skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'll accept pip, I'm not picky

This was the main thing I’m reacting to: installing from something like pip is usually running a ton of unvetted code downloaded from the internet. If you trust such package managers, you might as well curl to a shell.
And if you include children I don't see how this could possibly be true.

There are female children too.

More than 5% of the male population is old, weak, and/or disabled

There are old, weak, and disabled women as well. Additionally, if you think old men are weak I suspect you have never had to wrestle an eighty year old with dementia out of a bath tub. They are remarkably, irritatingly strong.
> The issue here isn't that it's Google, it's that Google is doing what they're told to do.

Nice try. One of the largest tech companies of the world, which in most countries other than USA holds basically a monopoly on mobile computing, is not being pushed around by the creative industries. Remember when Youtube became a thing and the media companies wanted it gone? Google fought with them and created a technology stack that almost any media company today uses, because it was in their interest to do so.

No, it's Google all the way down alright. They can force creative industries to accept real ownership of the media by the users, but this time it's just not in their interest to do so.
That's a bit reductionist.

He made more points than men prefer things and women prefer people.

If you make 1000 points, and one of them is right, it doesn't make the other 999 right.
Believe that all you want, but it's not how the world works.
My girlfriend's windows 10 on spinning disks take much less than that for the desktop to appear, but I don't think her desktop is really usable until way beyond 25 minutes.

My professional laptop on windows 10 boot in a few seconds but then it takes a minute or 2 for Microsoft Teams to show up and that is with SSDs. In comparison same laptop on linux take a little more time to boot to desktop but I can quickly get a browser window with teams / outlook and open other apps so while it appears slower to boot it is usable roughly at the same time. There are a lot of shitty technics to make windows appear loading faster than it really does.

What matters is not the time for the login screen or desktop to appear but the time until you can be productive on it.
I am proud to say I don't use a single google service, and haven't in years. Now, if someone sends me a YouTube link, I watch it (in an invidious instance, of course) and I use some metasearch engines which rely on google to a large degree, hut I don't have a google account, I use no google services, have no google applications installed anywhere.

The same applies to Meta and Microsoft as well, and some others. I have a general rule, if a company does something, anything at all, that translates to "fuck you what are you going to do about it you need us more than we need you" then I cease using all their services immediately, no matter how painful. Require me to sign in to use a local application? Demand updates and install them automatically, or prevent me from continuing until I update? Bye, forever. This means I don't have a video game console of any kind, I often get my emails sent to spam, I do quite a bit of my own user infrastructure maintenance, and my experience is alien to a lot of other people, but let me tell you, I'm free and I feel it 24/7. My mind is free from worry about losing access to these things, I don't think about what I am allowed to say, almost ever, I'm not subject to attempts to manipulate my behavior nearly as often, I highly recommend it to anyone and everyone, no matter how difficult. I've got a secret for you: it's only difficult because you've been trained to do things their way for so long. Their way is not actually easier or more convenient, you're just not used to the other way any more. But you used to be, there used to be a time when they couldn't treat you this way, they still can't unless you let them, they've spent enormous resources convincing you that you don't have a choice, but you do, they need you more than you need them, you don't have to take this abuse, stop giving your patronage to companies who treat you like this or none of this will ever get any better.
I purchases a movie on Apple TV (I think it was "Men up" a comedy with Simon Pegg) and after purchase it said I could not play it on my MacBook - the device I purchased it from - as my MacBook 2020 did not support the right flavour of DRM.
I think this is true for the majority of people, and I think music streaming is the example of this. I know almost no people who still pirate music, everyone has spotify. The competition between services (tidal, deezer) seems to be fought over music quality and some minor exclusives but the majority of the music collection is shared over services.
The article disagrees:

> Today, ivermectin is continuing to surprise and excite scientists, offering more and more promise to help improve global public health by treating a diverse range of diseases, with its unexpected potential as an antibacterial, antiviral and anti-cancer agent being particularly extraordinary.

...

> Recent research has confounded the belief, held for most of the past 40 years, that ivermectin was devoid of any antiviral characteristics.
A ranking of countries by uncertainty avoidance is part of Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstede%27s_cultural_dimens...). There is a website where you can easily compare countries (https://www.hofstede-insights.com/).
> You have mistaken me for a crypto-absolutist,

Well, if the shoe fits...

> if there are going to be resales, _of course_ the venue would prefer to get a commission. That is a real market problem now

There are so many things wrong with this.

1. You assume that as matter of indisputable fact that venues are absolutely entitled to a cut on any ticket resales, in perpetuity.

2. You assume that people reselling tickets (and venues not getting a cut) is a problem. It isn't, really. This is somewhat true for a very tiny number of very popular events, and even there there are ways to mitigate it. The hundreds of thousands of events that happen around the world that require the ticket don't have this "problem".

3. It's telling that you assume that it's the venues that have to get in on the cut. Not the concert organisers. Not the actual people in the event (artists, sports teams, presenters etc.)

4. Of course, as with all "solutions" involving blockchains it doesn't solve anything. You transfer a ticket to another person for free, and get the money for it in a different transaction. You transfer credentials for the wallet which bought the ticket to a person, you get money in a different transaction. Etc.

5. Of course, as with all "solutions" involving blockchains, this one exclusively focuses on a single issue (which is largely inexistent in the grand scheme of things) to cater to the simplest of all the cases (selling a single ticket to a single person). And all this "solution" does is: make it extremely complicated and complex, not really solving anything, and making other legitimate use cases even more extremely complex or impossible (because ticketing is much more than just selling a single ticket to a single person, even if it's the biggest use-case).

> "Tickets are a solved problem" rings as intuitively spoken as "nobody will ever need more than 640K"

This is observable reality. There are hundreds of thousands of events that require tickets around the world (probably even on any given day). You buy a ticket, you go in, done.

It is a solved problem.

> solve those real problems

You have to show that it's both a) a real problem, and that b) what you propose is an actual solution, not a "well, if you squint hard enough and ignore reality, it barely works for the simplest of cases, if at all"

> or whatever reason you refuse to entertain because the answer contains the words block and chain contiguously.

The only reason I refuse to entertain them is because you keep failing to show how it is a solution to anything. Given the list of issues I listed above that are immediately obvious to anyone with half a brain and a grasp on reality.

And yes, that is an issue with almost literally anything that has "block and chain contiguously".
Let’s ditch the dangerous idea that life is a story
Car crashes are also identified after the fact. Doesn't make it unreasonable to declare one when you first notice your wheels have lost traction on the ice. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T10Y2YM
> google-lite life

I like that term. I am a happy DDG user who uses Youtube without an account and typically avoids everything else by Google. Sorry for not clicking the thumbs up button or subscribing to your channel - I would if it would not require a Google identity. I also use Firefox and would prefer if Mozilla would find a way to diversify away from Google sponsorship.

If your survey is a Google form, I am not participating. If your document is on Google behind a login-wall, I am not reading it. If your email account is on Google, I will ask you about other channels. I think my data is worth much more than Google is willing to pay for it and they don't deserve to get it in exchange for a couple of candies or glass beads.
Same shit with Audible literally yesterday complained about aax format. If something happens to humanity any major catastrophic event and we will need to restore everything. We won't be able to achieve it with everything being proprietary and needing a connection and paid license. It's crazy and needs to be stopped.
The problem being, the date picker is already a (single) input field. Having multiple input fields for what is already an input field somewhat defeats the purpose.

This doesn't address the real problem, though, which is IMHO that a calendar-like presentation doesn't lend itself easily to numeric date input/selection, especially, if it's about a date outside the current month. (E.g., a 3-column list view, which could be operated both by mouse/touch and keyboard input, may serve the purpose a bit better. Safari mobile could even style them rolodex-like… Which is, BTW, how it used to work on Safari mobile, before they switched to the unified style.)
Pricing means you pirate media because you dont want to pay for it.

Service problems means you pirate stuff because it's too inconvenient to do it legally, and easier to pirate stuff.
why not break the 0 and do major releases whenever you break something?
(A former commercial eBay seller here.) First, you can block a buyer from interacting with your store ever again. Second, you can leave a scathing review of the transaction and the buyer; if it's factually correct, eBay won't remove it, no matter how the buyer insists.

This eventually lowers the scammer's rating low enough to be a signal to other sellers. Such an account is either left to dust for a year or so, until the bad reviews go out of the rating-calculation window, or is replaced with a new account.

This works if you're a seller with some daily volume and selling experience. If you just want to sell a piece of your stuff at a random moment, you're at a higher risk, and are for a bigger downside if scammed.

But anyway, eBay's policies are stacked against the seller and heavily in favor of the buyer. I understand why it makes business sense.
That's the funny part about corporations. Because of the large internal hierarchy, even if majority of Google employees thinks that these antics about control over user are a bad idea, everybody perceives there is an expectation not to bring it up internally.
Between iTunes and Bandcamp, it's very easy to buy DRM free music (most of the time). In the streaming era, its basically impossible to buy TV shows and movies without DRM.
Data of 30M Indian Railways users is up for sale on a dark forum
Data belonging to Indian Railways is up for sale on the dark web. A person with the username shadowhacker has posted the data of 30 million users on the portal for sale. The threat actor is also providing a sample database in plain text format. So, interested buyer can verify the data before the payment.
*Can you run KDE? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33951719
When talking about populations, this should be implicitly assumed - just like that the experiment took place on Earth and the participants were breathing air. I don't know why this isn't burned into peoples brains with a big flashing neon sign, and why someone inevitably comes up with a counterargument of 'but not all X' when these things are discussed.
To cut down on tracking, ads, recommendations, etc while retaining access to the full YT library, check out the Invidious [0], NewPipe [1], and FreeTube [2] frontends.

PeerTube and LBRY are perfectly usable YT replacements - there's just the chicken and egg problem of getting either viewers or creators to switch en masse first.

[0] https://yewtu.be
[1] https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/org.polymorphicshad...
[2] https://freetubeapp.io/
Refute??
Basically, that people aren't nudged to pirate content because they don't want to pay or the price is too high, but rather because the quality of service for trying to be legitimate is so poor.
He's selling his book:

"Feeding the Birds at Your Table is designed to provide detailed, comprehensive advice and suggestions for people wishing to feed wild birds in Australia from their own backyards and balconies."

Seems like he has a vested interest in selling copies of his book.

Australians of all people should know better than to claim to understand the ramifications of human intervention on complex natural systems. See: introduction of cane toads to Australia.

Backyard wildlife feeding is extremely intrusive in all cases, it should be and is blanket banned in many places.

People with feeders also have a vested interest in convincing themselves that it's OK.

"I'm making friends with the bird", yes you are, it's a profoundly toxic relationship.

If you can claim to understand the full and long-range ramifications of your intervention in a natural system, who thinks they are so smart?
The importance of individual data points (the viability of specific products etc) is debatable. What is not debatable, and quite astonishing if you take a step back, is that the majority of tech infrastructure of the recent era, and a major part of total "value creation" as per public markets is based on a random agglomeration of business models. Some of them positively despised and progressively hemmed in by regulation, others unviable on a standalone basis etc.

Its not clear if the way the mess will resolve is reverting back to true "big tech" where we pay for tech (as opposed to big adtech or big ecommerce providing tech as a sideshow) or is some other pattern will emerge.

The astonishing amount of freebies points on the one hand on the increasingly low cost of tech, on the other hand on the enormous commercial benefit of extracting value from user behavior.

What will be the new equilibrium and will it in any sense feel "right" and sustainable? Its a trillion dollar question.
Virtue or vice, it (currently) also distinguishes us from the Large Language Models.
They’d probably either jump straight to requiring a phone number or ssn and try to write it off as “there’s no other way to verify you’re a real person.” We seem to be going this way already.
Just to be absolutely clear -- you're claiming that nobody had any problem with Trump? Not sure what media you consume if so.
> antiviral

Not covid though
> Thing is, there wasn't that much of it before the CDC spent over a month spewing bullshit telling people not to wear masks because masks don't stop the spread of COVID.

They made it clear after the fact that this was done because there wasn't an adequate supply of masks for 330M people, and they needed to secure a supply for first responders. The job of the government is to make tough decisions like this in times of crisis. You can agree or disagree but this was neither malicious nor in my opinion outside the scope of the role.

We also knew a lot less about what was going on at that time, and once again, that means we need to extend some degree of leniency to folks making conservative if difficult choices like this. If it came down to it yeah of course we need to secure the supply for first responders first.

Now we never should have been in that position in the first place but that was the fault of past administrations, not the CDC in the moment and didn't change what needed to be done.

> It was obvious to everyone and their dog that masks help stop the spread of respiratory infections.

Some masks, but not all masks. Single layer cloth masks do nothing. [1] N95s sure, but even at peak COVID most people weren't wearing N95s, they were wearing non-medical surgical-style masks, which only block between 30 and 70% of particles.

Even still while less effective than N95s, those surgical masks do help. [2]

[1] https://globalnews.ca/news/8460528/masks-effectiveness-omicr...

[2] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abg6296
Numpy is often faster because it’s often using highly optimized simd, or makes use of BLAS/Fortran/LAPACK/MKL/CuBLAS implementations.

A pure rust implementation will likely always be slower by virtue of not using the same tightly designed optimized code.

Side note: A fun implementation detail of numpy is that after you install it from pypi, it does a user side compile of some of the modules on first import. Which means you need to be somewhat careful if you ever relocate an install of it to a new machine
This story is half DRM, Steaming / Ownership issues and half Google / Android issues.

But to point out something not mentioned and likely come up with in the comments, why not Apple iPad?

And there is a reason why Apple is financially doing insanely great. Where are the competition? All the alternatives are so good damn appalling, to quote Steve Jobs, ( Cant find the Clip ) "Makes me embarrassed as a human being".
Yeah I also really hate how the company has changed. They changed the office to be all hipster bean bag shit with flexi desks but still expect us to be there most of the time. So we end up trying to concentrate beside cackling marketing chicks or boring finance suits. They don't respect us at all. I hate it. We had our corner before the pandemic and that worked fine but this doesn't. It's like they try to shoehorn a multinational into the mindset of a startup which is not working at all.

I'd have moved already if I could have kept my seniority (meaning the amount of years built up in case I'm fired). I need that as a buffer for the mortgage.
My 7yo son loves this, even though after few minutes he often ends up in such laggy experience he has to restart it..
They can ban you more thoroughly, based on the delivery address, for instance. A determined scammer can just buy a new PO box, of course.
because if it's biological then you have to live with it (till you get scalable affordable bioengineering) whereas if it's social imprinting then you don't "have to live with it", for that it's going against our biological encoding. Your comment suggest that we should not question upbringing which I disagree with.
The more of these male vs female preferences articles I see, the less I find myself caring.
I said it before, but I'll repeat myself: For digital possessions, we need a clearing house. Everyone offering music, videos, etc. for sale or long-term rent, needs to register a digital copy in a standardized format with said clearing house. Every sale has to be registered there as well. Whenever the seller disables DRM or does locks out the buyer in any other way (not supporting new or old devices, closing down accounts, whatever), the clearinghouse will handout a copy to the buyer. The usage of the clearing house will be mandated by law.
I bought a copy of Count Zero on the Kindle Store.

Halfway through reading, it refuses to open on my Kindle. Deleting the book and re-downloading it results in the same thing. I update the software, still nothing. No amount of time spent troubleshooting suggestions from Amazon, Reddit, etc. change a thing about the situation. There is literally no way to open the book that I legally paid for on my Kindle hardware that I legally paid for.

Maybe I can buy another Kindle and cross my fingers that the bug doesn't show up there, but this Kindle isn't even old. I bought it in 2019 and the battery life is still excellent.

Guess what I did after that with Count Zero and every other book I ever bought on the Kindle Store just in case?
If anybody else is now thinking about alternative possible designs and wants to explore the way different design systems do it:

https://component.gallery/components/datepicker/
I still pirate movies - despite being able to afford them now - just because the experience is so much more pleasant. There's a file, you can open a file with the media player. Simple. No crapware, no phoning home to the internet.

Feel zero guilt about it.
Indeed, DOSBox has been written for DOS games (and it's great at this), compatibility with other software has never been a concern. BIOS and DOS calls are HLEd which is why neither are necessary to get it running.
People pirates because it's the simplest way to obtain what they want, and not because it's the cheapest.
Maybe general misanthropy in these countries supersedes the inbuilt bias :)
Bums me out that the title was isn’t “Vimvana”.
I'm done with most of these services since long. I keep a few subscriptions around but would never "rent" or "buy" a movie from these places.
A service problem is when the media mafia refuses to sell me files that I can keep. I'd like to open some website and pay 15 bucks for a movie (the same as I'd buy for a recent bluray in a store) where I'm then allowed to just download a .mkv that I can throw on my nas. Major streaming sites refuse to serve me content with resolution higher that 480p (I think?) because my computer obeys me and not them. Sure looks great on the big screen in my living room.
Sounds like a job for a LLM browser plugin :P
I don't understand what does this has to do with anything? how does that fit in things vs people? a doll is a thing after all? I'm not saying there's no deep genetic drive at all.
I don't think anyone arguing in good faith would state otherwise. This is too obvious
Define "well-built".

His choice of wording is poor, and it's clear in most cases he assumes he's "right" - rather than posing a question and linking to supporting evidence for why he "might be right".

The way to start a good conversation isn't Authoritarian: "You're wrong, and I'm right. Now let me lecture you why."

It's Seneca style: "here's some things I noticed that are weird and don't add up, let's discuss, and - please - correct me if I'm wrong."

The memo could've maybe led to good discussion if he avoided prescriptions at the end - which he wasn't qualified to make - and withheld opinion. Among other things, his table of right/left is highly subjective and controversial and adds almost nothing to the discussion beside asking for trouble...

If you're aware that certain things are sacred, you should be aware that you need to navigate opposition to the narrative very carefully...
That's still being researched. Some studies say no, some say yes.

> Our systematic review indicated that ivermectin may be effective for mildly to moderately ill patients.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35800451/

(June, 2022)

But it's certainly not a miracle cure.

Edit: To be clear, I'm not "pushing ivermectin". I'm just against people treating science as a political football and taking an anti-Invermectin position simply because Trump mentioned it.
For many people the "free" price of piracy still will not justify the hassle of finding torrent sites, going through fake releases and warez. They would just pay some number of dollars if that process is frictionless and gets them what they want.

But when paying for it and maintaining access for what you paid becomes more complex than pirating, then you have a service problem that can't be solved by pricing.