skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lower taxes means more money people can devote to housing, which in turn can also bid up prices.

This is why the USA provides for a foreign housing deduction, or Americans could never practically live in Singapore without running into double taxation.
The dorm I was in at MIT, Random Hall, got sued at one point for violating a patent on connecting laundry machines to the internet. A patent that was filed for shorty after the second time the dorm's laundry servers appeared on Slashdot. Thankfully MIT had our backs.
Even if you have a mortgage, you have some equity in it. Most mortgages require 20% down payment in your home, you can still get a way with a 80/15/5 loan now where you only have to put 5% down.
It was an exaggeration. But there are enough humans who are not interested in fair behaviour, but only getting ahead at almost any cost, that the idea of an unregulated world is laughable.
A country avoids nuclear exchanges because retaliation will also devastate it. An integrated economy isn’t going be any more of a deterrent in this respect. If a country is willing to deal with nuclear devastation they are certainly willing to deal with economically damaging themselves.

As far as proxy wars go is trade going to stop those? History has examples of proxy wars fought between countries that engaged in trade.
I would argue that Strugatski brothers’ first sentence is harder to translate, because it’s a direct quote from Pushkin.
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buying a house is probably not a good investment, true. But so is buying a car.

And at some point people may get to the point where they want these things.

Sure, you can rent, but there at lots of things you can’t do in a rental. And in some regions the rental market for houses is very small.
A picture or two would have been helpful to spice up the story.
i didn't have your experience, but then i only lived a few years in the US, so i didn't really have much opportunity to familiarise myself with the options.

in my home country cable was available for a decent price without hidden fees because such trickery is illegal there.

for the restaurant: food courts do exist, and they can have surprisingly high quality food, so yes, it is possible to create a market where everyone can pick and choose.

sure, for you the current situation may be an improvement. and if you are satisfied with that, that's fine.

i am not satisfied because i know we can do better.
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We also have "The customer always loses".

I guess it all translates to "The small guy always loses".

And VCs piling up money doesn't work in favor of the small guy.
They will build structures. These structures are called gangs, and their leaders warlords.
No, because the KKK itself represents a coercive power structure acting without the consent of those it attempt to enforce power over, which is inherently not anarchist.

If the KKK only tried to harass or harm people who had consented to be subject to them, then you'd have an argument.
Laughed at this I did.
Because it just so happens that this system didn't happen in order to protect us, but just uses that argument to perpetuate itself.
Agree. It is very good, but I think thee things he is concerned with are very c++ specific.
Hey, you've invented WinSxS.

The primary issue with this approach is that if every program only sees its own version of the library anyway, there's no incentive to coordinate around library versions - you end up with tons of versions of everything anyway, maybe not one for every application but close to.
In the south, at some chains, even grocery store employees weren't allowed to wear them until the day after Trump said a mask or even a scarf would be ok:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i96408t-Xb4

I think that was March 31st or so. Up until then, the owners were worried it would drive customers away to let employees wear them.
> doesn’t impose idiotic requirements like ... x server

How are you going to sandbox graphical apps without knowing about (and having capabilities around) the system by which a containerized app would communicate with your OS’s graphics subsystem?

I mean, if you’re not going to run any X11-client graphical apps, it should probably be optional to have an X11 server installed; but either way, you’ll need the X11 wire-protocol libraries (“xorg-common” in most package repos) for the sandbox to link in.
This is a significant trade-off, of course, but it is also the only secure way to use iMessage on Android as I understand it. Otherwise, you would have to trust a third party with your Apple ID credentials and iMessage signing key.

Plus, you can always run a Hackintosh or use macOS in a VM, although that can be a lot of work depending on your computer hardware.
For most of us a job is not a hobby. Also we don’t get a wide gamut of job opportunities to make the selection based on the benefits. There is no negotiation, there are only one-two job opportunities (best case scenario) with the traditional take it as-is or leave option. This is why in the States fresh graduates end up with almost no Personal Time Off.
With no legislation and no competition for talent (which is the case for most job roles), the business owners will ALWAYS F their employees.
Could you explain (or link to a good resource about) what pointers really are? I'm surprised that they aren't just ints that point to the address of a variable.
> Stallman.

Not sure what to make of this. Is this a reference to his tarnished sainthood or that the modern web has largely ignored his sage advice? Or something else?
Backwardly? Media and the wrong picture of a "good america" ? ^^
See [old-roadmap], on the challenges they had. But I agree that they should be overcome.

In particular, the essence of the packfile format and protocol --- storing and exchanging patches from one content-addressed atom to another --- would be good for IPFS as a whole, so I think the issue is not some incompatible priorities, but rather just human/org coordination difficulties. (C.F. [eth2-report] for about Ethereum 2 working with libp2p.)

It's always harder to reuse code developed by different teams in the short term, but I firmly believe it's worth it, making both sides better --- better than they would be had they gone their separate ways --- in the long term.

The immediate challenge with Git is that git objects (blobs, trees, and commits) can be arbitrary large, which is bad in general, but especially bad for p2p networks where you don't to waste arbitrary large bandwidth and storage with some untrusted peer before verifying whether the data they've sent you is what you wanted. But I think I and a friend found a solution to this [git-chunk]. With that, it's at least possible to negotiate who has what git object without an awkward trustful identifier translations. That I think is good enough to get the ball rolling, after which the improvements to the protocol taking inspiration from the packfile format/protocol can be pursued.

[old-roadmap]: https://github.com/radicle-dev/radicle/issues/689

[eth2-report]: https://discuss.libp2p.io/t/report-a-study-of-libp2p-and-eth...

[git-chunk]: https://discuss.ipfs.io/t/git-on-ipfs-links-and-references/7...
I would say it's the fact that despite humanity's initial state being anarchy, all over the world human society has developed along basically these same patterns.
I was settling up WSL2 the other day and needed Chrome so I could run it headless for some E2E tests I had going. It took a lot of messing about to get a copy of it that didn't use Snap. Partly because apt has always worked great for me and I didn't want to switch with something else, but also because it required systemd to run it as a daemon?

That they clobbered the apt install just to push Snap forward left a bad taste in my mouth.
I don't like "flat-out refuse". I don't "refuse" to package my apps for every distro any more than I "refuse" to do my neighbour's gardening.

I tried packaging for Debian once and after 2 days I have up -- I have neither the time or patience to do work for distros I don't use for free.
But that allows for discussion bubbles to form in this case. Contrarian views are downvoted to oblivion. Not much of an issue in HN, as it is in reddit.
The difference is that on the country level, subsidizing families to have children is arguably in the interest of the state. That's not the case on the company level.
Agreed. RDPD influenced me a lot as a younger person. But now I'm convinced the house-as-investiment mantra is unsustainable. It also hasn't been true for most of history except select periods.

The book also seems based largely on anecdotes and the premise that one has money or lucrative opportunities to begin with.
Amazing video, thanks for sharing.

Now imagine a round/spherical version of that liquid band, but instead of getting the vibration from outside (the glass walls), the vibration is coming from inside, and you pretty much have a model for Earth and an alternative model for gravity.
Easily Monitoring Production Systems
FloodRunner is an opensource monitoring framework designed to allow you to easily monitor web applications using Puppeteer tests.
I agree.. This incessant pushing of snap, and the closed nature of the snap store are also things I hate. And that practice with chromium is aim to Microsoft resetting edge as default browser every update. And it is indeed wasteful.

I'm sure they'll eventually abandon snap just like they did with all their other attempts at introducing their own stamp on Linux (like upstart, mir). Just hope it'll be soon.
You can see the performance at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW3FP_atp1w

The performers enter at about 3:27:00, followed by a short introduction by the conductor in English and German, then the chord change itself. In this particular performance, it takes several performers working simultaneously to make any given change. Today's change required the addition of two new pipes.

I'm struck by the similarities between this performance of ASLAP and some of the work of the Long Now Foundation.
I think it depends.

From my experience, if I want to learn something a bit more general, let's say computer science, that is not specifically bundled with a piece of software, a book is the best medium. Videos are great, but have a few important cons: 1) It's difficult to see code on screen; 2) It's too slow and difficult to index

And a real book is always better than an e-book because: 1) It's easier to index; 2) a bit better for my eyes.

However, whence the learning target focuses on a specific software, let's say Unity, videos immediately shine over the other mediums as it's much easier to learn the interface with videos.
It's only better for me in an idealistic scenario where my local militia succeeds. If a bigger and stronger one comes around then my life could quickly become horrible.
Do you think Somalia is like some never-ending Stallone movie?

Business still gets done. People work, get paid, buy things without knifing each other. It is true that without recourse to state institutions, there is more non-state-sanctioned violence, which is kind of definitional, but also true in absolute terms.

But enormous amounts of daily interaction goes on with humans demonstrating perfectly normal abilities to compromise without killing each other.

This is another form of 'elite panic' - the belief that The Lord of the Flies is just around the corner if Officer Smiley stands down. People don't behave that way in reality.
From a tech-org perspective I've had the opposite experience. Zoom crashes, behaves weird, has issues on some peoples machines but not others, does weird javascripty things to hide the "join by web" link which we get complaints about, etc.

From a non-technical persons perspective, my piano teacher was using Zoom but ended up having to switch to Jitsi Meet because (anecdotally) the audio quality was better and more consistent.
Security wise Nano is DOA. Currently any attacker can effectively DDOS the network with trivial resources. I’ve personally proposed a complete solution to this problem over a year ago but it’s implementation is complex and would require a network split and my proposal has effectively been ignored in favor of other mitigation’s that fall far short of protecting the network. I’m not a security researcher and hell I’m not even in the CS field anymore so if I could figure out and implement an network wide attack on my own the barrier to entry is low (to be clear I have not executed any such attack). If you want to read further, the issue is a precomputed PoW attack. Nano’s very benefit - speed - is it’s biggest pitfall.
Ah yes, the pliers on the Swiss Champ are mini-ones though. Leatherman pliers are more or less full size. Victorinox does make multitools as you say (the SwissTools line) -- they look very nice.
Do people still design rest-ful APIs?

For internal software, you use whatever works.

For the public API of a major service? Yes, REST is definitely still around. REST or at least REST-like APIs are still almost universal in my experience.
Home ownership and apt renting are radically different markets. That house you bought, how much does it cost to rent the equivalent? Your end desire is the important issue here to decide to buy or rent. When you rent you don't control the surrounds you have and might have undesirable neighbors living on top of you. I know few people who bought a home regret it. But some people prefer the care free life of renting. I don't want to be renting or paying a mortgage in my later years.
For another point of comparison, what works for me is what the OP said is the worst, just moving the mouse with my finger tips. I also tried the mouse pads you mentioned, and they caused the most issues as they put pressure directly on my wrist. What I do is...

I line up the armrest of my chair with the top of the desk so they're a level surface. I adjust the height of my chair so my arm is at a 90 degree angle. My arm runs flat across the arm rest and the desk, and my palm sits on the flat mouse pad. Then, I just move my finger tips to flick the mouse 1cm in any direction for getting to different sides of the screen.

For keyboards it's similar. I use a thin and flat keyboard. This way my elbow (on the armrest), forearm, palm, and finger tips are all in a straight line. If I add any type of wrist rest, then the weight all goes to the wrist instead of being distributed.

Lastly, I dislike keyboards and laptops that raise the backside because they raise my finger tips and put pressure on my wrist. It feels much more natural for the fingers to be lower or equal to the wrist and palm.

Anyway, just my experience. I had some discomfort for a few years, and then nothing for the past decade.
Absolutely agree. Should be. In your experience is it the case?
Theory 3: neither zimbabwe nor north korea are on the Strait of Malacca.

Malacca was just behind the Strait of Hormuz for oil transit in 2015:

https://i.insider.com/551b00ef6da8112c6484d430?width=1300&fo...

and it is strategically located in between Hormuz and Shandong:

https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/ce/gjnvwxywkpw/ChinaOi... (July 2020)

Exercise for the reader: locate the paracels and spratlys. (S'pore would be just off the bottom, on the left, lah.)

Crude Rules Everything Around Me.
> Too often snap critics conflate the installation of the third party software use case with the distribution itself.

I don't think it's accurate to say that it's the desire to install rolling-released third party software in itself that's the problem. It's the mismatch between the distribution's and the third party software's release cycles that make this a problem, and using a distribution that more closely resembles the software's release cycle does solve this problem without needing Snap.
And where in the world has it played out like this?

Instead of examples of peaceful anarchism, the history of the world is full of examples showing that those with the will to use violence use it for their own ends, form gangs, and militias, become warlords...
Yes, there is a constant amount of information in the system. In fact, that's part of the beauty of MWI in contrast with Copenhagen. In MWI, the state at any point in time can be used to reconstruct the state at any other time. However, because of the collapse, that's not the case for Copenhagen. In other words, measurement in Copenhagen actually destroys information.
As far as computational complexity goes, the same happens in classical mechanics. Start with 10^23 particles far apart but moving toward each other. Then simulating the first second is simple, but once they get close together, it gets hard with the computational complexity growing as time progresses (or alternatively the error growing for fixed computational resources).
On the contrary again, look at the death of Lorenzo Anderson at the hands of the Seattle anarchist community.

I’m afraid at the end of everything that happens this year, the data is going to tell us that the only change the anarchists achieved was getting trump re-elected.
> it is also the only secure way to use iMessage on Android as I understand it

I'm not very familiar with the workings of iMessage but why can't an Android device copy the protocol and make the relevant API calls directly?
For that to happen though, you need a large portion of people to agree to do so. In an anarchic society where production is essentially communally owned, the cost to stop polluting is the same in the end.
I believe that the core issue is the size of the group. That small groups up to 100-150 people (where everybody knows each other personally) would be able to self-organize in an anarchist fashion. Going above that the us/them issues will increase, leading to a need for some type of government.
How would anarchism prevent tribes, warlords, organizations, armies and countries to form? If you leave people to do whatever they want that is what they do, as can be seen all throughout humanities history.

A system which doesn't prevent people from doing that isn't a system, instead you'll get the first despot who is charismatic enough to unite the people.
Ways for punching through NAT. STUN lets you discover NAT addresses and the like to try and establish a connection with a port on the WAN IP, or some other connection mechanism. TURN is effectively a proxy that can be used by both sides to establish a connection through NAT.
What if we could model gravity on Earth as if it was produced by the planet's core pulsating in such a way that we get the same effect of the experiment, but across the whole planet surface?
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Corruption is always a spectrum right? My guess is that Singapore is at the lower end of the scale, although not at zero.
Can you elaborate? At least the ZDNet article you posted doesn't exactly corroborate your statement. (Not taking a stance for/against RMS here – I still don't really understand what happened.)
Most Bitcoin miners are in Montana? https://cointelegraph.com/news/study-over-74-of-bitcoin-mini...
I have been using the snap versions of Chromium, Discord, CLion and Spotify for a while now and I haven't noticed any slowness whatsoever. Sure the applications need some seconds (at most 5) to start up on a freshly booted machine but other than that it's pretty snappy (heh). The only issue I have encountered so far is that some applications don't respect the environments cursor theme (looking at you Spotify and Postman) but that's easily fixable by the package maintainers. Other than that I really don't understand the hate-train for snap. Coming from Arch Linux, PPAs seem like a PITA to me and an elegant solution such as the AUR doesn't exist in the Ubuntu ecosystem so snap / flatpak are the next closest thing to it.
It depends on what you're comparing. A crappy apt in a dodgy neighborhood or renting a house in a nice neighborhood. If you're renting that house you want to buy then you'll likely be paying the landlord's mortgage and then some. Generally it holds that mortgage is less for same type of property you're renting in equivalent neighborhoods of same geo.
Yes, in fact a managed private campground with fines is compatible with anarchy provided the owner doesn't have an effective monopoly on places to pitch a tent outside of their campground.

Even if they do have a monopoly, a large group with an effective monopoly on paying campers over some timeframe can negotiate an agreement for reduced or no fines.

Anarchy is about power relations. If they're relatively equal, it's anarchy.
Yeah, I’m guilty as charged here. I spend a lot time on both sites these days and they bleed into each other for me.
> you can also have technological anarchic societies and indeed they exist.

Where?
There are pictures in the article?
It sounds great in theory until you realize it leads to paying women and minorities less for the same work. Meanwhile it means those in positions of power can arrange for myriad benefits (I’ll need a private helicopter between meetings and summers in the Hamptons) while Americans are guaranteed literally 0 days of vacation leave.
The main thing that makes me wary of relying on something like GH in particular (esp. suggestions like scraping its API for data) is that not everybody uses those.

For example, almost all of my open-source contributions happen on privately hosted infrastructure. Instead of looking at my Github you'd have to look at my Gerrit[0] - otherwise you might get the impression I have no active open-source footprint.

I think it is valuable to look at publicly available contributions of candidates, as long as it's not constrained to a particular location.

[0]: https://cl.tvl.fyi/q/owner:mail%2540tazj.in
I've switched everyone I know to Telegram, which works on all devices and isn't anti-competitive like Apple.
Sure, the Zapatistas, the Apoists, and a few indigenous anarchist groups.

Forming gangs and militias is difficult when the status quo is good for most people resulting the majority being willing to use violence to avoid being ruled by gangs and warlords.
Not a huge story here - seemingly a misunderstanding about timezones, but the CA/B baseline requirements have this to state, which seems pretty clear to me:

> By convention, this document omits time and timezones when listing effective requirements such as dates. Except when explicitly specified, the associated time with a date shall be 00:00:00 UTC.

Personally it seems odd to me that you'd assume such a change would kick in at midnight Arizona time, unless for some reason you thought Arizona was the centre of the PKI-universe...
The published article already shows studies have been performed and quite conclusively found these people to be liars. No point in wasting further money or time on a self suppressing group.
I think this argument loses a lot of nuance. The idea behind anarchism, I think, is that people will generally be good to each other and support each other when left to their own devices. In fact, if you think about it, the capacity for doing harm is only very large when you have highly centralised power structures. The fact that people aren't perfect and can do harm at all means, to anarchists, that we should not give the power to cause widespread harm to any individual or small group.

As for the COVID example, we are being told that the disease is spreading because of irresponsible people congregating in bars and salons etc. But if you look at the numbers, the main places that the disease is spreading is in workplaces like meat factories. People are not going to work in these places and spread the disease because of some "selfish, egotistical" inclinations. They are doing so because the society we live in has selfish people with a lot of power that are willing to get others infected for the sake of profit -- i.e. the business owners who are forcing people to work in unsafe conditions if they want to keep their jobs. I think this is further evidence that anarchism is a better approach.
Really good video, thank you for sharing. This is definitely the kind of thing you want to see in motion, not just read about :)