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Conveniently you can also hit escape to dismiss it.

Had the same issue with built in Archive Utility but I got it to unzip with the app The Unarchiver. The regular font files work but it does say this about all of the Italic font files:

>Could not extract "CommitMono-450-Italic.otf" from the "CommitMono.zip" archive: The archive file is incomplete

I use Obsidian to manage personal knowledge about apps, OS features, and workflows. Some of it has to do with personal configurations; some of it has to do with undocumented behaviour I found out myself, issues, or coalescing fragmented information from around the web. I'm pretty careful to not simply rewrite what the web already documents well or is easily found in a single search. So it is a mix of official documentation links, written knowledge, and personal experiences like the search query paths I used.

The approach is basically "I write what I've used if I still have around what caused me to need it. I associate what I use with where I access the context of the cause". Because issues are context dependant you organize by the context that it came from. If you name a file as the app name you can have the document come up when you search for the app name. Because the content is based on situations and issues, returning to it is predictably probable. I find this is a pretty low mental burden to writing, maintaining, discovering, and navigating. You don't really have to make decisions about where to place something, how to name it, or how to find it because it follows from naturally arising circumstances and contexts.

I don't think I technically need to use a PKMS as I use the special features lightly but it is nice to have them there when you really want them and to have an interface dedicated and designed to deal with servicing the whole workflow. I also like to write down my stream of thoughts too but I keep them separate and use a separate system for interfacing and managing them.

Just a heads up, I can use 'Delete current stash' on the Trash stash which then places Trash as an entry inside of itself. Two potential outcomes of this is:

- If I use 'Empty trash' it removes Trash entirely such that 'Go to Trash (deleted)' or 'Delete' no longer does anything until restarting the app.

- If I use 'Delete' on the Trash entry inside of itself it will crash the app.

Found this using the Apple Silicon version

If there really are excessive scrapers i wonder if they will actually attempt to fan out across a bunch of accounts immediately or play chicken with Twitter here. How long does Twitter have to play chicken with them to get them to pay?

Does anyone have any ideas as to how they would approach this differently trying to achieve what twitter is? It seems like a proof of work captcha cost, balanced to the api fee, in the background or past a threshold of post views could drive scrapers into paying for the api. But that still requires playing cat and mouse well at the new accounts gate.

I guess news outlets are realizing late that what they sold to the masses is largely the headline feed which is something the internet can re-aggregate for free. On the internet they can’t rely on gatekeeping the distribution to be their moat so they need regulation.

If it wasn’t Canadian outlet favouring, a generalized form of this bill would be like saying, aggregate feeds shouldn’t aggregate their competitor aggregate feeds for free.

I guess this could potentially make the ecosystem less organized around a few big sharing platforms, but I don’t feel like this helps a lot of the smaller outlets. It feels like it maybe just works for the big ones who already have a lot of mind share and can worry less about being linked to in a feed.

As per the email situation it doesn’t have to be a problem. You can lean into the state of things and embrace it as an always current personalized flyer feed for stores and sites you might be interested in, but for only when you want to see it. Like for when you actually want to buy something.

For example I use 2 separate email inboxes. They are two separate accounts so the junk and trash folders don’t get muddled together. One has an address that uses a personable name that i give out only to people or things like my bank, and a second that is an alphanumeric combination that i give out only to companies.

- For the first inbox you can optionally set up rules that make it a whitelisted inbox based on who you know has it.

- For the second inbox turn off new email indicators / auto read everything by default, have it auto delete every thing older than 20 days, and then use search and filters to browse it like a catalog by company, or to see only the most recent promotions or notifications.

I wonder if lacking this behaviour by default extra incentivizes ephemeral reads and many pages. Though maybe there isn't much motivation for implementing it to begin with because the web ecosystem already heavily incentives this situation so sites don't consider it. It also seems like the most dependable split reading experience of a single webpage is to just offline save because pages online can easily change and go dead on you over time. And so maybe that is why apps for saving the web end up being where features like saving reading position or highlighting are instead implemented.

For comments, I partially dealt with the issue by writing a bookmarklet that highlights the latest comments and jumps to the next one on the page with each click of it. It works pretty well for finding current activity, cutting across deep threads later in a discussions timeline, and seeing what I wouldn't have earlier.

Maybe you already know about these, they aren't free, but they do address your issues.

For number 1 there is: https://funk-isoft.com/display-maid.html or https://rectangleapp.com/pro

For number 2 there is: https://manytricks.com/menuwhere/

I think both should in some form be supported natively though. My reasoning for the second is that many apps are now using command palette search overlays when technically 'command + shift + ?' or even somewhat 'Move focus to menu bar' system option already does that. But because of large screens it should just pop over the focused window and unify this experience across all apps.

At the very least it is reasonable to separate out high volume usage versus front end replacement and paywalling the former. Since you don't monetize, my intuition is that alternate front ends shouldn't actually be changing your cost. Though I can understand wanting some sort of revenue or cost sharing if revenue is being generated - or these front ends just being free in the spirit of hn.

Between ArchiveTeam and Pushshift, I guess search engines should deliver those instead of the Reddit domain. A lot of the discussion topics have enduring usefulness and so searching a more stable source makes sense.

If Reddit really wanted to make this work they could've worked something out. They know the apps developer keys and could have specially given them a longer runway to transition similar to how they are giving accessibility exemptions[1].

To speculate... I get the sense in part that Reddit hung the big apps out to dry for being publicly vocal and interacting with the press. Apollo probably was already lacking in sympathy with executives for being the reddit app getting air time at an Apple event. It would be petty if true but it is unfortunately no less then what I expect from Reddit.

Reddit came out looking dysfunctional[2] and sleazy throughout this. There was no good reason for this to blowup in the way it did.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/DystopiaForReddit/comments/145e9sk/...

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/addressing_...

This is cool, but I actually feel right now it leans more towards being twitter-like in a reddit UI than a reddit-like. The analogy to tagging on Reddit is posting to a subreddit, but it differs on Reddit in that posting isn't inclusive but exclusive to the discretion of the moderators(owners) of the subreddit(tag). The creates distinguishably different cultures in the comment sections between subs sharing the same content. How you go about approaching how moderation and classifying works will have a major effect on how the commenting and reaction experience will feel.

The interaction and responses aren't as distilled as the example as you can imagine but yes

Yeah as far as I know to change the name of the launching app you would have to duplicate the app bundle and rename it. But if you go that far you could also change the icon as well.

This might not be fully convincing or rigorous, but here is one of the interactions i've had which make me lean towards patterns not concepts...

  I have some unique synonyms I know which are not in dictionaries or commonly used but I know when I have used them in conversation they understand.

  I ask the LLM to provide definitions for WordA and WordB. -They come back essentially the same.
  I ask the LLM if the two definitions are synonymous. -The LLM responds with yes.
  I then ask if WordA is synonymous with WordB. -It replies no.

To me through this and other interactions they don't actually conceptually hold things like the definition as the word. It responds DefinitionA is WordAs definition, it responds DefinitionB is WordBs definition. It follows that DefinitionA of WordA is synonymous with DefinitionB of WordB but not that WordA is synonymous with WordB...

I expect the above is solvable through pattern recognition with tokens. I think given enough information it becomes effectively indistinguishable and practically the same to us. The above is just a testament to how it is getting there... Since it delivers intellect it will be called intelligent, but it doesn't appear to me to be approaching it like human intelligence. Though maybe given enough information, or through different modalities, like the real world as the other commenter says, it will model some deeper coherency.

You can launch new instances from the terminal with

  open -n -a <Application>

If you want you can also launch a new instance using sudo to get root privileges in them as well.

Style transfer is pretty cool tool as someone who likes to play around with sound design. It will be a lot of fun to drop this on parallel channels and blend it together into choruses and new instruments.

Right now the generation still sounds a lot like loop packs smashed together anyone could technically make. But it is practical for anyone who really only cares for that style of sound but do not themselves have the familiarity to do it. Now they can just say what they want and hit regenerate, skipping the latent feedback cycle of iterating with humans or sifting through song snippets.

My opinion on this style of content is that ai generation is simply accelerating us to the inevitable end of generic digital content, it isn't really changing it. It just happens to be also the optimal interface for discovering and not just generation.

Personally, face emulation isn't there yet for video calls and face pass through is a bit odd giving off a dead eyes stare look. Their focus on a portable interface, but stationary and passive spatial entertainment experiences is the right call for where we are with battery capability and weight. It is also what can be generally 'useful' to the broad market class Apple likes to target.

Hopefully, the field of view experience is really as good as it appears. I think they nailed the execution here and definitively defined the vision of these devices going forward.

Oh cool, I didn't realize this was an extension. Orion has it built in as a Develop menu item.

The professors action in isolation was unethical by virtue of purposefully misinforming a public resource. But the primary fault for outcome lies with the students.

But the pedagogy could be improved if trying to reduce instances of cheating. The trap wasn't just the professors intentful actions; doing a take home final was also cheaters bait. Perhaps even how the quizes, class, and assignments were ran were also cheaters bait and creating cheating habits. If the idea is to teach people to be ethical in practice through discipline and not just simply about ethics, it really shouldn't be a lesson only experienced at the point when repercussions for failing are extreme and extend beyond the effected situation.

Though I'm not sure fixating heavily on cheating marks is the right way to frame the problem of trying to improve performance, understanding, and confidence in a subject... It feels like some portion of the cheating of the institution, is self inflected due to the orthodoxy of the institution itself.

Maybe you know about this but one of the things that helped me with Apple Notes search was discovering there was a 'Find Notes' shortcut action. It allows you to filter by folder while searching by name, body, date created, etc...

It works out to be just about as efficient as if it was built into the app since you can use Siri to run it by saying/typing the shortcut name.

Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35491935

Yabai[1] looks like it supports directional focus movement.[2]

You could also check out hammerspoon[3] and see if there are any sample configurations that could do directional focus.[4]

[1]: https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai

[2]: https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai/wiki/Commands#focus-win...

[3]: https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon

[4]: https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon/wiki/Sample-Confi...

What do you do with excess funds? Invest it? Direct it towards your interests and achieving your ideas? If you set up the organizational structure such that you are unlikely to lose your power over it unless you choose to, do you or do you not have similiar control over the equity as if you owned it?

Some people have technology visions which they direct their capital towards. I sense his interest is actually a mix of cultural and social. Is it altruistic? Maybe, but maybe not... It's probably more useful to consider if the vision is or is not restictively utopic and if you think it should or shouldn't be orchestrated / heavily influenced into existence from a central power structure. Is his vision and approach socially aligned?

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ctrl+click was used to show the context menu with a single button mouse. At least some probably used it!

https://www.wired.com/2000/10/eek-a-two-button-mac-mouse/

"In recent years, the company has added "contextual menus" to the Macintosh operating system. But to activate them, users must hold down the control key while pressing down the mouse button, which more or less defeats the purpose."

Oct 31, 2000

I feel like the expected pattern to deal with clutter in MacOS is by hiding rather than just covering. This is often forgotten about but you can alt+click on an app to hide all other apps but the one you clicked. This is even in possible in Mac OS 9. In modern macOS you can invert the behaviour by turning on single-app mode through the terminal. It's then alt+click to show multiple apps and just click to hide all but the app.

I was thinking the same. Perhaps a better word to describe what it is doing is "following" our prompts decently?

In the case of success I think it probably just puts back into perspective that all things considered most employees are still average quality despite being made out to be situationally necessary. That there may be some overestimation of how many actually are necessary and misattributing for who is actually high quality.

The degree you would buy into this probably depends on how much you believe that Twitter is a good representation for the rest of the industry. I imagine a number of people would prefer to believe it is not in the case of success if it is their self value in question.