skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brahmins are ~5% of India's total population and another 15% are also considered "forward caste", mainly from warrior or mercantile subcastes. So yeah pretty significant overrepresentation.
I had your point of view until I started working in corporate environments where windows reign supreme, and then I understood that the reason why no one wrote Makefiles or shell scripts is simply because no one had access to those runtime environments. JavaScript, however, truly is everywhere these days.

Sure, you can run Make and even shells on windows now, but that doesn't mean you have the power or even capability to do so in a corporate environment where IT dictates only reluctantly provides you with a machine in the first place.
a lot of this was legally enforced until the 1970s. see e.g. the Racial Integrity Act in Virginia for one example. the state had a legally-codified definition of race ("one-drop rule") and put a lot of bureaucratic effort into keeping records of everyone's race, so that they could enforce segregation and bans on interracial marriage.

if Reconstruction had succeeded and Jim Crow had never happened, who knows what the salience of this would be today?
Cisco is also the company that tried to pitch building the 'great firewall' for the CCP: https://zalberico.com/essay/2020/06/13/zoom-in-china.html

They don't care about right or wrong, they only care about making the most money they can while staying within the technical legal constraints of the countries they operate in.

I doubt they'd stop at workplace discrimination, if the CCP or Indian government wanted to leverage their tech to kill people (Dalit or Uighur) I'm sure they'd line up to do it (of course they’d rationalize some reason why it wasn’t their problem).
Very softly, apparently.
I think competition is the root of the issue. With good competition you will see a lot of these issues be greatly reduced. Again, this depends on what you expect the regulator's job and your trust in its ability to do that job correctly.

I think the parent commenter leans that even if you had the regulators stepping in more, they simply couldn't do it enough to make probability_of_getting_caught * fine_of_getting_caught > money_made_defrauding_customers (which based on the latest level of corporate scandals like VW emissions and privacy related tech scandals seems to be true, regulators just can't keep up or penalize harsh enough)

With competition, you always have someone enforcing your behavior... the other guy, who will happily step in and take market share when you falter with customers.
What is going to travel through such a "long" tunnel? A non railed vehicle is suicide.

Even in Switzerland where the rail tunnels have parallel safety tunnels, trains will attempt to exit the tunnel when an emergency brake is pulled to avoid getting stuck in a fire.

If a Tesla on tires crashes in the tunel or a tire explodes, that vehicle will be stuck.
The question is lacking some detail to get good answers.
I considered that but I'm in Canada.

There is someone in every organization asking to minimize potential legal liability. It's a bit sad that the Chicken Littles have won again.
To be clear, I agree that it often makes sense for the code to be “off” on initial deploy. By “default”, I mean what does the code do in absence of feature flag data?

Put another way, my specific concern is “what happens when the flag system fails?” If you accidentally drop your feature flag database, do all your features turn off, or do they all turn on?

Superficially it might seem safer for them all to turn off in this failure mode. After all, flags are for experiments, and what’s wrong with disabling experiments? The problem is that companies I have worked for (and those of friends I talk to) do not purge 100% of flags corresponding to launched features. Once code has been built on top of these unpurged flags, bugs are almost guaranteed if they get turned off via system error.
And just in case anyone thinks the idea that an elite school won't help a rich kid, there have been studies indicating that is the case.

The one that comes to mind was the study that compared long term outcomes of students who were accepted to Harvard and attended to those who were accepted but did not attend.

Average future incomes were not statistically different.

But the study did note that the starkest improvents in future incomes were found in poor and minority students.
This doesn't simply it, it complicates it.

With privacy, you are generally looking to prevent the redistribution of facts, but only in specific circumstances.

Copyright does a very different thing, where it only prevents the redistribution of more creative expressions, but does so in broad circumstances.

If you take the typical data elements that you want to keep private and apply copyright law to them, I think you'll end up with more problems than solutions. Facts -- like your name -- are something that people need to reproduce just to do basic things, like have a conversation with you. I don't think we need to start all conversations with:

"By starting a conversation with me, you hereby grant and will grant me and affiliated discussion participants a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty free, fully paid up, transferable, sublicensable, perpetual, irrevocable license to reproduce, mention, perform, vocalize, remember and otherwise use your name for purposes of this conversation"

It sounds silly, but copyright is this broad in scope. It applies to everyone. For the purposes of privacy, you really need a much more narrow paradigm -- something that applies to strangers but not people who you expect to know things about you, like friends, family, or people you are voluntarily sharing with. This is probably why every privacy law on the planet is not an extension of copyright. They are two very different things.
It's always occurred to me that you'd use evolving version data from an aggregator like shodan to build a picture of how up-to-date people keep their software, that way when a new vulnerability hits you have a prioritised list of IPs that haven't updated in a timely manner in the past, rather than wasting cycles trying to exploit auto-updating hosts
With HIMEM.SYS + EMM386.EXE [0][1], you could include or exclude certain memory segments. But, DOS Subsystem for Linux uses non-standard little documented Unreal Mode [2][3] instead of traditional DOS Memory Management.

[0] http://www.mdgx.com/mem6.htm#6

[1] http://manmrk.net/tutorials/DOS/msdos7/emm386.htm

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreal_mode

[3] https://github.com/charliesome/doslinux/blob/master/doslinux...
There's nearly always advantages to being the owner of the complete stack, even if developed in the open and allowing other backends. Making sure that every piece matches your vision without little weird API impedance mismatches for a library being used in many places is a massive win. Nobody expects SwiftUI on Apple to be crippled by a decision, even if it would make SwiftUI on Windows and Linux better.

That's one of the reasons AMD pushed Mantle, then pushed Vulkan and DX12 and dropped Mantle. The shape of the API better fits their model for driver development than OpenGL or DX prior to 11, and they're happy for their competitors to help build an ecosystem that works better on their products than the alternatives at the time.

IMO, this is the best model for library/API development if you can pull it off.
If caste only came up in a mutual interest decision like a wedding where there aren't power imbalances, isn't that fine? Who someone chooses to marry seems like an unreasonable place to intervene to resolve disparities.
Cross-jurisdiction issues crop up all the time. Sometimes they must follow the route that provides the most privacy and this is compliant everywhere, sometimes there are trade deals and compromises are made. In a conversation between an American and a German, I would expect the American to get EU levels of protection. This is all pie-in-the-sky though, I’m sure.
This is bad, but 64 students isn't all that much. It pales in comparison to private colleges. For example, Harvard accepts about 1/3 of its students as "legacy". If you believe the lawsuits about Harvard's anti-Asian discrimination, that also affects hundreds of potential Harvard students every year. Once you consider that UC Berkeley is about five times larger than Harvard, and that there are at least a dozen top-tier private schools with similar policies to Harvard, this seems like a much smaller problem.
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I'd like to see the transform implemented this way:

function foo(props) {
return <h1>hi!</ht>
}

Becomes

function foo(jsx) {
return function foo(props) {
return jsx.createElement('h1', ...);
}
}

Then, the first time a given component is rendered your view framework injects the right value of "jsx" and caches the resulting Component. This means no static dependencies are necessary to write components for libraries that use JSX.

EDIT: added as comment https://github.com/reactjs/rfcs/pull/107#issuecomment-696978...
So, when they develop full body suit versions of these, i'm guessing society ends?

Who woulda thought, not climate change, global war, massive upheavel, nope, just everyone trapped in their own personal pleasure suit until they waste away.

Before anyone takes this seriously, this is supposed to be half hearted.

It reminds me a bit of the game in the second Red Dwarf book though and i've seen and read enough other sci-fi on this topic to know where this leads.
I don't think anyone does yet, and there's still the massive confounder of 'covid'. But it's hard to say for sure that excess deaths above normal beyond what are reported to be from covid are missed cases, when we don't know the size of other effects.
I absolutely would call them the same. What is different in a caste system you are born into that provides privilege for some, but lack of resources to another and a class system that provides wealth and privilege for some, but lack of resources beginning at birth for others?

When education from an early age is funded via property taxes (as much of the US is), we are baking in the inequality. If you come from a wealthy neighborhood, your kids have access to resources. If you come from a poor area, your kids have no access to those resources.

If your parents are wealthy professionals, they can provide for you while you work unpaid internships or provide you with connections to college friends to start your career. If your parents are laborers or lower classes, they can't even take time off to come to your graduation. (I know that second one is a bit dramatic, but you get the idea).

In the US, much 'in-group' signaling is based around sports and hobbies that require both time and money. If you didn't play sports as a kid, you're questioned. If you don't have the 'cool clothes' or 'cool car' you're questioned. All of these are class related.

How is this different? Other than being 'formal', honestly, what is the difference between caste system and the very overt class system in the US? That's not a snide question, that's a real question. Where are the differences?
Can confirm that I don’t.
Machine learning the thermodynamic arrow of time
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Rather than claim that students are admitted based on test scores and grades alone, why don't universities simply say that admissions are also based on factors such as how influential or wealthy the parents are? Doing so would not be a problem, the only problem is not being transparent about it. Stanford is very clear about the fact that "legacy" applicants (meaning their parents or siblings are at Stanford and presumably the family will be active donors) get priority.
Great coincidence!

I am using open-source video call platform Jitsi, which from my experience only worked fully reliably with Google Chrome (user feedback has been about issues with Safari/Firefox).

Great feedback with the desert cart :)

Interesting thing to think about with the meta topic! What is your perspective on that?
It almost has to be - there is no other field where you can make your skills or inability apparent within the first 2 days on the job.
There are also fewer e.g. auto traffic deaths due to the lockdown.

These are all secondary effects given the number of deaths that mentioned COVID in the coroner's report. (See the headline article.)

All of it is due to the pandemic, directly or indirectly, right? There were no other significant national fatality-related events in that timeline, thank goodness. You'll see that the death rate is remarkably predictable over time.
Americans don't feel they can get justice.
I cannot decide if the author of the article aimed at being pretentious and meta, or he if is a simpleton.
Since this is the second post of the same report on HN today. I would like to suggest fellow HN readers to research a bit into Adrian Zenz first.

Many redditors have noticed the recent trend in the news and posted their observations and researches. Please search for "Adrian Zenz" in the comments of these Reddit posts:

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/ixjuq2/china_for...

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/ixhd7x/china_sha...

Edit:

Some articles that also shed some light on this topic

https://thegrayzone.com/2019/12/21/china-detaining-millions-...

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/03/26/forced-labor-china-us-nat...

Edit 2:

Here is an interesting video of the author (Max Blumenthal) challenging Adrian Zenz in person on Capitol Hill

https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1208837915687706624

A youtuber Daniel Dumbrill's interview of Max Blumenthal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KLIfu6y2Bc&t=2240

Daniel Dumbrill also did some research:

https://twitter.com/DanielDumbrill/status/120052278677241856...

(BTW Dumbrill's travel videos are pretty cool)
At the end of the day, why would I care what the rich waste their money on? If they want to pay twice as much for half the education, eh its their dollar. I'm pretty sure college is a business, and asking businesses to leave paying customers on the table is the kind of anti-market thinking that leads to situations like this.

If you incentivize "anti-social behavior" (this seemed like a reasonable middle ground word), what else does anyone expect to happen?
I just want support for APIs, mainly. I get websites from time to time that just refuse to load. E.g.

* blank pages when trying to load an imgur gallery on v68 (esr).

* image uploading not working right on instagram and various other sites, either producing blank images or ones with weird lines.

* several teleconferencing / video meeting websites just don't work properly, whether it's not detecting hardware properly, etc

I have to keep chromium installed so I can use these sites properly.
Still a ton of React, don't get me wrong.

I'm seeing a lot more Vue though, more than I did even 6 months ago, and I even saw some job openings for Svelte, in the last month and half (can't remember where though)

Thats pretty anecdotal though.
I think you also have to determine the purpose of a university.

It's either to take the top students, bar none, or it is to educate and uplift poorer students (economically and educationally). Mixing these two doesn't work.
From the Wait but Why post:

At some point in our pasts, we had both become enamored with two fun room icons, Cary and Michael Huang, known on the internet as the Huang Twins. The twins do a lot of cool things, but it was their Scale of the Universe toy that we loved most.

Inspired by their work, we decided to go for it. We wanted to make the best size explorer we could imagine. We called it Universe in a Nutshell.
Replicated across the Empire, divide and conquer, or co-opt and exploit
Yes... over the weekend I discovered that my kids (ages 5 and 7) did not know what a "channel" is.
Do any people use Edge voluntarily?

I know it’s better than IE6, but still...if you’re on Windows, what does Edge have that is better than Firefox or Chrome?
I do see your point about composition.

Using partials is nowhere near as nice as using real components.

I'm working on a Node SSR project and after trying a couple of templating engines I ended up using Svelte components in SSR mode.
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More context on the making of this here: https://waitbutwhy.com/2020/09/universe.html
I think what i would really like to see (which may exist already) is a plugin architecture that allows users to easily extend with services they need.

An eventing system that lets you hook node/edge events world be awesome as well.

Will take a look tonight, really interested in this.
That sucks. As a (recent) alumnus I was always proud of the fact that no one at my school was a legacy admit or bought their way in.

Both of my parents went to Cal, which at an Ivy might guarantee admission but in my case didn't affect my chances at all (which is a good thing!). I hope this doesn't taint the school's reputation too much.
Hi there, can I ask you a tangential question about this bit?

> fake contract law, in which we pretend people agreed to things that they in no way could have agreed to

I was wondering about exactly this a while ago, though in the context of traditional (offline) software license agreements, which I think present a more blatant case of this: Why is it that a contract in which a party doesn't even know they're a party is considered a valid contract in the first place? Shouldn't a contract be a "meeting of the minds"? What meeting is there when one side has no clue about it?
Only 980 years to go! Parties and fears as 1k-year-long piece of music turns 20
Microsoft Is Bringing Edge Browser to Linux in October
Contemplating infinity is sobering
Christianity in India has a fascinating history. The first were converted by Saint Thomas the Apostle personally. And then Christian missionaries were part of the much more recent European contact. I’m no expert on the subject, but I’d wager how Christians in India see caste depends on their particular heritage.
Can someone please explain what .NET framework is? Everytime I come across it, it seems like a mysterious microsoft thing and Wikipedia's explanation is even more confusing:

> .NET Framework (pronounced as "dot net") is a software framework developed by Microsoft that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows. It includes a large class library called Framework Class Library (FCL) and provides language interoperability (each language can use code written in other languages) across several programming languages.

What is .NET framework really?

Elsewhere, it is described as "A framework to build applications in Windows", but I thought that's what the Windows API helps with.

Any help with clarification would be great, thank you.
Unlikely. AS I understand it, most woodpeckers are not migratory.
Same experience at my UC. Popular/impacted major courses aren't even allowed to curve up (only down). The universities will defend the reputation of their top majors by aggressively filtering out people not meeting the bar. It's not unheard of for a majority of a class to be given non-passing marks, and it's in their financial interest to do so since the student will have to retake the class, thus pay more in tuition. They'd just rather you waste your time and money in an non-impacted major (and so it doesn't impact their graduation rate stat used for major rankings).

Definitely have my share of friends that did 6-8 year stints at the UC for a 4-year degree from constantly failing out of classes, but never forced out.
The features you list are not necessarily mutually exclusive, but too many think they are, and that's the problem. For some reason people seem to think it's either rich GUI -or- web. With a decent stateful GUI markup standard, we can have the best of both. HTML wasn't meant to be stateful nor for rich interactive GUI's. Faking it with JavaScript has proved a bloated crashy mess.

End users who care about productivity want rich GUI's. Rich GUI's use screen real-estate better than "progressive" web apps and have abilities like right-click, rollover text, etc.; and it's cheaper to develop because they (optionally) can use WYWIWYG for many parts of it. WYWIWYG is just plain cheaper and easier to get right. You don't need "flow layout" specialists who can tame sucky CSS/DOM, which makes alchemy look logical.

Remember that businesses don't really care how software works as long as it does the job and is affordable in creation and maintenance. The bloated web stacks are not. It's too much code to do the same thing UI-fit tools did with less because they were closer to the CRUD/GUI domain itself. Web stacks are too fucking layered such that you spend most of the time managing communication between layers instead of on real biz logic. I stand by this and if you look at the code you should agree.

We DEVOLVED. Current web standards may be fine for social media, but not real work. We let the "cool stuff" pollute real work in cubicle-land. Oh, and git off my lawn! ;-)
Abolish legacy admissions. Abolish race-based admissions.

Pure meritocracy.
There was, can't recall the one that was popular prior to Microsoft adding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DriveSpace
MSDOS 6.0
>True. But the flip side is that comments can outlive their relevance, accuracy, or purpose.

>This is a good reason to reject most comments: they're an additional maintenance cost that can't be automated.

By the same line of reasoning one should reject most code.

A comment that helps the next programmer who's going to look at the code is good. If/when the comment is obsolete, deleting it is easy.

I'm saying this as someone who rarely includes comments in a first commit. Generally I add comments that answer questions that come up in code review, because it's likely that someone else looking at the code will have the same questions my reviewers have.
My money's on a Japanese company releasing an anime waifu breast groping or full-on teledildonic sex simulator with this technology sometime in 2021.
“Applicant babysat for a colleague of the former director of undergraduate admissions”

I understand how donations or children of prominent alumni got around admissions...but babysitting can get someone entry over others? That seems like a bit of a stretch.
>you really get a lot out of a good tool that has integration with the application server

I like the really powerful code completion and refactoring tools a good IDE brings to the table but this one strikes me as extremely odd. In 2020, I would want all IDEs to remove this kind of functionality because I don't want to deploy from my IDE ever and I don't want teams that work with/for me to ever use it either. I want to push my git commit and have everything building in my CI/CD pipeline.
My ISP was "nice" enough to supply a router that could be flashed with DD-WRT (it's fiber (to the home) so it's just a box on the wall straight into the router, so whats actually running on the router is under my control).
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No, it started as a purchase of where2 and has had full time staff ever since google bought it.
1 for 10 seems reasonable, assuming there is also a strict academic requirement for that privileged student. Even more points if it supports their housing and food plan.
John Cage might have something to say about this topic, let's see:

> It is not irritating to be where one is, it is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

> Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.

What you point out is completely true... but it might be more in the spirit of camping to leave your headphones at home, rather than put yourself in the beauty of nature and then feel annoyed because you are not in a concert hall. Or if you like, to be in a concert hall, but annoyed because the performance interferes with your headphones!