skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No this is looking at the problem superficially. The upper castes feel neglected because there are close to 50% reservation in Government jobs. So they have no choice but to go to private sector. Now they practice undeclared reservation in private sector and not give jobs to the lower castes even if they are equally good and if not better. This is a systemic problem. Each one feels slighted. The lower castes have reservation in Government jobs so upper castes create undeclared reservation in private jobs. Both are harmful to the society!

Even the architect of the Caste-based reservation system Dr. Ambedkar (who is also the architect of the Indian Constitution) said that the Reservation in its current form should only exist for 10 years and not be extended. He contended that 10 years is more than sufficient to have a caste-based reservation. But it kept continuing for 70+ years. It is high time we revamp it to only provide reservation for those who are from low income categories. Doesn't matter which caste they are from. That will actually be helpful.

Caste-based reservation only enforces caste system in India. It doesn't help get rid of it! And it also goes against one of the six Fundamental Rights of Indian Constitution: The Right to Equality. Caste-based reservation violates this Fundamental Right. It was a temporary stop-gap measure which we have made permanent not to upset a section of the Indian society. But it is causing more harm than good. That is a fact!
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Location: North-east UK

What I do: Senior backend dev / tech lead

In the past I've been a network engineer, run large-scale Debian installations doing devops before it had a name, and been responsible for servers in Antarctica. I have experience with a wide range of different Unix tools and technologies, at various levels of the stack. This gives me the ability—and the perspective—to pick the best combination of tools for any particular project, rather than simply treating everything as a nail because all I have is a hammer.

I focus particularly on taking on “weird” or niche data or exploratory projects end-to-end; things that wouldn’t be a fit for a standard web or development agency.

Previous work:

* EDI message passing / reconciliation for US dental health insurance market, including X12 parser (Clojure)

* Custom domain specific language (DSL) to encode business rules for computer vision system (Common Lisp)

* University library data migration project, with a focus on completeness and validation. (Clojure, Elixir, Ruby)

* High-reliability, long-term timelapse platform for inaccessible locations. (FreeBSD, Arduino, Python, Shell)

* Migration of existing Node.js+Firebase service to Golang+PostgreSQL on AWS

* Feasibility study investigating the possiblility of writing custom code to interface with a biometric timeclock (Common Lisp)

Buzzwords: Debian, Ubuntu, AWS, PostgreSQL, Perl, Common Lisp, Clojure, Ruby, Go, Arduino / AVR, Elixir / Phoenix, FreeBSD

Got something you think is a good fit? Drop me a line at mike -at- lambdafunctions -dot- com
Immunobots that can move effectively and function with the immune system
I highly recommend the channel Tech Lead, a youtuber who covers some of the mundane aspects of programming career.
Apple creates mechanism to challenge App Store guideline decisions
> I have a cousin in India who can not get married to her boyfriend because his mother won't accept a marriage

She can but she won’t, or do mothers have to sign-off on marriages?
The rest of the world already uses HCQ + Zinc prophylactically for about $20 instead. The pharma complex did a great job along with their zombie mob of amrchair biochemists (the ones downvoting me to hades right now) of discrediting HCQ with BS studies of almost dead people with 10x the normal dose of HCQ without Zinc. All HCQ is in this protocol is a Ionophore to get the zinc into the cells. Lancet had to retract one of the studies which they almost never do.
Sending texts, setting timers, making calls, etc. Nothing earth shattering, but it's growing on me.
Laughable.

The ways things are going currently, if you don't agree with the left on things you can lose your job. You can't voice an opinion that is different or you get labeled a racist. You can see this every day in plain sight.
BOC Aviation, controlled by the Chinese state, is now a majority owner of Norwegian, BOC have previously canceled 737 Max orders.

https://www.thelocal.no/20200520/china-become-norwegians-big...
It’s the reverse, the burden is definitive and ever growing. A large group of immigrants allow them to keep themselves in a cultural bubble, build a parallel economy (and society, actually), occupy some part of cities and setup political parties. Source: I’m French, and I quit my country in part for this reason.
Excellent!

I've been looking a long time for a good "Javascript in a Box" that I can give to mentees as a tool for extended learning beyond what we can cover directly. Your book and its associated materials look as if they might be just the thing, and I'm evaluating them as such.

Is there an email list or something I can use to be notified when the revisions you describe have landed? I have someone already in mind to be a "beta learner", but I'd rather wait a little for the updated version, and it would help to get some kind of push when it's available.
I highly recommend this book and Swyx's other work. He's thorough while also distilling down to the most important bits.

Great book for people that are just starting their coding career but also for those with a good bit of experience. If you're feeling 'stuck', this is a great guide to understand how to advance your career.

'Learn in public' is probably the #1 piece of advice I'd give to anyone in tech. It helps your writing, it builds your network, and it grinds down your ego (because people will certainly let you know when you're wrong). Swyx has been a huge proponent of this, and this whole book is a great kick in the pants to get started.

I'd be shocked if this book doesn't make you >>>10x the amount you spend on it (even counting a healthy hourly rate for reading it).
I've got something I've always been curious about. If the website was penalized by Google, is it possible to rank _after_ the penalty is lifted?

Edit: the story behind this question. A friend of mine has a local business. He once paid an SEO agency to do optimizations for his website. After a while, the website was penalized because of some shady stuff the agency did (paid links?). The penalty is long gone, but it looks like Google never forgets anything, so the website is sitting there on 5+ pages for pretty much any keyword.
Especially coming from spending years in the ASR industry and having several Alexa devices at home, I find the false-positive rate remarkably low given how high the accuracy is for the wake-word and server-side reco, even from quite far away. (The whisper-to/whisper-back feature is also freaky, and actually found myself using it the other night so as to not wake up my son.)
> Reconstructing pixelated white faces is a lame research goal

I'm sorry but you can't know this. Maybe it was the real objective, or a first step for something bigger, or a drunk Saturday night project.

In any case is research, and is very valid. Unless you are the chief at their lab, I think you don't get to tell what to do or not to do and/or the scope of their job. Anything else is a conjecture.

> By the way, ML is not nearly as new as you seem to think

Well, the results are there, together with the polemic it generates TODAY about white and black faces. Tell me if ML and its adoption, generally accepted or not, is mature yet.
There certainly would be other costs associated with that, but the primary motivator for not redesigning their aircraft was maintaining type certification, not the cost of a clean redesign. If the Max8 could keep the same type certification, pilots could cross over without long and expensive training, and without losing their rating on their prior aircraft, making adoption a no brainer. If the Max8 doesn’t keep a type rating, there’s less of an incentive for current 737 customers to buy a Max8, since they’ll have to go through the same logistical hurdles that introducing a A321neo would have.

Plus Southwest basically won’t buy anything but 737s, so maintaining that type rating was critical to selling the new plane to one of their biggest customers.
This smells an awful lot like the Tamiflu story.
Rumsfeld was chairman of Gilead until he was nominated as Secretary of Defense. He refused to sell his shares in the company and thus was forced to leave the room whenever discussions that might impact the company happened. A few years later the Pentagon starts stockpiling billions of dollars worth of Tamiflu. By the time Rumsfeld left the white house, Gilead shares were up from $7 in 2001 to $67 in 2006.
That shows a fundamental lack of understanding of the fields of software engineering, cyber security and the fields. Both terms are individually overloaded such that many issues aren't even within their domain let alone actually handled by developers! No matter how good the lock is it does no good when the key is left on /top of tbe doormat/ by the user.

Blaming greed of engineers for security problems? Seriously?! That is like railing against EMTs as being responsible for the Coronavirus because they wanted to get rich without working hard. It conflates so many different areas and roles that it isn't even coherent logic and is nonsensical.
I don't think you'll see much positivity with your comment. This is old school hacking in the new age of computing; I have this one thing, and I want to hook it to another thing, let's figure out how to do that. I think it's amazing, and shows just how flexible and hackable the Pi can be. Of course we can throw bookoo bucks at a problem to make it disappear, or buy a specific built machine to do what we want. But there's no challenge in that, no engineering, and it's a bit of a cop out to lament that people are hacking hardware this way...
And if I was the UK, I’d love to have the smartest, most educated, wealthiest residents immigrate. A win-win if you will.
So you promised a 1 month free trial, and after one month you either disable the app, or not charge and let them continue their free trial. Either is allowed or makes sense.
I have forgotten to cancel subscriptions from iTunes a few times as I tend to watch my CC statement for forgotten subscriptions, not Apple Free Trial emails. The real issue is that they make it impossible to get a refund once you as a customer have been charged even when the app developer agrees to give you one. Being forced to delegate billing to a robotic corporation that treats your customers like robots is a terrible position to force developers in to.
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They speak so positively about flooding the internet with useless garbage results
They generally reject English where possible. Irish is the first official language.
Perhaps Social Media has “democratized” lobbying?

Historically, only the vocal minorities with money could afford to influence politicians.

Now minorities without much money can get politicians attention too?
Legal docs and data privacy compliance?

I don't see anything about that on your site, so until it's there, can't consider.

Something better than slack would be a nice change!
> This means that if we’re all voting from the same IP (for example at the office), it just won’t be taken in to account. We also need to submit the story from a different IP.

The community and the voting ring detection are more smart. Making your friends/coworkers/sockpupets/etc upvote your stories systematically is a good trick to get your account and site banned.
Singapore was kicked out of Malaysia because they were majority Han Chinese and Malaysia wanted racial policies favoring Malays which would get outvoted in a democratic Malysia with Singapore in it. Singapore is one of those unusual countries where they didn't want independence but was forced into it.
Wherever ACLU co-founder Elizabeth Gurley Flynn went, the feds followed
Without having seen or used one, I would assume they're not as fast, not as smooth, more expensive, more difficult to repair, heavier, and potentially bulkier.
How to Build a Content Moderation Service with Node.js TensorFlowJS and ReactJS
For sure: newsletter management, logo + design, marketing, ads
Mystery Object Blurs Line Between Neutron Stars and Black Holes
If anyone is looking for a relatively simpler explanation of GIT than Gödel's own work, I suggest the beautiful but sometimes inscrutable book "Gödel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas Hofstadter. Hofstadter draws lines between the math, art, and music of these three giants of human creation, and it's a lot easier to read than anything written directly by Gödel.

Roger Penrose's "The Emperor's New Mind" also has some good material on GIT.
UK offer is a 5-year timed right to stay, not even permanent residence.
For the sake of those who don't use iOS: When you start a trial you also receive an email, subject "Your Subscription Confirmation," which says:

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If you can bootstrap this, then you are fine, but it's hard to tell from just the "services pov" It's much more complex: How many active daily users are there?, can the free tier for AWS handle that?, until when your AWS credits will expire? etc... Generally, you wanna keep monitoring AWS expenses the first 3 months to be sure you aren't up-sold on some service you aren't using. Also you can make use of the SUS $5k AWS credits if you aren't already.
For more info you can check this paragraph "Your servers will make you pay for what you don’t know (Literally)" of my blog article:
https://yassine.substack.com/p/the-gap-between-learning-code...

Good luck!
I agree media is making a big deal out of this.

But, would our reaction be still the same if Guardian's headline said China or Russia did this? Probably not. Perhaps we would even talk about putting new sanctions.

I think the right move would be allowing other companies to produce enough of it. If that means financially supporting Gilead, let's do that. Then nobody has to take all the stockpile.
Refugee is an official term with an official meaning. Anyone coming from Hong Kong doesn't fit that.
I agree with you but for a country which has seen more than 1000 years of conflict from "outside cultures" (the Mughals, the British, etc.), the instinct to preserve one's own culture is very strong. That is why you see Hinduism still surviving whereas in other parts of the world other local religions (and cultures) were destroyed. Recently with more education, globalization, emigration and with the internet things have started to change slowly.
$200 for an ARM Board? No thanks.
Is there any precedent for this in India (blocking a search engine or other 'utility' website, as opposed to specific content)?
> This isn't "easy", and it's certainly not discoverable. And it's only fast if you know exactly what you're doing.

True. Would it be fair to assume that users would work with a subset of the commands available? If so, once they got used to those it would have been plain sailing 80%-90% of the time. If I'm not mistaken I've seen a few those DOS programs recently in different settings. The folks using them seemed to be getting along just fine.
I don't take the term as serious as the author of the book, nor do I have political ambitions to implement it. I think it was a rug that appealed to fairness. It was pretty ugly, but that is another story.

How the author formulates the critique is specifically not how it is understood by adherents from my experience. Not only for justice, imagine access for disabled people in public services like extra ramps or similar facilities which society provides. Do they have "merit" under natural law? Perhaps not. Does that mean adherents want to just ignore them? No, on the contrary. There are different a priori assumptions by people that like meritocracy and its critics.

What about social justice? Which metric do you use here to judge people. By frequency of occurrence by immutable characteristics? You can take both terms to mean the exact same thing. Doesn't mean you cannot have two groups endlessly fighting about who is correct about it.

It is not a political ideology. Maybe it is now, but that is more reactionary. But normally it would get some laughs if propped up that much.

What it certainly never meant is that you somehow need to earn your keep to receive justice and be treated fairly. But I understand the critique if it is conceived this way.

edit: We currently need to earn our keep in society for economic survival. I think working towards changing that is preferable.
Of course it will. Software is much cheaper to iterate on than say wing design.
It may be a bit off-topic, but i'm still amazed people still consider twitter a good platform for expressing political views, or actually any views at all.

Instantaneous, short messages is clearly not the preferred medium for intelligent conversations.
Surprising isn't it, given how much of a driving force EU immigration was in the Brexit debate.
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We are looking for Software Developers, in domains like:

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- Communication (Video and Audio over IP, WebRTC, MPEG-Dash, RTP, SRT, NDI, ...)

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If I’m getting you right, take a look into ‘dimensional analysis’
While I agree with the sentiment, the comparison is unfair and inaccurate. Everything on computers today didn't exist in 1983, particularly his concrete web example. A better title would be "some things on computers today are slower that other things on computers in 1983". Not so attention grabbing though, so why even go on Twitter. Almost everything on Twitter was better in 1983.

This being said, programming today is no longer about efficiency and quality, it has been taken over by code monkeys that will happily copy/paste encyclopedia sized code pieces and put them together in something vaguely functional, under a culture of move fast and break things, because companies want to sell shiny trinkets as "interesting features", and users want to buy that. And modern hardware is good enough to take a lot of this pieced together software so why even bother?
> There is no intrinsic reason that "AJAX" apps need to be slow -- you can do a database roundtrip in less than 10ms.

This is a wishful thinking. You can't expect consistent 10ms (or even 100ms) response times from network-driven autocomplete. Nevermind a fixed speed of light (which already makes 10ms figure impossible for transatlantic users), you will have to account for all kinds of temporary bottlenecks in network. DNS can take a lot longer than 10ms, and many hosts use short DNS TTL by design. There are some totalitarian countries (Belarus, Great Britain etc.) that use DNS-based website blocking — each time you send a DNS request, it will have to be compared against a bunch of censorship lists. Then there is an ISP throttling/AQM, that will add small delays to each SYN packet... As result, if your autocomplete responds in under 10ms during local testing, it may take between 100ms and 900ms for most of your users.
It's absolutely not unsound at any level. It simply handles differently than pre-MAX 737s in certain scenarios, which would have required pilot re-certification if not for the flawed MCAS software.
Open Source Sustainability
If you're a software engineer with the skills to mess with low level interfaces like that, $200 doesn't seem that insane, especially since those are general purpose boards that can easily be repurposed. I mean of course I realize that for many people $200 is a lot of money but I'm willing to bet that for the average HNer it's really not that big of a deal.

Besides TFA's chip requires desoldering and resoldering an SMT chip from the RPi's tiny and densely populated motherboard, not exactly Soldering 101.

Moreover if you're really just starting with low level programming, want to mess with basic electronics and things like that then don't get into PCIe, actually don't even get into Linux. Just get a cheap-o ARM microcontroller board, a multimeter and a $10 saleae digital analyzer clone from ebay and play with that, you'll learn a lot more that way.
https://www.explainingcomputers.com/sbc.html lists a few other x86 single board computers, but the only ones that come close to the $35 price point that I know of are the Atomic PI (quad core Atom, 1.4GHz boosting to 1.9GHz, started at $35 and rose up to $50 per the video review) and the LattePanda (similar specs, more USB ports and needs a cooling solution) for ~$90.
Software engineering is far bigger than your niche.
(Just in case the title is putting you off: You are describing the goals of this book.)
Yay for Utah (and accessibility)! I can practically see my house in some of those shots.
Because Apple forbids an app to be disabled or not function, if the customer chooses no, what happens? It’s disabled.
How about using a trial and not having to worry about forgetting to cancel?
Life in China is fine right now. They are living about 50x better off than their parents. They are educated.

The CCP is super clever and imbued a sort of nationalistic pride from birth. Instead of the US's more complicated dualistic individualism/patriotism combo, the Chinese people actually get some sort of pride for being a cog in the CCP machine.

It's a completely different paradigm and obviously super dangerous because it allows the people at the top who aren't elected to pull the strings on a machine of 1.4 billion people. If they run the system correctly, it can be much more "effective".

Democracy has lots of pressure outlets, and it is definitely much more healthy longterm. That's why I think it's the better system, even vs a well-run (and let's even assume benevolent) CCP.
An encrypted walkie-talkie that sends emojis and memes without internet
I've been working on an encrypted walkie-talkie that sends emojis and memes without internet for 16 months now.

You can check it out here: https://www.circuitmess.com/chatter/
What do you think about it?

I've designed a unique block-based programming interface for it here:
https://www.circuitmess.com/circuitblocks/

I'd appreciate your honest opinion about this and perhaps some improvement suggestions.