skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Russian military has preemptively started migration to Astra Linux[0] in 2018 and some say that police forces gradually migrate to it as well. So overall, I think these restrictions will be a really great motivation for those (and other) countries to built government digital infrastructure fully independent from US commercial products and instead embrace open source and domestic products.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astra_Linux
What do you mean by “someone changed it”?
> I don't follow this at all, but I'm willing to listen? How does private property require any more force to uphold compared to any other possible system?

Property (and we're mostly talking in the context of "real" property - i.e. land and maybe structures/improvements - since that's what's typically most scarce/valuable in a society given the fixed supply, though some resources like water might be subject to similar discussions for similar reasons) has two states: "owned" and "not owned". Asserting ownership inherently requires force. Not asserting ownership requires no force at all.

Typically, in an implementation of absolute anarchy, there would be no ownership of property beyond, at most, two categories:

1. Property which you individually (plus perhaps your family) are actively occupying/improving/using and can prevent use by others

2. Property which you and other people interested in occupying/improving/using that property (a.k.a. a "community") can cooperatively do so

Category #1 is a difficult proposition in a stateless society, since it definitionally means that your occupation is at the exclusion of a broader community. All but the absolute smallest of "communities" (if you could call them that) would likely outnumber you. You could probably recruit other community members to your cause, but - definitionally speaking - if you're able to get enough people on your side to avoid being outnumbered, then congrats, your property is probably in Category #2 and collectively-used.

You're right that private property and community property require an equal amount of force to uphold, but the thing is that per person community property requires less force per occupant. Thus, unless you've got a force multiplier that's unavailable to the broader community, you're gonna have a pretty hard time asserting "private" ownership of anything that the broader community claims to "own".
Can you point me at any data which supports this? It seems like it should be true, but GHC didn't appear to see a year-over-year increase to contributors when they switched from Phabricator to GitLab in December 2018.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23686803
I don't think liberty is the natural order, but something we have to fight to keep, each generation has to carry that fight. Once it is gone it will be a lot harder to regain.

Another thing is that liberty is very difficult to define, and anything from a libertarian paradise to a socialist one (as in Scandinavia) can be the most liberty for different people.
Frankly my experience with posting sources on HN has almost never been good. It's often just taken as a reason to pick those apart and start a flamewar. My comment above has been downvoted at least 5 times which makes me confident that this is one those times.

For what it's worth I have no stakes in anything and no sources at hand. I remember having read at least two different studies about this, but it has been years. I'm sure your google-fu is as good as mine so maybe you can find something.
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A lot of people, even in the HN/tech communities don't seem to understand that all monitors aren't created equally.
There are whole companies dedicated to selling this, Google red light therapy and you'll find a few. Novothor is the gold standard for athletes at $100k/pop. I myself jerry-rigged my own comparable unit and bath in it everyday- I haven't noticed eyesight benefits but I'm convinced I feel healthier and stronger as a result.
That might make sense with respect to things like lockdown plans, but the PPE and ventilator shortage seems like a clear counterexample.
WienerScript
Would you still buy software for "the beast" knowing that software support will be dropped anyway? I did that once, being naïve enough to believe that Rosetta (powerpc on intel) will be there forever as an option in MacOSX. Man was I dumb. Apple literally burnt $15k worth of hardware and software in front of my eyes when they announced to drop PowerPC and then Rosetta later. No. Screw that. Don't buy news Mac now. Don't make the same mistakes.
Not sure if this is really true. Our C++ project builds are quite fast. I personally find Rust cold compile time far longer than C++.
YouTube does simply not send people to concentration camps and torture them for uploading "wrong" videos. They get demonetized. If you don't see the difference I am not sure how to convince you.
I was speaking specifically about the US. In the US, such a degree signals dedication and work ethic at the very least.
In my experience it has been that people expect scrum to be a magic bullet. Things are not going well... it will be better when we change to the new orgs process. Only the real reason its not going well is because of lack of planning and poorly written stories. The how you fix that is much more complicated.
Referenced in the article: http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/402521/doc-26-white-su...
>> They did get downvoted pretty quickly, but I was still surprised by them appearing in the first place.

> Apparently many people feel like this is not enough, but what more can be done?

I don't think much more can be done. On a public forum where literally anyone can make an account and post, there's no way to control what content appears, and you can't accurately assess the community by that. The tail of the internet is long, and the bottom of the barrel is deep.

You have to assess the community by how its immune system reacts. It has to be enough if, after a while, the worst comments are downvoted and/or flagged. Unfortunately "after a while" takes time, perhaps several hours, and in the meantime many readers encounter the worst shit before the immune system has gotten to it. Some of those readers are shocked—understandably, because it's shocking shit. Some of them don't understand the dynamics well enough to read the situation accurately—they just think "OMG Hacker News said $SHIT". And some of those take to Twitter and post shocking things, and another scandal cycle repeats. At this point there have been so many scandal cycles that I can at least say that it's second-order trauma to run into them. They used to upset me for days.

If you stop and think about it, it's clear that this is the price for hosting a public forum—there's no way to avoid the shit. The best we can hope for is an ever-improving immune system. HN's immune system—consisting of users, software, and moderators—at least functions reasonably well, and there's room for it to get better.

It's easy to forget the good side of having a public forum: anyone can show up to post, regardless of who they are or who they know. If they have something interesting to say, they automatically and instantly belong. This is precious. It's how we get magical threads like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23676862 (still on the front page), where the founder of a beloved publisher gets to talk to his devoted fans 20 years later.

I don't know if you guys remember, but 6 years ago, just before he handed over HN to us, pg implemented a feature called "pending comments" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7484304) in which comments were all placed into a queue to be approved of before they would appear in the threads. This is a technical solution that would actually work to prevent the worst shit from appearing here. But it sparked a huge firestorm and the first thing that I did on taking over HN was to roll that back. It was clear that the community didn't want it (not so surprising) but also the social critics of HN, the kind who write articles like the OP or post critiques of HN on Twitter, felt that it was elitist and would put too much power in the hands of entrenched users.
> You can use and issue whatever money you can get others to accept.

Nope. You can't just issue money, and you have to accept the state currency in most places on Earth. Paying taxes using Bitcoin is mostly easier than using cash thanks to services that will do a bankwire for you, so what.
Yeah, no. Scrum is a tool. You can implement it wrong or be very strict with it which kind of isn’t agile, but it’s always a people problem.

Scrum tells you 1) to analyze the way your team works, 2) make improvements, 3) talk to each other. If that sounds reasonable, it’s probably because it is. The mythology of scrum being evil is misguided, I wonder how much of it is caused by engineers forced to use JIRA configured by somebody who doesn’t work with the team.
Stop embracing a single company.
Everyone goes bad when they figured they're the monopoly.
This is a very us centric view. Most of the europe is so much ahead of US in payments that it is funny. There are dozens of alternative payment methods in the Europe. Especially in the Nordics card payments are on a big decline. There are basically two "tracks" to move money - card networks and bank to bank. Most new payment methods use bank transfer as the method of moving money. In the Nordics, every country has a mobile payments system where your bank account is attached to your phone number, any anyone can issue a payment to your phone number and you receive it to your bank account. You can use this also in brick and mortar stores etc. Not to talk about all the bill-payment based companies like Klarna... And how about China? They don't use cards either, just look at Alipay.
Ah I missed that little gem. So genocide would be the safe slow driving extreme in this analogy?
predatory lending != lending.

Predatory lending generally refers to companies like payday loan companies and cash advance companies which feed off of forcing people to continuously borrow until they can't borrow any more.

Lending should absolutely be accessible to everyone in some way or another, especially in a world where a transmission failure can lead to a lost job if you can't afford to fix it right away.
The Viruses That Made Us Human
I copy&pasted the whole title when submitting. Then I saw your comment and wondered why the title changed all of the sudden. So, someone must have changed it.
It’s accepted in a lot of places here in NL. I have a Dutch amex. Aldi, Jumbo, Hema, all accept it.

https://www.americanexpress.com/nl/voordelen/shopping/
I have removed all my e-commerce apps and use on web versions of those on my phones (Flipkart agrees - https://www.pwastats.com/2017/08/flipkart/ ). I saw my parents doing the same when they uninstalled a bunch of apps like FB & Pinterest and started using the web versions instead to save space and don't seem to have any negative experience.
> So far, Apple said it:

> - Removed support for custom fonts. This means only presenting built-in fonts which are the same for all users with the same system.

I really hate this. I'm opinonated on typography and rely on userscripts to replace fonts I think to be subpar (Arial, Times New Roman, etc.) with ones with higher quality. Since ~2 years ago Safari has lost the ability to designated any font with custom 'font-family: ' CSS other than built-in fonts, totally breaking my use case. I hadn't use Safari as my daily driver browser since then despite its privacy benefits.
Many apps also don't want to have the hassle of securely managing user login details.
You could keep the e-mail in a "to do" or "to read" state and get to it this way later.
Take Turbo Tax for example, look at all of the updates it has to do when the IRS changes something. Then again more for when each state changes something in the state forms.

An open source tax software would have to do the same updates to compete with Turbo Tax and others.

The IRS has a free to file form and Turbo Tax online has a free to file IRS and state for college students and people who take the standard deduction.

I want to write business software for Linux and MacOS so that Windows does not have the monopoly on business software. When I mean business I don't mean media creation tools or Excel but accounting programs that can manage a business and finance it.
> If you really want to test equivalencies I challenge you to fly to Beijing and accuse Xi Jinping of that in public and that would be the last anyone would see of you. The police would probably plant drugs on you and put you in a hole.
Free of speech is wrote right on chinese consitution. You could say anything you want unless you are spreading rumors.
They help them when few others will.
Automated rotoscope.
A lot of editors will keep all of their footage on some form of networked storage until they need to work on a specific piece of it. Bring it to the machine, edit it, and send it back to the storage array.
TikTokers 'I had pasta tonight' has nothing to do with dinner
Not that I think it matters at this point in the discussion, but I did not intend for the scope of my language to be restricted to physical violence.
https://developer.arm.com/docs/dui0801/latest/a64-simd-vecto...
> Leaving the EU must be seen to have its consequences; political, economical and otherwise.

This is the reason why I despise politics, states and superstates, and am leaning to the anarchist side. No, it absolutely makes sense to make a deal that is good for both sides. These are people and their lives you're playing with. The EU 'sending a message' by fucking UK over with its political/economical might is a mafia move, straight out of Putin's playbook, and the EU told us it was different. I am very disappointed and probably won't trust the EU ever again (that's been ongoing since the Lisboa agreement, though).

(Am EU citizen)
One more thing: In answer to Scrum advocates claiming its about doing it right I would disagree and replace it with understanding what is really (really REALLY) the purpose and idea behind it. Don’t worship the cult and don’t fight it because it’s the perfect target of rants, but see the motivation behind it and acknowledge that there may be reasons why it makes sense how it is to some degree. This doesn’t only apply to Scrum but to any other interaction of humans.
Providers of digital content seem to be absolutely all over the place with this stuff

Comcast of all people offers the ability to buy movies on demand. Not just rent but outright purchase. If you leave Comcast as a customer, you can have every purchase mailed to you as either a DVD (SD) or Blu Ray (HD) purchase

Steam has provisions in place that if its service ever gets terminated to allow users to continue to use games they've purchased on the platform. They also allow users to continue to download and play games either removed from the store or no longer sold (Alan Wake and Deadpool being two examples in my own library)

Conversely Microsoft's Xbox will de-list titles and make them excruciatingly hard to download, such as Marble Blast Ultra. Requiring you to find the game in your account history and then use that to navigate to a download page

Sony's Playstation is downright malicious with their digital store. Konami's "P.T" was offered as a free download as a teaser for an upcoming Silent Hill game

Once Konami changed their mind however, the game was not only removed from the store but actively wiped from the users console! If you connected to Playstation Network the game would be forcefully deleted from your device
Certainly the safety and operating conditions for workers in these kinds of stores needs to be enforced, and companies penalized when they violate workplace rules or create an unsafe environment.

But the larger issue is that these kinds of stores are not "doing" something to communities. They are the reflection of (and maybe focal point for) what has already been done -- communities that are hollowed out of industries that used to sustain people who now don't have a lot of opportunities and can only afford such stores, or where it's too unprofitable or dangerous to sustain a traditional full service store.

If you want a real assessment of this country's prosperity (or lack of it for many people) -- or simply what happens when an economy is no longer in baby-boomer growth mode -- look to places like this where people who have been left behind in the "economic boom" have to shop because they have no other choices. Look to where the poor have to work/shop/live for the indicators of lack of leadership at a national/state level who don't understand that a single rising GDP number (for corporations) doesn't mean that all is good.

And by the way, don't blame the companies fully for it either. They just fill in the gaps where our ineffective governments have abdicated their responsibilities / role to take care of citizens. And the problem with companies filling in the gaps is that they have no real moral values or long-term responsibilities -- that's not their nature. They blow with the wind, or when enough public pressure causes them to have to do something -- until the next quarter.

Don't take the easy route and blame Dollar General. We're the dealers, they're just playing the cards.
I'm having a hard time believing this comment was made in good faith. There is nothing made up about T_D, they were blatantly vote manipulating and planting posts in other subs. This has been well known for a while and reddit has done everything in their hand to let the sub exist while trying to make it abide by the platform's rules.

The constantly see right wing people complaining about some massive number of left-wing subs that are breaking the rules but I've never ever seen any actual proof of that. Care to provide some links? Meanwhile I have seen T_D doing it consistently for years and the amount of leeway reddit has given them has been huge. The only left-wing sub that I can think of was chapotraphouse and that's gone now as well.
It's hard to find the point of the argument other than "poor people shouldn't be allowed to buy cheap stuff." These shops cause poverty by being cheaper than traditional chain stores and attracting robbers who kill staff?

I think people who have their life in order are often materialistic and value long-lived possessions. They see buying this "cheap Chinese crap destined for the landfill" as a sign of failure at life on the part of the buyers. But it's hard to blame poor people for behaving like poor people so somehow this article blames the shop.
Huawei loses out in Singapore 5G bid
What need is there to centralize those resources?
All standard libraries get conveniences such as these built upon them. That is not the role of a standard lib, which is to provide a basic level of OS compatibly and some commonly useful data structures and utilities.
The cost of standardization is rigidity, so they are typically kept thin.

I happen to not like the design choices of many of those libraries you mentioned and choose to to use them.

Express is an entire web framework. What other ecosystems have you used which would ship with these sorts of libraries?
why I feel strongly that any platform which displays in its ToS that users agree that the views expressed on its platform are not the views held by the company, is violating the right of free expression to the users they ban from their platforms for the speech those users express on their platforms.

Users don't have a right to free expression on others' platforms. The right to freedom on of speech only extends to one's own platforms of expression. If someone wants to post videos they can host their own video sharing website.
because China is enemy and America is friend.
Why is spontaneous order desirable? Pandemics are spontaneously ordered too.

IIRC, when pressed on this, Hayek resorted to a kind of crude biopolitcs -- market societies had more population growth so that made them better.
Yea people said Apple would buy a display company, or many other companies, but they tend not to be interested in buying these manufacturing focused companies. It’s not high enough up on the value chain for them. Manufacturers also have exposure to lots of negative things like how workers are treated or pollution and things like that. It paints a target on their back that they don’t want.
While it is true that we have more options, I do not agree that non credit card mobile payment options are a primary payment. These still lack a lot of usability improvement in comparison to the now widespread mobile credit cards supported by almost all banks too. So I still recognise visa and their support for Apple Pay helps maintain this power.

Heres to hoping that Apple Pay (and Android) will open up directly to banks or solutions such as Mobile Pay, which bridges to direct bank transfers for member banks and then utilise credit cards as a backup for unsupported banks.
Quantifying the Benefits of Drafting for Runners
If you read the opening section of the article, the writer clearly exposits that more traditional retail stores closed down as the cities were subject to deindustrialization and suburban flight. The dollar stores are what's left. And there we have our answer: what discount chains do to poor communities is act as the only provider of goods.

But the headline and the general tone of the article is desperately trying to make it seem as if the dollar store is somehow the cause of urban decay (especially the middle section of the article, which tries really hard to blame the dollar store for the fact that it gets robbed). One of the clearer examples of the headline and tone trying to sell the writer's preferred narrative even when the actual facts presented undermine that narrative.
I agree. This will effectively place the HK people under Chinese laws that much more harshly punish political decent.

What happened when Macau was handed back from Portugal to China? Did the people of Macau just handle it differently? I do not recall hearing about protests or much from Macau.

I know Macau is very prosperous and has casinos so maybe the prosperity had an effect...
GitHub sponsorship can also do that.
Was it not a stack machine already?

The embedding API explicitly exposes a stack, so I assumed that it was implemented that way.
> But the amount of effort you have to put in to twist a language and ecosystem that is practically designed around frequent allocation is just not worth it.

Do you an example in mind? Unity3D uses C# which is a garbage collected language.
Micro front end, micro service and lightweight solution based on Vue SSR
Could you explain what you mean by the real purpose and idea behind scrum?
Quick and useful summary tables from pandas dataframes
Yes but concentrating that many things on your phone is not the solution. It causes different problems.
I'm looking into it and it does look pretty good. However, it seems like the housing costs are less in Denver and have newer residential buildings.
Which neighborhoods in Boulder would you suggest living in?
The Spanish-American War was more than 130 years years ago
The economics may not make sense for you, but they may make sense for others for the work they’re doing. If having a fast $10K machine now will allow someone to make $500K over the next two years, that’s money well spent. If that’s not the business another is in, it may not be. And both are fine.
If I’m not mistaken, this was roughly the price point of an SGI Indigo II workstation — in 1995 dollars. Seems to be targeting a similar niche. Machines like the Onyx were even more, if I remember correctly — could be north of $100k. A license to something like Alias PowerAnimator was another ten to fifteen grand.