skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> India will only be a true democracy when Hinduism, which manifests in the caste system and brahmanic supremacy, will be annihilated.

Your hatred for Hinduism is shocking! I am utterly disappointing to read this in HN (a tech news discussion). Just for your info, all people regardless of religions have caste in India including Sikhs, Chritsians and muslims . Define "brahmanic supremacy". Brahmins are a group of people living by conducting temple rituals and they are mostly poor. The politicians are using religion as a weapon for increasing their votes. Can we stop using religion when discussing here ?

References:
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india/are-brahmins-today-s-da...
One thing that comments so far down here do not highlight is that there was a recent change in the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act where there were changes in the amount of money / limit of administrative expenditure that can be allocated to foreign contributions to 20 percent from the previous 50 percent and, Enforcement Directorate had issued a show-cause notice to Amnesty International India recently (I think in 2019).

So while yeah, online discussions mostly conclude to simplest possible explanation i.e. authoritarian / totalitarian / nationalism / and what not - This notice comes just days after FCRA was changed in India, that might be the pushing point / breakpoint towards closure rather than "Government Witchhunt", because Amnesty has been getting the show-causes notices for some time now.
shady foreign funding, please share some sources to back up your claim, or it is not a productive comment.
Aren't reproducible builds pretty well established as being important for security? How do you know that the developers are providing you with the binaries that they claim?

Most people do not compile their own software, they used signed binary distributions being given to them. If you have reproducible builds, third parties can more easily verify independently that the code being distributed is the same as the code published in the open source repositories.

This doesn't just keep dev teams honest, it also provides defenses against situations like those where a hacker gains control of the website being used for distribution. I believe reproducible builds have helped to catch this real life issue at least once in the cryptocurrency community (with Monero).

To me, that's enough to justify their existence.
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Worth noting is the fact that the government is charging protestors and dissenters under sedition and UAPA [0].

> In July 2019,the ambit of UAPA was expanded. It was amended allowing the government to designate an individual as a terrorist without trial.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlawful_Activities_(Preventio...
Building a Client Side Proxy
Given the typical scope (e.g. burning VC money) of the companies going through the effort to hire/immigrate people, there is definitely no real supply shortage for software engineers. While for plumbers, there is, even with the influx of the aforementioned service people.
Will Siri ever drive me to work in the future?
How API Availability works in the Swift compiler
yes, you're right. (Though I think it wasn't about a TV watching your food choices.) So what happens legally if, today, a company literally does it? How do you legislate against this?

It is literally possible for a television to include a punishment timer (as in, it is pretty trivial to code up, if the device isn't rooted.) What happens if a company sells one that literally identifies shopping and uses a punishment timer for people who buy a competitor to their sponsor instead of their sponsor? can you make it illegal?
Yes, same here.

Trackpoint has a steeper learning curve - but it's so worth it.

I hope Lenovo are not going to phase it out.
Amateur tip: you can be very heavily fined for violating compliance laws while providing top-notch privacy.
VMware announces its intent to acquire SaltStack
I see this thread is being brigaded by the usual right-wing Indian nationalists who think Modi can do no wrong and the Hindu majority is somehow, inexplicably, under threat.
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I would also add:

- don't do anything that is based on user-generated content(email, social network, ...)

- it cannot be anything the customer can make himself on his own(e-commerce website with woocommerce, payments with stripe, data storage with s3 ...)

- a NEW idea must be monetizable from the get-go to avoid big players coming in and taking over in shorter time than it takes you to get up and running and building a customer base

- it must be a new idea that has no market yet or existing players have insufficient offering

- if you cannot draw the idea on one A4 paper, the idea is too complicated

- if the price of switching providers is too low, you will lose customers when new players come in and vice versa if you are entering existing market

- if you cannot put out MVP in three months, the idea is too complex

- if the MVP(or even production version) software product/service cannot run on one single VPS or bare-metal server, it is way too complex

- if implementing gdpr and alike are too complicated, the idea is too complicated

- you should avoid storage of any user-generated sensitive information(invoices, payment/transaction details, passwords, keys...), sooner or later it will bite you in the ass

I have recently talked about the world of startups being done for since many large companies offer services for free, even if it is not their core business, they prevent new players form entering the market and pump up their stock by adding value to their name. If you have something new, the big players can take over the entire market whenever they want. Doing something simple worked in 2000s but nowadays a single developer cannot do what was passible back then and you need a team, and as mentioned above, massive financing to be fast to market. So essentially the world belogns to large corporations these days :(
What's the point of having my own cloud as long as my devices are purposed built against my privacy?

AFAIK everything I type on my Windows machine is directly sent to MS servers. I assume the same for my Android phone.

Microsoft and Google ... I know it's the worst for privacy but my platform choices were made before I realized I was data mined.

I can't afford Apple, and frankly I think their privacy stance is more marketing than real care. Especially when I see the lengths they go to create a world were they OWN consumers.

Last Sunday I decided I had enough: I installed KDE Neon on my desktop. It failed to install drivers for my NVIDIA 950 gfx and proceeded to kill my sound card drivers in the process.
So I installed Elementary OS (yes complete opposite from Neon). Graphic drivers were fine, but every time it played a sound it was preceded by a loud crack in my speakers.
And it's not like it's fresh / unknown hardware, I assembled this PC between 2010 and 2012 (Intel Core i7 3770k on an Asus motherboard).

So I'm back on Windows, but at least it's a fresh install.
What does the GPL have to do with OpenBSD?
Maybe 90% of the ones that are noticeably impacted?
> The slow judicial system is the biggest weapon that the government and other large entities with money have.

This has been going on for decades, no govt wants to expand the judicial system for some reason.
Are non-smart TV's still a thing? Smart TV's aren't necessary from a consumer standpoint.
Helicopters can reach people in this location just fine in a reasonable time, and more importantly bring people back. Limiting your comparison to a 400,000+$ experimental jet suit vs walking is deceptive.

If cost that much of an issue, a paraglider costs 1/10th as much and are likely much safer to operate. Or if getting a single person on site is all you need, tiny helicopters cost as low as 50k new.
Look at "digital signage" TVs built for business are available that don't have the consumer software. They are of course more expensive and optimized more for continuous usage (16hr/day 7days/week for samsung), but as of now I don't believe they get ads pushed to them.

https://www.samsung.com/us/business/products/displays/4k-uhd...
Thanks, this was immensely informative. Please consider contributing to the OpenWrt wiki IPv6 page: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/ipv6/start
Maybe because social media helps demagogues spread their message?
It turns out that not everyone appreciates being turned into an economic client state of the US. Nationalism is a direct reaction meant to (whether effective or not) reaffirm sovreignty.
That's why I like weekly goals. Fuck up one week? Doesn't matter, once Monday hits, everything resets and you start over.
Our Samsung TV in our living room has been unplugged for about three months. I wanted to give it to charity and have new “plant friendly” shelves installed instead of the TV nook, still need to talk my wife into that.

Before the great unplugging, I set the Internet connection on the TV to be to my iPhone. I almost never have my iPhone hotspot turned on, so I could do TV updates when needed, otherwise starve it for an Internet connection.

BTW, no TV works for us because we stream to my wife’s large iPad Pro and she bought a fancy stand that can position the iPad anywhere in space. We site next to each other and place the iPad just under three feet away. We like this setup.
The Bitcoin Family: Still on the Road–After Three Years
The idea of Lambda is great, but their execution has been shit. First off, the ISAs are securitized and resold. Lambda has zero incentive to do anything above and beyond pushing students through some percentage of the program.

Second, Lambda’s level of instruction in the software tracks is abysmal. I’ve witnessed someone in my household go through Lambda. Day after day she struggled to stay on top of a constantly shifting and poorly organized curriculum. It was taught by an incredibly inconsistent and constantly rotating cast of instructors.

The only thing Lambda did provide with some consistency is structure & discipline. There are certainly people who won’t study anything on their own outside of an externally imposed framework that provides a daily cadence of learning as well as regular milestones. In this sense Lambda is a calendar priced like a mid-size family sedan.

Third, Lambda’s career guidance and job placement assistance - both of which are advertised as part of the package - are simply laughable. It consists mainly of asking newly hired alumni to post their job offers in a highly visible Slack channel. This is meant to encourage participants to look for jobs “because surely you can do it if those other people can”. Otherwise Lambda doesn’t do anything to help one polish their resume or find jobs through networking.

Last but not least, the ISA’s monthly payment is calculated based on gross pay before taxes are netted out. When viewed through this lens, the payment is a lot steeper than originally advertised. Buyer beware.
I suppose you could open the back and unplug the aerial cable from the motherboard. Unless they’re using one of those tiny surface mount aerials of course :(
WebAssembly Runtime for Python
The Shield TV runs Android TV, so you are just moving your point of trust to Google instead...
There are some benchmarks against Deno here (as JSON files): https://github.com/elsaland/elsa/tree/master/benchmarks
They mention International students in the article. I'm not surprised at all that those numbers have dropped, but it probably didn't gain much attention until this year.

Every student, or friend of mine, that I've talked to in China, Korea and Taiwan have told me they aren't applying to US universities for any number of reasons:

1) Too expensive
2) Crime / Danger ( debatable here, but the school shootings in the past few years hasn't helped )
3) Racism

Out of the three, fear of racism was the least mentioned. The biggest reason was cost. Crime fear of major crime was also mentioned in most conversations I've had.

In the past I've always tried to downplay the danger / gun violence, but nowadays I don't even bother. Unless they want to go to MIT or Harvard, I really don't think there's much value in the 4-year degree in the US when you consider the cost ( and international students almost always pay more unless they get scholarships ).
I suggest you become unbaffled. Knowing the reasons why will help everyone have better lives and help revert things.

On one hand being baffled may be a symptom of not seeing certain things and on the other it maybe a reaction to seeing things and feeling powerless.

I would caution against simple answers to things though. Me right, them wrong is never a useful explanation.
Another RCE Vulnerability in KensingtonWorks
Hey, one of the creators of MindPad here.

MindPad is an iOS+web app written in Swift/React with a back end on GCP, using postgres for bi-directional near-real-time sync.

A friend and I wrote it over the last year after being unhappy with existing alternatives, which are either overcomplicated, too expensive, or just did not fit what we wanted to use.

Registration is optional and the app is free. Since I posted on Reddit about it we got many really cool reviews, which kind of surprised us because we thought it's still not good enough.

The overall premise is to blend together notes, to-do's and habits/goals in a slack-like, chat-with-yourself interface.

Let me know what you think!
Runnaroo and Startpage are both privacy focused and use Google as the base for organic web results. I am the creator of Runnaroo.
I don't get why machines running the same Linux distribution couldn't actually do the same. BT2 would indeed work very well for this.
> Indians are very pleased at this decision.

Do you speak for all Indians?
> An open-source, self-hosted Slack clone would be my strong preference.

Are you suggesting that a non-free, expensive, SaaS, IRC/rocket/mattermost/element/etc clone is not where we should be aiming?
"Journal of Democracy", Lancet and "Global Health Security Index" ---- I put them all in same category. Take whatever they say with a pinch of salt.

The reports published by these orgs are prepared by some minimum wage worker which is then rubber stamped.

If these institutes were so credible then US and UK would have not been impacted by COVID so badly.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/11/countries-preparednes...

Western narrative about right, wrong and perfect system needs to be called out as they are -- hypocrite.
2 hours after your comment, at ~190 concurrent visitors. 4th in the HN top atm.
It's a simple command-line application that dispatches to the quickjs runtime. The headline is somewhat misleading.
It seems like a product nobody asked for, but maybe it's just me who doesn't sees the usefullness.
It’s easy to diss India without knowing the ground facts. There has been major bias by these organizations where they show mercy and protests for terrorits but none for the people killed by them.

Being anti govt by calling right wing Hindu nationalist is BS. India has seen years of corruption and I can attest that things have never been better and improving Commenting on the recent CAA legislation without reading it fully tells me that you failed your schooling.

While you scream BJP as Hindu nationalist party, it has many Muslim members and a majority of Muslims voted for BJP because of its strong leadership.

Why don’t you and Amnesty take time to address the Uighurs Muslims who are in a Chinese camp being brain washed, all 10 million of them while their mosques are being destroyed? Oh wait i forgot, a lot of hypocrites linger here.
What makes it an IDE and not a sequencer with intellisense-like features/ more presets?
This exact setup works for me, I use an X1 Tablet with an external keyboard. It is a 2nd gen, so Linux-support is not great (no webcam, no real suspend-to-ram), but for 3rd gen it seems to be good.
As other commenters pointed out, this looks like a total publicity stunt. Surely it would be safer and more practical to use drones to deliver equipment/supplies with remote medical specialists advising the patient themselves or those nearby to assist (somebody would have had to be in a position to call for assistance to begin with so there is most likely a conscious person around). Obviously not ideal, but in conjuction with standard on the ground responders I would imagine this would be a much better way to address the time urgency requirement.
"* I don't care about privacy; I have nothing to hide."

Do you have things you would rather not explain?
Do you want to be someone great? What about someone who stands up to these companies? If so, do you want to be doxxed, deepfaked, and your psychological weaknesses probed by your enemies, who can purchase your information from an unscrupulous Google employee?
Do you want rich kids to be able to get your information, like someone did to an Instagram account via a facebook employee?

I agree that Google is a better search engine.
This is why my tv stays offline and isn’t setup. My Nvidia shield runs to hdmi and is the only playback source.
If you're teaching yourself to weld buy the cheapest 220v DC stick welder you can find. MIG sucks for beginners because it doesn't teach you anything except how to pull a trigger.
Ofcourse; Deno is V8-based, which is a lot more full-featured than quickjs. Perhaps this is a more informative benchmark: https://bellard.org/quickjs/bench.html
I just use an Samsung Tablet for it, then again Android native apps are enough for my on the go workflows.
This is a wapper around an existing js runtime. How is this systems programming?
It’s not your fault that you lack knowledge, should have taught you well at the right age. Sorry too late for you
Mine doesn't show ads (yet?). I hope that means pihole is effective enough in blocking them.
Ask HN: Those days you don't feel like working
Just wondering how you handle those days you don't feel like working?

Especially in these times when travel is limited, I feel like I could do with a long holiday, but not just looking at the same 4 walls.
Dragging with right click works with firefox on linux
The risk profile is rather different in wartime. I presume those aircraft were a good deal less safe than modern ones, but I could be mistaken.
I don't buy that for two reasons:

- Brand awareness is one thing, but it feels companies are more interested in saturating consumers with advertising. That saturation is something entirely different.

- Advertising can present information to base purchasing decisions upon, but rarely does in most media. While advertising should never be the sole source of that information, it would be far more effective for brand or product awareness.
Modi can't be always right just like Amnesty India. If they are so sure about honesty of their work, they should fight the court case instead of running away.

Did you create an account just to bait here?
What has this post got anything to do with Startups? HN has become irrelevant when the reason is to make impacts in the startup world and less on how the political landscape works.

The only reason this post is important is because a lot of the techies are Indians and you can see from the comments on why these discussions are so important for them.

We could go on and bring up political unrests in China, Afghanistan, ISIS, Russia, Palestine/Israel, America and so on however the fact is that HN policies should down vote such posts.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/former-cji-ranjan-gog...
Dynamic Programming with Fibonacci Numbers
In the course of building that data compatibility, our plans changed, we think for the better. We wrote about it here: https://www.arqbackup.com/blog/next-up-arq-7/

I'm sorry you feel support isn't responsive. We aim to answer emails within 1 business day, as we always have. We've added staff to do this.
It will possibly be safe enough under some well-tested limited circumstances/locations. I'm skeptical that translates into something made generally available.
Ah, I should have looked better then, as I thought it was a proper runtime.

You are right.
Child elements are different from attributes because elements can be structured (with attributes, other elements etc.) and repeated within the same parent element. On the down side, elements are a little more verbose and whitespace needs some attention.

This restricts attributes to zero or one unstructured values, which is more than a "style guideline".
ZFS: The Future of File Systems (2010)
Lots of companies have "digital signage" TVs built for business that don't have the consumer software. They are typically more expensive and optimized more for continuous usage (16hr/day 7days/week for samsung), but as of now I don't believe they get ads pushed to them.

https://www.samsung.com/us/business/products/displays/4k-uhd...
In my opinion, it's a solution in search of a problem.
Helicopters are faster than vans so they don’t need to fit in one.

Also, you can easily put a cheaper, more fuel efficient, and safer paraglider in the back of a van which can also carry even more supplies.
I meant that all the evidence was circumstantial, which was admitted by even the court.
let it Go
Since when you want to have a developing world as a model for others (developed world) for follow? There is a reason developing world is called developing world. And it doesn't mean a developing country should not follow China's approach to multiple issues.
This is rather interesting. My biggest doubt is how many HDMI inputs they have and if it's possible to easily switch between them. But I'll definitely look into this kind of devices when it's time for me to update my current TV. (And no antenna input means the Italian law doesn't consider it a TV, so I can avoid the TV tax)
That is a horrible way to present benchmarks, but it's quite a big difference in favor of Elsa. I was under the impression Deno was built on Rust and V8 which should bode for good performance, Elsa must be doing something very good?
Ah I remember when Hackaday was just a blog full of interesting hardware and software hacks. Now it's all grown-up and contains blog posts about the politics of the twitter algorithm, and the latest advancements in cold fusion research.
nothing a hot soldering iron won't fix.
> I've seen Richard Browning fly this in person — he did a demo

> Browning's been doing a bunch of demos lately

How many other people have been trained to fly this thing? It's telling if it's no-one, that would mean that it's likely prohibitive to insure the danger.
Does Airtel block TLS 1.3 with the encrypted SNI extension enabled?

https://blog.cloudflare.com/encrypted-sni/
Because there isn't a single unified store (vendors have their own), it's extremely common for Chinese websites to have a link on their homepage/in their header to an apk file that can self-update.
> Storing hydrogen is much more complicated than storing methane.

Not really. It has lower energy/mole. There is the possibility that if CO2 is present that microorganisms could react the two to make methane. But aside from that, where is this much greater complexity coming from? The equipment required for storing either is similar.

Hydrogen is already dealt with on a very large scale. If expanded to STP, the amount of hydrogen produced every year globally would occupy 700 cubic kilometers. This is not Power Point technology of the kind you find in pro-nuclear arguments.
I’ve been using this. It is pretty slick! It is basically Garage Band for the web, and has a similar interface and features for laying multiple audio tracks for a collaboration.
Kashmir is in India which is definitely a democracy.

In fact it was democratic governments who gave and took away kashmir's autonomy.
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