skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue with cancelling magazine subscriptions has been discussed here before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22426102

The FTC issued a statement about ramping up enforcement against consumer entrapment last year: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2021/10/...

From the FTC statement, they require companies to:

* Disclose clearly and conspicuously all material terms of the product or service, including how much it costs, deadlines by which the consumer must act to stop further charges, the amount and frequency of such charges, how to cancel, and information about the product or service itself that is needed to stop consumers from being deceived about the characteristics of the product or service. The statement provides detail on what clear and conspicuous means, particularly noting that the information must be provided upfront when the consumer first sees the offer and generally as prominent as the deal offer itself.

* Obtain the consumer’s express informed consent before charging them for a product or services. This includes obtaining the consumer’s acceptance of the negative option feature separately from other portions of the entire transaction, not including information that interferes with, detracts from, contradicts, or otherwise undermines the consumer’s ability to provide their express informed consent.

* Provide easy and simple cancellation to the consumer. Marketers should provide cancellation mechanisms that are at least as easy to use as the method the consumer used to buy the product or service in the first place.

This was issued Oct. 28, 2021. Has anyone who has tried to (e.g.) cancel a magazine subscription noticed any difference?
What happened to the six-hour workday? (2015)
The reason why some people use the spam signal to unsubscribe is because most of these email lists were not _explicitly_ requested by the people. Not only that but unsubscribe confirms the existence of an email address. I'm hoping that the machine learning approach to spam completely collapses so that we're forced to do something more effective.
I have learned some things that help me tremendously, amid the regular and irregular problems of life, which I have tried to write in a skimmable way. One's worth definitely does not depend on comparisons with others, or with what seems popular. There are permanent truths one can grasp and keep, for peace & stability amid the hard times that we all can have; even joy.

I wrote some things at my web site about purpose in life (in profile, no ads or sales), whether one is religious or not. (If you want details and can't find them, you can email me--it is in the site footer.) It revolves around learning (personal growth in ability to serve one's family and others), and then service. There are important things to learn about the nature of life that also help.

One site that helps with the service part (ie volunteering) is justserve.org , which is free for individuals to participate and/or organizations who could use help, coordinated by location etc. And there are others like it. Unselfish service, helping others in good ways, brings a unique kind of enjoyment and real satisfaction.

I have learned for myself that God is real, cares, life has a purpose and extends before & after this mortality, questions have answers, each person including you is of infinite worth, and you never truly have to be alone. If we really try to make good choices, things can and will be very good, better than now.
All real best wishes.
> There were many prehistoric societies, but because civilization tended to have some form of written records, the prehistoric societies are not considered civilizations.

What about cave paintings?
"Then you flew your lear jet up to Nova Scotia
To see the total eclipse of the sun"

Carly Simon - "you're so vain".

Edit: Rather strange downvotes? I was intending on illustrating how the Lear Jet had slipped into our culture.
Looking at how crazy many folks get being asked to stay at home, I don’t give high odds to a generation ship of awake humans ever making it intact anyway.
> Sure it's a simplification

Yep, a gross and incorrect one, invented only to advance an argument that doesn't match reality. Performance and ms-per-frame is still highly critical in AAA-land, despite your opinions on current gaming trends. There are people working hard on it, including the Unreal and Unity teams.

> Yes, but point is good performance. Casey insists performance is thing to optimize for. When in reality it's like n-th thing to focus-on.

Again, this is a bit of a misrepresentation, and probably a bit of projection. His rants are often about specific issues he finds, and mostly about low-hanging-fruit issues that cause real usability problems for end users.

He might write and teach how to write high-performance code and high-performance architecture, but it was not to the detriment of code quality, speed of development or architecture quality. The architecture of Handmade Hero, for example, is significantly better than most "make your own engine" shows on Youtube.
A sample size of 1 suggests this wouldn’t happen.

Humans are the most aggressive species we know of capable of mass destruction. We would (and do) certainly destroy other species to get some resources in order to enrich a small but highly privileged portion of our population. However—despite our aggression—we would not destroy an alien world at the mere sight of it without any prospects for profit.

Our most destructive era was probably the era of nuclear missile testing. It certainly did an enormous needless destruction of non-human (and human) habitat. This era only lasted a couple of decades and ended with a comprehensive test ban in the 1990s. Despite our capabilities we never tested these weapons of horror in space or on alien planets, and we probably never will.
freetaxusa.org is a fine alternative
The point of censoring the laptop was to help Biden and Twitter was wrong to do it. However the information on the laptop hasn't been released and yet you stated it was incriminating. This is probably why Twitter tried to block the story, because voters will be swayed without evidence but since there are a large number of media outlets the story got out anyway and the attempted censoring amplified the mistrust.

Why do you think there is evidence of wrong doing when all the information you have is that he has a laptop?
This is the actual response after waiting for a while, not sure why the downvotes.
Yes, you're right. Not everyone will see it as a problem but as a way for the OP to slack off. Not everyone has the empathy to understand. I think that goes in general for health problems.
I think poison pills explicitly exclude the hostile shareholder from this right. Otherwise they wouldn’t work.
Can you provide an example? I'm assuming we are talking about the US
This is the best way to look at it. I live in a hot sunny city that technically gets more rainfall than Seattle. But we’re also in a drought and when it does rain it’s a lot at once that mostly runs off. For example a couple weeks ago my house got over 4” of rain in less than an hour but now I’m right back to strict water usage rules in terms of landscape watering cycles, etc. I tend to think of Seattle as moist. I’ve spent a grand total of about 2 weeks there but even in middle of summer when I go on a hike I can tell the soil contains some moisture and has been wet recently. I’m sure it helps that the big trees and shade help slow down evaporation.
I think it's a signal to noise thing. There are definitely good services out there. There are just as many terrible, predatory ones. And sometimes, more insidiously, a good service slowly transitions into a predatory service.

I'm definitely not really suggesting that people should never use any services. Just that in general, these should be viewed with suspicion, and you should have an exit plan: you could find out nefarious things about your service, or the service could be modified leaving you high and dry.
Google draws borders differently if you're opening Google Maps from different countries (e.g. India and Pakistan), it used to only offer bitmaps (instead of vector graphics) of S. Korea to comply with the law there, the satellite images of China are still offset compared to the real world to also comply with the laws...

So the answer is, they do it to remain compliant with the laws.
Twitter already compensates many of their employees for labor partially with equity. And many current employees were already users before being hired. So you're not proposing anything different from the current state.
To me this seems like an alternate description of how one trends towards increased effectiveness in programming. I've known 10x programmers that will put the entire team in a position of reacting to that one person's work so that rather than scaling it actually reduces to total productivity. This person was unfortunately trying to build a business.
I'd say the main intention of UAC is to make sudo but without obvious vulnerabilities. The UAC dialog is wired deep into the system and you can't fake it. It takes priority over any UI stuff and won't accept input from a program you didn't specifically authorize (which requires accepting a UAC prompt).

On the flipside, all it takes to manipulate sudo on Unix systems is to write a TTY emulator that just middlewares between the user and sudo. Then just alias via bashrc or any number of other places that can prompt for a user password. There is not protection sudo can deploy against that. Polkit helps a bit but X11 isn't great at helping there either since other programs can just send keystrokes.
Florida judge overturns CDC mask mandate for public transit, planes
Not the OP, however, I haven't found a product that's easy to drop options trading data into. I'd love to switch off of TurboTax, but I'm not putting hundreds of trades into a system manually - their import function makes it a breeze.

Perhaps it's time to hire an accountant?
You can press cmd+. for Esc. Or, are you saying that's too much ;)
Wouldn't this be hindered a bit by the gas prices?
The Bizarre Adventures of Woodruff and the Schnibble
It's similar to the idea that's popular here: people in single family housing need to move to make way for multi family housing so we can bring in more immigrants.
It prevents a hostile takeover. It doesn't prevent the company from agreeing to be sold. It theoretically offers protections to negotiate a sale without the buying party having the ability to circumvent that negotiation.
Via https://www.twitch.tv/retrogradetom
I don't take streaming for granted. I don't take huge storage space for granted either, though the price per unit is more affordable. I like to save helpful audio in .opus format for future reference, though I try now to take notes in the moment, understanding that I seldom follow up with re-listening. I know now I have a tendency to collect, hoard, amass things for their potential, and so I practice relaxing and missing out.

I prefer written material for the ease of searching, but there are some things video is really good at, like showing how to make a fire.

I don't need to download. I prefer it to subscribing (with money and/or data) to a streaming service.
Ruling engines and lapping the ultimate screw
I guess I don't really get what fusebit does?

So let's assume I'm a developer I have a product I need to integrate to XYZ api so instead of integrating to XYZ api I integrate to fusbit.io because ...
How do you resist the urge to describe all possible exceptions? In my writing, I describe something, then find myself spending four times as many paragraphs explaining all the exceptions.

Fake example:

A bicycle has two wheels of equal size.

Some bicycles have two extra smaller wheels on each side to train bicycle riders.

Occasionally you might have one helper wheel on the left or right instead of two, but it's rare.

If a bicycle has two wheels in the back and one in the front it's a tricycle. Not to be confused with training wheels.
One of my old Linux sys admin interview questions was describing a situation with a high load number but low CPU utilization. People who said that was impossible or similar got shown the door and people who knew or could reason their way to IO wait/problem would get to proceed.
That seems to stem from a very Christian "hate the sin, not the sinner" foundation. For me, it's always been difficult to separate a person doing bad things from the person also being bad.
The law is not about cookie management but privacy and data protection.

Also, what you describe sounds a bit like the “do not track” failure.
I love hackernews because I come here to procrastinate and end in rabbit holes (was looking at getting a raspberry pi for this project), and now I found about this app!

I use strava all the time so that's a great description
Why do all these tax companies have a web version and a desktop version ? Why isn't it all web at this point ?
A very simple one is "can you write a program that might never terminate?"

If a neural network does a fixed amount of computation and that is that it is never going to be able to do things that require a program that may not terminate.

There are numerous results of theoretical computer science that apply just as well to neural networks and other algorithms even though people seem to forget it.

Another is "can an error discovered in late stage processing be fed back to an early stage and be repaired?" That's important if you are parsing a sentence like

Squad helps dog bite victim.

It was funny because I saw Geoff Hinton give a talk in 2005, before he got super-famous, and he was talking about the idea that led to deep networks and he had a criticism of "blackboard" systems and other architectures that produced layered representations (say the radar of an anti-aircraft system that is going to start with raw signals, turn those into a set of 'blips', coalesce the 'blips' into tracks, interpret the tracks as aircraft, etc.)

Hinton said that you should build the whole system in an integrated manner and train the whole thing working end-to-end and I thought "what a neat idea" but also "there is no way this would work for the systems I'm building because it doesn't have an answer for correcting itself.
And even if you succeed, the funds are still "dirty".
> Of course, the embryo cannot consent,

I mean, technically the person born with Down Syndrome would be incapable of consenting on their own life decisions after they were born, right?
A free and open source code snippets manager for developers
From my personal experience: system languages are really, really good at interacting with operating systems. When you have things deployed on a server that machine generally has one task, and it makes sense to optimize as many layers as possible. For example on a windows system I used MS's `FILE_FLAG_SEQUENTIAL_SCAN` flag to triple read performance; you could of course do the same in python by dipping into ctypes but it doesn't make for a pleasant development experience.

The big trade-off is you're specifying the task more precisely and as a result of that extra labor you get better performance for the life of the tool. SQLITE has a good story of putting together dozens of small optimizations, each <1% performance change, and at the end the library's throughput doubled in pretty much all tests. It's not worth it for research, but it is everywhere else.
You would still have access to your accounts as the credentials are hosted by BitWarden or by yourself (on a personal server for example).
It's pronounced "GIF."

In seriousness it's pronounced DEE-mon, but you'll never get consensus on this, so best just to say it the way you want to say it and leave it alone when someone else says it differently.
> That's what I find so frustrating about this debate. The people who claim to support free speech actually support more censorship by the Government.

You have mis-interpreted.

People are saying that they should be treated like the telephone companies.

Do you think that the telephone companies are some massive apparatis of censorship and anti-free speech?

I don't think most people would say that. I think that would people would say that the laws that force the telephone company to do certain things, results in very little censorship of the phone network.

> Both of those rights are equally important parts of freedom of speech.

So then, telephone companies.

Do you think that the laws regarding telephone companies are some massive infringement on free speech? Because I think most people would say the opposite, that are laws regarding them help prevent censorship.
then lets dilute the shareholders who voted for it as theyh are clearly idealogically driven and actively hostile to the company itself or its profitability
Yeah RMS definitely is adding a moderating factor with the license to ensure that the software stays open unlike MIT/BSD where you just have to note that you're using it to those you are distributing it to and include any copyright notices of the authors (and the license notice of course)
its not just airtraffic thats vulnerable to those handheld 1000 mWatt lasers.
Apple TV+ has a show about this.
From web dev to game dev – what resources you used to learn stuff?
Just let me boot macOS on that M1 iPad and I’m happy. I’d even pay a premium for this luxury.
Parent poster could also connect additional displays:

- via Sidecar on an iPad
- via Airplay on a display of their choosing

Just mentioning workarounds, not excusing things.
> Musk gets this, and it is why he is interested in Twitter.

You think this is why he's interested. He has not actually said this, correct?

Another plausible explanation is that it is his preferred social media and its (relatively) cheap because it is very poorly run and thus its growth and financials suck.

You maybe right about Twitter having outsized relevance with respect to its user base, but I'm absolutely not buying that "the public reach that Twitter can potentially provide is much bigger than that of any other social network". Meta's platforms reach BILLIONS of people.
> You basically cannot get a right wing viewpoint in anywhere.

This is a great joke. Good delivery, great setup, 9/10.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/373814/cable-news-networ...
Makes sense too as Barcelona is aan international city and has many immigrants from Latin America. And many people from other parts of Spain live here too.

In the rural area that's much less except for the migrant farm workers
If you live in the USA you’re ultra wealthy compared to middle class people in many countries. And surprise - they’ll probably really like you when they meet you, and not just because you have electricity, sanitation and running water.
Hm, but in this concrete example Elon is also a shareholder, so he can buy for 25/share, right? And as more shares are being created the spot price on the market should drop, no?

Also, can the shareholders then sue the company (successfully? :)) for decreasing the price? ("everything is securities fraud" after all.)
Uhm ... the majority of camp grounds in the USA are run by the USFS and are not wired for anything at all.
This is from conversations with friends at Apple over the years. Apple employees: please confirm/complicate!

- Secrecy does actually get in the way. It's not great when you aren't aware of large features or products that will impact your work.

- Apple hires people who have great product design instincts, and even end-users know Apple's foundational design principles. However, lack of feedback from end-users does occasionally bite them (see: aborted Safari redesign)

- Apple takes QA very seriously and invests in high quality QA engineers. QA is not just "a step in the process" or a marginalized outsourced group.

- It's a culture of accountability, not committees. Every product and feature has a DRI (Directly Responsible Individual). When something isn't working out, the first question is "who's the DRI on this?"

- Most of the organization is highly siloed by function. This allows units to focus entirely on their objectives, which can be productive. But it makes cross-functional collaboration rare. In my opinion, this is why certain aspects of Apple's ecosystem feel disjointed, missing, or don't hang together holistically as well as they could.
Can’t you use a bt or usb keyboard? I haven’t tried using an ipad for dev work. So just curious.
I stopped using an alarm.

I grew up before smartphones, so the alarm was a clock radio. I would hit the snooze button for about two hours, almost every day. I'd set my alarm early because I wanted some time before having to be anywhere, but then I'd hit the snooze button repeatedly until I had to get up. This made a vicious cycle where I set the alarm early because I knew I'd hit snooze repeatedly.

I tried moving my alarm clock to the foot of my bed. It worked for a couple days, then I could hit snooze there without waking up. Then I moved it across the room, and learned to walk across the room and hit snooze without waking up. I got as far as physically removing the snooze button from the clock, taping over the hole, and putting the clock on a high shelf where I had to stand on a chair and a desk to reach it. In about a week I could climb that desk, reset the alarm for nine minutes later, and go back to bed without waking up.

That led me to just not setting an alarm. I figured I would probably wake up later than the time I was setting my alarm for, but earlier than when I needed to be up. It worked; I was not late for anything that first week or so. As I got used to having no alarm, it made me pay way more attention to my bedtime routine. I went to bed earlier, because I knew I needed sleep in order to wake up. Instead of being jolted out of deep sleep, I woke up naturally during lighter sleep cycles when it's easier to get up.

That was 30 years ago now. With smartphones I set an alarm in order to be up in time to get my kid ready for school, but it rarely goes off; I now have a habit of getting up when I wake up before the alarm. I set alarms when I'm trying to make a 6am flight, but I have also chosen to not set an alarm for important events like exams and conferences and such.
There are known city sites that predate agriculture in their regions.
Except, that's what it literally is.

God speaks to someone. That someone says "It's true because God told me so."

I have read religious works, I'm not cut off from them. It's impossible to be cut off from theology in the USA. However, they all start with "it is true because I (the author) say so".
Blackrock has a strong environmental ESG bent currently. In a binary political system that’s how one of the biggest capitalists in the world get labeled “left wing”.

https://www.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2020/01/blackrock-...
Book is "Neuroscience, Exploring the Brain" by Mark Bear and I really like it. Thoroughgoing scientific approach but has a unique philosophy of explaining the needed underpinnings as it goes. For example the section on "how genes work" was like 5 pages long, easy to absorb and really leveled up my understanding.

Regarding your son - have you looked into sulforaphane at all? It's a tantalizing substance for my son's diagnosis (Kabuki Syndrome) and I noted this study as I was doing my research, which appears to show promise in 18+ autistic people ...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1416940111
> Even things like the Installation Instructions requirement (either GPLv2 or v3's) is satisfied by the fact that Apple hands out free development accounts like candy and will likely continue to do so for as long as the App Store exists.

But doesn't that fail the Desert Island Test?
> So, for instance, would be selling all the companies assets to Company 2 run by the same CEO and board (and who own 100% of Company 2) and letting Company 1 go bankrupt.

IANAL, but this is actually theft - Minority shareholders have rights if a company is liquidated, and the courts are smart enough to recognize "Reorganize all assets under a new company owned only by the majority shareholder" as being that liquidation. As far as I'm aware, States Attorney General are the ones to prosecute this crime, so file a complaint there.