skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ITT: (Possibly) "Upper caste" Indians claiming:

1. This is due to a few bad apples

2. Reservation is the real problem (no it's not)

3. I don't do it therefore it doesn't exist

I can tell you by experience the amount of concious and unconcious bias regarding caste amongst Indians both in India and abroad is ridiculous! I'm light skinned so people assume I'm "upper caste" and speak with me as such. My last name doesn't give away my caste either. I don't broadcast it or even like to talk about it because growing up I experienced innumerable instances where people's behaviors instantly changed when they found out. Some mild, some extreme but it was there.

I grew up in a metro so this isn't a backward ass village. My college fucking put the caste next to people's names on notice boards for things like seating arrangements for an exam. How the fuck is a person's caste relevant? This is normal for you?

Even in the US, people casually either slip in sentences or assume castes and speak as such. Fortunately, there are plenty of people (regardless of their caste - I never ask/care) that feel the same way. Funny enough, the people who care about caste also seem to be racially biased in my anecdotal experience. :|
Microsoft wanted to take developers in a direction they didn't want to go. They seemed to have realized their mistake and trying to unify this mess. In the recent past, you wouldn't find WPF and Windows Forms mentioned in the same article as UWP.

Apple had their own problems with this (Carbon vs Cocoa) but that legacy has been shaken off.
Often when you use the CI config instead of shell scripts it gives you deeper integration with the CI provider, like better error messages and such. I wish there was a way to bridge that gap.
The PRC conflict with Vietnam lasted 3 weeks.

Is it possible, that rather than being a massive cover-up, that war simply wasn't a generation-defining moment for them?

Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_War#Chinese_me...
That sounds great! Will this have good VS Code support? Being a .net developer having used VS before mostly, I had lots of trouble a little over a year back building and referencing things with VS Code. It was easier to use Go and Python with VS code actually.
I spend most of my time on the following computers:

* "retina" Macs at 16" and 27"

* Windows laptop at 13"-ish and 3000x2000

* Mac and Windows at 24" and 1920x1200

All of these look fine to me, except for Windows at 1920x1200. I don't know if Firefox is especially bad, but that's my primary browser.

I wish I could better articulate what's wrong with it, but I don't think it's fixable with the ClearType tuner. It may just come down to preference--I use Macs more, so I prefer their font rendering.
Paris could also allow higher buildings in its core too... AirBNB is insignificant in prices compared to that measure.

Banning AirBNB is like banning plastic bags in grocery stores while not do the real things to fight global warming. It's a distraction from the real causes of high rent in Paris.
It says "DOS subsystem for Linux". The way I'm reading it:

1. It's for Linux (so Linux is the host).

2. It creates some subsystem that runs DOS (either emulated, virtualized or translated like Wine is doing for Windows on Linux).

That can allow running DOS games on Linux for example, instead of using DOSbox for it.
Higher education in the UK is morally bankrupt
You're linking a website called "intellectual kshatriya"? really? No way can that site be biased or full of propoganda!
Blame the title.
Thank you for giving more information, I should have researched more before commenting.
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How will this new company make money? If its funded by the government it could work.
> Canada and the U.S. are a common market and share a common language, culture and legal system, Quebec notwithstanding.

Quebec shares a legal heritage with Louisiana, though that sets both apart from the rest of the US and Canada.
Which PDF forms standard is this?
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This is fixed now with the Limit to Designated Sites feature. It's a little buried though: click the multi-account containers button in the title bar > the arrow next to your Google container > Manage This Container > Limit to Designated Sites.
It's essentially the same situation with TikTok, however instead of outright banning Facebook, EU tries to regulate it.

I strongly believe this is the right path forward, not the Chinese/US model of banning services. If the US way of doing things prevails, you can bet that Facebook and the rest will be banned all over the world because it is actually a security risk and it is a proven fact that US intelligence agencies are indeed snooping Facebook and other US tech companies. How do we know that? Thanks to Snowden. The revealed program is PRISM[0], who knows what else is out there.

I really hope that the EU way becomes the norm, otherwise the internet will get patchy, we won't have global communities anymore. There might be solutions like companies incorporating in each country like Coca-Cola opening a plant in every country but it will not be the same and will make the barrier of entry so high that very few will make it. No more global startups form a dorm room.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)
I believe Netcraft still produce this sort of report on a monthly basis and use it to record (among other things) the relative popularity of webservers. At least, they did when I worked there many moons ago; and they monetised such technology. Biggest hurdle isn't the software or execution time: rather, it's making an agreement with your ISP/hosting company wherein they allow you to portscan the entire internet on a regular basis without flagging it as abuse.
I've also (unfortunately) noticed that Chrome is much more responsive on Linux than Firefox on several different machines.

In fact, on a resource-constrained VDI for internet access (for security reasons), I've also noticed that Chrome seems to prioritise interaction of the UI elements much more than Firefox does: in Firefox I've often noticed that when the page has animated items (whether gifs, videos, etc), Firefox seems to prioritise playing back the content over responding to keyboard or mouse events (i.e. page up or Ctrl+W), and can often take multiple seconds to respond, whereas Chrome responds to events much faster. Maybe it's something with the event loop?
Still is: http://distro.ibiblio.org/baslinux/

I'm using it currently on a 386SX with 8MB of RAM (not to post this, however).

Edit: Ah, this doesn't do the driver bit. But it works pretty well in itself.
It's a really nice language. IMO the main limitations currently are:

1. version/dependency management is a bit of a pain. Every time there's a major language update I have to do surgery on my larger swift projects

2. ARC-based memory managements has some serious pitfalls in terms of worst-case performance characteristics.

But in terms of syntax and general philosophy, I have never found a language more pleasant to work with than Swift
UC Berkeley inappropriately admitted students as favors to donors
There would also be problems when people travel (either as tourists or to permanently move); what happens to their 'old' data, or their 'new' data when/if they travel back? So-called 'edge cases' become big problems when you have a large number of users, and fines/penalties are based on corporate revenues (rather than damages).
> You can pause and play audio or video in Firefox right from your keyboard or headset

You could already do that, if you turned on those options from about:config. You can also turn on the forward button for skipping to the next song.

The two settings were:

- media.hardwaremediakeys.enabled = true

- dom.media.mediasession.enabled = true
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I mean, it's clearly a tu quoque for Google (although apparently a inadvertant one according to the author's comments here?), but it falls a bit flat since Mozilla doesn't have a multi-billion dollar malware business with which to bankroll its projects, and thus has nontrivial opprotunity costs for continuing any given project, as well as for the reasons you mentioned.
Why would someone choose such a stupid name then?
It's "for Linux"... which means you already have Linux, and you want to run DOS in a sub-system (a VM)
I spent a fairly sizeable time on this in one of my previous jobs. Most things were now bin/do_this.sh or bin/setup.sh or whatever.

Setting up a pc went from 1-3 days to a 3 hour "run this setup.sh" script and call me if it crashes.

It will become obvious when you hire someone that this needs to be done. As a project lead, schedule time for it!
This is an alarmist piece of shit written by someone trying to push a propaganda. Living in India, I can tell you who is the much much much marginalized group today: poor "upper caste" families. The lower castes have reservations (quotas) almost everywhere, from educational institutions to govt job, to elected representatives. They don't even have to pay any fees (at least in the state where I grew up: Punjab). The poor upper caste families have the worst of everything: lack of money AND lack of opportunity.

Case in point: one of my father's classmates from college, who belongs to a lower caste, got a very high ranking IAS (Indian Administrative Services) govt job due to the above mentioned reservation. He was at a time the second most powerful bureaucrat in the state. His kids got educated in the best schools and got the best tuitions and still got admission in a med school using their reservation. Now compare that to one of my really hard working "high caste" cousin who lives in village, is poor, did not have the privelege of a good education, wanted to be a doctor but could not get admission into med school because he did not have any "quotas". So now tell me with a straight face that the "lower caste" are most marginalized TODAY. I'm not talking about 50-100 years ago. I'm talking about TODAY.
https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US#infosharing

"We provide personal information to our affiliates and other trusted businesses or persons to process it for us, based on our instructions and in compliance with our Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures. For example, we use service providers to help us with customer support."

I'd like to know who those 'affiliates' are, and the exact nature of the data 'processing'.

"We may share non-personally identifiable information publicly and with our partners — like publishers, advertisers, developers, or rights holders. For example, we share information publicly to show trends about the general use of our services. We also allow specific partners to collect information from your browser or device for advertising and measurement purposes using their own cookies or similar technologies."

Who are these 'partners' ? Exactly what kind of non PII information is shared? Their "for example" doesn't cut it. I'd like a detailed list.

---

As an aside, I liked this statement from their original Privacy Policy.

" Google does not willfully disclose individually identifiable information about its customers to any third party without first receiving that customer’s permission."

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/07/10/opinion/googl...
What does exclusive mean here? I thought the API was gonna be open.
Unfortunately, to a large extent, remote work works best in absolution. When companies and teams try to do a blended model, it’s not remote-first, and is almost always worse than absolution one way or the other.
I agree with this, except for different reasons. Without a good source of funding Mozilla won't have the resources to keep up with new requirements in the web stack. The current Firefox rendering engine isn't going to last forever and the Servo layoffs suggest Mozilla doesn't have the resources to do the R&D to keep up. Without R&D any non-monopoly product is a dead man walking.

I think Firefox's best shot for relevance is to switch from being a complete browser codebase and into being a maintained patch set for Chromium that retains user-focused features (such as adblock APIs and limits on media autoplay) as they are removed by Google. The required resource commitment would be far lower and might be viable in the long run.
> I found this as some of the most disgusting behavior I have ever witnessed in a place of work.

I've, unfortunately, witnessed this as well in school and in the workplace.

> They simply (and sincerely) could not acknowledge why someone would phrase as a criticism something that for them is so naturally correct.

This, again unfortunately, is spot on. When called out on such discriminatory behavior, their attitude was that it was rude of the person who called the toxic behavior out to even point it out in the first place.
There is a big difference between spectrum analyzer hooked up directly to the input of the radio and an antenna in a van several blocks away, with reflections and noise thrown in.
It would be great but surprising if it were the other way. If you have difficult entry examinations but allow any group with lower marks to enter, then (if the exam is not fully detached from the requirements of the course) this group is likely to do worse. The skills and knowledge you build on mattet usually.

I think the only way to really have affirmative action is to give extra high qualoty training to the group you want to help starting 2 years before the entrance examination. (and no extra points then)
Who will benefit from psychedelic medicine?
Is there anyone on this thread who believes this is not good behavior or that the perpetrator should not be punished? I'm all for exposing systemic injustice.. but I don't know how a post about a shitty human being in a company with abysmal hr practices turns into a thread about how terrible Indians are and a kind of weird racism..
https://archive.vn/l6bsl
Check out Okuna https://youtu.be/tGrP80GVkW4
It is from Europe.
I remember it was a big enough of a dilemma to me that I had to decide at the beginning of the game whether I was going to frequently save or not for that entire run.

Now I figure it's most fun not to re-do and deal with the drama, but I do bring some red-shirts with me now.
Oh no they used an ad hominem so you responded with an irrelevant whataboutism.
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> (ST refers to Sixteen/Thirty-two, referring to the 68k CPU’s external and internal data width)

I thought ST referred to Sam Tramiel - Jack Tramiel's son.
While most have no problems, managing service perception requires addressing the few that do. You can wing it and say yeah everyone has broadband so they should be fine, and the office has mass b/w on a DIA circuit so should be fine, but when things aren't fine these are the elements we look at. Teams has been a solid voice platform thus far for our customers - speaking on basis of comparing to other customers using other cloud PBX solutions, and has a lot of benefits when customer is already invested in MS land.
As an example, picking constants: you may have a chosen the constants based on some experimentation, but including the full details of the experiment using code comments is nonsensical.

It would be great if you could still somehow have these details easily accessible from the code, but not within the source code itself.
Maybe this could be done federated? ActivityPub?
Here I was thinking that I didn't care all that much about the mandatory Facebook login for the Oculus Quest 2, and now, just a few days later and before I've even received my device, Facebook threatens to "quit Europe". Not the best omen.
I'm kidding, of course, but there is a kernel of truth.
This is not entirely true, you can encrypt PDFs [1] since v1.3 of the spec but the cypher is often so weak (RC4 until v1.6) they can be bruteforced in reasonable amounts of time.

[1] https://www.pdflib.com/pdf-knowledge-base/pdf-password-secur...
Does this mean integration with AirPods will work now as well?
I never watch CBS but it's part of my bundle. Is my situation different than yours?
That's why I mentioned longer sessions. I tend to jump quickly between many new projects, in which case the indexing is annoying.

When you start a longer session, the overhead is very much worth it, I agree fully.
Yes you can! The open source version offers the same functionality as the SaaS version. If you have Docker installed on your computer you can follow the demo environment tutorial at https://baserow.io/docs/guides/demo-environment to test out a copy locally.
Why has Fermat's Last Theorem been so difficult to prove? (1999)
Perhaps there are multiple factors involved. For example the IPCC email scandal, or the fact that complex mathematical forecasting models involve a lot of hand-wavey guesswork (Neal Ferguson's COVID model the latest example), or that the earth has experienced periods of warming and cooling over millennia.
I thought I found a nifty trick by using OpenOffice to create a form with a pre-filled value. I decoded the PDF using pdktk or one of the free tools, and then modified the value. Nope, that caused some kind of cascading/checksum error.

Ended up just making the app generate HTML before calling wkhtmltopdf.

The PDF spec is insane! But like all things what you get out of Word/OpenOffice is 100x more complex than if you wrote it yourself, which is indeed doable.
Amazon is broken, and the good guys are losing
Slackware had "ZipSlack" which would fit on a 100Mb Zip disk, or could be installed (read: copied) into a DOS directory and run from there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZipSlack
Looking at 120 projects has anyone used or been interviewed on the https://byteboard.dev/ platform?

It sounds interesting and I was wondering what people thought about it and how it works out in practice.
You could use the possessive form here: "Windows' Subsystem for Linux", but that's not a thing product managers like to use in naming...
Show HN: Simple app that can help you stop mindlessly checking your phone
While I am also annoyed by Google's discontinuation of products, I would guess that the failure rate of saas startups is still much higher than Google's cancel rate.

I'm not sure how many years a startup needs to be around though before it's likelyhood of survival surpasses that of a new google product.
I’m not sure how this works but there is something odd about it.
If I connect from a VPN it shows results from my public IP, not the VPN server’s public IP. It does this on multiple VPNs, despite my traffic going over the VPN. Is it caching some device identifier?

Edit: weird, if I connect the VPN then open a private browser tab it then checks the VPN IP. A simple refresh of the tab once VPN is up doesn’t work.

Edit 2: I’m an idiot. I just noticed the page URL.
Have companies ever made good on this kind of threat? Not many pulled out of China due to not liking the legal situation.
> its a write up of a legal case by a civilian.

It's a piece of writing by a purported "professional" writer and it's pretty bad. Indian-style English still adheres to the rules of regular English grammar.
It's hard to explain to people just how confusing, incomprehensible, the official advice or regulation has been.

This does a decent job. https://twitter.com/MichaelPDeacon/status/130829568209300684...
That isn't a guarantee. Google killed Inbox. They also regularly kill features, like community captions on YouTube. https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/31/21349401/youtube-communit...

Also Reader and FeedBurner felt much like core services during their heyday.
Advertising to Europeans?
Sixteen/Thirty-two seems to make more sense, especially if you look at the TT, which is Thirty-two/Thirty-two.
> My gripe with Mozilla was they're pursing all these side projects when they really should be targeting feature parity with Chrome. That's the only way people will ever switch.

A bit off topic from the post at hand, but my gripe was the opposite. The relentless pursuit of parity made them indistinguishable giving users no reason to switch (and taking dev time away from distinguishing features). Granted the pursuit of users instead of principles is its own folly that's hard to overcome when money is needed.
Back in the mid 90s the school I went to still had rotary phones, with a lock on the number 3 so that someone without the key could still dial 112 (emergency number).

I taught myself to tap-dial and managed to call a porno phone line once. My classmates thought I was some sort of super hacker.
To clarify (agreeing with ginko) this seems like a very arbitrary selection of thing to make this post represent. On the surface it seems just as justifiable to say, "people from X nation" or "men" or "people named Andy"--unless you present further evidence of the link.
Ruby is a much better candidate for this. Nicer syntax and a vastly better standard library.
It's really not the same thing.

EU wants data privacy, and has regulations for it. European countries have always had strong consumer protection laws, it just so happens that the EU has unified them and it has teeth. To operate in a country, you have to follow that country's laws, period.

At Facebook's scale, I don't think this is beyond their technical capabilities, or too expensive. The reason they are worried is that they've built their business on data surveillance, and they are worried that the EU with all their privacy regulations will invalidate their business model.

As for Snowden, I remember the US president claiming that foreigners are not US citizens and thus we have no rights. Well, this is the EU protecting my rights, as an EU citizen. And US businesses will just have to comply if they want to do business here. Fine by me.
That's true (houston gets a lot of the same restrictions in other ways, but indeed not from zoning), my point of view was more from the standard Big Expensive Coastal City like the one I live in

https://kinder.rice.edu/urbanedge/2020/01/09/no-zoning-in-Ho...

> The story of Houston’s land-use policies is a lot more complicated than “no zoning.” In reality, Houston is a big mixture of ordinances, policies, tactics by neighborhoods, and independent efforts by nonprofits, all of which play a role in determining how land is used. Whether or not the lack of zoning and the use of these other tools add up to a more equitable city or a city where the affluent are protected is open to debate.

[...]

> 3. A complicated development code that contains everything you’d expect except use zoning — and, in some cases, density and height restrictions as well — and drives applicants crazy just like the development code in many other cities.
The only source I could find was that Quora thread
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-substance-of-the-claim-tha...
All of the above is possible. However, we should not lie (by omission) to gullible young people that space travel is safe. It is not and in the time frame of ARTEMIS, won't be.
A bit soured on being a team lead here.

Things to ask:

- Will I be responsible for my the results my team delivers?

- And if so, what tools are available to me that are not available to me in a regular dev role?

This is to say: Will I be a manager? Can I hire, fire, and discipline? Can I delegate and assign tasks?

...

I have been in the situation -- twice now -- in which I was ostensibly the team lead, but had none of those abilities. Leading by example is the absolute base-level tool in your toolbox. If you are responsible for your team's delivery, ensure you have the consummate authority to drive them.
Is it just me, or is that openxcom site down for everyone else, too?
Also, why linux? Linux is the kernel, which is not what is being run, more like everything on a gnu/linux system apart from linux.