skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can add Splunk to the list of companies with a similar clause. As a Splunk competitor it makes sales a bit harder initially (we can show our product's numbers, but nothing to compare them against), but if you can convince customers to set up a head-to-head proof-of-concept of their own, well, they tend to figure out why Splunk doesn't want you publishing benchmarks...
Removed most to leave the core message. Everyone is equal, no one's birth dictates their worth.
This is very strange, this seems to be an issue that people should want to talk about, should want to hear a lecture about, why must people assume critical thinking is direct criticism ?
Seems like a very fraught topic to me. If I'm part of an interview loop for an Indian person, and one more or of my peers are Indian, how am I supposed to know if my peers are being caste-prejudiced? I would not be able to tell if the candidate was the good caste or the bad caste and asking "What caste is this guy?" seems highly inappropriate. If my peers support the candidate - is that because they like his caste? If they oppose the candidate - do they dislike it?
I don't understand why this is a "but". That's the primary reason we haven't had a recession for so long. We 100% would have had one in late 2018 if there was no Powell pivot.
> I've ever talked to someone who cares about electric vs. gas ovens though, and I am not sure that either would necessarily have a performance advantage over the other.

Actually lots of people care about gas versus electric ovens. If you look at high end ranges, “dual-fuel” is the product category name which is gas stove with electric oven.

One reason why chefs prefer electric ovens, or rather why gas ovens are not preferable is that gas contains humidity. That additional moisture is desirable at times, but not always. On the very high end, an electric oven with a steam reservoir allows the chef to control the humidity. For instance, you can bake bread with steam for a soft rise and finish with no humidity for a crunchy crust. I’ve never seen a steam oven fueled by gas, but I haven’t sought one out. If this has peaked anyone’s interest Anova makes a countertop steam oven that’s great - previously this was only available on commercial equipment and the fanciest home ovens.
I like the word sanewashed but this article is not an example of underfunded social services
Related, and an outstanding read: ”The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket” by Benjamin Lorr
Also, the work involves evenings, nights, weekends, holidays, and dealing with mentally ill, drunk, and high people. And you have to sit around a lot in a car and drive.

Personally, I would want at least double. Especially because of the shitty work schedule.
An Indian lecturing white people about discrimination is almost certainly a Brahmin.
I was pretty gung-ho about the free speech aspect of it but I feel differently now. There are a couple of sites radicalizing kids and there’s a huge difference between child-friendly and killing the hate machine.
Funny to see the HN hive mind implode struggling to find angles where Google is the bad guy.
It matters at companies with high levels of south asian representation, for example Apple, Cisco, Google, etc. When people complain of caste discrimination they aren't talking about it coming from white folks like you.
> I like having a gas water heater, although I understand there are more expensive electric units that end up being more efficient, and that is appealing.

Oh for sure - for heating the house and water, I prefer gas. At least where I live it's more cost effective than electric. In fact, my electric bill in my 1 bedroom apartment (all heating was electric) was just a tad lower than my gas + electric when I moved into a much bigger house.

And of course, gas fireplaces. Once you get used to it, you can't imagine life without it. Electric heaters are horrible in comparison.

My comment was really just about cooking as that is what the parent was referring to.
I would prefer to draw attention to their bad behaviour. I'll expend my energy. You can enjoy the benefits.
It's very well possible that I either did not understand how your answer relates to my question, or that my definition of "exit" (namely, that a company gets sold, usually to a larger entity, and is not held by founders anymore) is incorrect or too narrow, but, again, how is an exit compatible with a company being part of the Mittelstand?

You say "pre-Mittelstand", so I guess it's not about investing in companies that are aready Mittelstand (and effectively lifting them out of that) either.
> 90% of Indian Americans think discrimination against Indian Americans in America is a "minor problem"

Ofcourse they would. They are mostly those whose parents (or themselves) were privileged enough to make it to the US.
My thought was "I'd expect the average HN reader to be already familiar with foundational libraries". GMP and MPFR are pretty much one step above glibc in terms of how basic/widespread they should be.
This is a case of corruption, which is endemic in Indian culture. There are countless examples of mid-high level Indian Managers convincing management to move work to bodyshops from which they either receive kickbacks, are started by close friends so they get to profit also, or use as a side-channel to push their own people (relatives, immigrants from back home) into the organization.

It's shockingly widespread and because the management structures at many tech and IT companies are Indian, no-one bats an eyelid. This is one example of foreign cultures actually degrading American work culture. There are a few others in this category.
> And the expense is not because of regulations. [...] regulatory costs would only account for about $10M/yr.

You are quite funny.

NuScale received the NRC approval for their Small Nuclear Reactors (SMR) in 2020. They spent half a billion dollars for that, and 2 million man-hours [1]. They were founded in 2007 and the approval came 13 years later. If they are lucky, they'll have their first SMR working by the end of the decade.

Of course, that's a happy ending.

Oklo, another nuclear startup was founded in 2013, and got their application rejected by the NRC in 2022 [2]. They were told they can try again, and they probably will, but for the time being they have little to show for 9 years of work.

[1] https://www.nuscalepower.com/newsletter/nucleus-fall-2020/pr...

[2] https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/news/2022/22-...
It's "Sunni" and "Shiite/Shia".
Note these are by default sorted by his rating. I really like his rating system, which he explains:

"My 0-10 rating is not just how much I liked the book. It’s how strongly I would recommend it to almost anyone. So I would give a little lower rating to a book I loved about an obscure subject, like the culture of Switzerland, because I wouldn’t recommend it to most people."

i.e. the rating is, roughly, how much it's likely to help you.
It just means six figures is not enough. Make the base salary $500k per year, and I am sure it will miraculously become a career people want to go into again.
3 of the top 5 posts of all time on that subreddit as an example are speaking in terms of "915 days caffiene free", "2.5 years caffee free" .. etc. These are the most dramatic and interesting stories shared there but the people there are obviously interested in long term case studies and these stories are popular for a reason. Nobody cares about "2 weeks" there everyone quickly realises this is a long slog to getting back to normal of months and years.
100% this goes on at amazon all the time. One time, I googled the last name origin of a whole orgs management structure. All of them were from the same part of india.
It amuses me how many people rate economic life as taking primacy over civic life.

Economic activity is an outcome that happens in the presence of a stable civic situation. Economic activity does not spontaneously create polite and cooperative groups of people.

If anything, civic/political matters take primacy over economics any day. Once your political landscape degenerates, your economic underpinning is generally quick to follow in the ensuing chaos.

How have people not realized this yet?
Way to paint with a broad brush. So every climate activist is a bitter loser? Would you consider Martin Luther King Jr. to be a bitter loser?
Ah! Here we go:

> Thenmozhi Soundararajan, the founder of Equality Labs, a Dalit civil rights organisation

Hm ok https://www.equalitylabs.org/mission

> Equality Labs is an Ambedkarite South Asian power-building organization

What is this Ambedkarite thing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalit_Buddhist_movement

> The movement was launched in 1956 by Ambedkar when nearly half a million Dalits – formerly untouchables – joined him and converted to Navayana Buddhism

So it's a Buddhist deal. Is Buddhism anti-hinduism? Um, it isn't exactly pro-hinduism, now is it?

I'm not sure that's the steeliest man, but it's a start.
...and how is it we americans accept low/minority caste indians ( i am guessing we are talking about citizens from India as opposed to indigenous)? I am in tech on the west coast and wouldnt know the difference. From my perspective Indian migrants from india are indian. I know no castes. This is subjugation they have brought with them and I am not privy or party to. I also have no ability to fight or side with it since I DO NOT see it ... cuz I have no idea.

I think to side with your point ... the vocal extremists have the mic.
Thanks Noumenon, you really get at how choice of language helps us connect the thing-in-itself to our intuitive understandings.
According to Wikipedia, 1.5% of Indian immigrants to the USA are Dalit. 90% are the high castes. That is interesting coincidence to your quoted statistic of 90% thinking this is a minor problem or no problem at all.
A tactic borrowed from Israel, where any external criticism of Israeli state policies immediately gets you labeled as "anti-Semitic".
Bummer it does not have image search. Still have to use Google because its image search - specially the file type filter, and letting search for things like SVGs.
Posting for visibility:

100% this goes on at amazon all the time. One time, I googled the last name origin of a whole orgs management structure. All of them were from the same part of India, without exception.
Your point touches on the crux of the problem. How to achieve safe and peaceful communities is not a mystery. Humans have been doing the civilization thing for thousands of years.

The problem is people who think that we have been doing it wrong and should stop what we have done for thousands of years, and wave their hands at mysterious other solutions.
That's correct. The author mentions it in his video.
I highly recommend SUM. Interesting and imaginative short stories on (sometimes wild) possibilities for the afterlife. Entertaining and thought provoking, but a very easy read.
I'm intentionally not talking about $0-10M "lifestyle businesses" here.

I want to split SMB in American terminology into two categories - small businesses ($0-10M) and Mittelstands ($10M-$1B). My focus is the latter.

SpaceX is $2B+ in revenue in 2019, so they're a little out of this range, but many of their suppliers are definitely Mittelstands.

Yes, this is a reaction to "unicorns" for sure. I'm arguing that there's great value for founders and investors in Mittelstands.
So, ssh -X?

To me it sounds like a lot of needless bloat but cool, glad to learn a new thing.
This is not engaging seriously with OP, the argument or indeed this forum.
I don't want to be a prick here, and I understand the author's frustration of seeing his favourite competition going downhill.

But.. why not step up to the stage and organize, or volunteer to organize, this competition yourself? You seem to really enjoy the engineering space around it and clearly have opinions on where it should go.

Watching your most-liked competition going down the drain and just.. standing by? Maybe you don't have enough time/energy/bandwidth, but come to think of it.. the current organizers probably don't have it either.

All the best with winning. And organizing. We need people like you to keep fun projects like these going!

(PS: I am not involved in any way with iFPGA)
I think you both agree.
Isn't that why more traditional investors like banks give business loans or PE firms exist?
If you change “Dalit” for “gypsy” you can see the title with other eyes.
This is super misleading/wrong.

First of all, that poll is about discrimination against Indian-Americans (presumably based on race or ethnicity), while TFA is about caste-based discrimination.

Secondly, the option below "major problem" in that poll is "minor problem", there is no in-between. In other words, 90% or Indian-Americans think it isn't a major problem, but over half do think there is a problem.

Most importantly, polling opinions about this is the worst method of determining if discrimination exists. A better method would look at objective measures like salary/job/hiring rate/layoff rate/etc of lower-caste Indians compared to Indians as a whole.
This article explores, suggests, and breaks down four popular techniques for augmenting data meant to be used with NLP.
although I've been aware of caste for a long time I assumed it mainly existed in india and disappeared in the US.

however, in retrospect, the pauses and looks I received when I asked people where they were from in india and whether they were vegetarian make more sense now. Woosh.
> What I don't understand is, how do people know the caste of some individual if they want to decide if they hire them or not, how does it work? It doesn't seem like people are very public about their caste, so how do they get an advantage? Do the people of a caste somehow communicate with each other?!

The "I don't understand" part is interesting. I learnt one way to contextualize something 'foreign' in a quick way is to apply it to something we're familiar with. For example, in the US, one could easily describe the black-white divide as a more violently enforced caste system. Thus, I presume 'how does it work' is the same way we (American) know the 'caste' of someone applying for a job. Just based on the way someone is named, eg: Hunter, Tanner, Abigail would perhaps be identifiable as 'upper caste' individiuals while names like DeShawn or Laquisha would be identified as 'lower caste'. Then comes linguistic traits and such.
Negative externalities would ideally just be handled through proportional taxation. Then market incentives work it out. Taxes are used to clean up the externalities.
Your experience is yours, I'm not arguing that.

But I've worked with ~100 Indian co-workers and several were very vocal about their caste because they were from the "higher" caste; well-educated, children of politicians and scientists and vegetarian.
> Remember that all output is just statistical inference and must not be taken seriously.

I think you could say the same about /pol/ itself.
Now, finally, the other Howard Johnson of high speed digital design fame can get his due.
In the command center, while drinking a glass of wine...

Let's kill it, board said.
> If someone unfamiliar with your culture cannot see distinctions between castes - maybe its all bullshit?

It may be.

But there are enough examples in history to understand that this may not be a trivial matter, either. Could you tell if someone is Jewish or not? Could you tell utus and tutsis apart?
Poor phrasing, but the OP was making the case against caste discrimination, not downplaying caste discrimination. I read it wrong at first. Not the greatest take either way. "I'm from a different culture and I don't notice it so it's probably bullshit". So if you could tell the difference between castes, would it not be bullshit?
Yeah, Mozilla does some great things for privacy while at the same time pushing all kinds of new problems on Firefox users that have to be carefully disabled on each install. As long as they continue to give us the option to disable all the insecure and privacy violating features they add to Firefox, I'll continue using it. There's nothing better out there right now. but it does make articles (and headlines) like this a real problem.

At best we're left to assume that they're so disorganized that Mozilla has put out this article calling out a toxic practice they themselves are happy to continue participating in.

At worst we could look at this as Mozilla violating their user's privacy while also knowing that it's wrong and trying to trick Firefox users into thinking that Mozilla is looking out for the them and that Firefox wouldn't do the harmful things it's actually doing.

I very much wish Mozilla would either stand by the message in this article and disable the harmful defaults in their own browser or stop pretending to hold values they refuse to respect themselves.

In the end, the change being discussed in this article/advertisement is still a good thing for user's privacy and I get why they'd want to promote it as a feature of their browser often missing from others, but they could do that without the dishonest/contradictory messaging.
In my opinion, publicizing the apparent discrimination does more to propagate it than get rid of it. The right way is to get successful as a group and change perceptions based on pure success numbers.
As someone also not from South Asia, I share your perspective. But the problem being solved is not discrimination of Indians by white people. The problem being solved is discrimination of Indians amongst themselves using caste. Your perspective (and mine) are irrelevant.
Surnames.
Burning gas on a stove to heat food is about 40% efficient. Induction is about 85% efficient. Modern CCGT is about 60% efficient. So converting the energy contained in natural gas into electricity in a large CCGT plant and then cooking with the electricity is more efficient than piping the gas to a home and burning it there.

More importantly for me is that, you don't pollute your breathing air with the byproducts of combusting gas indoors in your home - particular nitrous oxides and fine particulates.
Great app. I really like how fast it works with the custom setting options.
The person you're buying that used Prius from, what are they buying?

Or: When you purchase that EV, what are you doing with your previous car?

2 different perspectives, both require new stock to enter the market. That new stock should be EV.
Kaktovik Iñupiaq numerals: a system for visual calculations
how does it work with gender/race? If your white co-worker likes a candidate, it is because of his gender, race or actual competence?
$100/tonne is bogus. Overall emissions need to drop more than 10% per year [1]. There is no sustainable scenario where airlines continue to operate.

That's why I said an appropriately high tax. Any tax that can easily be absorbed by consumers, will not reduce emissions fast enough.

[1] https://www.showyourbudgets.org/?country=united_states_of_am...
Not to hijack this thread, but curious whether some map people out there might opine on growth areas for this space - technologically, artistically, product-wise.
Honestly I couldn't disagree more. Reducing friction is always good for newcomers. I got started writing code on systems that already had compilers installed because they were already installed. When I used Windows I was slower to start because the tools were not already available. 20 years later, I'm now a software developer.

> If you can't figure out how to click next next next then you have no business trying to learn python yet.

This is rude IMO. Who are you to tell people if they have "no business" to learn something?! This is the kind of gatekeeping that keeps curious newcomers out of tech.
How is this rational that VCs that are calling out that “we are screwed” participated or encouraged startups to invest at those valuations.
The real utility of the dropper post for me is in climbing.

On XC courses I would set my post height at some compromise height, like I would on a CX bike. I’d always feel it in my knees on the climbs though when it was just a bit too low.

Now it’s perfect for decents and for climbs. Such a useful addition to an MTB.

Even being able to adjust the height without the bloody thing twisting from the centre line is a win for me. :)
I don't think that has anything to do with caste? Some old systems limited usernames to 8 characters max, Indian surnames can be very long, and there are lots of people with identical names.
No it isn’t. There’s no reason to turn a low skill job into a high skilled one just for the sake of it. The solution is to implement a quick exit for shit cops and train the rest on the job.
I disagree, but I admire the honesty of this post.
The problem is caste discrimination is often (always?) justified in Hindu religious terms, so it's easy to end up with things that are kinda muddled between anti-caste and anti-Hindu perspectives. For example, the "Caste Privilege 101" article on the author's reading list which I was reading (https://theaerogram.com/caste-privilege-101-primer-privilege...) says that "Hinduism is not a safe space for us" and that being Hindu or Sikh suggests you might have caste privilege. I'm not sure that the author meant to imply she hates Hindus or that Hindus are inherently bad people - but I can understand why a devout Hindu might disagree with me.
> There are options to buy low carbon, and nobody does. People can vote with their wallets or they can vote at the ballot box. They will pay the increased cost either way.

I already addressed this twice, but let's do it a third time. People don't "vote" with their wallets. That's nonsense and not democracy because the "votes" aren't distributed remotely equally. Most people don't have margins to make these choices easily, as I already said... and are also being fed manipulative advertisements and propaganda, as I already said.

> I think you are in error if you think that somehow making the change with regulations means the cost wont be passed to consumers.

Nope.
It’ll be back as a ghost kitchen
I wasn't referring to the BSL specifically with that comment, I was referring to recent attempts to call licenses like the Hippocratic License "open source" despite being anything but. The BSL is just a different example of a similar thing.
so caste based discrimination is indeed a part of hinduism, right? Because that is what calling dalit activism "hinduphobic" actually implies.
From what I read so far the discrimination is not wasps but rather by other Indians. So no one is saying you are discriminating one care or another but that such discrimination exists even if you don't see it.
Not true at all. For every 1 year you can expect 1 month extra to recover fully. Every drug withdrawal group has some variation of this with different figures. An example a guy who watches porn for 2 weeks will have a much shorter reboot than one who watched porn for 24 years. That second guy will go through 2 years of PAWS and has destroyed his hormonal system. Moving away from stimulations to stimulants, Coffee stops blood flowing through specific areas of the brain and increases it flowing through other areas thats why your experience of life changes while on coffee., this is even worse, its a physical drug , but it has also destroyed other types of glands like the adrenals. You are very naive and foolisj to think you can pay back the years of being buzzed up and not experience a depression for a long long time afterwards. You have to repay it all. Its the same for most drugs, weed affects the blood flow through other areas of the brain and long term this can cause irreversable damage.
Yes you nailed it. I was one of those kids in the back seat, and I loved Howard Johnson. That type of family road trip culture is much reduced now.