skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"RDS was first released as "Terminal Server" in "Windows NT Server 4.0 Terminal Server Edition" a stand-alone operating system including SP3 and fixes built in. Starting with Windows 2000, it was an optional role and became a mainstay of the Windows NT family of operating systems and was improved with each version of Windows. The rename to "Remote Desktop Services" occurred with Windows Server 2008 R2 in 2009."

X predates Windows NT by more than 10 years and is a completely different beast than remote desktop systems. (Disclaimer: I used to log into a local box, run an unpopular window manager on a remote server, and then spread my workload over a number of remote machines. Terminals, email, gui apps, and yes, the cheesy web browser of the time. Seamlessly. (No desktop-in-a-window. Same files everywhere (Thanks, NFS!), same apps (more work to set up than in Plan 9, but didn't have Plan 9's disadvantages, either) everywhere. And that was half a decade before Windows NT.)
I'm not sure if you mean "an oculus account owned by Facebook anyway" - but in general terms I'd be somewhat surprised if a "real" game/software/service company (eg: Nintendo, gog.com) kept quasi-/il-legal shadow profiles that they actively tried to pair with your account.
> important member of the ruling class

Bullocks. He was a rich dude who didn't know dick about what was happening in China. At the time the CCP was recovering from the horrible starvation of the Great Leap Forward, and the over-the-top excesses, murders, and repression of the Cultural Revolution.

That quote is a rich dude talking out his ass about shit he didn't know.
I really do think people want ethical food products, but with food in particular, it's really a lot to ask of individual consumers. There's a reason we have so many regulations around food quality - it just makes all our lives easier.

I've always thought less-than-ethical food products should be taxed more heavily, and the money should be used to subsidize the more ethical, healthier alternatives. Outright bans on certain product classes can be tremendously distortionary and have unintended side effects, but it's hard to imagine little pigouvian nudges being anything but beneficial to society.
If you stop smoking you'll feel better but it's not going to do anything to reduce smoking in the world overall. The only thing that can reduce smoking is the law: taxes, restrictions on where smoking is permitted, and so on.

You should still stop smoking (for your own good) but that alone won't change the world.
It's pleasure to work with compared to one or two years ago
Link to a free and open modern cmake tutorial?
I see people mentioning Fakespot, I also recommend ReviewMeta and use it often: https://reviewmeta.com/
Good luck enforcing GDPR against any of the malign actors you should most wish to enforce GDPR against
I'm not so sure. It shouldn't matter whatsoever what user agent I'm using. In fact, not sending the user agent field would be massively better if only that in and of itself wasn't a unique datapoint.
We've used Au Pair in America (https://www.aupairinamerica.com/), but we are currently using Cultural Care (https://culturalcare.com/). I don't have particularly strong feelings on either in general, but we switched because our local coordinator had gotten pretty flaky.
... except when the non-bad company you bought your DK-1 from gets bought by a bad company.
I'm not sure exactly what you mean. If you're looking for a production example, then here's one:

Priveasy.org is an open source group that uses P5.vc (the shorter domain's letters sounded-out sound kind of like "Priveasy") to configure its servers, as well as to provide nice, compact links to its users, when accesses account resources.

If you're looking for examples of all short domain names, then I recommend checking-out this link, as provided by Someone: https://catechgory.com/
So what are they saying, women should court incels?
The whole point of the pg essay is that wealth tax losses compound.

> The reason wealth taxes have such dramatic effects is that they're applied over and over to the same money. Income tax happens every year, but only to that year's income. Whereas if you live for 60 years after acquiring some asset, a wealth tax will tax that same asset 60 times. A wealth tax compounds.

Compounding is not exclusive to positive feedback cycles. It applies to negative feedback cycles as well. Have you heard the phrase "my problems are compounding?"
Which is absolutely the right thing to do if you believe in what you're doing. Because ROI on investment in your own company must be much greater than the interest you pay for the loan.

If you don't believe that the company you've founded and are actively managing can produce a better ROI than an regular bank loan then you are wasting your time.
What America Can Learn from Europe About Regulating Big Tech
thanks - I'll try to remember it. Fixed the text
This creates a chilling effect which puts my first ammendment rights at risk as an American, and it should be (and probably is if anyone actually bothered to correctly interpret the law anymore) illegal.
If you own a gun, you might be inclined to use it when the G-men come round to weld the doors to your home shut, as the Chinese government did as part of its very effective containment measures.
Your link shows that, since 2000, the lower class has been growing and the middle and upper classes have been shrinking.
> I think Zuck's strategy as CEO was also less clear then. Today it would be obvious, back then though, I'm not so sure.

I think Facebooks business strategy how to make money was pretty clear at that time as well. Just remember the [Facebook Home](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Home) Android launcher that allowed the company unprecedented access to the data on the device. https://gigaom.com/2013/04/04/why-facebook-home-bothers-me-i...
And the power of previous societies aristocrats stemmed from all the peasants voting with their feet and not leaving the "kings/Lords..." land?
Your link [4] shows that, since 2000, the lower class has been growing and the middle and upper classes have been shrinking.
Hello there! Nice blog. One small suggestion: I didn't quite like the picture of the screaming man you used it the post - it was, um, a bit jarring and distracted from the content.

A few days ago there was an interesting perspective on blogging, which I found useful. Maybe you will also find it useful -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24163658.

All the best!
The market has a response to literally everything. You can't 'remove the market' from a given industry. Single Payer would still have to pay market prices.
I suppose.

But at the same time, for any new users who value their own privacy the device is now pretty useless, and for any existing users who value their privacy but also want to be up-to-date and get new features, they're also probably going to be locked out in future updates.

So you kind of have to excuse them for focusing on the negatives, because they don't get to enjoy the positives. It's kind of a moot point for them what Facebook brought to the table.

This is always the concern with these kinds of purchases, and I think this was a big part of the concern back in 2014. I was never worried that Facebook wouldn't invest in Oculus, as a consumer I was worried that it would ruin the Oculus ecosystem and shove dystopian adware onto the devices.
What happens when we privatize voting, too?
> And I think the Kotlin designers and all users which jumped onto the platform made a sensible choice.

Oh, absolutely! And don't get me wrong, I think Kotlin was the right thing to do ten years ago -- Java was not in a great shape back then (in fact, Sun drastically cut investment in the core platform) -- and maybe even five years ago. I also think it was very well designed -- very much in the "Java spirit" -- although I think it's taken things a bit too far recently for my taste.

> Imho it's coroutine system is the best in industry right now.

I think that coroutines for a platform that's already designed around multi-threading are a bad idea altogether (this goes for C# as well) unless the language has some very specific constraints, like C++/Rust. Some might disagree, but I don't think those would be people who've had experience with Erlang or Go (although those platforms, like all platforms -- including Java, of course -- have their own problems). Nevertheless, for quite a few it's certainly better than nothing.

> I would not be suprised if Kotlins designers already have decent plans on "what do we do if Java integrates Valhalla/Loom/etc"?

I'm sure they do, and I'm sure their solutions would be great, but they'll need to sacrifice some of their goals. In any event, it is no longer the "there's nothing to lose" proposition it used to be.

> And I think it's pure existence pushes the standards, and has a positive impact on the design of Java and other languages.

Maybe, although Java (the language) has so far taken little if anything from Kotlin (most of the inspiration to recent work has come from ML, and even Scala to some degree). If there is one Kotlin feature that I think might ultimately make its way to the Java language it would probably be nullability types; I think that that's its most impactful contribution to the design of other languages, too. What mostly pushed Java forward in recent years is the increased investment by Oracle, and competition from other platforms. If I were to pick a positive impact Kotlin has already had on the Java language, it is perhaps demonstrating that there is appetite among programmers in more conservative languages (as opposed to Scala and Haskell programmers) for new language features beyond lambdas.
"most things"
Andy from Backblaze here. Nice thinking about the bulk ordering and considerations for RAID. All things we have considered. We use our own Reed-Solomon encoding with a 17/3 set-up across 20 drives across 20 different systems, we call that a Tome. Then we have a specific protocol we follow as drives fail in a Tome to protect the data at all costs. We have the luxury for example to stop writing to a given Tome as we have plenty of others available. This takes a lot of the stress off of the system.
Your thoughts on bulk buys and bad drive batches/models is solid. We test drives in small batches first, and we follow drive failures so we don't get to the point of hitting the wall. It would be great to mix and match drives, but you end up with a system that maxes out at the least performant drive. So not optimal.
He wasn't, at the time of the sale.
I agree, but you can make the same argument about people borrowing less if the fed increases interest rates by 0.1%. There are a ton of factors that go into someone getting financing and moving interest rate by 0.1% should be a non-issue. But on average these things do change people's behavior.

My principle is we should remove all obstacles for starting/running/investing in companies, which are the engine of the economy and create both wealth and jobs, and we should tax outcomes and consumption. Also, we should keep things simple to avoid both overhead and tax avoidance that comes with complexity.
Having to wait for Steam to open and log you in every time you want to launch a game sucks, plus keeping it open in the background lets you keep games up-to-date, lets you use the chatroom features, and some other stuff.

The good thing about Steam, which makes it good software in my opinion, is that you can easily customize it and turn features off, and nothing really gets forced down your throat. It's almost like Valve feels they actually have to make an effort to keep you as a customer. Compare that to anything from the tech giants.
Setting Up a DevOps Workflow
Just rewatching "Person of Interest" and came across "Finch" casually remarking that he invented social networking in order to increase the quality of data gleaned from his totalitarian surveillance machine... (specifically to fill in the social graph data...).
I cannot even begin to understand the entitlement and lack of touch of this post. Curious, how do you survive without a job?
I agree about this being a parsely ad. However, I also think there's a large minority of HN users who aren't aware about just how client-side analytics are broken or by how many of their users.
The whole premise boils down to "are billionaires bad for us? i.e those who make most of their money from capital gains and pay lower % tax compared to the average job who works a job?".

Obviously capitalism is this ruthless engine that incentivizes monopolization and winner take all due to global trade. They played the game by the rules.

Even a wealth tax of 0.1% means Bezos, Gates, Zuckerberg will still keep on getting rich, just not at the same rate. That 0.1% could fund a lot of things for the greater public, even letting them amass even greater wealth with the new infrastructure.

The other big question is "Are governments better at spending money or billionaires through donations?"

The answer is most people only donate when it benefits them or as a feel good measure. Some problems can't be solved via feel good measures.

That much wealth brings, a ton of influence and power (Bezos is Seattle's emperor in disguise). Google/Facebook can shape elections and public opinions.

How much power are the top allowed to amass and invoke?
Doctor, doctor!
Having seen the transformation of Medford/Ashland to MJ and hemp greenhouses I'd think at least some people would be as fanatical about their vegetables/fruits.
Is it also a relative improvement of the energy conversion into electricity vs. into heat? Intuitively the photons energy will be partially converted into both (conservation of energy) and this efficiency improvement seems like it would skew that ratio into favor of electricity generation.
That’s what the Enron CEO did, and his finances came crashing down with the company’s share price.
Maybe it's more fruitful to not just consider the Death of Corporate Research Labs, but also ask ourselves "why did they even exist in the first place?" This day in age, the expectation, for better or worse, is that the State sponsors research; this was very much not the case from, say 1850-1950. Luminaries did tons of basic science research under the auspices of corporate (like Irving Langmuir) and private (like Peter Mitchell) labs.

Without assigning causality (I happen to think that the primary cause is "low hanging fruit" phenomenon), the transition to state sponsored research has coincided with a general loss of scientific productivity in many fields, and even in some fields with explosive growth, like genomics, there has been major corporate involvement (half the human genome was sequenced by a not just private, but a wall-street traded, entity).

Yet the narrative of late has been "if the state doesn't sponsor it, nobody will". I don't feel like I have a solid understanding of why corporate research labs were a thing, or even, how science got done in the pre-manhattan-project/Vannevar Bush era.
Sure, but since 1967, upper class has risen. The Great Recession is a confounding variable.
What kind of revisionist history is this? Boston “lost” the tech ecosystem because its main players were too entrenched in the mainframe/minicomputer business to pivot quickly enough to compete with the Silicon Valley microcomputer revolution.
Honestly, a better system (but still bad, and with lots of issues) would be to just give the US government a percentage of your ownership as your receive it. Ex: Elon Musk would have to give the US government 1% of the shares he receives ownership of. The government would then be the recipient of any dividends earned or liquidity event from these shares.
You seem to be equating wealth and power. Wealth and power are certainly related, but probably on a logarithmic scale. Someone worth $20,000 isn't twice as powerful as someone worth $10,000.

The primary source of political power Jeff Bezos has is his control of a very large employer. Employing lots of people gives you some power over local politics in the areas where you employ those people, and it gives you some level of influence with politicians who might be interested in ensuring you continue to employ lots of people, because it's good for the economy.

Your run of the mill billionaire heir/heiress that doesn't really do any useful economic activity doesn't have a huge amount of political power, in general. They probably have more than you or I do, but not a ton more. Certainly not more in (linear* proportion to the wealth difference.

Once you realize that the relationship between wealth and power is logarithmic, it's not really a super concerning relationship. There are other sources of power that are much more important, and much less transparent.
> Each person in a chain had an option to use their judgement to break the chain but nobody did. This isn't an indictment of Apple as some may want to see it. It seems more likely it is a pretty standard outcome of people following a bureaucratic process.

Is it not Apple's bureaucratic process? Then is not the pretty standard outcome of that process Apple's as well?

Also, who else but Apple can empower each person in the chain to actually exercise their judgment?

And this doesn't even consider bad actors trying to socially engineer the system. Must each person in the chain now make the determination that they are actually helping a customer or being fooled by an adversary?

I guess I just think it's naive to expect workers to unilaterally disobey the bureaucratic process because it is demonstrably imperfect. Just fix the broken process instead of punting liability to each individual. What ever happened to leadership?
Research can obviously be deducted from profits for tax purposes already, just like most other business expenses.

Beyond that, it it's quite hard to set up a system where the incentives still motivate good research. It may also just make more sense for governments to spent the money on university research or institutions like the Max Planck Society, rather than giving it to companies where the public gets less of a say in its use, and any profits are privatized.
That said, there's still a lot to be desired in JS's ecosystem. The difference between JS libraries and Java libraries is huge.

The package manager (npm) also has a lot of room for improvements. I have a small SPA with like 15 files and a couple of dependencies, where updating one dependency has broken my environment and I had to reinstall another underlying dependency (typically a typings package). I just miss Maven.

To say that TS is like Kotlin is true superficially, but I must say I have faced many more "wtf" moments with TS because of weird glitches of the tooling, or packages, or something similar.

I really want to love TS and JS, but the more I develop in it, the less likely I am to reach for it in my next project.
R&D tax credits are pretty common.
You can pretty much google for "modern cmake tutorial" to get a long list of tutorials on how to write target-based cmake projects.
We're talking about since 1967. The Great Recession is a confounding variable.
I also have a mild form and following movie plots can be difficult for me as well sometimes when people look really similar. In that case I concentrate a lot during the first 20-30 minutes.

Meeting new people can indeed be tough, especially when the people look very similar and normal. The most difficult/awkward situations I've encountered on the street though. It's then like: wait do I know this person and should I look again? (Or maybe a third time?) So when I'm not feeling exactly super-pumped, I just walk quickly with tunnel-vision. But through the years I've become an expert remembering certain details like hair-cut, the way people move and so on...

Sometimes I wonder whether I should tell people. Actually some really popular people have it, for instance Victoria of Sweden. I read someone else would then sometimes tell her quietly who is present.
https://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html#heading_toc_j_8:

Is Wayland network transparent / does it support remote rendering?

No, that is outside the scope of Wayland. To support remote rendering you need to define a rendering API, which is something I've been very careful to avoid doing. The reason Wayland is so simple and feasible at all is that I'm sidestepping this big task and pushing it to the clients. It's an interesting challenge, a very big task and it's hard to get right, but essentially orthogonal to what Wayland tries to achieve.

This doesn't mean that remote rendering won't be possible with Wayland, it just means that you will have to put a remote rendering server on top of Wayland. One such server could be the X.org server, but other options include an RDP server, a VNC server or somebody could even invent their own new remote rendering model. Which is a feature when you think about it; layering X.org on top of Wayland has very little overhead, but the other types of remote rendering servers no longer requires X.org, and experimenting with new protocols is easier.

It is also possible to put a remoting protocol into a wayland compositor, either a standalone remoting compositor or as a part of a full desktop compositor. This will let us forward native Wayland applications. The standalone compositor could let you log into a server and run an application back on your desktop. Building the forwarding into the desktop compositor could let you export or share a window on the fly with a remote wayland compositor, for example, a friend's desktop.
It's not about the retail part and specifically the stores, but the company as a whole. It is designed to balance investments and customer satisfaction to sell products. That means it's fine to lose money in one place (or not maximise revenue and profit) because you make up for it in other parts of the company. Bottom line still needs to be cash coming in. It's a different business model than say a candy supplier that just needs to move quantity one way or the other. It's a longer term system where the instant sales aren't the main driver.
Sweden Used to do that
You need to preface every criticism of the USA with "I love America and it's the greatest country in the world, but...".
land is one of the few things that is truly scarce and every human needs access to. the value of a particular piece of land is determined much more by public and private investments in the locale than anything the property owner does themselves.
also interesting from that reddit thread were these comments:

> I'm mostly surprised that they haven't done this with Whatsapp or Instagram thus far, but they are doing it for Oculus accounts.

> > As of a few days ago, they're starting the process of moving Instagram DMs to Messenger, requiring a FB account. So, they are.

> > > The people I know in product at Facebook are certain it is an inevitability for their entire portfolio. That's second-party hearsay, so take it as you will, but it's my operating understanding that is their long term (multi-year) goal.

https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/ic4ye1/new_oculus_u...
https://www.engadget.com/2019-11-13-john-carmack-agi.html

he's just a consultant now but you can bet he's been disillusioned by all of this.
How does it compare to Delphix?
Just ordered my Oculus Quest from Costco a week ago, and it's scheduled for delivery today. And I have no problem using Facebook account. Yeah, my data will be used for ads, so what? How is that such a big deal for some people to sell the device they otherwise enjoy?
This sounds like the exact opposite of what the US as a whole wants to occur.
Sure, but look from 1967. The trend-line is still positive at a macro level. Since 2000 we had a huge recession, so it's not super conclusive.
I think you’re right. Most people dream of becoming rich, not “filthy” rich. So taxing >100 million should not impact things, and there are plenty of other reasons to move to the US