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> I would support directly electing MPs. Then political parities report directly to us!

Been there. Watch out for these traps:

a. FPTP (first-past-the-post): this is a truly horrible system. In a FPTP system, the person currently occupying the position (regardless how corrupt) has a huge advantage, and it pushes everything towards a two-party system where there isn't a third option (then, all they need is to give you two equally bad options, and you're screwed for good). It's also easy to introduce "distraction candidates" to just chip away votes from competition.

b. Even two-rounds or instant-runoff "winner takes district" system is not ideal; what happens here is that the small parties are strongly disadvantaged. You _need_ to have a very strong local voice, to win any one district. So for instance a general party that tries to talk to educated youth won't make any dent - they're spread across regions, and likely won't get past 10% anywhere

Proportional systems have huge flaws but really are the lesser evil. Ideally you should have something like an open list (where you vote the party, but also the order of preference within said party). And/or primaries for parties/ to decide the list of candidates & the order in the list, for said candidates.
I hear that a lot of companies are doing unethical things. Maybe the government should only grant corporations to form which are headed by approved people?

/s
I think that it's straightforward enough in Australia, but that's partially because we file and pay only federal taxes, with states levying payroll tax, land tax (or stamp duty), etc, but those are less frequent transactions and generally accountants are involved.

For federal taxes, payroll systems typically transmit your data to our taxation office on each payrun, and then a few weeks (or sometimes, immediately) after the end of the financial year, your details are already in the system and you just need to hit the button to submit.

Our tax office has also tried to make it easier for individuals with simple requirements to keep records of work-related tax deductions, etc, such that you can use a mobile app to record them, and then it can also be imported into your return with a single click.

I think for many people - myself included - it's easy enough that you can (and I have) complete it on your phone on the way to work on July 1st (the first day of our income tax year, and the first day you can file for the prior year).
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I wince when I read about pit bull owners proclaiming how their dog is harmless and 'one of the family'. They've clearly not watched the videos I have. And I don't accept that when a pit bull it's the 'fault of the owner'. There's something inherent in them that causes their brain to switch into attack mode for any reason. And once they do attack it's very difficult to get them to stop.
Despite all learnings, the cold reality is that this was a failed startup… but I’m trying it again. This time I’m doing things differently.

Hope you guys had a good read and learned a thing or two :) Let me know if you have any questions.
I'd pay money to be a passenger on the maiden voyage.
They should definitely include a few passenger cabins, as many freighters have. I have never been on a cruise - has zero appeal to me, but this would be awesome.
I'd like to see more detail about this project, though.
As others have commented, pure wind power is not going to be commercially feasible. There's too much variation in weather to work within current logistics demands.
They do anticipate that it will take 12 days to cross the Atlantic, compared to 8 days for fossil fuel vessels. Is that to have enough slack in the schedule to sit idle for the port entry if the winds are good and they arrive early?
But, I hope it's a success.
Another factor is probably the owners themselves, but there are likely more than just these two. We don't have enough info to disentangle possible partial causes and how much each cause contributes.
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On last point, Firefox/Chrome and derivatives have scanning built in. It would be very simple to have an app that links to Chrome.
In terms of deaths per 100000, only Belgium and Slovenia is worse off than UK: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality
Those can get shut down in exactly the same manner.
If it is possible, by a simple intellectual process, to make the choice to renounce religion, it can then not possibly be integral or essential to your identity. That's completely antinomic. You either don't understand those words (and funnily accuses me of misusing English), or are being dishonest.

But I realized you're most likely just a troll. My bad.

Chances are, you're even just a secondary account of jedimind, seeing how you apparently have a habit of intervening at his rescue on other discussions, use the same pattern of purposefully missing the point, name calling and parroting the person you are responding to instead of being relevant.

It is telling though to see how you kept avoiding the concept that by apostasy I was referring to the honest personal choice of people renouncing their religion for intellectual honesty (someday they believe then, maybe after self debating the absurdity of the idea, they don't anymore), but you kept insisting instead that it must be because someone or something forces them to. It really shows how narrow minded you must be.

Keep to your fascist trolling if that pleases you, your moral values are not on the right side of history.

Blasphemy laws and similar barbaric values have been successfully fought and repealed in France (that you seem to despise so much) and other countries, they will eventually be everywhere else too.
Or how about this: when the engine triggers a ban it just notes the reason for the ban in the database, and then tells the user why the ban happened?

I don't see why all the reasons above mean basic transparency can't happen.
No you didn't. You first created your comment on this thread, then deleted it, to copy it in this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26059517 then deleted it, to copy it again in the current thread. If you didn't act bad in the past I would trust you, but this is not the case.

As for the content of the comment, I actually find it relevant
About four years ago, when I had a low end Android phone, some kind of "make the screen white" app was really useful.

I remember the play store being scary but I think there was something in fdroid.

I am not so sure on this, but I do not recall my nexus 5 having flashlight in the OS.
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For starters, users pay for that email service with money. This only works if users are willing to pay.
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On the other hand, I'd prefer they fix this process for everyone and not just those with X twitter followers.

I'm completely uninterested in making waves on social media, but I still expect services (whether paid or free) to work as advertised considering I'm not misbehaving. If they don't want me as customer/user, then say so and I'll find another provider.
Any thoughts on getting your own domain and then still using gmail for receive email on that domain?
exactly, how are you going to visit the mistress(es) if government tracks everything and eventually will be leaked? (a bit of sarcasm but the point stands, privacy shouldn't be optional)
People often said that a tall person cannot be the fastest man in the world - until he was.
You're not seeing the other side of the coin - the huge amount of spam and abuse that such systems correctly identify and remove. If every abuser requests those explanations (which they will) there will be far more spam going around the Internet.

Just think about the army of "Facebook content moderators" who were a popular topic on HN recently due to the concerns over their mental health.

(I am offering no solutions here, for I know none)
Curl does output JSON nowdays, but I should try it for the colors.
I think it's also probably easy to do this with stadia since it's effectively 0 users. What would he say if steam treated devs like google does?
I posit that freedom 0 of the free software definition can be interpreted to mean that one can not just not use a specific piece of software, but even make use of alternatives if they're better suited for one's purpose.

Pretending that freedom of choice about what people spend their free time on is "an unfortunate side effect", is what represents a "toxic" attitude in my opinion.
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"rather novel paradigm" is where you lost me. TempleOS's integration with HolyC is more featureful than anything you've proposed and it was completed a few decades ago. The idea was surely older than that, too. I'm just pointing out a very well known case.

A bit late on the uptake, but welcome to the party of realizing that the shell is not be all end all of computing.
> Below are lists of fatal dog attacks in the United States reported by the news media, published in scholarly papers, or mentioned through other sources. In the lists below, the breed is assigned by the sources.

It's because you're looking at a biased slice of data. There's no national database of fatal dog attacks and people are scared of pit bulls so the media reports on them more.
My point is that systemd is intentionally designed to make that impossible to do without also pulling linux (ABI, environment, whatever) within the same standard.
Looks almost exactly like PowerShell in syntax but I suppose its even more powerful given lisp heritage.

Its hard to beat PowerShell tho given its integrated in infinite number of tools on Windows platform and growing number on Linux.
I think its worth pointing out that Wayland does support NVIDIA's hardware, that the two most widely used Wayland compositors (GNOME and KDE) do support NVIDIA's hardware, and that NVIDIA pays people to work full-time on Wayland, and these compositors, opensourcing their work.

The issue here is that sway, one wayland compositor, does not want to support NVIDIA hardware because they lack manpower. They are also not able to attract anyone willing to implement this support, like other compositors have done.

If you wonder why this is the case, just read this blog post again, and wonder if you'd like to spend your free time working with maintainers that write like this. Go ahead, read any of the other blogpost, or skim through the closed issues in the sway repository.

Trying to spin sway's failure to support NVIDIA's hardware as "NVIDIA hates wayland" is ridiculous in 2021.

FYI I use sway as my main DE, and I'm indeed grateful to its creators and maintainers (ddevault is not a maintainer anymore). But when I read this:

> "We’ve sacrificed our spare time to build this for you for free."

they sound to be entitled to my gratefulness. This is just such a toxic way to go through this world.
This seems a bit outrageous if true. They advertise as a DDOS protection service and then do this?
It's manually curated and generally flags such things as anti-features if found, and I'd believe them more than some tensorflow_script_to_detect_malware.py
But it would only have to be a runtime error (your words) for the code which is dynamically loaded.

Static code will get checked at compile-time, even though the exact function passed as callback depends on the incoming data via a series of if/case statements say, from a dictionary or whatever.
no if the AI can be used to automate the banning it can be used to provide the electronic news email of the rule violated.
I am talking internally with the customer support team about what happened to this customer's traffic. It is definitively not the case that doing "four requests per minute" gets you rate limited.
What about the people on deaths doors human rights. I'd say they take precedence over being upset on sharing you location.
Cryptocurrencies serve this purpose really nicely:

You can store them in your head by memorizing the cryptographic key ("seed phrase", e.g. random words of 128 bit of entropy).

So if you have to flee in emergency without being able to carry any physical belongings, you will still have your money.
I cordially disagree. I counter argue that anthropomorphizing of animals is fundamentally flawed. What understanding are you talking about? That with understanding the wild animal will not kill and maim randomly? As per other comments it seems evidence is against this reasoning.

Highly experienced trainers who understand very well their animals end up dead. I think it is quite a high grounded statement to call professional zoo-keepers and related professionals lazy.

The only understanding i can see is that having wild animals as pets should be banned as they normally are in most jurisdictions.
Not everybody needs to do that, but then you need to rely on people you can trust. Of course we already do that to some extent in app stores: I don't install something from unknown developers that requires all sorts of permissions it shouldn't need, I do install from developers I think I can trust. But if I don't trust them, I lack the ability to inspect their code. That's indeed the big thing that's lacking.
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Not the article's central point (which I also have mixed feelings about) but I completely agree - the author makes themselves look very naive here. Adobe is a hugely successful company that has developed a virtual monopoly on big businesses spending in their sector to the point where moving to an alternative just isn't possible. The author is by no means their target market. Adobe aren't hugely innovative with their product(s) but their business strategy has been incredibly effective.
> * GDPR/Privacy laws (The law requires the deletion of no-longer needed data. As soon as his account gets banned, the data is no longer needed for Googles business purposes (of providing service to him), so the deletion process can't be delayed.

That's absolutely not how GDPR works.
That does seem strange, I never experienced this myself. Also, I don't understand the use case for Cloudflare here, can you elaborate on "I’ve been using Cloudflare free plan for Abot"
That is SUPER scary, as a high volume website
Oh, good. So the next time WW2 rolls around we'll all be prepared.
> If every abuser requests those explanations (which they will)

It's not a request, it's a requirement. If your account is suspended, you deserve an explanation. You should get one without having to request it.

I'm not saying that companies shouldn't be able to suspend accounts temporarily. I'm simply saying that there needs to be a way to get your account unsuspended if you're innocent. The way it "works" now is that innocent consumers are without any recourse whatsoever.
Regardless of the reason being the limit or not - are these limits published anywhere? It doesn’t appear to be the case.
There is a connection limit???
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This article seems fairly scant on details to be honest. I understand how they came to the conclusion, but there's still quite a lot of conjecture here.
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> Unless you've waived that right when you agreed to the Terms of Service.

Which would be meaningless in the EU (I think. Possibly just Germany) as you can’t waive that right.
> I actually think stop Swiss cheesing is a pretty succinct way of what you are saying in your second paragraph.

Perhaps "Defragment your calender" is more appealing to a CS audience. It's clear, and not a double negative.
I'm just about old enough to remember the versions of Windows which didn't ship with TCP and you had to install "Trumpet Winsock" to get on the Internet. This was silly.

The key to understanding the browser case is that, as MS wanted it, it would have tied client and server and rich application development together, all of which would have necessitated Windows. IE was a threat because of ActiveX.
I think Office 365 / Exchange / Outlook has all of that for around 2x the cost. Possibly missing automatic email categorisation, but it does sort into 'focussed' and 'general' buckets.

Plus you get an absolutely fantastic desktop app on Windows & Mac.

And for that you also get full Microsoft Office desktop apps included too.
China has rather the reverse.
I think that Buildpacks help when your Dockerfile is actually complex due to application's dependencies or build process.
I worked at a company where we used a multi-stage build Dockerfile that was quite long and tedious to maintain and developers would avoid keeping it up-to-date.
There is also another point when developers are used to PaaS such as Heroku that already handles the "build burden" for them and thus Buildpacks may ease the transition to using Dockerfile-based builds (if needed of course).
Not a bad idea, even if sarcastic.
What are some hosting providers providing build packages support?

Google and Heroku were mentioned in the article. I've also had a good experience with self-managed Dokku deployment. Are there any managed service providers that support buildpack deployment?
Definitely need to make a betting site based on the death date of google products.

I wager 18 months.
I did exaggerate and the problem is also not so simple: https://www.timocom.de/blog/personalmangel-bei-lkw-fahrern

tl;dr: Nobody wants to become a truck driver anymore, even with improving salaries. Higher qualifications and better working conditions might solve the problem in the future.

In the meantime we still need drivers from eastern europe.
A great first step would be to take responsibility for what the customer has proven to happen. "It is definitively not the case that doing" is directly at odds with what the author provides, you might want to reframe your message to "it shouldn't be like this but unfortunately it is like this right now, sorry" rather than dismissing the author with that they are not correct.
Someone check my working here:

"bigger than an Olympic-size swimming pool" - not helpful but I'll assume not much bigger, or they'd compare it to something bigger - so 2.5 ML (million litres), pumped 200 m against gravity with 2.5 x the density of water, in MWh:

(2.5e6 * 2.5 * 9.81 * 200) / (3600e6) = 3.4 MWh. That's:

- about 5 minutes feeding the 50 MW turbine,
- most of an hour replacing the output of a large (10 MW) wind turbine at typical capacity factors,
- about 0.03 % the capacity of Dinorwig (I believe the UK's largest hydro plant),
- 1 - 2 tonnes CO2 emissions from a natural gas peaker plant,
- the usage of about 3 - 5 g of typical nuclear fuels.
- don't know or care about coal, sorry.

If you really want to avoid using gas or nuclear in the UK, and not freezing pensioners, I'd be looking at storing the order of 1-2 TWh. I'll bet that the best competition for water is just building more wind turbines than you need. Any working fluid that doesn't literally fall from the sky just won't scale, and is at best a distraction. Yes, fluid.

I'll note an interesting relation between global nuclear deaths and global hydro storage deaths.
Sounds scary.

I would not want to use a CDN with some hidden limits. Especially not if I don't even get informed when rate limited.

I can imagine them rate limiting me in a way that I will never notice. Like only limiting requests from some other country or continent.

What is a good CDN for a site that has about a million visitors per month? And how much would one have to expect to pay for it?
Has OP tried cloudfront (seeing that he uses AWS)?
I think there is rarely a reason to choose this over just a standard Dockerfile, which is usually not that complicated and probably wont change much over time once it has been implemented.

If generating Dockerfiles needs to be scaled up somehow, I can understand why this would be useful. Sounds exactly like a problem someone like Heroku would have.
Not away from Google Store, just under a different account. But you are right, I did not think it through.
> (if I could just set a ringtone from YouTube, it'd save me from going through a bunch of shady apps, if I ever needed a ringtone that is)

I don't like that example of utilitarian because it fights the youtube platform which does not want you downloading videos. Anything that sidesteps some sort of security fence or functionality is shady to begin with; even if you think it's fair use. Plus there's the whole copyright minefield.
> Boycotting companies for extending a few minor courtesies to the troops is ridiculous and ineffective.

I don't think freedom of association is ridiculous. I'm curious why you do.
Any one you pay for.
Only if you're 100% in crypto pretty much before the war gets serious. Otherwise the cost of crypto relative to your local assets is just going to rise like everything else - who wants to exchange for a currency which might be about to cease existing?
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How do you expect to be protected from DDoS if not via limiting the number of connections?
Hi HN - I created this after building https://idbloc.co (a web app that let's you use a different email address for every website). I wanted to create my own email provider to remove dependencies on external providers.

It turns out it's a lot of work to create a reliable email provider, so I've opened up the service for others to use and built out integrations for common frameworks.

We're running on carbon neutral and focusing on privacy first features (e.g. no read tracking). We're also tracking real time to inbox metrics and displaying them right on the front page.

Would love to hear your comments!
That's the point. Because of Cloudflare's opacity, they can't get any more information. Conjecture is all they have.
I feel you are especially vulnerable to wrench attacks though.
> Should it empower you to bypass the terms under which content you're accessing were shared?

Yes, obviously.
nervous tick Reading this title triggered traumas :D

Same applies for AWS 'Free tier' database usage. Nothing free about it practically.
what a load of horseshit, this is my free plan 30 day stats, 2 order magnitude more request, a order magnitude less cache hits, no request limit in sight

https://i.imgur.com/UOlW836.png

edit: changed bull crap to the more appropriate horseshit in response to this unsubstantiated-bordering-conspiracy blog post, because if the former is already enough to triggers the community downvoting brigades, no point in showing any restraint