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Here’s an example of what some artists want: https://www.musiciansunion.org.uk/Home/News/2020/Jun/An-Upda...
Jesus what a bad article, it starts out making a sane point with, maybe some slight anti-religious hints, but quickly turns into a personal rant about how all of modern science is in the pocket of GMO-pushing agricultural companies with a personal vendetta against him.
> TikTok is being banned out of national security interests

I think you meant to say “a thinly-veiled guise of national security interests.”

TikTok is being banned because it’s election season and Trump doesn’t want a repeat of Tulsa.
They also undeaded (if that's a word) 650 million humans since 1960. That's 88.4 billion lbs of weight added to earth, yielding a slight gravitational shift. I see that as a net positive for them!
Can some explain to a layman what China has to gain from millions of Tiktok users data? I just don't get it. Emails and passwords?
I would not call that smart objects, just "live links".

Smart objects would be parametric blocks, where you can stack various transformations of any kind. As in Houdini, Blender or any parametric CAD programm.
Apple makes $50 billion in revenues a year from the China market. Would people still buy it's phones if the App store or mobile data was shut-off?
I have yet to find a word that gives a long list of false-positives, though. If you get any false-positives, it's usually not more than 2 or maybe 3. If you have a couple potential brand/product names in mind, looking through those hits and using your own judgement isn't a big deal.

I'd rather it remains like this, false-positive, than having it false-negative on something bad.
So you have no real evidence, got it.
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Agreed, although I’ve found force touch on the Control Center icon a nice shortcut as well.
Trump is not the most reasonable person. If you offend him he will burn you. This is what is happening with TikTok.
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> The West has always said that the Chinese bans to Western social media and tech companies were authoritarian and antidemocratic. How is this less so?

Policy A: "Any social media platform that refuses to censor opinions the government doesn't like is banned"

Policy B: "Foreign social media platforms are only allowed to operate in our country if our own social media platforms are allowed to operate on the same terms in theirs"

Can you see why Policy A is antidemocratic but Policy B isn't?

One reason why is that Policy B is viewpoint-neutral – the ban has nothing directly to do with what viewpoints the social media platform allows or disallows, it is simply demanding regulatory reciprocity ("We won't ban yours if you don't ban ours"). Whereas, in Policy A, the ban is part of the government trying to control which opinions are allowed to be expressed, which is anti-democratic.

(I haven't heard a clear explanation from the Trump administration of what their reasons for banning TikTok are. It is possible those reasons include Policy B, it is possible those reasons are completely unrelated.)
> We lose nothing by banning it,

Except, you know, our rights to the government not controlling our media.
entire point of OOP is to encapsulate state within objects

And that’s the fundamental problem with OOP. State can’t be encapsulated. It’s highly radioactive. State should be kept to the boundaries of your application, where it interfaces with the real world, and minimized as much as possible. The core should be immutable.
I didn’t know Excel supported that too. Nice. I should have guessed, it does a lot of things.
> For the consumer market, the ability to run iOS apps becomes an additional huge benefit.

I see it more as a stepping stone. It's difficult to imagine how a UI designed for iOS would ever not feel strange on a laptop. But SwiftUI seems like a great tool for sharing large amounts of code between platforms, with some branching to cater properly to each platform.

However given the current dominance of web interfaces for desktop software it's hard to imagine iOS apps becoming relevant on mac anytime soon aside from a few special cases.
China is using TicToc to implant Demon Sperm into America's Women by sending Incubus and Succubus Demons to rape them in their sleep and give them the China Virus over the Internet. Or so I've heard.
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China gives Apple access to their market but the US bans AT&T from partnering with Huawei to sell consumer phones.
>if your songs get listened to by people who listen to a lot of music, you're going to get paid less per listen.

That still would be fairer than the current system and that edge case would be rare.

As it stands today, we're all heavily subsidising the most popular (and well marketed) bands -not just their fans- leaving crumbs for other artists who end up having very little chance to see their lot improve at all.

I'm paying Spotify to listen to the artists I like, hoping to support them so they can make more music I like.
Instead, nearly everything I pay ends up in the pockets of artist I have no affinity for.
A better analogy is banning burgers made by a specific company or country, and specific food is banned all the time by the FDA. Banning TikTok is not the same as banning all services similar to it. You do lose a bit of freedom by not having the choice to use a particular service, but this is much less loss of freedom than your analogy to ban a type of something.
mostly because for many people it has the most comfortable defaults. Unless you go for the non-free ISOs Debian is too barebones and stable ships extremely old software, rolling releases like Arch may break at any point, Suse often lacks 3rd party support for proprietary software and so on.

Fedora is pretty solid but also very much on the experimental side, like shipping Wayland as a default versions ago when half of the applications didn't work right.

I've defaulted to Ubuntu because it 'just works', every other distro I just have to spend time to do what Ubuntu does anyway.
Wait, so we should turn ourselves into China? You actually want to mimic their authoritarian approach to media?
Apparently "G8" when pronounced in Chinese sounds like slang for "penis". [0] Canon had a popular line of cameras named G1/G2 etc - they skipped from G7 to G9. [1] HP also had servers with model names and generations that were also abbreviated as Gx, so HP ProLiant DL380p G7. They changed their naming convention to Genx when the 8th generation came up, so Gen8 instead of G8.

(Fun side story - apparently HP names their servers this way for government procurement contracts. So the contract can be written specifying a "HP DL380p server" and HP can supply whatever the latest generation is. Even if it shares nothing in common with the previous generation other than a name.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_Chinese_profanity#Pen...
[1] https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/2448027
[2] http://up2v.nl/2012/08/10/wonder-why-hp-did-use-gen8-instead...
Not aware of any design but probably working with local firms on implementation of ARM designs. Happy to be corrected.
“what's the name of the song that goes ha ha ha ha ha ha haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?”
Interesting "china" is flagged but "pen island" is not
GIMP doesn’t need to bolt on tangentially-related-to-photo-editing functionality to sell me a new version upgrade once a year (or a subscription). It’s a totally fine equivalent to the Photoshop That Was.
Interesting. Thanks for that.
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It's just an attempt to make C slightly more OOP without using C++. A very common design pattern in GNOME, for instance.
It was already mid-1995 and the Amiga had just started to go downhill
I'm often amazed by the negative attitude towards humanities and artists seen in this community. It it not that people hate art or culture, they just really hate the humanities department, art students and artists! (But at the same time they want to be recognized as great artists for writing a neat one-liner in Perl.)
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Was that a serious question? Because in my culture, we say that silly questions should be paired with silly answer.

If you're serious, I'd assume there's a variety of tech to get over this problem, e.g. something like a Zoom call. A "phone screen" doesn't have to necessarily involve a phone.
Hopefully this becomes a wake-up call to investors in China tech. Instead of funding another social media app, they should invest in core technologies like semiconductor manufacturing equipment.

The success of the STAR market is a good start. Hope the momentum can sustain this decade, then we may see the tables turned.
Yes, it's weird that it can't be turned off, but the snap documentation is very clear about the auto update.

Snap versions also can be reverted.... it is annoying, but the article is a bit overdramatic, since it's not a secret..

RocketChat has this issue to. They work around that by delaying the snap release for weeks. And they also provide different update channels.
My favorite is "how to draw a circle in gimp" - every time I need to do that, I search on Google for that. Now if only it was easier to...

Instead of adding more and more features, they should really get some UX experts involved, it's a horrible mess.
It's a terrible name for the software, it's actually embarrassing to mention it to someone not familiar with it. You feel obliged to explain/apologise for the name. If the software was flawless it might not matter so much but that on top of a reputation for being hard to use has probably done it a lot of damage.
> If the NSA tried putting out a social media network, nobody would trust it.

How ironic to see this statement on HN, when almost every American trusts Google or Facebook despite them being PRISM partners and subject to the control of the NSA.
Seriously? You aren't able to install LXD via apt any more? Suppose that's what you get when a product is owned by Canonical...
Given the standard RFC, the two initial slashes as in scheme:// are critical in any URL when you need to be able to distinguish between the authority and path component, as in scheme://authority/path as in http://server/file.txt. Otherwise it would be impossible to know when the server part finished and the path part began (since the authority or server part is always between the second and third slashes). Given the article, I think we’re very lucky to have ended up with this design. But I suppose we could have also arrived at a syntax where the path begins with the second slash (e.g. scheme:/server/path). In fact scheme:/path is valid syntax and is simply the contracted URL form of scheme:///path so at least by today’s RFC definition, scheme:/server/path wouldn’t work since in this contracted form, the path begins with the very first slash and that ‘server’ bit wouldn’t be a server at all but also part of the path.
It's interesting that you say that. Bertrand Russell writes in "The History of Western Philosphy" that the backdrop against which Stoicism (and Epicureanism for that matter) first flourished was a Greek civilization in decline. Life was becoming harder and harder for a majority of people, so people sought refuge in these two philosophies.
Furthermore, historically our country merely postures about rights. They go out the window when politicians start using words like “national security.”
I haven't used it so I don't actually know, but what does TikTok do that most of the other existing video apps that TikTok eclipsed didn't already (or don't now) do?
Yes, let’s turn ourselves into an authoritarian regime banning media and information outlets we don’t like!
This is a pattern I've used before with dotnet, and I think it works quite well.

Generally we start with Entity Framework Core, because it's well known and let's us compose and execute queries really easily (I should add we always use a "code first" approach; the actual database is created carefully by us, not the ORM).

For some apps, you need to do more complex stuff, such as use composite keys, duplicating rows, etc - while this might technically be possible with EF Core, it's horrible in practice. Also in some cases you just can't coax EF to generate a performant query. In these cases we either add a view, or we add a micro-ORM into the mix, like Dapper - you basically write the SQL yourself, but Dapper helps marshal data from the database to your classes.
Is there support for networking/multiplayer games using this framework?
Ok added purpose, this could be improved with realtime updates through websockets I guess
Be pretty funny if China says yes you should definitely ban it. We only allow Douyin in China. We would never allow Tik Tok. If you want we have some firewall technology we could sell you...
For me the time sink for finding new music is enjoyable. Listening to something that I've put a minimal amount of effort on acquiring makes the experience worth more. That's in comparison to letting algorithms play one song after another( which most likely will either repeat the same songs or just play top hits which are boring to me).
Is it the placebo kind of "pretty good" or did you actually measure it with a >=165fps camera?
In which culture is sex a bad thing?
That's crazy. Amazing what tech is doing nowadays
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You can use the revert command to revert to the last version, but what if you want to pin to a specific version? From what I've heard, that is not possible.

... and what if you revert a package, and a new version gets published, will it pull the rug out from under you and update again?
Yup. Amazing intervention from Zuck. He has effectively secured TikTok’s userbase. To be a fly on a wall during his backdoor deals with Trump...
Ah. So Mr West is following a more impatient version of the My Bloody Valentine model, yes?
I’m not sure I’d call getting rid of our first amendment rights a “good riddance.”
This has the potential to backfire hard if other countries decided to use the same reasoning against FB to demand data, feed algo, management and employee localization in country.
Depending on your sense of worth, it would be a better idea to just take a few months off entirely, rather than just grinding to get back to it.

One of the virtues in having been terminated a bunch of tomes is that I've had much more time off than anyone else I know, and while I have no idea what to do next, I know I'd be sad without that time off.
> very hard to underestimate

Are you sure?
Without color grading or other usual video correction.

Once you start to tinker with your images, the picture change quite a lot for the cpu/gpu
It's anecdotal of course, but my RX560 has been absolutely flawless on both Ubuntu and openSUSE, literally out of the box support on a standard install.
While as an island the UK means its borders have mostly been fixed, it has definitely had quite a fluid culture and language history. The romans came and left their mark. Then the Vikings and the normans. We've had a strange love hate relationship with the French forever, branding them frogs while learning French so we can seem sophisticated. So in my mind it does lack that continuity that China has:

For instance the sunzi bingfa (art of war) was written in 500BC and still is mostly understandable today.

On the other hand if I were to drop a reference from Vergil or Homer in latin/greek. I would be branded of being in cahoots with Boris Johnson and very few people would understand it.

Edit: And even that - I don't think Italians really would understand Latin texts (tho will have a better chance than brits). I think ancient greek is a little easier for modern greek speakers tho.
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Seems like I didn't put enough thought into it and my computability class has been too long ago!

In hindsight it's kind of obvious: All functions computed by circuits must be a function an can not be a partial function, because a circuit can't output nothing.
Scribus is great for layout, I'd use Inkscape for text around a curve and then import it.

I've always wished for a common canvas so one could attach a program to a canvas - eg in a new layer - and add parts, rather than passing files around.
I hope to god that China halts trade with the US to show it what a real trade war looks like. It would put an end to the bullshit US exceptionalism of our country, and maybe we’d become more civilized players in the world stage as we learn some humility.
This is a good point and it’s easy to get caught up in it. Because it makes perfect sense. One of the reasons the west has graduated toward freedom and a more free society is because it worked better in the long run. You can go back and look at how the government letting people do business rather than banning them lead to rises and falls of empires because rich families would simply relocate to the free countries rather than stay a place where the king might decide not to pay or perhaps even to seize their wealth. You see it to day as well to some extent, with rich Chinese and Russian oligarchs not in favour of the regime trying to move to the west.

Of course things have changed a lot since the East Indian Trading company, kings and what not. So maybe protectionism works better in a global market interconnected. Maybe the Chinese model is simply the future for us, but probably not.

Personally I hope for a more GDPR styles approach to social media in general. There is no doubt China is spying through TikTok, and that’s bad, but I don’t really want Facebook or Google to sell my information either.
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It is, surprisingly, absolut dogma on HN that, speaking only mildy hyperbolic, "ANTIFA snowflakes cancelling conservative free speech" is the single most salient danger these days.

The only reliable method to get to -4 faster is to somehow, obliquely, imply that there is a remote possibility that the concept commonly labeled 'sexism' might actually exist.
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ketzu isn't claiming that one can always describe a Turing machine using addition and multiplication only, only that one can describe a Turing machine's map on bounded inputs using addition and multiplication on the input only.
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Must be Nine Inch Nails piece in Twin Peaks: https://youtu.be/QczxCxFRUf0?t=110

Posted this answer on SE too.
The US used to claim a higher moral when others blocked, filtered, or enacted bans by executive fiat. It did so with some justification.

Banning an app because you are worried about external cultural influence on your youth ends any such claim.
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The professors bound for the 2020 Macbook (actually the one's already in the iPhones - the Macbook one's would be an even later model) are already faster than the 2013 Macbook Pro.

Plus all the other niceties, like USB-3, modern bluetooth, better integrated graphics, a faster and bigger SSD, more RAM, and so on.

Oh, and the ability to run future-proof on the ARM version of Big Sur (and run iOS apps, and other things).

It's not even comparable...
Couldn’t the results indicate the need to re-run a circuit? While f(x) x=g(x) would simply return f(x)||g(x).
I see a steep increase of demand for macOS developers from my perspective. I cannot vouch it's a coincidence or not but I believe there's more interest to bring applications to Apple desktops.

SwiftUI is really nice, but it's incomplete. So you really need an engineer that understands macOS to offer a complete solution for anything that goes deeper than a to-do app.
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"We believe that for up to 36 of the 130 targeted accounts, the attackers accessed the DM inbox, including 1 elected official in the Netherlands."

You might be on to something.
The thing is other countries can now use the this precedent to demand domestic control of US social media companies.

France may have a the same foreign influence concerns issue with the non-transparency of the FB news feed algo.
The last time I tried st the input latency was quite a bit more than xterm. Noticeable enough to feel the difference when opening them side by side and typing normally. xterm is really as good as it gets if you want a buttery smooth typing experience.
Then don't use snaps.

It's not snap that broke the IDE/Workflow.
The author decided to use an install method that auto updates and the authors of the plugins didn't checked compatibility with the latest version.

This is more of a lesson of "don't auto update important tools" than "snap bad".
this comment isn't insightful at all, unneeded snark
as Schopenhauer put it:

"Life itself is a sea full of reefs and maelstroms that a human being takes the greatest care and caution to avoid; he uses all his efforts and ingenuity to wend his way through, while knowing that even if he is successful, every step brings him closer to the greatest, the total, the inescapable and irreparable shipwreck, and in fact steers him right up to it, - to death: this is the final goal of the miserable journey and worse for him that all the reefs he managed to avoid."