skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alibaba ties with Russian partners for an e-commerce platform
Indian government site asking for aadhar data in Bihar:

http://210.212.23.57/online/OnlineApply/Notice.aspx

They just made aadhar mandatory for every school kid in Mumbai Maharashtra. Good luck to anyone who has to share share their childrens details on an insecure platform.
Wow, you Pinterest employees are all over this submission.
> Should bots and A.I.s that are displacing humans be taxed?

Yes and no.

On the one hand those taxes would hinder technological progress.

On the other hand products made by robots should eventually become free (in the distant future). I.e. if everything is made automatically and nobody has to work, how would people "buy" those products?
How can technical terminology cause harm? This is simply "history revisionist" attempt to erase the concept from the public consciousness. The usage of the "slave" word in software is so abstract that removing creates much more harm because it will produce miscommunication and result in faulty programs where there shouldn't .

What word will one replace "slave" with? Should we go to the origins of the word and just use ethnonym "slav" instead? After all it has only positive connotations {The word slovo ("word") and the related slava ("glory, fame"...}. And sure slavic people won't mind right?! /s
What would be the reasons one would chose a 40 bit encryption key over, say, 256 bit? Is it cheaper?
I think you got it backwards. It's good that this worked for you, but this kind of thinking leads to a race to the bottom where the original cause is continually increased until individuals who can get out of it basically cease to exist.

What's important is not whether some individuals can pull out. What's important is the overall effect.
This is an interesting comment, on multiple levels.

If there is one factor on which Beethoven's reputation rests, it is his claim to being the "universal" composer, whose music speaks to all men and women. Your story seems to confirm this assertion.

From reading music history we know that different music from the past makes an impact depending on current taste and fashions. As an example, the whole paradigm of "historically informed performance practice" was, as musicologist Richard Taruskin devastatingly argued [1], not a return to "authenticity" at all but a completely modern(ist) phenomenon, based on contemporary tastes and opinions.

As I live in France, I can tell you that Beethoven is nowhere near as popular or appreciated here as, say, Mozart or Chopin. Not even close. I'm speaking about both seasoned concert attendees and novices. His music's frequent accents, forcefulness, and occasional brutality is looked poorly upon. So maybe extrapolating your experience to others is dangerous. After all, it's a small sample size :)

I agree that there seem to be composers (or, more accurately, certain works) that appeal to novices, and others which appeal to more experienced listeners or practitioners. Reicha's works seem to often fit into the second category, as his works are generally "learned" and sophisticated. Therefore the subtlety is not always picked up upon by listeners who don't have the experience and/or knowledge to realize what expectations he is thwarting. To put it more bluntly, they don't really hear what's going on, and therefore underestimate the music's complexity. It's like a musical Dunning-Kruger Effect.

The larger point, perhaps, is that your idea of a typical "novice" who would serve as a litmus test for universal music is in fact an intellectual construct which has no corresponding reality in the real world. Because we are all born into a world, and a culture, and therefore our preferences are immediately influenced.

Caveat: I don't want to make the specious claim that if we all grew up listening to Schönberg we would hum his music on the way to school, that's BS. But with experience I've come to believe that assuming Beethoven's place is in our culture is immutable is probably unrealistic. In 100 years it might be someone else...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Text-Act-Essays-Music-Performance/dp/...
According to the Geneva Convention, refugees don't need a visa or travel documents like passports to travel (to make it purposefully more difficult to mess with persecuted people, like Germany did by stamping a "J" in the passport of Jewish citizens so it would be easier for countries who didn't want them to refuse them). I have fears that widespread adoption of systems like this could make air travel for refugees inaccessible if governments really want to.
... this deserves a supplementary question: what will get us beyond UNIX to the next platform, not just the next paystub?
I hate you need to sign-up for the site, even to just search, but recently for some reason I just bit the bullet and now I like to use it to gather game ideas assets and inspiration (d&d related).
I can’t speak for all of the US, but this is California law: a business owner is _personally_ liable for unpaid wages in the event of bankruptcy. The Department of Labor does not take kindly to people or business who cheat their employees out of a rightfully earned paycheck.
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I'd be more sympathetic to this view if injustice wasn't so glaringly common, and often the things you're grateful for only started to exist because of said injustice being fixed, so it seems backwards to complain about people bringing it to light.
IIRC He is a - listed - co-creator of D2 (There are two versions of D, the first one being entirely Walter?)
Sure but the grandparent post is talking about moving to a low cost of living city for some company, and then some years later that company downsizing or closing and laying people off, and then not having many other similar employment options available.

So if you move, start a family because you can now afford it, and then lose your job 5 years later, you're going to be less mobile and also limited by job options.
I fly from Schiphol with great regularity and my boarding pass is definitely checked every time by a person (as is my passport) right before boarding the plane. Usually the same happens on the return leg, and the majority of my trips are within Schengen.
Definitely.

I guess if WPA2 get blown apart (to the degree WEP was) there might be a market for super-low-power APs that you put on or right next to the device. Not sure that'd be enough without additional shielding.

Most WPA2 devices do support 802.1x which —depending on the crack— may help extend the lifetime.
Codewars looks great, thanks for the suggestion.
False positives are a thing.
I'm still alive!

Actually it's a brilliant novella and I recommend everyone read it. Biting social critique of bourgeois values:

http://www.classicallibrary.org/tolstoy/ivan/1.htm
I just keep using browser extensions like uBlock and Ghostery (caveat: it seems they also have a "we sell your data" opt-out) and every GDPR pop-up I just click "OK", knowing the extensions will block them. (Honestly, more believing than knowing, so maybe I'm not the best person to talk to about protecting data...)
I'm glad I'm not the only person who found this surprising. Withholding payment until a threshold is reached would make some sense, though for some packages they might be waiting years. Another approach might be to reserve some kind of "bump" fund - a small percentage from all the other projects gets reserved, and when small packages get to half the threshold they can be "bumped" in the theory that 5 dollars to a big project is nothing, but to a tiny project might be game changing.

Probing actual line-of-code usage stats would be impractical, I suppose. It's a difficult question, but an important one
Interestingly given the context of this thread, I think the attitude of always needing to be angry, always focusing on negatives, always demanding more, always blaming others and obsessing over grand injustices can itself tip some people into mental illness.

Absolutely, and social media only amplifies these “oppression Olympics”.
Question: have you experienced burnout?

From what I've seen, people have a limited... chain...? Regardless of how "good" their situation is. Some people shoot for "luxury" jobs because they know they won't survive otherwise. It doesn't really make their situation "good", and I see absolutely nothing gained from "it could be worse".

Do we all want to be like refinery workers?

If a person burnt out at an office job ends up committing suicide, while the refiner worker is just mad at life, it raises questions.
What's PCA?
New companies are evolving very quickly, small and medium sized companies must go big or go home
Thanks.

With regard to:

> Can we have a version where one can go far away and come back time-reversed? Or is that excluded by CT=P symmetry breaking?

I don't know. Having mulled these thoughts further after writing the above I'm now more cautious about guessing. Specifically it seems to me that electromagetic charge, weak isospin, isospin etc. are all only globally well-defined provided we have an orientation of spacetime. So it seems to me that if spacetime is not orientable then there's no guarantee that if we send an instance of Wu's experiment off in a spacecraft on a hypothetical orientation-reversing loop then the apparatus will arrive back at earth unchanged: perhaps its electrons are all now positrons etc.

My analogy with the coloured gloves does not permit such a phenomenon because colour is manifestly well-defined. I could make it more elaborate to account for this (e.g., replacing colour with a clockwise/anti-clockwise concept) but I no longer find it useful.

In summary: I revert to my original "no opinion" point of view.
Brilliant comment, this is what I come to HN for. I'm starting to get into electronics myself and as a developer I fear it's only a matter of time until I get sucked into this side of things...
I'm actually surprised that Schiphol does that. My informal survey indicates that ex-Eastern European countries tend to check more as do the French.

In Zurich your id is virtually never checked on Schengen flights. Last time I flew through Vienna security wanted to see the boarding pass, but not the ID. Dusseldorf also didn't check when I flew through it last (alas, a few years ago).
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I agree that there are pieces which sound pretty quirky, which can put people off a bit. But I have yet to find someone who doesn't like this one (which I can assure you has nothing to do with the playing):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSHm3ZphFlk
Have you checked the allocator, that may cause cache differences.
would you mind expanding?
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Currently I've got a good female boss, with which I appreciate working a lot. But I don't find that she works differently from the other good male bosses I've had the privilege of working with.

Note that I am in France so I think that leadership model here are different from America.
Stuttgart suffered a "traffic stroke" since then, so to speak. The roads may be fine, but the traffic isn't. Interestingly things have taken a noticeable turn to the worse since the Greens were elected to state government... some say they invented "red wave" traffic lights. I'm not sure if that's true, but if you're driving to Stuttgart, pack an extra pack of brake light bulbs -- they might burn out on you.
What you're saying is of course correct, but I wanted to mention that there is this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_water
without any hack, one person can be enrolled multiple times if it is done from different zones (mandal/district).
There are brokers who can arrange this (and ofcourse charge upto 5k INR)

I guess the search is only limited to these zones.
Selling vulnerabilites is big business. It's controversial for sure. In a panel discussion at Ruxcon years ago, Rantyben talked about how he relied on selling exploits for a living.

I wonder if this particular exploit was used in the FBI/playpen case.
I think this is a task that is handled by an optional CMS, not the static site generator itself, though I agree it would be handy to have a little helper snippet to do that during build.

There are CMS solutions for static sites which will probably handle images, and all kinds of content, easily. Check out Dato[1], Siteleaf[2] or Netlify CMS[3].

Alternatively you can use external tools to prepare your images and simply rely on the standard HTML srcset within your static site generator of choice. I use RetroBatch[4] to prepare my images.

[1] https://www.datocms.com/

[2] https://www.siteleaf.com

[3] https://www.netlifycms.org/

[4] https://flyingmeat.com/retrobatch/
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Too late: We're supposed to jump over to YouTube Music, which is a mediocre attempt of being more like Spotify.

It's been months and my Play Music library still isn't accessible from YTM. Artists in my library are still a mix of YouTube followings and music artists I care about. I have to long press on an album to add it to my library which is cumbersome. The recommendations are useless in comparison to GPM. YTM doesn't surface artists playing in my area which was an awesome feature that GPM still has.

I really hope they decide to go Google Pay route: See how stupid is was to change the branding of something from Google to $otherproduct, then see a decline in users, go back to the Google brand and just overhaul the existing apps and infrastructure.

Google is a really weird company sometimes and I'd love to be the fly on the wall during meetings where they decided upon shit like YTM.
Wow, how strange. I just reinstalled vivaldi and checked and I couldn't install extensions because 'Add to Chrome' read 'Available on Chrome', redirecting me to a chrome download page. After refreshing the button changes to 'Add to chrome'!? Either way, now I CAN install extensions. Thanks for making me retry.
C has generics (within the limitations of its type system) since C11.

https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/generic
I have a simpler theory: people have always been miserable, the causes have not been fixed, but we have started measuring them. So we're slowly realizing how bad things actually are.

Peoples' lives get better in the context of what we're aware of, but core problems have never been addressed.

The core problem being that your life is largely not yours.
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By being so used to the security theatre everywhere that is just doesn't even register anymore. They could start doing automated anal probing at passport gates and at least some part of the population would go "meh, if it makes it safer than I'm all for whatever".
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And even in the niche of MMORPG games, it's just one variant of name for the (relatively) permanent groups that players usually organize themselves in. It's rather common in the fantasy/medieval-type MMORPGs where it actually has its origins, but uncommon in pretty much all other themes, especially anything scifi. Eve Online for example calls them "corporations", which is a better fit for a science fiction universe. Anarchy Online just called them "organizations", while Star Trek Online calls them "fleets".

So yes, "guild" is a really bad name for the thing pretty much anyone in the target demographic is used to call "server", whether that thing actually was a physical or logical server or not. "Guilds" also used to have a voice "server" to host their voice chat activity, but they did never equal themselves to their voice server, so even if all games out there called groups of players "guilds", it would still be a really bad choice. Someone at Discord apparently learnt on the job that "naming stuff" is one of the two hardest problems in IT ;-)
Maybe something like Android, OS X/iOS, ChromeOS, UWP, Fuchsia, Unikernels, Language runtimes on Hypervisors.

And since I sense the question coming, Android, OS X/iOS, ChromeOS might use an UNIXy kernel, but its exposure surface to applications is so small, that it can be easily exchange for something else, it is just a matter of cost.

Which brings us to the next point, given the commodity of free UNIX-like OSes, maybe only an hardware reboot like Quantum computers will actually do it.
Aadhar is nothing like SSN. I wish it was. SSN doesn’t require biometrics — Aadhar takes fingerprints and iris scans. School kids don’t need SSNs to sit for their school boards. You can sit for university exams without SSNs. You can shop at Amazon without giving them your SSN[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15796242

In fact SSN use has become more restricted over time, thanks to various pieces of privacy legislation. Meanwhile in India they still don’t have any privacy legislation last I checked, so it’s open season on your data.

Aadhar is ambitious all right — an attempt to assign every every Indian resident a number and use that number as a unique key for almost everything (public or private). The surveillance opportunities this presents is breathtaking.

Of course the good folk at India Stack love this because it enables them to build better apps. Move fast and break things, indeed.
> It is acceptable to require a very small amount of assembly code, for example to implement something like memcpy or bcopy, or to provide atomic operations.

There is some stuff missing in your list: preparing the stack pointer, address layout, etc. You also need tools to produce text and data sections that can be loaded at a specific address. Even if C is a low level language, there is still quite some stuff between it and the "bare hardware". In that sense, the only language that gives you enough control to produce the binary exactly in the form needed by the hardware (without relying on external tools or libraries) is assembly.
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In the UK, once you reach £100k they tax you at the 40% rate plus begin removing the tax-free allowance. Giving you an effective tax rate of 60% up to about £121k. That's on top of the 20% VAT and 20% corporation tax paid out by the company. And employer's/employee's national insurance. And the VAT on any goods you buy with the earned money and fuel duty if it's petrol.

I'm a contractor so I can choose to stop earning at that point - and I do. If other people are taking the same philosophy I'd imagine they're losing quite a lot of money.
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It shouts to you, "Take care something dangerous going on".

Hieroglyphs are easy to pass by.
I wouldn't claim guaranteed. The price only goes up while enough people believe the price should increase, and I think certainly counts as a 'greater fool' investment. On one hand, there is an entire industry propping it up. On the other hand, it is a fashion. On the third hand, it will become less useful as a store of wealth as banking and tax regulations tighten.

Old cars are interesting. A 60 year old Ferrari is now worth so much because they are so rare. When they were made, those Ferrari's were a terrible investment because most of them would not be around in 60 years time.
But is normal ok?
Are we distributed yet?
So then C is cheating by your definition, because it is impossible to implement ANSI C standard library without using Assembly or compiler extensions.
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Diet plays a huge role in mood; and we normalize "comfort eating" way too much.

You cut out sugar from your diet and you will feel better. We consume an insane amount in western societies and it's not good physically or mentally.

You can't just focus on mental health without the physical health because they are so dependent. I feel like we're deeply missing that point today.
Use your foot

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To start off with, it doesn't simply say quantum light in the last paragraph of the article (only reference to that term in all of the article) but quantum light transistor. So maybe it's just a typo in the headline.

And regarding the last paragraph:

Does reading it as (quantum (light transistor)) instead of ((quantum light) transistor) make more sense? I'm not sure if something like a classical optical transistor is possible but if yes then that might justify explicitely mentioning quantum here.
You're outlining the problem but presenting it like an inevitability.

That's why we're in this mess. We see these things as inevitabilities.

You know what that means? We don't control them. So we're going to create a bad situation for ourselves because businesses cannot pull out of a basic game theoretical problem? You think this is OK and not worth looking at? What is even your endgame here?
I think we need to separate elected power and knowledge.

If you're taking goods, services, favours, even future employment, as a politician (or for your friends, family), you're corrupt.

If you're hiring a politician after they've left office to buy their influence (they do know people) or their oratory skill, or —as I started this— what they know about the law, I think that's fair game.

If you try to clamp down on the latter, nobody with any existing influence or industry (or F&F with same) will want anything to do with that area of government. I would rather have slightly corrupt but competent politicians than pure-hearted idiots.

Just to remember, there are shades of grey. A senator may have financial interest in the biggest industry in their state, but pushing for laws that further that industry isn't necessarily corrupt.

The only way you sort this out is getting rid of the middle-man and holding referendums on everything. And even that is vulnerable to corrupt influence.
Lots of languages (like C#) allow pointers, but only inside blocks explicitly declared to be unsafe.

void DoSomeUnsafeStuffHere()
{
// regular code here. pointers verboten.

unsafe
{
// pointery stuff here
}
}

I think that is equally clear, if not even more. And again: I don't think this is any more polluting than weird out of place PEEK/POKE statements.
Federation is good enough for practically everyone.
Honestly, it looks like a site dedicated to tricking people into giving away their credit card data.
It’s more akin to saying water droplets. Now you can argue that “all water is made up of droplets” but still not every body of water is a bunch of droplets. When people talk about quantum light, they mean something different from just saying light.

You are being pandantic.
I think you should try funding your project by encouraging users to follow an affiliate link to buy storage from backblaze.
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we’re about to find out. Editas Pharmaceuticals is, i believe, the sole commercial licensee by the Broad for CRISPR/Cas-9, and they are scheduled to begin human trials for a rare form of blindness in October.
what do you do in crypto? As a programmer I find bitcoin really fascinanting and was thinking about learning the codebase and trying to contribute something to community but I find it really hard to do so...