skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure this is true. Not only were humans very loosely hierarchical essentially until the invention of agriculture, but anarchism doesn't advocate for arbitrary and informal authority, but for limited in any authority at all unless absolutely necessary, in which case it must be directly kept in check.
> Anarchism would mandate worker ownership of production

Legitimately curious: How do you mandate anything in an anarchy?
Do you count web sites? Can you run own copy of for example google search? Browser in nothing without these applications. There are just a few exceptions - Hacker News, WordPress, GitLab, there is a platform https://sandstorm.io/

Do you have a smartphone? Is it LineageOS microG and F-Droid applications or postmarketOS? Maybe something else from quite a limited list [1]?

I use Linux, there is much more software for Windows and it is not open source.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_mobile_pho...
> one that fits professional use

It just doesn't suit you and your profession. You can't say broadly that it's not 'fit [for] professional use'. If you're a professional author it's probably fine.
Right, sand-boxing should be made at OS-Level not in User-space.
The tax advantages are pretty rare now that the standard deduction was raised to $12k per individual. Only something like 10% of homes still use the interest deduction.
In GIS you are not dealing with true 3D data. Only the surface of the earth matters. Using 3D coordinates would be extremely wasteful.

So you need a projection to map the surface data onto a sphere and another one to map the sphere onto the 2d screen. No way around it. Using the same projection for display as for data saves a transformation. Usually it is some variant on Mercator because it is the one people are most familiar with.

In the end unless you are starting to think about true 3D (multi-story buildings, caves,...) thinking of a "3D globe" is just a bit of projection math that doesn't fundamentally change the problem.
One in ten medical treatments are supported by high-quality evidence – study
i can’t recommend Kerav (2016) enough.

ABSTRACT

Researchers spend a great deal of time reading research papers. However, this skill is rarely taught, leading to much wasted effort. This article outlines a practical and efficient three-pass method for reading research papers. I also describe how to use this method to do a literature survey.

https://web.stanford.edu/class/ee384m/Handouts/HowtoReadPape...
I completely disagree with this. Common law is still enforced. The issue is not the source of the law, but how the organ that enforces it gets the power to do so - whether it is imposed from above, or entered into by consent.

We already enter into agreements about which rules apply in situations not covered by law all the time.

The more you relegate to consensual agreements, the closer to anarchy you get,whether those agreements include 'refer to common law principles' or 'refer to this book of statutes'.
Good, less competition.
Pay your friend through a credit card?
What are some products in India by which I can pay my friend through a credit card?
Varargs was not part of the language originally. If you look at the source code for printf() from Unix v7, I think you'll find it accesses its arguments by indexing off the address of the first one. I don't remember when varargs came along, but it was some time in the 1980s, and this book was written in 1990.

Which is not to excuse the author. His description of how this works and why you would want to do it is just wrong.
That happened as a reaction to PublicFreakouts becoming ProtestsAgainstPolice
Those aren't the only two options. You can have public property that isn't anarchy. That's how national parks work in the US.
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I am Firefox user so I don't miss Chromium. However, occasionally you hit sites that don't work with Firefox. It's rare, but if it is an airline check-in (less relevant these days) or the e-learning platform of my daughter's school (very relevant these days) you don't have any choice. With the market share of Firefox I fear this will become more common :(
> The real problem for me though is that snaps are slow as hell. I mean like taking 4-5+ seconds to open on a box with an SSD, i7, and 64GB of RAM. That's unacceptable.

Spotify is specifically one of the snaps I use and frankly, I noticed it seemed to start a little slow but just assumed that was because of Electron or something. I literally don't care and never thought anything of it. I run it, it starts, and then I don't close it.

Besides, if Spotify users reject it, they can always switch to PPA or something else. It's their choice.

> apt now seems to be giving me snaps instead of debs for a great deal of programs,

"a great deal"? I've seen two mentioned, chromium and lxd. Where else have you encountered this where Debian has a package available from a maintainer but a snap shim is used instead?

Apt will also tell you a snap is available if there's no deb but that's just useful information.
I thought multis are just URLs you can bookmark.
Maybe vaguely referring to Salam Pax.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salam_Pax

Iraqi blogger.
The idea of how an anarchic society would be run is that you would need strong social norms, and people willing to use violence in order to prevent authority from rising, which effectively deals with small antisocial minorities.
I can understand the backlash. Perhaps the companies should allow people who need more time to handle things time off with benefits but no pay or reduced hours (work a 30 hour week) with a pay cut and full benefits for the duration of the pandemic. This way nobody loses.
I agree with everything you write, except:

> If you don't like the bundled model, then you can carry on using Ubuntu 20.04 without Snaps just fine.

No, you can't. Ubuntu has started replacing apt packages with snaps. So if you want to install those packages (such as Chromium) you now have to use the snap.
> ummm, both of your specific examples are actually examples of those with power abusing it

Precisely. Those are examples of how, unless you place explicit constraints on people's ability to amass power and abuse it, people will amass power and abuse it.

The whole history of progress in political systems could be oversimplified as a search for laws, structures, checks, and balances to prevent this from happening. In the absence of engineered ones, you revert into anarchy, which leads to individuals amassing power and abusing it.

Things like Democratic Structures, the Magna Carta, and the US Constitution were steps forward to prevent that. Heck, the rigid hierarchy of Ancient Egypt did better than the anarchy which came before. As a primitive form of government, it was incredibly inequitable, but you had far less theft and violence than before. That invention -- explicit governance structures and codified laws -- even in that form, allowed modern civilization.
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YMMV. Firefox is the golden standard, at least on Arch Linux. Never have I noticed it was running on a sandbox. I run Discord, Spotify, Thunderbird from Flatpak without any issue either.

Visual Studio Code is a regular package, just because its use case it not really suited for a sandbox (access to system binaries, libraries, etc.), but I honestly haven't even tested its Flatpak version.
Then community autonomy means community law.
I thought so as well. Ended up rolling my own and encountering too many sync and error-handling issues.

Ended up deciding to spend the week configuring jitsi, but all it took was 1 hour to install and configure the server and I was done
NirLauncher – Collection of more than 200 portable utilities from NirSoft
Flatpak's sandboxing is an absolute joke and entirely voluntary.
I live in downtown D.C. and I do not know one single person who has has tested positive for Covid. I don't think I even know anyone who knows someone who has tested positive.

Everything is shutdown and everyone is wearing mask, so socially it sucks, but no ill health effects.
Is it an advertisement when it’s the same property that you are in? That’s like HBO advertising the next episode of a show you are watching.
The MWI is literally obtained by taking traditional Copenhagen QM and removing the postulate of measurement. In other words, it is by the most genuine way of measuring complexity of a theory, demonstrably simpler than copenhagen! We just don't like it because it doesn't jive with our experience... it feels weird.

When you have two theories that make the same predictions, but one is strictly simpler than the other, Occam's razor tells us to prefer the simpler one.

In my mind, MWI or something akin to it, is the way to go, and is generally the way I conceptually think about QM.
Anarchism is not a single political or economic philosophy, it is a very broad school of thought. I would not agree that the most basic principle of anarchism is self-organization. For me the nucleus of anarchism is that all authority should be questioned and that power structures of all kinds (not just governmental/state) should be analysed and dismantled.

If this has piqued your interest, you may wish to look in to libertarian socialism, which is a narrower strain of thought within the anarchist tradition, which advocates citizens assemblies, worker co-ops, and fractal councils, among other specific solutions to some of the issues raised in this thread.

Also, a short introductory video on anarchism from Philosophy Tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCAUmh99hMI
In previous releases I wondered why such a small basic program like the Gnome Calculator would take several seconds to start from the time I clicked the icon in the "Activities" screen. Then when the whole 20.04 and forced Snap thing came to my attention I simply uninstalled the snap version and installed the proper version through apt. Now the program pops up instantly when I start it.

This single interaction basically turned me off snaps from then on.
> RMS ousted from the FSF

Wtf. Looks like I must have been living under a rock! What happened?
> making the desktop experience more idiot-proof.

"If you make it idiot proof only idiots will want to use it". - this holds true. Canonical made the conscious and deliberate decision to treat users like morons by not even giving us the ability to decide how and when to install updates.

I gave up on Windows because of their blindly hostile approach to users, I won't be installing the latest Ubuntu - opting for Mint instead.
You are confusing "harmful" with "at-risk"
Implement struct no copy in Golang
I can’t think of an Apple mouse I ever enjoyed using. Ironically though, their trackpads are way better than everyone else’s. I also prefer their keyboards, so all in all I’m pretty happy with their peripherals these days.
Recently got myself a Logitech Pebble. I've found it "practically minimal" - it does the job, it's cute, better than Apple's mice in some aspects.

https://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/pebble-m350-wireless-...
Thank you for this thoughtful and well-written contribution to the discussion.
State Parks and National Parks usually have zero tolerance for unwieldy behavior. National Forests are where you’ll see gunshot holes in signs and occasionally trash. I’ve seen entire burnt out vehicles in CA National Forests, it’s a little more wild west.
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I sincerely thought the author was joking at first. My lived experience is similar - some folks just genuinely act crappy just because they can, not because of "is actually caused by the systematic inequalities and injustice those armies, police, prisons and governments make possible."

Ironically, the more well-off are more likely to engage in explicitly anti-social behavior[1]...I'd hate to live in a world of anarchist Gordon Gekkos without an SEC.

[1] A quick article with various linked studies: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/10/wealth-can-make-us-se...
I rarely find myself fixing things in Ubuntu, there is a level of acceptance though on certain things not always panning out the way I'd want. I've gotten very good a reading reviews on peripherals I buy to make sure they are compatible. There is the occasional UI glitch as well. I will probably use a different O.S. once I move laptops in three years (I buy a new laptop once every 5 years).

Regarding MacOS. I am using this for the first time at work and I don't know how you could go from a rich APT ecosystem to a so-so brew ecosystem. And really fuck the Command Key and all the other weird Mac-isms. I don't see the value in that over priced hipster operating system, but if thats where your at home than enjoy your home. Oh and I'm still trying to figure out if Docker is a comedy or tragedy on Mac.
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I think an important thing that is lost here is that anarchists in practice do not advocate for removing all hierarchies. Just the most possible practically, which is a heck of a lot less hierarchy than we have now, and to crucially keep these hierarchies in check via rotations, direct democracy, and so on, to prevent any one person to accumulate much of any power at all; in essence making authority a painful chore.
Did you find a /r/patientgamersWithLGBT and /r/GenderAgnosticFitness, or did you cut off your gaming
and fitness experience to spite the mods?
If you're solution to the issue is, that upstream may only depend on 10 year old API/ABIs, then I'll gladly misbehave. Why should I hold back my software for old, but still supported distributions like RHEL 6?
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> Just so we're clear, it's not that the apps auto-update, it's that there's no way to stop them auto-updating.

Actually you can.

https://snapcraft.io/docs/keeping-snaps-up-to-date#heading--... for instructions on how to defer updates.

If you want to install a snap such that it never updates, see https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/disabling-automatic-refresh-for...
This is mixing up liquidity with asset vs liability. A house is a depreciable asset. The land beneath the house holds it's value and doesn't depreciate. That's why the assesed value for tax splits them out. Both are less liquid than cash, but I can convert my equity in the asset to cash very quickly with a loan, or put the house up for sale and maybe it takes a little longer to get the cash. The loan would be a liability. But a house is never a liability on financial terms.

My current plan is to buy, live in the house for a few years, offer the house up for rent, and rent a new house for myself. I'm currently on step 2. I don't want to overcommit myself in real estate so buying a second residential property doesn't make sense for me. Because of rent appreciation I will have positive cash flow while renting out my current home. That hedges for any future rent increases in my future place of residence.

I'd consider buying an income generating vacation home too. But not another primary residence. That's just my opinion. And my opinion doesn't make my house an asset or a liability.

Now that said, I feel one non-financial aspect where owning a house is a liability is the opportunity cost of time spent maintaining the house. In a rental the landlord takes care of it.
SUSE (the enterprise edition) uses Gnome as default, i love Opensuse Tumbleweed, but i think Gnome (with the SLES-look) is much more stable than KDE. Anyway i use i3 nearly exclusive.

BTW: KDE is not the default, it's just the first in the list :)
Tagged template literals are one of faster ways to render currently afaik, and also natively supported by browsers. They are also lightweight and don't require a virtual dom or compilation (like with Svelte). I think one of the earliest libraries with this approach was hyperHtml [1], now there is also lit-html [2] and probably some others. Brahmosjs seems to be an attempt to replace the heavy vdom diffing engine with this lightweight approach, but still keep the familiar React API and JSX syntax.

[1] https://viperhtml.js.org/hyperhtml/documentation/
[2] https://lit-html.polymer-project.org/guide
Forget pure financial calculation -- It also gives you less flexibility to move quickly! I certainly wouldn't buy a house before age 30. You want to be able to pick up and move and chase an opportunity. (I'm awfully glad I got on a plane and moved to Silicon Valley in 1989 on a whim.)
I certainly behave worse in the presence of authority. It's unlikely I am the only one.
> is an absolute joke

Please elaborate.

> entirely voluntary

Fedora Silverblue would like to disagree. And in any case all parties know it's still in flux, but the stable parts are stable in my experience. I would not want something like Snap or otherwise immature forced down my throat.
you can turn that argument on its head though. Caring about quality of life is why I rent rather than buy a home. No debt, no fixed costs (people typically say 1% of the value of the house per year, quite a lot of cash), no repairs I have to worry about, moving out is simple etc..

Here in Germany most people rent by the way, so I never understood the obsession with homeownership. Just look at the covid mess. If you're in your 20s or 30s and bought a house and live on credit cards I'd be sweating right now. Living in a rented place within my means, having a year worth of savings in the bank, it's a lot less stressful.
I second that question. Currently Ubuntu only forces Chromium to be installed as snap, not Google Chrome.
I can only imagine the giggles in the lab when they got the little sailboat-shaped one to float. What a spectacular "go get the folks in the lab next door, they gotta see this" moment.
Not sure if you will find this comment, but I'd be very curious to hear what the magnitudes of "four-force" and "four-potential" are as well!

My layman's research suggest these are, respectively, "electric charge" and "current"?
I agree on the monkeypatching of pathlib. It makes it difficult for a reader to look up what the functions do.
Providing a different module, like `import nPathlib as Pathlib` would be a lot more discoverable.
Mandate in this case is used in the abstract: in the absence of any system to recognise and enforce private property rights, and in the face of a society that sees coercion and aggression as pretty much the only things that are wholly and totally unacceptable, they cease to exist because they only exist in the first case through the state or other means of threatening force to enforce it.

It would be more precise to say that worker control in anarchism is a consequence of dismantling the system that enforces property rights.
Using strong social norms and consensus. If the social norm is that hierarchy is not acceptable unless absolutely unavoidable, then a direct consequence is that the workplace must be organized cooperatively to follow that base.
Your argument doesn't hold much water as Debian is able to package the same software in .debs.

If you just look at the list of canonical owned snaps it becomes clear that every release they move more packages from being debs to being snaps. If the snap store was just for third parties no one would care.
Other major tax advantage is zero tax on up to $250,000 in gains ($500K for married couples)
> anacistic organisations, charities and protest movement have done a lot for the environment. In fact they are the only ones that have done anything at all.

This is not true at all. Protecting the environment isn’t just about actions like planting trees and buying up the occasional extra property parcel to dedicate as a land reserve. It requires government scale regulation to impose negative consequences on people and companies producing negative externalities.

You can argue that the government hasn’t done enough in this regard, but it’s demonstrably not true to claim that 3rd parties have done more than the government to regulate industry and build national park level land reserves.

This is the problem with most pro-anarchistic stances: They take too much of the current system’s benefits for granted while also assuming that less regulation would somehow produce a more regulated outcome.

I don’t understand the desire to put impossible theories of anarchy on a pedestal instead of simply making incremental improvements to the current systems.
I thought you had to trick a bad guy into using the machine instead?
Why is Medium filled with, what I call, celery? I consume articles, but there is absolutely no substance.

Is there some unknown incentive for these people to share empty “enlightenment?” It’s as if these people are becoming content farms being graded on number of articles published.

Anyway, this article is garbage.
I was burned a lot back in the 90s by Logitech's piss poor drivers. Has the situation improved much since?
Snaps are shipped as compressed squashfs images that are dynamically read at runtime rather than being extracted to your filesystem at install time. The trade-off is that you win on hard disk usage and installation / revert time, but the payment is increased startup time.
When Ubuntu killed Mir and Upstart and adopted Wayland/Gnome and systemd, they really invested into a whole competing desktop ecosystem (freedesktop) and it was shortsighted of them to not see that they would not be able to just take bits and pieces. They were never going to compete with flatpak (aka xdg-portals, from freedesktop).

My point is that this has been in the making for years now. They didn't fail to deliver a good product, snaps just should have died when the rest of the Ubuntu differentiation on the desktop did.

It's frustrating because for most people, trying linux on the desktop means trying Ubuntu. Freedesktop has succeeded in making a cohesive desktop environment atop linux that is as polished as commercial offerings, but Ubuntu doesn't make that accessible.

My advice to anyone who hasn't tried linux on the desktop lately: try Fedora or Debian on a live CD. I think you'll be impressed, especially if you're coming from Ubuntu. Unadulterated gnome3 is a breath of fresh air.
He has been accused of sexual harassment by someone. In the usual "cancel culture" fashion, you're deemed guilty until irrevocably proved innocent, therefore RMS has been ousted from the FSF and the MIT.

A proof if you needed one that the "SJW" or "baizuo" culture isn't at all progressive, but a dangerous intolerant bunch more akin to the Khmer Rouge than anything else.
It's an admittedly weaker point: If folks want to avoid snaps (as this blogger professes) but choose Ubuntu then their next best option is (the default browser on Ubuntu): Firefox.

I guess a more succinct way to put it is: I actively oppose chrome and really don't care if the snap haters are screwed by Canonical's approach to packaging it.
I had a friend who would explain to us how the actions of North Korea are just reactions to imperialism.

I think it’s a sign you’ve gone off the deep end when you’re elevating the morally bereft.
And tax laws can change really quickly, so even if it's not used much now, in 6 months it may be most Americans are itemizing again.
Not sure if this is an elaborate prank or a real attempts at making Python more Java like.

I stopped reading when the author suggests using

class NewParent(ParentClass, metaclass=PrePostInitMeta):
def __pre_init__(self, args, *kwargs): super().__init__()