skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends how you view religion. "The Pew Religious Landscape survey reported that as of 2014, 22.8% of the American population is religiously unaffiliated, atheists made up 3.1% and agnostics made up 4% of the US population." [1] Probably the largest unrepresented population in US government, running as an atheist is still considered political suicide.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_atheism
Left unstated is the assumption that Brahmins limit their discrimination to Dalits.
It's funny how tools like these are supposed to increase engagement but if you look at the feeds of the twitter accounts quoted at the bottom of the page they all get really awful engagement.
Echo and printf are shell built-ins in bash[0]. Does it have to fork to execute them?

You could probably answer this by replacing printf with /bin/echo and comparing the results. I'm not in front of a Linux box, or I'd try.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Bash-Buil...
If they never respond why assume it is "purposeful ambiguity"?

Like I said, that's a recipe of just confirming your own suspicions all the time ...

I often don't respond to folks who greatly misunderstand or take my meaning to be something it is very much not.

I don't find that it is worth engaging with folks who assume the worst of people / are policing internet discussions for any distant hint of "fascist groups" or whatever they're looking for.
Thanks, Sabrina for this wonderful article regarding async destructors. I think the Rust team committed a mistake by not considering Async destructors. I think they can use edition boundry to fix this issue. Let's see.
Seems like it's buffering output, which Python also does. Python is much slower if you flush every write (I get 2.6 MiB/s default, 600 KiB/s with flush=True).

Interestingly, Go is very fast with a 8 KiB buffer (same as Python's), I get 218 MiB/s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cagot

A persecuted minority in France.
Regional elitism in the USA is definitely a form of soft caste system. If you are from the upper East coast or the West coast you are a member of a higher caste than if you are from the interior, and inside the US there are definitely smaller caste differences.

The South gets it the worst. When I was in college (University of Cincinnati) engineering students from the South were sometimes encouraged to lose their Southern accents because it made them sound "stupid." I heard a few stories about this.
Aside from having secret corners and areas it definitely has replay value, because it is just so damn good. Like you would replay some of the Mario games, just to enjoy it one more time, do things differently, better, and maybe find some new tricks and so on.
If you ever need to write a random character to a pipe very fast, GNU coreutils has you covered with yes(1). It runs at about 6 GiB/s on my system:

yes | pv > /dev/null

There's an article floating around [1] about how yes(1) is extremely optimized considering its original purpose. In care you're wondering, yes(1) is meant for commands that (repeatedly) ask whether to proceed, expecting a y/n input or something like that. Instead of repeatedly typing "y", you just run "yes | the_command".

Not sure about how yes(1) compares to the techniques presented in the linked post. Perhaps there's still room for improvement.

[1] Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14542938
> importing ethnicities means importing their ethnic conflicts too, always

Is there evidence for this? Couldn't null be valid: those choosing to emigrate are most likely to be willing or wanting to leave that nonsense behind?

Caste has no place in America. It's antithetical to our founding values. Plenty of Indians emigrate while leaving their caste identity, and any will to act on it, behind. There may remain implicit biases. But these can be aspired to be corrected versus assumed to be the default.
You forgot to drench it in finger pointing up and high five emojis
The scary part is that just over 10% of Safari in use are outdated versions that the user can't upgrade since Safari isn't evergreen and updates are tied to the OS (and the user likely has a device that no longer gets updates). So much for privacy and security concerns.
The amazing part about HTML and the Web is that if you carefully pare down what HTML and JS you use to the lowest common denominator, you can write a web page which works with 25 years worth of clients.
It can, very easily. Have students watch a lecture and read the accompanying text, then have them take a quiz, then have a review session where the most missed quiz questions are covered, along with popular questions submitted beforehand. Finally, set up study groups to let peers answer easy questions, and have virtual office hours/email for the few remaining difficult questions that peer groups can't answer.

The only thing that doesn't scale is on campus life, and that's meaningless to the degree that college is nominally about.
A lot of people are tho. And I mean a lot of people. There are numerous books on how to generate revenue via Twitter following and more books about how to build an audience to eventually sell to them.
Yes, same error as before. Memory usage stays the same for a while, then starts to skyrocket shortly before it crashes.

node is v10.24.0. (Default from the Debian 10 repo)
The common element is always in-group vs. out-group (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-group_and_out-group). It doesn't have to be based on race or ethnicity, it can also be e.g. Democrats vs. Republicans in the US, supporters of different football clubs etc. etc.
In control how, moderation of social media and the rules/policies of other websites? Was it better when we all got our news and opinions in one direction from media conglomerates?
>You really think it's appropriate for some white American manager to lecture his Indian subordinates after spending a few hours in training?

Yes. Ethnic discrimination is absolutely unacceptable in any American workplace, full stop. There is no room for cultural relativism here. To imply otherwise (e.g. “it would be inappropriate for a non-Indian manager to tell off their subordinate for being caste-ist”) is itself extremely racist.
There seem to be more women in QA in general. Genuinely asking: Is this also sexism?
That quote from the article gave me pause. It sounds like an admission that they wanted the good PR from having a caste bias speaker, but when having a conversation on a difficult topic actually became difficult, they backed down.

Maybe, Google, instead of just giving up you should be asking why a speaker on Dalit rights and inclusion is causing "division and rancor" in your community? Or is that also a difficult conversation you'd rather not have?
99, to be precise.
Google outsources more than people realize. A lot of things happen out of India. The minimum amount of customer support that Google provides happens out of India. The mystery account bans, that sometimes get a lot of attention, happens out of India.
The only reason this article is here is to slightly normalize the "freedom" convoys, which are the beginnings of an insurrection.
Go for a hike with him. Time shared together is most valuable in my opinion.
The question comma and the exclamation comma (1992)
Simple Background Checks for Airbnb Hosts
We developed technology that compiles info on upcoming guests for Airbnb hosts. Data such as internet presence, prior host reviews, images, videos, and social media postings are used to create a detailed prediction of the type of individual an Airbnb host's next guests will be. We do this in order to ultimately equip the Airbnb host with the knowledge they require to confidently accept or deny the risks that an upcoming guest poses.
The original document being commented isn't available anymore. Luckily, the Internet Archive has a copy:

https://web.archive.org/web/20000517232106/http://webreferen...

Digging around a bit more, the original webreference.com (along with this article) existed until around April 2020. It's since been replaced by a generic landing page with a prompt to "subscribe to be the first to know when we relaunch". Shame that the article's URL doesn't work anymore after being maintained for 22 years. I imagine the domain was sold or something?

https://web.archive.org/web/20200330143723/http://webreferen...
And it's almost completely attributed to direction, screenplay, cinematography, and editing. Even if the langoliers were people in purple jumpsuits it could still be made eery and creepy.

Uncanny CG kinda fits the mood of Steven King anyway. I feel the technical limitations played to the advantage of the movie. Could you make an even creepier langolier today? Sure, but I feel like this train criticizes art because of the tools available.
I can recommend SuperTux[0] and SuperTuxKart[1] as great OSS alternatives to Super Mario and MarioKart.

SuperTuxKart is truly cross-platform and even has an online mode.

[0] https://www.supertux.org/
[1] https://supertuxkart.net/Main_Page
> So you get hipster-toy module makers in the Eurorack space

Which are used by artists all around (from amateur hobbyists to professional acts), they aren't "toy modules", there's been a lot of innovation in Eurorack and painting all of them as "toys" is a huge disservice to the whole format...
Yeah, high school history tends to skip from the civil war to WW1, so most students miss out on reconstruction, and pretty much no curricula will talk about the explicit race discrimination in the GI bill/redlining.
Skimming through there are some interesting problems (the fibonacci sequence generated by determinants of nxn matrices with -1/1 on the lower subdiagonal/upper subdiagonal is pretty cool). But a lot of these problems just look like super tedious calculations.
A weak argument is a weak argument. Or are you saying brahmins and confederates have a lot in common and ought to spend more time together?
Some trends are hard to predict short term but easy to predict long term. The day weather forecasts are difficult to predict more then 10 days ahead but climate change forecasts have been very accurate. It is difficult to predict who will be diagnosed with cancer next year but relatively easy to predict cancer rates in the overall population in a given year.

In the long term however we’re all dead so being proven right in 80 years time is meaningless to any investor.
Fun fact: After the Grammy Award, Ikutaro Kakehashi, mostly out of the blue, convinced somehow Yamaha to bring the Sequential brand back to Dave Smith, just before the release of the Prophet 6.
He's got a love-to-hate personality who is able to capture the limelight of journalist. This makes him seem like a firebrand to suckers who love him. They play off each other, making him into a massively famous celebrity.
Isn't racism fundamentally a type of caste/class discrimination? Not as well defined castes like seen in India, but "black people" are discriminated as a result of slavery, "asians" as a result of mass immigration. To the point where in many countries you were not allowed or able to marry outside your "caste", had different rights than locals/whites etc. People today don't feel racism as caste discrimination, but to say that there's no precedent in the West is being pedantic IMO.
You can see the same dynamic on precursor systems. Half the complexity in ANSI escape codes for dumb terminals exists to provide form support (and some features added to terminals like ‘terminal status report’ exist to make forms easier to implement). The French Minicom system was built to deliver interactive forms over the phone line to terminals in people’s homes; in the UK there was the similar Prestel, which was mainly used for commercial UIs (huge in the travel industry), and which was basically ‘teletext plus form fields’.

Heck, even print technology implemented ‘forms’ technology - there is a standard UX affordance of a dotted line with scissors drawn on it to tell you that a piece of printed material supports cutting out a form, filling it and mailing it in. These forms were showing up in magazines, on cereal packets, back for over a century… the catalog industry was built on this tech.

Basically, if you create an information distribution medium, someone will turn it into a form delivery platform. It’s inevitable.
I've loved the idea of this game for a long time, but have avoided it due to the perception that it's basically just Code Golf: The Game. I'm curious to hear others' thoughts, though.
Well, I guess at this point the only thing I can say is: I disagree.
Here is more information than the shared article it goes into some depth on the concept of the plane. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/airships-r...

They reduce the planes use of Helium by it's shape and design, when the engines are turned off it's heavier than air and it will sink. However, Helium is a scarce resource. I don't approve of a billionaire fun ride between LA and Los Angeles taking up all the helium (which will leak out over time and may need top ups every time it departs).

I'm also, wondering if people (the demographic) have time to sit for long periods of time, they seem to value their time, and a private jet is faster.

Overall this is presented as an another green tech that will ensure carbon free travel. I see this as greenwashing a billionaire fantasy.
This is one of the most vacuous articles I have come across in quite some time, all wrapped up in rhetoric and presented as if it were some profound insight. It's not. Not only does it get the tech details wrong (POST allowed read/write capability pretty much from the beginning, <form> wasn't the start of it) but it would be equally accurate-- and useless-- to point to the keyboard as the culprit. Or taking a step outside of tech, complain that human hearts are the #1 cause of heart attacks & nerves as the arch-villain behind all physical pain.

I kept reading, thinking that there must be something somewhere that would tie things together in any meaningful way, but nope, nothing. It could be transplanted to The Onion with only a few modifications and fit much better there as some type of absurdist piece of humour.
My AMD based Thinkpad was certified for Ubuntu 18.04 and Fedora 32. Running both Ubuntu and Fedora at the time I got about 4 1/2 hours of battery life. Running TLP would get another hour to 5 1/2 total.

Every release of Ubuntu and Fedora since has caused a lowering of battery life. Current versions of both get me about 2 1/2 hours of battery life extended to 3 hours if I install TLP.

So TLP helps but in my case is putting lipstick on a pig.

Obviously there have been regressions somewhere along the way which have caused battery life to drop from bad to fantastically awful. It seems to be an issue with many AMD laptops. There have been proposed reasons for it and fixes for those reasons. Although these fixes have helped some people they haven't helped a lot of folks including myself. Part of the problem is that no one wants to own the issue. The Linux developers have no obligation to deal with it, the distributions don't want to be bothered and Linux is a small enough part of the market that the laptop vendors don't want to throw any resources at it. AMD doesn't seem to want to invest in figuring it out either since it doesn't seem to affect their newer laptop chips.

My battery life running Windows 10 when the laptop was released was around 8 hours. My battery life now running Windows 11 is about 8 hours.

For now I run Windows and use WSL1 if I need a Unix like environment. I say WSL1 because there is an issue that prevents the laptop from sleeping properly if WSL2 or anything that uses virtualization is running. Sigh. Again a common issue across AMD laptops and one that can be fixed with a bios change but few vendors have released updated bios to address it.

I look forward to TLP significantly helping my Linux battery life in a couple of years when I get a new non-AMD laptop.
The site looks like it was slapped together yesterday. Really light on navigation, in the bad way of me not being able to navigate almost anywhere. I can't actually search for an alternative to a thing that I already use or know, which is the whole premise of sites like these. Of which there are plenty.

Basically, just use the old AlternativeTo instead.
Because if illegal votes are cast in Compton, Christ Alone Knows what kind of illegal vote changing went on in Liberal Hell Holes like New York and Connecticut! This would not have appeared on Hacker News 5 years ago. The only reason it appears today is to normalize the idea that elections where Republicans don't win are somehow tainted or rigged.
We don't need them to weigh in on social issues, but we do need them to not be part of the problem. E.g. if a company of Google's size had an issue where Indian employees tended to prevent qualified candidates from being hired because they were lower-caste, then that would both be a problem for Google (because they would be missing out on labor) and those being discriminated against.
> Statewide precipitation for the water year to date is 73 percent of average. Sierra-Cascades snowpack for the water year to date is 10 percent of average, down from 18 percent last week. Statewide reservoir storage is 71 percent of average for this time of year.

And more stats like that. Where are the stats about California's reservoir levels? Isn't that the relevant metric? The state's very existence depends on water being in those reservoirs. Should one or more of them actually run dry, I don't think there is even a plan for what happens next.

Along those lines, where are the mandatory cutbacks in water distribution to conserve what's left?
Using the Kani Rust Verifier on a Rust Standard Library CVE
Amusingly caste discrimination is illegal in India too but laws alone rarely change culture it needs a healthy doses of death and destruction.
In Europe, you can always reliably find a massive amount of racism against the Romani people (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_people).
> You can look up the 2008 banking issues from primary sources then.

I think if someone is making a claim, it's up to them to support it. Wikipedia isn't great support.

> Dimon being practically the definition of an intellectual standup guy.

Dimon says a lot of BS.
There isn't infinite anything on earth. Earth is finite. And running out of resources that are economically viable to access is effectively the same as running out. (Also, helium is a by-product of crude oil production, and so its production has some rather dramatic externalities.)
And IMO this is great. My favorite games (Pathfinder: Kingmaker and Wrath of the Righteous) have a very broad difficulty span, story mode essentially plays itself, unfair requires very tight minmaxing of builds. I only play on core (which already comes with a warning popup as it’s 2 above normal), because I don’t like minmaxing and instead want fun builds (but still have a challenge).

But what I hate are puzzles. Parts of the game would have been completely inaccessible to me, because I’d have either avoided them, or stopped playing because of frustration.

Instead, I can simply look up the solutions online, and the unfair player who doesn’t want to spend hours thinking about the perfect build can go to neoseeker and check their list of unfair viable builds.

I’m soon finishing my 3rd time through WotR (with a total play time of over 1400 hours), and for my next run, part of my build was decided by datamined deity reactivity in the game.

Especially in single player games, the options and additional enjoyment coming from datamining, minmaxing, and sharing of secrets are amazing.
ET:Legacy [1], initially it (the original: Enemy Territory) wasn't open-source but it is now. Never gets old.

[1]: https://www.etlegacy.com/
The reason that message has that addressee is because the To: is protected by the DKIM signature, so whoever relayed the message cannot have changed it.
There are reasons why Zoom is better than Google. I don't understand Google and the reasons why they want to confuse users so much. I don't understand why are they burning money by making the same thing under a different name Duo/Meet/Hangout/Phone...
I think that discussing caste-based discrimination is great for a western company to do. Especially one with a lot of Indian workers. Most western workers/managers have little understanding of this topic, and will probably miss it if a coworker is being discriminated against because of their caste. Seems like a no-brainer to me.
I think this would be a better state than we have now...

... but I feel like it isn't the ideal solution. I don't think we should make the perfect the enemy of the good, but what I'd really like to see is that people own their data about them.

I should be able to figure out what vendors have data about me. I should be allowed to be forgotten. There should be severe liability if they don't forget me.

I should be able to contract away my data, but in return for a real benefit, and that shouldn't extend to sale / redistribution.

I don't buy anonymization. De-anonimization is too easy, too good, and progressing too quickly.
Do tell: how do you think these standards are established? By performing surveys or some other democratic/rule of law/other ritual?

FATF is an unelected, undemocratic body, where you have absolute monarchies like Saudi Arabia and authoritarian states like Russia audit the free/democratic/morebuzzwords West.

I can only imagine you think voting matters too.

It doesn’t, never did.
Reminds me of: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albion's_Seed
I once found a 2 hour introductory flight lesson on groupon that I gifted as a birthday present. They had a great experience.
A simple but deep theory about drugs and postmodernity
Female and male US Olympic athletes live 5 years longer than their general population counterparts: a study of 8124 former US Olympians

https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/55/4/206
I live in the Midwest in Michigan, and I can’t say that I feel like I’ve been treated as a lower caste in the Midwest. We have some wonderful learning institutions, such as the University of Michigan, and a lot of talented and individuals.
I don't know if the Indian caste thing should be considered obscure. There are 1.3 billion Indians. By number of people affected it might be one of the more important conversations in the world today.
Assuming "bike' means "motorcycle": Get him time and instruction on a motorcycle track. There are non-racing focused skills based track days; i was just at one with ages of participants spanning 19 to 78(!). What a way to get your head somewhere else for a day! If you give me a region, i might be able to make some recommendations.
> anyone who dared to question the status quo was treated like a traitor.

What is "the status quo"? A study was released recently. People pointed out some errors in the study. The errors were acknowledged. Where's the "traitor" part here?
do you play.. or are just played with? choose.

anyway, my favorite.. after maaaaany attempts, the recent true-to-original remake:

http://loderunnerwebgame.com/game/
Hey there!

I totally understand your first reaction "this is tool for marketers willing to use automation tools to bother people" but actually it's not like that.

The tool internally fosters a collaborative and helpful behavior, and clearly asks to avoid spammy content.

The users of Hivoe are willing to kickstart conversations! And that's the way I've been using it since the beginning.

If you behave differently, like in a spammy markerting only oriented way, the users will probably be likely to mark you as a spammer on Twitter. End of the account.

I hope you got my point.
Nice to share our opinions!
I love it! So many times I've could have used one of those... Unfortunately not in stock at the moment :(