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> Buying software and treating it as a "borrowing" is something that has to be stopped.

Yeah. Their marketing is all lies too. They show people a "buy" button, obviously leading them to believe they'll own what they pay for. Then they bury people in these insane license agreements nobody even reads much less understands. In these agreements they explain that no, you're not actually buying anything from us, we're just doing you the favor of allowing you to use the product provided you follow these rules, and we reserve the right to take the product away for any reason including no reason, and in that case we'll still keep your money.

Seriously, why is this allowed? In a just world, courts would simply invalidate these contracts in their entirety. It's simply not possible to believe that a normal person consented to anything written in there. The vast majority of people don't even read this stuff. They're trying to buy something but the company keeps showing them these licensing terms they know nothing about so they click next to get rid of it. That's what it means when the company says someone has "agreed to their terms". They annoyed them so much with popups they just clicked accept to make it all stop. They just wanted to buy the product.

Why are normal people even being exposed to the complexities of copyright law and licensing to begin with? This should not be allowed. Nobody should have to care about this insanity. They should just own the stuff they bought, just like they own physical items. People understand buying and ownership. It should be literally illegal for companies to confuse laymen with these legal buzzwords. If they're dealing with other companies, it's fine since it's safe to assume they know better. Consumers on the other hand absolutely deserve protection.
I like Facebook. Always have. Ways will - I stay in touch with friends I'd have a hard time otherwise. If you're unhappy, don't use it.
It's connected, though. The teens starve themselves and feel awful about themselves which leads to restriction which leads to messed up eating cycles and food obsession which leads to overeating and binge eating and screwed up metabolism and possibly obesity as an adult.
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I absolutely agree that's what's motivating the US, but it's interesting the future they're shepherding society towards via their encouragements and punishments:

- Assange: whistleblowers, journalists that embarrass the government will be pursued to the ends of the earth

- Snowden: whistleblowers will not be forgiven and will be abandoned without a home country

- Sacklers: will be protected from prosecution beyond a large fine, albeit smaller than the profits made from the activity that brought the fine

- Wall Street: government funding provided as a bailout after failure due to poor business decisions and no one held accountable or prosecuted.

Absolutely demonstrated where 'the power' exists, and there's no overlap with 'for the people'.
Sure thing. Except that its not just on HN, its on regular media, blogs, colleagues, etc.

I used to believe that rhetoric like 'permeates the fabric of society' was so cheesy used when used to refer to the outward damage generated by social media, and yet here we are today when even when not being a part of it you are made to be a part of it.

You even see it everywhere, ads, media, recruitment agencies asking you for social profiles, etc... I dont know a single person [IRL] that does not have a Facebook account, not a single one. And everybody acts like they actually depend on them... How sad is that?
While the "download our app goddamnit" popups are clearly user-hostile, I do wonder how much of the rest of the UI is poor due to incompetence. Or to put it more nicely, due to structural and organizational issues.

Most of the new(er) UI seems to be a poorly performing, slow, and inefficient experience on desktop as well. There's a few improved features here or there, but most of the site is just genuinely awful to use - beyond things that are 100% subjective. Buttons and interactions are laggy and way more resources are used than you'd think were necessary. It certainly seems worse for getting ad impressions, ignoring the additional dark patterns it has over the old UI.

Across all of the new UI, the mobile version of it, and the official reddit apps, the experience is quite terrible, in many of the same ways. It seems odd to me that the same mistakes would be made in all of the products, and not solved after so much time and talent were available.

Maybe there's just some product person who likes a lot of bad ideas and has too much power. I dunno. It's weird.
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weird intersection of the internet.

Terry is/was an HN native, too.

Upvoting all of his shadowbanned stuff that was half-way decent and lucid was a hobby of mine. It still makes me feel good to think about it.

Godspeed Terry.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7818823
Ask HN: Terminal Demonstration
Within the last year there was a post about a terminal demonstration program which allowed you to create a file with comments in of the code/commands to type and would then open a new window and type the commands on another screen, in type with your button presses, to make it look like you are typing without making a mistake. My Googlefu is weak and I can't find any trace of it. Does anybody know what I am thinking of any where I can find it?
OP doesn't use it. That was exactly the point. Even if one doesn't use it one can't escape Zuck's empire.
Are you people seriously brigading?

Not invested in the topic at all but somehow people are trying ad-hominem against me to protect apple. You know, this only reinforces my suspicion that apple is beyond toxic, likely crossed over the criminal boundary!

@dang , if you see this, please look into these people's behavior on this post.
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Cell carriers often use microwave backhaul as well, particularly when fiber infrastructure is unavailable. These are usually smaller dishes mounted on cell towers, rather than big horn antennas.
I'm the same way, but I finally gave in and tried Apollo. It's really well made and unrestricting. Would highly recommend it, even though I no longer need it, as I've switched to a freedom respecting distribution of Android.
That's hilarious. I came up with something similar while brainstorming. Nothing new under the sun indeed.
Chilean scientist plans to clean up mining with 'metal eating' bacteria
At this point, why not throw Koch industries in the list.
"white skin" is literally not true. Same for "I am white." These are constructs of white body supremacy. They're lies.
Not driving people near suicide and breaking into homes type of a thing. I must have missed it, care to share a link?
Is it social media as a technology that you feel is sad/negative? What is the negative or damage that you feel is caused to people who participate?
There's a few mutual funds that own SpaceX shares, it'd be interesting if someone bought those and just canceled out all the other companies (not super familiar with finance so I don't know how feasible this is)
I don't know the answer to your question, but take a look at git-annex [0] if you haven't already.

One of the examples it gives is storing a music collection. If I understand correctly, I don't think it automatically compresses every file - or at least gives you the ability to not compress it.

[0]: https://git-annex.branchable.com/
I don't. Unfortunately teenagers and everyone at Jan 6 does.
Some espresso machines use PID to give a consistent temperature - I think I now understand better what it does based on this explanation. Thanks!
The US is charging him with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion, for "hacking" into government computers. They are very heavily trying to convince the public he's an evil hacker not a journalist.
That's pretty sad. I'm sorry it affects you this way. I dont know if it is any consolation, but I can say that not having a phone, as well as not having social networks (in my case I'm on HN) helped immensely by weeding these people out of my life.

I'd like to reference a past comment I made on this issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28314603
Furthermore, $650 billion is spent on advertising each year and growing. That's a huge TAM for ad-tech companies like Google and Facebook.

What is the global spend on space launches annually? $5 billion maybe? And not growing very quickly, if at all. And most of that market is inaccessible because many of the biggest space agencies prefer to keep things in-house, even if it means a worse product at a higher cost.
> There are at all times active proposals to add this or that extra library feature to the "free-standing" subset.

This will obviously be true in C++ but it's far from obvious that it's a sound prediction of the future in Rust.

Let's take a fairly simple thing we might expect to be able to do. We have two fixed size static arrays of data of the same fundamental type. We're writing a function that processes such data (maybe it's writing control bytes to an MMIO register) and sometimes we will want to process both of them, we can't splash out on more RAM to just concatenate both arrays into a temporary vector, that would blow our budget. Cutting the function up into parts is messy, surely we can do better?

In both C++ and Rust, this feels not so hard to achieve. Our function can just take an iterator, it iterates over the provided data and processes all of it, we use iterator adaptors to feed both arrays in when that's what we need. The optimiser should make this just as nice as if we'd meticulously hand-rolled it, but with fewer opportunities for mistakes.

And in Rust it really is that easy, the natural array type works as expected, it is IntoIterator, the core::iter namespace provides a suitable adaptor to connect two together naturally (Chain).

But in C++ we immediately run into problems. The built-in array type is ghastly and we can't very well use it. There's a usable array type but it's not free standing for some reason. Even once we have an array type, we need iterators which also aren't free standing. And then we quickly discover C++ iterators aren't powerful enough here and we need to resort to third party libraries anyway.
unfortunately, as I discovered with a recent fresh Manjaro install, VSCodium cannot access the standard MS extension repo, which makes it next to worthless as a production tool because no one is uploading anything to their own repo. I can't work without my tools, and I can't be arsed to manually install and build and update every extension and its dependencies that I rely on.
The Amiga 3000 is a machine with a place in history. It was one of the first consumer computers that was truly 32 bit, with 32 bit memory, 32 bit address space and 32 bit expansion slots. It could drive typical VGA monitors and it had incredibly fast SCSI for its time. The A3000T kept all the advantages and added more space for everything.

It's such a shame that it couldn't have been a product offered by a sane company :(
So if someone warns you that you could get raped walking down a road and you did get raped, you're not a victim? After all you could have taken a different road? Would your logic translate that way? I know rape is a hyperbole but it serves to make my point and make it easy for you to prove me wrong.
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It sure looks like that thing has a thermostatic control. I’ve got similar window shaker units and they have a distinct click when the thermostat turns on or off and they do an ok job of controlling the temp in the bedrooms.
I just did; I was replying to your exact question in the comment. Questions like "Instagram can make me laugh when I am feeling down" do not look like the kind of questions that a good independently designed survey would do; in general, the would tend to be more of the kind that focus on a concrete event and their surroundings - it may look like they loose the perspective, you are looking at the only bad time that person had, but, done across a lot of people, it is more informative (would statistically represent the most likely state for the population, even if it is totally wrong for some individuals).
120 years ago: "coal mines are hurting our children"
Don't worry, I understood.
It's easy to compile (or transpile in interpreted languages) the code needed to implement a feature flag entirely out of the binary you distribute to customers who haven't paid for it. I don't see that this is a problem.
Monte Carlo is basically taking repeated random samples until you get a good approximation of the value you're interested in. Gradient descent is more like what you describe, except you don't try "a bunch of different things" but keep trying the same thing until you have a result you think is good.

To give a silly example, Monte Carlo is like trying to guess the surface area of a dartboard by throwing darts at it and counting how many hit it, while gradient descent is like throwing darts at the board until you hit the center (or something you think is the center).
> Most of the population won't have any use for it - they'll have no reason to question what's in the mainstream.

> […]

> The population will ,by and large, believe what he wants them to believe, most people wouldn't consider dissent on the issue because there would be no point.

> There are some people within every population that will chose to 'look outside' and 'seek unpopular truths' - but the mainstream population will take care of suppressing them.

The more effective approach by far is to condition people from childhood into believing that the ability to select from one of a few impotent political identities, all of which lead to the slightest variations of policy conclusions within the field of pre-determined acceptability, represents the universal best possible form of governance and the purest instantiation of such high-minded ideals as Freedom, Liberty, and Justice.

This way you can mollify a population into accepting almost anything as normal: endless wars, hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths, lifelong debt, a constant struggle to afford housing, education, and medical care, etc. You can convince them at will that any rival is a tyrannical regime under a capricious, childish, genocidal maniac, and that any evidence to the contrary should be dismissed with self-satisfied smugness as coerced or compensated state propaganda.
Personally, I can't stand that interface, but I also use a userscript to change "old" to "www" automatically, so I guess this wouldn't really bother me. I definitely recommend using the reverse userscript if you have the reverse opinion though.
But either something is patented or otherwise protected, or it isn’t. You can’t sell a car whose secret sauce to high margin sales is a fender production method that will be obvious to anyone taking it apart and then cry foul when someone does take it apart.

> buy a single licence of your software, reverse engineer it, change it so that they get features for free they otherwise would have to pay for etc.

That seems like standard licensing? The forbidden part about unlicensed use of software is using it.
Firefox is alive because of Google money. It looks like they don't like this single-source dependency too much, and want to find their own monetization model. Unfortunately, it's looks like it's the same old one - sell user's eyeballs (and maybe also tracking data, who knows) to advertisers.
Hacker News really really really seems to think the stock market is solely focused on short term results, meanwhile, Tesla is valued at $770 billion dollars because they maybe might create a valuable energy business sometime in the future.

Other examples are Uber, DoorDash, Lucid Motors, etc... money losing companies with nosebleed valuations because investors believe in the long term.
In university I had an air conditioner that would turn off when the power went out (regular occurrence, few minutes), so I'd wake up sweltering or otherwise needing to get up/interrupted in order to switch it back on (it had a cabled remote/controller)

The automation was a clothes peg on the power button.
Is there a book or doc on this topic?
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> for now

Looks like it should be "forever" according to this comment:

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/134660#issuecomme...

But telemetry is one of those things that you can never trust a company about once it's in. Especially a company with a history of both mandatory telemetry and "oops didn't mean to ;)" telemetry-related setting resets.
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There's an unfortunate "us vs them" rhetoric that I feel is going to bite a lot of people in the butt. It all begins with this misconception that Facebook is a common carrier: they're large and valuable, but much like Microsoft Teams, iMessage and AWS, they're still private entities. There's an EULA, clear as day that states who's right and who's wrong here, and they've got your digital signature to corroborate it. It's not like the US government has any interest in giving up these invaluable domestic data sources, so they'll happily turn a blind eye to every complaint you can draft. It's a catch 22, a total stalemate where your only option is to spin your wheels. Without any practical way forwards, it seems like most people just default to complaining online as a way to vent their frustration towards Facebook's oblique victory.
If Apple wants to tell everyone that they have to use iCloud Keychain for their Time Machine backups to work, they can do that, but Time Machine backups shouldn't silently not work, only to be discovered when you've lost your data.
Definitely, that's what the numbers are for, but it takes a long time to figure out what maps to what temperature
Any recommendations for courses or books that give a 101 intro all the way to understanding these curves and why / how they are used?

I'd like to get a grasp on this from first principles. Thank you!
It’s 33x 2021e revenue, is it not?
Show HN: Imgin is a minimal Imgur front end
In the US about 120,000 children lost a primary care giver to covid. Is you are sane that counts for something.
Moreover, the fact that it's actually more like a bare-metal hypervisor that runs DOS VMs seems to be little-known. The protection is the bare minimum necessary to keep them isolated - all hardware, unless specifically virtualised by VxDs, is effectively "passed through".
Because the history of Taiwan is complicated.

If you count Taiwan as a part to be unified under CCP rule, then by similar accounts you may as well argue that Iran and Iraq as parts to be unified under CCP rule.

From the Wikipedia page on Taiwan [1], check out the Chronological phases on the right, you can see that Taiwan has been ruled by different regimes:

* Prehistory to 1624

* Dutch Formosa 1624–1662

* Spanish Formosa 1626–1642

* Kingdom of Tungning 1661–1683

* Qing rule 1683–1895

* Japanese rule 1895–1945

* Republic of China rule 1945–present

Among them:

- the Kingdom of Tungning was a loyalist to Ming dynasty when Qing dynasty was ruling mainland China,

- later Qing dynasty partly ruled Taiwan,

- now the Repulic of China is ruling Taiwan when CCP is ruling mainland China.

Then one may ask why Taiwan should be a part to be unified under CCP rule, as Xi implies, instead of being ruled by the Republic of China.

One argument is that Taiwan has been ruled by regimes associated with Mainland China in the past (loyalist to Ming dynasty after it lost, then partly by Qing dynasty), hence by extension to be ruled by the current ruler of mainland China, CCP.

But if you accept this argument, then you may notice that the Mongol empire (Yuan dynasty) once ruled Iran and Iraq and more [2]. If we ignore the past, then we may ask if Taiwan should be ruled by the mainland Chinese regime, CCP, or should be a sovereign country ruled by the Republic of China as the President of Taiwan said [3].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Taiwan

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_Empire

[3]: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/taiw...
It would be good to know what is stressing you about the job.

For example, I find grandstanding by higher ups stressful. “Just get it done” “this needs to be done in 3 days (ignoring any estimates)”

I also create my own stress by perfectionism.

Depending on the cause that would determine the solution.

You might be helped by a psychologist, by changing teams/roles, assertiveness training or just having hobbies to switch off after work.
Boeing is worth $132 billion, but they also have a backlog of over 5,000 commercial aircraft, and a valuable defense business on top of that. They will likely have more profit over the next 4 quarters than SpaceX will do in revenue. I don't really think it's an appropriate comparison for SpaceX.
"2nd Unicorn"

How are we defining unicorn these days? Surely it's not just private vs public. There are other 100 billion private companies.
There is one in Vancouver BC. I always wondered what is is: https://goo.gl/maps/RKVvfiDApVxCWsnj7
Is Koch Industries still a startup?
I would love to hear of any exchange between Einstein and Von Neumann. Einstein was famously contemptuous of soldiers.
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That makes sense to me, and it's also the impression I got from watching this interview with Vladimir Putin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6pJd6O_NT0

I don't think Putin is fully honest, but ignoring what he says doesn't seem like a good idea either, and I found the interview fairly enlightening.

I think an important clue here is that all the authoritarian regimes (Russia, Belarus, China, Iran, North Korea, etc.) seem much more likely to form alliances with one another even in the absence of an obvious shared national interest.

An interesting case study may be the recent secular coup attempt in Turkey. Secular values are closer to western values, and according to this editorial in Turkish state news, when given the chance to come out in favor of democracy and political stability (by opposing the coup) or western values (by not opposing it), Europe chose the latter

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/analysis/opinion-the-july-15-coup-h...

Basically I see the modern geopolitical divide as being countries focused on human rights and secular western values on the one hand (US and its allies) and countries focused on stability on the other hand (Russia/China and friends). Both positions have some merit in my view. For example, I think Putin makes a good point that the US screwed up in Libya--we were aiming to achieve human rights but we ended up just destabilizing the region. IMO there has to be a balance between both human rights and stability considerations.

Chomsky is fighting the last war when he talks about US actions in past decades in South America. Back then the global divide was capitalism vs communism. Now it's about human rights vs stability IMO.
"efficiency" means not having to deal with federal goons and NDAs, and instead do what they say before your family is suicided.
Is it more of conflict of interest than the whistleblower potentially being entitled to a multi billion dollar commission from the SEC? Because that's barely been mentioned in any of the negative articles.

https://www.sec.gov/whistleblower
Microsoft has really been pushing the telemetry lately. Edge phones home far more than any other browser. Windows itself has no way to fully disable data collection (only the option to send "basic" or "full" data, including which websites you visit--oof). If you use Pro and you are enough of a power user to feel comfortable editing registry settings, that's what is now required to turn telemetry off, and even then it's hard to know you did it correctly. And this type of tracking is pervasive across the entire Microsoft ecosystem, including within Xbox, Minecraft, Teams, and now VSCode. It's disappointing to say the least.