skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your statements in the first paragraph are contradictory.
> Well firstly, the varna system doesn't change the Hindu perspective that one chooses one's birth.

> That still lines up with the core tenets of Hinduism, that one chooses one's birth based on the ripe karmas.

Vedas says one is born according to his past life karma.

> The original caste system - the varna dharma - simply means that at different stages of life and different people more naturally express ways of serving society - some are workers, some are business people, some are warriors, some are priests.

If people were allowed to change caste most people would have changed to priestly caste as it is the most easy life one can have.

> A brahmin (priest caste) does not need to be born from brahmin parents

No father would want his child to convert to lower caste.

> The British further abused the caste system and perpetuated this false understanding of it for their own benefit.

I am not saying Britishers came as saviors, but they are the ones who setup schools to everyone, obviously for their own profit ,but still mass education happened only after their conquest.

> This is not the original way. The Vedas actually tell us that castes are fluid through one's life and not based on which family one was born into.

Assuming this is true, who has the authority to decide who should belong to which caste. Obviously the people in the highest caste will decide and they will try to main the power. Its simple as that.
In many countries oil is taxed at over 70%. If oil prices grew by let's say 50% - these countries can lower the tax and consumers wouldn't even notice.

There's no excuse for ignoring external costs - these costs are real and paid by everybody while profits are gathered by only a few people.

It's deeply unethical but more importantly irrational - people profiting from the fossil fuels have no incentives to fix anything if they aren't forced to deal with the external costs.

Currently the system is - they get the profits and everybody pays for external costs. That makes alternatives to fossil fuels less attractive because you will pay "petrol tax" anyway in taxes spent on all the external costs, even if you don't buy any fossil fuels ever.
Store-risk metrics include average store compensation, average total store sales, and a "diversity index" that represents the racial and ethnic diversity of every store. Stores at higher risk of unionizing have lower diversity and lower employee compensation, as well as higher total store sales and higher rates of workers' compensation claims, according to the documents.

Interesting. I would like to know what factors are behind this. This would be probably good area to do sociological research in.
Planck's principle- Or science progresses one funeral at a time
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“We decided to retain our signature triangle logo, although we have simplified it.”

Is this satire? Can’t tell.
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I think it’s a common issue: i.e. if you decide to be bold, then you also may need to be bold in other situations or otherwise you are kind of missing the point.

But often people will decide they can only be bold once (forgetting that the risk of bold tends to overlap with the other bold).

The idea is great. But it also requires one to accept other ideas to fully work.
It didn't solve library fragmentation as much as it showed the solution that was always available and already used by most ports before the Steam runtime existed: to bundle all the libraries you need besides system interface like libc, libGL, etc. This is really no different on Windows.
Why do you care?

I'm going to take the opposite view here, and advise you that if see Social Media as full of hate (which it is in my view), then Social Media is not for you. I recommend you leave it to those who enjoy that sort of toxic interaction, and focus on something you actually enjoy.
Thanks!

So this is really just a time constraint issue. The desktop apps will initially just be Electron wrappers around the web app – I'm not a huge fan of this as it results in fairly bloated desktop apps, but we've had people say they'd like desktop apps anyway, so we're gonna do that for hopefully the next release.

Mobile apps is a bit harder, as it requires actually writing a new interface, either in something cross-platform like React-Native (probably what we will end up using, as the current web app is in React) or something else. Which is why for the time being we've tried to make the web app itself as responsive as possible on mobile.

We also plan to improve the web interface on mobile significantly in the next release to make it feel more like a native app even though it won't be one (yet).

But yes, mobile apps are definitely something we want sooner rather than later! Just need more time in the day ;)
Vercel CEO here. We are incredibly delighted to bring the new brand to the world and share the news of our funding.

For everyone who's been on this journey with us so far, thank you, and we look forward to a lot more!
In the offline world, much of what "trends" is stuff that hacks people's reward system.

E.g., high-fructose corn syrup, french fries, nicotine, slot machines.

It's bad for us long term, but satisfies our evolved physiological needs in the short term.

Most of the trending content on social media is the same, and much of modern news and commerce has adapted to it.

From what you've said, you're trying to win at the same game, against people/companies who are far more experienced, skilled, resourced and cynical than you.

The answer: don't play that game.

Find a small niche of people you can satisfy with earnestly good quality content.

Think really small - like, 5-10 people, who you can get to know personally and whose interests you can address really really well.

Then grow gradually.

It will seem painfully slow at first, but with a consistent effort over a long enough period of time, you can achieve exponential growth and eventually build a huge audience that really cares about what you have to offer.

One of the best people to follow for guidance on how to do this is Seth Godin. Follow his daily blogs/emails, and read his books, particularly Linchpin, Permission Marketing, Purple Cow and The Dip.

Simon Sinek is another person worth paying attention to.
Am I reading this right? 13,337 for a unrestricted file access vulnerability? Seems rather cheap, I think even other interested parties would pay more :/
Honestly, it mainly sounds like you are pretty quick to judging others without actually knowing what they are doing.

So much for "doing things that damage society".
> Since late April it has had to reverse its loose policies and start introducing bans similar to elsewhere[1].

Citation does not support your claim. The reference you give was from April 17th (last friday), and references the barring of visits to nursing homes on April 1st, but no additional bans since that time.
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I've seen laptops with Ryzen 4800HS CPU in stock at NewEgg and Amazon. Not often at Best Buy yet.

Look for the Asus TUF 506 and Asus Zephyrus G15.
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Maybe this is sarcasm, buy Zoom has that exact feature.
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One important goal of the "flatten the curve" actions in Germany was to delay the CORVID-19 outbreak enough so that it will be separated from the flu season (which apparently was also unusually bad this year)

This article is from 20-Feb-2020:

https://www.dw.com/en/massive-flu-wave-grips-germany/a-52445...
That's just marketing speak. It doesn't actually explain why they changed their name.
The Surface Book 3 is expected to be announced shortly, but early rumors and leaks point to Intel. But a boy can dream!
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Yeah but that's why they chose Vercel not why the name ZEIT had to be changed in the first place
Isn't that what the market economy is based on. Making money off of information asymmetry?
I wonder if this is also done in-kernel on their edge machines. I know that they used to do it in kernel with ktls(?) on FreeBSD which they themselves are a developer of.
They removed the gradient present on the full logo (which you sometimes see).
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I mean it’s a complete and total wild ass guess but the obvious reason to change one’s name is if you’ve identified another entity that is using that name in a way which could prevent you from global exclusive use of the brand.

It’s the kind of thing that could easily have come up in due diligence for the large recent investment.
Same with this:

> Vercel strongly connects to the words versatile, accelerate, and excel.

It also "strongly connects" to the words "vermin" and "decelerate".
Networking noob here. Can‘t the ISP see Netflix‘s ASN/commonly used IP‘s and shape that way?
I think Spyro is one of the best examples of Gouraud shading mastery on the system. The textures are there to add detail, in fact they had a basic LOD system for the environment where they swapped textured models with gouraud shaded models using the same tint for objects far away.

The skyboxes were rendered as well as meshes and then shaded, and they still hold up today from an artistic point of view: https://imgur.com/gallery/vocZw
> Practically, no one did this before Wine/Proton.

Oh come on, that's a huge exaggeration. There are thousands of native games available for Linux and Wine/Proton had nothing to do with that. Finding something to play hasn't been a problem for a long time if you are interested in a wide enough range of games.

Steam did make a big contribution to that but that was before Proton - if anything, Proton might have slowed down the number of new native releases. What Proton solves for people is being able to play specific games they want to play, like for example the latest popular AAA game that everyone is talking about - for that it's not enough if there are x% of games available no matter how big x is.
FWIW, this is most likely not a bias of the search engine, but just a reflection of its sources (mostly stock image platforms I suppose). So if most stock images of blue trolls would be labelled with "politician", you'd eventually find blue trolls when searching for "politician".
I will say I consistently get better benchmark scores on CPU in macOS than Windows, but anything that involves the GPU is hilariously poor on macOS compared to Windows.
I don’t think you can blame TrueType’s hinting for problems with FreeType’s autohinter, which was created specifically as a patent-free replacement for TrueType’s hinting (https://www.freetype.org/autohinting/hinter.html)
LOL, really? source? Is Germany a big market for them? Apple is also a regular word... its's the name of a fruit in English
curious why was the name Zeit not preferred?
glad you renamed it. The Zeit i know, was able to serve Docker images
Yeah, exactly.

Make a pair of canvas basketball boots covered in pictures of unicorns and sell them to the 200 people that are desperately in love with unicorns and have always wanted a pair of canvas basketball boots covered in them. Much easier (/cheaper!) than making a bad copy of a pair of Nike Jordan and trying to sell them to everyone already buying Jordan's.

In other words, start a small, high-engagement Instagram account that photoshops baseball caps and jerseys onto cats, then do something similar again and again, then start leveraging your audience into the more generic offerings after... You liked this, then try this as well.
Wow I never imagined my article being in hackernews. Thanks for sharing it!
If anyone has any comments, requests or want to report a mistake, please drop me a message (email address is in that website), I’m constantly adding more material.
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Mindustry is a game similar to Factorio. It's open source and free to download on the Play Store. Warning: it's super addictive
Agreed, but it depends very much on which JVM one is using, and not all of them offer the same capabilities as Hotspot.

And then there is that other special flavour of coffee beans out there.
Hi, author here.

> For me and a lot of users, that means that this project probably won’t be useful for a lot of non-ASCII users, especially for CJK users like me. I’m pretty sure CJK support will not get implemented or postponed to the future until one day the maintainer decided the project is too ‘complex’ and not ‘suckless’.

I totally understand that suspicion. All I can tell you is that right now, CJK, Cyrillic etc. are still on my radar.
In fact, I think libraries' internals already at least partially support them.
Only problem is, the API and demo application can't take advantage of that right now, though they will in the future.
That being said, it's true that some select writing systems will have lesser support than say FreeType2 provides.
That's mainly because TrueType (the font format libschrift is implementing) doesn't support all languages perfectly either.
There's no way for libschrift around limitations in TrueType itself, except for perhaps also implementing other font formats like OpenType.
(Which I might look into eventually).

> Yes, I know that this is an open source project and I don’t need to use this… but it just makes me sad to see essential features for some people will be removed as the name of ‘complexity’. IMHO, this attitude of trying to rewrite complex projects into simpler ones without careful planning of how the new projects will handle complexity makes more inconsistent, divisioned ecosystems.

Actually, suckless projects are getting a lot better about this recently. There are lots of internal discussions on how to properly implement minute details of the Unicode standard. Recently Laslo Hunhold even released a prototype library for correct grapheme cluster handling (https://git.suckless.org/libgrapheme/log.html).

Cheers,
Thomas Oltmann
> So, given that I was quoting global figures for the flu, on an apples-to-apples basis it seems like covid is about 10x the flu at the moment, in the US, ignoring the fact that it could be much worse without the lockdowns.

At about 10 weeks into the H1N1 influenza pandemic, we had a CFR of between 0.1 and 5.1% depending on the country as compared to 0.07 to 14.93% for COVID. H1N1 ended up with an actual IFR of 0.02% or one fifth of the low end of the CFR range.

Honestly, it's probably a maximum of three times as bad as H1N1, especially when you consider Italy later admitted of its 13.22% CFR, 88% of that number was "people who happened to die while COVID positive" instead of "likely died of COVID". [1] Huge deltas in CFR are likely attributable to mess-ups along the way and how COVID deaths are counted.

10X as bad is likely on the very highest end as Sweden hasn't locked down anyone, suggesting common sense instead, and their new case rate flattened out right alongside the rest of the world. 1000X is totally out of proportion with the data. [2]

I suppose we don't know for sure but we do have two and a half million data points which is enough to make a pretty good guess.

It's kinda starting us in the face that it's kinda like a bad flu except worse for old people, who we should lock down and look after as we build herd immunity.

[1] https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/global-covid-19-case-fatality-...

[2] https://aatishb.com/covidtrends/?location=Canada&location=Sw...
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ESNI was dropped from the TLS1.3 spec. It is currently a draft protocol.

Almost nothing supports ESNI yet. Chrome does not have it yet. Firefox does but it very difficult to enable, there is a config flag but it does nothing on its own unless you also enable DNS over HTTP in Firefox.

OpenSSL has no support for ESNI yet either.

ESNI also never tells the user if it is working or not yet, making downgrades fairly easy.

ESNI is a long way from being deployed, let alone useful.
Work towards a niche.

Then announce it to the world. Although getting "followers" or "retweets" as a vindication of your online presence is not a metric that should be pursued. Its futile.
Generally when I’m idly visualising something it is ‘in my mind’s eye’ as you put it. But if I’m really focused and close my eyes then everything else seems to disappear and I’m ‘really’ seeing it, not on the inside of my eyelids but it encompasses my entire visual perception if that makes sense

More rarely I also get it with sounds and then it definitely does feel that the sound is originating externally to my mind

You’re right that these experiences are more like hallucinations but I think they are points on a spectrum rather than separate things
There’s a lot of awe in the comments about how limitation drove ingenuity. It’s true throughout most of the second half of the 20th century electronics, not just the toys that came at the end. The gameboy is a great example. A Z80 is an incredibly simple thing. You have to sit there and hack together games in assembly, performing all sorts of tricks to keep the memory footprint down. The first speak and spell is another example. I wish I could conjure up more, but basically any novel toy that involved electricity between 1950 and 1970 is a work of art. You don’t need a computer, or even a transistor, to use electronics tools in a creative way to make an interactive toy.
^ The re-brand makes much more sense in this light - a young company that can still only focus on 1 product, needs a name that is associated with their current product, and not now v1 and v2.

But that was not the reason given - strange to cause such confusion.
The name change makes a lot of sense to me, tactically (no matter what you think of the new name).

ZEIT is associated with full-stack hosting including backend servers, which they no longer want to focus on to. To solidify their pivot to frontend hosting in their users mind, they rename to strip all previous connotations from their brand.
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meet.jit.si has that feature. It seems really superior to Zoom (no account needed, links in natural language, great UI, good sound/video quality), I don't know why more people don't use it.
How long did it take you to come up with this approach? How many meetings etc? As a lone developer I always wonder this stuff.
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No end-to-end encryption per default, and if I activate it I’m not able to see the conversation on other devices. Signal does that better.
Late-game mechanics (bots, etc) actually turn the game into an RTS and allow you to grow from this 'move around your factory' gameplay mode into 'plan and deploy dozens of remote factories straight from the map view'.
Quantum steampunk: 19th-century science meets technology of today
In the UK or USA I can setup a company in a few days and generally legals for a Seed round wouldn't really ever exceed $25k. In Germany there's far far more hassle sadly, German language capability is a must and the notary requirement creates enough inertia I'd rather just never deal with a GmbH unless it's absolutely necessary. One of our deals required reading legal documents out loud in person for 3 hours - that's just not really feasible as an investor at scale.
That's the objective of Blitz.js [1]: build on top of Next.js for a rails-like experience, but made by an independent open-source community.

[1] https://blitzjs.com/ - https://github.com/blitz-js/blitz
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You're reading the opinion section of The Economist, in which the featured opinion is that of outside contributor, Kishore Mabubani, a former Singoporean diplomat.
oh, the whole proccess of seo is an experiment. there is no accurate formula for success, however, there are some tips and tricks.

what social media you are talking about? reddit, facebook, youtube, twitter?
Sure! Most things in common lisp don't work with 'equal',
which "poisons" the well so to speak.
For example hash tables.

(defparameter my-hash (make-hash-table))

(defparameter thy-hash (make-hash-table))

(setf (gethash 'one-entry my-hash) "one")

(setf (gethash 'one-entry thy-hash) "one")

(print (equal my-hash thy-hash))

NIL

while in clojure every immutable datastructure you encounter in the std-lib or syntax has proper equality.

(= {'one-entry "one"} {'one-entry "one"})

true

To which McCarty had to say:

> I considered it important to make these expressions obey the usual mathematical laws allowing replacement of expressions by expressions giving the same value.
The article already includes McDonald's response why its burger didn't decompose (it dries out quickly due to its small size).

If you're skeptical, Serious Eats confirmed this in an experiment: https://aht.seriouseats.com/2010/11/the-burger-lab-revisitin...

(A home-made burger of the same size tested under the same condition didn't decompose either. The only thing you need to do to make either the home-made or McD's burger rot is to make sure it doesn't dehydrate quickly.)
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A shame they changed the name, I liked "Zeit". The re-branding reminds me of the browser IDE "Hyperdev" which changed to "Gomix" and finally to "Glitch"... Everytime the name changes, people care less... but I'm no businessman

> [1] ...Therefore, all new plans include unlimited Bandwidth, Builds, and Serverless Function Execution

Also, the new pricing is a bit more approachable, when I last looked it seemed a bit expensive for Serverless functions.

[1] https://vercel.com/blog/simpler-pricing
A few things to consider:

Why do you want to get good at social media? You mention spamming tags and subscribing to things that they don't care about.

What is the outcome you want from this?

Getting a lot of likes/RTs? Getting a lot of followers?

If that's the outcome you want, then it sounds more like you want some form of community where you can feel appreciated or encouraged. Social Media is a vacuum of constant churn, and you won't find fulfillment there.

There are exceptions, but I strongly recommend thinking about what things you like to do and try to find your community in real life where the reward is so much higher.

Join a tabletop game club, take French cooking classes, go to some Yoga meetups.

I know now is not an opportune time to go out and meet people, but it's a hell of a lot healthier for your mind and body to be around real people when the time comes. Don't waste your time on social media right now. Build yourself up, learn something new, create something cool. If you get one of those things done, share it on social media if you want, and maybe you'll find some cool people who share your passions or interests.
Bankers and hedge fundies! BBC employees do great. Tube/rail get paid well above doctor averages for at least the first half of their career.
Yes. The case where it's much more useful is traffic going in/out of major CDNs to shared IP addresses. For Netflix or someone else running their own CDN the gains are much smaller.