skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This specific conflict is involving Americans and the American arm of Spotify. Those unenumerated freedoms are supported by the laws of the country.

If you want to devolve into purely hypotheticals you’re going to find yourself on weak legs because the ultimate argument ends up being that “Joe Rogan speech is denying my freedom from hearing arguments I do not agree with.” These specific issues have been long settled by the rule of law. Being contrarian about this is neither productive or practical.

Where does my freedom end and yours begin? If I am infringing on what you feel is your freedom, where is that line? Do I get to play my loud music at 2AM when you have an early morning? Is it ok if you are sleeping in the next day so it doesn’t really matter that I’m keeping you up? When do these ultimate and unlimited unenumerated freedoms fall apart?

When they infringe on what society considers to be the normative freedoms we all get to enjoy.

Spotify gets to run their private business as they see fit because that is their freedom to do as long as they do not break a law or infringe upon your freedoms. Your perceived freedoms cannot infringe upon their freedoms.
In the interests of reaching a point of agreement, I concur that they could put, in or next to that initial wording, something like "early cancellation fees may apply".

But an annual plan really is that. They are telling you pretty clearly* what you're buying; the fact that there's a way to bail out half way for less is an advance on that position.

* though as I said in the other reply, "yearly" would be better
> It is, rather, that subjective experience exists (we know it exists because we have subjective experience, and whether the experience is of something invented and false does not change the fact that the experience exists).

What is in dispute here is what "subjective experience" means. If we both agree that "subjective experience" is a phenomenon that can in principle be captured by a third person objective description, then we can agree that it exists and that our observations are actually evidence of its existence.

But this is not what most people mean by this term, and it is that term that is a fiction on the eliminativist view.
The issue the Jalopnik article dances around is that this is how a large number of people think about L2 autonomous vehicles or “self-driving cars” - just sit down, tune out, enjoy the trip. This isn’t the fault of these people, nor is it Manjoo’s fault. It’s the fault of the automobile industry, who are pushing features that encourage users to pay less attention and be less alert. NTSB and other regulators are so far behind on this that these features have become endemic is new vehicles, and nothing short of a mass recall will reduce the risks of having them share the road with drivers who have two hands on the wheel and two eyes on the road.
If there was definitive proof that reality was indeed a simulation, and there was a creator of it, I don't think it would align with most of the world's religions.

So you would have believers and non-believers realizing what they believed in is wrong. I imagine the world would descend into chaos.
I don't get it. Maybe you're assuming things about me that don't make sense? laissez-faire capitalist is not me, at least (but I am a fish that swims in neoliberal infused water unfortunately - i.e. the culture in the western countries).
Maybe it was their marketing department screwing up with the wording.

I also torrent their shows, so...
Cool idea. I would suggest verifying the solution server side. It took me just a few minutes to figure out how to get the answer in the browser's console because the solution is given on the client side.
This can be done with existing search operators, e.g.

my keywords -site:excludefromresult.com
My pleasure!

I’ve tried both Pixelmator and Acorn on macOS and IMHO Acorn’s GUI is cleaner and more Mac-like. YMMV.
I was a victim once. That was when I removed every trace of Adobe from my life and ended my relationship with Adobe that spanned decades. On my way out, and to serve my nostalgic need, I bought the software from Serif's Affinity[1] - Publisher, Photo, Designer.

I really wanted to build up a workflow with Lightroom but that was cut short. For now, I'm good with MacOS Photos and some plugins such as Skylum's[2] Photo Editing Software.

1. https://affinity.serif.com/

2. https://skylum.com
Maybe there is more to find. History suggests otherwise though, so I'm not optimistic and continue default to non-existence, per Russel's teapot.
Vehicles are typically included as property under most trespass laws
That was an outlier, not the norm
Population is a factor. Canada has slightly less population than California. Australia has less than Texas.

As I understand it the US states also have more legal autonomy and thus a lot wider divergence in local laws and policies compared to the internal divisions of most other countries (but I’m not an expert on that).

But my point was mostly psychology… whether they ought to or not, most Americans think of the state they live in as an important distinction, while my experience is that in most other countries that isn’t seen as very important.
Sorry, you're right, yes.

> Technically, a problem is called PSPACE-complete if it is equal in computational power to a particular mathematical model of computation (called “polynomial-space-bounded Turing machines”).
Having it both ways is the definition of the last two years.

It's very clear where the bias lies. I am worried.
Subscription models are great for professionals (and companies), but amateurs, a single year of the Adobe Photoshop + Lightroom bundle is over 2x what a perpetual Affinity Photo license costs. (I just wish Serif came out with a photo management product, but in the meantime, it's not too bad to use digiKam for some management and `aws s3 sync` to back photos up in an s3 bucket.)

What's sad is that it was not easy to even see that there's still a Photoshop Elements product these days with a one time price, though I have no idea what the support is, and what upgrades cost. I had to search around to find it. It costs $99, though there's sales and bundles yada yada yada. The Adobe "comparison" page (which I still don't know how to navigate to) just seems like they want to funnel everyone into the subscription offering: https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/photography/photoshop-vs... It seems like Elements would be the "hobbyist" license, the subscription model would be the pro version, but it's very, very not clear.

The product that gets subscriptions right is Autodesk Fusion 360. There's a Personal Use tier that's free, which provides pretty much all the features you need for most hobbyist style 3D design and CNC usage. You need the serious features, you pay the expensive license, but, you're probably making money at this point, so it's a necessary tool. Fusion 360 changed it's licensing in 2020 which confused a lot of people, but really, they used to have a "startup license" or "personal use" license that was really vague, and I think was being taken advantage of by actual businesses. It's just simpler now, and I think it's more obvious.
safeclib looks awesome too. Thanks for the work!
Slightly out of context, the 1.4mm tps test was during an earlier iteration of the sharded architecture (coming in 2023) whereas Jepsen were testing the unsharded mainnet.
The White House explicitly called on Spotify to take further action against Rogan.

Have people not seen this? I don't understand all the meta conversation about free markets when this is cut and dry 1A violation.

https://news.yahoo.com/white-house-urges-spotify-further-202...
> Firefox isn't widely used anymore for mobile, especially with their recent user-hostile approaches of deprecating extension access, removing about:config, devs alledgedly flipping off users on twitter, and so forth.

I don't get this sentiment. I understand that people are upset at Mozilla, so am I. But why would you then decide to switch to a browser that makes the exact same mistakes without any extensions whatsoever?

That said, websites like Statcounter will always show a larger user base on Firefox because of anti tracking measures present and enabled by default in Firefox. It's definitely not what it used to be, but these statistics can't be relied upon ever since ad blocking first appeared on the internet.
I did it, don't do it.

I was a system administrator for 15 years, until the company outsourced the job.

I took a job making gears at 1/2 the pay, because I thought it would be interesting, rewarding, and my spouse made more than enough to pay the bills. Then she got sick, and had to quit. Then I got long covid.

Now I'm out of IT for far too long, and neither of us can work.

Don't give up a good income stream without considering that there is a fairly large chance that you might not be able to ever get it back.
I feel sorry for you, having paid so much for this software and it not living up to your expectations.
You're right and we don't even need VR for it, its easy to get engrossed in a videogame and project yourself into the game.
That is debatable. Many would argue that censorship "by definition" involves the government (not the case here), and not merely the removal of content by someone, but prohibition for everyone to distribute it (not the case here as far as I can tell).
I had thought about something similar, only with publishable subscriuptions so N people could share the same clipboard. Only I wanted the opposite: It would be ephemeral, only as long as you subscribed to the ‘feed’ would you see what was there, there would be no history, and pragmatically, no long term retention in the cloud…mostly as a cost savings measure.

I got so far as thinking you’d have two guids: One to subscribe to, and the other to revoke the feed.

It never got past the thought stage…and I made a logo and registered a URL that I’ve since let expire as the coding took longer than my attention span.
> With proper education and driver training

This will not happen in the US, and as a safety mechanism it ranks low on effectiveness.
"I personally don't know enough about mRNA to have a say, but what I can safely assume is that Malone knows more about mRNA than most people who are saying he is wrong."

Why can you safely assume that? Further, I'm less concerned about what 'most people' are saying about Malone, but more interested in what his equally credentialled peers are saying, which is that he's full of shit.
https://justpaste.it/7hnyq
I love living in a time moral absolutism and self righteousness. Nothing better than having conversations with people that have zero doubts about the correctness of every single one of their many, many ethical positions and that anyone who disagrees is evil.

Good times. If only I could have witnessed the Spanish Inquisition.
Do you think referring to Rutger's basketball players as "nappy headed-hoes" was in line?

It sounds like you barely have any idea of what Stern's controversy was about.
It depends: I think the advent of MP3 pushed the concept of psychoacoustics* into the spotlight and the smartphone "revolution" made it mainstream.

Therefore speakers just sound like they would sound good without being physically "better". But for example your average smartphone is just one update away from sounding like crap.
You're making it sound like Spotify is a neutral host of Rogan's IP. That's not the case at all. Spotify bought exclusive rights to Rogan's episodes and then gave him a massive deal to produce more under their banner. This is Spotify deciding to silence themselves.
This is why I use privacy or eno burner cards for all subscriptions. Simply turn off the cards when you are done, they also accept fake names and addresses so they can’t attempt to send you to collections.
Yeah, this to me looks more like "a lot of people disavow their past association with Rogan" than Spotify censoring anything.
Are there any bike organizations in the USA that lobby to improve bicycle infrastructure?
No, the term of the plan can be separate from the terms of payment.

Auto insurance is usually a 6-month plan you pay monthly. Some are easier to cancel/change mid-term than others.

Mortgage is an X-year plan you pay monthly.

Auto loan is an X-year plan you pay monthly.

This is fairly standard stuff.
I'd like it to cache the top stories, statically render them
server-side if they need javascript (looking at you, gitlab), and
serve them ad-filtered without geo-blocking or tor-blocking.
I got news for you. Biking in the rain sucks and there’s gonna be a lot more days of rain in Portland than days where it’s too hot to ride a bike.
> Yes, I agree with almost everything you said. However, the issue is that platforms are consolidated

There is no shortage of broadcast platforms. They are not consolidated. In the podcast space alone there are apple, Spotify, YouTube music, stitcher, and self-hosting. And then there are all the non-podcast broadcast modalities.
The situation is better but not perfect (i would argue switch has some major issues on that front mostly related to slow in game load times). Ps5 games in my experience are turn on console to in game in under a minute. The OS standby is much better and quick resume features in games are excellent (Online games aside)
Previously - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26786563
LCD: Least Common Denominator.

We're barely getting to the point where most people understand what you mean when you say "Copy and Paste that sentence" or "Right-click and select Save As".

Most popular software is going to be catering to the LCD for a long-time.
These four words are clear enough to be legally defensible, but they are the absolute minimum and they are designed to be the absolute minimum. They want to maximize conversion even if it traps people who didn't understand in good faith what they were buying.

It isn't hard to provide a complete explanation of what happens if you go past the trial period and want to cancel. All they have to say is, "if you don't cancel after the trial period, you are obligated to pay X over the next 12 months. Early cancellation is possible for a fee of half the remaining balance. For example, if you cancel immediately after the trial period your early cancellation fee will be X/2."

There's plenty of space to feature this explanation prominently. We all know why they don't. It's to trap people.

Many subscription plans work this way but it's no excuse. It's scumbag behavior. The fact that it's so common is just one of the many reasons why I believe the world is run by sociopaths.
Sure but in most cases you still need a second card for your VM and can't use the same as for your host.
Google was also using deceptive language (pay or lose access) to hold previous G Suite purchases hostage. Only after backlash did they add info to their FAQ and say that there would be some sort of purchase migration available.
Definitly. For me it was enough to see no obvious negative correlation(as was claimed) even though the data is not great and no analysis for other variables was done.

The best result of that discussion was finding the tool and presentation.
What are you talking about? X Windows has three¹: CLIPBOARD, PRIMARY, and SECONDARY.

https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.6/doc/xorg-docs/specs/ICCCM...

Note the copyright dates on that document.

¹ Actually, there are as many as you care to implement. These three are simply conventional; applications are free to use other names to identify other communication channels.
Wow, the code looks really clean.
Communications have context. To apply a word to Adobe (as a loose refernce to "Don't be evil.") and then say ISIS is evil, doesn't mean or even imply Adobe === ISIS.

Context, it matters.
Back in the early days they were really good, I remember phoning about some PostScript problems I was having and whoever I spoke to clearly knew it inside out. Now I can't even get a response about obvious bugs in their software.

It's not just Adobe though, this is an industry wide problem.
Many consumers are aware their information is being scooped up and sold to the highest bidder on Facebook and Google. If they are not, I support more thorough and approachable information disclosure mandates. Most consumers don't care or at least the benefits of Facebook outweigh the cost as far as they see it. That's a calculated market decision.

I, myself do not have a Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, WhateverZuckBuysNext account because Facebook is a bad company and I don't wish to give it a dollar. When WhatsApp decided to merge Facebook and WhatsApp user data, consumers reacted by switching to Signal, a more equitable competitor. Facebook then had to placate them, at least temporarily. This is how conscious consumption works and in a capitalist economy transactions and boycotts are one of the purist ways to show your approval or disapproval of a company's products, services and behavior. It punishes bad actors in their wallets and rewards good ones in theirs instead.

I am 100% in favor of mandated information disclosure laws. I think consumers cannot make a voluntary and informed market decision if they don't have adequate information. Things like nutritional values, ingredients lists, explicitly enumerated contracts, hazards, precautions, demarcated place of product origin, assembly and material origin etc. etc. These are the tools with which consumers can make market decisions.

We live in a society where this information disclosure is obviously inadequate but consumers are also part of the equation and should be more vigilant and aware of their part in this dance.

I don't think the only two options are between a heavily regulated corporate hegemony (with consumer safeguards) and pro-corporate monopolist authoritarianism. We can do better but people need to do better too.
This is really hilarious:

> When asked, RDX Works executives informed Jepsen that blockchain/DLT readers would normally understand present-tense English statements like these to be referring to potential future behavior, rather than the present.

> Jepsen is no stranger to ambitious claims, and aims to understand, analyze, and report on systems as they presently behave—in the context of their documentation, marketing, and community understanding. Jepsen encourages vendors and community members alike to take care with this sort of linguistic ambiguity.
the IDE I use (Qt Creator) has a past buffer history accessible with ctrl-shift-v, very useful
play musical instrument
A lone US hacker is claiming responsibility for crippling North Korea's internet
That can’t possibly be true. Facebook can’t be customer-obsessed in the same way Amazon is, because Facebook’s customers are advertisers. This puts Facebook’s product teams and engineers in a position where they often have to avoid doing what would be best for their users in order to satisfy the needs of advertisers.

Amazon is largely free of this kind of conflict: Customers and users are the same group of people.
Unbelievably, he actually does mean when his kids are 40!
Why is censorship a “left wing” thing? Right wing states have been banning books and movies for decades in the name of “thinking of the children”.

The cognitive dissonance is startling.
Most opponents to Peterson don't know the first thing about him. It's quite sad because they're the same types that think COVID misinformation is something to worry about.
I bought an item online. It was shipped, but never delivered to me and FedEx returned it to the merchant. The merchant does not reply to any communications. I had already asked Square for a refund before the package shipped (as it shipped 6 weeks late). It took Square three months to even respond to my chargeback request. They asked for copies of all communications and the shipping logs. I gave them everything. They said they could not do a chargeback since the package shows as "delivered" and their script does not allow them to deviate from this. We went back and forth because I thought they were confused about me receiving the package. They confirmed they were not confused and that they fully understood that the package had been delivered back to the merchant and was never delivered to me, but it was still technically "delivered" so it is not possible for them to do a chargeback.

After that all their support would tell me is that I need to call FedEx and trick them into changing the status on the package to "undelivered" and they would happily do a chargeback for me.

Once we had gone back and forth on this a few times they said they had decided it was better to just terminate my account.
There's not a limited number of slots for who gets to be called evil.

It's a threshold, not a competition. Sometimes the threshold changes, but crossing it is enough. No matter that other people might be even worse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDjkXjSVWIw "Jen Psaki urges Spotify to take further action on Joe Rogan: ‘More can be done’" the white house press secretary called for more action, well, and she got it.

And guess who, Russian government mouthpeace RT jumped right onto it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqx2BzSfdkI My guess is that they will be using this as a showcase and justification for their own shit at home.
Virtual cards are a must with all these nasty subscriptions
Yeah, I've done a lot with SDF, and I don't know what they mean. I guess SDFs and ordering are tengentially related..
> That goes down the road of saying that every circular path is an orbit.

That is a route I explicitly did not take, because arguments from dictionary definitions, if the issue is not specifically lexical, are usually just pedantic ways of avoiding the issue.

>...the dynamics are totally different.

It was a very important scientific discovery that they are, in fact, very similar, explicable from a small set of universal premises. This is a pattern that is observed widely throughout the sciences. A universe in which just the things you have mentioned were totally (or just largely) different would be a universe with entirely different physics than ours!

>...and/or a barycenter...

You seem to be inconsistent here, as, just before, you rejected the notion that the sun orbits around the milky way.

> I don't really consider that... I try to use "orbit" in relation to...

Claiming that it is wrong to use 'orbit' for the motion of the JWST around Earth's L2 on the grounds that this usage is not in your personal dictionary is not much of an argument - it is very similar to, but even weaker than, the sort of argument that you wrongly insinuated I was making! (And you cannot say I am doing the same, as I am defending the common usage among those who work with this issue - most specifically, those who are controlling the JWST.)

Even the metastability of the JWST orbit is not much of a basis for your position, given that the orbits of the planets in the solar system, and of satellites around the earth, are also ultimately unstable.
Less than one FTE per month?
surprised there isn't a ruby track
Let’s do literally evil next. That adjective doesn’t get nearly enough use.
I recently dealt with this. Right before my free trial expired, I went to cancel. A support rep offered another 3 months free. The first red flag was not receiving a log of our conversation. Three months go buy and sure enough, when I went to cancel, they told me I had already committed to a year. Incredible. After some persistence and vague legal threats I managed to receive a full cancelation and refund.
I thought he had been working for Gazprom basically since his chancellorship, as chief Putinversteher. It's funny to see Germans scramble for gas like it's 1960, we should be scrambling away from it in the 2020s. Putin really set himself up well with Nordstream and Schroeder. How much of a topic is this in German media?
Because bad publicity is not a buy-not buy choice, and the decision to take the episodes down wasn't because they didn't have enough audience to be profitable.