skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s more of a move to control the narrative that the government is tough on “black money” and “terrorism”, since previous actions to bring back such wealth into the tax net and into the books flopped terribly.

Everyone except the government officials and politicians seems to know that undisclosed income and wealth are mostly held in real estate, gold and other assets. But this government has had a hatred for cash and cryptocurrency for a few years, and seems to believe that curbing cryptocurrency will solve the problems.

What’s completely absurd is the criminal penalty being talked about. There’s no law so far on cryptocurrency (except that banks were told by RBI not to work with companies in this area). What are people who have had these for several years to do? It’s all very short sighted, and looks like a deflection from other things.
Older workers = more experience = higher pay.

You missed a step.

Older workers = more experience = more responsibility = higher pay.

Without that extra responsibility there's no reason to pay someone more simply because they're older. The pay should be based on what the job is, not the age or 'experience' of the person doing it.
Odd story. My grandmother worked for a while a fry cook. She worked at a diner. Next door was a bar.

The state passed a law that said bars couldn't have windows.

The bar next door to her work had a fine set of windows. The owners of the diner and bar next door installed a door and a window in the wall between the bar and the diners kitchen. And the bar got a restaurant license. Which was cheaper.

Neener neener.
I think one concern is horizontal gene transfer, from one species of plant to another. We may end up with a weed that is resistant to roundup.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_gene_transfer

https://academic.oup.com/jxb/article/58/1/1/515544
I think the settings app is just a poor imitation of the Mac preferences panel. Preferences panel gives the appearance of the major settings, all in one place. You can only have one module, like network, or printers, selected at one time. Settings app tries to do something similar, but for some reason this is more frustrating on Windows than MacOS.

About the only thing I use the settings app for are Windows updates. Everything else, I start from the run menu if I know the command or launch from the control panel. Because invariably the legacy control panel applet exposes features I need, and the settings app is rudimentary.

Microsoft should be embarrassed at this mess. I suppose they'll eventually almost complete the settings app before moving onto something they consider better. I don't know what's necessary to fix it, and likely it's far more involved that I can imagine, but Microsoft has resources at their disposal that would be the envy of all but the largest companies.

Rather than rolling this out piecemeal, over the course of however many years, they could have just gotten it right all at once. What we have now is just sloppy, a beta-quality looking mishmash. It reminds me of the old days of Linux on the desktop with various apps running different gui toolkits.

I'm sure this situation exists for justifiable reasons, but I don't have to like the end result even when fixing it is difficult and expensive.
What an insane argument. Murder, Theft, Deceit, Assault, Terrorism “works” as well. Being a crow in the population of doves has short term benefits to the individual, the crow in this case, but soon more crows will pop up and the societal balance turns into chaos.

I’m sure we need not argue this obvious fact. Are you really condoning that stealing OK if it works? I’m speechless.
Total cholesterol and all-cause mortality – a study among 13M adults
Engineering manager was afraid a more experienced dev could call him out on his bullshit. Not being willing to manage someone older than you is likely a sign of cowardice.

The first and second really good developers I worked with were around 35 and 45 when I met them.
https://youtu.be/E39WWj_RpBc
We will never know if he would have pulled into you had you not moved, or passed within the speed limit.

I find lorries start broadcasting what they're going to do quite early, that doesn't mean they're going to pull into a space you're already occupying, otherwise I would be dead many times over.
The word "significant" is doing a heck of a lot of work there. Statistically significant? Maybe, but even if that were the case, the actual, plausible consequences are really subtle - they're there of course, but most "race realists" like to talk about other things - go figure! "Significant" in an everyday sense? No way - that's so wildly implausible (keep in mind, we're only talking about what the innate difference might be, after screening out all of the environmentally-caused divergence!) that one can safely say that people who argue that this is what's going on, really are just parroting white-supremacist memes. I.e. they might not be white supremacists themselves, but they're ideologically-possessed memebots who are spreading a white-supremacist memetic infection.
Regardless, this is a bad PR and they are losing potential customers. No one wants their car to be trimmed down just because the manufactures chose so. No, it doesn't matter what's written in the fine print.
The same as everybody else, they challenge the mainstream media view.
I'd argue that this is a reason for my original comment. Having friends that break out of the social media world forces you to contact them outside those spheres. Which also means that you're now operating in multiple spheres. It reduces the isolation.

Also, I wouldn't say I'm missing out. I'm in a PhD program with a pretty active department. It is pretty easy to find out what is happening. The only events I missed were when I first started, and I chalk that up to more people not knowing who I was.
I'm not sure what alternative the author has in mind. Should the TSA separately bag the 47 cents you left in the plastic bin with the day and time it was lost, so that it can be returned to you in case you decide to come back and claim it? That's just not realistic.

They basically have two choices: keep it or throw it out. And why would you throw out money?
I know this is just personnel experience so don't take it for much but I had to share an office with a 70 year old "programmer" who made three times my salary. I know this because my supervisor got drunk on a business trip and told me the day after he fired the guy. He was constantly asking everyone how to do the simplest of tasks and complaining about being under payed and discriminated against because of his age and was extremely condescending to anyone who tried to help him. He never finished any assignment even after a year and a half. The led developer who has been coding for 15 years took over his last project and had to throw out all the code because it was basically just copied and pasted from stackover flow. I don't think this guy ever really knew how to code well and had got into the industry in a time where programmers where rare. Honestly, for what I've seen all the over 40 crowd in the industry moves into management positions.
I think in addition to hosting/distribution costs, a reason they charge an annual fee is to weed out spammers, which I think is a good idea. The fee is low enough (equivalent to about 2 cups of coffee per month) that any serious developer should have no problem paying it.
What you're saying is basically that this scheme will leak the IP address you're on, because that's just how the internet works.

There's... not much that can be done about that, and there's no need for the scare quotes on the words private or encrypted. Any encrypted communication still uses an IP address that can be mapped to a coarse location; this isn't an Apple related thing.

If you want to be able to find your device (it's opt-in), it needs to relay its location via the Internet. Doing so requires an IP address, which can indeed be mapped to a coarse location in some cases (my own home IP address is totally useless, it says I'm in London when I'm on the other side of the country). I'm not sure what the big deal is.
What if you get sued by the IP owners for growing 'their' crops?
Yes, you are right. This is just a re-definition of language so that you can't talk about it without being labeled a white supremacists.
What if someone were to devise a mechanism to detect and prosecute people changing lanes without indicating, with the following properties?

- perfect accuracy (no FP; no FN)

- automated enforcement via a fine, without knowing the identity of the perpetrator (just assume it's possible; I know it's hard)

- no potential for the device or underlying technology to be used or repurposed for any other form of surveillance or enforcement

Would such a system (and automated enforcement) be OK?
Context: https://davywybiral.blogspot.com/2019/05/always-secure-your-...

also wow that really sucks that that is possible, lol
Maybe I don't understand something about these models. If the model was trained to mimic Trump tweets, it means that someone spent days of GPU time to find the weights of the model. Now if we want it to mimic HN comments, we'd need to spend the same amount of GPU time to find different weights. This is what I meant by "from scratch".
Yes they do suck even if they totally truly respect your privacy and spill blood maintaining their systems, it's simply not possible to know if that's true or false and thus using a VPN service is NOT a sound method to increase your security.

Now, there are few cases that could be useful like evading those pesky private CYBER detectives that companies hire to track torrents. Also it could be used to bypass region restrictions. That's just that, i would never trust a single byte of private info to go through a VPN.

There are few services who do not try to evade the (big) question of trust and they tell you that you could use Tor through their VPN, but at that point we have already taken a first class sit to the "security theater".
Yep. Although this exact thing has happened to so many apps I’m beginning to doubt the wisdom of this “allow completely open dev settings at first and then YOU get to remember to fix it” model that fire base uses.

Maybe they could require an IP whitelist if the permissions aren’t set yet or something.
permissions are a pain... i am considering centralizing permission handling in a separate service environment so that every service I have shares the same permission logic.

It is a shame since we could save some latency time by having permissions implemented in the same language and app that it is being requested. But to avoid stuff like that in the article I believe the cons are worth it

edit: the user had direct access to the database. No amount of code would mitigate that. Moral of the story is NEVER leave your database open to public, always hide it behind a service wall
The startup sector is centered here because the money (VC firms) is here. The reason for that is largely historical accident.
I'll go broad and say unemployment is below 4.0%, Fortune 500 have less age discrimination probably, and this particular comment section on Hacker News seems to be a lot of Bay Area/ San Fransisco perspective.

And the article isn't even about Software Devs.
Works locally around me. My family isn’t using Android for this reason.
It’s not about keys or modes, it’s about the rules they didn’t set up. Everyone uses firebase like that. Those “keys” are required to allow you to connect to the correct firebase app, nothing more. You don’t get any direct special permission to do things on the database or storage.
Here some more info about the rules: https://firebase.google.com/docs/database/security
It was the least bad option for Tesla at the time. Sure it may feel bad to you as a bystander but the other options would have felt worse to Tesla customers.
Have you ever checked https://www.google.com/maps/timeline?pb to see?
In my case, google knows where my phone is during the night: at home.
I love how people are trying to justify Huawei’s practices through asinine ways. Huawei needs to be criticized, banned, ostracized and condemned in the strongest way possible.

China is lost its credibility a long time ago - the rest of the world cannot blindly trust any Chinese company. The Chinese has mismanaged their “brand” to reap short term benefits. It can only go so far. Doing business with honesty, integrity and following appropriate laws is crucial for long term partnerships. Trust is one of the most important aspects in business.
This is not Android thing (yet). Just some vendors, start killing apps in the background. However this is developers nightmare, as they can't deliver consistent experience across all devices. IMO background tracking (with all restrictions, killing...) should be handled directly by AndroidOS, not by vendors. Checkout https://dontkillmyapp.com
Being described as "_my_ developer" by a manager or designer.

It says a lot about how these people see themselves within a team, and it's the kind of team I don't want to work in.
Euros per installed Watt is the important metric. It has been dominated by installation cost (not panel cost) for a while now.
How would Teslas get any updates in New Zealand if updates breach CGA?
So get their phone number. It sounds like problem solved.

I'm not saying you have to dump WeChat/Facebook/whatever. But I think saying that they are your only way to communicate with people is a bit ridiculous. We all have phones in our pockets. Your friends will use multiple systems. I guarantee that specifically your Chinese friends will, because they already have to operate in two worlds (unless they completely isolate themselves in America).

> have other groups of friends who organize real life events (hiking, dinner, etc.) on WeChat. Without WeChat I'd probably be left out of those.

I promise you that you won't miss out. Your friends are still your friends. They are your friends because you enjoy each other's company, not because you use WeChat. WeChat is a tool, it isn't the relationship. I don't know you, but I'm willing to bet that those friends enjoy your company enough to send you a text message instead of a WeChat message when they want you to be part of an activity. Though I'll admit that it might be bumpy in the start because people forget that you don't use a specific communication platform.
Many Swiss farmers use honor system to sell their products
Seems interesting. It's a shame that it has to come to this. Government regulation should be focused on the safety and well being of the majority of producers and consumers, it should not focus on how to help a small number of corporations to capture value from the system; that is not the job of the government.
in germany universities do it by ranking the grades of the incoming students. so i have no clue what rank i have in my class, but i do know that my grade was not high enough to get into physics because there were enough students from all over the country applying with better grades.

this grade would be different every year because it depended on the grades of the students that actually applied. so while in highschool i was not able to compare myself to my peers nor was i able to evaluate my changes of getting into university. (other than obviously noting that the lower my grades, the lower my chances)

as it happened, the year before the cut-off was on a lower grade that suggested that i'd make it in if it stays the same the next year, but when i applied, more students with higher grades applied too, and my grades ended up being not good enough.
This reminds me of how pachinko operates in Japan despite the ban on gambling.
Context matters. Although I will acknowledge that it may not matter to you. That’s fine, and it affects the weight I would assign to your views.
Did you get tricked into reading the story because (2015) was not mentioned or is the article too old and not relevant for 2019?
Is that so much different than the common practice of “sorry, but you only paid for 150 HP” ?
You are right: I should have not been so judgemental. Watching netflix might be a net win for someone because of their improved mental state (relaxation, self satisfaction, maybe even education, hobby or as you point out, whatever...). For me it's not, but I understand people do differ.
There's already a highly efficient solar-powered process for extracting carbon dioxide from seawater called "growing seaweed."

It would be far more efficient
simply to collect seaweed from the ocean and put it through fermentation and dry distillation processes to produce ethanol and other fuel products. No new technology breakthroughs required.
The batteries will have a longer life now too so that sort of balances things out a bit.
This is exactly why it’s still uncommon for journals to require working code alongside submissions in some (most?) fields.
Time to change jobs. Worked for me.

P.S. If you love programming, management will destroy your soul.
This seems like an old Idea, repackaged with a bit of new technology, i.e. solar panels. Here is a paper from 1984, suggesting methanol production from Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC).

https://www.jhuapl.edu/techdigest/views/pdfs/V05_N2_1984/V5_...

What is OTEC? http://www.otecnews.org/what-is-otec/

Disclaimer: I started OTEC News once upon a time.
Is this currently "only" a legal problem, or are the GMO crop companies able to produce seeds that produce sterile crops?

I'm sure this has already been done to death, but... Cheesy sci-fi plot where genetically engineered crops crowd out all the reproducing ones, and then humanity starves to death when evilcorp loses their ability to produce the seeds?

Could we maybe not go down this route, please?
How they survive? Who knows if they will, they won't be expected to make enough money to sustain their operation at the beginning.

As to why somebody is funding them, there are probably lots of reasons. Investors may believe that they are backing the best team, or that the market is large enough, or that they need a player in the market, or such a service would compliment other investments (such as a grocery store chain investing in a "we shop for you" startup).
> There was some music event recently that prevented vendors from selling water.

> Instead they sold you a peanut for $2 and the water was for free.

> Mind you the venue was selling water for like $8 a bottle.

All it takes is one person to pass out from heat exhaustion to end this practice.
Sorry, but this comment section is primarily focused Bay Area, LeetCode, California, and Software Devs.

Mean while the story doesn't focus on any of those things in particular. How is an old gentleman getting turned away from a job at a restaurant chain, Season 52, for, "Not looking young enough" relate to any of that and the broader issue of Age discrimination across the board. The anecdotal stories are cool and fine obviously.

But normally non-tech postings on Hacker-News, especially political news stories/articles, lead to discussion about what was discussed _in_ the article at least somewhat... And I'd like to see that. Just found it odd. Don't mind me if this sentiment isn't shared.
You have issue with a generalist "it's their culture" and in the same breath generalize about ex-pats? Do you perhaps see a problem with that?
I'm not entirely sure but the paper seems to indicate that the defect has an impact on the maximum life of a panel - fixing that would directly impact installation cost (by spreading it over a longer life time).
>What if nothing actually happened? Reputations can be ruined.

Reputation will be ruined.

Let assume the just outcome, and those allegation were false. AND the reputation were ruined. Now do you go on and sue them back?
Word of mouth is Tesla's #1 marketing channel. If something was possible to improve by inexpensive software update, they should just do it and delight the customers. It shouldn't be about whether customers are getting more than what they paid for so we need to "fix" that. It should be about if I do X and it costs me almost nothing but there is huge upside for customers then let's do X. If they are hell bent on removing features, let's do it for new deliveries. However retro-actively removing features from the car that is already sold and now owned by someone and without their permission seems very wrong. I love Tesla and want to see them successful. They need each customers to recursively get more customers, not less.
Surely this is why we should have caution, because if it escapes it's very hard to control. This wheat was never commercially sold, what if the reason for that was that it was a danger to human health. Do you just want it popping up anyway?
What is common or normal does not make it right or ethical.
Estimating cost of code in LOC doesn't account for the fact that:

- Some kinds of code are harder to write than others. For example, it could take days to develop a tricky algorithm that's just a few lines of code.

- A developer who is familiar with a code base can write lines of code faster than one who isn't.

- A developer who is experienced with a language can write lines of code faster than one who isn't.

- A better developer may be able to write the same logic in fewer lines of code (e.g., by factoring out common code as methods instead of copy/pasting, or not reinventing functionality that already exists in standard libraries).

I've been programming for decades and have never been asked to estimate cost in LOC. Estimates are always requested in terms of time (e.g., hours of work), or in some unit that's related to time, such as "story points" in Agile methodology.
Motorcycle engines are largely not scaled down car engines tuned for performance at the expense of reliability. They are designs built from scratch under different constraints. A mid-level motorcycle engine from a Japanese manufacturer should last longer than a mid-level car from a Japanese manufacturer, all else being equal.

There are motorcycles that you buy facing the near certainty that it will most likely outlive you, like KLR 650, or you can get a Ducati with a Desmosedici Stradale in it, where you have to get valves adjusted (major service) every 2500 miles. But given timely service, no motorcycle will last less than 50k miles, and most will last above 100 before an engine block rebuild.

Comparing cars to cars, or motorcycles to motorcycles, the logic holds though.
It happened to me about a year ago. I hated it at first but began to like some parts of it eventually. I'll never like the "paperwork" and the chores navigating inscrutable internal applications and processes, but having real influence over the direction of products is very satisfying.
> invalidates the main result of the paper.

Something like 30% of papers can't be reproduced, regardless of bugs.
Better Character Language Modeling Through Morphology
Breeders have "the power" to do all these licensing and patenting shenanigans because they are creating superior seeds. Farmers choose to use these restricted seeds because they make more money that way.

This effort of "open source seeds" is comparable to communal breeding, which hasn't been competitive to these breeding companies. It takes time and effort to develop these breeds, and an Open Source Seed Initiative would have to somehow replicate this advantage, probably by individual farmers taking a hit on returns from not using the most marketable seedstock in order to work on those lines.
WTF is Engadget doing these days with ads? Attempting to go to the site in Firefox with uMatrix gets me an immediate redirect to "https://guce.advertising.com/collectIdentifiers" with a session ID attached.
can you cite some references for that please? this is certainly not happening in germany or austria, and i am not aware of any other countries doing that either.

searching on the topic, all i find is articles that consider drop-out rates a serious problem, and statictics like this one: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php... that shows that rates dropped from 17% to 12% over 15 years.

based on that i highly doubt that any place is using dropout rates as an intentional strategy.