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I'm running NixOS in a VM, trying to evaluate if it's worth switching from Arch to NixOS before making the leap.

> possibility of all-mighty failures caused by adding the extra layer of abstraction and complexity

In the end, I think all distributions ends up with similar layers of abstractions and complexity, mostly regarding packaging, but sometimes also other components.

What I've found when using NixOS compared to Arch, is that if I screw up my Arch installation I either need to sacrifice my time to try to fix the screw up (which sometimes adds spending time just learning/reading about some concept I don't know about) or I need to recover from backups, so I can get back to work.

With NixOS screw ups, I simply choose the previous version on boot and I'm "recovered". Leads to me getting back to what I was doing faster, but missing the opportunity to learn my own personal stack better. But not every moment needs to be "understand everything 100%", which in Arch-land, tends to happen, otherwise you continue to screw up.

Although I'm still on the fence of upgrading to NixOS because the OS as an concept + it's own language is still not easy to learn, especially for more advanced usage, it's getting closer each day to just dump Arch and start using NixOS full time. Mostly because the reproducible nature of the OS.
>If you’ve already reached your 30% cap, what incentive do you have to improve your service?

By having to compete with other services who are trying to get your share?
> The glass being, say, 45.67% from full capacity is a fact.

The glass is at 50% capacity. Was it more convenient for you to change the fact of the statement?

You’ve simply substituted one kind of measure for another without providing a distinction between them.

The key point is that a fact has a different effect on different observers that can be discerned from the way the express it. The state of affairs being described is not a belief or an opinion or will magically find less millimetres (as in your comment) by being stated differently.
I am a bit surprised to see resolve here today, as tomorrow resove 17 is released.
Of course, how brilliant. Now, imagine if I could represent these "real objects" with something as interoperable as, say, plain text. How innovative, imagine this! Now all parts of the system speak an universal language. Break down all barrieres!
> good - my job is really easy

Longterm isn't this bad? For example, if you can do it with 5 years experience. At 15 years experience you'll likely be too expensive for companies to want to hire you. They'll just hire more junior people.
Twitter made plenty of controversial decisions during these days https://twitter.com/DavidShafer/status/1324537971215863808
Fun fact: 5/6 years ago, a bunch of Huawei phones came with world readable /dev/fb0 (framebuffer) device files.

This made it trivial for any application to read the display, totally bypassing any Android screenshot/screen recording API (not that one existed at the time). Some of those devices also had readable /dev/event/input* files, which allowed touchscreen interaction to be monitored.
Or Bandcamp, which supports Name Your Price and free downloads.
You're talking past the point under discussion, to wit:

>the stock market has little correlation to reality... It fluctuates based on personal sentiment from institutions and money managers

>a slim minority of Americans own stocks to begin with...

>most laymen investors or readers believe that the stock market is an indication of how well our economy is doing — which it’s not.

And therefore an improved stock market does not equate to an improved 'economy', and therefore it is incorrect to credit Donald Trump with an improved economy purely because tax cuts to the rich may have bumped the stock market. What on Earth does your comment have to do with that?
Spotify can also chose to prevent older clients to connect and only allow the latest one with new protections rendering this attack useless.
I’ve been very interested in the user-centric model described, but I’m not aware of any streaming services using it.
What are the chances that Spotify would make this an option? Even if it was just opt-in, that we go a long way to keeping me with them as a premium subscriber.
There are extremists on the left, Biden disavowed them publicly.

There are extremists on the right, Trump disavowed them publicly.

Nevertheless, media commentators on either side try to portrait these candidates as if they supported, or at least "enabled" extremists.

Can you be more specific on how either of these candidates "enable" or "do not enable" extremism? How would you falsify an accusation of "enabling" something?
Can it prevent the user from taking a photo of the phone screen with a different device?
Writing Terraform, but with TypeScript
local public transport service uses this block for their app. To make it harder to casually fake app tickets.
https://vimeo.com/7548051
This is absurd... Why are the apps alerted when the user is taking a screenshot? Why can they even block that action?

How can people even change that since Android is directly controlled by Google?
If the user wants to provide a "non-real" picture, there is no legitimate reason to stop them.
Agreed. They turned this declaration:

char (*(*x())[5])()

into this English description:

> declare x as function returning pointer to array 5 of pointer to function returning char

What was really needed was just to disentangle the function declarations, like this:

x: fn () -> &((&fn () -> char)[5])
That shouldn't be too crazy to accomplish with a bunch of tiny cable driven actuators hidden down in the torso to keep it compact.

Funnily enough, a quick search on cable driven actuators for animatronics leads you to another paper by Disney Research.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MARwhwXEVz8
I too was using Arch before and a friend convinced me to do the leap and I don't really regret it.

One of the advantages is that packages just works on the contrary of the AUR where I had lots of problems for lots of packages that wouldn't just not build or work.
I have not provided any false information here, it is included in the press release and available to the public. Just because I'm a member of the company's team doesn't mean I can't be impressed with the AI department's performance and give my opinion on the product. I wish you all the best
I am saying I don't believe in authoritative sources of truth. All the "wrong" people out there don't enter into it when I am reading news. I look for facts that can be and have been validated.

And it's important to have humility about being right about everything. You don't have to go back far to find folks on the left excited about the prospects for Venezuela. Now, it's possible to find scapegoats, but it does explain some of the right-wing perspective on fake news. If the left and the media had to see a country basically collapse to call the Venezuelan government problematic, what do you call the reporting and debate points before that? "Factual" doesn't cut it.
I got sick of hearing "Nobody knew X..."

Yes we did Donald. Yes we did.
> Sorry, not possible

Source? Also, I think this video is an excellent counter to what you are claiming: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
The cable landing stations provide DC power for the repeaters from both directions. The power requirements are substantial and use thousands of volts.

All the components of the subsea cable system are engineered with reliability in mind. None of the components are to require maintenance over the lifetime of the system. This means components are expected to operate 20 to 25 years at a minimum.
It would still be possible to use external camera to capture the content.
The only conclusion we can reach is "he says the quiet part out loud"

If you ignore the last 4 years of analysis of what motivates Trump voters, why he's popular despite his personality issues and so on, then sure, you can "only" reach one conclusion. But it's the wrong one.

Still, it's great fun believing half of America is filled with racist hatred isn't it?

As near as I can tell, Conservatism is deader than disco.

It just drew basically level with the left despite Biden being far more presidential than Trump, and despite nearly the entire media and tech industry pulling every lever they could for Biden. That seems very far from dead.
No, but you can't use Google drive either on iPhones, IIRC.
It’s worse than that, because as a paying subscriber you are subsidizing listens coming from free/ad-supported accounts too.

In fact, other users take away your money from artists you like if they are a heavier user of the service than you - as they get more of the total pot in current system. From the point of view of the big labels who have control this is a feature not a bug. http://www.serci.org/congress_documents/2019/user_centric_re...
Just to throw an extra confounding factor in, I can guarantee that your hearing now isn't as good as when you first heard them. But that's fine, it's the subjective experience that counts.
Show HN: Sell those domains you’re not using anymore
Both Chrome and Firefox disable screenshots in private mode. I assume that this helps defend against 3rd-party programs running in the background that might save screenshots unbeknowst of the user.
It is long considered a fundamental human right to be able to flee danger

They are still able to flee danger, but they now need to wait in a detainment center while awaiting their hearing. This exists because only a tiny fraction of those released would actually go to their hearings, and most would stay here illegally.

Meanwhile Europe is having its own problems with refugees

You admit here that mass immigration causes issues. Well mass immigration has been occurring in the US for decades. We have over 10 _million_ illegal immigrants today. This is why trump's anti-immigration statements gained traction, because it was/is an issue here too, especially in the southern region of the US.
> People voting for Trump are regular blue collar workers loosing from globalization. Hence they want walls. I don't think there is any good in demonizing them.

I agree with this, but there’s a bit that I don’t understand about their mindset. If they think they’ve lost their job to an immigrant who’s willing to work harder for less money, how does less government involvement make it better? You can’t just ban immigrants and solve the problem because the real problem is a system that allows exploitative labor practices. By American standards those immigrant workers are also getting a bad deal and the people doing the exploiting aren’t going to stop unless someone forces them to.

I think the reason you see people latching on to Trump is because they think all politicians want to maintain the status quo and they think Trump will break it. I understand the sentiment, but Trump didn’t really DO anything to help them. All he seems to do IMO is assign blame and talk about how things should be. It’s easy to say “we have the greatest plan” or “everyone should live in a mansion”, but it’s really hard to actually have the greatest plan and to implement it or to build everyone a mansion.

It’s really sad because I think middle class America is being disenfranchised and there’s a near majority of people who’ve been convinced it’s the fault of poor, “lazy moochers” rather than the wealthy capturing and hoarding all of our productivity gains over the past 40 years.

I think there should be common ground in wanting to get rid of the part of the government that serves the interests of the wealthy at the expense of the middle class. It’s just a matter of understanding the sides are wealthy vs everyone else, not right vs left.
Presumably, apps could use the screenshot API to extract private information from other apps
Most of the time i just use that:

https://pgtune.leopard.in.ua/#/
Your best bet would probably be youtube music with a youtube premium account.
You just don’t get that you can apply limitations to graphql query not unlike you when you don’t allow to fetch a billion records from rest endpoint? This what that about? Because that’s a question of how, solvable.
You work for the company don't you?

"Amazing!" "Mind-blowing!"

Feels like snake oil.
Are you familiar with Idagio (https://app.idagio.com/)? Superior to Spotify across every dimension for classical music.
You'd think that a user-initiated screenshot should be distinguishable from a API initiated one, though.

In my experience, it mainly seems to be banking and messaging apps that monitor or block screenshot events.
I've tried many times. I read the entire manual. I would love to use Nix.

But it's too complex.

I guess that's the result of them trying to do everything an OS does using their new arcane Nix language. I don't know how else this could be accomplished though -- but I hope there is another way.

I find it weird often I would find files written in the Nix language in minified/unreadable way fashion in parts of the system.

It's a sympton of the complexity of everything that for every weird error that I would find I would search the internet and not find a person with the same problem. It's always something slightly different and then the solutions proposed to that person would made no sense to me at all or they would introduce much more complexity.
It even has the recording comparison feature you are dreaming of!
It's saddening to see that wearing a mask to prevent infection from a virus is in any way political.
how do you break Arch so bad these days?

last major issue I had was when everything moved from /bin to /usr/bin.
The difference is one-time payment versus price per year.
And premium users pay for everyone's streams. That's one of the conflicts, and the other is that those who listen to fewer plays get less influence than those who listen to many. So even if all the premium users prefer jazz (for example), their money will mostly go to whatever the free users prefer listening to.

If spotify itself was seen as a market - I wouldn't say that this would be a very well-functioning market, because of the mismatch between what you use and who you pay.
This would require standards, and then competitors would eat their nice, fat margins.
Sounds like a good backdoor with plausible deniability ("the dev forgot to restore permissions").
There’s the MystiQ Video Converter: https://github.com/swl-x/MystiQ/
Ships anchors and trawlers are major risks for subsea cables. Deeper is thus better.

Underwater geography is also a major consideration. It's not just the going up and down, it's the risk of landslides, tectonic shifts, volcanoes, currents and icebergs scraping the ocean floor.

On top of that are geopolitics and enviromental concerns.
I am certainly not disingenuous. I don't know why you want to impugn my motives in this discussion.

I think there are a multitude of smaller problems to solve and smaller steps to take that would be utterly uncontroversial to the wider public. But they will not be considered because both sides are pushing for their big thing and locked into combative attitudes.

Same goes for immigration reform for that matter. There's plenty of low grade nonsense to clean up with legislation but the culture of controversy derails trying to find where consensus actually exists and acting on it.

A good positive example would be how criminal justice reform was actually attempted recently.
> I've been wondering why "audio interfaces" are so expensive.

They're a minority interest. Designing good DACs is a subtle art and the engineer costs are amortised over small production runs.

The design of the ancillary circuits (analogue preamps, headphone monitoring, phantom power, input and output protection), and mechanical design and integration are also time-consuming and tricky (=expensive) to make reliable and within design goals. And marketing costs are probably as large as engineering.

You certainly could do it yourself, but the component cost is the least of your worries. You'll need a fair bit of bench gear - oscilloscope, function generator, various power supplies, DVM, ... but even that's not the problem. You need a lot of knowledge about component selection and circuit design and layout, and a lot of experience with the tools of the trade.

Making something like the Presonus (but probably six or ten times as big, because I can't do an all-in-one circuit board with all those functions on it and have it work in any reasonable timeframe), getting it to a state where I would let an unknown mic or computer be plugged into it, or let someone else use it, would easily take me more than three hundred hours. If you're new to this, multiply by n (n >=3).
A fair model would be to charge users a pay-as-you-go rate for every minute listened.

Someone who listens 20 hours a week should pay more than someone who listens 5 hours a month on Spotify. Just set a rate/minute and track each user's usage and bill them monthly.

Then pay the same rate/minute (minus a super small commission %) to the artists of whom the music was streamed.

This would mean that artists get a fair share for what they contribute. If Madonna releases a new album which is a flop then why should she still get the same payout as her last album which was a hit? Equally, if a new artist releases a real banger why should they get less for their talent only because their name is less established as someone else?

This model would also allow a platform like Spotify to push the rate/minute slowly up until they reach a point where demand and supply meet happily. We would be able to find the real value of good music which consumers are willing to pay.
Throwing more money at the NHS won't solve the problem. Having a free market solution (where you can go somewhere else if you are not happy) will.
Relevant crbug: https://crbug.com/985245

If you use Chrome Canary you can now enable a feature flag under this URL:

chrome://flags#incognito-screenshot

Firefox has a setting in settings > privacy to enable incognito screenshots.
> Planned Parenthood is doing it's best to create as much distance between itself and Sanger, yet you're here defending her. Why?

You're out-of-context quoting someone who has been dead for no less than the better part of a century, and based on the evidence that you've drawn my attention to she was a tireless advocate of sensible family planning. I think that deserves some defence.

You said PP distanced from her because of her racist views. Ok, fair enough, everyone in history was basically a racist so that seems like a fair call. But her work as a 'eugenicist' seems to be commendable and most of what you have been bringing up today has ranged from commendable to reasonable in context. From what I've seen here it seems to me that this woman lived a life well spent. I'm not seeing anything that doesn't look like a reasonable option in the modern era - it is still the case that educated and wealthy families generally go with fewer children and are more likely to plan out their family for example. I support free and easy access to abortions.

> "maybe she meant something else"

I'm happy to be a bit stronger than that. She obviously meant something else. Voluntary access to family planning tools and training black ministers has to be one of the worst schemes to eradicate out the black community that I've ever encountered. It strains credulity, in fact.
Edit: just to bring this up a bit higher in the thread, replies like from u/kgermino, u/dtech, and u/anonymoushn are saying that popular artists rack up their number of plays from background noise (my wording, not theirs) whereas niche artists won't have that advantage. A bar or coworker might play a popular playlist a ton of times as background noise whereas your niche artist will have some dedicated people listening to it that don't rack up a meaningless play count.

This causes money to flow from subscribers listening to this niche artist to the more popular artist. That's a problem to which I see various solutions, like only including active clicks on songs or artists in the revenue distribution model, or indeed changing the model to be per user instead of by aggregate number of plays. So it's not really that it's unfair to pay artists more that are played more, it's that because of the way some people use Spotify, plays are racked up for reasons other than because their music is so great.

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It effectively works in the way you describe, but aggregated instead of per user. So instead of splitting your £15 into 4, it splits Spotify's total revenue (minus service fee) among the artists listened to. If 100 million users listened to artist A and 50 million to artist B, and those are the only two artists listened to, then they get 100/(100+50)=67% and 50/(100+50)=33% of the revenue, respectively. Listening to certain artists still gets them more money.

So I'm not sure why you say that most of your money goes to a popular artist instead. Other people's money goes there because they listened to it, yours doesn't really if you look at an individual subscriber's level. It's a bit like electricity: you can purchase green power but of course they don't dig new cables to get you exclusively green power, they just pay the wind/solar/hydro farms instead of the coal farms for the part of the power that you used.

(Some notes I made for myself to make sure I got this straight, figured I could share them: If you listen only to artist A and 999 other people listen to artist B (everyone plays an equal number of tracks), then £15×1000=£15000 goes into the pot, and your artist will get 1/1000×15000=£15 and the other one will get 999/1000×£15000=£14985. Even in aggregate, it should work out, but please correct me if I went wrong somewhere!)
How is that user-hostile?
The issue wasn't the system broke, in fact, my system was doing pretty much alright.

The problem was: in the AUR, lots of packages didn't built or launch, and even in the official repos, some packages were missing libraries or just not having the right versions.

I was tired of tinkering to get everything to work as I wanted.
> prevent screenshotting licensed content. [..] good for 99% of the people

Is this a parody, or do you truly think DRM is good?
My company uses Libre Office for 13 years (a no-brainer, we don't even have windows computers in the office), we had zero problems interacting with the outer world and 'other businesses'.

So when I speak that this 'business is impossible without MS Office' narrative is false, I do it from many years of experience that proves otherwise.
court... over what?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21153531
Advanced Hackers for Hire? Symantec level
I'm being attacked by a high level hacker and I need to compile "proof" - as though the blatant spying occurring since my hacker started attacking isn't "proof" enough. It seems to be impossible to find someone I can hire to work for me as effectively as say, LE should be doing for free. Where are the real hackers for hire? You know, the Wikipedia groups and people reported in Symantec articles about malware?
The algorithm isn't dumb at all. Lady Gaga is relatively more valuable for the platform, so she can ask for a bigger slice of the pie.

If all you wanted was a streaming platform that didn't have all these major artists on it, it could be provided for much less than £15.
It's quite fascinating to see the comments on this article as it's pretty obvious who clicked the link and who only looked at the title here at Hacker News. The article itself is called "Pro Rata and User Centric Distribution Models: A Comparative Study" and it's a study showing the difference between "pro rata" (what's happening today) and "user centric" (a user gives their money to the artists _they_ listen to). The fact about the "top 0.4% artists" is just one of the results they found while sampling 10k tracks.
If a user initiated screenshot was distinguishable from an API initiated one, then you could argue third party screenshotting apps aren't first class citizens on the platform
In India, there are many marginal businesses which are not registered as a business. I expect a lot of P2P payments to be Peer to unregistered business.