skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Disabling perfectly unrelated features (e.g. fast boot), going through Scary Boot Prompts, etc. are NOT acceptable requirements for booting a non-MS OS.

There is Windows fast boot and UEFI fast boot, which are two diffent things. Sometimes vendors support only Windows fast boot, and at least then it is perfectly acceptable to force removal of that option.

Also, for example the purpose of secure boot is to prevent modification and changes on boot options and underlying files, which makes it also to be fine to force disabling, until you set new keys for your new OS.
More on the woke empire:

https://peacediplomacy.org/2022/06/27/woke-imperium-the-comi...
It's a stereotype just like the long hours - Americans work around 10% more hours annually nowadays.
What was his agenda? Was it a controversial one?
I don't get the thing about "monopoly".

Let's start with one thing: copyright on databases. Take IMDb: they collect and combine totally open data on movies cast, crew, soundtracks used and so on. Everyone can go to the cinema, wait until movie ends, write down data from credits roll and put it on the database. There's no prohibition on this activity. Cinema may prohibit filming inside, but not using pencil on paper. Or you may buy a DVD released later, and do just the same. Or you may even write a movie company email asking for those data in electronic form and chances are they will send it to you or point to some promo materials website where it is published already.

But the entire database is a product of work, and that makes it valuable. So the company or organization spent time and money collecting, indexing and cross-linking those data, and has a right to bank on that work. Easily copying that database for commercial purpose _is_ stealing. This is why we have a database copyright laws.

Now back to Meta. They created this product and made it attractive enough so people are adding their data voluntary. Every single piece of data is quite open (maybe not really so for personal bits like face photos, emails and phone numbers). Meta spent a lot of cash making and keeping product that attractive, and now banks on those collected data by targeting ads.

Nothing in the world prohibits everyone else to create a service, make it valuable, attract people, collect data (according to data collection laws) and bank on that. But just copying data collected my Meta is stealing, and Meta is in its own right to protect it. The fact that Meta did it before doesn't makes it monopolist. In fact, there are lots of companies doing the same, like Google, Amazon, Apple, eBay etc. So in my opinion it is not a monopoly defending its' position, but rather business defending its' assets from stealing.
There are plenty of workplaces that require a more secure development environment. Centralizing the dev environment without having to go full PC over IP would be a very cost friendly way to manage this.
Nursing home robots dance, sing and watch for signs of trouble
Aha, I thought that was RPG but maybe that means computer games
Woman captured ‘most insane’ video of lightning hitting husband’s car
> A Global pandemic (Spanish Flu), revolutionary technology (Aeroplane, etc.), Killing of influential people and then war.

Uhm, you are mixing facts a bit: aeroplane came before WWI; the shooting of an archduke started WWI, but the flu only arrived at the end of the war.
Strength is critical in fighting. I have assumed that even an expert can't go up against people in different weight classes in fighting sports, and that basic skill is something that all sporty people have.
The assassination was also committed with a homemade firearm. If that doesn’t qualify as “hacker” news I don’t know what does.
A regular Ubuntu update on my XPS 13, an officially supported combination, broke my wifi. Since then it has also somehow broke itself in some other fun way such that there are now package conflicts and it's unable to update itself anymore as a result.

And that's ignoring all the general usability issues like the subpar battery life, the dreadfully terrible state of video playback, the touch screen constantly causing gnome to glitch internal state and get confused, etc...

On my Debian desktop I had a webcam completely take out the USB stack. Like all ports just dead, had to yank the power to reboot. I also had a btrfs array just go read-only for seemingly no reason after restoring from standby, and it wouldn't tell me why. After a reboot all was suddenly fine. Also it took an awfully long time to get that machine working after having been powered off for 3 months. If you go too long without updating, it seems all the package migrations just bitrot and break.

But yeah, year of Linux on the desktop. Any day now.
Europe’s 2035 Ban on Gas, Diesel Cars Just Passed a Hurdle
Some day, a remote maybe, a nation will realize it's greatest goal is the education of it's population. A generation into this realization, that nation will begin to threaten the global status quo. But being a nation of educated individuals, and not a nation led by educated manipulators, the manipulators efforts will appear childish and immature. That is what our civilization is today: immature and childish.

We are large enough that political economics dictates the quality of our lives. Yet, we are immature enough that we still cling to religion and physical violence to achieve our goals. I wish I could sleep for a few generations, and wake to see a mature human race.
Maybe the official who took his own life after being forced to alter evidence linking Abe and his wife to the Moritomo Gakuen embezzlement scandal?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moritomo_Gakuen
Personally I tend to prefer to use the form "LEGO®" in written text. It's a little trickier in spoken word, but I find that if I append some boilerplate trademark text it sounds surprisingly natural:

"Timmy, that's the third time this week I've stood on your LEGO® in the hallway! Clean it up or we're going to confiscate it! LEGO® is a registered trademark of LEGO System A/S, DK-7190 Billund, Denmark."
Why people even assume other living beings dont't feel anything, like they are some programs or something.
Molecular Precursors of the RNA-World in Space
Refactor Terraform Code with Moved Blocks
One of the major parties has candidates actively campaigning on a platform to have state legislatures intervene in elections.

If that’s not a sign of decline, what is?
What makes you think this is them getting tricked, and not just them looking after the interests of EU companies? The EU's role isn't primarily as a consumer rights advocacy group after all.
English teaching is a pretty obvious low-barrier outlier. Otherwise, you're confirming the US as your main point of comparison, without realizing the US is the primary outlier here. Compare the US to any other developed country and it becomes fairly evident why.
Perhaps if the requirements to run locally exceed the resources of a personal device.
When will OEM's realize that forcing Windows on computer purchasers is less than ideal?

I don't mean to merely refer to this particular issue/non-issue.
I refer to the entire industry pre-loading Microsoft Windows on every new computer as IF this were the desire of everyone in the world.

I'm not suggesting that there isn't a market for Windows, I'm suggesting that an industry-wide forced-Windows-ONLY world is bad for the market, bad for consumers, and probably bad for OEMs... If it's some shady Microsoft OEM contract FORCING this to be the case, let's see an example. Didn't anyone challenge it?

Why don't Dell or Lenovo sell 10-20% Linux laptop preloads?
Surely one can understand that developers and plenty of other users require Linux not Windows, right?

Why are Linux preloads expensive and odd?
Why are more OEMs not ALSO selling Linux preloads?

So annoying!
Abe is the sixth Japanese PM assassinated.
If you use that metric to judge happiness, it looks like homeless people are twice as happy as people living off of interest/dividends/rent.
My bosses keep telling me that being on salary means I get paid to get the job done no matter how long it takes. That's how they justify not paying me time and a half for overtime. But if the job doesn't take 40 hours a week, then why should I waste time on busy work to hit that arbitrary number? If I can do it in 24 hours a week, or 16, or even 4 hours a week, then I should be able to just remain "on call" in case something comes up.
The woke empire under Obama bombed more than 7 new muslim and non-white countries.

The neocons are called neocons because they were Democrats who joined George W Bush and then went back to being Democrats again. Best example is Victoria Nuland from the Kagan "bomb every muslim country" family. See also the Ledeen doctrine:

"Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business," which Goldberg remembered Ledeen saying in an early 1990s speech.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ledeen#:~:text=This%20....
The Laffer Curve is a bit of a myth which relies upon fixed exchange rate, fixed amount of money thinking.

That doesn't apply in the real world.

In a floating exchange rate system with a financial system, such as the one Japan has, the currency is essentially a closed system. Yen can't go anywhere else, and you can't use it for anything real outside of Japan.

That means that government spending is matched by the sum of taxation + non-government saving, and it is the spending that causes the taxation and saving, not the other way around.

What the curve says then is that people net save less in the middle of the curve - which generally means they are borrowing too much because they are not earning enough to maintain their standard of living.
So nimskull is planning on rewriting all previous commit messages to be more legible? Or is that unreasonable?

Assuming unreasonable, isn't it unreasonable to expect someone to completely break git history for everyone, and or invent time travel?

Seems to be an absurd amount of condemnation over a mistake that did far less than hurting no-one
>Immigration is probably the only thing right now that mitigates the problem of consecutive declining birthrates.

No it isn't. It's fairly simple to increase declining birthrates in the west, there just isn't the political will do do what would be necessary to accomplish that (ie: Prohibit female education, abortion, birth control, kill the welfare state, etc...)
I use it to have a high power machine run my everything and use a thin and light laptop to press buttons
I'm not saying it makes it OK, but Apple has gotten a pass for many years for having more barriers to booting another O/S than these steps.
This strikes me as a pretty meaningless position. I kept waiting for the punchline, and got nothing.
Not from me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31178408, not from HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31165505

For the record, Google has also been doing the same for a lot of time now (Scary Boot Prompts if you try to run Linux on bare metal, but all is fine if you run containerized Linux on top of Google's OS). They don't get a free pass from me, either.
Auth0 is basically a login feature.

1password is a password manager - you could define that as a feature.

I don't know how well companies like these are doing, but it seems that some people manage to create a business around "a feature".

Perhaps it's more risky than other avenues, but hey, if you can make it work, if you can get customers and have them pay for your rent, then go nuts.
Love the way the author handles entitled selfish users.

One of my favourite editors for years, which I regularly donate to.
Correct, so did the revolutionary tech of our times (Internet). But yeah pandemic came after the war
Putting the central in decentral since '22.
Press coverage:

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-found-a-bunch-o...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10992183/amp...
Gitmoji – emoji guide for commit messages
When I was at school, the full names of teachers were available. I think even in some kind of display cabinet on site and also in the school's official yearbook. Endof the 90s though, so before anyone cared about privacy :P (This is Germany btw, land of Google Maps blurring)
iPads work great, and relatively safe around toddlers armed with liquids
That's your justification for murder and assassination?
While not a Microsoft offering, code-server[1] already exists and works pretty well.

[1] https://github.com/coder/code-server
Gtk4 is easier to port to other platforms than previous iterations and Gtkt should follow that trend, so if someone wanted to make an X port they could.
"Why are they using a freeware OS?" (: /s
I suspect a lot of companies are pushing for MS architecture because its trendy, not because it makes sense for their own use case, which is what is causing such a strong reaction on HN. Moreover, I suspect that the services end up being very small and as such, rather poorly self contained. All I wanted to say with my comment is that microservices are a tool, and there are certain scenarios where they could be a good solution to a problem (although perhaps not the only one).

I do want to provide a counter point example against everything must be a monolith. Years ago I worked at a medium sized company that worshiped at the altar of monolith and the mantra of "this is how google does it" was often repeated. Unfortunately what they were doing was far from what Google was doing. Their monolith incorporated solutions for multiple, largely unrelated business lines. All of the code deployed across all of the hundreds of servers, and data was shared without any sense of boundaries across the entire app. The company didn't want to invest significantly into the appropriate tooling to make such a large app function well (multiple gigabytes source code written in PHP). The result was a terrible dev experience where deployments took 4 to 6 hours on a good day and the blast radius of a given change was sometimes hard to verify. Its akin to sharing servers between GMail and Google Docs, and mixing up the code together for good measure (so it can be reused). This created a culture of slow moving, large development cycles as well as a lot of defensiveness and fear within the software engineering group. Suffice to say, it was not a pleasant experience.

Before I get down voted a bunch I should say I also tend to prefer monoliths as much as possible. They are much simpler to work with, much simpler to test and easier to analyze. Also if using a good compiled language, the compiler can help a lot to eliminate a lot of common silly regressions. However, that being said, I would consider making a new service in certain cases. For example, if I was building a new, unrelated product or if there was a part of the app that was functionally very different from the rest of the app.

I also tend to distinguish between a mono repo (single repo, can have more than one service in it) and monolith (single app). If you are willing to setup some more sophisticated CI/CD tooling, I think mono repo is the way to go, even when it makes sense to have more than one service in the design of the app.
Some people use the word failure in a way which – whether by denotation or just connotation – includes an aspect of culpability, blame, fault. If that's your understanding of failure, using it to speak of people in that situation does seem particularly insensitive. On the other hand, maybe other people have a different understanding of the word, in which the element of culpability/blame/fault is either missing, or at least, less emphasised–these people may struggle to understand what others are so upset about, especially if they aren't aware of that difference in the understanding of the word.
Such a great movie, real classic!
My first reaction would be to look for a bicycle/car tire that blew up.
They are following US pioneered anti-trust practices that went against IBM and Microsoft and allowed an ecosystem of diverse computers and browsers to develop. Limiting the exercise of power moves of monopolies is essential for innovation and landmark cases are vital to establish the boundaries of the rules. This motivates corporate lawyers to advise their clients accordingly before they do damage.

Markets where the main rule is pre-established power are in the long run destructive to society.
Discovering the truth about the Kitty Genovese's story give me new ideas about Rorschach from Watchmen.
Not everybody treats fixing software just as an excuse for writing detailed flowery diary of the development process itself consisting entirely of artisanal, handcrafted git commit messages.

Some people just fix software to fix software and for them the whole utility of git is to be able to see how the code looked earlier or even just keeping it in case they ever want to know that. They don't write commit messages because they don't read commit messages because they'd rather read code than prose. Trying to figure out what someone meant when they wrote the comment is sometimes harder than reading the code change itself. And if you need to delve deep into the prose here's the ticket number with all the words that were exchanged that lead to this change.
I think this reaction is natural when you feel like you're doing something for others but it never comes out feeling right.

First, even when we do something for "free" we're usually deriving some value out of it. We enjoy the work. We like the feel of progress, or praise. It's very rarely as altruistic as we want to believe.

Finally, what does this tell users, past, present or future? Are we dealing with people who will take our feedback constructively?

I've been in positions like this and have had this impulse many times but it's not fair to work on something and then demand people kiss your ring for doing so. I've treated users like this and really regret it in retrospect.
The Wikipedia page is a bit better in giving the actual details in which the story is incorrect, and without the extended editorialising (though the final sentence is quite nightmarish even in its blankly factual wording):

> Because of the layout of the complex and the fact that the attacks took place in different locations, no witness saw the entire sequence of events. Investigation by police and prosecutors showed that approximately a dozen individuals had heard or seen portions of the attack, though none saw or was aware of the entire incident.[67] Only one witness, Joseph Fink, was aware Genovese was stabbed in the first attack, and only Karl Ross was aware of it in the second attack. Many were entirely unaware that an assault or homicide had taken place; some thought what they saw or heard was a domestic quarrel, a drunken brawl or a group of friends leaving the bar when Moseley first approached Genovese.[8] After the initial attack punctured her lungs, leading to her eventual death from asphyxiation, it is unlikely that Genovese was able to scream at any volume.[68]

And some slightly overlapping details in an article from which it quotes:

> The article grossly exaggerated the number of witnesses and what they had perceived. None saw the attack in its entirety. Only a few had glimpsed parts of it, or recognized the cries for help. Many thought they had heard lovers or drunks quarreling. There were two attacks, not three. And afterward, two people did call the police. A 70-year-old woman ventured out and cradled the dying victim in her arms until they arrived. Ms. Genovese died on the way to a hospital.
I’m always surprised by how different auto accidents sound in person. Movie and TV audio just don’t pick up the low frequencies you hear and feel in person.
Thanks for the detailed response. I definitely don't take it angrily. One additional point of context is I managed a Series B SAAS companies first SOC 2 (and its renewal) in the recent past, so I definitely understand what you're saying, and I think it lines up with the point I was trying to make.

My main point is you can either treat the SOC 2 as an adversary to overcome, or actually try and leverage it to be better. No matter what it's going to suck and be annoying, though Vanta/Drata can help. But one can leverage it to be a better company.

A less controversial example than background checks is infra cost monitoring. Where a lot of SOC 2 is focused on business continuity, in addition to security, one of the things required is that you're actually paying attention to your costs. A lot of cash flushed VC backed startups don't. So, once SOC 2 hits, the company that's treating it adversarially will just rubber stamp some quarterly meeting where they "look" at infra costs. Or, you can actually take that moment to level up the company to have macro review of the cost of goods sold, an ensure the business is on a healthy path.

Again, not a comment on your article, one of the big takeaways for me in running a security program for years was a general anxiety around being transparent on the program externally, because there's a certain type of "security" person who gets off on picking apart policies, without understanding tradeoffs that we were careful to make sure kept the company safe, while letting it function smoothly.

Coming out with an article like this is a great thing to do, where a lot of content out there is just "we got our SOC 2, and now we're prefect."

I won't comment on the background check thing again, not the least because I don't want to argue more for something I don't like, just think may be a needed evil.
I run one, with ads for betting sites (which give you lifetime earnings for a % of what the person bets). Runs on autopilot basically, generating 80k/yr and growing by 20k every year. Google never penalized me.
Does anyone still use notepad++? I agree with the user and left it a long time ago. The settings are truly arcane and whenever I end up using notepad++ randomly I just use google "notepad++ <setting> <change>" and rote follow a guide as opposed to attempt to learn that mess. (Not to mention command palettes have been useful for like 10+ years and going back to windows modal hell like its 2001 is just not fun)

I would never send such an email though

And the reply of "I'll refund you your nothing" is just as bad as the first email, but I guess if you don't make money, you're not a professional and don't have to act like it lol. Still comes across as a bad look, even if you're donating your time, you should be receptive to the user experience and a frustrated user is a useful datapoint for a good PM/dev.
Thank you. That is my single biggest gripe about nim as well.

If you believe, as I do, that code is read more than it is written, then this becomes a big deal.

Clearly readability is important to nim's design so this departure from that seems inconsistent.

Also for new people trying to learn the language, it really helps to be able to see what modules/packages functions come from.
I was thinking it was going to be a history of Istanbul
My laptop needs a hard reboot after sleeping about half the time, and it's not like I use Linux on some obscure hardware, I just get to accept this.
This website is instantly heating up my laptop and scrolling through it is far from smooth, like 10 FPS.
Lots of kerfuffle over nothing, and of course the most noise comes from the peculiar regulars, chanting about how Lenovo has to go away, or is not to be trusted etc.

The machine supports Linux. You may have to hop into the firmware settings first.
> nothing to show for it

That's why almost 12% of the US population chooses to live in California right?
That’s my point. Immigration is the best solution.