skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A better take on this: https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/10/china-nba-twitter-dis...

> This event is starkly clarifying. And it should give conservatives and progressives pause, because China’s model of imposing Xi Jinping thought is a direct and equal threat to us. If Chinese authoritarianism is able to spread into American life through corporate power, because corporations are set up to serve shareholders and have trouble thinking ethically beyond that, then perhaps it is the duty of the state to interrupt the exchange mechanism through which this corruption proceeds. If China is forcing American corporations to impose Xi Jinping thought, maybe it’s time to choose.
I appreciate that Torvalds is no ideologue, and that his "tit for tat" approach extends to Redmond.

The relatively more purist views of the FSF are of value, as well.

A spectrum of opinion keeps any Towers of Babel from getting too tall.
How much social unrest is there right now compared to the past?
Using that argument, any country with a foreign military presence inside its borders isn't a country.
Logic? :)
Would you mind linking to more info on either that device or its rockbox support? I'm having trouble telling if I'm looking at the right device with a different name or what.

I'd love to have rockbox running again, my last player died years back. Unofficial support would be fine as long as it works decently well.

EDIT: Found it, it's the AGPTEK Rocker v1 or v2 (same insides apparently), or also the Benjie T6. I could not find a T2 at all.

Found from: http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=52220.0
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Main core area of my expertise is desktop application development.
Over 10+ years, experienced with c/c++, objective c++, and MFC, QT frameworks.
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Gp Designer(MFC, C++, OpenGL)
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We're small team of 5 members including computer graphics, AI, AR experts.
I can provide portfolio documents or product brochures.

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It's already happening.[0]

Marketplace Hansa was running Bitdefender, which pwned them to Europol.

> Europol has been supporting the investigation of criminal marketplaces on the Dark Web for a number of years. With the help of Bitdefender, an internet security company advising Europol's European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), Europol provided Dutch authorities with an investigation lead into Hansa in 2016. Subsequent enquiries located the Hansa market infrastructure in the Netherlands, with follow-up investigations by the Dutch police leading to the arrest of its two administrators in Germany and the seizure of servers in the Netherlands, Germany and Lithuania. Europol and partner agencies in those countries supported the Dutch National Police to take over the Hansa marketplace on 20 June 2017 under Dutch judicial authorisation, facilitating the covert monitoring of criminal activities on the platform until it was shut down today, 20 July 2017. In the past few weeks, the Dutch Police collected valuable information on high value targets and delivery addresses for a large number of orders. Some 10 000 foreign addresses of Hansa market buyers were passed on to Europol.

0) https://www.europol.europa.eu/newsroom/news/massive-blow-to-...
And that’s probably frowned upon by some people because the blog has all the Microsoft branding and such.
!MSE

I appreciate materials science. There are times I look at schematics and diagrams and think about the forces applied and the strength of the systems at work, but am unqualified to make any professional statements. I'll just keep writing some code... :)
Haiku targets BeOS compatibility.
On one level I'm absolutely outraged by this, but the thing is it's not Adobe's fault and, to be honest, there's probably not a lot else they can do under the circumstances. The fault lies with the Trump administration and unless and until they change their position nothing will change.
Windows NT setup programs were traditionally 16-bit because every version of NT could run 16-bit x86. The non-x86 variants (alpha, mips, etc.) had built in emulation.

So Microsoft has already got the ability to run 16-bit Windows apps in emulation. It's a shame they didn't enable this on x86-64.
However BareBones did drop TextWrangler, and that's one of the thing that's going to keep me on Mojave for a while.
I attended a Seder on upper Park Ave, Manhattan, which had 3 people who used cars, including the rabbi who lives in Manhattan. One party was a visitor from out of town. The streets do look like rivers of cabs but I spot private cars and not all of those have ride share stickers.
When you open Live 10 in Mojave you get this alert:

https://help.ableton.com/hc/en-us/articles/360003076340
Is it really overblown? Think about it.

It's not like Nazi germany only had followers because they were being mind-controlled. They were slow-boiling the frog back then as well and those who didn't want to notice could easily justify everything.

Well, sure, nazi germany ran concentration camps, keeping hundreds of thousands prisoner based on ethnicity and religion. It's not like China is doing that after all…

… right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_re-education_camps

(Asking again: What's overblown about GP's comparison?)
This is a Windows Defender thing, not a Windows 10 thing.

Windows Defender on Windows 7 also submits previously unobserved binaries to Microsoft for the same reason.

Go ahead, blame Win10, though. A non-zero number of people will take your comment to heart and believe that you knew what you were talking about with their entire soul, without seeing my comment.

I am so tired of seeing communal ignorance on this topic. People believe whatever bullshit they want, if it fits the narrative they are trying to sell.
Dropping 32bit support is game-over for gaming on macOS. The numbers already didn't add up for indie developers [1]. Even AAA game developers often ignore macOS because the ROI is just too low. And from the $5/month subscription how much will end up to the developers [2]?

Essentially what Apple Arcade will end-up hosting is ports of run-of-the-mill mobile games. And I'd bet the advertised number of developers will diminish as soon as the agreements they secured for the launch expire. But if this is the kind of gaming you're interested into, you already have your iPhone/iPad.

[1]: https://www.gridsagegames.com/blog/2019/09/sorry-mac-users-a...

[2]: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43k4ww/its-hard-to-use-ap...
No the situation is totally unlike Windows which has legendary backwards compatibility.
That's why I like to use a keyfile. Unless it is badly coded, taking my 1kb of random bytes should help.
KLP (according to Reuters) is the largest pension fund in Norway? Who anyway is KLP?

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=norway+...

I see: public employees. Public employee pension funds, in the West, are often some of the largest by country.

Norway's actual largest pension fund, the so-called Oil Fund, is, at > $1 trln. in assets, much larger.

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

It's the largest sovereign wealth fund in the world and owns 1.5% of the world's "stocks and shares" (as Wikipedia puts it) - it's a behemoth.

And how did Norway accumulate all that wealth? North Sea oil.

Whenever I hear "responsible this and that" from Norway, I chuckle. The ironies are rich. It's all fine and good to be responsible this and that once you're as wealthy as Croesus. With a population of 5.26 mln. people, it's sort of like a reasonably sized global metropolis came into a fortune well in excess of a trillion $. Bring on those Teslas.
Whoops: [2] indicates that using singular they is as good as 'he' for male referents, and better than 'she' for female referents.
As a developer who strongly advocates for and strives to maintain backwards compatibility whenever possible (and even when it isn't so easy...), I can say that it's unfortunately something the vast majority of (younger) developers today don't even think about, much less care for. Perhaps they just haven't experienced stability nor noticed it enough in their daily lives, because all they seem to care about is "new and shiny" and rewriting things constantly.

I have written various (Windows) utilities over the years, and some are over 20 years old now and I use them every day. They worked on Win95, they still work through to Win10. They're all tiny single binaries that require no installation, start immediately, and are extremely responsive and low on memory usage. Ironically, it's almost impossible to do that with a "modern" toolchain now, and I'm not even sure if something like that would've ever been possible with the Mac. To me, the idea that backwards compatibility is a "burden" is absurd. Constant churn is a burden. If I had to go and "fix" all my utilities every few years because a new OS broke something that was working before, I would have less time for actual new developments. Instead I can continue to use them and write other things as the needs arise, instead of wasting the effort redoing things that should've still been working. Just "leaving well enough alone" is a big part of it.
I agree: GP reads like spun/machine-generated content.
Ehh. I’m not really inclined to call my representative and advocate that we get involved in yet another foreign entanglement. What does “save Hong Kong” mean? Undoing the agreement that’s in place for hand-over to China?
JLM's comments some days are better than Fred's. The guy has been a high ranking army officer, built a lot of the newer skyscrapers in Austin and now is retired from CEO of a Fortune 500 company.
Character Feature Engineering for Japanese Word Segmentation
> Why would anyone want to replace their car when they can just replace battery?

Or why would anyone want to replace their battery when they can just replace the top of the car?

Peoples’ needs and tastes in cars change overtime. I’d like to see a future where you retain the “skateboard” of the car but swap the cabin and skin of the exterior relatively inexpensively.
What do you recommend that has similar functionality?
New BBC Archive Release Celebrates Monty Python’s 50th Anniversary
Every OS does have their own signing system like this! That's how all the Linux package managers work.
I didn't downvote, but "peace in our time" isn't the same as "let's buy a few years and then get some Nazis". It's also extreme Monday morning quarterbacking.

And it's plausible that anything short of Churchillian intransigence would have lost that war. Even a "smarter" craftiness could have failed.
How does that share data between multiple Redis processes?
As a conservative, I found this article interesting and surprising.

I've heard the political spectrum is really a circle-- if you go far enough right (or left) you end up at the other end of the spectrum. To me, it's now a little more credible.
I thought Air Greenland scrapped the Iqaluit to Nuuk flights [1] Definitely one of the ones I really wanted to take.

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/air-greenland-cuts-nuuk...
3 days is a magic number for resetting your sleep
Yeah, absolutely no parallels there. A rising military and economic power surrounded by historic enemies now weaker than them, complete with a governmental system that concentrates power in one man at the very top, a philosophy of racial superiority, governmental discrimination based on race and religion, and a growing concentration camp system... I don't know how anyone could ever think that pre-war Germany and today's China could at all be similar.
> Half because their dutch translation is vastly incomplete.

By this you mean it shows a mixture of en and nl strings?

I have often found it super jarring that people are willing to ship such a thing. Is it better or worse to not attempt nl at all for such a circumstance? And then, OK, maybe Europeans are comfortable with English, but what about when this situation arises for markets where nobody understands English? You can go down a rabbit hole of having different fallbacks for different markets, and sometimes maybe that will work, but it's likely to be just as jarring.

Your Belgium case even suggests maybe the fallbacks should be a per-user setting. User comes in with a list of what they are OK being presented with...
What's the issue with using BBEdit in free mode?
Any language you haven't taken the time to understand is write only. This is such a lazy trope.
Please explain like I'm five. What's the social status of SP in the USA? E.g. what do Chomsky, Obama, Trump, Chelsea Clinton, Fox news think about it? How come there are no rage firings because of it?
Meh. I think it's bad form to downvote without comment outside of pettiness or trolling.
Hong Kong will likely be integrated, and any military action would be a disaster. But we can make swallowing Hong Kong hurt, politically and economically.
I submitted my DNA to 23andMe this past year. I was fortunately very happy with my results and their specificity. I shared the sample-taking and results with my parents and it was a great experience. We all know a bit more about our heritage now.

There is something magical about learning where you came from in the 100/1,000/10,000 year ranges.
I think you are just slandering Bloomberg. The Chinese are growing pigs to become bigger because they are in need of pork, in sacrifice of taste. America’s record pigs are just for that, to get a record.
Cheers and appreciated.

FWIW, my basic angle here is 'people are people'. If the board were overloaded with anti-American or anti-Russian stuff, I'd be making mostly the same points.
U.S. Blacklists 28 Chinese Entities over Abuses in Xinjiang
Great org mentioned in the article: https://www.darksky.org
The Ones: RISCy Business of Winbond
It’s a Randy episode? This I will have to see, it’s been a few years.
As with a lot of other things, the truth is a bit more subtle than "it's impossible" and closer to "we didn't care enough to try hard enough to make it work":

https://www.dkia.at/en/node/180

http://v86-64.sourceforge.net/
I mean it's either send all or send none, there is not really an inbetween way to do this method.
Currently, nothing. I used to recommend VeraCrypt for the exact set of use cases it satisfies.

Having an answer to this question is going to require research, which might take time.
BBEdit is not a real time audio engine. It’s a text editor. And they’ve released thirteen versions which all require a relatively substantial amount of money to upgrade.
Thank you, I'm glad someone else here also understands the housing situation in Seattle and that allowing rezoning and creating options to make MFH possible is a solution vs keeping the status quo of old cap Hill houses because "they were there for a while."

This sort of conversation is common throughout Seattle now and people blame the city but really it's people who clearly fit the "NIMBY" type.

And that's just sad. Land is land. Allow people want to do with it and if they want to build MFH expedite it and allow it.

Same with this topic and people thinking it means we're removing land from discovery park.
Thanks dang. I still have one question though. If what you say is a sufficient explanation, then wouldn't we expect HN users to respond to sarcasm with "Please don't post sarcasm here", or a link to the community guidelines, rather than <response that takes the sarcastic statement at face value>?

I do however agree about the kudzu and that it is better to just keep it at zero. The purpose of my two posts here is to better understand the community within which I work, not to argue for HN policy change.
(I'm building a DAM: check my profile if you'd like to be part of the closed beta!)
I recently had an IPMI on on of my Supermicro servers and it was super funny to hear the conspiracy theory from the SuperMicro support that it was not working because maybe the Chinese were worming through a backdoor that was hidden on the machine.

I'm quite sure that the issue was just a faulty IPMI as I've seen it happen before with older units but I had a good laugh.

I'm a believer in Murphy's law where whatever can happen will happen. Supply chain attacks are quite possible, would be very fruitful and therefore must be happening. But will we ever get the truth from the big vendors? I don't think it will happen any time soon but with this x-ray technology, it will be way easier to detect them.
I think some of the shortcomings you point out, such as listening history sync and export to other apps, are caused by lack of financial incentives. Sync is a feature a lot of users would pay for (see Pocket Casts and PlayerFM). Export listening hisotry would just allow for other apps to take over their user base, though I think Podcasts Addicts has such a feature for backup/restore purposes.

As for reviews, podcasts are so decentralized that I'm not sure where one would start with aggregating reviews. And smaller apps probably don't want to deal with the trouble of moderating ratings and reviews on their own platform. See: https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/28/20835812/podcast-review-b...
also see comments on The Onion articles
TrueCrypt used CRC32 to mix keyfiles into the KDF. I never saw an entry in VeraCrypt's changelog addressing this deficit.

I originally proposed BLAKE2 for this purpose on their issue tracker, circa 2014.
I think a lot of it has to do with their control of the brand and subsequently the distribution, which they even acknowledged in the most recent episode. Stan was writing a movie script while a Chinese govt official was looking over his shoulder and scratching out work that he didn't approve of and eventually shredded the paper, which Stan responded with "Now I know how all the writers in Hollywood feel."
... I mean sure, I love the idea of paying $60 for a game that throws away 15-20% of the performance by targeting an architecture that hasn't been supported by MacOS for more than a decade, rather than supporting an architecture that has been around for something like 15 years.

But yes, apple is in the wrong here, and should continue to support hardware that they haven't shipped in 10+ years.

I assume you're in the group that believes MS should be required to support XP forever.
This may be unconventional but when is the last time you unplugged completely? I mean nothing electronic. No fast food. No junk. Also when is the last time you had a physical by a dr?

I say this because our bodies have a strange way of telling us we may need to pay more attention to ourselves.

You say you love your work. That’s fantastic. Not everyone does. But maybe take some time to rediscover the wonders of slowing down. Get up in the AM. Slowly sip a nice hot beverage. Pet the dog. Look out the window. Go for a walk. Talk with someone you are close to about any and every topic. Read a good book snuggled up in on the couch. Etc etc. Soon the day is gone and your head hits the pillow for another good sleep. Rinse and repeat.

As far as other people. Are you listening enough before speaking or forming judgement? I had a bad habit of interjecting mid-sentence. It annoyed people. On advice from a well known self help figure I started listening and listening and listening. Then speaking. What happened was I was really relaxed about it because I wasn’t competing to be heard or recognized. I turned into the voice of reason and common sense. Soon it was ask Jason what we should do. I no longer was annoyed or being annoying.
I didn’t say that’s weird. What is weird, is to give an opinion or thought on another’s company product (a competitor in several arenas) in a blog that lives under the Microsoft domain and has all the Microsoft marketing and branding.

Again, this post is harmless but since the legal departments job is basically to freak out about everything that puts the company at risk (even a tiny bit), then I’m assuming that mentioning other companies’ products is at the very least frowned upon.
There’s nothing wrong with digital music from a “keep it for life” perspective, as long as you’re on top of your backups.

WAV and MP3 do not have DRM capability. Even music purchased through iTunes has been available DRM-free for a decade [1].

For example, I’ve got a lot of albums, bought through Bandcamp, which I downloaded as FLAC and burned to CDs. Same quality as a retail CD, and no one can take it from me without physically stealing it.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes_Store#Digital_rights_ma...
I’m a longtime podcast listener. The podcasting world did change a lot. The last two years the companies I’ve worked for both decided that it would be a great idea to release something for marketing purposes.

The reason why podcasting works was because it was its own little internet within the internet. People with great stories, content that was just different en often more specific and niece then sites and video.

We’ll see where it’s going to end up, but I do worried about the current fight of who is going to be the podcasting platform. The power for me was the sense of independence the creators had making it feel more like a labor of love then a marketing machine.

Some of my current favorites:

S-town: powerful storytelling, makes you wonder how much power the storyteller has. It’s a non fiction story about an interesting individual, explaining more would be a spoiler.

White vault: thriller show, starts off a bit clunky with the voice acting. But as a horror lover the story itself is well written and it just works so well as a podcast.

Benjamin walkers - theory of everything: it’s on a league of its own. The creator is just as historied as the brains behind the npr and gimlet podcasts. It’s interesting because you start to understand that the lines between what is truth and what is fake is so thin. I think there is even an episode over this exact subject.

The big loop: great fiction storytelling most similar to the truth podcast but it takes more tune to tell the story, the little bit of extra space give the story a much deeper dimension.

Darknet diaries: fiction podcast about hackers, gentle deep dive in the hacker world with some amazing stories. The author really does understand the world and you just feel the amount of research that goes into each episode.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG

That's the case I know of.

Basically you mathematically design a curve that makes it look like it's random numbers but the numbers aren't actually random.
Wanted to weigh in here, I've got a 5g iPod (Wolfson DAC) with an SSD, upgraded battery and rockbox. It's fantastic, I use it to listen to podcasts before bed. I have something like 200Gb of music on it and I think the last time I charged it was over a month ago.

I think the interface could use a little polish, but that aside there is still no mobile listening experience that surpasses having all of your music on you all the time and knowing that when you're at 50% battery you've still got close to two days straight of listening at max volume.
I was thinking Amazon would raise prices slightly, not make stuff slower.
I'd imagine the app is run in a DMZ and the internet FW blocks typical malware behavior once detected. After all the whole point of running it is to find if the executable is going to do these types of things so they'd be prepared.
Oh wow, I'll have to listen to this episode! I love when a podcast can go in depth to business going-ons.

Speaking of burning cash, the thing that baffles me about the investment in podcasts is the immaturity of the revenue stream. I'm a heavy podcast listener, but I'm only going to buy so many Casper mattresses, quip toothbrushes, and FreshDirect meal services in a year. It's always amazing when podcast episodes don't even post their promo codes with their episode descriptions. The likelihood that I will purchase something from a podcast episode is 1%, but the likelihood that I will retrace through the episode, pinpoint the ad read, and use the promo code that is also available online from 100 other sources is .001%.

For anyone keeping track, the number of mattresses, electric toothbrushes, and meal delivery services I have used in 2019 is 0.