skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that his "latest offences" were of a particularly laden political tone (or could be painted as such), while eating stuff from his toenails publicly and other eccentricities passed as innocuous, though actually annoying the hell out of corporate types and other people interested in power, money, shiny PR and other matters that RMS always more or less considered with relative contempt.

It's significant that you talk of "the open source community". I'm not of "the open source community" (less than ever, in fact), I'm firmly in the "Free software community" and an FSF member for 20 years. I don't remember ever having a disagreement with RMS on any important matter.
Not sure about Emacs, but node and go can be maintained with `asdf`
I care, and I want the world to be able to do whatever they want with code I gift to it.

MIT is beautiful is its concision, and reasonably reflects the "use however you want but don't blame me" legalese I used to custom craft before I found it.
There's a good (though hour-long) presentation by the late Hans Rosling call "DON'T PANIC — Hans Rosling showing the facts about population":

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FACK2knC08E

"Don’t Panic – The Facts About Population":

* https://www.gapminder.org/videos/dont-panic-the-facts-about-...
I mean, how hard can it be? You just cut open their head, mess around it a bit…
Characterizing Automated Data Insights
Or vote by leaving for Linux Mint or Debian.
there's no world with humans in it that's devoid of power and coercion, so the premise of anarchism is irretrievably flawed. can it inform how we live in a power-filled and coercive world? yes, but not to any extreme.
What would the anarchist alternative be, provided everybody still needs to eat. Let's keep money as a simple placeholder for value. If the reasonable people wouldn't open the clubs, how would they make money? Okay, their landlords are reasonable as well, and don't charge rent. And their grocery store gives them food for free?

How would they determine who is so reasonable they get the reason-treatment of free food even if they provide no value themselves (no parties in their club etc).

A lot of anarchism sounds like some magical communism, where everything just works out, there's no conflict whatsoever and the (in communist countries) usually authoritarian governments wouldn't be required. If only one would let the people be free, they'd be happy, sharing, caring and all around nice people by themselves.

I get the fundamental appeal, I'm sure it can work in very small, very homogeneous groups (like a religious sect, or maybe a tribal group that has not or only been recently contacted). But at scale, and in the real world, it sounds naive.
dang, I think I and a lot of other HN users would appreciate it if you actually posted the results of this investigation somewhere so we have real data to look at. It's pretty clear that it at least seems like it's more than just different views at work here. When you say repeatedly that you've spent countless hours looking at the data and didn't find anything, but then don't share that data it gets really frustrating for users.
Here's the clickable link: https://clglavan.github.io/nvd-scrapper/ :)
I wish they had a linux version available.

It is the one thing I truly miss from my switch to running Linux as my primary operating system on my work laptop.
> For thousands of years people lived without governments. In many parts of the world people live outside of the control of governments today. They do not all kill each other. Mostly they just get on about their lives the same as anyone else would.

I hate to focus in on just one point, but protection from violence is really a core part of most people's demands from governance, and this description isn't true. Warfare is extremely common in societies without governments; the exact rate varies widely, but there are many known societies where 20-25% of adult men can expect to die fighting a war.
Getting the VM up and running was a bit of work. Without getting into it much, the VM needed to be convinced it was a real machine with a real serial number, etc. took a it but I got that sorted out.

I needed that working so I could create an real iCloud account that would allow me to use iMessage first on the VM and then again on the android app. Before Apple let’s you use iMessage you need to convince them you bought Apple hardware.

The VM constantly wanted to restart for updates, which I was scared to do because of the tenuous nature of the VM I had set up. I ended up having to re-do the Vm 3-4 times because I would inadvertently break something with a small tweak.

Th VM wanted to be rather directly exposed to the outside world. Of course there were ways to try and make things more secure, but I didn’t really try.

I would have to sync messages from the VM to my phone if for some reason the VM went down because of a restart or power outage. The VM was running on a Windows 10 box, and windows likes to update and restart whenever it feels like it.

I had to use the AirMessage app, which of course makes sense, but the texts didn’t integrate with a native android message platform. Again this makes sense, it was just a little annoying sometimes.

People had to know to iMessage me with the email address I had connected to iCloud. I couldn’t connect my phone number. So everyone who wanted to iMessage me needed to both know and use the email address instead of my number. I’ve had this number for about 20 years, and trying to sort that out with everyone seemed like more trouble than it was worth.

There iMessage features that I remember not working, all the “likes” and whatnot on a message. Sending pictures was pretty slow and painful, and didn’t always work.

There are probably a few more things I’m forgetting. I really want to convey again, I applaud the author for what they’ve accomplished and I think it’s really neat. Perhaps some/all of these pain points are resolved. I tried to give feedback in the private reddit when that was a thing because I really wanted this to be my way to iMessage on an android.
Anarchism does not prevent tribes, warlords, organizations, or armies - it is the absence of such constructs.

If anyone is truly interested in applied anarchism, look to Somalia [0] and try to make a difference there. It's not all bad [1] [2], but I think there are many vastly superior alternatives.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Somalia_(1991%E2%80...

[1] https://www.independent.org/pdf/working_papers/64_somalia.pd...

[2] https://www.independent.org/publications/article.asp?id=1861
I'd be curious where anarchism was applied on a large scale for more than a generation and the result was good.

Regarding the code analogy, I'd rather have a million pushes to prod than one huge force push that rewrites history;-)
> it's not that "most politicians are selfish, egotistical swine", it's that many people are.

But you are saying this because you _agree_ with the politicians. You believe your preferred course of action is better than most peoples'. There are different viewpoints and pilosophies on what would work out best. There is disagreement on what course of action will get society through it and optimize future outcomes. It is egotistical, and poisoning the well, to call everyone else egotistical and selfish because they disagree with you and the politicians you support.

I think that people left to themselves _will_ disagree with one another, but will make decisions based on personal reasons, such as trying to get their business to survive, or to gain an advantage, or just because they don't particularly fear death, or any of thousands of other reasons. I may disagree with their decisions, but I'm careful about my own judgement of "what is rational" in someone else's circumstances, or even about my own knowledge of how they should optimally behave. There are too many politicians who believe they know how everyone else should do things. Certainty in knowledge is rarely real. The compromise is to let people decide for themselves.
> In the PGP case adversaries can not affect the choice of algorithm without breaking the fundamental public key cryptography (which is fixed).

Again, this is an error because you've not remembered that an adversary isn't obliged to do what a good actor should do.

Your article explains how Alice gets to be quite sure that Bob would prefer she use a good algorithm, and doubtless as a result the conscientious Alice will use a good algorithm when sending messages to Bob. But alas an impostor sending messages to Bob purporting to be from Alice needn't care about this.

For that impostor it only matters whether Bob's client will foolishly accept the bad algorithm they deliberately picked, not whether Alice might ever have chosen to use that algorithm. Even if it would be quite impossible for the attack to read or modify any messages Alice writes, in this way they may be able to send a message to Bob that seems to be from Alice.

Perhaps the message should say "Hi Bob. Sorry, dreadful problems with PGP again. I had to create a new account, see next mail" followed shortly thereafter by a nice shiny PGP mail from... the impostor's account.

Thus, to defeat such an impostor it is necessary to remove/ disable obsolete algorithms entirely. In principle we could imagine client software that securely separates messages received prior to some cut-off date and permits the use of an obsolete algorithm to read/ verify those messages only, but in practice you're asking far too much and this is likely just to add another exploitation avenue.
Don't Flip the Bozo Bit
Flatpak refuses to respect the hosts value for XDG_CONFIG and HOME, making it impossible for some applications to share your configuration.
I've found https://aip.dev really useful! In fact this is a canonical resource for building REST apis at Google.
> I care about a particular piece of software because it's the reason I use a computer (go, Emacs, Node, etc.) then I just have to maintain it myself. There simply isn't a good way right now.

Don’t do this to yourself! Debian is not going to give you bleeding edge. But there are plenty of distros that can. Despite being a meme, Arch Linux is one of the best distros available, and has been for years. Node, golang, are usually updated within hours of upstream, while the core system remains stable. If you’re looking for something more modern, Solus has been gaining popularity and also has relatively up to date packages.
Debian is great for servers.
Evidence #trillion against the patent system, at least when it comes to software.
Valentin Turchin
My shortened to fit the 80-character-limit title or the Phys.Org one? or both?

>Researchers find unexpected electrical current that could stabilize fusion reactions
>Not really. It is very relevant. You only need someone to behave unreasonable even once to destroy multiple peoples lives

These things are true whether or not you believe humans are capable of living reasonably without being forced. Forcing people isn't stopping these psychopaths from destroying lives, and there's at least reason to believe it helps push them to action.
Ok, I will tell you again.

In my community, people wear masks and social distance without being forced or told to. They do it for the same reason they wait in line at the bus.
right. It blows my mind that anyone who considers themselves intelligent would argue that statutory rape is rape.

Statutory rape LITERALLY means "consensual sex with someone below the age of consent". Because if the sex was non-consensual, it's called rape regardless of age.

RMS's biggest problem is that he was technically correct, but surrounded by a society of idiots.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 30 series has SR-IOV support
Yep! There are even tools (mentioned in the OpenCore install guide) that automate finding serial numbers and board IDs and all of the other parameters required for that functionality to work. Even though I couldn't get my graphics card working at first boot on my computer, it still logged me into iMessage automatically.
> Why would you assume that we would act righteously in the absence of law? It is painfully obvious that we would act much worse under anarchy.

Indeed, we know that (pace Rousseauian claims) man misbehaves not because some "system" has made him do so, but because he chooses to behave in such a manner, often knowing fully well he is choosing misbehavior. I think most of us, if we're honest, even if our moral understanding is variable, admit that we have acted in ways we knew were unjust before we acted.

To take this discussion further, government is a natural institution, i.e., one which follows from human nature and is natural to human societies for the sake of the common good (whether at the level of the family, the community, nation, the world, etc.). Part of what the common good entails is the administration of justice which requires an authority to administer that justice. In your example, if the problem is, say, industrial destruction of the common good that is our environment which we need to live (provided there exist better ways to secure the good produced by legitimate industry or legitimately permissible industry without that destruction), then the problem is a deficient law that fails to guard the common good.

Healthy criticism of authority is important because we know that those in authority are capable of choosing badly either through malice or incompetence. However, just at there is an excessive deferral and submissiveness some show toward authority that subordinates evidence and reason to authority, there is also a hostility to the very idea of authority. The latter is what rests at the bottom of anarchism. Anarchism in practice devolves into the rule of the powerful because no authority acts as a bulwark against power for the sake of the common good.

So on the one hand we have unbridled capitalism wherein the powerful dominate and exploit the weak, and on the other we have socialism which is the tyranny of government. Both converge at essentially the same point. In both cases, the powerful impose their "laws" on the populace for their own benefit. The empirical evidence corroborates as much and there is no sense in placing one's hope in either. The meat grinder of human existence on this earth is not to be abolished and the solution is not revolution. All revolutionaries are opportunists that prey on resentment, whether it is the product of envy or righteous anger, and parlay it into their own power. It also results in orgies of violence, dead bodies, and rivers of blood.

We are much better off engaging in good actions in our daily lives, many which may require pain, suffering, and sacrifice. All social action is the action of individuals for individuals. A society is only as good as its members. To many, that message isn't sexy. It lack the ecstatic grandeur or the messianic and eschatological satisfaction of what revolution seems to promise. They are like the woman at the well. There is a lesson to be learned here.
It took me some time to fully understand that yes, sometime other people need things that might appear as "preferential treatment" to other people. And we should just STFU about that.

A while ago I was talking with some aquaintances about maternity leave and since we were already talking about work it struck me: if I was forced to take 1-2 years off work completely now that I'm not even 30, all of a sudden, it would be pretty much catastrophic for my career. My skills would get mostly outdated given how fast the industry evolves (thank you kubernetes) and I would probably fall a bit out of touch with dealing with coworkers and stuff.

I then thought about some of my female colleagues and other female workers I know and how much could they struggle in the future or have struggled in the past.

A lot of things started to make sense. I though back to when I was on call an was frequently called in the middle of the night, and how newborn children are probably[0] way heavier on parents.

And it kinda dawned on me how important is, often, to "pick up the slack" for other people.

So yeah... After these kind of realization my opinion changed a bit. I agreed already with most work-life balance policies but I hadn't had such a strong realization. I now think that it's a good thing that companies allow parents to take time off and deal with both work and personal/family time. Actually, companies should be encouraged/forced to do so on a regular basis. I also think that if you don't agree with me you're piece of shit and you should really go fuck yourself with a cactus.

I don't have children of my own now, but I might have in the future. It should really be our background priority to work for better working conditions across all the industry and across other industries too. If you don't want to have children then it's fine (it's your life, do whatever you want) but you're an asshole if you think that everybody should march at your own pace just because you took that decision.

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[0] i'm writing "probably" just because i haven't had kids of my own yet, so i don't really know what i'm talking about. I can imagine, but I don't really know.
If you don't want a stable server, use testing.
They declared the wild type eliminated in Africa, but the same report also said that the vaccine-derived type was still present. Let's hope that the vaccine-derived type can be eliminated soon in a few years.

Here are two graph that compare the amount of wild and vaccine-derived cases globally. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_eradication#Vaccine-deri... Note that the upper graph in in a logarithmic scale, and the lower graph in a linear scale.
> If there’s a line to get on a crowded bus, do you wait your turn and refrain from elbowing your way past others even in the absence of police?

> If you answered “yes”, then you are used to acting like an anarchist!

First, many people actually try to force their way into crowded trains to get a good spot earlier in my experience. It's not exactly forceful, but also not friendly or waiting-in-line.

Just because I behave that way doesn't make me an anarchist, or "acting like one". There's a long way from following some practices to believing everyone would follow those if not forced to.
I'd argue that its unfair for the childfree people. I don't have or want kids so let me explain it from my side.

Why should I give up my social life and free time for someone else that has kids?

Why should I do more work so they can take time off to care for their kids?

The way I see it, having kids is optional in life. They knew or should have known the added responsibilities for when they had kids.
Reading Paine from the Left (2015)
Stripe blog posts are unparalleled

https://stripe.com/blog/api-versioning

https://stripe.com/blog/idempotency

It goes beyond "what is rest" and real life UX of apis
checks-and-balances.

free software puts pressure on the giants.

(lets see when the free software phones come out over the next year or two how they do)

Look, capitalism works. But unfettered capitalism could use free software.
639-year performance of Cage's Organ2/ASLSP had first chord change in 7 years
I do this for about 10 years now too! It's very convenient to "expire" the email addresses that are sold off.

Another thing I do is to use a spam@domain.com email when an annoying site tries to force me to login. All emails to this spam email address is sent to trash with a filtering rule, and I manually open my trash to click the verification link.

With catch all emails, you need a string "... -all" SPF to make others reject bounce spam messages.
Probably not the biggest market. But as someone with an Android phone, a MacBook, and a Windows/Linux dual boot desktop I'm happy this exists.
That is an example of voluntary association. They chose to gain the benefits of the union, they need to pay the dues.
Also, there’s tax advantages to mortgages here in the US.

For most people there is no tax advantage for having a mortgage. With the cap on state taxes now being $10K and the standard deduction being $24000 for a married couple, and interest rates as low as they are you have to a larger mortgage than most people can afford for it to make a difference.

I had a mortgage of around $340K with 3.5% down for a house I bought four years ago, and I paid less than $10K in interest last year.
I never have worked a job like that but I definitely think I came out of MIT with that attitude. Maybe mostly by luck and falling at so many things I tried, but I was convinced that basically the world is made up of people about as stupid as me, each of us in our own unique and special way. Liberating. Sophomore level philosophy but still, the world is made up of stupid people collectively doing our best to not blow it all up.

I definitely also use the "if I have this question at least ten other people do but are afraid to ask" logic lots of times, true or not. It's a lot easier to be unafraid of failure if you don't consider yourself good at it ^_^. Way easier to learn if you're willing to look like an idiot, the hard part is getting people you already know to change the context in which they interact with you. That is the main reason I switched labs between undergrad and grad school - not being the "undergrad helper" for the first three years of grad school. I bet moving over to Google did similarly for you.
See: "Primitive Obsession" https://wiki.c2.com/?PrimitiveObsession

Usually cured by using Value objects. I wish this done more in OO code.

Could it be better supported in these languages? Yes, for sure. But is it true that "these language do not support such a type" at all? No.
Shhhh, I’m trying to convince myself that’s not true
(author here)
This is true, as long as your definition of "another variable" stretches far enough to include memory regions allocated by malloc. And (leaving the C standard), also things allocated through other means, like memory-mapped files, and things like like memory-mapped peripherals.

In other words, the statement is incorrect.
In an organized society a psychopath can kill a few in a murder spree. In an unorganized society the psychopath can gather and organize a lot of thugs to loot and burn millions of homes. Has happened many times in history. I know which one I prefer.

The gun argument actually works here, if you ban good guys from organizing then all organizations will be bad ones. And an organized group of people always wins against unorganized groups.
This "it's all about me attitude" is definitely present in western society but I disagree that it is "so ingrained ... That the greater good is utterly discounted"

It seems, based on observing reality, that the greater good is far more ingrained. That's why things like public schools, post offices, animal rescues, ambulances, and fire departments are so common and tend to function relatively well.

I see some validity to the argument that "it's all about me" is perhaps gaining ground on "greater-good" but it seems clear that "greater-good" is still the majority.
IIRC, it’s more than just an API, Apple has implemented device specific signing that isn’t possible to replicate in this way, as far as I can recall. I don’t know the full details but I know this is part of the reason nobody has really even attempted to fly under the radar this way. It’s part of what’s downloaded on fresh installs of the operating system (hence why it sometimes works in a VM, though I’ve heard with each release iMessage is harder to get working in a VM)
It's a succint way to say "No, not types that will automatically work as primitive types (which normally the variable passed for 0 to 1 would be), and that will work with numeric operators".

Or in other words, a succint way to say "Technically yes, but practically useless, so no".
This is the same arguments for DNS based TLS certificates, and here we are, with good HTTPS connections that we can trust albeit the awful CA system.