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My other submission of the same story only appear for less than a minute or so. I could see it in my submission list, but not on the first three pages. Why?


It looks like dark mode is not a global option like on Linux, but rather needs to be adopted by individual apps. That means when opening old apps at 2AM, my eyes are really gonna be hurt..


it will depend on which APIs the app is built with. I don't know which desktop environment you are refering to, but I assume it's one, not all linux based operating systems. But in this linux DE, if I run xeyes will it come up in dark mode?


Does MacOS have night shift like iOS does? Else, f.lux really does the trick.


yes it does indeed - it operates in much the same manner - set by the clock or manually enabled.


Perhaps try sleeping at 2AM.


Not everyone is lucky enough to work 9-5.


Maybe try telling that to every user?


OK. Everyone, get some sleep.


It's so kind of you.


try 'brew install gnome-desktop' maybe?


Wait this works? Gnome shell? The full gnome experience?


Nope :-/

        $ brew install gnome-desktop
        Updating Homebrew...
        ==> Auto-updated Homebrew!
        Updated 3 taps (caskroom/cask, caskroom/versions, homebrew/core).
        ==> Renamed Formulae
        php70 -> php@7.0

        Error: No available formula with the name "gnome-desktop" 
        ==> Searching for a previously deleted formula (in the last month)...
        Error: No previously deleted formula found.
        ==> Searching for similarly named formulae...
        ==> Searching local taps...
        Error: No similarly named formulae found.
        ==> Searching taps...
        ==> Searching taps on GitHub...
        Error: No formulae found in taps.


I only realized later that it wouldn't really work anyway guessing from all the missing dependencies.


Does anyone know if SonicStage works on Wine? It's an ancient piece of proprietary software from Sony to transfer songs to their NetMDs.


Hasn't been tested for a while, but when it was last tested, no, didn't work.

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iI...


Can you post a few links maybe to the SYSRET issue mentioned? Just curious.


SYSRET on Intel will fault with #GP if the kernel tries to go to a noncanonical user RIP. The #GP comes from kernel mode but with the user RSP. Before SMAP, this was an easy root if it happened. With SMAP, it's still pretty bad. AMD CPUs instead allow SYSRET to succeed and send #PF afterwards, which is very safe.

AMD CPUs are differently dumb. If SYSRET is issued while SS=0, then the SS register ends up in a bogus state in which it appears to contain the correct value but 32-bit stack access fails. Search the Linux kernel for "SYSRET_SS_ATTRS" for the workaround.



The founder is the very first guy in China who used malware technique to prevent his own IE search enhancement plugin, 3721, circa 2004, from being uninstalled. It was a pain in the ass to uninstall this thing because it hooks so deeply in the system. Now it's sarcastic that this guy is running a security business.

The most recent case is that they broadcast the footages captured on the so called security cameras on a website that it positioned to be something like Twitch but with daily life content. So you really got to see inside other people's house! Supposedly this needs to be enabled by the user as an option, but I'm not sure why so many people enabled it. They have stopped this 'service', without admitting that it's wrong.

My hands shake out of anger when I'm typing this.


Overlords only need mineral, 100 each.


You're right. Mea culpa, I always played Protoss.


in case you haven’t already noticed, hacker news is not a place for jokes...


Are you paid by some other company to post?


No, I'm just a dissatisfied customer. Don't want others to fall into the same trap I did.


Perhaps he's just celebrating Christmas in his own way.


While I don't agree with that '美丽' does not have anything to do with abstract ideal, I don't agree with you, neither.

While 美丽 can be used to describe physical objects, 美丽 in the Constitution does convey a sense of abstract ideal. Because when someone says 'something is 美丽', the statement is already abstract. The statement says nothing about the physical property of the subject, it simply conveys an ideal that may be interpreted differently by each individual.

But certainly this ideal won't be of the Platonic or Aristotelian sort. In this context, it simply means a country that 'everyone finds enjoyable living in', which is indeed an ideal.

edit: grammar


Since you mentioned "ideal", let me give you an example of "ideal". "中国梦", literally translated as "the Chinese dream" and a phrase coined by CCP, describes an "ideal" that fits your description.

But no, "beautiful" in this context just means prettier physical outlook of buildings. You can't over-interpret it (at least in Chinese).


I think you only understood part of what it tries to convey.

Good aesthetics, yes, part of '美丽'. But I won't say '美丽' stops short at simply say 'we will build our cities to look pleasing', at least I won't expect the Constitution to be so pragmatic, because it serves as an guide on the ideology (sort of).


'美丽' is used to describe 'ecological civilization', not to describe beautiful cities. It is used against the backdrop that pollution (of water, air, soil, etc.) is very serious across China, and there are many complaints from ordinary people.

You can see the meaning of '美丽' from this sentence '生态环境根本好转,美丽中国目标基本实现' (the ecological environment has fundamentally improved, and the goal of a beautiful China has basically been achieved).


Yes. This is a more accurate explanation, thanks for posting.


But that sentence does not appear in the Constitution. Or maybe I'm looking at a wrong version?


http://language.chinadaily.com.cn/19thcpcnationalcongress/20...

This is the speech Xi delivered at the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. It contains this sentence. If you skim the speech, you will find multiple mentions of '美丽', all of them environment related.

The other four words are related to other aspects of policies of China.

富强(prosperous) is related to economy.

民主(democratic) is related to politics.

文明(culturally advanced) is related to culture.

和谐(harmonious) which was added to the constitution by Xi's predecessor Hu Jintao, is related to society.

And 美丽(beautiful) is related to ecology or environment.

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富强, 民主, 文明 and 和谐 are the first words of the 'core socialist values' which contain 12 such words and which were laid out at the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, when Hu stepped down and Xi become the paramount leader of Communist Party of China.

'Core socialist values' are taught to students from kindergarten to college. And these words of 'core socialist values' are plastered over walls, buildings and flyovers at every cities in China.


I think I get what you mean: Because it is the constitution, it must be abstract and serve as guiding principle.

However, I beg to differ. Here is the full latest constitution:

Chinese: http://www.12371.cn/special/zggcdzc/zggcdzcqw/

English: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/download/Constitution_of_t...

As you can see, the paragraph on "beautiful" is just a tiny part of the constitution and the word "beautiful" only appears once throughout the entire constitution. So it is probably not something very "guiding" and "central".

Also, the constitution touches on a lot of aspects of the society, so I wouldn't be surprised if it is amended to include a small mention of the "look" of the physical landscape.

I would say that the word is added just to make sure that the party keep environmental concerns and "good outlook" in mind while working on all the other tasks.


If the entire Constitution is about concrete matters comparable to 'building good-looking cities', and 'building good-looking cities' is certainly one such matter because it is emphasized in the concluding remark, then why would the word appear only once?

I don't believe abruptly inserting a term that's never mentioned is good writing style.

A plausible way to understand it is that, the concluding remark is a summarizing call-to-action, laying out the spiritual and ideological framework for the rest to act upon. It certainly needs to be abstract, just as the four words preceding 美丽.


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