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I was so pissed off when I installed a fresh copy of Windows 11 on my parents' new computer. Just more and more BS thrown in your face and it never ends. It made the computer they bought almost unusable for them. I had to spend a good chunk of time trying to debloat it, but my parents still complain about the occasional popup that confuse them.
> I very much disagree that prescribing a common charging port for phones has had no significance to the avg. person's life. I am old enough to remember my drawer full of chargers for various phone companies - some even created new plugs for newer generations of phones.

The market ultimately fixed this though (mostly anyway). Personally I like Apple's charger ports, but I'll soon no longer have this choice as a consumer because regulators think they know what's best for me.

> That's not how it works, those pennies would end up in the pockets of anonymous wealth funds and the family offices of the filthy rich while workers had to buy phone chargers with all their new phones.

We're getting into an economic debate now. I think generally it's good to assume that the more a business makes, the more people it will be able to employ and the more those employees will make.

I think the problem you're touching on here is that in recent years the bottom line of businesses don't correlate well with the income if its workers. I think there are better ways to solve this problem so that if Apple makes more money on chargers their workers would share in the profits. Regulating phone chargers and browser preferences may not be the best solution here.
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Randomly across different HDDs laying everywhere around my home and my friends' ones. The more important the file the more HDDs contain it. The Bitcoin wallet is somewhere few meters down in the ground for the case of nuclear war.
Facebook/Google had ALLEGEDLY good office space. For google I think it was just good food.

Otherwise, let's look at the nitty gritty:

OPEN FLOOR PLAN: absolutely sucks. It's amazing that people are nostalgic for cube farms over floor plans, cube farms were a massive downgrade from actual offices. Basically, take mass distraction from people around you coupled with a paranoia that you can't do anything non-work related (and remember, the vast amount of office jobs are busywork per recent HN stories) without fear of it being seen and judged.

CATTLE-LIKE BATHROOMS: People never talk about this. You know what I REALLY like about WFH? Taking a shit on my own toilet. Taking a shit next to someone else sucks. If you are a remorseless public bathroom shitter, I take my hat off to you, but I think it sucks. I'll do it if I have to, but still. But I don't like cleaning up the toilet seat from some other asshole who left it in terrible shape, or figuring out if the neighboring shitter had curry for dinner last night.

FOOD: The food you have at home will probably beat any Google food options practically speaking. Might not be good for the waistline. For your typical corporate cafeteria, I'll take my fridge. Oh yes, I have my own massive personal fridge at home. I mean, I have a fucking kitchen, with all the spices/cooking pans/etc. No one stealing your food and all that sociopathy. Ok, maybe Google has a leg up on this, or at least they did at one point.

PARKING: The commute thing is obvious. But if you live in a northern climate with a serious winter, parking is the worst part of going to the office. These companies make GIGANTIC office buildings, but don't build underground or heated parking. Instead, concrete slabs and have people trudge through zero degree weather, and get in their cars both ways. It makes commuting 3x worse. If I WFH, guess what? Don't even deal with that. I have a garage.

I mean, an office isn't torture, obviously. But if businesses can't figure out how to at least make them a bit more appealing after what amounts to decades of steady degradation in the experience (I watched my mom at Bell Labs go from her own office, to an office with several people, to a cube farm, and I went from various flavors of cube farm (your own cube with high walls to cube shared with 2-4 people with high walls, to the low wall cube, to "open floor plan") then those investments will turn into writeoffs.

And of course other things died along the way: corporate fitness centers, lockers, office supplies, ability to print, etc.
Hardware can be abstracted away by a hypervisor, as it's already done in most use-cases since a significant amount of machines are just cloud VMs nowadays. The only API the "hardware" has to implement is VirtIO (which real hardware could also start implementing if needed).

This kind of fork would of course mean death to the Linux desktop, since the only reason the Linux desktop is relevant and (somewhat) modern is because it's enjoying the improvements that are made to Linux by companies who primarily use it on servers.

If this fork happens, this VM-based distro is what enterprises will switch to and build upon, with conventional Linux being relegated to niche use-cases with much less activity and manpower.
Not the person you responded to, but I'm in the same boat; I went from grudgingly using it due to being the 'best' in practice, to seeing it as something I need to move away from.

I've used the 'big three' (windows/macos/linux) desktop OSs at work and home in recent years. Here's my ranking:

1) Linux
2) MacOS
3) Windows

Where I have control to use what I want, linux is my choice. At work though, I need to jump through endpoint management and security theater nonsense, so I am stuck choosing between MacOS and Windows.
So you're saying, MS' tactics of forcing Edge would actually be perfectly fine if just the browser was nicer?
Someone's obviously making the websites, a few other people are finding the victims, and all the money is funneled to one overlord who pays everyone else a small cut of the stolen money.

It is appalling that no social platform is taking this seriously.
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apple have different approach: just refuses to work (interoperability) with others, that's it. Protocol unimplemented ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
LinkedIn has a much lower hit rate, because people tend to search for region specific jobs, whereas Tinder you can send any location you desire with your fake profile (but they're very easy to spot).

The Tinder things are very rarely romance scams, they pivot to crypto scams immediately, "I work in the finance industry scoping out markets for crypto" etc - then I'd imagine they'd encourage someone to invest but they usually see through my attempts at scamming them back, one day I'll figure it out.
So if you go to, say, a friends birthday party you should first go round to each and every person there and ask them not to post any pictures with you on FB?

People should be able to live their lives without a morass of deranged lunatics tracking them everywhere.
How likely would it be that the Universe is an instance of some recent technology that humans created?
If there is profit in holding people prisoner, then there is an incentive to falsely imprison people. Or give them overly long sentences.
I wonder if this counts as an "illegal lottery": https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/public-and-players/gui...
None. They are all bad.
I'm not inferring anything, in my opinion. Those sentences _are_ different in English too. That's why people will decide on one more than the other, depending on circumstances - not depending on a random roll of the die.
Hundreds of thousands? That's a mind boggling scale. That's at least the size of a decent city. How do you even cope with the logistics of dealing with 100k+ scammers?
> I could keep chickens as long as I keep five or less

Is that a specific chicken clause in a contract somewhere or a general head of livestock / pets clause.

5 chickens != 5 dogs != 5 horses
> The real truth, that Russia loves America

I think its "Russians love American popular culture"
Yeah, on Polish railways there's always brake check on the last carriage.

> (Of course that's not entirely foolproof, either, and there have been accidents caused e.g. by a lack of braking power because the brake pipe wasn't fully connected throughout the full train.)

Can you specify what you mean? If the pipe wasn't properly connected, it shouldn't start at all, because the system needs pressure to release the brakes.
based on this statement it sounds like the UK's system is just a copy of ERAM as used in the US for flight planning. Enter one flight that is outside of the understood parameters and all flights need to be grounded.
Link to the referenced New York Times obituary for Edward Fredkin:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/04/science/edward-fredkin-de...
Floridians who want me to shoulder the bill for insuring their beachfront property against hurricane damage can go to hell. Pay for the insurance yourself or move to a place where disasters aren’t common.
It creates risk that whomever that registered person connected to could be tracked by association, especially if the registered party is under surveillance.
Aren't they re-architecting & creating a new, free software driver that's only responsible for memory management & conveying requests from the user through to to the _real_ computer running on the GPU?
> I 100% disagree with this, the engineering level of silicon valley left the old "libertarian" hacker ethos behind a long time ago

And thank fuck for that.

> at the engineering layer there is idea about using technology to build a "better society" where "better society" is ensuring people with "wrong opinions" isolated so they can not "harm" others with their "violence" and violence is now words on the internet.

People are so glib about this and it's such a catastrophic failure to engage in empathy and respect for other human beings that it simply blows my mind that people can say things like this and think they're in the moral correct. "Being bullied to death by the Internet" isn't even that uncommon anymore. Especially for people who will have a hard time finding community in the real spaces in which they live, Internet communities of like-people become a literal lifeline. Entire relationships both communal and intimate are carried out through the lens of online communication. "Words on the internet" indeed.

And if said words can be a lifeline of communication and community to like-minded people and alleviate suffering, you can be damn well assured that works the other way too. Having personally known and helped people through being the subject of online alt-right hate mobs, I assure you, "words on the internet" can absolutely kill people. I have watched in happen in real time and pulled people back from the precipice.

> We also see this through out Open Source with the raise of the CoC to implement systemic changes with in open source to ensure only those with "correct opinions" are allowed to contribute moving from just caring about code, to then caring about code and conduct with in a project and project related events, to now even more expansive monitoring of developers entire lives, and activities completely removed and unrelated to any development activities.

Yeah I don't particularly want to use software, especially pay to use software, made by people who want to exterminate people I call friends and family. If a developer comes out on their social media and broadcasts about how my friends are some combination of insane/dangerous for being who they are, no, I'm not using their product ever again and I will spread word about it to people I know who feel similarly. This is just how social networks (in the sociology sense, not the technological sense) work and always have.

I guess what I'm saying is if you want maximum capture on your product, tell your team to park their opinions on which groups of people deserve to die on personal, anonymous accounts. I don't think this is a massive ask, personally, but I also don't want anyone dead so I can't really comment on it.
I certainly wouldn't blame a person for experiencing those crazier days and thinking the community didn't have the greatest technical vision.

I played around with Rails and Ruby when Rails first blew up. But I didn't start doing it fulltime professionally until 2014. By the time it seemed to me that the community was maturing. I think it's in a good place now.
I don't know what point you tried to make. Claiming that a protocol can't be regulated is completely irrelevant as the selling point of crypto as a currency is that it's operations are immune to regulation.
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>having kids needing to travel that far every day to get to middle or highschool is even worse

In Austria I see highschool kids having >1h commutes every day. I wouldn't like it, but culturally it seems normalized and accepted here.
Yeah, I saw that, too. If they refuse, they claimed that they are going to be "harvested" of cornea, plasma, kidney, etc. What I don't understand is that they said they were threatened to be taken to international water for organ harvesting procedures, but was that even necessary? Those camps are pretty criminal already, seems to be an unnecessary extra step.
When is your flight to Russia to protest the war? Or can Russians come to the US to protest so they can fit your definition of "good people?"
Nah, you have rights in this situation[0]

[0] https://www.healthcare.gov/appeal-insurance-company-decision...
I really like kagi but the price point is just not worth it. Hope to see some economics of scale. These folks need to stop using bing and build their own crawler.
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Hey HN - I'm building Ribbon, it's a new professional network centred around verifiability.

We were initially motivated by how much clickbait there is in the LinkedIn news feed. I've heard from a lot of LinkedIn users who love the network and profile page aspect of LinkedIn, but want to get away from the engagement bait and toxic content. So that's exactly what we're building.

We just launched "Import from LinkedIn" which allows you to easily import your experience and then get others to verify it (if you wish!). We're focused on building out more features for our profile pages, we want to give you as much customizability as possible. Your Ribbon profile page should be the best place to show off your skills and experience.
Have yall looked into external review?

https://www.healthcare.gov/appeal-insurance-company-decision...
The problem here is what does "lab leak" mean. Obviously at its core it means that the virus was stored at the lab and then found its way out somehow.

However, to many people in the world it has other implications. And thus discussion around it needs to be careful. For instance there's an enormous difference between "virus was 100% as found in nature, stored in lab, leaked" and "virus was 100% synthetic, stored in lab, leaked". And of course the real answer in a lab leak scenario is likely somewhere in the middle.

But when discussing the matter, one needs to take care to understand what "lab leak" *means* to the people on the other side of the conversation.
Sorry to hear that happened to you (if I'm understanding correctly). There really is so little concern or compensation given to innocent people who get hit by the system. How long did it take you to get your items back? What sort of damage did they do?

> or are part of a community the police are scared of

Also curious about this if you have any more info to share. What sorts of communities did you see that with?
one of the most popular!
> I know I have used it before a few hundred times

well, perhaps cliche is your thing - it is not mine.

"M$" is not worthy anywhere.
Most of your startups have a custom back-end which all of them have/ will implement from scratch. This work is complex and expensive. Most of these systems will not scale up properly on user growth. Most of them will learn the same painful lessons, and do the same painful fixes over time.
Until we stop the mass migration there is no solution to a housing shortage.
I wanted to add a new user account on my new Windows 11 system. It came with Windows Home right. So when I went to add one, it told me that feature is disabled because I have poor man's Windows, go to this other program. So I go to program B. Guess what program B told me? It told me I was using poor man's Windows to go back to program A to add a new user. I had to do it via command line. After I was about to remove my Hotmail user (I just wanted offline only users) I said screw this, and installed POP_OS! instead, installed Steam, and move on with life. I even played the good 'ole Cyberpunk 2077 on Linux thanks to Proton.

I think at this point I have nothing keeping me using Windows other than the rare game that Proton doesn't support, but my old gaming rig still works and plays most games, so I can easily swap. It pisses me off though, because my Windows 10 box for some reason, at some point, any new program I install does not show up in the start menu whatsoever. I've not even been able to find anything on Google that remotely answers why its broken. At least with Steam I dont have to worry about it, but if I hit Windows Key and type anything, I dont see any programs I installed like three years ago. Freaking weird.

Anyway, I think moving forward I'll be buying Mac or Linux Systems. I'll let employers buy me Windows boxes.

Edit: Typo'd Proton as Photon ;)
There already is a federal program for uninsurable properties (for flooding only, I believe). They take whatever insurers reject. By my understanding, people just keep building on the same spot, even if it floods constantly, therefore they are a huge drain on the program.

I don’t see a solution honestly. With global warming large parts of the world will become uninsurable. And we shouldn’t expect insurance companies/the government to carry that burden just because someone decided to live there.
Look, we already catered to your "corrections" of the full spec here, here, there and then. surely this is work on our side that comes on top of the work we agreed upon. thing is, we already built the x, y and z features that your current solution is lacking, which already saves you top dollar on your business workflows. that's how good we are.
In other words: Microsoft only respect users when forced.
We should ban advertising with only very narrow exceptions.
From a business perspective, presumably they would like to charge radically different amounts for only slightly different queries.

A realtor who stands to make $10,000 on a house sale might happily pay a few bucks to know the nearest schools, shops, bus stops, broadband availability etc for a property listing, but only want to do one or two searches per week.

A lawyer closing the sale of a house might happily pay $50 for a report on flood risks and nearby planned developments, if it's the most reliable data available.

At the other end of the spectrum, finding the nearest EV chargers for a vehicle navigation system? Users don't pay per search in vehicle navigation systems, even a tenth of a cent per search is too much.

Companies who are willing to talk to their customers resolve this by the sales team drawing up a different contract, and maybe even a completely different pricing scheme, for every customer. But as Google wouldn't deign to talk to a customer over a mere $100k/year they don't have this option.

From a practical perspective, structured map data often ends up with a ridiculously complicated schema, to accurately represent a reality where rules can be arbitrarily complicated. There are roads which don't allow 'trade or business vehicles except permit holders and taxis'; other roads change direction depending on the time of day; a junction might have some legal turn restrictions which don't apply to emergency vehicles, but some physical or logical turn restrictions which do. A schema complex enough to represent that sort of thing correctly will be hard to query.
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In Vienna, a whopping 80 percent of residents qualify for public housing

but only 0.5 million out of an almost 2 million population do live in public housing, and it takes several years before you can get such a place.
It's missing man made channels. Some natural waterways end in a channel which ends in another natural waterway. All of three should be connected but the channel in between breaks the connection and the channel is not marked on the map. Probably the first waterway ended up into another natural one before men made the channel, because water flows no matter what.
Not necessarily, if comparing against e.g. an approach of jailing the first suspect against whom one finds evidence, the net number of free guilty men may still go up, particularly in crimes where innocent men can be framed.
In the future, we have given up on fonts and unicode...

All communication will be through sequences of SVG images and animations.
Highlight a word or phrase in Firefox, in the popup there's a "Search" option. It will always search in Safari. Firefox had to add their own "Search in Firefox" option, that appears at the end of the popup (and sometimes not at all).
Ask yourself what people are buying to use while doing business that is not paid for by the company...at the moment it's probably chatgpt.
Whenever I see those blog posts I immediately close the tab.

I've probably been in the "corporate" world too long, but I don't have time for that kind of nonsense.
This is not as simple as your argument makes it out to be. The US has a long history of imprisoning people so they can be used as slaves. Netflix has a good documentary on it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krfcq5pF8u8
This is the best for Cambodia - "Forced to Scam: Cambodia’s Cyber Slaves" by Al Jazeera - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-EtdC4zQso

> local traffik orgs are armed with AKs

> police was part of the traffiking ring

These statements are not representative of Cambodia, local/Chinese gangsters don't run around with AKs, and the documentary is a little exaggerated like all documentaries but I don't doubt there were suicides and beatings.

Some Facebook ads were very clear what you were doing. There were not 100,000 working in Cambodia and most were not trafficked.

This UN statement is garbage, liars bore me. It's why this is progressing to organ harvesting and other rubbish because the UN is bringing it to fantasy.

Watch the doco and they mention the amounts they were making, then times that by 100,000 trafficked then all the ones who answered the Facebook ads and it doesn't add up.

It's the Chinese doing this, which the UN page doesn't mention. Maybe the report does. But it's a main point for a summary... if the truth mattered.

Video of 40 people escaping a Chinese run Cambodian casino https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/40-people-swim-back-to-vie...
Actually 3 by India.

1- was an orbiter: Success

2- Orbiter+ lander&rover: Partial success, orbiter succeed but lander crashed.

3- Lander&rover: Succesful.
UK air traffic woes caused by 'invalid flight plan data'