skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is indeed a common point of view among some scholars. But scholarship on such things tends to be very politicised. If the essence of caste is about who you marry, then we now have excellent genetic evidence that it was a very big deal long before any Europeans showed up. It's simply not factual to claim that it arrived on a boat. (There are of course regional gradients and class gradients in English patterns of descent over the last millennium, but nothing like the archipelago of India.)
Where do you draw the line though?

If this works well, isn't it kind of anti-social to refuse to cough into a phone?

Keep in mind this isn't the only (or even the first) application of this sort of always-on ubiquitous surveillance.
A large portion of the population in south indian states don't have surnames. I think I'm the first person in my family line in what must be centuries that has the same second name as my father (so what you would consider a "surname") because I was born in the US where there is a cultural expectation to have a "family name." So my grandfather's first name, which was my fathers second name, is now my "surname." Otherwise, my fathers first name would have been my "last name," as is the case with my cousins that were born in India.
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Sure, I’m familiar with Conal Elliott’s work. But other than its “elegance”, I don’t hold reactive programming in particularly high regard, especially when implemented on top of non-pure languages. I consider FRP a “clever” technique - and while “clever” techniques make programming a fun puzzle, they can be detrimental to performance and end-user experience.

We have a finite cleverness budget; if you spend it on your code, then your product will suffer. If you build cleverness into the platform SDKs (hello SwiftUI! hello J2EE design pattern hell!), then every product on your platform will suffer.
First, sorry as I misread your comment and was cold.

Indeed they're trying to milk the software side. But it's business as usual I believe. You paid for some specs, everything else is off contract. Unless they promised otherwise.
I read somewhere that a popular British firearm was licensed from Germany during WWI. A rifle action of some sort.
On the flip side, what if they have an idea to improve battery life through software, but it will require significant R&D. If everyone were like you and refuses to pay for any software updates whatsoever, they wouldn’t want to make the investment.
I’m extremely resistant to the idea that this generation is somehow an improvement on previous. It is just different.
If the video and photos are from a similar system in Miyama, why make the article about Shirakawa-go?
> which I believe are still the largest diesel submarines built

According to the internet you seem to be right, the Qing-class gets very close but not quite there: wiki lists 6628t, versus 6670t for the for the I-400.
I'm an upper caste male from India (now in Silicon Valley), so I suppose by the standards of discrimination discourse, I shouldn't be talking about this, but I will anyway.

The evidence for this happening is poor. I have dozens of Indian friends who have been in the US for three decades, and they've never heard of it either. It could still be happening, of course, but the case for it would be more real if there was one actual case of a company or government censuring someone for it.
Ah yes, the legitimacy. I don't think it means what it's implied to mean. The USA do many illegitimate things and no-one bats an eye.
> I'm quite sure that nobody is happy about that fact.

Indeed. I think the original post may have mistaken effect for cause. We can look across the course of human history at many cases of authority figures and those who interact with them, but generally, forcing any kind of lock-in has weird second order effects, and sometimes "the cure is worse than the ailment" -- so too I think it could be here.

What would be needed to show this? Portability, for one. The open-core model exists for a reason. Software lock-in needs to be voluntary to be defendable. If you don't make it easy for your users to switch, you have no proof that they are staying with you because you are the best option, not just what they are forced to use. This can be very dangerous for an organization which takes its incumbence for granted, which is basically every large B2B sales-led SaaS org, almost by default.

It means that when an upstart figures out how to out-execute you, you will have ossified into a living fossil whose organs they will consume from the inside out all in one go, rather than getting advanced notice ahead of time while you can still course correct. Convenience is great and all, but on a long enough corporate lifecycle/lifespan (and they seem to be getting shorter and shorter these days), un-sustainability eventually takes its toll.
This is shameful. I thought Indian American community had moved on from things like these. I suppose there will always be some people who do these kind of things.

These things are rampant in India at the time of marriages. Some parents in India emotionally blackmail their children into marrying into their own caste. Sometimes people have to marry into their own subcast.

(I am talking about people being forced to marry against their will and give up on love)
the commentary track for Zardoz is epic. Apparently, Connery was able to pocket some per diem because he lived close to the film set.
The role of peace journalism in crisis situations
So who will bear the financial risk?

So far, it is obviously not sustainable to finance nuclear power plants from the electricity they produce. In other words, they are not even viable as a business.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/14/new-uk-n...
For anyone who is interested: this type of name is called a patronymic, and besides Tamil Nadu exists in at least Iceland and Russia.

In both of those countries, a particular grammatical ending is added to the name, whereas in Tamil culture the bare name is used.

In Russia, people also have family surnames, in addition to patronymics. For example: “Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev”, whose father was presumably named “Anatoliy [something] Medvedev”.

Or: “Katrín Jakobsdóttir”, whose father was presumably named “Jakob [something]”.
How long before they're ahead? Will the West ever have to result to those tactics?
what a perfect way to make the ongoing domestic spying seem like it's for "public saftey".
This is really an argument for far less power in the executive. Unfortunately the trend has been toward an increasingly king-like presidency since the depression and especially WWII.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24950897
> Just for laughs, Java seems to have its own TZDB

Well, there is also Joda time and icu4j that have their own TZDB which caused me one very stressful day until we found this fact.
> Otherwise it's just numbers hopping around anonymously on a ledger

That’s tax evasion.

I know it’s chic to be callous about tax fraud in some cryptocurrency circles. But the same has been true of cash, art and bearer bonds for centuries.
I do not watch TV from my own culture, am I not fully integrated in my native country?
> You are advocating for cultural genocide

I am a descendant of holocaust survivors so please read the following with that in mind:

The caste system is part of a culture. It is also (IMHO) thoroughly odious, and it should be eliminated, along with patriarchy, theocracy, and a whole host of other human cultural norms with long and (some would say) venerable histories. There is no moral equivalence between a constructive suggestion for how to eliminate the caste system -- notwithstanding that it is in fact an effort to erase part of a culture -- and actual genocide. So please don't bandy that word about lightly.
Indian anti-caste movements have a history of changing surnames to signify abandoning caste enjoying participation from both upper and lower castes. Those people and their children and grandchildren still exist today with their cultural and religious identity intact (and unfortunately even caste most of the time). A lot of people use their father's name as a surname too. It's not genocidal.
It'd be nice if the downvoters would actually say what is wrong about my comment.
12 days! You are a bit like the hunger artist from Kafka.
Off topic: I understand “taken with a grain of salt” is meant to express diminishment of the idea it is being associated with. By saying “huge grain of salt” which is very common, doesn’t that defeat the purpose?
I think this is largely true but not complete: the interaction between race and class in the US is complicated. Race is frequently used to divide people who on the face of it should be united by class issues.

There’s a famous LBJ quote about this:

“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.“
Title is from the original study.
I'm going to add my reply to be downvoted with the rest of them.

There seems to be some unwritten rule that you're only allowed to say good things about people when they die. And I think that rule needs to end. Let's be honest and recognize that people are complex even when they die.

Spousal abuse is wrong and people who think it's OK should be called out for that.
It's an argument for a particular tech stack that may have PHP in it. Excel is a bad example because it's closed-source and does not put a developer building a solution on top of it on equal footing with its creators. Wordpress is probably the best example here; if it does 90% of what someone wants, it may be easier to add that 10% than to use a different solution.

I'd be surprised, however if there aren't solutions written in other languages that provide that same 90% in most cases. None of them are as famous, but that shouldn't hinder someone working as a consultant to help small businesses get online.
You don't really need own email server to solve such problem. If only you had own domain, you could have moved it to different provider and still have access to the services which require your email address.

By the way, I often hear how it's good for privacy to use (basically all the time) such VPNs. But my experience so far is that using internet via popular VPNs is annoying. Some websites won't let you in, you get a lot of random CAPTCHAs to solve (e.g. to get Google results) and it seems you can lose email account. For me it's too much hassle.
It's amazing they have a screenshot of FreeCol in there! That's a Java game I've submitted bugfixes to, like fixing multiplayer, in just a few hours, despite having barely any Java experience, because it's so debuggable and ordinarily architected.

> But it’s really challenging reaching that point.

Choosing opinionated and well supported languages & frameworks is essentially the lesson there, and they'll probably finish that in one week.

The real difference here is that this course does not aspire to cram leetcode, which is what you're actually evaluated on if you get into Software Engineering. In that framing, they are adopting an extremely contrarian and risky position: if their students perform worse in job hunts after taking the course, and entrepreneurial / indie / artisanal software development remains hit-driven, students would conclude the course is bad in the long run.
I've (anecdotally, FAANG, SF) seen a few cases involving Indian interviewer/interviewee given special treatment/favouritism/easy interviews or a formality, stuff like "hey you are from same village" or similar.
I assume this quote is US centric, so yes right now there is probably a substantial difference between US and EU in the demand for entry-level developer jobs (that pay a decent wage).
For anyone wondering:

> Adult hippocampal neurogenesis is a process that describes the generation of new functional DGCs from adult neural stem cells through the amplification of intermediate progenitors and neuroblasts, as well as the integration of these new neurons into the existing neural circuits.

Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-018-0036-2#:~:text=Ad....
Nope. I don’t think we’ll have Level 5 autonomy with safety on par with human drivers until we have general AI. At that point, whether or not that AGI had LIDAR supplementing its visual inputs becomes irrelevant.
I’m not being edgy you took a data format and pretended it was a refutation when it wasn’t and isn’t.
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Are we just talking about men? Most women are basically expected to change their last name upon marriage in many countries.

To me it's just a name. My wife kept her last name and and it seems the past generations simply can't accept that. My extended family still mails her letters using my last name.
> it would be more real if there was one actual case of a company or government censuring someone for it.

To be clear, this story got legs specifically because California is bringing a case against Cisco for caste-related discrimination. So the government is certainly trying to censure someone for it.
While interesting, placing the blame on dead British people won't change anything in the present.
That I don't doubt. That's also not unique to India (just think about how many people only marry within their church). The discrimination comes in with the formation of the "untouchable" caste and determination of social opportunities based off of caste. This form of discrimination undoubtedly existed to some level in precolonial times there was a reason so many people converted to buddhism and islam. Then again - a lot of people converted back from buddhism too. And what we call "India" was a collection of dozens of kingdoms, each of which undoubtedly had different interpretations (and in the case of Muslim ruled kingdoms, that's a whole different story). It makes it really unclear what pre colonial "india" looked like in terms of caste.
The flavour is the same
They're both still coffee and chocolate, though. That reminds me of my college roommate who tried to argue that gelato isn't ice cream, using light beer vs dark beer as an analogy!
I have written both PHP and JS for a living since about 2005 (for my sins) and I can tell you PHP has gone through at least as much of an evolution as JS. Neither one feels anything like its 2005 ancestor.
Nobody made a better life in America? I'm certainly aware of at least a handful of people who have gone from poverty to at least comfortable living after coming to America.
You would be incorrect. Your backyard soil is not free from contaminants, nor is the foot that the moose ate.
You just described basically every consumer motherboard with raid. It's there in the chipset, but requires a key to unlock.
Fasting prompts significant release of growth hormone, so it is not surprising that it promotes cell regeneration, but interesting to see it applied to synapses.
Annotated bibliography for learning Category Theory
> What we should demand of these projects instead is "we can provide this amount of renewable power 24/7".

Humans have always adapted to power being available in different quantities and forms over time. This is why we have corn stores, mills, corned beef, and cold houses. No farmer expects that the sun makes his corn grow in January. In the end, we adapt to our environment, and we have done that though all the ages. Today, we can make it technically much smarter, for example by adding a price signal to electricity, and generating hot water for doing laundry during strong-wind night hours. If this is cheaper and more efficient than battery storage, then why not do it?
Well thankfully it is acknowledged as a problem. Caste is a big issue in India and sadly, its being carried to the US.
Oh, well that clears that up. :)
This is the kind of anecdotal response I was referring to with my statement. While I agree that you can shift your rhythm by a couple of hours, that does not mean standing up at 6:30 will ever be natural for me.

Against your anecdote, I present myself starring at the ceiling (which is torture for me, I can not shut off my brain, ever.) for many many school years to no effect. I did try many things, because it's certainly not fun to feel tired all the time. But if left to my own devices I get into a 3am-11am rhythm and have worked like this in my adulthood for multiple years.

I can rather easily shift by 2 hours to a 1am to 9am rhythm without much impact, I do feel the impact (tiredness, hard to fall asleep) of a 3 hour shift from midnight to 8am and I'm absolutly unable to go to bed at 10:30 so I can be rested at 6:30. Even if I manage to fall asleep that soon (e.g. from physical exhaustion), I will not be rested at all when standing up at 6:30.

Interesting enough, I can also shift my rhythm by a similar amount in the other direction. A lot of my social life happens online and when I was spending 6 months in a timezone 7 hours shifted from my local friends, I could shift my rhythm to go to bed between 5 and 6am so I have more overlapping online-time with them, but I couldn't shift it further.

So, how is your response not ignorance of a different rhythm?
One of the most common reasons for Salvage title in Ohklahoma is hail damage.

"In Oklahoma, the insurance companies will declare a total loss and deem a vehicle as salvage when the damage is greater than 60% of the fair market value of the vehicle."

PBR is ~$3K, anything more severe and they will write whole car down due to cosmetic damage.
As a newbie, I see a lot of articles about scraping. Why is that so interesting?
What is the false positive rate, though?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_portability

There is data portability in EU and you can get all your data... But it probably is useless or at least not as useful as in context of the SaaS you were using.
A lie is something said intended to deceive. I don't k see how you would know that?
I own a VW and while it is a top-spec model and has most of the optional hardware, there was quite a lot of stuff disabled in software. For example, cruise control was available after replacing a switch. I have enabled a "needle sweep" which was only available on Audis and a fog light turn thing which was only available on Seats (I think). I can do this stuff because I own my car. You don't own a Tesla.
Proving once again that there are only two kinds of programming languages.

Programming languages that everyone hates and programming languages that no one uses.
The popularity of the Indian version is a gift of spite from the British colonial rulers before they quit the subcontinent after successfully splitting into many nations with their only strategy ‘divide and rule’.

I literally don’t know even one culture or country that doesn’t follow its own version of caste system. To understand it and get rid of it, we have to ask why it is able to survive.

I am from the sub continent. We are a billion plus people beating the same name. We have hundreds of languages. I am certainly going to ask anyone who calls themselves an Indian to figure out if they are my kin. Why? Because as an immigrant in a foreign land, I want to be friends with someone like me. I can’t be friendly to the millions of Indian immigrants.

I want to hang around with someone with whom I share more things Indian because I miss home sometimes. I miss the language, the food, the smells of a Hindu Brahmin kitchen and all the things that reminds me of my community. That’s not castesim. To equate this to casteism makes a mockery of the horrors and injustices of caste system.

No. There is no caste system amongst Indians in the Bay Area. We should ALL be grateful to be living during these times. It’s infinitely better than how our ancestors were living. It can get even better.

Mockery. This lawsuit makes a mockery of the ancestors of CA Dalits who have had the opportunity to step outside of the system and still engaging in this sort of manufactured divisiveness.

Dalits were not part of the varna system in India. The texts say that there were four castes and everyone else was considered an ‘outsider’. The word ‘Mleccha’ means outsider and that included anyone who didn’t follow the structure of society with the four castes. People with unfamiliar behaviour and different food habits. The Greeks for example were Mlecchas. The Dalits and possibly the local tribes were Mleccha too. They were excluded and when the people who formed the Hindu society became dominant, the local population were at the fringes of society but now dependent on a domainant society that rejects them.

India has thousands and thousands of years of history and so many migrations and invasions. It is insane to look at caste system from that framework.

1. Is the social structure in India problematic? Yes.
2. Is something being done to rectify it in India? Yes.
3. Does it have anything to do with indian immigrants in Silicon Valley? No.

The very term ‘tam-bram’ pat is offensive. Not all non Dalits are Brahmins and not all Brahmins are tamilian.

The state of CA is suing Cisco. That by itself goes to show that this lawsuit is politically energized and has no legs to stand on. For shame!
Yes it will. A big part of the argument for caste comes from some ridiculous traditionalist sentiment that it's a part of "Indian culture" (whatever that is). Changing the sentiment is hard, but pointing out that pre-colonial "Indian" culture didn't look like what you think it did is a compelling argument for traditionalists (especially people that are traditionalists as an anti-colonial thing).
It's all out-group enmity. We are very selective about which kinds we notice.
Junior roles are really cheap, and the quality of what many people are achieving continues increasing. I think it has to do with the by dance of self/directed learning resources and improvements in boot camps and other programs.
Here's a primer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste_system_in_India
Also see TortoiseGit (https://tortoisegit.org/about/screenshots/#Explorer_integrat...) not quite as cool as TortoiseSVN (because there's only that much you can do to plaster over the confusing git UX), but still an interesting alternative to standalone git UI clients.
Sure, but as far as I know, that is the only case of its kind in the country, and before we raise the alarm about widespread caste discrimination, shouldn't we have at least one case decided?
When I bought Autopilot I asked about taking it to another Tesla if I bought one, and was told it belonged to the car. Meaning when I sell the vehicle I assumed I could advertise that I was selling Autopilot with it. Tesla is 100% in the wrong here.
I generally agree. I’m not arguing that “the left started it”, only that some people argue that this all originated with Trump and I think it goes back further than that.

Interestingly, I don’t think the left has been overrun by the right. It seems to me that liberalism was winning out circa 2010 (at least socially/culturally)—consider how quickly gay marriage became acceptable and even celebrated. I don’t think extreme leftism was a response to some rising tide of conservatism (whether extreme or moderate), but maybe I’m wrong.

In whatever case, I think the solution is to return to more moderate, liberal values (obviously im biased as a liberal), but specifically for all of us to foster an atmosphere of understanding. If we can foster intolerance in the name of tolerance, maybe we can foster genuine tolerance? If nothing else, I’m optimistic that the next generation will not see the point in our petty partisanship and want something better for our country. I hope I’m right.
This is one area I'm grateful for my own ignorance. I feel like not knowing about this system helps protect me from unconscious bias. The flipside of course is that I'm likely blind to discrimination if it's happening around me.
In small Alaskan town, entrepreneurs attempt to go from food insecure to secure
It's all reflected in the UI, with a "View Live" button that appears when the build is done. It's quite user friendly. I recommend you test it yourself: https://cms-demo.netlify.com/