skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get that, but that's sort of the point, and in the UK we didn't do anything of substance until the end of March, which was far too late.

On 28th January I organised a DR drill, where everyone in our Cambridge office plus others in tech from other offices worked from home. This ran on 5th February. A week or two later I unofficially asked everyone on my team to stop all travel between offices, and requested key stakeholders not visit us in Cambridge. This was officially confirmed company-wide at the beginning of March. We shut all our offices and required all staff to work from home full-time 10 days before the government mandated lockdown began.

I'm not even holding this up as "we did a great job" because we were far too slow to act ourselves, but it's certainly not just 20/20 hindsight. I hear that trope far too often, and it's tiresome. I jolly well expect everyone in positions of leadership (including me) to have learned lessons from these events and do much better and act much more quickly next time around.

Again, let me reiterate that this situation was entirely predictable, and in fact was predicted by numerous experts, including Bill Gates.
Ah, I guess I was wrong earlier when saying that this was not a problem with the tool.

Merely allowing fallacies seemingly has an adverse affect on the whole promise.

Thanks for this clarification.
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I did. It lists things Gmail already does and is generally not clear in the first place.

Why post your link to a message board if you don't want to engage anyone's sincere questions?
"I think the reason we see a steady stream of new issue trackers is that teams are trying to fix with software what are people problems."

Imagine what would happen if everyone in an organisation had to use the same tool for text and code editing, say for some reason the PhB inflicted Word on the organisation as the only allowed code editor. Would that be good?

From my pov, most of the churn with ticket trackers is down to current solutions trying to own everything and apply a one size fits all model to everyone in the enterprise. The upshot being that the ticket trackers are invariably a sh*tty compromise for many/most individuals in the organisation. Think about the number of slides and reports that are hand generated for progress meetings in an enterprises. What about all of the various todo apps and systems people use? Why would so much effort be expended if the enterprise ticket tracking system was meeting requirements?

Fixing the problem requires using systems based on common standards that allow _individuals_ to use what works best for them but still interoperates freely with each other. fwiw, another shiney issue tracker will not do that unless its basic unit of tracking is something akin to a text file that can be shared with the next shiney issue tracker.
Hazard pay in focus as essential workers earn less than the jobless
>You'll have to trust somebody at some point.

No, I do not have to. I can choose to, but I don't have to! That is the core of the issue.If I 'have to' then I don't. I prefer checking and facts, not delusions.

>Do you trust the company who designed your Ethernet chip?

No, I don't and we shouldn't. I evaluate chances and we should track network activity with diff. hardware on diff. chipsets from diff. manufacturers.

>Do you trust the person who wrote the firmware for it?

No, I don't and we shouldn't as it's insane to do so.

>If not, go and design your own network chip.

There are other means to overcome this: encryption.
But yes, you right, we should make open source network chip. Agree. I certainly plan to design it.

>Otherwise, there's no guarantee it won't spy on you.
That is correct, I agree with you.

>You'll also want to write your own compiler.

Yes, that is correct. I want and I am writing it right now. There is also an option of GNU c/c++ compiler available (GCC) https://gcc.gnu.org

>that you'll then use to build the operating system you intend to run.

This is how you build a proper GNU/Linux system worth some degree of your trust.

>You won't just go download some Linux .iso to install, would you? After all, there's no guarantee it's not been manipulated by those who offer it on their website.

Exactly. Or it can be modified on the way, while you download it. For the later you can check hash sums published by a site who respects user freedom and cares about own reputation.

>You'll have to trust somebody at some point.

Again I do not have to, but I can choose to trust with some degree to Richard Stallman and people sharing his views.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9YDz-Iwgyw

I have some trouble trusting FSF since he was removed from the position due to false accusations for saying (!) just saying things, which he actually didn't say if you read carefully. Speak about respect of freedom of speech.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UbQ1kc1vQU

To trust the system we should have trust worthy components with open sourced designs starting from CPU and every chip installed and ending with each software running. That is the only way!
America has a lot of problems, but they all look strangely like anti-trust: https://mattstoller.substack.com/
Saddam got what he deserved, but the people of Iraq didn't deserved what came to them -- about half a million deaths[1] and later the rise of ISIS. Total number of people dead in the aftermath of American invasion is now bigger than the number of Saddams victims.

Do you know that the US supported Saddam in his war of agression against Iran? [0] Saddam could've been hanged much earlier and countless lives could've been saved if not for American support of scumbag and dictator.

As for WW2, please read about the Munich agreement.[2]

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Ir...

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancet_surveys_of_Iraq_War_c...

[2]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement
People have tried to bring caste politics into Britain and failed miserably.

The intent is not social justice, but to splinter the Indian community in the US by legalising divisions and forcing them to declare it in their documents.

As a child growing up in south India where we do not have caste names, I became caste conscious only in high school. Friends and class mates, some of them from wealthy, powerful and privileged families would point out how all they need was a B grade to get in a college of their choices. Whereas I may not even if I got all As.

It is not that I come from a "high caste", my ancestors were refuges of islamic invasion and were subsistence farmers. It is just that one needs the political clout to be classified as a backward caste to enjoy the many benefits of being classified as one including college admission, scholarships and government jobs.

In hindsight I am happy that I made it without reservation, because I do feel less like a free loader.

Ironically, my parents did give me a first name popular among brahmins and in hindsight I do see why some Christian teachers might have been especially harsh on me.

Stop promoting hate & divisions, especially if you are in a position of power.
Not much of an irony as far as I can see. There are a lot of people out there who are willing to break some rules but not others and that applies to piracy sites as well. Some years ago some of the websites were really active on this and crappy torrents used to be downvoted to oblivion.
Most forms ask you to fill your parents name and they also ask you to fill your reservation group, that is general, OBC or SC/ST(schedules class/tribe).
A lot can be gathered from this.
Even if you lie, there are background checks for this.
The smarter parents, register their kids as something generic like "kumar" or "singh" in schools.
The outside disrupter was supposed to be Facebook currency and I am glad it didn't happen as Facebook has enough power already and this would starting to go in WeChat direction.
The problem is that now a days a chemist can simply attach an inert molecular group to a banned chemical and viola it's no longer illegal but still the same drug. There are tons of LSD analogues like 1-acetyl-LSD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALD-52

Additionally:

O-Acetylpsilocin (4-AcO-DMT)

AL-LAD (6-allyl-6-nor-lysergic acid diethylamide)

ETH-LAD (6-ethyl-6-nor-lysergic acid diethylamide)

PRO-LAD (6-propyl-6-nor-lysergic acid diethylamide)

1P-LSD (1-propionyl-lysergic acid diethylamide)
In the old days, we would email them some kind of response, encouraging them to visit “our Website,” which would reroute to goat.se or lemonparty.org.

The thought of some poor bastard in an Internet cafe, desperately trying to cover up a gif of some old men “having fun” would give me a giggle.

I’m easily amused.
> These are welcome changes in my view, but unfortunately they also seem intend to fix SafetyNet and require hardware attestation that the bootloader is not unlocked [1].

The problem with unlocked devices is that it's a legitimate security risk.

With a signed OS and hardware attestation, you can verify with 100% certainty that the foundation of the device's security model is there and fully intact. Upon that foundation you can build features that you might not be comfortable with otherwise, like an OTP app, authenticator app or a payment app. You wouldn't build an "OTP" app for Windows for example because Windows doesn't have a solid security model, it's quite easy for one application to access another application's resources.

Once that foundation is broken, all bets are off. If the bootloader is unlocked, you have no way of knowing what's running on a user's device. For all you know, all of the permission checks have been removed and nothing is secure anymore. Even the APIs you'd expect to interact with a secure enclave could be replaced.

Others are suggesting that this is the user's choice and so perhaps developers should just deal with it but I disagree. A device isn't necessarily unlocked by the user. A device can be unlocked by anybody with physical access and the passcode. For example a malicious party could install a malicious version of Android on your device if they have unattended access to your phone for a while. They could also buy phones, flash malicious versions of Android and then sell them at a slight loss, making profit off the money stolen from their victims.

There's also the problem of malware that gains root privileges. With a locked bootloader, there's limited opportunity for such malware to become persistent. It can't modify the system partition at all. With an unlocked bootloader, it can modify the system partition and permanently modify the OS. Basically, locking the bootloader prevents rootkits.

This is why these features are here. They're not here to make enthusiasts' jobs harder, they're here to provide a solid foundation of security upon which an OS that's secure enough to handle high-value information can be built.

> When this is enforced for all devices some apps, like the eBay app, won't run on unlocked devices anymore.

In some cases (e.g. games), I think this is ridiculous. For apps that deal with finance or other sensitive areas, as explained above, I think this is entirely reasonable.

All that said, I can see a world in which we have custom ROMs as well as security:

- We make custom signing keys [0] commonplace, not just a thing for Pixel devices.

- Set up an automated service through which a device can submit CTS [1] results and have its build of Android whitelisted.

[0]: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/avb/+/mas...

[1]: https://source.android.com/compatibility/cts
Did a Chinese Hack Kill Canada’s Greatest Tech Company?
That happens because there many Indian states have separate quotas in govt jobs/education for OBC (Other Backward Class)so a even if you are a Muslim and your caste is considered lower class, you can apply.
Sepnd time with your family to do things which you won't be able to do later on. Compared to the future you will look back on this time as rest.
An even better idea, if you're preferential to radio DJs: have a recording setup and Shazam-like recognition system where a Spotify playlist or queue is made from what's being played. I was considering doing that as a project. The song choice by the radio DJs is the real value, and I sometimes prefer their playlists over my recommended daily mix playlists or whatever Spotify selects on the generated radio stations. The highest streaming quality option on Spotify is superior in audio quality to regular radio and the digital streaming options from radio websites. StationHead has been trying to do something similar, but they still include the social live host aspect.
Yes for sure, it's not up to me to tell you how to live. You do you. And sure, don't date if you don't feel like it.

But don't isolate. Your 20s are the "last" period where its easy to make friends. After that people have a more settled life, have children, have more responsibilities, move away. So just don't postpone meeting interesting people.
Is adding providers to these lists not a form of harrasment?

You are trying to degrade the quality of the email service so that either their customers leave them or they stop providing disposable email addresses?
Starjacking?
Let's see how it plays out with climate change... This stub is the worst.
> Numerous genetic studies have found no significant difference amongst Indian castes.

Indian jatis have usually been endogamous for over a thousand years. We’re talking genetic differences as large or larger than between Ashkenazim and Poles here. Less than one in-marriage per generation.

> Genetic Evidence on the Origins of Indian Caste Populations

> The origins and affinities of the ∼1 billion people living on the subcontinent of India have long been contested. This is owing, in part, to the many different waves of immigrants that have influenced the genetic structure of India. In the most recent of these waves, Indo-European-speaking people from West Eurasia entered India from the Northwest and diffused throughout the subcontinent. They purportedly admixed with or displaced indigenous Dravidic-speaking populations. Subsequently they may have established the Hindu caste system and placed themselves primarily in castes of higher rank. To explore the impact of West Eurasians on contemporary Indian caste populations, we compared mtDNA (400 bp of hypervariable region 1 and 14 restriction site polymorphisms) and Y-chromosome (20 biallelic polymorphisms and 5 short tandem repeats) variation in ∼265 males from eight castes of different rank to ∼750 Africans, Asians, Europeans, and other Indians. For maternally inherited mtDNA, each caste is most similar to Asians. However, 20%–30% of Indian mtDNA haplotypes belong to West Eurasian haplogroups, and the frequency of these haplotypes is proportional to caste rank, the highest frequency of West Eurasian haplotypes being found in the upper castes. In contrast, for paternally inherited Y-chromosome variation each caste is more similar to Europeans than to Asians. Moreover, the affinity to Europeans is proportionate to caste rank, the upper castes being most similar to Europeans, particularly East Europeans. These findings are consistent with greater West Eurasian male admixture with castes of higher rank. Nevertheless, the mitochondrial genome and the Y chromosome each represents only a single haploid locus and is more susceptible to large stochastic variation, bottlenecks, and selective sweeps. Thus, to increase the power of our analysis, we assayed 40 independent, biparentally inherited autosomal loci (1 LINE-1 and 39 Alu elements) in all of the caste and continental populations (∼600 individuals). Analysis of these data demonstrated that the upper castes have a higher affinity to Europeans than to Asians, and the upper castes are significantly more similar to Europeans than are the lower castes. Collectively, all five datasets show a trend toward upper castes being more similar to Europeans, whereas lower castes are more similar to Asians. We conclude that Indian castes are most likely to be of proto-Asian origin with West Eurasian admixture resulting in rank-related and sex-specific differences in the genetic affinities of castes to Asians and Europeans.

https://genome.cshlp.org/content/11/6/994.full.pdf
Not true. VSCode lacks some very fundamental functionality, like proper (non-linear) undo and the vim plugin basically does not support any ex commands (other than s, which works different as well). Having said that, I think the VSCode vim plugin gives a quite good experience overall.
That does sound interesting. Also for the fact that I'd never seen clojure and javascript living in the same codebase, I was expecting python for data handling.

But I digress.

I believe there's a lot to do to find reason in out fundamental unreason as human beings and looks like lots of smart people have ventured into solving this problem.

I guess not all is lost yet for humanity!
I tried to write a Tl;Dr for this - i don't think I can.

It seems to be good start up ideas exist in the 'one step removed' phase space of all possible startups - not so far advanced that you need to teach Henry Ford about computers, but just one extra 'twist'.

This seems to be however leading to startups should iterate through 'Facebook but for [dogs,cats,fish,mobile phones]" which I am not sure wins.

But I loved the history of Godel etc.
Do you know why such a law came into existence? Because of atrocities against "lower" castes which wouldn't even be investigated. But most laws in India end up being misused. (For example dowry harassment laws.)
That's stupid. Over the long shot, "being a week or a month late to the current pandemic" will be completely disastrous. We're lucky that the current pandemic kills mainly old people (more or less, let's gloss over permanently disabled people), but are you denying that it's just a matter of time until some virus comes along that lies in the sweet spot of infectiousness, mortality and/or permanent damage to the body?
Augmenting the algorithm: Emerging human-in-the-loop work configurations
I'm running a FLOSS phone and Netflix works fine. Pixel 4 XL with my own build of AOSP with MicroG.
> I can count on my hand the number of times I have ever had caste come up in a discussion

That is because your not "Indian" you are an American, these caste based discussions happen among first gen Indians who were born in India and then moved to another country. The kids of these immigrants dont usually care about caste.
I'm not attempting to justify or defend the US or the Chinese pandemic response to Coronavirus (both of which were awful).

I'm saying it was not utterly predictable in the course of its spread. The extent of the spread would have surprised most people, including epidemiologists if you asked them in January - precisely because we have encountered very similar viruses before and managed to contain them - it was always a possibility, but was considered by most of the world a remote one. Indeed, epidemiologists and governments in many countries knew about the virus in February, but not all reacted appropriately as they'd seen many such warnings before and for previous viruses it was contained and not a risk.

There's swine flu in humans in multiple locations in China at the moment and it is likely to evolve to jump human to human - are you personally preparing for it to spread in the US now? If not why not since its spread is, like coronavirus, inevitable?

Human stupidity also lends itself to retrospective reframing of events as inevitable and easily predictable when they are neither - it's easy to say everyone knew what was coming when talking in retrospect and very hard to accurately asses risk or probability.
Like the shell, nice!
Nope it was a completely honest question and what I considered a constructive line of thought. You should assume good faith. I asked about two competing definitions of what is racist and you seemed to prefer one over the other.

And what have I claimed to "easily refute" exactly? More like I ran with the definition, and considered how to address the problem as stated. I said more features were needed, I didn't say enough features were currently used. You keep pointing to a dichotomy between perfect and flawed, while I was talking about relative improvements. There isn't even necessarily a disagreement there.
New Grad, can I get pigeonholed by my first job?
I recently graduated from college and long story short, i have accepted an SRE role with a decent tech company because I don't have a lot of options this being a pandemic and all.

I don't want to sound ungrateful, I am really happy that I have a job at this time. But I really really want to be a backend developer or infrastructure engineer.

Will this first job pigeonhole me into SRE?

Thank you all for any opinions, advice, or stories you have to share!
Reservation is not granted based on the last name. It is granted based on the caste marked in the documents.

While it is true that the fourth candidate with 100% may not get a seat, the same is true in reserved seats as well. If there are 20 reserved seats and 21 candidates score 100%, the last guy may not get a seat. I don't understand what is that you are calling unfair as.
> I'd rather not get into the whole debate and wait for more published papers by people who are more knowledgeable than me in this area.

I've responded because it looked to me that you believe that the paper can "back up" the claims with, as you wrote: "traces of COVID-19 in Spain in March 2019."

I'm quite sure it can't show that COVID-19 was in Spain in March 2019, and even if the paper reports detecting IP2 and IP4 genes from the archived sample, even that is not certain.
entr is a great too, I use it all the time to automate various little things when I'm developing. The coolest part that it works in every environment I care about, which is FreeBSD, Linux, and macOS.
Commands like this are super-useful, and I use them all the time when editing LaTeX papers.

I used atchange for a long time:

http://jeffreycopeland.com/work/PDF/1996-03-atchange.pdf
http://users.fred.net/tds/lab/atchange.html

And now, out of habit, my own wrapper around inotify. But more polished solutions like entr do seem the place to start now.
HK, the place where everyone assume you are a programmer
When I ditched cable TV my bandwidth usage skyrocketed. Now that the prices are closer, there seems to be almost no benefit to streaming TV. My Internet will be faster and Xfinity's apps are as good if not better than YT.
I agree, caste-based discrimination has to be almost as pure a social problem as problems can get.

But in defence of what gp said, it is possible for the major problems to be unidentified and cause misattributed to discrimination. Consider the classic US Berkeley bias case [0].

No doubt sexism is rampant at universities as it tends to crop up everywhere, but sexism wasn't the cause of the statistical anomaly that was the issue of the day. In a nutshell, the existence of discrimination doesn't mean that it is causing the issue at hand.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson's_paradox#UC_Berkeley_...
dude, why would you witness such extreme casteism? Its like being White in the US and saying I don't see any racism.
https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron
It looks like the most concerning expansion of power here is that under the new law (download the PDF and read for yourself, Chapter 3: "Offences and penalties"), advocating for or organizing events for the separation of Hong Kong from China is an offence.

As is, potentially, someone donating funds to persons organizing such events or publishing such opinions. "...A person who incites, assists in, abets or provides pecuniary or other financial assistance or property for the commission by other persons of the offence..." That is quite an expansion.

The penalties range from < a few years to > 10 years prison.

The rest of the law is not that different from anti-terrorism and sedition laws that other countries have.

I'm sure it will be of significant concern to see whether protests for the freedom of speech and related civil activities (aside from HK independence or separation) get swept up under this law or not.