skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In order for something to be "bound" by something else there must be an element of concurrency. People often forget this and I think it confuses the definition.

At this point people say "bound by X" when what they really mean is "most of the time is spent doing X".

If you spend 5 seconds doing I/O and then afterwards 1 second doing CPU heavy work, you are not I/O bound. You can tell this because making the CPU work take 0.5 seconds less time still saves you 0.5 seconds. It's not a bound at all.

In order for this to be I/O bound you would need to do the CPU heavy work during the I/O. Once the task is done that way, any optimisation on the CPU heavy work has precisely zero effect on runtime. This is how you know it's bound.

I think the reason that web programmers have become confused by this particularly is because on a web server there is almost always inter-request concurrency. You run a bunch of workers on the same CPU and now your waiting-for-db time is concurrent with the doing-cpu-work time for a different request.

The system as a whole can be considered I/O bound here because no mater how much faster you make the CPU, the number of requests per second you can process doesn't go up and so it seems like you might as well not care about how fast the cpu-work part is.

And that's all well and good, but it's cold comfort for any individual request that still has to wait the full amount of time for a request to be served. You could absolutely improve the situation for any given request by improving the speed of the CPU or optimising the code it runs.
You're way too emotional. I'd suggest to read the often recommended on HN small book "The Gervais Principle" to understand how most organizations work. And calibrate your emotions, seriously: the more energy you invest in them, the stronger they become.

Recognizing the right thing is good, but not enough. What you did is you went to the forest to teach wolves good manners and got almost eaten alive, but wolves are wolves and you can't blame them. A better approach would be to undermine the project from inside. They tell you to implement a fraud scheme? Fine. You appear very professional, knowledgeable and volunteer to coordinate the project, while secretly you add subtle, but serious cracks in the foundation, and document the process for the future litigation. You say you reported it to the gov eventually. I'd contact FBI, again secretly, work with them to gather information, install a couple legal landmines and leave with a plausible cause half a year before the ship is scheduled to sink.
I am quite surprised! I am not saying it doesn’t happen, but I am plain surprised. I have been in US for 8 years and reported to Indians most of the time (I am Indian too), and thought of happening something like this here never occurred to me. I believed like minded, educated Indians who mostly comes from Middle class would never do this.
Like, there is no doubt that humans probably noticed that hot water in the ground cooked things that fell into them.

But, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that it was probably someone with boiled water from that whole fire thing we figured out a while ago that invented the revolutionary idea of putting more than just a dead animal into the water.

Just a guess though.
Maybe you should learn more. Then you will find mundane things obvious more often and you will be less annoyed by people who know more than you
This is the original video in its 90s glory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKfKtXYLG78

Regardless of where the call is handled, you can't just deploy a new switch in a telecom network, but you still want to upgrade them. This is where you really want hot code loading.
His own admission. [1]

"My position with Booz Allen Hamilton granted me access to lists of machines all over the world the NSA hacked," he told the Post on June 12. "That is why I accepted that position about three months ago."

[1] https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1268209/snowden-...
another protip: you can also call v(n) and it will give you the item at iex(n)>
If someone told me they failed 10 interviews, and suspected that the race of the interviewers was a driver of that, and then extrapolated that to others of that race, I would guess that correlates to a number of other beliefs that I would care to avoid hiring for.
Pre-check plus clear is a shakedown. And it exposes how the TSA bullshit is just a grift.
FWIW, There were thee more incidents and in all the cases lower caste girl was raped by Muslim guys. So, much for unnecessary giving caste/communal angle to a case of corruption and power.
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All this would do is incentivize people to have multiple accounts ... one clean.
But he DID go to work for Booz Allen Hamilton with such intent, by his own public admission [1]

"My position with Booz Allen Hamilton granted me access to lists of machines all over the world the NSA hacked," he told the Post on June 12. "That is why I accepted that position about three months ago."

[1] https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1268209/snowden-...
This is the regular fallacy that is peddled by privileged upper class - denying casteism and promoting falsehoods supported by anecdotal evidences. Brahmins and other upper castes are over represented in power positions. The names of people at the helms of government institutions is a dead give away. Check this article for the demography of some of the top bureaucrats: https://theprint.in/india/governance/of-89-secretaries-in-mo.... The same goes about universities: https://www.chronicle.com/article/in-india-caste-discriminat....

The point missed by the narrative of marks scored by upper caste student vs dalit's is that role of privilege. The fact that dalits are discrimintated severely and denied opportunities before ever being able to ever reach college is something that's carefully neglected. Not to mention the fact that even meritorious dalits are breated in the name of reservation and subjected to organised harrassment all too commonly in universities and government services: https://theprint.in/opinion/brahmins-on-india-campuses-study...
I believe the authors are postulating about the behavior of pre-human ancestors without the capability to generate fires on demand. “The paper opens a window to stop focusing on there being fire or there not being fire, to say there are other ways to cook and we should be looking for them.”
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Yup basically, I’ll never work for an Indian boss. Chinese, Hispanic, white, etc all fine for me.
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So many ethnic stereotypes, personal samples only (I doubt this person kept diligent notes) then classified as truth. Sad to read when the topic is ethnic bias.
If history is any guide, get your money out before that. You won't be happy when they lock your account and demand a verification document that you can't get.
and then you lose weight (water weight)
someone should do the other side. employee hires them to do the negotiation for them and gives them a cut
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Not true, by his own admission: https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1268209/snowden-...
I think when it gets to saying these things out loud it might be too late

The fact that it would be top of mind at all

Could be curiosity or it could be a status play. Are there castes she would/would not hire from, would it be a problem to getting work done?

Edit: I’ve worked with indians my whole career and only recently learned via HN that caste system “carried over” to the US
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Aristocracy itself literally means "rule by the aristos, the best".
The state of remote proctoring software is really, really bad.

Students are forced to install software that records video+audio of them, performs facial recognition, records their every keystroke for analysis, records their browsing history and open applications, aks them to show their entire room to the camera, keeps this data indefinitely with no privacy policy, and sometimes even gets compromised. Of course, sometimes it also doesn't even work, which makes it even worse!

There is generally no recourse for students who do not want to do this. Linux students are told to use Windows or fail the class. VM users are told they may be failed if they try to run the software in a VM (which is not allowed by the software and must be REed to attempt to begin with), and students that value their privacy or security (as this software is malware) have no recourse whatsoever often.

Regardless, droves of schools continue to spend absurd amounts of their endowment on expensive contracts with these remote proctoring malware companies, desperately attempting to hold up the facade that their degrees have a value that is somewhere near how much they charge in tuition.

I feel like I only escaped school recently myself, but it looks like it would be an even more miserable experience if I had to start the process again in 2020.
Mnesia is first and foremost and in-memory key-value configuration storage. Relying on it for anything else will damage you in the long run.
So are you just saying it's already common, or that you are in support of social status profiling?
Just my own anecdote...

In 2013, I was in ok shape, late 30's, running maybe about 15 miles/week with some gym activity. I was suddenly hospitalized for 4 days with pneumonia and "something else." About four months later, I got on a treadmill and couldn't run for more than a minute.

Long story short, I was diagnosed with viral cardiomyopathy. A virus basically comes in, fucks up your heart, then leaves. Myocarditis was the method in my case. They never ran a test to see what virus, because at that point, there wasn't any reason to. The damage was done. My ejection fraction was at 15% (50-55% is normal). I was given a defibrillator vest to shock me if I collapsed, and eventually I got a permanent implant.

In various conversations with cardiologists, they mentioned that it's believed to be much more common than they once thought. My primarily cardiologist said the week prior to me, she had a young, perfectly healthy male, in his early 20's that had a very similar hospitalization event. His was so bad they immediately put him on the transplant list.
> caste constraints enforced by their families.

But you would think with the breaking / separation of family system to due immigration, opportunities and general cultural shift it would be a lot harder for a family to marry off their daughter to someone else against her preferences? I mean surely if she wanted she could go away to SF to live with him? Hopefully violence wasn't involved but the whole parental wish thing worked because of family system, lack of opportunities and culture - so I am sure plenty of things have changed for the good even if it didn't work out in this one case.
Punching a dog or killing a dog is still hurting the dog.
> After an interview I attended at a fintech company, my Indian team lead straight out said she was trying to figure out the interviewee's cast.

Discrimination has many forms.

Some are codified in law (age, race, religion, sex, etc.) and some are informally observed.

When in doubt, I prefer to address perceived discrimination directly with the person thought to be engaging in such nonconfrontationally and in the presence of at least one other coworker. If you choose to do same, document the encounter when it happens along with whom was present and be prepared to escalate to management.
Seems good and reading. But it should explain or say it will cover the difference to c if c makes a distinction of statement and expression. And why that matter. Not throw a bone into the sky and assume we know it will later become a space station.
> weird to see that there's not overt cultural movements to shed this stuff

It takes energy. It brings out aggressive opposition. It may impact people's lives. There needs to be a bigger shift and it can get messy. You can declare yourself free of the stupid discrimination, but then you have to be prepared to be even more publicly discussed and face backlash in private. Most people want to live their lives, not become martyrs.

Also if you say "system X is bad" it's close to certain you're not the person who is at the top of system X. By not identifying yourself, you identify yourself as close to the bottom.
The introductory video were linked to the curriculum the department was following and so I put things in the same order to match what was being done. When I normally teach it I skip to the hello world portions first and then later come back to those first 3-4 videos.

The programming videos themselves go, in my opinion, quite slowly, which I found helped many kids.
I do not doubt that these things happen, and it sounds like you have some interesting anecdotes. I do take exception to the assertions that this always happens, you will be an outcast, that’s the reason, etc. Ties of language and culture are certainly very strong.
I know this is a nerd board, but keep in mind that athletes on a layoff lose all their cardio after 2 weeks, and their strength after 2 months.

(Interesting fact is that Mr. Olympias can retire, but get back into top shape in less than 6 months. They call it bodybuilder "muscle memory.")
I guess this is what they're doing with some of the money? The OP announcement doesn't say the amount of funding.
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It's time for me to use an RSS reader again after 6 years of not using one. I used Feedly back in the day, but I wonder what I should use now.

What RSS reader do you use?
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Uh, this belief sounds extremely prejudiced.
When an image is converted to black and white, information is destroyed. This information can never be recovered without access to the true colors in the scene when the image was taken. You can tell that information is destroyed because there are multiple possible re-colorizations of a black and white image.

When you convert a black and white image back to color, you are not restoring the original true colors, rather you are filling them in based on your priors. It is logically impossible to "restore" the original colors by doing data processing on only the image itself. It is only possible to give the appearance of a restoration.
That Reverse engineering gig looks good but my RE experience is based on WhatsApp (and more exp in android). Hijacking private APIs to build your product is pretty ballsy. Very cool.
Having a place to store files where they won't get deleted when you make a typo sounds useful to me.
I think this could easily be taken a step further. Who cares what historians think when they're so obviously vulnerable to contemporary politics? When a random group like the NYT can kickstart a politically motivated effort to rewrite history and the only meaningful objectors are the economists it's pretty obvious that American historians have lost the integrity needed to engage with their subject in an objective fashion. It's beyond laymen to understand which parts of historical study have been politically coopted and so the only solution is to assume all histories are now compromised. From that position, things like upscaling don't matter in this context because the integrity of the historical record was already sacrificed.
It wouldn't be hard for someone to resell SIMs (even pre-activated SIMs for a premium) to have less data on you recorded at time of said secondary transaction?
I thought they were saying microsoft needs to document this third party software behavior. Definitely the VPN folks should document this.
Excellent point, I second this nomination. The US has -hundreds- of rural tribes that (unless they've had the time and funds) -have- to be under-served. The solution your proposing could be -very- beneficial to both interests, now and after Covid (which is hurting rez's hard).
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The recent major threads on this topic appear to be:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24552047

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23697083

Also these, which have dozens of comments but not hundreds:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24555492

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23798922

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24065132
The k3s folks have wondered aloud how high a couple of their components would scale.
That’s definitely the most minor detail of my parent comment.

The fact is that every person in the world gets to choose for themselves which issues they consider to be most important to them. They each get to choose which issues they devote their time/attention/money/skills/resources/etc to.

When you account for the total number of all injustices that take place everyday, any person will only ever be able to concern themselves with a minuscule portion of them. By not concerning yourself with a particular injustice, you are in not automatically supporting it. A failure to intervene does not make you responsible for the actions of every other person on the planet.

Somebody who says this is not saying “why are you not concerned about every injustice on the planet”, they’re saying “if your concerns don’t align with mine then you’re a bad person”. Unless they consider themselves a champion of injustice, any person who repeats this is necessarily a hypocrite.
I'll take that deal! Also I offer the PCB design stuff for free :-D (but really, I could use work on my SW)

https://contextualelectronics.com/courses/shine-on-you-crazy...

https://contextualelectronics.com/courses/getting-to-blinky-...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24657225

Seems better intro.
Never! Be the change!
I have read most of Taleb's books and I'm aware of his objections (and public beef with Tetlock).

Nonetheless, empirically some people are better than others at the task of assigning probabilities to events (as insanely hard as it is!) at a level above random, and it's a learnable skill that gets better with more people.

https://commoncog.com/blog/forecasting-under-uncertainty/
It is an illuminating view of a system which is present in many tech workforces but rarely spoken of.
> They patted his shoulders to see if he was wearing a white thread that only Brahmins wear.

If Brahmins can be identified by wearing a white-thread – do any non-Brahmins ever try to pass as Brahmin by donning a white thread for themselves?
As someone who tried react + redux and then recently moved to svelte because the way things were done just made sense, how does mobx compare?
I’m not surprised. There’s been an unusual spike in very similar stories being pumped to the front page of HN by low karma accounts.
You can still purchase a cell phone with SIM card for $20 cash, and scratch-off reload cards of prepaid minutes for cash.
Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence. Nintendo has a long history of proprietary plugs, if they wanted to make something proprietary, they would have just done it and nobody would bat an eye, they wouldn't bother making a slightly buggy USB-C implementation.

Do you also think that the Raspberry Pi 4 USB-C incompatibility is intentional? That came out waaay later
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Sure. Nobody knows the real number and efforts to estimate it vary wildly in their outcomes.

Please read my comment again, what you quoted and also what I didn't say. I am not asserting that confirmed == actual. Of course that would be silly to believe that. I am explicitly cautioning others from just fudging out numbers and then reasoning based on speculative numbers. I am not substituting a different number or different reasoning. I only quoted actual facts, and I am explicitly encouraging us all to stick closer to actual data, because we just wander into bad conclusions otherwise.
I absolutely loved it when I played it as a teen when it came out, and I still love it. I could still play it all day, it has been bettered, but it's still a work of absolute genius and... the clouds are the bushes, WTF!!!! I think it took me a good 35-30 years to realise that! Miyamoto is an absolute legend! Koji Kondos music and sounds are also incredible. They are my ringtone and various message notifications on this octacore phone that I'm typing on right now!
Take a look at this tweet:
https://twitter.com/MichalPurzynski/status/12932205708850626...

It should also be noted that Mozilla has the smallest security team of all major web browsers. Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome security teams are an order of magnitude larger than Mozilla's team.
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All: please note that there are more comments on page 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24552047&p=2

(That's what clicking the 'More' links at the bottom of large threads takes you to)
That article with the data mentions nothing about Brahmins and it also mentions the below. Also do you have any idea how hard it is for a non SC/ST/OBC person to become an IAS officer? If despite that there aren't enough SC/ST/OBC IAS officers by what means do you think the upper castes prevented them from getting there? It's just unproductive to keep blaming everything on upper castes in the 50+ years of reservations while ignoring a whole lot of other issues that have nothing to do with discrimination.

“Selection of secretary, additional secretary and joint secretary-level officers is made from the pool of officers who are empanelled for that particular post. If there isn’t an adequate number of officers belonging to the SC/ST/OBC categories in the pool, their number is obviously going to be smaller,” said the retired civil servant who did not want to be named.

A serving IAS officer, who belongs to the general category, said: “At times, senior IAS officers do not want to come to the Centre on deputation or the state government does not relieve them, resulting in a lesser number of SC/ST category officers in the upper echelons of government.”
> This is just another desperate attempt to get some cash flow, I don't think they've even managed to ship the gen1 phone to all the backers yet.

This is not a desperate attempt, it is another service offering to align with their privacy focused hardware and software products.

They have been very open and honest about any delays in the shipping of the phones. Evergreen batches are nearly a month away. So they haven’t “managed” that yet because the process has not completed yet.
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I'd like to be hired to work on open source projects. I've been working on and using open source for about 20 years, principally on the Debian project.

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Whoa! This is a game changer! I was looking into both Kafka and Google Pub/Sub for a event-oriented system my team was designing. Google Pub/Sub looked very promising, but no guarantee of ordering was a deal breaker for us. I’ll consider this more strongly for the next system we build.
Same, I just quit a job because of it.
Try picking up a hobby that has a local presence in your area. Go to meetups etc., and that should help you meet people.

Martial arts is one that I like, but whatever interests you.
It may be because of my habit of blurting out whatever stupid thought I'm having, but believing that someone might blurt out whatever stupid thought they're having comes easy to me.