skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Edit: I would truly appreciate a discourse. Simple downvoting provides no feedback.

India suffers from this colonial system and unfortunately media takes every single opportunity. Like recent rape cases. Only case with victim from lower class and culprits from higher class is getting all the media attention.

I am not saying it's unnecessary but having a dialog requires honest intentions. Just like BLM these media hype cases don't help.

In my 20 years of experience I have seen caste discrimination in villages but not in modern offices.
People from all creed and caste work together and progress together.

As far as marriages are concerned , how many Europeans marry outside their social class? I would guess not many.
I don't think they will be able to come to an agreement on what exactly that means. I know that senators are short-sighted, but the "unintended" consequences of a decision like this are so near to hand that they hardly deserve the adjective.
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it's definitely more than an anecdote, the NYT ran a piece about it recently. (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/opinion/caste-cisco-india...)

There's entire ecosystem of chat groups of higher-caste Indians in American firms who systematically hire based on it and even go as far as to expose others.
economics and mechanism design is in the DNA of both Facebook and Google — core business of both is running auctions. that background tends to go with thinking prediction markets are cool.
I would be satisfied if there was a proper criminal justice system. Unfortunately, in the US (and most of the world) that is not the case, and former prisoners are more likely to commit crime than people who have never been in prison. I know that is "unfair", but I chose to live in a safe neighborhood and work with safe people. It is not my job to put my safety on the line in order to try to rehabilitate a criminal.
As you seem knowledgeable in this subject, are there any books you’d recommend that provide something closer to a “Swiss neutral” take, that captures more of the nuance found lacking here?

I have Indian heritage but it’s not a topic that my relatives enjoy talking about, and I have also observed the myopia you note, in the most readily-available material on the subject. I’d love to read something more scholarly and impassive that you might recommend.
I used to use Newsblur [0] after GReader shut down, but then they raised the prices and as I pretty much used none of their fancy features I switched to self-hosting Tiny Tiny Rss [1]

[0]: https://newsblur.com/

[1]: https://tt-rss.org/
After google reader, I use theoldreader.com
https://feeds.pub A "social" RSS reader on which I can see what feeds are others following. (Disclaimer: I am the author of feeds.pub)
fwiw - she shouldn't have said that or even thought that way. But I'm not sure why she was "trying to figure out his caste". The last name is a dead giveaway most of the times. Quite a few Indian last names and their castes are documented in wikipedia.
I am using Feedly on web and FeedMe (syncing with Feedly) on android. FeedMe has many more services integration.
See https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/... , starting from page 28
So much for "not pointing out levels of abstraction". Maybe somewhere in the guts of the low-level runtime a mutable framebuffer is being used for now, sure, but I don't care about that any more than I care about whether my processor is jumping vs doing a conditional move.
Feedbin. Can't recommend it highly enough -- fast, simple, works super well.
I agree that writing matters sometimes, but it seems like if you want to get attention for this idea then it means taking writing more seriously? If someone wants to write a blog post going into detail about how a public satellite network might work then that seems like a worthy effort.

I don’t think it’s a reason to stop cheering for Starlink, though, because it’s not everything you want? This thread started out as criticism of Starlink.
I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people in this situation decide, at some point, that if society is going to treat them as a criminal forever, then they may as well make a life out of crime.
Fraidyc.at!

It's an extension by kickscondor, with some great opinionated UI choices.

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Totally agreed. What I said does not stand in conflict with poverty-motivated education.

I believe everyone should get as much education as possible whenever they want.
TinyTinyRSS. Author of it is a jerk, but the ecosystem of client apps is solid, and I can run it on my Sandstorm server.
It does about half of what I want, which is to rip away implicit assumptions about where stuff lives, that's true. I don't think nix is inherently going to help with the other half, which is to leave gotchas for what is visible/accessible (i.e. lots of files with spaces in their names, maybe a few files named ex. `-h` or `-rf` sitting in common directories, or for that matter have something available by the same name, but a different version, ex. your PATH contains a grep, but it's from busybox, not GNU).
RSS Feed Reader Chrome extension. Once I started using it, I abandoned all the other apps, etc. I had tried.
• Website: https://feeder.co/
• Extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rss-feed-reader/pn...

I enjoy it enough I actually pay for a yearly subscription for the advanced features (see: https://feeder.co/pricing).
Match and mix: How hybrids have upturned evolutionary theory
I've worked for hardware companies, and don't recommend it:

1) The day you tapeout is the day you get RIFfed. Or really any hardware product, including most tablets and other consumer devices.

2) Silicon Valley VCs don't fund chip startups anymore because of the large investment required, risk, and time to get that money back, especially compared to SaaS companies.

Source: Some lucky engineers I know work on the A10-A13 processors.
I'm floored by this. Last I spoke with that team the response was a few (but not everyone) in leadership getting it and everyone else asking why we would care. How far to come. GCP just got substantially more interesting.

Edit: by this I only mean to say well done to the Google team.
I suspect that a high percentage of chronic medical conditions that people deal with were triggered at least partly by undiagnosed viral infections. But that's just conjecture, there's no way to prove it.
manufacturing consensus, nice.
I'm a huge fan of newsblur but I also don't use most of the fancy features.
Dick costolo is a raging piece of shit
Shut twitter down now!
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What about Stack Overflow, Quora, etc?
> interests, hobbies

I don't ask about these in interviews, and don't use them to make decisions. You like My Little Pony or have a massive collection of guns? Or both? I literally could not care any less, it's none of my business.

> mannerisms

I'm not really sure what you'd see here in a regular interview beyond being literate and maybe nervous. The signal here is murky at best -- other than red flags, you shouldn't be measuring here.

So, to reiterate: it is absolutely not okay to discriminate candidates by social status.
The old reader
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The problem in discussions like this is that hordes of gullible/uninformed commenters filled with cynicism and essentially colonial senses of superiority are willing to make gross generalizations about other cultures like India without knowing any of the history, culture, precolonial way of living, etc. They eat up skin deep coverage of complicated topics like the article linked here, with stories pushed by certain groups and largely written by white American, anti-India/Hindu activists, and pro-Pakistan/Islam activists.

“Caste” is an English pejorative used to describe a system in India that was largely in place for economic division of labor, stable passage of knowledge/skills generationally, and other cultural reasons. It wasn’t made for discrimination or classist reasons, but ignorant casual racists (many of whom are posting here) are painting that picture based on very recent history. It’s important to remember that India was the victim of divide and conquer colonialism. “Caste” as a discriminatory concept is a very modern issue, against a background of thousands of years of history.

Understanding this topic in depth and with clarity, rather than in typical Western tones, is exactly what is demanded when people fight for “decolonization” in Western academia. And yet no one here seems to want to decolonize their own perceptions and comments.
Setting the fastScroll resource to true allows xterm to emulate the behavior of later terminal emulators, which discard screen updates for speed purposes ("speed" being measured by "how long does it take to cat a large file to the terminal in its entirety").

Before this feature, xterm was considered the slowest terminal emulator because it updated the screen with each write, the way real terminals do. But now you can turn on fastScroll and amaze your friends with fast cat times.

Glamor was slow as hell. It got better when Keith Packard stopped calling glFlush() after every draw call.
So here's the thing. I have no doubt that stuff like this does happen. An Indian friend (Brahmin, Indian citizen, has lived in the US for over a decade) has also seen this happen sometimes, and tries to avoid reporting chains with too many Indians down the line, even though it's unlikely he himself would experience discrimination (he just has no patience for ultra-political, back-stabby environments).

But labeling all Indians of a particular caste this way and asserting "this is the truth" is just flat out bigotry, no matter how intellectual and self-effacing your comment sounds. Are there people like this? Sure. Are there a lot of them? Maybe? Even probably? There are also people of other races who act in similar discriminatory ways against other groups, often in much more insidious ways. Is it the same? Maybe not, but it doesn't matter: painting an entire ethnic group with the same broad (negative) brush based on your limited anecdotal experience is just not okay.
If you have to be hospitalized for the flu, you are pretty close to death's door. It's not a very common occurance.

Hospitalization for COVID is, unfortunately, quite common.
I'd counter: the right level of abstraction. If you have complex views that rely on a variety of properties, and you want performant updates, mutable change tracking automates the process of making it work at precisely the right level. The problem space that goes away is, in redux terminology, the need to make custom selectors as a performance optimization. Instead, you access the properties you need in your render functions, using vanilla js syntax, and mobx tracks it for you.
GitHub doesn't recognize this enough to summarize it, and that last paragraph seems weird to me; is this a customized license of one that I might recognize? https://github.com/chronologicaldot/CopperLang/blob/master/l...
While correct, I think that's a bit too pedantic. For example, if you have a program that spend 5 seconds doing I/O and 0.05 second in CPU, for all intents and purposes it's I/O bound. Given the fast CPUs in today's world, this kind of workload is pretty common.
Huh?

>Learn

Depends on the neuron, but things like NMDA and AMPA receptors are very well studied at this point and are the primary portion of synaptic plasticity, again, depending on the neuron: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMPA_receptor

>Compute

Again, depends on the neuron, but dendritic integration is a classic example: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/dendritic-...

> Represent information

The do so in the frequency space. But again, it's highly dependent on the system of neurons : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_coding

That said, holy cow yes. The brain is really something when it comes to power usage.
https://www.inoreader.com - suppose the best replacement after Google reader death ;(
The virus the second time it was a different strain, so 2 people can become millions if the virus keeps mutating, let's remember it doesn't even have a year in existence so we know near nothing about how it mutates.
I beg to differ on one point. I am a Christian from Kerala ( a Southern state). On most North Indian encounters, after a while, I start getting quizzed on what my ancestor's caste was. I eventually have to reveal that I have no clue, but we are General Category (not eligible for affirmative action - or reservation) and that sort of ends it usually. If they do not probe, may be they have already made up their mind, and have imagined the worst.

(I am not calling out North Indians. Keralites can make out my caste/denomination from my name)
The brain is slower than the speed of sound in what medium?
Is it SOP for the NPE Team to publish to the App Store as "NPE Team", and not Facebook?
Seems like it's pretty easy to work around proctoring software. Some ideas:

* put the webcam in a separate room, pointing towards a body double and a clean working area. meanwhile, you're in the other room completes the test with full access to cheat materials by your side. you can also hire someone to do the test for you, and all you have to do is sit in the other room.

* plug a y-splitter into the microphone jack. in one end plug in a microphone, in the other plug in a phone playing a looped background noise track. the looped background noise track prevents the proctor from knowing that the microphone was unplugged. have someone that's out of the field of view of the webcam look at the monitor (with magnifying optics if necessary) and determine what materials need to be read out loud. When ready, disconnect the microphone from the y-jack and read the answers out loud. When done plug the microphone back in.

* have cheating materials on a secondary display (eg. monitor's PiP feature, or a tablet placed next to the monitor). get your accomplice to navigate to the materials as necessary, or use your feet to operate a mouse under the desk.
> Indians have a culture of going the extra mile at work.

No more or less than any other group. I’ve seen, and promoted, hard working Indians. I had to fire an Indian that thought his freshly minted MS degree made him too good for any actual work other than spending his 2 hours of non-nap time per day telling others what to do. And I have worked with everything in between. Law of large numbers should come to mind here.
Looking at confirmed case numbers leads to bad conclusions because those numbers are almost completely worthless. It's common knowledge now that the majority of cases are never counted in official statistics.
When the State is the enemy of the Constitution and of the People, where is your loyalty?
My experience (anecdote) is the opposite.

I worked for an Indian manager in a game studio. I don't know what caste, except that he wasn't Christian or Muslim, probably because he didn't think it worth mentioning. He hired based on demonstrated skill, so we had a diverse group of coworkers. He actively encouraged the group to eat together, arranging meals out with careful consideration for the group's preferences. He was approachable, personable, considerate, friendly and kind.

People are people and stereotypes do not always fit.
I still think about people I met in games 20 years ago that I will never know, or could hope to know, again.

It's one good thing I can say about online games, whatever that is.
It's great for podcasts, but other RSS stuff works fine too?
I use tt-rss as my backend with the fever emulation plugin. I use Reeder on my mac and iphone, and News+ on my android
https://www.vienna-rss.com/
Slack, using the RSS integration. I have a channel dedicated to social watch, mostly HN through hnrss [1], and a channel for blogs and more article-shaped content.

I only use Slack as a "new article notification" system though, the reading happens on the original website where the content was posted.

[1] https://hnrss.org
> This might be taboo, but every time I see a situation where there are multiple Indians in a reporting chain, I run.

I'm glad these topics are brought up to the surface and being discussed, because the strategy of voting with your feet is no longer an effective one, given the proliferation of Indian management across the industry.

It never quite made sense to me why non-American Indians (or any other foreigners, for that matter) are allowed to manage Americans, unless of course company itself is Indian or foreign to begin with.

Managing people is an inherently cultural and people-oriented job (and it's NOT an easy job, with consequences cascading well beyond one's tenure). Foreigners are very unlikely to hold enough of the same values as their team as to be qualified to be the manager. The exception here are folks who have already become fully Americanized, in which case there wouldn't be the kind of problematic behaviors you described above.

It's the same reason why new immigrants to a country don't go straight into becoming MPs and Presidents, regardless of their backgrounds and qualifications.
"Where are you from?" "Where did your parents live?" "Where were you born?" "What do your parents do?"

I'm not Indian, but have heard these used in a derogatory setting. It's hard to disentangle from casual conversation, but if these questions arise suddenly and unprompted (like the first thing you're asked) it's a flag. Another is being asked a question in a specific dialect to see how you respond.
I thought you arrived at the same conclusion? With a very narrow and specific subject to focus your studying, it probably is easier left to your own devices to study. However if you’re studying a broader subject with many different paths as visible choices; you’ll most likely end up paralyzed and unable to progress until you start removing those choices one by one... slowing you down.

This is how I feel when trying to learn React vs Rails
Jacques Ellul work, albeit often neglected, is utterly pertinent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Ellul#On_technique
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Yes, that's why people without money DON'T BUY ZIF SOCKETS!
Also the general population of adults (not even adults hospitalized with the flu) is going to be drastically worse in overall health before infection when compared to college athletes. So "this happens with the flu too" isn't too helpful without there being some comparison to how often it happens with COVID versus the flu.
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"Receiving messages in order might increase latency."

It would be good to know what sort of overhead we are looking at here; very interested in this feature
that is just the physical properties of the cabling. basically just power.
Can we start a petition for google to open source google reader? I LOVED that software!
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Would it be legal to use real money for this type of betting in the US?
> Though I really don't understand why lower caste dalits in the US continue to stay Hindu, when they could just change their religion and avoid the whole caste discussion altogether.

Perhaps it's just they have strong religious belief in Hinduism? I don't have more than a surface understanding of the religion or how devoted people tend to be, but if I think about the various sects of Christianity, many people of certain sects wouldn't even consider switching to a different sect because they are so invested in their particular flavor of Christianity. And I'd think being Hindu and considering converting to Christianity or Islam would be an even larger jump in belief systems. It's not like switching brands of car.

I guess in my experience (in US culture at least), "just change your religion" is actually a super big deal and is a huge decision that takes an extraordinary reason. Even discrimination doesn't pass that bar for many people.
Interesting.

I ran a project in this area for a few years, and saw significant issues. For example, for high-stakes predictions (eg elections) we saw significant gaming because people see it as an opportunity to move the media narrative.

We've seen this in the current US Presidential Elections, with big swings in betting markets for the presidential outcome itself, without the same swings in related outcomes (eg, you see a swing in the price for "the winning president is X" without the price for "X gets above 270 electoral votes changing at all")

Obviously this creates arbitrage opportunities, but the media narrative is the real issue. Have you considered this problem at all?

Edit: Here's an account of manipulation of betting markets during the Obama/Romney election: https://rajivsethi.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-romney-whale.htm...
This could be any week in the last ten years at least. There's always outrage, there's always protests, and nothing changes.
This looks like exactly what I've been looking for! Thank you for the recommendation. I started playing around with it in a VM and it's been great so far.
> So whenever there are any caste issues, it's always two Hindus involved.

So caste discrimination, while it's not a simple as, say, preferring Christians or opposing Muslims, is inherently religious discrimination?