skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do I import my UI files made with Design Studio?
Tech in general has become very unreliable and user-hostile.

Just the other day I gave up trying to cast a zoom meeting from my phone to my Roku express box. I experienced very laggy video, no audio no matter what I tried o both zoom and Roku, and myriad errors when I tried to update the software on Roku. In the end I just gave up.

From apps that demand an internet connection to do functions that should have nothing to do with connectivity, health apps that no longer sync with the ihealth app, my health monitoring device that has stopped syncing with my phone for no reason, my MiFi that randomly asks me login before continuing to access the internet…

I get the sense these are the way things are set up to be. When consumer tech works, it’s great, but the reliability is pretty bad because it would eat into profits to spend on improving reliability.
It's even worse on youtube. I used to save songs/videos on youtube playlist but they randomly started vanishing. Google doesn't even provide the name of the content it removed so we can search it again. Even worse, some songs actually got replaced by another version (i think due to copyright issues).

The result is I started downloading everything I loved and "liking" the content to track what I already have. There's still some duplicates but overall I retain all the videos I want. [Don't need YT premium now]

After that I downloaded mp4 to mp3 converters and stored the result in a cloud [Don't need Spotify Premium now].

Movies, TV Shows, Games, Mobile Apps, Books, Research paper are all piratable. OTT pulls episode out of air frequently and I don't like someone telling me what I should watch. [Don't need Netflix, OTTs now].

Steam is an exception since I think they really earn their 30% cut.

From the money I save, I buy/donate it to actual content I consumed and liked or software that actually help in ownership such as VLC, archive.org, overpriced merch etc. I'm supporting the revenue starved pirate community this way. Also, This means the money actually reaches the developers instead of a fat cut by the middlemen.

Paying for what you like instead of what you consume means you're supporting great work rather than spraying all works with equal money.
Interesting, I didn't realize this is the case. Unfortunately it looks like there won't ever be MacOS support, which makes this unusable for me.

I think my point about broader applicability still stands though. Compare the guix [0] and nix [1] homepages. The former mainly sells and operating system (and somewhat mentions a package manager), while the Nix homepage sells a tool, kind of like Docker, with concrete examples: Reproducible builds, trying new tools, declarative developer environments, docker images, cloud images. For a lot of people these are immediate practical use cases, which I think is the reason behind the adoption and hype.

I don't know anything about guix, so I'm not sure what of these you can do with guix, but at least the homepage and manual don't give me the impression that these are the use cases. I don't really need an additional package manger or a new OS, but the Nix use cases speak to me.

[0] https://guix.gnu.org/

[1] https://nixos.org/
I get why DRM exists, but good for you for doing what is necessary for your Aunt. Good thoughts and wishes to her.
You should probably click through the link before trying to extend the metaphor.
They can bring it up internally all right; last I heard, Memegen is still a thing at Google.

But it's not the majority, especially not the majority of the engineers, who makes decisions like that.

(And if you'e so annoyed you'd rather leave than shut up, welcome to today's IT job market.)
Spotify confirms that piracy was in fact a pricing problem. With a Spotify subscription, you get way more music for a far lower price than under the previous “buy it to hear it” model a la iTunes or CDs. And artists make way less money now from recorded music than they used to.

Studios only agreed to the Spotify pricing model because the alternative was rampant file-based piracy. They figured that getting something is better than nothing.
True artists ship to real artists..“Make things that people who’d like to make things people want want” (Like this Website). The unreasonable effectiveness of higher order recommendations.
>spytify automatically records mp3 files with metadata tags while you personally use Spotify

I prefer pirating my music off YouTube.

yt-dlp -f bestaudio https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=XXX

This nets you a bunch of *.webm files with Opus data inside them. YouTube's bestaudio is usually about 130 kbs Opus, which should be close to transparent. You can then use mkvextract to turn them into more usable *.opus files.

mkvextract input.webm tracks 0:output.opus

The downside is that you need to tag your downloads manually after that. It's less of a problem for me since I use beets for my music library, but can be a pain if you don't have an automatic way of doing it.
I agree with this approach and your approach does not have to conflict with what I described (and I'm not saying that you wrote this as a rebuttal, either).

What we come to is that for one person, dealing with the pains of content management and organization is not worth the cost, monetary or otherwise. For me, it is worth the cost, it's just not primarily monetary.

Having said that, I use Netflix although that may change in the future. It helps with content discovery. Still, by no means is it my go-to method for content organization or full retrieval. I compared the colors side-by-side to Inception in Netflix compared to a downloaded version and for some reason it was way off to the point it hindered my enjoyment of the film. The massive blue tint was that noticeable.
The article speaks in very broad terms but there are precise preferential differences by sex.

More than just working with things males tend to prefer working with tools more than building new things. Yes there are many males that are creative and only prefer creating original works, but not most. When it comes to working with things females, unlike males, tend to prefer the ideas of things, theory, more than the implementation or practical application, which may speak to planning.

There was a recently published study that females across the world score higher in cognitive (learned) empathy than males. The same study found no distinction by sex in innate (natural) empathy.

None of this should come as a surprise. For decades we have known that females score higher in agreeability and males score higher in assertiveness. As such females will tend to position themselves into interests of lower social friction and higher direct engagement than males. Males will tend to position their interests into areas of greater critical reasoning at sacrifice to social engagement than will females. Yet despite that most males remain fully unwilling to distance their interests from those that are perceived as higher value by their group dynamics.
Or worse!

So it is definitely a bias, and I respectfully submit your comment is a strongly expressed example.
Here's an example:

I believe in supporting those who create media, and don't mind at all paying for streaming services that provide quality content for a fair price. As such, I happily subscribe to Amazon Prime (with several "add on" channels), Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, and HBO Max. Then one day I decided, "hell, I think Peacock TV has some stuff I might want to watch." So I signed up for a paid account, like any other good law-abiding citizen might.

A couple of days later I finally got around to logging in and trying to watch something, only to be met by some bizarre error message. Which led me to find out that Peacock doesn't support playback on Linux. Which sent me down a rabbit-hole of trying to find some kind of way to make it work nonetheless. After a couple of days of futzing around with everything I could think of short of running Windows in a VM (and including going as far as running Android in a VM) I gave up and cancelled my paid account.

What makes it all the more galling is how their support lines lie and say "We're always working to add support for more platforms" when the reality is, there have (from online accounts I've read) at times in the past been workarounds that let Peacock work on Linux... and they have systematically identified and blocked all of them. It would be one thing if any other major streaming service had a similar policy, or if Peacock had a position of "we don't officially support Linux, so it might work or it might not". But this is different. It's an active, hostile, intentional effort to block Linux users.

Anyway, that's what I'd call a "service problem". As far as I can tell, there is no amount of money I can pay Peacock that will let me use their service. So not a "pricing problem".

In conclusion, I will now return to using Bittorrent or other mechanisms to pirate any Peacock content I find interesting. Fuck 'em, I tried to pay the fuckers and they didn't want to play ball.
I would be far more inclined to pay to watch recently released movies on iTunes, except that for the first few weeks the considerably more expensive “buying” the movies is the only option and rental only comes much later, essentially they want to charge you extra for earlier access. Screw that, I’ll pirate instead until they stop that crap.
I think it's 720p but yea, it's why I will never pay for Netflix and I often pirate stuff that's available on there despite having access to my mother's account. I've not pirated games since I was a teenager, because Steam is such a good service, and I'm happy to pay for games. Meanwhile I constantly bring up how much better my media consumption experience is because I pirate high quality movies and shows instead of the drivel that online media providers offer
Newest AI chat bot on the block You.com
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You’re talking about slightly different things. You’re right that when the UI opens it’s always going to be on a default date, if you don’t set one it’ll be today.

But if you don’t set one then the value of the HTML element will be null before it’s selected. So if you add a required attribute then you can make sure that your users use the date picker (or leave in frustration after failing to do so) before submitting the form.

If you set a default value using the value attribute, then that becomes both the HTML default value and the UI default. IMO the spec is missing a way to just set the UI default, so that the field is default empty but interacting puts it at a sensible starting point.

There’s an MDN example here where the date starts empty and is required, if you try submitting the form you’ll see there’s no default for the HTML element: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/in...
Yes, he is. But he is also legitimately researching bird ecology in the inner city, and knows what he's talking about.
what's the missing half? file transfer?
Forum?
This is definitely not the case. If anything, Google is reportedly afraid of making any business changes[1] that may potentially come up as being anti-competitive, even at the cost of becoming obsolete in their existing markets.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/21/technology/ai-chatgpt-goo...
There is a standard for this. If you google HTML5 autocomplete attribute you’ll notice all the possible autocomplete attributes and those cover pretty much just about anything. To my knowledge, the major browsers implement nearly all of them.

What’s preventing this from happening? Nothing, clearly, devs just don’t implement it because they don’t know about it, and they don’t know about it because they’re busy learning about or implementing something else. How would you universally communicate to everybody that this is now a thing? How long will it take you to fix 90% of the forms out there that were set-and-forget five years ago?

Besides, for most it’s easier to use oauth with google or whatever and automatically get the name and birthdate from there (of course, often enough, they have the non completed form anyway…)
I hope people don't jump to the conclusion that they like what they like because of their gender. It could be equally attributed to what they're working with. As in, you like what you know. I've never worked in a people heavy environment, so I couldn't say I like working in one.
Worst of all, I'm afraid you're not done with Google.
The last two installments of Mario had 2D sections and prior to that Nintendo had several releases of 2D Mario games used as launch games for their platforms.
There are multiple cases going through the courts in multiple countries around this.

The one i have in mind is in France (UFC Que Choisir vs Steam iirc) but i know there are others.

From time to time, someone look at these, read the judge opinion, realise how much it would change the web economy out there, write a panicked piece... Then swiftly erase it from their memory because it is a tad too big to think through.
The universe is highly biased to make most things worse, baring intervention.

We call it thermodynamics, Murphy’s Law, and other things.

So evolution countered that bias by focusing our attention wherever we might conceivably be able to improve things. Or push others to improve things.

That’s my theory
Yonatan Zunger, a principle eng at Google and twitter, said how wrong Damore was and that:

"a good number of the people you [Damore] might have to work with may simply punch you in the face"

https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/so-about-this-googlers-man...

I have no idea why this guy Yonatan is still allowed to work anywhere.
SO EASY. Thank you. Daps up.
This isn't the problem, it would actually make this problem worse. The issue here is long-term device support which google is negligent about.. take away their vendor lock in and the whole platform stops making financial sense at any level of quality.
Tangential but related.
I am a long time Spotify user, French guy living in the Netherlands.

I always kept a French credit card for the sole purpose of having access to the French music catalogue, and not the Dutch one (yeah, I learnt that's a thing).

Lately, they started forcing me to also setup an address in France, and regularly log in FROM THE ADDRESS I set up.

Guess who hasn't pirated any music in over 12 years and started again...
There are some differences: pbcopy copy data from stdin , `Clipboard` and `pickup` copy file to clipboard like right click copy.
Ironically, it was the feminists who created the hostile work environment when they lied about the cause of the sex distribution among tech workers - falsely accusing them of sexism.

They then further created a hostile work environment when Damore explained why their victim narrative was false and ran him out of the company for it.

For these reasons I would never dream of joining Google any more.
This statement only makes sense on a philosophical level.
Qemu is a lot more than just a frontend. It contains both CPU emulation code and machine emulation code in addition to being able to leverage Linux as the hypervisor. It is a massive piece of software.
I asked it: "What is ChatGPT’s actual competitive advantage over search?

ChatGPT is a variant of the GPT (Generative Pre-training Transformer) language model that has been specifically designed to generate human-like text in a chatbot-like fashion. One of the main advantages of ChatGPT is its ability to generate natural and coherent responses to user inputs in real-time. This makes it well-suited for use in chatbots and other interactive applications where users expect a quick and personalized response.

In contrast, search engines like Google rely on pre-existing content and do not generate responses in real-time. While search engines can be very useful for finding information that already exists on the internet, they are not designed to generate original responses to user queries.

Overall, ChatGPT's main advantage is its ability to generate human-like text in real-time, which makes it well-suited for use in interactive applications such as chatbots."

There are many Google searches that are low effort queries for advice. ChatGPT can provide realistic answers to those in a way Google never could. I've received compelling advice on how to have a telephone conversation with an awkward relative and how to handle a complaint in customer service. Each response seems genuine and well thought out. In contrast Google might spit out a few lines extracted from a possibly relevant website but then I'd have to trawl through a million ads and back story to know if it actually was relevant. Even if the chat bot returned an irrelevant response I could clarify my question and it would remember the context.
Yes please. The fireworks are horrible for my dogs.
As an established JS-only web/mobile/desktop developer, don't really understand why it is better than just React Native. On the landing page, there is no straight value proposition, but instead there is something like "Now use Y instead of X".

I don't see why i should serve my app as XML, I can work with any backend technology i like using just React Native, as well as updating it instantly over the air. And the bottom table looks misleading too – no native elements in HTML5? why? ios safari surely provides native ui for HTML5 elements. no offline data for HTML5? this is not true, PWA exists
Hmmm, yeah I suppose that's true when using the `value` attribute,

EDIT: ignore the below. It was pointed out I misinterpreted defaultValue.

but there's actually also a `defaultValue` attribute which I believe behaves how you would like it to:

https://caniuse.com/mdn-api_htmlinputelement_defaultvalue

Ofc you can also use JS to make sure an input has been blurred or touched to pass validation on submit
> Also wild how this post is singling out Safari when Android seems to somehow be even worse

My guess is that it is selection bias. Older people are probably more like to use iOS devices, since they are marketed as being simple to use and maintain. So, they don't hear too many complaints about Chrome on Android, even though it's worse.
Pre-built easy to use reactive TurboReflex behaviors for Rails/Hotwire apps
What constitutes this "type of case" and are you confident a judge won't create a new distinction separating this one from previous ones?

The most famous case decided in consumers' favor was about recording tapes from TV broadcasts to watch at a different time. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._of_America_v._Uni....
Creating a Live Streaming Setup with Android Devices and Bitmovin
My folks live in an area pre-starlink, and they buy their favorite movies and rent from the small rental shop. Yeah, remote communities don't have Internet and dvd/blueray is still a thing. Now they have a big collection of their favorite movies and can watch anytime at their home in the mountains.

You can also find media cheap at yard sales, pawn shops, ebay or online.

Also have you seen the price of dvds now? Bud Spencer & Terence Hill movies are going for bank now. For classic spaghetti westerns and funny cops movies!
It's insanely stupid that pirates offer a better service than the big content distribution platforms. Consumers should feel little guilt about piracy at this point
what's wrong with suppressing anti-vaxer views on twitter? elon's guy says twitter rigged the debate. yes so what. why should they have to provide a leveled platform for vaccine supporters vs anti-vaxers? If you look at china now there is a tragedy due to no vaccinations being available.
Music and movies are very, very different. While there is no site I know of that provides purchase of DRM free downloads of popular movies, there are many alternatives for music. I purchase most of the music I like from Bandcamp and I think even Amazon allows purchase of DRM free downloadable music. I feel ZERO regrets about pirating movies, because I am not given any option worth purchasing, but I would feel bad pirating music and I think you should probably too, if you could afford it.
That spy-spotify has some bs claims. Spotify uses ogg vorbis so if the output of the app is an mp3 there is a quality loss.
Exactly. Google has slowly but steady cuts the cap on the service. They've started with Google Photos which (I guess) is the 2nd most used personal service for Android users after Gmail, and they will continue to do so by putting more and more limits on storage, so it wouldn't be directly paying for Gmail but paying in general.
If you’re not aware the iOS time spinner has a hidden number input that comes up it you tap the wheels. So one extra tap then 1030 will get you what you want. Impossible to find without being told it’s there though. And as far as I can tell there’s no date equivalent.
There have been multiple. It is considered illegal**

** This is here to point out that it being illegal can be interpreted in multiple ways. Some steps of the process have not been covered. Like "is writing everywhere that i allow you to buy a thing or possess it but only give you a temporary licence to play it under TOS and EULA that you cannot physically read legal?"
Quite surprised at how people are reading a little mathematical exercise as anything to do with either weight loss or what people are doing in reality.
The last ice age didn't even make it to southern Europe and the southern part of North America, so given the amount of food production in those areas as well as Australia and South America, it seems pretty plausible that another ice age would barely dent human progress.

There would simply be a migration out of Canada, northern USA and northern Europe. Food will still be grown, and people will still survive.
I'm not sure what your point is. I thought at first that the "Die ersten.... zu Leben" text would appear on each of the referenced web pages but I tried five, two came up 404 and the text didn't appear on the others. So what is your point ?
First impression, the landing page renders quite wrong on my phone. Viewport is too wide and I'm able to scroll left/right. Got some work to do on the running anywhere part I guess. Or maybe that's just the landing page. Either way there's work to be done somewhere.
Yes. I would recommend migrating to it's successor revanced though.
> Even a hardcore pirate like me tried to do the right thing when it comes to music - I got Spotify.

This is not the right thing to do. Spotify is peanuts to artists. If you want to do the right thing, buy music at Bandcamp: you get files you can keep forever and artists get a fair share of your money.
In the current system where Google plays lame duck, sure.

But all G has to do is say 'yeah if you want us to feature your content, you must agree to X'

With 90% of the search market, half of phones, and who knows what percentage of the smartTV market, they could institute a death sentence to those they wanted to.

IF they wanted to.
> Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem.

It’s both. I can go on Steam and find a fun looking game that can range from $0 to $100. There’s no minimum spend. I spend hundreds of dollars a year on “cheap” games and nothing on movies or music.
Previous submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34128901
I agree with your sentiment, but do any of those package managers prevent some random repository from adding Firefox version 190 which will install on next apt upgrade? Not that they need to - presumably any package I’ve installed already basically has root access.
>And always show 4 digit for years as YYYY.

Not everyone uses the Julian calendar, or even 4-digit years. Here in Japan, this is year 4 of the Reiwa era, so you need a year picker that lets you choose the correct era (Reiwa, Showa, etc.) and then the year of that era, and of course the number of permissible years per era differs greatly. (The era reflects an emperor's term, so when we get a new emperor, we start a new era.) Then, just because this system is such a PITA and anything international doesn't use it (but everything government-related does), we need a converter that lets you convert between the Japanese standard and the Julian calendar.