skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is because those "environmentalist" laws weren't created to satisfying national energy demand, but only the people's desire to roleplay environment-savers and get paid for it.

Similar government schemes played out in much of Europe. Install subsidized solar panels, and the government/electricity companies have to buy your electricity at unsustainably high prices whenever you produce it, regardless if they need it/can handle it.

Obviously, as far as I know, this didn't last very long, especially in the countries with more limited budgets. Eventually the sale prices dropped close to normal wholesale electricity prices and the subsidies were dropped. Those who installed the panels late in the bubble probably got out with a loss.

It was just a terrible idea all around. The grid isn't made for distributed production, energy storage isn't solved, and solar electricity is just not sustainable as rooftop photovoltaics.
I guess I can't really edit this comment anymore, but it looks like I was wrong. That example is actually a perfectly valid clause, since it's equivalent to "forall x. ~(x = Santa Claus)". The only reason no model satisfies this clause is because we conventionally require equality to be reflexive, but for an arbitrary predicate the empty model would be a perfectly good model in the Herbrand universe.
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> what ActiveRecord migration rollbacks are for

Whatever their intended purpose (by the developers, I assume), that has no bearing on how they're actually used.

> Nobody is 'blowing away' customer data.

That's a remarkable claim. Although it wasn't ActiveRecord specifically, I've seen this happen with a similar migration/rollback mechanism. Granted, it was only a few hours of customer data, and it would not have existed in the first place were it not for the initial upgrade/migration (subsequently rolled back), but the data was accepted and subsequently lost. Good thing there weren't any SLAs (yet).

> 2. During deployment. It gives you a sane way to rollback a botched deployed.

Even this use case can fall into the data loss trap in my example above. What if nobody realizes the deployment was botched until hours later?
If you don't understand the point I am making, then you don't deserve anything, let alone a 'job'.
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how about open sourcing direct X? itd be a nice way to show theyre willing without letting windows or office sources into the wild
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Not only that, but they didn't actually do a good job convincing people of their added value. Maybe if they contrasted two presentation, one without the "AI" and another with it, and if it clearly showed the superiority of the latter, maybe it would convince somehow.

Also, calling something "beautiful" doesn't make it so.
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Surely there’s a better drug than coffee for staying awake for a long time.
If I may play devil's advocate for a minute, I would say that just because you felt like were not productive doesn't mean that you weren't being productive for your team/company. Those people interrupting you with questions are often stuck or could use the extra input to do their own work better.
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I'm not sure to be honest, but I wouldn't be surprised if there would be hack attempts or people looking for those if they er, "found" a hardware wallet somewhere. Anyone that has a hardware wallet is bound to have a nontrivial amount of cryptocurrencies on there.
The usual skepticism from HN comes up whenever telecommuting is brought up. However, it was tech's promise. I think people should be asking how to fix its problems rather than nagging that it "doesn't work for me". But maybe i'm biased as an indie dev.
You're asserting a kind of direct malicious intent that I don't think is fair. Certainly, remote work puts some demands on the manager that a bad manager won't be able to handle. If anything, it's an unwillingness to confront this inability.

But remote work also puts very high demand on the workers: they have to be very conscientious, self-motivated and proactive and effective communicators. Everybody know slackers who are not pulling their weights, and who would slack even harder if given the "power". The idea that "working from home" could be a euphemism for a half day+ off did not gestate out of the blue in a mean-spirited managers head. A classically managed working environment can mitigate a lot of this in a way remote environments can't.

A successful remote working environment requires a particular non-average grade of manager and employee.
Try six months on funds they made disappear from open orders. Even their own reports show the missing funds - still, support slow as a snail. The exchange space needs more competitors, but it looks like you need bank level funding to pull that off.
That is already the case. The underlying "protocol" is git.

And if the functionality of github became the basic minimum, each provider will still provide their value-added on top of that.

If that sort of thing is forbidden, then there will be no motivation for improvement.
> Yes. India is a poor country. Indeed a very poor one. But that does not necessarily constrain the growth of its tech sector.

That is simply not true. You could grow anywhere, it's different shades of difficulty though.

> It is about exporting products while also catering to a rising domestic demand.

The revenue from exported domestically made software/tech products, compared to the size of the IT Services industry is miniscule. Almost nothing.

> So I'm optimistic that domestic tech manufacturing will grow well, but not in the traditional way, such as building semiconductor fabs.

As an economy, we should strive for depth - rather than just mate hardware imported from China with some software. Such work is easy to replicate, and is not very different from IT Services in how challenging it can be. Semiconductor fabs however is the kind of thing we should get into.

Basically, an industrial base which manufactures hardware (and other real physical things) is harder to grow than software.
>It's also a terrifying lesson about the fragility of the open source movement

It's not fragile, it very much antifragile. The highs and lows make it stronger and more resiliant.

What I find interesting is the commentary about this deal is all about Microsoft, and very little about the people who sold Github. Presumably they were highly regarded by many, and they sold out open-source (not my view).
The browser can be either disabled or limited to certain sites easily in Settings > Restrictions. You can also disable the app store there (with automatic updates enabled) for good measure. Add dark mode aka "Smart Invert" to have less phone glow on the face.

I‘m sure you can achieve the same stuff on any android phone.

Buying yet another gadget, that you will likely play around a lot with in the beginning, seems kind of like the opposite of going light.

As a gadget this looks really neat though and I kind of want to develop apps for it.
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Do you have more info on your DIY dumbphone project? Would love to see!
Maybe, or maybe there is an emerging space for a service that would count stars, forks, etc on all versions of a repository and aggregate the values. But I would hate another centralized service.
I guess even after 8,000 years of marriage there are still new things to discover. I'm glad they worked things out, after the whole bull-cow thing.
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Whoops, forgot to link to _Concrete Semantics_.

[2] http://www.concrete-semantics.org
You will typically find cell data to be better than cable or land connections in nearly all the countries you mentioned.

But remote developers don't typically work off cell data; your data limit will get hit very quickly.

Philippines in particular has terrible internet connections for homes, in general.

In fact in many places, cell data is the only data available, there are no land connections.
What was your first design tool? This was my first one
I'd like to mention the most obvious abuse of copyright I've ever seen. It was featured in EFF's hall of shame back in January: https://www.eff.org/takedowns/ten-hours-static-gets-five-cop...

Long story short, a YouTube channel got five copyright notices on a 10 hour video featuring nothing but white noise.

It was also the story that kind of influenced EFF to re-introduce Takedown Hall of Shame: https://twitter.com/EFF/status/971541783380242433

And, finally, a link to the tweet that started this whole story by the uploader of the video: https://twitter.com/littlescale/status/949032404206870528
Businesses existed before targeted ads. There were tv, news papers, magazines without tracking selling user data.

Your comment makes it seem like these businesses are invented recently.

I'm tired of these excuses of business dying.The online ad tech industry brought it themselves.

Also I care more about people than a corporation that exploits people; which is opposite of American culture.
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We all know by now that most "No-Logging" claims end up being untrue.
The most surprised I am about the fact that PIA is not able to provide any information about the user even if required by court.
I suspect that's where you may be crossing over into an irrational fear of dirt and/or germs, which can lead to, at the very least, people being dismissive of concerns.

After all, your desk, keyboard, smartphone screen, and even shoes aren't likely to be places other people have touched, so not much potential for spreading anything.

Shaking hands, though.. filthy habit ;)
This gets perilously close to ask a lawyer / ask an accountant, but the non-legal-advice version is "What motivates the question of whether a US-hosted website is 'an American business'?"

If a hypothetical entrepreneur is concerned that hosting with an American company might bring their data within the orbit of the American legal system, then that hypothetical entrepreneur should probably model American companies as routinely honoring lawful orders from the American legal system, and should probably model the American government as a first-world democracy which is very capable of getting a warrant for data hosted on domestic systems and, given that they have satisfied internal rationales to request a warrant or similar process, would feel substantially no additional barrier was raised by the owner of that data being a non-US person.

If a hypothetical entrepreneur is worried that hosting in the US will result in their business becoming a US-registered business, the hypothetical entrepreneur may feel happy to know that registering a business in the US is something that actually takes non-trivial work and that renting a server is neither necessary nor sufficient.

If a hypothetical entrepreneur is worried that hosting in the US might cause their non-US business or themselves personally to have income [effectively connected] with [a trade or business] within the United States that hypothetical entrepreneur should talk to an accountant and be prepared to give a very thorough accounting of the facts. Note that the hypothetical entrepreneur is not uniquely at risk there due to their hosting situation; there exist a wide variety of things which constitute a trade or business or could cause the American authorities to believe that a trade or business is being conducted in the United States.

I have taken the liberty of bracketing certain words in the above paragraph which are terms of art in tax administration, for your ease of searching for further information or discussing them with your professional advisors.

Please note that it is not the case that the US and a nation of your choice will necessarily agree that because a business is "an American business" for any of the above purposes that it is not simultaneously "a $NATION business" for the same or different purposes, in whole or in part.
Dying to get off Chrome but FF has been giving me soso performance on 2015 MBP. Video playback is iffy and battery usage is terrible =/
I'm not sure what you mean by "framework building" in this context.
You hit a vein of deep true thought. I can share my personal experience that can help exemplify your point.

Disclaimer: Personal experience. Not saying this is the case foe everyone.

My first job was to work for one of the biggest Indian outsourcing companies. Soon after joining, I realized that their business model has nothing to do with real engineering work or genuine solutions to problems. They were essentially looking for people to tick the boxes, sit around and do stuff that could easily be automated, or maintain software that should have been rewritten decades ago. Their goal is to bill the western clients and prolong the maintenance work as much as they could.

Now, there is no need for creative thought or engineering prowess here. It is not surprising that someone doing this task is not passionate or creative. This is what translates to "Listen to western managers, and do just what they ask for, and the infamous never say NO". Saying No is not the engineer's prerogative here.

On the other hand, several Engineers from the same country who work for product companies with the right incentives(you get paid and recognised for a good product) show the true passion and creativity. I have friends who work for both categories of companies and I can clearly see this distinction.

Personal experience - I worked for Bank of America - Merill Lynch development center in India, maintaining a COBOL application. I once received an email from a senior team member(from Florida) to just translate his logic from the attached Word document to COBOL and not to do anything more. You get what you pay for. I quit that job a week after, and flew to the states to do my graduate studies soon after.

TLDR; Dont expect passion from cheap outsourced labor. Many people do those jobs because they do not have access to a better alternative.

Sorry for the rant. I know some friends of mine in the industry shared my experience. It does not mean everyone does/feels the same way. I apologize if I unintentionally belittled anyone's serious effort.
Is there the TLDR version of this paper?
How many VPN services are run by the government three letter agencies through decoy companies? Seems like a match made in heaven.
I think a lot of it has to do with HN being frequented by people in SF who do like their workplaces, and are being overwhelmingly incentivized monetarily to like them. People outside US seem to be a lot more sympathetic to the idea.

If the downside is "lack of separate workspace / human contact", then it is blown way out of proportion imho. It's easily solved by using a coworking space, and it's not reason enough to dismiss remote work.
If what you're seeing isn't a statistical fluctuation, then you've found something, so it's right to claim a discovery. The point of hypothesis testing is to distinguish statistical fluctuations from real signals.

If you collect, say, 1000 samples of a normally distributed variable and find that the mean (for instance) is 2 sigma from the expected mean, then if you collect another 1000 samples and take the mean of all 2000 samples, you will probably find that the significance decreases, assuming the first result was a statistical fluctuation. This is just [regression to the mean](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean).

What we don't do is dishonestly drip-feed data until we hit the significance we want, then stop. Data is added in fairly large chunks (generally an year's run at a time), and when a new dataset is added the analysis is developed with (at least the new) data blinded. The dataset is only unblinded when the analysis has been finalized.
You highlighted a very important. Getting degrees for sake of getting degrees.

This is a big thing in India too. People become engineers and then decide what they want to do.
I've recently switched to Mullvad from PIA, mainly because it's not US based and they "sound" more privacy focused.

I quote sound because as another commenter mentioned, without trusted third party audits it's all marketing...
Why do you need an alternative to these perfectly viable solutions?
You 're suggesting that you have to be forced by your employer to take a walk in the park. I think you 're justifying the parent's dismissive comment.
Yes Typescript (also from Microsoft) is fascinating and fantastic at combining the strengths of static typing while still maintaining all the flexibility of dynamic types if necessary, however it's pretty much the only realistic non-academic of such a thing, so basically everything else is pales in comparison if that's what you're looking for.

Why is C# not expressive? It has the DLR and `dynamic` keyword which behaves just like JS typing if that's what you want, because it seems like your issue is really with static typing in general. Functional languages are nice but it seems C# with functional its slowly and carefully integrated functional extensions is actually more productive for most developers.
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Also, Murdoch has a $5B investment in the WSJ. The value of that investment depends on the credibility of their business reporting. Spiking stories to protect a much smaller investment doesn't make a lot of sense.
I also prefer emails... but this is not a personality thing. The email simply does not have enough dimension to replace normal talking.

You cannot express yourself because there is no body language and cannot talk things through because of the feedback loop. You cannot reflect to jokes or ask about the wellbeing on seeing someone coughing. You can ignore a pressed question by simply not answering - this is very hard to do in person. You cannot see from the eyes of the other person if he's really listening or just seems to be really tired.

It's great to have an email describing what I have to do and it is great for talking to someone you are familiar with. But it is a bad idea to use it for client communication or for doing business in general.
You could get a bit better than stereoscopy by using say 4 cameras. Plus since it is on moving head, you could use a bit of surface from motion techniques.
You could also make the cameras rotate on their own (or mirror - like DLP; or lens), like eyes do, to enhance the result when head does not move.

Loads of processing power required... solvable.

Now the real problem is the display of sufficient brightness and colours.
Some sort of future translucent LED screen could do it, maybe.
DLP can do it at big cost and with bulky projectors.
Current picoprojectors are not very bright...

And then three is a focal length problem to solve to have sharp image and good depth range while not messing with accommodation.
The alternative view is that Murdoch wrote off the investment and allowing Carreyrou the piece serves as a “this is what happens if you play games with me” warning for other prospective partners
Beginner's mistake: Choosing a VPN-cloak based in one's own jurisdiction.
Or people just enjoy building something that scratches an itch for them?
More effective, maybe. But caffeine is so widely used and understood that it is by far the safest and least risky. That's super valuable.
The user sounds like he was a regular on the IRC channel. Did they perhaps add particular logging on the IP/port combo when asked to, rather than having always logged, and lied about it?

I mean, it's still not consistent with "no logging", but it still protects "backwards" privacy of connections happening in the past, and crucially it's a kind of logging that will always be technically possible to implement for a VPN provider, and probably legally trivial for law enforcement to mandate with a court order (or national security letter) - regardless of how strongly a worded policy the provider has in place.
I drink a lot of tea. About 1 liter a day as a baseline, but if I do some ultrahike or something I can easily drink 3 liters a day. Sometimes for some reason it's really hard to drink my tea (e.g. I'm in a hotel that doesn't have drinkable tea), so I tried to substitute with other caffeine products. Unfortunately I couldn't find out any reliable data on the caffeine content of the tea that I drink. All the information I could find is the worthless X-5X mg caffeine/cup, usually without even defining what a cup is!

Does anyone know a better resource?

Anyway, subjectively speaking I find that all the online estimates are too low, at least for the type of tea that I drink and in the concentration I prefer.

Also, subjectively it seems that tea has a more complex psychoactive effect that either pure caffeine or coffee. If I drink enough caffeine, I can avoid the symptoms associated with caffeine withdrawal, but I don't get nowhere near as strong as an effect as I get from from tea, even if I drink a lot of caffeine. It appears tea has other stuff in it apart from caffeine.

Now when I travel I take my own tea, cup, and immersion heater with me.

As I said, I really like tea, but only good tea that properly prepared is good. What passes for tea these days, sometimes even in tea shops (!) is usually poison. An easy litmus test is this: do they use a thermometer when making green or white ea? If not, that means they use boiling water which will destroy the tea. I think most people never had good tea in their life. I strongly dislike coffee, but I somehow suspect I only drank bad coffee that was not prepared correctly, and that I would enjoy good coffee.
Man, am I ever a dummy! I look at the diagram on that page and it might as well be Egyptian hieroglyphs to me. I'd have to study that thing one long time to even understand what problem Ions is solving. I'm sure it's a real problem with an interesting solution, but geez the modern Cloud world has really gotten quite complex.

I feel particularly silly because I've been writing Clojure professionally for many years.
Not sure why it'd help the discussion :-)

Here is my public CV : https://aravindh.net/cv_2018.pdf
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Yep! It's called Xian Cai (salted vegetable) or Suan Cai (sour vegetable) and like basically any other cuisine, there are dozens of variations on it across China. If you look at the picture on the wiki [1] you'll see that it's fermented almost exactly like sauerkraut, albeit whole not sliced.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suan_cai
The summary on the first page?
Most jobs are in those companies in Bangalore are in QA/SRE/SysAdmin area. If people throwing away coding work in services to these non-dev work in FANG companies I wouldn't consider them too smart.

Good engineers are moved to headquarter in the US.

Product companies pay well, but the average quality of work isn't necessarily better than services firms.

I work in a product company, so I've no idea what's happening in the service industry.
There are always two sides to this... I think it’s badly communicated. Someone said (I don’t find the quote), that if you can’t explain a complex topic in simple words, you haven’t understood it thoroughly.
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To be precise, Google/Yahoo deal(s) made by Mozilla only affect certain countries. Mozilla is free to include whichever default browser they want in the rest of the world.

In fact, they did that during the Yahoo deal. Yahoo was default only in countries affected by the deal, while Google was the default one... I would say in the rest of the world, but I'm not 100% sure if they made deals with Yandex in Russia or some other deal.