skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In countries that aren't undergoing an obesity epidemic it is completely normal for men to have visible abs. Any man who does aerobic and anaerobic exercise for an extended period of time (and doesn't eat garbage, like 90% of Americans) will develop a six pack without even trying.

You cannot possibly think that men like this are malnourished...

https://yorkshireccc.com/uploads/crop_image/260/270/20140516...?

https://www2.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Sainsbury+British+Champi...

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cJwna2z0LQI/TeJHl4AZW9I/AAAAAAAAAO...

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1b/8b/fc/1b8bfcef69fdb3c9aae7...

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/06/04/article-2647902-1...
you can be killed by ways other than homicide
If you trust one side or the other, you need to re-calibrate your beliefs, because they are wrong.
The one I remember being popular before on Android was the "zxing" one: it's still on the Play Store but has tons of recent reviews complaining about adware... confused users (and/or competitors taking advantage) leaving reviews on the wrong one?

The zxing one seems to not have been updated in years (plus it's still on the store).
I did that and it was a real productivity boost, not only by reducing context switching but giving me time to sit outside to think or switch to my desk without any external disturbance. Having the freedom of not having to constantly interact was super valuable.

One reorg later (at a FAANG) my manager, a director, said I wasn’t respectful of others by blocking certain times of my calendar every day. So I was back to sitting in meetings that could have been emails and reading HN all day until I could get some work done at the end of the day.
This is why I avoid using important services (i.e. e-mail accounts, your backups, any digital products) in the one place. Just a little violate and then lose access to all of them. It can happen anytime, shouldn't be left to chance.
I guess being aware of bias is not part of the "smart" equation?
I think the Linux-audio naysayers just don't have the experience with professional audio that they think they do.

Once you get UbuntuStudio installed, out of the box - it just plain works, and is bundled with SO MANY GREAT THINGS. I once installed UbuntuStudio alongside a friend of mine in the pro studio, who had just gotten a new Mac.

I was up and running and working on projects within 20 minutes from a fresh install - he was still hassling with UAD licenses and dongles, a week later.

Seriously people, if you think you are an audio professional, and haven't yet had a dive into kxStudio or UbuntuStudio on a spare machine, you are missing one of the greatest parties in the audio world right now.

And then, if you want to get REALLY sophisticated, as an audio professional, you NEED to dig into - and most important of all, understand - what is going on with the Zynthian folks.

http://zynthian.org/

This is the future of audio - not just for DAW's, but embedded audio devices, too. When you grok what Zynthian is, and how it works, and what it is doing, you will change your mind about everything you think you know about audio on Linux.

(Hint: it takes the extremely powerful Linux Audio/DAW software ecosystem, wraps it in a functional and simple UI, and exposes EVERYTHING in the Linux Audio world to the musician .. from synths to FX units to MIDI processing and generators and beyond. Simply a massive leap forward for audio professionals...)
Also not parent poster but I got into the homelab fever and back it, I just have a very beefy desktop where I run thousands of services on it. Its not like one of these people are running a critical enterprise operation in their living room.
Humans also seem to mostly have less pleasant instincts. The theme of "The Better Angels of our Nature" is kind of the promotion of 'get along' and the minimisation of 'smite your enemies.'
If you do this, who will develop a vaccine and more importantly TEST it at all?

Private corporations won't, governments would have too and governments would develop in private, evaluate in private and give it to their own citizens, vaccines would become state secrets.

I swear, in the morning of Europe timezones you get these pointless "just make everything free man" comments. I'm starting to think they're trolls or bots.
posture (a) doesn't particularly matter to begin with, and (b) is already massively improved by basic compound movements.

like, it's hard to imagine what you would do for a better posture other than highbar squats, deadlifts, rows, etc
You are quite right, my apologies.
Yep, fake reviews by malware-ridden competitors was also one of my thoughts. But there's this motto "don't attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity".

It could also be both of course.
> The main lesson is: one should not rely on the secrecy of public keys

... that might be why they are called "public" keys
gun ownership

You think big business that actively contributes to politicians favors gun ownership? The opposite is true. Michael Bloomberg's spending alone against gun ownership dwarfs the spending of the entire "gun lobby" combined.
Using an AI to automate banning is not an excuse for not being able to quickly redress the problem for a multi-billion dollar company such as Google.

In fact, it should probably be illegal for companies to automatically ban any of their users/customers with AI/algorithms without being able to respond to said complaints within 24h.

Bottom line is that Google should have better customer support, because it's not like they can't afford it.

The only reason they don't have good support is because they are a monopoly and monopolies don't care about the repercussions to any individual customer unless something is illegal.
> 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.

That isn't necessary though - other companies like Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP also have tens of millions - to billions - of customers all with their own support requirements: the solution is simple: make the customer put up their own money as collateral for getting to speak to a human.

Microsoft charges $500 for a single business-class support ticket with ~8 hour return time[1] - and you get the money back if the ticket was not a PEBCAK issue. If you're a company that depends on Azure or Visual Studio or Windows Server then keeping $500 around just makes sense.

I just don't understand why Google and other companies that deal with long-tail customers don't provide this as an option.

[1] In practice, if you have an Enterprise support contract, the effective cost is much lower AND you get a much quicker response time - but there's more paperwork involved.
The solver addon for excel?
I mean, we've been warned for the last 150 years that this is exactly what would happen due to the nature of capitalism. The crazy part is that it was known before but we're somehow "rediscovering" it right now and people are surprised. It always happened, the difference is that it's now done in plain sight

> Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands… The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society. This is true since the members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population. Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights.
- Albert Einstein, 1949
Camscanner was a blatant bait and switch. When I first started using it, I paid for a license to get full functionality with no ads/watermarks/etc. Magically, years later I got reverted to the ad-supported/free version, and my license was nowhere to be found. This was at the same time they moved to "cloud features" and a subscription model. Their reviews are littered with people having the same issue and the developer copy-pasting some response that doesn't work.
The Myth of Multitasking: Why fewer priorities leads to better work
> They assumed it was issued accidentally

That seems like a dangerous assumption to make.
I thought I'd read something recently suggesting that the SA variant was also thought to be more transmissible, but I can't find it so you're likely right. Regardless, as more people are vaccinated or infected it will select for variants that can bypass immunity to earlier strains. It doesn't follow from that though that vaccination is dangerous or undesirable.

I think perhaps there's a tendency to make a mental analogy to antibiotics, where it is dangerous to expose pathogens (bacteria in that case) to antibiotics without wiping them out completely, because you encourage resistance. There are a couple differences here though. First of all, we have a limited number of viable antibiotics, but these vaccines can be continually adapted to target changes in the virus.

More importantly though, the interaction between the two is different. It's not that the virus is being exposed to the vaccine and selecting for mutations that avoid it within a host, as bacteria might do in response to an insufficient round of antibiotics. It's simply that the vaccine will protect against the strands it can, which will leave us with the ones that resist vaccines. That situation is better than the one where we're being infected by all strains!

An exception would be if there were vaccine resistant strains that caused more severe illness than non-resistant ones, and that infection with a non-resistant strain also protected against these resistant strains, whereas the vaccine didn't. That isn't the case now though, and such a strain is unlikely to develop, because immunity from vaccines tends to be stronger than natural immunity. (So if anything, the opposite is true - even against resistant strains people are likely to be better off with vaccine-based than natural immunity.)
Network effects are pretty handy, though.
At the beginning a lot of Vala momentum was "we like C#, but not MS C#", so it was anti-Mono. I'm glad it's there and integrates nicely with glib/gtk.
Google only takes calls for ad sales and gsuite support as far as I know. Beyond that shaming them on social media is the only way to get their attention. I used to work for a top five web site and even we couldn’t get ahold of anyone - one day Google decided to start crawling us at a rate of 120k rps and it was killing the site by pulling ancient content that was 100% cache miss. No way for us to get in touch with Google officially, our billionaire CEO hadn’t traded numbers with their billionaire CEO so no help there, one of the developers had a college buddy that landed at Google and that guy was able to use some sort of internal mailing list to get them to drop the crawl rate down to 20k rps.

(Microsoft is just as bad - their sales people can’t be bothered to talk to anyone who isn’t a partner, but that worked out great for me, I wasn’t really feeling azure and it made a great excuse to not consider them. One of their sales people did leave me a VM three or four months later but we had already chosen another vendor by then).
But this is the classic cycle don't you see? They almost always start as "here is an app I threw together, no ads, don't be evil".

But then a lot of people like your app, and ask for a small extra feature. You support it, and then get a bit annoyed by all the features people are asking for. Then you have to update it for the latest release... then suddenly fix it when some obscure version of Android breaks on it.

Then someone offers you £60k for a small ad no-one will even see and you think.. don't you deserve a bit of credit?

Maybe you'll be the good one who doesn't take it, but the free model is generally unsustainable.
Hey Google here is a feature: account reputation, anyone doing business with you, has that flag enabled and human reviewers will be supporting them
I've had this discussion with multiple colleagues. I say it live as in life. However, most people I know say live as in "until the new record is live"
Then move off. It's not the only solution.

There are alternatives to all these:
Search,
Email,
Game streaming,
Online doc editing,
Etc
To see the relation between spectrograms and fundamental frequency, based on this: https://0110.be/phd/presentation/spectrogram/live.html
Traditionally, when someone deliberately does something that causes significant harm to someone else, we address that by giving them a chance to defend their actions in court and if their defence is not acceptable we penalise them. It is strange how easily we forget normal behaviour as soon as technology comes into the picture.

If you had a shower fan/light that broke, and the manufacturer supplied a new model to replace it that had a working fan but no light and also an undisclosed camera and connectivity that sent everything it saw home to the manufacturer, no-one would be debating the situation. People would be going to jail.
bodybuilding is far less injurious than other strength sports and those are far less injurious than any team sports.

you are almost certain to sustain significant acute injuries doing gymnastics, football, basketball, etc over a long training career. the same cannot be said for bodybuilding - you might develop overuse injuries or wear and tear, but still less frequently than in other sports.

it's really, really, really hard to tear an acl, break a collarbone, or dislocate a shoulder bodybuilding. yet I know someone who did all 3 in one season of rugby!
Okay, what is the "thing that does not scale" which they are starting out with?

There's a difference among:

A) We are having someone in the company moderate this manually and gain insight into how we could do so scalably.

B) We are outsourcing moderation and therefore not gaining insight into how to reduce the burden of that cost centre.

C) We aren't worrying about that until later.

D) We are building a fully-automated solution from the beginning.
And also they have programmable filters (Sieve) and auto-expiry settings for folders (delete mails in this folder after N days unless also in another folder).
That looks like they trust approved media and distrust disapproved media. It's not a measure of trust in media, but a measure of media affiliation.
Isn't that the point of reading foreign SF? I grew up in Western Europe in the 80's and loved reading Cold War era Soviet science fiction precisely because it was different.
> Most yogurts (plain, not sugary with fruites and other stuff) I've had are semi-liquid.

Semi liquid sounds excessive for actual yogurt, but what you may be looking for specifically is strained yogurts, which have a lower amount of whey (liquids) and are thus drier and thicker. Greek yogurt is indeed a common type of strained yogurt.
All credibility with whom? The news media? They are always going to associate people who attack them with negative things.

The right calls it fake news and the left calls it misinformation. Everyone has a rhetorical mechanism for attacking stories they think are factually incorrect.
I think the point is that he has direct business with Google and yet _even he_ can't get his account unbanned.

If someone in that position is screwed, an average joe is most definitely screwed.
This makes me anxious about my long time Gmail address. Back then I got it just because it and Google was cool, and their services had a good reputation. It was a different Google back then. If they had launched it this year I would never have got one because chances are it would have been cancelled by 2025. Gmail is really the only valuable thing that actually ties my life to Google. And it's not that hard to replace, but just a bother to inform some people and update account details.
Du bist verboten.
It is 2021 and Android still doesn't have a QR code scanner by default.
> Is that roughly correct, or have I missed something?

There's 2 systems. The one you mention is municipal (lowest level), and then there's a purely political-party based one.

Municipal

A ward can elect a political party member, or an independent candidate. The elected candidate who wins, gets a seat in council.

> Once you win that area, the party nominates a set of candidates to represent that area, but this set isn't known at voting time and the order the candidates are chosen is somewhat arbitrary.

Parties also send a candidate-list to the elections body, before the elections. 50% of the council seats are determined by apportioning within these lists. This is meant to be fairer on smaller parties who might otherwise not get enough votes to get a councillor in.

The system is accepted (opinion), and doesn't seem arbitrary as there's rules that allow independent verification.

Provincial and National

These are purely party-list based (perhaps similar to UK then), instead of the 50% split above. Similarly, party lists are known before the elections, and are immutable throughout the 5 years (only get removed if you die or resign from your party, but can't be moved up or down).

There's again some process to determine how many people on the list per party, go to Parliament and the provincial equivalents. So, to your last point; we also know whom we're getting before the elections.

There was a Constitution (supreme) Court ruling last year that requires the next national elections to allow for independent candidates. The sentiment from those interested in our polls, is that the same hybrid municipal system might get chosen.
Question: Do you think protests can work if there is zero chance of them turning violent? Because of course, protests that absolutely refuse to use violence are easy to ignore.

I'm not saying it should be the first thing people do. Not the second thing either. But unless there is a real threat (ideally not before negotiations start) to people in power somewhere along the line, nothing will happen.
This has been sitting in my ~/scripts/ folder for the past 3.5 years. Just changing randomly the last pair was enough to do the trick in most situations.
Also it requires understanding the first time which one is your WiFi interrface.

13 Jun 2017 changeMACAddress.sh*

#!/bin/bash
sudo ifconfig en0 ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:$(od -txC -An -N1 /dev/random|sed 's/ //g'); sudo ifconfig en0 down; sleep 1; sudo ifconfig en0 up
> Then move off.

It works for you (as in, single person). Not for your friends and family who will ask you one day what to do about the account they lost.

We (technical people) know this happens and have seen it happen - it is on us to push for better solution than convincing one person at a time. Unless one prefers nihilism and watching the world burn of course.
Context of your SaaS important, e.g. if GitHub didn't have a free plan it would've killed any chance of mass adoption & ultimately their $7.5B exit.

"No free plans" are prevalent in media subscriptions e.g. Netflix, Prime, AppleTV, Disney+ which offer free trials, but I'm struggling to think of any popular pure Software SaaS services that don't have a free plan?
That's a very original idea! My first though is that it's a pretty unintuitive control scheme, how long did it take you to master it? Did other people "get it"? I can imagine that kind of thing being a barrier for adoption :(

OTOH if you can start playing just with the horizontal axis and WASD, and only user the vertical axis as an expert feature... I can see it becoming super compelling. The "easy to learn, hard to master" kind of thing.
You probably want support, not a salesperson: https://cloud.google.com/support/

Basic billing support (including account suspensions etc) is available to all GCP users for free via ticket, chat or phone.
That's even _necessary_, as there are a few flag bits in the MAC address - broadcast, user-administrated-address, etc.

Just using a random value might give you "interesting" effects and lot of fun debugging those.
I've been considering getting a new email address on a personal domain so it can be more portable and I can change providers.

Does anyone recommend any alternate providers with custom domains, or some OSS? Is it possible to host your own email server on a NAS or RPi something?
It's built into the camera app
Team pace is determined entirely by the manager's sense of urgency, which from what I can tell is directly proportional to how often they check their e-mail.
I hope so as well.
In the beginning of the pandemic I donated to GG, blank and a bunch of collectives organizing parties (like bordel des arts). But i doubt that this made a lot of difference.
No, not at all. I'm just feeling a bit sad about it myself. But I'm also doing very interesting things recently (research on deep learning), so it's okay.
Simple scanner turns evil.. these kind of apps should have been offered by the respective OS, as a standard app. If the money involved are correct, then are the developers to blame?! I'm not sure to be honest.
It is not, and in fact any man that actually uses their body (instead of filling it with shit) will have visible abs.
I think they would require a customer service team at least an order of magnitude larger than that to properly deal with things.
This doesnt make sense - the 16-bit modr/m byte (required for indirect register access) doesn't use the 'regular' opcode numberings, and the 32-bit modr/m byte can use any GPR, so BX is not special anymore (as mentioned in the article).
Then we should also add "... and police accused anyone within the geographical region of the protests of being one of those vandals using violence ..." (which, because of how GPS works, is going to be X meter from the point where a crime was committed. Where X cannot be less than ~200m)

The problem people have here is that these search warrants are not specific enough (for one thing, those are houses, people LIVE THERE) to stand by themselves, and people generally don't trust police or prosecutors to not use them as evidence.
> Sure, going to $50 won't matter to most wallets, but at around $100 you're just getting ripped off and someone is having a laugh at your expense.

This comes up on every AWS-related comment section.

$100/month for something I could do with VPS is an amazing bargain if it saves me even 2 hours of dev time every month.

As someone who used to maintain servers and databases first on dedicated hardware, then on colo servers, and later on vanilla EC2, I am so thankful for RDS. It's absolutely amazing not to have to worry about:

- failover

- scaling

- logs

- read(/write) replicas

- (restoring) backups

- monitoring

- maintenance windows

- minor version updates

- OS updates

...and that's probably not even a complete list.

Every VPS-like database management experience I've ever had has caused me a lot of lost sleep. It's just not worth it. I can't imagine why anyone would DIY this stuff if they're working with any kind of budget at all.

At the moment, I have an insurance company with hundreds of thousands of customers running on ~$1,000/mo. of AWS services. The modern cloud is amazing and a constant source of joy for someone like me, who has been doing web software for more than 20 years.
Not the parent but I also do not prefer this setup, my preferred setup is setting everything up manually so I know exactly what is going on. It also allows for better debugging, flexibility and understanding of the software. It's also a great learning opportunity since I've learnt how different pieces of software come together but for most people freedom box is good as it's relatively quick and easy to setup.