and in retrospect, no one could argue that morons should be winning the battle.
Thank you so much, I was able to successfully cancel my plan for free!
https://www.reddit.com/r/btrfs/comments/sh0otq
Natron is a free and open source node-based conpositor for visual effects and motion graphics, similar in functionality to Adobe After Effects. It's available for Linux, macOS, Windows, and FreeBSD:

- Website: https://natrongithub.github.io

- Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/details/fr.natron.Natron

- Source: https://github.com/NatronGitHub/Natron
Used this for many years in the early 2000's for our company with 5 or so customer support agents. Worked great. It was Perl-based then and used a MySQL db to store everything. Never had any maintenance or scaling issues with it.

The only thing I ever did to it was to add a couple of lines of code to set a Cache header so that hitting the Back button was instantaneous rather than needing to regenerate the page from the db. It had lots of features we never used or needed, but the didn't get in the way either.

We assigned everyone "customer support" ID's, like cs1@xyz.com cs2@xyz.com etc and I would recommend doing that. We started out using our real email addresses, but with any business, there are always disgruntled customers, and the crappy ones can get very personal on the Internet when they get mad. Using generic CS IDs worked way better for us.

RT has both a web front end for customers or you can use an email-based approach to tickets. We ended up displaying our own web form to submit tickets so it looked like the rest of our site, then sent the form data to RT via email. From then on, the back-and-forth between customer and us was via email.

RT has nice features that we used a lot, for example:

- a general ticket queue where support agents can "take" tickets and assign themselves to it

- support staff can move a ticket to someone else or add someone to the ticket

- RT keeps a complete history of all tickets

- customers are auto-registered when a new email address is seen, ie, there is no big sign-up procedure
How does the Aktiia thing actually works?
By far the easiest way to quit : Close you credit card, and order a new...
Researchers failed in their duty to protect the life of their fluffy research subject.
ISIS' actions are far far worse, but most Daesh are motivated by the desperation of being a religious minority associated with a deposed dictator in a resource-constrained desert infected with religious fanaticism.

Daesh's actions require a more drastic response, but I'm more confident that the average Adobe CSR, rather than the average drafted Sunni kid from Al Qaim, is going to hell.
I remember seeing some of his earlier stuff before the modern info wars and its not exactly laid back but the production value was more of a radio show. Most people don't know but he played a raving conspiracist in A Scanner Darkly, but he basically became that charter on Info Wars. With some of the info from his ex-wife's interview, I think his public persona slowly started to take over his real identity as it grew.
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Change your card to a prepaid debit card with a few bucks on it. Don't update.