skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh yes, good ones, thanks. I knew about both of those, but had forgotten. Knew about vindaloo from both reading [1] about it and eating it, and about tempura just from reading.

Tempura sounds like our Indian bhajji [2], but with many other fillings; must try it out some time.

I've been to Goa, which is one place the Portuguese had a colony in India, and have had vindaloo - both the authentic and non-authentic kinds. The authentic kind at Goan-run restaurants in Goa, and the unauthentic kind at non-Goan run restaurants (also in Goa). What makes it unauthentic (although not necessarily bad in taste) is that they add potato to the dish, probably based on the wrong understanding that the "aloo" part of the dish name means it should have potato in it (aloo means potato in Hindi). I've read that some "Indian" restaurants in the UK do the same too.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vindaloo

From the article about Vindaloo:

>Restaurants outside Goa serve vindaloo with chicken or lamb, which is sometimes mixed with cubed potatoes. Even though the word aloo (आलू) means potato in Hindi,[5](as the name is a corruption of a Portuguese phrase with no Hindi etymology) traditional vindaloo does not include potatoes.

>Vindaloo served in restaurants of the United Kingdom differs from the original vindaloo dish; it is simply a spicier version of the standard "medium (spiciness)" restaurant curry with the addition of vinegar, potatoes and chili peppers.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhaji
$20m is probably less than their annual toilet-paper budget.
Doing something like this is extra work, implying the company in question has either some malicious intent (e.g. spamming, or sharing data with third parties behind users' backs), misguided (e.g. thinking this is a proper way of dealing with user account spam), or just don't give a damn. Either one of these cases reflects badly on such company.
>but they do have a place to drop them off without having to go through security again so it's not that much of PITA.

This is wrong at LAX. You absolutely have to go through security again.
I prefer a democratic society that suppresses its enemies while trying to solve the root cause to one that gets destroyed and definitely won't solve the root cause.
Pretty much PBS Kids, "wonderful" being subjective in both directions, like anything.
Oddly profound
I struggle with this sort of thing a lot, as I'm learning Hindi as a native English speaker. So I suppose I should learn it as za, (sabzi is an example that comes to mind), but just understand that if I hear someone else say it it may be ja? Everyone's going to understand za, even if it's not how they personally say it right?
Humans never do. Trump's Russian propagandists is a classic example.

This just gives Apple more power to pick winners and losers
If you think about it Apple is basically the corporate manifestation of GDPR. They can just decide whatever they want and everyone has to comply or get out. In the real world someone has to file a complaint with the DPC, it gets investigated, gets appealed for years.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/21/french-data-protection-wat...
Do you morally disagree with advertising/tracking monetization as a whole or just those particularly geared towards vulnerable populations? (children in your instance)

I have my professional job developing software solutions for clients on a contractual base, but for a period after I graduated university I dabbled in mobile development and made the decision during that time that I'd never bloat my crappy apps with ads or tracking. I can't particularly articulate why I'm against that business method as a whole, but something always felt wrong in subjecting people to tracking/advertisements for my own monetary gain... if I'm not producing something worth paying outright for then I'm not going to skim pennies off the privacy of my users.
Check out mbesto's comment. This already exists but they don't want to pay for it...
Very smart design. No moving parts other than the motors.

Still, hitting one of these in a 152 could be fatal. Pilots are wary of drones for a reason. However, I think they'd be more receptive to the idea of Amazon using them than a random person (assuming Amazon cooperates with the FAA).
Oh it's the timing calibration thing that happens on initialization? Didn't realize that's called memory training haha cool!
Even if that specific example is false, there is a rich and well sourced history of African Americans (and other marginalized groups) being used in medical experimentation in the US or by US organizations.

Edit - my family (Cameroonian) almost 100% believes Ebola was either created or intentionally released by either Europe or the US as part of research or guerrilla warfare. There are no facts involved but it's a very common belief for people that grow up in the region.
Apple should just go all in:

Disable free to play games targeted at children completely. Require every children's game to have an upfront price (I suppose the $0.99 minimum app charge at least).

This would be great news for the market - game developers would focus on building more rewarding gaming experiences, instead of just endless skinner boxes. It would also help sell Apple devices, since developers would not need to target the lowest-common-denominator for mass advertising appeal.
> A language is means of communication. That is it!

As any sociolinguist will tell you, languages are partly a means of communication, partly a signal of group identity. The latter trait of human language is why some demographics intentionally take the common language and attempt to make it difficult to understand by outsiders by adding in-group slang and cant. It is why many peoples determine that a person is no longer a member of their community when he/she switches to entirely speaking an outside language.

If you see language merely as a means of communication, a lot of sociographic and inter-ethnic phenomena are going to elude you.
A year ago I would have agreed but a lot has happened lately.

Play store went from 3.2m to 2.6m apps last year. When it comes to rejecting apps that violate their tos they are pretty trigger happy.
I was not talking about the energy "projected by another person", I was speaking much more generally than that.
A lot of what you say is not false, and it can be frustrating for employees (though it goes both ways - imagine a company headquartered in, say, Chicago, and you lived in SF or NYC - you'd be better off than if you were getting Chicago market-rate)

Hiring full-time remotes in a major way is still a relatively new practice, so we'll see how it all shakes out. It may very well be that actual pay-by-value takes root, but I wouldn't hold my breath. Pricing and markets are curious things, and there is huge inertia.
Lots of consumer stuff in Japan is way ahead of the US, and for good reason: American consumers simply won't buy it. They'd rather spend all their money on McMansions (with huge power bills) and giant SUVs.
Also, PBS Kids Video straight up wouldn't play videos at all unless I whitelisted certain analytics domains.
There's plenty of room for innovation in extensions just using the existing WebExtension APIs.

When the existing APIs run out of steam, you can work with Mozilla developers to design and implement new APIs and submit them to Mozilla as a contribution to Firefox. No guarantee they'll be accepted --- performance, security, maintainability must be maintained --- but people have done this successfully to enable their extensions (e.g. NoScript).

Mozilla needed to clear out the unmaintainable mess of letting any extension poke the browser's internals in any way. They've done that, without "killing innovation".
That's correct, and quite terrible IMO - I'd prefer to have a non-private entity serving as the gate keeper to walled gardens like these... or just not have walled gardens.
Terrorism, hard drugs, the Soviet Empire with 1000's of nuclear warheads on the table, and every nation draw into the post-WW2 vacuum ... are not 'fetishes'.

There are very real and material issues between the US and China with respect to governmental intervention, externalization of costs, theft of IP, anti-competitive acts, capital controls, state-sponsored espionage, politicization of monetary policy - etc..

It's a wide and expansive set of issues that were essentially ignored for 30 years because it didn't so much matter, moreover, it was probably beneficial for everyone anyhow for China to have done what it did (except obviously the environmental and humanitarian externalizations).

But China wants to play in the advanced league now, so a different set of rules is going to have to apply, or there'll have to be permanent tariffs.

Trump is playing mostly 'big stick' and not nuance on this, but it seems to actually be working, and many of his would-be detractors (me included?), particularly the Dems are quiet on the issue because everyone has wanted to take up this issue for some time, but nobody has the power to.

Every foreign office in the West right now has a big 'China file' of issue to contend with, and they're all happy this is happening on some level.

I'm not hugely hopeful there will be big reforms anywhere, I think we're going to see tariffs on a bunch of things, but that won't be so bad.

In the grand-grand scheme of things I don't think the end result will be hugely noticeable to most people.
> And the world is a more violent place because of it.

I don't think the world becomes more violent because people defend themselves and others. And if it does, it's still worth it compared to surrendering to every would-be tyrant without a fight.
Productivity Trends in the Wired and Wireless Telecommunications Industries
"I think it's fairly safe to say at this point that Google is institutionally incapable of imagining a world without ads, so they're not capable of entertaining solutions that would seriously interfere with the ad ecosystem."

I think it is safe to say the same about Mozilla. They, too, rely (indirectly) on the ad ecosystem to survive.

An HTTP client that does not deliver ads by default will not be produced by either company.

Trying to escape from online ads by using these corporate-controlled browsers is like trying to escape from a wet paper bag without being allowed to damage the paper.
I think neither extreme is perfect. I very much enjoy working closely with my peers. After a while you build a small family. Social factors are a big plus for office workers and a big risk for remote workers. But in an office I cannot work at full potential. For me it would be good enough to have occasional zero disturbance times. Sadly the occasional mode is usually harder to integrate and realise then the full mode. On top of that I highly despise communicating remotely.
No one said you are entitled to one.
I understand and partly agree. The geeky stuff was very limited and the narrative and exposition was somewhat dramatized. I am also not sure if the real characters really acted towards the state in such a brave unassailable way as depicted... Still I think the show adopts a valid viewpoint and gives a powerful and needed message about a corrupt totalitarian system. But you are right that telling the story from the point of view of organizational challenges or from a point of view of a real person putting their life in danger in taking part in the effort would be very interesting too. There are some great documents on youtube from these different points of view, e.g. the story told by Starodumov and Bordakov: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfDa8tR25dk
A $20M fine on $18B in revenue is a penalty of 0.001%. The equivalent fine for the average US household is $62.70, or a meal with a couple of drinks at an average restaurant. It won't even be noticed.
I'm proposing approaching the US code and other bodies of law (and associated jurisprudence) as a Wiki and seeing what happens. I propose that this could be an improvement over the whole representative democracy approach.
I'm not sure why I would look at the Pro displays. I don't know anything about displays, I only know that you misread or mischaracterized the comment you were replying to.

You said the comment you were replying to said that a pro monitor was a marketing gimmick for consumers. But that's not what the comment said.
I’m guessing that doesn’t count as ‘targeted at kids’.
This isn't really a difference in pronunciation between Hindu and Urdu as much as it is a sound change that has occurred in some dialects of the Hindustani language. Both Hindi and Urdu have the consonant /z/. However in parts of India this consonant has shifted from /z/ to /dʒ/. It is considered colloquial or uneducated.
> and is done so because the compensation is matched to local cost of living

This is absolutely not true. Gitlab says so very plainly in this blog post- https://about.gitlab.com/2019/02/28/why-we-pay-local-rates/

> It’s not that we want to pay you based on your rent or compensate your cost of living. We want to make sure that we pay at or above market.

The blog post is very clear, and supported by the CEO's post above, that they are interested in paying the lowest amount they can get away with- that which they think is "at or above market". They don't care about cost of living. This is also made clear in their relocation policy, wherein they require you to get their permission to move to a different area, and you run a real risk of being denied/fired if you want to move to a higher cost of living area (The CEO has to approve such a move).

I really like that Gitlab and their CEO are so open about their true motives like this. If they didn't pay so poorly, I would consider sending them my resume!
They're in no hurry to encourage PWAs, it takes people away from the App Store which is how they get a substantial amount of money.
How about adding an additional, voluntary section with apps that are bound by the same standards and requirements, rather than segmented by audience or purpose?
I don’t think OP was criticizing it.
I feel like they're trigger happy... but via automation and scripts that I'm not sure are getting that much.

Like the volume is down, but for all I know it's just the same actors getting the same stuff out there.

It's really hard to tell.
> The intent comes from the design, decided by the physics of the system. (...) I like this view as it models the universe in self contained meaningful (includes purpose) way without any supernatural claim.

Where does the design come from then? This question can only have supernatural answers.

> If it is destined that whatever surviving life learns these principles to survive, that seems to give a sort of roadmap for existence, an intention of how its supposed to go.

Why? This view conflicts with pretty much the human-universal underpinning of morality. Nature is brutal, and while humans sometimes commit such acts on their own, they're universally frowned upon and great effort is expended to avoid them. Moreover, we've already freed ourselves from the shackles of biological evolution many thousand of years ago. We're now in the development regime couple of orders of magnitude faster - the progress of science and technology. There's nothing to say we have to, or even should, guide our lives by the patterns we learn from other parts of nature.
This sounds nice. The reality of "DevOps" in many companies is this, right or wrong: we'll make the development team do operations / infrastructure tasks, and save on hiring real, seasoned ops folks.

The problem is the team building your product often doesn't want to do that work, even if they can...
Okay. I was commenting on that particular aspect. Still, feel free to elaborate if you wish. The discussion on the remote work is always interesting.
Without type information already in the code (for parameters, etc.) there would be a lot more overhead in setting it up; it's possible, but higher marginal friction in the ideal case.

Plus, AFAIK, no one has written the libraries, making it even higher marginal friction in practice even more than than is true in the ideal case.
The Art of Software Testing by Glenford Myers has an excellent language-agnostic checklist. See the chapter on “walkthroughs”
For what it's worth: I keep my computers / servers off all the time. When I need them I use Wake-On-Lan to remotely turn them on when needed.

Even my power hungry 71TB NAS is off 99% of the time and only turned on when needed. Saving me 150-200 Watt idle power usage.

If you don't need your stuff to be on 24/7 you can buy older more power-hungry stuff as long as you turn it off when done.
The single biggest issue I've seen is often a trend towards only hiring people using the exact tooling that a given manager and other members have been comfortable with. This has made it nearly impossible to hire say, a Jr-Mid developer with C#, ASP.Net MVC and React/JavaScript. This is as opposed to hiring for the harder skill, favoring those with demonstrated history of learning new (to them) tech.

I tend to favor people who have worked on personal projects and taken the time to learn new/different tech. If there's even a 50% overlap with the existing tech, even better. But it's actually really hard to convey this to either recruiters or upper management.

The worst still is dealing with other Software Architects in the org who pretty much refuse to try anything too different.
You are supposing that there exists a peaceful YouTuber who's (a) dedicated to the peaceful advocacy of their interests, (b) banned from YouTube, and (c) unwilling to advocate their interests on any other platform except through the use of violence. (a) and (c) are contradictory. Supposedly you are justifying this by assuming YouTube is the only platform from which one can peacefully advocate their interests. It is not. You could even return to YouTube with moderated content.

I do not find this hypothetical YouTuber to be a peaceful advocate for anybody's interests.
That is a really bad analogy. Germany is a country. Europe is a continent. Germany is part of Europe not the other way round.

India is a country. Tamil Nadu is a state inside the country called India. Tamil Nadu is not greater than India. No state in India is greater than India. Tamilians cannot dictate to India what is and what is not allowed just like Germany cannot dictate to Europe what is and what is not allowed.

Legally, India has all rights to impose a single language on all states in India. Deal with it! The founding fathers of Modern India empowered the Centre to make sweeping changes to the Constitution. All it requires is an Amendment to the Constitution and the Centre has all powers to do so. Yet it is not imposing any language. It is not making Hindi the only language for all states. It has not moved any such Amendment. To insinuate it is doing so when it is not showing any such intentions is ignorance at best and malicious at worst!

Germany does not have any legal jurisdiction over rest of Europe. Hence, even if it wants to impose it can't impose German on the rest of Europe. Makes sense?

You are comparing Apples to Oranges.

Now, can we just appreciate the simple fact that the Centre, even with all its powers (now that it has near absolute majority), is not imposing Hindi on all states? The proposal is pretty clear. It talks about third-language being made compulsory. I don't understand what the fuss is all about! Are you saying we Indians have the capacity to learn Maths, Science and all the complicated topics in the World but are incapable of learning one extra Indian language? Are we that weak?

> And I do appreciate that we have one common language, English, which is tremendously useful in practical sense (not even including politics in here).

I don't understand why would you need to compare Indian languages with English? Are you saying that we Indians are incapable of learning more languages? What are you hinting at?
And racism makes no sense, because we are all members of the human race. Therefore, I posit that American Slavery was not based on racism. Aren't pointless semantic games fun?

Nazism was absolutely white supremacy. That it excluded ethnic groups that you consider to be white, or stack-ranked various white ethnic groups has nothing to do whether or not it was about white supremacy. Please, pray tell, what exact role were non-whites expected to play in Hitler's Brave New World?

You are using an incredibly narrow definition of the term, to try to make.. What point, exactly?
Go for it, but you may need to change battery and the thermal paste
An ad network is not going to trust your stream of requests, taking you on your word that your requests are coming from actual users and that the ads are getting shown back to actual users.
Cool but I can't understand why you'd need such a delivery system? MAYBE you can imagine a scenario where you need to air lift a vial of snake anti-venom very quickly but that's a fantastical, far edge-case. Theres simply no reason that an auto-automobile can't handle 99% of deliveries.

Drones can't go that far.
They can only carry tiny payloads.
They use a ton of energy just to hover.
And lastly- they are much more dangerous than ground-based transport, for the simple reason that _they can fall from the sky_.

Whats to be gained by putting deliveries in the air?
It's funny how a term that defines a culture is now used to describe a role. If you know how to manage cloud stacks, provisioning, CI/CD pipelines, etc then you are a "DevOps engineer". I personally don't like that. It's like calling modern developers "Agile Engineers" or something like that. And now that "DataOps" movement is gaining traction, I've already started to see "DataOps Engineer" posted on job boards.
Hindi and Urdu are similar because of how they evolved and they are essentially the vernacular of parts of Northern India and Pakistan. Other Indian languages are nowhere near as similar to each other as Hindi and Urdu are to each other. Another thing to note is that the vernacular as spoken in India on the street is often not one single language.

It's often a mix and the fact that it's understandable to you so long as you speak one Indian language should not surprise you. One thing Indians do subconsciously is adapt to using a mix of words and grammatical structure understandable to the group they are speaking to, for example when speaking to a well educated person who understands Hindi and English, I will frequently speak neither but rather Hinglish, mixing idioms and words from both languages in the same sentence, choosing words and idioms that most closely convey my thought. If I'm speaking to someone who also speaks Punjabi, I'll frequently throw in some Punjabi as well.

None of this is done consciously.

Also note that there are dialects even of Hindi. If you record Hindi spoken by someone from Bihar when speaking to someone else who also understands that dialect natively and only understands Hindi at the speed it's spoken may take someone from Punjab who also speaks Hindi some amount of focus to understand. However if you throw the person from Punjab into the mix of people speaking, the dialect and accent will adjust.

This is something Indians never actually consciously realize they are doing. I only figured it out because I now have kids who we are raising in New York and teaching Hindi to and they haven't learned natively how to switch like that like kids growing up in India have.

I've thought about this a bit and now think learning multiple "human" languages, ideally fairly different ones, should be absolutely required of everyone. Much like programming languages, there are certain thoughts you really can't think effectively in certain languages.
Here's where the remote trainer concept first appeared.[1] Orwell's "1984".

"6079 Smith W! Yes, you! Bend over! You're not trying!"

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCfW6HFP5cI