skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China banned these apps because they don't follow the Chinese law in regard to sharing data with the government (FB was banned after some protests where they didn't collaborate with the police). It follows that if the US wanted to ban Chinese apps the same way China does, they would need to either 1) prove that TikTok is breaking the current law 2) pass new, stricter, privacy laws so that TikTok cannot operate/be a threat without breaking the law.
I am curious about the events that have lead to the development of Sharia banking. It seems to be partly a shield against runaway interest/inflation. This has a parallel to the idea of usury in Christianity. Perhaps societies that avoid becoming too financialised have a better chance of survival?
> your reactions to content

do you actually "react" to content? Like chuckle or make any other facial expressions? I just scroll and scroll and scroll with a neutral expression.
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China blocks WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Google Search. Never tried Skype.
When did focusing on one's own culture become "white supremacy"? How often is this standard, this demand for cosmopolitanism, applied to other cultures?
> For a while Apple was coming out with products on a regular basis that redefined the industry

That sentence is carrying quite a heavy load! Can you list some Apple products you consider redefining, and what year they were released?

It seems like the strongest cases are for "they are still doing that," or "they've done that literally four times ever, in 30+ years," so I'm curious how your list differs from either of mine.
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It seems more accurate to use a name for the party that isn't the actual name of the party?
The claim is wrong, I didn't know about the rsync compression (-z option, wish it was defaulted). I ran a test using the rsync compression and rsync transferred a little bit faster (~4% faster). croc is faster than wormhole last couple times I tried though. I'll update the readme.
After reading a bit, I realized I have misrecalled it. Woops. Thanks for pointing it out! :)

The referrence was to the Sun being the center of the solar system, and not the Earth. Apologies. Failure on my part. Memory is a fickle thing.
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You have the privilege of being boring.

When you start getting beaten and murdered by people practicing that free speech, you might change your tune.
> Don't want to be the devil's advocate here but just because camera is on doesn't mean anything is being recorded.

This is about consumer trust.

To the vast majority of consumers, a smartphone is a magic box with a lens and a display. What happens inside - how data is stored and processed, how the OS functions, how apps work,... - has been abstracted away behind those "UX optimized" interfaces you just mentioned.

Consumer don't buy black box devices because they trust the few big companies that manufacture the hardware and software: they buy them because there aren't any alternatives that provide the same level of convenience, and can solidly guarantee a due level of privacy as to what happens behind the screens.

When consumers buy a smartphone or download an app, they have to blindly put their trust in manufacturers acting in good faith. And just that has been damaged by plenty of scandals in the past decade.

So, next time you're in public, try to pay attention to this: how many people have taped off the camera of their devices? And why is this product a thing? [1]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/s?k=webcam+cover

It's because there's a fundamental trust issue. Consumers tape those things on their devices because they don't feel in control of what a device does or doesn't record. Covering the camera is literally the only way they feel they are 100% in control.

So, that should leave you with two questions here. (a) If there's a fundamental trust issue about "magic" technology, do you think people will remotely accept any rationalization about "UX optimization" and "not recording" (e.g. your asking them to trust them on your word)? and (b) If people go so far as to tape off their camera lenses because of a deep trust issue, how much sense does it even make to implement such an UX optimization in the first place? Isn't that a tone deaf act of sorts?

I totally understand why this happens, and I can see the convenience of having a snappy camera. It's just that the technical solution to enable this, flies against what people perceive as acceptable.
> I suppose it could be that if it is something damaging, he can release the information and use it politically, and if not he'll try and keep it secret.

This is in a British court, and the President is not empowered to gag the courts anyway (except sort of I guess, at the highly-constitutionally-questionable national security trials)
I feel you. Fixed position elements are really an anti-pattern in many cases. This includes fixed "back to top" buttons and the like. They just clutter up space and distract from content.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrat_Party_(epithet)

> Democrat Party is an epithet for the Democratic Party of the United States, used in a disparaging fashion by the party's opponents. While the term has been used in a non-hostile way, it has grown in its negative use since the 1940s
Is it worth considering the pollution and financial costs of replacing a battery? I suspect writing more efficient software would allow batteries to last longer and manufacturing new lithium batteries is anything but easy on the environment.
I used the speeding analogy because it shares many similarities: speed limits are posted (Epic read the contract), you are aware that exceeding them is breaking the law generally (Epic knew what would breach the contract), and you agreed to follow that rule when you got a license (Epic signed the contract). Taking a picture of a cop is not similar: it's not illegal to take a picture of a cop in public generally, everyone knows that, and you never agreed to not take a cop's picture in any way.
Cheaper you say?
OT: is there a trick to getting a VPN that works reliably? I’ve tried a different one each time I’ve visited and none have worked well enough for basic web browsing
NS is easier to sell than economic fairness. I think both are probably accurate.
> tortuous interference

I think you mean tortious interference. Or maybe you were right the first time.
This is why app stores and locked platforms such as Apple's are dangerous. Users are going to have difficulty installing banned apps. Sure, wechat and tik tok are basically spyware but this is just the beginning. Pretty soon other apps are going to follow. One day signal might be on the list.
File.pizza is great! It uses WebTorrent[1] to seed files right in the browser. The downside to this is, you have to have your browser open the whole time you're sending the file, as it's direct peer-to-peer. Firefox Send was an "upload it, get the link, and they can download later" kind of service.

1. https://github.com/kern/filepizza#faq
Most of the large cloud services companies have registrar arms: AWS, Google Cloud, etc. I currently use Gandi.net but am considering a transfer to my AWS account to simplify my security posture.
Repeated mentions of deporting illegal immigrants and withdrawing from the UN convention on refugees are typically only found in ultra-right-wing party programs in Europe.
but she just does not want to browse a process list to see which process is using the camera.

How do you know until you've tried?

At the risk of provoking a tangential discussion, I don't think keeping users "in the dark" about what's happening is ever a good idea. They don't have to learn if they really don't want to, but deliberate opaqueness is bad --- if anything, it only leads to more learned helplessness and ignorance. Of course, that's probably what companies want in general, since it means they can control users more easily...
Should edit the title to point out it's a podcast, not an actual article.
Do you have any data that shows rendering server side uses less energy than rendering client side?
Their only mistake was not making the store Win32 from the get go, but as their Windows 10X roadmap and Project Reunion reboot shows, that will eventually arrive.

Classical PCs are now a niche in a consumer world full with laptops and tablets.

Little frogs will keep complaining without noticing that it has actually already taken place.
>I'm a fan of price discrimination through DRM.

Me too, because it means I can buy the cheapest version and unlock it for free.
Quit using so much fucking JavaScript, it's as easy as that.
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That is not what the article says.

It says Internet Archive had already started ignoring robots.txt on US government websites.

Now (since 2017) they ignore it on all websites.
For those making quips about Russia: Assange has already claimed the source was _not_ Russia.

https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/julian-assange-our-source...

Edit: oh wow, to -2 in less than 2 minutes.

It's a point of information, not an endorsement.

Double-edit: Ha, ok, colour me shocked. The discussion thread is excellent and I thank everyone involved for remaining civil.
I reverted the post (less some minor editing to keep under the 80 character limit) to the original Reuters title.
The terminology in this particular system was chosen in 1921, it's unlikely to be revised again.
> it will be illegal to host or transfer internet traffic associated with WeChat".

I hope people realize how dangerous these developments are.
So not at all?
WeChat is mainstream in China, so that means what, roughly 500m users?
Don't be fooled by ahrefs KD (Keyword Difficulty score)
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Forgive my ignorance, how does this book would help software engineers?
Latest Solvespace in Git has some nifty features and QoL improvements... it's well worth compiling if you like it.
> no one noted that PS is literally taking 'the best of Unix shells and then some', putting this on steroids which vastly simplifies all DevOPs and does so in a fairly structured-OO-fancy.

This is a big thing on Windows, but not so much on Linux, where you have a number of languages available - you don't need to write all your scripts in Bash - a lot of my company's automation is written in Python, which is vastly superior as a programming language - and you don't need to limit yourself to what's built into the shell - there are dozens of small utilities that operate on streams that make your life easier. The self-contained approach of a shell-to-end-all-shells makes sense in the Windows environment (where "curl" is not an executable) and absolutely doesn't anywhere else.
> Management: wow that's great can't see any problem with that, no chance of reputational damage there.

Absolutely agree, but it also wouldn't surprise me if they didn't think about it or didn't care.

If 2020 has taught me anything, it's that a surprisingly high number of people / companies / groups managers and/or leaders, do not think about or care about long-term repercussions of the vast majority of their decisions.
It could be to show information security in government is worth more than either party.

Also, being able to pardon Assange would also be his version of the Obama->Manning moment: viciously prosecutor a whistle blower and then symbolically free said whistle blower to make yourself look like the hero.

Even though the Russia narrative has pretty much been shown to be a pile of rubbish, a lot of Americans still don't believe it. Having Assange say it would reinforce that reality.
Here is the source of the emails: i@am.com
I have tried to like tiling window managers and for whatever reason, it just hasn't clicked for me. I have really come to like the way default Gnome works. That said, I have used material-shell for about 1/2 an hour, and so far this is the first time I can see myself actually liking a tiling window manager.

At the risk of being the guy who has used it for a minimal amount of time and starts complaining about it because it doesn't work like I'm used to...There are a couple preference things for me that I wish were a little different.

I like gnome's no-frills fullscreen. You only have the app and the top panel stuff. In material-shell, I can SUPER+ESC to get full screen, but I think I want to be able to just mouse-over to the left side to bring up the panel while in full screen. To get to anything at the panel I have to SUPER-ESC first. Which is ok, I'd just rather it optionally auto-hide.

Kind of the same as the left-panel, the top-panel workspace list looks especially jumbled when you have an app like a browser maximized. So you see the workspace list, then your titlebar, then your browser tabs. It just adds extra "business" that I would prefer to not see. And again, enabling fullscreen with SUPER+ESC basically gets me what I want so it's not that big of a deal.

Finally, I understand why people would like it, but for me I would prefer to not have the "+" in the workspace switcher at all. Or at least minimally have it skip being part of my SUPER+A/SUPER+D switching. I REALLY don't like it showing up when nothing is open on my workspace or when I have a vertical split workspace, and only one thing on the screen and it shows the "+" content window. I am so accustomed to just hitting SUPER and then typing the app that I want, its way faster to do that and I'd rather the whole "+" window go away.

All-in-all, I'm pretty satisfied with material-shell and will definitely be using it as my desktop.
Though iOS is getting out of hand with complexity these days.

That's because iPhones were always full-featured general-purpose computers, just severely locked-down and restricted from user control. We are simply seeing the results of that opaqueness.
Trump is a chaos monkey; it doesn't have to. This is why I found it hilarious when people believed in 2016 that a vote for Trump was a vote to free Julian Assange; the man doesn't adhere to traditional political strategy.
Please restore original title. Its important to know who offers pardon.
Your ellipses aren't making any case for that proposition...
ha people in the US have to VPN now, to bypass the Great Trump Wall of U.S.?
Under Rust's definition of memory safety, a memory leak is not unsafe. Data will not be corrupted or accessed improperly.

Also Actix has had a strained relationship with the Rust community for a number of years, because of Actix's cavalier attitude towards `unsafe`. The result of which is that the project is under new leadership, and safety is given a stronger emphasis. I also never really considered Actix a "flagship" project of Rust. It was popular and promoted itself, but it sort of set itself apart from the mainstream Rust community.
the 6% is electricity consumption within the home; the second link puts datacenter usage at 1% of global electricity consumption.
He would be able to say that his opponents spent 2 years on a wild goose chase and were harassing someone (himself) who was telling the truth the whole time.
So the offer was made in 2017, meaning after the election, I guess under the probe in to Russian meddling.

It's really confusing then: If he know that he did not use Russia, acquiring that knowledge wouldn't help much since the next election is in 3 years, so it can't be used as a leverage, unless he wanted the information as an insurance to the probe being biased by DNC influence. If he did, why would he want to know the source? The only thing he would want to know if Assange have been contacted by democrat, or if that information were available to begin with.

Sure is a news that asks more question than it answers, and why was it even mentioned in a court in London?
Only on the mind of FOSS hippies is Apple stealing.

30% vs 80% was a very generous gift.
Facts: 76 healthy participants, 100% effectiveness.

That must be a joke.

And yes, a country which is famous for bullshit propaganda instead of technological advances is not expected to suddenly produce a word-class tech.
> I think it's meant to drive home the point is the only thing that actually matters is total energy expenditure and calorie intake. If you're not losing weight you need to eat less and exercise more and vice versa if you want to gain weight. There's really nothing else to it.

This is the crux of what I think misses the point so entirely that you might not see it: "the point" is to figure out how to lose weight (and keep it off while being healthy). Beating on the dead horse of thermodynamic laws is utterly irrelevant to the question of which macronutrients have what effect on body fat and bodyweight.

As I wrote in my edit, "a calorie is a calorie" is exactly as useful as dieting advice as "just spend less and earn more" is useful budgeting advice. The advice-giver can feel satisfied that they've emphasized a physical-mathematical truth, without realizing that they haven't actually done anything to help.
> I'm curious about the same thing, unless maybe he's gambling that it won't be completely tied to Russia.

Pardon offers are in no way binding or enforceable, so no actual gambling is involved. You just don't follow through unless you get the answer you want, as well as making very clear (such as by spending multiple years building a particular public narrative which the defendant actively participated in around your preferred answer) what the expected answer is so that, regardless of what the true answer is, the defendant knows what answer gets them free of the charges.
I wonder whether it is possible to build TikTok as a web application so US citizens can use TikTok web application instead of TikTok mobile application? You know, Netflix has a web app and a mobile app.

Of course, I'm aware that US could block the tiktok web URL.
it's dumb. after nov 12, tiktok traffic will be ended as well
(sorry should have been clear - im talking about the performance of div soup vs a table)

I'm aware how to put together those benchmarks, but you're the person making the claim. The onus is on you to prove its faster, not me.
If you believe that Trump works under mafia rules of intimidation and plausible deniability, then you can read this as Assange can support Trump's theory that the emails came from the Ukraine, or he can face prosecution.

It's unlikely that someone with such an understanding (whether or not it's a correct assumption) would believe that Assange coming forward and saying he was given the emails by Russian assets coordinating with Roger Stone under the direction of Trump would then result in the promised pardon.

Note that, since then, Assange has not come forward with exculpatory evidence for Trump and the administration has begun prosecuting Assange.
Well my rationale is a little different. I tend to buy lunch every day because I like fresh/hot food, I like variety and I like putting money into the local economy (many lower income folks depend on their food service salaries). And I enjoy doing other things with my leisure time than prepping meals.

Nothing wrong with prepping food on the weekends — many find it therapeutic while others do it out of financial need or for dietary reasons - but I personally wouldn’t do it to save a few bucks. I was a poor student for many years, and I’ve had to do it out of need, but I’m glad to be able to live differently now.
Stooping to China's level by blocking foreign software seems like an admission that the US cannot produce a viable competitor with its much more free market, does it not? If the other side plays dirty, playing dirty ourselves in response seems like a very poor precedent. Restricting the freedom of American citizens to choose a social media app feels like the antithesis of the American free-market ideology, in my opinion.

I'm willing to entertain other ideas, of course, and I'd love to hear any flaws in my logic.
That doesn't quite capture it. I want to buy an app for my phone and a vendor wants to sell it to me. But because my phone is a walled garden, Apple and Google who are third parties to the transaction can step in and prevent it.

The Department of Commerce is saying that the Uniform Commercial Code is also a bit of a walled garden, and we can step in and prevent it.
I thought you were joking, but its actually a thing: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Apple-iPhone-8-Plus-64GB-Space-Gray...
> WSL can run `notepad.exe foo` from bash.

Isn't that just a binary loader, like you can do with wine/qemu on any Linux? Surely it's mostly just proxying the pipes, replicating the working directory, and maybe keeping some of the environment variables. The filesystem integration seems like the trickiest part of that altogether.
Are you talking about a VPN into china or a VPN out to the western internet?

For the latter, I don't know if this still works but last time I visited China my Google Fi plan (which has a built in VPN https://support.google.com/fi/answer/9040000?hl=en ) actually worked with no further changes, so I was able to pretend I was on western internet over 4G the entire time I was in China. This was in early 2019.

Which is lucky for me because the school VPN I was initially relying on stopped working halfway through the trip.
Generally we try to consider ourselves above "an eye for an eye"
But are they getting it? I thought it was just a somewhat vague ‘partnership’ between Oracle and TikTok.
I think it's reasonable, as long as Apple doesn't cause lasting harm. The problem is that Epic is cross-pollinating between multiple corporate entities, so separating everything out in a way that doesn't cause lasting harm (especially to third-party licensees) is going to be difficult.

- Epic Games controls Fortnite

- Epic SARL controls the Unreal Engine dev work on macOS/iOS

- Epic SARL also collects direct international payments for the developer-agreement infringing version of Fortnite

In an ideal world, Epic Games should be banned for the duration of the trial, Epic SARL should be ordered to direct all revenues from the infringing Fortnite version into an escrow account (or at least provide the court with ongoing accounting so the court can issue damages, if necessary), and Epic SARL should be allowed to continue operating as normal.

Separately, if Apple prevails in the court, Apple should be allowed to ban Epic SARL as well. If Epic marketed iOS publishing as a feature of their engine, it's Epic's responsibility to deliver that feature to their customers; Apple should only be responsible for allowing the customer to publish with an app that uses any engine, not the Unreal Engine specifically.
I don't get the sense the "Russia narrative" was ever disproven?

https://www.politifact.com/article/2019/mar/18/wikileaks-rus...
For context, the guy offering this deal (US Rep. Dana Rohrabacher) was the most Russia-friendly member of congress: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/us/politics/dana-rohrabac...

It can be assumed that he wasn't making this deal in order to implicate Russian hackers (and Assange would likely have known that).
The impact of the Great Depression on food in the US cannot be overstated. The Depression followed by the war was a relatively long period of time and for an entire generation the food of this time became what they were used to. Additionally prior to WW2 the middle class was fairly limited and most people in the US didn’t have lots of money. Industrialized food was simply less expensive and kept for long periods of time.

I had plenty of great food in the 70’s and 80’s just not usually in restaurants.

I’d imagine in the U.K., they probably didn’t have enough farmland to feed everybody given a rapidly growing population during the industrialization period. If you have to import food, it had to be preserved and again you acquire a taste for poor quality food because that’s what’s available.

Italy, France, and Spain did not industrialize anywhere near the scale that existed in Britain or the US.