skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Women having sexual preferences and predilections is not at all the same thing as men getting a ton of social pressure from all quarters to look and act a certain way.

A very attractive female actress once said "I dress for women. I undress for men." For that and other reasons, I'm not convinced that male sexual preferences really drive the female tendency to try hard to look good and dress well, even though that's the supposed justification. Society gives women a lot of silly ideas about what men want and I think most women don't really bother to ask men if any of that actually holds water or not.

When I was relatively young and married I bought a new coat and got all mad when my husband failed to notice my new coat at all and, thus, failed to compliment me on it. I have to wonder how much women go around demanding that men tell them they like and approve of X, Y and Z rather than checking to find out if he even really, truly cares about X, Y or Z at all.

During my long, drawn out divorce at a time when I did not expect to be in a position to make a relationship really work long-term, I just began asking men point blank what they liked about me. The answers were surprisingly varied and completely destroyed a lot of preconceived notions I had about what made me "attractive."

It was very eye-opening and life-changing for me. It also made me enormously skeptical of a lot of "standard wisdom" related to such topics.
Hmmm many years ago I was wishful thinking about this very box [1]. This is gonna be a fun week playing with and testing it.

[1]: https://idiallo.com/blog/bringing-back-the-pc
How much of this corruption and other malice lead to the mutation and spread of it?
"I don't think you should have been downvoted."
The virus is in the same family as some of the common cold virus'.
Coronaviruses replicate their RNA genomes using enzymes called RNA-dependent RNA polymerases. (RNA is relevant)
https://www.newscientist.com/term/coronavirus/#ixzz6lrn6xyYr
> We are at a point where auto-updates are more risky than the security flaw itself - especially since iOS has a pretty good sandbox, especially since its impossible for one app to access the data of another. Additionally, the App usually connects to a pretty limited set of servers, and is not publicly reachable. So the attack vector is pretty small.

I'd have to say that most apps now connect to a rather large number of hosts/servers, and it's getting increasingly untenable to not offer users proper control of this. I get that Apple wants to be "friendly computers", but looking at my firewall logs I'm seeing:

- third party audience segmenting
- third party analytics
- third party static content being fetched
- third party ad networks
- first or third party generic cloud server connections

I think the attack vector on apps is quite significant if you consider the app itself to have been built to monetize data - there's no outbound traffic filtering to check the system isn't leeching user data and/or device identifiers (the latter getting better and hopefully Apple will require consent soon for the ID for advertisers).

It's trivial to make an app that leeches a user's contacts regularly to a server, then does anything the developer feels like to build a social graph. See clubhouse. I fear the biggest issue for most users' privacy are the "legitimate" apps they use simply not being built with incentives aligned with their interests, and having access to phone home to any server with anything they can access.
Same idea:
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-real-r...
Well that sounds like dependency nightmare.
Is there really no way for a user to get in touch with a human agent? I read that Google automates the flagging and disabling of accounts but given how many people have their livelihood linked to these accounts, Google must have done something. It makes me scared how deep I have dived into the Google ecosystem. Time and time again I think about transitioning to someplace else but don’t know how to. It seems too daunting.
Ask HN: Alternatives to “The Morning Paper”?
In the last few years I really enjoyed reading a summary of interesting CS papers from different disciplines every day. But now that "The Morning Paper" (a mailing list run by acolyer) was put on ice, I am searching for an alternative. Do you have any recommendations for alternative mailing lists, blogs etc. which keep one up-to-date with CS from different subfields in a condensed manner?
> You know you turn that DNS server off by adding "DNSStubListener=no" to /etc/systemd/resolved.conf right?

I suppose you could do that. although I prefer:
systemctl disable systemd-resolved
systemctl mask systemd-resolved

Then it's dead and will stay that way.
I really wish Trump hadn't made attacking fake news become associated with Trumpism. Makes it much harder for people to fight back against fake news without losing all credibility due to the association.
> spatial, visual, and tactile senses

What about our olfactory senses, for code smells?
Apps and websites running ads they don't know about or don't vouch for is another problem. It's like a propaganda backdoor.
The problem is that the OSS model of needing to call read/write for audio I/O is pretty hard to fit with the expected pro audio model of "get a callback called when data is ready", likely through some hardware interruption.
On the contrary;

Poetry at least makes sense,

unlike those headlines.
I don’t think that work was done on the clock.
Dawkins' and Tyson's remarks show their bigotry, and frankly, ignorance. Not only are they zealous and condescending, but it's honestly embarrassing for them when they step out of their field to talk about religion, especially Islam. Their arguments are laughable and shows that they lack the most basic knowledge to back their incorrect claims, and they expose their severe ignorance.

On a side note, I want to see Tyson's response when asked how many Black people have won the Nobel prize.[1]

[1] Courtesy of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfRnYNig9jU
I recently shut down my free plan and instead introduced Trial on paid plans. Brought in a new entry level plan that is far cheaper https://blanq.io/pricing.html to make the transition easier.

As an indiehacker, the free plan allowed me to iron out bugs and improve the overall experience of the platform. But the amount of effort it took to maintain the free plan was enormous so, I shut it down. I informed users about the decision and, I am glad few converted to being paid customers.

I have a lot of free time now and I can focus on delivering value to my customers. The server load also reduced due to reduction of free requests and database writes/reads.

For a large SAAS company like Slack, Trello etc, it makes sense to have a free plan since you have a lot of resources at your disposal but, if you are a small team or worse alone, then no.
Hi, I'm very-invested in our country, and I'm involved in social activism that helps to step in where our country lacks (as will always be the case around the world).

I also mentioned in the post, that I'm an African black, precisely because of the presumption that when someone provides information about our country's failings; they must be white people from the pre-1994 days.

I don't understand why you keep mentioning people who left South Africa, as I'm not one; and you'd have noted from my post, and its response to you.

> But certain members of internet South Africa believes that these pains are due to our leaders being black rather than we are just a new country

Perhaps this isn't the forum, but I'd really like to understand how you're arriving at this conclusion.

Sure, I can accept that my post isn't relevant to the point that you've taken from the article, that the O-AZ vaccine doesn't work against the strain that we're experiencing.

Would you rather censor me (when we don't know each other) under the unproven assumption that I'm a whiner?
> OSS, the Open Sound System, is the default Unix interface for audio on POSIX-compatible systems. Unfortunately, like such standards, it isn’t compatible everywhere. It can be perplexing to understand because different systems have branched out of it.

And this is why pure UNIX desktops never go anywhere.

> Linux is the platform of choice for audio and acoustic research and was chosen by the CCRMA (Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics).

This is definitely not the case as anyone that hangs around professional musicians can tell.

Just go into YouTube and see how many bother to do tutorials with Ableton on Linux.
And those ethnic identities were there ... Where do you think those nations came from?
AZ/Oxford is not for profit and is being licensed out around the world. That is why this South Africa trial result is disappointing.

Not getting into the point about the efficiency of state run utilities.
I think the most important question is who created this page and if they have any kind of success with their SaaS in a way Bitrix24, Slack, Trello, Notion or Miro do, which all have lifetime free plans and millions of users.
Sadly, the permissions-by-default problem is not unique to Android. I bought a new iPhone a couple of years ago and spent nearly an hour straight away just turning off all the junk I didn't want. That is now the way of the world, if all you want is a phone for communications and running a small number of essential apps because too many organisations now assume everyone will have a smartphone.

I suppose I should be grateful that I can turn off a lot of permissions for apps at all these days, unlike the malware built into recent versions of the major desktop operating systems. :-(
We only hear the celebs that got their accounts suspended.
Imagine how many others are stuck and have nowhere to talk to.
I believe the name of this article is a reference to this site and the accompanying book, about the part of North Philly he describes: https://kensingtonblues.com/
You cannot trust established players either. For instance, cheaper Samsung phones ship with a lot of shady software, as I found out helping relatives.

And a lot of reputable software companies have sold out to peddling adware. Adobe is one, and there are a lot of others. Abandoned shareware or open source often resurface with adware installers.
First, in this case, relevance is not binary. Second, even if it was 100% unrelated, it's still interesting to know the context first hand rather from a fellow HN-er as opposed to a more general view from a journalist who is limited in what they can say.
As usual, some Googler browsing HN will reactivate his account, everyone will forget and Google won't change a thing to his unbanning process.
As a guitarist, 8-10ms of processing latency is playable but feels somewhat strange especially if you compare to plugging the guitar right into a tube amp. 2ms is entirely indistinguishable for me.

And, with the "normal" system APIs (except CoreAudio which fares a bit better) it's pretty hard to get below 15ms in my experience, even with beefy computers.
Dawkins is a journalist, and a bigoted one at that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ya_9-06MIQ
This works great right up until people find out the red block is 'me' time. Then you're labelled 'lazy to attend meetings so fakes them on their calendar', and people ignore either you or the presence of your block entirely.
One can say that the solution to this is more control/power for the app store, but te opposite, the solution for this problem on computer was solved decades ago:

Open source software and more open and transparent platforms!

Today users of common brands of Android and Apple devices are really restricted in control of their devices, so there is very few ways to check what the system or apps are doing, inspect, firewall/limit things, go tinker inside the apps.

And as said by other people, most of the time you have auto updates forced on users and so app developer does not even have to really justify what changed and why.
> We are a new country only truly existing since 1994.

This is a risible excuse. SA had the infra structure, resources, processes and, thanks to Mandela, the philosophy for success in hand. Subsequent leaders threw all this in the bin in pursuit of completely visible corruption and cultural despotism and kleptocracy.

These people cannot even keep the lights on.
These last few weeks have opened my eyes to how hypocritical the world is. Last year everyone was up in arms about mask production being centralized in China and every country was calling for domestic production. Now, with the vaccine being made by 3 or 4 companies, everyone is like "oh we can't get the doses we paid for? It's okay we'll wait". Including the EU so this isn't a matter of just "masks are easier to manufacture locally than vaccines".
I honestly believed, my optimism outpacing my zynism obviously, that authorities learned from, IMHO excusable, communications fuck-up regarding masks last year. This one is worse, way worse.

The only way vaccinations will work on scale will be to have vaccines that can be handled by every doctors practice. They are vaccinating million sof people already every year, they have the supply chain in place and the people. I for my part am not counting on vaccination centers and central appointment booking.
From his Quora profile:

"In support of making the internet less wrong, I happily encourage and reward all corrections (details and past examples here)."

Last I checked, major American newspapers barely run corrections anymore.

Anyway I've watched Jeremy Arnold do this project for a while and I really do believe his heart is in the right place.
It's evolving. Cancer now wants everyone cancelled.
Free provision of vaccines in UK preventing criminals from infiltrating rollout
Hiring is broken for non-FAANG companies, which is rest of the software world.

Excellent developers do end up at FAANG due to the competitive nature of the entrance exams. However FAANG are just 5 of the millions of other companies, and not all of the rest can use FAANG techniques to hire the developers. None of these companies offer the money, prestige, and perks that FAANG offer so they should not be cargo-culting their hiring practices.
I frequently find myself defending our constituency based electoral system here in the UK from people who believe proportional representation is fairer. They're right in some ways, but I dread moving towards electing lists of candidates drawn up by central party committees.
purge intensifies
When you open a new tab, it is right above the search bar.
This is a nice article, echoes my thoughts a little better than the other post [1] on thd front page right now.

That said, there are strong competitors to Google Analytics, that's the one take I don't agree with.

With Portabella (https://portabella.io) we've gone the restricted free tier route. As a bootstrapped company we have to make that tradeoff between wanting users but also safe guarding against abuse.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26059517
> I liked xpdf, but stopped using it after my package manager said it had unpatched CVEs (and at least implied unmaintained). Any chance it's been cleaned up now?

Seems like 3.04 & 4.03 (latest) as for now has no CVEs.[0,1]

> I see a recent release but couldn't find a change log.

Just grab a latest source release tarball[1], extract files & read `CHANGES` (changelog text file).

[0] https://repology.org/project/xpdf/versions

[1] https://repology.org/project/xpdf/cves

[2] https://dl.xpdfreader.com/xpdf-latest.tar.gz
There's probably a trademark / misrepresentation / self image rights angle that could be argued, same as with say faces. That wouldn't seem unfair to me. It should require a lot more than just pitch similarity imo.
Lol.

I stopped reading after the first paragraph.
Think about it: why are you writing a textual comment right now and not sending a picture, video, sound clip of your message ? That would be much less "silent film"-ish, no ?
It's still a massive issue if the crime crosses borders; if the entity behind the malware is from, say, Russia, what can a prosecutor in the US do? This is why internet crime is such an issue.
Maybe I was wrong but it was clearly related to the lower torso.. maybe prostate cancer overdiagnosis ?..
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Not a publicly traded company. Perhaps disclosing does in some way assist their patent application(s).
Makes you wonder whether that is their unbanning process.
> overhead of downloading and uploading potentially GB or TB of data (messages, photos, videos, etc) is not something users are accustomed to

Users don't have to do it. See Nitter (for Twitter) and teddit.net (for Reddit).
I agree that the government's hard lock-down was excessive, but just one nit-pick: most of what's called 'looting' in the SA press is actually what's technically referred to as 'irregular expenditure', which the Auditor General is very clear does not mean outright fraud but rather referrs to breaches of tendering legislation. This could be anything from over-priced goods (as you mention) to noncompetitive tendering offers. I therefore think 'inefficiency'/'croynism' would be more appropriate term. This means only a certain percentage of the $700M could be reclaimed with perfect efficiency and it's not completely clear that would be enough to cover all vaccine costs.
South Africa is unique in the sense that there is a strong problem of racism and violence by black people against white people. This is something very hard to understand and accept in the current political climate of the USA, but what it really shows is that all people are basically the same and racism has no color.
After reading up about how SA elections work, I'm a bit confused. It sounds like when you vote you order a set of parties by preference and then PR is used to figure out who won a given area. 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. There's also a case where control of an area is shared, but I'm not entirely sure how that works in the context of PR. Is that roughly correct, or have I missed something?

Initially, it sounded like it had corruption potential built in, but in reality it's not that dissimilar to UK elections. Candidates are selected by their party and we vote for whoever we're given. The difference is that we know who might be elected ahead of time and debates can focus on personal records as well as party agenda.
I always use Sage (the accounting software folks) one of 00-80-2c as it's burned into my memory 30 years later after working on Sage Mainlan back in the days...
To this day, I find this is one of the videos which best captures the mental situation and the race against time that is an avalanche rescue:

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But they would have to pay their share towards the upkeep of NYC at least or there would be border checks on the subway bringing Wall Street to its knees as they run out of secretaries and cleaners who commute from distant suburbs. Many companies would be forced for practical reasons to relocate to Brooklyn or New Jersey. Basically like U.K. leaving the EU.
There was news last week that the AZ vaccine could reduce transmission by 76%. However although widely reported in the media I did see some controversy about this (as yet not peer reviewed) study.

https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2021/0202/1194681-oxford...
I'd easily pay for a personal gmail account which has all the privacy protections on and also 24/7 access to customer support via chat and phone. Sadly most of that is only provided for business accounts.
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The article's headline says "Confirmed: Guideline that government will only help ‘51%-black-owned companies’ is fake", although on its face this seems to contract the point I understood you to be making. Maybe I've misunderstood something?
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The only surviving netbook where I still bother to run Linux bare metal now decided to start enabling the keypad overlay (for whatever reason), which naturally breaks the password entry.

So now I have to go through Fn+NumLock dance every time I bother to use the netbook.
> “Greek Yogurt”

I have eaten yogurt all over the world. The "Greek" yogurt (or in some countries they call it "Greek Type" - to avoid 'lying' about the country of production/origin) is thicker/less of a liquid. It must be in the process. Most yogurts (plain, not sugary with fruites and other stuff) I've had are semi-liquid. The only 'good' yogurt I truly enjoy is the original Greek by "FAGE" called "Total" (not affiliated).

I assume that similar yogurt-making process must be a regional thing (Greece, Balkans), and perhaps Greece had the industries/factories to support exports on great volumes that helped them conquer/define this type of yogurt in the 80's, 90's and establish that name.
This happens again and again. I have had that happen to my twitter account. I see this regulary on HN.

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. Because honestly, the amount of spam and abuse that are likely happening on these platforms has to be mind boggling high.

So I get why they would try to automate bans.

But after years and years of regular high profile news of false positives, one would think they eventually would change something.

I mean the guy had direct business with Google going on....

Why would they continue like that. Isn't there one single PR person at Google?
Duh! I meant 'as charged' (damn edit doesn't stay active long enough).
We keep hearing horror stories like this on HN and yet Google Cloud revenue jumps to $13.06 billion in 2020, up 47% year-over-year from $8.92 billion in 2019.

Either HN bias towards google is making sure these posts hit front page frequently (frequent enough for me to notice at least) or certain tiers of customers are treated differently.
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That’s great. I think I will use it for my bootstrapped newsletters. Thank you :)

PS: I think it’s perfect for small scale use cases with a known audience