skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back in the 60's, our family took extensive road trips during summer vacation, our dad taking the tribe on cross-country adventures towing a vacation trailer behind our Travelall. Two things I remember seeing all over the country were a Stuckey's restaurant/store and Howard Johnson's. Being kids, we would constantly whine about stopping at them when we passed by but we never did. Since we stayed in the trailer, we didn't need hotel rooms, and we generally ate our meals in the trailer, as well. Now, they're just dusty memories of those idyllic times long ago.
Unfortunately, counterfeit scallops are common.

https://www.bonappetit.com/entertaining-style/trends-news/sl...

https://www.publichealth.com.ng/how-to-identify-fake-scallop...
Caste is a covenant-level concept in Vedic culture ontologically. It is mentioned in the Rg Veda, and in particular, in one of the most import parts of the Rg Veda (The Purusha Suktam ), and so the notion of dissolving caste is heretical.

brā̠hma̠ṇō̎-'sya̠ mukha̍māsīt । bā̠hū rā̍ja̠nya̍ḥ kṛ̠taḥ ।
ū̠rū tada̍sya̠ yadvaiśya̍ḥ । pa̠dbhyāgṃ śū̠drō a̍jāyataḥ ॥

There it is - right there.

Of course, no where in the text is it mentioned that you should be violent to those of other castes. In fact it all points to the following - that we all come from the same universal truth, but that people are of different talents, and this variety of talents is what helps society function.

The problem is when our egos get in the way.

vidya-vinaya-sampanne
brahmane gavi hastini
suni caiva sva-pake ca
panditah sama-darsinah

The humble sage, by virtue of true knowledge, sees with equal vision a learned and gentle brahmana, a cow, an elephant, a dog and an outcaste.

So when we can learn to put our egos aside for a moment, and remember that we are all part of humanity, then we can learn to coexist and thrive.

Unfortunately, caste has just become another crutch that the advantaged use to take advantage of the disadvantaged, just like skin color (white skinned people vs. black skinned people) or race (gentiles vs. jews).

It is a tale as old as time.
I have no beef in this, I'm not living in the US and not Indian or south Asian.

The thing that is the issue, again from the little I read, is that such discrimination is brought by other Indians on the Dalit and it's most defyingly bit something they want imported. I didn't figure or yet what is wanted and how but it's not like this is sintering you can blame them for.
Whoa, a white person that doesn’t see caste? Well knock me down with a feather!

I’m not sure that this is as insightful of a post as you envisioned.
Yes. That's what happens if you tell every child they are the best through their childhood. Now suddenly nobody want their bubble burst.

The other side of the same coin is this: I TA'ed college physics (more like high school physics) when I was working on my PhD. The school was not the best, but it was like top-10 in medical and pharmacy. And a lot of my students were from these departments.

We had to give them a pre-test before final. The final would reuse the same problems. And there were people failing the tests. I didn't understand why; I still don't. I mean it's an A for free, why not take it? Why fail...?

I guess you could say that's because it's not their major, so they don't pay attention. But it's still a required course. They had to retake it and pay real money for it. I also knew for a fact that they did care. Some of them cried when we told them we would not give them "bonus credits".
From the AHREF founder's blog post[1], Yep is designed more as a PR and hiring stunt with the aim of getting Microsoft to revamp Bing with a publisher revenue share model.

"Considering the platform [Bing] only generates a fraction of the company’s [Microsoft] $120 billion revenue, the organization could easily revamp Bing under a profit-share model."

[1] https://medium.com/swlh/investor-money-vs-public-interest-di...

As a side bet, any takers on how these types of visionary projects / PR stunts will become the new norm for hiring in a post covid lockdown world? Especially since working from home is no longer a differentiator.
See my other comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31615147

To add to that, here's a story.

Back in Feb of 2014, I was reading the book Willpower. While reading it, I kept saying to myself "Wow! I need to note this stuff down somewhere!" It was one of the first books I started taking notes for.

Right after that, I decided to revisit Thinking, Fast and Slow (TFS), which I had read less than a year before. Lo and behold, I found that 90% of the stuff I said "Wow" to in Willpower was in that book, and I had no memory of having encountered the material. And it hadn't even been a year. What was the point of reading such a good book as TFS if I didn't retain stuff that was a clear "Wow!" to me?

I don't know if note taking is necessarily the solution - I still don't retain much unless I revisit my notes, which I almost never do. But I do know that for me, reading such books in a manner where I'm almost guaranteed to forget most of it - it's just passing time and giving me a false notion that this book is useful for me past the time of reading.
Inherent biases don't automatically disappear when someone gets on a plane and crosses some borders. Even more so when such discrimination isn't illegal here like it is back home and isn't part of corporate policy or any training material. There are enough reports and even lawsuits of such practices in Silicon Valley:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/27/indian-...

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/923736245

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-03-11/how-big-t...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cisco-lawsuit/california-...
Found a bug, where is my bounty?

https://yep.com/web?q=site%3Astackoverflow.com
from what i’ve read here, it’s isn’t actually a hard concept to grasp

it’s just that the managers are deliberately choosing to ignore the issue, because they themselves actually support (or have nothing against) casteism

can’t make a diversity meeting bout that
Yeah, I tried those mods when I tried Minetest. Still wasn't remotely comparable.

Basic things like the hand animation when breaking blocks were subtly worse. Monsters didn't have AI or pathfinding or animations. Etc.
Crabs evolved at least five times from separate groups of crustaceans (2021)
Is it fair to call dating preferences “race discrimination”? And without looking at any real stats, I’d guess that the US has more interracial dating/marriage than most countries.
The Logo That Took Down DARPA's Information Awareness Office (2015)
While I would prefer if this clause was not a thing, I also understand why it exists even for great products.

It is surprisingly difficult to reproduce many workload benchmarks and quite easy to engineer a benchmark that misrepresents real-world database performance. There are tools that exist to generate optimally pathological workloads that target specific database implementations, while looking completely reasonable and innocuous. It doesn't even need to be a bad faith benchmark by a competitor, there is a high probability that the person configuring the environment does not know how to do it correctly and/or optimally.

The DeWitt Clause is a defense against the unfortunate pervasiveness of incompetent and/or bad faith benchmarking. Companies have a well-founded reason to not trust third parties to do a good job of representing the performance of their product.
This is basically my holy grail electric stovetop. I want a ring coils just like in my broiler sitting just below a normal stove grate because heating the air is basically the only way to get even heat distribution.

Induction can also do that i know but I’m not really a fan of my stovetop being basically not user serviceable and a sealed box of electronics and glass.
> They are often times well paid, with pay that would make for a good living in more rural parts of the US.

That might be the case now, but manufacturing moved to China decades ago partly because of cheap labor and as a cost saving measure for companies building elsewhere.

> BTW, everything is made in China because China has a ton of local expertise, engineering talent, and ease of sourcing parts.

Everything is made in China because everything else is made in China. I.e. the momentum is already built for everything to be cheaply made there, so no external manufacturing can compete on prices or equipment.

The issue is that in the race to the bottom to build everything cheaply, quickly and in large quantities, is that you get a ton of low quality products that become junk soon after purchase. And given the total disregard for intellectual property, any company sharing any manufacturing details with Chinese manufacturers must either have strong on-site control and oversight of the process, or deal with the fact that the market will soon be flooded with counterfeit products of their design.
Paywall/Yurp: https://archive.ph/6gWnC
Last time I was there, there was a Woolworth’s in Puerto Vallarta old town. Quite the surprise!
"Couple to Get Married on the Bitcoin Blockchain at Disney Bitcoin Conference"

Sep 23, 2014

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/press-releases/couple-get-marrie...
What is the distribution of castes in South Asia vs South Asians that have moved to the United States? Are those of a higher caste more likely to be able to come to the U.S. in the first place or do people of a lower caste move to escape the caste system?
That’s a Python issue with how janky their language versioning and package infrastructure is, not an issue with shipping a language.
I'm not in India and not really qualified to comment, but I think the big missing context in all this that Hindu nationalism is the prevalent social and political movement in India right now.
Possibly-useful technique: think of air cav/armored cav—airborne (helicopter) or armored (tanks etc.) cavalry. No such thing as air calv.
Coinbase told new hires that signed or pending offers would not be rescinded
A lot of art-adjacent jobs are about to become toast.
I begin to think that OP just took the word "Mittelstand" to mean "$10M-$1B", which at least to several other people in the thread is rather confusing.
I understand analogies.

I just contest that there is only one understanding of what cathedral is.
In a lot of cases you don't need to ask "what caste are you", you just need to ask "what's your name". For a vast majority of Indians their last name gives away their caste.
Something that I remind myself of, often, (assuming it is true) is that airplanes were invented prior to putting wheels on baggage.
I'm familiar with the broader social context of gender and race in the US. So when I see, for example, a coworker who consistently argues that female candidates are too aggressive, I can gently prod the discussion towards focusing on his technical feedback and deferring to the other interviewers for soft skills. With caste discrimination, I have absolutely no idea what the equivalent would be, and it'd surely be inappropriate to corner one of my Indian coworkers in the break room and ask her to teach me all the common Dalit stereotypes.
> in terms of CO2 emissions

CH4 is the larger concern with natural gas

This paper explains it:

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.0c00437
Glad I could help. I know it won't be a breeze but I would hope that at the very least the job board continues. I'm sure there are plenty of people that will find it very helpful now and in the future. You've gone thru many of the difficulties associated with the situation and have risen above them. There are very few people with the experience needed to help others given the same circumstances. I wish you the best!
I don’t want to pile on or anything, because it seems like you’re engaging in good faith, but I don’t understand the quickness to say “I don’t think this should be discussed at work” if you don’t even know the basics. Why is the default position not to be curious to learn more?
Very few H1B women are willing to marry someone from back home and bring him over as a dependent, so you don't see many male H4s.
Those sites exist specifically because all the popular ones specifically are designed to be echochambers, and boot the "controvercial" users off. So those users collectively move to other sites and start their own echochamber. And then when new people join, they arent seeing both sides of the conversation, which is a clear path to radicallization.

The way to fix this isnt with silencing, its by exact opposite -promoting controvercy and rewarding discussion around it while punishing low effort posts and replies.
Is it really surprising that the poor and marginalized section of society in India isn't the one getting fancy degrees and immigrating to the USA for tech jobs?
>I almost kind of wish Rust would just drop async, as the rest of Rust is much better, having only minor issues that are very much fixable IMO. Instead the ecosystem is accelerating into it, and now it’s hard to avoid for some use cases.

I've written a decent-sized project backed by Tokio/async Rust and when I'm in pure async code, it's honestly fine and I have few complaints (just... gimme stable trait async fns). I don't think it's worth dropping; async Rust has its place and is continuing to be iterated on.

What needs to happen is what's happening right now: people who write in Rust need to be louder about the fact that crates should be sync first, async second. And/or (my personal irrational opinion) the language needs to get over it and adopt Tokio into Rust proper.

If this proves difficult - the ability to be sync/async via feature flags - then this is something that the language needs to solve before other features IMO (I will admit I'm saying this without checking to see if it's being worked on, though).
How is this zero knowledge? It could have been a simple string equality on the back end.
It's the other way around, Rust tried Go's approach and rejected it. The original incarnation of Rust was heavily inspired by Limbo, which was the language Pike developed prior to Go. As of 2011, you could describe Rust as a slightly lower-level Go, it even had (a poor stub implementation of) a GC. Rust's Go-style green thread runtime was removed in 2014 because it complicated the C interop story too much (which is a tradeoff Go is happy to make).

It's not a matter of minimalism or simplicity, it's a matter of different priorities. Rust's stackless async support is suitable for systems like microcontrollers, and the design reflects that.
Everyone’s being so diplomatic :) … it’s The Fxxxing Article…
Yes, the United States military is the biggest institutional carbon emitter in the world.

If we're not doing anything to eliminate the military industrial complex, we're not serious about climate change, either.
I'm sure that those who did the "disallowing" (aka censoring, cancelling, etc) felt quite certain in their righteousness.

And their friends no doubt all agreed.

This is why free speech absolutism is a good thing.
Gas stove pans should really be more like jet boil pots with fins
> I'm so glad no one at my current technology workplace discusses politics anywhere-- not in Slack, Email, nor Conference calls. I literally haven't heard a single political opinion at work, and I freakin love it!

Honestly, this seems boring as hell.

I've often discussed politics, religion, and all sorts of things with coworkers, and we've often disagreed. And then we went about our day working together, or having a beer after work. No problems. It's just part of normal regular socializing, and I'd argue that socializing with co-workers is somewhat important for a healthy workplace.

Excessively pushing politics is a different thing of course, but "absolutely no politics allowed" has just a kind of boring superficiality to it. And also leaves us with the rather tricky question on what "politics" is, exactly.
Conversely, "minority group <x> is always placing the race card" is a classic talking point of racists everywhere.
In an alternate universe they could have done something about it, the same way a debian ships with a version, and if you don’t want it you change it.

Apple is no small startup that can’t maintain an update system (could have been just part of the xcode tools), so I kinda resent them for dropping the ball completely.
> "mother" gives a score of 20, "grandmother" gives a score of "23",

Doesn't this make sense though? A small change like that means you didn't really move, so you didn't get further or nearer the solution. Grandmother and mother are pretty similar.
Castes come with plenty of cultural baggage, and the metaphorical 'secret handshakes' shared by people of higher castes can be used to suss out those of a lower caste even if the person of interest is trying to hide their background.
There is massive distrust in activists in recent years as a lot of them if not all are exposed as peddling political agendas instead of working on actual cause. Combine that with todays cancel culture trend. Now here I suspect narrative will be on cancelling lecture, less on substance.
This was a talk to be given to the Google News team vis a vis their editorial choices w.r.t caste in India.

Can’t think of a more important talk to be given to them tbh.
A sports team, does it mean the team can be as racist as it can be and achieve a singular goal at the same time?
Slightly off topic, but I happened to have recently completed google's DEI training as an onboarding googler and was appalled at one of the anecdotes used as an example of inclusion:

"Someone suggested sharing baby pictures across our team. A googler said that wouldnt be inclusive because googlers might not have photos from childhood or not want to share them."

Isn't this incredibly backwards? A culture where co-workers are being encouraged to self-censor sharing baby photos because someone might be offended is not very healthy IMO.
Why not hire all slaves? that ensure no activist exists.
Ironically in today’s world betting on natural gas seems like a losing proposition. I’d feel more comfortable betting on access to electricity than I would betting on access to natural gases.
I build thousands of static pages with kotlinx.html. Suits me best because I can use all the features or my favorite language. That might be an advise in general: find out if your favorite language(s) has a decent web framework
Host the people who were shamed into not speaking and hit the rest with discrimination charges. I know bigots gotta bigot, but one doesn't have to help them do it. Free speech and all that. Laws about religions.

I'm unaware of N American laws where you can't treat people fairly independent of how they're treated elsewhere. If this occurred in India or a 3rd country, the article should have been more explicit about this. Google probably has offices damn near everywhere so seeing glass and their logo's pretty ambiguous.
I didn't say they should be social workers, I suggested they have a degree in social work. Police encounters with those in mental distress (either temporary due to a crisis or a deeper mental illness such as schizophrenia) frequently end in tragedy. I want to believe that a police officer trained as a social worker would have a much better chance of de-escalation a personal than current police do.

The alternative is to have unarmed social workers, untrained in police work, accompany police officers to mental distress calls. This brings with it a host of other problems including, but not limited to, the possibility of the social worker being injured or killed in an altercation with an armed person in distress.
Consider the logarithm. In almost any interval, rounding down will be more accurate than rounding up the majority of the time -- so random rounding will bias you away from an accurate result. Random rounding can be a good idea, but it's not always a good idea. Random rounding is an okay default, but having fine-grain control over rounding direction is vastly superior to always sticking to the default.

For another example, interval arithmetic is a really cool approach to keeping an eye on your accuracy. There, you want to round your upper bounds up, and round your lower bounds down.
I love baremetal but I agree, distributed storage is hell. I found it slightly harder to sleep at night managing a prod Ceph cluster.
Possibly because it does not mention almost all of the C++ features that Rust still lacks.
For folks using Windows, there is very similar project miniWeb [1], which is also a single binary, serves a directory with one click and provides dur listings.

Very useful for LAN parties or sharing over home network, when windows network discovery just wont work.

[1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/miniweb/
You’re comment make your point very well. Honestly, so did the first comment. Sometimes I find myself so tired of just lurking and reading HN that I just text dump some comment onto a totally valid parent comment.
What kind of cursed limbo is 4.2 in?
Does it means the purposes of a company is to exploit the world like there are ten thousand worlds out there? Exploit other human being and all horrible things we have fixed in last century?
Generally another Mittelstand family can provide funding, that's how it goes in Chile. It's not like they've never met in eg Swiss ski slopes, parties, that sort of thing. And they have capital, not only are they high net worth individuals, they are also high absolute worth individuals, because they don't really get into debt. The German economy is a macrocosm (you can think of it as a constellation if you don't like "macrocosm") of the Mittelstand, there's actual profits and defensible business, and the money piles up year after year, spending less, saving more, investing the savings, export the savings, repeat.

In fact generally Germany was the largest net exporter, up until not long ago, despite China being better known for its trade balance. Losing WW2 was in the purely economic aspect the best thing that ever happened to them, although it's seasonal because sometimes foreigners tell them they should be more into finance and insurance instead of manufacturing.

That makes Germans feel bad, they're really good at feeling bad, ie guilty, it's cultural, but they don't really do things differently. They just stick to analog tech and work like fuck, that's it. Just work, that's how they have fun. Socially? More awkward, much happier working. That's why they drink like they do.

Don't get bored that badly. And that's where the analog magic begins, in the subtle subtle subtleties, which are huge and obvious if you put in the time without getting bored, there's a whole world down there. The digital equivalent is this: What if I just leave this comment written without hitting reply? What if I bookmark it, will the text get saved? Is there a time limit to how soon I can reply, or how late? What if I do it right on a time limit? Where does one thing end and the other begin? In the analog realm: What if superstition is good? What is superstition, what is science? Science means cutting, where to draw the line? At what point do I call out a man in a lab coat as a bullshit artist, or do I let him tell me black is white, 7 equals 12, 60 equals 100? Do I draw a line, or do I use my spine to make decisions better, let my hands do the typing like right now, eye-hand spinal coordination, the spine as the second skull talking without the skull's thoughts?

The analog world is infinite. And there might be a Mittelstand for you too somewhere in that little world of subtleties.