skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In India, "the Left" represents socialism, while "the Right" represents liberal economics.

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

People with leftist political leanings are generally unhappy with all governments, and have very strong opinions about how the country should be run. They end up forming their own tight clubs.

EDIT: corrected "libertarian economics" to "liberal economics"
Someone aged 80 today has another 9 years to live today, according to the actuary tables. Writing these people off as "dead anyway" is neither very nice, nor supported by the data.
> Somewhat paranoid there are zero days on libgen, etc.

Do you have an alternative to trusting them?
AI research will simple move more to countries where there is less witch hunt and researchers don't have to defend themselves from SWJ crowd.
Underrated in the open source world — whilst at the same time, feels obvious in the writing world?

Imagine an author has gotten started writing volumes 1 and 2, and those volumes became popular — maybe the Harry Potter books as an example. Now, adding more authors with equal "story-line decision making power", or a committee, for volumes 3, 4, 5, is a weird idea, right.
This seems to fill a similar role as watchman[1] (specifically with watchman-make[2])

I've heard good things about watchman because it will make a best effort to let filesystem changes "settle" before running the command specified. If there's a comparison of these two written up or if someone can give their testimonial I'd love to hear it.

[1] https://facebook.github.io/watchman/

[2] https://facebook.github.io/watchman/docs/watchman-make
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> Brahmin patriarchy is the deep state in India, do a quick search about top CEOs in India, Majority of Company auditors are Brahmins so the company/tax laws are often dictated by them

So which company/tax laws are anti Dalit? The only law about casteism is ridiculously anti Non-Dalit. They can jail anyone with just a complaint, no proofs are required. You have to fight in the court to get out of jail, not go in the jail.
Because they were made for a different purpose, with extra hoops you need to jump through.
For your use case there are a lot of ways to do that in Vim without using the multi cursor, here[0] is one thing I just recorded to show you a glimpse of what's possible with just a search and replace: I just find a pattern and replace it with a part of the same pattern.

> Here is a good video example (https://youtu.be/iomWEDMBlcE)

Again, you can do everything here without using multicursors, just record a macro for one line and repeat with a count and you're set.

Now if you absolutely want the multicursor feature, there are more than one plugin[1][2] for that, but I never felt the urge to use multiple cursors in Vim.

0: https://youtu.be/YR7rRC-vwj4

1: https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors

2: https://github.com/paradigm/vim-multicursor
I can with fair certainity say that he/she may have earned the wealth to afford one by promoting caste based christian evangelism or politics.

Caste based conflicts are the highest among the Christians, because the church was way too successful in exploiting social divisions, just like they did elsewhere in the world like Rwanda.

Caste is a poisson, but when it is bread and butter for some people they would like nothing better than to keep it alive.
No.

Look at states, or regions in other countries, that were under lockdown even though they did not (yet) have high numbers of COVID infections.

Hospitals in these places also cancelled elective surgeries, and people avoided going doctors. But there was no excess mortality.
How shortsighted. Humanity faces many existential threats and it is completely and utterly irresponsible to not even try to mitigate them.
It’s the same a catholic and Protestant.
This is misinformation. in india when you ain't growing you start playing victim card in order to gain more attention. this isn't a news. this is just an internal fighting.

British Caste System isn't active in india https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrTUp2mKbWs
Ok, where's the HN pro-nuclear fanbois to downplay this leak?
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It’s one of the few ways to deal with people who don’t act or talk in good faith. Certainly there’s many cases of it being overused, but in a way it’s sort of denying that there are actual direct people and forces that are fighting tooth and nail against progress.
Yes! Not just AV but exploit guard and other security features. "I am too smart for my browser to open a phishing link" or "windows update will save me from exploit kits" is not a good strategy. At least turn on defender (corporate/server is an entirely different beast).
This is exactly what bankruptcy protection should be for. Cirque (and 1001 other businesses) have a viable future ahead of them. They just need their creditors to be held off for 6 months. The alternative is that a valuable business is destroyed and no one (not even the creditors) gets much back.

As a brit, I envy the US their bankruptcy process. It is a lot less punative than the UK system...
Thanks for sharing, I can easily believe that. On a side note, how does a seafarer end up on hackernews? (I know nothing about your profession).
The ban is political and China's response is political.

But what they are getting at, perhaps not unreasonably, is that it looks like all these apps were banned because they are by Chinese companies, which may be discriminatory under WTO rules.

This is not what China does. China, like other countries, blocks specific websites and apps because of their contents or functionality, not because of their origin (at least if they do they tend to be smart enough to be subtle about it...)

I don't think WTO rules say anything about what websites or apps a country should allow but rather the rules are about preventing discrimination between trading partners. So my understanding is that a country is essentially free to ban an app because they don't like what they app does but they are not free to ban an app because they don't like the country it comes from.
Have to say I'm struggling to see the difference between the pandemic and the financial crisis. Both were utterly predictable as things which could happen but difficult to time [if anything, the financial crisis was much more predictable] and both were exacerbated because systems and economies were built around assuming such scenarios were unlikely in the immediate future and inherently self-limiting
I tried getting vim to match my favorite features in VSCode / Jetbrains IDEs and almost went crazy. Rather simple things like code completion or syntax highlighting were already moderately complex to set up. The command palette present in both Jetbrains and VSCode also has thousands of actions easily searchable in plain language, the most simple of which can be replicated with vim (ex: open file) but many of which would likely require some heavy extra configuration. I never even got into replicating things like live templates which are a massive productivity booster for me - I simply gave up.

For me it’s much easier to install the vim plugin in my IDE or editor of choice. I get the modal editing goodness of vim with a supercharged layer of utilities that work out of the box.
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It’s composability is Vim’s killer feature.

This post is what got me started on Vim: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218390/what-is-your-mos...
to strengthen your argument here an example where a beliefed limitation was circumvented (and resulted in a nobel prize): see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STED_microscopy and the Abbe limit

i suppose parent was downvoted bc some thought he was questioning the "hard" laws of physics. but perhaps he could correct this by traveling back in time and changing his wording ;-)
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This post got me thinking that it'd be interesting if instead of being given an explicit list of files to watch for changes to, the list of files were inferred with an LD_PRELOAD that listened for `open` / `stat` / etc. system calls that a process ran.

For example, in the example on the blog post, `git ls-files` will almost certainly ignore autogenerated build files, but it's possible for one of those files to change without the output of `git ls-files` changing. Similarly for things like third party packages that are installed system-wide.

With an LD_PRELOAD, all you'd need to do is

my-watcher ruby foo.rb

and the watcher would figure out which other Ruby files were opened, be them git versioned Ruby files in the current folder, or Ruby gems / Ruby VM dependencies in $HOME/.rbenv/, or system packages in /usr/local, or config files in /etc, ...

I guess I wouldn't actually be surprised to hear if someone has built this already.
It's even worse than that.

Assume you want to train an AI to recognize shops or buildings for example for a Google car.

Well if you do it in the US with skyscraper, in Europe, in Africa, Middle-East or Asia, you will get completely different results and biases.

Also, I don't see how anyone has the resources to compensate such a social bias, unless they plan to do a shooting trip in hard to access locations and try to justify such as "Seriously officer, the reason I take all those photos is to make sure my machine learning model is unbiaised so I don't classify shops in your country as shacks."

And if we forget human activity, even looking at nature, the fauna and flora are different between areas their color, how sparse they are, etc.

Last example, applying sparsity to human activity, what is actually a town in some country might be classified as a settlement for example due to bias.
Please show me where in my post where I said that. You seem to be arguing against something I didn't say.
Heh, have had some similar conversations myself (how people like me are "supposed to be more X/less Y"). I've had little patience for those, and have let my own opinions be known. Thanks for adding some more colour.
I can fake who I am for 3 hours. I'm not sure I could do 7.
If there is already alternative suppliers of this drug in India (as claimed by the article) under generic brands, can't they do a licensing deal for the drug and use that production while still not ignoring patent laws?

can't tell if this is a supply chain (production) problem or patent laws dilemma.
LTO-8 is 12tb

a 12tb drive is more expensive than LTO. Even at volume.

2*6tb drives is still more expensive.

However thats not the use case right, HDDs do general storage really well.

A tape robot is the place where your data goes to rest. Its the last line in your tiered storage.

In AWS land it goes RAM->EBS->s3->glacier

tape is the same stage as glacier.

You have RAM cache (be it redis et al, or some fancy block storage) Screaming fast SSDs, but only a few TBs, Slower cheaper SSDs, but ten times as more. Then if you need lots of storage you'd have a few PB of Spinny disks.

After that it goes to Tape. Its denser, cooler and far less expensive to run than the equivalent spinny disk array.

Now this only makes sense if you have data in the PB range, and its more data than you can store online. Anything less and it doesn't make sense. It never did, its just that the capacity of storage has ballooned so much in the last 15 years that people's perceptions haven't caught up.
Thanks for your perspective from a game dev. w.r.t developing apps it has been long argued that iOS is better.
Sorry that the link is wrong! This is the Github project:

https://github.com/BeWelcome/rox

There's no closed "developer's circle", it's an open group that anyone can join - I just made an account about a month ago.
> That's that's an argument for security, less so for privacy, in the sense that the surface area may yield points for exploits.

Fair, but I hope you agree that both are something we should care about. The privacy argument is generally the fingerprinting one.

> But the payment stack is also very complicated. It touches everything from the secure enclave up to the Merchant over the network.

Yes, but not at the actual level that the we process would have to deal with. There’s a huge difference between “can I have a credit card number” and “can I DMA” from the web process. (I would assume WebUSB does something saner than that, but it would still be copying a lot of bytes around security boundaries with parsing going on.)

> My computer has never, in at least the last 15 years, been infested by usage of Web APIs. Since the time of Firefox and Chrome taking over from IE4-IE6, I have been free of exploits. It's fair to say that the web is used by billions of people, and for the most part, large scale carnage using browser vectors has been limited.

Well yes, but of course such attacks are typically used against a dozen journalists in a repressive country, and not you, a Google engineer in what I would assume is a moderately comfortable situation in comparison ;)

> I don't think your conclusions are based on actual security researcher threat modeling, but more about an implicit bias against Web apps and towards native.

Bias towards native noted, bias towards security research also a thing I think I may have ;)
If you want to treat your table (list) as integer indexed array (i.e. this is just called "array" in many other languages), and use length '#' operator, yes, you need to start at index 1, however, you can use 0 otherwise, or even strings.

Lua is a small language, and tables are the basic building blocks for arrays, dictionaries, classes, modules, ...
1-based indexing is IMHO a small price to pay for such flexible and efficient syntax, with small cognitive load)
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Nice vim demo on youtube, how does the sequenced numbering work? Can vim increment a number without any plugins?
But won't the user then go "why would I allow this website to access something I don't know about?" or, if they clicked yes anyway, the entropy would be ~0 as they have no midi devices.

This is assuming we moved to a model where more permissions had to be requested rather than just allowed
I skimmed the blog post. It seems disingenuous to not say the original thread already people saying it is [shitty] malware.

I’m on my phone so can’t search better, but couldn’t find it at rutracker from a quick search. Not sure if it will be available via some archive.
Maybe even a GUI using Cocoa…you could even call it something cool, like “Console”!
Public opinion is what translates into political support (or lack of support) for military action. I don't agree that these things are as independent as you suggest.

Sure, but let's not lose sight of the specifics of what we're discussing. Magnitude matters. The impact of removing the Taiwanese flag from the emoji keyboard is comparable to trying to the impact of using a paddle to change the course of a nuclear powered aircraft carrier.

Isn't giving them iCloud access to messages effectively enabling the surveillance? This and the other smaller things suggest a precedent that Apple will do whatever is asked of them and figure out some way to rationalize it.

No, I don't think it's the same. Not taking measures to prevent authorities from surveilling iPhone users is not the same as assisting with said surveillance. There would be no moral panic if say a US company started selling regular dumb phones in China, even though dumb phones are much easier to snoop on. It would be quite a different story though, if a US company started selling equipment that was specifically designed for large scale surveillance of phone traffic.

This flavor of argument leads to good people doing bad things and telling themselves it's okay. I think it's just a way to rationalize bad behavior (https://zalberico.com/essay/2020/06/13/zoom-in-china.html).
The outcome doesn't have to be the same, just because you refuse to enable authoritarian governments doesn't mean you have to do nothing. Even if you do do nothing, at least you're not directly enabling the bad behavior.

The inevitable conclusion of this line of reasoning is that no western company should do business in China.

I think this is a fair distinction and there is definitely a spectrum of wrongness, but I think companies often use this to rationalize bad behavior.

I don't think it's fair to label as bad behavior anything you are forced to do, and especially not anything you are forced to not do. Rationalizing bad behavior to me is about making excuses for things that in reality have entirely different motivations. Apple doesn't gain anything from doing any of the things they get criticized for in China.
You never tried it and already made up your mind. Being a negative believer is not different than being a positive believer. Unless you try it your words worth nothing.
Seems pretty fast to me considering it is reading JSON. JSON is difficult to read quickly.
Thats not where tape it useful.

Tape only makes sense when you have tape robot. A bit rack type thing that has more than 5 drives and thousands of slots.

Unless you are on a very tight power/heat budget and you have a brilliant asset management/storage system then tape isn't the answer.
All input is biased. It is not our job as scientists to remove biases from a data set. It is our job to reduce bias and characterize bias, but it's impossible to have a data set that has zero bias. You cannot sample the whole universe.
I didn't perceive it as a black swan at all. It was more like having more snow in the winter than we are used to and therefore having roofs collapse. — yes — there was more snow than usual, but — no — it was still in tune with what would have been reasonable to assume.

Our roofs didn't collapse because of an unfantomable amount of snow, our roofs collapse because they were poorly built, badly maintained and all the money went into the fences to our neighbours instead (partly because we hate them, partly because we want to impress them).
Well it's open source, so if there are features you want you could contribute to the project.

And being open source, the project won't have the same luxuries in terms of user-testing and iterative improvement of things as trivial as a 'shiny' UI. Again, if you have the time, you could help them out.
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VST are particularly nasty for a reason though, because when they have a signature sound widespread usage by freeloaders will actively ruin that sound for those who paid. Exclusivity is a feature, the inverse of network effect.

Is there something like a "steam for VST"? Maybe it should exist, to ease the DRM pain for legitimate customers.
But you don’t read the source to most things, no? Nor do most people.

Isn’t that why things like heartbleed took two years before being found out? I presume some people using the vulnerable OpenSSL versions felt similar to you.
He will willing to, almost literally, give up his identity to assimilate. Plus he apparently had a pretty good understanding of the culture.

I hope he got the name, a good job, and maybe some sort of award for "French Person of the Year".
I mean Console works if you know what you’re looking for and how to filter out the junk. But in my experience people at Apple usually know the right subsystem and stuff and sometimes projects will even have the right log incantation for you to paste so you can just use that. I should also note that the new Console is ~4 years old, so there’s a chance you didn’t use it much ;)
Oh yes, the software that runs tape is appalling.
> A major problem with #1 is it becomes self-perpetuating and reinforcing: if everyone is going to be biased against you, you're going to do worse, and hence the models are validated/more models are created with these assumptions. Everyone using #1 may improve their own expected value at the expense of a worse outcome for society as a whole.

Do you have any proof of that? The world is improving on all levels, even the income gap between blacks and whites has been narrowing [1].

We're not talking about 100% segregated populations like during slavery or patriarchy, the means between the groups are very close and there's a huge overlap between the distributions. It's obvious that the vast majority of outcome isn't determined by race (otherwise you couldn't have white homeless addicts and black presidents) or any such "group" characteristic but instead by "individual" characteristics (skill, intelligence, drive, effort, hereditary wealth, chance, ...), so the evidence for this "self-perpetuating" unfairness is very weak.

[1] https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2018/07/12/income-inequality... but you'll have to manually calculate the percentages
You don’t learn Vim that way. Once you get the Vim grammar, you just flow. Verb-adverb-noun.

This helped me back in the day: http://yannesposito.com/Scratch/en/blog/Learn-Vim-Progressiv...
Which law specifically bans the NEL? The IA seems to be arguing copyright law doesn't because it's covered under fair use.
Also: -

AIDS - an ongoing pandemic, 32 000 000 + deaths and counting (per Wikipedia). (The cynical adage about news applies here: "nothing ever happens in Africa.")

Mad Cow disease - major near miss. I am still not allowed to donate blood to this day, because I was in the UK in the mid-'80s.

It's egregiously lazy to call Covid-19 a "black swan".
That also happened with NixOS. But then again, not really surprising for something that breaks FHS.
However the first non-white chancellor in the Uk, before Rishi Sunak was Sajid Javid, a Pakistani, as is the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan. But wouldn’t it be fair to say the most successful Indians in the Uk come from higher castes? How successful are the Gugurati Kuchi background Indians compared to the Ugandan immigrants and higher caste Hindus.
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Your phrasing is such that I can't tell which side you are arguing for.

I love it!
How is this specific to dropbox though? Any storage backend will have those issues?
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This is a hidden downside of having proprietary defacto monopolies in tech. As long as the Adobe suite is the default in digital content creation, piracy is the default gateway to that profession. I don't care about Adobe's loss, as they pretty much encourage the status quo, I do however care about all the people risking their digital life's integrity for this. Since it's "this is how you do it", many non-tech people are not even aware of the potential fallout. It's the same for even more problematic scenarios, e.g. students using cracked Matlab, SPSS, ... executables to crunch real study data at home.

Yes, digital responsibility is ignored by those using cracked software, but really you can't ignore factual constraints and the economic situation, when talking about who's to blame.
How would you know if he cracked copy you’re comparing against didn’t already have something nasty in it?
Huh. KUOW, (one of) Seattle’s NPR stations, is on 94.9. Wonder what the story there is
I wonder if it would be a good idea for companies to offer free legit copies of their software to kids, if most of their profit is B2B anyways.
Meanwhile, I could name serval black activists (some on YouTube) who advocate for Black separatist movements inside the US who have had no, to very little push back from these companies.

Personally I don't really mind people advocating for the creation of a state based on what they perceive as insurmountable ethnic and cultural differences. I think it would be hard to argue peaceful separatist movements have been a force for evil in the world -- quite the opposite in fact.

The only threat from separatists movement in the US -- whether that is the creation of Native American states, European States, or an African State -- would be whether the path to creating such a state is violent. So I struggle on the whole to say, no, Native Americans cannot have their own state. Likewise, if Europeans feel their culture or ethnic group is at threat then I am fine with them advocating for a peaceful separatist movement.