skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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.

That's still lying. They gave you, the individual, false information, and not for your own good. Quite the contrary, that misinformation would actually harm you if you believed it.

Do you really not see how destructive this was? Do you really expect people to not only forgive but most importantly forget this lie, just because they "made it clear after the fact"? How were you supposed to know they're not lying, again, about the vaccines and their safety?

I'm no American but it was the exactly the same here in Germany, with exactly the same consequences. It really baffles me when now government officials whine about people not trusting them, anymore.
Yes, you mean why beauty has to be utilitarian :)
You have countless cells that are destroyed on a daily basis, something like a million per second. I don’t understand your point obsessing over cells being killed for expressing the spike proteins, it’s less than a drop in the ocean.
"Calling a cat, a cat", as we say in French: I really do not see what anyone would lose just putting the right words on each action -- and it's not even very difficult to define.

Can the user use the thing mostly without the provider? Yes = purchase, no = rental.

If all of sudden it's all "rentals" everywhere, what does it change -- apart from opening up an avenue for the people willing to actually sell the things they would otherwise lease, because consumers will prefer it that way?
Building a blog with Neon serverless database and both NextJS 13 and Sveltekit
Basic test of Neon.tech - serverless postures database - to setup a fully serverless blog.
> On average women find tech work grindingly boring.

No evidence of that.

> There's no evidence that adults are creating this bias. They are not.

Are you absolutely certain? It's the subject of quite a bit of research.

> Why is it a problem? It isn't. Just let people do what they want with their lives.

Kids don't know what they want to do with their lives, they get lead down various paths by their upbringing. Plenty of people end up in careers they don't like because it's what their parents wanted them to do, regardless of gender.
I think it's more of a platitude, hidden behind the vagueness of the word plenty. Is plenty 5%? 10%? 20%? 50%? The linked article doesn't provide the data. In the context of e.g. STEM education, 20% isn't plenty.
Gradle is such a piece of shit, sad it became the default for Spring Boot. Maven sucks too but at least its fast.
The spirit of the law is protectionism, to avoid people working unregulated and taking jobs away from locals, like with customs the spirit is to prevent fraudsters from skipping import tax and hurt legitimate businesses.

Probably every one who travels (even you) broke the letter but not the spirit of both multiple times. Check work email? Illegal. Did not declare a purchase? Illegal. Even if they want to comply and declare eligible personal purchase via red corridor they would be waved through because they are not the target.

Otherwise you can jail every writer or artist who dared to practice their craft without a work visa and who sold/published later.
I'm sorry, but if you use youtube, you are using Google services.

But good on you for avoiding their services, i do the same (however, i still use Google maps regularly for navigation because Apple maps has let me down too often). I also watch youtube.

Regarding video game consoles, you could get an older one that has no cloud connectivity. They are cheap and the games are still great.
I really like the frank tone of the article and I wish people in general would just write unabashedly more often when it comes to stuff like this.

I still remember when not pirating would get you strange reactions, and it was considered polite to share (on a USB drive or similar) the media you had recently consumed; some PMPs even had a USB host mode, which let users exchange files with others easily, and P2P was also far more popular. Here's some dated-but-related references from that era:

https://xkcd.com/488/

https://i.imgur.com/9l9nc.png
Lenovo X1 Nano Gen 3 Datasheet [pdf]
You're right, thanks for the correction.

Then yeah I suppose it'd have to be a javascript trick that sets the default value when the calendar is opened or, as GP suggested, something done at the standards or implementation level
It's telling that Apple isn't able to persuade American content corporations into DRM free videos either. They're now biggest supporters and implementors of locked down DRM across their device portfolio.
Good for you - I always get stuck wish LSP. ALE almost works, except for the settings it ignores.
> Koomey's Law says compute costs will be ~1/16th / ~7% in a decade.

Probably worse, Koomey's law is an observation based on the effects of Dennard scaling (constant power density while doubling transistor count due to scaling), and this pretty much ended over a decade ago due to no longer being possible to scale transistors in a uniform way.

Power improvements will continue due to other one off process improvements, and due to other factors such as architectural improvements or moving more things into hardware, but the trend is not going to be as pronounced or consistent as it was before.
Anything you store in a cloud service, especially a free cloud service, is at best a cached copy. It's there for ease and speed of access, but has no guarantee of durability whatsoever.

Don't make a free cloud service your source of truth. (Paid, too, unless you just pay for compute and storage.)

If you care about any data, have it under your control, stored on machines / media under your (physical) control. All else can and will disappear without notice.
Can you point to that in the docs? Calling setState during render sounds like a fine way to get infinite loops.

Any of these sorts of hacks tend to be indicative of something not being structured poorly.
Although we may find a single population of bat's that are a source of a pandemic doesn't mean the next pandemic won't come from another population.
Not sure if DeCSS is still illegal but the OP was talking about blu-rays and they are ... "less hacked".
Another thing to consider is that there is so much more music today than 20 years ago in the Napster era. There has been an explosion in content creation, as the means of production have become ever-more accessible, and it all accumulates over time, so the older stuff never goes away. The supply of music only ever increases, and naturally when the supply of something increases so dramatically, we would expect the price to go down.

What about demand? We are certainly listening to more music than ever before, and the population is growing, but not at the 10x or 100x rate that has happened to the supply of music. There’s an upper limit of 24 hours per day listening time per person. There is already more music than it is possible to listen to in a lifetime. Soon there will be more good music than it is possible to listen to in a lifetime.
The same study also asks about ideas, but the preference for that is almost too small to be of any meaning. See the abstract (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-022-01318-w).
> We do not scan or read your Gmail messages to show you ads.

That's laughable - When Gmail was launched, it advertised that it would show you "relevant" text ads based on your email! That was one of its features in an era of intrusive banner and pop-up ads in many of the free email services available in the past.

While the article may have a point about Alexa and Google Cloud, Gmail cannot be clubbed with it as Gmail does have 2 viable business model - advertisements and subscriptions. Moreover, it is a virtual goldmine of personal data for any advertising platform with your banking statements, your online purchases, your work emails, your personal correspondences, your contacts etc. Anybody who believes Google isn't mining this data is living in a fool's paradise. Unless a law explicitly forbids it, with severe penalties, corporations like Google will absolutely use this data to make money - just look at the fines Google faces around the world for violating the privacy of its users.
"using your legally owned product on a different medium"
You're refering to format shifting[1]. Legality will vary differently between jurisdictions, but there are rulings in the UK making it illegal for personal use so there's that.

Ripping blu-rays, most likely means getting around AACS which is probably illegal under DMCA. See 17 U.S. Code § 1201 and some rulings[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Format_shifting
[2] https://www.copyright.gov/1201/2018/
Type in your own date as an immediate replacement. (Use separate dropdowns?)

400+ clicks isn't even a bare minimum. It should be considered broken and tossed out right away.
> That's still lying. They gave you, the individual, false information, ...

Yes it was lying. Yes it was false information. No, that's not outside the scope of their role at times.

> ... and not for your own good. Quite the contrary, that misinformation would actually harm you if you believed it.

No, it was for the individual good. Hoarding of masks by randos in the middle of nowhere leading to no supply for the first responders in hospital puts you, the individual, at greater risk.

If all the hospital staff have COVID and no ability to stop transmission within hospital because Bob the Prepper has filled his underground HEPA filtered bunker with masks, yes, that puts you at risk.

You can weigh the trade-offs but your statement that there was no other way of viewing the situation is simply wrong.

> Do you really not see how destructive this was? Do you really expect people to not only forgive but most importantly forget this lie, just because they "made it clear after the fact"? How were you supposed to know they're not lying, again, about the vaccines and their safety?

Again, a crap situation, but one that the CDC wasn't responsible for. It was their job to mitigate to the best of their abilities. Tough times call for tough decisions. We know how groups react, we knew what people would have done.

I'm pissed the stockpiles were allowed to run low, and I'm happy the first-responders were prioritized as I believe this gave everyone the best chance.

> It really baffles me when now government officials whine about people not trusting them, anymore.

It doesn't surprise me, but that doesn't mean it was the wrong choice at the time given what we knew.

[edit] They had an optimization problem: basically nobody in the population had COVID at the time, but those who did were likely to end up in hospital. Spreading out the limited masks over a population where almost nobody had it put far more people at risk than concentrating the supply in hospitals where far more people had it. This isn't rocket science. People were hoarding pasta at the time, and you think people were going to make good decisions about masks? The first casualty of War is Truth as they say.
I'm still looking for a way to transfer text from a remote server in VS Code to the local system. Anyone have that?
> Recently, I mentioned to a band it was sad they pulled their music off Spotify. Puzzled, they were not even aware that the licensing was pulled, and they had to go yell at their record label (who was unaware they were even on Spotify because they made less than a dollar in royalties per year on it) who has sat on it for over a year and refused to release the rights back to the artist so they can have it available on Spotify.

That band didn't own their music and the "label" likely didn't either. They got fronted money that was never repaid (as per contract) and their shit traded hands multiple times. There was wild consolidation in this world over the last 10 - 25 years. What used to be money printing turned to "GOT EM!!" dollar signs in bold on contracts, which turned to small joints falling over (dollars and commas in bold didn't map on the backend) and now some banger owns their shit.

Most likely the banger who owned their shit lost it in the shuffle of the more banger shit they owned, or the overhead of the split with the 5% the small label who was able to retain that cut didn't even render on the P&L and they just shoved it in the virtual vault because who gives a fuck?
There are two parts of that benefit: one is pollination, the other one carrying the seeds farther away. Insects don't really do the latter.
So can this be integrated into an existing game engine or a new game engine where someone wants to make a game like train simulator for example?
I left google a long time ago but this is how digital good work. Steam works like that, amazon video works like that and probably online music stores work like that too.

There is a reason gog sells games without drm and you can download and keep the installer forevers, that's what differenciates them from the rest.
> Covid was never dangerous to <50/60 year olds.

In the US alone you're talking about 75K people dead under 50.

And over 50 the numbers rise rapidly.
And https://www.theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones
This is easy: have something that is worth reading.

I don't mind email and I have used my technical skills to organize it well, so I can get ten times the efficiency out of it I otherwise would.
> 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.

I'm happy to pay for games too, but I've stopped buying from Steam unless they're not available elsewhere. GOG has been my go-to, as they only sell games without DRM.

If Valve someday goes belly-up, or just decides to stop running their license servers, all those games we've bought on Steam are just gone, absent (illegal, in the US, anyway) third-party tools to strip the DRM. I believe some versions of Stream DRM can be removed, but not all.

I just don't see the need to reward a company that treats me like a criminal when I can get the same games from a company that respects me and my purchase.

(Bonus: Steam-the-software even allows you to add non-Steam games to the app, which makes it easy to run non-native games I've bought from GOG under Proton, for example.)
Interesting but I disagree, yes Safari has a lot of missing features & stuff behind prefix but it has also a lot of pure rendering bugs and that's where the "if safari" comes into play and the analogy with IE comes from. And Safari is still an outlier compared to the other modern browsers.

I've experienced zIndex bugs, border radius bugs, form bugs, svg bugs and even dom event bugs.
Amazingly nobody mentioned it yet, but around Christmas the leak of the 2001 DNF build came to some fruition with the release of the "first slice" from the DNF restoration project. If you liked Duke Nukem 3D, this will be a treat for you. It has that certain personality and charm that was long lost by the time DNF 2011 came out. You can download it for free on moddb: https://www.moddb.com/mods/dnf2001-restoration-project
If you pirate something for which you’ve already bought a license, is it even pirating? If the license is for a particular set of bits then unless you are pirating those exact bits I guess so. You licensed Lemonade.drm.mp4 so downloading Lemonade.mp3 is pirating.

But then again it’s not pirating to re encode your audio files once you’ve downloaded them. So I feel more confident in saying it’s not the bits that are licensed, it’s the work itself. The act of downloading it from piratewarez.example.com feels fishy, but if you download it from musicbackups.example.com — a hypothetical site that says you should not download copies of files unless you have bought a license for them in the past — then it starts to feel like a more interesting gray area. You’ve licensed a digital copy of the work, so why is it wrong to get a copy of it from some place else? The person distributing the work is probably in hot water, but you shouldn’t be, as long as you have the receipt for the original purchase and/or a copy of the license.

For me, the big one here is ebooks. If I buy a physical copy of a book then as far as I’m concerned I’ve bought the license to the work as well as that particular piece of physical media. I don’t lose sleep about pirating the ebook version as well.
It contains sugars - easy to process and quite rare.
For jobs like nurses, the “people” they work with are not people they are things. The people they actually work with are their colleagues.
> I had never been made to feel like a freak for being a programmer until I moved to Sweden.

Are you saying that Sweden is a sexist society? Do you mind me asking where have you been before?
Those aren't exclusive -- isn't renting an example of "buying a license"?

But I would be okay if they had to change the misleading "Buy Movie" to a phrase like "Buy a Limited License to Watch Movie". Or "Buy Limited Access to Movie".
I am done long ago with all of them: nothings feels better than the multiverse, and I also would like my Amazomb audio books ready to use in any platform of my choice (please EU help us here), and my social graph with any available contact details from all social networks and email clients I have used.
Even the currently sleeping market watchdogs would wake up for that free promotion.
Isn't the second extraction unnecessary? I just tried this command and it worked, with metadata

yt-dlp --output "%(upload_date)s ---- %(artist)s --- %(title)s.%(ext)s" --add-metadata --embed-thumbnail --audio-format opus --format bestaudio --remux-video opus "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=0oAAlssVwEw"
I would say likely Ontario, and specifically the Ottawa capital region. Though, since the Convoy, waving a Canadian Flag has taken on a Conservative/right wing/populist connotation that I think is still around today, so it may be shifting in the direction of Alberta and Saskatchewan.
So just to be clear, you're suggesting that Google use threats of blocking content providers from their other products, to strong-arm them into better licensing terms?

There's a reason they don't do that, in any business. How do you think e.g. anti-trust regulators would feel about that?
Because they don't want it to be true and will come up with any argument, no matter how stupid, to counter this observation.
By making the metric the goal, it could be that the underlying assumptions change. Maybe previously all time spent on Facebook was "positive" time where the user feels engaged and is interested in ads. After adding dumb notifications. The time spent might become partially "positive" and partially "negative", where the user feels abused and might hate the ads. Is the metric still the goal then?
I like this idea, and after copyright expires[1], the clearing house should also seed the work as a torrent for all to access.

[1] While we're dreaming, make copyright 20 years.
Not the parent but the answer is don't use the date picker at all for date of birth. The gov.uk site, which is generally held up as an example of best practice design and accessibility because they do over the shoulder testing on real devices with real users from different backgrounds advises to just use three text field with the number property.

https://designnotes.blog.gov.uk/2013/12/05/asking-for-a-date...
But that's the case with the others, too. I'm not familiar with HBO, Disney and Hulu, but Prime and Netflix don't allow you to watch high-def content on Linux.

Hell, even on Windows with their app, Prime won't let you watch more that HD. For UHD, you need their stick or some other device. [0]

Netflix supports UHD on computers, but only on some browsers, of which Chrome is not one [1].

But, to your point about Peacock, at least they do work on Linux, as in you'll get some sort of image.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...

[1] https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23742
OK Google.
wtf

those “preferences” are a result of history

- societies raised women to take care (take care of their family and house chores) while men went out in the wild to play, study and work.

- women had to be “empathetic” because understanding one’s mood was vital to their survival throughout history: in times where it was “ok” and even expected that women were beaten up to make them more docile or whatever.

- women were “granted permission” to certain work roles based on the time that happened. assistant roles were the most common, like secretaries (they even had a “bad reputation” because of the affairs with their executives, but it was really common an executive, a man, have a secretary as a gift). and think about how childhood education usually have more female teachers and higher education is a land of men. or nurses vs medical doctors.
“Directly” is immaterial if every part of the tool chain supports it transparently. Which granted isn’t a given, but it’s more of a given than being able to directly debug two deep into a vanilla JS Promise.then.

As far as what remains to be shown about upsides, smaller JS packages isn’t in question. I don’t even know what resources to link which show this because it’s so fundamental that I wouldn’t know which fundamental to begin with. You’re coming from the perspective of tooling complexity being a large downside (and I agree), but it takes approximately none to minify JS. And for an even meager payload on the wire, I know my users on spotty networks or low power devices aren’t just theoretically benefiting.
I wouldn't say "it doesn't have much content". 95% of the time I can find what I look from first try just using 1337x.
MSG uses facial recognition to keep lawfirms out that litigate against them
It would work. But it would still be piracy: their sublicense of content to you is likely conditional on you not doing any shenanigans to get another region's pricing.

So use it if you want to get recommendations, or don't want to bother managing your library, or want to give some pennies on a dollar to the actual artists. But remember, you're still a pirate. Be proud of it. Yarr!

IANAL
Yes it was lying. Yes it was false information. No, that's not outside the scope of their role at times.

Lying to people about their personal health for the greater good of society gets you the Tuskegee Experiment.
I use Filerun, self-hosted, pretty easy to setup
Are you saying that selling music/movies/ebooks/etc doesn't make financial sense without DRM and control? What about the history of vinyl, CDs, DVDs, Blu-Rays, bandcamp, DRM-free ebooks, GOG games, etc?
Completely different, sorry, and a wildly disingenuous comparison. There was no public health crisis at the time that required this, let alone to run it for 40 years. Let's keep to intellectually honest discourse and avoid hyperbole shall we? This is a contentious enough topic as is.
> The entire population of Afghanistan was biometrically catalogued -- supported by the German Bundeswehr.

I wonder if an affected individual could bring this before the European Court of Human Rights for privacy (article 8 ECHR).
The two match like 99% of the time, so it wouldn’t have changed the conclusions at large.
Yeah, on second thoughts you are right because I hadn’t thought about what happens to the mothers that lack the gene. If there are genes that kill mothers, the child has the chance to pass on the gene, which is a strong selection pressure for the child. However meanwhile mothers without that gene will have more babies, so the selection pressure is mostly whether the mother has the gene or not, because mothers without the gene will have more descendants. It’s difficult to think through realistic examples, and probabilities.
“I see nothing wrong with banning people who disagree with me”
Thank you for reminding me this one!
A shoutout to The Bitmap Brothers’ gorgeous pixel graphics!