skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have any evidence to back your premise that Indian nationalists want to bring back the varna system? That’s an extraordinary claim that requires sourcing.

From what I’ve seen it’s like any other nationalist movement.
Why do streamers play on multi-player servers to begin with if they don’t want to be around other players?
Before suing you could try the abuse contact for the sending email server and then escalate to the abuse contact for the adress space of that server if needed. In my experience that gets you of spam lists from any "legitimate" business.
In practice, there are already people who need dumb screens - airlines, railways, offices, and so on. Those people will pay a premium to get "industrial grade" products, but it's not always an enormous premium, and most people on HN could afford to pay it.
In your provided link it points to Sweden as one of the best prepared countries for COVID. I am Swedish citizen. I am actually quiet surprised since it is still hard to get tested and test results take longer than two days (mine was a week but it was private and two months ago).

Sweden in general is handling it well, but it would take a long time to understand who handled covid better.
When I posted this in another context someone linked this beauty: https://github.com/kkuchta/css-only-chat
I honestly think a good skill to have as a programmer is to know when something is a complex, niche problem with inherently "fragile" implementations (as in, it is really easy to make mistakes) that is therefore best solved by a few domain experts working on an open source library, and just use that library.

Based on everything I've seen about them, OT/CRDTs sound like they are that.
So Elsas own comparison[1] says that the binary size difference is 20MB Elsa (QJS) vs 44MB Deno (V8). Looking at QuickJS benchmark[2] V8 is 28M vs 1M QJS, so Elsa adds 19M on top of the engine vs 16M for Deno. Doesn't feel that lightweight anymore

[1] https://github.com/elsaland/elsa/blob/master/COMPARISON.md

[2] https://bellard.org/quickjs/bench.html
The Latitude "Business laptop" has it, but not the XPS. It's good enough.
This is the way it's going to go if developers keep saying it's about the IAP premium and not the fact that apple is literally selling access to people's phones in bulk.
I don't believe in listing advice. One advice is useful when used in a specific context and bad in other contexts. When you list advice, you make it sounds like this is a path to follow.

Well for any thing that you tell people to not do, you will have people who succeed by doing it, and vice versa.

List of advice are just random sentences that don't mean anything
Well, thanks for the suggestion, I didn't know it was an option.

But what if I need to input a language that's not supported or I just don't want to yell at my TV to search a video?
Until you misplace the paper notebook..
Not discounting the negative effects of the nationalism, but I don't think caste system is behind the current rise of nationalism. The prime minister himself is from the lower caste.
Samsung Flash storage I have always had great success with

Intel I would only use Enterprise Class gear, and even then would look to other vendors for storage

Intel trades off their name, and puts out alot of crap at the lower end which they get away with because "No one ever got fired for buying intel"

Alot of these big names do this....
citation would be great
XBox is the walled garden, not Windows.
Interesting to see the judge bring up the same points that so many have here on HN, myself included. I've read a few articles about this topic, not just this one, but some good points I saw from another article [1]:

> Judge Rogers questioned Epic on when, exactly Apple became a monopoly given that its App Store rules have remained unchanged since the App Store launched, which Epic had no solid answer for, responding only that it was a monopoly when Fortnite came to iOS in 2018. She also said that walled gardens have existed for four decades and that what Apple's doing isn't too different. "They created a platform," she said

> She also reiterated that Epic Games made a "calculated decision" to defy Apple's App Store rules, and the court doesn't provide injunctions for contractual disputes. Epic was "not forthright," she said. "There are people in the public who consider you guys heroes for what you did, but it's not honest.

> Epic Games continued to argue that Apple has an App Store monopoly and charges excessive fees, but the judge pointed out that the 30 percent rate that Apple collects is the "industry rate" collected by PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo, Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, Google, and more. "It's all 30 percent and you just want to gloss over it," the judge said to Epic's lawyers.

I don't remember where I read this but someone mentioned that the judge asked Apple why they charge 30%, which I found to be a bit of a strange thing to ask (and probably a bit of a softball). Why not 30%? Why not 40%? Why do companies have margins that they set that the market will bear at all? Etc.

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2020/09/28/epic-games-apple-disput...
My Kindle is old so there wasn't ad-supported versions back then, but my GF's Kindle does have ads, and they're almost always terrible, terrible books, displayed full-size in the sleep screen. We joke that they try to shame you into paying the no-ads upgrade (or for a cover!).
There are no one, but two, problems with "rods from God:" plasma blindness and non-kinetic components' survival.
A million times this.

I recently had the misfortune of trying to learn Android app development and oh my GOD I can't describe how SEO-ridden it is. Basically any search that Google can surmise as being related to Android development (no matter if I'm searching for the fix for some error message, etc), I get almost a full page of results that are SEO'd "Android App Dev Tutorial For Beginners" that are all basically:

- 25 minute read of "how to install Android Studio"

- "Okay now that you have that, you can go off and start writing Android apps! Have fun!
You could install whatever you wanted on wm6
Due to the preceding Nintendo and Sony I had assumed she was talking about XBox there.
Indian Hindu Nationalist government has now removed all garbs and is a full on fascism. They have scant regard for law or constitution. They have absolute control over all the 4 pillars of democracy and is effectively controlling popular opinion.
I think it's less recent reporting. I don't know a ton about the country's recent history, but India was very much founded as a nationalist state, and the PM position was held by the same family for about 50 years after independence.
Not to mention, the Epic store itself is a walled garden!
Apple gets to write the terms of service and you must do whatever is said. It's inherently anti-developer. Duh Epic broke the contract.

I'm not sure what people are expecting the legal system will do in favor of Epic. At best Apple will be found to use Unethical cornering the market strategies, but that's unrelated to the TOS.
We Need to Get Energy Right in the Developing World
> Also, why is the BBC feeling a need to put quotes around "fly" in the article?

The BBC is fastidious about quoting. It's a good thing. They don't report that 'man killed by a speeding car' - instead they report 'man "killed by a speeding car"' because they're quoting their source that told them what happened, not telling you what happened themselves because they weren't there and don't know that.
Wow,, this is seriously bad. Calling this fast is very misleading. QuickJS is about 0.5x as fast as V8 without JIT (and like 20x slower than V8+JIT).
This is always the way commercial software works. If we can't legislate it then the only way to help people is by educating them.
A Food Truck can be a good study of scale.

Every sale should make some money and the scale can determined by fixed costs divided by the net profits per sale - if your equipment lease costs $30 per day, and you sell a burger for a net $1, you must sell 30 burgers per day.

If you maximize profit margins, vertically integrate as much as possible ( hello family labor ) and really dig in to your customer base to find a great fit that they are willing to pay good margins for, then you don't have to sell a million burgers from a hundred trucks to take a weekend off.
> Education lenders are dangerous predators

Which is the US government, who will rubber stamp any loan amount as long as a college is getting the money. Which is eventually the US voters’, who love to vote for the politicians who cut taxes, who can do so by reducing the amount government contributes to the the colleges.

Politician that cuts spending on education and increases lending to students is hailed for cutting taxes and assisting students in obtaining education. This is the end result after decades of gutting society.
Social media apps are cloning each others stuff now GitHub is on the same way
The geography of the area is such that a person can walk to these people in 90 minutes. A jet suit with a slightly different design might be a meaningfully better option for rescuing people climbing el capitan or the bottom of ravines, but that’s not what is being considered here.
I've seen a few videos of youtubers (Colin Furze, the Hacksmith) taking classes to learn to fly it; it looks like it doesn't take more than a few days to learn, but a massive amount of physical strength to fly.
None of his previous work is on the subject of freedom and democracy btw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumit_Ganguly
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I think by "no js" it's not whether you write JS, but whether the page uses it. LiveView relies on WebSockets and Javascript.
This is very ignorant of Hinduism. Hinduism does NOT validate caste discrimination.

Read more https://hinduism.stackexchange.com/questions/157/what-is-the...
Protocol Labs (the guys behind IPFS) have been working on https://filecoin.io to address this exact concern – incentivising people via micropayments in their cryptocurrency (filecoin) to pin and seed files.
Market opportunities are for companies to make more money, not less. If everyone is doing it, it’s because the market, us, told them they could get away with it, and therefore will, because two revenue streams will always be better than one.
When I used to commute (also close to 2hrs each way) I just never got enough sleep. I'd have to get up around 6am to be on the train by 7am. I'd get to my desk worn out and dreading another slog back home for 7/8pm. It sucked so much I decided lifestyle is more important than work and moved to Canada where I have been able to walk to work or had an otherwise easy commute.

In my opinion anyone travelling 4 hrs between work is living in a poverty of sorts. Perhaps not financial poverty, but in my opinion a lack of freedom to enjoy your life outside of work is a considerable deficit in your short time here.
Tell me the Supreme Court is doing its job when it hears the long pending cases on Aadhaar, electoral bonds and others of critical national interest. So far, it's just been busy playing around with telecom company dues, Tata Sons' dispute with Cyrus Mistry, etc.
They also get a lot more physical exercise throughout the day on average, reducing the risk of many heart conditions, etc. That might balance that out.
Destiny 2 running on Xbox Series X
It’s crucial that developing countries expand their energy infrastructure in a sustainable way.

Pretty much everything else hinges on it.

Around 118 million people gain access to electricity each year. If we don’t ensure that clean energy is the default choice for them, we risk jeopardizing all the work that has been done to date.

Author here, I'd love to hear your ideas for how to build the energy infrastructure the right way in developing economies!
I don't see the great keyboard either. My almost only reason to buy them.
I wonder how many people who buy TVs read reviews on them beforehand. I always do, and I wouldn’t consider any device that came with this garbage.

I have a feeling this will last about as long as it takes for consumers to get a sense for what models come with ads. No one wants this on a device they already paid for.
I think we’re going to have to agree to disagree.

You can be not sexist without supporting every possible measure to attempt to achieve a perfectly egalitarian society.
That can happen on quite a few other platform in theory but not in practice basically the platforms assume the risk in that case I remember that form the good ole days of online FX options and binary option trading in the late 2000’s.

Basically you always had forced liquidation or some sort of a hedge on the opposite leg that made sure you couldn’t lose more than the leveraged amount you’ve bet on.
I really wish the whole home theater was way more modular.

I'd like separate boxes for video display, video signal switching, audio signal switching, stereo and surround sound decoding, speaker driving, OTA TV tuning, AM radio, FM radio.

I want these boxes to all support a common control protocol, with another box or boxes handling controlling the system.

My current system with a receiver that is 8 years old and a TV that is around 3 or 4 years old is fine, except for three things: (1) the receiver cannot handle 4K video, (2) the receiver does not work with any voice assistants, and (3) the TV does not work with any voice assistants.

With a modular system, I'd just replace the video switching with a 4K switching box, and replace the control box with one that supports a voice assistant (or add another control box...no reason a module system has to have only one such box).

With the current approach, I'd have to replace the receiver and the TV for that.
> “You did something, you lied about it by omission, by not being forthcoming. That’s the security issue. That’s the security issue!” Rogers told Epic

Why does that sound like it's a reality tv show?
It looks interesting but I do not really understand what it does. Could someone put this into context and summarize it, please?
>Seems to me like little more than a cheap publicity stunt for fundraising.

Having volunteered as a first responder in the White Mountains of New England and with a few friends who dealt with mountain rescues, particularly winter mountain rescues, I strongly disagree with you. There are plenty of places where there are significant numbers of people hiking/climbing/skiing/snowboarding, a vertical range of <6000', horizontal distance of just a mile or two, and yet it can easily take hours from the nearest road/building to reach someone on foot (with no vehicle travel possible and even helicopters often infeasible plus based from quite a distance away). While something like this could turn that into minutes. And going by foot, as well as extracting people, isn't without significant risk too many times of the year (particularly if you're trying to move quickly).

Yes, no doubt this will need significant refinement (just like helicopters). There may be much better possible designs, as well as numerous improvements to be made in terms of auto control. Heck, rather then suits maybe one of those flying platforms or a big drone someone can hang from make more sense. But the idea of getting a few rescuers with some basic kit to an accident high up on a mountain in a matter of minutes with the ability to do an aerial survey/search as they come in? There is nothing gimmicky about it. Minutes let alone hours save people.

>I thought the number one rule for First Responders was not to cause injury (on the scene or en-route) to yourself or bystanders and not to cause further injury to the casualty.

Wilderness rescue is inherently risky, but for that matter so is medical work in general. The goal is certainly to have a large net improvement in overall wellness, so they don't want people, particularly not First Responders which means relatively little training, rush into dangerous situations and cause more trouble for everyone. But somebody using something like this, or doing wilderness rescue at all, is going to be trained beyond that level. And intelligent weighing of risks based on level of training and equipment is core to the entire mission.

>Then I suppose we will be expected to all feel sorry and cry for the terrible loss of this heroic first responder ... despite the idiotic risks they took.

Get the hell over yourself. Holy crap.
Frequently that answer is important and you want extra confidence that you calculated it correctly.
You're conflating nationalism with a cultural supremacy movement. They're similar to outsiders, they often overlap, but they are not necessarily the same thing.
Who could have predicted that putting an android OS and an internet connection in a device that should only function as a display would have negative consequences?

At this point, is it even possible to buy a high quality tv that isn't a smart tv? And will these smart TVs work properly if you keep them disconnected from the internet?

(Side note: this is why TVs are so much cheaper now, isn't it?)
This isn’t running Windows 10X. I wonder why Microsoft let them release it, my understanding was that normal Windows couldn’t deal with a folding device (not surprising, considering the 40% of the time my Surface gets spooked when I unplug the keyboard).
Clarified, as reach people in this area just fine. It might be interesting to look at this kind of jet suit for rock climbers, but this specific design doesn’t seem capable of that.
The price premium is there but also plenty opportunities to shop around for a last year's model https://www.idealo.de/preisvergleich/ProductCategory/31784.h...

for example, Samsung QP82R is an 8k "TV" for €3500.

My worry is can I it decode all standard codecs from USB source? Apparently Samsung in 2017 removed DTS and DivX /Xvid support.
Decoding on the TV is key as only then you get the best motion interpolation algorithms. Playing from Raspberry via HDMI you don't get these.
Does the caste system still exist in India?
Oh, yes, brand awareness is a real thing. For example, a lot of people will avoid Samsung TVs right now.
Agreed. This happened with my startup. Basecamp complains about this practice frequently too: https://mobile.twitter.com/jasonfried/status/116898696270498...

Pro tip: if the competitor uses your trademark in their ad copy, you can do a takedown notice and usually the ads will be removed.
Definitely don't buy smart TVs. Is it still possible to buy a dumb TV these days? Who cares, Don't buy a smart TV. TV isn't all that great anyhow, it's mostly a bunch moralizing hidden behind a plot and some sarcasm. Leave it behind.
The author lists his email address on the site and indicates he’s looking for a position.
People are giving the CCP too much credit in believing how far ahead they are in rolling this out. The social credit system is an idea and an initiative. Some systems try to implement some of its ideas on various levels. But there is no one social credit system.

Most articles do a pretty bad job at separating CCP's ambitions from the actual implementation.

Basically any data driven tracking effort in China will be presumed to be part of the "social credit system" effort. But one has to understand that doesn't mean they are actually part of a coherently connected and integrated system.

Many articles often talk about there being a "score" in the system but they're just talking about a score in one of the many systems out there. Usually they mean Alibaba's.
The only knowledge I distinctly remember gaining in high school was from a class called "consumer auto". I learned to change my oil, replace the brakes and flush the lines, check the fluids, etc.

As a broke college student DIY auto repair was a great way to save money. As someone with a job, it's more of a hobby.

But learning how to fix a basic machine is an amazing lesson in design: you see how mature technology is made to be maintainable, which isn't something you get from a lot of modern electronics.
Yet another ransomware on a Hospital. Potentially biggest one yet
Can it move in 6 degrees of freedom?
I found this list of TVs that have ads or not[0], and the first item in the list with ads was a TCL Roku, accompanied with a screenshot of a Home Screen background ad[1]

[0] https://www.rtings.com/tv/tests/ads-in-smart-tv

[1] https://i.rtings.com/images/reviews/tv/tcl/s405/s405-ads-lar...
Unfortunately the abstract nature of our craft makes hourly pay nearly inevitable. If you want a new engine in a $50k car, you can roughly understand the difficulty and cost of that, but software just seems like magic that appears out of nowhere for free.
Fine-tuning ancient grains for beverages, bowls
This example should that XML is decent as markup but for a configuration or data interchange format this kind of syntax is undesirable.

You have text with interspersed elements with the same name, how can this be represented in python other than a DOM?
The problem I see with these companies, where HW is the focus and not SW, is that their tech stack is a joke. I have no faith in their security models, or their ability to protect my privacy. These features always feel like they have been just added on with little thought of the surrounding environment. Anyone who has developed a Tizen, LG webOS, Visio app, will understand what I am mean. The platforms have significant variations between model years, and developers are flat out told that features will not be fixed on 2-3 year old TVs. This seems insane considering the level of trust they ask from their customer.

Buyer BEWARE!
I'm ready to purchase a product like this one given 2 constraints:

1. Price comes down a bit, for an ultraportable this is a little expensive for my budget.

2. The software stack has very few bugs and enables intelligent switching between 2 screens and 1. My hopes here are on the Surface Neo even though there is a gap between the screens. Windows 10x may provide some help here.

To give some background here, there are weeks where my work takes me to many locations in one day, and having something kind of pocketable which weighs 1.4 lbs and allows desktop functionality on a 13 inch screen would make a big difference for me. The key thing I cannot get from an ipad is a full unix stack, and they are not pocketable at a size which can work with my older eyes well. I've seen linux tablets, but I need a higher level of consistency in my other apps and touch interface than the ones I've read about can provide.
I am wondering if you could use this technology to create a hovercraft like vehicle that anybody could drive around, maybe pickup the victim. If the flight altitude and speeds are low a computer could handle all the tricky parts and the driver would just point the direction, in case of problems it would land in a few seconds (maybe this exists already but are not popular)
I agree that a jet pack isn’t as useful as a helicopter, but they are way, way cheaper. Medical helicopters cost millions of dollars and require expensive fuel and highly trained pilots. Jetpacks cost $100-300k, use a fraction of the fuel, and can be flown with a sports pilot license (much easier to acquire and maintain).
Let it go. Let it go.
Misleading titles never bothered HN anyway.
Also surpression in Kashmir seems to have escalated over the past year with removal of local governance and blockade of internet access.

It is not a good combination: Escalating human rights abuses, an economy in freefall, pandemic, border skirmishes with China, nationalism, crackdown on ethnic minorities ...
IMO, UAPA and similar laws should be repealed and never be allowed to be enacted again.
"Samsung learned from the industry represented here"

Not everyone on HN works in adtech, and very likely none of the people in this thread do either.
Same as face recognition in that regard. It's just that humans are evolved to do wetware-accelerated face recognition very well. And not hand palm recognition. But for computers its all the same