skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
damn some of the newly removed i never would have guessed would get removed based on the guest
They can send it to collections all they want, but ultimately if the debt isn't valid as per the law then you're all good. If the merchant is using bad-faith tactics to trick you into a contract (or outright lies as in my case) it is very unlikely to fly in court.
Scrolling through names on this site is confusing me. Why is the singer of Tool having his interview removed?
But I am your future generation, probably: I m 33, so a millenial. I'm starting to feel the same way about my own future generation.

I think it evolves with age and you exaggerate the old time. How many people finish high school in your country, how significantly has this changed ?

In mine,France, it's a bit better, but most people still stop abstract study around 14 and start practical and will never produce a refined thought or have a noble hobby in their life and that's fine. That's always been so and there has always been noble grumpies to somberly bemoan the vapid frivolities of the next generation - but they compare perhaps their fancy upbringing to a base mass that never changed in the first place.

Look take an exemple: I'm the first of all my ancestors to speak and write English, that's a generational progress in a huge sample of my age group they would never judge us on positively.
I'm running uBlock Origin and Firefox's "advanced tracking protection", and it loads OK for me.
Pixelmator Photo on iOS is also the mutt's nuts; I have been cynical about Pixelmator on the Mac until recently but Photo really makes the point that they intend to compete.

Stay away from the Skylum stuff, IMO; it's usually half-baked and instead of evolving the product they have a habit of abandoning it and launching some new product, which is maddening.

Affinity Photo is very very good too (bit confusing on the iPad).
Ask HN: Why do we push people into STEM?
YouTube, Reddit, everywhere i see constant non-stop STEM-career propaganda

why does everyone NEED to learn how to code and pass tech interviews?
Have you tried the Affinity suite? They even have an Indesign alternative (Publisher) and at reasonable prices. Sometimes they even go sale. Free updates too. Of course if you need EVERY feature of CS nothing else will do but there's some good stuff out there that's significantly more affordable.
This exception having generated significant interest on HN, proves the rule, so to speak: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29037860
Consenting to an immoral deal doesn’t make it moral.

As for whether or not reducing the availability of information is immoral, that obviously depends on what the information in question is. I’m unfamiliar with Joe Rogan’s work so I have no opinion on this particular case.

Edit: Based on the replies I wasn’t sufficiently clear. I don’t believe the Rogan deal is immoral because I have no belief about it’s morality or lack thereof at all. If you insist on a moral judgment that I feel ill-informed to make, then I’ll speculate that the deal probably was moral.
If you want to work on overloaded networks like these, there's a lot of stuff you can do, but these are the basics:

0) be able to work offline; try to connect in the background to send and retrieve (but be reasonable so you don't eat the battery)

1) plan for DNS failure; keep last successful DNS response around for later, and have a pool of fallback IPs when you don't have a working response

2) make sure encryption session resumption works (TLS or otherwise), as this lets you send data with one round trip

3) send important data first; usually that's messages, not telemetry and crash reports

4) Make sure to do as good as you can with MTU problems. It's 2022, but pathMTU is still an issue. iOS is (or was) actually really good at shifting to smaller packets and sending smaller MSS in future SYNs; at least last I looked, Android doesn't do anything useful. Server side, there's ways to do better if you're dedicated, but at least making sure icmp need fragmentation packets get processed is the baseline.
Agreed, but the reference he makes to the symmetric interaction calculus blog post seems to at least have basis in sound logic/semantic principles. I haven’t read the whole post, but I am at least willing to give it a chance.
Ask HN: What talent do you wish you had?
i wish i could draw
Also if you weren't expecting it, awesome plot twist.

That later scene "...they're alive..." gave me chills.

Clever little end note on the recording.

Fantastic film.
I think Linux dynamic user probes would lend themselves quite well for something like this. Fooling around with bpftrace for a few minutes yielded this one-liner, which catches all the conscious X11 selection accesses (and a few unconscious ones, too :)) I provoked on my desktop during a few minutes of testing:

sudo bpftrace -e 'uprobe:/usr/lib/libX11.so:XGetSelectionOwner{time("%H:%M:%S ");printf("%-6d\n", pid);}'

I am not familiar with Xlib/X11 at all, so I am not sure which library functions one would be most interested in to explore this much further.

Edit: Replaced `XSetSelectionOwner` with `XGetSelectionOwner` in bpftrace invocation.
You can replace Adobe Photoshop with Affinity Photo or Gimp. You can replace Adobe Illustrator with Affinity Design or Inkscape. But what do you replace Adobe After Effects with?
> People said I did the impossible, but that's wrong: I merely did something so boring that nobody else had been willing to do it.
What a staggering battery of distortions. Company credit card? You're just assuming that everyone doing this is spending someone else's money?

Everything you've written functions to blame the victim and leave Adobe harmless here.
I am curious if photoshop is better installed from the App Store instead of through creative cloud so all the extra apps aren’t added. Core sync drives me mad.
Ask HN: Banned from adsense for simply logging in to another account
I had a google adsense account that was producing a nice amount of income for years. I logged in to another google account that didn't have an adsense account and suddenly I got an email that my adsense account was flagged as a duplicate and I was banned. I tried their "appeal" but of course some robot made a decision to keep the ban. Looking for some help -- any help at all, to try and get my adsense account back. My email address is in my profile. I'm hoping some benevolent googler can help out.
For all the talk he gives, it was ultimately a matter of money for him. I respect JR for being genuinely curious about vast number of topics and asking right questions, but he of all people should have known that limiting access to his podcasts will hurt his reputation.
I don't think we even know that it's $100 million. It's a multi-year deal up to that much, according to the Wall Street Journal's anonymous source.
Building binary trees from inorder-depth lists
Not plain Wireguard, but I've set up Tailscale with a proxy container + their MagicDNS pointed towards the kube-dns pod (running on GKE Autopilot).

It works like a dream and was dirt simple to set up, but would probably require some additional work once you go beyond one cluster (which I think is true for cross-cluster service discovery regardless in Kubernetes).
I can’t see Adobe going to those lengths because they’d know there is a good change they would lose any class action lawsuit that would come about. Which would not just cost them in damages but also in bad publicity plus likely get them ordered to remove the dark patterns too (thus removing any future revenue this dark otters generates).

I’m not as clued up on consumer laws as I once was but I’m pretty sure in Europe their sign up page is actually illegal. Not just immoral but literally classed as false advertising or something similar. And even if that’s not the case, we do have protections against being tricked into signing an unclear contract and this would easily fall into that category.
You need a new credit card company.
Go work for FAANG.
This isn't just Adobe. Unity3d does this too. While I like the Unity product, I was trialing others too (Unreal) and didn't realize I was being locked into an annual contract. They don't even have an early cancellation fee; you are on the hook for the entire year, no way around it. Be careful.
I would like to see a section where a list of Moderated/Dead/Flagged posts and comments can be seen and commented on. I think this would serve as a sort of "checks and balances" on censorship to provide one central place to see what exactly is removed and hidden from the main view and allow some interesting discussions to continue. This feature would also allow people to know what kind of spam topics are being pushed here by fake accounts: if you saw a lot of posts that are promoting some bad actor social media site for example, you might know to be more wary about posts discussing it in the future. Anybody who didn't want to view this section could easily not click on it.
> It's absolutely insane that you think Adobe has fulfilled their obligations to communicate to the customer what they're getting into by putting "annual plan paid monthly" in a drop-down next to a button.

"Annual plan, paid monthly" seems pretty clear to me too, so help me approach this with a new perspective.

Is there a SaaS provider using the "annual plan, paid monthly" who does this "right"? Are you against this pricing model in general?
I'm surprised gyms don't do it... It is my understanding that credit reference agencies pay money for this kind of information, and pay even more if they get to guarantee that the same debts won't be reflected on competing credit reporting mechanisms.
In the event that an airline-shared no-fly list takes hold: In a free market, anyone is free to start an alternative airline that ignores the shared no-fly list. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to think about how that airline's average passenger will behave. You could call it ParlerAir.
Citing sources would be a nice plus, but I think it still suffers from the issue that primary research always has caveats and limitations. And you need a certain amount of domain knowledge to know how strong the conclusions are.

I've come to believe that "critical thinking" is often a matter of knowing which expert to trust. And sometimes, knowing who to trust is difficult.
Spam blacklisting is out of control
> My point is that he can do that, and he'd lose most of his reach.

But he already had massive reach, that’s why Spotify paid $100 million. If his fans can be relied upon to sign up for Spotify and enter their credit card details you can bet they can be relied upon to click a link on a web page.

I know it’s a weak analogy but look at something like Wordle. It’s not on Steam, or in the App Store. It’s just a web page and it spread like wildfire despite what users are supposedly “trained” to do. We’re not giving people enough credit.
Perhaps you can support both free markets and absolutely free speech. Something that free market players should strive towards.

Then again supporting free market leads to many other unethical things than censorship. Like slavery, why shouldn't you be able to sell some person or yourself to slavery? That is entirely in accord of free markets.
So stop dialling out to these few places? Otherwise it's a cost of doing business if you insist on keeping at it knowing full well what happens.
That's exactly what made Krita so good. Every once in a while they'd shut a bunch of the developers in a room with a bunch of artists/users, have the users complain about everything that pisses them off, and get all those things fixed. The resulting application is obviously driven by what artists enjoy, and it feels that way. Strongly recommended.
> Or - hypothetically - if the US intelligence is only 80% reliable - isn't it still worth signalling to their Russian counterparts that "we see you, don't try it" ? That might be the real intended audience.

They've got phones and meetings for that. it's 2023, everyone is fully aware what, where and how things are happening. What they do is bargain on who gets what, all things considered.
It's as if the designers just went with the very first idea they had, without any reflection on its pros and cons. How does this kind of thing happen? How did they not do even the smallest bit of research into all the possible options and successful examples that are out there? It's so frustrating how short-sighted and incompetent these efforts tend to be.
No one cares about projects. Just grind.
It's almost as if censorship has downsides.

To the OP: you can rest assured that I watch most episodes with actual scientists and scholars, even the controversial scholars that sometimes spew nonsense. At no point did anyone deny that COVID was real, or deny that it was a serious problem.

At best, you can say they disagreed with the mainstream on how exactly severe it would be, who was most at risk from this danger, and how exactly to handle those risks. You know, entirely reasonable conversations that literally everyone around the country was having at the time, and probably still are having around the dining table.
> because they didn't know about them

I want to agree with this, but can't in strict terms. "Annual plan, paid monthly" item description next to the price is hard to defend as something unreadable. Maybe it's just me, but anytime I see "annual plan", I know I'm signing up for a year, and that commitment pretty much always comes with advantages (less total price) and disadvantages (cancellation fees) compared to shorter commitments.

It's hard to deny the pileup of dark patterns in this and many other subscription services is disgusting and I wish the legal precedent was clear that customer clarity and control always trumps service clauses. Over a decade ago I established as a rule for myself that anything "free" that requires me to enter my credit card is in fact not free. Anytime I consider sidestepping the rule, I know I have to be REALLY sure and read everything. Yep, "limited trial with pre-accepted subscription but hey you can cancel anytime!" which is common in mobile, is always a no no from me.
The protocol actually allows for applications to request the clipboard data to be delivered to someone else's window. I haven't tried it, but I think it would work.
That's the problem. Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and After Effects have almost no competition and they know it.

Even if there were, companies can't just jump to different tools because they would lose ability to open all their past work files. The migration will be slow.
They've managed to anger both the Branch Covidians and the regular people who were against censorship.
> We also spent a bunch of time on the phone with TWC directly, and they had no account in our name or any history of our account

Best part of this story
I don't think you're reading the question correctly: an 'art' can be any kind of creative activity, so obviously, programming is an art independently of whether anybody ever makes 'art' with it.
They tricked me. Now I will bend over backwards to never buy anything from them again.
I work for a company that's related to politics and we use DW and the maps are so good for us. It's also great for non-tech savvy people; everybody at the company can use it, which frees up tech staff's time for other stuff.
This is an amazing rationalization that doesn’t seem to answer the question of why private companies are being unethical if they exercise their freedom to choose what they publish. Nor have you established that choice in the private commercial publishing industry amounts to “silencing”. There is a reason that freedom of speech laws in the US do not apply to commercial speech.

> The deaths are just abstract deaths.

False. At least 5.7 million actual people have died from Covid. Probably many more. Your counter is abstract and somewhat straw man, while the pandemic is a fairly specific and real public health crisis that more or less all public health experts agree requires active management.
I got caught out by Grammerly in a similar way into signing up for 12 months. Any good will I had towards the product is now in the gutter.
That stops the money being automatically taken, but you'd still be legally responsible to pay the contract, no?

Reneging seems like a great way to get yourself sued for the balance, possibly the costs of recovery and even having your credit score ruined in the fight.
Thank you.

To be fair, most of us were students 15-20 years ago and have even grown a few grey hairs...
Then what watches the clipboard watcher ?
Yeah, that's a good point. I think of the app as the "base layer" for implementing any kind of governance, on top of which you can implement any kind of democracy/bureaucracy you want.

In terms of voting, I'd imagine the ideal democracy to be representative - but actually so. Citizen load needs to be light. So you can imagine delegating your vote to a friend, or an interest group (if a community opts into this feature). We create virtual levels of representation (ie, neighborhood level representatives who you trust, etc), and at the very top is the "real" Allogov representative, which sits in Congress and enacts all the decisions.

Ultimately, the goal is to have predefined governance, so you can start a new city, install Allogov, and get functioning government (the app will tell you what all the roles are, what they do, and so forth). Good government is a mix between bureaucracy and democracy, after all..

We can't solve misinformation, but we can counter it with more effective civics -- and that starts with people having a more direct connection to government, and a tangible, clear process of change. Putting politics online, and designing thoughtful spaces for that, might be helpful!

I hope that money will not influence Allogov, but will have to think of a way to minimize that.
It _is_ a major part of the arts. Arguably a majority of art is created through products of computer programming. Not to mention the many genres of art that are explicitly programmatic (demoscene, generative, interactive, etc).
Very first screenshot says "Starting At"

The point where you enter your email states "Annual Plan Paid Monthly", and "Cancel before 26th Feb for a full refund"

Maybe I'm just cynical, but I would expect if I were to sign up I would be on the hook for a full year unless I cancel before 26th Feb.
Very spot on. Separately Idk why people don’t use 3rd party podcast apps, much better support than Spotify imo.
Ask HN: If you came with a user's manual, what would be in it?
(October 2019)
Their "free" plan says you can

> Create up to 12 cards per month

Does that mean you can create 12 in January, 12 more in February, etc? Or is it capped at 12 total?
Meta adds 'personal boundary' tool after virtual world harassment
I would be interested to hear an expert opinion about whether such arrangement falls under 'unfair contract terms' descibed by the Office of Fair Trading: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

Not sure if such regulation exists in the US, if so it would be worth to probe into it.
The budget of the film Cuties was under $1M, maybe a small bit more with Netflix's marketing involvement after the initial release (Netflix bought the rights to a worldwide release outside of France). Spotify just directly wiped tens of millions of dollars off their service and likely suffered more long-term lost subscriptions since people have already switched to YT Music or Apple Music; anyone that dropped Netflix had probably resubscribed by the time Squid Game was released.
> the amount of time they’ve dedicated into challenging me

They likely haven't used much time at all. Big companies get thousands of chargebacks, and can gather evidence all automatically in a matter of seconds. It'll all be templated documents anyway.
Last year I was traveling and needed a cheap pair of headphones (that I didn't care what happened to), so I grabbed a ~$18 pair of Koss UR20s. I was quite surprised at their decent quality & sound given the price, as my expectations couldn't have been lower. I'll probably get many years of use out of them given how they're holding up.
Perhaps someone can create an IPv4 ETF. :)
I can assure you that in my case it is.

Chrome/Android does not support browser extensions. It is a platform used by billions of people.

I suspect a few may share my response to animations.
> Oddly this seems to be only in the UK version

Considering this behavior is likely illegal in the UK (where consumer cooling-off periods are 14 days or 30 days), I'd find that peculiar.
From what I could gather, this whole 'cancel jre' movement is fueled by his covid stance, which many consider contrary to current medical recommendations. Judging from the fact that democrats are more vaccinated [0] I'm making the assumption that they would be more likely to have a problem with his views, meaning his audience is less likely to be mostly bipartisan, reducing the diversity and increasing polarization. What can we call a diverse audience and does Joe have it? Only Joe and spotify know, but my point is it's trending downwards.

[0] https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/poll-finding/kff-co...
VictorTaelin here. It won't show a speedup because you already optimized it to a low level algorithm manually! The point of that benchmark is to stress-test the cost of overwhelming abstraction. What is really notable is that addition by repeated increment on HVM performs as well as addition with a carry bit. The former is an elegant one-liner, the later is a 8-cases error prone recursive definition. The point is to show how you can often write highly abstract, elegant mathematical definitions, and it will perform as well as a manually crafted version, and that is very cool.
Nice try, Apple.
People (hobbyist astronomers) make their own lenses (well, mirrors) starting from glass blanks and tediously grinding and polishing them to precise shapes. However, it's quite challenging and time consuming and you'd only do it if you absolutely needed a mirror of a specific geometry. And it's quite hard to reach the levels of accuracy that a routine mirror or lens making operation can.
Ask HN: It is 2022. Why do we only have one paste buffer?
I don’t think their agreement with the CC network lets them come after users for chargebacks the bank has approved. In a chargeback situation, the bank has to agree that the charge was unreasonable.
I had similar encounters with a shitty ISP where their salesperson signed me up on a yearly contract despite explaining very clearly that not only did I only want a 30-day rolling contract but that the reason I'm doing so is because of a temporary issue with the new ISP. Even if they somehow misheard the "30-day rolling" part, a yearly contract just wouldn't make sense given my planned use-case. I can only assume that the idiot simply wanted some commission and I guess they don't give any for monthly rolling contracts.

When it was time to cancel I learnt that I was actually on a yearly contract - this was a month later so past the cancellation period. The support advisor claimed that I not only received an email but actually opened it, at which point I knew they sent it to the wrong address or were outright lying as my email client never loads remote resources, making it impossible for them to see that I "opened" it. He also refused an IMO reasonable demand of reviewing the call recording (it was just a month ago so they should still have it) to determine who was in the right.

In the end, I simply blocked further payments. When collections reached out, I explained the story above and they went away immediately. Collections ended up having significantly better user experience than the original company.
Out of two parties I do believe he's conservative leaning, yes.
> You're just assuming that everyone doing this is spending someone else's money?

To be fair, you're also assuming that starving artists are paying for Photoshop. A quick "Adobe" search on your BitTorrent tracker of choice may change your mind.
Does anyone have a link to the study?