skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Delhi is also downwind of many agricultural states such as Punjab (Haryana is a red herring [https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FgkMn_nUoAAZ5dd?format=jpg])

This is a unique year, because for the first time Punjab and Delhi are run by the same Govt (Kejriwal). The Delhi Govt. can't start its annual complaint about burning biomass in Punjab, because for once, they have the power to actually curb it.

> Kejriwal called for an end to “blame games and finger-pointing” over the smog and farm fire issue. “Farmers need solutions,” he said. “The day they get a solution, they will stop burning the stubble.”

The hypocrisy of politicians is deafening, all while millions of human-years are lost every year to this primitive practice.

The hypocrisy goes even deeper, as the farm bill would have directly addressed this problem. One of the 3 main demands of the mostly Punjab driven protests to the farm bill were to decriminalize crop burning. Additionally privatizing farm trade was expected to lead to more lucrative non-rice crops, but that too was revoked after the protests. The farm bill was arguably the most progressive and well-thought out bills proposed by the Indian Govt., and the reaction by the English speaking commentariat can only be described as deliberate sabotage. This is partly their burden to bear.

I might seem partisan in my comment, but after a year of being talked down to and called names by every respected western outlet, twitter and India's trigger happy-to-please-the-west commentariat, I do feel a degree of schadenfreude. I just wish them 'getting a taste of their own medicine' was purely metaphorical and not this literal.

> The air quality could further dip in the coming days as a large section of sown area in Punjab will be harvested this week, as only 45-50% area has been harvested till October 24. There is a 34% rise in farm fires in Punjab this year compared to last year. Haryana, however, has been able to bring down the farm fire events this year with 1,701 such incidents reported from the state between September 15 and October 28 compared to 2,252 incidences for the same period last year, which translated to a reduction of about 25%.

I was going to call out the BJP (which runs Haryana in a coalition) for being just as useless, but they have been the lesser of 2 evils, as Haryana contributes a small and ever decreasing percentage of crop burning instances in the region. Still think they were spineless in revoking the Farm Bill, despite having an overwhelming majority mandate and many years before the national elections.

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I'm glad neither me nor any of my loved ones live in Delhi anymore. I spent a winter there, and the smog would make me break out int spontaneous hives across my entire body. It is not fit for human habitation.
LOL, imagine "Elon Musk is smart" getting downvoted on a site about tech entrepreneurship and company building. This is Exhibit #1 as to why people should not take this website seriously
I have a similar setup with a TEAC receiver, a technics truntable , and some nice speakers I got from my dad.

When the fan went out on the TEAC, I just wired it to a tiny power amp I got off amzn which had bluetooth, and just stream off bluetooth from whatever device I am wanting to use.

I'd ditch the receiver all together (cause I don't really need FM or CDs), but it has a phono preamp for the turntable and I occasionally like to listen to records. It's nie when we can make these things simple.
Is there any major power not trying to influence other countries' elections?

The US CIA has done this, much more directly and brazenly, in South America for decades.

Kind of funny when Americans act like buff shirtless Bernie memes are worse than organizing and funding coups
Is that just an anecdote though?

In Switzerland the govt has been running an energy conservation awareness campaign for about 6 weeks now and the stats say it's had zero effect so far.
It all depends of course on the level of your paranoia/threat model.

To prevent standard data leaking or rather stealing like in this case, linux is a quite solid choice.

But if you think you are a high profile target, you should probably learn how to deactivate Intels ME and co.

And if you are really paranoid, you should assume that there are hardware backdoors. But what do you do then? Build your computer from scratch?
I think the user met the same networks on Microsoft's end.
Fun violation of Betteridge's law.
Just come on down to Seattle every August and September now, you can experience it too :/
You're misunderstanding the problem and the product. I don't use NFC to open the lock. It uses capacative touch sensing on the enclosure. There's a geofence that detects when my phone is within range (iirc it is not NFC).

You're also assuming a lot about the position of the lock.
I've started to add css-tricks to me Google queries, because there is so much other garbage out there.
Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/ZpvwpCw
It wouldn't surprise me, as faxes have some really weird legal exceptions carved out for them. For example, a faxed document is considered equivalent to the original, but a scanned image is not. So even though a scanned image signed with your private key would be much more verifiable than a faxed copy that is transmitted without encryption and printed in a shared office, the law considers the fax as better than the scanned image.

Which is all to say that it wouldn't surprise me if there were a legal requirement for an "original document", and if that requirement could only be met by physical mail or fax.
>The first step being a decision on where to set up an account is a non-starter for a huge number of people

then the should just stay on twitter. The entire differentiator between Mastodon and Twitter is choice. It's akin to complaining about the fact that there's 50 states in the US and you have multiple elections to take part in and decide where you wanna live. It's all very complicated.

Any technology that empowers people by definition makes it so they need to make their own choices. If these decentralized systems are to have any purpose it needs to stay that way. If that means you lose 90% of users, fine so be it honestly.
Anything to do with gender on HN runs into Poe's Law basically instantly.
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> Asbestos is an emotionally charged topic for many people, especially the many who have (primarily) older relatives who have died or are dying from cancers caused by it.

I’ve not personally been impacted by this, but this seems reasonable.

> The analogy is resting primarily on the appeal to that kind of emotion

This seems like projection. It struck me as a perfectly legitimate analogy without any emotional correlation.
Like I said last time:

> Did we consent to this?

Yes, unless Microsoft doesn't ask for consent in whatever country the author is from. There's a consent popup that you need to click through that informs you that the content of your slides are shared with Microsoft. This is part of "intelligent services" in case you're looking for the details.

The author should be able to turn this feature off easily, but yes, they did consent to this. They just might have done so months ago and forgotten about it.

Find out more about the "intelligent services" that also send the contents of your document to the cloud if you click on their respective buttons here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/privacy/conne...
Deleted. Someone please get a screenshot
The IA hosts lots of non-public-domain videos, including loads of rare ripped-from-VCR material. Copyright status rarely is an issue unless a copyright holder finds a specific video and makes an explicit DMCA claim against it.

And even then, nothing is ever really deleted, just non-visible, for now…
My impression (mostly from coverage that I've seen at UnderstandingWar.org ) is that Yevgeny Prigozhin might be happy to admit to quite a few things - whether or not he'd actually done them - so long as doing so advanced his public image (hint - neither "weak" nor "pro-American") and political ambitions.

Pass the salt?
Ask HN: Anyone else's FB Ad Sets turned off by FB for no reason?
It's happened twice this week. All of our ad sets were turned off (activity history says that it's 'Facebook'), and now all of our campaigns are back in the learning phase for the second time in the last week.
If I may be pedantic:

> Compared to men, women are 17 percent more likely to die in a car crash and 73 percent more likely to sustain serious injuries in a front-end collision. Yet despite these discrepancies, car companies are only required to test vehicle safety using crash dummies modeled after the average man.

Guinea pigs are 2000% more likely to die in a car crash and 10000% more likely to sustain serious injuries in a front-end collision. We don't make crash dummies for guinea pigs.

Since to objective is to reduce overall injury, the primary justification for a female crash dummy would be based not on the probabity of injury if you are a woman, but the probability of being a woman if you have received injury. This is of course also very high -- and it's great to see female crash dummies, long overdue. I'm just irritated at such sloppy writing.
the difference seems to be

* the burden of CSS implementation of standards, is mostly on browsers

* the new standards are supposed to be reducing complexity. Nobody wants to go back to hacking rounded corners together. CSS Grid finally gave us a sane way to specify 2D layouts, which were previously all designed by hacking 1D-priority things.
>Free Speech Absolutists should firmly support people saying asshole things.

Understandable, but without impersonation.

i.e. Don't put words into other's mouths.
I'm also introverted, but I love riding the train. Sit down, with headphones, a book, take a nap, finish up some work.

But I guess if I had to be on some shitty US urban bus I would feel differently.

“A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation” – Gustavo Petro, Mayor of Bogotá

Rich people are the people that complain when things are dirty or late. In Switzerland if a train is late nobody will be like 'well you should have planned for that'. Because its only late so few times that its actually quite exceptional for this to happen.

The trains are full with people in suits working on laptops, having business meetings and so on. There is First Class even on the S-Bahn.
It does sound somewhat dodgy, though; as it implies they throw out the fatality data. Would love to see the data.
1. Spyware started with XP and was greatly improved in Win7. If you are asking this only now, then Microsoft and everyone else already knows everything there is to know about you.

2. When a company tells you that their product protects your privacy, what they mean is that they will try to be the only ones that have personal data about you (and that private data about you can only be bought from them). NOT that you will have any privacy.

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How you go forward? Best way is to stop using the internet. Go live in a cabin in the woods. (I'm only half joking.)

If you live in Europe you can ask for your account and data to be deleted, but that doesn't affect the companies that your data was sold to, nor anon / aggregate statistics your data is part of.

To have privacy about what you do/think/like in the future, you can try Linux, but you're not safe even there. Firefox will track your internet activity (can be disabled) and there is spyware such as Ubuntu's popularity-contest package that monitors and reports what you run on your Linux machine.

If you want to keep using Windows, the best way would be to wipe your HDD, install clean, activate it, update it (or not), and then cut the direct internet connection. From then on, use a whitelist filtering proxy as the only possible internet access. No DHCP or any usable gateway. I'm using this and is a pain to manage. I have to manually add to the whitelist every new site I want to visit (it gets easier after a while).

Another way to do it is to have an non-filtering but password-protected proxy, and don't tell Windows about it. Firefox can use a proxy that is different than Windows' proxy setting. This way you can navigate the web without allowing Windows access to the internet.
No but even if true, being stupid doesn't mean they should get scammed
The article doesn't think that. Did you get to the end of the article? They agree with a tweet arguing the features are worth it.
@lolinder

...you just removed the default case and just introduced undefined as return value at runtime, so it isn't the same functionality.
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What happened in 2014?

Also someone told me here that LS should be considered harmful.
I can't say whether the blog is correct or not, as I haven't seen the actual network traffic, but there are privacy controls that the author probably hasn't configured [1]. If it was configured correctly, Designer wouldn't even be available. So it's not as though every user of PowerPoint will have their data collected by Microsoft.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/privacy/manag...
Don't forget Iran!
And with that headline, Elon is never selling another Tesla to his target demographic again.
I wouldn't compare it to a scripting language specifically; it's maybe powerful like JS, but I wouldn't say it's "very JavaScript-like" in any other way. I'd compare modern CSS more to a logic language like Prolog or SQL; or maybe to whatever you'd call Excel (dataflow programming?)

In places where CSS takes expressions, they're always declarative, functional expressions; and they're always guaranteed to auto-update when their dependent values update, instantaneously as part of the update to the dependent values. Like an Excel grid-cell.

To me, however constrained "programming" in CSS still is, this makes for far better "programming ergonomics" than JS could ever give me — which, as you say, has me always reaching for a CSS solution before one in JS.
Shout out for the open source option:

Snapcast - https://mjaggard.github.io/snapcast/
It's a shame you were down voted so heavily for your question. I think it's a good one to consider. Surely at some point it does become a worthwhile deal. Imagine if they offered you $2 Mil/year? I would work my ass off and be damn happy for it for a few months knowing I'll be fired for that kind of money. Even if it were only 3 months long and I pocketed $500k, that would be a good deal to me.
It's interesting to see how long some ideas take to gain a foothold. I remember reading about zero-till farming in the late 1980s and how it improved yields, decreased erosion and saved on fuel. Fast forward to present day and one of the farming youtubers I watched just started no-till about 2 years ago. Last night I the same youtuber posted a video about ripping out fence lines because it causes issues with their harvest and is a source of weeds in the field, and I was surprised because farmers in the uk are now understanding that those same fence lines are an important source of biodiversity for the health of their soil and crops.
Do you have plans to add other subscription vendors like Zuora in the future?
I'm sure there's men laid off whose wife or GF is expecting too? Not really a story here when there's mass layoffs.
There are places to go. For replacing Google products/services there is Nextcloud. For search there is Brave search, among others. For Android there is plain AOSP which many privacy ROMs use.
I usually formulate the hard learned lessons in the form of stories.

XP kind of did this with the whole Chrysler thing.

I reckon a website that aggregated these stories would be a more powerful illustration.
Yes, but it's a step or two above bumping.
Having a culture war probably isn't a stable equilibrium.
What things go into making it "optimized"? The site needs a lot more information.
Manara (YC W21) is hiring a software engineer
Wow, god's gift to the comedy world.
> Safer alternatives exist.

Sure, but do they have certified compilers for Functional Safety (ISO26262) development for Automotive or Medical applications? Rust does not, although there's a company working on it.
I got some plastic bags hanging around, who do I ring to get in on this?
Sure it is, depending on the analogy and the purpose of the analogy. An analogy also isn't always fallacious. It needs to have a faulty extrapolated assumption from the comparison.

In this particular case, the argument is that C should be replaced with something safer for similar reasons that asbestos is replaced with something safer. However, one can certainly challenge the validity of this comparison and whether there's something faulty in it.

I don't feel one way or the other because I don't work with C or other low-level languages, but it's a bit absurd to say that an analogy isn't an argument. It absolutely can be if the argument within is clear, even if fallacious.
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I’m very much a specialist consultant - I specialize in “cloud application modernization”. Which basically means I do application development and “DevOps” using AWS technologies. But I’ve been doing your standard enterprise app dev/architecture for decades and I’ve used every type of backend language and database imaginable. Within the context of cloud, I am considered a generalist with a few specialities.

> Specialists are pointless to hire because yeah, they should just be employees

My job as both a consultant and before that at my last two full time jobs is to “put myself out of a job”. I focus on training my coworkers (when I was working full time as a non consultant) and now my clients to not need me. I did so twice before working as a full time consultant.

I absolutely refuse to do a staff augmentation type project and focus on projects where the company needs to leverage my specific skillset. I am engaged with the customer from pre-sales, architecture proposal, SOWs, through delivery. I haven’t done a project in any of my consulting projects where I haven’t started with an empty git repo.

I’ll be the first to admit that I suck at “staff augmentation”. Either I’m good at my job, or I’ve managed to fool a very large cloud provider and our customers that I’m good enough not to get fired.

I was also a dev lead in a previous life who was forced to work with contractors. I would never do so again. I’ll work with my team. But I know without a doubt that my team knows our specialty better than anyone else in the world.
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i fear that Mastodon will suffer enormously from the Twitter exodus because it has already had to accommodate a million new users. a million new customers is great, a million new members of a community is a giant acculturation problem
Sounds like a classic case of Simpson's paradox [1]. Here's how it could work, but I've made everything up so might not be true at all - it's just an example of how those numbers could exist:

* KSI goes up far less than expected as the journey length goes up (less than linearly, and maybe even down slightly between some categories). That's because the longer journeys are made by much more experienced cyclists - by definition, a very unfit cyclist never cycles 25miles, for example.

* But the category of very shortest journeys makes up by far the largest proportion of journeys, so a straight unweighted averages of KSI across journey length categories would give a very unrepresentative view.

* Those women that do cycle tend to be in the lower journey length categories because on average, women are less physically fit.

In other words, women would tend to be in the relatively more dangerous category of shorter journey length. It's not more dangerous because it's shorter - it's more dangerous because you had to be less fit to be in it in the first place.

Again, note that the above is all made up. But it shows how you could get to the contrdictory-sounding stats of the parent comment.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox
Irreversible side effects wasn't part of the original comment.

Also, any kind of addiction may have essentially irreversible side effects for those who are susceptible.
Well with Google Slides you know they'll be storing your data quite obviously right off the bat. The problem isn't so much the storing as the lying.
You're begging the question when you say that GATs are "not comprehensible for a mortal like myself." My entire point is that they were designed not to be incomprehensible.

What is "not comprehensible for a mortal" in this situation is why adding a generic to an associated type is a long-anticipated feature that took years of development to support. This is related to the "incomprehensible" discussion that occurs around this feature, talking about type functions and higher kindedness and all of these mathematical formalisms. But this discussion is just happening among practitioners and enthusiasts schooled in a certain jargon and area of arcane knowledge. It doesn't mean you need to understand any of this to just use the feature.

It's like people saying the internet is "not comprehensible for a mortal like myself" because most people do not have the background to properly understand IP/TCP/HTTP and how things like this undergirdle the technology that they use. And yet they use the internet just fine. If the design has succeeded, you should not need to even hear words like "higher kindedness" before you can make your associated type generic.

Possibly the system design is imperfect and the abstractions leaks and you as a user have to learn more than one would hope in order to successfully use the tool to accomplish your goals. Rust doesn't have a perfect track record here.
> there are significant behavioural differences

And i would bet that normal characteristics of testosterone would explain a sizable portion of the difference.
"Remote follow" is very unintuitive, particularly for Twitter users.

1. View a user's profile page on another instance.

2. Click "Follow".

3. A "remote follow" window opens with the message "Enter your username@domain you want to act from".

4. ???

How profile pages are displayed changes depending on whether you middle/right click ("open in new tab") or left click on a user's name from your own instance. If you left click, you get the profile page on you own instance. If you get the link by any other means (including e.g. someone sends you a link to their profile), you get the above. It's confused me more than once.
Both a paper cut and a gunshot wound bleed. It doesn't make them equal.
I really thought consumer/worker interfaces would become much more efficient over time. Turns out the market doesn't care much about front line people having to go through way too many steps to perform a task except in very niche cases.

The all text, green screen terminals hooked into an AS-400 were far quicker to use than the mess of mouse driven web GUI stuff (often with slow page loads on top of it), and 'discoverability' has not exactly improved a ton in the mean time. It sucks that repetitive task efficiency isn't valued more in so many situations.