skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft has always been described as a bunch of fairly independend divisions that hate each other. You can also see the split between groups in their products (for example how Explorer and the Kernel/API can't agree on what's a valid path. Explorer doesn't let you create files or folders starting with a dot despite that being legal, and can't show long paths that are legal).

I think Microsoft isn't set up in a way that allows to judge them uniformly. Trust the typescript team or the VSCode team seem warranted. I personally quite like what the Kernel team is doing ever since Windows NT. But the User-facing layer of Windows has made dodgy decisions for decades and has always favoured pushing an agenda over user-friendliness, with some successful usabilty pushes in between.

To evaluate Github the real question is how much upper management was involved in this feature, and how that might impact Github. That doesn't seem clear to me at all.
Not really. The only problems I've encountered were problems with drivers for esoteric devices. Still really annoying, but whether that's worse or better than Windows' problems depends on what devices you use and what values you have.

The real problems for me are:

- outdated packages or unstable rolling-distro (OpenSuse Tumbleweed is surprisingly good, but not as well-supported as Ubuntu/Fedora)

- bad game support (few titles and shoddy Windows ports)
I find it interesting that the conversation is mainly about fair use and not about false positives.

I've been working with filtering and fingerprinting technology for some time, and while its "pretty good", false positives happen frequently. Its a case of continual disappointment, even from the largest tech companies with the "best" technology. I expect that widespread "filtering" will equate to widespread non-fair use related false positives.

This law is going to work like the DMCA for many providers, carpet bomb everything and worry about the cleanup later.
I do not want to use Facebook for professional purposes. That stuff does not need to coexist with my thoughts about the news, discussions about video games, vacation photos, and whatever else.
Does MS really sell data to anyone? Seems to me whatever data they collect would be used internally, e.g. to improve products.
I can't tell if you're joking. Why would you want to use a single-platfrom, closed-source browser? We've been there, done that. You say you use Chrome and FF for cross platform features so you must have cross platform concerns. Anything they do to encourage developers and users to support it would be a huge step backwards for the world.
I've recently (tried) helping a friend install Ubuntu on her laptop.

Although it worked fine for my Desktop computer, I ran into numerous issues on hers:

- Touchpad didn't work

- After fixed touchpad, physical touchpad buttons still don't work

- Wifi doesn't work

- Wifi hotspot doesn't work

- Lack of gestures

And others that I can't remember off the top of my head.
Sort of true. You can swap out the network stack (and Chrome does).
Human After All
Bug-free code implies perfect understanding of a perfect spec, which is something that cannot exist in the real world. We don't have the capacity to interpret everything perfectly correctly or perfect understanding of the universe. We barely have enough understanding to even make a spec for something.

Luckily perfection and correctness are not important. While the desire to mathematically prove things may cloud judgement and waste time seeking mathematically perfect world that doesn't exist, we still can make almost anything work reliably on top of unreliable components with guaranteed probabilities. That's what resilience and fault tolerance are all about and how most of the world works. It's too bad that some of it is touched by this "let's do at least something for security" attitude and stupid perfect correctness ideology that of course never guarantees anything with any certainty, so we have planet scale security vulnerabilities that impact everyone to deal with.
And that would clearly be ridiculous (though believable that the EU would try). Are they going to fine Google for monopolising weather queries next? How about putting Casio out of business by abusing search monopoly to provide a free calculator?
One would think this, but: https://www.behance.net/gallery/35437979/Velocipedia
I think Dijkstra put paid to that argument ages ago. The program is an abstract that the compiler implements. If the compiler is faulty that doesn't make the program faulty.

It is like arguing that because a ship's navigation system was faulty the directions given for a destination were wrong.

To use his words we supply computers to programs, we don't supply programs to computers. or something to that effect.

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD103... Paragraph beginning "But before a computer is ready to perform a class of meaningful manipulations ..."
Re: encryption.

The server is encrypted, as are all the VMs (except ones I don't care about, say running a small web app or whatever).

Most stuff is in KeePass, and the database is then backed up.

The encryption keys are stored in KeePass. That database is my most important thing, and I have many copies of it that stay in sync. For eg, I have a script that emails it to me once a day.

I use an app called PhotoSync on iOS to backup pictures. The synology app can backup music and video (as far as I know), but I prefer PhotoSync.

The USB drive at home is NOT encrypted. If someone steals that, they will have access to my docs and pics, but not to KeePass of course. This is done for ease of access in case something happens to me.
Make the default search engine bing.. most users don’t change it.

Put shortcuts to your other products. An Xbox bookmark/button is an ad for the Xbox.. increasing Xbox sales, but also reducing the money they need to spend to promote the Xbox

If users decide they want a completely Microsoft platform- they login to windows with their msft online password, use ms office, etc they’ll be more likely to pick a windows phone or other Microsoft products that integrate with the products they already use (saving them setup time, transferring settings, etc).

If they have more information about you, they can make ads in bing more relevant and perform better.. increasing the price of the ads, and the ctr

There are a few ideas off the top of my head.
It's entertaining that we, as a society, prevent people under the age of 18 from voting, and under 21 from drinking, and we say (truthfully) that it's because they aren't fully developed yet.

But when a person of 16 makes a life altering decision, and we shrug our shoulders and say "they should have known better".
Ask HN: What can we do about climate change?
After reading up on the current state of climate change and what we are doing to mitigate or reverse the effects, it felt like there is a sense of lost hope for the world coming back from this. Beyond sitting back and letting the events unfold, does anyone think there's something that the people of HN can do with our varied skill sets? This may sound naive but I do wonder if there's more we could be doing that could have a multiplier effect on the effort to mitigate the factors that are causing climate change.
US tech giants haven't worried about competition coming from Europe for awhile now. They worry about competition coming from either within the country or China.
'Normal' people already use distributed content: Google and Facebook's content is held in data servers all across the planet. The next stage is to distribute the governance of that content, which similarly, most users won't be aware of.
You're right, and there's always exceptions to the rule. Eg some of those with life threatening injuries probably need processed food in the interim. But the general point stands which is that human longevity had been correlated with caloric restriction. Even in Ben Franklin's wit and wisdom, he remarks that to preserve one's life, one should eat less. This observation is timeless
Coming from a family history of prostrate cancer, I would never consider testosterone replacement therapy.
Libspng 0.3.1 released – faster than libpng
This is what all of that "telemetry" is really about: opportunities to control the user.
TLDR

Assuming Augustan values (lasted a few hundred years) [2]:

Assuming these are Solidus (4.5g = 1/2 Aureus)and not Aureus (8g = 25 denari), there are 12.5 denari per coin or 3750 denari equivalent. Which is the wage of 20 pedes (lowest infantry). Or $5k/year salary.

Actually that's not that bad considering it was 2000 years ago, the pedes were cannon (arrow) fodder, and compared to most of the world or the poorest counties in WV ($16k household income [3]).

I don't use the Diocletian values in [2] except to establish the Aurus Solidus relationship (since you assumed 5g) because Diocletian is considered a debaser, Augustus' reform lasted hundreds of years, and by Diocletian's time the Empire was in steep decline. I didn't read the article so I don't know if these are Diocletian coins, but it doesn't really matter. What matters is, for most of the Roman Empire period, how much was 1.5 Kg of gold worth compared to today?

Not that much then or now. Certainly within an order of magnitude of the lowest paid wage earner.

[1] http://hadrianswallcountry.co.uk/sites/default/files/Pay%20S...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_currency#Equivalences

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lowest-income_counties...
That doesn’t solve the problem of Google properties constantly prompting you to install Chrome (and vice versa for Edge).
People pay for games and specialized professional software -- indiscriminate of platform. Outsize of those sectors you'll be lucky to sell a piece of software not attached to a service.
A cursory google search couldn't find what you mention. Can you cite the source please?

I know another example that goes in opposite direction, of Humble Bundles, where Linux had consistently higher average payment than Windows, but that may have changed in recent years.
Me too, given that a big part of my job is done on MS stack.

Not all of us had a problem with 90s Microsoft mode.

Every time I have to deal with Android development chores I miss MS tooling.
Not that I agree with this copyright directive, it's horrible and I intend to find out which of my representatives supported it such that I can do something about it.

But the EU, as a whole, is the world's biggest market and it is a common market in spite of legal and cultural differences between countries. So that's pretty naive.

And if companies think the "compliance cost" is too big, that's fine, it means they are leaving money on the table for their competition to pick up. The best outcome is actually the EU getting some real alternatives to US services that are deemed to be indispensable.

So personally, as an EU citizen, for companies no longer wanting to serve EU citizens, all I can say is don't let the door hit you on your way out.
>because a majority either doesn't agree with you or doesn't care enough to bother. //

That's why we've not moved on from representative democracy. The problem is the representatives are supposed to represent the people - and the people think they do (or try) - but in practice the representatives often don't.

In the UK we very rarely get chance to influence decisions, instead we get to choose the people who will decide, and they almost? always lie about how they will make decisions and what will influence them.

PR would make it better, but reduce the power of those who need to decide to give us PR.
Adding to 2): Microsoft has tried to embrace / extend / extinguish the open web on more than one occasion.

They're nowhere near striking distance of making that happen; but you can bet your life that if they were, that they'd make a run at it.
Hmm. I don’t think that data necessarily leads to that conclusion. Two things:

- Many states have a higher minimum wage, so the BLS reports are annoying. They do strictly less-than-or-equal rather than also including “nearby” or even “minimum in state”, making the overall percentage fairly low. I’m guessing data for “What percentage of the labor force makes less than $15/hr” would be more helpful, but is too far from the current minimum wage to be a reasonable discussion.

- Anecdotally, informal labor is driven by workers without the right to work (whether due to immigration status or otherwise). So I don’t think it’s reasonable to suggest that people would suddenly end up below minimum wage; the more likely outcome is as others have suggested: companies will raise prices (keeping the job), invest in automation (removing the job), or both.
Doesn't tell the whole story: Was told by a doc that with the amount of scar tissue in my R shoulder / bicep that he could easily trick new medical residents into thinking it was the MRI of a 70 or 80 year old.

... I train jiu jitsu 3x / week + cardio 3x / week.
You say "anti-business", I say "consumer rights" (and more importantly "human rights").

As a small business you can comply with the GDPR fairly easily unless you have no regard for anyone's privacy to begin with. And even if you're not 100% compliant you won't be insta-sued to bankruptcy, you'll only be reported and the relevant data protection agency will check on you. The GDPR encourages data protection agencies to help businesses fix their problems and only use fines as a last resort for gross violations and wilful negligence.

Unless you're storing/processing information that has special protections (e.g. religion, sexual orientation, medical data) the bureaucracy is also fairly tame, especially for small businesses, especially for businesses that aren't at their core based on processing personal information (e.g. not online dating startups).

Compare this with the "upload filter" as it has been interpreted in the media so far: allegedly every website that allows users to upload content would have to implement their own Content ID database and sign deals with publishing companies or license filtering services.
That isn't sarcasm, it is metaphor. You are looking for a pretty cheap out if you think using metaphor reduces discussion such that you can just respond by calling somebody dumb.

I'm going to stop here because you have set this discussion on a path towards unhelpful negativity. I hope any moderator/ reader reading this can see that you side railed this and not me. None of my discussion was about you, but was about the issue. Your response might as well breach the name calling rules of this forum.
I live in a tiny studio. I don't buy in bulk.
This is not the definition of Copyright.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright

Your definition is some alternative Libertarian definition of what copyright could be in an alternative society.

Update: I cannot comprehend the reason for downvote without reply. You provided a false definition of Copyright and I provided a correct definition along with why your view might not be the reality.
I don't know why this is so controversial. It's the first thing I see, before talking to anyone at the startup.

I study near the french-border and, in my experience, relying on english in france is hard and even the universities are often not really easy to navigate without speaking french.

I can't learn the language immediatly and so I think starting at the startup will be hard or impossible for me if everything they'r doing is in french. That's what I mean with "I don't feel welcome".
Whatever replaced it would suck in exactly the ways he's complaining about. That's what happens when money is on the line.
Show HN: Apilope – REST API monitoring and testing tool
This is an excellent answer to this question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mviTS_cIWXg
Ah the lack of experience with Word features...
Because I'm not willing to pay for Microsoft Word or Adobe Photoshop (because I don't use them) doesn't mean I don't pay for software. Lots of the software I use I don't have to pay for, but that's not the reason I use it. I use it because it's better than anything else out there. So I contribute money to projects instead. And I pay for services (like Newsblur rss reader) that run on open source stacks. And I buy plenty of games (but only if they run on Linux).
Sure, the master key is split into shards...

I'm talking about the account creating the database user. Let's take MSSQL, for example. The equivalent to a root account there is `sa`. So, Vault will have control of the `sa` account in order to create leased database users.

If I'm a malicious actor inside the environment, what's stopping me from compromising the `sa` account and mimicking dynamic secrets? I'd need to be comparing Vault logs with Database logs constantly to ensure it was legit.

It's just madness, if you ask me.
You can negotiate a shorter workweek, to free up more time; here's someone who hasn't been working full time for years: https://codewithoutrules.com/2018/01/08/part-time-programmer...
Thanks!

I think most of the challenge was self-inflicted.. I just sort of programmed as I went, with no planning at all, and so i wound up reimplementing the same concept a few different ways, which made smooshing it all together into the mega SELECT function difficult.

I also was surprised by some of the aspects of writing the macros. It wasn't really clear to me when pieces of the expression get passed in as separate arguments, vs when they come in as a nested structure.

That is, does `@SELECT foo @FROM bar @WHERE a>2` parse as a call to `SELECT(:foo, :@FROM, :bar, :@WHERE, :(a>2))`, or as `SELECT(:foo, :(@FROM(:bar, :@WHERE(:(a>2))))`? I think it was the second one, but I still don't think I really have a good grasp on the pattern.
I'm pretty sure the "millions" of customers number is artificially inflated with people that just want those discounts. I bought some tools on Amazon for regular household use, and then recently I got prompted to create an Amazon Business account simply because I bought tools. Promising vague discounts by signing up for a free account is a good way to get more "customers". I wonder if all purchases from then on count as "business sales"?
No enforcement agency is required to enforce this law. Rightholders will sue non-filtering platforms over potentional lost sales due to their "wilful negligence".
And if the offending platform has any business in Germany (or another country with similar laws) this will be a gold mine for any law business issuing cease and desist letters in the name of competing plattforms.
Wouldn't it be nice to have software you didn't have to trust?
Was the 70yo triathlete just a triathlete in their younger years, or did they keep up the exercise as they got older?

If you can remember, of course.
> Why don't you just say what they are, rather than trying to offload and displace the question?

You asked for examples of problems, so I provide a link to a well put together list of common Linux Desktop problems.
IoT is a pre-requisite for enabling sustainable development
Unfortunately this bug, which is in my opinion most of the time caused by the people and not the system democracy itself, can be exploited by both lobbyists and populists.
Could someone with an arXiv account let the authors know that they currently have their emails listed as "{lastname}@comsys.rwth-aachen.de"?
so you need a microsoft account to download extensions for your browser?
People laugh, but this is how I learned HTML back then.

I did something in Frontpage and then checked the code it generated to see how to do it with the tags.I still remember the Dreamweaver vs Frontpage vs Notepad arguments.

I'm getting old.
This is a good point. False copyright claims should be penalized, enforcing companies to improve the accuracy of their claims.
Agreed. But this approach is not going to achieve that. On the contrary.
I think they just shifted into the general direction of regulating the internet more and are listening to anyone who's complaining loudly and then just copypasting their ideas into legislation, instead of coming up with the specifics themselves. It just so happens that they heard the privacy guys first over the copyright guys first.
I like your idea, but it's hardly the case currently.

If you find a book on the ground, or read it in a library, or learn of its contents any number of ways without entering into even an implicit contract with the copyright holder, you are not then entitled to publish the contents without limit.
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Just delete your LinkedIn. I did. It's great. People just email me now and email is way better in almost all ways. I can filter it more easily, I can forward it more easily, the spam filter catches clueless recruiters. Everything is literally better with no drawbacks at all.

Also, after being exposed to the OSINT community via the Arms Control community, I learned how crazy dangerous it is to have your whole organization on there.

If I ever have a company with employees I'm going to make it part of the employment agreement (and a fireable offense) to add the position to LinkedIn. It's a complete gold mine for competitors and social engineers. People can put "Long Term Data Science Contract" if they really want to, but ideally I'd be able to convince them to just delete it or, at the very least, ramp up the security settings after deleting fake connections.

It's definitely useful, but mostly for other people.
Ask HN: Help me raise a small seed round
We are now a team of 3 co-founders working full-time on Tufa (http://tufa.ai/). The long term goal is to do AGI research (french version of DeepMind). The short term goal is to provide funding for long term goal by developing an algorithmic trader of cryptocurencies, using deep learning techniques. This has the benefit of developing ML/Deep Learning expertise that will be useful later for research.

So far, we have a basic prototype that makes a monthly 15% of return on capital by trading BTC/EUR on coinbase, as evaluated on backtesting scenarios. We are in the process of deploying it live to validate that our hypotheses hold true.

My brother and I have applied to the Entrepreneur First accelerator and got accepted (https://www.joinef.com/). But we have not signed yet. Their basic deal is a 90k investment for a 10% equity in the form of a convertible note. The issue with their program is that they have a lot of conditions/clauses (first refusal, future investments, dilution, non-compete, intellectual property, board seats) that we are not too happy about. In addition, the contract is phrased in very vague terms.

So I'm evaluating other ways I could raise funds to see if we can raise on better terms.
Running on our own savings, we have 2 years of runway that we can extend to 4 years if needed by relocating. The way we plan to use external investment (VC or angel) is as capital for the trader, because there is no need for salaries or offices. This way, we only need a small amount to get started.

We are looking for a deal like this:
- $70k worth of BTC for 5% of equity in Tufa, or
- $140k worth of BTC for 10% of equity in Tufa,
with whatever means is easier (convertible debt, safe, equity...)

Do you know an angel investor that would be interested in this?
Thanks
Mozilla Port Blocking
The level to which you are removing Vanessa’s agency in your attempts to relieve her of responsibility is frankly sexist.

Don’t be sexist. She has agency. She has responsibility. She made her bed and now she lies in it. People with your paternalistic condescending thought process are ultimately what holds people like Vanessa back in society in the first place. Don’t take away her agency. She’s responsible for any decisions she’s made, good or bad. And 99% of her 16yr old female peers know that having a kid at 16 is a “ bad decision.” It’s literally sexist as fuck to suggest she was somehow stupid enough or irresponsible enough not to know what she was getting into. Vanessa KNEW she was making a “bad decision” and she CHOSE to make it anyway. Stop pretending like she didn’t choose it. Stop pretending like she has no agency. Stop being sexist. Thank you
Sure, but then how would you then process form data?