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Reminder that there’s a free shuttle to Caltrain and a BART connection at SFO. De-incentivising ride share use and encouraging public transit seems like a good thing.

For those who want to learn more about Watterson, I read “Chasing Calvin and Hobbes” a few years ago and recently re-read it, really enjoying it both times. It’s a more in-depth view of the strip and Watterson as a person.

The fact that they claim to be "close to a fix" makes me think this isn't some obliterating change made by Apple. How long they continue the game of cat and mouse is a different question.

This already exists!

https://airmessage.org

Notably, many of the features championed by this article just don’t (yet) work on mobile Safari. JavaScript is used because it (usually) works everywhere, unlike niche browser features.

HBO, Hulu, Netflix, and Disney+ all have ad-supported tiers that materialized after an ad-free price increase.

uYou+ is good, I use it regularly. Especially with a developer certificate.

Then why is Greg Brockman stepping down as chairman of the board?

One can dream

I don't know how to feel about this. On the one hand, Sam seemed like a voice of reason who at least cared about AI being safe, and was committed to creating semi-equitable products, innovate on safety at the sake of profit, etc. On the other hand, Worldcoin wasn't (and isn't) really a force of good.

I still get plenty of iMessage spam. From this morning:

"Your USPS package could not be delivered. please check this link for more information: https://...."

Same here with the rides. Yesterday I rode 50 miles by myself for the first time in a while, and was impressed with the amount of things going on in my life that I just hadn’t thought about.

All of my best ideas come on the bike or in the shower.

San Francisco

Really cool project! Libby is such an underrated tool for reading things for free, especially with the number of online libraries where you can sign up for free in the US.

This reminds me of the excellent "Bad Apple!!" series[0] from Junferno, who is an excellent CS video creator. Specifically "Bad Apple!! played on Windows 10 File Explorer"

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsTVaNk5lQHmRy51gyAsV...

The way these work is usually presenting an existing captcha to another human who doesn’t even know they’re solving the captcha. For example, sites hosting pirated content serve fake captchas as a way to make money.

Duplicate https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37630338

I’ve ran Home Assistant on a used Mac mini for the past three years and loved every second of it. Could not recommend more, especially because it’s functionally indistinguishable from Apple HomeKit if you set up the right integrations, just compatible with more accessories.

It doesn't! It's simply filling out the public version of the form, which shouldn't require authentication.

Only to prevent abuse at the moment, and hopefully, it will stay that way. The free model relies pretty heavily on donations from users, but I don't see the cost being an issue anytime soon.

Yeah I’ve had some strange instances where it ends up restarting a given prompt (this is with the API). Didn’t see the delimiter though.

It can certainly be justified under a utilitarian framework…

The original source of the video (from a telegram channel?) has the rock floating horizontally, which would make an actual superconductor much more plausible.

https://twitter.com/vasuttomas0423/status/168642344021411840...

Yea, I'm talking about parli. (I presume the article was generally focused on parli as the author is a relatively well-known parli debater.)

I'm a Parli debater who went to quarters at TOC this year -- our format may be handicapped, but in terms of Ks, pretty much everything Maya discussed applies directly to Parli. You may be thinking of east-coast ("lay") Parli where internet prep & files aren't allowed, as on most of the west coast pre-written Ks are run pretty regularly.

The author (Maya Bodnick) was ranked #1 in the country in the 2019-2020 season.

https://www.parliamentarydebate.org/rankings-2019-20

In the age of Covid, I think TOC is actually relatively accessible for most of the country (or anyone with internet and a laptop, at least). A large large majority of the points that allowed my partner and I to qualify for TOC this year were from online tournaments that most people could enter (in fact, tournaments that have extremely high entry fees, like Stanford, do not give NPDL points).

I do think that much of kritical debate is concentrated on the West Coast, though.

Debate is a tiny section of the high-school world. I'm a current Parli debater -- in class, we aren't taught anything even close to what you would see in rounds.

That's not entirely true. A lot of Parli is concentrated on the coasts, and most of the West Coast encourages tech debate, so most West Coast debaters end up attending "tech" tournaments. Also, most "close to home" tournaments still give NPDL points.

Also, TOC is the national championship. (NPDL Nationals Exist, but they are a relatively recent addition, and aren't highly respected in the community)

Many tournaments (especially on the West Coast) and their organizers enjoy and encourage kritical debate. (That's what they did in high school -- Kritical debate was born in Policy Debate, and spread to other formats, so many coaches have that previous experience) Many on the East Coast ban it entirely, or heavily discourage it. At some level, there are almost two different leagues. The "tech" debaters even have their own championship, of sorts (NPDI).