skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
… you don't have to be part of the distro's official package set.

Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo, Arch, etc., support third-party repositories and packages with bad licenses: the user adds the repo / installs the deb / etc. Pacman, in particular, even has direct support for such, and calls them out (to help ensure the user knows, and perhaps reads, the license).

Then I know I can gracefully uninstall the package by just asking the package manager to do that.

(You don't have to unvendor libs, either: if you install into something like /opt/$pakage_name, you can keep vendored libs in there. You should unvendor them, though.

Yeah, downloading stuff from the Internet in the middle of a package install is definitely harder with some package managers, but IMO that's a poor practice.)
I don't pirate for similar reasons. I just like the UX better. I like all these apps on my tv full of content. Until like 2015 pirating was the better UX so I did that. But now it's a pain in the ass relative to what streaming offers.

I always thought if they want me to pay, they gotta make it worth it. And they have. So they get my money.
The article is mentioning the antiviral facet of ivermectin though. Acting against HIV, dengue and encephalitis for example. I'm very skeptical about this drug, but I'm not even close from being someone that knows this stuff.
I've spent at 10 days a few years ago working in a medical team in an hospital assisting nurses. They have a lot of workflow stuff to follow but that doesn't mean they chose this job for this reason and they mostly hate it. And they are still running left and right for patients all day. Plus their desktop is usually not hidden in an office but in a counter at the center of the service where they multitask between doing the paperwork and talking to patients/visitors/other members of the medical or technical teams
Sorry for the confusion. The comment was at zero when I replied, and was upvoted later.
https://archive.vn/0QO2R
Would Ori and the Blind Forest count? 2D, awesome and hand crafted in every way but I think the publisher wouldn't count as large?
A pricing problem would be where media/subscription costs are higher than people are willing/able to pay.

A service problem would be where the service or app is too complex or time consuming to use, or has a lot of friction during use (as was the case in the original post).
I use a similar setup in Emacs with code-cells.el [1]. VSCode had a tendency to choke rendering large interactive graphs in-line, so if I was needing to view in a separate process anyways a little elisp turns "write last IPython output to a tempfile, open, move to workspace N" into a keybind.

Edit: browser-based Jupyter would also fall down here as the penalty for a graph being too big is at least a kernel restart.

[1] https://github.com/astoff/code-cells.el
"Piracy is a service problem" means that most people pirate because they don't have access (or difficult access) to the product/service they want. They would gladly pay for it, but they can't, or can't be hassled to.

I don't know if it's been backed up by real data, but services like Steam and Spotify tend to confirm this intuition.
went from gmail to fastmail to selfhosting.

if you like a no fuzz setup,use fastmail
> control permissions for individual apps

Sandboxing is ridiculously bad on all 3, the best being MacOS. But this is one area where desktop OSs are simply way behind mobile ones.
Micro-robots to work in underground pipe networks and dangerous sites
Not episodes but Podcasts:

Hunting Warhead: Follows a journalist and police on a global mission to expose the darkest corners of the internet.

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/387-hunting-warhead

Death in ice valley: Podcast investigating a mystery about a dead women in Norway unsolved for almost half a century.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xttp4

The Outlaw Ocean: A seven-part series that explores a gritty and lawless realm rarely seen, populated by traffickers and smugglers, pirates etc.

https://www.theoutlawocean.com/the-outlaw-ocean-podcast/
I fail to see why then it is Twitter's responsibility to report this to the general public or even allow its existence. Authorities exist for a reason, twitter is neither part of the judicial, executive, nor legislative branch, nor does it have any jurisdiction in conducting research into criminal offenses and prosecuting people.

I fail to see why Hunter Biden needs to be held at a different standard than other people, especially given that he did not hold office, nor was in the process of doing so via cronyism, nor did he make millions off his [non existent] position in the government.
Agreed, but here’s the thing: it’s never happened before with any of my other partners. Only her, and the room was pitch black. And yes, I was sober. She glowed in the dark. I can’t explain it. The room had blackout curtains. There was no visible light which is why it still haunts me.
We need a z-lib for movies, shows and music. Revive bittorrent (yes, i know it still exists but it simply doesn't have much content; not many people sharing/seeding anything but blockbusters) or, make a better bittorrent.
I quite like the iOS time picker, but agree the analogue clock style that I think Android popularised is awful. The iOS one also gives a number keypad if you tap the wheels so you can enter that way if you prefer. It’s a shame they don’t do anything similar for dates.
Hope you are at least buying CDs otherwise you are just making excuses to take stuff for free
You cannot not work with people, only the degree varies. And as soon as you are part of a larger organisation, and / or working on complex things, you work woth people as much as you work with things. Including brick layers.
Exactly this. MSN Music screwed me over when they shut down and made the .m4p DRM music files unplayable. I redownloaded all of the music via BitTorrent and persisted to this day.
Guix is also both a package manager and a Linux distro:

> You can install GNU Guix on top of an existing GNU/Linux system where it complements the available tools without interference (see Installation), or you can use it as a standalone operating system distribution, Guix System2.

https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/en/html_node/Introduction.htm...
Given that an attacker would likely obfuscate shenanigans, I don’t think there is much benefit to glancing over source unless you’re really ready to do a little research project for a few hours.
I would argue that one should discern strength when actually caring or not caring to injure someone else in the process.
create so others can consume your creations? ;D
This, good sir, sounds like absolute gravel bike paradise!
>As a software engineer I am working a lot with my computer. Therefore I must be working with things! But... I am just as much working with my soft skills. Scrum retros, talking to stakeholders, discussions on design with fellow engineers, testing with end-users. Some days I don't spend even a minute working with "things".

Yes but did you join the profession for the Scrum meetings or for the programming?
Easy answer: people care about policy, not facts. They will grab onto facts that support the policy they want, and push away facts that don't. The more politicized the issue, as with COVID, the more fearful they become that any doubt or nuance will cede ground to the "other side".

And they're right in the sense that the "other side" is doing the same thing.

For example, every news headline about the pandemic had one of two policy subtexts: Democrat subtext (we need to mask up, lock down, vaccinate), or Republican subtext (we need to open up, drop mask rules, etc). Any media article, when reporting on news, statistics, or scientific studies, would always present it in one of those two contexts. So any new piece of information would be evaluated and presented by the media and by Twitter, not on a basis of how it contributed to our knowledge and evidence-based decisionmaking process, but on a basis of which policy position it seemed to support.

And of course, humans love to form political factions and fight each other ("my" group versus "theirs"), and powerful/rich people gain lots of power/money from this process by leading or feeding one side, so the media and political ecosystem encourage this dynamic.
There's a language issue which has not been tackled by regulators and which is actually the mere definition of what happens when I choose to "buy" or "purchase" something.

This is because until recently (by the timescale of "buying things") there were no intangibles to be bought or sold. An intangible is mostly a right to something - in other words, it's paperwork.

But some things are both tangible and intangible, i.e. that copy of the movie you have on your computer.

That's when the regulator should have stepped in to make precise use of words: you are decidedly not "buying" or "purchasing" a movie from Google Movies. You can only be "renting" it, on Google's terms, albeit long term.

Regulators should mandate the use of the word renting as soon as there is no tangible copy that you can use independently of the company that "sold" -- actually, "leased" -- whatever you "bought" from them.
Old-school computing: when your lab PC is ancient (2021)
> Yeah, but from a user perspective text is superior to date

Hmm I'm not sure if that's always true for mobile users (the subject of this post). Given any default starting date, I can enter in my DOB in:

- 1 tap

- 2 swipes

- another tap

If I was instead presented a keyboard I'd have to make 8 taps. 9 if I count having to switch from abc to 123. And this is under the assumption that the text field has an input mask built-in so I don't manually have to type the separators. If I did have to type those this would be bumped up to 11 taps

I agree with you on desktop though. But the thing is, that already is the way it works on desktop. You can ignore the calendar picker and just type it in directly. It actually works that way on mobile too, but most people don't have a keyboard plugged into their phones
Plenty of people spin out without hitting anything.
Bio Menace, Monster Bash, In Search of Dr. Riptide
> As a software engineer I am working a lot with my computer.

And with ChatGPT coming up we all will have soon to resort to a mixture of arguing, begging and threatening to make computers do what we want.
Feels like there should be a precedent along these lines by now. Do these cases get settled so commonly that none covering this type of case have been ruled on yet?
Based on the description it seems unlikely this is related to studio licensing. For one thing it was a purchased movie, so changes in streaming licensing should not apply. For another thing, the details of app updates and file caching are usually left up to the platform, for obvious reasons: the platforms know way more about that stuff than the studios.
mailbox.org with a custom domain.
Zero marginal cost of reproduction. We dont have yet a rational way to handle that zero.
yep, I want this and you're half way there!
France attempted to pull the United States into another war against Britain less than a decade after the end of the Revolutionary War and, when the Americans weren't interested, sent privateers to interfere in Anglo-American trade, leading to a naval conflict known as the "Quasi-War" in the late 1790's.

The pop-culture reputation of the French as surrendering cowards is, I would agree, a poor representation of what happened in the Second World War. What happened in the Second World War was that the Third Republic was absolutely filled with fascist sympathizers, Anglophobes, and other willing collaborators. The problem wasn't an unwillingness to fight so much as an unwillingness to fight Germany in particular in an alliance with Britain. Unfortunately, this doesn't exactly make France look like a very good ally, either. Nor does the time France unilaterally withdrew their troops from NATO in the 1960's because they, once again, wanted the option of making a separate peace.
One of the the things I love about Gentoo & Arch is that packaging for them is incredibly easy. At least, as long as upstream isn't doing anything insane. But this means that I as a user can wrap an upstream package, without too much of an issue. (E.g., if you have a binary tarball that can be unpacked to, e.g., /opt. Even if it has to be built, so long as your dependencies are clear, that's usually not too hard. Some languages fight package management a bit more than others, though.)
I live in Taiwan but my CC is from Singapore. I want to get HBO but I can't because I don't have a Taiwan CC. But I can sign up for HBO Singapore but I can't use it in Taiwan... Soooo I'm subjected to pirating HBO content. Sometimes I wonder if these companies actually want to make money because they make it so far for us to give them money.
Very good point. But I'd like to get an accurate answer from science in general, I don't see why more effort shouldn't be put into finding the reason behind what's discussed here. culture and upbringing is a mix of biological tendencies and imposed constructs, and I'd like to know which is which.
From google, the total area of South American countries:

1. Brazil: 3,287,957 sq miles

2. Argentina: 1,073,518 sq miles

3. Peru: 496,225 sq miles
On the other hand, all the C-suite works with people.
They’re dropping down to 1/3 of their capacity to get scheduling back on track.
> How about rips of blu-rays you own, which you solely use and do not intend to share? Is that pirating or using your legally owned product on a different medium?

This is protected fair use. But distributing software to decrypt DVD DRM is illegal.
I think the problem here is that people don't realize or care what they sign up for when they "buy" something from a streaming service. IMHO the term "buy" is misleading here and it should be forbidden to call it this way - to acquire a semi-permanent licence for viewing content.
What should really happen is putting these "designers" into the helpdesk seat. Or at the very least have them observe how people use their designs and they are not allowed to interfere. It will be a painful lesson for them. But as long as these things don't happen, we will be stuck with this major suckage that is modern UI.
Some of these new (unified) UI elements are just awful.

My pet grievance is the range input, which is now filled by an accent color from the left (start) up to the selected value. Meaning, if you provide your users a range from -200 to +200 to select a value from, and a user selects a value of 2, this represents a selection of 202 units, which is apparently the real meaning of the number 2. (As is, Safari is the only major browser not participating in this nonsense.)
Ditto, although on a marginally earlier schedule.

Not having to worry about being a data hoarder, with all the sorting, renaming, categorization, archiving etc is incredibly liberating.

I think of all the time I spent on an ancient single core machine ripping CDs (or downloading for OG Napster on dialup), many of which I probably never even listened to, and just shake my head.
I loved those first two games. They were hard to complete and a ton of fun.
Here's how the UK government website's design team recommends doing it: https://designnotes.blog.gov.uk/2013/12/05/asking-for-a-date...
Is Vance still working?
internet services pay for the content they serve. you know like popular sites with static content have huge fastly or cloudflare bills.
His roommate the successful artist Paul Gauguin? Tried to borrow Sunflowers but

“Van Gogh was upset and replied that Gauguin had absolutely no right to make this request: "I am definitely keeping my sunflowers in question. He has two of them already, let that hold him. And if he is not satisfied with the exchange he has made with me, he can take back his little Martinique canvas, and his self-portrait sent me from Brittany, at the same time giving me back both my portrait and the two sunflower canvases which he has taken to Paris. So if he ever broaches this subject again, I've told you just how matters stand".
Some services are impossible to use without Google et Al. Thankfully, people from around the world will create and run an account for you cheaply. Data privacy for you, hot meals for them.
Very true, I think of it as a side-view platformer but of course it wasn't a scroller.
Unfortunately it looks like the kind of person who prefers a file over an app with a magical cloud is becoming more and more rare as apps erode the very notion of such concepts.

It's like trying to explain to your aunt that "the fediverse is like email" when email itself might as well be a Google service for most people.
Neat! A more foolproof method might be sending a bit of bash that triggers a callback request (ie "liveness check", "latest version check" etc) to origin server, and pauses.

When the callback is received, continue with malicious payload, otherwise after some timeout, send a benign script..
I tried doing the right thing via Spotify / Apple Music / Youtube Music. All of them have issues that piracy just doesn't.

Especially youtube music, sure i have access to otherwise "unpublished content" (looking at you Watsky refusing to put Wounded Healer on a streaming platform). But in a 3 hour flight I found myself iterating through all the songs I could download via the app.

For spotify, why do I have to go through all the hassle to explain to a person why tf I want my account closed? Why are you not giving me the tools to manage my library better? Why do I have to manually delete every single one song instead of group select or even purging everything?

I am not saying I am pirating, but I am not saying that it's a thing I will never do again.

The industry should get their shit together and build something that works for the customers (us), and smaller artists as well (cough spotify cough).
Not anymore, we used to do that and maybe a bunch of customers still have that device to log in, but we have been replacing them (the “hard token”) with a “soft token”, kind of a Google Authenticator linked to your mobile.

It is interesting how “yubi”things have moved in the opposite direction (back to the physical device) and it has its value, after all, leaving your home with all your savings in your pocket is a risk we need to address.
The old Twitter agrees with you. Rather than give in to
every request, they considered them on a case by case basis, looks like (TFA): https://mobile.twitter.com/davidzweig/status/160738401573188...
Refusing to be told what to do costs money. Say, Apple put its financial weight at labels with iTunes and iPod, and now we have 99¢ tracks as a norm.

But to spend money on something, a company has to plan to get more in return. Apple did. What would be the plan for Google? What money-making machine of theirs would it enable?
James’s mistake was to want to discuss taboo topics in _public_ and in a _working environment_.

One of the best pg articles imo:

http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
I know some of my friends who would never like to work with people through things (like computers or the Internet). They prefer to have a real office or retail with actual persons around them and don't like working in solitude physically (and a co-working does not cut it for them).
996 of which were made up by the angry mob on Twitter
I was done with google already 10 years ago, and also pirate everything i can, including live events, and shareholders can just go to…
I dunno if I agree with this premise. Some comforts are illusionary but others are not, and once you lose them they are gone, and you will forever live in discomfort.
> And they have. So they get my money.

Sure, as long as that holds. I like the music services as they have all the weird stuff I listen to. I like the book services as they have all the weird stuff I read. But movies/tvshows are a different ballgame; if i'm watching some series or saw some trailer and I want to see it but it doesn't appear in the netflix/hbo/disney/apple in my country, I am not going to wait or not watch it at all.

There are too often new shows that seem interesting (sure, they hardly ever actually are) but are anglo-saxon countries or US only.

Then, in the days of yore, Netflix used to have old movies/shows and people used to hate that. I did not, but they are mostly gone. Why would they not stock ancient content from the 40s-80s? Maybe they do in the US, but here it's almost completely gone.
Mortal Kombat 2 Source Code
400 miles? That's over 6 hours of highway driving. I don't think that's a reasonable battery size for efficiency, road wear, and vehicle weight
No they are not. The courts have been swift and merciless on this shit for music, video and similar things. Google may seem big but they do depends on the law still.
(Is this the standard for internal memos at Google, such that people routinely get fired for missing it?)
I applaud you. I do my best as well using Linux whenever I can and having all my email on Zoho. I struggle with finding a solution for sharing photos via mobile. The whole family is in Apple ecosystem. I feel that if I don't want to spend enormous amount of time on setting up, securing and maintaining systems that I need to use big names solutions.
No tbh I actually really like your solution compared to the alternatives that have been thrown around.

I'm just pointing out it's not easy to implement just to get the logic and styling to work right. And then on top of that, making sure it's screen reader and keyboard accessible adds another layer that is often simply ignored

The simpler solution I put forth resolves most people's problems, maintains the advantages of using native HTML controls the way they were meant to be used, and is easy to implement in... literally a few seconds.
Preprint but newest I can find:

> Conclusions Among outpatients with mild to moderate COVID-19, treatment with ivermectin, with a maximum targeted dose of 600 μg/kg daily for 6 days, compared with placebo did not improve time to recovery. These findings do not support the use of ivermectin in patients with mild to moderate COVID-19.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.15.22283488v...

And from Oct 2022:

>Conclusions and Relevance Among outpatients with mild to moderate COVID-19, treatment with ivermectin, compared with placebo, did not significantly improve time to recovery. These findings do not support the use of ivermectin in patients with mild to moderate COVID-19.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2797483

No one of any credibility is pushing ivermectin, I really don't get why many are still hanging on.
Thanks... This seems pretty counterintuitive though.

Sweden: 29
United States: 49
Switzerland: 58
Thailand: 65
Italy: 75
Portugal: 99

> The extent to which the members of a culture feel threatened by ambiguous or unknown situations and have created beliefs and institutions that try to avoid these is reflected in the score on Uncertainty Avoidance.

My experience is that those numbers pretty much rank in reverse when it comes to actual risk taking. It seems weird to me that this metric as described would not correlate to that. Swedes and the Swiss are pretty (extremely) risk averse compared to all Italians and Portuguese I've ever met and observed... And Thailand ranks above Sweden? That's nonsensical...

> Countries exhibiting high Uncertainty Avoidance maintain rigid codes of belief and behaviour and are intolerant of unorthodox behaviour and ideas. In these cultures there is an emotional need for rules (even if the rules never seem to work) time is money, people have an inner urge to be busy and work hard, precision and punctuality are the norm, innovation may be resisted, security is an important element in individual motivation. Decisions are taken after careful analysis of all available information.

I feel like whoever made this up hasn't been to any of these countries.
There's way too much gnashing on teeth on HN about what the masses prefer, or what's popular.

I'm a technical user. On a website full of technical users. We really should stop considering their needs over our own even in recreational discussions.
Spytify is a Spotify recorder for Windows which records Spotify audio