skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also not the OP, but unequivocally yes (though for full disclosure, I am biased as was one of the technical reviewers for the second edition). It was hugely important to me personally learning the language; the approach is excellent and it's very well written. You take a simple to-do application and write a number of versions of it, each one progressively more complex and featureful, and each one using progressively higher language/OTP abstractions.
The same reason Facebook marketplace makes sense: sheer force of how many users they already have available.
I've witnessed that and it works. You don't have to argue or make a big issue in some way. Just state that X is an equal person deserving same respect as all of you. Nobody's likely to call you out or complain about that statement.
> someone who went into a position of trust with intent to betray.

What evidence is there that Snowden went into his position with an intent to betray?
This interview seems one sided though. I know that for last two decades Brahmins and other so called upper caste Indians have been protesting India’s quota system which is basically affirmative action whereby certain percentages of college seats and job vacancies are reserved only for people who do not belong to the upper castes. So there have been numerous occasions where meritorious but poor upper caste youths did not get seats in colleges or were not selected in government or non government jobs and they went to the people from non Brahmin castes who were financially better off. Not trying to make a judgement here but just want to expose both sides of the argument. And even in California we are planning to do the same where a certain percentage of college seats will be reserved for people from only certain ethnicity or background.
And puts the company at financial liability!
I think you got downvoted on the basis that what you say is speculation... but I do not disagree and think there should be room for that in this context.

Confirmed cases will never be equal to total cases unless the virus affected everyone the same and had 100% mortality with distinctive causes i.e hemorrhaging.

The asymptomatic or mild case rate is so high that treating confirmed cases as anything other than a speculative baseline is hard for me to accept.
To what are you loyal? The letter of the law, or its spirit? To those in power, or to the principles governing power? To the country, or the things it stands for?

These are ancient questions, so there's plenty of sources to help you weigh your answer.

Snowden thought loyalty to certain principles outweighed loyalty to the system. Ultimately, you'll have to decide whether you see sense in that or not.
So that makes two people in the entire world who are known to have re-tested positive.

Immunity is never 100%. Why would we highlight 2 cases out of 30 million and turn that into a talking point like it means something?
Don't they get paid in the form of scholarship?

Even if unpaid and no scholarship, without playing they could lose their skill and competitiveness, and they are not getting any younger.
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What would be a property of the language in the comment that would lead you to this conclusion?
I haven't tried Svelte, but I've heard good things. I am curious how it handles reactivity beyond just the UI; the way you can use MobX's computed values for any arbitrary memoization layer is one of my favorite features.
> It's like if your lead said she was trying to determine if they were an inferior race.

Yes, it is.
There's quite a few examples of this in the article but it seems mainly things like neighborhood, names, "background", and other things of that nature.
For the "not yet professional" athlete, however, the risk of damage is probably higher than sitting out a year.

The careers of these people live and die based upon their ability to process oxygen. Even a couple percent drop move them out of the "elite" category and can mean the difference between a couple of years as a pro vs a dead end at college.
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Usually crime, yeah.

BitMEX isn't going through all this trouble and criminal indictment avoiding KYC because people using it are super on the up-and-up and have no problem with validating their identities.
4-1/4 cups flour

1-1/3 cups water

1 tablespoon instant yeast

1 tablespoon honey (optional)

1/4 cup vegetable oil

4 egg yolks (extra large eggs)

1 tablespoon salt

I verify the yeast with warm water + honey, then I throw the whole mess into the bread machine and let it mix/wait/punch down/rise etc. Then I take it out of the machine, form the challah, let it rise again on a sheetpan, egg wash, and bake it in the oven.

You can add more yeast for faster rising but since I use a bread machine I don't bother.

You can throw raisins in without affecting the rest of the recipe. Traditionally challah with raisins was for rosh hashana, and was in a circular shape rather than braided, like polish paska.
> I've also stopped using FF because I've lost confidence in the team managing security of it.

Would you care to elaborate?
>for reasons I probably don't need to explain.

I'm clueless. What would lead to serving life?
Funny (old) energy efficiency story that used to be published on- line but I can't find it.

It's about the first handheld scanner for a large shipping company. The hardware was engineered and nailed down and a team was contracted to write the software. They got about 1/2 way completed and said the box didn't have enough ROM to handle all the features in the spec. The company contracted Forth Inc. to try and salvage the project and that was possible because they used their proprietary Forth VM and factored the heck out the code so they could reuse as much as possible and got it all to fit. (Common Forth trick)

10 Years later, a new device was commissioned and management was smarter! They made sure their was a lot more memory on board and a new contracted team finished the job. In the field however the batteries would not last an entire shift...

Forth Inc was called again. They made use of their cooperative tasking system to put the machine to sleep at every reasonable opportunity and wake it from user input.

Maybe it ain't the language that matters as much as the skill and imagination of the designers and coders. Just sayin'
All enemies, foreign and domestic. Maybe you can argue the definition of “enemy.” He believed he was witness to a system that was doing damage to the constitutional fabric of America, so those behind the system were acting against US interests, which fits the definition by my lights.
> She did not express anything malicious and she corrected herself

If you were an Indian, this would immediately raise a red flag. The intent of bringing up caste in a professional setting is clear - to discriminate. There is no other practical use for it. And the system is a hideous one with the potential to seriously damage professional environment. Signs of its practice like this should be considered threatening.
The ones pulling tricks is the food industry, putting so much of the stuff into everything.
The "soldier" metaphor was unfortunate, but I think the underlying thesis is well taken.

We live in a deeply interconnected world. Most actions, even studied inaction/uninvolvedness, have repercussions on lots of other people--complex repercussions that have to do with privilege and affluence and race and gender and all those other hot-button issues that people get up in arms about. We call that "political".

Now, nobody's making you be an activist (someone who puts a ton of time towards advancing one of those causes). Nobody's making you care. You're free to do whatever you want. But choosing not to care doesn't make the repercussions of your choices any less political.

It weirds me out when people get prickly in response to that pointing out that basic reality, because it sounds very much like "I don't want to acknowledge that my actions have wide reaching consequences."

What you should/shouldn't do about that reality is a separate question: opinions range from "don't tell anyone what to do" to "sell all your belongings in service to $cause right now". But accepting that basically everything we do in an interdependent society is not just tangentially but fundamentally political (yes, even refraining from discussing political topics at work) isn't a super contentious or extreme claim.
I think it's a little early to say "it works." It causes them to display less outward prejudice when discussing the hiring process with others.
See, you can have discourses on caste, you can deliberate as you will, but endogamy - marrying within your caste - is still the norm across India, even in the states where people are not that finicky about caste.
Until this chain is broken, the shadow boxing on the sidelines will continue.
Interestingly the Caribbean communities have somehow managed to shed caste, while retaining the Hindu identity.
One anecdote that struck me was that a cousin, someone a couple of decades older than I am and spent time in US since 1990s, openly admit to me that he was more open minded in India and became more caste conscious once he moved to the US.

I am not sure if he sounded regretful or just was sharing a fact of his life, but that really was weird.
I'll take this opportunity to state that the word "meritocracy" was originally a bit of a joke taking the piss out of the idea that an aristocracy would couch itself in the language of merit without actually changing much.
It seems to use reputation instead, which might do decently with those who take it seriously. For example, the Good Judgement Project forecasting competition uses points and scores to incentivize: https://www.gjopen.com/faq

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Judgment_Project

> Predictions are scored using Brier scores.[6] The top forecasters in GJP are "reportedly 30% better than intelligence officers with access to actual classified information
> caste isn't a protected class

Perhaps not explicitly, but I could easily see courts ruling that it is. To me, it seems covered by the ethnicity portion, although I get they are not the exact same concept.
I commend you for saying the question is too broad and then break it down for the asker.

I thought you are going to dismiss it lol
Because the only way this whole thing went down the way it did is if either

A) nobody did the due diligence of checking existing projects with similar names (so negligent as to be evil) or

B) they did the due diligence, found his language and decided "well he probably doesn't have the resources to be any sort of issue for us" directly considering the existence of others only for personal gain with no consideration for consequences for others (straight up evil)
By sitting out a year, they could lose their skill and competitiveness and also getting one year older. For athlete because of short career timespan, time is precious.

Even the risk of playing and having injury during non pandemic time is probably greater than covid.
Amusing how?
It's my understanding that, to some extent, nerves and muscles operate with hysteresis based on charge thresholds, and rely on pulse-density encoding for variability rather than proportional voltage or current modulation. Presumably, that seems to be why your muscles shake when under heavy strain.

It sorta makes sense, considering your body is generally electrically conductive everywhere. Signals propagate as waves of charge sustained by cells opening and closing little pores that selectively release ions. "Conductors" have pores, and "insulators" don't. That's also why nerve signals are relatively slow to propagate vs. straight up electricity. That's also why you can measure muscle activity via an ECG; you're measuring the transient voltages being generated by the waves of charge moving around. The voltages themselves don't have much meaning to your body. Of course, if you apply enough voltage to build up a charge inside a muscle, you can cause it to actuate.

I recently had to get a pacemaker, and apparently the particular lower threshold to trigger my heart muscle to contract is around 0.7V for 350uS, at whatever impedance the lead happens to be. Below that, and my heart muscle does nothing. Anything above that, any my heart muscle does a full beat. The device applies a 2V pulse so that there's plenty of margin, and can go up to 5V if needed, in case the lead's impedance increases. The lower the voltage the better, in terms of battery life. The cool thing is that the device can safely coexist with any natural electrical activity my faulty nerves may have, since the muscle simply responds to whichever pulse happens to arrive first.
This reminds me of the screaming protestors who surrounded diners in restaurants and demand that they raise a fist and say "Black Lives Matters"
It baffles me that you make such a big deal out of this. You’re making it sound like it took hundreds of person-hours to make that change that could have been allocated elsewhere.
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As horrid as Facebook's intent typically is, and this offering certainly qualifies as such IMHO, "crowdsourced predictions and collective insights" has nothing to do with online voting.
There's a couple ways to read this one, and no context for deciding between them.

Indians have a deeply engrained culture of noticing caste. This is true whether they are ok with discriminating on that basis, or staunchly against it, caste permeates the culture.

So either she was only interested in hiring Brahmins, and realized that she shouldn't have tipped her hand... or she was curious about it, and then realized that was a shitty thing to say during an interview, and decided not to make it worse by explaining that of course it wouldn't make a difference in her judgement.

She's right, though; she shouldn't have said that.
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In then OP's case most likely the person realized that she shouldnt have said it directly/to him as her mistake and needs to hide her discrimination better.
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Yeah. I can't say that I have experienced caste in same light as the article - in many jobs and across many hiring decisions it was never about caste but rather sometimes about language, geography and compatibility. It's also a matter of preferences as far as marriage goes - Brahmins for e.g. marrying within is not so much of a given today and whatever percentage of it is still happening is more about familiarity and preferences for culture and language than it is because of the belief that Brahmins are superior caste. They no longer are advantaged either.
Brahmins really are the new Dalits in India - nowhere to be seen in any power positions, have no affirmative action/reservations for college education or jobs, hold no lucrative jobs and thus if not already disadvantaged then certainly on the way to be so.

I say that as someone who grew up in a Brahmin family - my dad was discriminated against in his business ample times to cause him to give up early. Both me and my brother had to be academically score perfect grades without fail in order to get into an Engineering college when most disadvantaged cast folks got in for a lot less. The rob Peter to pay Paul thing hasn't quite done any net good for society except maybe in times of explosive growth/expansion which is to say not too often.
And the stateside anglo version of this: how many white college grads marry other white college grads? Worth reflection
> Watch The Social Dilemma on Netflix

Start a movement to create a better internet by watching video delivered using proprietary DRM ...
Drive engagement?
So I'll be a cynic and say that it's often due to the actions of the company that prevent the user from "using" the code, at least on that device. How many devices have a linux kernel but lock the bootloader down for example?
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In my case it was a manager who was slightly derogatory about the Indian division in the company. "That annoying uncle who tends to say the wrong thing" type. He stopped the comments afterwards and I do count that as "it works": others witnessed it was not ok, and new hires won't see this behaviour normalised in the future. Even if his internal view hasn't changed, it was progress and was worth the uncomfortable moment.
https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2020/oct/02/hathras-...
Why is this on HN? This is clearly political.
Here is a study from 2009 that shows it happens to athletes that have flu / influenza / "common cold"

https://jcmr-online.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1532-...
Presuming that you have to invest points and can't go too far in debt, it means people with a better track record at predicting have more weight to their predictions. Long term it seems like this selects for participants who are correctly attempting to weigh the options, and are good at it.
Sometimes, people (at least in northern parts of India) tend to use the word as a synonym for "last name" in common parlance. It can be used without an intention to discriminate (though the consequences depend on the context, since you can figure out the community from a last name in most cases).

Was the interviewee of Indian origin?
Unless you are of Indian origin, it's not applicable to you.

If the interviewee was of Indian origin, and she didn't already know the interviewee's last name, I would probably give her the benefit of doubt, and ask to clarify what she meant.
Guessing the phrase "regular... American" implying that other not hyphenated Americans are not "regular"
Wow, this really hits on something that's been rattling around my brain for years and has come to the forefront in the last week. In most disciplines to achieve mastery you generally focus on technical mastery first; drills, copying the works of the greats, stuff like that, before moving on to find your own "style" and making new creative works. I think a lot of the wisdom of the past about how to excel espoused the virtues of first being able to copy the works of the greats in your field.

Yet, we think programming is somehow so different, that people should be able to make new creative works (ie: problem solving) at the same time as they're still trying to get a handle on the techniques. Being in the industry for 15 years has shown me there are a lot of really great problem solvers who are terrible at programming, despite having done it sometimes much longer than I have. There's one consistent distinction I generally see. The ones who can code fluently, for whom code just roles off their fingers, all started programming well before a CS program, maybe even back to middle school or earlier.

And I don't believe it's that programming education is that great for the younger age groups (often it's non existent formally), but they have one key advantage. For the most part, they learn to program without the distraction of having to learn CS theory. Not so different from how a musician would likely first learn some simple scales, chords, and songs without any theory. For the unfortunate ones entering a CS program having written little or no code, they're bombarded with very difficulty CS theory and having to learn programming at the same time. I think we'd have both better programmers and better computer scientists if the education system did a better job separating the two.

Thanks for linking your research, I'm going to give it a read soon. Is there a way I can get in touch? I'd love to discuss these ideas with you further and learn more about your research?.
> caste isn't a protected class so they might be fine legally

Caste itself isn't explicitly protected (axes of discrimination that weren't widely recognized as actual things people cared about in the US when the law was written don't tend to be) but there are arguments that caste discrimination runs afoul of existing US protection regarding color, ethnicity, national origin, and religion, among others, and some of these are currently being actively litigated in federal court, IIRC by both private plaintiffs and state fair-employment authorities.

So “might be fine”, but very much might not. And HR is usually about avoiding risk of exposure, not steering the company into “might be fine” waters.
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I definitely don’t think it was your intention to send a “this is a male’s job” message, but some readers might interpret it that way (even subconsciously) if we use language like “software guys” instead of software developers. There are definitely women working in all of these areas, and hopefully many more in the future!
It is the overloading of symbols and keywords in the language with new meanings which bugs me the most. Symbol soup for lambdas, "using" can now mean a type alias, initializer lists, move syntax, "decltype" function returns etc. Each by itself is not complicated but when you start mixing them in template heavy code, suddenly reading difficulty increases exponentially.

I think a lot of things were added in just to "get away" from C roots and make C++ its own language which IMO was a bad idea. For me, C++ is first and foremost a "better C with Classes" because i can keep that subset of the language in my head easily.

PS: Relevant other HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24649992
"This amazing portal into the human experience has become a place filled with misinformation, corruption and greed."

That's it in a nutshell.

I have an idea. Allow the wild-wild-west only on .com (or segregate however you decide). There need to be domains with no ads, no tracking, no spamming, no 'social' behemoths, no companies, no for-profit org's, no begging bowls. (I'm sure you can think of more nos.) Person-to-community only; supplications need to be granted community-by-community.

The penalty for attempted transgressions will need to have serious teeth. Else we're screwed.
This isn't gambling, there is no money involved.

But it is definitely true that this is different from betting generally: if I bet on a game, my bet doesn't change the outcome. In any social context, the probability on these markets (if it did take off) would affect behaviour.
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