skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you should in fact be allowed to physically throw someone out of your house/business that refuses to leave, without having to wait for the police. Avoiding this is easy, just get up and go.
Speaking of dark patterns, has anyone noticed the DoorDash app sets the tip for you automatically and places the “place order” button above the tip form, which you must scroll to to make visible? there is no way to adjust a tip without calling customer support.

This is such an obviously blatant deception. Off screen form fields _below_ a submit button? It’s insulting. I’m surprised I haven’t heard more complaining about this.
OT rant:

> Ooh, I can scroll. That was not obvious at all.

It is if you use a proper browser+OS combo. Why some designers thought it was a good idea to hide the scroll bar in their OS (which some browsers adopt to) is beyond me.

It's also an annoyance as a user with a browser that display scrollbars. The amount of random scrollbars appearing because the devs never tested anything but Mac+Chrome is staggering.
Qubes distinguishes local and global clipboards for exactly this reason.
Rdiff-backup is reverse differential backup
If anyone here is a ham (DE K2KD), you may appreciate that when I first got into amateur radio in the early 90s, a restored Heathkit SB-200 linear amp was like the gold mine of gold mines. It cost about $500 (+ tubes) and would get your “standard” HF rig from 100 watts up to 1200+ watts, which was life-changing.

It was about half the cost of modern amps at the time, and I always loved that a solid piece of 1960s engineering remained a staple on the desks of even the most techno-centric hams.
Writing a Mac application in GTK is, again, not conducive to the goal of learning to program a new platform. Wrappers such as GTK around native objC, Cocoa, and Swift are a distraction from the main purpose of learning those things.
True (although electronics are getting harder as manufacturers increasingly use cloud services which can brick a stolen device) but I think the bigger point is just that most crime happens relatively locally — nobody bikes 20 miles to steal an XBox. I think you’re right that the value density is going down, too - nobody is breaking in to steal CDs and DVDs any more.
These are rabbits. They live very harsh life. They don't live long. They can, they are biologically capable of living many years, but they are prey for nearly everything. They also breed like rabbits. If they didn't all get mostly eaten every year we would be knee-deep in them very quickly. Tracking tech might harm a few of these animals and possibly shorten their already short lives, but the insights learned by this may protect their population for many decades.

As a practical matter, I imagine that white collar is less dangerous than the coloured tags which totally defeat their winter camo. (This is Canada, so colour is the correct spelling!) They would probably rather the collar than those tags be so easily seen by predators.
Can you change lid behaviour of M1 MacBook Pros?
I missed the session on Genode on the Pinephone.

I've been wanting a capability based OS for a decade now. I was hoping to catch a glimpse of the genode command line, and how powerboxes work. I've tried Genode in a VM, but there doesn't seem to be a command line anywhere, it's all parts, and no actual OS.
In 2009 the TARP program was the US Government buying shares of high-finance companies that were about to go bankrupt --- using taxpayer dollars. So now the American taxpayers own Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, and AIG? No, it didn't really work out that way, did it.

Also, the number of people who were paying a $300,000 mortgage for a house that was only worth $180,000 was incredibly high.

Hope somebody can come up with a list of ways that a dramatic crypto crash will cause harm to US taxpayers --- again.
I wouldn't commute by bike over the Filbert Street Steps, that's true. But I don't think the hilly argument against cycle infrastructure is a great one. E-bikes, in particular, pretty much nullify the issue, and efficient cycle routes probably wouldn't traverse hills in many cities, anyway. SF is an extreme example, but in most places roads tend follow the terrain rather than try to conquer it.
Context for the level of accuracy. Quoting from the article:

To work together as a single mirror, the telescope’s 18 primary mirror segments need to match each other to a fraction of a wavelength of light – approximately 50 nanometers. To put this in perspective, if the Webb primary mirror were the size of the United States, each segment would be the size of Texas, and the team would need to line the height of those Texas-sized segments up with each other to an accuracy of about 1.5 inches.
They should have to provide a justification for why they are removing them. Many of those episodes are with some of my favorite comics such as Bill Burr. Why did they remove them?
My wife and I have been taking Argentine Tango lessons for about a year now. It took me a long time to understand the mysticism around the "big 4" orchestras but I can say that now I understand and appreciate your comment.
My experience with Cygwin back in college (~2008) was that it was obtuse and hard to understand. Granted, I didn't have the knowledge of *nix CLI I have now.

But looking back and comparing it to Git Bash experience of today, with a simple installer to run, Git Bash wins in convenience. It does suck in other areas though such as trying to start a Python interpreter session (I fallback to PowerShell for that)

Cygwin has probably grown a lot better since but I don't see a reason to try it, personally.
Well, Apple gave them ideas, didn't it ?
How do these contracts hold up to charge backs through the credit card company?
Ah I hadn't known about these, while I assumed there were probably some international treaties or standards orgs, this helps me better understand the current state, thank you.

I guess I often feel pessimistic on how we govern global interactions, through the UN, treaties, and/or associations. Maybe it's my Americna background shining thru, something just seems so distant about it and voluntary. The new accords you sent don't have the backing of many of the major nations and maybe there's just a part of me yearning for a more powerful and representative org to stitch together the nation-states of the world, just as the US Constitution more strongly knitted together the American states into a federal government.

But maybe it's not necessary. I just worry about what happens when conflict happens and there's no (powerful) overarching org to help resolve it, seems we may just resort to war or other forms of inter-national violence.
Personally I would spend $15k (ignoring the temporarily inflated prices of the used car market) on something like an old but gently-used Camry (say, 50k miles). If you can by as a cyclist, it means you probably don’t need to go far—10k mi/yr seems generous. Camries can get 300k miles pretty easily if they’re properly cared for, so you can probably get 25 years of service out of that car. $15k/25 years is $600/year. 10k miles at 30mpg (this is what my old Camry got) and $3/gallon is $1k/yr in gas. Insurance is probably $800/yr. Maintenance is probably ~$500/yr (this includes the occasional insurance deductible). So far we’re at about $240/month. Parking is going to vary widely depending on where you live—most places it’s free but in cities it can be expensive.

The price of electricity is a quarter that of gasoline per mile (fuel being the largest expense), so I think this number will be a lot lower as EVs become more prominent.

To be clear, I’m not arguing about your choice to cycle versus drive, I’m just running the figures for the low end of driving as I see them.

> I actually get away without almost any of these. … YMMV of course

Agreed. This will vary a lot from person to person.
Can't people contact their credit card provider to inform it as fraudulent charge?
Boulder, CO has a setup like this. There’s even markers on the ground for pedestrians to keep right
I’m not against density, density does bring benefits that I prefer, just not affordability. Just that if SF was even more dense than it was now, it would still be NYC expensive, hardly affordable. Affordability isn’t a problem you can build your way out of, not in any context I’ve seen (Tokyo being a sole exception, we just have to have a falling birth rate and block off immigration for it to work).

If SF had 10x the people, it’s density would be on par with Shanghai. If only Shanghai real estate were as cheap as SF’s, then we could make a valid comparison.
Of course Ukraine has a military.
Wow, and I thought Ryanair was a masterclass in dark patterns.

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“By clicking here you agree to our terms”.
Yes you can, this is how most genomes are sequenced these days. You break the DNA up into a lot of smaller segments that are sequenced in parallel, you then combine them into the larger unified sequence.

https://www.genome.gov/genetics-glossary/Shotgun-Sequencing

You cannot unfortunately do this for dinosaur DNA. The longest human chromosome has 250M basepairs.

With a half life of ~500 years it only takes about 14K years for the chromosome to break down into individual nucleotides. 2^(14000/500) is roughly 170M
On my browser (Firefox 96), the paste command seems to just return false and do nothing.
It's not a terrible assumption to make. We just need to assume[1] that the decay events are independent, that is, every bond flips a coin every 500 years and if it comes up heads, it breaks, independent of what the other bonds do. That is, the process is inherently "local", individual bonds having no way of knowing what the other bonds are doing.

[1] It may be a bit worse in the long run, since if many bonds break, the higher order DNA structure gets damaged and that may change the rate of decay experienced by individual bonds (?).
If i am remembering correctly, there was a company that was using videos of lava lamps for encryption or as passwords or some such. The claim was that it is un crackable because truly random. I wonder if this can be used to emulate the physical process and break that encryption.
pretty sure this is illegal in EU/Germany

gotta show the investors that revenue growth thou!
> People are not making any significant arguments that the law is illegal or unconstitutional. Laws aren't unconstitutional just because you don't like them.

Don’t be silly. The bill only passed committee last week. Arguments over constitutionality will come in due course.

> These types of laws are attempting to be passed in lots of countries. So no, all of these laws everywhere,

No they aren’t.

> that lots of countries are trying to pass, are not all illegal.

That remains to be seen.

> that make life harder for smaller developers
Nobody is making the Apple App store illegal. Those developers can continue to use that, if they prefer it. It is just other companies can choose something else if they want.

This simply isn’t true.

If a developer has to negotiate with a multitude of different stores, each with different rules, their life will be harder.

Given that the alternative is to lose access to customers, it’s the small developers who will be harmed most by this.

These bills are supported by giant corporations who want to run their own stores. It’s just about them taking a cut, and has nothing to do with consumers or small developers.
If you go fast enough, accelerating and decelerating at 1 g, you can travel a million light years in a perceived time of about 27 years.
I think this article was mostly a summary of the engineer’s personal blog post: http://amosdudley.com/weblog/SLO-Camera - linked from the post with example photos in another comment.
I think he probably means middle childhood ages not "middle aged" in the normal sense of the phrase.
"He’s about as right as most media organizations."

Is this true? Do you have any analysis to back this up, or is it just something you made up because it makes you feel good?
Apropos of nothing, GIMP is pretty darn good, no charge, no subscription. Ditto Darktable, Inkscape et. al.
So are you saying that you’re against exclusive licenses, even in theory? Say Spotify had signed the same deal with Joe Rogan but not removed any episodes from their own service — still bad?
The Stacks Project, a new model for organizing and visualizing mathematics
The latest news suggests he used the n-word repeatedly in earlier episodes. I wonder is Spotify if removing episodes for that reason?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-60270467

Edit: the downvotes are interesting…
Cannot echo this at all. I use native binaries like pandoc or chocolatey from cygwin all the time. The only issue may be with stdout and file paths.

There is still msys, if you want more windows. I think git bash mostly is only a packaged msys distribution, isn't it??
Me over here just happily running my super old but still viable copy of CS6... :|
> find it hard to believe because up to this point you've made zero effort to offer any proof of that apart from 'trust me bro'.

You and I both have no accurate metrics on his audience demographic. We are not privvy to it. However I can infer from the size and the fact it is inter-nation that the idea that only people that fit inline with the "US Conservative" viewpoint cannot be correct. Which was the original claim I was responding to. I am not asking you to "trust me bro". I am asking you to use some good judgement.

As for Joe Rogan being conservative leaning is that is a nonsense. He is in support of socialised of healthcare, legalisation of cannabis and other viewpoints that many conservatives in the US are deeply opposed to. If you need any evidence of this watch his interview with Steven Crowder. They were at compete loggerheads about it. I was quite shocked at the time as the interview become extremely combative.

> I'm skeptic that Joe has a diverse audience because to have that you need to make an effort, and from what podcasts I've listened of his he became much less accepting of other viewpoints over time, on some topics like covid especially.

What Joe believe and his audience believes maybe different things. You are making the mistake that many people make of assuming that because somebody watches or supports somebody that they fall inline with the views of the host. Nothing could be further from the truth.

What Joe Rogan brings to the table is long form discussions with a guests that are generally aren't combative. The listeners can make up their own minds. This idea that people are too stupid to make up their own minds has is the bigotry of low expectations.

> This could easily lead towards radicalization of his audience, but you just dismiss this possibility. He should really follow his old advice and go to woods and do some ayahuasca, his third eye is fully closed at this point.

The radicalisation accusations comes from older news media which he is in direct competition to. I can dismiss it on those grounds alone. Joe Rogan is only guilty of having conversations that are deemed to be verboten in the current political climate. What is deemed to be verboten and what isn't is subject to political expediency.
Pressure groups often represent customers. If a political pressure group can't dangle a boycott, they don't have much practical pressure to apply.

In this case, Spotify is staring down the barrel of a well-organized boycott from both customers and content providers who may (or may not) sign contracts to let Spotify use their music, podcasts, etc.
This test really pissed off NASA, who at the same time was just beginning human spaceflights. They had just finished studying the harmful effects of the Van Allen belts, compensated for the exposure in their mission, and then a surprise new radiation belt in the lower regions shows up.
I fell for this. When I called adobe to complain the service rep said, in a manner not much polite than this, that "I don't believe you that you didn't know you were signing up for a year".

Looking back, I now see where I agreed, but the manner in which they attempt to deceive you is criminal.
> Cygwin has a more complex setup and not great compatibility with windows executables, IIRC.

And that's how/why MSYS2 is a nice alternative to Cygwin, especially its environments that use UCRT instead of MSVCRT when considering "compatibility" from the perspective of building and shipping software that doesn't require the user to first install a special environment/runtime. UCRT ships by default on Windows 10.
This is, because computer programming is lacking the immediate, emotional triggers that are hardcoded into our human ROMs (aka DNA) and that strongly react to music, colors, visual experience or the satisfaction of needs like food and sex.

I am a computer programmer and I am emotionally reacting to some code that I get to see, but this is a very intellectual and weak emotion compared to the ones mentioned above.

I really spent endless hours thinking about, if computer programming could ever be executed on a stage and attract many people. Found nothing yet. I believe, maybe, computer programming can only be used indirectly, by producing music and other art that triggers emotions on many people, but not by itself.

This theory of course is based on my personal assumption, that arts are defined by their ability of triggering strong emotions on the art consumer.
> Is it not obvious that this would have been bad?

But what you're describing isn't some historical hypothetical nor is the current situation some brand-new phenomenon; it's literally how "content" has worked for more or less the entirety of human history. There in fact was no easily available gay content in the 1950s because society and culture demanded it not be available in the relatively small number of places available at the time where content could be consumed. Not only was gay content censored in the 1950s, but it was censored far more effectively than anything today since people had much more limited ways of obtaining content. Forget having to find a less popular podcast platform, if you were shut out of the handful of TV networks, radio stations, and newspapers, basically the only way you could have a voice is handing out leaflets on a street corner.

If the concern is that people be able to express unpopular ideas to a wide audience, we are in a far, far better place than we were at any point in history. Sure, there aren't unlimited platforms that allow you to easily reach millions and millions of people, but a few decades ago even wildly popular content would struggle to find that kind of audience and most things that were even mildly alternative would struggle to reach an audience at all.

I think the reason some people interpret the current state of affairs as some horrific free speech backsliding, even though all available evidence suggests people in general have more of a voice than ever, is that the voices that attract negative attention now are different. Historically it was usually content that was too "liberal" (for lack of a better word) that was censored, as with your gay content example. Now though, viewpoints associated with the more conservative[1] parts of society are suddenly facing unpopularity and it feels like a new thing simply because it involves people who aren't used to being on the receiving end of that kind of soft-censorship or whatever you want to call it.

My intent is not to take a specific position on whether such soft-censorship is good or bad, but if we're going to productively discuss the topic it seems like treating it as a brand new phenomenon is unlikely to get us to a useful place. In particular because in misdiagnosing the problem, we end up going down a path that's less about free expression and more about conservative ideas being entitled to a platform.

[1] Since I'm sure someone will object to this characterization, I realize Joe Rogan is generally not considered a conservative. However the views he's expressed that have caused the current Spotify trouble are definitely associated with conservatives in America.
This isn't a solution and doesn't excuse Adobe's shitty behavior, but I use privacy.com which gives you single-purpose cards. That way, I can just pause the card and subsequent charges will fail. Then let them try to get their money.

Pull-based payments are such a bad idea, implemented even worse. Privacy.com at least gives you per-merchant controls and limits, even though this really should have been a Visa default.
I've been working at detangling myself from the Adobe lineup of products. I really like (or liked) Adobe AfterEffects, it's been very helpful for me in compositing trailers for my computer game business, but it's totally been replaced by the free version of Davinci Resolve. Which I've also found is an excellent replacement for Adobe Audition, which I was using for editing the Voice Over and raw Sound Effects for, again, my video games.

But I can't see myself escaping from Photoshop anytime in the next couple of years. I have a lot of special export scripts in 'Adobescript' (yuck) that carve up my high res art assets, slice them this way and that, crop, hide/display different groups and export in particular ways. Nothing unusual, it's just a lot of grunt work, but I have it set up so that clicking a button in Photoshop will just Do It All and have it work. It'll take some time to set that all up again in a Photoshop alternative.

The nasty payments stuff detailed in the twitter thread is just the usual Adobe nastiness, some product manager somewhere is trying to juice the numbers.

My own billing experience with Adobe recently was needing to change my account's country from UK to Canada, as I've moved, and the VAT number and sales tax stuff is of course all different. The poor support person I spoke to couldn't fix it for me, they had to have a backend engineer manually change alter a field in a database somewhere - it all sounds like a terrible mess.
The billing page does say "annual plan, paid monthly" but it is a bit non obvious at first glance. Oddly this seems to be only in the UK version, the US version has a much clearer pricing layout.
Can confirm. Am SWE/writer/screenwriter/actor/director.
git bash is great.

with WSL2 I can use git directly, so I uninstalled git-bash and all those msys/cygwin/mingw, things changed, embrace WSL2, move on.
If the business model would be somehow changed to non-ad based, then there might motivation for the change.
>You're forgetting Craig Federighi!

I am not. He replaced Bertrand Serlet in 2011. But if you look at Steve's close circle, He simply wasn't there. Arguably speaking he is Tim Cook's man. Not Steve Jobs.
It would not qualify as a fraudulent charge.
In Russia they used to justify their brand of censorship with the argument that "that's what they are doing in the US too"; often these claims are exaggerated and not strictly true, but now you have given them yet another argument for strengthening their Russian brand of authoritarianism. Sad story that there seems to be some kind of convergence between the east and the west; it seems like the shit is flowing both ways :-(
They do die horrible deaths. Half the Heathkit stuff I have picked up over the years has been utterly irrecoverably buggered by the moron who assembled it to start with or someone who modified it later.

Amateur radio kit is the worst variety.