skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At my work in a tech company there were social circles loosely formed along the lines: "natives", Indians and eastern Europeans. One Indian guy was an exception - he was a part of our eastern European group. Later I learned that he was the only non-Brahmin Indian in the company. Based on that and a few other situations I can say that Caste system is still present, even among Indian tech workers that emigrated to the UK and the USA.

Edit: I don't think it's "explicitly" present. Just the thought in the back of the head: "does the other person still cares about the Caste system, even if they say the doesn't?" is enough to erode social interactions.
Yup. It feels like someone saw a couple of datapoints and wrote some clickbait article with no meta point.
"Is Trump Planning a Coup d’État?[0]" - September 7, 2020

Yeah, all that writing on the wall, it's just speculation, not worth reading.

[0] https://www.thenation.com/article/society/trump-coup-electio...
What moment?
Think of just something simple like writing an immigrants name inside a sentence. It's kinda funny that people in SV, full of immigrants, never seem to think of putting their own or coworkers name in a String.
If you can do recent history, you can probably do the full history.

I personally search my deep history regularly. I might be looking for a recipe, link, someones contact information, an address... There are many reasons having the full history available is important, and "losing" it by getting a new device is a terrible user experience.
Failed products don’t need more features, which was my point.
One day he will get his first successful game company.
I first thought of the Fallout universe mutated cows.
CQL is a very confusing term to pronounce.
One developer's "old and stable" is another developer's "filled with vulnerabilities that nobody will ever find let alone bother to fix because everyone assumes it's old and stable."

IPv6 has been a draft standard since 1998. Get a better argument.
Of course that’s by design. Big company development centers in out of the way US cities are really offshoring operations in the US.

The governments make money (guest workers pay taxes and send remittances home), the companies make money and don’t get grief for offshoring, the wages for low/moderate tech skills are suppressed, and the worker gets screwed.
Strep can lay ‘dormant’ in people for a while. Two months after the original outbreak and lockdown my daughter got strep. We hadn’t seen a soul. Dr said one of us was likely the carrier.
Was any thought given to compatibility with the class/method organization of any of the numerous[0] methods of reading Excel files, particularly OpenPyXl[1]?

[0] http://www.python-excel.org/

[1] https://openpyxl.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
I mulled over your Wine port joke and found it quite tasteful, happy 2022!
"shaved head". Right there is the sign that you're bullshitting. Except for some South Indian temple employees and possibly elders who came over with their grandchildren nobody does that (and believe me I've looked for them.)

Now tilaka etc. Slightly more likely but bear in mind (I presume you are North Indian based on your spelling of janoi am I right?) in many places vegetarianism isn't an absolute norm even amongst Brahmans. Also I would presume purely as a matter of sociology vegetarianism would be one of the distinctive features least likely to go because it is something increasingly fashionable in the larger community whereas janoi etc. are not.
What's going to happen if they simply do nothing? Basically, if they treat it like flu?
How do you deal with backing up the data/“disaster” recovery? (I out disaster in quotes because we’re talking a about home servers so not mission critical data but still pretty annoying to lose.
https://findstarlink.com/ - in case anyone want to see them.
According to back-of-the-napkin math, my home NAS has more storage than was manufactured globally in the year I bought my first computer.

It doesn’t seem impossible that someone might have a single pool too big for 2^64 by the end of ZFS’s useful life.
Between "there's no guarantee that the message viewed by a user was actually written by the poster" and "You absolutely cannot fake a message being cryptographically signed without providing a broken verification function" you moved the goalposts so hard it gave me whiplash and I'm afraid I can't continue this discussion due to my concussion.
> So in practical terms how would one make such a platform widely adopted?

I’m not sure if can be…

- Developers working for free generally build things that they themselves want to use. If you look at HN’s opinions on eg Discord vs IRC (or Dropbox vs rsync+cronjob), you can see how the venn diagram of “nerd goals” (e2ee, distributed, federated) and “everybody else goals” (I want to communicate with my friends) is almost two separate circles.

- If you get paid by the users, nobody will use it (Remember app.net? Me neither)

- If you get paid by advertisers, you have the same economic incentives that created Facebook
I'm talking about 3 ppl in a 1 bdrm apt, not 3 bdrm apts
Intellectual Ventures made it seem promising enough in 2010, the slow-motion shootdowns are pretty amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKm8FolQ7jw

Guess there were some obstacles that couldn't be overcome
I'm the OP (of the HN submission — not the tweet). Really interesting discussions. I've upvoted this — hopefully it makes it to the top.

Here's the link to the HN discussion on the update: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29750660
I've been waiting for BeOS on the desktop for so long. Glad to see the Haiku OS taking off!
Well...

In my personal/family life allowing my kids the freedom to do big things with enough oversight to ensure basic safety but giving them the freedom to try things and figure stuff out. Give them goals but force them to think through ideas, try things and take chances. I've done this a little in the past and have always been amazed at the results.

Team level: not enforcing a very strict "it must be coded in this way approach" (unless it is obviously wrong). Giving people the ability to try out new ideas and building some time in for learning how not to do things. Example: if a dev takes a couple of days to build a new feature but it turns out that feature sucks, it should be OK that he tried it. Trying to be more of an encouragement to designers and allow designs—even bad ones to get some play. We might learn something along the way.
The Matrix Watch
> Or the absurdly high amount of Cesium being found in migrating Tuna?

10 times higher levels than normal of a single radioactive element is still not dangerous, especially since this is temporary. The main dangers with eating tuna still comes from their high mercury content, which is mainly due to coal power plants.

> The levels of radioactive cesium were 10 times higher than the amount measured in tuna off the California coast in previous years. But even so, that's still far below safe-to-eat limits set by the U.S. and Japanese governments.
Everyone wants this. We should do it slowly, but we should do it.

In the US, omnicron is going fast. Hopefully, and I say this with week old information in a huge information-differential environment that evolves hourly, omnicron itself is a step towards mitigation.
Very few people in east or west get anywhere based purely on their own "merit". We all build on the foundation that was left for us by our predecessors.

Some of us were given a massive leg up. Others were born into families that have been systematically suppressed and intentionally prevented from making progress for generations.
They very much are interesting, and that's a pretty wild story. There are people a lot smarter than me, doctors in the field, that think we have some of our fundamental understanding of viruses wrong. I haven't read enough to take a stance that 100+ years of research is incorrect, but I do love hearing alternative hypotheses on a variety of topics. I don't think there's any harm in hearing what others have to say, at least.
That is sad to hear. How do Indians born or who have lived a significant part of their life in the US integrate versus more recent emigrés?
They buried the lede, perhaps in a coal mine:

"The latest full-year figures also showed:

25.4% of total Scottish energy consumption came from renewable sources, up from 24.0% in 2019.
61.8% of all electricity generated was from renewables and 88.1% was from low carbon sources."
I was interested to see that Phaunef, a funeral home in my hometown (Manchester NH) was one of the first to offer this. Phanef served many members in my family and was also a leader in direct cremation.

(Cremation turned out to be a big fight in my family as my aunt was angry that my dad didn’t get a big Catholic funeral. The people at the church told her to quit coming around complaining about it because there was nothing they could do about it. In the following years my family got strongly turned off from the church for many reasons, particularly the ‘pray for the pedophile priests’ BS. One brother had one in the church that was actually pretty inspiring and almost evangelical in its viewpoint, but he was a traditional family man who really deserved it.)
If it has IR it should also be able to spot aircraft trails but either way if there is any risk of blinding a pilot then they should tread extremely lightly (or non-startup-ish, i.e. obvious potential for "move fast and kill people").
seems broken? i see CORS problems with loading model.json in both Chrome and Safari.
An organized team of people used to working with each other?
“Doesn’t know” is inaccurate. It would be more accurate to say he “Has been told, but obstinately persists in his idiocy”
Right. Because something needs to be airtight 100% successful with 100% compliance and 100% enforcement or nothing at all. As with American politics, there is no gray area ever.

I completely disagree with your statement. The goals of the current paradigm of dealing with the pandemic is to minimize the strain on various processes from a public health perspective. Anything moving the needle is effective. That's why guidelines are like 'gatherings of 20 people or more'. It's to minimize spread, not completely obliterate it.

Comparing this incident with public health directives is disingenuous at best. It's the exact same line of thinking about masks. Oh, masks aren't 100% effective in preventing infection. Therefore, they're useless so nobody should wear them, ever.

We've also sent some people to the IIS and they didn't test positive. What does that say about the current paradigm?
Fair point, but it’s a problem that plagues many religions where the decrees have been preserved but the reasoning lost or modified through interpretation. Who knows but maybe the list had an “etc.” in it that covers 9x9 but that 8x8 was the prevalent game of the times so it was called out explicitly. Or maybe 9x9 games took 10x the time as a 8x8 game, and no one could fathom spending days playing a 9x9 game. Or maybe it is just an arbitrary list. This is common with any law like the “right to bear arms” where new “arms” like rocket launchers were invented later. Unfortunately, the context appears lost.

I understood “negligence” to mean that playing games is likely to make you negligent of your spiritual or daily life. That’s still a common philosophy with parents chiding their kids for playing too many games and not spending enough time on school work, chores, etc.
Different places, different goals.

If you're on an Antarctic base where medical facilities are meager and the time and cost for evacuation is high, zero infections is likely the goal.

As an extreme example, the US grounded an astronaut for being exposed, not infected, by measles:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Mattingly#Apollo_13
Looks like they're about $1000 dollars. Seems like a good way to undermine capitalism. I wonder if Warner Brothers forced Lana Wachowski to wear one.

Seriously though I want one.
Had your daughter had it before? Once you get strep, you tend to get it semi-frequently. I get it once every couple of years. I always kind of wondered if it's like a viral infection such as cold sores where it lays dormant permanently, and flares up on occasion. However it is bacterial, and not viral, which counts against that idea.
It might not actually be a violation of copyright, or search engines, the internet archive (which is nowhere near rich or powerful BTW), caching services and more in general could not legally exist in a practical manner. I'm guessing clear view exists under similar law. It's an image search engine, focused on faces. Google & microsoft could probably implement it today with their own image index, but don't because they will get a shit ton of negative PR and legislation for not enough money for that niche use case, because they are too big and powerful.

Google could very easily start the most effective hedge fund in the world due to their search engine power and ability to hire the smart, but do not, probably for much of the same reasons.
Firefox on Windows can also be configured to use the system store. Most corporate admins would do this because it makes for only having to manage them in one place. On Mac it can't though, and on Linux there isn't really a definitive system one (unless you consider OpenSSL's).
A filesystem accepting only NFD should be filed as bug. They can normalize it internally to NFD, as Apples previous HFS+ did.

But even worse than that is Python's NFKC, which normalizes ℌ to H and so on. The recommended normalizations are NFC for offline normalization (like in compiled languages and databases) and NFD for online, where speed trump's space. unicode.org talking that much about NFKC was a big mistake. NFKC is crazy and doesn't even roundtrip. The whole TR31 XID_Start/Continue sets are mostly because of NFKC issues, not so about stability. But people bought it for its stability argument.

I'm just writing a library and linter for such issues: https://github.com/rurban/libu8ident

Also note that C++23 will most likely enforce NFC identifiers only. Same problem as with this filesystem. My implementation was to accept all normal. forms and store it internally and in the object files as NFC. The C ABI should declare it also. Currently they don't care as much as Linux filesystems: Nada. Identifiers being unidentifiable
the article mentions at least 1 lawsuit by a low caste engineer against upper caste managers in sv
The format is probably one step above serializing internal data structures and writing them out to disk and they haven't bothered to specialize it in the framework they use to develop these apps.
> Between "there's no guarantee that the message viewed by a user was actually written by the poster" and "You absolutely cannot fake a message being cryptographically signed without providing a broken verification function" you moved the goalposts so hard it gave me whiplash and I'm afraid I can't continue this discussion due to my concussion.

I think it might be wise to review what signing means to understand that I didn't "move the goalposts" at all [1], but thanks for the discussion, as I merit it will help a lot of people to better understand the power of cryptography as I'm guessing it's a new field here as of yet.

Happy New Year!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_signature
I keep meaning to do a deep dive into it, but surely we now have enough hardware based modules (several billion smartphones with secure enclaves and the like, motherboards with secure enclaves and millions of Ubikeys) that we should push to go server and client certificate only?

I could imagine it's simple enough for a small company, even forcing customers to do it if the value proposition is high enough.
Thanks for the detailed insight!
As powerful and relevant as ever.
You'll have to follow the popularity trail further back to early 2010's Minecraft hunger games servers.

(Rather I suppose the popular 2008 book The Hunger Games.)
At some point, when someone is spewing disinformation that has been already proven false many times, what else can you do to improve the signal-to-noise ratio but to mute them?
First off they're not the same thing, comparing the removal of questionable healthcare information voluntarily on a private platform to the government mandated removal in China is a false equivalence.

Secondly if you want to discuss the Chinese approach to tech it's pretty trivial to find good reasons for their conduct. They've enabled a domestic, competitive tech industry free from foreign interference. You just need to compare it to Europe which is dominated by American platforms. If you don't own your software you have no sovereignty and live by other people's rule, which China is tired off. It's that simple.

Also East-Asian societies, not just the scary authoritarian China price social harmony and health highly and above individual interests. Which I'm inclined to think is fairly sane seeing the bodies pile up over here.
> Since dot "." is already used to refer to columns

But is it really? If you think of it as referencing "some attribute of whatever is mentioned before it", the period could also refer to constraints, indexes, or whatever.
Flightaware’s api isn’t super cheap, that would add up if you’re calling the planes overhead API all day
The problem with fact-checking is usually not the fact-checking. The problem is giving a label as simple as "true", "false", "misleading" to some assertation that can be more complex than that.
The purpose of fluffy thinking in science is clear to anyone who's heard even a few original thinkers talk about where they got their hard theories from, which is as a way for a worker to be slightly more likely to guess the right equation than if they were literally just guessing.
Don’t let this descend into another systemd thread. Just don’t lump all criticism against systemd as pitchforks, since it delegitimises complaints.

What you state is absolutely true, but denying there’s more nuance is not helpful. That’s all I’ll say because this is not a worthwhile conversation to have here.
I mentioned this in my post - you'd just need more of a burden of proof of ill intention in the request itself to bring this kind of charge.
Powershell is usually terse enough as one uses aliases for interactive? (Not to mention tab completion)

E.g list files

Shell: “ls”
Powershell: “ls”

Show sizes of files in size order
Poweshell:

ls | sort length | select length

in Unix:

find -maxdepth 1 -type f -printf '%s\n' | sort - n

Lovely.

I use the long form stuff for scripting in Powershell (tab completed in the editor) but it’s not like anyone writes “Get-ChildItem” instead of dir/ls/gci.
No, I’m seeing it. It’s just less scummy than the average website because they admit to trying to trick you into accepting tracking, instead of using every dark pattern in the book for more advertising dollars.
No not if the cert is preloaded into the system store or browser.

However mobile platforms are more finicky now. For example in Android 7 and above you can no longer add certs to the system store in most management modes. Only to the user store. And apps can choose whether to obey the user store or not. So many apps then refuse to work.

There's a few management modes that do allow it but they require a full wipe to start the enrollment process which starts from the setup wizard.
Third option: flawed hypothesis. Swabbing the nose or throat and performing subsequent RT-PCR analysis is not an infallable indicator of whether or not someone is free from the virus SARS-CoV-2 or infected with or likely to become infected with the respiratory disease COVID-19. Before 2020 such tests were typically only used as a part of a diagnosis by a medical professional upon consultation, typically also alongside symptoms. The limitations of testing were well understood before 2020 but somehow that all got lost in the panic.

Another point is that there are animal reservoirs for SARS-CoV-2. We've known this since well before the zero-covid debacle, making such a plan was doomed to fail, as it did. It's likely that the virus can live in intestinal tracts of animals, including humans, for long periods without being detected and destroyed by the host's immune system. This makes the use of negative nose/throat swab tests as a guarantee of no subsequent infection a fallacy.

The way we deal with COVID is to stop testing asymptomatic people and use the plethora of effective early treatment protocols we've developed since as early as December 2019 to vastly reduce the need for hospital treatment in those that do develop symptoms.
> Secondly the whole token exchange thing is quite opaque. If there's something wrong with the certificate or the returned token, it can be quite difficult to figure out what's wrong from our end.

When you say "token exchange" are you specifically referring to the token exchange type grant that was ratified in 2020 or do you mean calling the token endpoint to get the token as part of the PKCE workflow? If it is the prior, I'm curious about your experience with this relatively new feature and why it's so difficult to use.
youtube-dl does this for video sites, it works on more than just YouTube despite its name.

teller.io does similar for banks.

I would love to see a coordinated effort along the same lines for things with non public APIs. It is however a huge ask as internal APIs are unstable and constantly changing/actively working against things like this which is a huge amount of work to keep up with.
GTK or Qt?
I agree. Maybe I'll be the one to write it. It'd be easy. Just start driving Uber again and delivering food and start collecting stories.
OPT is basically an internship. Internships are often at/near minimum wage, regardless of degree level or immigration status.
Yup, police always want the power relationship to be one way. You see it today with special public records exceptions, special license plates and more, which are not available for many others who would benefit, like DV victims, psychologists, and more.
You probably want -name or -iname which match glob-like expressions against the filename (the "i" prefix means case insensitive).

If you really need regex you can use -regex or -iregex, but be aware that they match the entire path (so if you do "find ." you will be matching a string that starts with "./"
Why is it either/or? Immigrants often get a leg up in "working in a different society" by taking advantage of kinship based support networks. The have nots of global society try to attain social justice through tribalist notions of identity. And so on.

I would say most people all over the world maintain a weak form of particularist identity and a weak notion of global identity and simply don't think about the contradictions.
I requested they remove any images they may have of me as well, and got the same response, even though I pointed out that quite a few of the images of me are self hosted, all rights reserved, and they don't have permission to do anything but view them. They asked me the same thing which is insane, then silence.

Like what, am I going to send EVERY headshot I have to them? I can't wait for them to get lawyer nuked.
My guess would be that SQLite is great for record/rows but not so good for bulk (de)serialization, as the sibling comment notes. A better flexible format nowadays might be Apache Arrow for the task at hand.

Given Joel Spolsky’s stories of weird Excel corner cases the Numbers team had their hands full making redundant software somehow different and yet remain grounded in something akin to printed sheets of paper.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...
Aren't consumers already used as guinea pigs for corporate users in Windows?

The nice things about backports is not only security fixes, but general bug fixes and no "new feuture" bug introductions. E.g. gcc backports to older versions.