skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an Indian, the situation is a bit more complicated than what the article frames it as. Religion (and caste) have always been a sensitive issue, to the extent that there are multiple laws preventing people from "inciting" others (and yes, these laws are often abused by whichever government happens to be holding power, including the ones before the current government) - this is especially true for public figures like this guy here. Given that, calling this "unconstitutional" would be a bit of a stretch (abuse of power? maybe).

Further, the term "arrest" would be factually incorrect. India has a concept of detention — police can legally detain any individual on suspicion (even without a warrant/crime) upto a period of 24 hours — post which the detainee is presented to a magistrate where the detention can be legally challenged.

> a court in Kokrajhar denied him bail, ordering him to be held in custody for three days

Instead of an actual arrest this seems to be an extended detention (approved a court).

> arrest coincided with the arrival of the British prime minister

> He was taken across the country to Assam in India’s north-east

Considering these statements, instead of being arrested for his tweet, the context makes it seem more like the police felt he could be a threat given the arrival of Johnson, and they decided to preemptively detain him in a far corner of the country.

Regardless of whether I'm correct or not, it won't be the first time this has happened.

((Please ignore the typos/formatting, I typed this on a phone))

Edit: Just saw the article also mentions

> In the capital, Delhi, bulldozers have demolished the homes of Muslims accused of rioting

While this is true, it also needs to be mentioned that Delhi is not under BJP government (the ruling party).
You taught your oldest one good. Kudos!
How many views would you expect for your stories? 15-20 people caring about what you just did seems good to me on the surface
The UAVs that Ukraine is targeting with anti-aircraft weapons aren't the kind that can be disabled with a net launched from a racing drone. They're large military aircraft.
The only case I implement carousels on websites is for images which are complementary to the content but not essential or as a hero element, but never absolutely never with changing text.
I don’t use it anymore, but loved the puck mouse too.
“Them/their” was a gender-neutral way to talk about a person when you didn’t know their gender. But expecting that people you interact with, keep calling you *in plural* because you can’t decide you are he or she, or maybe want to feel like the queen of England, is insane.
I guess they assume they don’t have to check for high objects because if it’s in a height restricted parking garage when smart summon is activated, then by definition it must have fit past any restrictions originally on the way in.
Outlier was by far the most comfortable, but $120 per shirt and fairly fragile.

Woolly, Icebreaker, Minus33, and I forget the other brand. These were all very bad, I kept the Icebreaker for a couple wears, but everything else I immediately returned.
Yeah I hate the author of this article
I'm in your camp, but I think you used the antonym of the word you intended to: "ephemeral" vs. "eternal" :)
> Total land usage isn’t the only consideration, in fact it’s probably the most immaterial.

I don’t want to sound insulting but I don’t think you thought very well what it means to grow 91 million heads of cattle on grass alone, remember grass takes time to grow and it doesn’t do it during winter.
> Many are probably consuming shorter form content (like TikTok), or enjoying more time in public.

So Quibi was right! ;)
There ought to be a browser/os settings to disable unprovoked animations and transitions. All information should be readily viewable, and controls shouldn't be moving around
unless you are the one to be moving them, looking at you android notifications..
There is an inherent classism to "piracy is stealing" arguments: by gating access to culture, it effectively says "poor people shouldn't be able to participate in culture, because they don't have enough money"
> Java has a terrible hack where it is technically creating a singleton class and attaching a function to that class that is then applied behind the scenes.

I'm not sure why that's a terrible hack. Scheme is just creating a struct behind the scenes anyway.

I actually find Java's approach to be quite ergonomic, because you can use lambdas anywhere you need a type that has exactly one virtual method. Of course, checked exceptions destroy the ergonomics anyway.

> True closures aren't really possible without garbage collection or manually specifying the closure

Rust's closures are not as ergonomic as e.g. Scheme's, but they're not bad.
Saying that something is or isn't offensive doesn't require being and expert in cultural studies. You just know it by the virtue of being part of the culture and observing what the trends of the majority are.

I think your militant stance on the subject is more problematic than someone else's view that the word motherboard is not offensive.

Also, advocating for some narrow unknown group of people to have exclusive right to define language gives off a little cultish vibes.
More often than you think. Usually we watch movies in the evenings and one of us ends up falling asleep after a long day.
> If you’re a Muslim living in an illegally-built home and you were _accused_ of being involved in riots, they will bulldoze your life.

Just like they did with these Muslims and their Shiva temples: https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/bulldozer-razes-300-ye...
> It's just a total disregard of national and regional cultural differences too.

That surprises me - Netflix seem pretty good at accommodating UK culture as a contrast. Local shows like The Crown, for example.
"Don't mention the war!"
You've written a very long comment about what you think other people believe (or intend), but it's not really clear to me that any of it is true.

For example, I don't think that anybody actually holds the sentence "The person doing the dishes is a woman, by definition" as true in their heads. That's simply not a thing people believe, anywhere along the political (or any other) spectrum.

If you actually talk to trans people, you'll find that most of them fall into the "nonconforming" bucket rather than some gender essentialist one. A lot of them are non-binary or otherwise have gender/sex identities that don't cleanly map onto maleness or femaleness. Given that state of affairs, it's a remarkable stretch to think that these people themselves would see neutral language as "hateful." And, in fact, they don't.
Modi is an oppressive ruler who was originally jailed for beating a cow farmer in broad daylight. I'm glad The Guardian is finally paying attention to oppression outside of the Western sphere.
I think they were implying that their friends do not overlap with work, while your comment seems to allude to friends you've made from work.
You are aware covid is not gone?
I haven’t seen She-Ra, is it only gay relationships? I’m curious if you think a show with only straight relationships is propagandistic too (ie most TV ever made)
Firefox (at least in Windows) does allow sleep when there's a no-audio video.
You may not like Zoom calls. But that doesn't mean that others don't, or can't work with videoconferencing. My teams productivity is off the charts since there's so few interruptions. When we need to collaborate, it's easy. When we need to keep our heads down, we have fewer monkeys walking up to talk about their latest golf game.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10664-013-9289-1
Whiteness and maleness are not and cannot be material facts and it is a category error to insist otherwise, nevermind elevating them as the axiomatic center of your worldview.
Yes! This is much more interesting. Audience-based cultural & contextual awareness, rather than "assuming one global context" that takes the veneer of moral high ground. The former would be more helpful to a writer.
Friendly reminder that a lots of workers outside of the USA have access to healthcare that are not tie to their jobs, but to previous payments they made to a national healthcare system.

There coverage will not stop if they switch job because they already paid for it.
Fallujah sounds like terror tactics to me. It was defended by a poorly armed militia far smaller than the western trained and armed forces in Ukraine and America still had to destroy 20% of the city. Years later 200,000 of the 350,000 residents still hadn't returned, birth defects from depleted uranium had sky rocketed and people were still suffering white phosphorus burns.

And Raqqa was far worse.

The difference is propaganda. When we destroy a city it's methodical and proportionate. When our enemies do it it's genocide and terror tactics.

But urban warfare is always awful.
It's incredible the money and logistical thinking devoted to highway construction and maintenance compared to almost any other kind of infrastructure in America. Like, imagine they decided trains were as high a priority.
Guess they need more private jets for their AI data set.
Worked for Quest Diagnostics in the mid 2000s. My understanding is they basically print money. After capex, most tests are very cheap. A bit like running a silicon fab.

Lab companies absolutely should be included, as a co-equal, in the list of villains.
It's amazing just how versatile the word "SEO" is.

It truly is the cause of and solution to all of your website's problems.

Or to view it more cynically, SEO is the Swiss Army knife that can simultaneously excuse away poor performance while justifying additional expenditure.
But isn't the name Amazon inherently exclusionary, and one of the oldest distorted stereotypes?

The mote in the employee's eye vs. the log in the company's eye
I'm assuming the original comment was about Disney having extremely liberal content?
Imagine half of them would be all Asian and not just the big bucks international focused ones like Squid Game. But local ones not tailored for it. You'll tune out soon. It's like going for a regular cinema but getting an arthouse collection.

I travel a lot (at least before Corona) and sometimes Netflix would not even allow me to continue watching a movie in the hotel, in the same subtitle language as I watched it before. Because I connected from an IP in Romania I'm suddenly supposed to speak their language too :S Because the options for captions in other languages disappear. This really annoyed me as I often would pop up in different countries and using a VPN was too slow on crappy hotel WiFi.

It's this kind of shortsighted vision that I argue against. The world is not that simple. Maybe in the US it is but not everywhere.
That doesn't really represent the experience of how rich the experience in chat apps are.

People get their information from heavily populated channels (one way communication chat rooms run by personalities people like, defacto "influencers"), which are forwarded to people that didn't read it. Permeating many communities and private group chats in minutes.

If it is labor intensive, its only that way for a week or two as you coordinate all of the posts with many channels.
yeah there are videos showing them basically just shooting what's left for fun

https://twitter.com/Lyla_lilas/status/1514205275363987459
Trust the experts? Really? To people on HN, most of whom have been using the term motherboard their whole lives without incident and who are, in fact, computer experts?

It's quite obviously not a carefully thought through decision, it's more or less random machine-gunning of random words that happen to have the word mother in them because ... well ... because they think motherhood is offensive? Presumably? It's impossible to discern any logic here. This supposedly expert decision is already leading to near universal derision towards Google, a once universally respected name. That derision is now also coming from left-wing media outlets that you'd expect to be fully supportive, like VICE. That's because it's quite obviously insane. Nobody is looking at this and thinking "about time", they're thinking "wtf is that?!".
Isn't Tesla in car insurance itself? Interesting how that recursive setup would work out.
> Sure. It's also stealing

How about “owning” a movie but not being able to resell it or loan it to friends. What’s that?

Please don’t use physical item terms for digital items.

Stealing something from you implied you don’t have to have it after I take it.

It’s illegal and unethical, we agree on that. But it’s not stealing.
This is basically Champaign-Urbana, Illinois too. You have the university, Wolfram Research, Volition, tech startups, etc. downtown. You drive two miles south and it's just corn galore.
I guess this would apply to many people who run their own domains or their own small businesses. Thanks for replying, you were 1st.
Smarking (YC W15) is hiring a senior ML engineer to scale dynamic pricing
Technically stealing is depriving someone from his property which is not the case here. Also one should make a distinction between services. In the case of audiovisual content It can be consumed without changing anything in the life of the producer. I do not say that it’s a good thing but qualifying it of stealing does not seem right.
or some poor person.
It is absolutely not understandable or excusable! This is a company who claims that they have self-driving technology at or above the level of human safety. Driving into something that your car can't fit under isn't an edge case. It's just baseline, minimum viable product.

Tesla is going to do more harm to the prospects of self-driving cars than anyone. Their "test in production" attitude is going to not only cost (more) lives but also force the government to strictly regulate the tech delaying the other companies that are acting responsibly.
Except back in the DVD rental days, Netflix could rent out basically everything instead of having to fight for exclusive content rights. You could subscribe to Netflix or go to Blockbuster but you could get the same selection more or less at either.
(2013)

Some previous discussions:

2 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23754676

9 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6018316
This is the company that fired James damore and then turned around and spouted his talking points a few months later not even realising the hypocrisy.

https://mashable.com/article/google-youtube-women-in-tech-di...
I let go of DVDs for quite some time but have re-enabled https://dvd.netflix.com recently. Good selection, plus the much slower act of selecting, receiving and exchanging is sort of a welcome restricted diet compared to the endless buffet over the past decade.
Like SMR NAS drives? There's also TLC SSDs with faster SLC cache

Not quite as bad as ISPs, but the storage industry isn't great either...
Putin already did.

Threatening nuclear war if other countries don't let you rape, murder, and pillage the people of a nearby country is using nukes.

The real question is, what is the rest of the world going to do about it?
The only time I've actually liked this pattern is in some New York Times stories. They do it very well. Example:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/17/world/asia/in...
Deleting your Binance account is exceptionally hard and I can see why.
Yes it's a ruse. Covid is still around so I expect when it is really dead, companies will demand a proper return to office.
Not just that but it's sad we can't even just rent the titles we used to be able to rent from videos stores. There is no much content that is just not available and I fear it never will be. If you were fortunate enough to have lived near a cinephile type rental place then you probably remember how directors often had their own sections. You could browse Kurasowa, Orson Welles, Robert Altman, Godard ...

I remember looking at the Criterion Collection streaming channel not that long ago and what struck me was just how much of the Criterion Collection was not even available on their streaming channel.
What would you call that category?
Amphetamine[0] works pretty well for me. They also have an extension (a kext, I think) that gives it more reliability. I don't know how reliable it is without that extension though.

[0]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/amphetamine/id937984704?mt=12
Well, I moved to a village of about 250 people in rural Ireland, and I've met some other rural Irish tech workers online, but don't know of any concentrations of tech workers, we're all far apart. I do wonder if this will change over time as housing in cities gets less and less affordable.

It's.... Fine. The locals are mostly bemused. I'd struggle to do it in rural US where the political divide is much wider. I'm only here because it's cheap though.
Okay but that’s just a list that someone created. People are allowed to create lists; I’ve never heard of anyone enforcing this list.
So our own security agencies (NSA etc.) don’t bother helping out securiring their sister branches? I assume some of them prefer other agencies to be exploitable, but not all of them.
> (will there still be any Neil Diamond fans alive in 20 years?)

Will people in the UK ever stop singing songs at football matches?
If you don't think people can bullshit just as effectively in the office as WFH, you're misguided. Our team has several underperformers. They were bad in the office, but at least with WFH, they don't drag down other teammates.

At the end of the day, if it's just as productive (if not more) WFH, then your personal likes and desires about lunch and a date with coworkers is just more BS that needs to die. Go work for a full office company, but don't make other people have to fill in the holes in your social life.
The vast expanses of text with no formatting rules always makes it hard for me to follow along. Added some simple rules that make it much easier to read.

p { maxwidth: 1000px,
text-align: center,
margin-left: auto,
margin-right: auto }

body { text-align: center }

MUCH easier (code snippets = toast)
Another link on the front page is that the bottom is dropping out of Netflix.

Coincidence?
I know life often imitates The Onion, but "passersby were amazed at the unusually large amounts of blood" was not one of the headlines i ever expected to cross the chasm.
I didn't know that term, so I googled it.

> Greyball was used by ride-hailing company Uber to evade city regulators and deny service to some customers...

What the hell, Uber?

> Uber did not receive any formal punishment or restrictions from the city.

What the hell, government?
+1 for Chattanooga, TN. Municipal fiber, white water rafting, Rock City; what more could you want?
I prefer sovereign and vassal. No one has called me out on it.
Defamation lawsuits are mostly filed by wealthy or influential individuals against common citizens. It is a tool to keep everyone that can’t afford decades-long legal battles obedient and shut. Laws regarding defamation do more harm than good to most people, especially vocal journalists.
There are morons in a lot of jobs. It sounds like you had one making the decisions. It's only an anecdote though.
They are publicly broadcasting themselves. Hear no evil, see no evil.
if you're doing vision based obstacle avoidance and you're training your model on specific classes of objects and not just object you're doing it wrong
There is no "slave" in Git, but the term "master", like many things in Git, is taken from BitKeeper, which did have a "slave". Or so I've read, for example here: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/474419/does-the-...
Huntsville, AL, & Chattanooga, TN both have tech communities. Huntsville has NASA's MSFC and Redstone arsenal, so there's a ton of tech talent from all over the country there. Companies like Boeing, Blue Origin, Lockheed all have a presence. They're now starting to see non government / defense tech companies spring up, Like CommentSold. Gener8tor is launching a new accelerator program there.
It works for water and electricity. I think part of the issue is, it isn't billed that way so there's no incentive to improve the situation. It's a lot better in the mobile world where it's common to be billed by bandwidth
Fwiw, market makers sometimes say that by providing liquidity they benefit the whole market.
Somehow it makes sense, you wouldn't blame a traditional car manufacturer if you crashed and the airbag shot your phone into your face. If the summon warns that you must have line of sight because it has flaws, you damn well make sure you have line of sight, or don't use it.
I'm on a train and just went through some charming town south of Centralia. Wonder if it would appeal to remote tech workers.
> D&I is not discrimination against straight white men.

Well, it isn't. As a straight white man myself, I don't feel like I'm particularly suffering from discrimination. Am I picked first for everything now, like maybe before I would have? Maybe not. Does it adversely impact my life? Not really.

It's OK to let others to have the first sip from the fountain once in awhile, and you can help lift up historically-persecuted people without it necessarily being a loss for you. Attitude goes a long way in helping yourself be at peace with it.

If you're a straight white man and you're feeling seriously oppressed by D&I, I'd like to hear from you personally and understand your situation better.

Anyway, this is pretty far afield from the discussion, which is really about specifically how media is harming people and children in particular.
Would there be a backlash from the local community? I think unless the said tech community makes a positive impact to the native society live there, the reception is not going to be welcoming, I think.

Majority of the places I have seen tech people move to, the first thing to happen is increase in prices, be it housing or services.
Ask HN: What's new in GPUs since 80s? (technical details please)
Hi,

Can you please recommend a good resource teaching how CPU communicates with GPU.

A historical perspective is even better.

Let's take a historic computer... a ZX-Spectrum. It had a 6912 bytes of memory constantly scanned and outputted on TV. A program could just write to video memory and output will appear.

Since then a lot of responsibilities were moved into GPU. What are the data formats that are exchanged between CPU and GPU? How is the CPU signaling the GPU that needs to send some data? Where is the frame buffer siting? etc. etc.

... and also ... are all modern GPU architectures the same? ... or can we classify them based on some significant details?
What innovations are they? In my opinion, innovation comes from empowering people rather than chance meeting of minds in an office setting.