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Interestingly, current PM said in one of his election speeches in 2014 (when he was the CM of Gujarat) what you mentioned in point 1 (not exactly the same). I don't think there has been any progress there.

Otherwise, a lot of focus has been put by the current government towards renewal energy.
I think the rate of attrition matters. Too little change and you get stagnation -- you do need that ongoing renewal you call out, and the incentive to create good processes. There is a tipping point though, where attrition isn't renewal, it's erosion. It's the difference between "small fires that clear out the undergrowth and a few large trees" vs "large fires that denude a hillside that then destabilizes into a mudslide."
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Why is that not a free speech issue? It is not a legal issue of course, but removal of critical opinions very much qualifies to be a violation of the principle.
Holy crap! I had no idea. I was a big follower of the quake 3 and ut2k4 scene back in the day.
Free speech isn’t just something that can be encoded into law, it’s an ideology. A great ideology, imo.

That said, with COVID-19 it really became apparent that these platforms have basically become a new public square, putting everyone in an awkward position. You can basically be ousted from the internet by just a couple entities like Facebook or Twitter and have your entire online presence torpedoed. IRL I can just go to a different bar, gym, whatever. On the internet, everything consolidates rapidly. It’s hard to argue that companies should be forced to allow things they don’t want on their platforms, but it’s clear that something has to be done here if platforms are going to consolidate this badly.
We don't want Tesla.

We already see what car lobbies do to cities like Pune with a terrible public transport infra. We want a more reliable rail network and a useable metro for all important cities.

And no, we can't have both, I don't want the car lobby to get stronger that it is.
My last trip in Canada used a Facebook chatbot for the airline. The neat/silly thing is many of the questions presented to me a form full of buttons and options. At that point it's almost a full application, just running within Facebook infrastructure and using the chat box as a UI.
> it's usually faster to inspect the code manually

I’m not sure how usual that is. Sometimes “the code” is too many thousands of lines to inspect. Other times, “the code” is only the machine code but not the source code, inspecting megabytes of disassembly is not fun.
We're approaching the point where asking this question is like asking why we set a cold temperature record when there's supposed to be global warming. It's just willful ignorance.
It'll play out in the opposite manner. The shift to EVs is going to happen first, followed by public transit. This is because EVs don't have a consensus / coordination problem. Electrifying a line or building a new line takes a minimum of a decade of planning, consultation, design and study, construction. But cars need replacement all the time and you can just go to a website and get an EV. Prices for batteries fall about 30% for every doubling of production. The spread of EVs is exponential, not linear. Sales roughly double every three years and many OEMs have stopped ICE development altogether. Once new car sales are close to 100% EV, existing stock will naturally die off.

Cars will electrify far faster than busses and trains in North America.
My name is Rodrigo and I work remotely for an american company with only American teammates. When I say my name I pronounce the way Americans would pronounce it to simplify communication, but it always feels a little phony. Like I am making up a nickname that’s actually not mine to a new group.

Not anything that bothers me, just a curiosity of global remote work and our R.
It only became shocking to people with power and wealth when poor people started doing it.

Fixing decades of neglected infrastructure, education, and social services is going to cost way more than treating people decently would’ve costed. I won’t be surprised if the solutions entirely ignore the mass suffering that is responsible for events like this and only address the losses realized by the people with the power to make change.
I mean that's fair enough because that (payment methods being stolen) happens frequently enough, but it should be just as easy to clear it up again.

Over here, banks have set things up so that by default you can't get money from foreign ATMs - you have to activate that first. Because lots of people got their bank card stolen and PIN code skimmed, only for the card to pop up again in eastern Europe or wherever to drain the account.
This is now the second or third author i’ve found this year who uses the royal we.

Am i missing something? Are we in Cryptonomicon-style Relatively Independent Sub-Totality mode non-ironically now?
It seems pretty amazing just seeing some of the random results come up!

What I wonder, being unfamiliar how it actually works (since I don't have an account) - is the fact that my public IP comes up with 'No information available' just that no paid user has scanned it, or does it mean that my firewall is set up correctly? (I do allow ICMP but that's all for non established/related packets).
If your business requires a lot of knowledge specific to your products, think adobe Photoshop, it is hubris to think a new hire experienced even in relevant fields could meaningfully contribute for a long time. If your product uses an industry standard framework or standard, think adobe reader, then yeah, you can probably have someone hit the ground running. But a bigger problem is that when a new hire leaves after 2-3 years and you replace them with a couple people fresh out of school, so that anything they don't come out knowing has to get taught again. And if it takes some large fraction of the 2-3 years to learn your domain specific knowledge you are done for.
> Choice members will be able to access the titles in the Humble Games Collection by downloading the new Humble app for Windows PC. (Note that you’ll lose access to these games if you skip a month or cancel your membership.)

> In the new Humble app, you’ll also find more than 50 DRM-free indie games, experimental oddities, and other experiences inside the Vault, which you can download while you’re a member and keep playing even after your membership ends.

That's not DRM-free. DRM-free is that you buy it once, and then are able to use it forever.

That you can access downloading these games with a browser of your choice.

Its also odd to stop distributing binaries of previously released games. They still work perfectly fine, right? Very strange...

I currently got Classic, and it means I pay 12 USD (10 EUR) for about 10-12 games of which I play maybe one per month. Most games require Windows, might work in Steam/Proton though.

The 20% discount is nice, but I usually buy stuff when its discounted on Steam (my primary client anyway).

I can tell you this: altering the deal all the time doesn't give me confidence that I want to stay around. But perhaps they don't want me and want new people instead.

With regards to skipping: I never do this. I just give away keys to random people if I don't want them (already have for example).
Maybe it is just me but I never use chatbots and I don't understand why anyone would.

For everything I want to do there should be an UI that is much easier to use than explaining it, even to a human.

For help and troubleshooting chatbots are pretty much useless. If I have a problem doing something via the UI then probably the developer did a bad job and no chatbot will ever do better.
> Employees used to get pensions, have reasonable work hours, a reliable schedule and could afford to have a parent stay home in their 3-4 bedroom house on an acre.

Pensions are not relevant anymore. I see no reason to pay a defined benefit pension fund’s employees and expenses when I can simply buy VOO or a target date fund at one of many brokerages for basically free. And I get to avoid the risk of a corrupt employee of the employer messing with it, or to risk the employer not being around 50 years later.

The other parts of the post have so many factors that contribute that it is not related to employer employee social contracts. Birth rates, relative developed-ness of other countries, supply and demand of labor, automation, political winds, societal changes, etc.
IF they choose the path of not having humans interact with their customers, and give bot replies, then yes, such platforms will suffer from it.

If they want to invest in proper human customer service, at the cost of decreasing their margins, then maybe part of that problem will be solved.
That's a post hoc argument - you're presenting a possibility to explain why not minimising attrition was actually rational all along. Its quite well established by now that human decision making is not very rational. Even people who aim for rationality are generally biased towards variables with high measurablility.
I would add that folks should have a bank account connected to PayPal (etc) that is separate from your day to day accounts.

Not only will it localize any problems[0] but it will limit snooping[1].

[0] If PayPal wrongly deducts money from an account that has basically no funds in it you’ll be able to deal with the problem without having your actual funds locked up.

[1] Seems like basically every non-bank is switching from ACH deposit verification to a service called Plaid that requires your bank username & password, which then screen scrapes your financial details. There’s no reason to hand over your real life financial data when you can just use a dummy account.
The economic incentive of science is for your work to be replicated and cited. Not publishing the code and data means your work is harder to reuse for subsequent studies and will hurt citations.

If it's uncommon to release code then I'd doubt anyone in the peer review will review it.
I actually doubt that. Looking at what I consider the best metric of market. That is Steam Hardware survey the Mac and Linux have combined market share of 3.8%...

The Windows power-gamers can do the marketing as well, by pointing where to get cheap games when there is great deal around.

I really think that Linux crowd is more vocal on forums than in reality.
I thought it was the reverse. US shows of the time were so often dark. I'd heard there was a technical reason behind this: in NTSC, if the colours are too bright the video signal can leak into the audio channel causing annoying noises and PAL didn't have this issue. I haven't attempted to verify this however.

I'm also unable to think of examples beyond X-Files, but that could well be for aesthetic reasons. I guess I didn't watch a lot of US TV back then.
Aye. It's also not always obvious what's the optimal tactic, and I believe in many cases there are multiple equally valid approaches and you pick the one you feel most comfortable with. Sometimes the one you start with is a dead end.

That's why I don't really like an absolutist stance (if you rarely use debugger you're dumb / if you always poke around with a debugger you're dumb). I just happen to fall in the "rarely uses debugger" camp myself.

> I’ve done hundreds of interviews like this, and it’s fascinating watching what people do. Do they read the code first? Fire up a debugger? Add print statements and binary search by hand? [..] After hundreds of interviews I still couldn’t tell you which approach is best.

(From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29813036)
Either the Feds have compromised Signal's encryption scheme, OR they compromised one of the two people's phones, OR they just got one of the two people to flip and give them access to the message history.

I certainly know which one I think is likely.
Is there any background information anywhere why SGX is being phased out?
For two of the three cases mentioned, I'd tentatively agree, but in that particular user's case they probably are free to keep the money for several months to a year after they freeze the account because she was running a business in a field that has a high chargeback risk.

Someone has to pay for the high level of consumer protection that people who pay with credit cards receive. Every entity that is in the chain between the issuer of the credit card user and the merchant that receives the payment arranges it so that responsibility of this falls on someone farther down the chain than them. There is no one farther down the chain that the merchant, so the merchant ends up being the one who has to pay for chargebacks.

There is nothing further down the chain than the merchant so it ends up on them. But a merchant that ends up incurring a lot of chargebacks often also is a merchant that ends up not having the money to pay for those chargebacks, and in that case the entity that the merchant was dealing with for accepting payments ends up having to pay.

Thus that entity will almost always have in its contract with the merchant that they can keep some of the funds the merchant earns in reserve to cover chargebacks. I doubt any court will find such terms invalid. They have a legitimate purpose of risk mitigation, the companies will have the data and actuarial analysis to show that the amounts held in reserve are reasonable for the level risk, and the ultimate purpose is to support the strong consumer protections that credit cards provide.
> it will increase the surface for nitpicking and criticism

Anyone who programs publicly (via streaming, blogging, open source) opens themselves up for criticism, and 90% of the time the criticism is extremely helpful (and the more brutally honest, the better).

I recall an Economist magazine author made their code public, and the top comments on here were about how awful the formatting was. The criticism wasn't unwarranted, and although harsh, would have helped the author improve. What wasn't stated in the comments is that by publishing their code, the author already placed themselves ahead of 95% of people in their position who wouldn't have had the courage to do so. In the long run, the author will get a lot better and much more confident (since they are at least more aware of any weaknesses).

I'd weigh up the benefits of constructive (and possibly a little unconstructive) criticism and the resulting steepening of your trajectory against whatever downsides you expect from giving away some of your competitive advantage.
Accepting bitcoin donations is one thing.

Replacing computational systems that work just fine with new systems that cost a million times more to run is another thing. (e.g. web3, the $200 to coin an NFT, ...)

The excess of the later has turned into intense hate for the former.
I bet this will be web3 / crypto / etc.
Browse the web like reading email? What is the name of that app?
At one point I found a GUI application with backend automation libraries (python I think). Basically you view webpages like email. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance.
If you move 50K a week you can engage a payment platform to accept other means of payment in addition to Paypal, then reorganize how people pay so that paypal is de-emphasized in favor of more secure, lower cost, etc means of paying you.

Hell, for that kind of money you can hire an accountant or a full dev team to do it for you.
I'm just pointing out that you assume Apple deployed unaudited code, just because the code had a bug. I would not make that assumption.
Ask HN: RSS with Authentication and Monetization Support?
This issue was raised here many times: RSS is convinient and versatile. It's mostly gone due to lack of authentication and monetization paths (ads/premium content for sign ups)

This lack of features led us back to email newsletters with businesses like Substack shining in it.

Yet, email is restrictive, unorganized, and its html support is cryptic at best. It also in the control of the sender (push) unlike RSS that is under the control of the receiver (pull).

Do we have an RSS alternative that adds authentication and other features to allow for the decentralization of email, with modern features enabled by smart RSS readers?
Depends on the climate of the field you're in, and where you're at in your career. There are fields where entire research groups routinely harvest preliminary ideas from graduate student publications, and then finish them and rush to publication before the student realizes what's happened.

I'd say, grad student owes nobody anything until they finish, because they're bearing the greatest risk of losing priority, and the openness of science is being used against them. Nothing lost by waiting until they have their degree in the bag before sharing. Then clean it up and use it as part of your portfolio. Or append it to your thesis. Advancing science after you've secured your career is a fair compromise.

I love open source and open science, but also look back on my own graduate studies, and I chose a topic that was protected by virtue of a large capital investment plus domain knowledge that was not represented by code. Also, my thesis predates widespread use of the Internet. ;-)
The error there is the launcher. Not supporting a power-user platform will cost them more, in the long run, than whatever they hope to gain from a ugly and unloved single-platform launcher. But seeing that through Excel is hard.
The average size of an agricultural holding was 1.08 hectares (2.67 acres) in 2015-16 and declining over time [1]. A lot of Indian land is small farms with houses clustered among them.

That’s not to say that India doesn’t produce a lot of wind energy, though - it’s the second largest source of renewable energy after solar according to the most recent source I could get (Feb 2020) [2].

[1] https://pib.gov.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=199780

[2] https://cea.nic.in/dashboard/?lang=en check “Renewable Energy” under “Generation”
If I didn't have a solution in place already, I think I'd pay for it. $10 for the lifetime fee is far from egregious, imo.
My question above would definitely not extend to the word engineering (and by association I probably have to withdraw the idea that AIs could do science.)
I got pretty close to the jet powered big rig in norwalk. It blew the flags off the sign and then the sign eventually fell over. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBdvooWanJw Seems like it happens often.
That's not really the problem with solar. Storing energy in batteries from day to night is a solved problem, it doesn't even double the price of electricity. The round trip efficiency is about 80%. The big problem is storing electricity from summer to winter at higher latitudes; it's difficult because the day is much longer during the summer than the winter, the incidence angle higher, so you may end up producing as much as 10 times less energy in the winter, while the energy demand is actually higher; storage losses over 6 months are very high, but that's not the really big problem. The big problem is that you are not getting the bang for the buck. For batteries used from day to night, you get MWh of energy into and out of them every day, and you can charge for that, so you can get a decent ROI. For batteries used from summer to winter, you'll charge for the energy once a year; you need to charge much, much more, and this becomes uneconomical by a huge distance.

There's an alternative to storing energy from summer to winter: you simply overbuild solar capacity so that even in the winter you can produce enough during the day to last you through the night. At high latitudes, you need to overbuild by a factor of 10, and solar may be cheap, but not 10 times cheaper than other sources of electricity. However, if you find something to do with the excess summer energy, you may end up being profitable.

India, being at a lower latitude, has a much easier problem. First, it's very likely the demand during "winter" months is not much higher than during "summer" months if at all. Then the day length during winter is not that short. So the overcapacity that you need may be only a factor of 3x. This guy wants to manufacture green hydrogen. Even if he sells it at a loss, the overall venture may still be profitable.
I can never get over the way my Brazilian wife pronounces the currency.

Singular - hey-ow

Plural - hey-I.

They're spelled real and reals respectively.
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>"Brad Pit" becomes "brahdjee pitchee"

I think this is very much standard all over Brazil. It's a common pattern in a large amount of english words, I think most or all of us can pronounce it correctly, but we don't because it'd be harder say and recognize while trying to pronounce it like an american almost sounds like pedantry here.
> it will increase the surface for nitpicking and criticism

You're supposed to welcome criticism and 'nitpicking' as a scientist.
Hmm... I can't see how the code is unreasonable, given the complexity of the task at hand. Could you tell me what could be improved about this code (code itself, not docs etc)?
It is definitely a free speech issue but not in the legal and constitutional sense that you're thinking of.

Regardless of the situation you're in, you have the ability to say, "I should have the right to free speech in this situation." Whether this belief will be validated in the reality of the situation is an entirely different matter.
> The Baltic states joined NATO in 2004, and there isn't much difference in nuke flight time between a launch from Latvia or from Kharkiv, so the entire premise that Ukraine potentially joining NATO somehow threatens Russia is a ruse.

This is true and Russia demands include ALL such installations after "1997". It is the Western press that has been formulating this as "about Ukraine". The documents btw are publicly published, in English, and very straight forwrd.

Russia is demanding a strategic retreat to "1997". (See "already deployed" below)

"Article 7: The Parties shall refrain from deploying nuclear weapons outside their national territories and return such weapons already deployed outside their national territories at the time of the entry into force of the Treaty to their national territories. The Parties shall eliminate all existing infrastructure for deployment of nuclear weapons outside their national territories."

https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/rso/nato/1790818/?lang=en
If you complete your degree and declare bankruptcy, you still get to keep your education. So what's to keep every student from going to college, getting a diploma, discharging their debt, then getting a job?

I'm not pro-student debt, but I don't see how this is sustainable for colleges either.
I'm aware Inertia.js is the odd one out of the bunch, it still allows the server to do most of the work.
I absolutely disagree. But we had this debate over and over and over again. It would be great if you could stop rehashing is debate once more.

I some twist of irony, this comment is against the HN TOS. So please stop.
That's great initiative in which can definitely help the world in a positive light.
They're also platforms without Game Pass i.e. with much less competition.
Deta Cloud (deta.sh) is a playground for independent devs, it's not a full-fledged cloud platform. For production scale and monetization, we're working on Deta Space: https://www.deta.sh/space & https://deta.space/

ceo here btw
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That's a good point I'd not considered. I suppose it's ultimately a risk scientists/researchers take to not lead humanity down a broken path however I'm of the firm belief the truth will "out" and transparency almost always trumps opaqueness
Do you really mean 90% of the criticism is extremely helpful? Or did you mean 90% was useless.

I've published 100,000s of lines of code from my research over 20 years, and I think I've had exactly one useful comment from someone who wasn't a close collaborator I would have been sharing code with anyway.

I still believe research code should be shared, but don't do it because you will get useful feedback.