skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sadly almost no programs apply to me because I've never been convicted of a crime. Most programs are only available to felons. There are almost no support structures for those who have spent years locked up in pre-trial detention. I was behind bars for the first 8 years, but for the last year I've been locked in a room in a house instead, but that at least gave me Internet access. I've been doing my best to try to make as much money as I can doing gig work online. Ironically one of the first jobs I got was transcribing recorded jail phone calls, then police interrogations, then court room transcripts. Talk about PTSD.
That article appears to be written by a non-native English speaker. I don't think I've ever heard anyone refer to a software package as "a code."
Hop on Blind for 5 minutes and you’ll see
there is no way to know what the right number should be for the percentage of the team that should be redhead.

So the best you can do is create a new sport “ redhead basketball” the same way we now have “ women basketball” to not discriminate women !
Your write-up is quite simplistic and hence is very much open to misinterpretation by non-Indians.

I highly suggest that you consult the works of Patrick Olivelle and Susan Bayly to get at the real History of "Caste" (Varna vs. Jati etc.). That way you can present what is actually stated in the Hindu Scriptures vs. Their misinterpretation and later practice within Indian Society.

Excerpt from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varna_(Hinduism) :

Recent scholarship suggests that the discussion of varna as well as untouchable outcastes in these texts does not resemble the modern era caste system in India. Patrick Olivelle, a professor of Sanskrit and Indian Religions and credited with modern translations of Vedic literature, Dharma-sutras and Dharma-shastras, states that ancient and medieval Indian texts do not support the ritual pollution, purity-impurity as the basis for varna system. According to Olivelle, purity-impurity is discussed in the Dharma-shastra texts, but only in the context of the individual's moral, ritual and biological pollution (eating certain kinds of food such as meat, urination and defecation). In his review of Dharma-shastras, Olivelle writes, "we see no instance when a term of pure/impure is used with reference to a group of individuals or a varna or caste". The only mention of impurity in the Shastra texts from the 1st millennium is about people who commit grievous sins and thereby fall out of their varna. These, writes Olivelle, are called "fallen people" and impure, declaring that they be ostracised. Olivelle adds that the overwhelming focus in matters relating to purity/impurity in the Dharma-sastra texts concerns "individuals irrespective of their varna affiliation" and all four varnas could attain purity or impurity by the content of their character, ethical intent, actions, innocence or ignorance, stipulations, and ritualistic behaviours.

Olivelle states:

Dumont is correct in his assessment that the ideology of varna is not based on purity. If it were we should expect to find at least some comment on the relative purity and impurity of the different vamas. What is even more important is that the ideology of purity and impurity that emerges from the Dharma literature is concerned with the individual and not with groups, with purification and not with purity, and lends little support to a theory which makes relative purity the foundation of social stratification.
> 30 amp for the dryer plus 30 amp for the water heater plus 30 amp for the AC,

Heat pump water heaters and heat pump air heaters solve that problem and save money.

Heat pump dryers on the other hand are a bit rubbish (take a very long time to dry clothes, but they do save money).
In Zig, we are writing a moderately complex application that calls mmap many times in the first few seconds and never thereafter. We can use every part of the stdlib and most libraries because we can pass in allocators backed by the memory we reserved at startup.
It's a bit of both. Most of the work in our space is a lot lamer than we like to make it out to be. Almost anyone, with a modicum of training can do this. The hard problems, and by "the hard problems" I'm not talking about crazy algorithms but rather what does one do when the poop hits the fan, that's harder. Most people could still do it, but it takes a lot more training and experience.
* good from the bad! Argh!
A lot of the difficulty to modern web development and so forth don’t even feel like engineering, so much as navigating bureaucracy. The scale of complexity in modern codebases has turned us into software bureaucrats.
PicoMath: Fast math evaluation library (C++ header-only)
We aim to fill more seats than there are engineers graduating every year, indefinitely.

A quick bit of head arithmetic (comparing with the number of 65,000 graduates in CS per year) indicates that this can't possibly be true for the present -- let alone at any moment in the past. And is more likely off by an order of magnitude (and perhaps then some).

So you can add to your list of Amazon's self-blocking behaviors: "They way they tout mantras and slogans, without ever bothering to check if they have anything to do with reality ..."
Yes - and they are not in the Mountainbike market which is dominated by sram and shimano.
Observational studies should only be used to conclude "maybe we should investigate this" - as in what you're asking for. Maybe let's try to elucidate some biological/chemical pathway that may be responsible for such a significant observed result. Or maybe let's find some confounding factors and learn why!

But pop science news interprets it as a causation.

...helpful...
great, sweet story
As far as I understand the bike computer connects to the group set (Di2) on the bike directly using either ANT+ or Bluetooth signal and no internet is needed for their communication. This is how I have used both.

I think you can even DIY a device which connects to the group set. ANT+ is open access.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANT_(network)
> Ford reorganized back in March so that their EV business (Model e) is separate from the legacy ICE business (Ford Blue).

State legislatures and courts have been smacking down this kind of shenanigan for nearly a century now.
More and more teslas are spontaneously catching fire.
> we’ve been lucky to have component compatibility across manufacturers as an option for decades.

Can you explain what cross-compatibility we had? When I was cycling, there wasn't any compatibility between Shimano and Campagnolo (SRAM wasn't a player in road yet). Heck, Dura-Ace (Shimano's top of the line road component group) previously wasn't compatible with other, lesser Shimano groups.

Maybe you're referring to mountain or the cheaper 8-speed stuff?
Tbh the more I hear about the academia the worse it sounds.

Look I’m willing to take a massive paycut, I was starting to come around to the time cost, and hell, I’ll even work in Matlab. But:

> you don't have to work weekends, and you also don't have to feed the mice on a Sunday night

This is just wild, and if anything reminds me of low skilled near minimum wages jobs.
Elon recently tweeted "Competition is good for the consumer".
You can test drive multiple vehicles at the same location.
What good will that do? Google puts stupid stuff on their new tab page all the time too.
> How exactly do you infer that?

1. You show that you care about tradition. And you show not a slightest attempt to care about people. Words reflect mind. Not perfectly, but there is one more consideration:

2. I heard a lot from privileged. I said some of that talk myself, and I know how mind must work to say it. I changed myself and rejected my priviledge, my mind works in different ways. I do not belive my reasons to do something anymore, I have found then the only sensible way to judge my inclination to discriminate is to assess my actions and their consequences. In my previous conment I applied the technique to your actions as you described them. It is possible that you lied, but I believe it is unlikely.

> What I don’t care much for is rank identity politics disguised as benevolent activism spewed from a non-existent moral high ground.

You are angry, Jupiter, therefore you are wrong.

When you switch to an emotional talk, it seems to me to be an additional bit of evidence, that you are lying to yourself about how you care about people and discrimination. It is a very predictable reaction.
> I'm not a lawyer so don't know if they _need_ to have a license for the protocol, but presumably they think they do.

They don't but they were probably using a licensed library they no longer have access to and would need to develop their own library first.
That's a good point. Upon reflection, I don't think I've actually received a relatively recent email from Facebook, so that must have been due to the hiring freeze you mention. But Amazon keeps plugging away. They require a 90-minute test before even talking to them, so good luck to them.
>I think comparisons between Rust and Go/C#/Java are what will really trip up a beginner. Rust has a lot of nice features found in higher level languages, but it's decidedly not a higher level language. Rust operates in the space of C and C++, where a small mistake can cause memory corruption no debugger will ever be able to unravel, but where a well placed byte of padding can accelerate a program by as much as 30 percent.

I agree. But if you use Rust for web programming, it is fair to compare it with C# or Java.
On the other hand, C and C++ feels easier to read and write, a bit more productive than Rust.

So the question is vs C# and Java: is the performance worth the pain and loss of productivity?

And vs C and C++: is the guarantees made by Rust worth the pain and loss of productivity?

I'd argue that in some cases the answer can be yes, while in others it ca be no. So, there's no universal good or bad choice, it really depends on project, team, budget and many more.
People were saying "Counter culture stopped existing a decade ago" when I was a kid in the late 80s/early 90s. I'd bet good money they said it before that too.
And the fact that they're emailing me tells me that that they are indeed desperate.

Or simply indicative of the fact that they can, and could not begin to care a whit whom they might piss or cheese off by doing so.

Just like every other recruiter out there.
>> EVs need much less service visits but when they do - it's likely harder for DIYers to tinkle with.

A car handle on a Tesla that needs replacing is $1,000.
> educate the consumers, financing, DMV paperwork and most importantly service your vehicles.

I bought a new car direct and I was educated, my credit union was better than the manufacturer's financing offer, the manufacturer did DMV paperwork, and the manufacturer does service.

9 years ago.

What am I missing?
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That is a misunderstanding. When I say "I work for a software company", there are a myriad of job positions, not only software. Accounting was just another example, but also legal, HR, sales, etc. It is up to the audience to assume (or ask, resp.) what I specifically do.

I happen to be a software engineer, currently employed to manage an enginering team, since you ask.
no I mean in practice how is “treating people fairly” implemented. I only seen 2 versions.

1-Diversity quota
2-lawsuits against the company for not hiring you.

everything you quoted just say “be nice” but doesn’t describe the mechanism that can be used to increase fairness.
I spent like 10 total hours writing analytical code in 2020; maybe another 100 hours of analytic design. The rest was meetings, politics, coordination. I got a national award and millions in funding. I would trade it for more time playing with the puzzles. Do I feel good that my people got published and covered rent, hit major life goals (marriages, home purchases)? Yes. But, man, do I wish I got to do more science…
Looks like internet archive has a copy of the linked github page. Seems like it has everything needed, including the network key, to get things working. If you want to risk a legal fight with Shimano, that is.
I had a similar realization that setting up a monorepo with lerna or workspaces was going to be challenging. For a Next.js + custom TypeScript / Node.js backend I decided to just add the backend in its own folder with a child tsconfig.json. This way you can have the backend compile to its own dist folder. No need to fiddle with the complex under the hood bundling that's going on in Next.js. It gives you a single git repo and backend and frontend share the same typings. To make things easier you can setup paths in tsconfig.json and use module-alias in package.json for things like

import {IUser} from '@shared/interfaces/users/IUser'
Sure, there's no absolute right or wrong on terminology, but it is a sign that they're cut off from the software engineering world, which leads to a whole host of dumb practices, described elsewhere in the comments here.

As someone with a mathematics background, whenever I encounter someone in another community using mathematics (like economics or accounting or finance or whatever) using mathematical terminology that seems silly to me, it's a bad sign.
> IMO the fact is simply that policymakers have become really good at ensuring that crashes like 2008 don’t happen again.

i sort of don't even know where to start with this one...

i'm going to just file it under every other "this time it's different" claim and move on.

watch out for CMBS imploding.
Sounds like you are already there. I’m a big fan of Roger Linn as well and have the MPC3000 as my centerpiece. From time to time I do beta testing for eurorack companies, and you cannot imagine how many times I refer to the MPC as being the gold standard for sequencing features, it’s so well thought out. Did you work on the Linnstrument?
There’s so much potential still in improving hardware sequencing, I cannot wait to see what he will come up with in his rumored project.
> I think it depends more on the business model.

In this case it doesn't. I also can't give away meth for free. Distribution of an app that processes personal data without a valid data privacy statement is illegal in the EU and could get the author and/or github into trouble unless they implement an export restriction (eg. EULA that prohibits distribution in the EU).
Its the job of journalists to bring a cynical/critical eye to important things in society. I'm glad that these folks exist and its their fulltime job to call out bullshit. Of course they will misfire at times.

People in tech also seem to forget that a lot of attention to tech is brought to them by the media. The first adopters are generally computer nerds and teenagers; people in media write about it, glamorize and make it mainstream (how many Tech CEOs have been on the cover of TIME magazine?). In fact, my personal perspective is that they haven’t been critical enough; when instagram and WhatsApp were gobbled up by Facebook the prevailing media sentiment was that of the unlimited possibilities in tech for wealth generation rather than concern about the anti competitiveness of the market that it caused.
Hitching (car) is relatively easy on the west coast and borders on impossible east of the Mississippi. Seattle to Eugene is a pretty easy circuit to hitch.

Seattle->Alaska I got as part of a contract to work on the boat, but it was a flight. The boat was closed circuit route in the sea and a single port (Dutch Harbor).
Although we could try to use science to prove that science is harder, it seems pretty clear just through intuition that it must on the average be harder. Inventing calculus was amazing, but it's pretty simple compared to what people called advanced math today. Imagine trying to make an interesting discovery in math today compared to adding something to number theory 300 years ago.

There might be a lot of space for applied math/physics, but perhaps this is closer to engineering than research though the distinction is often blurry.
Well there's not many more advances to be made "at the higher end". You'll see trickle down and the equivalent of current Dura-ace level in the 105s inside of a decade.
> you are responding to a price signal sent by the industry, relaying that price signal to the academic labs.

Which means absolutely nothing unless a ton of other people do it as well. A handful of people here and there can be replaced.
This is a much observed secular trend as
Ted Gioia points out, tech platforms are disintermediators, Ben Thompson has been writing about it for ages. Platforms give creators the possibility to directly interact with consumers and it's the traditional distributors who are getting canned.

In some cases this has arguably significant downsides, say in the news industry where traditional outlets have many social functions that platform owners don't feel obligated to provide, but honestly record labels with their at times mafia like behavior shaking young artists down have it coming.
>I initially was interested in Rust for the promises of higher-performance, lower memory footprint compute, and that is a great aspect of it. But the correctness guarantees that I've experienced make all the hard work I went through absolutely worth it.

I'd go with 1/3 less performance by using Java or C#. While having better productivity. If we are talking a web service, of course.
The type of thing Loom is doing has been working great in e.g. the Haskell runtime for decades at this point.
I have a similar experience with stainless steel pans. We use them for everything (also eggs, which people seem to find especially hard on the internet). After getting used to the pans (especially cooking on the right temperature), I just don't get the obsession people have with non-stick pans and seasoning.

Additionally, there is something else I wonder about: people often seem to be recommended those pans "requiring" seasoning from a health-conscious perspective, but to me it seems like everything that is involved in seasoning could be worse than just using a non-stick Teflon or ceramic pan to begin with. I mean, isn't seasoning basically burning oil and making a layer of burnt stuff at the bottom of your pan? Can't this stuff flake into your food? I can't find much about this on the internet, so maybe I'm wrong, but it just doesn't feel right to me.
Right. A guy I know had this fail while riding up a mountain (I believe he said the battery died) and he could not change gears at all even though he tried.

He effectively had to limp his bike home because he was stuck in the gear he had riding uphill. Took him half a day or so rather than an hour.

I’m certainly not a Luddite but this doesn’t seem to be a worthwhile trade off for me.
Actually LLVM IR is shipped to consumers on the Apple ecosystem mainly on watchOS, the difference being that it isn't the same out of the box LLVM IR used by the LLVM project, rather a massaged version that Apple uses as distribution format.
Somehow, is this an American only activity? I never see or read such considerations this side of the pond.

Cast iron pans are used, of somewhat niche, but without pomp. You put some oil on them, then you wash them and use again.
First of all, have you looked to the settings? You can turn off sponsored shortcuts in Firefox 100, and if that's a new initiative from Firefox, there's possibly another setting for that.

Also, on the other hand, this doesn't make any sense. Let's see the logic.

- I want an alternative, open browser. Free both in beer and speech. OK.

- I also don't want said browser not to work with "bad" web corporations like Google, and accept their money. OK.

- I also want no ads on this thing, even if it's only about other products of the same browser maker. OK.

- I also don't want to support them monetarily. OK.

- Oh, and no shady data practices! OK.

So, how this company/non-profit making this very complex and sophisticated piece of software will survive with no money? Should the engineers do photosynthesis and sleep on park benches?

The thing is, Firefox needs money and needs to be sustainable in doing that. I also don't like the idea of showing ads inside Firefox, but I can accept that if it's a necessary evil, and done in a responsible way (static, not very invasive, etc.).

Currently, I believe survival of Firefox is much more important than a petty Mozilla VPN ad. Because I think that they need that money, and we need an open web.
If you don’t feel like turning off your adblocking: https://archive.ph/3XVFT
Apple is now a privacy-as-a-service company (2019)
I spend quite a bit of time forming bonds/relationships with people on the fediverse (not all of the instances are garbage full of crazed lunatics) and it took over a year of looking for the right fit, but once I did, I haven't thought of leaving that community, even through times where my account is dormant for a period (as it's easier to take breaks). I only really interact with less then 20 people and I probably have 70 followers.

This has improved my mental and emotional health ever since i met these people, they are real, and like me they don't say things or do things for attention; as you would go to quite literally any other social structure for those things. The "open" nature intertwined with these "islands" of people creates for a really cool social experience.

Easily the best I've had online since most of the forums I used to be a part of have died. If you need someone to bounce things off of, just DM them; they are real and they won't post screenshots of your interaction two years later. Obviously that's not true for every instance, and it's not true for every person, but you have a higher likelihood of finding people you can genuinely care about even if they don't live in your area, and the only thing that unites you is the general dislike for people, but the begrudging realization that we need each other.
Campagnolo is pretty much niche nowadays with a less dense dealer network and few OEM contracts.

Look at Campagnolo like Ferrari, only offering select high end items for the road while Shimano is more like Honda offering anything from the little Aygo to the Acura NSX and also offering SUV/trucks. Sram would be more like Mercedes, tackling the mid range to upper end but skipping on the really lowest end.
It sounds incredibly demotivating. Is it?
I had no idea this was a thing, though I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. I think I'll be sticking with cables.

You know these companies are looking for a way to monetise the gear shift data somehow.
That must have been what they were thinking when they made the decision to go with Cassandra.
A New Nuclear Era
Also, smaller, older and in another style:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Cheval
My confluence server is behind a proxy which requires a valid client certificate to talk to the server

I have other proxies which require OIDC authentication before passing any packets on

Now sure, I'm still vulnerable to internal attackers from my company, but that's an audited trail to a real specific user, not just a random botnet on the internet.
We globally have (relatively) free movement of money, goods and services. What we don't have globally is (relatively) free movement of people (for work).

I do believe, that if the world were to add free movement of people to the first lot, within a generation you'd get normalisation of incomes and lots more besides (laws relating to workplace rights, OHS, environmnental etc).

Of course that pain that would be suffered in that generation would be pretty huge as entire populations started moving. It's a pretty big perturbation to settle into a new stable state.
Yes car subscriptions are coming and they look like this.

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