skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I imagine OP says its a tendency in the West as to avoid generalizations outside their personal experience, not because it's necessarily not the case outside the West. Anecdotally, I think there's at least some distinction between white people in Asia. For instance, there seems to be a distinction from white Americans from white Europeans.

That said, I don't think the claim quite holds that westerners view all minorities as the same. East Asians, while maybe initially assumed to be Chinese or Japanese, have generally unique stereotypes in the US. I also recall a story reported in This American Life[1] that describes a black American woman in Paris, and how her treatment depends on whether she's seen as an African or an American. I think it's perhaps a bit more accurate to say that the broad appearance of a minority group invokes certain stereotypes, but these stereotypes will become more specific with more information about the individual. There's obviously a limit to this, since a Chinese person from Shanghai and a Chinese person from some small city in Henan is a distinction that probably won't mean much to most non-Chinese, but I think people would realize there _is_ a difference, just not know where that difference manifests itself, and obviously cannot change their mental models without that knowledge.

[1] https://www.thisamericanlife.org/165/americans-in-paris/act-...
Few random notes from my heart:

- it's about time people rediscover that emails are not webmails, even if except for few "geeky" modern MUA the real development of MUA is stuck at '90s level emails can and should be perfectly locally synced, accessed, sent and used in the more broad sense;

- I do not care about "secrecy" of my mails simply because I do not mail myself normally but third parties, since I have no control on them, no knowledge of their systems I can only assume that my messages will be public anyway. Yes, as many I have few friends with GNUPG keys, cross-signed in various occasions etc, but that's just "for fun", not for real usage simply because if GNUGP/PGP became a widespread habits anyone took it's almost useless: I do not have to discuss anything really secret via mail with some friends. At maximum I might have to privately contact third parties signaling a vulnerability, but in most cases those parties do not have a public key either...

- even if we arrive en masse to local/classic mail usage, with IMAP sync-ed maildirs, locally indexed, locally used etc, encryption can be useful ONLY if the system it live on can be trusted. Using a "safe" system on a proprietary OS on top of proprietary hw is not much different than mounting a super-strong door on a very fragile wall, a thief just need to detach the door from the wall without really facing it.
I notice the examples you're giving are all lower budget indie games, it's also worth pointing out that there's a /tonne/ of big budget games that also eschew this kind of nonsense. See: FromSoftware, basically anything that was a Sony published PS4 exclusive (Horizon Zero Dawn, Spiderman, Days Gone, Uncharted, etc etc), Monster Hunter, Resident Evil, basically everything Nintendo puts out, many many more (honestly I could probably recommend like 50+ AAA quality titles released in the past ~5 years if I sat here thinking for a while, without predatory microtransactions (maybe a few would sell some silly cosmetic items but that's about it)).

Really if you ignore the 'axis of evil' publishers (Activision, EA, Ubisoft) /most/ AAA games are fine.

Also in any single player Ubisoft game I've played (so mostly Far Cry and Assassins creed + Ghost Recon Wildlands (which is great btw)) the microtransactions can be completely ignored, none of their games are balanced around people spending money like mobile games are, nor is any meaningful content locked behind a pay wall unless it's in the form of a proper expansion/stand alone spinoff.

There seems to be a commonly held opinion on HN threads like this that the gaming industry has failed beyond repair, and all AAA games are dark pattern riddled slot machines. But it's really not true outside of a handful of large bad actor publishers. Just open up Steam and read user reviews, it's pretty obvious when a game is a poor cash grab.

I echo the sentiment of another comment here, saying that the market for "good" games never went away (really it's grown). It's just that there's now also another market, serving different customers with casual games with gameplay related microtransactions - which you can completely ignore as a consumer.
"should" is a funny word- whenever people offer a "should" in an unsolicited context, it's pretty much guaranteed not to be taken under serious advisement. Regardless of validity and motivation of the should-sayer.

You make a good point about avoiding ending up the state of being old and in poor physical condition. Existing as a prisoner in your own body is a solid definition of living in a Waking Hell.

I think people deserve access to good information (we all do these days, via the great equalizer that is The Internet) and make their own choices. That said, I'm not too keen on subsidizing the costs they choose to externalize.

Yet still, for many who never engage in any of the deleterious behaviors, they end up dying from terminal cancer or being T-boned by an idiot while waiting at a stop light. Life is supremely unfair, and we control nothing. Control is always an illusion at best.

The task falls to each of us to decide what we want to try to mitigate the risk of.
> The reason Russia has elevated tyrants to power for centuries is deep-rooted in Russian soul to the point where it's not even a problem.

Not for Russia(ns), maybe; only for everyone around them.
This was the textbook for my networking class in my CS degree. Labs were right from that website as well. Great book for learning networks.
Sure, and in order to correctly value something, you need to know the relatively real time price history to infer how supply and demand curves are moving.

Not having that information means you will ascribe the wrong value, which means society is not allocating resources properly.
People who love telling other people what to do and how to live have had an absolute field day with the pandemic. The amount of admonishing and screeching about everyone needing to wear their masks and get vaccinated and how mandates are good and how people who are against mandates are Nazi's, has been absolutely insane. These people get a sick joy out of it, they revolve their lives around it, and I'm really not sure how they're going to cope now that the pandemic appears to be coming to an end for the time being - or at least, now that it's being accepted as a part of life, finally.

It's not so much monetary profit they're receiving, but rather the self satisfaction knowing that they totally schooled someone on the internet about proper COVID etiquette - while simultaneously ensuring a red wave this November (which is why the shaming has toned down within the past couple weeks now that the reality is setting in about the midterms).
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Might not be a coincidence that Higgs has said he wouldn't have an academic position today.
If my fellow Indians are fostering this sort of hatred even after coming to US then we definitely haven't changed (and also, I am not shocked like others here).
I work as a security engineer for a benefits provider. This stuff has been top of mind for me, the rest of my team, and our CSIO.

I love the direction you're going with this. Would love to hear more about:

1. Status. Is this a beta product or do you have enough here to sell a service?

2. Roadmap. What are you building out next? What are core capabilities you see being added to Socket?

3. Pricing. How much does it cost? What's your revenue model?

Depending on how you've put this together you may be addressing a serious need in this space that I've only previously seen addressed by stuff like Deno (where you set application capabilities prior to execution) or via virtualization.

Contact details in my profile. If your product does what it says on the tin I'd love to give it a spin.
It's not really WW3 unless China joins.

"The West" vs. Russia is just a military execution of Russia.
The US did not invade Cuba...

Ok, there was the Bay of Pigs, but the US pulled out support at the last minute. Had they invaded Cuba we'd be using that as an example of where the US did the wrong thing by invading a sovereign country (there are other examples...FYI, I'm not American).

As I commented elsewhere, this is a 14 year old invitation.
This is OK in my opinion. I bought a PS4 and called it my Uncharted machine because that was the motivator. Tried a few other games on the console but not necessarily as many as other platforms.

World is big and people are numerous. Games can be more than text adventures, 90s era, shooters, or whatever pure-blood PC master race gray beards think they are/were/should be.
also as an Indian it's my experience that Pakistanis and Indians in foreign countries tend to hang together rather than separately, at least in the circles I've been a part of.
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I think I'd prefer to run Firefox with uBlock Origin etc. on it, though. For one, that enables synching with other devices, on the other hand, solid ad-blocking will probably be helpful with performance in general.
FWIW, RISC-V has the Ztso "extension" in its standard.
Yes of course.

Turns out the CEO in question was engaged in deception and self-dealing and self-enrichment without consent of shareholders.

Sounds like a good reason to back out of a deal. Unlike the reason you originally stated which was excessive compensation.

As I pointed out that’s not a good reason. Clearly there was more to the story.
> I hope this does not come across as trite

Not at all. I'm sorry for your loss, and thank you for sharing with us - who all have or will lose someone - a way to heal.
Viktor Kharitonin and Roman Abramovich are linked to the ownership of the Nurburgring race track. Both are on the sanctioned oligarchs list.

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/30/politics/full-us-list-of-...

Viktor Kharitonin is #43, Abranovich is #2.

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/motorsport/russian-billio...
Yep, came here to say this.

It doesn't get any more anonymous than cash in the mail. :)
There is no OpenGL driver on M1. So your app is running through a translation layer to the native Metal driver underneath. All OpenGL rendering on M1, no matter the framework (iOS, Catalyst, macOS) has pretty terrible performance because of that.
Literal hubs still generally beat the hell out of dealing with serial connections :-D
The old SE was nice. The new SE is big. The 12 mini is a little smaller.
Android games for kids are so depressing. I imagine iOS is no better. The games AND game ads are so manipulative, so transactional, unregulated.

It does not take long for me to come to the realization: WOW, these games are all employing addiction triggers, are all manipulative, are all without depth, and the two major app stores are 100% in cahoots with these parasites.

In the dawn of the TV age there was so much handwringing about children's programming, advertising. Where are the regulators? I'm not even concerned about depictions of violence or sex or drugs or hedonism. What concerns me the most is the outright psychological manipulation of dopamine triggers and other manipulations.

And having played a Machine Zone game (thankfully for not a lot of money) I am familiar with the graduated versions of the childrens "programming": illusory emotional investment, bullying, false group dynamics, fake peer pressure, harassment, direct addiction, rapidly changing economics/devaluation, and other tactics to get you to pony up an endless stream of money.

Obviously the app stores won't police this to even a small degree, too much 30% sweet commission involved.

I'm going to have to setup a retro emulator for my kid so they can play games that aren't riddled with ads and are designed around manipulation.
The features that are core to how PWAs work really don't even need you to install the site per se. The caching and stuff works without installing it.
I watched the video on the front page and I still have no idea what this product does, who it is for, or how it works.

Still, it was more than OP's site, which has a big SIGN UP button above the fold, which is insane, because the first time you come across the site you have no idea what it is about, but you have a button there to click on to sign-up. Who is going to click that button? What a waste of prime space. I have no idea what OP's product does, either.
Having a relatively sophisticated core you can take off the shelf and modify for your own research can be incredibly useful in academia, I would have really liked that when I was doing my thesis. For large companies too who might want particular new instructions or sets of features that are best suited to their own use cases.
The price premium is not because Stanford directly provides something unique. The price premium is because the buyer is predicting the probability of their goals being accomplished to be sufficiently higher due to the Stanford brand name such that it is worth paying a premium for.

Maybe the goal is to increase the probability that an employee is smarter, harder working, more motivated, or just better connected. Perhaps it is true, perhaps it is not, but for whatever reason, people are willing to pay a premium.
> but in practice I just see people moving through basic debugging incredibly slowly

What are you comparing this to? A person skilled with an IDE?
It’s all relative boss.

Compared to someone involved in day to day? Superficial.

Compared to NYTimes? Detailed and well researched.
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And iOS apps not running within the Simulator have hardware accelerated OpenGL ES too.
Somehow I did manage to access the article, and while I didn't quite understand exactly what they did, it does go beyond dumb amplification.

> Neurostimulation platform. Biomimetic EES requires the delivery of concurrent stimulation waveforms that are turned on and off with a precise timing4,8,12,21. Moreover, many activities necessitate adjustment of stimulation parameters in closed-loop via wireless links. To support these features, we upgraded the Activa RC implantable pulse generator (IPG) with wireless communication modules (Supplementary Fig. 1). This neurostimulation platform supported real-time updates of EES frequency, amplitude and timing from up to 10 stimulation waveforms8. The new paddle lead was interfaced with the Activa RC, which was implanted in the abdomen. We also developed a new software operating through touchscreen interfaces to enable the rapid configuration of activity-dependent stimulation programs (Fig. 4c). To simplify these configurations, wireless recordings of kinematics and muscle activity are displayed in real time, concomitantly to EES waveforms (Supplementary Fig. 1 and Supplementary Video 2).

Regarding Cerbral Palsy, it is... Cerebral, meaning that the peripheral part of the sensory and motor pathways should be intact. So what you would need to do is develop a controller interfacing with them both. That may not be trivial, but I do think it could be done by aplication of known tech and principles.
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Sincere condolences to the Nadella family. It’s my understanding that Zain has two sisters Divya and Tara, my heart goes out to them especially. Siblings are often the forgotten mourners.
Also, this is the reason students in their board exams (+2 / Twelfth-grade tests) were forbidden from writing their last name in the answer sheets. Teachers in India openly discriminated against students from other castes/jatis/varnas by giving them lower marks.

Not just caste but discrimination based on the state-of-origin/language are often committed by identifying your group based on your last name.

There are often groups in offices from some states that will ensure that folks that are not from their states don't succeed and are coerced into resigning.

Folks from relatively developed states in India don't want to admit students from underdeveloped or poor states, which breeds another form of caste-language-based discrimination in India.

Does caste-based discrimination exist?
Yes, it does. But it depends on where you live. In rural India, it is more prevalent than in California.

Is the Indian government doing anything about this menace?
Yes, India has a positive discrimination system for these oppressed castes in all government universities and all governmental jobs. Today 65-75% of all seats in top Indian universities are for oppressed, underprivileged, and poor people.

Is it better than now compared to when we got independence?
Yes, but many want their kids not to marry into other castes, mainly lower caste.
Or almost like a white man hiring another white man?
I'm a terrible debater. Perhaps like you, I steer clear of debates and think about things slowly on my own. I do have an ideological leaning, but I try to keep it separate from parties, so it's not a "they," and I can weigh one against the other.

One thing I can do is take stock of things in between election cycles, and ask myself if I regret my previous voting patterns or not. So far I haven't ever felt a reason to switch sides. This includes both primary and secondary elections -- local and national. So far I have never regretted my votes in secondary elections, but in practical terms, partisan gerrymandering renders my vote irrelevant. I have changed how I think about primary candidates, over the years.

I listen to my kids. They are quite smart and critical minded, plus they have more at stake than I do. I'm willing to support their interests. I once took my daughter to a protest march because she was too young to go by herself, and I was worried about her safety.
I've been mulling over some ideas for a word game, so I recently installed the top 10 grossing word games in the Google Play Store to see what they're like.

They're all just garbage, and they all follow the same dark patterns: Incessant ads and prompts to buy in-game items, interspersed with short bits of gameplay here and there.
No, because glass isn't a crystal. This is part of why it was such a hard problem: Because the existing sub-molecule imaging techniques couldn't image it.
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Question: Whose fault was the Cuban Missile crisis and post-crisis economic sanctions of Cuba?
>Not the world community, only the West. Most of the world has no problems with Russia and Russians.

Russia hates asians. During the financial crisis in around 2009... Russians were killing racial minorities. There aren't many asians in Russia anymore...and there never will be.

India? Well Russians just killed some Indian citizens and were trying to prevent them from leaving Ukraine. Probably not going to go well for their relations. Historically certainly strong relations between the 2. India and Russia are long term friends. So are they with the USA. Not to mention, india is probably pretty uneasy about Russia and Pakistan becoming friends all of a sudden. Especially given it's entirely because of India. Hence why India has decreased the amount of military equipment coming from Russia. India sure is concerned about China lately as well. Multiple skirmishes with China. Then they have Pakistan becoming very friendly with Russia on the other side? India is probably seeing what Russia is doing to them. Smartly no side taken but is calling for peace.

Pakistan? Pakistan has hated Russia for as long as I have been alive and longer. Yet here we are today and Pakistan is urgently making friends with Russia. Pakistan even paid to fix their trade relationship. Why are they doing it? They fear India. They don't like Russia, the Russians know this because how many Russians have been killed by Pakistan? Hell, Pakistan boycotted the Russian olympics. Pakistan supports Russia in Ukraine? No... I would agree with you there. Pakistan is certainly gigantic friends with Russia all of a sudden.

China? China hates Russia. Russia owns chinese land and purged all chinese from the land. China wants Manchuria back. HK and Macau were justly given back to China. Was it really settled 15 years ago? You also can check out: https://www.reuters.com/world/putin-tells-xi-that-russia-wil...

It looks like China got blind sided. Russia used China as a shield for their invasion. China probably knew Russia was about to recognize the 2 new republics but didn't know about the invasion. Xi immediately picked up the phone telling Putin to start peace talks and Russia complied.What a gigantic slap in the face to China.

I think something being evaluated as well. Has all this talk about China being about to invade the USA, Australia, South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan all been Russian propaganda? Is there reciprocal propaganda? Mind you, talk with any Canadian or Australian and we'll tell you how shit the USA is with their constant world police and warring. Lots of easy justification there.

Its basically public knowledge that Russian propaganda had gotten control of Canadian news media. Certainly seems likely that Australia was as well.

What do you think? You think China is about to invade the USA?
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I'm a native speaker of American English, and I used to work with a bunch of Ph.D.s, mostly likewise native speakers, who adored correcting people's diction, on many occasions including mine. Despite this, I have never in my life heard anyone, educated or otherwise, pronounce "forte" as "fort".

From what dialect are you prescribing here?
Indeed, if rational dialogue becomes impossible, then the world belongs to those who are not restrained by rational dialogue, such as thugs, oligarchs, and dictators.
I've tested the macOS build and can assure you it's not vaporware.