skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for providing your perspective.

I have to disagree with the first part of this following sentence:

> the Chinese are being every bit as colonial as we were, they're just being a bit less greedy. Colonialism is not only evil when the West practices it, it's evil when China practices it as well.

In my opinion, the problem with this view (and it's a very common view in the West) is that it downplays the ability of Africans to make a good deal for themselves. I think they are perfectly capable of understanding their own needs and forming strategic partnerships that are in their own best interests.

What China is offering is a simple business proposition: You need infrastructure, we need resources -let's make a deal if you find the terms palatable. They are free to take the deal or not. They are free to choose amongst any other creditor willing to loan to them. In fact, studies have found that China's leverage in trade negotiations is actually very limited due to the fact that most of these countries have access to alternative sources of financing and can (and do) demand the renegotiation of deals all the time with outcomes more favourable for themselves (for example when there is a change in government) [1].

I very much doubt that it is China's evil intent to freeze the West out of Africa, though that would probably be a nice bonus for them if it were to happen. China can't freeze the West out anymore than it can impose its own will upon Africa. It's Africa's choice. For the first time probably in history, Africa is in the driver's seat.

China's intentions are very simple and straightforward: to facilitate energy and resource security for themselves, and perhaps to build a manufacturing base for the future once it transitions into a consumption-driven economy. All of these intentions are rooted in mutually beneficial arrangements, not exploitative ones. Here's another tangible benefit besides infrastructure: in a survey by Mckinsey, they found that 89% of employees of Chinese firms in Africa were local, amounting to nearly 300,000 African jobs with 66% of them receiving skills training [2]. If this holds true of the 10,000 Chinese firms operating in Africa, that’s several million jobs created and workers provided with skills and apprenticeships.

I'm not trying to paint too rosy a picture here because obviously no relationship is ever perfect. There will always be some bad actors on both sides trying to get the upper hand. But from my point of view, this could not be more different from the colonialism practiced by western powers / corporations in Africa over the past few decades.

[1] https://rhg.com/research/new-data-on-the-debt-trap-question/

[2] https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/middle-east-and-a...
A whole lot of security is playing whack-a-mole at the end of the day.
Can it add vowels to registered trademarks?
> Is HLS free for others to adopt?

Yes, and v7 of the protocol is documented here: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8216
Sway/wlroots aren't written in Common Lisp, like StumpWM.

The decision to leave window decorations up to the client application rather than the window manager is incomprehensible to me. It just doesn't make any sense so far as I can tell.

I don't want to run GNOME or KDE to get redshift behaviour; I want to run a window manager written in Lisp, with a console, emacs & Firefox. Everything else is a distraction from getting work done.

I agree that not allowing clients to listen to all keys by default is good; I disagree that not providing a mechanism for the end user to grant such access is a good idea. It's his computer — let him run what he wants.
AMD processors are reasonably cheaper, draw less power and get less hot for extremely competitive performance (especially in multi-core where they exceed).

I guess it depends on where you're defining 'curb stomped'. As a whole, I think AMD is besting Intel here.
If someone solved the UI/UX problems with gnupg, and came up with a more elegant method of exchanging/validating keys (or even just an alternate keyserver infrastructure with better properties), wouldn't that solve the problem?

Edit: how about a response instead of a downnvote, anonymous detractor?
Check out NDI. Near real-time local video streaming. It’s inexpensive/no cost if you are doing it all in software.
> This is how the rest of the world works. The time scales are simply longer.

Which is exactly the point I'm making. Nobody is going to deprecate 120V power for the kinds of reasons that software platform deprecations happen.
Do you guys have RFID credit cards? I'm not sure how much more convenient it needs to be than an item scan and a tap of a card.
I think his point was that, regardless of the chances that these doomsday scenarios could occur, experts on site at the time warned that they would, which is precisely what the show depicted.
I've been doing the same thing on "commits.to"

Here you can see all the things I haven't done on time: http://kb.commits.to/ and the backlog of things I already did, of course, too, but I like to focus on those red things at the top of the page.

This is a beta thing that will probably go 1.0(/2.0?) soon, there's no signup page, don't look for a signup page...
I think you've hit the nail on the head, I've thought about this as well. I think it's clear that UI's are a problem yet to be solved, which is why Electron took off. If you've got a website, you've got a GUI with Electron, and a looot of people know how to slap together some JS and HTML.

I would love to see a language agnostic UI stack that can run across platforms, to an extent Electron is "language agnostic" since you write the UI in whatever language you want, you just then compile it to JS (and eventually WebAssembly).
I don't see it saying there it's free for everyone to use. It also says:

> This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes.

IETF standard should be free as far as I know. So the fact that it's not is already suspicious.

Knowing Apple, they probably patented it to the brink. So they released it royalty free? And when exactly?
Awesome XSS
> But does this trope really need to be pulled out in discussing every single newspiece about tech that isn't flattering?

When it comes to dishonest hit pieces like this one, it is the only constructive comment to make. If journalists want to be respected, they should produce respectable work. TFA ain't it.
Sure, sorry its kind of unstructured.

I have the following AHK enabled "features" for lack of a better term always running on windows.

Caps lock triggers a context sensitive - which app - screen overlay of relevant shortcuts (assembled by hand) as well as a menu which autofilters a long lsit of commands, other scripts or websearches, like yubnub.

I have commonly used actions assigned to mouse buttons:
```
WheelRight::Send !{Right}
Wheelleft::Send !{Left}
Xbutton1::Send ^{PgUp}
Xbutton2::Send ^{PgDn}
+MButton::Send ^w
+WheelDown::WheelRight
+WheelUp::WheelLeft
```

I have reassigned the function buttons I almost never used, along with some combinations to allow me to almost never use the mouse in certain use cases.

By highlighting text and hitting a hotkey, i get the evaluation of that as a math expression. With functions and memory

Small scripts that I use most days and call from caps menu include: global autocorrect, computer & network performance widgets, emoji/ascii art insert tool, rerun of apps that start on startup, on screen ruler, on screen color eye dropper, mouse wiggler to prevent screensaver, quake-style terminal emulator window for WSL bash, etc.

It also compiles into an exe easily and relaibly, so friends and family struggling with something can get a gui based app, usually a few hundred kbs, for something that is otherwise a big pain to do. A recent example was a mouse tracker for doing presentations, that always gave the mouses' current location.
> DASH is free to adopt

Citation needed :)

From https://www.mpegla.com/programs/dash/

> The royalty for DASH Clients, which is now payable from January 1, 2017 forward, remains US $0.05 per unit after the first 100,000 units each year.
Open Access Paper referenced in the article at [1]

[1] https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsomega.9b00569
Wow cool can you do that on an S9? I'm gonna try right now. I'm of the same opinion, Bixby is useless...

Edit: looks like I can't on my S9, or don't have the latest version...
I'd guess that late at night an Uber ride from downtown DC to Shady Grove will run you close to that. It definitely will cost more after say, a late night game at Nationals Park. Uber isn't public transit, it serves a different purpose and shouldn't be seen in the same way as public infrastructure.

When I lived in DC, I loved taking the metro but I couldn't rely on it when it got late. If I were king for a day, I'd force the creation of a new ring-type line and make the system run late with far more trains. This would cost money, it would be subsidized. It will make life better for all DC area residents and reduce the terrible traffic in the area. It would also may help mitigate downtown housing prices and slightly increase housing prices out in the suburbs. An enormous number of lives would be improved for a relatively small $35-$40 subsidy per ride.
If you are willing to learn Splunk (data analytics software platform) and learn to build custom apps - ping me.

Essentially custom Splunk app is something that helps customer to solve real business problem - having raw data as an input.
Are those stinky SJW info-hippies getting uppity and threatening Open Source again?

http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Bruc...

>The Decline and Fall of Eric S. Raymond

>Around the start of the millennium, Eric S. Raymond was one of the philosophical leaders of open source. His essay and book, The Cathedral and the Bazaar was obligatory reading for executives trying to understand open source. Now, after lying low for over a decade, Raymond is getting attention again, this time for two blog entries in which he rants about how so-called Social Justice Warriors (SJWs) threaten open source.

>[...] Raymond's call to defend open source from SJWs is as deceptive as anything he attributes to his enemies. Free and open source software is too widespread to need defending, and his attempt to create an issue does not map well on to actual events. For those who remember his earlier contributions to open source, his recent comments make for a disappointing epilogue.
The thing is, there are two different things meant by the word "extremism", and the word itself serves to conflate the two.

One is what you discuss -- object-level positions that are extreme in some way. This is, as you say, no vice.

The other thing that is meant by "extremism" is what one might call "meta-level extremism"; it includes such things as trying to silence one's opponents rather than argue with them, the use of violence, etc. This, obviously, is a bad thing. (And while I called it "meta-level extremism" above, what it really is, I'd say, is illiberalism.)

For this reason, I don't like the word "extremism", as it conflates the two. Of course, it's possible that the reason the same word is used for both is because, for pyschological reasons, in humans these tend to go together. But they are logically separate.
> What if an ad buyer bought ads for AR15s

Yeah, what if? It's a perfectly legal product in my country and people do buy and sell them online (via FFL transfers rather than directly), and the vast majority of people who own and use those rifles do so safely.
What if Microsoft had invented Android?
The chmod command can alter the flagset on the link not the target, if you select the right options.

How do you guarantee the replacement symlink had the same chmod flags and grp flags as the original? (chmod -h for reference*)

I don't think these commands are idempotent in the wide. They satisfy only the narrowest "yea, most normal-ish cases are sort of maybe ok" but since we lost atomicity, there are significant windows of time in the filesystem where inodes are in flux, and the new thing has a different inode to the old thing, if you delete and replace it. The disk is different.
Someone has been working on a wlroots-based compositor which is inspired by StumpWM:

https://github.com/sdilts/mahogany

Maybe you're interested in helping?
I don't think the issue is stripe per se. They just made creating a company much easier. So much easier that they attracted new customers who would not have otherwise been serious or sophisticated enough to create a company. And some of these customers were surprised by what they got themselves into.
Perl 5 and Perl 6 are completely separate languages, they aren't "versions" of the same language.
Item scanning can take a while, as well as queuing for it. Tapping card vs chip and pin is a tiny time saving compared to the whole checking out process.
Has it never occurred to you that perhaps institutional "authorities" who are empowered to "vet" information (before it is consumed by a fragile and untrustworthy public) may, in fact, be the greater danger?
Money laundering in the UK
In everything apart from gaming FPS, the Ryzen 3900X is much faster than the 9900K.
Interesting. Thanks for sharing.

> Commento is a proud recipient of the Mozilla Open Source Support award. The $19,200 grant was given in recognition of Commento's contributions to make the internet more privacy-friendly.

That said, it uses akismet for spam control, which I'm not sure how trustworthy it is... But definitely better than nothing!
Actual title: "These 8 cities are taking bold steps to get rid of cars"

As we're seeing in the Bay Area, making car-hostile changes can increase emissions. For example, reducing parking doesn't cut demand, just supply, so cars end up "circling" an area awaiting a space to open up. Driver-only trips need to be attacked from the demand side, not the supply side.
Well, these are the necessary skills for the citizen of a democracy to have and to exercise properly. If you're going to assume that the majority of people are incapable of gaining that skill, the only logical conclusion is that democracy is a mistake.
Haiku's mail system may be of interest to you -- the default UI is of course a GUI, but as the mails are stored as individual files, and their headers in extended attributes, you can use "query mail:from=john", etc. to filter mails, "mail" to send them, etc.
Does it need to work in a browser or could you provide VLC or similar as the client and use the 90s protocol that actually addresses your use case?
On Taking Breaks
Does it really qualify as "addiction"?
Here it is https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3575092 I'm going to try it myself.
TLS specifically does not prevent a passive eavesdropper from telling what compressed video you’re watching. If they can drop a few packets and force you to rebuffer, they can tell very quickly—plausibly faster than you can tell watching the video start!
Can you list some of them? Since my MBP with much faster Radeon 460 is struggling even with new isometric games like Pillars of Eternity 2 or games like Stellaris.
In Australia, the two seasons are “football” and “cricket”.
I had no idea this was possible. Excellent article - thank you for opening my eyes to yet another insanely cool aspect of Linux.
Similar situation here, ended up with the same solution, after an initial attempt with HLS. jsmpeg (https://github.com/phoboslab/jsmpeg) made it pretty easy.
People who preach unity are people who wish to consolidate power, because they are the same thing. Unity tells you nothing about what principles you are to unite under.
Again, the display is around 100 pixels/inch. Definitely not “retina” (which is such a marketing sham word anyway) level graphics (at the normal distance for sheet music), but still enough for my eyes to read individual notes easily (pixel density wise anyway, 4ish inch screen not withstanding).
Now that I’m more manager than dev, GTD is saving my butt.

As a dev it never really worked for me.
I have no idea how many other people are like this, but I already don't look at my receipts when I'm in a grocery store. If I do, it's because I realized I forgot something and want to know if I actually forgot something. So for me, the experience ends up being the same.
> China just sent its police force into Vanuatu to extract 6 people (mostly Vanuatu citizens) who they claim broke Chinese law.

The title for one of your sources says that they were Chinese nationals:

> Secrecy veil over deportation of six Chinese nationals raises key questions
Both of those statements are false.

There are clear things wrong with the PGP protocol. PGP predates authenticated encryption (let alone modern AEAD ciphers) and the hacks PGP came up with to authenticate ciphertext resulted both in stripping attacks and, indirectly, in the Efail attack from last year. It was also Signal's linear packet based key format that resulted in the GnuPG/SKS attacks.

Signal is a protocol; in fact, it was "Signal Protocol" that won the Levchin prize. Signal also doesn't verify identities with phone numbers.

These are just basic, fundamental factual problems with your claims. We're not even getting close to serious comparisons between the two systems; we haven't even talked about forward secrecy, compromise repair, modern primitives, complexity, and UX.
Here is a good summary of it.

https://hamberg.no/gtd/
It's funny that you should call magit "clumsy", implicitly opposing it to Git's CLI.
They do, voice and video calls are intolerable at 1s of latency.
Agreed – a postmortem from rubygems.org on how the takeover occurred, and would be prevented next time, is something the Ruby community should expect/demand.
Its buried in Bixby settings, so the classic way with BxActions is still more reliable if you're not on the exact update of Android Pie (OneUI) that has bixby button options.
Not when payment is extracted in real time.
That's cool, but that would be a hassle for groceries if you had to manually add up all your purchases. The app allows you to combine security with customer convenience.
In Tokyo in the 80s, and probably now, the median financial professional could not work in English, and that’s probably still true now. Tokyo has an enormous and liquid financial market but Japanese is not a regional language, never mind a global one. Paris has a better shot at being the go to place for African finance than Tokyo did of being Asia’s.
Isn’t payment by credit card in almost all cases? You can view a statement before paying it a month later. How’s that in real time?
Maybe its my age but I actually like TUI-style for something like email, because its less taxing on the eyes. Its funny, nowadays, either the UI of some apps/clients is way too busy/dsitracting, and colorful, and annoying...Or, its bare and tough to figure out (what does that icon do again?)...but not intuitive. Again, it could be my age...but i like the simplicity of TUI types of interfaces...at least for things like checking email.
The disconnect from family and heavy emphasis on following a guru...it's hard not to be concerned if this is a healthy choice.
>I say this after using Linux on the desktop as my primary user and development environment for over 22 years at this point

Five years ago, after 15 years of using Linux on the desktop, I bought a Mac Mini for my daily driver. I have not regretted that decision once. For anything needing more compute power, I can shell into a beefier Linux server without a GUI. I still develop the same sorts of apps that I did before the switch, and am still intimately familiar with the same (application programming) interfaces as I was in Linux, just now my sound doesn't randomly stop working, my disks don't refuse to decrypt, and my video doesn't randomly stop working because somebody at Red Hat decided that the graphics libraries I was using were naughty or that I should have less choice in video cards by excluding support for the most performant video cards available at the time I bought.
For all intents and purposes, the government has a superset of the data gathered by the big tech firms.

In particular, they have to turn this data over to law enforcement by law.

Separately, law enforcement routinely breaks the law and steals the backend databases these companies gather.
This is an opinion piece by an SEO consultant.
It's well known that Soviet Union didn't really have economics

Huh? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet-type_economic_planning
pc perspective rand idle power consumption benchmarks: https://pcper.com/2019/07/amd-ryzen-7-3700x-ryzen-9-3900x-re...
Also, there is mention of a mastodon account to follow for further announcements...but wasn't clickable/didn't work...Anyone know what the account is?

(By the way, cheers for participating on the fediverse, and not legacy silos!!)
Will this technique work for any bloatware found on Android?
They're not unified by their views so much as by the "other" that they share. A common enemy helps them overlook their ideological differences, so those differences are not often discussed. This gives a stronger appearance of groupthink.
Ada was the intro programming language at my college and I have a soft spot for it.
The next logical thing to do for more fun is to run User Mode Linux under the Windows Subsystem for Linux.

After that, it would make sense to try WINE.
This looks like a bad joke. If I want to own my data I would not use your website, especially given that it requires a Google Drive account.
>Live video rolls for a minute or so, until it stops. Don't no why, but you may continue from here.. :)
You got that right. You can use it to disable any pre-installed app
Please see the Nature article I linked to and note that every instance of "composition" refers to change in the composition. Some examples:

- "bird community composition also reacting promptly to the introduction and removal of feeding stations"

- "food resources provided by the British public have altered the composition"

- "feeding practices appear to have contributed significantly to the changing composition"

- "the composition of bird communities exploiting garden bird food has changed"

- "Changes in community composition"

The paper also contains 20+ uses of "effect" as a noun. Affected is clearly the intended word. The reporter made a mistake.

To "effect something" is to "cause it to occur" and in this case, bird feeding hasn't caused population composition to occur, but rather has changed the existing population composition.

BTW, I sent a DM to the reporter. I'll report back if he replies.
> one row per thread

Woohoo! Hope this project gets a lot of love and support, because this has always been my preferred way to view threads.

Can anyone recommend a more complete Linux mail client (TUI or GUI) that works this way, akin to Gmail's conversation view? Thunderbird theoretically can with some extensions but I've never quite managed to get it to work right.

My other issue with switching to a TUI mail client would be that piping html mail to w3m and replying to it in plaintext (or writing html by hand in response) just never seemed robust enough to deal with a wide cross section of office worker humanity and their image/formatting/table-laden mails... Ah well, a man can dream.
Useful ROM Hacks for Retro Games – Restorations, Fan Translations, Colorizations
"Take back your life with Outlook" is a similar book that outlines how you could make your email more actionable and stay on top of it.
> all branches are taken by all cores

Perhaps this should be threads, but certainly not cores - it's a single core running the same operations on different data across multiple threadish things.

I'm not sure if there's a more technically accurate terminology for quite what they are.
> Turkey would've gladly assisted the US in this case

What case? After the assassination?

> and urged the US for action

What action? When?

> There are other ways to protect US citizens from being murdered.

Khashoggi was not a US citizen.
Publish, then.