skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would guess you're right, and that one could take Google to court over not being able to exercise said right instead of trying to reword buttons. Breach of contract on Google's side. Except the contract probably has small print saying that they're not responsible for software bugs, have no obligation to support your particular device and that any past performance does not bestow entitlement yada yada yada. Sounds like fun and just in time for christmas (referring to OP's story).

Or we agree that such a set of conditions constitutes renting rather than 'owning' as one typically does after 'buying'.

Genuinely not sure which option has more downsides.
Libre Arts – Weekly recap – 25 December 2022
>I am proud to say I don't use a single Google service, and haven't in years.

>... I use no Google services...

>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.

>Bye, forever.

>... stop giving your patronage to companies who treat you like this or none of this will ever get any better.

That's all well and good, except:

>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 some degree...

So much for ceasing the "use of all their services immediately". All of your "I'm above the system"/holier than thou rhetoric falls flat on it's face. You still give them patronage. Great job cutting a lot of it out, I'm not trying to take that away, but maybe be a bit more humble and honest?
Third option: money

(speaking for myself, it was programming; never thought would get paid so much to do what I already love doing)
That is interesting. Thank you for the capsule description.
Even 7% sounds very optimistic given the current climate. A couple of piled on downturns, and it could even be the same or higher...
It is 2022: some JS frontend frameworks don't have `input` elements in DOM tree ( or at least it is nowhere near the place visible "inputs" are).
I guess it is the result of standard elements not being customizable enough (and let's be real, there is never going be a point when available options are enough).
The "Yes, but" part has me thinking it was supposed to be sarcasm... but not really sure anymore.
Just started using org mode recently. I keep getting pulled into things like obsidian and so on. But then I just cannot logically move from org mode to obsidian. Org mode is so feature complete. It doesn't take long on the learning curve to match the features of other software, and then overtake them. I get distracted by shiny quite easy. It irks me I'm using an IDE for notes only and then code in VS/Vim, but I just not sure I can match the functionality I have in org mode elsewhere. I'd love for someone else to chime in and let me know if I'm ignorant. I don't even mind paying if the solution is good!
> every 25 hours the US pollutes as much as burning an entire 50 car long train full of coal for Bitcoin mining alone.

It might be easier to visualize the energy waste by framing it as burning through a 48 car long train full of coal each and every single day to run Bitcoin mining alone.
The music industry was so terrified at what internet piracy was doing that they agreed to Apples terms. The film and television industry saw what Apple had done to music, and were terrified of what it would do to them. They held onto the only playable card they had.
Bandcampers forget the platform is for underground artists and those not tied by contract to the heavyweight labels.

You'll never see mainstream pop artists on there.

I love to promote Bandcamp where possible but have to remember what it can offer to "Average Joe"
> The movie uses a modern Mayan language for dialogue, uses Maya actors and depicts a religion still practiced today.

This was great, part of what made it fun for me was a bit of diversity in this kind of... I guess you could call it an action movie. What point are you trying to make?

> Moreover, practitioners of that religion were being actively killed for their practice only a decade prior.

Okay, still not sure how that relates to the movie.

> The analogy with nazis and europeans seems pretty different to me.

I think it's very apt.

> In the interest of having a more interesting discussion though, what would you require beyond the existing content of the film to consider it "problematic" (to use your word)?

I would require reasonable evidence as opposed to shrill baseless and unfalsifiable handwringing that alleged experts believe lends them gravitas and demand we swallow unquestioningly. I remember the exact same type of hysterics and misinformation peddling around the "video games cause mass shootings".

"Nazis and racists and oppression and terrorists and think of the children," and we're expected to shut off our capacity for rational thought. It's a tiresome and common last refuge of charlatans and grifters. Doesn't cut it for me.
Privacy is the least current concern for A people?
Exactly. Once you go down the security rabbit hole it quickly leads to paranoia
https://archive.md/sFBnA
> Not the guy you ask, but for me, I just want convenient digital thing on my laptop I actually own, not rent. I live in 2022 and don't want that physical crap.

Welp I got you bruh bruh...

> I would have no problem to pay for DRM-free and location-independent stuff, but all this thing with "rights owners", "you can't hear that in this location", "you can't download it to listen offline and locally" is a total bullshit.

Give me your two favorite artists and I'll send you their latest releases in lossless ripped form after I cop their physical records. You pay me the cost of the physical medium (which I'll immediately turn around and go donate to the public library for others to enjoy) and I'll fully eat S&H etc aka any dollar amount over the cost of said physical medium. That fits your description of 'no problem to pay', yeah?

> I don't care what some lawman or government thinks. I also don't care about 5$ per month, that's nothing. But for my money, for any amount, I expect some respect and not this "money cow" attitude.

Yes all the artists I know could definitely be placed in one of your three categories; lawmen, government entities, and/or money cows. That certainly doesn't drive home my point that you're all disconnected & wildly removed from reality.
Unfortunately, the framing also matter a lot.

When the Cambridge Analytica story blew up and Facebook was the main character of the week, I spent an entire 3 hours in a weird state of shock.

Not because of the contents of the story. I was shocked because this story had broken like eight months prior and everybody shrugged then.

But then it was framed politically, and suddenly people gave a shit. It was surreal.

So if you want to get people to talk about it, and be emotionally invested, simply frame it as evidence of [Specific Politician] mishandling [Specific Element of News Story].

It doesn't matter much which politician you slot in there, but current and former presidents on opposite parties can work with different audiences. For example, make unsubstantiated allusions to an alleged stolen laptop and connect the dots through some vague sense of poor data security practices and you can get them to repeat it with fervor.

For prior art, look at how that "litter boxes in public schools" hoax got started: https://soatok.blog/2022/04/06/the-dark-truth-about-the-furr...

(I realize I'm risking devolving this thread into a politics discussion here. I'd like to avoid that if possible. I'm more interested in the "how to motivate people to care about this story" angle, with references to prior art, rather than the specifics of any particular party, person, or scandal.)
Blow it out your ass
> what's wrong with suppressing anti-vaxer views on twitter?

there's no such thing as anti-vax views. there's only science/facts and lies.

> twitter rigged the debate. yes so what... (the views that I supported carried the day)

most bizarre argument i've come across on the internet today.

> why should they have to provide a leveled platform for vaccine supporters vs anti-vaxers?

sounds to me here like you want to live in 'La-La land'.

> If you look at china now there is a tragedy due to no vaccinations being available.

covid is such a tragedy that china is loosening [0] some of its zero-covid restrictions. also, there's no shortage of vaccines anywhere as of today. you might want to cross-check that piece of misinformation.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/27/china-to-end-quarantine-for-...
1. The economy will continue to stay somewhat flat. There will not be any major recession, but also no miraculous overnight recovery. Inflation will drop slightly, but it will remain higher than targets. Interest rates will hover around the current values. Home prices will continue to drop, but folks waiting for a "market correction" to get their first property will still not buy.

2. Crypto market will continue to stay flat. Maybe some more exchanges go under, but even if they do, new exchanges will spawn replace them. There will be more "breaking news", but all of it is a re-make of a piece of news that already happened in a different form during 2010-2022.

3. Many startups will either close business or get acquired at bargain prices by competitors. Some will make sense ("can't believe anyone invested in that") while others will be complete surprises and somewhat disrupt the day-to-day life.

4. Most Bay Area companies and startups will focus their hiring to either some of the newer tech hubs across the US or abroad (particularly Europe) and completely halt hiring in the Bay Area. All of these companies will be fully-remote or somewhat-remote. Because the average tenure is 2-4 years, and because families take longer to uproot, it will take until 2025-2027 to actually see the Bay Area population start decreasing. Companies that will still hire in the Bay Area will be remote-unfriendly.

5. Machine Learning achievements will continue to show up at a similar pace as throughout 2022. More and more companies will pop up to repackage these technologies into well-marketed consumer-facing services - logo generators, fiverr replacements, blogspam filters, search engines, language translators, coding mentors, etc.

6. "Impersonal social media" - TikTok, YouTube, Twitter - where you do not personally know the content creator - will continue to grow in popularity, leaving behind an even bigger need of "personal social media" - where you keep in touch with people that you actually know. Maybe some company, either existing or new, will fill in that gap. Maybe not.
Would this allow Rust libraries to be dynamically linked like C libraries are often?
> Google is contributing to the destruction of the concept of ownership, as are many services of the modern age.

Imo this is the important thing here. Eroding "I buy, I own" and replacing it with "I buy, I own until seller says otherwise" is nefarious.

Giving Google, Apple, and so forth the benefit of doubt and a cop-out with "it's a language problem" is not the way. Surely they can afford linguists and user-study-groups to find a phrasing that better conveys the idea.

The thing is, pessimist as I can be, I think they already have done that and came out with the idea that "we don't want to convey that notion, we can price it higher if we call it 'buy'".

This to me is similar to planting ideas like plastic recycling, or the individuals carbon footprint, in the consumer mind. It displaces the responsibility away from companies doing the best _they_ can.
Their market share of "search, mobile phones, smart TVs" is what you originally claimed would give them leverage. But none of those have any bearing on movie rentals / sales on YouTube. They're entirely different products.

Now, the terms for the movie rentals / sales would definitely be negotiated between Google and the content owner. And Google could of course make your no-DRM policy a line in the sand in those negotiations. But why would the content providers agree to that? There's plenty of other competitive platforms they can (and do!) sell exactly the same content on, being specifically on YouTube's movie rental system won't make or break them.

And then we get back to your original proposal, which was clearly that they'd be using all their unrelated properties as (highly unethical) leverage in the negotiations.

If that's not what you're proposing, maybe you could be really concrete about what you think Google would be saying in those contract negotiations? "We will be selling your movies without DRM; if you don't agree then X". What exactly do you think X would be?
I have lived in a handful of different countries. I'm criticizing the idea that it's so simple to say one country is more sexist or more equal than another because there are so many metrics you can use to measure equality.

Sweden beats a lot of countries when it comes to a strongly protected right to parental leave for both men and women. But Sweden is behind many other countries when it comes to stereotypes and assumptions about what jobs men or women should be doing.

So it's meaningless to make a blanket statement that one country is more equal than another.
Worked out well for expertsexchange.com…
To be fair, both DVDs and Blurays have DRM on them. Of course, DVD's DRM has been broken for quite some time. For Bluray, older discs are rippable, but it's a cat-and-mouse game as old keys are revoked and new keys distributed for newer releases.

While I agree with you that some creators do believe they can still make a living with DRM-free content, many do not, which includes essentially anything from a major movie or TV studio.
I read ALA religiously when starting out, and attended one of the earlier AEAs that happened in SF. Crazy to see it ending but it had a great run.
> Dioxus runs on a native thread and renderers into the webview, so there’s very little JS footprint and the render resources are shared among all webview on your system.

So I need to have some sort of WebView library pre-installed? What WebView would that be on, e.g., Linux? And is it possible to include it in the build to create a standalone binary? If so, how much would that make the binary size go up?

In my experience, relying on a system-wide WebView is a recipe for desaster.
You… literally press save.

Preview lets you save any annotations to PDFs and images it supports. It’s literally as easy as pressing Cmd-s. If you really want to save it as a different file, use Preview’s duplicate feature to save it as a new file.

If you want to make the file you’re editing non-editable/flattened, then you can use macOS’s built in print dialog which lets you natively save to PDF. This isn’t a Preview feature per-we, but it is system wide.

This seems to have not been possible before and changed in Big Sur: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252703055

And Apple’s guide considers Save and Export to PDF to be the same function: https://support.apple.com/guide/preview/annotate-a-pdf-prvw1...
You are probably thinking backward. I am not an expert in evolutionary biology but the beauty of flowers is something which has helped them survive. Flowers themselves didn't decide to be beautiful or they don't even know that they are beautiful. Remember that evolution is blind. It is just that their beauty was in the eyes of beholders and those beholders helped them survive.
Yeah it's not too great on the web but they are working on WASM as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33908134#33910235
> This literally describes 2 people I know.

For every "retired grandma who happened to buy a house in a forgotten part of town that suddenly became a bohemian mecca", I can show you dozens if not hundreds of grandmas who already got pushed out of town because of skyrocketing rents - thanks in no small part to your homeowning grandmas stubbornly insisting on living in a single-family home in the middle of Downtown, on a lot that could and should be housing dozens or hundreds of households.

And I haven't even begun to dig into the socioeconomic safety nets like citizens' dividends that a land value tax could readily fund, thus producing a negative tax burden for all renters and the vast majority of homeowners.

Why would you punish those hundreds of grammas who just want to live out their retirements? Not to mention the thousands of working Americans who just want a place to live that doesn't entail multi-hour-long commutes?

> She can't move because she doesnt know how to drive and can't take a bus in the suburbs

There are these things called "moving companies" which would be happy to move her and her stuff into an apartment nearby. With the hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars in equity she's accumulated due to her property appreciating in value, she can almost certainly afford to hire such a company to move her and her stuff. With LVT motivating the construction of said apartments to amortize said LVT across as many tenants as possible, she will have no trouble finding a new home - and the denser urbanization would mean that the grocer and pharmacist and GP and such would be right around the corner instead of involving a half-hour bus ride through sprawling suburbia.

> Why not just go after the foreign demand to hide cash, making housing expensive for everyone else ?

Because that is far from the only cause of housing shortages. You could play whack-a-mole with ad hoc taxes specifically targeting foreign investors and domestic investors and property management companies and Old Money billionaires and wannabe AirBNB moguls and agricultural conglomerates and commercial/industrial landlords and everyone else directly profiting on the very land speculation driving costs of living through the roof... or you could just tax land value, and thus address all that in one fell swoop with a tiny fraction of the bureaucratic overhead and with countless social and economic benefits on top of that.
Since only the Queen reproduces in a hive and all the bees are its sterile offsprings, IMHO the whole hive is equivalent to the Queen evolutionary-speaking. Individual bees are not independent actors. So I think there is no game theory here and this is no different than a giraffe growing a longer neck.
Other countries got it right. When the CDC was dithering about whether masks work and whether the virus was airborne (which should have been clear by early February with all the case evidence we had from Asia), their South Korean counterparts ordered Samsung to purchase tons of meltblown fibers, because making the masks themselves is not hard.

Then the Korean government instituted limits on exports and rationing of what was on the market. I worked in a hospital in Seoul, and we (non-caregivers) got two N95s per week.

This is what the US government should have done: used the defense production act to provide a guaranteed purchaser with 2 or 3-year contracts for whoever could manufacture masks or mask components domestically ASAP, instead of ruining their credibility to calm panic, and then coordinated the states in temporarily controlling rationing until supplies stabilized.

The idiocy that is a national stockpile is another thing. If the stockpile is of persihables what you really need is a nationally mandated buffer, with the govt paying suppliers to rotate through X days of stock on hand.
Ryanair in Europe pretty much operates the same with many small hubs and point-to-point flights, but for some reason they are also run objectively a very reliable operation. Wonder why that is.
Yeah of course, if it suits you then I'm happy for you! It's just that the author rants about other tools downloading music from YouTube (which is also fair criticism of course), and then goes on and does the thing that's just as bad (or so says the audiophile zealot inside me).

(FWIW, there were some tools that could rip out the exact Ogg stream as used by Spotify, but I don't think they're working now.)
I think this is a worthwhile study but also think we place too much emphasis on personality types.

My wife studied primary (elementary) school teaching for 4 years and then was a teacher for over 6 years. After she became tired of the profession she was able to self-teach web dev for 9 months using Udemy and now has been working as a software developer for roughly a year now.

Nominally a study like this might have put her into the caring profession box a few years ago but she is professionally ambidextrous, and likely other people surveyed will be too.
> use oauth with google or whatever and automatically get the name and birthdate from there

After recent story about github ban: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33917962 anything that asks for more that email is a instant 'close tab and never return' for me. And even before, there is no way I am allowing any site to access may date of birth (despite it being fake one anyway)

And going back to "autocomplete" - it looks that browsers "know better" than developers: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12374442/chrome-ignores-...
Full title is Bat cave solves mystery of deadly SARS virus — and suggests new outbreak could occur: Chinese scientists find all the genetic building blocks of SARS in a single population of horseshoe bats

Where does the article say Why haven't we done something about the batcave where global pandemics start? Where does it imply or insinuate that "all" or "many" global pandemics have started from one particular batcave? Nowhere.

Instead, we read: "In a remote cave in Yunnan province, virologists have identified a single population of horseshoe bats that harbours virus strains with all the genetic building blocks of the one that jumped to humans in 2002, killing almost 800 people around the world". The authors estimate that "The killer strain could easily have arisen from such a bat population", so it's still a guess. Do the authors suggest to wall up the cave? No. Rather: "the latest results suggest the risk is still present. “It reinforces the notion that we should not disturb wildlife habitats and never put wild animals into markets,” says Yuen. Respecting nature, he argues, “is the way to stay away from the harm of emerging infections”."

So the story here is that we have identified a batcave where all the genetic ingredients to the 2002 SARS outbreak have been found. That does not mean the outbreak did start from this cave. It also does not mean that doing "something about THE batcave where (somehow) (all) pandemics start" would change anything. There are hundreds of species of bats, and, like rodents and humans, their habitats are spread all over the globe with the exception of the arctic regions. Yes, they harbor high levels of potentially dangerous virus strains in their bodies, but so do rodents. Don't eat rats, don't eat bats.

Why haven't we done something about alarmist, misleading headlines on HN?
The nix command was nicer before flakes too
The article doesn’t express that Google is _solely_ responsible for the destruction of the concept of ownership. That statement isn’t inaccurate. It’s perfectly reasonable to be bothered by the fact that their setup worked fine for years and then stopped working for no good reason. It sounds like you’ve “heard it before” and don’t care to hear it again.

Remember that this is grandma’s setup. Sure, there are alternative paths for young bucks like us, but for others they simply want to “buy” something and then play it at will. This is a story about Google depriving a dying grandma of one of her last joys.