skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just fyi there are non upper caste Indians, I’m Sikh so caste distinctions are forbidden for us. I’m a “Saini” my name is Ricky Saini and I’m not sure this fits with my experience as a lot of the people in my family(who are Indian of course) are not upper caste. I would be shocked to learn if this was true. Just so you guys know the modern Indian community not only Punjabi’s try very cars to be against caste. So don’t think we’re not trying or anything. We try really hard.
> inefficient compared with PV

Yes, if you only need to have electricity during shiny day.
You are unexposed in Scotland. Unlike me in my kilt.
people typically only complain about them when they have caused damage to their vehicle. lazy evaluation of maintenance is more expensive in the long run.
> I know in America taxes are super taboo but there's also nothing wrong with raising taxes on the rest of the city to cover any gap.

Raising taxes does not necessarily increase tax revenue. Is the last guy on the sinking ship going to pick up the tab for everyone?
This is so funny at being racist.

> How do you know that So-and-So is a Brahmin?
> How do you know he isn’t? And we do some research before we post.

I guess that just includes looking at the surname.
I totally agree with the everything plugin aspect.

Then consistent and integrated IDEs are a mix of “everything and the kitchen sink” and “our way or the highway”

Personally I prefered to pay the price of an ugly and patchworky workspace to get something that works like I want to work and without too many things I don’t care about.
>I remember Reddit before it started to clean up its house. It was worse.

And yet that was the time when reddit was considered more balanced and open. People gathered there to discuss ideas. The future of the platform looked great. Nowadays virtually all popular subreddits are considered echo chambers and the future for the platform looks questionable.
Reading them is also easy. I wrote a library that reads PDFs and imports page(s) from an existing PDF into a new PDF as a Form XObject.

https://github.com/phpdave11/gofpdi
Excellent comment. Agree completely - the point of camping is to immerse yourself in nature.
Readdle apparently built spark (their client mail app) using a single swift core module compiled to all platforms, including android.

They released a custom swift toolchain to target android.

Unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be a lot of interest from the swift core team, because i couldn’t find any official info on the state of android compilation (what part of the stdlib works, what doesn’t, and how to interop from java /kotlin to something compiled with swift).
Well, yes, we can, but the outcome will be far worse. The naive imagine "something better." The real world will interpret "better" as 27 half baked alternatives, 2 of which will work on something other than Chrome running on Windows.
Or, better yet, to re-implement the best plugins as installed by default plugins that could then be enabled/disabled by the user.
Facebook says it will stop operating in Europe if regulators don’t back down
It could be useful for DOS users who want to run Nethack 3.6.6 under Linux.

Altough running Nethack under Minix 2 would be easier.
For a language compiling to native instructions, there's really only the C(++) API. UWP is barely used in my experience and WPF/Windows Forms are basically exclusive to the dotnet framework.

Windows Forms and the native API share most of their controls' look and feel while WPF is a free-form application framework that allows you to ignore all UI standards if you desire to. I can't remember the last time I've seen a WPF application though, I think it's either dead or dying already.

UWP is the new API Microsoft really wants everyone to use. It comes preloaded with the "native" Windows 10 feel with their new design and is intended to be distributed through the MS app store (though you can install packages manually with some effort as a developer).

It's what new applications aiming to be Windows native probably should be using in my opinion, but most developers seem to stick to the native API or its wrappers. That means there's barely any UWP applications in use by most people, which means they aren't used to the UWP style, which means they find UWP apps weird, which means there's barely any UWP apps, etc., etc., etc.
Depends. So who should win the 100 m olympics? someone who is fastest or someone who was discriminated against? Which team should win the football match? the team that scores the most points or should the background of the players be a criteria?
Taycan electric car is already Porsche's best-selling model
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"These aren't the machine learning algorithms you're looking for."
Right wing politics portrays that the percent is decreasing. Any source that it is actually increasing?
Postscript and PDF are definitely not compatible formats. The drawing model is similar, but the structure and code are completely different.
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> If you had asked me yesterday what percent of students I thought got into UC schools due to personal connection or wealth, I would have estimated between 10-20%

I don't think it's in the double digits for any school. You need large amounts of wealth to donate your way in.
Law Firms Pay Supreme Court Clerks $400k Bonuses. What Are They Buying?
The UC chancellors would certainly like to blend diversity goals into their admissions process, but they're prohibited from doing so by state law, and most commentators I've seen believe the prohibition is reasonably effective.
Who actually argues that tech is a meritocracy? The diversity/inclusion stuff that is glaringly in your face at large tech companies should indicate that it is not a meritocracy.
This isn't accurate. The Russian DNC hacking and release was hugely impactful and timed to have a partisan impact.
Consult a lawyer for you and your business, and a social worker for "Jake".

This is frankly inappropriate for HN. You are exposing yourself to incredibly unnecessary liability, especially if "Jake" finds this post, because it won't be a leap to claim identifiability.
This is great! No apologies. Example of how Nintendo milks their IP’s too. To be aware of it. Nothing wrong with Mario or Zelda, but the innovation and creativity is lacking for the sake of business and monetization.
Text-Based Video Editing
IntelliJ ultimate edition + other language plugins is basically this.

Most alternative Jetbrains IDEs like Rubymine and Webstorm are just Intellij with a predetermined set of language plugins.

I have Ruby, nodejs and related plugins installed into my Intellij and it works exactly the same as Rubymine or Webstorm.
I have a neighbor like this. Nice person, loudly wrestles with demons on the regular, took a while to get used to it.

It sounds like an apartment is right out, but maybe a detached residence (ie a house) would work. I don't know what part of the country you're in and what sort of options are available/how that would interact with work travel time etc.

What if you take his situation seriously in the sense of legitimising his belief? ie treat the witchcraft/auras thing as real (which it obviously is, for him), but explain that you don't have the expertise/insight and other people feel his power but aren't able to read it correctly. Don't patronize him, just give an example of someone else you've known who had to deal with that sort of thing to communicate that you respect the fact of his personal struggles. Failing that, ask him if there's a book or a movie you could consult on your own time to help you understand his thing better.

Ask him what he needs in a space to be able to defend himself from these bad forces and also what amount of time/energy it takes - maybe it interacts with work hours. The flip side of his focus and stamina at work could be difficulty in switching off and relaxing; perhaps it's a sort of dynamic tension that needs to be cranked up to an angry climax through which he discharges his energy in a burst and is then able to sleep it off.

As this has obviously happened before he's probably heard conversations of the form 'Jake I like you, love your work, but the demon stuff is a problem.' Could be the way out of this vicious circle is 'Jake I like you, love your work, how do you fend off spiritual attackers?' If he can't talk coherently about it, set aside a few work hours to have him write it down. Your role is that you want to help but don't have the psychic sensitivity he does, ie the supportive sidekick that can line up resources for the hero but not fight the battles.

If you can find some way to mediate your relationship through this framework (and agree clear boundaries on your ability to assist, but be willing within those mutually-agreed and inviolable boundaries)then I think you could carry on helping each other in your different ways. It's clear that you care a lot and want to help, while also needing to balance that with the needs of other team members and yourself, so I think the key is establish some sort of language in which you can communicate with each other about how he's doing without necessarily getting into the specifics of how he does it, if that makes sense.

Best of luck to you both.
I don't quite get the hype around Blazor. Great idea but the implementation is a non-starter considering it has to send a whole runtime over the wire.
Yeah usually the donations at a school like Berkeley are a couple mil at least. Some schools are a lot more
At least in case of Iran, that's not true.

Iran is being suffocated by the current administration. They strategy for the past 4 years has been just to tolerate it until the administration changes.

They have almost no interest in chaos in US. Just a government that respects the Iran deal (JCPOA) so they can trade with the world again.
Private debt is subject to inflation too.
> Foreign actors are primarily interested in sowing chaos,

Mission fucking accomplished. This is the first time in my life that I've felt a civil war was a real possibility.

The "call to arms" on Facebook have been pretty damn successful where I live. I personally know people who've picked up their rifles at a moments notice and drove out to Whereeverthefuck and hung around waiting for The Protestors to arrive. It's only a matter of time before one these escalates, they have itchy trigger fingers and cops are telling these people, "if they have a knife in their hands, there's no much I can do."

Things remained tolerable when the economy was good. But now with so many people out of work...
That's right. I believe the solution is for people to develop and apply their critical thinking. It's the way to prevent Nayirah testimony, Iraq's WMD or similar from being used as excuses for war again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony
fwiw, I have the opposite experience with JSON files and sublime vs. vscode. Sublime opens fast and seamless, VSCode basically ceases to operate while it struggles to figure out syntax highlighting of such a "massive" file. I have near barebones installs of both, I do not believe it's plugins nor settings related.

Ultimately VSCode is my daily driver but I use sublime3 when I need to do fluid text editing, anything column/multi-select based, regex replaces, or manipulating large files. VScode has those features but they feel slow and buggy in comparison.
So what? That's a dream come true.
Because not everyone uses Vim?
Idiomatic shell code would be:

while getopts "ab:" OPTC; do
case "$OPTC" in
a)
MY_FLAG=0
;;
b)
MY_FLAG_ARG="$OPTARG"
;;
*)
# shell already printed diagnostic to stderr
exit 1
;;
esac
done
shift $((OPTIND - 1))

Yes, I realize it's more difficult to support long options (though not that difficult), but the best tool for the job will rarely check all the boxes. Anyhow, the arguments for long options are weakest in the case of simple shell scripts. (Above code doesn't handle mixed arguments either but GNU-style permuted arguments are evil. But unlike the Bash example the above code does support bundling, which is something I and many Unix users would expect to always be supported.)

Also, I realize there's a ton of Bash code that looks exactly like you wrote. But that's on Google--in promoting Bash to the exclusion of learning good shell programming style they've created an army of Bash zombies who try to write Bash code like they would Python or JavaScript code, with predictable results.
We can make recombinant interferons, so, that's something. Vaccine plus interferon therapy, plus steroids and we might be able to knock this thing out.
https://medium.com/dfrlab

https://www.graphika.com/blog

https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io
That's a bit like saying "of course foreign actors are likely to nuke us! It's literally their militaries job to nuke countries whom they benefit from being nuked".
Privileged people just fail to see rampant caste discrimination existing in the entire country. The discrimination you are talking about is the overt one - like in cases where Dalits are prevented from using wells. But covert discrimination exists even in the most prestigious institutions in India [1]. The upper castes do not cite caste as a reason to discriminate, but use other reasons. That way, the upper castes can observe discrimination without being called out for being politically wrong. Lower castes are selectively branded as under-performing in academia, government and private organizations. Rentals are denied to dalits even in Bengaluru and Mumbai citing 'non-vegetarianism' [2] (an easy way to discriminate). And there are upper caste groups playing politics to deny career growth to lower caste people in almost every institution.

Denial of caste based discrimination is at obscene levels. The truth is that lower castes get discriminated against, even in urban areas, no matter what their credentials or merits are.

[1] https://theprint.in/opinion/brahmins-on-india-campuses-study...
[2] https://livewire.thewire.in/personal/caste-isnt-just-confine...
It is literally DOS, so it executes real mode binaries natively.

Okay, actually, this is more like VMWare ESX in the 4.0 days. It's kind of, uh, inside out.

Basically it's DOS, which launches Linux via DSL, which then runs a task out of init in vm86 mode that uses KVM to _continue_ the DOS that launched it as if it were the only thing running.

The DOS doesn't know anything has happened, even though the rug has been pulled out from under it, and it is now running in a KVM VM guest. You just can't tell anything is different because all the BIOS/real mode stuff is unchanged.

You get your prompt back when a native Linux binary finishes but it's the linux kernel emulating the DOS session after that first command, until you reboot.
I have the impression that « finding cross platform librairies » for every types of I/O is actually a very very painful step, judging by the time it takes to get the swift stdlib work across all platform.

The « low level language » is actually LLVM intermediate language, and LLVM already support building for all the major targets.
I appreciate your prompt feedback with interesting details. Re: Blazor - while it's definitely a promising technology, I'm not sure how suitable it is for building SPAs. One potential issue that I can see is quite limited (and IMO very expensive, e.g.: https://www.syncfusion.com/sales/products/blazor) UI components ecosystem, when compared to the React/Vue/Angular one (I plan on using Vue).
I always heard it was a dumpster fire, but you've upped the ante by calling it a toxic waste site. Nice. I don't think I have heard a more appropriate description.
While the following isn't really an ongoing analysis, it might help get you started.

A 2016 study by Dov H. Levin found that, among 938 global elections examined, the United States and Russia (including its predecessor, the Soviet Union) combined had involved themselves in about one out of nine (117), with the majority of those (68%) being through covert, rather than overt, actions. The same study found that "on average, an electoral intervention in favor of one side contesting the election will increase its vote share by about 3 percent," an effect large enough to have potentially changed the results in seven out of 14 U.S. presidential elections occurring after 1960. According to the study, the U.S. intervened in 81 foreign elections between 1946 and 2000, while the Soviet Union or Russia intervened in 36. A 2018 study by Levin found that the electoral interventions determined in "many cases" the identity of the winner. The study also found suggestive evidence that the interventions increased the risk of democratic breakdown in the targeted states."
~https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_electoral_intervention
Is text-based video editing really a new disruptive thing? What are your thoughts?
Show HN: DailyMap – build your own planner using mind maps
I'm using .NET Core/F# for the backend of my bootstrapped "startup". I mostly have an iOS dev background so take my experiences with a grain of salt.

So far everything has gone pretty smooth. ASP.NET Core is running under the hood which seems to be pretty mature. F# and the libraries that I work with all provide a functional development experience. I interface with a Postgres database, so there's libraries for that as well.

You mentioned Domain-Driven Design. I would recommend reading Scott Wlaschins book Domain Modeling Made Functional [1].

If you are interested in playing around with F#, a quick way to start would be to try SAFE stack [2].

From what I have read during the last couple of months, MS seems to be interested in pushing F# as one of their go-to languages for machine learning. At least they have an F# example online [3], which can not be said for most other areas where F# would also be a good fit in my opinion.

[1] https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/books/
[2] https://safe-stack.github.io
[3] https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/machinelearning-ai/ml-dotn...
I was almost going to abandon vim in favor of VS Code due to the "intellisense" features, then I discovered coc.vim and I'm so happy that I don't have to leave vim
But what country has benefitted from the U.S. being destabilized by Trump’s presidency?

That’s why it feels like all of this is Russia as they seem disconnected enough that they don’t care.
I love VSCode, but of late I've relied mostly on vim and Textastic on the Mac, simply because of sheer _speed_ - either can be _much_ faster for simple edits across multiple files (I use Ctrl-p in vim) and have near-instant startup time.

But when I need to hunker down for a long session, it’s great. However, mine is so loaded with extensions that it feels like the “fat” IDEs of yore. And everything is constantly in need of updates.

Its big plus (and reason for success) is that it can be _anyone’s_ IDE, for anything. The extension ecosystem makes all the difference.
Some readers won't need a header at all, I think. Near the end (usually!) of the file there's an index of objects (page data etc.) with byte offsets, which can point to anywhere in the file.
The world is filled with injustice however you look at it.

Here is one hard quote by Buffet: The ovarian lottery is the most important event in which you'll ever participate. It's going to determine way more than what school you go to, how hard you work, all kinds of things. The nation of birth changes your life much more than your effort or intelligence.
My conclusion?

If we start with an (obviously) invalid assumption - "The university experience is just like BigCorp work" - it's not surprising that we would arrive at an even wackier conclusion - like "What's good for companies like Apple should be good for the university experience, too".
That's the great thing about being NYC. That 10% of people funding everything are not the typical two or three hundred thousand a year guys that pay taxes in other cities. They are billionaires, most of whom are not even in real estate, who own skyscrapers, or the leases, all over Manhattan. Oftentimes just for vanity, or even just bragging rights over their wife's brother's skyscrapers. (I'm serious. This happened, I was there. And it was at that point I decided some people just had too much money.)

When money like that is available to a city, you end up with infrastructure projects of the scale NYC has, the ability to tell your state "thanks but no thanks", Oh, and police departments with intelligence units that outstrip the capabilities of the intelligence apparatus in most Asian and South American nations.

The average american has no frame of reference for the kind of wealth at the disposal of NYC. I say, let them fix all the potholes. Regular people may as well get something out of it.
You can guess a person's caste through their last name
I don’t believe that is the point the parent poster is making. It’s the entire Dunning Kruger Effect of most people who are posting who have no idea how a legal eviction process works.
I use VSCode with no plugins. It's an amazing code editor, and by default it does code highlighting for C++ and TypeScript. I build in a terminal, outside of the editor, the way it's supposed to be done.
Yes, I did, which is why I’m specifically mentioning it.
>> I'd be more interested in VSCode if Microsoft's strategy was to relentlessly implement the most popular plugins into VSCode natively such that the most commonly used and needed functions were built in and did not require plugins.

Unlike the FANG companies, Microsoft doesn't tend to rip the carpet out from under independent developers like that.
On the negative side, the internet broke the business model of journalism, by capturing advertising revenue that used to pay journalists salaries.

Once journalism was disrupted, government could be compromised without scrutiny.

Once government was compromised, commercial monopolies such as the ones ISPs enjoy across America could proceed unchallenged, elections could be skewed by outside and elite vectors, and corporations could surveil consumers on a grand scale without regulatory inhibition.

On the positive side, the internet, allied with advances in digital consumer electronics, has enabled great advances in personal expression through video and audio production and sharing, the vast digital commons that is wikipedia, and through WordPress, which is a continuation of the Gutenberg paradigm.
That's interesting. As a white guy who works in a large tech company with a lot of Indians, I'm not sure what to think about this. I can definitely believe that this is a problem even if it's not obvious to me directly, but I can also see how "Indian people treat those of lower castes badly" could itself be a racist trope.

Is there anything that that would be obvious to someone from India but not a white guy from the U.S. that a co-worker is being shunned or mistreated in the workplace on account of their caste? Even knowing what caste each of one's Indian coworkers are in could be helpful in some ways and detrimental in others.

(My impression of the Indian people I've worked with is almost entirely positive, and I generally consider them to be a mistreated class already just because so many of them are here on an H1B visa and therefore could potentially be kicked out of the country if they happened to be laid off, which no doubt is in the back of their minds when considering whether or not to work through the weekend. The employee-employer relationship is edging close enough to slavery to make me uncomfortable.)
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Show HN: Yet another backup tool for CouchDB
After a quick review of the available tools (even the official ones) I decided I needed to create another tool that supports retrieving and restoring attachments, and that produced a single .zip file including everything needed for the DB to be restored.

I have been using this daily since a month and there's a lot to improve, so suggestions are welcome!

It's my first Python script ever so the code quality may not be the best in town.