skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Cisco's HR lawyers decided Caste discrimination was legal

A risky decision, since it's effectively ethnic discrimination:

These groups remained genetically distinct, and the linguistic history of India suggests they spoke languages with dramatically different origins. Nevertheless, it appears there was a good deal of intermarriage [..] But then there is a sea change about 1,500 years ago. [..] People had to marry within their castes. And suddenly, we no longer see signs of intermixing between different groups.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/01/the-caste-system-has...
Hawaiian culture is not intact. The Hawaiian language has suffered enormous domain loss. Few are the shops or restaurants where one can get by entirely in Hawaiian, and forget about being able to speak your language with most of your elected officials and public servants.
Or, both thing can be true. He can believe a physical office is necessary, while also believing changes should be made to make it easier for people to sometimes work from home.
Books rarely teach a subject to a person. It's more about shaping the concept in their mind.

Let's take a book that shaped how I think about the media: "The Powers that Be" by David Halberstam. It's a tome of a book, clocking in at over 700 pages. It is a history and analysis of American media in the 20th century. I cannot recite many anecdotes or facts from it - although it's entirely possible, maybe even likely, that facts and anecdotes related to the media I know are from that book, I just have forgotten that. But it shaped how I think about the media, its various mediums, the power it has, and in particular, its influence on, and relationship with, politics. This "shaping" thing is both nebulous but critical to how we think and understand the world.

Let's take yet another example: the astrophysics courses I took in undergrad. Two semester's worth: one semester on stars, and one semester on everything else in the universe. (Quoth my professor: "And that's reflective of our understanding.") I used to be able to narrate all of the steps of a main sequence star. I no longer can. I can get close, and I can throw out phrases like "hydrostatic equilibrium", but I have forgotten so much from those courses. It's a year of learning! But that is not a waste. My understanding of our solar system, galaxy and universe were shaped by this course, so that I at least can have an intuitive understanding of what we know. This influences how I think about these things, and it influences how I interact with new information about these things.
Isn’t evince capable of this and the default PDF viewer on GNOME?
Google Maps use to be a hell of a tool for exploration, navigation and travel. We used it on a tablet as we drove across Scotland in 2013 and it was fantastic. It provided tons of data about your routes and allowed you to easily manage your trip.

Since then they've gradually removed useful features, cluttered the UI with crap, and dumbed everything down to the point where it's almost useless. At one point they even removed the map scale, I think you have to enable an option buried in a menu to bring it back.

It's gotten so incredibly slow and clumsy to use that it's not even worth it half the time.

Google Photos is rapidly heading in that direction. They seem to be distancing you more and more from your photos and trying to throw their services in your face.
I have a friend whose parents converted to christianity, and so my friend grew up christian. But guess what, the first time I met my friends' mom(at his wedding), the first question she asked after verifying native state(TamilNadu) was which caste I belonged to. (And yeah just to be clear, she asked which caste I'm from, and she/they're from xxx caste). So no caste is not something people escape from converting religion.
This has been explained in the article:

> Qualcomm is no longer supporting the chipset in the Fairphone 2, we have to make Android 9 comply with all of Google’s requirements ourselves

That's why it took longer and why it's not android 10.
The Battle of Philippi (42 BCE)
I once played a multiplayer game in MOO2 with a couple of friends. I went for industry, my one friend went for science, and another wiped the floor with us with his low-tech rock eating silicoids who mated at an insane speeds and colonized every shitty planet and had a huge output everywhere.
Airtable Clone from Google
while you make an interesting point at the end, that framing seems to be jumping the gun (something you rightfully warned against in relation to deterministic vs random, downthread).

political conflict is much more complex and has many more gradations than just peace or war. on the "elephant queen" documentary, the narrator noted that the bulls rarely ever fight, but rather, upon meeting have a quick "discussion" whereby the lower status bull defers to the higher status bull and then they share some food to cement the relationship (not unlike a lot of human interactions). war is rare because it's so costly, no matter the pre- or post-hoc justification.

just yesterday, i watch 3 hawks in the skies over my LA neighborhood (where hawks are rarely seen in the middle of the day). it seemed like 2 of them were chasing an interloper away, but it could just as well have been them hanging out for awhile on the prevailing winds and then deciding to go somewhere else after a bit. it's hard to know what's going on with a few minutes of observation. it was quite interesting to watch nevertheless!

also, the issue with personification (which we tend to be overly concerned about) is not that we see our own behaviors in other animals, but that we become certain about the cause and effect for those other animals.
I'm pretty sure there is a lot of options other than Hotels that would cover your needs, that existed long before Airbnb.

Just to name a few you can stay in aparthotels , a common thing in almost every country, or you can just rent a regular apartment directly with the owner, instead of doing it through Airbnb.

IMO Airbnb does more bad than good and transform centric areas of big cities in amusement park for the tourist.
I prefer white bread because the pleasant but mild flavor compliments most things without being overpowering. I only use non-white breads that compliment the flavors of what I'm topping it with, such as a Reuben sandwich. I couldn't imagine a PB&J, tuna/chicken salad, or cold meatloaf sandwich on anything other than white (and believe me, I've tried).
“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they never stopped to ask if they should.”

-Dr. Ian Malcolm
I see your (apocryphal) quote about eating books and raise you another: "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few are to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention." -Francis Bacon
Try Eclipse for a while. You'll definitely want to get IntelliJ back.
I hope that this is not too far off topic: for companies like Apple, having mostly at-home work allows much more social distancing for people who need to be in the office for important meetings, dealing with physical equipment, etc.

A hybrid approach that is fluid makes sense.
Well said, I am similar. Ive traveled and lived in airbnbs for a total of 3 years, ive always tried to be a good neighbor. I despise hotels and love what airbnb built. I hope they can figure out a middle ground to make this work.
My point is that it semantically isn’t a link until the JavaScript executes (if it ever does). A link is something you can click on and it does something.

But yeah, stylesheets might need adjustment for best results if you want to keep it on-screen even when it’s not operative, e.g. add a class link-needs-js which you style along with your :link, :visited.

In the hidden versus disabled thing, I do approximately this, if I have functionality that can’t work without JS (for whatever reason): if it’s completely optional, I hide it; if it’s important, I show it with a disabled style including not-allowed cursor (the disabled attribute if it’s a button, or a class if it’s an anchor) and some kind of “JS required” title, to at least give a hint as to why it’s not working and what the user must to do make it work. Anything between those extremes, I decide on a case-by-case basis, being influenced also by what else is there and does work.
I find myself wondering why someone from one of the lowest castes does not simply claim to not be that when they are halfway across the world from the society that has a tradition of maintaining this?

I can assume there’s a bunch of subtle class signaling that people do reflexively (speech patterns, dress preferences, whatever, I mean I live in a city with like five different distinct dialects that immediately tell a local what social stratum someone is from), as well as maybe an element of defiant “fuck you I am proud to be someone from the lowest caste who can run rings around your Useless Aristocrat caste ass”. Possibly some distinctive physical features due to centuries of it being forbidden to marry across caste lines?

I apologize if any of these questions are offensive, I know fuck-all about this. I also know it ain’t your job to explain all of this to my white American ass, a quick link to a good Caste 101 For Stupid Americans would be fine :)
Negative discrimination on the basis of caste is already banned in India (since 1948).
OK, that's news.

Is that the same (externally seen) effect as a REJECT?
m.2 cards can sink a pretty surprising amount of heat through the connector and the standoff. But case makers can also provision for cooling m.2 cards. Components on m.2 modules are permitted to be 1.2-1.5mm high. My Intel NUC cools the m.2 device through a flexible thermal interface to the system's main cooler (that also cools the CPU). This works extremely well.

One problem with m.2 is the spec would permit a module with the controller on the bottom where it would be difficult to cool. But I think so far nobody has been dumb enough to ship one.
> So many times I want to keep a tab around for easy access, but they got some stupid JS framework running sucking CPU for no good reason.

Why not keep it as a bookmark? I don't understand why people live inactive tabs open.
Netflix Supplants Google as the Employer of Engineers’ Dreams
Yea, I've been mostly trying to stay in this sort of situation more now. There's times where I want the experience and spacial efficiency of Airbnb (A way to stay in a part of town close to friends/an event that don't live in a normal touristy area with hotels.) but I get that even if I'm responsible/quiet, it's not great to support the owners that aren't in the community.

I often find that the hosts who are renting out rooms/beds in their house are often far more interesting and fun people, and it's usually cheaper anyway. Obviously there's plenty of reasons that's suboptimal for a lot of people, but if it works for you, I'd recommend it.
I can't reduce anyone's experience and don't know about this specific situation.
Cisco is an American company and while I worked there in San Jose, I didn't encounter any notion of birth-based caste discrimination, which in any case I and others would have opposed resolutely, simply because we were in the "land of the free". Even in India, Dalits are empowered by law to report against discrimination and avail of Indian equivalent of affirmative action. Their situation, while not perfect, has improved considerably over the several few decades. That being said, there may be some anachronistic idiots in responsible positions of power who could have caused this. I hope that courts investigate and reach the right conclusion and nip this from the root and Cisco, if involved, learns the right lessons.
The photos do look really good and natural.
Particle physicists hash out long-term strategy for Europe
We need to talk about carbon (2019)
A Chromium fork could replace certain components if they so choose. The PDF rendering component would be one of the easier ones to replace.

However, I was able to confirm that Edge uses extension ID mhjfbmdgcfjbbpaeojofohoefgiehjai to render PDF internally[1], same as Chrome, so indeed it's using PDFium.

[1] The rendered PDF element would look like

<embed id="plugin" type="application/x-google-chrome-pdf" src="..." stream-url="chrome-extension://mhjfbmdgcfjbbpaeojofohoefgiehjai/..." headers="..." ...>

And here's the extension's manifest in Chromium source, where you can find the extension ID: https://github.com/chromium/chromium/blob/2baa2b094cdd60e980...
Bose introduces a new pair of sleep-focused earbuds
Kinda defeats the point of working remotely, imo. Sounds more like a WFH option twice a week type of workplace. Which isn’t really remote, IMO.
I found the examples very surprising - because I think several of those books exist exactly to communicate a very specific, important idea. If you can describe in a few sentences what the central idea of 'The Selfish Gene' is - I would argue that the book has done its job 'transmitting' an idea perfectly. The reason the book takes a hundred or so pages to do that transmission is because the idea is 1. specialized - if you're not a biologist you need to do a lot of work just to understand the questions and the background 2. difficult - even if you're familiar with the biology, you need to think through lots of examples and discussions of what the selfish gene idea implies and 3. controversial - Dawkins spends a lot of time explaining what evidence he has, responding to other views, disclaiming misreadings of his work, and so on.

I have read that book, I believe I understood its central message, I could probably explain it (not very elegantly) in a couple of sentences, and I can't point to any other particular benefit I drew from reading the book, and yet I'm very glad I read it.
It's shocking to me how people can suggest with a straight face that certain races can't be racist. You should be able to read something and determine if it's racist by the intended message. It shouldn't be a requirement to find out who said it and how much power that person has. This conscious effort by some sociologists to redefine "racism" instead of creating a new term for "power + prejudice" is yet another example that they are more interested in promoting an agenda than doing real science.
That’s how the game is played afaik... in Snowden’s book he mentions how the CIA operatives bribe assets in foreign countries (and himself witnessing a disastrous operation).

The prime minister of Singapore famously called the CIA out on it: https://mothership.sg/2017/02/cias-failed-attempt-to-bribe-l...
"It's like poetry; it rhymes." ~ George Lucas
People will deny and hem and haw about this, but caste is there for religious reasons. And it won't go away for the same reasons. Hinduism is not a religion with orthodoxy of any kind. In fact it is a collection of separate rituals, gods (and their devotees), and books/preachers. However in enough of those books and from enough of these preachers you hear about how caste is not so bad or the true secret ancient wisdom behind caste (it's just like how Westerners have last names like Carpenter and Smith). At the end of the day caste is a religious idea. And as long as it is in those books there will be preachers who defend it and people who defend it. It's an uphill battle indeed.
> Why shouldn't we have great recall of the details of books we read?

I'm not saying we shouldn't, just pointing out that it's not practical to expect that after one causal read through of a book. At least books as they are today. Which leads to...

As I see it, the author's question is: can we create a new medium which affords such active engagement with the works we read more effectively?

That's fair. That, to me, turns the question into "how can we make books that work better?" instead of "why don't books work?" And I think that's a valid and useful question.

To the author's point that books aren't necessarily built around a theory of cognition / learning, and could be improved by incorporating that, I'd say "sure". I'm not at all opposed to the idea of making books better. I was really responding more to the earlier part of the essay, which seemed focused on hammering on the "books don't work" idea.
That's the exception rather than the rule.

Most decent hotels have staff and security.
>both articles presented the nuance

No they didn't, and that's the problem. It's not a "straw argument".

Cook, in an interview, said something that included both a pro-remote statement and a pro-office statement. The AppleInsider article included both of these statements. Bloomberg, OTOH, only included the pro-remote statement in their article.

It's lying by omission.
>> Like Google Nexus?

No, they 100% killed Nexus.... Pixel line is in no way, in any shape or form a successor to Nexus.

Nexus was a reasonably priced unlocked reference phone targeted to Power Users

Pixel is an iPhone Competitor targeted to Carriers to be featured as an iPhone Alternative

Completely different markets, focus and goals

>>AngularJS? They took the framework in a different direction.

Again no, Angular is TypeScript, AngularJS is Javascript, these are not the same thing, and it is far from "a different direction"
To be clear, Article 15 and 17 absolutely prohibits any discrimination based on caste and abolishes untouchability respectively. [1]
The issue is that the culture still imbues caste system. All you have to do is peruse the matrimonial or see the popular netflix show Indian Matchmaking to get an idea.
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20120402064301/http://lawmin.nic...
That's not at all what Julia is doing. It's much more sophisticated in that it has very low level intrinsic primitives that can compose and it optimizes the IR to make it fast and then compiles it to CUDA. These all map to Julia constructs.
I'm not really up on the history of these ideas, but my impression is that The Selfish Gene was a contribution in the same sense that Einstein's paper on special relativity was a contribution. Neither really changed what one would predict the result of any experiment to be (the Lorentz transformation had already been produced before Einstein, by, err, Lorentz...), but rather in the perspective by which one views the field, which does affect future research.
The Canadian visa application form is an example.
One part of your life stagnates while the other parts move forward.
Not until we stop buying everything China manufactures. We need tariffs and sanctions on any country with China's human rights record.
Interesting choice, since I did not feel as if 1491 contained any information that contradicted the basic theses of GG&S, and if anything reinforced it.
But we also can't say anything because China makes all our stuff.

I happily pay more for things not made in China, when I can.

When I can buy an iPhone that's not made in China, I'll buy it. Even if it means a downgrade.

Several of my family members buy as many vintage and second-hand goods as they can. Not to be hipsters (are hipsters still a thing anymore?), but because they do not want to support China.
You've been recommended Auto Tab Discard.

Another one I use, and it works very well, is UnloadTabs [0]. I discovered it because it's one of the addons recommended by Tree Style Tab [1].

[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/unload-tabs/

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/
Is this explained somewhere? I'd love to read how it works (without trying to understand the source code).
Cryptographic signing is a core feature of PDF, but not HTML.
Thanks! I'm kinda repeating myself but major differences:

1. Text Replacement enters the text and _then_ replaces it which for me is really distracting.

2. It has this little pop up even for a single option which is also very distracting.

The benefit of it however is that it's more stable (as mentioned in README so apps ignore user keybinds for some reason)
I would like my government to discourage urban sprawl and encourage density, even in a world where WFH becomes a larger norm.
Nope, the client device only needs the server's public key, which isn't a secret. The session keys are a secret but they're also different for every device, transient and never written to permanent storage.
You can do rentals, there are non-Airbnb rentals everywhere for periods of "months".

> It does not take AirBnB to have problems with other parties within an apartment block.

No but AirBnB exacerbates that - and adds a host of other problems too.

> But one of the things the we value as digital nomads is living as the locals live (or as close as possible).

But you're not, not really. Come on. Not in "weeks up to months", you need "months up to years" for that.

>Edit: I would love to know why people are downvoting?

(FWIW, I didn't).
Yeah, next time I need a CV it'll be a single-file Ruby web server and PDF that's also an archive of its own sources.
Oh absolutely, and we had an experience in London where the apartment upstairs was used for a party while we were there and the landlord, who owned both apartments didn't care, wouldn't take responsibility.
This is news to me. Looks like firefox finally added the requisite APIs. The only issue seems to be that it doesn't play nice with container tabs.
I think it is not about reservations or benefits majorly, but rather about the symbols that the Upper Castes are reluctant to let go of, like using caste names as surnames, and wearing of symbols, even the manner/affectations of speech, that they use to keep themselves distinct from the other Castes. And also the stigma the Upper castes, (often very subtle) exhibit towards the lower Castes.
And also the fact the higher social strata comprising of top most government officials and industry executives still seems to be majorly drawn from the upper Castes.

Sometimes I'm amazed at the skill some have to infer another persons caste, from the subtlest of hints/clues... As long as people keeping doing this, it is going to remain a problem.