skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a relatively inexperienced JVM developer I pretty much share this view. It's true that PHP isn't PHP 4 anymore, but everything else moved forward as well, Java 11 is a fine language that I have few complaints about.

Since you mentioned GraalVM, I'm also pretty excited about the Graal nodejs runtime. I'm a fan of using JS/TS for quick projects, and unifying the runtime would be huge, I hope it will continue to be supported.
> The JVM gives you practically every knob you need to achieve maximal performance for your workload. I don't know of any other environment that does that.

That's because no other environment needs to. No other environment eager loads a quarter gig of ram to say hello world. The fact that you need to know at least 16 flags for the JVM with obscure syntaxes to get a basically stable Tomcat server (not Tomcat flags, those are another nightmare) is precisely the problem with Java.

> This is a non-issue for backend systems. Barely anyone uses Java for browser-side rendering anymore

You've got to be trolling on this one. I'm definitely not talking about browser-side rendering. Weak backend systems are exactly how Fortune 500 systems get breached over and over and over. This was exactly the cause of the Equifax breach and so many others. You should never think that is ok.
If US corporations actually followed the law and were held to account by a functioning government this wouldn't be an issue. This is only an issue because EEOC is only followed when it is useful to their leftist management. Otherwise, in the name of D&I, we get companies in the US mainland that are 97% Indian nationals on H1B. That can't happen in a fully functional US corporation that is following the law where laws are enforced. So it is really pointless to point out caste discrimination when US corporations are lawless and the US government is powerless.
I find skipping lunch and going breakfast-to-breakfast on Monday and Thursday to be a good rhythm.

Being past fifty might play into it.

I think about half the USRDA is about right for my caloric intake, though I've never consulted a nutritionist.
Based on the title, my first question was "If they are asymptomatic why are they coughing?" I know there are many reasons you can cough, (acid reflux, allergies, etc) but this still seems that if its detectable its not 100% asymptomatic. Im splitting hairs(possibley wrong?), yes, but to me asymptomatic means its completely passive
How is this different from any other paid software upgrades? You pay to get better features.
Yeah I agree, not a bitcoin maximalist. Things like wrapped bitcoin and renbtc open up new pathways for it to be successful though due in large part to its network effect and the underlying economics. It changed the whole off chain transaction narrative to just another chain transaction. L2 things like arbitrum make this even more compelling.
Wow, this needs to be more widely discussed. This is eye opening. I’ve definitely seen this “dance” going on between new Indian coworkers and could detect there was some shared knowledge I was missing but had no idea what it meant, what was going on, or if it was friendly or not.

(Especially the vegetarian question and asking if “that was out of choice or cultural”. I figured this was dog whistling to religious affiliation and felt uncomfortable about it but regrettably just stayed out of it.)

I want to apologize to my Indian coworkers and especially directs, that I was so naive to this. You absolutely do not deserve this kind of treatment anywhere but especially the US and immigration status really compounds this and makes this oppressive.

I am absolutely going to be more aware and diligent about this and raise flags when I see it going forward. Not okay. I am so sorry.
If they are providing them, but it just takes a month or two to get the part, it’s not much different than Apple
I'm in the minority: I've tried numerous times (and combinations on macos + vscode) but writing code with a dark background makes me dizzy in about 30 minutes.
Smarter Every Day Youtube channel has a series of videos filmed onboard Los Angeles class sub.

This was pretty interesting and I really like this approach compared to typical TV documentaries.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjHf9jaFs8XWoGULb2HQR...
In the EU there is actually already a market of different contingents of electrical energy with different availability guarantees. Sources with high availability are more expensive and this helps to finance the required technology. And all this works rather in an evolutionary way. For example, we can, today, predict how much wind power will roughly be generated within the next days, and we can adjust reserve capacities with different costs to even that out. It is not only feasibly but also the economical thing to do.
You’re right on but I would like to add in data interoperability. Revit is the standard and the 2700/year is nothing compared to paying 25-50/hour to retrain employees. But Revit doesn’t even open its own files from the past. If you built a building in Revit 2015, you need that exact version to keep using the model for maintenance and repairs. We all have a cascade of versions from our first project to the current year. Further, integrating structural and mechanical engineering into the BIM process is great but all three firms (or more for larger or more complex projects) must be on the same version to share files.

Insanity.

I now use ArchiCAD which is focused on Open IFC as the interchange format. It’s not perfect but it’s a good step. Once data interchange works then mixing in more specialized tools for certain tasks becomes easier so FreeCAD wouldn’t have to compete with the entire Revit toolset all at once.
When still in construction engineering long ago, I was a whiz with AutoCAD. The move to BIM via Revit, another Autodesk product, was widely predicted.

It was impossible to fathom any widespread exodus from these standards, given the massive corporate backing on an already complex software ecosystem with a deep legacy. It seemed, at the time, unlikely that any competitors, and certainly not open source or free solutions, would ever gain competitive standing in industry versus the entrenched Autodesk solutions.

Has this changed?
What’s your name?
I don't think this is a fair comparison. Yes, we have socioeconomic classes in the US (as every country does, whether admitted or not).

It's extremely rare to find a Manhattan family where the child would be disowned and completely cut out of the family for marrying someone from the Ozarks. You can't say the same for a "pro-caste" Brahmin family in India.
Most web applications are not bottlenecked by the execution speed of their backend language.

> There's no consideration of what we call technical correctness, only business value, and on the whole that is a good thing.

That's called technical debt. Taking some on may not always be a bad decision, but if there's a short-term gain (and I'm skeptical PHP provides one), it may come at a cost of future development slowdowns, downtime, a full rewrite, or a data breach.
Insightful comment that really adds something to the conversation. Thank you!
As a Colab user, I have got to admit that I am impressed. I have used your website today to give it a try, and the interface is responsive (and thus somewhat addictive).

I use GPU on Colab, so I will stick to Colab for now, but I think I will hop on Deepnote from time to time.
I wonder about this a lot. I love meat, but I'm fairly certain our descendants will judge us the same way we judge slave owners: we were intelligent, we had the necessary mental ingredients to come to the conclusion that some of the animals we consume possessed some level of sentience, but we were unable to do so due to sheer historical and cultural momentum.
I had an especially bad case of Chicken Pox--a childhood disease for which we now thankfully have a vaccine--and nothing was ever locked down.
Even isolated prejudices can lead to systematic issues, so even if it was, it would be a problem.

For example, if key individuals in certain positions hold the prejudices, it can have a systematic effect, since they have a lot of influence on the design of the systems in place and can easily create an unfair distribution of other people in charge/not in charge.
Yeah, the paper mentions that the only way the authors were able to get reasonably accurate alignment was by manually adjusting the offset during the printing process.

On my printer, the extruder uses a toothed gear that grips the filament by biting into it. The exact length of filament that gets displaced for a given amount of gear rotation depends on how deeply the teeth penetrate, which in turn depends on how tightly the gear and filament are pressed together, the filament's stiffness, ambient temperature, and probably all kinds of other factors.

It seems to me that you could solve this problem in principle by printing a toothed pattern into the filament itself, so that the gear teeth automatically align it to the correct position, instead of deforming it.
Not sure whats wrong with https://saleor.io/ or http://oscarcommerce.com/ or any number of other options from https://djangopackages.org/grids/g/ecommerce/
If it’s optional, is it really a feature? I know that’s a technical question, but a few years ago, when one got a car with a nav system, that was sometimes an optional purchase. Basically, it’s not that clear cut.
I've come to the conclusion that code is temporary, and is meant to be discarded after a while. Hardware change, requirements change, people change. The things that are permanent are data and methods.

That's why I think as long as you have documented and defined your methods (i.e. business logic) well, and your data is portable, you shouldn't worry much about vendor lock-in in the long run.
> Apparently, all it took for me to become aware of the emptiness of life and the horror of existence was to be deprived of human company for a few hours

> What had been missing was some halfway secure sense of my own identity, a sense achieved in solitude by putting first-person words on a page

For anyone looking to understand themselves, I'd recommend backpacking alone. There's a certain sense of self-certainty that solitude brings that this author clearly has identified. So much of modern society is based on the same architectural principle perfected by tipis - relationships and institutions all canceling out forces that would pin us to the ground. I don't regret this being my primary experience, but I would regret not knowing that I can also stand alone - at least for a short time.
That sounds very interesting! Care to explain a bit, what is something real? How do I tell?
Well to do minorities are a problem for the racism/discrimination freak out. They are similarly trying to discredit successful Hispanics and Asians.
Being a user of TortoiseSVN, I thought TortoiseGIT would be the perfect replacement when needing to use Git. I was very surprised to find it a lot less usable. Although that was years ago, maybe it has improved since.

I eventually found pleasure in using git using the Fork* client. It has been the only one that doesn't drive me completely insane. I'm starting to tolerate git to the point of maybe finally switching.

* https://git-fork.com/
Flexible career capital in biomedicine – insight
PHP allows folks without a strong background to solve some simple business problems which, in general, is a good thing. But once the project exceeds a certain complexity threshold (which I admit many business problems never do), this approach hits a wall: things break and fixing it breaks more things and it is an uphill battle to move in the right direction. Adding a significant new capability -- forget it.

To make things worse, this cannot easily be fixed because the implementation is a hodge-podge of ideas and functions. You cannot find good architecture people who want to work in PHP to clean it. It cannot easily be re-architected because it captures a lot of business wisdom. And business people (rightly) suspect pitches for a new built-from-scratch solution: sure, it will be fast and maybe it will be reliable; but will it solve their problem? will employees need to be re-trained? etc.
In Europe is in Europe, and as well in Asia. I don't think the fraction is very relevant. And if history is important, the Ottoman empire has a history very much involved with the rest of Europe.
More like a Cost of dealing with people in the neighborhood who want your stuff and/or want you to bend and bow to them.

Look at Taiwan today. What other option do they have other than burning billions to buy some deterrence?

Same goes for Japan and Germany. They are highly dependent on outside help if the bullies in the neighborhood get a little more ambitious.
The worst part isn't even listed in the article - Tesla is remotely disabling fast charging on all salvage cars across all networks, regardless of what the actual damage is. If it was just limited to the supercharger network I would somewhat understand, it's their network and I don't think it's a huge deal to disallow salvage cars on it. But they are removing the ability to charge even at third party chargers, basically removing any ability to go on a reasonable road trip with your car, with no warning. Completely insane, especially since many salvage cars just had body damage.

This is why I don't want a car connected to the internet. The behavior of my 50k vehicle should not change unexpectedly because some guy in silicon valley pushed an update.
Finding Forrester has I think perhaps his greatest performance.
> As a saver, I don't care about the basis, I care that the money doesn't get too discounted with time, and I care about the risk

Basis links the asset to other assets. That makes it less likely your asset will singularly get discounted relative to the broader economy, i.e. lose purchasing power. It is still exposed to systemic risk, but so is everything.

Baseless assets, like diamonds and paintings and Bitcoin, derive their value solely from perceptions. That can be somewhat stable over the short term (up to 20 to 30 years). But it tends to fall apart between generations or through culture-changing crises.

Put another way, investment assets are tied to productive uses in some way. Baseless assets are not.
Openly and honestly examining the history is valuable. Think of this as Chesterson's fence. If something dates back to antiquity, it's hard to say why it exists. This isn't simply that -- this cultural phenomenon was designed to weaken the people of India (leveraging some ancient patterns). If folks understand that, and recognize that their ancestors got played, then they'll (hopefully) have a stronger impetus to collaborate to remove that fence. Unfortunately, it seems to involve convincing the people at the top to relinquish their unearned privilege -- that rarely happens without bloodshed.
The most helpful one is making the top of your tongue meet the roof of your mouth and pulling it backward as far as you are able. Simultaneously move your jaw down forcing it as much down as possible slowly, while not losing roof-tongue contact.

Hold the stretch, repeat the same for a couple of minutes and your muscles will ache. This also unclogs your sinus, so don't be surprised if you need to swallow or clear your nose. Also, don't do the full stretch at the first try. Warm up a bit first.

There are several others, but take too much time to describe here. You can research online. This is not obscure information. My doctor gave me a writeup. Please note they take a few days to take effect. Personally, I found them effective within a week, but YMMV.

Singing also helps - less effective but more fun (well, for you, if not others who will wince).
There is such a variant and numerous attempts are under way to breed such a plant. There are many hundreds of natural coffee plant variants and some do produce almost no caffeine but also do not produce good fruit. So far there hasn't been much success on combining the properties, there is a commercial bean out of africa naturally low in caffeine but its not great or very available.

I think it will happen at some point.
You don't have to read Tim Lee's writing to know how the latest FSD performs. There are lots of videos on YouTube, and new ones posted every day. My personal opinion is that this is a quantum leap over the previous implementation. Much respect to the engineers at Tesla for this amazing accomplishment.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tesla+fsd+beta
It got to be a lot more than a couple of years as time went on and some things - like high precision manufacturing typical in the West is something they never quite pulled off at scale. Dual use (i.e. designing and making things/capacity so that could be repurposed for military use) was a core part of economic policy with predictable results.
I have been in the US since 2012, never even once in all these years, I experienced or know some one who experienced this.I don’t think well-educated, middle class Indians who represent Indians in Silicon Valley will exhibit this behavior. Like the parent comment, not saying that this didn’t happen to people but it is definitely not a systematic thing.
"Especially the vegetarian question"

That question has nothing to do with Caste specifically. It is more of a thing between North and South Indians where North Indians are usually more of a meat eater than South but again it depends on the region. Plenty of North Indians are hardcore Vegetarian. It has nothing to do with caste or religious affiliation. Being a vegetarian in general is looked down upon even in America, isn't it ? Go watch the movie "escape plan" where schwarzenegger says "You hit like a vegetarian". Also the vegetarian question comes up with Indians because it is difficult to go to a non Indian Restaurant with hardcore vegetarians as they may not find many options. So when a group of Indian coworkers go out to eat, they have to know who are hardcore vegetarians and choose a restaurant accordingly.
> I struggled finding the publish button. As it was under the Share text.

Ditto, except that I have yet to find this button.

Edit: Oh, you have to hover over the "Share" text! I would not have found it without your comment.
Every consumer motherboard that I've bought in the last decade or more has supported RAID, and none of them have required any additional purchase to "unlock" it.
Trebek wins
> Nuclear is orders of magnitude better than other low-co2 options.

Then, why is it not economically viable when fairly competing with solar and wind energy? Because it requires much more subsidies and nuclear developers cannot even bear the financial risks of their projects, as one would expect from a economically viable technology.
Completely irrelevant since the model is run on a custom chip. So no part of the pytorch code actually ever makes it into production.
That does sound more plausible. Hiring people you feel comfortable with happens everywhere, and in India that often means people who speak your language or are from your region.
New way of learning programming and relaxation
Martin Luther King didn’t have statistics, studies to lean on, any spreadsheet either, and yet is universally hailed as addressing a variety of issues. Although he was heavily criticized at the time.

So we don’t really have a standard for perceiving an issue, only acknowledging an area ripe for abuse and aiming to mitigate it.
TIL gelato isn't ice cream. I'm from Italy, where "ice cream" is the translation of gelato, and by that I mean the sweet and icy milk-based stuff people eat during the summer, however you English speakers decide call it.
Abuse is abuse. Separating physical abuse from moral abuse and thiniking it is worse is a very modern idea.

Before, slapping a child was not abuse, now it is. But that doesnt mean before the abuse of children did not exist, just that a slap was not considered abuse if it was justified.

Personally i think moral abuse can be far far worse than physical... in part because people have harder times to take the decision to leave.

Im not even defending sean connery's point here, just trying to make some sense in why he could be something else than THE BIG EVIL for having this opinion at that time.
I honestly don’t think it will, not for a long time. It’s going to make things more complicated, because now we have to figure out how to move the entire ecosystem to it incrementally, while operating and maintaining systems during the long transition period, and making technical decisions at every step about how best to do concurrency with all those extra constraints.
I'd be very curious to hear some elaboration on this claim; it's the first time I've ever seen it.

From my point-of-view, the fact that TensorFlow completely scrapped its entire ≤v1.0 graph-based API for a PyTorch-style eager execution API for v2.0 onwards does not suggest that it was “designed from the ground up” in any way, shape, or form. We're talking a total rewrite of the entire frontend codebase going from v1.0 to v2.0, and a total abandonment of all v1.0 style code. TF 2.0 is basically a brand new language.

Under the hood it's all the same BLAS/LAPACK operations anyway. I've found TF superior to PyTorch for stats methods and probabilistic programming in general (far richer API), but for standard linear algebra the two are equivalent performancewise, with PyTorch having the superior API IMHO.
Less so for military equipment. They definitely didn't copy their titanium submarines (which when US intelligence discovered them, the Navy believed to be a false report because they didn't think it would be possible to fabricate).

Grid fins weren't copied western tech, either. Nor was Sputnik.
According to research I've found, red light will raise cortisol but not suppress melatonin production. Blue light does both. Don't remember which paper, but I found this one suggesting that blue light is worse than regular white light (which includes the blue spectrum) at suppressing melatonin: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1034/j.1600-079X....
As a Singaporean Indian (Tamil) I've always found caste identity talk in the US/India very intriguing. I've never heard caste mentioned here in SG; in fact I don't even know what caste I'm from. How would one identify your caste? Can't those from a lower caste just claim that they are brahmins?
iceland would understand.
This story and related stories seem very coordinated. Also its not "richest tech companies", its just one incident at Cisco so the title of the story is really misleading. However, if anyone is found actually discriminating against an employee in terms of opportunities, I hope the law against bias gets enforced.
I drink decaf tea because I like drinking tea but caffeine messes with my heart these days.
Owners of photoshop don't get free updates even though they own their computer. Software costs money to develop so saying all updates should be free simply because they already own the hardware doesn't makes any sense.
Nice. My opinion as an immigrant is the opposite: I'm clinging to this rock like a tenacious fucking barnacle. And as far as I know, I probably have a better right to it than you. At least I earned it. You were just born into it. I made it here.

You can pretend like you gifted me this but in reality you didn't. I took it through my hard work. And you can try to stop me but I'll beat you, even though you have the advantage of having been born here. Because I'm better.
The combination of a carbon tax and universal basic income is the solution here.

It would also push adoption of non-fossil energy sources, since poor people have more than enough incentives to chose the economically best solution for them.
That's not the trade-off. The trade-off is about what you have to think about when programming, and what kinds of bugs appear.

Non-buggy performance follows different rules.
I guess we're now in the "I'll believe any bullshit a smart sounding person tells me" stage of the AI market.
Perhaps celebrate the best of people (who are flawed but otherwise good) when they die, and then after a discrete interval acknowledge their faults, too? - Would be my opinion.