skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> your implementation would be more prone to scammy content farmers (e.g. spammers using trials/locale pricing arbitrage to play only one $SCAM_ARTIST song per account).

Wat? You're saying that if you misimplement it and count all users including free/trial as equal paying you could get problematic incentives? Well, yeah. The point is today you have correctly implemented per-stream and there is a massive open arbitrage. A bot account can control 100-1000x of revenue compared to a human.

> Most importantly, however, your model is just not how memberships work in the real world. [...]

Spotify doesn't produce music, they act as middle man between you and the artists you listen to. There's a reasonable expectation that Spotify takes a cut between you and the artists you listen to, similar to an app store. Splitting your contribution between the artists you're listening to makes sense and importantly does not have arbitrage for content farm spammers (modulo a tiny bit of value from stolen accounts).

HBO and Costco aren't just funneling money around, they're producing physical goods and content, so it doesn't apply directly. You could make a more convoluted argument that they should follow the same principles but it's really not clear what that would mean, so I'm not gonna defend it. Same with taxes, I don't know what either per-stream or per-customer would even map to in that space.
This "care" is unnecessary and harmful for most children. Puberty is the cure for most children with body dysphoria; up to 90% of kids who identify as transgender desist from this identity post-puberty. However, effects from "gender-affirming care" like a deepened voice, mastectomy, orchiectomy, hysterectomy, and sterilization are irreversible. The long-term effects of puberty blockers especially are unknown, particularly as they affect adolescent brain development. That's without mentioning the usual risks of blood clots, osteoporosis, mood disorders, and cardiovascular events that can result from hormone treatment even in clinical settings.

In the UK, the Tavistock clinic for youth gender medicine was recently forced to shut over concerns for patient safety, and findings that staff were rushing children into procedures they later regretted:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/sep/04/gender-ident...

The NHS-commissioned Cass Report details the many risks and gaps of evidence underlying youth transition:

https://cass.independent-review.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/0...

Former patients are now coming forward to tell how they were harmed:

https://www.persuasion.community/p/keira-bell-my-story

In the US, the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine is attempting to spread this knowledge among practitioners:

https://segm.org/

This issue is highly ideological and politicized on both sides. Suggesting medical transition for any minor is not currently supported by the evidence. National health systems like Sweden's have banned it outside clinical trials. Instructing minors to attempt it themselves without medical or psychological evaluation or monitoring is reckless in the extreme. Doing it for sexual gratification, as some are in Keffals' case, is monstrous.
Ah I thought you had the child in traffic, that changes matters considerably. Riding on the sidewalk when you're that small is the best solution.

11/12 is indeed the risky age: strong enough to attain appreciable speed, but not smart enough to do so responsibly. One of my kids is right in the danger zone and has so far managed to avoid falling, which probably means that if and when he does it will be bad. I caution him whenever we go cycling together but autumn (wind, leaves) is coming and going home from school is such a motivating thing for him that I can't really get him to slow down. Tricky!
I gave up piracy in my 20s. Looks like it might be time to sail the high seas again.
Toyota Aygo is no longer produced. Replaced by Aygo X - a somewhat bigger car.

Renault Twingo is produced, but is not offered in some countries (I know about UK and Poland).

Peugeot 108 is no longer produced and AFAIU a successor was cancelled. Same thing for sibling Citroen C1. Aygo was also a sibling model.

Suzuki Ignis is a crossover now.

Skoda Citigo is no longer produced. Its sibling model VW Up is still produced, but other sibling Seat Mii is not.

Smart is a bit in a class of its own. It is not cheap though. Toyota had iQ in this class - it is no longer produced.

That leaves us with Hyundai i10 and its sibling Kia Picanto, Fiat Panda which is just a bit bigger then usual in the class, Fiat 500, aforementioned VW Up and Mitsubishi Mirage (also called Space Star in some countries). For me this is a sign of the class being less represented. I think it can go in other direction when electric cars will finally be cheaper, but it will not happen for a couple of years.
My laptop does a hard shutdown if the battery goes below 95%.

It's gotten to the point that I've had to configure it to hibernate at 98%.

This is not very nice on the laptop vendor's part. This laptop is less than 2 years old.
Yes, generally not much in the way of CSI tech... just some magic ;) at least as far as I recall.. the first few books had some pretty amusing 90sish IT stuff but that mostly falls away as the universe gets built / the mc does very little IT.
I realise that, so this event is even worse.
I played FS4 so much as a kid, but being dumb and living in Europe and wanted to see a familiar continent, so several times I set my computer to fly east from New York on autopilot and then went to bed, only to find that my plane had mysteriously crashed before reaching the fabled continent before I woke up...
I found this article in an 1896 Australian magazine that bicycle riding was "a new disease is a kind of intoxication for movement, that is shown in an unconscious, or semi-unconscious bearing of the body, which becomes especially plain when great steadiness is called for, as for instance, in sitting for a photograph. It is shown also in an over desire for rapidity of motion, as if it were necessary at every moment to overcome time and curtail distances by labor of an extreme kind. The constant impression given is that the sufferer, from this general vibratory condition of the body, must jump on his wheel and be off, although the weather and circumstances are not opportune for riding. The whole manner bespeaks haste, although there is not the slightest occasion for it." https://twitter.com/martyvis/status/1562362136612859904
A bike also has the safety mechanism of not being 3000 pounds and the inability to easily drive through the walls of buildings
...but lots of content providers with their own infrastructure, people sharing accounts and many people are subscribing only to a few content providers.
The container orchestrator landscape
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Lots of people? Check. Years of life lost? Possibly. Rotting? You bet.
I agree. In Copenhagen multiple bas stops just go onto bike traffic. And they DO NOT CARE that a bus just stopped and people are about to come out.
What you call over-explained magic, others call 'hard magic' (like 'hard sci-fi').
Mysterious magic can give that sense of wonder/ambience, but it's hard to use it in order to satisfactorily solve problems: because it isn't clear what the magic can and can't do, if you have Gandalf whip out magic to fix every issue that comes along, the plot devolves into a series deus ex machinae. This means the more mystic magic has to have a subtler influence on the plot.

It's not as annoying if vague magic causes, or can cause problems, though. Even The Lord of the Rings contains some hard magic: when Frodo puts on the ring, he turns invisible, but becomes more visible to shades. The useful effect is a pretty well-defined and discrete! The full extent of the costs and dangers are less clear, though- which gives you a great feeling of foreboding every time Frodo puts on the ring, or is in a situation where it might be needed.

Harder magic more often gives a character a toolkit, and it means you can have a them come up with a novel combination or application of the abilities they have available to them to solve a problem without it feeling like an ass-pull. It's like a murder mystery, where you can wonder at what the answer is ahead of time, try to pick up on clues.

I think there might be two different genres wearing the same face, here. I like "scientific fantasy" as much as "fantasy", but in general they might appeal to different people.
In the fantasy book 'the misenchanted sword', the main character doesn't understand magic (he's just a scout), but when his sword ends up enchanted to 'protect him' (no other information given), he does what a real person might do- he tries to figure it out, see if it follows any rules! Along the way, he sometimes misunderstands or doesn't know enough, and consequently makes bad decisions. I really liked it, and I wouldn't have liked it as much if the main character hadn't been... doing science on his sword!

I agree that a lot of stories that incorporate harder magic systems also lack some poetry, but I don't think that's necessarily because of the hard magic. I think there's a selection effect going on, where the type of author most likely to write a story with discrete, well-defined powers is also more likely to have a discrete, well-defined, non-mysterious approach to the whole story.
I recently read a story called 'Wander west, in shadow' that has characters with pretty discrete magical abilities (they can learn to use more of 'the Art', but they each only know a few tricks), but magic and the world in general feels mysterious and broad. You know what the characters can do, so when they cleverly improvise it feels earned, but you don't know exactly how big the world is, and the characters are continually coming across things they don't understand. I got a 'Tom Bombadil' or 'Elven tools aren't magic, or are they?' vibe from a few parts of the story, for example. I really recommend it.
Switzerland is 25-30 (at a certain seniority).
I don't think "pirating" is a legal definition.

By the way, point 8 has an important caveat at the beginning:

"It is possible to make a copy of a work for personal use under the exceptions contained in the Czech Copyright Act."

(Emphasis mine)

Point 11 only says that you're not responsible for copyright infringement if your use falls into what's described in art.29 of the copyright act (the "three steps", which according to point 8 are described in that article), which according to google translate says

---

> (1) Exceptions and limitations of copyright can only be applied in
special cases established by law and only if
such use of the work does not conflict with the normal way of using the work and neither does it
the legitimate interests of the author are not unreasonably affected.

> (2) Free use and legal licenses, with the exception of the official license and
news (§ 34), license for school work (§ 35 par. 3), license for
reproductions of works from own collections for archival and conservation needs
[Section 37 paragraph 1 letter a)], license for temporary reproductions (§ 38a),
a license for a photographic likeness (§ 38b) and a license for non-essentials
secondary use of the work (§ 38c), apply only to the published work.

---

Which to me reads like the usual fair use exceptions you find in other countries.

In Italy, at least, downloading copyrighted content without authorization is not a felony, but you can still get fined. I expect much of the EU to have similar provisions.
Could not agree more. Most city infra is not built for bakfiets-style bikes so they clog bike lanes. Paired with an electric motor they are dangerous given the speed they can go and their intrinsic weigh.

Most of the time I see people carry a single child or a bag of goods at best. Quite similar to how often people use SUVs for actual offroad riding, like never. Don't get me wrong, if you are transporting stuff on a daily basis these are great. But it seems for the majority of time a normal bike plus backpack or child seat would have been sufficient.
Why women receive less CPR from bystanders (2018)
just checked my situation and i’m subscribed to: netflix 4k, amazon prime, disney+, paramount+, sky/nowtv, apple tv plus, youtube premium and spotify. and this is just entertainment.
This should be integrated into Markwhen.com
It is getting into the weeds of philosophy, but they are separate concepts. Entities can be greedy without desire (eg, corporations are extremely greedy, but have no desire) and vice versa (eg, imagine an extreme desire for fresh air - it is hard to call that greed).

But to say greed causes suffering is untrue. The thing to underline in the last 200-300 years is that humans harnessed greed to deliver great results - the successive Asian economic miricles of the last century are not being caused by charity and goodwill! And the techniques that they are using were forged in some of the crucibles of most concentrated greed in human history. And while there was suffering, this was also where progress, peace and comfort came from.

The greed isn't the problem here, it is part of the solution. It just needs to be separated out from the other things going on and properly focused.
So you're saying all those five-seater cars that are being made are for seating five adults but if you have children you need a van?
Well, in a way it is inherent. There is simply no place for a third competitor, as developing for even just 2 platforms is already the max a company would be willing to do.

That’s why even Microsoft would a ridiculously huge budget failed, the market is simply saturated. The only way a new competitor could stand up is 100% compatibility with one of the platform’s app selection or a non-profit, open-source model.

So linux phones with android comp may indeed have a future, but I think they should pretty much just ditch most of the existing linux desktop user space as it is fundamentally flawed (mostly security-wise), but then we are back to android and it begs the question, why reinvent the wheel instead of just fixing the few shortcomings of android, like too close coupling with google?

If anything, we need better hardware, not software — grapheneOS is pretty much ideal as a linux/android OS.
> Which means global mamdatory ownership registration.

As a private citizen, this sounds like an excuse for a surveillance state.
Cyberwar in Ukraine. Help us fund our work on fighting phishing
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https://www.ukrainenow.org/projects/yubico-hideez-support
It's okay officer, I'm not drunk, I just had a bunch of ketamine and some LSD.
The one big advantage beyond on demand hs scheduled programming is a la carte pricing. Consumers asked cable for a la carte pricing for years and it was never an option because no one would subscribe to a 200 dollar package then. People only really watch 5-10 channels.

With that said this was the perdictable end. These companies are going to want to grow their revenue and they are all peaking in subscriber growth so increasing pricing is the logical step.
It is called disincentive. In this particular case spamming would be akin to the negative externality in the Economics because spammers are hurting the whole system and the whole userbase by their toxic behaviour(activity).
> I don't understand why people / Meta believes all social networking needs to compete or does compete?

They are competing with each other over people’s time and attention. The more time someone spends on Facebook the more ads Facebook can show them, and the more data Facebook can collect. The more time someone spends on TikTok the less time they have to spend on Facebook.
I bike with a camera. I capture cars doing illegal and dangerous stuff multiple times a day when I bike, and post it online or/and report them. So your suggestions are way off. Just in may&june I totaled over 160 reports.
The Template Method Pattern and the Non-Virtual Idiom
But driving could be even worse, due to the cars collecting pollution: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/13/cyclists...

In fact, the second link for me in that Google search mentions this study, as well as others suggesting the physical and mental benefits of cycling outweigh the pollution you breath in: https://www.standard.co.uk/optimist/theairwebreathe/cycling-...
What is blowing up those Russian bases in Crimea?
You can run google services in a sandbox on grapheneos for only select programs.
I see idiots at least twice a day. Does that mean it’s cool for me to treat you like an idiot? If no, then I think you may have skipped over the point of this sub thread.
Well the internet is the new tv - full of ads, mediocrity and misinformation. No surprise some form of paid “channels” evolved.
NASA’s new rocket is the last hurrah for US space agency’s old ways
As a long-time Unity user increasingly interested in alternatives, I find the choice of a non-standard language to be very offputting, moreso than the thought of returning to the pain of C++ to work with UE.

Established languages generally have high-quality tools for debugging, refactoring, and more, as well as loads of libraries and code examples available, and books/tutorials/documentation.

IMHO, one of Unity's best moves was to focus on C# and discontinue support for their own custom language.
That center circle is actually the sun approaching the horizon, because they are "sunsetting" Visual Scripting.
What kind of scooter, if you don't mind sharing?
Bah, in my experience bicycle users behave really badly on average. Certainly no better than car drivers.

For example they will be ready to crash on a pedestrian who is walking on a bike lane for good reason (most common ones are: an excavator made a trench on the sidewalk, the snow clearing machine took all the snow from the road and made a mountain on the sidewalk).

However when there is no bike lane available, they will have no problem in going on the sidewalk at 50km/h with their electric motor. Despite this being clearly forbidden.

And getting hit by an electric bike going 50 is no joke. You don't just get a bruise and move on with your day.
"Delete Facebook"

If you could delete your Facebook profile, congratulations! However, you should realize that not all people can do this. If your society is not reliant to Facebook, then good for you, I also hate Facebook and Gualdrapo seems to hate it too (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32576061). However, giving incomplete replacements (especially the infamous "migrate them to another messaging app!") would just result in backfiring and further entrenchment of Meta products. Worse, if that other service really improved a lot they will no longer try it due to past experience. Short of a) Facebook being no longer tolerable to a majority of your friends and b) there's a viable replacement for Facebook's features (especially it's group features - a phpBB-like forum is not good for this), it'll be hard to fully remove Facebook.
I pay $85/month for my broadband cable alone, via the Comcast Xfinity monopoly I don't really have any other option. but I guess I'd need to pay that even if I watched no streaming TV.
A bicycle has the same right to the road that a car has. Just like you'd have to slow down for a tractor, you're supposed to slow down for bicycles as well.

Roads exist for all road users, not just for drivers.
I would love grapheneOS on some better hardware - I didn’t want to sacrifice on that, so I went with an iphone which have a similarly good security-story.
First thing I was thinking of when I saw the picture was: Is that Bart Simpson?
Very interesting question.

I think that's a nuanced distinction that very much comes down to exactly how the other person suggests getting off facebook. If I get the impression that the commenter cares about the well-being of somebody and suggests it as a solution, I tent to categorize it as "good advice". Example: "I had the same problem / know of people who had the same problem, getting off facebook seems to help".

On the other hand, when it's a barely related topic (nothing about mental health, only related to the company) + there's no actual person to care about + the comment is very standoff-ish, I jump to virtue signaling.

Unsolicited advice, especially when given in a tone like this, is often much more about the giver of the advice than anyone else imo.
I guess there are many ways forward if you want to do this. One of the hardest problems is the concept of "most important bits". The most important bits are the exact bits needed to re-create your program. Think of it as a save state in an emulator, or serializing changes made to a read-only database, all in an effort to reduce the state necessary to go back later.

No matter what solutions you offer when catching errors, the problem of the most important bits is a hard one, and one that you yourself need to implement in every program. Quite frankly, almost nobody add these features. We were considering paying the Botan creator to add serialization to his TLS library, and he found that it would be too much work, so he ended up declining. I had to add it to s2n, but they were never interested in it, so I maintained it myself until eventually I discarded it. All in the effort to recreate a full networking stack after hotswapping an entire OS in milliseconds. Quite a fun project. Nevertheless, I don't think it will ever be easy.
I've lived in various cities of The Netherlands for most of my life. Almost every bike I've ever had was stolen. I'm pretty sure leaving my bike unlocked for over half an hour has been a 90% loss rate for me.

I've never lost a bike that was locked. Even the crappiest lock has protected me in the center of Amsterdam. I've used a lock that you could probably cut with paper scissors to protect my retro racing bike. Often not even attached to a pole or anything.

I'd almost blame my lost bikes on myself because the thieves are so consistently preying on my negligence. But F them, it hurt everytime, it's not my fault my head's in the clouds so often.
Yup I've written a few toy physics sims based on his work. Super prolific and amazingly elegant approaches.
1. Most of the time I encounter cyclists is on country roads, which is 90% of my driving.

2. In the city they're even less of an issue, because the speed limit is 50 km/h and they're doing what, 20-40km/h? It's not that big a deal especially if you factor in intersections, roundabouts, etc.

3. They're still narrower than farm tractors. Or herds of cattle. It's just not that big a deal.
Rust isn't JS...
"Stop being silly" is not a polite way to engage in a discourse.

These choices matter.

https://drewdevault.com/2022/03/29/free-software-free-infras...
Could we get energy from solar power in space?
video here: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2022/08/SOLARIS_Pr...
Tesla should aim for full self parking first. They're behind other manufacturers on that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsb2XBAIWyA
So if you can't safely overtake a bicycle, you expect it to stop by the side of the road to let you pass after 20 seconds?
Agreed. Rust is a far more reasonable/obvious choice.