skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see the de-platforming and censoring of comedians specifically as being extremely concerning. Comedians in theory should not be a threat to anyone. To me this is the canary in the coalmine. What this tells me is that we as a society can't handle criticisms any longer.

The comedians are extremely important to our society, because they have a way of saying things that need to be said that others are often afraid to. In fact when something is funny, its because our minds weren't able to predict the outcome. This is what worries me most, because we are seeing the comedians get silenced for laughing and joking around about political issues. Sure they're just having fun, but they are pointing things out and creating memes that spread through society that need to be heard. If they can't criticize certain ideologies and look at topics from a different perspective, we lose our ability as a society to realign ourselves to improve upon the situation that caused hilarity.

Once the comedians go, then we know people can't just joke around about certain topics. And then we know other forms of silencing are on its way.
Well, my comment had two parts. Statement of Ministry of Defence that is disavowed by the President a month later does not look like based on hard evidence, it is merely a speculation. Ukraine has a role in this propaganda theater just like everybody else, and apparently they back off from a convenient alarmist position when the money start flowing away, not because of any change in the situation on the borders.
Some of the things that are said are crazy. I listen to a lot of podcasts because I listen to them while I work. A lot of the news shows will just cut up parts of an interviews to make it more controversial than it really is. It is really disingenuous. However I don't think it is effectively anymore as anyone can get just find out for themselves.
> This is especially on the Left, who are too ready and willing to spark that ruin, viewing legal systems and power only as a tool to control their opposition, who has valid stances on myriad topics. On the Right, they complain a lot, but at least they aren't using any means necessary to actively change the fundamental course of people's lives

If you look politically, it is just as true, and historically much more so I feel from the American right, which has normally had the church and the puritans on its side, and has always fought to get sex, LGBTQ, minorities, and even science removed from popular channels of discourse.

Also, as someone who follows the science, I'm not seeing 100k+ researchers with published data refuting the science. Doctors are not all scientist. Most practitioners have their own belief system, often from their own daily biases. And in the medical science community, it turns out, those things are being investigated, but are still far from being unambiguous and evidence backed. The policy makers are taking risks one way or another, because they're having to make decisions with limited scientific analysis, data, and experiments.

When you think of scientific consensus, what do you think it means? It is a confidence score in the current state of data and experiment. It is an assessment of given what we know today, what is most likely true. You can take bets against it, because it is probabilities and not certainties, science is always probabilistic unlike religion. But if you're a policy maker, taking a bet against the current odds seem like a gamble you shouldn't be making.

Thus from my stance, this is all political, and science is doing the right thing, and most policy makers that follows scientific consensus are just playing it safe with the odds.

The people who are trying to discredit science and the consensus are taking political bets, they want to discredit things to gain power, in the off chance the consensus is wrong, they win big politically, in the many more likely odds they'd be wrong, most people won't notice and it won't make the news.

The effect of it all though, from my point of view, is actually that it is used once again by the right as a way to convince people science is wrong all along. Which goes back to my initial take, historically, the right has always tried to silence science, and this to me is just another attempt at discrediting its processes and misrepresenting it's propositions and stance. It's trying to get people to instead believe that the political leaders and key scientists that have become agent of politics are more trustworthy than science itself, and that they now should listen to them exclusively for the real truth.
The licensing scare is overblown. You only need to worry if you want to distribute software that includes both ZFS and Linux, like Canonical does (and they decided it's worth the small risk). If you just use ZFS and Linux on your machines, there is no licensing issue whatsoever.
> I’d love to support my apps on Linux… but it is hell. Flatpak seems like it will help immensely, but Flatpak has a ton of people on here who hate it.

As someone who professionally writes native desktop software for all 3 major platforms I can't say I've had the same experience.

Providing packages for the major packaging systems is fairly easy, though less so when cross-compiling to different architectures. These formats very rarely require any changes. Other distribution methods like flatpak can be provided by those that care.

For Windows you require signatures, dealing with the registry and installer compilers that need wine to work outside of Windows.

On macOS you need a signature and notarisation, and any new requirements they decide to add. Some of which you can't do without a mac.
Adobe suite. After effects, illustrator, inDesign etc

Adobe in the above fields of design are industry leaders, and have the features & functions we’ve come to rely on.

Adobe’s pricing model has become very aggressive, and quite unaffordable for lots.
Yes! In a heartbeat.
My disagreement is purely semantic in nature. I disagree that we can't or shouldn't use the word "censorship" to describe Spotify's actions. The other parts of the parent comment; free market, free will, all parties within their rights, etc, that I'm all fine with.

I just think we need to be able to say hey, this is censorship, and it's not necessarily wrong because of XYZ reasons and it's fine and above-board. Spotify's got the rights to the show and nobody can or should be able to compel them to broadcast something they don't want to.

However, pointing to a nebulous category of "proper censorship" (which sounds like pretty much exactly the same thing, just perpetrated by a state actor instead of a private corp) as a way to invalidate the use of the word "censorship" in this context seems dishonest. Not to mention that it strikes me as odd to refer to some instances of censorship as "proper" compared to others.

Let's go along with the "proper censorship" narrative and put on the tinfoil hat for a moment. It would be easy for a sufficiently motivated state actor to create or compel a private company to acquire the rights to works that they want censored, and then simply use the private entity as a front to carry out the censorship on the government's behalf.

I'm not implying that's happening here, but we need to recognize that mostly anything is possible.

If I'm entirely unable to access a work today that was freely available yesterday, it has been censored. The devil's in the details, but the semantics and results here are very clear.
The author of this tweet thread even acknowledges it states the terms in the workflow.

> But what does "Annual plan, paid monthly" actually mean?

I don't understand how "Annual plan, paid monthly" could be taken as something confusing or requires some additional context to make any sense out of it. How are other people reading "Annual plan, paid monthly" any other way than that it is an annual plan broken out into monthly installments?
I was in construction in my 20s. I earned $X when I was learning. A few years later, I was working independent and earning $Y. It ended up that $Y was lower than $X. This is akin to earning less as a senior dev than you did as a junior dev, except you'd also have to buy your own chair, desk, computer, and software license to work as a sr dev.

The problem was multifold, and I think the crux of the situation. The people who entered the field didn't respect the field, and only aimed to undercut the next guy, causing wages to plummet in the span of 5 years.

Software doesn't need that much protection yet, but that slide happens way faster than you think it will. It's not about keeping people out; it's about educating those who come in to respect the industry they are entering. Many people are actively preventing people from learning about the proper value of their work.
If you discount the website icloud.com, yes, it is pretty decent.
doctors and lawyers have trade or professional organisations, bar exams, etc. they organized many years ago. computer science and engineering are still very young fields and we are at a point where we need to start organizing.
Show HN: WunderHub – The Package Manager for APIs
I use Affinity Suite professionally, absolutely possible to switch. Have done for three years, it’s really good.
We recently ran into this issue and were forced to change email providers. It isn’t that our host didn’t care, it’s that it is almost impossible to play whack-a-mole with dozens of blacklists.

We have been with the same provider for 15 years, no problems, ever. It seems that email delivery started to become unreliable about six months ago. After repeated attempts to fix it we had no choice but to move elsewhere.
I live outside the United States and have never seen mm mean anything other than millimeter
Good catch. Will correct the mistake. Thanks!

Agree that hopefully Spotify can resist calls to stop distributing content that other users find objectionable. As you point out, fashion will change and hopefully it does so in a way that shuns calls for censorship.
> One of the important things everyone should do is see natural light (not through windows) in first hour after waking up.

Is there some science behind this or is it a spirituality thing?
Been a big Apple fanboy for a long time and am moving 100% away from all of their tech. Don't want Apple anything anymore.
I remember hearing this in the late ‘90s, and the company using “camera pointed at lava lamp” as a random number seed was SGI.
Yes. It's not just fancy magnets, but that helps. The industry got much better at modeling and designing dynamic speakers about 20 years ago. Low cost IC amplifiers also got a lot better in the last twenty years, and anything decent that's fully integrated (i.e. name brand connected speaker devices, airpods, the speaker in your phone, etc) is going to have shockingly good DSP equalization by the standards of even 2005-2010.

I don't know about headphones per headphones, though. All the audiophile-approved headphones I have around here sound much better than my airpods and my Bose noise canceling things for travel, and they're all 20+ year old designs. That includes the Koss Porta Pro (back on topic!), by the way, which I like a lot better than anything I've listened to that cost less than an approximate order of magnitude more. There certainly seems to be a market for headphones that cost more than a pair of Sennheiser 650s these days though.
You might enjoy the extension SponsorBlock, which will auto-skip the sponsored segments within the video itself.
No, it's a free trial, because you can cancel it. And if you look in the screenshots in the very tweets this item is about, you can see that they tell you this up front, on the third screenshot, including the date by which you can cancel to get a full refund.

It's not "fraud". Could it benefit from clearer language -- there are some small tweaks they could do.
What would happen if people performed chargebacks?
>Or, for the last two years, Covid and only Covid.

like jim gaffigan, adam curry, carrot top, beeple, steven pinker, ron white, snoop dog, gilbert gottfried, chuck palahniuk... i mean, i could go on and on.

it's like people don't even look at his guests.
> has a provable impact on the healthcare system which forces our governments to ask us to endure more restrictions than would be necessary if vaccine hesitancy wasn't a thing

It's exactly this kind of misinformation that leads to people calling for censorship. You honestly think if there was MORE censorship there would be LESS vaccine hesitancy and the government would be implementing LESS mandates? That's dillusional and you have no evidence of it.

Censorship has a provable impact on people's trust. If you censor competing viewpoints then guess what? I'm less likely to believe yours. The only way I believe anything is if competing viewpoints are allowed. If they aren't then I don't believe you can defend your viewpoint. I don't just blindly trust anybody. You have to show evidence and prove yourself.
I can do you one better, create a master sketch: a sketch that you don't pad/revolve/etc to form a 3D object. All your future sketches should attach to references on the master sketch. Make the existing object/shape invisible so it's easier to work only with the master sketch.

This mostly fixes the topo problem and as a bonus, it helps organize your thoughts into one sketch up front.
> This additional time also allowed the IETF enough time to do what it does best, specifically avoiding making hard choices.

Zing!
It would have to work well with multiple users. iCloud backup can be a simpler solution since iOS and iPadOS devices are single-user.
sry, all i can see is

API ... API ... API.

this is the way!
the computer science field is under no obligation to fix all the hiring and career problems in existence, just like law or medicine is not under that obligation.
I do concede a certain amount of hand waving in this proposed solution
It has only been about 5000 years since humans became sedentary and formed civilisations and we're already seriously disrupting the ecosystem. That's the timeline you'd have to look at.
How were they deceived? The workflow clearly states "Annual plan, billed monthly." This wasn't something hidden from the user.
I use and maintain my own tiling window manager for Windows 10/11 (https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi), which I was forced to write after migrating from macOS to Windows after years of heavy yabai use. It is not an exaggeration to say that I am probably incapable of using a computer for any extended period of time, for any non-trivial task, regardless of operating system, without a tiling window manager anymore.

I tend to have Firefox, Beeper, Windows Terminal and maybe IntelliJ open at any given time. I rarely use more than one workspace. The key to this being possible, imo, is avoiding as many of the unnecessary Electron apps as I can. I have pinned tabs for Slack, Gmail, Calendar, Spotify and Discord on Firefox, and I can jump to them quickly with Ctrl+1/2/3 etc. This frees up a lot of screen space and I feel like the performance of all of these things in the browser is a lot better compared to running them in Electron wrappers.

Beeper is great to have all my personal chats from all my chat networks (Signal, WhatsApp, Instagram etc.) in a single list/inbox in a single app. I will often minimize this when I need more space on my primary workspace.

I'm able to do maybe 50% of my work in Neovim on WSL, but I will switch to IntelliJ when doing more complex tasks, big refactors etc. This means again that I only really open it when I need it so it's not taking up space 100% of the time.

I recently released a feature (with a little GUI generator: https://lgug2z.github.io/komorebi-custom-layout-generator) that allows people to define custom layouts that work better for them and utilize screen real estate better than the usual fibonacci layout, especially on ultrawide monitors, this has also been a game changer for me in a lot of ways. The basic idea is that you can define the bounds for columns and rows within those columns across your screen as you see fit, and the final column will expand "infinitely" to try and accommodate extra windows that are spawned.
Why? And who determines that set of people?
Yes, 2004 but now I'm curious why you ask. ?
I use the command-line as do the other engineers I know. That's a admittedly small sample size but maybe the GUI version isn't heavily used and is therefore not important to the business.
At this point I intend to avoid Adobe's services for the rest of my life. If I ever feel like I need Photoshop or Illustrator I'll find an alternative. There are a lot alternatives to these, both open source and proprietary from small businesses.
Spotify doesn't have to bankroll grifters. If 99M people want something bad enough they'll find a way to get it. In fact before the Spotify exclusive Rogan could be found and listened to via any podcatcher or index.
My own evolving hypothesis is that pressure(s) in the body is a very important "setting," as well as the effects of natural Faraday cages that occur throughout the body/brain and at different layers.

To note, I'm really curious how a no-to-low inflammatory vs. high inflammatory diet would impact this visual; likewise seeing differences between short-term and long-term, and things like before and after if switching between/cleaning up a diet or going from low inflammation to high inflammation over 1-5-10 years.
Yes, Apple Music or Arcade cuts access the moment you end the trial. Apple gives developers API to detect cancellations too but I'm not sure if the developers are allowed to cut access, haven't looked at it. I know some apps that do cut access though.
or dave chappelle. i mean, both dave and netflix are doing quite fine.
"it’s just when companies move to subscription they turn into mini insurance companies focused on the spreadsheets. They model out your lifetime value and know that every $1 they chisel out of you is worth $1.40 in 5 years."

The term for that is "evil".
Maybe it's not entirely clear, but then you get several weeks to decide to cancel and pay nothing

Of all the dark patterns online, this is fairly low down the list.
Because some people might not have the background to think exactly the way you do.

People are reporting that they were surprised by the cancellation fee. Is it reasonable to assume that these people were fully aware of what would happen? And chose this path anyway, in order to... what, exactly? It makes no sense. It's more reasonable to take what they say at face value, that they were in fact surprised and didn't understand in good faith what they signed up for.

Given that, what is so unreasonable about expecting companies to be upfront about the fee and explain it in the payment page? Why is this trivial disclosure and transparency to the consumer something to balk about?

I think the reason is pretty obvious. Companies have always loved it when confused customers have to pay money they didn't expect to pay. So the companies design their payment flows to encourage this, to the maximum extent the law allows.

It's sociopathic, and just because it's common and accepted doesn't mean I have to think it's okay.
I don't like rogan, for all i care, he can burn in hell.

But : the negotiation would have run very very different if they would have said :we buy it, but will never use or publish it!

He might have still sold (for a higher price) or rejected the offer.

You can't change the "purpose" of a contract after it was made.

In german, we have a law, yes a law, basically saying : in treu und glauben (in good faith / in trust and believe) it basically prevents contractors to write contracts which fuck over signers.

It is super rarely used for misuse of contract law / information of the signer, but sometimes it is. This is probably one of those cases.

In good faith, that Spotify will publish his work, he signed the contract.
I've been using Migadu ever since switching away from Google Apps, and I've been happy with their service and pricing.
JFYI, the "This book" link on https://github.com/Kindelia/HVM/blob/master/HOW.md goes to a research gate page which has the wrong book for download (something about category theory).

So, this dup primitive, is that explained in the book as well, or is this a new addition in your implementation?
Not to mention Google's been doing CSAM scans _in the cloud_ for years. Apple's approach was sensible and likely would've lead to end to end backup encryption.. a shame the stupid, uninformed outcry about it has had this result.
Only if they didn't read the article, which explains "Earlier studies have suggested that CSF flow and slow wave activity both help flush toxic, memory-impairing proteins from the brain." and more.
I wonder if Finnish startups benefit from a language that does not have a future tense. (This is not a Finnish startup.)
What does 'annual plan' mean to you?

How can you misinterpret those words?
> when the average person knows how to code

Some exposure to some kind of programming is probably a good thing, but I think this it is very unlikely for the average person to learn to code without either thousands of years of evolution, genetic engineering of humanity, or changing the definition of coding.

The average person cannot build a consistent mental model of complex abstract concepts. Schools have done lots of tests to prospective CS students trying to see how they'd be as programmers. The point isn't to see if they got the right answer, the point was to see if they could merely come up with a consistent mental model of what abstract symbols mean, and many people can't do that.
Whats the deal with they large number of open issues an pull requests on FastAPI and SQLModel?

SQLModel 100 issues, 54 open PRs

FastAPI 903 issues, 448(!!) open PRs

I recently had to choose between Flask and FastAPI for a fresh project and went with Flask in the end, partly due to long term maintenance concerns with FastAPI.
>We thought there were no serious consequences of antibiotics for a century.

That's not true. We knew there were serious consequences and that microbiome was important from before antibiotics were even a thing.

>The body also doesn't have a way of spontaneously ejecting the appendix. I would describe this as the body being happy to let it stay there.

It has a way of doing so over evolutionary timescales, which is not true for EBV.

>A few days ago there was an article where a virus was used to fight a bacterial infection [1].

That is a bacteriophage. It is a virus that does not infect human cells, but only bacteria. We've known about them for decades.

> How can you earnestly say it's impossible that any virus that makes its home in the immune system could play a role in the immune response? Proving negatives is really hard.

I don't need to prove a negative, you have the burden of proof. It's absolutely certain that has an impact on immune response, we know that, it's just that every single effect we have seen so far has been negative.

> The problem with statistical medical studies is that in general samples are non-random (as you note in another comment) and cannot easily control for any of the 1M (lower bound) confounding variables.

There aren't 1 million confounding variables as far as sampling for EBV. You could feasibly account for all remaining variance, or enough of it to know that it doesn't have a sufficient impact.
MS Teams:

What makes it bad:
First of all, it uses Electron, thus it is laggy and wastes too much resources. Maybe it is just a pet peeve of mine, but I hate, if an application does not look native on my GNOME Desktop and does not follow any HIG.

Another factor is the proprietary nature of MS Teams. If it was open, there would probably be some other client/some way to have a real native client.

My preferred alternative would either be Jitsi or Matrix, although both have just electron clients they atleast attempt to have a usable GUI. (Except this one thing in Element: The search button is next to the "Start Videocall"-Button)

I can't replace it, as my university uses it.