skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is the national security concern that high-profile Americans such as members of congress, high ranking US military or executive branch officials are exchanging classified state information across Tiktok?

Or is the national security concern that the Chinese government can force TikTok to give up their data to Chinese authorities?

So China has 1.4 billion people to data mine on using a minority-report-like data warehouse mega structure in the like of which the world has never seen before, and all of those people are in their own jurisdiction. Assuming that’s the kind of infrastructure the Chinese government can build and is fully operational, why would they justify the time, cost, and energy required to fetch what meme someone’s looking at from overseas and risk damaging their already shaky reputation with their biggest trading partner? Even if there’s a conspiracy and they cared about what your phone number was or where you lived, what could they do with it? Yes clearly the most plausible theory is that they’re kidnapping Americans from their homes in broad daylight. Or perhaps covid was synthesized in a lab so next year Americans will be getting biological super weapons mailed to them. Or maybe 5G is a mind control device that’s hiding the truth from all of us, the truth that you can parse html with regex.

Anyways, we have a presidency largely based on putting pressure on China with a proven history of reactionary measures would, make a reactionary anti-china measure for the sake of supporting a partisan policy right before the November election.

There are obviously a lot of shady things we are seeing surfacing from the Chinese government that warrant further investigation, and there are diligent people are on the ground right now trying to push through the secrecy of that government. But with Tiktok, it’s a baseless conspiracy theory rooted in irrational fear that’s being used as a political tool.
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Stands to reason that a modified glider will achieve the best efficiency characteristics. That is after all, practically speaking, the raison d'ètre for sailplanes.
If you use openssh as your ssh server you may want to look at the AuthorizedKeysFile option

https://man.openbsd.org/sshd_config#AuthorizedKeysFile

Other useful options are AuthenticationMethods and AuthorizedKeysCommands.
I hate this "As a European" generalizations as if Europe has an entirely homogeneous spread of governance. Take this for a second; Bulgaria and Denmark is both Europe, or Hungary and Sweden.
I think that the term 'engineered' could still fit with it being researched and then escaping by mistake. Could it not?
I support it because of "the China thing". Not because I think China is inherently bad (I am capable of separating China from the CCP) but as long as the CCP enforces heir draconian laws that don't permit foreign companies free access to the Chinese market I think this should be reciprocated. Any other response is reckless.
Just use d3 directly in react, rendering svg is ok for most cases. You would want to ignore all the dom manipulation parts of d3, but otherwise they work well together.
The sources for the other side also include video and personal direct knowledge.
The four color theorem was proven with the help of a computer in 1976 [0]. The event gave rise to the concept of non-surveyable proof [1]. As far as I can tell, it has never been proven without the help of a computer.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_color_theorem#Proof_by_co...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-surveyable_proof
Nobody is arguing in favor of ignoring any restriction imposed by urban planners.
Hasu usb-usb converter will let you use nearly any keyboard with qmk.

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There are ways and means, but it's down to app developers; they should not push major updates over the auto update channel, instead just push a "v2" with an upgrade path from the previous version(s). In theory.

But that's one app model. Does Apple still allow for models like that?

The model currently used by a number of apps - webapps, Electron apps, browsers, operating systems - is that of the "evergreen" model, where they continuously update. But this is where Firefox is dropping a bollock; they do BIG updates, rebrand it with things like Quantum, and push MAJOR UI updates.

Contrast this with Chrome which, from a user (i.e. my) perspective has only done incremental updates. UI changes have been small and subtle. This page [1] has a number of screenshots from the old version of Chrome. I have a dark theme going on now but it's not changed that much at all. Chrome has never been a brand, hardly a product, as opposed to Firefox which is still stuck in the 90's / 2000's where they only get interest if they do a new version.

That was the old model for Windows, Office, Adobe products, etc for a long time as well - they HAD to make a new "big" version to keep sales going. But customers did not HAVE to update, so they would often stick with older versions - things that worked - and e.g. Adobe HAD to come up with new features to convince people to upgrade.

But it's all gone to subscription services now, which come with "evergreen" updates.

One more anecdote I'd like to do: I've been using 1password for years now, because for me it worked best as a crossplatform password manager (Windows, Mac & iOS, synchronization via Dropbox). They switched to a subscription model a while ago, but the versions I have were all paid for in single purchases. On Windows I'm still on 1password 4 while on Mac it's 1password 7, and thankfully the two are still fully compatible when it comes to their data. I'm sure this won't last, but as long as I don't HAVE to update (and as long as their encryption is solid), it'll be fine to just keep the version I have now - That is one company / product that cannot afford to be flippant about their customer data, data format. I've got hundreds of accounts in there, if I were to lose it it would be... pretty bad. At the very least I should write down my gmail password and double check my recovery codes because everything is linked to that one account. Anyway I ramble / digress. Stuff.

[1] https://www.techrepublic.com/pictures/photos-10-years-of-goo...
That doesn't stop the parent company from being beholden to CCP's demands.
Things may very well have changed, but last I seriously checked there was no stable lineageos for galaxy s9. Just stopping updates and staying on the official but outdated Android version will open users to potential serious security risks.
TikTok is challenging the order in court.
It depends on a question though. "Do you want a UI redesign?" will likely be a no. "Do you want to access the thing you're using 100 times a day in 1 click rather than 5 menus?" will always be a yes.

Unless the company is completely failing at its strategy (and that's not the same thing as many vocal people saying that on the internet forum), the redesign has goals and some reason behind it. Your "worse" may be solution to someone's ongoing problems.
I'm going to take it that the downvote was from the poster I was replying to. Without animosity, would you care to share what your disagreement is?

I'm always willing to correct my beliefs, admit to any errors. A down-vote on its own does not provide me with any new information though.
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Fun fact: slap was a client command that just sent "action" over the channel/privmsg, which would get rendered as something like:

* <nick> <action text>

More generally, on most clients you could use "/me <text" command to do the same thing. And on the protocol level, it was done by a mini-protocol on top of IRC, called DCC (direct client-connection), that would look like:

PRIVMSG #channel :^AACTION text^A

(where "PRIVMSG #channel :text" was a way to send a normal message, and ^A is Ctrl-A).

DCC was also used as signalling for file transfer. Clients wishing to send files would open a high-end port on their machine and send a DCC message with the file name, IP and port to connect to (similar to active FTP).

(yes, I spent an inordinate amount on time on IRC...)
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Knowing when to persevere and when it's time to quit is an underrated skill.
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My wife is a photographer; an excellent one.

She has thousands of digital images that have been manipulated by a certain unique, proprietary software package. There are no modern equivalent applications, and the original one stopped being updated almost a decade ago.

Miraculously, it still works, but she is terrified at every upgrade prompt.

There aren’t really any acceptable substitutions for the original app. She could run it on her images, to “bake” them into TIFFs, but that would be a “once you are a pickle; you’ll never be a cucumber again” thing. The format is a reversible one that relies on a specific application to render it in a scripted, linear fashion.

So this is yet another issue of modern software. Format and rendering obsolescence. It can’t really be fixed. The original app was discontinued, because it was too expensive to maintain, and the customer base was too small to reward maintenance. The driving technology was patented and proprietary.

This is not unique to photography. I think pretty much every art or industry has this problem.

As long as she maintains her operating system at a certain level, the application will continue to work, but the day is coming (probably quite soon), where it can’t work. She has already refused to upgrade to the current version of the OS, and it is only a matter of time before she can’t get a computer that will run the older version; not to mention the security issues inherent in running out-of-date systems.

It’s a huge problem. Open-source is helpful in some cases, but not all (it wouldn’t help here, because no one would bother to pick up the app; even if the proprietary parts were published, unless a skilled software engineer was also a photographer and expert at that software, and would be willing to do the heavy lifting required to publish and distribute the software).

It’s also not a new issue. I am glad to see a lot of open-source and standard formats, but they don’t solve every problem.

Open standards tend to suffer from the “all things to all men” problem, where the needs of the few are subsumed by the needs of the many. They are also often quite painful to implement. Anyone that has written a general-purpose TIFF reader will know exactly what I mean.
I am also using a custom keyboard layout (basically the movement layer from the NEO layout + left alt → left ctrl, right alt → left alt, caps lock → esc). Initially it was implemented as xmodmap, then as xkb layout and finally as C program using Interception Tools [0]. I had problems with both xmodmap and xkb where it wouldn't work in certain applications; Interception tools works everywhere (even in VMs and outside of X/Wayland).

[0]: https://gitlab.com/interception/linux/tools/blob/master/READ...
1. Is it expensive for TLAs to deploy drones for exactly that if the practice becomes popular? They won't even need many actual detecting drones: if they look the same as regular surveillance drones, which are already up in the sky in times of unrest, people will probably hesitate to use their transmitters.
It would certainly be cheaper than anything that is rail based.
Good luck expecting a user to do that! As I already said, you cant distribute an ad-hoc app, so this is exactly what they would have to do - hence my smiley face!

You CANNOT bypass gatekeeper on silicon - that is the whole point - otherwise there is no difference to the current behaviour.
It's also interesting how they included design hints of how this would evolve in to TOS era design later (the bulky monitor for example).

It's kind of ironic actually: we as viewers expect that kind of historical consistency, and complain about changes that feel disconnected, but in reality the history of interface design is full of such kind of radical shifts!
I love homelabbing but the ongoing problem for homelabbing to training skill is that more jobs need to use cloud services, rather than on-premises.
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While this definitely is valid, TikTok has other strong leaders including Vanessa Pappas the GM for TikTok US who will be taking over. This seems like a rationale decision on Kevin's part, with a strong leader in succession who is more than capable of seeing through what comes next if TikTok US splits off from the global entity.

If there wasn't a strong leader already to take his place then it would be a very negative decision on Kevin's part.
Same in France. I guess that takes it root to that name being given by parents raised by (shitty) television programs such as "The Bold and the Beautiful" and other crap like that. "A Kevin" is expected to be a sort of wannabe Chad, trying to be cool but failing miserably at it, pretentious with nothing to back it up etc. Likely to be a troll on the internet.

(this is purely based on an introspection of what a Kevin means to me and is in no mean backed up by thorough research).
(also sorry to any Kevin out there).
There’s a lot missing here. During the brief and unhappy period of my life where I worked in this area, we had quite a lot of luck just generating semantics based on Wordnet in the domain in question. So here you can’t successfully ask for “French wines” even though we know what a country is and that French is a correct adjectival form. Same with things like “oldest wine”, that’s an easy to derive superlative based on info you already have. We got some mileage out of this old fashioned tree based system at the core, with fuzzier machine learning stuff at the edges.
That very much depends on the license.

Many licenses include future updates.

I am far more likely to pay for software that supports file formats in the future.
Those countries can deploy action in functioning democracies. It might even be easier for them to do so since they don't follow the same rules.
Was thinking that the whole time I was reading this! I actually have my layout optimized for i3/Vim-controls and it's the default for GergoPlex. I used to use xmodmap hacks but I got sick of maintaining changes across/OS's, having it on the keyboard makes it so much easier. Only downside is carrying around a QMK keyboard!

Layout: https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rRS_TOYuIQQ/XhRERox3moI/AAAAAAABE...

GergoPlex: https://www.gboards.ca/product/gergoplex
Isnt Trump's action including Wechat/Tencent as well?
Other answers already address the engine performance loss and lift loss, but about that:

> Doesn’t heat generate lift, like in gliders crossing hilly terrain?

That lift is generated by a temperature difference, not a globally high temperature. Thermals used by gliders are thermals because the air is locally hotter than the environment. If the whole environment gets warm, you don't get thermals.
Notably, the list of SHOULDs at the end only applies to _automatic updates_. For voluntary updates, many of these things are acceptable. Moreover, a user should accept that at some point a certain version of software will lose support and, unless you take the voluntary update, will stop getting security updates and bug-fixes.

This contract cuts both ways. That is important to realize.
You can store the keys in a database, ldap or whatever and set the AuthorizedKeysCommand of your ssh server to a command that looks up the keys given the user. The keys store can be the same as your user database (eg: AD etc)
Did someone just do this with Microsoft Teams?

I received a notification like 20 minutes ago, and there's plenty other people saying they received as well:

https://amp.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftTeams/comments/ihghrq/test...
It doesn't but sends a good amount of data to China which they have not yet (to my information) clarified. Similar ban was implemented in India, which gives more context to what I am trying to say. Source: https://pib.gov.in/PressReleseDetailm.aspx?PRID=1635206

And parent company will always have the dibs, if you will, on Tiktok. Regardless of whether tiktok is out of China or in.
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Doesn't do anything related to language
998,001 and its Mysterious Recurring Decimals
A big part of the "tech" is the engine and its turbocharger. That doesn't really scale.
True. These jobs also have very real drawbacks, but there are certainly some people for whom the drawbacks are not that bad (better than coding 40h/week).
I use GitBook. It just takes in markdown files and renders it nicely on the web.

Scales well with number of notes too. I have over 30,000 lines of markdown thus far:

https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/knowledge
Kanye West Is Being Sued for Infringing on Trade Secrets
There sourcehut, but the flow isn't exactly as simple as point and click.

Simple being relative word as once setup, email workflow has proved to be far better for my personal taste.
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VMs might work. It's hard (impossible?) for most versions of osx.
People in the 90s were doing the same to buy beanie babies. People will do dumb things with their money. That being said, I don't think things like pattern day trading bans have ever been beneficial to the retail investor. It just keeps poorfolk from engaging in strategies used by wealthier people regularly.
The article is talking about forced updates by vendors of consumer grade software. That is what we are talking about.

Also the same rule still applies. If I had to use some terrible software everyday I would leave a job if it was that bad. I had to develop on a terrible CMS, once I realised it was never going to change, I looked for another job.
About a year ago, I had some problems with WSL and decided to do a proper dual-boot setup. The net result was that Windows insisted on doing a long update cycle every time I attempted to use it. This resulted in an effective boot time of 15-30 minutes, which turned out to never be worth it.

Why do these devices with almost no moving parts need weekly (or monthly) maintenance? We don’t accept that level of neediness from any other household tool.
I wonder if Russia's ever offered Japan a better, more central location for their embassy. In Yakimanka district.
The title might suggest that the rollout of new software was the issue, but the article states the very contrary: it was the old software that was the culprit:

> An internal review at the bank found humans manually operating the old software were ultimately at fault
NUC? NAS?

Kind of depends which way you wanna go. NAS is probably the term you're thinking off.
But should the USPS be a public institution? Many countries have opted to privatize their postal services, admittedly with varying results, but with quite a few successes as well: you may have heard the package division of what was once Deutsche Bundespost, now known worldwide as DHL.

I do agree that right now is not a great time for radical changes though!
It would be TikTok International setting up headquarters in Europe - not buying a European company - it would be a big boost for the local economy.

But it is true. There is anti-China sentiment in Europe too ... but if you asks eg. the Germans ... who would you rather spite: Trump or China? They probably would go ... hmmm ... though one ... Trump!
To make it worse, the "As a European" is usually followed by a very judgemental or even arrogant statement. As we, the enlightened, don't understand those hillbilly politics.

What does the OP not understand? The concern of China controlling key economic and tech areas? OR that a president can block a company from operating in his country?

As a European, I might not agree with the decision but I do understand the general concern behind it.
Many Chinese Americans use it to communicate with family. Some of them work on sensitive programs and are easily monitored by a multi app with broad permissions.
Sadly my last employer used so much internal tooling and IPs that trying to do that would have involved transferring internal packages from the company network to personal infrastructure and probably gotten me fired as that would look pretty indistinguishable from an attempt at contract violating IP theft.
With EU being "ever-closer Union" and US being a federal country where states have a lot of local power, it's not as far-fetched as you'd think (although EU is of course nowehere near the level of integration that US is).

Also, the same way "America" can mean "the US", it's not strange to see people colloquially refer to the EU countries as "Europe", though both are, technically, not correct.
I haven't used it in a while and forgot about that very nice feature!
What decade old photo editing application does not have a modern equivalent that is better? I can't image having to go back to decades old software to edit my photos.
Ask HN: Is TLS 1.2 broken (enough)?
While reading about the Great Chinese Firewall blocking all TLS 1.3 traffic I was wondering why they allow TLS 1.2 traffic? My first guess would be that the web would be unusable without it ... but on the other hand, I can't imagine they are allowing vast amounts of traffic that can't be snooped on. Is TLS 1.2 broken enough, so that they are able to gather all (meta)data they need?
Ahh, that makes much more sense. Upvoted.
The article specifically states

> should be incremental and security or bug fixes only

There's a big difference between that and, for example, constantly pushing UI changes that nobody asked for and for no other reason than that some designer somewhere decided that "A/B testing" would look good on their resumé.
So, why not run open-source cloud software (OpenStack, CloudStack, etc.) in your homelab?
Facebook apologizes to users for Apple’s monstrous efforts to protect privacy
You are absolutely right in that it gives the wrong impression of "everyone thinks the same". That said, I don't think that is the intention, ever, when it's used.

There are certain aspects in how things work in the US that are so far disconnected to how it is, in most of Europe, that is baffling. By an large, this difference applies to most of Europe.

It is of course an oversimplification. But, here are a few boggling things: Politics (in particular, money in politics that looks like plain bribery, or political and misleading ads everywhere), for profit private prisons, no maternity leave, unpaid internships, healthcare related personal bankruptcies.

The list goes on and on, and, since this is a by and large difference to Europe, you tend to see the "As a European" phrase.
So we're fighting wars by meddling with companies now of other countries?
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If you stick to the modern format it's simple. If you are only using modern tooling there's no need to support the legacy headers.
Maybe if the "move fast and break things" attitude coupled with CD wasn't as widespread, breaking UI flows wouldn't be seen as part of the weekly routine.

There are absolutely situations when changes are warranted but I really think it's a mistake to see Google Cloud and FB as sources for inspiration wrt this.