skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is simply mind boggling!!

>That question has nothing to do with Caste specifically.

It has everything to do with Caste specifically. This is the question we often get when upper caste folk are not able to figure out our caste from the names.

>So when a group of Indian coworkers go out to eat, they have to know who are hardcore vegetarians and choose a restaurant accordingly.

Do you know why this happens? The vegetarians consider non-vegetarians as 'impure'. They want to follow their tradition of not eating in an 'impure' place. This is one of the main forms of discrimination that lower castes face.

pls read this to understand that not so hidden meaning behind the word 'non-vegetarian'

https://www.dailyo.in/variety/non-veg-food-iit-bombay-vegeta...
Well register_globals was a kind of uniquely php thing, but that's been gone for ages at this point. I generally agree though that lots of the hate for php is a bit over the top.
The biggest win with DST is probably in the 40s of latitude or so. A lot further south and you don't have as much variation of light across the year so you might as well pick a suitable timezone and stick with it. A lot further north and there just isn't enough light in the winter to effectively use on a workday if you're indoors and there's lots of light in the summer so picking the ideal wakeup time isn't a big deal.
It’s hard to think of something which is more of a value judgement than the use of the word ‘normal’.

It happens to correspond to the statistical definition, and certainly that is the mathematical meaning, but in every domain outside of pure mathematics, it always implies a value judgement.
I used to write PHP. While the language itself is atrocious, the surrounding ecosystem is pretty good. How are you finding your job?
I mostly use LineageOS (formerly Cyanogenmod) as a starting point, sometimes with a few customisations but often just straight off the 'net.

As to app stores, I use F-Droid and Aurora Store (an alternative front end to the Play Store) for those few proprietary apps (mostly the Swedish BankID electronic ID app) I need to have access to. Aurora Store works with anonymous Google accounts, you do not need - and are advised not to use - a real Google account for this.

I use MicroG (free software implementation of the Google Services Framework) on a few devices but mostly just do without it.
OpenFaaS is more-or-less a competitor to Google Cloud Functions or AWS Lambda. None is really quite a subset of the other in terms of features, so you might gain some benefit by using multiple FaaS offerings, but they all occupy the same niche.

You can deploy OpenFaas on any Kubernetes offering, Google Cloud Run, Docker Swarm, etc... It runs on your favorite Docker substrate without much hassle.
In Tesla's most recent report, it turns out that compared to Teslas using plain-old-human drivers, Teslas using Autopilot driver assist functions were 2x more likely to get into an accident, and Teslas using FSD were 3x more likely to get into an accident.

Any way you cut it, Autopilot and FSD are statistically worse than human drivers.

This is the only data Tesla has released comparing similar cohorts of vehicles (i.e., modern luxury cars). The only stats in which Tesla beats the average driver is where they include all cars ever put on the road, including semi trucks...but under those models every other modern car is also better than average.

[EDIT: And this is the Forbes article on Tesla's report. There's also a Cleantechnica post on the same report as well. https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2020/10/28/new-te...]
Uhh the web technology predates ad-tech. CERN was not funded by advertising.

Also you say no ad-tech would mean a world without JavaScript like it’s a bad thing.
> That's because no other environment needs to. No other environment eager loads a quarter gig of ram to say hello world.

This is just hyperbole and you know it. The JVM with the turn of a few knobs is able to accommodate high throughput batch workloads, as well as lower latency workloads, especially with the advent of ZGC and Shenandoah, all while supporting multi-TB heap sizes.

Look at what hacks the Discord and Twitch teams had to endure to get around golang's workload specific GC for example, and it will show why the JVM is written the way it is.

> 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.

Those were not JVM-specific issues, and would have happened regardless in any hosting environment or even compiler if we're talking about running single binaries. You need a good upgrade path process laid out.
Dark mode matters, but so does light mode. I think the option should always be there for your users, since it seems like the population is split pretty evenly in their preference for one over the other. Evangelizing for only one mode is missing the point in my opinion.

On a side note (and not to come off as spammy), but I built a front-end framework specifically to make it easy for web devs to include dark mode (along with light mode) in the tools and dashboards they build: https://www.gethalfmoon.com/
Have you tried https://github.com/elliotchance/pie
Just 5 exercises are needed to relieve tired eyes at home
> has revealed that some users do in fact prefer light mode.

I think that I am the only human left on earth that prefers light mode, please don't shoot :)

I can't explain why but I actually have trouble understanding code on a dark mode editor, especially if it has a lot of other colors for variables / key words etc
The FA itself points readers to Python (with Flask, Pyramids, or Django), and also gives an offhand mention of Ruby + Rails and Perl + Catalyst. Java had also become a pretty reasonable language & environment by this time, and off-beat "let's build a better language on top of an existing runtime/ecosystem" languages like Clojure and F# were in full swing.
In fact, in the 1950 and 1960s it was attempted to make more use of nuclear by using electrical night storage heaters with cheaper tariffs over the night.

If you remember the pro-nuclear argument at that time, hold on, it was "electricity from nuclear energy will be so cheap, it will be useless to install a meter in privates homes".
Ask HN: What are the nicest personal software engineer websites?
I was in the process of reworking my own website when my wife, who's an artist, started noting the severe lack of images and movement. As an artist, most of the personal sites and portfolios she sees are filled with images and videos. As a software engineer, most of the sites I see are just text and any images used typically don't fit the site's style very well. But it got me wondering if there were some really nice personal sites for engineers which do this well.

As a note, for personal site, I mean a site which covers someone's work history, skills, projects, etc. I'm specifically not linking to my own to make it clear that this isn't an advertisement.
Maybe, or maybe not, self driving requires constant improvement and a herd of programmers continuing to serve the service and improve it.
Php4 is not yesterday so much as last decade.

Most people talling about legacy php mean php5, which is much more sane than php4
This alleged photo as described is quite disturbing [my understanding is this photo has only been released in a censored form so it is not possible to know whether the minor was actually in the photo or if Hunter was even in an inappropriate state]. I can understand with him having troubles with drugs that he could have accidentally taken the photo without realising what he was doing. Even without drugs he might not have realised the minor was in the background when he took the photo. But it's kind of weird that he didn't delete the photo once he would have realised the minor was in it.
> I really don't understand how a company can get away with using its customers as QA when they sell products that can kill people.

Stuff like that is only possible in the US. Would be unthinkable in the EU. Maybe in UJK but you know, they are no longer ...
Most of the big-data processing stack (Hadoop, Spark, Tez, HBase etc) only really exists because adtech companies needed to process mountains of garbage logs and cookie data in daily batch jobs. So they developed big-data libraries capable of it.

But those technologies are now used pretty widely across the whole tech industry, including in the hard sciences.
Dart on the AWS Ecosystem with Jonathan Böcker
In the latest Dart Developer Show episode, Jonathan Böcker has a fascinating story to share about his work creating the Dart AWS Client packages and how he is using them in production to run diagnostics on his app.

Use the links below to jump to any topic that interests you:

01:22 -- Jonathan’s background and professional experience
02:45 -- AWS big picture overview
03:45 -- AWS Lambda
05:21 -- AWS Lambda developer workflow
08:36 -- Motivation to explore using Dart on AWS Lambda
10:17 -- Creation of the Dart AWS Client libraries
18:16 -- Use case in production
26:11 -- The Dart AWS client open source project on GitHub
30:05 -- Final thoughts
> It’s hard with a family though if they’re on different schedules.

My approach was that the kids ate things I wouldn’t and so it wasn’t difficult for me to be present and not eat.

And pedagogically it was apparently better than eating, say, just salad or a minuscule serving of the meal, as their mother was concerned about modeling behavior that might encourage diet pathologies (e.g. anorexia).
Birds!? Goldfish?! and a Sauna and rocking chairs?

My Lord, these things were like the Galaxy-class Enterprise from Star Trek. They were almost cruise liners.
This isn’t the only caste system in SV.
I am sorry but non-brahmins typically do not wear the thread. The thread ceremonies will not be held if you are not a brahmin.
> ... but there is a whole world of absolutely critical programming that cannot simply eliminate messiness, due to interfacing with humans and our flawed practices.

I understand what you're saying, but I don't think you'll find many programmers that will argue that a programmer shouldn't use the best tool for the job.
I've seen supermicro boards in the past 5 years which have this.
I was thinking it was the parents that assigned the different surname when naming their newborns, not the children that threw the name away. The former sounds legally easier than the latter.

My question was, why assign a lower-caste name to one's child if they have the option not to? But I suppose even then not all people with these lower-caste names see their surname as bad or harmful to their children, if I understood you correctly.
Still boggles my mind how Russia is considered as Europe... 70% of their country is located in asia. As seems to be their thinking.
I had no idea the Ludlum novel "The Rhinemann Exchange" had a basis in a historical event. The war is different, but the plot the same.
Ever heard of NATO?
> The largest problem with PHP is how objects use arrow notation, arrays use arrow notation, strings use dot concatenation, and variables use dollar notation.

I think those are PHP's smallest problems. Semantics more important than syntax.
You're in luck, caffeine pills cost pennies and are readily available at many strengths.
The October Revolution was on the 7th of November using the Gregorian calendar. It is mentioned in Jack Ryan's presentation to the Joint Chiefs.
Agreed, except the sort of "we found God" types referenced by the parent in regards to pure functional programming.
I'm not sure I agree with you on the thing about reform and community. I don't want to sound unfair but 'community' this way reminds me of how 'family' is often used as a blunt instrument too. You're powerless against the larger group (or the mob) and their expectations, which are ever changing. Reform is quite a strong word (with strong authoritarian connotations) and I do wonder what the reaction would be if the proponents of this found themselves on the receiving end of it.
CGI didn't have register_globals, so yes on that count. I'm sure the quality of database access libraries varied, which is still a better situation than having a broken escape function built in to the language.
For such a group of “hackers” they have an extreme aversion to hacking on their own alternative financial system. The ethos of the community has been co-opted by conformism.
Light mode is, objectively, better for your eyes and helps you to read text more clearly.
I want the ability to convert some of my hours into money by working. I don't expect 4 hours of work a week to convert into a happy life for a family of four.
I’m just curious to know how FPGAs are used in our industry
On the other hand...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_(spacecraft)
Can confirm that Germany is totally covered by solar panels by now.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/germany-gree...

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/german-renewables-recor...

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2020/10/29/solar-other-renewable...

https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/press-media/press-releases/...
Anecdotes are data. They're a different kind of data, that usually leads to investigations resulting in more rigorously gathered data.

Multiple drivers are reporting multiple incidents of varying severity in the short (week?) that the "full" FSD beta has been available. That's a huge concern, and it absolutely needs to be followed up on.
Great tutorial. OpenFaaS is an amazing piece of software, thanks for putting in so much time and effort, Alex!
Octotree – Proprietary Firefox extension contains AGPL-licensed code
I like these kind of news. However hipsters jumping on new buzz word language or tech. Evolution is slow. C c++ java php will be here always. Dont jump on inner solution languages of big tech companies.
Ohh I loved that one. I haven't watched his bond films and I didn't liked the few clips. Him as an older actors was fabulous everytime I saw him.

Dragonheart - I loved his voice in that. I think I realized for the first time, what a voice can do. The angry, bitter dragon turning to the wise advisor.

And someone else mentioned 'The Rock'
It looks interesting; I do wonder its effectiveness if an actual fire occurred. The sprinklers seem to have a pre-set arc they spray to and I'm not sure this is the most effective way to combat a random house fire.

That said, maybe the system has proven effective; however, from a naive PoV to me it looks more like it's for show. Higher up, remote controlled directed sprinklers might do beter?
I think you have to acknowledge that you're part of a very specialized user group, and that your goals and requirements are very different from the general population.

Is Apple to sell phones to you, or to the general population? Answer is obvious, isn't it?

For the general population, making a tightly controlled (and simple) hardware and software environment makes more things possible -- overall -- to the users than absolute freedom does. It's a paradox -- by controlling things, they set the market for this product loose.

You can see how it is a hard thing to manage to, and leads to users like you being unhappy. Linux gives incredible freedom to users, yet has very little market penetration.

Not everyone wants to be able to side load apps, tweak their battery charging settings, and have their phone die because they did something wrong to it.
But that wasn't the point of the previous poster. We're not talking about an existing issue if the car performs according to the spec you bought with it. Then that's a performance upgrade.

The question is basically whether it's an issue or something that works as intended but could be better.
Mostly how much fat and muscle tissue one has. The known record under medical supervision is over a year, but that person was very fat at the start.
Segregation based on caste is the way of life. Its also the reason why arranged marriages exist. To maintain caste purity. If you notice something clearly the only ones who are denying caste discrimination are the upper castes.

They are getting uncomfortable because the white people are learning about it.
The US currently has less than 10 seconds of battery storage relative to it's 11.5 TWh average daily electricity consumption. The scale required relative to the scale we're capable of providing presents a staggering difference. We're talking about a 1,000x to 10,000x difference between current battery storage and required battery storage.
They also all happened before crypto. But no one spoke about the evils of fiat currency then.
> and all the people from higher castes keep the signifying surnames

But that's not what was said. YetAnotherNick said many of all castes are doing this.
Without releasing data, Tesla is forcing analysts to focus on anecdotes, which suffer from all the usual problems like selection bias. What we need to know:

- How often do drivers intervene?

- How often do drivers fail to intervene and the system causes an accident?

- How often does the system take an action which has a high likelihood of having prevented an accident?

- How often does the system do so when it seems likely a human driver would have failed to do so?

- Integrated together, what's the expected dynamics of these probabilities and their net impact insofar as the system being releases more widely creates training data to help improve them more quickly over time?

It could very well turn out to be the case that this system is purely positive, strongly net positive, or neutral in harm reduction. The question then is, given that, what ethics should inform its release: is putting the stress on the driver sufficient if it say, saves 1000 lives in the next six months and will harm noone in exchange, other than some drivers having to intervene and have moments of stress? What if it will save 1000 and 10 people will be harmed by failing to intervene? What if it's an even swap, harming people who fail to intervene in exchange for saving people who would have inevitably been lost to accidents they couldn't have prevented?

Saying "this is wrong to do" based upon anecdotes is dumb analysis. Saying "this is wrong to do" based upon an absolutist form of ethics is fair, but it also means you reject that we should be trying to solve self driving. If you think it's wrong to do and are not doing either, you ought to articulate what scenario in terms of data would justify the action vs not, even if that data is unknown right now.
I don't get the "no" part: I think you're in perfect agreement with "irrational". There's heaps of COBOL that's very much staying. People are getting hired as junior COBOL developers in 2020.
I'm glad somebody is validating the mail.

So it seems nothing has been proved false? The investigation should continue. (Disclaimer: I think Hunter Biden's high-dollar job does look suspicious. More investigation is warranted.)
Absolutely -- go push other companies to make an alternative. Or even better, go investigate how to build a phone and its software, in a way that gives you all the control and repairability you want.

Maybe you'll find that it's harder than you think (as well to turn a profit) and there may be reasons why things are the way they are?
Having to be prepared to take over at any second is more tiring than doing the other stuff myself. You have to be even more alert because you're changing mental states.

For most people, lane keeping and speed control is ingrained enough they do it subconsciously.
Diet restriction (with maintaining the required nutrients) is also key to living longer
Battery prices (for different battery technologies) are currently in free fall, and the market is booming, so we are 100% sure to see important economy of scale there. This in currently not the case at all of SMR...

When it comes to technology at pilot scale, price and capacity improvement may turn out to never be realized... But there are dozens of promising tech, so it seems unlikely that all tech will "fail"... and SMR exhibit higer level of risk cause it is even not at the pilot scale project, and it is mostly one technology (with 2 or 3 varieties)

And there are many more tech at the lab stage

And there is also thermal storage, with many proven and cheap technology, and many different innovation at different stage in the pipe

And there are all the innovation to reduce the intermittence and help manage it

And there are all the innovation and intervention to allow to make energy demand more flexible
Not nearly as nice as The Hunt For Red October makes it out to be
Personally I agree, especially when reading long documents, but that is obviously subjective. However, I swear I have met people who always turn on dark modes, regardless of the type of content they are consuming.
Breeders are not established technology, and they have their own risks; they are much harder to control and cool.
That depends on the feature. They generally do not remove EAP/FSD on cars they resell. There have been mistakes though, and it takes some pressure to get them to fix those mistakes. There have also been cases of people getting EAP/FSD when they didn't pay for it.

Other features, like unlimited supercharging on newer cars (older unlimited supercharging followed the car) or free data were only for the original buyer, and they will remove those when they resell a car.

https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/posts/4496271/
The levelized cost of energy report I linked too (https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-...). is the latest report and is dated OCT 19 2020.

Consumer rooftop solar might be the most highly subsidized form of power in the world, so yes it might be cost-effective for the people getting the subsidies - but that doesn't mean it is not expensive.