skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The fact that apostasy is possible and exists, in France or elsewhere, is precisely the proof that religion is not 'essential'

Straw man. No one denied that apostasy is possible and exists. The claim was that for some religion can be an integral part of their identity and it's also possible that people can change their identities for various reasons including societal pressure, the desire to fit in or any other reason. That doesn't change the fact that religion is an integral part of some people's identity.

>That makes religion far more similar to musical taste (ever heard of Rock'n Roll as a way of life?) than to ethnicity.

Religion is a set of rules and guidelines to live by, so that comparison is moot, but keep pushing absurd arguments to justify your rubbish takes.

Anyway, you ignore and distort arguments beyond recognition and keep babbling utter nonsense.
You are a lost cause, so we are done here, have fun debating yourself.

By the way, distracting people who criticise the barbary of the french abuse of satire & free speech laws with blasphemy laws is a cheap move but quite typical.
More details: https://blog.invisiblethings.org/2013/02/21/converting-untru...
It depends how much you take. TRT like doses don't make you balloon like bodybuilders. They are also much healthier. You can do 200-250/week for some time then back to 100-150/week and you will get huge benefits in both muscle mass and recovery but you will still look natural at least to untrained eye.
Hopefully, more devs will do what this dev is (said to be) doing.

> Consider it burned. #Terraria for @GoogleStadia is canceled. My company will no longer support any of your platforms moving forward.

Of course, it's very difficult for small devs to do this. It takes an already solid business to be able to stand up like this. As always, I think this is the only way for Google to change, but I don't think it can happen.
It doesn't matter, 10 pm - 1 am isn't a legal work time for office work around here.

Unless you're your own boss, or getting an union agreement with corresponding extra payments, that is.
How about the cost being that the organizer needs to do more planning; have them fill in a standard form, clearly illustrating the purpose of the meeting, an agenda, and a timeline. And someone actually leading the meeting. I think a big issue is that meetings are too informal and on a whim.

If they cannot produce that, they cannot plan a meeting.

Of course, before that they need to ascertain whether it could just be an email or a quick question to someone.
Don't confuse things. Music production and acoustic/audio research are two entirely different domains.
Google one gives you support it says. I had an issue with gpay once and the support chat was available and seemingly working.

But when your account is suspended that doesn't really help you eh
> This aspect of war is really sad - giving kids and young adults guns and sending them off to shoot people is widely glorified.

The American war machine has a lot of white supremacy elements built into it. Not just camps named after Confederate war criminals but actual common training refrains like "if they's brown, shoot them down" were taught during the invasion of Iraq which played at least some role in the war crimes at Mahmudiyah and Falluja. The Mahmudiyah murders and rapes were most eggrigious especially attempting to cover it up and lay the blame on Al Qaeda.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmudiyah_rape_and_killings

The Mahmudiyah rape and killings were war crimes involving the gang-rape and murder of 14-year-old Iraqi girl Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi and the murder of her family by United States Army soldiers on March 12, 2006. It occurred in the family's house to the southwest of Yusufiyah, a village to the west of the town of Al-Mahmudiyah, Iraq. Other members of al-Janabi's family murdered by Americans included her 34-year-old mother Fakhriyah Taha Muhasen, 45-year-old father Qassim Hamza Raheem, and 6-year-old sister Hadeel Qassim Hamza Al-Janabi.[1] The two remaining survivors of the family, 9-year-old brother Ahmed and 11-year-old brother Mohammed, were at school during the massacre and orphaned by the event.

Five U.S. Army soldiers of the 502nd Infantry Regiment were charged with rape and murder; Specialist Paul E. Cortez, Specialist James P. Barker, Private First Class Jesse V. Spielman, Private First Class Brian L. Howard, and Private First Class Steven D. Green[2]).

Lets not forget that Trump also pardons these kinds of criminals.
Jeff Bezos Steps Down as CEO of Amazon After 27 Years
I dream of a programming language where I would be able to specify a computation and maybe error bounds on input/output and get efficient code respecting the bounds automatically. Arb takes us close to that, but I still have to handle recomputing with greater precision by hand, and things get complicated with multiple inputs. What are your thoughts on making arbitrary precision/rigorous error bounds more ergonomic to use for programmers?
QR Reader are load of everything. I went mad to find one a decent one for my parents’ android phone and apparently it doesn’t exists. So in a weekend I’ve created one without any kind of tracking, ads, permission, whatever. Here it is if you guys need one ->

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.prof18.sec...
Really thought provoking, and arrives at a time I'm going through some priority setting, so useful to have some more context.

Although I full recognise the importance of not context switching all the time and having realistic chunks of work time, the first is hard when you're a generalist (I run a small business) and the second is hard when any code at all is involved. I find some mundane tasks take no time and then sometimes they take forever. It's really hard to time estimate in this scenario. In fact as a more general point, humans are rubbish at time estimation anyway, so it makes calendar blocking quite a challenge...
And thats weird, but there exists several papers which uses 1D - convolutions on raw audio
What do you mean by way less reliable?

While Google will not start any overly obnoxious ad-serving, who tells you they will not upload all or a bit more stealthily some pictures for some AI user profiling thingie? Cannot happen? They collected WiFi access points when doing Streetview back when their motto was "Don't be evil".
What Games Would Look Like in the Year 2100
I pay $6/month for a single user workspace to get that peace of mind. I don't understand why someone would entrust their digital live to a free service.
Google Cloud at least has a contact page with a contact form.

https://cloud.google.com/contact

It may not be the right human, but it will be a human you get in touch with.
No I don't think so; a monk copying work is different from a developer creating original work.

I'll admit that trivial CRUD applications are boring, but with that kind of application it's about understanding and shaping the domain. Naming things, if you will. (disclaimer: I'm working on a CRUD app as we speak, thousands of fields in dozens of modules).
At least stop signing up for new things so you don't make the problem worse.

It is a risk. I had a problem with my Google account, and while I was able to find a human to email about it, they were completely unable to help. It was literally "you have to do the thing, even though it makes no sense, because that's what our algorithm requires" (in my case it was repurchase an old domain in order to prove that I owned it, so they could cancel the account associated with that domain. Literally makes no sense, but it was the only way their process could work). That was my "ruh-oh" moment when I realised their products are basically unsupported and therefore shouldn't be used in production.
If a political system can be controlled by using power or capital to change political outcomes, without relying on the will or consent of the people, it's hard to argue that that's democratic.

In that case, the hegemon is a faceless allocation of capital and dark interests as opposed to a strongman. This setup is probably better for individual freedoms than a dictatorship, but "results may vary" for anything else. I don't think a plutarchy is an open political system; a plutarchy is, by definition, closed to all without obscene amounts of capital, or access to it. The Wikipedia article on plutocracy is an interesting read on that [0].

There is a gray line, like Prop 22 in CA, where Uber, Lyft, et al. convinced voters to vote yes on Prop 22 by spending over $220 million on ads and campaigning [1]. Does this constitute a plutarchy? I would say no, because the voters were still the ones who chose the outcome! That's a big difference from a backdoor deal with a politician or inviting a them to a $43,000 "lunch" which will change their mind on your issue. However, it does highlight another issue — that of political advertising — but that's something for another time.

The main issue here is that the US did not adequately plan for mitigating the influence of money in politics. The NY Times ran an article highlighting the shock and horror with which the British see the American political system [2]:

> Justin Fisher, a professor of political science at Brunel University London, said the American system was seen in Britain “as the worst of all worlds,” focused on “raising money and not about getting ideas across.”

Living in Switzerland, I came to the conclusion that their political setup is demonstrably better than that of the US (though also, arguably, more workable because of Switzerland's small size). In Switzerland, it would be nearly impossible for a lobbyist to pay a Swiss politician to make an important policy change and get away with it. And in most other Western European countries it would be a scandal/make big news if a politician got €50k to change their mind on something.

In the US, that happens every day.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutocracy#United_States

[1]: https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Here-s-what-you...

[2]: https://www.nytimes.com./2015/05/05/world/europe/britains-ca...
I recently noticed that the "Barcode Scanner" app by ZXing (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.zxi...) was being review-bombed with 1* reviews. People were talking about the "recent update", even though the last update is from February 2019. As far as I know, that app is open source and never contained ads. (Of course, without reproducible builds, we'll never know for sure.)

Was ZXing also hit by some issue, or is that just confused people that mistook the ZXing barcode scanner for the Lavabird barcode scanner?

In the comments of the article, someone wrote:

> The Zxing project is the flagship open source barcode scanner project for many years, and the December 2020 build was infected with malware. That bad build has been removed, of course, but the damage to the project continues.

Is there any further information on this?
As you already use GNU diff's `-N` then you can pass any non existing as the first directory:

diff -urN /dev/null-non-existing-dir dir1 > x.diff

Or use `mktemp -d`. It is still cheaper than investing into some niche tooling without groundbreaking capabilities.
Disabling google accounts is whats stopping me from using GCP fully. what if the credit card got declined on GCP and the google bots decide to ban me from the whole eco system.
He would indeed make something wonderful of this...
I'm pretty sure we'll soon be hearing of Russia 'saving' South Africa with it's vaccine.
Delayed Code Execution in Flutter
Microtask, Future or postFrameCallback, which one should I use?
They've been sideloading with React Native, allowing updates even for people without automatic updates enabled, and have abused enterprise/privileged developer keys which allows access to additional parts of the system. I just don't see how you can draw that conclusion.

I use the apps for other things, not for any assurance of privacy.
Tablet View Improvements
I too have been facinated with graphs and all related systems/framworks that make use of them in one way or another,
but the problem with (hyper/multi)-graphs is that they can represent almost anything, in multiple differing ways and people usually gloss over the second part.
In reality it's what make or brake what you can do and express and infer with them.

said in another way, saying to yourself i'm using graphs is pining down a single part of the syntax used while the semantics of what is talked about are almost orthogonal.

In CT parlance the underlying can be almost anything, and changing a few rules about how you want to reason about stuff can drasticly changes the underlying category you're working with.

(PS: my comment is probably biggerish incoherent mind soup)
What would happen if you mailed Google a physical letter about this/faxed them something? YouTube has a mailing address and a fax number.

https://www.youtube.com/t/contact_us

That seems to be what they want...
It's subsumed under the general GTK antipathy.
Readers interpret the article with prejudice, the resulting understanding is what needs to be clarified.
Yes, I agree in terms of difficulty. Are you in this space by any chance?
I was waiting for a comment like this; it implies that you yourself are in charge of your time. In practice, you're working with dozens (?) of other people that all have their tasks to do, and who need some coordination.

Some can be done to change company culture to reduce and optimize meetings, of course. Hopefully.
The problem is that not all the people knows that. And I don't know why Google does not "advertise" it.

Anyway, for my parents' old phone I built one simply QR Reader without any crap. If you need one -> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.prof18.sec...
Do you structure your reading time in terms of chapters? Or perhaps did you feel that single plot points were dragged out?
This is actually good advice.

I read that any more than 4 meetings per day was too many, this seemed like decent advice. The reason was context switching, which makes sense.

I know that if I get all my meetings done in the morning, it gives me a run at the afternoon uninterrupted or be it, dedicated interruption time if that's what's needed.

So I've blocked out my afternoons for "focus work", meaning, you can now only book time in my diary in the mornings.

This means meetings are now tightly packed together. No Swiss cheese. You could argue however, there's very little time to reflect, but I've yet to see negative effects of this as most of the meetings I'm in are set up to make decisions there and then, rather than to distribute information.

I do finish my focus work time before the end of the day, incase anyone needs to book in an end of day catchup or otherwise check in.
We need a culture that distinguishes between truly necessary updates like security ones and general updates that change functionality and interfaces. One type is essential and we want to encourage everyone to install those promptly. The other should always be optional and the changes being made should always be transparent. Bundling the two is a common but user-hostile behaviour.

This separation should be the price of admission for software developers who want to use online updates, and by now there is probably a need for real laws to regulate the industry since firstly it is very clear that it will not regulate itself effectively and secondly it is no longer just random applications but essentials like operating systems, web browsers and even the software controlling your car that are being treated in this cavalier way.
I just don’t understand Google leadership, how can you allow stuff like this to happen and just ignore it? Your brand keeps getting more and more tainted, people make jokes out of your strategy and tendency to give up like a little child...

I didn’t think I would ever say it, but I miss Eric Schmidt... Sundar has been an absolute disaster. Has Google even accomplished anything during his reign? And if they did, did they accomplish because of him OR despite him being there?
Use a distro designed to make audio processing a first class service, and you'll never have to reboot again - i.e. kxStudio or Ubuntu Studio.

My Linux DAW easily outperforms my Mac DAW, and I have tens of thousands of buckaroos invested in the latter, but only a couple hundred in the former. Ubuntu Studio is simply the best out-of-the-box DAW user experience around.

>If you're writing audio software the solution is to use WASAPI on windows, CoreAudio on Mac, and tell Linux users to use Windows or MacOS if they want low latency audio.

This is nonsense advice. I'll instead tell Linux users to use a decent distro, and target JACK+Alsa for my Linux builds ...
New Kobo ereader will be available soon
Good on him. Takes courage and an established product to do this.

Good example of standing up.
No, this is a problem inherent to the business model Google/Facebook run.

Stating a truism - to make a billion dollars, you either have to get $10 from 100M sales, $10k from 100k sales or $10M from 100 sales. Although each option leads to the same revenue, there are major implications as for the amount of support and attention you can spend on each customer.

Google/Facebook/Twitter obviously run the "$10 from 100M sales" model - meaning the only way they can provide profitable support or moderation is via inanimate algorithms, and deal with the PR fallout when they go wrong.
On revenue reports, the term Google Cloud includes Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Google Workspace (formerly G Suite). Sorry for the confusion.
Not confusing, I also bet audio research using Linux is doing stuff like coding audio compression algorithms Fraunhofer style.
Could you name some of the more effective and productive programs?
I stick to F-droid android app store. it asks developer to submit their code which gets compiled by the F-Droid team. apps with proprietary codes are flagged.

few QR code apps from F-Droid.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.example.barcodescanner/

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.secuso.privacyFriendlyCo...
This is the reason why I have offsite backups of my Google account as everyone has a chance of getting banned. It really feels like Russian roulette.
if you need 40 minutes to acutely recover from anything but the most advanced powerlifting/bodybuilding training, then something is deeply wrong.
Ah good memories ... The 8 was much fun, perhaps broken. I developed an uncanny precision with it. But also 6 was great, with more ammo, but still great precision. And the jetpack tricks ...
hopefully Apple will require consent soon for the ID for advertisers

Just think through the implications of that phrase for a moment, though. Your own device comes with a built-in mechanism specifically designed for advertisers to track you. Why was that ever a good idea in the first place?
Try the form anyway :)
>I could put in all the hours of practice and guided training into boxing as Mike Tyson and I wouldn’t get nearly the same results.
I imagine you could do this if you start training from the childhood and it will be the only thing you're doing.
Either that or China stepping in.
I concur, Ubuntu Studio is an amazing user experience out of the box. After install, everything is onboard and just works.

Not to mention, neither Mac or Windows come anywhere NEAR the awesomeness that is Zynthian .. and if anything demonstrates the amazing flexibility and power of Audio on Linux, its the Zynthian system.

http://zynthian.org/

Simply amazing audio!
Jira is one of those products, but an even bigger one (I think?) that I've seen in multiple places is Slack. I don't know if my experience is universal, but in multiple workplaces I've been at, people started using Slack (the free plan) as a grassroots / from the trenches / heck trying to get corporate approval movement; they just started using it and it spread among people, until at some point it gained critical mass, the limits became annoying, and they finally get leadership buy-in.
I remember this event as it was yesterday, I was 9 years old living in Serbia during that period. It was a terrifying experience. My uncle-in-law was in the division that shutdown the F-117, he can talk for hours about how they operated and all the technical details.
Don’t start building your digital product until you know these things
if you need almost 3 hours to do a beginner strength program, something is amiss, or you are resting for 10+ minutes between sets.

what do you need to buy? what posture correction are you doing? how is showering a meaningful amount of time when most people already shower daily?

you're inventing problems that don't exist.
My suspicion is that this is mostly happening because platforms that big like google or twitter rely very heavily on machine learning and other AI related technology to ban people

Most likely yes. And the annoying thing is that they don't take into account different languages. The AI can recognize words, but not meaning.

A while ago some Dutch person tweeted: "Die Bernie Sanders toch." Die = that, in Dutch. But the AI obviously recognized the word (to) 'die' in English along with Bernie Sanders and just instantly drops the ban hammer. And it takes days,if not weeks to get an actual human to look at your case.
the voters were still the ones who chose the outcome

But it doesn't get on the ballot in the first place without Uber, Doordash, etc. spending millions in paid canvassing.
As the OP, I'm confused why the timestamp says it was posted an hour ago when I posted it yesterday, and how it got the subtitle. I'm happy it's on the front page of course, but I don't really get the HN mechanics behind it?
Every time these stories come out I get terrified. And, angry, because just like all the carelessly built services that get breached because of poor-to-nonexistent security, this taints all SaaS companies a bit.
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The customer LTV required to justify providing live support for a wide-market B2C product is non-trivial.

But if you actually care that much, why not just pay for Google Workspace? The cheapest tier is $6 a month and gets you access to more or less what you want. (n.b.: I'm not making any representations about the quality of the support that you'd receive, only that it's available. I don't work at Google.)
You don't have to move everything, just bits (like how you diversify stocks or singe points of failure). Try move away from Chrome, or swap Drive for Dropbox.

Moving an email is admitably much harder, but after five years I've managed to do all the major ones.
Then why can't the entire FBI break in to an ordinary iphone, except by virtue of finding errors in implementation rather than the fundamental invalidity of the concept of secure hardware?

Why don't they just desolder the cpu and wire up an emulator and laugh at all those secure enclaves and encryption?