skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the unfortunate reality of India; the government/police don't need to actually go to court. It can harass companies and executives by simply threatening to / actually carrying out unnecessary 'raids' through the tax department.

The usual process is for the a bunch of policemen and beareaucrats to just show up unannounced; seal the office so that no one can enter or leave, and seize computers / phones, files and demand random stuff like invoices for $10 purchases from three years ago and so on. This can happen regularly until all business basically comes to a halt (unless the company complies with whatever the government wants). [1]

The next step is to threaten arrests and actually carry out some arrests on trumped up charge, and you can wait forever until trial (unless you comply with what the government wants). The trials usually result in acquittal after several years but the process is the punishment. The media in the meanwhile is happy to go along with the official version (that the company is question is allegedly employing shady accounting practices).

The next stage is painting the company as 'anti national', arrange for a few mobs to harrass folks / attempt lynchings and finally actually 'dissappear'/kill people (this last step is usually reserved for judges/writers etc since others usually comply before this step)

[1]: https://www.economist.com/asia/2021/10/02/indias-government-...
> Because IRC works. It's open, battle tested and has huge support by an endless amount of tools and documentation. There is not much reason to not use if all you wanna do is chat.

How about encryption?
I have the 8GB M1 mini, which I bought as soon as it went on sale, so it's a year and a half old. In general the 8GB thing has been fine, and the notion that it can swap pretty quickly has been fine, but it's definitely noticeable now that the swapping is no longer fine, whether because the flash is wearing out or because there was a software update. These days I regularly reboot the thing just to clear the decks after the machine comes to a crawl. And I don't do anything stressful with it. VS Code, Chrome, and Terminal at the same time is about as extreme as it gets. All the real work is happening on adjacent Linux box.
Altnews don't receive payment from abroad. You know it well, and you won't say it here. We all know the reason.
> by 1997, there were other options available

Yup. Download a web site you liked the look of, see how they did it and build your own based on that ;)
I'm pretty sure the point of the comment that you're replying to is that, even in the non-European parts of the world where things like this were discovered, those discoveries were lost and forgotten and the significance of those discoveries only became obvious after they were rediscovered in Europe once society was structured in a way that lead to people communicating and building on them.
For the “competition will select for the best option” to be the case, yes.
Referencing the BBC and the Wire here is the equivalent of quoting the WaPo when discussing Trump.
1. It's possible, but it's not easy to find those companies, as it's not really something you can really ask in an interview. You can possibly ask about work-life balance at least, and see what people say. Your best bet might be a large corporation with a steady but older product or technology.

2. Hard to say. I don't spend much time outside of work learning new tech, but I also try to find jobs where I get to practice them on the job, too (i.e. my current job is React, which I didn't know before taking this job, with various AWS/Azure tech I have to pick up bits and pieces of).

3. No, I wouldn't personally do that, especially on your salary. I've been able to get jobs without even sharing my github, which has almost nothing on it anyway, and nothing pertaining to the jobs I apply for (it's all game-related or some tiny scripts). I've also never had any interviewer ask me any questions based on my github when I have included the link. Also there have been times where I've been tossed a resume and been asked to interview someone in like, fifteen minutes, so I didn't have time to review a github properly. At best I'd check a portfolio website link if it was available, and read descriptions of the projects. I imagine many interviewers are given similar notice and don't have time to check your supporting links.

4/5. If you go the route of learning COBOL, you're going to be very limited in the types of jobs you can get and the industries you can work for (mainly government agencies and banks). I don't really know how lucrative it is, I've heard it can be, but every year more companies move away from it, so your options will keep decreasing. I personally wouldn't want to be in that position.

6. If you're only making 350 USD a month, I would definitely try to emigrate to another country. There's a lot more money you could be making if you were based out of another country (and still working remotely). I don't really know what to suggest there, as I've lived in the US my whole life and don't have those experiences, but there should be a path where you can increase your standard of living.
Building future facing front-end architectures
Can someone provide a good real-world usecase for zero-knowledge proofs? I struggle a bit with grasping the usefulness of this concept.
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Agreed. I saw that and immediately ignored the rest.
I've got two IKEA FLOAT Led panels on my ceiling, each 2400 lumen. The panels can be adjusted in Kelvin (2200 to 4000) and are dimmable, so when it's evening and I need to get some work done I turn them a lot more yellow to not mess with my sleep rhythm. I find making the room very bright helps a lot with waking up and focus, compared to when I had only one or two bulbs as lighting. It does take some getting used to as some have already pointed out here.

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> It's also sus if the only thing that gets changed is the skin colour for no apparent reason, other than to appease twitter.

"It must be to appease Twitter, can't possibly be because the actor had a good audition" seems pretty racist. If Amazon was afraid of Twitter, they'd be pro-union.

> It's the same thing the other way around: changing every character from black or 'asian' to white

That's not the same thing, though. The new LOTR series hasn't changed every character to Black or Asian. Nowhere near it.
The US Government seeks to halt ASML from selling any more tools to China
Apple would have to be complicit. And at that point, why tie it to an app that almost nobody will download? Just build it into iOS/iCloud and call it a day.
thanks, impressive results.
LoL. They don't recieve payment from foreign countries.
> People not being able to instantly insert 20 lines of text is a _good_ thing.

Element (Matrix) and Slack will render something like this as 3-5 lines with the expansion option to see all of it. I'm sure discord will eventually do the same too.

This is clearly preferable to using a different application entirely to view the snippet.

It's only IRC where some naive clients expand this out into 20 something messages where this is a problem. And since it's not part of the protocol, you're at the whims of the sender's client for how it's handled, so it's not like you can install a sufficiently smart client to render it how you like in all cases.

I'd also suggest your perspective of how much a problem even that 20 lines of text is is distorted by being in fast moving public chatrooms, like your typical Linux distro channel. In my small team or friends chat, it's perfectly fine

The same also applies to the gif. If this one bothers you, most clients even have the options to disable inline images, so the sender gets to choose. Also it means you just get the image file, and not whatever cruft the popular image host of this 5 year period is doing to monetise.

Image hosts and pastebins also seem more fragile than chat services. I've occasionally gone through old messages that link to pastie or similar and the context is gone.
I do not think that access to digital photos and measurements has been a limiting factor in finding abductees. In fact, with the ubiquity of cameras on nearly every device nowadays along with social media we routinely see amateurs dig up information faster than authorities are able to put it out officially.
such as the above post
You didn't answer my question. That's not analysis or objectivity, and it's definitely not an opportunity for you to scold
I want an open source competitor to airtable. I use airtable very minimally, but what I do is on my phone, and makes use of barcode reading via the camera. I don't think any of the open alternatives support mobile, and I'm fairly certain none of them handle barcode reading (yet?). So far I think I'm stuck with airtable.
The Armenian Genocide really happened and there is strong historical evidence for it. See the links I posted above.

I wonder for how long you are going to continue denying it. My guess is we'll be here for a few more months, or even years.

That should be really interesting to watch.
Do you seriously believe all these things are big expenses? They barely do any screening.
Not to start a flame war, but it's not like America just recently got guns. We didn't have a mass shooting problem until recently.
I've always felt uneasy about things like this. Those who can afford it can have a phone without ads on the lockscreen, or a Kindle without "special offers" on the lock screen, or can afford not to give their purchase history to Honey for targeted advertising, and so on.

Those who can't afford it, need to provide all that data and live with a much lower level of privacy.

While it's theoretically "their choice", economically some are forced to give up this privacy.
For a well written code that is less than 1000 lines in a single file using very few abstractions, that number of global variables is not a problem.
Dig deeper. TikTok is fantastically weird and niche. I've learned about so many things I'd never seen on the web or YouTube like small scale trains that people ride around in their back yard, throw gliders, and tether car racing.
Wasn't the contract already broken when six people ended up tied to train tracks?
...learn about crypto and try to work remotely getting paid in it - unfortunately you'll likely have to work on cryptocurrencies and smart-contracts, but it beats COBOL ;) After you've saved enough, gtfo your country and get asylum anywhere it's not sanctioned (say you're a gay satanist foodie passioned about pork sushi etc.).

Not condoning tax evasion, but some countries deserve it.
That's true. But I believe Australia has more or less same policies as Canada. And since Australia has warmer weather, I'd rather go there.
> This is complete nonsense because we know from experience in other countries (UK, Australia) that massively restricting private ownership of firearms is a reliable way to put a stop to mass shootings. In fact it’s the only one found yet.

Don't even have to go that far: see Canada. Sixth in per capita firearm ownership:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_g...

Quite low per capital total firearm-related deaths (below FR, FI, CH, AT):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-r...

Notwithstanding recent changes/legal drama, Canada's gun laws are relatively similar to Massachusetts's:

* https://www.vox.com/2018/11/13/17658028/massachusetts-gun-co...
Apple may not manufacture them, but they don't look to be off the shelf components either. So maybe I should be writing "Apple has stopped ordering the 128 GB chips and removed them from all current designs".

This has been coming for some time, the refreshed 14" and 16" Pro models already had their base capacity bumped to 512.
TLS is accepted, since you implicitly trust the server when using chatrooms in most cases.

for everything else there are plugins in your client for OMEMO (what signal is based on) and OTR (which is purely session based).

Handling this as a third-party implementation for E2EE is probably the only true way to gain trust anyway. If your provider provides the infrastructure and the client then how can you really trust it?
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> That's a complete non-sequitur.

It doesn't need to sequitur. You disagree with the (unimportant, arbitrary, and probably wrong) choice of "good" technology, for the (valid, fair, and important) reason of scalability. This is fine: whether a specific technology is fit for a hypothetical purpose is irrelevant to what I believe the article is saying.

I don't read the article as saying "never talk about the technology behind scalability on HN or anywhere else," I read it as saying "people learn scalability from exemplars, so the way you improve overall scalability is by finding better examples, not discussing what's already out there."

The reason we have use-cases of Kafka scaling is because LinkedIn[0] needed durable distributed pubsub, so they built it. When the linked article was written it was handling 500 billion events a day. That was kind of cool, because 500 billion is a big number, but also kind of shocking, because that was 68 daily events for each human being alive at the time. Perhaps in 2022 with the hindsight of the last decade, someone with different problems and priorities could approach scalability from a different angle and come up with something else that works better for them.

[0] https://engineering.linkedin.com/architecture/brief-history-...
> if you're diving a car

... then you accepted responsibility by getting in the driver's seat and taking control of the vehicle. In the case of the trolley, you are an onlooker.
I don't think AltNews received foreign funding. Nor was it possible for Razorpay to process the payment.

Interestingly, it's possible for political parties to receive foreign funding (via. Electoral Bonds) without much transparency to the electorate about how much they receive.
Got it. I had thought you were responding to the part you quoted.
If a tree falls in the forest, but no Europeans / Christians heard it, does it really matter?

Yes. Yes it does.
Fingerprints aren't even particularly useful here.

Our irises are considerably more information-dense, accessible and stable over time as evidenced by the famous identification of Sharbat Gula: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jgd1000/afghan.html

A close-up photo should be enough to reliably identify a person years after they went missing.
The commenter stated that the Ukrainian Army often puts troops and military hardware near civilian infrastructure (true). They did not assert that this was the case for the specific Odessa hospital in question (merely that it was a possibility), or that this justifies Russian bombings.
If your site does not use HTTPS, Rostelecom will insert pro-war propaganda in it
I would look into WordPress. It’s still the most popular way to build websites.

- there is a huge ecosystem of themes and plugins that need development and maintenance

- it’s not “cool” so you have far less hype and trends

- the basic tech stack changes pretty slowly and you mostly don’t need to learn “hipster frameworks”
You want him to refer India Today, Timesnow, republic, euro news, danik bhaskar and Dhinamalar?

Or **opIndia?
I think I designed my first website using HoTMetaL. The WYSIWYG interface was basic but worked but once you hit the limitations of it then at least you could edit the HTML directly.
Livingston's Friends in High Places is a sequel to Have Fun at Work.

I think it's a bit more positive in outlook but it has a chilling description of the scariest way high-tech projects go wrong... By approaching an asymptote.

When your solution is not adequate to solve the problem you can keep investing in it and feel you are getting closer and closer and closer but you never get there. It's a high risk in modern AI projects, and it was also amusing to see in people who tried to fly before the Wright brothers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw_C_sbfyx8

In particular people thought the problem of flying was about getting thrust and getting lift. It's really about controlling the motion of the plane in 3 linear degrees of freedom and 3 rotational degrees of freedom. You need each and every control surface on a plane so you don't tumble. If you arrogantly presuppose 5 degrees is enough you could keep improving your machine... you might even get off the ground but you will encounter it again very quickly.
This post smells like BS to me. Not sure where this guy is working but I don’t know anyone making 350 a month as a dev with the supposed experience that you do,in Iran. 350 is what a college kid makes.
Yep, I remember getting fingerprinted at a mall. Thanks to my folks for preemptively snitching.
My answer doesn't hint at a good attitude? Whose attitude? Mine? My attitude about what? What does my answer tell you about my attitude about what?
Its only the proposal. What is shocking (or maybe not anymore) is lack of will to unbundle obviously German authored part about "green" putin gas from Nuclear part.
The logistics behind weather forecasting [video]
New England.
>there is a gap in the market for whatever reason

A gap that is further expanded by the existence of scalpers, which is a huge part of the problem. They’re making a problem worse and in some extreme cases even making a problem where there wasn’t one or it was at least minimal (happens with concerts all the time). Theres a reason so many big items/pre-orders/concerts etc. have invested in queue systems and limit purchase numbers. The ones that don’t are inviting scalpers.
Basically turning the lock screen into a non-specific travel ad. Kickbacks from airlines?
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If a line is not profitable, it's not that bad to get rid of. If the stations want to stay open, they should pay the train operator to stop there. Then people can locally decide if they want the station or not. Another alternative would have been to have it as a demand when it was sold. When you buy the company, you are obligated to keep these lines open.
Long AAPL, you say? Or what else are you saying?

I agree that Ive's influence will not be missed.
>I am not sure we should care how a political party defines another..

I'm not a liberal and I'm not from Quebec. In fact I would venture to guess the Quebec Liberals are the antithesis of my politics but I agree with their assessment. Actions speak louder than words. CAQ are separatists.

>Outside of equalization, that federal money comes from our taxes. Besides, if Quebec is so much poorer that the ROC it is because of inequalities that is the impetus for seperatist to begin with.

Lets break it down. Quebecois give Canada say $140 billion in taxes and then receive back $200 billion in some manner.

The day Quebec separates there is such a huge deficit that public healthcare and education entirely shuts down. It's not even a matter of taking on the debt, Quebec would not be able to take on that debt without some currency backing. This isn't practical. You would have instant massive layoffs and riots destroying the new country. Lets say though that we just fast forward through the immediate consequences. Quebec's income taxes rise to about 45% in lowest bracket. Probably about 65% in higher brackets.

You get to year 1 of the new quebec nation, you've printed new currency because you cant join Euro like france and the Franc probably isnt an option. You certainly cant keep the CAD. You could go USD but much easier to just go new digital currency.

How much business is lost though? How many companies pull out of Quebec? Quite a few right? So you still have an even bigger deficit.

Quebec can't leave Canada. Quebec can't see the West leave Canada neither. Quebec should be best friends with Alberta. Energy East should be top most priority for Quebec.

But then you say Inequalities are the impetus. Totally. We can look at the 1950s and see what it was You are surrounded by people who dont speak french. This inequality is a huge problem. It left Quebec very poor.

>You sound like the beating husband that rejoice because the beaten wife can't afford to leave.

Woah, wait a second. You feel Canada, the people who have given Quebec a trillion $ of free money over decades is the equivalent of a domestic violence husband?

That's extremely offensive to me. It's literally the opposite. It is Quebec who is 'beating' the rest of Canada. SNC Lavalin? Quebec. Trudeau and Western alienation... Quebec's fault. Energy East cancellation? Quebec. Banning muslims from the province... from their jobs... that's only Quebec. Covid curfews, Quebec. Must speak french to get treatment in a hospital, quebec.

https://www.narcity.com/every-canadian-province-agrees-that-...

This is the opposite, Canada isn't the husband,Canada is the beaten wife.
This is an API, not a file manager. They're not really comparable.
Being able to curate the lockscreen myself is useful - next appointment, or weather data, or whatever. But ads? No fucking way.

Of course, realistically this will creep in at the low end almost immediately. Cheap Android handsets will have this baked in. Nicer ones will have an option to disable it.

Or we might see the Kindle model -- you can get a base model Kindle for $89, if you don't mind lockscreen ads; if you hate the idea, an ad-free version of the same device is $109.
Try Canada or Australia. Also as a temporary solution you can open a bank account in Turkey or Azerbaijan and start doing some upwork.
Makes me think of the TV show Life on Mars.
> Keep focusing on the tool, and not the human.

Tools and technology are not neutral. Their invention and availability effect and change human behaviour. See Marshal McLuhan:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understanding_Media

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message