skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I forgive the author for mixing some emotion into it -- he's trying to write a book about debt that will appeal to a general audience. Like the sibling said, it's still quite rigorous in its citations.
This might be true. However it's fact that poor people lose the most from inflation. Which is better?
Reserve banks create money out of debt.

They give a loan to someone, which means someone owes them 10,000 dollars. Now they can trade that 10,000$ worth of debt to someone else. You could say "out of thin air", but its really "out of social expectations that you pay your debt eventually"
This is commonly suggested and I don't even think from a business revenue standpoint it would be a big deal for them. The biggest issue is that it is a 20 year code base with 20 year old bugs and open sourcing the whole thing would immediately generate open season on Windows boxes from a security standpoint.

You'll see Microsoft open source new things as they go, and probably smaller components as they rework them, but I doubt you'll ever see a truly fully open source Windows, just because of the amount of work involved.
No. They will buy Ubuntu.
> Such a move would confuse the world’s routers, which would have to choose between rival claims to the same blocks of Internet addresses.

I know! We can solve this with blockchain technology!

> The overall network, unable to discern truth amid competing claims, could fracture into rival fiefdoms.

Oh right. The inevitable forks would ruin everything. Oh well...
Could Microsoft stop actively developing Windows, only provide security updates and whatever else is necessary?
the post say absolutely nothing. zero. nada.

I'm flagging this as I flag every other random marketing spam.
A compiler is in the happy position where there is little point in continuing to run after encountering an error, so it can bail right out with exit(2) after reporting the error to the user. This means that the contract on parse(), for example, can be that if it returns, it has succeeded.
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I like having a makefile variable such that you can do "make NO_WERROR=1"
> but no actual “why”

Because in every other aspect but the very kernel (and the UI perhaps) Windows is a disaster. Windows Update especially.
I don't think you need an open source kernel for POSIX compatibility, afair NT allows different OS "personalities" to coexist and you could write a POSIX compatible one as a kernel module.

But I don't think that has more interest than a Linux compatible subsystem, which they already have.
Admittedly, the guideline says "probably". In this case, I'd suggest that the global reach of online media and the fact (as you point out) that the New York Times, an American media company, is effectively banned (not really banned, but more "erring on the side of caution" I imagine) from reporting it, is of interest.

As an Australian, I read an article stating that George Pell had been removed from the Pope's "council of nine (cardinals)", and then almost immediately after, read an article on the suppression order. A bit of quick searching, and I found out what the news was. Which begs the question, if the NYT (and presumably other international online media orgs) self-censored in the way described above, why would Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, not do the same?

EDIT: I'm not suggesting that the search engines should self-censor (or that they shouldn't), I'm just wondering why they'd come to a different conclusion than, say, the NYT.
What would they gain from this?
just like being a Google suit user.
Meanwhile US exports to China are eating dirt. This trade war is not going well for America, although this slow growth headline will be used to bolster a false narrative:

https://mobile.twitter.com/carlquintanilla/status/1073234887...
> What really gets me is that baby powder is marketed towards young mothers and babies.

Why does that increase the significance of this issue?
> Or you buy a car. It quickly loses value, but you still have the debt based on the original purchase.

Aside from perhaps the first year of owning a financed car, it is worth more than remaining principal on the loan for the majority of the loan's duration.
The existence of MSSQL-Linux is proof that Microsoft can get this done. The story is pretty interesting:

https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2016/12/16/sql-se...
Microsoft is always a business not IT. In fact, underlying the whole IT revolution they are the key to transform it to business to the horror of the whole industry. Software as a business is not a model even for ibm. We have share/guide then and even now you can run Ibm os on pc.

Hence the question what is the business model. It is nothing to do with technology. It is as godfather have taught it - nothing personal but business.

The article mentioned about azure, here Xbox, guess pc side the old business they do os and oem do hw (vs iphone and mac mode of integrated business down to make apple cpu), rental model ...

Hence the question is not about whether it can but how.

It is all business to Microsoft and google. A bit different on apple side in the past ...

That is why we should be worry. The old embrace, extend and extinct is logical path for all business and empire.

Anyway, they are moving and get that here and there like github. But would they worry as a buisness about java and android model.

Let us see.
The people who have 1M people in "re-education camps", claim ownership of Taiwan, have been building artificial islands to stake their "territory" in the South China Sea, and just made Xi de facto emperor for life?

Are you sure we aren't adversaries? Because we certainly don't seem to be ideologically aligned!

Don't get me wrong, we've got fucking problems, but we're not disappearing artists and sending people to live in other people's houses to spy on them directly. China has chosen a path of dictatorial horse-shit of its own accord - the US didn't push them into it.
I was thinking more that an open-source kernel could result in unix-y distros e.g. Arch Windows.
What are the current tactics for labor to combat corruption or crony capitalism?

Back in the summer, I was listening to a radio interview with the union head talking about their latest negotiations with Fiat, and I was surprised to hear that they were on personally amicable terms. So much so that the union rep mentioned getting to see Marchionne's personal car collection, and
'negotiating' over fancy dinners.

I know there's an answer for this in raw labor economic/game theoretic terms, but is it ever possible to for labor to treat the owners of capital as anything other than amicable? I'm not saying hostile, but it seems that the point at which the line blurs between labor working for the workers, or just being another arm of corporate executive leadership, seems like something we should've fixed with modern corporate practices.
I think yes in 10-15 years business-wise that it would be a good plan and great switcheroo. The reality though is that there is so much Windows technical debt, Microsoft employees looking for a promotion, and let alone future unknown technological advances and trends that it will never happen. It may be possible...but who cares (see: above ^)?
Culturally we value the women and children over men and older people.

This is likely due to the reproductive drive that makes babies cute and men more expendable than women.
I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 on an XPS 15 and VS Code is my primary editor and I totally agree.
I can tell you that Caterpillar has planned to move almost all production out of China with the majority coming back to the US. They're even spinning up casting plants that have been shuttered for over a decade because of this.
> I'm essentially trapped on OSX, and have been for a decade

Me too until this May, when it was past time for my aging MB Pro to retire. I really couldn't justify a new one given I don't even like them any more (the Touchbar was the coup de grace).

Hence a Dell XPS 15, running Windows 10. I won't pretend the latter is anywhere near as good as OSX (less stable, less consistent UI, generally lower quality apps), but it does manage all the hardware well & gets the job done. WSL makes it livable-with.

I'd prefer linux though for its window manager choices, single-rooted filesystem, lack of nags & faster file io (among other things).

> I'd love to see real competition in the OS space for people who need both a decent app ecosystem and open source developer tools.

Quite.
Interix was a better POSIX subsystem; it took until WSL to actually be able to run Linux binaries on NT.
I regularly develop Haskell, Rust, Node, etc. on WSL. It's dramatically improved since the early days, and that was already pretty magical.

I find it funny you mention "stock Linux binaries", the distributions that are available on top of WSL are stock Linux distributions. Ubuntu, Debian, SUSE, etc. There aren't any non stock Linux binaries involved.
As a Chinese grew up in China and have been living in US in recent years, I am already used to how US media reports about China. The bottom line: I have not seen _any_ US media reporting China truthfully. NPR is usually the worst, but others not much better.

What happens is that, because of untruthful reporting in US media, people in US does not know or understand what's going on in China. It seems a miracle that such a big country grew like crazy in 30 years without democracy. But if you how much average Chinese invest in their education and how hard they work, you will not be surprised.

The only real problem China is facing is its political system, not its economy. Compared to improving the political system, the economy is much, much easier.
>economy failed them

Its everyone else fault that nobody wanted to buy the crap their local industries made?
There is a project called NDISWrapper which attempts to do that. It used to be used quite a bit for WiFi drivers before Linux had decent WiFi drivers for most chipsets.
This week there have also been very similar issues raised around a gag order issued by a court in New Zealand, which is intended to keep the identity of a murder accused secret. The victim in this case was a British tourist, so the media in England has been reporting heavily on the case.
258 miles starting at 26K! that beats a Tesla!

i'm just not so sure about the 26K part (they said might), afterall.

anyways, the future looks bright here.
> ... put their Windows GUI on top of the Linux OS instead of using the Linux X11 GUIs.

So, put the Win10 GUI on a Linux desktop?

As the saying goes "Now you have two problems". :)
A very good point. But if that were the only impediment, I suspect Microsoft could come up with a rollout plan to mitigate (though not completely eliminate) this problem. Releasing a "preview" of the kernel source to trusted security researchers and academics might be a start.
It’s not a trade war with China. It’s a tech war
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Have you guys tried Linux on the desktop recently?

There's a host of folks in my org running Ubuntu on Dell XPS laptops. Issues do arise, but they're pretty rare. I made the switch from Mac almost two years ago and it's been great.
Spending a large part of the day under direct sunlight (e.g., working in a farm), is known to paradoxically reduce the risk of skin cancer; whereas occasional exposure (e.g., working at a desk job and then sunbathing in Cancun) greatly increases the risk.

Perhaps we're not overthinking it. Maybe there are complex processes that we don't yet understand.
> ... the practices of Linux/Unix devs who have little or no respect for the past

Maybe some Linux devs, but many Unix devs have been around a long time and are pretty insistent on backwards compatibility too. ;)
If the babies were that worried about it they would have just switched to a competitor.
What do you mean? My content constantly hits discover and I certainly haven't paid FB a penny.
Do not fall into the trip to analysis china using a communist Marx model based on economy and/or state level. It is always the People you worry about even though there is no democracy.

Unlike Soviet Union, the chinese has moved out as people to the west for many years now. Huawei even nearly has a chance to use their code to get a strong hold of 5g. Can you even imagine Russia live in USA and with firm there or Hollywood need to get the agreement of china to ...

The game is not just about a trade. The politics of playing of game of game from shaping the agenda, control the verb (discourse academic speak) and the hard to fight the culture (unlike Muslim you can have a perfect English speaking chinese working in most guarded place and then part of the 1000 person thing).

I think the game at large is what is the “interesting” part and the west is losing to the horror of us who think human rights, Liberty, freedom to speak (or access information) is fundamental rights.

But the west accept chinese can be on their own and even worry about their economy.

You lost. If you play a game like this.
News flash: Democrat supporters don’t care when it comes from their side and will always find a way to justify it.

Their hypocrisy knows no bounds.
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Can't see it happen. Desktop Linux has no meaningful user base, with or without MSFT.
The randomization I’m talking about is where the binary is loaded into memory, which protects against the issue you’re talking about of everyone having the same binary (and hence, things are at the same address).
Yep, on the XPS this year (the last time a new Ubuntu install a couple of weeks ago). Many problems. Some fixable, but a poorer use of my time than running or sailing or any number of three-dimensional activities I choose over screen flatland when not working.
Sounds like an opportunity for someone to set up a useful service. :)
why does hacker news redirect the link like that? isn't this a major bug and security issue?
If you perform electrolysis of sea water the main products given off would be hydrogen and bleach, both of which could be piped or shipped (if you filled an oil tanker with hydrogen, would it be lighter than air?) back to shore. Although a leak of bleach into the ocean may not be very good, it's probably no worse than the damage done from oil.
In Cambridge, MA at a community center. It is not quite open to the public. You have to be a member of the North American Scrabble Players Association (www.scrabbleplayers.org - $30/year) and have amassed a high enough ELO to qualify for this tournament. There are many tournaments held all over the country that are open to any NASPA members though. I'm excited for it! I represented the US in 2013 in Vancouver and we won that one.
This is highly illegal and taken very seriously. Is this speculation on your part or do you know this for a fact (in which case, you should report it).
Yeah right, and of course the political system has absolutely nothing to do with China's growth. And it's great if people work all day 16 hours every day of the week, are put to work and discipline since they were a child to absolutely remove any sense of creativity and freedom from their minds. Go China, Go!

In truth it's actually the opposite. Chinese people living here in Canada have absolutely no clue whats wrong about their country, which is kindof expected if you grow up in such a system. Even though East-Germans seem to have done a better job of recognizing their stupid system. The difference might be that China prospers and east Germany did not.
I have not read enough 17th century books to know what you mean. Can you expand on that?
Amazon and Google are likely to make cloud-ready NT distros, cutting off Microsoft's last cash lifeline on rival clouds. So it would have significant costs.

On the other hand, Flash once had API dominance and lost it as they (fortunately!) abdicated to HTML5. MS is now extremely aware that Win32 isn't the future - they even cut the OS into pieces and reorg'd NT under us (Azure.)

.NET Core is the way forward for the company. I could totally see us releasing "NT Core" without the Win32 userland, and WSL, Modern and .NET Core as the official personalities.

We could even release the shell that way. But it would pull a bunch of developers away from new scenarios to put onto an ever-shrinking desktop market.

Most likely we'll just see all new products become cross-platform and the execs will wait until a new "iPhone moment" comes along to get ahead with consumer OS.
Not likely to happen - not very long ago, MS likened GPL to a virus. Since then, they have changed a lot, but fundamentally, they need to protect vendors interests, IP, profitability - not appease some open source proponents.
Not derived at all. The design principles and operation are similar due to a few of the same people working on both. Would you say Linux is derived from Unix? I guess many would but, personally, I am working on a new trading system, would it be derived from my previous work? I would say this one is brand new, but shares common concepts due to the requirement of being a trading system. I would definitely say it is not derived at all. The way I do things similarly because they work well in practice is not derivation to me.
Every day it makes less sense for the 326 million US citizens to remain under a single government.

40% want European-style social democracy, and a different 40% want radical individualism and severely limited collective action a la the Wild West.

These can't coexist.
"real money from real people's savings accounts" is not how it works. See this book - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Where-Does-Money-Come-Monetary/dp/1...

Banks do indeed make money "from nothing". If you get a loan of $1000 from a bank, they just add $1000 to your current account, and write down in another account that you owe them $1000. They don't have to "get" this money from somewhere.

This is all as it should be. Say I can make tables, and you want one, but don't have anything to give me in exchange. We can agree that you now owe me $100, say. You can write me an IOU and sign it. Suppose you are trustworthy enough that an IOU from you is considered acceptable as payment. I can now use your IOU as money - we have just "created" $100 money from nowhere (or, $100 debt, same thing).
Rather than generalising about all non-Chinese reporting about China you could comment specifically about what you think is misleading or untruthful about this specific article, that might be more enlightening.
I can't find it now, but there was a news story recently where a contact lens wearer contracted something from tap water because she did not dry her hands troughly after washing them and handling the lenses.
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In my experience helping an elderly relative with the cable shitshow, the Comcast service center people are actually really nice and would have done so without the drama. But I definitely recommend the physical side of things.

Although I have done a bit of a chaotic neutral thing myself: Comcast sent her two new boxes instead of one after we switched her to a cheaper box. They wanted us to drive all the way back to service center. Grabbed their UPS account # from the tracking code, filled out the web form and had it sent back with pickup billed against Comcast’s acct. She never got billed a cent.
My dream!
Ask HN: Graph DB that can produce visuals to replace process flowcharts?
Hi HN - I'm looking to use Neo4j or another graphDB to capture data on how several elements of a process interact. While Neo4j is great for capturing and querying the data; I can't find any tools that would allow me to export the nodes & edges in a structured format so that I could use the exported data to replace our process flowcharts (i.e. - define the direction, adjust visual elements, change fonts, assign specific node positions)

Does anyone know of any tools that can do this?
Using a normal saline solution of 0.9% NaCl is much more comfortable, doesn't sting the sinus membranes at all. I wouldn't count on it to kill anything
People might actually like it when things don't change.
This article from 1980 says asbestos brake usage in train/subway cars was already almost entirely phased out at the time it was published: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1980/11/11/late...
Does this even make sense unless Office gets ported to Linux? Given that Office 365 is turning into Microsoft's main source of desktop revenue, porting Office to Linux is what will allow Microsoft to start to build an entire Linux desktop experience that still generate revenue for the company.
Nor regulators, apparently, which is why at least some on the right oppose them.
> grep the C FLOSS universe for the set of old-school, free-wheelin' string handling functions

You’ll likely find too many to be useful.
Believe it or not, trusted security researchers and academics already can request parts of the Windows source code, under non disclosure agreements, of course.

But it's one of the largest codebases in the world, AFAIK, and it's immensely complicated. It's hard to quantify just how much work would need to be done to verify it was even marginally safe for release. And there's tons of licensing related issues as well, as far as where Microsoft may have gotten some of the code inside Windows.

It's not impossible, but it's a big gamble, and Microsoft is not a company that gambles big. It's not really in their culture to do what you're suggesting. I would be thrilled if they did, but I'd be jaw-droppingly shocked if it did.
When I play I generally allow both players are allowed to use the dictionary whenever they want (whether or not it is your turn), for whatever reason. You can combine this rule with time controls (there are a few possibilities for time controls, one way is to use chess clocks); if you take too long to look up the word while it is your turn, you are penalized by the time controls.

That swapping rule look like a interesting variant. A variant I have though of is that you can change the meaning of blanks on the board at any time during your turn as long as they are still valid words (valid both before and after your play, with the same letter being represented in both cases); this avoids having to remember what letter it is supposed to be. Another variant allows you to rearrange the letters of words you extend; if that changes words you cross, you score for the new words it makes. The mention in the article of removing bingo also can be a variant.
> Meanwhile US exports to China are eating dirt.

US exports to China for 2018 will be around $123-$126 billion.

That compares to $129 billion for 2017, and $115 billion for 2016 and 2015. So US exports will be up vs 2016 & 2015, and down a mere couple billion versus 2017. Meaningless in other words.

Your premise is incorrect. So far China is paying for most of the trade war [1] through its producers slashing prices and by allowing its Yuan to drop in value (which is a wealth transfer from the Chinese people to prop up its exporters so they can hopefully run in place rather than get hit hard). That's why the US isn't seeing any consequential pricing / inflationary pressure at all from the trade war.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-19/china-is-...
(Since it is too late to edit my parent comment): Just to clarify, my parent comment was not a complaint that this article was posted to HN; rather, it was to justify my posting the article in the first place.
I'm pretty sure this was made around 10 years ago. I remember trying to reverse engineer this open gl like syntax