skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure why that has to be the case. For example, C# found a home outside of the Microsoft ecosystem inside of the Unity game SDK. That was a result of the initial grass-roots Mono [1] project. There was the same handwringing when Mono started and as it started to gain traction. Nowadays I think most people consider it to be a viable cross-platform language. I see no reason Swift can't go this way as well.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_(software)
Watch Dogs 2 is free now
For what it is worth, I have never experienced this issue on modern hardware, and I regularly work with a very large monorepo.

Perhaps it is my habit of opening a subset of the repo into the workspace rather than the whole thing (e.g. only the bottom 4 or 5 directory levels so there is at most only a few hundred files in the workspace - builds etc just run from the usual command line so not having the entire repo in the workspace is not an issue for my workflow) but I have been nothing apart from really happy with the performance and have never been found wanting more, apart from loading time but that only happens once or twice a week so I can live with that.
It might work if intelligence wasn't important for members of lower castes but was for higher castes, perhaps due to the nature of their culture or work. Then low castes wouldn't select for intelligence but high castes would. Not saying that's what actually happened but it shows that selective pressure could still exist without inter-caste mobility.

Stop this nonsense about topics being inappropriate to discuss unless you're a nun. Nobody has a cultural taboo about discussing dog breeding or evolution of other traits. Just race and intelligence is taboo because people have been indoctrinated to believe that low intelligence marks you as an inescapably undeserving or a "bad" person. If you broaden your mind and stop treating intelligence as such an important aspect of life, then it won't be so taboo.
So we can get a direct feed of sexist comments about uppity journalists, bullshit claims to screw you out of money using 'blockchain' and hear about Andreesen Horrowitz being a decade late to podcasting. Boy I sure do hope they cash in on that sweet sweet Spotify money, I'm sure they'll hit scale long before that gravy train is gone.

>We want to be your go-to place for understanding the future as all our lives change through tech

Or, to put it more bluntly. We understand that mindshare is essential in venture capital.
Why You Shouldn’t Go to Casinos (3 Statistical Concepts)
If you actively apply what you read from books you can remember it better.
The problem is not past sins, its past sins that have yet to be atoned for. Conditions for Native Americans are still inexcusable up to this day.
This would completely erode any public perception of prestige of any University that implements it.
That is how ancient universities used to operate, there were several types of student who paid different amounts for their tuition, some background here [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commoner_(academia)
There’s one big difference between a text editor and other example apps (Illustrator and Excel).

Excel is used widely and even with file portability. Microsoft Office is still what many people are used to.

Illustrator, In addition of been being popular. It uses their binary ai file format making it harder to switch from.

TextEditors unlike those 2 does plain text.
So there’s at least no file lock-in for plain text.
The (near) complete sequence of a human genome
How many companies are prosecuted under those laws?

The existence of laws is nice but enforcement makes the difference. Most companies would probably not advertise that they favor certain castes, but inexplicably only people of certain castes get the promotions, good projects etc.
I get that side of the argument, but without being scientific about it, I suspect that alternative methods of communication will only serve to communicate a different message... Like the difference between Kubrick's 'The Shining', and Stephen King's.

I suppose the author of the article would help his/her case with examples of how you can improve on what can be communicated by a book, but I reckon that might actually be impossible.
you neglected to mention athletes, the “acceptable” non-academic path in. In this case, they used that opening to get big donors in.
What I wonder is why static, I come from blogging with dos blog( untile godaddy broke it). And while I never understood the use of plugins like silverlight or adobe I don't really see the harm in using a native js framework to pull the artical contents from the server and update the DOM over pulling and retemplatizing the whole html page. Am I missing something or is static more of a mind set gained from dealing with sites that need to draw the first render faster and handle larger scale in a day then my little old blog will see in a life time?
Indeed, Microsoft Edge for Linux too is a trojan horse. Windows needs to gain leverage against open development platforms. They they need to reach other ecosystems (fedora, centos, mac os). Just like Google when you use their technologies you bet the app is talking to the mothership.
I know this is a caste thread, but there might be a more general issue at play here - a mediocre person may not be able to recognize a talented person, a good solution or a good design. Not putting mediocre people on interview panels would be way higher on my list before getting to cultural or discrimination issues. I am almost inclined to bet that more talented people are less likely to discriminate anyway based on race caste etc... because they don't have the same insecurities.
It's the need for things like that, that makes me thing programming has outgrown raw text as a storage medium for programs. Really what you want to be able to do is link to some documentation that is a first clase part of the code base. Not some bolt on or afterthought.
You don't think it's possible that affirmative action isn't the only variable there?
Admissions is a rat race, where you have to run as fast as you can just to keep up. You may have a 4.0 GPA, and 1550 on your SAT, and are the quarterback of the hockey team, but you'll be passed over for someone with a 4.0 GPA and a 1550 SAT, who is both the quarterback of the hockey team, AND spent three weeks building orphanages in East Oblastan.

Once you're admitted, you no longer need to participate in the rat race. You just need to meet the criteria for passing your classes, which do not scale up, just because the person sitting next to you in lecture is an orphanage-builder.
There was a study suggesting the strongest social mobility influence granted by an university education is really just the proximity and opportunity to network with the wealthy on even grounds more than the education itself.

So by having a guaranteed ratio of very wealthy mixed into your student pool, it's hugely beneficial to everyone else. It's practically the reason people chase after prestigious MBA educations.

The practice might be distasteful philosophically, but the results are apparently great.
But it might have the problem of branding the product as a “Linux subsystem” and they want to sell it as a “windows subsystem”, that runs Linux code
With IDEA I can do Java, Web, SQL, Python, Rust.
This is not shocking to me. Do you expect people who were born and raised in India until their late teens or early 20s to be able to completely change their mind on the caste system just because they have moved to a new country? Think about it. It's the companies' responsibility to rule out people who display any kind of discrimination related to caste.
The US is in a death spiral and the income bar required to ignore the problems in society will soon be high enough that nobody can pretend neoliberalism is working anymore. The question is will people see one another as allies and try to rebuild something more equitable that provides for everyone, or will working people remain divided. I’m optimistic but the corporate media wants to keep people mad at the “other side” instead of realizing the entire system is rigged and that all the wealth created under massive productivity gains since the 1970s has gone to the rich.
I was pleasantly surprised by this recently. Just worked using my touchscreen laptop. So rare on Windows.
Where on earth do you think inner city kids are playing water polo and golf? Just because golf courses aren't that expensive to play on doesn't mean they're accessible to poor people (plus there's the cost of clubs, obviously).

And water polo... even if there are public pools near you, they probably aren't dedicating space for competitive water polo.
I'm legit confused on what you're trying to say. Are you saying tech stacks are a bad thing? Or that corporate investment or connection to a tech stack is a bad thing? What's your proposed solution or alternative?

One thing I _think_ you're saying that I do find important:

It's crucial to have experience in more than one ecosystem and tech stack, as you learn a lot from seeing communities reinvent the wheel and not learn from one another. You get to see common patterns in software development and engineering and, sometimes, you find novel approaches that are completely alien to the engineering ecosystem you started out in.
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The relatively large number of tech billionaires – people with tens of thousands of times the median wealth – is a strange thing to use as an indicator of “meritocracy.”
Looks like a great product to be used in teams. I like the simple and clear UI.

Have you ever tried something similar for your personal goals?
Wish I could look at your work but my browser doesn't support javascript. I wonder what it is about.
You're getting downvoted, but city design has a big effect on operational costs.
Exactly, and most of the proprietary libraries and frameworks in Swift are in the exact same situation. They are mostly wrappers around macOS and iOS libs and UIKit/AppKit
Don't generalize. Give strong arguments vs. only relaying your own experience. Otherwise, you are falling into a trap you yourself laid out in point #3 yourself.

Question is whether most Indians who come to US for work are actually upper class Indians already and thus this 90% number is what it is. Or do lower class Indians also come to US, face discrimination and thus either go back or struggle to find work. If the former, the issue is policies/attitudes in India which needs to be done better (easier said than done). If the latter, then we need to dig deeper.
Is that the same approach as Netlify CMS?

How does it handle authentication? Is there a backend somewhere?
That's a beautiful website. Definitely bookmarking this one
Academia is filled with administrators who make powerpoint presentations, it's not a complete waste.
Isabel Wilkerson, author of "Caste" which is mentioned elsewhere in this thread, draws a fairly clear distinction between caste and class. It's succinctly summarized in her interview with Trevor Noah linked below, around 2:35, and I don't know if I agree but I think you'd find her explanation potentially interesting nonetheless. I tend to instinctively balk whenever people equate or simplify multiple concepts into a single idea, because this too often yields an oversimplification in my experience, and the nuances are usually worth preserving if they genuinely exist.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=7m49DT8pPe0
If you knock on my door and ask me what time it is while wearing a button that says “don’t remember me!” but I remember you anyway, was that theft?
Wherefore in order that the happiness of the saints may be more delightful to them and that they may render more copious thanks to God for it, they are allowed to see perfectly the sufferings of the damned.

--Saint Thomas Aquinas
> meaning their parents or siblings are at Stanford and presumably the family will be active donors

Not going out to bat for legacy admissions, but it's not always tit-for-tat related to donations and there are other reasons schools do it other than just $$$ from donations.

The uber-rich aren't getting in through a generic legacy boost.
It's almost as if the free money raining from the sky has to stop at some point?
The Caracas drag scene is a refuge for the city’s outsiders
Opt out clauses are a red herring. I of course do them, but most people are not going to. By the way they're generally set up ("send self-written snail mail to this obscure address and we won't even respond"), it's clear they're meant to be merely a technicality that very few will ever notice or fulfill. If they were an actual part of a negotiated contract, they would be simply struck directly on the document before signing.

Tangentially, I do have to wonder about using web page inspector tools to modify terms presented to you, and then agreeing to the modified terms. Taking screen shots for documentation of course. At the very least, it seems like this should result in no contract being formed (since the counterparty has not signed). Which isn't really meaningful for your standard web service everything-disclaimed terms, but would matter if they tried to bind you with mandatory arbitration.
Letting cities, business, and people fail provides opportunities for the true wealthy to corner more of the nations wealth. That's why they protected the banks and let 10 million families lose their homes in 2009. A lot of money was made off if that.
I think that's less of a huge difference when a small number of platforms dominate online media and aggressively use algorithms to determine or strongly influence what content people see. Yes, you can still absolutely find beautiful niche content on YouTube, and I value that a ton, but YouTube still has immense control over people's viewing in aggregate. It's a little bit like traditional broadcast TV if there were a billion channels but after every 3 minutes of viewing the TV chose which channel to flip you to unless you were constantly diligent about manually choosing what you want to watch.
The thinnest razor delivers the sharpest cuts, apparently: https://www.axios.com/mitt-romney-trump-supreme-court-pick-8... .
People like to bash VS code performance, but try opening a 60MB JSON file in different editors on Windows for example.

Notepad doesn't even load and crashes, Sublime will takes minutes to even load the file, Notepad++ will be unusable as scrolling will take a few seconds, and in VS Code it opens immediately and you can seamlessly scroll to any one of the 600k lines without any delay.
Hi HN,

I’m on a personal mission to eliminate the single use plastic water bottle.

I always carry my refillable bottle but don’t always know where to refill it. In fact, water fountains currently aren’t points of interest on Google or Apple Maps.

So, we’ve plotted ~265,000 of them and created a compass to find the nearest water refill station where ever you are in the world using the phone’s GPS and orientation.

Sinks, Showers, Toilets coming soon.

I’d be very appreciative and grateful for your feedback and thoughts!
Download the league client if you want to be scared straight about ember. Resource usage gradually ramps up until by the 5th game the client is using more RAM than the game itself.
There are two aspects of this that I run into:

- Features that should arguably be built in require searching for, evaluating, and installing a plugin.

- Some plugins spam you with a "What's New" page with each update.

Bookmarking is an example of these two in action: https://github.com/alefragnani/vscode-bookmarks/issues/175
Every competitive school has a diversity goal (though perhaps not outright quota) at some level for many dimensions of diversity. Many/most schools have academic floors but are then looking to blend in other factors other than pure academic achievement.
I can. The UX is as crappy as ever.
So unqualified applicants have to pay a higher entrance fee than qualified applicants?

Now it is starting to sound like capitalism at work!!!
Wonderful idea. Sometimes I get hit with 4-5 downvotes in less than a minute on controversial comments. Seems improbable for these to be organic.
This is not guaranteed. Recall that in the 90’s Orange County - then a relatively affluent region - had to declare bankruptcy. Just because there are people who could foot the bill, does not mean that they will. If the surplus of wealth is in a community consumed by an inefficient urban structure then a financial crisis will arise just the same. In a lot of suburban areas the density is such that the infrastructure costs more and the property value is lower (on a per lot basis). The end result is that a lot of the wealthy suburbs will go broke.
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/9/5/but-rich-people...
This is based on very outdated census. The percentage of the so called higher castes has grown a lot since.
I live in NYC, and go the occasional reddit boards, and while some are worried that a lot of good jobs will leave, you also hear a lot of "good, let the gentrifiers leave" type of comments,

After some digging, I realized that just 10% of the population pays about 71-72% of the taxes.

If half of that 10% of the population leaves, the city will have 1/3rd less tax revenue (it will have less than 65% of the current revenue). Also, the city will be limited on what it can tax, as if it raises the taxes more, even more people will leave for low tax states and turn it into a death spiral. The only way to get out of the situation is to have help federally.

Meanwhile it will have to cut services drastically.... from trash collection, social services, schools, etc... Apart from the slow trash decay, I think the first shock from some of the folks will be when MTA is forced to raise fares to $4 or $5 (now it is $2.75).

As for those 'let the gentrifiers leave' populist folks, Sure, rents will go down by 15-20% but a lot of the folks will be jobless soon, and manny other things will get more expensive.
You're right; my years of experience with Java, Maven, Netbeans, Eclipse (eugh...), and IntelliJ completely evaporated when I did 'npm init' on my current (Node and React) project, which I'm working on in VS Code.
A quick trip to the Openreach Fibre checker yields:

“We don’t have plans to upgrade your area yet. But we’re working with Government and industry to change that.”

Along with the usual “Register your interest” form (which I’ve filled out, but am pretty sure have been done in the past).
Those consequences, in practice, simply act as an additional filter: you have to be savvy enough, and well-connected enough, to make a large alumni donation, and butter up the admissions committee.

This would replace that with cash on the barrel, which is simpler and more honest.

I'm not convinced it's better, but that would be the point of so doing.
> diversity goal

Well, if Cal has one - it's not one that it can target through changing admission practices.
It is hard to say for sure that ALL excess deaths above normal are COVID-19. But it is extremely likely that there are a lot of excess deaths that are. Even though we don't know the actual breakdown.
“If state and local governments are condensing their balance sheets, they’re laying people off. They’re cutting spending on equipment. Capital spending is cut early during downturns. All of that is sucking demand right out of the economy.”

Clearly, the US is suffering from the Dutch Disease, except instead of oil it's the dollar that is creating the problem.

So just let the government hire everybody. Build lots of stuff, housing and factories and infrastructure. Print the dollars to pay for all of it, until the dollar collapses. American labor is now cheap again, so those factories can produce at internationally competitive cost.

This is similar to how China does it. The key is that you can't devalue the currency if you have a service economy that relies on cheap imports, but that's exactly the way the US is headed right now.
How is growing up with extreme discrimination not relevant?
That sounds exactly like the issue in the US.
Oxfam Confronting Carbon Inequality [pdf]
This has been reported in the news but is short enough (12 pages) to be readable by anyone, and should be a wake-up call to some.

Anyone above 38k USD per year of gross earnings falls within the top 10%, and for North America (US & Canada) the equivalent-CO2 emissions per capita[0] are between 50% and 300+% higher than EU countries, which means we the 10%-related emissions are overwhelmingly related to a population within which HN is likely to be a subset.

For anyone in a rush, the summary on page 2 is pretty decent. A couple more pages (3 and 4) give a fuller overview of the situation. The subsequent pages go further into a breakdown and a bit of a "now what?", which is in line with the last bits of the summary.

[0] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/carbon-fo...
The “loneliest woman in America” brewed root beer for thousands of visitors
Microsoft ML security evasion competition – bypassing models by signing binaries
Swift had Linux support almost right on the beginning. I think that even Apple are supporting this effort.

Windows on the other side were started as a community effort of only one brave fellow. That later was even hired by Apple as far as i know.

I guess this is why this is much splashy than the Linux support. It was more of a community thing and less of a corporate thing as the Linux support was.
The point that OP made was not the number of tech billionaires, but their backgrounds.
As I understand it, making structs implement the record stuff would potentially be...weird. But you're right, it'd be nice.
IMO, the new Edge is a better Chrome than Chrome - and has the advantages of bing nearly 100% compatible with it. For a while, there wasn't much reason to use it, but it's gotten quite good over the past year - you might be surprised.
That already doesn't work with circles though.
The half type is going to be obsolete instantly. There are quite a few other new floating types becoming popular recently: bfloat16, TF32, etc

I wish they made C# support a notion of generic alrgebras.
I played water polo at my public high school and only had to buy a swimsuit?
They can train it on hacker news comments. The moderators' insistence on "civility" above all else makes HN a fantastic dataset for an AI to learn to produce longwinded, superficially-polite apologia for scientific racism, sexism, and whatever other self-satisfied fairy tales wealthy techies like to tell each other.
This is a pretty good explanation video about the .NET ecosystem in general: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEfBfBQq7EE
Metamorphosis: From Galaxian to Galaga
Just curious, why can’t SwiftUI apps run on any iOS version prior to 13?

My clients app requires supporting iOS 11, but I’d love to start mixing in sone SwiftUI.
IMO that should be concerning regardless of the caste angle. Throw out their feedback, raise this with their manager or HR, and recommend that they go through interview training again.
you have 47k upvotes. I only have 3.6k and I get a chuckle when people downvote me. figure they have a long way to down vote me to 0. not saying it's a bad idea btw.
This engineer was in the perfect environment for someone who wants to grab more responsibility: "My boss [..] pulled me aside one day. He explained our team was growing fast and it was getting tough for him to have 15+ engineers reporting to him directly."

I think this sort of opportunity is more common in small, rapidly growing companies. Something (customer growth, funding, goals) is increasing work faster than hiring can keep up, so insiders are eagerly tapped to take on more. Such environments also have downsides.
> Last summer, the Republican speaker of the Texas House Dennis Bonnen was caught on tape gloating: “My goal is for this to be the worst session in the history of the legislature for cities and counties,”

Low service state rolls costs down to counties and cities and then kneecaps them.