skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With nationalisation you can at least vote out the people who mismanage it.

Privatisation makes this harder because you run into all kinds of issues with taking them over without paying market rates that acts as a massive barrier. E.g. this was a major factor in the arguments against Labour's 2017 and 2019 election manifestos in the UK, because the costs of buying out the private providers vs. the drastic risk to the economy of sending the signal that UK companies are at risk of uncompensated takeovers by the government were both used to hammer them with.

But yes, you need strong oversight either way.

> With a profit motive, the utility is at least incentivised to deliver the service so that they can get paid.

I don't really agree with this. Semi-monopolised privatised providers only care to deliver service to the level where they maximise their return on investment. This is why we've seen multiple train operating companies collapse in the UK, because they were low capital to set up and bid on terms designed to let their owners extract as much as possible, without care for whether or not they'd remain viable, because until Virgin and Stagecoach faced outright bans on participating in bids for some new franchises there appeared to be no consequence. Worst case you'd just start a new one.

It's also why we're seeing Thames Water fail to address a network of pipes that leaks an astonishing proportion of the supply because while you're right in as much as they've had to deliver service to consumer, they've not been incentivised to deliver the service to society as a whole that they were tasked with, which is broader than delivering water to consumers and includes stewardship of the capacity. A pure profit motive for a monopoly resource can often descend into looking for ways to extract maximal margins that are in the long run wildly detrimental both to customers and to society as a whole.
Hello Dmitriy,
funny how we always stumble upon each other ;)

In my experience, Cloudflare Workers is used more like a middleware/routing mechanism than a fully-fledged application platform, so we're not feeling any pressure from that side of the table
They contributed because it's in their best interest, and they also took down a route with Systemd that went against the philosophy of nix systems. If we're not careful we'll end up losing control of Linux or large parts of it to profit seeking corporations that don't have the free and open software movement on their agenda at all.
I concur. The NSA will keep all of it safe and it won't leak out.
Copyright is an infringement of everyone's right to free speech. That is a harm.
One example that Ben Elton gave in his excellent "The Great Railway Disaster" documentary was not training new train drivers!

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/ben-elton-the-great-rail...
While free market is great, the purpose of a business is to maximize profits. The purpose of a public service like transportation, water or public healthcare is to help people with essential needs, not to maximize profits. Often the two might be incompatible.
Sounds like a brilliant archiving solution. Does your M-Discs have any amount of parity?
I don't understand.
If it's a monopoly, it's not a free market, by definition. Seems like you are the one trolling here.
> load the company up with debt and pay yourself a nice dividend

I am new to this. Doesn't a dividend come from profits? What profits are there if you need debt? And who will loan to you if your business plan is to exit scam?
In the UK a lot of NHS trusts now require you book doctors appointments via the internet.

The majority of UK government services now push you to self service via the internet.

At this point life in the UK without an internet connection would be very difficult and in some cases fatal.
Fair enough, I prefer working in my garden office with my dog at my side and my wife and newborn daughter a 30 second stroll away :)
The fact some people think there's little difference between function calls and RPCs is exactly why microservices is such a dangerous idea.
Placing a network call in your system also introduces:

- distributed systems problems - think consistency and ACID

- increased refactoring complexity - you now have to change the api three times instead of 1 to deploy the change with 0 downtime

- requirements for more generic CI/CD pipelines - you will develop many microservices, it's important to do it fast

it's not "just" a network rpc, even technically
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Maybe not, but when your certification requires using supported OS and patching know exploits as soon as possible, then you don't have much distro options to choose from if you want easier time to pass an audit.
> Almost everything is a "rebranded goto". Functions, conditions, iteration, break/continue.

That's like saying all maths is just the application of addition.
Would have assumed sports pages are something that subsidises the rest of the paper. Only time I buy an actual newspaper is for sports coverage.
The UK was going into the dumps before Thatcher even came along. That's why she was elected. I couldn't imagine how bad it would be if Labour hadn't been kicked out and the far-left economic approach hadn't been abandoned.
I'll give you some first impressions, admittedly superficial, but "social media platform" sounds like a technology platform, but when I open the site it seems more like a political movement with a set of policies and regulatory framework for social media.

Frankly I'm not sure this is the right approach. We don't need 33 strict requirements for social media, we need social media developed from the ground up to naturally gravitate towards good outcomes for society. Constraints go only so far. It's like trying to hold onto water by squeezing it into your hand. It'll find small holes and leak out. This is also how social media implement regulation.

Especially vague rules like "recognize UN Bill of Human Right and detail how the service will confirm". How is that supposed to help? We have entire nations like Russia disregarding UN Charter, are you going to ban Russia from being on a social network? If you do, there are proxies anyway.

I find all this just a path covered with good intentions, and you know where those lead.

Regarding what I mean by "social media developed from the ground up to naturally gravitate towards good outcomes for society". Look at the Internet. It's a simple protocol, anyone can join, anyone can implement. And it's overall good for society (so far, we'll see how AI goes). The Internet is not concerned with Bill of Rights or banning content, it's a communication protocol. And that's what a social network is supposed to be as well. But not for devices, but for humans using devices. You need the human identity equivalent of IP address. And protocols for message exchange. This central control of content, independent investigations, open-sourcing all code and what not... is simply too much.

Simply no one will ever adopt this. What exactly would be the force to compel them to adopt this? A restrictive law without enforcement is useless.
On one hand, yay, on the other:

* The share of desktops themselves is shrinking towards mobile

* The other desktop OSes are steadily turning into shite, so there are fewer compelling reasons to stay on them

* Everything is in the browser anyway, so as long at it can run Chrome, no one bats an eyelash
> A stolen device that is 100% brick has zero value, so there is no incentive to steal it.

Clearly false. The parts still have value.

> A stolen device that can be used with some limitations can be sold for a higher price, so there is a much higher incentive to steal it.

A thief has less incentive to use something that is constantly broadcasting its location in a way that can't be disabled.

> I'd much prefer it to end up in a landfill rather than have the thief make money from it.

Environment be damned, right?
Interesting how Forbes forgets to mention a fair number of problems that "low functioning" robocars have caused in SF.

Might anyone know of a pejorative equivalent of "Karen", for entitled business executives who feels that normal laws and social conventions don't apply to them or their company, and generally that their sh*t doesn't stink?
Surely there are diminishing returns for the AI computing though? I mean, is a model with 10x the parameter count 10x better? I think it is still possible that the training costs will be irrelevant for all players at some point with this non-linear scale. Access to data is another story
Let me put it this way, 'c' as in speed of light is distance traveled per unit of time right? It's the universal causality variable. What I am suggesting is time travel, at constant time if speed of light is S, instead of increasing how much distance you travel, you decrease how much time has passed at the same time you increase the distance traveled while being under S. Your travel would be much greater than if you were doing S at current linear time. So when you reach the speed of light and add even more energy to your spacecraft, you start inverting time and going back in it. All the laws of causality and physics are preserved because your travel isn't just in timr but spacetime, the point where you start inverting time is so far away from your origin that it is impossible for anything you do will affect your origin before your departure.
I don't know in which country you live, but here in France, privatization and opening markets has been salutary.
- The phone lines state monopoly was broken, it cut the cost by a factor of 10, and made possible high speed internet.
- The packages delivery state monopoly was broken, which lead to a much more improved service, which delivery of fresh food or tracking minute by minute where your package is.
- The internal flights state monopoly was broken, which leds to low-cost operator who devided flights tickets by factor of 20.
Thanks for finding that. I had the impression syncthing was focused on efficiency only, and not necessarily privacy/encryption. I had the impression a synced copy would be rebuilt from several sources at once, over the syncthing discovery protocol - and may not be encrypted in transit.

I can rest easy :)
Nice! I think you should really add a userdata member to hamt_allocator. Not every memory allocator is global!
> but I’m sure they’re minuscule when compared to profit.

how can you be so sure? Do you have insights on Red Hat finance we don't know about?
> Unfortunately, none of these apply to the privatization of inherently public commodities that run on top of an underlying network infrastructure.

We tried this with the railways in the UK. In the mid 90s the tracks and signalling and most of the stations were transferred to a publicly owned and regulated company (Railtrack), while private businesses competed for franchises to offer train services. But within a few years the government was unable to resist the temptation to privatise Railtrack too. After that we had the inevitable phase of regulatory capture, followed by financialisation of the train operators, leading to position we had at the start of the pandemic where the operators were basically competing to offer minimal services for maximal revenue by subsidy farming.

In the absence of regulatory institutions that are able to withstand commercial pressures^W greed, then this approach will always fail.

In the UK, regulation of privately-delivered public services has failed due to decades of government by parties that view regulation (and public ownership) as simply undesirable.
I've considered doing that for my home network, but if my local CA was ever compromised, someone would be able to generate certs for any site (such as my bank), and my devices would trust those certs if they were able to MitM me. Browsers don't support name constraints, so I couldn't restrict the CA to signing just my local domain.

Yes, I know, I'm small potatoes, and that would require a very targeted attack, but the idea still bothers me.
This is just unbelievable. And plans do have a habit to change unexpectedly. There are certain red lines that a data storage company should never cross. Total loss of credibility going forward, at least until fresh, unaware users flock in. Anyway, I’m migrating all workloads from the TICK stack, for I can’t fathom the consequences for InfluxDB OSS, particularly if they now lose some of their funding, given their expenditures on the rewrite for InfluxDB 3, for example. Lightbend Akka caused enough trouble already.
if there is still just one guy working on it, i think it is dead on arrival.

I've been hearing about this bcachefs for ages
Evernote, the memory app people forgot about, lays off entire US staff
Hmm https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603190155107794944 hardly "nothing"
Is that roughly when we could freely trade humans and every bank could mint their own currency?
"Privatise the profits, Nationalise the losses!"
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Not sure what you're on about, both my comment and the article are about how they went for-profit.

They went for-profit because they needed to raise.

They raised after Elon reneged a fraction of the way into his promise of $1B. (and not 100MM deep: he silently revised his figures after TC started digging.)

It's not complicated but you seem to want to make it complicated.
Here in Oslo they privatized trash collection. The contract period was up and the new winner had won because massively cheaper price.

Turned out the winner was massively cheaper because they had massively underestimated the work required. Trash piled up for weeks while the new trash collectors worked illegal amounts of overtime trying to get rid of it.

Now, this switch had happened just before local elections, which the right-winged parties who'd been in control soundly lost.

The new left-winged leadership ended up canceling the contract and bringing the service back in public hands.
> can create a disinformation campaign with the tools I have and optionally 2-3 smart, motivated individuals, for free

You can, and it may cause unbelievably nuisance, but not to the devastating outcome of a tactical nuke. Can you prove otherwise? Russian disinformation came close, such as the 2016 election, but that was state sponsored.

> Or, if I want to go the extra mile, I can use the latter to create motivation for the utilization of the former. e.g. I may say that a country has WMDs, and maybe try to manufacture consent for destruction of these...

You cannot. It was still state's action. Not to mention that many countries had their own intelligence that no doubt had different assessment. They weren't blind. They used WMD argument as the excuse to join the US led war.
Public schools complete for government funding, the better the school the more funding they should receive to educate as many children as possible.

The competition should be the grades attained by the students or their entry into higher education/vocational training. Not value on the stock market or the directors total comp.

Measuring pupil attainment is harder than comparing share prices, but it's certainly better for society.
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For us at my present and former workplaces, the decision of using microservices didn't depend solely on number of developers. We needed something very scalable, something that different teams can work on without stepping on each other's foot, something that survives even if part of it fails temporarily, something that auto-heals.

We did it with developers in the tens and we didn't have much issues with this approach. In fact, at one of my workplaces we had much more issues with a monolithic app than with the microservice based app we replaced it with.
It's not "just". The network calls introduces all sorts of added complexity.
Yes - it's emails that hit a certain pre-determined spam assassin threshold (see Note B). But this is fairly easy to circumvent (spammers/phishers are especially good at it) and the threshold is reasonably high.

All in all this means the vast majority of emails don't have these headers included in webhooks, and we have plenty of examples of spoofed emails for our own domain (invalid SPF/DKIM and failed DMARC) that get through without triggering spam assassin.

This simplest way to verify this is to store the value of these headers along with all inbound emails hitting your webhooks, you'll quickly see they are missing the majority of the time.
Hey!

You can find more details in our Show HN post some while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36520406

There are 37 regions right now and you can select which regions you want to deploy to (all regions by default)
> I believe the best way to make this work is by keeping the network itself in public hands and then having a competition of contributors to the network - e.g. electricity providers that add energy to the grid.

One area -- in fact, the only area that I can think of -- where privatisation has mostly worked in the UK is the telecommunications market. Here the networks are in private hands, but the providers are forced to offer somewhat equitable access to their competitors, e.g. by sharing masts, poles and underground ducts. That, plus the relatively low cost to entry of setting up as a new player, seems to be enough to keep prices down and service levels up.

This wouldn't work for transport of or on rail, road, water or gas, because there's no realistic way to force different entities to share the same infrastructure; you can't reasonably set up two parallel gas networks, or run two independent sets of rails. In those cases I agree that we have experimentally proven that socialising the infrastructure was/is the most efficient option. Now we need a government with the political chutzpah to accept that.
If it's a residential property, it's a residential property, not (what is effectively a) hotel.
Most of them already don't get paid, hence the strike [1].

[1] "Writers say they want a living wage as streaming devalues their work even as it demands more of their time.", https://www.indiewire.com/news/business/writers-strike-2023-...
> You accumulate software yes, but you also accumulate habits and knowledge. Changing OS means discarding all the accumulated knowledge, which 0% of "normal users" want to do.

I only ever hear Linux users make this argument. Mac users are confident enough in MacOS UX that they know it’s not a significant barrier to transition. The same is not true of Linux. So many solutions to problems require opening the CLI, and that’s just an automatic fail for the vast majority of consumers.

Honestly, I would like Linux fans to just accept Linux for what it is: an amazing kernel with incredible GUIs built by and for developers. App developers just do not care about (or do not have the resources for) making simple and intuitive software. Valve is a welcome and notable exception with the Steam Deck. Linus Torvalds explains it perfectly: https://youtu.be/Pzl1B7nB9Kc
If you recite enough small snippets, you make a large one.

Especially with ChatGPT you can probe the model by asking certain questions about the material at hand to see if it has seen the entire book.

Also you don’t have to be able to recite the book verbatim for it to have been in your training set. The snippets I am referring to are on the side of the training data
In this kind of situation I often think of the government as the primary customer, as that's who effectively purchases the services of the rail operator via their contract. Passenger satisfaction is secondary (although theoretically that's mediated via the government regulator). Even more so because there's often no choice for passengers. If I want to get a rail ticket from London to Edinburgh I have to buy it from one rail company. If I want mains water, I have to pay a specific water company. It's the government who chooses, not me.
at least SUSE and Canonical offer corporate support contracts too.
The cookie law is partly dumb, but also frequently implemented in a way that violates the law and rarely subject to meaningful enforcement or significant penalties. So mostly the same practical problem as the GDPR.
I can - moving pics in default gallery app is organizing, takes 3 clicks. Organizing photos is something I am NOT capable of doing consistently or doing at all (thats why I love photoprism).

But I do not want every photo land there. Pics that I need to take temporary when I just take a photo of something to lookup one time (wiring colors before disconnecting, a photo I want to show single time for my wife etc.)

Ideally there would be app that would take whatever is marked as favorite (dunno, maybe metadata stores that info) and move those pics.

OR someone can just recommend some photo app which with a single click moves photo to folder X :)
> Does privatisation add value to the consumer? The evidence on that one so far is absolutely not.

I’m sorry but it is a fiction that capitalist seizure of public goods are primarily intended to add value to “consumers”. If this does happen, it is an side effect,
and I would argue a temporary one experienced while the system is coasting from the inertia of past public investments. You see the same thing with the victims of leveraged buyouts by private equity.

In the end without an ideological project that transcends personal or familial accumulation of capital, all
collective enterprises are
doomed to failure. This is because people alienated from the motive forces of the collective endeavor at some point stop caring about the forward motion of a system that at best only marginally and diminishingly benefits them.
Tragedy of the Anticommons
I think it's easy to explain both swipe and pinch and the author just misses the mark.

Device establishes a simple intuition: while you touch the screen you expect whatever is under your finger to follow where your finger goes until you lift it.

So within that intuition designer's job is to see what gestures are physically OK to do with a screen and what tasks the user needs to accomplish, and to come up with interactions that suitably bridge them together.

So it doesn't have anything to do with book reading or anything. In fact it misleads the readers. In reality designers establish a simple primitive intuition/map and build on top of it. Swipe and pinch are pretty much the two things you can work with on flat screen, and pinch is obviously zooming (per above), so there was no other way for them to do page turning

(If you are like me you probably noticed how this intuition breaks when you try to pinch or move stuff around to find out it's unmovable. This is also why in scroll lists it lets you scroll past the end: to satisfy the intuition.)
Long-term support is critical. For example, Microsoft excels in that area and has patched its really old products to meet new PCI recommendations such as TLS 1.3, which can actually save a lot of money.
Strong overtones of a belief it's doomed, but objectively why can't a viable evernote persist off solely European support.
Even in markets with competition, competition from the public sector is an excellent way of exerting market discipline on dysfunctional markets.

If you compare the average quality of housing in, for example, Singapore (where 90% of housing is public) and the UK it's like night and day. UK private landlords are among the laziest and most entitled in the entire world, the land use efficiency is terrible and the building quality is abysmal. Thames water wasn't the only victim of the cult of privatization.

Alas, the one UK politician that tried to fix this was treated like the a cross between the antichrist and a terrorist by the UK media oligarchs and that was enough to prevent him from fixing anything.

If anything the NHS is probably in the crosshairs of the investor cult.
Unless it’s a race to own a winner take all market position.

In which case it’s worth spending the money in the short term to win in the long term.

But 37 signals always likes to present a contrarian black and white “I’m right, they’re wrong” position, so we shall let them be right.