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Oh they are burning down the house pretty badly. I think even good ol bill is cringing at recent events. My god ..

But, it takes a fire to feed a forest sometimes. Let them
This infuriates me insanely. By what right does Microsoft think it is ok to manipulate a third party software by injecting their own code?! This is outright malicious. Malware.

I hope the EU fines them and forces Microsoft to stop such actions (as they forced them to stop bundling IE with Windows a couple of years ago).

It's time these big corporations get broken up. It really is. Stop f*cking with my hardware and the web.
I don't see how that is a resolution. Increased taxes mean more expensive housing. Capped rent means less available housing stock which will be fine for the first 10 years but over time more people come to the location and drive up prices again.

There are two things you can influence either supply or demand. You're reducing supply but keeping demand the same or allowing it to grow. The answer is to increase supply and reduce demand.

The thing is, the places that are supply constrained have optimized themselves into being in extreme demand. They know they don't have enough housing but that doesn't stop them from building more commercial real estate to enable new businesses. Those businesses could have been founded somewhere else but why bother when the most suitable city still has enough room for you (but not for the employees)?
This violates private property rights. What If I don't want to sell my property no matter the price?
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We hit problems of ownership, control and scope here. I want a tool I can use to find a baking recipe and configure my baking machine automatically. I want that tool to be entirely independent of the sites it pulls recipes from, and of the machines it configures. From this point of view, I want the recipe sites to be dumb documents, preferably in machine-readable format. Similarly, I want my baking machine to be a dumb telemetry/configuration endpoint.

In this baking example, there are three pieces of the puzzle. Recipe source, configuration endpoint, and the brain in the middle that uses one to work on the other. I want that brain part to be independent - but you can easily see how the recipe site and the machine vendors would each like to own the brain part exclusively. That's why we can't have nice things on the Internet - nobody can accept their role as a service provider, everyone wants to be a platform, the landowner of their digital sharecrop.
> 'Computer science' is the study of information complexity and how it maps to solving computational problems, so no.

I'm not saying that Lisp pioneered Lambda Calculus, I'm saying that your definition "CS is the study of information complexity and how it maps to solving computational problems" isn't correct.

Edit: Okay, I might have misread OP and thought he'd said LC pretty much pioneered CS, not Lisp.
On the contrary, I wish more media websites explicitly framed things as opinions, even in fairly clear-cut cases like this. I don’t need or want the media to tell me what ethical opinion I should have.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBLNohqquRk

How can anyone watch this and realize that precisely nobody went to jail or suffered any kind of process of justice as a result and still think that the country has any respect whatsoever for its written policies or procedures?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/31/cia-admits-spy...

I, for one, am firmly convinced that there are two different sets of laws in this country. One for us, and one for them.
They got millions of gamers. Why can't they implement a store like Steam has?
This article continues on the various other articles highlighting that Boeing focussed way too much on financials over anything else. Engineering had way less of a say into things.

See e.g. this article https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/how-boeing...

This article has the interesting bit that Boeing chose to buy back shares instead of e.g. reducing their debt. This probably made sense at the time, as the rating giving to Boeing was high. As a result, Boeing interest rate for loans was low.

As a result of the groundings the rating for Boeing was downgraded. So their interest goes up. Meanwhile, Boeing needs to lend more and more, likely leading to another downgrade of their rating (even more interest).

So this is article is another pointer that engineering had taken quite a bit of a step back.
'Does anyone have any data that "Climate Change" is even bad?'

Depends on what you consider "bad". But there seems to be a lot of material that climate changes is mostly negative economical and health wise for humans. (e.g., http://www.oecd.org/env/the-economic-consequences-of-climate... )

'Also, if everyone is SOOO concerned with CO2 emissions or waste in general why is Nuclear power not being discussed?'

It's impossible to escape the nuclear discussion on this topics. Many threads about anything climate or CO2 related are full of discussion of nuclear.

'It is only the most clean energy source on the planet considering waste to energy production lb for lb.'

I couldn't find any numbers on this, but I am willing to believe it. Could you provide a citation? I'd like to know more about it.

'Also, does anyone know the pollutants created making solar panels or super light weight material for wind mills?'

It has been in mainstream news and outlets a few times, so I assume most people are aware that toxic materials are used to produce solar panels. As far as I can tell from the reports I saw, these can be disposed of reliably, and fairly easily while still being safe. (unlike nuclear waste as far as I can tell.)

'If not, why not?'

Most people have limited capacities and do not concern themselves with everything.

'Point is most if not all of you haven't a clue'

This is true for most people on most topics and has never stopped anyone from forming an option, discussing it on hackernews, or call people that might actually have a clue out on not having a clue.
Git has subcommands and still ships man pages. They just put a dash into the name. E.g. `man git-fetch`
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> Medication does make it a lot better

If it's not too personal, could you give me a rough idea of what sort of medication you are on? In the last couple of years I started thinking maybe I should try something... Meditation has helped a lot but there are still weeks when my emotions get a bit out of control and nothing gets done.
To replace the functionality of something you dont have to read its ugly config files. :)

E.g. nginx can be used as an apache replacement.

If it read exiting config file typically you would call it a "drop in replacement".
Well, here’s a rare case where only death sentences seem appropriate. A custodial sentence (in the US) wouldn’t be workable as we’d probably just end up with another president pardoning the heroic war criminals.
What do you think? Of course they thought about this, they are not stupid. They calculated they would make more money, and that's all they care. They're a corporation after all, no other considerations enter into their thinking, only one: maximising profit.
Same here. Long ago I realised that I have a tendency to procrastinate when faced with having to do things I don't want to do (while conversely being quite good at being focussed on the things I do want to do). Time management only comes into it in the the sense that I want to spend less time doing things I don't like and more time doing the things I do like. Doesn't seem a particularly surprising piece of self-insight to be honest. So, when I realise I'm procrastinating, i.e. faced with something I don't want to do, questions are: Do I really have to do it? If I really have to do it, why don't I want to do it and can I make it any less bad? And if I have to do it and can't turn it into something I really want to do, why can't I simply just get it done and out of the way so I can get on with the other things I actually want to do instead? I wouldn't be surprised if this was generally applicable to some or many other people too.
The opinion pieces on some sites don't have a comments section. Telling, no?
> CSS and JavaScript (yes, even Javascript), can be used

The key observation, that generalizes to a lot of societal woes: can be used doesn't mean will be used. Asking people for restraint doesn't work in general, and doubly so in a competitive environment. That's why asking for restraint generally never works, you can either take away the toys (a quick fix) or find a way to force restraint on people.
> It’s also worth noting the well-established trend of the U.S. military making use of the Invention Secrecy Act of 1951 to file patents unavailable for public viewing

I could be that real patents are filed under the Invention Secrecy Act, and misdirection patents are made public.
It annoys me too, but I'm playing devil's advocate to reason it out.

When you buy a print copy, it also has adverts. The price you're paying is subsidised by the adverts, it doesn't completely cover the costs.

Perhaps there are two possible ends of the spectrum. On one side, you have to pay for all news that you access and there is no advertising. The news will be expensive, so only the wealthy will have access. The government can subsidise it, but that runs the risk of politicising it.

At the other, there is only advertising-supported news. The content you see is decided by whoever bids the highest.

A blended subscriptions plus advertising model tries to find a middle ground. I guess the argument is that advertising would be OK, if it didn't track your every movement and share that information with thousands of scummy companies. Is that even possible now? Would advertisers pay if they didn't get that information?
Is it flexy fOrm or flexy fRom? Form makes more sense for the service and is in the HN title but everywhere on owwly says FlexyFrom!
Yes as some one who did go the vocational route in the UK a while back - you had to have passed maths chemistry physics etc to even be accepted.

Ironically for careers like banks which are now grad entry the requirements back then for a vocational track where 50% higher than it was for an entry level Bank job, I had to have 6 o levels and I had to do an extra 1/2 day a week for the first year to get technical drawing
> even a Physics student will take some liberal arts classes as electives

ok, yes, STEM students study a little bit liberal arts

> generally not the case that a student of Fine Arts is going to take Calculus

But now you're asking a liberal arts student to study Calculus and derivatives, which are not easy topics and not something that useful in day to day life.

This is a blatantly double standard in your argument. Few STEM students go that deep in liberal arts to the "level of Calculus". It's like asking a STEM student to read Kant.
If this is something that IT admins can opt in to, rather than compulsory, it sounds like a good feature. The article hints that might be the case.

If this happens by default, in a user hostile way, Google could respond by having their installers set the default search engine in Edge to Google.
> Most of them are smart enough to come up with a system if that problem actually arises

Well, I'm afraid whatever the system might be, it's definitely not going to favor the newcomers.

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> Who says don't study STEM, study liberal arts?

The article we are commenting on.
Google did the same for years with any kind of installer, I remember installing CCleaner and finding Chrome on my computer for no reason. They put chrome everywhere using super shady techniques.
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Imagine you have 100 sociopaths, all of them aiming for the top, all able to recognize each other in a crowd. Now you both compete and cooperate together to get to the top; the ones caught are written off, the uncaught ones sooner or later achieve the goal, even if only 10 out of 100 make it there.

Some headhunters specifically try to identify high-performing sociopaths for top management positions.
There are two tropes here: the dwm, and the whiner. Why do you think your whining is better than their pejorative?
The most shocking thing about this article are the comments down at the page. It's full of people claiming that he deserved the treatment for whatever unknown reasons. It's sickening.
Don't start a flame war.
I think so.

Ultimately, there's nothing that says a saner web couldn't exist side-by-side with the modern one. We don't have to fork the browser, we just need to create a subgraph in the larger link network - a connected, searchable subgraph of sites that are document-oriented, machine-readable, that don't track or abuse you. A search engine limited to a certain criteria and perhaps some amount of curation would work as a way to define this subgraph.

No, this won't solve the web problem for everyone, but I think this is too tall a goal to have. Instead of trying to fix everything for the world at large, I feel we should be creating our own better subspace, and slowly let those who care come over.
This is not planned obsolescence. People used to complain about PO but with smart devices there is no need for it, the manufacturer can just disable your device remotely and invent some bullshit business reason for it.
With faster connection to residential areas at the periphery of commutable distances becoming more and more common remote working opportunities are growing.

This is already having a huge impact on working in western Europe, and the more prevalent it becomes the more normal it will be to work from home, reducing the demand for proximal residence.
>I guess the argument is that advertising would be OK, if it didn't track your every movement and share that information with thousands of scummy companies.

Honestly: no. I'd rather pay more than selling my attention, because that's what ads are doing. My time is more valuable than whatever margin they're making by showing me ads, and I'm very confident that I'm not alone with this position.

>Is that even possible now? Would advertisers pay if they didn't get that information?

This is a really good question, and adding to it: how hard-wired are these mechanisms into modern websites such as the nyt's? I'm pretty sure that there is no simple on-off switch, but how much work would it be to implement one?
Cringing?? Are you familiar with the MS of the 90s? The stuff that happened on his watch was not much better.
Brendan Eich posted here that he was in fact blacklisted and could not get funding for his Brave start-up for several years.

The Hollywood blacklist was also maintained by companies and not the government. It really doesn't make a huge difference who's maintaining it, if enough employers / financiers ban employment / financing based on it.

Cory Doctorow refutes the idea that corporate censorship does not matter in their essay "Inaction is a form of action".
It does not. Probably the decisions are not thought out that well. In the end these things haunt them for years. Look at m$, even after all the years of open sourcing, contributing and etc. they are still not trusted. Few other examples pop to my mind: medium.com, oracle, google (graveyard), ethereum (fork), 2016+ apple keyboards and so on
> I am not saying you can't write a scientific paper in these languages at all, but I am saying that you need to standardise the languages better before you can do that.

The way to make a language fit for writing a scientific paper in it is to write a scientific paper in it, and whenever you're at a loss for words, either make them up as you go along or take them from another language. The latter option is usually chosen by people already fluent in that language, which is how English scientific vocabulary got its multiple layers of Arabic, Greek and Latin loan words.

However, loanwords can render the underlying logic incomprehensible. For example, I recently watched the Japanese series アンナチュラル annachuraru (Unnatural [Death]) on a Chinese streaming platform (because that one didn't have region locking blocking European IP addresses). When the word エチレングリコール echirengurikōru (ethylene glycol/ethane diol) came up, obviously someone had to ask to repeat it, because it's such a long and complicated foreign word. The Chinese commenters reading the subtitles were very amused by that, because the Chinese translation is 乙二醇 yĭ èr chún and has a systematic composition: 乙 yĭ is used like the Roman numeral Ⅱ or the Latin letter B in enumerations and indicates here an organic molecule with two carbon atoms. 二 èr is the number two. 醇 chún indicates alcohol. Essentially a mirror image of "ethane diol" that even someone without much knowledge about chemistry can understand.
Years ago at university I participated as a subject in a memory study that involved the injection of scopolamine. I was familiar with it's reputation as a truth serum and very curious to feel the effect.

But it's utter nonsense. There was little more than an awfully dry mouth and a short-term memory so impaired I felt stuporous.

In my opinion any euphoriant will elicit more truth telling than scopolamine.
I think I get the downvotes, although there is some truth. If everybody is exceptional, nobody is. For better or worse, we still live in system where parents are responsible for their kids wellbeing. You can't just outsource good parenting to school teachers. Just because somebody has this high paying job and doesn't have time for your kids at all, the reality won't reshuffle itself to make them feel like success. Do your god damn job as a parent, and don't just throw money at the problem.

On the other side, we all would benefit from good quality education for everybody. I mean proper benefit for whole mankind for generations, golden age and whatnot.

Currently, in many places which prefer predatory mindset (looking at you too, US), its everybody for themselves, fuck the rest, the higher I am above everybody else the better I am off. Well, not really if you actually want to live in society. Otherwise you end up walled in your luxury home like in South Africa, with private security, but afraid to go out after dark, carrying guns everywhere, high crime rate etc.
I think people are slowly getting used to all the tricks the major tech companies use and they are going to see this as more and more acceptable and even perfectly normal. And those companies know this. I'm sure they pay very qualified people to tell them how far and how fast they can take it to get what they want without truly alienating the people.

The stuff that many people find perfectly acceptable today would have been absolutely outrageous 10-15 years ago.
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The "quintessence" bit was a bit of a red flag wasn't it
Nice work on the "mouse down to toggle" and "drag to copy value" interaction, a much underused but useful tool to set a collection of boolean states.
"I have been remote working for many years. And I have done a handful of office working. I would have considered myself (probably wrongly) the worst procrastinator."

Same here.

I have the feeling the trick is to get guidance but not too much.

I have many "startup ideas" but I never execute them.

I hate it if I get a manager above me that makes too much decisions for me.

But working with some nice people who let me do my job without imposing some working hours, tech stack or whatever on me and only give me some interesting problems to work on and I stop procrastinating.
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The collective bargaining agreement works for pro sports because players get a big chunk of overall revenue. In the NBA, players get half of all revenue. The CBA also stopped team owners colluding on no-poaches that were very similar to the Apple-Google-etc no-poach of yore. Union or not, software engineers would probably garner a larger portion of revenue and/or equity through some sort of group arbitration. Opening up salary info and other financials is at least a good first step.

Moreover, the top pro athlete earners are pulling in more on endorsements than salary. If the CBA prohibited that, it might look more like a typical union / employment contract.
A somewhat more in depth article here: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-rabbani-guantana...
There are no people in this world through the eyes of these companies. They only see "consumers". Walking money-bags. And they'll do whatever they need to to shake as much out of them as they can. Nowhere is there a guarantee that what's best for the user is what generates the most money. It's a system failure.
> Google could respond by having their installers set the default search engine in Edge to Google

Just to guarantee that every user has a reason to be pissed off?
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So much character on each page. Yes, they were simple, but they were all unique. I miss websites with personalities.
> but breaks down when people rely on it to put bread on the table.

No, it doesn't. It only breaks down when people use the web as a sole and direct means of making money. I.e. baiting people to view ads.

Any normal company that does business over the Internet uses the web to present their offering and drive purchases. The web part is funded by proceeds from their actual business. This is entirely compatible with the "web of documents".
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Americans are moving away from the bay area. Those who stay have immigrated from another country.
Although that might be part of it, I don’t find 28% to be a surprise.

One reason is that I’ve been told the age of consent in many places was 12 as recently as the Victorian era [0], and why would it be that low if there wasn’t a lot of people who wanted that? (It might just have been politicians who wanted that, but I fear that’s merely unjustified optimism).

The other main reason is the number of women who tell me about traumatic experiences is high enough that it’s plausible all of them have been (there’s no reason for me to know about everyone’s history, so of course I believe I know someone who hasn’t told me and never will).

Of course, this percentage does mean that the “think of the children” meme ought to put all children under 24-7 surveillance so that nobody can ever touch them. Side effects haven’t slowed that meme down before, why would it now?

[0] I never cared to check, so I don’t know how many or when any given jurisdiction changed
It's analogous to the way that software companies train junior engineers: it takes time to define the tasks, set up infrastructure and tests to make development easy, review and provide feedback on contributions, and to encourage learning and further skill development.

While open source communities have been around for a while, we're entering an era where the size of the community is scaling up significantly (thanks to GitHub and improved connectivity worldwide), and this is exposing some of the entrenched issues around the maintainer burden you mention, gatekeeping, and project maturity.

There's a huge opportunity here to create an improved learning, accreditation and contribution ecosystem; one project I'd heard about recently in the UK is 'Code Grades'[0], which aims to provide a learning ladder for developers - whether they intend to code professionally or as a hobby.

There's always going to be a requirement to define tasks and review contributions - the trick will be to spread the load and make consensus-gathering more straightforward, while also preventing accidental & malicious bad actors (reputation and accreditation can probably help get some of the way there).

[0] - https://codegrades.com
> Now it’s just people gaming Kaggle to get a job.

How is that different from "LeetCode PhD" doing "DP Hard" for 6 months to get into FAANG?
I've long suspected that pedophilia and especially ephebophilia are far more common than anyone is willing to admit.
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