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Perhaps we have far too many people producing very diverse counterculture however our brains are too small to absorb it all. We become numb and overwhelmed by trying to take it all in.

This leaves us in a state of utter confusion about what is important, what isn't and what it all means.
That's all nice, but I have more than 5 machines, so there doesn't seem to be a well fitting pricing option for this kind of home power users.
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> __managing__ bookmarks

To better manage your browser bookmarks, try some extensions. One that I like on chrome is https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bookmark-manager-p...

> find myself creating nested folders > I find the complexity of bookmarks systems prohibitive > keep favorite/important webpages

A good tags system in parallel with folders can help with all these. With chrome bookmarks, there is https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bookmark-tags/edpe...
Otherwise, there are a lot of alternatives (zotero...)

> I wish there was a way to treat bookmarks as __files__ in a folder

Visually speaking (at least), https://bookmarkos.com/ is sweet.
The war in afghanistan (and to a degree, iraq 2nd invasion) was largely a waste, but these are not the same as the broken window fallacy.
Note that Czechia, Hungary and South Africa have much older Gripens which are not relevant to this conversation. Czechia is moving to the F-35 instead of ordering the Gripen E.

Only Sweden and Brazil ordered the new Gripens.
I'm strictly considering the definition as "an alternative to dominant [as opposed to popular] opinion and social mores".

I'd probably agree the bulk of indier-than-thou creations are produced by people on the left (not all of whom demand we also bow to their political interpretation of the world); some of the work excellent, most of it perhaps not.
The reason that those US controlled, German dropped, nukes allow Germany to oarticipate in the NATO nuclear planning councils. The Netherlands had the same agreement and dropped out of it a while ago.
>What are people’s opinions of PopOS?

I used PopOS for a while, and as a distro I thought it was nice.

Unfortunately, I encountered an unrecoverable/won't boot/have to reinstall error twice on my laptop of the time. So I went back to Ubuntu.

One anecdote, probably isolated or coincidence, but it's the sort of thing that happens to people and they never go back (but I bet I'll try it again, since swapping distros is pretty easy nowadays).
This was the point I made at the top of this thread: that Japanese manages to combine the complexity of written Chinese with the inconsistency of English spelling. Does any other language expect quite so much of its users?
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Wile E. Coyote was a dumbass. That is the premise of the cartoon.
Unless you're living in XCode all day long or beholden to Final Cut then what does MacOS give you that you can't find on a truly open OS? Of course I am not forcing or coercing anyone to move to an OS they're not productive in. I am just saying keep an open mind to Linux. I tried the Magnet approach when I was a die-hard MacOS fan and apologist and it just didn't work as well as i3 does. I literally went to Linux because of i3 and stayed because everything "just works" like it used to on teh Mac.
It's a typo. I was trying to write 'CTE table' and iOS "helpfully" autocorrected it.
This comment thread is fascinating as there are so many people who are obviously in totally different bubbles even though they are all commenting on the same HN item.

Please supply some context! You (We) all live in bubbles and you have to be clear about where you are coming from before you spout off your observations and thoughts.
> too cheap for that

Maybe subsidized then?
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Exactly my reaction. The article made me think of the Gemini/Gopher/Smolnet space I like so much as a counter-culture.

But then it defines "counter-culture" has having a significant impact. This is a bit of a paradox to me: either you are mainstrean, either you are counter-culture. You can’t be both at the same time. Only history made us realize that a counter-culture movement had a strong impact when it became… mainstream! (and is not counter-culture anymore)

Yet, on the individual level, it would be nice if people could realize: "hey, I’m mainly consuming mainstream stuff. I should try to diversify."
I'd have hoped the reference class for a superpower that doesn't like the politics of a small island just off its shores would be the disastrous failure of the Bay Of Pigs invasion of Cuba.

But that may be optimistic. My reference class for the war against Ukraine is the war against Vietnam.
> It's clear that the pointless burning of fossil fuels didn't satisfy any human need.

Yeah, but ... how much of it was pointless? Who decides if a use-case is pointless? You? Me? The government?
In my opinion, the EU to be really democratic, the Parliament, that we elect directly, should be able to have the same "right of initiative" (i.e. write laws, not just to approve them) as the Commission/Council.
If nothing else, US would do its best to prevent F-35s falling into Russian hands. In that way, F-35s grouped in bases close to the border is an effective trip-wire.
Bingo! As soon as you get to define counterculture as something else but "a kind of bullshit you read on the Internet which is different from what normies read", you realise that there is plenty of it.
You really think the world is better off with every halfwit creating due art?

If that were the case Beverley Hills would be a bastion of culture and progress.

Instead what is it? Oh yeah, a hedonistic playpen.
Driving home the other night an empty Cruise car with no driver was stopped in the center lane on Fell street. A little off center in the lane with no hazard lights on.

Does Cruise have remote operators that are watching for weird stuff and can take some manual intervention from afar?

Like someone to remotely turn on the hazards and to dispatch a person to go move it if it’s malfunctioning.

I’m very pro self driving cars but obviously there are some “bugs” to work out still.
There‘s a famous black person that got away with murder. How did he do it? Here’s a hint: the crucial element isn’t skin color.
Pretty sure the F-22 has had multiple upgrade cycles over its lifetime, so its not really all old 90's tech.

I think in reality spinning up production again would essentially be a new fighter based on the same core design, maybe reusing a lot of the parts.
Am I being overly simplistic to say that the answer is that countercultures are found in real life, and not on social media?
And lose a source of income? This isn't how business is done in MS lands.
Spoken like someone who hasn’t met people like that.

They’re significantly more one dimensional than the wage slave tbh. At least the wage slave has the character of resentment.
The main problem is that the European Parliament can't write new laws.
There's no way to directly elect members that write laws. In every democratic country, you do.
I'm not disagreeing at all.

It's just that being in with NATO is more important than equipment case in point Ukraine.

F-35 is designed for ingress into densely covered enemy territory.

The stealth allows more flexibility in approach it stops jets being scrambled along the route, it stops assets being moved in to hangars and otherwise hidden.

It means you're less likely to be flying through a valley of manpads. Who were all warned of impending jets coming in.

Flying into an enemy carrier group with airborne radar being pinged from every direction.

These are the missions Israel runs against Iran and Syria (not the carrier group) or the US may theoretically run against Russia in a world war situation (during conflict it's likely the US would be protected by heavy ECW from growlers not just stealth).

This is not within Finland's likely missions unless it's acting with NATO.

If you don't need that then there are many cheaper, easier to run alternatives.

So does Finland want an F-35 or a bunch of gripen and hundreds of manpads and ATGMs?

Ukraine has repelled Russia very effectively with just manpads, ATGMs and NATO intelligence.

All things being equal that would be preferable. If buying US weapons NATO becomes more protective then the calculus changes.
How do you get the small datasets? Selecting a random sample from the source?
There was no pressure from the U.S. to buy it and there are no incentives from the U.S. to buy it. And no there are plenty of NATO countries that care very much about indigenous hardware development and do not buy US hardware.

The real reason is because the F-35 is in fact very cheap for what it does.

Please don't jump on bandwagons.

Here's a good video covering this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z_gTGJc7nQ&t=2219s
Taking established media and making it a LGBT story is has been pretty much mainstream for long time. We live in a world where all major corporations put rainbows on their logos for a month every year, just to meet the expectations of general audience.
LGBTQ stuff is pretty mainstream now, in the sense that it is an omnipresent "other" though 20 years ago, it definitely wasn't.

I'd say today's counter culture is people eschewing corporate life, sort of like it was before corporate culture took over.
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> "On Ventura, every time you plug in a new USB device to your Mac, a small box pops up, asking for your permission to connect the device."
> "Of course, Apple would tell you that this is for security and safety reasons. BS!"

Do you know what ? It is for security reasons, attacks via thunderbolt are a thing, see for example here:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/05/attack_agains...

I'm also not enthusiast of the latest macOS changes , but your opinion IMHO isn't controversial, is uninformed.
> I do have to admit there are effectively no "dark corners" anymore.

This is the problem. As soon as a counter-culture gets any amount of steam going a million marketers swoop in to sell it as an identity to anyone with a credit card. Marketers are constantly searching for the undiscovered cool or subversive thing. They have undercover agents infiltrate hobbies, movements, and cliques. They collect endless amounts of data so that they can fine tune their pitch to every individual person's most obscure interests. Whatever you identify as or stand for, there's a marketer willing to sell you something so that you can signal who you are to those around you. Marketers then slowly start to manipulate and change the counter-culture so that it sells better too.

There is no counter-culture because everyone is busy being a part of their preferred culture-bubbles only all of it is mainstream now. It's all so easily accessible that everything esoteric has become exoteric. No matter what it is, you can buy your starter pack right off the rack. Eventually it all gets watered down to capture as many dollars as possible and we're left with all these options, but still wondering where the counter-culture went.
> I'm surprised the main reason isn't mentioned.

> NATO.

Because that's not the main reason or even a primary reason. There are a bunch of NATO countries that don't use US aircraft. Similarly there are non-NATO countries that buy the F-35 and many non-NATO countries that would want to buy it if they were able to.

For a much better breakdown on why countries would buy the F-35. This portion of this presentation by Perun is a great intro: https://youtu.be/7Z_gTGJc7nQ?t=2219

In short, because of massive scale, the F-35 is cheap despite being highly advanced.
Did you have any prior Smalltalk experience? Or if not, any programming experience at all? Sounds like it might have been “I learned to program in C++ in two weeks, then ported my program to Smalltalk in 2 days”.
I think it's an Amazon gift card for $25? I got one for filling out a 10 minute survey.

Umm, yeah.
The German Luftwaffe, Defence ministry and Lockheed have a colored history for sure. It would be a pitty so if the Germans manage to kill FCAS... NGAD, the US equivilant, seems to be a) not for export and b) not so well suited for the European theatre. so it is either FCAS, more F-35s (something Airbus would lobby heavily against) or a domestic program. And the latter seems to be unaffordable, the French would likely go alone as they did with Rafale out of principle. And Germany isn't Sweden neither.

The main pain point in all those large European defence programs is industrial workshare, especially between France and Germany and within Airbus between various sites.
Simple technical solution that requires no AI: sign your content and stake your reputation (i.e. your body of signed content) when you publish something new.

The issue is that we need a reliable way of determining who said what. Where who may be a person or an AI. The distinction is actually not that important. But we do want to prevent people impersonating each other. Or AIs impersonating people. Or AIs pretending to be real persons. Especially people with reputations or AIs without one. The issue is reputability is very easy to fake because we don't sign our work.

There's no AI that can reliably tell any of that apart without producing false positives or false negatives. Both are bad and erode trust.

What does signing achieve?

- it's simple. We've had digital signatures for ages. Any digital content can be hashed and that hash can be signed. No new tech needed for this. We just need to start doing this. HN comments, blog articles, emails, instagram photos, whatever. All of that is unsigned currently.

- If we can associate content with a public key, the reputation of that key is the body of work signed with that key. A new key has no reputation.

- we can associate ownership of keys with people, companies, or particular AI models.

- we can build trust on top of this. You might not know a particular journalist but if multiple of your friends seem to appreciate what they have to say, you might pay more attention.

- we can filter out anything disreputable easily.
It is actually not easy to decide this question. We can at least try to formulate a framework to think about it rationally. Remote work is not a new economic category but just a reconfiguration of what we call the knowledge economy (The total economy (TE) being the sum of the real economy (RE) and the knowledge economy (KE))

RE is 1) material stuff being extracted, processesed and moved around by people and 2) physical services provided by people. The size of RE is constrained on the supply side i) by material scarcity, environmental considerations etc, and on the demand side by ii) saturation of material consumption needs by the average human

In contrast, the knowledge economy is essentially information: collated, processed, transmitted etc by people's brains and digital artifacts [0]. Given the zero marginal cost of reproduction, the size of KE is constrained by i) intellectual property enforceability and ii) saturation of information consuption needs by the average human

Back to the original question, remote work is making KE more efficient and is entirely natural. In fact the work-from-office pattern is mostly a historical relic of how RE was organized. Remote work can be judged as positive or negative contribution towards TE in the context of a point-in-time analysis (i.e. here and now) or the overall balance of RE/KE in a sustainable economy. Moving millions of brains around in massive 2 ton exoskeletons that consume enormous resources in order for them to type into inane powerpoints and spreadsheets is not exactly "a good economy".

In any case, it could be that a sustainable economy (where KE is mostly WFH could be "smaller" in monetary units, especially if it has a major collaborative and open source component) but it is by no means clear it would "worse".

[0] KE obviously requires some RE, which is for example why the pandemic induced bloated hardware inventories
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I don't think a movement can be called countercultural once it's taken over one of the two major US political parties and chosen a president.
The voices may be loud online, but it's definitely not "normal" culture.
Chiming in on this point:

> In this case, other libraries... but I honestly don't see the difference. Libraries and services have APIs. They either work or they don't. Services have the additional complexity of network failures and runtime errors, but these are things that can be dealt with and tested in the primary project.

In my personal experience, there are considerable differences.

From the top of my head:

1. Typically, your libraries don't shift under you without any action from your part. External services do.

2. In CI, you can either use the external service (which may require piercing holes in your CI's security and may break due to no change of your part), replicate it (which is more stable but can be extremely painful and resource-consuming) or mock it (which is even more stable but limits the realism of your tests).

3. And of course, as you mention, services have all sorts of failure modes, including but not limited to network failures. Normally, your tests should cover all these failure modes. I don't think I've ever seen code that does that, in part because service errors are very often notoriously under-documented.

YMMV
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I am hopeful that the +100r old timbers haven't suffered, unfortunately it's becoming an issue for mortgage companies, who seem to be refusing to lend as a blanket policy. We have a roof guy coming tomorrow to check out the situation though so fingers crossed. We're prepared to have it removed if necessary but aren't relishing the extra cost or the upheaval of clearing the loft.
I'd like to import an idea via Gibson of the "coolhunters": since the beginning of the mass media age, there have been people looking to commoditize "cool" by importing it into the mainstream. This process dissolves it; it ceases to be "counter", but also loses its distinctiveness and meaning. Rebellious music gets used for adverts. Revolutionary slogans used to sell tshirts. That sort of thing.

Technology has made us a lot better at that, and therefore the process of incorporating and destroying counterculture has accelerated. It's like trawlers finding smaller and smaller fish every year - which they take anyway, even if they're not mature, because they want to meet quota. Even if this further destroys the stock.

Over the past couple of years lockdowns must have done damage to offline-only cultural spaces. This is difficult to quantify.

Another observation hinted elsethread is that of "dark" spaces. One way to protect your culture against commoditization is to make it spiky or poisonous, like an animal that doesn't want to be eaten. Culture that contains elements that are both toxic to the mainstream and hard to separate out can exist as a subculture.

It seems to me that there are (at least) two such "left" and "right" subcultures. One left one is too queer-NSFW to be mainstream; another is too tankie-communist to be mainstream. Similarly there's a "right" culture that exists between the "banned from Twitter, had to use Gab" and "arrested on Jan 6" zones.

I'd also add a "gentrification" angle. For subcultures to have a physical presence, it needs to be really cheap. The stock of cheap-central-but-nasty (dilapidated, crime infested) property in cool cities has largely been re-absorbed.
>it seems to do well in adverse conflict conditions (takeoff/landing from public roads, etc.)

This is largely an irrelevant capability, it's easy and cheap to build lots of runways.
Feels that way. Inside metro areas in the US there is very little difference of opinion on most issues. It was not always this way. People seems mostly content to consume content and ‘raise awareness’ online, and repeat.
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In my time hanging out on Mastodon, I feel like I’m seeing this play out.

Many people who openly identify as “tech” people asking for new features, more or less complaining about the resistance to such new features and arguing that the cultural resistance doesn’t make sense.

Now these tech people tend to also be new to mastodon. But they also seem pretty oblivious to the fact that they are the mainstream which many on the platform tried to avoid or establish a counter culture from. They don’t seem to realise that leaving Twitter in 2022 was a comparatively mainstream thing to do, and that the resistance they meet often has a point or perspective that they haven’t even thought of and is coming from people who are just as technically inclined and informed but just don’t tie that to their identity so tightly or openly.

Broad generalisations, but I think it’s definitely playing out to some extent.
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> Building runways is cheap?

I don't think you understand. Sweden always planned to fight a contracting, losing war, eventually devolving into partisan warfare.

If I recall the Cold War plans correctly, one of the more realistic plans prepared for 3-4 weeks of war before being overrun and partisan warfare starting. The road-as-runway plan was critical for this, there would be no time to build anything, just keep everything flying and attacking from surprise locations for as long as possible. The submarine force tied into to this also, with its ability to stay submerged for 3 weeks.

The whole idea was never for Sweden to really win, just to make the Soviet win so momentally Pyrrhic they would think twice about an actual ground invasion. From a military standpoint, we never hoped for our major cities to be spared nukes. We counted on them being bombed to oblivion day one.

Try building runways when all major infrastructure and the country is in total chaos. That's why there were arms and fuel depots everywhere, with everything from missiles down to submachine guns.

Edit: and you say propping up defence industry as if insinuating it's just a boondoggle. When it comes to geopolitics, it's not. It's the only way to have total control of supply chains and constant upgrade of arms.

Gripen may have become something of a boondoggle over time, but it was born from the Cold War and still traces most of its design goals from that situation.
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A lot of people (including replies to my root comment) seem to take a puritanical rather than a pragmatic view: if a self driving car makes any mistakes at all, that's too many. Even if the human driver it replaces is much worse and will make many more (and more serious) errors should they not be replaced...
My bank decorates rainbow ATMs during pride month. A block away from my house my local council has created a rainbow street crossing. I don’t think it’s possible to get more mainstream than that.