skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Supposedly there were enough MEPs who were opposed the copyright changes that they should've been able to block them (which is pretty remarkable and almost never happens), but due to the confusing way the vote was organised some MEPs "accidentally" pressed the wrong button and voted for it instead, causing it to be passed. It's not clear whether this was in fact an accident or just plausible deniability.
This is specifically mentioned in the linked article as being at best only partially effective.
Property tax is inimical to the natural state of man. As in my original post, it keeps you from simply existing and forces you to participate in a system you had no business in creating.

Income tax is the best compromise I know of. If you want to participate in the economy-at-large then you pay it. If you don't want to, feel free to not participate. People who make more will pay more, but they will still make more.
For example. Selam G., the author of the article that sparked the controversy said:

""""

[...]

…and then he says that an enslaved child could, somehow, be “entirely willing”. Let’s also note that he called a group of child sex trafficking victims a ‘harem’, a terrible word choice.

[>] We can imagine many scenarios, but the most plausible scenario is that
she presented herself to him as entirely willing.

[...]

""""

The only opinion stated here by Stallman is that "it's the most plausible scenario", but it's an objective truth that it's a possible scenario (even if not the most plausible) for the underage girl to be coerced into presenting herself as willing, given the public knowledge of the situation. Then, Selam gets angry because he stated that possibility.

Note that she doesn't disagree with it being the most plausible scenario, she disagrees with it being a possibility at all (an objective truth, because coercion is a thing), and then she twists Stallman's words (presenting oneself as [something] vs being [something]).
> Is NixOS a scheme?

That question does not make any sense. I am talking about Scheme the programming language: https://schemers.org/

NixOS is a GNU/Linux distribution built on top of the Nix package manager. The Nix package manager has its own custom configuration language. GuixSD is a GNU/Linux distribution built on top of the Guix package manager. GuixSD uses Guile Scheme as the package configuration language, system configuration language, scripting language, and implementation language for many of the system services (such as init). GuixSD does more things better with an existing standard programming language than NixOS does with its own custom programming language.

> Also, I detest CMake, but by your own standard (longevity, popularity), it is better than Nix or Guix.

What does CMake have to do with anything?

> Yes, they have been around for a while

What are you talking about? The first stable version of NixOS, 13.10, was released in 2013. GuixSD 1.0 was only released this May.

Your post is hard to make sense of.
Isn't there some way these TVs are violating the Video Privacy Protection Act?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Privacy_Protection_Act

Even the amendment in 2012 seems to make it only legal to add a function "share" functoin for a user to post what they watched on a service. It does not seem to make it possible to just share all viewing info. It also does not make it possible to just add it to a EULA or TOS.
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Its almost like they want to push people to use Linux instead of Win8/10

Failing upwards
Perhaps, but that legal theory has never been tested in US federal court (as far as we know). It's entirely possible that the judicial branch wouldn't allow the executive branch to force private citizens into actively making false statements.
Yeah. I'm ok with calling anything that looks weird a "paradox" (even stuff like "The Monty Hall problem"), but in this case describing the problem this way is precisely what's misleading about it: the person describing the "problem" must first pretend that there is a well defined (even though possibly not known to the less educated listener than himself) "random" way to pick 2 points on a circle, which there clearly isn't: there are different algorithms to do that, that produce different distribution, which very obviously look different when plotted, and choosing any specific algorithm/distribution makes the "paradox" disappear. So I really dislike when stuff like that is called a "paradox". It's just a way to trick the listener (or yourself) into thinking there is a problem, when there really isn't any.
Could you expand on the second half of your comment?
I thought the general rule is you should feed a child lots of different foods at appropriate (and EARLY) stages of life, even if you or the child don't like that food. They need the exposure so their body can build defenses to any negative reaction. The difference between a fussy eater and an allergic eater are profound.
All of these people will be against the wall when the revolution comes. Our society is so broken.
Microsoft would get involved in Trust issues if they were approaching a monopoly in the PC world. However, one can't rely on law to stop a huge corporation like Microsoft dominating the whole PC world.

I wonder how Apple would respond to this move by MS, since Apple is also shifting towards services. Maybe they will let people install macOS on their own machines (which pass certain requirements)? Will they remove apps made by MS from Appstore? And what will Google's reaction be to all this? Are they going to advertise Chrome books as cheaper alternatives to MS Windows? Or will they remove MS apps from Google Play as well?

Interesting, yet dark, times indeed.
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This is a direct quote from Stallman, on his own website:

The nominee is quoted as saying that if the choice of a sexual partner were protected by the Constitution, "prostitution, adultery, necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography, and even incest and pedophilia" also would be. He is probably mistaken, legally--but that is unfortunate. All of these acts should be legal as long as no one is coerced. They are illegal only because of prejudice and narrowmindedness.

I don't have an opinion about the recent reporting of Stallman's comments on Epstein, other than to note that they are, in effect, about pedophilia. I don't have to; Stallman has done us all the favor of being outspoken about his belief that pedophilia should be legal.

I think a lot of advocates for Stallman don't know this about his history, and think they can hang their entire argument on the Epstein pedophilia drama. If that's all that had happened, Stallman defending Minsky, he might be fine. But it's not. If you want to talk about Stallman saying things that others don't agree with, be mindful of what it is he's saying. You probably don't actually want to be defending it.
Eh, sorry, when you clicked "agree" you agreed to give up your right to collective action in favor of confidential arbitration that is _totally_ more fair than those nasty old courts.
The reason for picking it is for memory safety as well as performance. If your problem involves a lot of regex and memory safety isn't as critical, then feel free to pick a language with good regular expression libraries. If regular expressions are a smaller part of your problem you're solving, looking at overall performance is better than benchmarks like this.
This comment from 2011 by siavosh, on another NYMag article about Wall Street really rings true:

> I hate articles like this.
I used to work on wall street, and these sort of articles were rampant up until the burst: they glamorize financial "wizards", hedge funds, trading life etc. They're financial porn. They glamorize what, in my opinion, is a dubious field. All the while attracting all sorts of people into a field that has already proven it's "value" or lack there of to society.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2813902

Edit: It's also funny how the top reply by btcoal describes this current article perfectly:

> These articles typically have a set format: 1. Intro into the mysterious culture of the hedge fund 2. Background on the precocious child prodigy turned market whiz 3. Description of firm's hiring practices of PhD's etc 4. Questioning value of Hedge Fund's to society 5. In conclusion, this hedge fund makes a lot of money...
Stallman isn't obligated to swoop in and give his side to the story everytime someone says something nasty about him. That's a ridiculous standard especially for someone as famous and controversial as he.

Yea, I agree you don't need anyones permission to post this kind of stuff, it is free speech, afterall. I just object to you justifying it as somehow being moral, just because it's relevant information to someone who might interact with him in the future.

This is a public forum, and posting this kind of stuff here is being an asshole. That's my only point.
I really think if you explained this properly to most end users they will still want something like what Microsoft is moving toward. Let Microsoft worry about it, is what they'll say. Non-tech people don't want to buy and upgrade operating systems. They see the operating system as part of the device.

I'd like to say selling operating systems to non-technical people doesn't work, but I'm not sure it's ever really been tried. The bulk of Microsoft's OS sales have never been to end users, but to OEMs and companies on Software Assurance.

Now technical people are certainly involved where an IT department builds systems for companies, but I think Microsoft wants to eliminate that too.
How can you include those but not insurance?
That is a good question. I guess it's kind of like making friends at school -- you socialize because you're in the same place, not because of some deep inherent connection. Coupled with a lack of work it may be hard to move jobs.

I am surprised at how easily people in HN take on new jobs and negotiate for better pay.
I’m convinced it’s driven by business communication and objectives more than skill set.

I’ve _never_ worked with a “product manager” or “product owner” that could effectively tell me what a SLO was, or simply tell me what the business impact of bugs were. All I usually get is what we’ll lose if we don’t implement feature X or Y.

This impacts “DevOps” because it almost always puts focus and priority on anything feature-related. In order to do anything not feature-oriented, you literally have to be fighting massive quality problems on a daily basis. Thus... very few organizations understand how to have “devs and ops spend quality time together”. Almost all time not building features is wasted in their eyes.

In the end, this is why there’s a “dev and ops split”. The devs drive features, which PMs understand, and the ops makes things run, and the PO/PM types ignore them but sometimes like to make requests.

I think a pre-cursor to any real DevOps culture are SLOs that are understood and reported to executives. If that doesn’t exist, DevOps usually ends up being a BS term used to “remain relevant”. Without some kind of business quality objective, real DevOps time is pure cost, and counter to business development.

Just like “agile” BS, any real change usually starts at the top fo the company.
I have an old Thinkpad T420 with a non-working display that I attached to my (non smart) tv. I'm very satisfied with Kodi and browsing with Firefox in Linux. Next step would be some voice and gesture recognition (open kinect maybe?)
Ask HN: Why is news of Richard Stallman being suppressed?
I generally understand political stuff being shut down, but Stallman is arguably one of the founders of "hacker" culture. Seems a bit off that news of him stepping down from GNU would be off the front page.

You can see yourself:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=last24h&page=0&prefix=true&query=gnu&sort=byPopularity&type=story
Yeah, I've always found that behavior really annoying. And it's basically impossible to fix it after the fact without making a separate account. The trick, if you know it before hand, is to make a local account (I guess you need to be offline for that now) and then link it later.
> tear through our binaries

That's explicitly against your terms of service.
Doesn't seem that you have the facts, but you're convinced that one side is right.
I am certainly open to the idea of being surprised by this -- there very well could be more developers using Microsoft as the operating system they use for their development machine, however I do wonder if the population of Stack Overflow users is a good, un-skewed sample of all developers.
I don't understand what it means to "disagree" with someone else's personal emotional reaction. You wish people faced with some of the worst possible news would Vulcan up? Even from a coolly logical perspective, the slowness of it is not necessarily a bonus. It's not pretty. There's often a lot of pain.
It's literally a thread about people potentially lending guest bedrooms to Stallman, and a comment from someone who did that.
He is "correct" in a way. It is the inevitable logical extension of current society's view on sexual relationship (consent based). This is just a repeat of what happened in 70s with a bunch of intellectuals: Foucault, Derrida, Althusser, et al argued that age of consent should be abolished too [1]. Seems like the most rational men always come to same conclusion.

Society slowly unravel that consent is such a fragile concept, and they have to resort to some finite number (age) to strengthen that stance. But, as the most rational amongst us found out, those numbers are indefensible too.

A better and more defensible stance is the one Catholic's have (Humanae Vitae).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_petition_against_age_of...
I've paid my dues in the industry very similar to tech lead, including my wife having to preemptively and defensively flee the country with our kids --
On the other hand, he at least had the courage to sign his name to what he had to say.
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It's inconvenient because of how treatable it is with modern medicine.
That's the same behaviour which has been the case for some time, right? Not that I'm particularly happy about it or anything.
Do they though? My friends that work IT in corporate settings seem to tear their hair out every time MS (or anyone) tries to auto-push an update that they haven't had a chance to rigorously test for compatibility and security with their existing stuff. Some of them have fiduciary responsibility to not add/change/upgrade software without carefully testing it first. That doesn't seem compatible with the trajectory Windows is now on (and that Apple has been on for some time).
Coldfusion was also a thing around that time. Flash sites as well.
It's been a long time since I've run windows but I remember quite a lot of hassle playing games. With DRM being more common and all the crappy stuff that comes with "windows as a service" I doubt it's gotten better.

Last year one of my friends had windows update remove their graphics drive so machine ran with vesa graphics. Their description of it was something along the lines of "everything is big and slow and I don't know why."

You want to play games without hassle? Install arch and play the stuff in AUR. Honestly compiling everything is less hassle than dealing with the misbehaving blobs programmed by the changing whims of manipulative corporations.
Slightly off topic, but the analogy of this to Deep Thought having to design a system to explain what the actual Question was is pretty amazing. Douglas Adams was incredibly prescient.
I imagine another good path is to state it's owned by an organization, then clicking "Domain join instead". I can't imagine they removed that, but it just dumps out to a local account because you can't domain join in the OOBE.
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Everything's just atoms, man.
Considering yall ran sendmail, I had root on your workstation if i wanted it :) it was a different world then.
> Which part of Adam Smith are you paraphrasing exactly?

No one quote in particular; just a recurring theme.

"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest"

- The Wealth of Nations

"The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition...is so powerful, that it is alone, and without any assistance, not only capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations."

- The Wealth of Nations

"The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would...assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever"

- The Wealth of Nations

"In spite of their natural selfishness and rapacity [capitalists] are led by an invisible hand...and thus without intending it, without knowing it, advance the interest of society"

- The Theory of Moral Sentiments

> Have you read him?

Yes.
No it doesn't. They don't just burn it and release the heat, they use the heat to generate electricity.

It's a direct 1 to 1 reduction in oil usage.

Burning plastic is what we should be doing.
Yes, but the difference is we choose our work families -- ostensibly we're working together towards a common vision of some sort whereas we are simply thrust into our school lives by our parents

Corporatism has a rich history and it used to be 'for life' whereas nowadays the stark and frankly short sighted careerism plaguing industry is having a detriment on true long term prospects
They watch what companies like Google get away with to see how far they can push things.

> Activity history helps keep track of the things you do on your device, such as the apps and services you use, the files you open, and the websites you browse. Your activity history is stored locally on your device when using different apps and features such as Microsoft Edge, some Microsoft Store apps, and Office apps.

> If you've signed in to your device with a Microsoft account and given your permission, Windows sends your activity history to Microsoft. Once your activity history is in the cloud, Microsoft uses that data to enable cross-device experiences, to provide you with the ability to continue those activities on other devices, to provide personalized experiences (such as ordering your activities based on duration of use) and relevant suggestions (such as anticipating what your needs might be based on your activity history), and to help improve Microsoft products.

https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement
The main thread appears to be flamewar-killed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21103133

There is also doubt that it is an authentic message.
> the people who were MOST familiar with the contract, the rules, the exact things that I could ask them to do and the things they were allowed to refuse... were the worst teammates.

Apply this comment to workers and employers and it sound reasonable. Rephrase this comment to apply to civilians and police officers and it sounds horrible, even though in both cases we can argue that the goal is to not have adversarial, competitive relationships, and instead to trust each other.

I am somewhat skeptical about unions, and I don't think they're the silver bullet that people claim they are. I sympathize with people who worry about adding additional layers to management. There is no such thing as an incorruptible organization.

But, I'm opposed to any insinuation that knowing your rights and exercising them is something to be ashamed of, in any context.

> If someone asks you to do something, and your default answer is that it's not in your contract, you're not approaching things in the right way.

Again, this sounds reasonable. But it makes me feel really weird, and I think its the implication (intended or not) that being a good employee means not thinking about whether or not you're being taken advantage of. It is very difficult for me to imagine any employer I've ever worked for arguing the same thing in the opposite direction. Employers know their contracts, they hire entire legal teams who are entirely dedicated to knowing the contract. Shouldn't the employee also know the contract?

Mutual respect means not going out of your way to have power over another person; it means viewing them as an equal. If only one side of a business relationship is paying attention to and enforcing a contract, then that's not respectful; it's an unhealthy power dynamic.
It's a total managed solution. Predictable. Requires less human capital to administer. Contract is negotiable with M$.
I think he means more that you can make it an operating expenditure and not a capital one, for accounting.
Be a man, use Linux.
I think it's been that way for a while? Maybe six months ago I wanted to add Windows to a Linux box I had, and I ran into this
They found the Ring doorbell records video when someone moves in front of it? Isn’t that what is made for? I’m opposed to subscription cameras and avoid Ring but everyone I know who has one bought it because it records when someone walks in front of it.
Not a monopoly, but it was the easiest and most performant option at lower price points.

Java required specialised or dedicated hosting ($$$). CGI was slow as hell. Mod_perl often was not available in shared hosting, for whatever reason.

PHP was cheap, fast, ubiquitous, and Good Enough™, for about a decade. Then VPS happened and the market changed.
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> making your DNS lookups even more attributable

That's missing the point. I don't care what a nameserver learns from my DNS request when I'm almost always going to follow that request by opening s socket to the referenced server. The delegated nameserver and the referenced (e.g. HTTP{,S}) server are controlled by the same entity, which is compartmentalized from other unrelated DNS requests when you perform the recursive resolution locally.

It seems like you're only considering privacy at the protocol level. While that's important, it can eventually be fixed with improved protocols. I'm far more concerned about de facto standardizing on requiring a centralized service that necessarily has access to the plaintext DNS traffic. The only way to prevent logging of the user's entire internet pattern-of-life is to not give the entire pattern to a single entity.

To be clear: we should be updating all plaintext protocols with encryption/etc. Both DoT and DoH can help achieve that goal. Some sort of encrypted protocol is needed even when running a recursive resolver (such as DoT). It would also be great if popular OS had built-in support for running a local recursive resolver, OS-level support for DoH/DoT, and other advanced features.
In other words, true corporatism relies on deep long term connection and vulnerable intimacy, whereas false corporatism rests on shallow guarded careerism and we're investing our entire livelihoods on a confidence scam