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I'm not telling the author to read the article, I'm telling them to read the actual rules which anticipated this trivial attempt to be clever. Per HN guidelines [1], it would have been better to do that than to post a shallow dismissal of the idea.

The article only contains a paraphrasing of the rules missing these essential details. Per HN guidelines [2], it would have been better to post the original link and avoid the confusion that you now also fell for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[1] Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

[2] Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.

The HN rules aren't terrible, but with no-one actually following them nor having followed them for as long as this site exists I don't see the point in bandying them about to make pointless comments.
We should really pay for open-source. The FSF has a page saying it’s correct to charge before delivering OSS software (and the user can redistribute the software with OSS license).

We could charge access to Debian repositories for example. For example one repo could have bugfixes, and the broader audience could have a 1-year-old repo. Sure your can build from source, get a zip from a torrent, or find someone who hosts a free mirror of the paid repo, but as a company it’s much easier to get it from the official source, for security compliance. (Btw I’ve always said I’d be happy to spend $200 per year per employee for a desktop OS of macOS quality, so probably much less for our servers).

This would offer price discrimination:
- Free for individuals who want to spin off a small website,
- Paid when you need to prove compliance to security regulations,
- Developments still go to the pool of mankind’s marvels, instead of being locked with a commercial license and dying with the company,
- Customer can still fork or fix a bug themselves by building from source.
> I'm pretty sure almost nobody actually codes 8 hours at work.

The non-coding parts of work are necessary on oss projects too. In any case, programmers work being mostly coding + code review is pretty normal.

> Those two hours will be of a very different nature to "work coding" and this can lead you to learn things you wouldn't pick up at work.

That is nowhere near guaranteed and more likely to not be true. In particular, if you focus on maintaining the same software, it will be more of the same after a while.
It’s almost as though they actually believe there are no individuals, just group members. Or rather, that what we call an individual is more appropriately described as the intersection of a collection of group memberships.
> Stallman is definitely on the autism spectrum.

it doesn't matter. If we medicalise socially unacceptable behavior, it hurts the victims while victimizing the transgressor. He needs to be banned from any conf and ignored by PR. The right thing to do is send him back to his mum's basement from whence he came while crucifying the ghouls at the FSF appointing him
The core proposition of individualism is that an individual has rights and value, irrespective of their group identity, and therefore should be judged based on their ideas, their conduct and their personal characteristics. This has strong connection to the philosophical foundations of Science where ideas should be judged on their merits and not on the speaker or their group identity and capitalism where individual rights extend to property.

The default position of humanity is not individualism by the way, but rather group identity. Historically since time immemorial, rewards, guilt, punishment, rights (etc.) were applied at a group level. This resulted, predictably, in egregious crimes inflicted on huge swaths of people because of their group membership.

It's dismaying that there is a huge segment of academia that wants to revert to this more 'natural' state. It's dismaying to see arguments and ideas being dismissed based on the group identity of speaker in academia and mainstream culture. It's dismaying to see academia and mainstream culture level guilt on individuals because of their (immutable) group identity.

Individualism was one of the most radical ideas in the history of humanity that ushered our modern civilization. We lose it at our peril.
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If everyone felt the burden of taxes equally via a flat tax based on consumption, the poor would be taxed proportionally the highest, the middle classes would also be worse off than now, and the richest few percent would love this as their proportion of income that goes on consumption is the lowest.

It’s a massively regressive idea and pretty much by definition a flat tax based on consumption would not be felt equally at all.
Close enough, you can multiply by 0.75-0.5 if you wish, still awful odds.
Engineer reports data leak to nonprofit, hears from the police
If you mean "drank her own kool-aid" as in "was an absolute hypocrite and lived the last few years of her life on government benefits", I suppose that works.
EVs produce about an order of magnitude less brake dust.
> It does help to serve as an excellent counter-argument to "philosopher kings", though....

What do you mean here? I don't see an opportunity for relevance.
The journalist who wrote this for the BBC almost certainly didn't even glance at it either, they just wrote up something from Reuters or Associated Press say, which more likely did link the paper.

Also, it's not even '"science" reporting', it's "Sport" reporting.
I was really hoping that Ubuntu Touch would have filled this market. I was excited for it to come out and then it never did.

I just wanted a phone that works as a phone and then I can plugin to a dock and I get a full linux desktop experience.

It's still a thing, but nowhere near what it was when they were trying to launch an actual phone.

https://ubports.com/devices/promoted-devices
The settings app is useless. Even win 3.0 had better settings than settings app in win 10.
UBI and universal healthcare would make this a complete non-issue, as well as benefiting the arts and humanities.
Come I can never be that good at anything
This is directed at myself but it can apply to anyone. It seems no matter what I do i can never be that good at anything. When I try to copy successful people or strategies or methods, the special sauce is always missing and I come up way short despite getting most of it correct. It is like being so close yet so far. it's like what is the point of trying if you are just going to fail . For people who are successful all the time, it is like everything always just clicks. People who are successful almost never fail it seems, and when they do, it is temporary. Elon Musk has never failed. Bill gates never failed. The list goes on. It's like watching Tom Brady in action or something. They never stumble. Even though I have done well in some things, I can never get to the point where things just click. I never get beyond just being decent at stuff. Do you think it comes down to luck, genes, connections, hard work, etc. I know it is not hard work. Everyone works hard. Some say you need 10,000 hours but not all hours are crated equal. It is evident some are getting way more mileage for their hours than others.
What's the significance of the history of Japan to this project?
I read the whole article. It really irks me that a scientist would dress up their ideological views and call it science (or "science-informed"). Whether you agree or disagree with the views presented, if something is more about interpreting how we ought to live, rather than about examining evidence, it's not science. Calling controversial opinions science undermines public trust in science.
I’m very skeptical of that claim.
> I don't know the Polish market, but I'm not sure what you mean by all these fly-by-night brands. For white goods (...)

I meant white-label goods. It's when a producer churns out a product with no branding on it, to be bought by resellers, who put their own branding on it and pass it on as theirs. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-label_product. What I mean by "fly-by-night brands" is that there's a lot of these small resellers, and some resellers may sell the same product under several brand names. These brand names are often temporary - they get used for a year or two, and then a new name may be created (particularly after previous name starts showing up with bad reviews in search results).

As for white goods, i.e. domestic appliances, we have every one of these brands you mention. I didn't know what Pro Test is, thanks for mentioning it!
Over 60 years you would have to account for the many other factors that also affected mortality, for example better healthcare. That would increase the statistical error and reduce the validity of the results. And it isn't really necessary as long as your baseline contains enough data to be able to prove statistically differences from your comparison groups. Generations are taken into account by splitting the results by age and not looking back too many years, as even with flu, cold winters, etc... life expectancy still changes slowly.
I was not on over half day long interview that would primary involve whiteboard coding.
I recently bought a PinePhone and honestly the experience of tinkering with it reminds me of what it was like to tinker with Linux back in the early 2000's. This is both a good thing and a bad thing. You get the same feeling of freedom and realization of just how locked down the incumbent ecosystems are. But, at the same time, there is little that is guaranteed to work out of the box and a willingness to tinker is required (Anyone remember trying to print from Linux to a networked Windows printer back in the day? It was possible, sometimes, but never straightforward.)

I have no doubt that as ARM proliferates, the Linux phone experience will continue to improve, but it is going to take time (and as the article points out, it is going to take development effort from the community). Realistically, though, Linux phones will never reach Android/iOS levels of smoothness until you get a couple companies that want to disrupt the Android/iOS duopoly with a new Linux-based offering....

Until then, Linux phones are a no-go for mainstream users. That being said, mainstream users who just want a working phone that is not a massive data funnel back to FANG already have a really good option with https://e.foundation/
Tires.
Let me introduce you to my friend, --funroll-loop: https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/by-others/funroll-loops/Ge...

Well, that's just a fun detour, I meant manual loop unrolling: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/for-gotten-about-loops
The whole point of taxes is to normalize quality of life in society.
> instead want RMS especially because he does not submit to what feels convenient at the time?

That's some cheeky phrasing.

> FLOSS is permanently under attack, from the industry

Sure it is, and having a spokeperson that act very poorly in public does not help a bit.

> from the legal framework

Huh?

> NOT going with the flow is exactly what us other people expect RMS to do.

What is "the flow"? Doing very weird things in public? Hitting hard on women at conferences? Pleasing corporations?

> why not do the OpenSource-thing and fork the organisation?

We did: Conservancy, EFF, FSFE are thriving. (Why are you assuming we didn't?)
> This is FUD.

Really?

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/02/02/9620601...

https://www.aappublications.org/news/2020/12/16/pediatricssu...

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/opioid-overdoses-29-higher-202...
> I was in my teens when I started reading the Fountainhead

Here's your problem.
Maybe now someone can finally fix the pixel alignment...

https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/a5r971/t...
Standard mode doesn't follow PEMDAS. This software needs to go.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/apps_windo...
Fossil looks very interesting, but I completely disagree with their [stance on rebasing](https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/rebaseharm.md). This is a dealbreaker for me.

I do not consider having 10 buggy commits per feature instead of 1 working one an advantage. It just complicates reading history and hinders debugging (e.g. bisect). I get their arguments, I just disagree.
Appears to be a placeholder. Lots of "#todo" and placeholders in this project. Appears to have been posted to HN very early in its life.
You’re underestimating the complexity of the problem.

Google Maps ETA’s are a simple problem compared to this because of the park and embark times & handoff variability.

- Parking is different at every restaurant, some days you may get lucky and find a spot, others you have to park far away and walk.

- A restaurant may be down staff on an given day and are late cooking the order.

- Customer may live in a high-rise or gated community that requires security identification before entering.

- Customer may not have a house number clearly visible making the house hard to find

The actual driving route/ traveling time is the easy part. It’s the other variables that make this incredibly complex.
I would like to gently suggest that you have probably misunderstood why Rand wrote what she did and communicated it the way she did.

She, in her lifetime, bore personal witness to the rape, slaughter, and enslavement that was not only allowed but encouraged by a moral philosophy that placed the importance of an undefinable "group" above any individual. She spent her life's work trying to take the strongest possible opposition to that philosophy. Her goal was to create moral arguments that could stand in opposition to any of the many tenets of group moral systems. She communicated her ideas brusquely, which is not an effective method of communication, because she was "over that shit".

The driving moral principle behind her beliefs was that the strength of a group of people does not have the moral right to abuse the freedom of an individual person, regardless of their practical power to do so. Furthermore, by respecting those individuals rights, society would be better served by those individuals. Allowing evolutionary competitive mechanisms to operate in social spheres would produce better results overall.

Was everything she said correct? Obviously not. But, that can be said of anyone that ever produced any idea. Her fundamental driving principle, and the way she explored it, are both interesting and useful to think about. Tens of millions of people have been subjected to democide in the last century, as a direct result of group-based moral systems. As it has been said, groups do-not and cannot suffer, only individuals can suffer.

As to your individual points, she might say that nothing so far has resolved the tragedy of the commons, that net-neutrality is only a problem because the government has granted ISP monopolies by force, that right to repair is only a problem because governments have granted IP monopolies by force, that any individual may contribute to OSS if they desire but should not be forced to if they do not desire, and that anyone may contribute to a forum if they desire but should not be forced to if they do not desire. I would personally have different answers for some of these questions.
You’re discounting this position based strictly on the fact that the taxes aren’t collected from the company, but companies are made of individuals, both those that work there and those that own shares in the company. They feel the burden of taxes elsewhere. Today, the top 5% of taxpayers pay 60% of federal income taxes. The top 20% will pay 87%.
Commies got to be commies
> who fundamentally believes group association

Not only that, but they see themselves as a leader in the group or imagine that the choices of the leader would always be consistent with their preferences.

> This inference became logically inescapable as soon as people began to ascribe to the state not only moral but also intellectual perfection. The liberal philosophers had described their imaginary state as an unselfish entity, exclusively committed to the best possible improve- ment of its subjects' welfare. They had discovered that in the frame of a market society the citizens' selfishness must bring about the sanic results that this unselfish state would seek to realize; it was precisely this fact that justified the preservation of the market economy in their eyes. But things became different as soon as people began to ascribe to the state not only the best intentions but also omniscience.

...

> A socialist advocates socialism because he is fully convinced that the supreme director of the socialist commonwealth will be reasonable from his-the individual socialist's point of view, that he will aim at those ends of which he-the individual socialist-fully approves, and that he will try to attain these ends by choosing means which he-the individual socialist-would also choose. Every socialist calls only that system a genuinely socialist system in which these conditions are completely fulfilled; all other brands claiming the name of socialism are counterfeit systems entirely different from true socialism. Every socialist is a disguised dictator. Woe to all dissenters! They have forfeited their right to live and must be "liquidated."

[1]: https://cdn.mises.org/Human%20Action_3.pdf pp. 688-689
> in favor of historical authoritarian approaches.

I don't think history is a linear progression from authoritarianism to representative government.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/suicides-alberta-bc-s...

Here in Canada we've been told suicides have gone down during the pandemic.
Apple Says Developers [ ] Are “Far from Limited” to Using Only the App Store
>According to Rand, every comment on this forum is pointless because it doesn't gain us dollars

There is a lot points on which I would disagree with Ayn Rand, but she definitely did not think that an activity is pointless unless it makes money. She argued that people should live for themselves, so if someone enjoyed making art and never selling it or allowing anyone to view it, she would not view as pointless because it would be done for the individual's own enjoyment.
Individualism is whatever I say it is.
Back in stoneage, while using Windows 3.11 (I think it was calles Windows for Workgroups or so...) there was a bug in calc: 0.02-0.01 resulted in a flat zero. Perhaps it's time to open an issue.
Has anyone seen a demo?

I tried to created an account to see it live at https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/chat but it appears they have /chat locked down to authorized accounts.

(Regardless of what others might be saying in this thread, I think this functionality is great. It reinforces the centralization of your dev related work. Plus, presumably they are using SQLite on the backend - so /chat might result in now additional functionality being added to SQLite that might also be beneficiary e.g. removing blocking on writes, etc)
I'd argue that if the telemetry is opt-out rather than opt-in it has (just _barely_) crossed the border into spyware. Sure it may not be tracking anything more than usage data, but I'd rather see a pop-up/dialog saying, "we'd like to track X, Y, and Z - we'll be using Q to identify your data. Is that okay?" And make a choice than to have that choice made for me.
Right on there it says it's closed as WONTFIX, so you're not asking this in good faith. If it's a dealbreaker, I guess you have your answer.
Even simpler: What if Gödel never actually found a loophole? The only source we have is Morgenstern recounting an anecdote more than twenty years later. He may well have misremembered/misunderstood/taken out of context/embellished some remark that Gödel made. It makes for a good anecdote, but that doesn't make it true.
I'm the other way around. I've always found it very hard to convince myself of when and how exactly collectivism is better than individualism. To me, one person is infinitely powerful. Add more than one and limitations begin. By the time you get to the "masses" there's practically no power left and the ability to act productively is so watered down that nothing of unique value is ever achieved (only more of the same).

This is not AT ALL to say I don't enjoy cooperation and working / playing together with other people with different viewpoints or alternative perspectives. That's one of the best parts of living on this planet. So I'm not saying there's no value in others, or even that I could exist without others. But I AM saying I only value others for their individualism.
I'm buying the same brand and model of jeans for the last 10 years. Recently I put on an old pair and found that my modern mobile phone doesn't fit in its pocket.
> At the risk of sounding dumb, who is r0ml?

To be honest, in this article he seems to be playing the role of a garden variety troll.

Look at his reply in the comments section of his article, where someone questions the "L" in FLOSS meaning "Liberal" like he claims:

> "Good catch. Some people who use FLOSS mean "Libre". But, as Humpty Dumpty would say: "When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean". So I mean Liberal. Similarly, are people seriously saying that "free software" doesn't mean "software you don't have to pay for?"

Tell me this isn't a trollish answer, complete with non sequitur about free software.

We're giving too much credit to this person. There is a valid conversation to be had about users rights and freedom, about FSF leadership, etc, but this isn't it. This is just some random person vying for attention.
Researchers developed an AI backpack system to guide vision-impaired wearers
Ordinances restrict meth labs too.
There absolutely was a remote part to most VB6 apps. Usually they fetched data from some MS flavour of a RDBMS. Of course they were desktop apps and had to be installed individually but this “webify everything” mania seems to have smothered all dev productivity and experience on its altar.
> There don't seem to be any circumstances in which "Individualism" is superior to "Cooperation" or "Collectivism

The introduction of radical new ideas? Committees don't change the world, they maintain it.
If you look at the chart the death in 2020/2021 are well outside the extremal values for the previous two decades, and the "mass" contained there is much larger than the cumulative discrepancies for earlier in 2020. At that level of signal I don't think the weekly data can be dismissed as not useful.
Why would they wait till now to reveal this?
If you have a lot of storage, you can rent servers for 2.86/tb (+ tax) from OVH.

[1] (Switch to 6*12 tb configuration) https://us.ovhcloud.com/bare-metal/advance/adv-stor-2/
See my comment above. I'm not sure why it was changed but hopefully one of the mods can change it back.
Not sure what this is for but deno all the things!
Law isn't code, and nor is a constitution, but it appears the point of the second amendment was to be a backstop against most of the things that could go wrong in such pernicious applications of the law, where if the people can revolt within the confines of the rules, you don't have to throw out the constitution and everything it built. If he found a rule that could be used to overwrite every other rule, there is the option to use popular revolt against the party who was abusing it. As they say, it's a republic, if you can keep it.
The worst part of any new project is building the auth - change my mind.
I must admit that I don't really understand the RedLeaf design if it doesn't use hardware protections you cannot run C or use unsafe Rust "safely"??
Everything in 100% safe Rust isn't going to happen ever so it isn't really a seL4 competitor more a research prototype.

That said I can imagine a two layer system: if you use 100% safe Rust you have a 'fast path' direct access, otherwise you fallback to slower hardware protection.