skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's attacking the wrong problems, and will have the same set of problems if it succeeds.

The actual root problem here is Grover Norquist + friends (comprising a large part of the republican party), who are opposed to all taxes, under basically all circumstances. Norquist is on record saying that it's GOOD that taxes are overly complicated, because it makes people dislike them more, and trust government less. There's an obvious marriage of convenience between the anti-taxxers and TurboTax, which is why TurboTax is able to hold the whole American tax infrastructure in stasis with seemingly miniscule amounts of contributions.

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

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/03/709656642/epis...

Remember, loads of other countries do this easily. Income is easy to track on the government side: they have all of the employment information, and can fill in the blanks easily. Tax day should really just be a chance for you to double check the calculation. It's a political problem, not a technical problem.

(Also, what the others have said about regressive taxes is 100% correct.)
Or the @GoogleStadia Twitter account will forward this to someone who knows about it. The Stadia Twitter account is uncharacteristically active on customer support for a Google product.
Just to add, regarding the "single tax return": In Finland many of the remaining have-to-input-manually things (e.g. kotitalousvähennys, tax credit for household expenses) can be reported on the tax web portal at any time.
this[0] is likely slow because it will try to do reverse DNS lookups for each host which can be disabled, at least on linux, with "-n"

[0] https://gist.github.com/siraben/c3133b39e470d1aed16fd71f42b8...
Having core parts of your personal computing or business computing rely on Google or AWS infrastructure is a systematic risk. Unless you are are racking up a $50k bill every month, you are simply too small that anyone there would care.
Just, no. Not really at all. In fact, quite the opposite:

https://github.com/zynthian/zynthian-sys/issues?q=is%3Aissue...

So many wonderful audio devs gathering around the Zynthian (Linux-based audio DAW) waterpool. Synth developers, FX developers - everyone.

EDIT: The Zynthian project even helped Apple M1 users get software on their platform that would not, otherwise, have been an easy task .. if it weren't for Linux Audio/synth hackers, this wouldn't have happened nearly as quickly, nor as smoothly, as it did:

https://github.com/surge-synthesizer/surge/blob/main/README....

.. you don't often see things going the other way (i.e. MacOS -> Linux) ..
When my outlook.com account was banned by Microsoft, i wrote a letter to ms in Germany.

got a reply 4 weeks later without any solution. account was never unblocked.

since then i am not trusting Microsoft and not purchasing any of their products.
+1 for Clockwise, it does a great job of automating this. It easily doubled my team's work time ("focus time" in Clockwise).

It also has useful preferences like "prefer morning/afternoon", "no meeting days", which it takes into account when scheduling.

I can't say enough good things about it. It's free at first but I would pay almost any money to keep it, the value of the extra time it gives you is enormous.
Both systems have pro and cons. I am used to vote for pre-defined party lists and a direct mandate for a deligate. Then parties form a coalition, which then chosses a chancelor. Less potential to be messed by populism, the downside is, that the chancelor (head of the executive branch) almost always is the head of the majority party and is alos holding a deligate andate. This blurrs the lines between legislative and executive branch a tad too much if you ask me.

The other extreme is kind of like the US. Pre elections along party lines to choose a candidate that is the directly elected by the electorate. Ver democratic, not blurred lines between government branches. Ignoring stuff like the elctoral collage, the Senate and Gerrymandering, this system is very prone to fall prey to populism.

I guess as long as it works, both solutios are fine. I personnally like the French system a lot. Directly elected Presidents, seperate elections for parliament. I am not judging these systems by the governments it produces, so.
I just continue to use the brother scanner in the other room. I don’t recommend brother, they updated the software and somehow took away features.
Obviously it's subjective, but all of these demos have the 'watery' digital sound that's an immediate giveaway. By definition they're unconvincing.
Unlikely, given it only had songs available in the platform (i.e. I had not uploaded any songs myself).

To be more technically accurate, the playlist itself was not deleted, the ~600 songs in it were removed from the playlist.
This method looks promising if they can make it work efficiently. We need to develop more of these schemes because storage is the big problem for the main renewable sources, which are unpredictable and intermittent. Standard batteries are also not environment-friendly.
For me paying $15/$30 a month for the ability to self-host is ridiculous (I'd consider it if it was 10 times less, just for the conenience of 1-click installs).

However, when you need to install a more complex app like Taiga, it's often simpler to use the free Cloudron account to do it rather than install it by hand.
There's virtually no chance that the automated system that banned him knew the account belonged to someone with whom Stadia was doing business. Even if we assume there's a list of high profile people/accounts not to automatically disable, I can't see him being on it.
Is there a good reason to keep using gmail? I've only got good things to say about Fastmail - which is paid, reliable, faster than gmail and private. And they're reinvesting some of their revenue into making better standards for email.

I haven't needed to contact support, but I think they have a manned tech support email address too.
Reddit bought a five-second Super Bowl spot celebrating GameStock
Abusing JWT public keys without the public key
China’s tech giants face new anti-monopoly rules
> "Most educated people believe that premier news outlets are inherently trustworthy." ~ a journalist.

Hah. Reminds me of that funny quote: "I always thought as fact that my brain is the most important organ in my body. Then I realised who was telling me this."
Transferable Vote would help the UK system more than PR (which is theoretically more democratic, but in practice moves power further towards party hierarchies and massively promotes political fragmentation). Transferable Vote lets “least worst” candidates win, rather than the current “most-compact minority” which typically disenfranchises 2/3rd of the electorate.
What Eric Schmidt would do to help with Google Account bans? Bans without any appeal process were a problem since foundation of Google and it's exactly how Schmidt built that company.

The only people who ever got their accounts recovered at all were celebrities or people who go HN / reddit frontpage.
And yet all the things you mention are only important for 5 year survival rates. They don't seem to make much difference to all cause mortality.

This means Americans are paying lots of money for treatment that lowers quality of life, can have serious side effects and unintended consequences, and which is mostly not allowing them to live longer.

I know which I prefer.
It is mostly hardware dependent. Most people don't have a clue what they are talking about. The software layer is only there to take care of buffering going towards the hardware and conversions that needs to happen such as resampling. When it comes to low-latency, the difference lies in how that buffer is handled. Otherwise you can always play in bit-perfect mode where no software changes anything in the stream. I gave a small overview of it in this section: https://venam.nixers.net/blog/unix/2021/02/07/audio-stack.ht...
Your views are very simplistic with regard to how the empires operates. I think that your views are mainly from the European perspectives when at the times they have what you called "dark ages" where the quality of life during the time span period is worst than the time before and after that.

For the rest of the world's empires the arrangement are more sophisticated than that namely Imperial China, Byzantine, Mughal and Ottoman. Most of these empires works like the current trade blocs, and the members of the empires pay taxes to their master [1][2]. Those smaller autonomous states or countries who are not directly under the empires most of the times pay tributary "protection taxes" or Arabic "jizya" where they becomes vassal countries/states of the bigger empires [3]. One of common examples are the Dubrovnik in Croatia which was under Ottoman protection for about 500 years! [4]. At its peak it rivals The City of Venice and this is only one famous examples of a major city not directly under a particular empire but flourished under the protection. I can provide more examples but I hope you get the points.

This arrangement is something like countries not belongs USA but in which under NAFTA trade blocs. This thriving ancient port cities can be like Taiwan today and Taiwan is probably probably moving towards this exact direction [5].

Interestingly since Holy Roman Empire (HRE) is not technically an empire, Hanseatic League of HRE based countries initiated the trade blocs among themselves to emulate a trading under one unified empire. As I mentioned previously this is the basis of our current trade blocs.

You also claimed the non-existence of any kind of protection along the trade routes. This is not particularly true since the Imperial China has extensive guard posts along the the Silk Routes and the distance between them is reportedly one "marhalah" or around 45 km meaning that a horse can run without stopping between these two guard posts. If you like this is the earlier version of the Pony Express since they also used the posts as messengers to deliver the important news (e.g. emperor has died) to the Generals/officials far away from the center of the empire. The Islamic empires also have this similar arrangement and they called this temporary resting places for travellers/traders as "Waqaf". After time some of these Waqafs became large cities [6]. Obviously this arrangement is not security foolproof (similar to today) and they introduced and made popular the concept of "sakk" or "cheque" (meaning contract document) for deferred payment to avoid carrying gold/cash for the traders along the Silk Routes [7].

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_conquered_by_th...
[2]Port-Cities in the Ottoman Empire, https://www.jstor.org/stable/40241274
[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vassal_state
[4]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubrovnik
[5]https://www.bilaterals.org/?taiwan-says-trade-deal-would-sho...
[6]https://muslimheritage.com/mega-cities-on-the-silk-road/
[7]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheque
Fair point, and I don't think that was right.

I was just trying to differentiate between voters actually voting on an issue vs. a politician changing their position without any input from their constituents.
Well, TBH, it's really "$10 from 100M sales + $0 from O(7 billion) sales."
This is what it is like to work in defense. Having charge numbers for projects does not reduce meetings.
The bog-standard spectrogram you see in most programs is very lossy and ”smeary”. Clearer, sharper algorithms exist.
Most companies doesn't have leadership, they have administrators and bureaucrats who are paid a high salary to ensure the company doesn't change course.

Sometimes a great leader appears, but most of the time big companies are just slowly rotting away after the initial people created and grew it.
Last time I posted on HN on this subject, it was removed for being political.

Genocide is "political", according to HN moderators.
From what I heard, in SA there is also black-on-black racism towards immigration from poorer African countries.
Whenever given the opportunity, I immediately yank PulseAudio and replace it with a properly configured JACK+Alsa rig. This happens mostly on the workstations of musician friends who think they are being clever by using an enterprise Linux distro like RedHat, instead of an audio-specific distro like kxStudio or UbuntuStudio - the former is guaranteed to be a headache, the latter is smoother than anything else out there ..
Probably the people responsible for the malware barcode scanner have other scanner apps in the game and trying to prevent user from their app from installing the Foss app and live happily ever after.
why would you link an article from "fatherly.com" as a reputable source

contest bodybuilders get lean and that has detrimental hormonal effects and tanks their metabolism / NEAT, but evidence on post-contest weight rebounds suggests these are acute effects and don't have long-term adverse health outcomes. if you want to read more, look for papers on "metabolic adaptation" by Helms, Trexler, or Schoenfeld
Financial services companies do seem to be particularly bad when it comes to UIs for their customers. Both awful apps and broken "mobile-first" sites seem to be par for the course these days. A few do try to do better, but the reality is that most people don't change banks for much more serious reasons than this, so the banks have a financial incentive to just throw some mostly workable junk together and ship it as cheaply as possible. :-(
Unfortunately this opens the door to unscrupulous devs publishing their own knock-off versions - or even repackaging the official Terraria Windows game and passing it off as their own work (resource/asset swaps, etc).

My impression from reports I've read about all the major App Stores is that they won't put much effort into processing violation notifications or takedown requests when the publisher or developer filing the complaint doesn't have an account of their own on the store - even less when they're banned (like how Terraria's devs were) - so it could be weeks or even months and the publisher of the knock-off or pirated copy gets to keep all the money they've made provided they've transferred it out of their payment account, I think?
Cool product, I think I've seen it pop up on HN before. How do you balance user privacy while collecting data on usage? Do you have your own privacy-friendly event tracking system, maybe something self hosted?
You're not alone, I know tons of musicians who are moving to Linux for their DAW, having invested too much in Apple and facing re-licensing fees.
There’s plenty of clubs in the U.K. that do these hours. I’ve come out of clubs in London at 7, 8 even 9 in the morning.

There’s clubs in London that don’t even start till 1am.
> They are basically all blacklisted by default, which is also why we had to add easy relay-provider support.

While I understand why people are doing this, I believe it's not the right way to deal with the problem - basically we're handing over e-mail (as a service) to a few big corps. Each time I have this problem I go through the long and painstaking process of whitelisting the IP and fight to make it work. Usually having it work with Gmail, Yahoo and Microsoft is enough - many smaller orgs don't use balcklisting by default because they have enough problems with mail deliverability already.
Same here (Germany)
Some context:

> However, they were hit with a Terms of Service violation via email. They assumed it was issued accidentally, but three days later, their entire Google account was disabled without any warning or recourse.

https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/terraria-studio-re-logic-...
Maybe the solution is to not have single platforms that are this big.
I tried the demo a few months ago and decided to give it a shot this weekend, and I'm pretty happy so far. These are some things that drew me to it:

Dozens of actively maintained deployments of (mostly) popular open source apps, a functional multi-user system with app SSO and ACS where possible, an integrated email server, multiple app instances, easy encrypted backup configuration to off-site s3/b2/nas/etc, simple automatic backup and retention policies, restore/clone down to a per-app basis, broad and deep documentation, complete published api, active forum

There is a recent thread on the forum where a few users espoused their reasons: https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/4372/what-are-you-favourite-...
Get Relogic to Open-Source Terraria: Otherworld
Without this one simple module, PulseAudio would have been entirely eradicated from my life long ago. Now its just hanging around in the background while JACK does all the work.
Vivaldi just added one too.

I'll never undertand why Google didn't include one from the start. They finally added it to the camera app but very few people know about it.
there are lots of anabolic agents that should absolutely be controlled.

trenbolone and other 19-nor substances are neurotoxic and thrash your internal organs.

fatburners like clenbuterol or dnp are uh, not good.

insulin (which is massively anabolic, btw) can kill you very easily if you mis-time your meals.

growth hormone enlarges organs at supraphysiological doses
What did they say in the letter?
> in my case it was repurchase an old domain in order to prove that I owned it

What happens if the domain-name is repurchased by someone else or claimed by Sedo, etc?
Great Companies Picked Their Unique Names
https://github.com/zxing/zxing/issues/1345

The dev says the app hasn't been updated since 2019.
It was like a couple of weeks ago when an Android app got banned from the Play Store because they supported Advanced SubStation Alpha (ASS) subtitles and mentioned it in the description.
There was never a time when journalists challenged "the powerful" as a collective. They challenged the powerful enemies of their powerful employer.

The difference is now we have better information infrastructure and they can't make things that are disagreeable quietly disappear [0] so easily. The disappearing news story isn't a new act; what is new is now the story can linger despite that.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50296742
Protecting your capital during a war
> Wasn't there a Linux project where they could update the OS / kernel without a restart?

Ubuntu? Last time I updated, they asked me if I wanted to start using Livepatch, so it seems pretty integrated: https://ubuntu.com/security/livepatch

(though I'm horrible at noticing the critical battery warnings so I get frequent reboots for free – but that method wouldn't work on Windows which installs updates on shutdown!)
> The problem with both platforms is that they don't provide run of the mill users the option of installing an effective firewall and security solutions.

Google does allow no-root firewalls on the PlayStore which rely on VPN APIs. Here are some open source ones: https://www.reddit.com/r/androidapps/comments/jhtvn4/a_list_...
He is developer of Terraria including their official Youtube has been suspended. What does a guy have to do to become a true Scotsman? Fall acy?
> I will imagine that anyone who creates an authenticator is half-decent enough to NOT take that bribe and serve the greater good.

Dear HenryBemis,

As a CEO of TRC, I would like to extend you an offer to purchase source and distribution rights to your app, SummerChildAuthenticator, to the form of $500,000 (five hundred thousand US dollars). We are a fast growing SV startup that wants to make it easier for people to secure their papers and money on-line. We have developed a streamlined, easy-to-use, user interface for authenticator applications and are looking for a way to quickly put it in front of a wide audience. We believe that your SummerChildAuthenticator, with its established base of over 50 000 users, is the gateway we are looking for.

If you are interested in this offer, please reply to this e-mail.

Sincerely yours,

TeMPOraL, CEO, TRC

<smallfont>Temporal's Rackets and Cons is a startup registered in Southern Vescillo, Arstotzka.</smallfont>

--

You think to yourself: "this is a good deal! The app is unlikely to grow more, it isn't making you any money anyway. Here is this hot new startup with great ideas, what's the worst that could happen? They'll just inject an ad here and there. Meanwhile, I have medical expenses, and..."

So you agree, and I take your app, and run a "growth hacking" campaign on Reddit to blow its userbase up to 500 000 people, and then proceed with my main business plan, which is selling access to OTP codes to the mob running phishing scams.

(Oh, dear reader, you've noticed Arstotzka and thought I'll be selling data to evil government? Nope, we registered there only because it'll make it mighty hard for anyone to sue us.)
No, Matsu is part of the Fujian province of the Republic of China (RoC), not Taiwan province.

The RoC controls only two provinces of China, Fujian and Taiwan province. The Fujian province is the only province of China where both the Republic of China(ROC) and the People's Republic of China (PRC) have split control. This is the byproduct of an unfinished civil war.

Even their identity is different, most people living there don't consider themselves "Taiwanese" but citizens of the Republic of China. They would definitely not consider themselves part of "Taiwan".

And given that the residents of Matsu islands (official name Lienchiang county) have never in its history voted for the DPP, the pro Taiwanese independence party, and have only voted for the KMT party and PFP, two parties who believe ROC IS China , it's unlikely most residents there would view Taiwan as a country in the first place.

In case you claim I'm a Chinese shill (of which I'm not, I'm from Singapore), I would like to point out that even Taiwanese independence advocates in Taiwan also don't think that the Matsu islands, the Kinmen islands, Penghu islands, etc. are part of Taiwan. Many of them would like to abandon these islands to the PRC in the process of gaining taiwanese independence.

Issues of identity in Taiwan is really not that clear cut as many outsiders would like it to be.
I agree. Rationality includes avoiding confirmation bias (the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms or supports one's prior beliefs or values).

Favoring information that confirms one's prior beliefs is the opposite of rational.
What I am saying is that you are applying the rule of "Be kind" only at the most surface level. You are allowing very unkind posts, as long as they are phrased somewhat politely.
These are literally some of the most profitable companies in the world. Are you honestly saying they would cease to be profitable if they hired a few hundred people to staff a customer service team?
This is probably because you aren’t going to the type 2 clubs that OP refers to.

Go to any of the following and see if you enjoy it:

London
* egg, village underground, fabric, ministry of sound, union, e1, studio 338,
Bristol
* motion
Birmingham
* rainbow venues
Manchester
* hidden, warehouse project
Newcastle
* digital
> Apps that offer what should have been offered by the OS vendor in the first place.

This is really it. The Google/Android team have already made the "Zebra" library that actually reads barcodes; why on earth do they not include this as a standard app. Instead we get this myriad of different barcode scanner apps with all sorts of harmful features. All the heavy lifting is done by the Android team anyway (the actual barcode scanning).

To make matters worse, scanning a barcode when you enter a store/cafe (to register your location), is now begin done everywhere in order to track potential covid19 spreaders. This forces anyone without an iPhone to install at least one of these potentially harmful apps.
regarding [1], you would have a hard time getting agreement from big names in evidence-based lifting circles. e.g. I'm fairly certain Israetel, Nuckols, Helms, and others have all disagreed, and I am less certain but believe others (James hoffman, James Krieger) have too
https://firewalla.com is another one.