skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll keep an eye out for the exact message. I tend to avoid Medium as much as possible - scrolling is incredibly slow, and I recently found out medium storing several hundred MB of garbage in my localstorage, which it adds to every time I scroll.
Fun fact: Mice can only survive 48 hours without food, so not eating for 24 hours is quite long for them.
> Its insane that no ruling part had the guts to ban that.

This is not even remotely popular. That essentially guarantees that the party will not get voted to power again. People, regardless of their caste, always have the option to drop/change their surname.
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I drink both, caffeine in the morning and once past midday I move to decaf until as late as 5pm, I heavily favour much lower caffeine decaf. In my experience decaf tastes the best from either swiss or CO2 methods and from the beans. The best decaf can come pretty close to decent coffee but its also just as expensive as well. I find it works better under pressure immersion than drip, so more Aeropress or Turkish stove method than French press or V60.
How many hours of American television are you going to require immigrants to watch? Lets use folks from Mexico as an example. Does Spanish-language television created in the US count? What about English-language content that was created in Mexico but for Mexican-American consumption? How many non-American friends do you have? What ratio of American friends does an immigrant need to have before it's okay for them to be here?

This is xenophobic bullshit and has no place on a forum like this.
> You pay for software updates/upgrades on your PC, right?

No...?
some of us cmd-s, but point taken
Emissions trading is a single gigantic failure. What we need is a stiff carbon tax.
:/

Anyone care to ELI5 please?
> Nobody seems to ask this question about the apparently rampant racism in the US

I can't tell if you're trolling or not, but in case you're not from the US and genuinely confused about this... there are mountains of data on systemic racism precisely because it's one of the biggest questions. Academic journals are full of answers, not to mention endless books.
To the original point, then there’s people like me that spend time actively ripping out “vendored” copies of tzdb in OSS libs to make them instead use “the one true copy” that is itself painstakingly kept accurate everywhere. Then add the extra time required to update those patches when new versions are released... Copying/vendoring dependencies like that is a great shortcut for a project but creates a huge hassle in large systems (a single OS counts, thousands of packages).
They are influenced by people on Twitter.
It's not that simple. I was smacked as a child because I was a little shit and deserved it. It wasn't abuse. It worked and taught me to respect my parents.
It's too bad that articles like these require JavaScript to read.
> Also, Dark Mode helps to reduce exposure to Blue Light

What. No. Most of the harmful blue light comes from LCD backlight (of course it does not apply to OLED as much).

This kind of misunderstanding is why there have been so many dark mode or low contrast themes (like zenburn), which is a failure to recognise that what you have to turn down is screen brightness.

Like loudness wars for music it may be more pleasant to have nice brightness for a couple of seconds, but here’s my take: set brightness to a satisfactory value, then turn it down (a bit, maybe more). Your eyes will adapt. Over the course of a day facing a screen (which is basically a flashlight) it makes a massive difference. As a bonus when unplugged this saves crazy battery life.

> Since not everyone can see well with Dark Mode, some mobile devices provide the option for Blue Light filters

Huh. f.lux & al are not an alternative to dark mode, one should definitely use such settings, even with dark mode.

Final tip: pay attention to ambient and bias lightning.
For a timeline comparison, we're coming up quick on forty years after the collapse of the USSR and the adoption of a market economy. It's pretty incredible how time flies. I wonder if we'll see a similar transformation.
Violent repression of speech is a hallmark of oppressive regimes (putting intellectuals in the gulag for example) and saying such a thing about the left is just as bad as calling them nazi's or murderers. The commenter in question uses more words but it essentially boils down to the same.

But nitpicking about what insult is worse is beside the point for me. It is not as if most of the left is out to demonize the right and vice versa, and I regret it if you see it that way, and even more so if you think that one side is worse at it.
Putting the whole of society in two camps and ascribing behaviour to them which are exacted by a minority as if they are a homogeneous unit.. oversimplified and prejudiced.
> The centerpiece of the summit, and where you’ll find social capital bursting at the seams, is "Planning Day." That’s when up to 100 citizens meet, listen to ideas for community improvement, and after hearing out numerous proposals, select two or three ideas for support. As Doug told me, food is among the community’s top concerns. Out of the 20 initiatives selected by the summit since its start in 2007, about half were related to food, including a composting project, citywide fruit-tree planting, a community kitchen, large gardens, the farmers’ market, a Fish to School project and even a community food assessment.

By the end of Planning Day, the initiatives are selected and groups are formed to shepherd them to success. Each initiative group receives start-up funds (a modest amount of perhaps $2,000 each) as well as support from the Sitka Health Summit. Since 2007, the vast majority of the initiatives were characterized as highly successful, though a handful have failed or simply never got off the ground. Win or lose, the event brings people together to launch a number of small but transformative projects that have probably touched every member of the community.
But it does happen. Same thing, different degree, right?
I got flagged for pointing out that I had a bad case of what was once a common childhood disease, and no mass lockdowns were proposed or implemented.

Yet this article implies we should lockdown over a disease that does nothing to children.

Dang, on the off chance you read this: the flagging on this site is out of control. I don't care about downvotes, but why do you allow users to so easily hide (and censor) comments they disagree with?
Each country can do this on their own and tax fossil energy imports at the border.

This should include embodied energy, or "gray energy", in materials like steel, aluminum and cement.
This seems to have gained quite a lot of popularity. I think it's the third time I've seen this on the HN front page in the last month.

Although I find it abominable that even one person has carried their discrimination with them, I'm also surprised that this is a pattern. I've been in North America for about 4 years now and the only times caste has come up as a topic is westerners being curious about it.

Also not all Brahmins wear the thread on their shoulders and not everybody who wears it is a Brahmin, so it's a poor test.
> A system of oppression that benefits some at the cost of others isn’t tradition.

If it's been long-standing, of course it is. A tradition need not be wise, or good, or beyond criticizing.
What does 'profoundly bad language' mean exactly?

When PHP was first released it was dramatically better than the alternatives for it's intended purpose.

There were plenty of things to complain about, but none of them stopped you from doing useful things with it. It was never slow or inefficient compared to other scripting languages, it didn't lack functionality.

Over the decades the most popular complaints have been addressed as the language has matured.

That it's remained in active development for 25 years with no signs of that changing in the future is one of it's biggest selling points.

I don't blame people for having issues with aspects of PHP based on their personal preferences and experiences, I get that, but that doesn't make it a 'bad' language.

There's nothing wrong with purist perspectives on what programming languages should be and how they should work. That contributes to better design.

But in the real world the questions are simpler: can this tool be used to develop applications quickly? Is it reasonably efficient at runtime (in this case in the context of scripting)? Can we easily find affordable developers in the future? Is there community support?

PHP checks the boxes that people building things want checked as well as any language and better than many. Unless I'm missing something, 'bad' here is more of a philosophical stance.
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I always prefer dark mode but I'd guess you're actually the majority, otherwise we wouldn't have dark mode this late in the game. What I observed around my personal circle is people who started wearing glasses at a young age are more likely to prefer dark mode. I'm not sure if it is coincidence or a real cause.
> I don’t think the Europe Union really wants a trade war with the US.

Who bothers, the US already wants one. Why should the EU let determine the future of the planet by some political backwater?
Where did you grow up?
What do your parents do?
Where did you go to University?

It’s nothing new. It’s just not the western culture’s version.
I don't see it used much in legacy systems, but the benefits are large enough that I could see new Akka-ish libraries built on it.
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Do you happen to have an astigmatism?

I’m not sure if my personal anecdotes will apply to you but I’ve found dark color schemes with gray text over a blue background (ex. Solarized Dark) to be infinitely more usable than something with a black background with white text.
I've been sampling non-alcoholic beers recently. A few of the brands taste pretty good. I like Athletic Brewing, and the Heineken is good for what it is.
It's not tax evasion if the hops are non taxable events, and the privacy of wallets enable anyone to deny it.

This is why Bitcoin is an existential threat to government power. I personally think it's empowering and great for the individual, however if you tend towards more statist views then this would seem like anarchy.
Their compatibility story is alright though, at least they are trying to make "Thread" forward-compatible with the new runtime. And they are working on getting Netty to work, which will immediately get things compiling (not working) for a lot of projects.

The biggest challenge will be reconciling Futures, Netty and ThreadLocal (FiberLocal) patterns. Think defining a SQL transaction lifetime, a distributed lock, or a OpenTracing span. For Spring Framework people, no big deal. For everyone else, lots of complex decisions to make.
The whole idea is that you can only read from the JS. Prepared statements are used and other security measures are taken into place.
Why don't you download it and try to crash a database on your own machine and see if it is easy?
Marketplace efficiency is a moral good.

The more efficiently we allocate resources, the more we lift people out of poverty around the globe. Increasing marketplace efficiency is the headline story of the last 100 years of human history.

Billions of people are now living indoors with electricity, have running water, reliable food supply chains, and are killing each other less due to marketplace efficiency.

You won’t hear that story on the news of course.
Once I 'switched over' Dark Mode completely 'light mode' is very visually jarring to me. In fact when I opened this article I found it ironic that it was in light mode until I noticed the switch at the bottom left corner of the page. I have even taken to using registry hacks to make SSMS.exe display in dark mode. For the most part it works flawlessly, but you end up with a few context menus that have black text hardcoded so they are hard to read. Im hoping that will eventually become an officially supported option soon...
After looking in to it some more, I think one of the strong arguments for STAR is that scoring captures more information about voter preferences than ranking does. The fact that some voters might have a very strong preference for a candidate who isn't quite the Condorcet winner is relevant.
I know, right. How annoying for people to point out public statements endorsing spousal abuse. Gosh, why can’t people just shut their mouths about that kind of thing and let us all more easily ignore it and forget about it. I just want to celebrate the man. “Welcome to the rock” lol he’s so cool. How annoying that some people have to be so whiny and these women who get slapped can’t just shut up and have more respect for the dead. Why do we have to politicize everything. I just want to laugh at SNL parodies of him on Jeopardy. Gee whiz.
Does anyone know if european consumer laws can play a role here? I tried to google but couldn't find anything
It feels like the fact that you even identify yourself as upper caste means you’re part of the problem
I don't think there is a "Human-Centered" programming. Or rather, I think it's Excel: the spreadsheet is the most successful programming system. That's what "Human-Centered" programming looks like.

If you think of computers as generic amplifiers (of complex algorithmic tasks) then it's obvious that some people are using them more effectively than others.

I think the way to benefit people (with computers) is just to get them to understand them well enough to move from the former (low effectiveness) to the latter (high effectiveness) groups.

The concept of the Turing Machine is itself the empowering thing, the magic meme that pushes the pre-mechanical mind into the techno-sphere. Rationality is, strictly speaking, superior to irrationality (and yet there is a realm of the trans-rational, to which rationality eventually leads and defers.) And what is the computer but the essence of rational thought reified into mechanism? That fact that they are literally everywhere by now, cheaper than dirt, is a nice bonus.

"It doesn't matter why they're dressed as a tiger, have they got my leg?"

To me the way to be humane with computers is to teach people what they are. Once infected with the meme it's up to them what to do.

Otherwise you're just building another OLPC.
whatever other non-caffeine effects coffee might have, they are probably neutral or positive (unlike cigarettes).
Agreed.

The primary reason the software development field has evolved to be preoccupied with saving/re-using/inter-op code is because of the difficulty of building even the most trivial piece of software.

Unfortunately code hoarding is simply a reflection of the age-old human flaw of wanting to recoup sunk cost, you assume if you've invested a lot of time into something, it must be worth holding on to for as long as possible :)

If software was as easy to make as a piece of office stationary is easy to write on, no one would care about code reuse/saving/interop...you don't see anyone saving post-it notes or even excel docs for indefinite reuse.
Asking the question tells the intent of it. Thats where it starts. All discriminations start with innocuous questions only.
Well if it is worth that eggs get broken then it should at least be Tesla paying for it no? They seem to want to have it all, advertise their product as autopilot (not drive assist), use their customers and everyone else as Guinea pigs and take the data to improve their systems, but if things happen it's the drivers fault for not being attentive and they have to take financial (and moral) responsibility.

If they really thought some eggs need to be broken to get _their_(because they are using the data nobody else) systems up to speed, they could just come forward and say it and more importantly pay for the consequences.
It's dangerous to think of people in terms of "the rest of us" and some other group out there plotting evil, against which one must be vigilant, for it is the case that the evil is in all of us, and if you spend too much time "being vigilant" against perceived evil men, you may overlook the wickedness of your own soul.

"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either – but right through every human heart…even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains…an uprooted small corner of evil."

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
I'm a staunch grumpy old man, but our minivan has lane keeping, automated emergency braking and radar cruise control. The lane keeping and emergency braking are just there and mostly help out (although, apparently I like to drive on the line when exiting a freeway, so it's kind of annoying there). Radar cruise would be nice, except I don't do much long distance driving, and I don't like the following distance options, a different car might give different options that would be better.

I wouldn't like to be in a car that drives like either the Tesla or the Waymo cars though, the Tesla's are too aggresive, and the Waymo cars are not aggressive enough (which is generally good and safety aware, but would still be frustrating to ride in).
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Same here. I tried multiple times (low contrast, high contrast) because I love the aesthetic and also I usually write code in dark but when looking at a dark theme for more than 5 minutes I start to get dizzy, my eyes hurt, I get a headache. I always assumed it was because if my astigmatism, even got correcting glasses but no luck. I ended up with light theme, low brightness and Flux.
People say the sam thing about ad-tech today. They even using the exact same phase: "Entire generations of the best and brightest".

But look at the innovation that comes from both endeavors and leaks out into the rest of society. Arguably computer technology would not be where it is without the war machine driving the initial innovation.

And similarly, web technology, such as Javascript and just the ability to update a webpage without reloading it wouldn't exist without ad-tech.
I believe Kerala achieved that by improving literacy rate and by reducing fertility rate. They didn't exactly have a "fresh start".
a straw-man version of science as a result of ignorance of the real thing

This is a no-true-Scotsman and there has been substantial scholarship of this practice as part of scientific endeavor at least since Khun’s Structure of Scientific Revolution. As Orwell notes, science had just obliterated 300,000 people quick as a flash...and so it goes. Musk tweeting a topless wired monkey head, Bezos scaling mechanical Turks, and Thiel openly seeking immortality. Silicon Valley funding transfusion of young people’s blood into the old, Crispr edited babies, and even the Tuskegee Experiment back in Lewis’s day.

Science is a human endeavor with all the vileness (and magnificence) that entails.
How long until "Aggressive Self-Driving Mode" is a $5,000 add-on.
This thing is obviously not ready to drive properly:

https://youtu.be/RN5Qoei7v1k?t=2218

It can't even figure out which traffic lights apply to it.
If we had that kind of flexibility, it would actually be a further argument against permanent DST. If people want the extra summer daylight to occur after work instead of split between before and after, go to work earlier or work fewer hours.

If we could get that kind of flexibility, it would be great. People could aim for the biologically best schedule, which would be to go to sleep at night without setting an alarm and let the rising light in the morning wake you up.
Well, nothing really surprising coming from Spaniards. There, three out of the four official languages are invisible too. Only the Spanish (Castilian) language is not.
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Something I've also noticed in Western media is that when covering issues about other cultures (ie India, Middle East, etc), the bar for evidence is pitifully low, especially if the story matches existing confirmation bias.

For instance, when there was a major rape in India, the media was scrutinizing Indian attitudes towards sexual violence. As evidence of such attitudes, they mentioned a BJP politician who said that "rape is sometimes right, sometimes wrong"

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-india-rape/mp-minister-ba...

In the actual video where he says it, (in Hindi), he says that the "rape allegations are sometimes correct, sometimes wrong". I don't agree with the assessment (I think all allegations should be taken seriously), but it COMPLETELY different fromwhat is reported by Reuters (and other news sources). There are many instances of this. This is why I typically don't trust Western media coverage of other countries. Best source would be a local English language newspaper.
Are you saying there is no value in the people who hold these opinions learning why they have those opinions? Because that would be super weird: of course learning about the history of the modern caste system changes things in the present. And don't make the mistake of thinking that, just because dead British are to blame, that absolves everyone else from blame too:

Dead british are to blame for setting it in motion, and everyone who reinforces today is also to blame, for keeping it alive. There's plenty of blame to spread around for something as messed up as caste discrimination.
Not entirely unrelated, China is also building a system of high-speed long-distance trains like few countries have. There will be a time after the individual gas-powered car. I guess it will be propelled electrically, but it's quite likely that the power will come from an overhead line.
I have witnessed this as well, and it has been absolutely shocking and disgusting. Here is my experience. I am leading a meeting with about four native Indians that were here in America, and a couple that were dialed in from India. The meeting was with a large US based financial institution. Towards the end of the call, a senior member of the team joined. The mood of the meeting changed entirely. Everyone on the call kept asking for his opinion and what he thought, and he had nothing to add and no context about anything we had been discussing. I thought that was weird, and then started googling their last names and caste systems in India on a hunch. Yep, it was the reason, I deduced. I have no proof, but if I were a betting man... I always thought the highest castes in India were religious, so it seems like this is a battle between the castes lower than that. Regardless, there is no place for this in America.
I dont think its about gender. I think he talks about a specific type of girls (and possibly guys too but i have not met any in private) who can be very insisting and pushing you contantly to the limit and never leaving you alone in private even if you clearly say "please leave me alone now im done"... so you feel your only last options is to walk away or actually engage in violence. These people sometimes even resort to violence even before you would..

The only gender specific and slightly sexist part of that video is assuming only girls could behave like that (you know the whole "its the periods") but i personally think its not the case its just a type of person.
Instead of you, perhaps someone from lower caste would be better to evaluate if there is discrimination or not.
Seems like a literal translation would be "creation of neurons in the hippocampus". And the hippocampus is associated with memory and learning.
23andme doesn't report missense variants, so it doesn't report this.