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> For example, the USA does not recognize any authority of the the International Criminal Court

This is not true. The USA is not a party to the Rome Statute and asserts that the conditions which would otherwise subject its citizens to ICC jurisdiction categorically do not exist, and has authorized unlimited measures should the ICC disagree with the last point, but does not dispute the authority of the ICC.

> You can look for a long time, but you’ll never find an example of a superpower/empire, or a close ally of one, submitting to any kind of international judgment against it, criminal or in a trade dispute.

Well, states are not subjects of criminal law, so the criminal part is trivially true. As for trade disputes, the US has complied with numerous adverse decisions in WTO proceedings.
Do you have any articles to learn more about this? I’ve been thinking about this exact problem with many companies requiring hoops like phone numbers for antispam purposes. But all they really care about is that it’s a human not a bot.

So some way to have an independent central website with list of valid but anonymous keys could be used to sign up for any online service and prove you’re a human. Sort of like id.me . I’d almost be okay needing to get a letter in the mail for initial registration.
My strategies for using technology without being used by it
Google needs to be in the business of revolutionizing things. Not this incremental, competitively priced bullshit. If Google wanted to really succeed in the gaming space, they'd be out there offering this service for free. They invented innovative technology that could have made it possible to play a AAA game on a piece of shit, and they hid it behind so many subscription services and fees that nobody ever even got to experience it. Then they went with, depending on who you ask, either no marketing at all, or in my experience the most bland, soulless corporate marketing I've ever seen. It's like they don't understand anything about the market they are entering into. What on earth even happened with this product? It was literally a punchline before it even released. The product & marketing people in charge of this should be ashamed of themselves.
Agreed. It seems to me that ensuring the freedom of free software addresses a fundamental social issue that without RMS never would have been met and could have been lost several times along the way.

I see a lot of references to getting with the times and modernity in the complaints against RMS. I don't see much in the way of complaint that GNU is insufficiently free-as-in-freedom, which is the only thing I really want out of GNU.
Why isn't the Holodomor taught in schools?
No idea why you're being downvoted. You're completely right. Computing is increasingly centralized in corporation servers. Our computers are becoming appliances. We're no longer in control. We can't run software on them without some corporation's blessing.

Free software presupposes free general purpose computers. It assumes we can write software and run it on our devices. What is the point of free software if we can't run it because the corporation that actually owns the keys to the machine won't sign off on it?
"02000" is a "long now" thing, not octal. Thinking about the next 10,000 years and ald that.

https://longnow.org/
It was akin to the freemium model: You could play your games at 1080p and subscribe to play them at higher 4k quality.
Also kills microbes on surfaces.
Both of those examples are short-lived. Nobody would be _confused_ by somebody saying that you can pay them for an "event" like riding on a bus or watching a movie, and nobody should be confused that a year down the line that event is no longer available.

There's a qualitative difference between that and platforms saying that you've purchased something, letting you use it for enough years that it seems to be yours (like nearly everything else in your life you've "purchased") and then having that item taken away.

Are you really arguing that the average person would believe that the library items they purchased could be taken away? If so, I'm clearly missing something, why? If not, that's the whole point -- we shouldn't use terms that actively mislead people into paying more money for fewer benefits.
> RMS insisted that people lay out every possible use case so he could figure out the minimal set of information that would need to be exposed.

I think that is impossible.
Adventures in dynamic software, visualisations, creating a JVM language
More specifically green is far higher in luminosity, which is about radiation power and not frequency.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminosity
It should be noted it can be really easy to get a reputation for asking too many questions.
> When you own a whole ecosystem

Google virtually own Android, and yet they haven't innovated or taken the initiative in a way that Apple has. A distinction can be drawn with Apple here, as they've opened new markets by making devices that didn't exist yet (e.g., touch-driven mobile computing). They innovated from the beginning, not so much remaking Altavista with Bigtable.
The concept of being a “previvor” I first came across in The Gene is worrying to me as well — finding you have a correlated but not actionable association with a disease or other poor medical outcome. I think the “just say no” underplays the challenges that can come from unactionable information.
> For example working with some (not all) developers in Asia, its culturally negative to admit you don't know something.

If this is true, and junior devs in Asia are all wandering around unwilling to ask questions to understand things, then they must have come up with a different approach culturally to learn and grow quickly.

Are there any Asia-based developers here that could speak to the main approach by which junior developers become senior?
Is he or anyone immune to the mindshifts that could occur over said fawning though?
100% agree with your opinion, the business model didn’t make any sense. Also as platform it wasn’t that grate either: lags, graphics quality and many more issues (not it’s not my internet). I’m glad they tried but suits failed the project.
The documentation of uBlock Origin is worth reading.
To all people complaining about what this that or the other organization is or isn't doing: lead, follow, or get out of the way. Stop clickety-clacking on HN and go make the world you want.
It is a technical solution to the problem of GCC being used by proprietary software without them giving back anything to the community.

I think he made the wrong call and should have opened it up and gone for a re-licensed GCC under the AGPL or something similar if crippling proprietary software was so important.
Bai Juyi: The Tang dynasty’s baldest poet
Hats off to Stadia engineers for the engineering marvel that they created. I'm certain they'll be sought after both internally at Google and externally.

Also, hats off to Google for refunding all hardware(!) and software purchases. I don't remember any parallel to this from a large company.

Essentially, gamers participated in a wonderful large-scale experiment which cost them nothing (except maybe the occasional monthly fee).

I am a happy Stadia user, I am sad to see it sunset.
Happy user here, with the marvellous Feedbin as the sync back-end.

Feedbin's website is really, really nice if you want to check your feeds on the go.
You can shift air conditioning, to a degree. You could cool down the house, maybe even one or two degrees under your usual temperature. Your house now acts as a thermal battery and you can leave the AC off for some time. How long will that work? With the general atrocious insulation in Japan and the very humid/hot summers, probably not super long.

Of course not super on topic but the insulation in central Japan seems to be a big problem to me. Walls are thin and often made out of wood. There are ventilaton holes, often closeable, but with the thinnest plastic cover. Windows are single pane, and the window frames and doors are often of such shoddy construction, you can see the outside through some cracks. If there was a shift in construction quality, I'm sure the electricity use in summer and winter would drop, but I don't expect that to happen soon. Insulation and construction quality is expensive, so this isn't done in construction of rental apartments.
This is the second time on this thread you've suggested that in 1985 it was acceptable to threaten to commit suicide to coerce someone to date you. No, it was not.
Sorry for the late reply. It works fine for free. There's no impediments to the actual gameplay. Gems aren't mandatory for anything. It's been a while since I last played, but when I did, gems weren't needed for anything other than random decorative items.
> thankful to not have my family denied education or other social essentials because i decide to speak my mind

Ongoing vigilance is essential to preserve these freedoms, as evidenced in the recent US DOJ prosecution of eBay executives for intimidation of a journalist, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33049853

> A former eBay Inc. executive was sentenced on Thursday to almost five years in prison for leading a scheme to terrorize the creators of an online newsletter that included sending live spiders, cockroaches, a funeral wreath and other disturbing deliveries to their home.
Maybe universities should stop giving them out then. They can literary give any other honor but they choose to tie it to a doctorate and insult people who earn real degrees. How is Stallman the problem?
Use Deno. Everything including writing and building TS is built in.
It might be cool, but definitely not new! It just turned 20. https://netnewswire.com/history
Ask HN: Install Mediawiki on M1?
Are there any guides and best practices out there on how to properly install Mediawiki on a Apple M1 laptop?
You’ve just got to look back through history and you’ll see the same thing play out, and controversially it’s not actually the worst play in the long run.

1) pick a high risk / high reward opportunity

2) invest heavily in the fundamental tech behind it and see if it works out

3) when it doesn’t work out, shut it down, take the tech you built and use it for something.

So for example, let’s look at dart.

There was never any way it was going to work, really…
but, at the time, maaaaybe, it could have worked. …and google would have owned the web stack entirely.

…but, they’ve put it to work in flutter now and that’s going ok.

The point I’m making is that if you look at this from the perspective of investment in fundamental technology (Ie. Steaming video say) what’s better?

A) develop it with no specific use case

B) work really hard on a very difficult use case that might end up failing

If you can afford it, the latter is maybe not the worst way of doing it.

You end up with battle tested technology and no users to bother you for the made-in-a-rush service you made to go with it.

You could easily argue that more successfully outcomes could come from less risky investments… but do you want 50 kind of bleh services in your portfolio?

I don’t think google does. They want a few unicorns.

You don’t get unicorns by playing it safe.

So… I’m not saying it’s the right strategy, or even a good one, but from that perspective you can see why you’d try.

Bet: we’ll see something fancy using the streaming tech roll out eventually, probably linked to a more successful existing product, it will be unremarkable and well liked by most people.
Compromising CI for Backdoors [pdf]
India’s Internet Bill Is Straight Out of Beijing’s Playbook
> we've definitely realized the mobile code and portable executable dreams of the 90s

Fine, now how to get rid of it, along with the lack of innovation and the entangled group or naive nerds and salesmen taking advantage of them who think or pretend the web is about their fscking apps when it was always about content.
It is actually line $35/year (for GP Ultimate) if you know magic words “conversion deal”.
Having lived through EJB 2.x, this is a hard pass. I don’t want to pretend the sever is local when it’s not.
Async functions, now available in many languages, solves many of the issues RPC had in its childhood. With the problem that you get "colored" functions. Thinking about it that's probably a good thing, because with RPC you had colored functions, except you didn't know about it, some innocent functions would just randomly take forever to return.
You are in a politics bubble.

Don't try to couch my comment in your political view.

PG&E is an example of how the policies used in CALIFORNIA fail the people of CALIFORNIA.

That is relevant. These are facts.

If you DIED because of infrastructure failures, maybe you'd feel differently! You know? Because you'd be dead and all...
Slow compile times? You don't even need to compile Clojure to run it.

It only has slow start time, but since you work at an always connected REPL, it's pretty much instantanuous throughout your entire work day. Start it in the morning (takes a few seconds at most), and then it's instant feedback until you clock out.

And for slow start time for deployment use cases that need fast start time, like CLIs, scripts, serverless, you can either use babashka, Clojurescript, or compile Clojure to native using GraalVM.
I have the opposite feeling - to me it looks nice and better than Dynatrace or elastic.
https://archive.md/AZQF1
I imagine, as with all Google products, it wasn't a suitable data point for them and didn't feed in some way to their ADs cash cow. Google nukes things that don't feed their ADs beast.
> problems with very high demand for a solution that weren't yet tackled well

Emphasis added. It took putting the right money and the right minds towards doing it well. There aren't a lot of SaaS ideas that scale to close to 100% of world population that don't yet have an incumbent. Tiktok was lucky that Twitter dumped Vine. Zoom was lucky that Skype, Hangouts, Facetime dropped the ball by trying to keep their users in walled gardens, and not really solving the teleconference problem well.
CSS works just fine without any javascript at all.

Here's a really obvious example: https://nextspaceflight.com/

Every single link on this page requires javascript to work, when they could be actually just proper href links.
>No, it was not in fact OK to coerce someone into a date with a threat of suicide in 1985.

In 1985 you still had towns where blacks weren't allowed after sundown in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundown_town

The sort of things that were OK then would make the average sjw have a meltdown, just like how eating meat will be viewed in 40 years and everyone will pretend they always ate soy burgers.
Probably not. Google has beta support for Steam on a handful of new (and new-ish) Chromebooks. Will probably make that mainstream on the Intel / AMD models eventually. Unsupported Chromebooks can install Steam via Linux as long as they're not ARM based.

Plus, much of the existing game streaming services works on Chromebooks. Either through a web interface or through an Android app. And there's a ton of games and emulators available via Android.

I think that gives enough gaming options for Chromebooks that Stadia tech won't continue in Chrome OS. I could be wrong though. Would be amusing if it was integrated somehow.
An honorary doctorate is still a doctorate, though. It doesn't have the usual academic requirements but it's not like universities just hand them out to anyone. It's supposed to denote a significant contribution to a field. Stallman did contribute significantly so I personally see no problem with it.
And if it has to be not, I much rather have an Erlang / OTP-like approach where resilience and failure recovery is so fundamentally baked into the language, it’s an actual feature instead of a liability.
>they won't use one iota of their largess to help you deal with the consequences of their actions.

Google's refunding all Stadia game and hardware purchases.

Disclosure: I work at Google, but not on Stadia.
Everyone who thinks they know how to improve what RMS does has failed to improve what RMS does themselves. If you are a more compelling free software movement leader than RMS, people will follow you. That just hasn't been done. No long winded articles will ever change that.
Anger management issues on the mailing list?
Implementing Fractional Indexing
I believe nuclear “explosions” are slow burns too, just a sun in Earth’s atmosphere out of nowhere has to cause explosion-like phenomena, and equivalence with chemical explosion can be established. In vacuum it will be just a molten ball.

This one uses continuously happening detonation along a circular path, and has little to do with those.
If the first is on a weekend then it's posted on Monday.
But it is awarded by the very institutions that award "real degrees", not local trophy shoppes.
That seems like a misguided cat and mouse game. Unless the thing you're monetizing is actually human eyeballs (and arguably ads would be better with a pull model rather than push anyway, but I digress), would it not be better to identify the negative externalities bots are causing for you and just block those?

If they're generating low quality content then block that shit. If they're brute-forcing logins then add mandatory delays. If they're straining server resources then add rate limiting. If they're bypassing that with multiple IPs and preventing paying customers from accessing resources then bucket your resources according to "paid" and "everyone else."

You're going to track the metrics you care about anyway and start twiddling parameters to temporarily prevent the dumbest bots from causing harm. Instead of figuring out how the current batch of crawlers behaves and trying to engineer human-friendly countermeasures that'll work for a few months for some of your "attackers," is it really that much harder to just engineer your system to throw away garbage it doesn't want regardless of whether the originator is human?
I'd argue that any tool or system of any kind is for when you are in need of assistance. Whatever gets you up to momentum each day, refreshes context, minimizes malaise, and maximizes just knocking things out one by one.

Let me frame it another way. If you did the couch to 5k over the course of a few months and succeeded, is it the app that got you to running consistently or is it the fact that it kickstarted you into momentum. There is no ideal. There's whatever makes you feel like you did good work on the right things today and that momentum for tomorrow seems like you've got the right tools in place to get there and forgive yourself when you fall off the wagon. Don't worry about specifics other than that whatever you engage in seems to give you momentum at a pace you find appropriate.
I wasn't suggesting that the longer lifespan was a result of higher cognitive functions but rather the opposite. Living longer enables individuals to travel further and face a greater variety of situations which require more sophisticated methods of analysis and transmission to be transmitted to others in the herd / offspring.
Just based on age alone I guarantee that immigrants raise supply of healthcare FAR MORE than raise demand.
It's just another unnecessary byte to transfer; or more, in fact, due to the inevitable wtfs and octal comments.
Wow, when did they add so many delightful high-resolution photos?

Try zooming into the Moon, Mars, Saturn, or the Horsehead Nebula on a big monitor. It's gorgeous.
They actuality are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_(astronomy)#Atmosph...
No, but this is the second time that you have hallucinated that I did.
What is interesting is that the technology that is most useful for providing verifiable online identity is blockchain. Yet the current applications of blockchain technology have become the greatest enabler of fruad and crime that modern civilization has ever known.
No, the amount of people isn't the issue, but why did you pick those places? Sounds like you don't like people from there? And it also sounds like you don't have a grasp on just how broken and messed up USCIS is.
Japan has the highest life expectancy in the whole world, which is certainly a factor in them skewing so old.

If their elder care was so terrible, I doubt their elders would be the world's most healthy and long-living.
You aren't old
1975 edition, ftw! :) As a kid I read the set my parents bought cover to cover until I went to highschool.

I had an opportunity to buy a very old set of these at a book store that was going out of business and having like a 95% off sale, and by the time I decided to turn around and go back to buy them, they were gone. :(

I love reading old encyclopedias.
here is my list of design related books that might help https://medium.com/p/2da6cbae45c5
I will also point out that this is an anonymous blog post from someone who has published no way to contact them privately and has never posted to the emacs mailing list (at least from the domain of their blog).

It is a one-sided view, and I see at least one important inaccuracy. FSF and RMS were certainly not asked for their view. Given that, would it make sense for RMS or FSF to write anything about this post publicly to give it validity and attention? Very doubtful.

Given all that, I found this bit pretty amusing: "I'd be surprised if he or any of the people with any influence even read it", how would the author ever find out? lol.

It is sad that this person cares about emacs, but dropping a big dis track and walking away without even suggesting any practical solutions really does not help things. Emacs has a very few core maintainers, FSF has a small staff augmented by volunteers, this is not some faceless entity like a big corporation or government.

Update: the author has since published their email address. Good for them.
Literally was just catching up on my feeds before hopping on HN. This app is so simple and so good. The Twitter integration is super nice too.
I'm confident there is some sort of capability for Aus intelligence agencies, and five eyes by definition, to intercept WhatsApp and Signal messages.

How that may work is a bigger question. I suspect indirect. For example: silent and targeted deployment of a "software update" to a specific ios or Android device.
> Were you not aware?

Never heard of that before. Googled it, and it appears to be an american only thing. Any suggestions for the rest of the world?
Larry and Sergei decided they are not interested in the business anymore. That's probably why Google has failed to innovate much lately. How great would Tesla or SpaceX be without Elon? Companies without the founders become too cautious and status quo oriented.
I have problems with some of RMS's opinions and behavior, but I have no problem with him calling himself "Dr."

One of my professors used to talk about the difference between a Masters degree and a PhD:

"To get a Masters degree you have to learn something. To get a PhD the world has to learn something."

The world has learned a great deal from RMS. Regardless of what one thinks of him as a person, he's probably been more influential on how the world thinks about software than the vast majority of PhDs.
People love Stallman as a moral figurehead.

A lot of people who have 'worked for' him consider him to be a terrible boss. There has been many posts like this over the years, when a true believer figures out the leader is terrible at leading. You could even look at the history of FOSS organizing as setting up alternative organizations where RMS has no pull. Even Debian was about "laws, not men".

I also do not believe Stallman 'got' SaaS or ever even really understood the basic economics of the software industry. Emacs was originally SaaS software if you weren't aware.
oh no, strategic m&a to enter a new market, getting a customer base and acquihiring a team with local experience? that's evil!

i have lots of issues with palantir's applications spying on law abiding citizens and expanding government power but, uhh, this aint it chief.