skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>It is clear that every sign points towards the US alliance for India

This isn't the future, this is where India is already. India is firmly in the US camp. Upper income Indians(Upper middle class to rich) mostly derive their money from either US company based salaries, businesses or people who work in these businesses and spend money in restaurants, vacations, cars, clothing etc etc. Needless to say as of now the future of India is deeply intertwined with the future of US.

NAM is not realistic for India anymore. We are already in the US camp, like it or not. So far it has worked fine for upper middle class people. A self reliant India has been tried before, and it hasn't worked. Not because the idea itself is bad or people didn't try hard enough, but there's too much domestic factionalism, corruption, selfish-to-animosity levels among various communities in India. This is beyond the fact that India as a country itself is not sure what direction it wants to head towards. Till the 1980s the direction was self-reliance, green revolution, skill and education based industrialization, urbanization, social security etc. From the 1980s the politics of India is drifting towards being a theocratic religious state. Every decade there is some major religious movement. As of now the drift has largely transformed into a very powerful current. In the last decade every single move of the government has been religious policy and law consolidation. The public itself cares little for economic or other growth.

The dirty little secret of Indian political and social scene is we have wasted a record 40 years in domestic religious movements since the 1980s. In the same time, China has arrived on the world scene as a major economic, military and industrial super power. You can't afford to waste half a century(time, resources, political capital) in a highly competitive geo political ecosystem and expect to catch up with the giants(US, EU, China) overnight. Unfortunately our case isn't even as bad as our neighbors, at-least Pakistan, Afghanistan have excuses of them fighting major wars and Bangladesh was just too poor to compete. India's problems are literally our own doing. We wasted time and opportunities.

India today has no options left but to ally with US/West. But it's also a double edged sword. In case of a major war with the Chinese, we will be forced to fight a war alone will all of Eurasia, all by ourselves. This could be disastrous. There are also other problems. US as an ally itself is a difficult partner to deal with. US imposes tariffs on Canada and its European allies, and threatens to cut funding to NATO.

India is in a difficult situation given all these things.
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I do welcome ideas for how I could make the repo more interesting and/or useful.
For those who need them

EDIT: Actually, there are polyfills here: https://php.watch/versions/8.0/str_starts_with-str_ends_with
> v-bucks

I also find it satisfying that Epic gets so bent about “value” of App Store or Play Store taking 30% shipping and handling fee on ... virtual expendables.
We've always been fighting against Eastasia.
Thank you, it's not what I was thinking of but looks interesting. Seems like there is some history of multi-layer displays that I wasn't aware of, not that I took the idea any further than a "wouldn't it be cool if..." scenario.
> head bobbing

I wonder if you could use a GAN to do a post-production fix on them. Teach it what actual people's head movements look like, and then get it to stabilize the image as a second pass.
so you meant to say assimilation doesn't work for them ? Makes me see your statement in a completely different light so you may want to qualify that :)
Sounds like the ruling only applies in California. Still, it's a start.
There is more to Washington than downtown Seattle.
The “whys” here all sound sensible, but I’d be even more interested in _how_ people are implementing a process around ADRs, where you’re keeping them, etc.

At work we have a decent PR template that prompts people to provide context, alternatives considered, and underlying reasons for the change, which works pretty well. I’m trying about how or whether ADRs would function better, or if they would operate at a slightly higher level of change (i.e. for work that extends across multiple PRs).

I’d be interested in thoughts or experience people have, especially in medium or larger organizations.
Just curious, why the author thinks that Safari is a joke?
The offshore wind farms I have seen photos of have the individual wind turbines packed too closely together to safely navigate a fishing boat between them.

Fish are not uniformly distributed, however, so the fishing impacts of offshore wind farms can probably be reduced by not installing wind farms in fishing grounds.
What could an invoice app do to make this easy?

For example, what if I embed the invoice data in a JSON file in a PDF? Could that make it easier for the user?

I really don't know much about PDF, but from what little I just read after checking it is possible to do that.
It's a nice cozy relationship. Many car dealership franchises are basically state-granted hereditary monopolies that print money, so of course they are going to put some of that money back into the community (and local/state politicians pockets) to maintain that. It's good for the politicians because they actually have some leverage over dealers, as opposed to a behemoth like Toyota or Volkswagen.
Higher - Perth, Western Australia - Senior Developer/ Developer ONSITE

Higher is a SaaS startup enabling easier communication and collaboration. Shortly releasing our MLP. Team of 11.

Seeking Senior Developer (don't mind if you prefer frontend focus, backend or full stack). Preparing for launch - tackling last difficult problems and focusing on optimising look and experience.

Opportunity for leadership. Involvement (where interested) in product strategy, features, design, user experience, security, marketing/ branding.

Primarily WFH. Usually in office 2 days a wk. Flexible about hrs/ times.

Tech stack: React, Redux, Node, Ruby, Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS and Docker/ECS. Exposure to either React or RoR is great however if you have experience with Go, Lua, Flutter, Node, Typsescript, C, Python, Swift, or Kotlin and interest in using other technologies & can/do reside in Perth (unable to sponsor at this stage) do get in touch. CS degree or equivalent preferred.

For more info email laura@higher.app - happy to outline the role/ talk more about what we are doing and where we are at
I have only ever seen this usage by people pointing out that this is what it “actually” means.
It’s telling how Google has so many chat services and so many discontinued services that we can’t hope to keep track of them all.
NSF's budget has has been anemic for the last 15+ years so projects get built then the maintenance budget evaporates in favor of some new program dictated by Congressional pork barreling. It wouldn't be a problem if the NSF budget grew at a steady pace, but the budget has only grown when one party has complete control of government and has shrunk otherwise (I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure out which party is which).
You've put into scientific terms what I can't cause it's been too long since I've done any physics.

In layman terms, the molecules in hot water are bouncing around more and thus easier to form crystal structures because of the higher-energy state. Molecules at room temperature have to be forced into crystal structures which takes longer.
"But all silicon valley hipster webshits I know have latest macbook pro, bloat is not a problem"
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-myth-of...

This has been an open secret since at least 2012.

Quotas restricting Asians, and affirmative action benefiting Jews, who make up an astounding full quarter of the student bodies of Harvard, Yale, and Columbia, despite being only 2% of the population, which is 5x their rate of admission at Caltech, an elite school with a famously merit-based, AA-free admission process:

The campus is located in the Los Angeles area, home to one of America’s largest and most successful Jewish communities, and Jews have traditionally been strongly drawn to the natural sciences. Indeed, at least three of Caltech’s last six presidents have been of Jewish origin, and the same is true for two of its most renowned faculty members, theoretical physics Nobel Laureates Richard Feynman and Murray Gell-Mann. But Caltech’s current undergraduates are just 5.5 percent Jewish, and the figure seems to have been around this level for some years; meanwhile, Asian enrollment is 39 percent, or seven times larger. It is intriguing that the school which admits students based on the strictest, most objective academic standards has by a very wide margin the lowest Jewish enrollment for any elite university.

The author is apparently Jewish himself, BTW.
> Enough is enough.

What I don't like about this post is too much emotion, not much action.

> If you’re a Google engineer who is still working on AMP, you are a disgrace to your field.

Really? Career shaming? That's very low of the author to do. Why are they a disgrace?
Oh no, not the site that's been a crowd sourced psy-op since day one.
From my perspective Epic is shooting themselves and all other developers in the foot. Many app stores specialize in pirated software, fake in-app purchases, gaming assists, various troll and other bot automations. Users would be stuck with full screen popups, unwanted VPNs, bitcoin miners, government surveillance apps, and other malware in an effort to get a discount from the official Epic store. Developers will have more cheating, fraud, and store revenues will drop to Google levels as there are cheaper pirate stores. There will be no free apps because developers making a profit like Epic won't carry the rest.
iPhone is the platform too! All the investments apple make in custom silicon and hardware are a big part of it.
You have to look at the situation from Apple's perspective.

They are trying to create a level playing field for all developers on the App Store. I get that Epic would be unhappy that they don't have the weight to force Apple to bend to their whim, and App Store policies are by and far non-negotiable.

I don't understand the anti-competitive angle here, if anything Apple is promoting competition. Furthermore, Apple's AppStore policies have created a very high quality marketplace.
You’re kidding right? You think this is going to make a difference in the cut?

The word you’re looking for by the way is “financially”. Fiscally is to do with taxes.
Has it decimated an indie studio? Just curious as to what studios have been decimated.
In a world where OS/2 failed, Be wouldn’t have a chance.

The biggest irony to Microsoft’s anti-competitive OEM practices is that they were unnecessary. The network effects of software compatibility proved sufficient to maintain their dominance.

And their temporarily successful attempts to dominate the browser market failed to turn the open standards web platform into the Windows platform’s greatest competitor.
thanks for the vouch!
Yeah that was probably weird wording on my part. I meant Florida was also a contender in the future, but due to recent events it's not really any more.
> too small to get sued in the first place. And being sued probably means you have paying customers

Apparently I'm the exception, but my business was pretty small (under $1M ARR), and one of our investors (which was also our largest client), sued us to pay his convertible note back. The company went bankrupt and after bankruptcy he sued my cofounder and I personally for the note. Still dealing with the whole thing. Every step of the way our other investors and lawyers were caught off guard, because the situation is apparently very rare, however, it still happened.

Having said that, knowing what I know now, I'd prefer to start a business, with all the issues and risks that it might entail, rather than let fear keep me from doing it. It's also been a hell of a learning experience and I'm sure it's all going to help me in the future.
I don't think it's that clear-cut. Specifically because this is coming from Epic. I've avoided some of the Assassin's Creed games on PC because I don't want to create a Uplay account, app launcher, or whatever. I'll play them on console and I'll probably buy a disc. I'm bummed about games being "X app store exclusive."

It also muddies things like moving to a new phone, parental controls, iCloud save/syncing, and things like refunds or expired subscriptions.

I'm not saying Apple isn't wrong here. I'm just pessimistic about what Epic is pushing for. It's way more in their interest than mine.

It's going to really suck when a normal office computer will need an OS, an "Adobe store" app (just for Photoshop), a "Microsoft store" app (just for Office), and a separate store app/account for any company big enough to push it on their users.
As someone who is quite anxious about climate change, your comment has done the most to give me hope with regards to these rollbacks. To add, if this brings manufacturing back to USA, maybe also the factories will be less polluting/ghg emitting than the factories they are replacing overseas.
Is the Epic game store the only place to get software on Windows?
Nobody has really “had their game shut off”. People who have Fortnite installed already are still able to play it indefinitely. Apple could have done this by revoking Epic’s developer certificate, but that hasn’t yet happened.
Looks like you're completely incorrect. It's not a "colloquialism", it's just a standard modern meaning of the word. From Merriam-Webster [1]:

> 3a: to reduce drastically especially in number

> cholera decimated the population

> Kamieniecki's return comes at a crucial time for a pitching staff that has been decimated by injuries. — Jason Diamos

> b: to cause great destruction or harm to

> firebombs decimated the city

> an industry decimated by recession

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/decimate
Our disagreement might be subtle. An old saw of mine is that the Turing test thought experiment is covered by prior art in economics, where the idea of an indifference curve describes the points between amounts of things where people are indifferent to substituting between them.

I agree these things you state aren't intelligent, but nor are computers, or can they be - people just become indifferent to whether we are dealing with a human or a computer.

My assertion is that we are highly sensitive to substitutes when the downside risk is large, but largely indifferent to them and even like them when they resemble a lottery with good upside at low cost or risk.

Self driving cars are a good example, where someone asked me whether, if I had kids, would I send one to school in traffic in an autonomous vehicle. I told them it would depend on how many kids I had.

But this pretty much describes the dynamic.
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Yet Xbox, Ninetendo, PlayStation..
A lot of important things follow from "discovery", like IP rights. Is it acceptable for ethnopharmacology companies to get most/all of the money benefits from selling indigenous medical knowledge to others? Can those companies patent a plant, or chemical derived from one and prohibit the indigenous people from using it thereafter?
So you are doubling down on your conpiracy-minded and anti-semitic claim that Ashkenazi Jews are not real. I am going to link a Reddit comment I found with a very quick Google search that addresses it and call it a night. I hope you are able to remove the hate from your eyes.

https://www.reddit.com/r/23andme/comments/8g1jhd/so_which_pe...

Edit: One more thing. Please point me to the thriving North African and Middle Eastern Jewish communities that you describe. They do not exist because they were persecuted. Some countries less so, but to claim that there was no persecution is a complete distortion of history. Good night!
Most of these devices could run general purpose siftware just fine if it were not for artificial roadblocks added by the manufacturer.
Technically they’ve been triple-decimating everyone, since to decimate is to kill one tenth of
“He is no lawyer that can’t argue both sides.”
Don't forget people with M.D. license plates, construction vehicles, and transit workers. I've had the unfortunate luck assuming all parking was treated the same, tickets have taught me otherwise.
I first ran into this the other way around: misaligned 64 bit values on 64 bit MIPS (and PPC) hardware.

But it's the sort of thread that once you pull on it, you just keep pulling. Getting the alignment made the data bigger, then we had to shrink it back, and while you're in there you might as well keep looking around...
Agreed. Jira exemplifies the “you’re holding it wrong” software.
Majority of Android phones shipped in last years were built by Samsung and Huawei which both ship their own app store by default. Your claim doesn't match the reality.
The word usage was correct. [1]

[1] https://www.dictionary.com/browse/fiscally
https://features.thecrimson.com/2013/frosh-survey/admissions...

Harvard

Tap on SAT by Ethnicity

Look at Pacific Islander vs Asian. That is as close as I have found so far.
WhatsApp Is a Milestone in Human Communication
I read their last financial statement. My only interest on them is how they and other company do financial engineering.
It is super worrying that in the 7 years nothing really changed for better in this regard, with Google only making things even less open and removing more user control.
Yes, but I wonder if that would have been specific enough.
https://www.lexico.com/definition/fiscal

The OED establishes a North American usage of this term as "relating to financial matters", and is not exclusive to taxes.
I wonder why Fortnite doesn't also make a WebAssembly version of Fortnight and deploy it on fortnite.com?

Then Apple would get jack shit from any sales there, so they can fight this battle with them while still offering access to the game for Apple users.

I'm probably missing some esoteric limitation Apple places on web-based games to cripple this use case.
maybe, but model quality doesn't scale linearly with model size. The performance/dollar metric is more important, and that definitely will decline over time.

Personally, I have a boots trapped business that uses a transformer model. I'm not worried about supermassive models like gpt3 because it would be way too expensive to deploy for my use case, with marginal additional quality.
Azure status page isn't reporting anything yet. https://status.azure.com/en-us/status
I tried to buy a new car and ended up not buying anything due to stubbornness of salesmen.

I couldn’t care less about personal interaction with sleazy salesman and when buying new car I just need the right price, not the sales dance done in person and all this “let me talk to the manager” BS.

When salesman quotes me MSRP on my answer on the best deal - this is conversation over.

When they stop treating customers like idiots they’ll get more business and more sales.
I don't mean this as a joke, but I thought people generally hated car salesmen?

Here in Japan, the manufacturers do actually set a recommended retail price that is slightly higher that what dealers often sell at. Example using the Subaru Outback mentioned up top, shows three available grades sold starting at 3,410,000yen. Roughly us$30k.

https://members.subaru.jp/estimate_simulation/index.html?car...
Any ideas how I could make one of these for my city as well? Thanks!
I am not a lawyer but I’m pretty sure it’s a violation of anti-trust law when Walmart tells me I’m not allowed to set up for free a lemonade stand in the middle of their store.
Scientists discover way to make quantum states last 10k times longer
The hardware is not Apple's, it belongs to the owner of the device.

Arguably I think there would be a reasonable anti-trust suit against the OS as well, it's not clear to me why it isn't illegal to utilize their monopoly on their hardware to create a monopoly on the OS running on the device.
>You can have very secure deb packages by having default-deny apparmor rules.

Nobody would do this on a desktop because it is massively inconvenient to go through every single app you want to run and debug which app armor rule that it's violating. Even when running a service with a pre-written app-armor profile you usually have to spend a while to figure out what the hell went wrong.

Flatpak's sandboxing is a complete joke and is entirely voluntary. Snaps have sane and granular permissions interfaces that you can easily toggle on and off. Canonical is actually enforcing auto-connect rules for the more potentially dangerous ones in their store. If you want to get a classic confined app in the store, it actually has to be approved by their security team.

These things are GREAT for security, which, to be quite frank, is a complete fucking disaster on Linux desktop. X11 is a massive security hole, no real mandatory access control, no sandboxing for apps, local privilege escalations out the wazoo, a quadrillion open security bugs in the kernel. Sure, you can try and set these things yourself, but that relies on the USER to properly configure these things, and if you don't know exactly what you're doing and screw it up (and there are no reliable, consistent guides on how to do these things), then you're just as insecure as you were before.

We're just fortunate that Linux on desktops aren't popular enough to be targeted, because we'd just be getting constantly owned thanks to this massively outdated security model. Windows is actually doing the security model a whole lot better these days, but their popularity and their tendency to implement them poorly and with bypasses to preserve backwards compatibility kind of cancels that benefit out.

It's a real shame that snaps have not taken off. If flatpak wins, and they don't massively overhaul the damned thing to actually add some semblance of sandboxing with permissions controlled by the user, then we're doomed.
You should check out the typing stuff in 3.8. Combined with mypy, gets a lot of the way there to statically checked python without the hassles of statically typed code.
Being able to get root access to your phone just like you do with a normal computer would also be nice.

We are increasingly losing the right to actually control our devices as time goes on, and it scares me. Especially since you can't really DIY this kind of hardware to remove these protections.

It makes me sad to think there's a pretty a good chance of this lawsuit going Apple's way. Even more sad is the fact that many actually support these ever-increasing walled gardens.
I was doing Unreal Engine development on an airgapped machine. I was annoyed to find out it requires the Epic store. There's also no offline install option. I hate updating the app each time I run it, only then checking for an update to Unreal Engine.

I also hate having separate apps for different games. I tend to avoid most of the stores even if I want to play those games.
A lot more developers would come sell on the store if it’s 15%. Apple has a real chance to take the App Store to the next level. This is a failure of imagination on their part and those are the worst kinds of mistakes a creative organization can make.
And this was very much when Rubin was still at Google.
CA court rules Amazon can be liable for defective goods sold on its marketplace
California court: Amazon liable for defective products sold by 3rd parties
Kismet
This feature has been around since Ice Cream Sandwich, released 2011

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Ice_Cream_Sandwich

> Certain "System" apps (particularly those pre-loaded by carriers) that cannot be uninstalled can now be disabled. This hides the application and prevents it from launching, but the application is not removed from storage.
I'm kind of at a loss for what they expect the "sprint goals" to be.

Would people who've been through this program be willing to share what their sprint goal was along with how mature their project was, what kind of experience they had and whether they achieved their sprint goal?