skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
dude. unless you are doing some space age shit or something, you don't need to set up a company in india to do business. sure the whole "limited liability" and that but in reality that is just a smokescreen.

just use your personal pan card to open a bank account, get a GST registration, do income tax audit and you will be done. No compliance, no nothing.

i do taxes and books for businesses with 250+ Crore turnover and they are all sole proprietorships. Why? the simple answer is why bother? you can have all the employees,all the corporate hierarchy and still be a proprietorship...

One part of the problem is all the professionals milking companies for "compliance management fees" but in the end of the day, my suggestion to businesses is unless you REALLY REALLY need a company, please don't bother
Author of the article here:

All the land in India is agricultural by default. Except in some desert states.
If he had talked about high turnover to bring in employees with a different focus (although most of the staff should be easy enough to refocus, like programmers) I would understand. But he talked about doing it explicitly to save money.
There's a lot of JS involved here though. This is not a "pure CSS" demo.
Look at all the defenders of Lightning despite it not being able to handle USB 3, or even HDMI video such that Lightning to HDMI adapters have a processor to decode compressed video to HDMI. Lack of innovation hasn't mattered there. I don't expect many people to care for anymore innovation in a phone port.

Samsung's recently released Galaxy Z Flip4 still has a USB 2 port. Even Apple's new iPad does the same.
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Hardware acceleration in robotics news. ROS 2 HAWG #12 meeting, Google announces new open-source OS for RISC-V chips, How digital twin technology can bridge America’s chip manufacturing gap, XPENG prepares its own robotaxi fleet, flying car, and robot
in theory, yes. In practice, good luck getting your complaint acted on. Enforcement of GDPR is a sad joke. To a point that there are law suits and criminal charges[0] against data protection authorities in some countries.

[0] just one example https://noyb.eu/en/irish-dpc-removes-noyb-gdpr-procedure-cri...
While this post is specifically about a manufacturing unit and usually will involve land, acquisition (if not already), NOCs (as shown in the post). This is standard and can / should / would be done digitally in near future, once all the units and officials have the awareness.

To offer an alternative, starting business in India is extremely easy (at least Software Business), People have been running a business, filing GST, owning trademarks without leaving their apartment - Thanks to online services which ease these things. But yes, things are still difficult for manufacturing and land related things (and I assume it would be similar in other parts of the world, granted not so difficult).
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Addicts. Like myself

DJing with vinyl is fun as hell, gets me away from my screens, let’s me find music in a really satisfying and interesting way AND takes me to shops where i talk to people and learn things from them. The digging is maybe the best quality — walk into a place with a limited set of music, guide your search based on categories, album art, personnel listed in the sleeve etc. Digital provides almost none of that; digital “digging” tends to get boring and overwhelming, both.

Old man stuff, probably, but I do think there will always be some ppl tuned to wax. As soon as you want something you can’t find digitally you have to anyway, and from there it’s a slippery slope.
Yeah, it's always there for at least one frame.
10 years of doing something wrong doesn't make it any better. 10 years of doing something and RTFM instead of random blog posts and SOF may help.
Who said they're refraining from cryptocurrency for ethical reasons?
The name falcon heavy is a direct riff on the name delta 4 heavy. ULA just slaps 3 delta 4 first stages side by side and that's the heavy variant. Falcon heavy is the same thing but with falcon 9.

I don't think it has anything to do with heavy duty.
Thanks for sharing. The only actual useful thing I got from this post.
I’ve don’t do that- someone on HN pointed out that most agents will accept “it’s a random string” as the answer.
A good producer of vinyl decks right now if you're not going the Technics route is UTurn, for the amount you spend and what you get.
> The solution is to use a locked-down co-processor?

I think that was "the solution -with the hardware we have right now, that is readily available in people's hands and that we can actually do something with-".

He seemed to be pretty clear (to me, at least) that the OTM USB dongles were a much better solution but no-one makes them which kinda hampers the whole scheme.
...and capital gains taxes, the carried interest loophole, the unlimited step up basis rule, private yacht tax deductions, and Texas...
I've read Brand's book and your summary seems accurate. And isn't it sometimes said of still good looking old software: The extensions which have been added happen not to contend with the original core architecture.
Do they really need hardware to be that complex?
My experience has been that JS is difficult to maintain. Especially when the project gets a few years old.

It might just be personal preference. If you've given other languages a go and still love JS that's great. I'm glad you enjoy it.
How I dumped an arcade game for MAME
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Me too! My main computing machine is a latitude from the e5xxx line which I bought 7 years ago, with a dual Intel-Nvidia GPU. it's still working perfectly, no issues whatsoever, and survived a few falls and travels. I also use it as my gaming machine, its GPU is good enough for most modern lite games and modern emulators, I don't expect top performance of course. It almost never gets too hot.
I remember buying a train ticket in Goa. This involved showing the passport and filling out multiple forms. It was pretty crazy.
It seems like the problem is that the author has a moral objection to paying bribes in an area where bribery is customary:

> Obviously, they are playing “hard to get” to get me to pay some bribe and initiate the process. But after going through all this, I am not going to pay any bribe to anyone.

And:

> And they openly demanded bribes after waiting for four months.

> So the Gram Panchayat NOC is stuck because of non payment of bribe.
I used to do this until I had to do a security question on the phone and just said, "It's a string of random characters" and they accepted that.

Now when I'm forced to use security questions, I use long but reasonable answers, ideally ones that aren't enumerable.
I'd use diceware for that, in case you need to read it out over the phone.
You can't edit the timing with asciinema though, as far as I know.
> "meat is a desirable food"

Yet I do not desire it.

> "Do you know how modern cereal and vegetable farming is carried out?"

I do know. The food I eat is not, in fact, produced that way.

I do not need or want absolution. But I know my carbon footprint is a tiny fraction of yours. You are, in other words, personally responsible for overwhelmingly more suffering in the world than I know, by direct experience, is necessary for your level of comfort.
> You really do need to apply force to bring the blades together or they won't cut well.

It depends on the scissors. With the pair I'm holding right now, even if I'm actively pushing so the blades would move apart, they stay tight enough to cut fine.

Notably, the blades are curved into each other, which is capable of compensating for a moderate amount of hinge slack and narrowing the cutting to a single point. And the hinge has very little slack in the first place because it has a big flat mating surface.
GMail manages to implement a pretty complicated app without Javascript (their simple HTML mode) and it works just fine, on anything other than my gaming PC it's faster to use and I prefer it. And we are comparing it to Gmail itself, one of the few Javascript apps actually created by people in possession of some engineering sensibility.

Most "webapps" (e.g. almost every bank or brokerage I use, or mint/tax tools/...) are more simple yet are bloated, slow, buggy atrocities. Especially Chase Bank, I say it without exaggeration is that if I was making a hiring decision for one of the developers of that site and the only alternative they had was to slowly starve to death, I would still not hire them.

As someone whose first fun tech job was writing complicated (B2B) Javascript apps in the days when prototype.js was cool new tech and you still had to support IE6, I've come to regret that Javascript even exists, and I'd personally love for web scripting to be made illegal. If your thing is more complicated than GMail, write a native app.

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Missing was the grease to turn the wheels of bureaucracy
The biggest bottleneck is the power sharing between Central, State and local Govts with the judiciary acting as its own entity sometimes. By design a lot of entities would not want to cede power and control. This has been happening with the implementation of Goods and Service Tax (GST) in India which was considered politically unfeasible as recently as 10 years back
Software Engineering Is Engineering
I began to play games more since the onset of the pandemic. One of the first games that I played was The Witcher 1. I actually played all three games in the series, but started with the first.

Of all three series, TW1 combat is the one I liked the best (seriously). Once you got the hang of it, it felt quite natural. On the other hand, TW2 combat felt like a stupid regression. TW3 combat was good but not as good as the first installment of the series.

Other things I liked from the first game and I honestly think are the best in all three games:

- lore system and content
- signs
- alchemy
- potions
- character progression and development.

Also, it is quite playable on Intel onboard GPUs.

I'm excited to learn that a remake is in the works, but I am afraid that all the above (and also romance cards, due to stupid PC stuff) will be gone in the remake.
I would replace “countries” with “systems”. You can see this in the US with government contracting or health billing. Tons of paperwork but totally opaque and prone to corruption.
Far from a Boomer attitude (they love calling and aren't as comfortable with texts), it's very much a Gen-Z attitude.

But these descriptors obviously make no sense when we're talking about CEOs, not random people for whom "age group" is a relevant or informative descriptor.
>Sure, because it's already a training input

not in any meaningful sense, no. I can tell you, "if something's fishy about the situation, just leave". You can do this not because of some particular training inputs or examples I give you, but because you have common sense and a sort of personality and intuition for how to behave in the absence of data. If you told that sentence to a state of the art ML model you'd probably get "what fish?" as an answer.

>Well, that's at least in part because we design them that way

It's mostly because we have no idea how to design them anyway else. I think if anyone knew how to build complex agents with rich internal states that have the intent and communication abilities of humans we'd do that. It's not even really conceivable right now how you could have an ML type system that also can just directly adopt high level concepts dynamically just by communicating them.
Interesting. Sshuttle is great. I've used that a couple of times to create a simple vpn without having to deal with openvpn. Simple and effective.
I'm saving this comment so that next time someone uses "begging the question" incorrectly, I can show them what it really means.
Signup form is not actually showing any feedback in case, required fields are missing, just a silent error thrown in the console. Should fix that asap as it may cause signup drops for you guys. Anyways Congratulation for the launch, seems like an interesting product.
High performing developer teams are all alike
That one should be a Super OEM and therefore similar to the others.
They are probably trying to create a solid foundation on which to build on. The visuals can always be improved later on.
Fellow Pune resident here. I think there is a potential for a transparency startup here. Parts of stuff like these exist. I would buy you lunch/ beer/ whatever to learn from some of your experiences.
It is very easy to differentiate between US foreign policy in Europe and Asia. But if the situation in Asia were to change - say because China invaded Taiwan - it is likely that the US would change their activities too.

And if it is anything like their approach in Europe, they'd probably move in and escalate. So in a scenario where China invades another country and triggers a global economic meltdown it is still possible that the US would swoop in and cause the most damage. The Ukraine thing would probably be all over by now if not for the US deciding to set up a proxy war on Russia's borders. I don't think there is any contention on that either, the only argument is whether it was a good idea or not.

If the US wasn't involved in Europe, it is likely that there wouldn't be a crisis of the magnitude that is unfolding. When the US invaded numerous middle eastern countries, the Asians pursued policies of de-escalation (realistically, there were no alternatives) and the the crisis stayed relatively contained.
OK, thanks. I know about niches/elision and I didn't though Option<Infallible> as an example of Option<&T> and, backtracking, I was confused by "It does say that Option<&T> is the same size as &T," followed somewhere by "but there are definitely edge cases". I did mentioned I was maybe misinterpreting what followed that phrase.
> Social media is not just an engineering problem.

What you makes you think Tesla is just an engineering problem?

You have regulation, laws protecting dealers, government negotiations, lobbying (and that's just from top of my head) and not to forget, large distributed software and hardware infrastructure

SpaceX: strong relationships with customers, dealing with lots of government and private companies that are paying you millions of dollars, etc.

> You're assuming that the attributes that lead to success in those companies will also carry across.

There are many attributes across the board that is needed to succeed in a scale of those companies. Even in Musk's existing companies, he's most definitly not suited to do certain tasks. It's well known and that Gwen Shotwell is a huge part of SpaceX'es success to date. I agree that social network requires its own area of knowledge and experience, but Musk isn't literally doing all this by himself. He attracts talent and that's the key.
Obligatory mention of https://twitter.com/virginmedia/status/1162756227132198914 (in 2019!!)
In the computer science world yes. But the word also exists outside of that context (and did so long before computers).

Data is the plural of datum. A datum is a piece of information. Of course not any piece information is automatically a datum, as that noun implies a certain structured nature or a normative perspective on that piece of information.

Certain information only became commonplace because it became a datum first. Before using family names as an identifier many people had no family names, they were identified by their first name and by the places they grew up in.
It’s expensive and impractical, but in a way that also helps to keep it aspirational–still very common in the electronic music scene, go to any of the festivals or clubs in Europe and they’ll have the technics next to the CDJ’s.

Controller - laptop setups are common for house parties, and for bars and events that keep the same dj all night, but less common in clubs where the CDj’s with USB sticks make it easy to switch over. A CDj needs a DJ mixer, to which you can also hook up a record player, so mixing both is not too hard.

Personally I find vinyl a bit daft for new music since it’s all made on computers anyway! For older music it makes a lot of sense though, much of it never made it to digital.
As a long term android user, there are definitely great minimalist phones out there that give you a really good experience with little to no gimmicks. My current favorite is the Zenfone line from Asus. I have the Zenfone 8 and it's just brilliant. There's hardly any bloat, it's just android, no silly gimmicks, small form factor, decent camera and it has a 3.5 headphone jack. The newest model has all that and a much improved camera, and I've been eyeing it even though I really don't need to upgrade yet.

It was definitely a long way getting there but android is in a pretty great place right now.

I can't imagine ever going back to iPhones. I felt extremely crippled every time I tried to do anything. I remember having no access to the filesystem, having to use proprietary software (iTunes... never again) and having to jailbreak my iPhone to install custom ringtones from my own music. When I got my first android phone and could just plug it in, drag and drop files from my computer, I felt the strongest and weirdest catharsis, akin to "I don't have to suffer anymore".
If code is a relationship between the next state and the current state, then this state is data.
My favorite reference point for Javascript use is simple-HTML version of GMail. It's a webapp and it works fine with ~0 javascript.

Is your thing more complicated than GMail? If yes, maybe you can use Javascript in proportion to how much more complicated it is.

If not and you are still using a ton Javascript, please don't ever write software.
By not supporting Firefox, you're assisting Google in taking over the web.
This needs a [2017]. I naively hope that everyone involved in our industry has learned a lit bit about security in the last 5 years.
I'm building a startup for solving this. Let's meet. Twitter DM @ mrohanshah
you are talking about supply. OP probably referred to demand.
this reads like the main quest from a RPG
Hardware encoding and general performance are quite a lot of reasons. I don't think you're making your argument in good faith when you are clearly not pushing these systems to their limits like some of us are. There's no need to act like you've really tried running Jellyfin when you just chose the easier option and stuck with it.
Point is he was involuntarily fired in an unceremonious and embarrassing way on Musk's first day on the job. Based on his track record at Twitter, he deserved to be fired.

You're making that out to be such a great thing that he got fired because he gets a huge severance. Big deal. CEOs all over get huge severances for doing shit. Look at Mayer leaving Yahoo. At least she didn't get fired though.

Anyone with half a brain in his situation would have done what he did. It was obvious common sense to go to court with Musk. And the case was a slam dunk against Musk because of Musk , not Parag. He didn't make any brilliant moves. He just had to show up to court with Twitter's lawyers.

What would be impressive is if he deserved to stay on the company and worked with Musk to turn it around. But he didn't deserve it because he did squat for Twitter. Only thing he did was catch a lucky break at the end.

No, it's not a hard life at all, but not impressive at all either.
Political labels only have meaning in the context of a given time and place. What’s moderate in one place and time can be extreme in another. What’s right-wing at one place and time can be left-wing at another. (And in both cases, the converse is also true.) Obviously the person you are replying to meant those terms in a contemporary US-centric context - a “moderate” in the US is likely to be a fair way to the “right” by the standards of some countries, and a fair way to the “left” by the standards of others.
Do you think it is possible in theory to get heat from PVT panel to run the stirling engine ? Or are the temp differences required too high like you mentioned ?
Had this article been the difficulties to build a manufacturing plan on an area reserved for industrial use, I would agree. But I don't believe that changing the destination of agricultural land has to be a fast and easy process.
Both javascript and browsers have been hardened a lot since then. Back in the day people were using javascript on plain http websites, without https. Cross site scripting prevention in browsers simply did not exist.

Nowadays, it's a lot harder to get past browser security and people run all sorts of applications in browsers such as banking, business critical SAAS, email, etc. So, perfectly fine to include some crypto in that and probably not optional to do so for a lot of applications.

What's still true is that you should not be rolling your own crypto libraries and instead use libraries from reputable sources that have been scrutinized by people that know what they are doing. That's true whether you use javascript, C or whatever. And of course with web assembly you can just compile those libraries and use them in a browser sandbox.
One time, I was in a weird mood when answering the question. So I wrote "I refuse to answer".

There was no way to ever change it, so I always ended up with very confused call centre people, no matter how I explained it.
Automate Canva designs with variables to generate designs.
I have one as-yet-unredeemed gift certificate from my girlfriend for a left-handed bread knife. They're SO hard to find. Living in Germany I've wandered into multiple knife stores and ask and the people there all say "I know what you're talking about but we don't make one."

The only time I've actually seen one in real life is at the left-handed store on the San Francisco wharf!

Anyway, if you've got recommendations I'd love to hear them.
Please respect the prefers-reduced-motion setting when adding animations. I don't want to waste my time watching stuff slowly slide around on the page.

For the accordion, why not just use <details>?
As a theory person who usually explains O notation using concrete numbers, the degree of the neural network in our brain is approx 7000. Taking approx 86 billion ~ 100 billion, this itself is a graph with approx 6x10^(14) edges - does AGI proponents really hope to be able to do this? I am genuinely curious to know : is there some simplifying assumption which makes things faster?
Expanding and Enhancing the Have I Been Pwned API
I thought we were all about making it easier for felons to reintegrate into society? ;)
At this point I'm tempted to think we ought to be managing our own domain instead of email so we can ditch a breached email whenever it is leaked. Together with the use of virtual credit card to limit the exposure. It doesn't stop website collecting other kind of sensitive information like addresses and phone number though
This is underappreciated. You're not just buying an iPhone, you're buying a system of life accessories.

Which has clunky ugly corners, but still sort of works smoothly most of the time. (Mostly.)

I'm increasingly convinced Android only exists because it allows Google to pretend it's not just an ad company, and Apple to pretend it's not a monopoly.

Apple's stranglehold on the mobile market, with its mix of hardware, software, and content services, is far more extreme than Microsoft's 90s-era stranglehold on the PC desktop.
By the same merit, could also be a lot better than the lazy copywriting they have now.
Unless I'm misunderstanding something, the check solution creates that strong association. Logging in gives you a link you have to go to and auth, authing let's your session connect. Disconnect, and you have to do this again.

No check mode reuses the auth of the tailscale client, check mode authenticates the ssh connection itself
isn't the tax burden for sole proprietorship higher than for say limited company? 30 vs 25 iirc?