skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the style of lying is definitely part of it, but I do think the details matter. I was talking with a Trump supporter (I held my nose and voted for Biden, as I did for Clinton in 2016). He was pretty heated, because a lady he flirts with at work let him know that she was a hardcore Democrat and that she didn't think anyone should vote for Trump. It was toward the end of a long day, so I wasn't sure if I was up for the conversation, but he's a pretty decent guy, so I engaged, and we had a solid chat.

I made a point that seemed to resonate with him - Biden represents high-level corruption, the kind of slick corruption that maintains stability and is relatively predictable. Trump, though, represents a mob style of corruption - or the kind of corruption you see from dictators in developing nations. If it benefits him in the short-term, and he can do it, he will. Chess vs Checkers. Some people prefer the latter, and it seems some view it as a more honest type of corruption, but for most people, stability is important.

I've noticed a lot of Right-leaning people would also like to see some form of ranked voting, so I think it's the political parties (both of them) rather than the people holding things back.

I think you bring up key issues in your closing paragraph, but the implementation of Globalization is what really hurt the middle class in the US. Whenever people lose a proper balance, they will suffer, and I think most everyone can agree that the US did a particularly poor job of ensuring balance - probably not by accident.

Anyway, I feel for people who are troubled by the result of the election. I was in their shoes in 2016, and I can relate to some of their concerns. If we start from a place of understanding/trying to understand, we can build systems that work for everyone. If we allow the two-party system to perpetuate artificial divides, progress will be much slower, and we'll take more false steps. The loudest are typically the worst of us. We can't fall into the trap of using them as stand-ins for the other side. This was much more ranty than I intended, but I hope it makes sense.
I've known companies that physically removed all USB ports from laptops.

It's common to have monitoring software installed as well.

In most companies it's not really workable to prevent employees from taking their laptops out of the office.
Something a lot of people don't seem to know about spotify is that artists are compensated based on their position in the charts, not based directly on how many times their song was played.

So if you only listen to obscure folk music, most (possibly all) of the $10 you're paying goes to artists you don't listen to. That's why some indie artists say they prefer piracy to spotify, it's almost the same to them.
The economies of scale for Spotify reduce the cost of their technology as measured in dollars per user, but since the majority of their costs are in artist payments the tech costs don't matter as much.
Thank you for the advice, I will definitely pay more attention to it in the future. It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes ;)
Somewhere there you can find a financial reports of the sides involved. Generally, car producers would like to lock you to their dealerships and approved repair shops.
So I have no idea what would work for you and am not in a position to make a solid recommendation.... buuuut this is the internet so I'll list some possibilities in order of perceived production worthiness:

- Good ol' trusty NFS[0][1] (of course someone has to take an arrow to the knee and become an NFS admin essentially)

- CephFS[2] via Rook Shared filesystem[3]

- Swift[4] though it looks like a huge PITA to deploy outside of openstack, almost like it's hard on purpose

- Dragonfly[5]? I remember think of it for containers but it's technically for random files too

- SeaweedFS[6]? It's got a comparison section which is a good sign??

- Could you just... offload to some S3-like thing?

[0]: https://kubernetesguide.com/kubernetes/nfs-volumes-in-kubern...

[1]: https://www.padok.fr/en/blog/readwritemany-nfs-kubernetes

[2]: https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/cephfs/

[3]: https://rook.io/docs/rook/v1.4/ceph-filesystem-crd.html

[4]: https://docs.openstack.org/swift

[5]: https://github.com/dragonflyoss/Dragonfly

[6]: https://github.com/chrislusf/seaweedfs#compared-to-other-fil...
No, what they're describing is very much "no apps", unlike terminals. OLE is part of COM, which is all about individual classes, hidden behind interfaces, being available globally in the OS as building blocks.

In a COM model, you can imagine, say, a word processor being composed of UI, document model, document store and spellchecker components. In this reality, I could replace the UI with a touch-enabled one, and run the same spell checker on a remote computer, all with few changes in Windows registry. Think of it like OS-level dependency injection and microservices, with RPC and orchestration being handled transparently for you.
Don't non-premium users get ads interspersed into their playlists to make up the difference?
Even if you can be sure that the event originated from a real user action, that doesn't tell you that the user did the action with the intention of taking a screenshot. For example, they could have been "clickjacked" into clicking the screenshot button.
> This is people denying your humanity on no grounds whatsoever, and when you point it out they say "well, minorities have always felt this way, so shut up and take it."

Here's where they are coming from: Donald Trump was denying people's humanity on the grounds that they came from south of the border. He was literally separating children from their parents to scare others away.

When I have explained that to Trump supporters, they immediately gaslight me; telling me it wasn't that bad, or Trump's fault.

> It's about Bill and John and Sally-- people who used to be friends and colleagues-- treating me like I'm a monster for no reason whatsoever other than a mass psychosis.

They don't mean to. Really, they don't. The trouble is, they just can't find a reason.

The only reason I can think of is that Trump supporters really don't know what's happening. That they don't believe it. It looks a lot like mass psychosis.

It looks even more like a cult. I would know: I grew up in one. If I can come back from that, you can come back from this. The first step is empathy.

Are you certain that you aren't in the "group of people oppressing other groups of people"?

I know it can be hard to confront that question. I did it about a year ago. When I did, I found out the answer was "no".

I dug a little deeper, and realized it wasn't a soft "no", either. I was an instrumental part of an institution that tears families apart and drives children to suicidal ideation. I always knew there were issues, but I had plenty of excuses for those issues and the institution's part in them.

If you really aren't a Nazi or a racist, then will you reconsider your support for the GOP? Bill, John, and Sally didn't just pull that out of their asses. What they said to you was disrespectful and dehumanizing, but it didn't come from nothing.
That's an accurate description. I just want to add some info how the install process ifself works so people get a better picture of it.

For the initial installation you actually have to set up the partitions and mounts inside the root filesystem manually similar to what you have to do to install Arch.

Then you run the install command. The install command sets up the system with a default (or customized) configuration and also generates the hardware-configuration.nix file so that it matches the root filesystem you have set up before running the install command.
“The polls are not supposed to be off by that much, which is why we said that the polls messed up, and our forecast failed (in some part) by not correcting for these errors”

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/11/06/comparing-...

You have a series of predictions that happens incredibly rarely (4 year interval). They are within a close range of accuracy. Your model is working.

Then, one year, the model is off by a full std dev or two.

How will it perform 4 years later? How do you correct for it if you don’t even have a high prior on why it was off last time? How many effects do you just guess and try and model for/against and can you find any data to use for it that’s actually reliable.

How many unknown number of forces is your team arbitrarily deciding were acting on it last time vs now based entirely on their personal histories, combined.

Models can be useful no doubt, whether they work 6/10 times or 9/10 - it entirely depends on the use. But if your model is right 8/10 times and the misses were the last 2? It’s time to rattle it and see what’s broken.

The takeaway: until someone makes a model that proves it can do a few elections in a row (not retroactively) who will really care about the model?
I always see his site mentioned. I am not convinced about this criticism. The author is not an expert on sleep or a neuroscientist. The most you can say is that Walker has not responded to this criticism.
I like mutt and use it for some accounts, though there are ergonomic issues that bug me.

For instance, there is no consistent way to cancel actions / exit prompts (or none that I noticed), while pressing <Esc> does nothing. I know terminals have issues with <Esc> but even double <Esc> just gives you ^[^[.
Thanks for the mention of Orwell’s notes on nationalism. I just read it and it is remarkably relevant, even if the movements used as examples aren’t.

As a European it was incomprehensible to me why anyone would vote for trump as I had only received the straw man version of Trump through my local media. But when traveling the U.S. early 2016 I had the good fortune of spending a few hours on a bus with two trump voters and having them explain their hopes for a trump presidency, and it no longer seemed irrational. The hope that having no loyalties or obligations to the political powers that be he could actually have policies which benefited regular people seemed reasonable. There is a fair argument to be made his actual economic policies have indeed mostly benefited Americans, so someone voting just based on the economy would not be irrational in choosing Trump.

Still, he’s Donald Trump, and a bully. I don’t think I could ever be convinced to ignore all the other stuff to the degree of voting for him. I can understand those who outright dismiss him and anyone aligned with him without seriously trying to engage with their arguments.
USSR ceased to be a political entity in 1991, but that nitpick aside, it still happens in Russia. It's not ubiquitous but it's not rare - about 20% of schools

> There were 13,100 double shift and 75 triple shift schools in 2007–2008

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

There's a UNESCO report on double shift shcools

> In South Africa and Namibia, double-shift schooling is called ‘platooning’ – a term which echoes a usage in the USA dating from 1920 (Kleinhans, 2002: 10).

> In Zimbabwe, double-session schooling is also called ‘hot seating’ because the school seats are said never to have time to cool down

> Double-shift schooling is most common in poor countries. Financial pressures in these countries are so severe that administrators are forced to investigate all ways to minimize costs. But all administrators wish to maximize cost-effectiveness. For this reason, double shifts are also used in relatively prosperous countries such as Brazil

https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000163606
> Ironically, similar thing happens to me, but sadly there is nobody to take away my phone, as time of this comment shows.

You sent this at about 1330 Moscow time.
I'll look into all of this!
Thanks for the links!
Why do you "listen" to books whilst you sleep, do you think it does something?
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Experience developing, maintaining, bug finding, solving problems, assisting team members
YouGov are pretty good, mostly because they grew up in the Internet Age.

But I agree with your general point.
Salt/Chef/Puppet/Ansible/etc are generally “good enough” tools and work for many needs, but over time cruft will inevitably happen (unless you frequently start from a clean base image). NixOS tries to avoid that by making it difficult to accidentally do a one-off outside your tooling and/or install things that unintentionally (or intentionally) stomp on other installed things in your system.
"work on data" is the definition of "app".

Unless you're willing to go through your hard drive platters yourself with a magnetized needle ? (or whatever the equivalent is for SSDs)

EDIT : Though even in that hypothetical case, you would need to follow an "app" (more commonly known under the term "algorithm") to be able to make sense of the magnetic domains that you're detecting !
> videos with the same height and width

Surely this remarkable tool has a command or filter to fit videos within a specified area, whether it be zoom, pan, shortest height, and the like
To prevent accidental screenshots of you watching porn?
You can choose not to download their app to your phone.
I did the first payment on WhatsApp during their early beta period, in Feb 2018 to be precise. It has taken a while to get to general availability. Even now, for some strange reason they are permitted to serve only 20m users. Their beta was 2m users and they blew through that very early.

The user experience was fantastic - easier than sending a camera pic or audio message. They had zero promotions during the beta period unlike everyone else who were offering tons of freebies, not just at initial launch but even till now. If this works (as I think it will) it will lay waste to the billions of dollars that GooglePay, PhonePe and Paytm threw around.

Wonder if that will make the others throw around more cash to retain users or if the market will switch to a more rational model where people are not being paid to pay.
The most important factor is hiring good people. Am once off prevention is worth a pound of cure.
I do not even have windows and most games i buy simply work these days. I stopped looking at the support icons completely.

Exception: Bad Unity games. However these often do not work properly on windows either
Excel even implemented lotus 1-2-3 bugs to ensure compatibility: see 1900-02-29 https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_...
The only reason I'm with Spotify is the generated playlists. I frankly wouldn't have discovered smaller bands if I stuck to buying CDs and listening to radio.
Try using mawk instead of GNU awk. It's much faster than either Perl or gawk in this scenario for me. Roughly 2x.

Also, "export LC_ALL=C" typically speeds up gawk quite a lot.
A watch folder is a feature of Calibre as well.
Azure has a nack to make everything annoying and/or dysfunctional
Why would the user want DRM.
It doesnt make up for the difference
The terminal is exactly an example of an app-centric workflow and why it is easier to build and/or easier to use than an API focused one. If you want to see a no-apps workflow, something like the Genera LISP OS was probably much closer[0].

People choose to use apps like ls, cat, less, echo, touch, find instead of using the FILE* object directly with readdir(), stat(), read(), write(), open(), creat() etc. All of the apps are designed to have human-readable output first, lots of options for controlling that output to make it as readable as possible etc. However, none of them exposes a rich model for its output that would make it possible to easily integrate it into more complex workflows. Instead, we rely on yet other apps, like sed, grep, xargs and essentially copy-pasting text between these apps (this is all that pipes really are, essentially).

This becomes even more obvious when you use stuff like gcc or gdb, which have extremely rich and potentially useful layers of representation that they refuse to expose at all, even as APIs - only text is allowed in the interaction.

Hell, the MS Office suite is a better example of a no-apps workflow, since each of the Office UIs has a deep understanding of the data produced by the others, and you can combine these in meaningful ways - much more so than terminal apps (for example, Word can show a portion of a spreadsheet without you having to guess at what contents it might have and how to parse it, like you would if you want to expose a portion of ls's output to a file).

Interfacing code is hard, it requires well-thought-out APIs and much more work even with the best APIs. Interfacing apps with extremely minimalistic APIs (copy/paste, share) is much easier for everyone.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4-YnLpLgtk&t=6m0s
From what I understand it wasn't just this. WhatsApp's initial implementation of UPI was that of a walled garden. Payments could be sent/received between WhatsApp users but you couldn't send/receive payments to/from another UPI app user. They did this by hiding the UPI ID from the user. Along with WhatsApp's mass user base, this would have resulted in fragmenting the ecosystem.

I have enrolled in the beta program for WhatsApp via Google Play so I had the payment option In the new implementation since a very long time (can see a payment from July 2018). In their new implementation they have exposed the UPI ID so compatibility with other UPI apps is ensured. For transactions with other WhatsApp users you need not bother with UPI ID. This dual approach is the same as that of Google Pay.
Fairer, maybe, but then I'd just close my account because that's not what I, the consumer, want.
> So who is the one who is to be forced to provide them with said material resources?

Billionaires.

They took $50 trillion from the rest of us[1]. They are beyond capable of affording it.

> What rights are being denied to minorities?

Safety. Marriage. Financial stability. The list goes on.

> dividing people not by economic class, but by immutable characteristics like race and gender.

It isn't the left that did that. Race and gender were divided into economic classes by racists and sexists. Acting like that didn't happen only serves to perpetuate that oppression.

[1] https://time.com/5888024/50-trillion-income-inequality-ameri...
Microsoft's COM shows that you don't need any magic features in your language - just regular late binding for functions. You can interface with COM components - the one mainstream implementation of what this article is describing - in programs written in C. Because underneath, the whole thing works by asking the OS to give you an array of function pointers in exchange for a UUID.
DRM enables consenting relationships between content creators and consumers. There's no need for you to interfere other people's relationships.
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I buy a DRM-free copy on Bandcamp whenever I can to support artists I really like, and keep the lossless version somewhere safe and on my Plex server.

I'm still subscribed to Spotify, and mostly listen my music there.
More like there’s better. Fox isn’t fair and balanced and never really was and they started getting sensational. The right doesn’t want a soap opera for news.

A recent example with when they called AZ by blindly listening to AP when anybody that knows basic math could see a large chunk of votes still remaining. When you prove you can’t be trusted you lose your audience.
How do you explain absence of stranger danger in non suburban communities and countries where women work? Women work not just in America and not just in middle class.
Under socialism, all artists would be paid the same amount.
Alternatively on Android you can use Smali Patcher https://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/magisk/module-smali-pa... with a rooted Android. This program will generate a magisk module that will enable disabling the secure flag for the pesky apps disallowing screenshots. It will also allow you to enable mock locations. At your own risk.
This is an often repeated cliché that one can find again and again in self-help books and blogs. There is no evidence that it is based on a true story, or that it reflects reality in any way.

There are many authors who produce one or two books a year, and those books are complete garbage. Some of the the best authors in history just wrote a few masterpieces.

Even with artists that were capable of a great output, it's not obvious that the quality of their art improves with time, beyond their formative years.
> Root store and TLS/HTTP library are separate concerns.

In the context of this thread (aka older Android devices), they aren’t truly separate concerns. You really need to do both. My point is that doing both is relatively straightforward, but doing the root store part is fairly easy to do it in a mediocre way and be brittle / insecure.
> (see also Alan Kay's vision of software inspired by biological cells and systems – lots of talk, no non-trivial proofs of concept).

I just wanted to say that actually Kay's vision was implemented in something very non-trivial, both on the hardware side - Alto, and the Smalltalk operating system. They were used by real people and exhibited lots of traits that this article talks about. And some of their ideas were hugely influential in mainstream computing.

I love the demo of one of the Smalltalk programs in this talk by Alan Kay [0], starts at around 40:30

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2LZLYcu_JY
Yes! But then I'm having issues with Phasmophobia where it launches the game but loses connection to steam and I can't play with friends.
> Using open on virtual namespaces makes alot of sense, but not always

Can you point to a specific and clear example of that "not always"?
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I agree with you, but I think that I also get the opposite PoV.

Sure, it happened to Trump this time because it was telling lies.

But imagine what would happen if they did the same to a president who was telling truths that the network didn’t like.

It’s about the power that allows the act, not the act itself.
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As far as I understand the point of Arch in the first place is that you want to set things up yourself. That's changed wildly though, with things like Manjaro and the deceased Antergos. If you want to use Arch but don't care for the installation process, installing Manjaro or EndeavorOS isn't any harder than installing Ubuntu.
They are the enemy because they are trying to protect jobs at home? Which country do you come from? How difficult is it for a US citizen to become a full citizen? Is it as easy as what you’re asking for here? Do you think that by having a green card you are taking a job from someone here?

I’m sorry but the idea that a political opponent is an “enemy” is just childish. If your country is trying to kill you then apply for political asylum, otherwise realize a great majority of people here think you have side channeled your way into this country.
Not necessarily. I listen disproportionately to popular songs by popular artists most of the time.

If spotify gives me a recommended suggestion, it's probably worth it to the aspring artist over trivial payment.

The big money is shows.