skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn’t limited to some Christians and Muslims of India. They have wholesale adopted the caste system. To see evidence of this, just pick up any English paper (for Christians) or any Urdu paper (for Muslim) and see the marriage, real estate listings. Sometimes the caste criteria may be kept down low, but is exposed by activists from those communities.

The reason this system persists, may be that it’s acceptance facilitates proselytisation.

You might argue that at least there is reduced toxicity in daily interactions at least, but it’s easy to find instances of abusive interactions as well.

As such, this whole topic is becoming a flaming pile of shit with bigoted descriptions of all Brahmins and “upper castes”. Also, I wonder if any here realise that there is no similarity between left-right divisions that you see in the west and whatever it is that exists in India.

The left-liberals in India seek to emphasise caste differences among Hindus in order to uphold, what they call “secular” values. An Indian leftist will never let caste differences, and consequently the discrimination, die. Only by dividing Hindus by caste can the theological leaders of the significant religious minorities of India remain politically relevant.

The non-left-nationalists on the other hand are spending huge amounts of resources to court middle and lower castes, while seeking to isolate and “otherise” and demonise the Muslims and Christians (to some extent).

Then there are the “gurus” who also seek to exploit caste, namely the fact that a significant subset of the population - both lower and upper castes - are fed up of this system, in order to set up cults.

The Dalits, over time, have adopted different approaches to fight discrimination. Initially they tried to give up their Hindu identity completely and move into other religions like Islam and Christianity. Seeing that this approach has largely failed, because caste is too strong in India and the bigotry just follows them. Proponents of this approach are failing in India and are now emigrating to advanced countries.

So Where is the discussion of this complexity in this topic here? All I see are braid-dead, uneducated direct substitution of the western anti-racist struggle/movement onto the Indian context.

Frankly, this is just immigrants from India, who feel left out by BLM, saying “this looks great, and we want in”. In conclusion Americans and westerners will always be ill equipped about caste in India and can only worsen the conditions here. You should realise that this issue is coming up as a reaction to the existing social movements in the US, and only ignore the possibility that cases are being slapped by people trying to hide their own incompetence and inability to do the job, at your own cost.

While there is a necessity to stamp out toxicity, the way forward is to investigate all claims and not just be pressurised to virtue signal.
Alternatively, instead of car and cdr one could have pattern matching, which is more declarative and less error-prone than c(a|d)+r.
Or use human proctors seeing the video feed live, the problem is not remote, problem is shitty face recognition
What a good PR looks like
Which of the article examples (or in-the-wild hacktoberfest PR) is a case of a "typo fix contribution" that you think was unfairly rejected?
You still cannot use it for native GUI design, Forms, WPF, WinUI/UWP,... and thus no match for Blend/VS in this regard.
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5 weeks before the election. This is crazy. A quick recovery and he is out for 2 weeks, missing one debate and a bunch of rallies. If it is a long recovery he could be in the ICU on election night.
>I'm college student (graduating in about 8 months) and I'll highlight that there's a very massive guidance problem here. Enthusiastic students have no one to mentored and direct them and it makes them act on lot of bad advice.

Hey, I'd like to help if possible. I'd probably not have the time to mentor, but I can help with learning resources. All my books are free to read online (https://github.com/learnbyexample/scripting_course#ebooks) and I have lots of bookmarks collected over the years. For example, Python(https://learnbyexample.github.io/py_resources/) and CS(https://github.com/learnbyexample/curated_resources/blob/mas...)

If you are interested, connect with me on twitter (https://twitter.com/learn_byexample) or mail me on gmail (use HN username)

PS: I'm Indian too, but I don't think that'll necessarily help here.
The numbers you're sharing here are not making your argument for you. The number of people employed by federal executive departments is in the millions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_executiv...
I am not sure if it was entirely good faith. In the video he explicitly states (in Hindi) that this is an easy way to get a free t-shirt in few clicks, you don't even need to know anything about GitHub.
it looks like you have to install the bad older update "Security Update 2020-005" along with the "Supplemental Update" if you hadn't already installed the bad update in the first place, which seems odd at first, but sorta makes sense on second thought.
(3 minutes later, at the ungodly hour of almost 1am EDT, our attention swivels to the president (Trump) as he announces the results of his&wife's COVID test results...)
(I am a Mozilla employee)

Unfortunately that tweet has been misinterpreted and has grown into a false narrative.

This is what I know about what happened there:

There were two enterprise IT teams with similar duties but different purviews. When management was deciding on layoffs, they decided to unify those two teams. Unfortunately that meant that there were redundancies.

My heart goes out to those who lost their jobs, and they have every right to be upset.

But the inferences being made as a result of that tweet just aren’t true: this notion that all security teams were wiped out is false. And there are now others assigned to threat management.

Furthermore, the security teams that work on Gecko and Firefox were left mostly if not entirely intact.

I work on security hardening for Gecko on Android, and I’m still here. So is our entire hardening/sandboxing team:
https://twitter.com/gcpascutto/status/1293519587967983616

TL;DR: Don’t base your understanding of an organization’s capabilities off of one tweet.
Absolutely, it's time to just ignore the hecklers. They are subtracting from the value that the producers create! When the dead mass of hecklers and pc twitter twatters gets too high our civilisation will fall behind or fail because of it. Healing the pc overgrowth crisis is becoming important for our future prosperity and possibly survival.
And 5% chance of death for someone his age, 15% chance of hospitalization. And he's not exactly the picture of health
Name one, and I’ll report it to the cops.
You think the WH medical corps would let him get the same treatment as the plebs?
Toward an API for the Real Numbers
I would create a random open-source project, like a cloud FizzBuzz Enterprise Edition, and invite all these people to submit pull requests to this project instead. And accept all the pull requests so everyone get a t-shirt.
Human botnet (Humannet?) DDOS attack coordinated via Youtube. That's kind of a new one.

Edit: Wait...I can get T-shirts for PR'S? Somehow I missed that memo. Is this retroactive?
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Unfortunately the largest demographic always gets demonized even if spam is not just limited to a particular group.

Through sheer scale, spammers of Indian origin may be more noticeable than others and thus reinforcing the stereotype.
You'll notice I stopped engaging with the replies once I recognized there was a texas-sharpshooter being invoked by my subconscious self through the parent comment. If we got a DUI but for using the internet, I would be top10 ;)
> The reputation comes from mediocre youtube tutorials, sweatshops like TCS and infosys, bullshit sites like geeksforgeeks, and incidents like this.

I'm not Indian, and I think the reputation comes largely from the proportion of educated people not behind the Great Firewall of China that are Indian, and people mistaking “the proportion of people who do I see do X thar are from Y background” with “the proportion of people from Y background who do X”.
I've gotten very tired of the term "virtue signal" being thrown around as a means to discredit someone's argument. It's both not persuasive, and it attacks the other person's intentions and not their arguments, which is not a good thing.
> Looking at confirmed case numbers leads to bad conclusions because those numbers are almost completely worthless.

They really aren't, and trying to portray official numbers as "worthless" is something that flies in the face of reason. In the very least they serve as a verified conservative estimate, or a reliable lower bound.

Moreover, it's stupid and disingenuois to claim that "majority of cases are never counted in official statistics" because "official statistics" represent only test results taken at specific moments in time, and never were assumed to represent the total number of cases.
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>...not featured on a Twitter account called "Shitoberfest".

Do it 20k+ times and it very well may be. You appear uninformed about what is actually happening.
This is crazy that anyone should feel defined by 1 dude who just happens to have the same skin color as them.
How Swift API Availability Works Internally
Well, almost. A good pedantic definition would show how to see i/o rates as a percentage of maximum possible. And if those numbers were quite high and the CPU part was in the i/o loop (r/w, then compute, repeat) then indeed i/o bound. No amount of work on the CPU part will appreciably drive down absolute time. If the CPU part is only after i/o the CPU improvements can at most only help relatively little but at least CPU delays isn't making i/o artificially slower by delaying when new i/o can start.

What's a little misleading in the example is that the problem setup already is a half answer. In complex commercial apps just arriving at an apportionment of 5 and .05 for some narrow set of use cases is already an achievement.

If we see 5 and .05 comes in the mixed case (CPU in the i/o loop) then there is a choice on what to fix to drive down absolute time. If the numbers are not so skewed it may take more debugging to suss out what's going on. Here it is obvious with givens.

If apart we conclude the i/o is slow (pedantically i/o bound) and there's no engineering need to figure out where labor needs to go. Here it's pointless to wonder about CPU or memory.

The emphasis in sum is on the management end: our system slow. But what are we going to fix and why.
Love this one — somebody is trying to rename "package.json" into "package":

https://github.com/dinosaurjs/website/pull/28
I'm not responsible for strangers. If I'm a hiring manager, I'm responsible for my company and the safety of my employees. I owe nothing to a stranger. Take your problem to someone else.
Dragonfly Launch Moved to 2027
> If people start being sued for using the Linux kernel, your investors are going to expect a pretty solid explanation for why you won't be one of them.

So follow the license? If you built a business on pirating Windows, nobody would be surprised when MS murdered you in court. Why should Linux be any different?
Given that Mojave is the last version of macOS that supports 32-bit programs and arbitrary kexts, and that doesn't have ridiculous call-home mechanics for every program invocation, I hope Apple supports Mojave for as long as possible.
President Trump and First Lady test positive for Covid-19
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The top comment in this thread (from someone who speaks the language) says that he openly encouraged people to spam meaningless PRs in order to get "free swag." I think the rebuke he is getting is deserved.
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I don't mind Mojave, but I do sort of wish I were still on High Sierra.

I will get a new computer because I hate my keyboard (2017 MBP), at which time I'll be forced into an OS update. Not looking forward to it.
I can understand Hindi well enough to skim the video, which I just did. The impression I got was that this person was an enthusiastic YouTuber with somewhat good intentions: “get free swag”, “learn how to open a pull request which you’ll need to know how to do”, “if your pull request is garbage it’ll get rejected and you won’t get credit”. The issue was that he picked some random repository and made a useless change for sake of demonstration-I assume to make it fit in the video, but this basically set the example for everyone watching it. So unintentionally he’s taught a bunch of people who are really motivated in getting this free shirt and also maybe learning how to get into open source (not necessarily the wrong audience, but maybe a bit wet behind the ears) to spam projects. And there is nobody to guide these people but this video. I think the outcome is obvious in retrospect, but I forgive this dude for making this video although I would very much like him to make a follow up where he shows how it’s really done.

There is a general problem (everywhere, but particularly in India where there are a lot of people but very little guidance) of eager people who are willing to participate in programs that get them interested in software development and open source and coding. And I think that’s really great. The issue is that providing people with free swag and walking away is really just pretending to help, rather than actually doing work to help.
Isn't Task an entirely different beast to the gen_* behaviours?

To me it looks like a convenience wrapper around Erlang's primitives. I usually use them directly if I need the flexibility to "await" later. If I don't, I have a small function "run_in_subprocess" (mostly to not run into binary gc problems) that spawns and receives within one function.

The only real advantage I see is that it is separately supervised. When avoiding trap_exit, "spawn_link"ing within a process that is itself supervised has a similar effect, though.
> capable folks are outnumbered by the enthusiastic kids, who, despite their best intentions shouldn't be guiding others right now.

I am also an Indian student and can confirm this is very true.

There are so many people posting 20 line tensorflow 'projects', often copied code, for the "swag" of it.

Even competitive coding is gamed a lot. You can't judge people on competitive coding profiles.

> Much of this can be attributed to us having 1/6 of world's population (more if you just count English speaking populance), but that doesn't excuse people's bad behaviour.

This is mostly better attributed to the rat race mentality that is so common among Indians. Everything wrong with education in India stems from this. The rote learning based education, high competition for entering CS degrees despite lack of interest, low quality work in indian outsourcing firms, and company politics to become manager ASAP.
I was just wondering what had happened to the Duke Nukem Forever of tech products. So.... nothing, really. Just more lab success. At this rate, HP will be dead long before this comes to fruition.
Trump: “Tonight, FLOTUS and I tested positive for Covid-19.”
Very good point!

A final(?) thought on 60 years ago: in 1960, the people who were clinging to power were born and were young before WWI, when the world was a very different place: europe was full of monarchical empires, and society reflected it.

In 2020, our ExComm (officially: "federal council") are 48-70 years old, so the eldest (no points for guessing party alignment!) unsurprisingly reflects mores from the 1950s and early 1960s.
My takeaways from the article: (1) VC is a casino for the rich and just like gamblers in casinos they have no idea what they are doing; (2) VCs have discovered that standard deviation shrinks like the square root of the sample size, however their understanding of stats seems to be just enough to run a monte-carlo simulation.

Edit: the 3rd takeaway is advice to those who're considering to join a "startup" - if VC needs 500 investments to make a 15% return on average, you need 5000 years to get the sames returns as a line worker.
I think you have this backward.

If you had to work for three months to afford your phone, would you be more likely to spend fifteen minutes to get a free shirt, or less?
> Where are these magical permaculture farms that solve all problems

Your comment reeks of cynicism. Obviously we can't solve "all" problems.

I think many small or medium-sized agricultural operations would have elements that might be considered "permacultural", some more than others.

> are cheaper to produce

It depends on what you mean by "cheaper." Are you considering cost to produce, cost to the consume, cost to the environment? These are all very different and our current system is optimized for a small subset of cost constraints while almost entirely ignoring others (e.g. long-term ecological impact, health impact).

> no single country in the world has converted to it

We converted away from it, so naturally we were doing something right or we wouldn't have Western Civilization. Medieval farms were incredibly sustainable from an ecological perspective, often integrating with natural processes wherever possible. We once had a much more integrative approach (for lack of technology) and moved away from it (due to labor constraints and improving technology).

Further, I think it's fair to say that if industry applied improved science and technology with an integrative approach, we could have permaculture, limit labor constraints, minimize ecological damage, and have comparable yields.

I would argue that the reason this hasn't happened at scale is due primarily to political reasons and not because permaculture doesn't work.

If you want some examples of farms actually implementing permaculture there is a documentary called Fresh (2009) which documents a couple of farmers in Shenandoah Valley and Milwaukee who worked to create sustainable farms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwR44T69_Is
Coronavirus: California adds new equity rule for reopening
Disclaimer : one of my products is used for remote proctoring.

It depends on the vendor of the exam too, our proctoring sdk works on chrome and Firefox which means all major OSes too, we try hard not go outside browser context, we support android and iOS natively.

However many exam apps are very poorly written and have limited support for different OS, and usually never for mobile. I have seen full flash apps used today with 3months to deprecation.

we do face detection but not recognition and recommend using human live proctors for high stakes requirements.

The OS vendors are doing their part as well, we partner with both Apple and MS and give constant feedback, Apple announced AAC mode this WWDC and MS had number of APIs

Linux support is a factor in the education assements space due to chromebooks, most of my devs and half of my ops use linux , so I can say atleast one vendor cares.

Today there is profussion of vendors and overnight shops attempting to build in this space post covid-19, sales here is like any other enterprise product , tech merit is only one component, and nuances are lost on the customer in the hurry post covid 19, exam/certificate bodies have little scrutiny and rarely choose the better product for the user.

However in few years things will improve, buyers will understand the tech better, vendors will consolidate.
I pay for Newsblur since Google Reader was cancelled
If you're on Mojave and you go to Software Update within System Preferences, it will show your available update as macOS Catalina.

You have to click "More info" under "Another update is available." to get the Mojave update. Not cool!
VP debate is next week with the 2nd presidential after that. With two weeks to recover, this shouldn’t seriously jeopardize the next presidential debate (and there’s still the third if it does).
Sure! My research bio is at [1]. And I definitely agree there's a disconnect between how younger individuals learn CS and college-level CS. Often those younger individuals could be seen as "automatic A's" because they've already overcame that first syntax hurdle.

My current research is on exploring different exercise "types" with the hope of building a practice recommendation system that can identify which complexity a student should practice next - a typing or coding exercise, or something in between (Parson's Puzzles or Output Prediction, etc.)

[1] https://research.csc.ncsu.edu/arglab/people/agaweda.html
One of my repos got spam PRs for last two years. So I archived the repo this time before October as a proactive measure. I got spam PRs in other months too, but October was the worst.
Github allows you to search by dates (newer than, date ranges, etc), so for example, you can add the query "created:>=2020-09-30" (the date the youtube video was uploaded) to get a more accurate list.

From this search, it looks like it's definitely on the order of hundreds:

https://github.com/search?p=5&q=amazing+project+created%3A%3...

I opened a few at random to spot-check, and they all seemed like garbage to me. Like this one, ugh https://github.com/mongodb/docs/pull/4402/files
Subtitle: bad idea has predictable consequence.
Hey Taylor, cool product! But why can't you see the purchase prices of the arguments? As the price moves around over time you can try to look at the date and graph independently, but some indicator showing the movement since purchase on each of everyone's arguments would be a lot more useful! Cheers.
Trump Tests Positive for Coronavirus
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Not fair to say he ruined it. Even if he promoted people creating spam PRs.
He exposed the weak foundations for this campaign and hopefully now they will fix it.
DO said, it has been 7 years handling spams and they haven't fix the issue. Now it is so visible, that they can't ignore it anymore.
And here there's no tradeoff. Saving 57 lives and having 8000 fewer births are both net positives.
Of course, no one deserves to die this way and we hope he gets better. But the...irony (?) here is pretty thick
> "Shitoberfest" and such is driving me up the wall though.

People are complaining about actual spam that in no way improves their repo, and are angry at DO and GitHub for not being prepared for that. This has nothing to do with actual contributions and the people making them.
Takes a lot of samples to converge to the mean of a fat tailed distribution.
What neural nets need in order to improve is lots of data, and especially simulated environments. We have had the advantage of billions of years of evolution, they start the same journey from scratch.

Human brain is not smart in and of itself - it learns everything from the environment, including fundamental concepts and reasoning. We are not just surrounded by nature, with all its glorious detail, but also by the human society and culture. Our environment is very complex and rich. That's something neural nets have to replicate some other way, and simulation is one.

It shows that just inventing a better artificial neuron does not meaningfully advance the problem of artificial intelligence. It's just one leg, it needs two legs to stand on.
President Donald Trump says he has tested positive for coronavirus