skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no "straight answer" as there are a variety of viewpoints that could he considered "anarchism" and their responses to these questions differ. This is true of whatever viewpoint you follow too, your personal beliefs differ from the accepted dogma at certain points.

In as small of a description as possible, anarchism generally favors a democratic city state.
> I know a banker who is communist.

That's an incontinent position to hold and he must have high cognitive dissonance of schizophrenia. Except if he is duplicitously self-serving, ie happy to receive the payments but not the opprobrium that comes with a high paying system position.
Don't know why Ubuntu keeps pushing it, especially on serverside this is very undesirable. Also the extra options of flatpak and appimage on desktop are more than adequate
The provision of healthcare, UBI and the like is itself incompatible with "very minimal" government - each of those would involve government control over a non-trivial fraction of GDP. I'm not saying that these things aren't worth doing; some of them may well be. We should be mindful of the costs, however.

For that matter, anarchist thought hasn't historically shown much awareness wrt. the importance of, e.g. social capital provision, as enabled by voluntary "grassroots" institutions like churches and community clubs, as something that's incredibly effective at promoting reasonable, pro-social values and behaviors. (Some of these institutions necessarily involve various sorts of hierarchy and ranking, such that, e.g. a Scout Guide would rank higher than a newcomer Scout. Many anarchists would intuitively dismiss any such hierarchy as inherently coercive - despite the entirely voluntary character of these organizations.)
There’s a lot of words and vendors here I’ve never heard of. Is this a legit rundown of a growing field, or is this Nvidia pitching me all their partners?
A moment when I found myself competing against Andrew Wilkinson
Which the EU is debating making an equivalent European wide version mandatory, and requiring websites/private companies adopt and use it (via SAML; instead of username/passwords or things like OAuth/OpenID Connect). In this vision, any online interaction that would require an identity would minimally be required to accept your European identity, and may be prohibited (via GDPR or DSA) from offering other forms of sign-in.

Read the Roadmap at https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-sa... and comment on the Public Consultation if you have feelings about that.

Explicitly part of the goal is either a pan-European ID card or requiring every Member State to adopt one. Currently, MS aren’t required to. When the UK was in the EU, the idea of a digital ID that could be used by the government to track all of your activities online was... not popular. However, despite Brexit, the idea is being reintroduced, this time to “fight coronavirus”. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-54010432
Why Your First House Is A Liability
There's never been many women in technical subject in Western countries. I think this stems from the traditional view that some jobs are for men, and some jobs are for women.

That's why we now have campaigns here in the UK to make girls in primary and secondary schools interested in these subjects and to make the message that girls can study anything they want. The same goes for boys and 'girly subject' though the push seems less visible.
Yeah, large-scale blogging was part of Web 2.0/read-write web which came into being around the time that it became much easier for "ordinary people" to publish on the Web but prior to the real social media wave of Facebook/Twitter/etc.

The timing lines up fairly well with Gulf War II but I would personally never have drawn a connection.
The first use was Joseph Dejaque criticising Proudhon for not going far enough. Specifically he criticised Proudhons views on women.

This first use was in the 1850's I believe. Left wing libertarianism predates the right wing use of the term by about a century.

During that time it was very much a term that encompassed anarchists and some other socialists such as libertarian Marxists.
I LOATHE this direction that Canonical is taking as SNAP is such a steaming pile of shit and it’s being shoved down everyone’s throats. It’s going to be the thing that makes me abandon Ubuntu. It was a neat idea in concept, it’s been horribly executed. If I wanted what you’re trying to push Canonical I’d just rub Qubes OS. Please give SNAP the quick death it needs and deserves!
And a large part of it is Google’s proprietary code. Hardly anyone runs pure android without any closed source components.
Scaling the current electric quadcopter design to carry humans is a terrible idea. Traditional airplanes and helicopters with variable pitch rotors can safely land if they lose power. If a quadcopter loses power it cannot land safely, and the passengers will die if it falls from 100 feet. Parachutes are an option, but there is a weight penalty and a minimum operating height, which means the concept of a bunch of 1-4 passenger quads zipping around the city are unlikely to happen until there is a huge conceptual leap in the design of these systems. There are a lot of people that claim they won't fly in a 737 MAX because of its flight control problems, but quads would be a zillion times more dangerous for humans.
> Tens of thousands of years of human history. Feuding warlords, and slaves, rather than everyone acting together in unity.

More generally: negative externalities / tragedy of the commons / prisoner's dilemma.
> What's the point of dynamic linking if we then end up shipping half an OS with an application just to get around dependency hell?

Not sure if you were commenting on the whole approach or just snap, but FTR, flatpak uses shared base layers which can be updated individually, so there's still an upside to dynamic linking.
Peak Ubuntu was 18.04 LTS :(

But, maybe it's not a bad thing - consider that this maps closely to the app store experiences on both Windows and OS X today. Perhaps it's a great decision for the future users of Ubuntu but not for the current users of Ubuntu. It could turn out beneficial for both Ubuntu and Debian, as I imagine many will switch over. And as much as I'm married to my current X11, it's pretty cool to see them push Wayland through.

Ubuntu is not for me anymore, but I still appreciate what they have done and are still doing for Linux, regardless of what I think of their product and market decisions.

Looks like Mint/MATE is the new Ubuntu for desktop and Debian has always been for server?
Thank you, never heard of "have to star", contributions line become empty after years of work.
I'm not saying that you're not a cost. That your are one is obvious. I'm saying that you're not a cost that can be reduced without any negative second order effects.
I think you got downvoted for the last paragraph, because otherwise, your post has a solid point and I am sure describes worldview of many people.

I yet to decide for myself on the topic. Just a random thought related to your post - while not making a mistake appears to be important from the individual and perhaps humanity side, it is not necessarily important for there life as the whole (I don't know that, just one possibility I am thinking about).
^ This. When someone approaches you saying things like "our former sysadmin is confrontational and unhelpful", you don't just have to solve whatever problem the guy who ragequit can't solve. You also have to undo the damage made by the asshole who's contacting you after they tried to solve it themselves, and sometimes by the one or two unqualified people they tried to hire afterwards.

You know how employers are skeptical to hire people who start the interview by saying how awful their last/current workplace was/is? Same here. I've definitely met hundreds of developers or sysadmins that I wouldn't trust, and whose services I wouldn't recommend. I've definitely been wrong and hired some of them myself. But I would never say something like that in public. At the end of the day, who's the smartass that hired these people in the first place? I get it's frustrating but such is life, you still have to be professional about it.

Plus, 200 USD/hour for a quick fix looks like a great deal, but even if the fix itself takes one hour, it's rarely a one-hour job with customers like these. You routinely end up invoicing for less time than you spend deflecting their attempts to negotiate the bill, explaining why it took one hour and itemizing it, and getting them to pay the stupid invoice.
I've been using an MX Master for the past 5 years now, and it's the best mouse I've ever used.

Nothing is perfect though, and here are some flaws:

- The battery is not properly user-replaceable (you'd need to peel the feet off to dismantle and plop in a new one). It's a lithium battery so obviously degrades over time.

- The logitech software is necessary to configure the gestures (you also need it if you want to change the scroll ratchet behaviour). The software is a little bit annoying and autoupdates, not sure what you can do if you're a linux user.

- The gesture button (which is hidden under the thumb-rest side of the mouse) has to be pressed _down_ to activate, which I still find a little awkward.

- Bluetooth on macs can be spotty (reconnects every hour or so on my macbook, which loses the cursor for a couple of second) - the dongle is more reliable, but there's only a USB-A dongle.

It's also not cheap and there's no left-handed option.

The 2S is just a slightly upgraded model with a bigger battery.
The docs aren't wrong; they just make a few assumptions, which are mostly true for existing implementations:

- Your SSB client downloads feeds you follow, plus feeds they follow, and possibly feeds they follow too

- When downloading lots of new feeds at once (for example, the first time you sync) your client makes no attempt to prioritise which feeds it downloads first

- Your client downloads all blobs (attachments) greedily

- Your client indexes downloaded messages (for example, to find the recent messages from all feeds); its implementation of indexing is slow and heavy; until indexing is complete, the app is unresponsive

None of these assumptions is necessarily true of an SSB client, but they're generally true of popular existing clients.
Flow-Edge Guided Video Completion
I saw links to this and thought it would be bullshit-y enterprise training, but now I actually look at it looks actually useful - so, thank you!
It’s not wrong, it’s just generally but not exhaustively true.

SSB doesn’t have a root node, so if you think of yourself like an island the data transfer required from your first “bridge” is going to depend on what you are bridging to.

In practical terms, if you join one of the SSB pubs published in their documentation, you’ll sync whatever is on that pub.
TFA:

The article has been updated to accommodate changes since the original four months ago.
> The funders had no role in study design,

The Funders know how it'll come out.

Studies don't take into account the leaps that will happen because we don't know what they are. Things don't just continue as the previous 80 years. These jumps happened even when we didn't have the internet to super charge stuff.

> 2025 US population to be between 225M and 392M

That's 2050 in the document.

2020 is 210 - 305 million estimate. (pdf p29)

> decreased birthrates is very strong.

But not fertility. You won't be living to 120 without being a healthy and fertile 60 year old. It's fun to have work as number one for 20 years, but if it's easy to have kids in your 40's without IVF things will change.
The internet of the 90s is still alive if you step outside the walled gardens.

It is and it isn't. Sure, you can run a website, forum, blog, whatever and host it yourself much easier than in the 90s. But people look for you and connect on the popular platforms they frequent: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, etc.

Back in the day even normies would pick up some tech and talk to you on IRC or USENET. Nowadays, it's the opposite, the bias is in the other direction. Even hackers are on Slack and Twitter.
As someone who files patents (and then gives away royalty-free licenses to them), this has not been my experience.
They keep pushing it because it makes it much easier for Canonical employees to package stuff like Chromium.
Ask HN: What are some good end-to-end crypto frameworks for JavaScript/Browsers?
We've recently migrated to cloud storage (vs local storage) for the 2.0 version of our app and some of our users are concerned about the security of their data.

Their use case as researchers prevents them from sharing their data with a 3rd party.

Even assuming the 3rd party was a good actor it could still get hacked.

If we had end-to-end encryption where it as encrypted on the users workstation, mobile device, before being sent then this problem is essentially solved.

The problem is I don't want to roll my own crypto. Time and time again it's been shown that if you're not an absolute expert you're probably going to screw it up. It's even hard if you ARE an expert.

Things like key recovery, which keys to use, etc. are all insanely important decisions.

Do you guys have any papers or libraries that you recommend?
what is the main problem this snap thing is looking to address ?
It’s not a theory, it’s a fact
Sabine Hossenfelder youtube channel has nice videos about Quantum Mechanics and interpretations:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1yNl2E66ZzKApQdRuTQ4tw

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine_Hossenfelder

Some quantum materiel also on Science Asylum:

https://www.youtube.com/c/Scienceasylum/videos
I have a similar outlook. I kept complaining and basically the answer comes down to "if you don't like it, leave" - so I did. I understand it's not appropriate for all use cases but Manjaro has been an absolute dream for me so far.
I disagree on the containerization part. It can absolutely improve security a lot by facilitating isolation of namespaces and filesystems.

But perhaps base container images on scratch, not on ubuntu:latest ;)
The pointer variable does not contain the type - it only stores the address. Sizeof will return whatever the machine address width is.

The type is implicitly stored as the pointers type. Casting a pointer can change a piece of memory to be interpreted as any type you want. Although the cast might not make logical sense or may even caused undefined behavior in C.

Pointer arithmetic works off of whatever the current type is, as the compiler needs to know how to the memory offsets.
The biggest problem - people can't easily change countries nowadays (and even before borders, I bet traveling that far was cost prohibitive). So you end up in the situation where you have to follow rules of the contract, which you did not explicitly agreed to
1. Oh yeah? What are you basing that on?
2. Which ones?
If you're matching on a sealed type, you do get a warning.
Isn't the sandboxing a good idea though? It feels that Linux got caught in the past and is actually one of the least secure OSes out there, and what keeps it safe is just its small desktop market share.

Disclaimer: I never used snap and don't use Ubuntu.
Since publishing this yesterday I've also added Node.js - these are fairly reusable examples around Dockerfiles and buildx. Feel free to copy the approach as required.
> Many non-professional users I know and work with have replaced their Mac mice (of all generations) with a different one because of hand cramping

I can't agree more. I am actually surprised nobody has filed a case for it.
What about making patents valid only for 1 year or 2 from the commercial release ?
This is enough to foster / protect innovation
"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!"

No. This fails at scale. People are prosocial in small groups and in person but when this scales it goes away. This is a slight of hand the author is making to silently embed a false premise into the argument.
The lifecycle diagram is legit.

As for the vendors, Nvidia is just promoting their own services or their partners.

But there aren't any established players yet. It's still a nascent field.
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Caps lock is usefully but only occasionally, so it doesn't make sense to give it its own key in such a prominent position. Remapping the Caps Lock key to Control is imo very useful. I use a HHKB so if I want to use Caps Lock I just press Fn+Tab.
> humans already come from nature with capacity for ... conflict resolution ...

Um, I don't think so. Conflict resolution is the main obstacle to the viability of entirely voluntary ("anarchist") organization. That's why it's the self-defining function of any government, even the most minimal.
Well "Starve the Beast" exists .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast
I'm against "entirely" anything.

There are no fixed solutions for organizing society. We don't know what it is to be a human (only strict ideologies are certain what humanity wants and what the goal is). Allowing changes and feedback is the key.
This seems short-sighted. Mobile phones used to an annoying tool only "rich assholes" could use to loudly talk in a public space. Cars, air travel, electric cars - all at one point only affordable by the rich.
All these containerization "solutions" are just the fever symptoms of the future shock from the extremely rapid rate of features and improvement in the underlying libraries (glibc, c++?, etc) used by programmers, and the programmer's tendency to use those fancy new features asap. It makes compiling, or even running, something written today on the dev environment of a 5 year old linux distro pretty darn difficult and worse with time.
TL;DR:

Gist: Described as SG's "original sin," Lee's detainment without trial of
pro-Communist opposition in 1963 paves the way for one-man rule. Lee applies
scientific rigor to backwater of Southeast Asia.

Theory 1: SG's small geography is uniquely tailored for Lee's centralism.
Abstractions collapse and errors get magnified over larger distances (USSR,
China, Brazil). Lee and Chinese premiere Jiang Zemin apply SG's model to Suzhou Industrial Park. Widely regarded as failure.

Theory 2: Strongman approach fails in Zimbabwe and North Korea because only Lee is wise enough to pull it off.

Timeline:

1819: Stamford Raffles colonizes sleepy Malay village.

1940s: Japan captures and oppresses SG during WW2. Britain gradually decolonizes in war's aftermath.

1950s: Moderate Lee and Communist sympathizer Lim Chin Siong emerge as leaders of Western-educated PAP party. Lim dominates Lee in charisma and Mandarin ability in rallying the key Chinese laborer demographic.

1956: Minister of SG Lim Yew Hock imprisons Lim and other Communist PAP leaders citing public safety.

1958: Mollified by Hock's anti-leftism, Britain entrusts SG with full self-governance in State of Singapore Act.

1959: Lee's PAP party wins election in landslide. Lee releases Lim and other imprisoned Communists.

1961: Lim splits from Lee over Malay merger (Lee is for, Lim is against), forming own party Barisan Sosialis.

1963: Lee wins Malay merger referendum. Lim accuses Lee of "cheating" and "threats." Lee builds case for Lim's potential for violent subversion. When Lim is discovered lunching with Brunei's rebel leader, Lee triggers "Operation Coldsore" detaining Lim and 113 others without trial. Lim was released after six years, moved to England and became a grocer.

1965: SG leaves Malaysian Federation. Lee cries on TV.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Yc2L5koWZY
Advertisers aren't winning either. They're paying more and more for ads with fewer avenues for unpaid traffic.

You could maybe say that they're getting more measurable results than back in the day of TV and press dominance but having seen it from the inside, I doubt most are sophisticated enough to make use of that.
The standard reply is that social pathologies are caused by a pathological system. In that way it's not much different than Marxist apologetics. Unfalsifiable utopianism, and frankly, naive about human nature. There's just so much hand waving when it comes to concrete proposals. Blueprints? like what? Stalin himself would have been a fan a Parecon. I'll miss David. Debt was a really interesting book. But, if this is anarchism, our most visible anarchist activists today didn't get the message. We all practice Communism at the level of a family. And we all practice anarchism in a somewhat free society. But not all social systems scale. I do wonder why my favorite anarchists like Graeber and Chomsky and Zinn found their homes in academic institutions where most of their peers are fully capable of governing themselves. Call me cynical, but scratch a cynic and you'll find a disillusioned idealist, they say. It seems to me that if you scratch a social anarchist and you'll find a crypto totalitarian.
I've been running Ubuntu 20.04 on WSL2 and haven't had any issues with snap being pushed on me—mainly because I don't use the Ubuntu store and have everything installed through apt on the command-line.
Flatpak gives you a sandbox, and has basically skirted around any shortcoming of Snap (faster, open, extensible, adopted by every other distro, doesn't pollute /proc/mounts)
Upstream moving faster than downstream Linux distributions can possibly keep up with.
I’m curious what makes you so sure the laws on the books are what’s keeping the majority of billions from randomly shooting each other.

Just because laws exist doesn’t mean they’re what’s keeping your neighbors from randomly gunning you down given they could snap biologically despite the law.

Anarchism doesn’t mean no laws or rules.

Anarchism as a lawless violent mess is the movie version.

One could even keep the Constitution system we have, again anarchism is rules, no rulers. Still need to figure out rules.

An anarchism “hack” at scale IMO starts with a functioning legislative and judicial process beholden to public life not corporatism, and local management of concern rather than having Mr President to eventually function overload, wiggling his pen changing the outputs without legislative action.

It means not believing in grandpas notion of a functional nation state. Paraphrasing Thomas Jefferson, the dead should not rule the living. (Indeed they cannot given many facts of science, it’s really lots of vain people emotionally play acting their nostalgia, the world has literally moved on).

Step 1 in the US, restrain the Presidency. It was only ever intended to be a task master for Congress. Step 2 Senate term limits to avoid capture by people who think America achieved the ultimate form of human society in 1980. Step 3 expand representation in Congress, a process which was halted decades ago by special interests. Step 4 expand judiciary to improve access to timely court processes. Yet another process neutered in the last century.

Above all take control of your political future rather than be distracted by what are ultimately disposable technology fads.

I know it’s fashionable to ignore it but you pointed out yourself how much worse it could be without anything, might be a good idea to make sure it’s screwed down.
For a while old media subsidized online media and that was the short "golden" age of online newspapers, magazines etc., Never to return.

For those if us not obsessed with twitter and Facebook the golden age is now, the amount and quality of information available to an engineer is incredible and the online communities are mostly positive.
I think it is more complicated than that, although I agree in some circumstances laws deter bad behavior. However many laws are passed to protect the bad behavior of the powerful. Moreover, under better environments people may organize themselves effectively with only cultural norms - not laws. Think happy families living together without any laws governing their behavior or tribes with cultural norms protecting a common grazing area.