skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a clear loss for consumers world wide. The Kirin SOCs were competitive with Qualcomm, and now they practically have a monopoly again.
I find HyperSwitch to be better more useful interface compared to Witch, because it retains the whole thumbnails look:

https://bahoom.com/hyperswitch

Its developer hasn't been updating it or fixing bugs for a long time now, but it remains the best 'alt-tab' for macOS in my book.
On the Performance of User-Mode Threads and Coroutines
Twitter is a filter bubble in its entirety.
Google Play Music shuts down
If you're being evicted, you have a problem. If 40m people are being evicted, the landlord has a problem.
The theoretical situation "if they completely remove all laws and just take all the data and break everyone's thumbs that doesn't give up encryption passwords" doesn't equal "they have more data on you today than the Stasi collected in East Germany".

Similarly, just because we have better weapons now doesn't mean that your life is more threatened than a Jew's life in Nazi Germany.

There's a huge difference between you uploading pictures of your dog to Facebook and your neighbor/friend becoming a secret agent reporting on private conversations to the intelligence services.
"Aren't so sure" from reading the article seems like an understatement. Many of the people featured in this article are suing the city for not doing it's responsibility.

I get that police treatment is often inequitable, but I think we've had some experiments this summer showing that some of the radical changes being proposed have their own problems.
The fact that the social justice conversation in America talks only about black people, as this post does as well, shows the majority of people only care about social justice issues when the minority group becomes big and loud enough.

I just skimmed through the article (it's long, I don't have time to read the entire thing). I completely disagree about her overall statement. I prefer not to talk politics in my public twitter account that is used to follow people on topics I'm interested in (politics is not one of them). That doesn't mean I don't comment on issues like police brutality, human rights, sexual harassment, etc. But for me those things have nothing to do with politics.
New Apple Leak Reveals iPhone 12 Design Shock
Does anyone know whether the ban on WeChat means WeChat will not be available on iOS in China?

If so, Hauwei must be very happy.
> The states of California and Alaska each individually have more wild forest lands than the entire European continent.

I really don't want to get into a Europe vs US argument, but this statement strikes me as odd. Sweden and California are roughly similar in size, and Sweden is nearly 70% covered by forest. For California to have more forest than Europe as a whole, not only does California need to be covered in forest to a larger extent than Sweden (this may be true, I don't know), but Sweden needs to hold more than 70% of the total amount of forest in Europe - something that seems exceptionally unlikely at best.

What am I missing?
just what i need. thank you.
That’d be amazing! Ive spent some time trying to figure out which flash drives do and don’t but couldn’t find anything online or from vendors so far.
Dear Scrum teams, stop planning Mishmash Sprints
I thought well over half of the US population "aren't so sure", not just "survivors of the chaos in Seattle".
Such a welcome change from the normal media site. The best part was not having click bait headlines or ads on the side, made the article feel more authentic.
I think the more worrying thing is what happens to the West if, when it has built it's own fab capacity (which is much easier said than done, but China will throw enormous resource at it because it has to), China decides to destabilise Taiwan's semiconductor industry.

Western nations would be smart to try and decentralise some of that production capacity (also easier said than done) before that could come to be, but does anyone think the Western nations current or foreseeable leadership really have the strategic foresight to do so?
I think you are right that "app stores" are the most convenient place to enforce this. They get a fairly good effectiveness with low effort.

However I doubt that not having them would stop the bans, it would take a bit more motivation, and a lot more effort but unless we have a truly censor-resistant solution I suspect the government would still put in the effort.
I was thinking about https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/6/18253274/facebook-users-de...
Twitter is the new tumblr
> And yet where do the life and death decisions get made? In political arenas, not cultural ones.

Look at the UK government demographics. The cabinet especially is more diverse than the actual general population.

> For a long time, they were. (Trust me, I'm English, I'm painfully aware of this.) Many of them in power still are - just look at the GOP, for example, or UKGOV.

I'm English too and this is a complete mischaracterisation of our cultural history.

You can't judge the past by today's standards. To do so is childish and un-empathic. Remember, the British were the one to end slavery because our culture battled with this opposing idea (it goes against our core belief in individual freedom) for a long time.

Not to mention, every single culture on Earth would've done exactly the same if they had the chance.

> I mean, "punching down" is bad no matter who does it.

You're missing my point.

Saying that white people are punching down is racist, because it implies a hierarchy where white people are on top. It's a white supremacist viewpoint, albeit with a guilty conscience.

> Because it's still picking a side - "I don't want to get involved" is just an implicit picking of the side with the most power.

No - you don't get to judge people for staying out of this shit flinging contest going on in today's politics. Most people just do not care and they never will.
I believe I misread your first sentence, I thought you said every prop shop IS using Java. I have seen this specific claim so many times that I must have filled in the word.

The reason not to use java for low latency latency is that good low latency Java is pretty much only Java in a syntactic and to some degree object sense. Avoiding allocation permeates everything, and is just not worthy the battle.

You basically try to write C++ in Java, except without the language features of C++ to help with memory management and layout, and wit the added burden of having to worry about pools and primitive boxing and the runtime at every corner.

You would also be surprised though at how little hardware has replaced C++ on Linux with good user space networking. Not that many trades are pure latency arb, so getting that last microsecond or two just isn’t worth the effort.

It’s much more common to see hardware in fixed-function locations than it is to see hardware running the meat of a strategy.
The point is that there is a law that you can try to adhere to. Not the case here, where Trump is just doing a straight-up ban.
Well, yes, duh? In what movements are there not scales attached to pithy lines? I even said:

> Maybe "abolish" was a poor choice of a word.
TypeScript Complex Runtime Validation
A plausible start of WWIII would be China seizing Taiwan in order to regain access to TSMC.
I know you may be unwilling to entertain the opposite point of view, but it doesn't necessarily sound like a "stupid idea" to friends/families/cultures who have lost members to murder by police (at varying points on the scale from negligence to depraved heart to purposeful to premeditated), especially in the case for mere "defunding", which is thoughtless to call a "stupid idea" out of hand, since the argument that some police have too much firepower is one that can be formed reasonably, and not just a "stupid idea" to be dismissed without engaging. Also, most victims don't even go as far as literal and unqualified abolishment, and say they want complete reform. But even the ones desperate enough to call for abolishment, which I find hard to blame them for, are usually talking about specific extremely corrupt and violent jurisdictions, and further, they admit that something must come after - abolish "the current" police in "some" places, before they kill again, and replace them. And of course, I'm sure there are some who have been driven to want only to "abolish police" without further qualification, and you are encouraged to engage them respectfully and explain that it's unrealistic despite their emotional suffering and outrage, and engage them in the context of the more fleshed-out options I've listed above.

Don't just call it a "stupid idea". That doesn't belong on HN.
I wonder whether the files stored in nsa and dhs databases on all of us will come out someday? We do get leaks and hints from time to time:

https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/12903846737896734...
As an outsider looking in, it seems to me like reducing the scope of responsibility , and increasing accountability, of your police forces would be a boon to public safety.
Just out of curiosity, what keyboard layout do you have? On US keyboards ⌘-` is right above tab, and in fact my keyboard doesn't even have a § key.
> None of your sources provide any concrete evidence.

> Link to actual evidence that China uses it to spy on Americans.

That's not how national intelligence works, I'm afraid. The actual evidence is often provided only to the decision makers, and not to the general population.

And even if TikTok wasn't doing anything wrong at the moment, the risk assessment might have concluded, that it could technically turn into a national security nightmare overnight.
How Should Companies Pay – and Communicate With – Remote Workers?
There was a REBOL clone named Sherman [0], written by Joe Marshall. He co-authored REBOL 1.0 and wrote Sherman after he left Rebol Technology. REBOL is such a powerful and simple language, it's a shame it wasn't open sourced earlier.

[0]https://web.archive.org/web/20000303130911/http://www.vsf.ca...
Mao is reputed to have said regarding a nuclear war.

"Kill 300 million Chinese, still got a billion Chinese left. Kill 300 million Americans, no more America."
>>From what I've seen, that isn't what the majority who are calling for abolishment are aiming for.

The problem is a large number of people calling for for abolishing the police do not have an actual plan on what to replace them with, saying things like "Something will rise up to replace it"

There is also a over riding belief that criminality is 100% related to systemic racism and poverty which is not really the case, Some of it is sure and we should address that with reform but a large part of criminality is not and abolishing the police is not a solution to that crime

We need massive reform and demilitarization of the police, and abolish police unions, but abolish police is crazy town
Call me cynical but the fact white voters less badly affected surely must be in Republican calculations. Trump nonsense on mail-in voting is one thing but if you've got no address in the first place...
PCEX Member Launches PCEX Academy to Make Crypto Trading Easy for All
It still baffles me why every year Apple churns out bad UI changes for MacOS and at no point puts in window snapping.
>I do think that living organisms are extraordinarily adaptable if the changes are gradual and bounded. Most of us have this idea that an ecosystem is this delicate and fragile thing, but nature actually has a lot of robustness and redundancies built-in (which are inefficient but increase chances of group survival).

Yet, the vast majority of scientists who study ecosystems disagree: https://ipbes.net/sites/default/files/ipbes_7_10_add.1_en_1....

More at https://ipbes.net/global-assessment
You're overthinking this. It's one thing for a popular app to come from another country. It's another thing when that country has complete control over business decisions, is your biggest global competitor, and is known to play dirty.
Detox vs. Appium – a comparison of React Native testing frameworks
The entire western world should treat China exactly the same way China treats them.

Western companies have a difficult time operating in China, but Chinese companies have zero problems operating in western countries. It’s completely unfair and if we follow this to conclusion, the future will be one of only Chinese international corporations.

Would WeChat or TikTok even exist if the Chinese market were open to existing western chat and social media software?? Unlikely.

If China wants their companies to be able to access western markets then they must allow western companies to access their markets.

Quite frankly, the entire western world should be banding together to oppose this nonsense from China. We should outright ban any goods or technology that originates in China until China changes its behavior and opens its economy.
It's the most popular, if you mean standard by that metric then yes, if you mean standard as in built-in to Python, then no (I only mention this because SQLite does come with Python OOTB).
Abolishing the police combined with the protests (or riots) and the move against the NRA creates a very uncomfortable environment for probably half of the United States.

All in an election year no less.

Does no one remember 2000,2004 and 2016? Perhaps the DNC could write a book called “How to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory”
> the radical changes being proposed have their own problems

I'd like to point out that none of said changes have been implemented anywhere in the US in any meaningful way. Save some minor defunding, I know of no locale who has transferred any responsibility away from the police, which is one of the main roads to abolition. As another poster said, this is a very clear straw man. CHAZ was a result of protesting and an incredibly aggressive Seattle PD, not an ideal people are looking to recreate everywhere.
That guy was crucified.
Hexagon, Schmexagon?
People want security. That means different things to different people. Law enforcement is not necessarily the same thing as security. Law enforcement means just that, and the laws themselves may not be what many would consider just. The laws are likely to reflect the prejudices of those in power, which may lend itself to why we're seeing the clashes we're seeing in the US right now.

Those with the resources to do so have on-site security. This ranges from gated communities, to some condo/apartment buildings, and even shopping malls. Even this isn't necessarily free of problems, but it needs to be seen as something fundamentally different from law enforcement. So when we talk about "abolishing" the police, we have to ask what we really want in its stead.
You don't need to suspect or post rationalize. There are literal academic books and many papers analyzing Chinese WTO compliance record in Dispute Settlement Body (DSB), and several explicit compares and contrast US with China and EU, by western researchers. TL;DR: China isn't the devil. The latest one is literally called: China’s Implementation of the Rulings of the World Trade Organization (2019), but studies goes back a decade.
Personal brainwave biofeedback sessions seemed like a tantalizing idea too, when as a teen in the 2010s I was struck by it while researching neurology. I think it was a video of a long-time meditator who demonstrated total control of his brainwaves that really got my attention. Anyway, I happened to be in the Netherlands for a summer and ordered a mini OpenEEG PCB from it's designer from neighboring Germany. That's when I found out I had no idea how electronic circuits worked nor how to assemble SMD boards. I relegated it to a pipe dream after that, but have always been on the lookout for an easy to use device that could provide the same.
Sure, and sometimes different people have different understandings of the meaning of a particular word. Someone can say "abolish the police" and mean that there should be no one with monopoly on violence. Another one can say "abolish the police" and refer the to current state/situation with the police in the US, and simply want the police to stop shooting people at sight and instead act like police in other countries, where they try to de-escalate instead of using their guns.

So while it's easy to try to put everyone in one bucket, it's hardy useful to do so in reality.
I read earlier in the year... early in the news about the outbreak, a skeptical view that suggested the reason for this 'epidemic' had something to do with the relatively new ability to apply fast genetic testing to a 'fairly common cold'

edit to remove the phrases: "pandemic" & "new normal"
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FWIW,

binaryage's TotalFinder has a hotkey feature called Visor. https://totalfinder.binaryage.com

macOS stock Finder does have basic cursor key navigation. It's not Xtree, NortonCommander awesome. (Edit: Oops. This linked cheatsheet does list the Finder navigation keys.)

I've always coveted the Canon Cat's utopian interface, but have never actually tried it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_Cat
Prior to me adopting Linux as my main OS, I used to love the keybindings on macOS. That many of the same bindings I used in Emacs, also worked in documents was amazing. That is except for Microsoft Office, which did not comply with the system binding. All too often I'd use Ctrl + a to go to the beginning of a line and start typing, and accidentally delete the entire content of the document.
please let me know if you have ever seen a blind person that uses anything but an iPhone

I have seen several blind people using Androids.
The C I saw written in Java was filled with object pooling bugs and horribly unsafe code dealing with object layouts in off-heap memory.

The amount of bugs springing from just these far outnumbered memory bugs in the C++ and C codebases.
US rules could be "key escrows are banned".
Insofar as China is a dystopian nightmare that's paved the way for surveillance and genocide augmented by technology in ways that (from what I've seen) make something like Abu Ghraib seem a mild human rights offense - I'm not super upset about stricter measures against the usage/ubiquity of Chinese technology, infrastructure, etc.

That said, we need to safeguard the fundamental freedoms of American society; accessing even dubious telecommunications, etc. should be balanced against the ideal (accepted ontological reality of the American founding) that Americans have "god-given" individual autonomy and freedom.

I'm not sure how we reconcile this, but I think freedoms must be treated as inviolable (of course people will always have the ability to violate them).

Ideally, the government would advise companies to remove the apps, and American society and companies voluntarily reject Chinese apps, hardware, etc. Rhetoric and persuasion is the best way to respect freedom and individual autonomy yet accomplish stuff like this, imo.
There's a chance that they could just make it crash and burn. Mixer was a live streaming platform like Twitch that was owned by Microsoft. Technologically, it was superior to twitch, but design decisions affecting moderation, rules, and culture prevented it from gaining traction. There's a chance that a shift in culture could kill TikTok too.
And if China doesn't respond in the way you want? Then you've just hurt Chinese businesses and their consumers. Great job.
One-Page Chess
> "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less."

> "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."

From https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/abolish :

> to end the observance or effect of (something, such as a law) : to completely do away with (something)
Both are woefully behind a good Xorg based window manager. i3 blows Windows and OSX window management out of the water, no matter what add-on is installed.

It's dangerous though, one of my biggest fears is getting a job that won't let me use Linux.
I really doubt it. China has its own fabs, they're just a few generations behind (14nm). That "only" means their chips are not competitive in certain contexts (heat, power), not that they can't have chips at all. They're investing heavily in research and development. It's just a matter of time before they catch up. There's no need to do something risky and expensive, like starting a war over Taiwan.

And taking over Taiwan will cripple TSMC's ability to provide to anyone. The moment they invade Taiwan, 100% of its population becomes anti-China (right now a portion of Taiwanese are still sympathetic to the idea of reunification). TSMC employees will revolt and the island will turn into a perpetual guerilla war zone. How do you produce chips in such an environment?

I still think WWIII could plausibly happen, just not because of TSMC.
I thought that SMIC were producing Kirin chips:

https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1187993.shtml
The world is reliant on TSMC even Intel is capitulating and going to use TSMC
My 'favourite' MacOS pain is Shift-Command- left/right arrow when renaming files in finder

Instead of selecting the whole filename as in documents it switches tab

After nearly a decade of using MacOS full time, it still catches me out every time
Wow, I'm exhausted for this guy. The way this is edited is just bad. The guy needs to take a breath. They started the audio from the next edit before the guy has fully completed his current sentence. It's like they had a hard constraint on how long the video could be, and cut out all of the silence to make it fit.
Fun with Benford’s Law (2016)
I bought a MacBook Pro in 2012 and it has no symbol on the alt/option key or the control key. 8 years after coming from windows and I'm still confused when I see shortcuts with symbols.

⌥⌘v or ^⌘f

The symbols are unintuitive and a ton of online and in-app resources use only symbols. It's weirdly inconsistent to me that some keys are labeled with symbols, others are not, and they are still commonly used in apple documentation and elsewhere.
Maybe the Chinese government can fix this with using some extra slave labour or else steal and extortion it from some small countries? Can't they just invade Taiwan or Korea and just grab it? As a last resort they could become a democracy, without slavery, without stealing and play by the rules, but hey what a weired idea if you can be a thug as well!
I don’t think it necessarily is a bad choice for some: many people who do use that word want what we call “policing” to be abandoned completely and replaced with something far less punitive in its reactions to emergencies.
This joke was good:

> In addition, the application captures the personal and proprietary information of Chinese nationals visiting the United States, thereby allowing the Chinese Communist Party a mechanism for keeping tabs on Chinese citizens who may be enjoying the benefits of a free society for the first time in their lives. //

Because only a fascissistic dictatorial government would be shooting on it's own citizens, eh.

Who is using TikTok for something that's got any business or political sensitivity?

I'm surprised Trump doesn't just admit 'China is beating us on internet platforms, we're not going to let them win financially'. He could present it as 'leveling the playing field'. That sort of overtly authoritarian dictatorial xenophobic fascism seems to be lapped up by the USA public at the moment?

Or does anyone want to defend that some video of me dancing to music is somehow critical to keep private??

I can see there's a side effect of the USA administration not wanting any apps they don't have a backdoor to being used in USA.

They don't say which companies will be subject to the order, really open and free (presumably to allow maximum market manipulation [fluctuation on the speculated actions, then controlled movement according to which companies the order covers] and a month and a half to get relevant bribes).

Tl;dr depends if Grinding Gears pays Trump enough campaign funding I'd guess.