skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The form of an argument is the opposite of semantics. If someone made an argument like "Korean has an independent origin from Chinese. You might doubt it, but what evidence do you have that it's not true? If we don't know that it's not true..." then that would be argument from ignorance, as well: notice how no supporting evidence is mustered for the hypothesis.
iOS has certainly opened up over the years. Perhaps apart from the lack of side loading capability, what kind of freedom do you seek?
Looks good, this reminds me of https://usefyi.com/, any difference between the two?
Arch has two major differences from Ubuntu and other non-rolling distributions.

1. You're using latest upstream, after it passed through the archlinux-testing repository. This means you won't have to install software from somewhere else just because the repos are outdated. (nighly builds of software are different)

2. Sometimes you have to sys-upgrade to install/fix something, and you don't have much say in when that happens. Typically you need to preemptively do this about once a week to not potentially get interrupted by manual intervention at a bad time. Yes, you will need to do manual intervention, but you won't spend much time on it. It's far less work than getting up-to-date software running on your debian stable.
I came to say exactly the same thing! An API should guide a user to form a mental model that is consistent with the actual inner workings to avoid frustration and making errors (the importance of this cannot be overstated for critical functionality like authentication/authorization).
https://daringfireball.net/2019/09/richard_stallmans_disgrac...
"wishful thinking" alone isn't a good enough argument to consider the case settled. The American democratic system is "just wishful thinking," in reality powerful oligarchs control many of the day to day levers through lobbying and outright bribery, while other oligarchs slowly transform entire swaths of the population into willing sheep (rupert murdoch). But america still works, kinda, so it's not enough to say "it's just wishful thinking."
Doing things? Do you have any examples? My impression at the time that he resigned was that it was because the crowd didn't like the things he was saying, not that he'd actually done anything himself.
Calling the societies being discussed "unorganized" isn't a fair view of the topic, and the rest of your post rather depends on that point of view.
The motivation is money.

If you don't use Edge they won't be able to track the web sites you visit so they can sell your data to advertisers.

Google does it too with Chrome. That's why if you visit Google sites with a non-Chrome browser they will push you to use Chrome.
And Microsoft Edge gets rid of Internet Explorer. IE sucks except for one thing: built-in browser-based RSS support. THat alone is worth keeping it.
Facebook Blocks Livestream of French Man Who Wanted to Broadcast His Death
The 'horror story' people always mention, which is a special case of "having to wait for each application to update its own dependencies", is that if there's a security vulnerability in a much-used library, you have to wait for each application maintainer to update their application, rather than simply having the distribution maintainer update the shared library. I'm not sure I agree that this would be worse than the current situation...
Interesting! I wonder if you could use this in a Django project with Channels, and stream database changes over websocket to the client. I think I've found a project for this weekend!

I must admit my DB knowledge is lacking. What is the purpose of setting the isolation level to autocommit?
Friendly NATs map, for UDP, e.g. (source address, source port) to (one of our outside addresses, port). Anyone who sends packets back to that outside address gets packets to you.

So, you bind 192.168.100.55:5555 and send a packet to a STUN server 1.2.3.4:3478. This creates a mapping between, 192.168.100.55:5555 and an outside port, we'll call it 81.82.83.84:12345. And the STUN server tells you back, in a reply, "you're 81.82.83.84:12345".

Then your friend sends a packet from his private address to 81.82.83.84:12345. It reaches your NAT, and is translated to 192.168.100.55:5555 and you receive it. Replying to this packet lets you send packets to him.
I don’t know about Australia, but one of the reasons that the housing market is so distorted in the US is due to gov’t intervention. 30 year mortgages, FHA loans, tax deduction of mortgage interest, etc, have been major drivers of real estate price inflation. Add in single family home zoning and it shouldn’t be that surprising we are where we are.
They are tired of losing the browser wars?
They are looking for more anti-trust charges?
Using their browser gives them the data to sell?
Actually you are not allowed to buy HDB (apart from very special exceptions) if you are not married. So one joke goes how to propose (marriage): you, ... you want to apply for HDB?
Some tech papers are just badly written.
Getting Fiber to My Town [video]
If anyone is interested in medieval-y topics the Shadiversity channel run by Shad M. Brooks is pretty good:

* https://www.youtube.com/user/shadmbrooks/videos

He's done a few videos on castles specifically.
My point is that voluntary donations isn't enough to run much at all, even for organizations that the worker is in control of.

And a society needs roads. How would you ensure people pay for roads in an anarchist society? Would you have toll booths everywhere? That isn't economically feasible. Donations? As I said that isn't even enough to pay for a worker union, roads needs more than that.
>Disagree on calling Suzhou Industrial Park a failure

Yes. The article also calls out Chandigarh as a 'failed city', but it's one of the highest income regions in India, and one with the cleanest urban environmental footprint. Far from being a failure it seems to have been quite successful.
Like Gavin Andresen said Satoshi wasn't a cryptographer.

First reference in Bitcoin Whitepaper is "W. Dai, b-money". But Satoshi never heard of it, Adam Back suggested to Satoshi to read it and he decided to reference it in Bitcoin Whitepaper.

"I suggested Satoshi should look into B-Money, which he didn’t seem to know about at that time, and this is how I think B-Money was added to the paper."[1]

Satoshi said to Wei Dai "I was very interested to read your b-money page. I’m getting ready to release a paper that expands on your ideas into a complete working system. Adam Back (hashcash.org) noticed the similarities and pointed me to your site."[2]

Satoshi seemed to be very good C++ programmer who had interests in electronic cash and cryptography but not a cryptographer.

Look and hear what Gavin said in his presentation:

https://youtu.be/rQ3e1Pzu7iI?t=766

[1]https://cointelegraph.com/news/adam-back-on-satoshi-emails-p...

[2]https://nakamotostudies.org/emails/satoshi-and-wei-dai-corre...
Wow, the part about hash tables is quite shocking. I've just thrown my copy of the book (which I've never read) into the trash bin. Thanks for writing your review!
The behemoths are already based upon open source tech and have contributed to it. But what they make on top of it neither has its "schema" (software sufficient to fork your own) open nor the instances accessible or communicatable. The same way that installing Linux doesn't mean I can access your files or configurations on top of them. The way I see it that is a price of open source software that you can't control how others use it in exchange for not being controlled.

Open standards as positive externalities would be a rational reason for tax discounts even if the value of it varies greatly - although good for repairs few would care for a specific printer model's firmware as it is so specific in its domain.
Life Sciences Observations #26
There's been a few discussions on hn regarding universal basic income, and I found the points related in the last third of this article quite interesting, and would like to hear how the hn community responds:

> This is a universal capital grant, not a basic income. Paine wants to make everyone the owner of productive property.

> (...) The ground-rent he proposes would take the form of a 10 percent inheritance tax on all estates. The value of these inheritances, he realizes, includes “what is called personal, as well as . . . landed property,” and there is no clear way of parsing out the two.

> Personal property is the effect of society; and it is as impossible for an individual to acquire personal property without the aid of society, as it is for him to make land originally. Separate an individual from society, and give him an island or a continent to possess, and he cannot acquire personal property. He cannot be rich. So inseparably are the means connected with the end, in all cases, that where the former do not exist the latter cannot be obtained. All accumulation, therefore, of personal property, beyond what a man’s own hands produce, is derived to him by living in society; and he owes on every principle of justice, of gratitude, and of civilization, a part of that accumulation back again to society from whence the whole came.

> “if we examine the case minutely it will be found that the accumulation of personal property is, in many instances, the effect of paying too little for the labour that produced it; the consequence of which is, that the working hand perishes in old age, and the employer abounds in affluence.” Here Paine sees property to be the result of the exploitation of labor by capital.
I have Schrodinger's Covid... it's possible I had it, or not... and may never know. I tested negative once, but those tests are only sensitive to ongoing infection.

I had co-workers who definitely had it. I've been short of breath ever since. I stayed upstairs by myself for a month, and then had a boatload of tests. Never had a fever, and things only tasted weird for a day.

I've had a f*ckton of tests, including a probe in my heart... so I'm not likely to just drop dead. I'm left with "it might be asthma" or reconditioning.

By the time all the testing and resting was done... after 12 weeks I was finally clear to go back to work... and laid off 1 hour later, over the phone.

The last few days, has been worse than the new normal. Right now I'm a bit dizzy just sitting and typing. My pulse and oxygen levels are normal, though. It hurts to breath in deeply.

I have a close friend with an almost identical symptoms and history. It really sucks not to be able to even go to the store without coming home and needing to rest for an hour or two. I feel like I've aged 10 years in the past 6 months.

All the focus on the dead ignores the side effects, which are going to hit this country like a hammer because leadership failed to contain it, and now we've got almost 1/4 of all the cases in the world.

Stay home, wash your hands, and wear a mask.
Sideloading, the freedom to run Linux directly on the device, much better widgets (I use widgets heavily in my workflow, such as showing my account balances, calendar, todo list, habit tracking, etc) are the freedoms I seek.
Why do you have to give up your social life because someone on your team has kids? Can't the business adjust its productivity expectations to account for a once in a century pandemic? And kids are optional for any given individual, but in the aggregate if no one has children society will collapse.
It's still pretty bad even for GUI apps. Do you really want to add 0.3s to the startup time of Chrome? I would definitely notice that.
How did you infer that from my comment?
Almost no apps are actually delivered via the Apple or Microsoft app store. Apps from outside app store apps aren't obliged to use the sandbox although mac apps can and they do have a line of defense against unsigned applications. Its harder but not impossible to end up pwned by signed apps on mac.

The number one and two attack vectors have always been tricking users into installing malware and attacking old insecure software.

Distributing virtually all software via app stores substantially solves acquiring safe software and ensuring it receives updates.

Defense in depth is virtuous but Linux is already more secure than windows in the ways that actually count and unlike MS they are actually positioned to in the future sandbox software because its all already mostly coming from app stores.
Even experts disagree. Countries have taken different actions precisely because of that. And even then, it can quickly devolve to "rule by experts" in every area of our life. I can listen to experts, I can learn from them, and I can make my own judgement call.

> difference between what Joe Blow says and what actual epidemiologists say

That's my point. It is a radical step to let Joe Blow, however silly or stupid I may think he is, to decide his own way of living. Maybe Joe Blow thinks I'm an idiot too for living the way I choose to do it.
Edge is IE. It is mostly just a different name with exact same issues.
Ask HN: Does the VC model require participating preferences?
Does the VC model really require participating preferences?

If their profit is driven by outsized returns, why do they care about getting a little bit back in the less successful exits?

It just hurts founders and employees but doesn't seem to materially matter for VCs.
It's not completely fair to blame it on millenials as well.

Most millenials are now old enough to have both kids and a job.

Actually, millennials are probably in the age range where kids are not old enough yet to take care of themselves.

I don't think this is a millennial-only thing. And by the way the article does not mention the word "millennial" even once.
Telegram lacked video calls. However it was recently added and now I feel comfortable recommending it. Most friends who tried sticked to it.

Some highlights are their lightweight, open-source, blazing-fast client (https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop) and compatibility with all major platforms like Android, iOS, Windows, macOS and Linux.

I'd recommend Signal but it's not as user friendly.
Nuggs 2.0: The Tesla of Chicken
Also didn't work for me on iPhone/Safari.
As far as I can tell functools.partial has been implemented in C since it was added sixteen years ago ( https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/9c323f8de4910dfc0ba... ), and it's faster than lambda ( https://gist.github.com/wrmsr/1e13eda3ed78288679c010acbe6d2b... ). Regarding docstrings you can access the underlying function via the __wrapped__ attribute, and signature forwarding is too brittle and magical for stdlib.
For work and "power usage", Fedora Workstation has the best "Ubuntu" experience outside of Ubuntu I'd say. You can also go for Fedora Silverblue to get some NixOS-like powers with your Fedora (I expect that to be folded into Workstation eventually).

Notable diferences that might influence your decision are:

- RPMs instead of DEBs;

- Flatpaks instead of Snaps;

- Podman and Buildah instead of Docker (although you can get Docker if you really need to use that);

- SELinux enabled by default (some people don't like this for non-server usage, but I dig it);

- firewalld comes enabled by default, which may be annoying and unexpected if you're trying to get some iptables rule to work (I personally always remove firewalld and install ufw for the things I need);

- Fedora 33 (due for release next month) will be switching to btrfs as the default filesystem, whose features are definitely welcome for home usage (but I'll wait a bit before upgrading and see if people run into any issues);

- I'd also highly recommend installing Pop!_OS's Pop Shell [0] to add great tiling support for GNOME, but that goes for anyone using GNOME really

[0] https://github.com/pop-os/shell

If you like gaming though, I never tried setting up Steam or a ProtonDB game on Fedora to be able to report on that (I think it would be complicated enough to make me wanna switch distros), but if you'll be doing this a lot, Pop!_OS (Ubuntu based, snaps disabled) has a great out-of-box experience with Steam, as does Manjaro (Arch based) which has an excellent hardware detection and driver auto-installer tool called mhwd, and makes setting up NVIDIA cards and other finicky hardware a breeze.
Wasn’t it originally going to be an open protocol, though? I thought the decision to lock it to iOS devices came later.
Domain Driven Design: https://smile.amazon.com/Domain-Driven-Design-Tackling-Compl...

It's not about designing APIs, it's about designing your software to reflect the reality you're encoding into your software. It's a book of first principles that you can apply to any software you design.
Isn't that one of the biggest issues without which any other 'openness' is not worth that much? By having all software distribution going through a single channel which rather arbitrarily gets to choose what is allowed and what is not the system ends up being controlled by that channel.
If a population does not tend to follow expert advice and a politician is incentivized by an upcoming election, it seems more of a negative incentive for them to act according to rationality
> There is a reason we all use gitlab/github for collab services. It is that centralization is better for that kind of thing.

No, it is not because centralization is better. It is because centralization is easier.

I've many, many times wished for a way to collaborate on a git-based project without having to centralize the collaboration on a platform that I ultimately fear will censor the project. radicle-link is exactly what I'm looking for, and it's bizarre to me that someone would look at this project and say "hmm, it should just be centralized." Why should it be?
A while ago I wrote up my own take, inspired largely by Permutation City but also by Tegmark's mathematical universe hypothesis: https://blog.domenic.me/mathematical-consciousness/

To me this line of thinking is very attractive. As someone who has been a mathematical Platonist forever, this gives a very satisfying answer to big questions like "why is there something instead of nothing" and "why is our universe so perfectly described by mathematics".
Use Component-Based Design in Unity
It's up to chip manufacturers, not IP provider, to release code - and none of them did.
> There are also tangible disbenefits - like having your home destroyed by climate change, or having your democracy hollowed out, having to live with the risk of bankruptcy if you get ill.

These all seem like things wealth protects from, which helps explain why founders and all other humans will tend to want to accumulate it.
Well, that is what happens when you fail to proactively apply the Sherman Anti-Trust in a vigorous manner.
That's why I'll stick with Fedora.

It's "pure", modern, and I really like the KDE spin.

The non-pure stuff - when needed - is available through rpmfusion (the non free repo).

Sure, I'm kind of a "beta tester" for RedHat Linux, but on the flip side there's nothing commercial in it.
I think the worker co-op model has a lot of potential for tech startups. They're more stable than other ownership models, and the desires of the workers tend to be more aligned with consumers than the consumers are with investors (and obviously a worker co-op is far more aligned with the desires of the workers).

The primary advantage of venture capital is access to capital for growth, which isn't a great fit for purely digital companies with low capital requirements and the ability to bootstrap. The ability to rapidly grow is handy, but primarily addresses the needs of investors, who make their money off of growth. Getting investors to satisfy the needs of investors is awfully circular.

The big reason we don't see tech co-ops is simply tradition. Most big tech companies were VC funded. Most good startup advice comes out of VC companies like YC that naturally push people towards venture capital. On the flip side, worker owned co-ops are most common in the food industry of all things, even though that is quite capital intensive, because of the same sort of tradition-inertia.
Yeah I think it wasn't just that. He's said a lot of crazy things over the years so nobody could really defend him by saying "he didn't exactly say that" because the response was always "ok fine but what about all these other creepy things he's definitely said?". Basically the final straw.
Uh, would be nice to be able to change the default browser and SMS app, for starters.
How would your job and healthcare be protected under anarchism?
I must be an outlier because I love the Magic Mouse. I usually lay my whole arm flat on my desk. Since the mouse doesn’t cause my wrist to arc I don’t get carpal tunnel. Big win there.

I also rely heavily on swiping between desktops and I find the mouse works great for that. My one gripe would be the charging port placement being on the bottom. Charging up to a days charge doesn’t take very long but it is annoying to have to stop coding to charge it.
> So it can't be that bad

It is. I currently can't use WhatsApp because my phone is broken, meanwhile I can happily chat away via Telegram. Same thing when my phone is off. Back when they didn't have WhatsApp Web you couldn't even use it on another device at all, but as slick as the UI it's still not really a proper solution.

Meanwhile Telegram has real FOSS clients for any platform you can imagine (there's a CLI version).
Wait a minute, I thought software engineers were in high demand, with companies fighting over them and opportunities everywhere! At least that's what one out of every 10 HN articles tells me. Surely that demand gives them a little power and agency over their work. I think we are pretending here that these developers have only one option: "Sure, boss! Whatever you say, boss!"

I personally believe that you, the software developer typing in the code, should hold yourself personally accountable for what you are typing in. You might also be designing what you type in, or even setting the requirements, but it might be other people. Regardless, you are making the software come into being--you're the one coding it and pushing it to the repo, so you should set the standard of what is acceptable. This "well, boss told me to do it!" rationalization and blame-shifting is how we get dangerous and unethical software.

And, yes, I have quit software jobs where I was asked to write software I considered ethically questionable, and failed to change the boss's mind.
But your minimal government wouldn't work. If you have taxes then you need a justice system to enforce collection of taxes. You'll also need a military to prevent outsiders from taking your treasury.
Try porterhouse.app
Spam blog republishing this article : https://theconversation.com/only-one-in-ten-medical-treatmen...
> But maybe I'm just being harsh by thinking of children as side projects

yup, you definitely are. a lot, too.

> Why should having a baby be any different?

maybe because the society literally can't go forward without babies?
Anarchy means that the law of the strongest rules. Not sure why you think that this is somehow aligned with non-violence.
Side loading, ability to access the underlying file system, have their applications like iMessage work across platforms, have better support for cross-OS applications are a few that come to mind.
Try https://porterhouse.app for mass iMessage messaging