skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Relatedly, this was a missed opportunity in the UK when the last Labour government were formulating what became the Equality Act 2010.

It's illegal to discriminate against a person's characteristic of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief. But not caste.

This was pointed out at the time, but was unfortunately ignored.

Since then, successive Conservative governments have shied away from making any legislative corrections, preferring to rely on case law to resolve this.
that's true, I didn't think about that. a restaurant probably has better ventilation and better fuel than a crappy household wood stove, but even, say, half a pack per day is a lot.
so if the Russians know what theyre doinn, why doesnt it look like they know what theyre doing?

like is this actually what winning looks like?
I believe even in US not many ppl have access to 100k in debt (and usually that debt would be tied to you not the company)

But even besides, there’s plenty of third world-ish countries with lots of talent and no easy money.
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> God forbid I spill something in the middle of cooking on induction. Suddenly I have to try to cleanup a hot glass and manage the whole mess.

I think you’re overestimating how hot induction stoves get, the element itself doesn’t heat up at all.

When you have a significant spill on a gas stove, it can put the flame out partially or entirely, which is much more of a challenge than wiping off an induction element.
Name, skin colour, and yes they can speak to each other.
My understanding is that it can often be identified by last name, or last name + home city/region.

And there are other indicators; I've been told upper casts are usually lighter-skinned, and Brahmins are often vegetarian.
sadly, yes. never got a reply. i think i might pen one tonight for old times sake.
You see, I already said to you that 'defining Linux support' is unfixable. That is my whole point and it is spans beyond this topic where this 'chronic inconsistency' can only be found in the Linux desktop ecosystem.

> I see nowhere in the article where it says fixing these issues (which largely just amounts to updating the version of electron they use) would cause it to break most distros.

If it doesn't affect their favourite distro, then they won't care to write such letters or reports and that won't be their problem. It is Discord's or largely any software maker's problem to define this Linux support (which everyone knows they cannot.)

And no just 'updating the version of electron they use' isn't just as straightforward as the author affected by this issue would want to believe; especially with the tons of Linux distros some users out there and its ecosystem of alternatives.

> Please point me to where it says that, as far as I can tell you're just making up your entire comment.

Creating a strawman to attempt to refute my whole evergreen point about the Linux Desktop's issue (which is beyond this article) isn't a good way to convince me otherwise, unless Discord is a simple hello world app. If that was the case, this letter would not need to be written.

Unfortunately, Discord is quite more than that and its seems they are very hesitant to offer updates that can break the app on Linux.
It's simple: this cause is not fashionable. Companies care for fashionable causes, not necessarily moral ones.
You're not getting a "guaranteed certified safe" environment with cardboard and duct tape, but there is no reason why you shouldn't be able to get a significant risk reduction.

You're trying to reduce the viral load in the air, not build a BSL4 lab.
I was able to guess from the context, but yeah I think it’s not too common. I may have seen it once or twice before, probably here.
C++ wrapped in Arc<Mutex<T>> is not at all how people write C++ nowadays. There are some (poor) code cases where people slap shared_ptr on everything, but even then I've never seen them also also mutex on everything. That's just terrible practice.
That's probably because the startup didn't have a HR department. Antibias training is super common.
What the Dalits are facing is similar to what blacks faced in the 60s when the civil rights movement started. Those topics have to be addressed.
> Require all police to have advanced degrees in ... social work

Social workers with arrest powers would be creating a whole new set of problems.

How about requiring a law degree? At least then they'd have no excuse for their blatant civil rights violations.
I'm kind of excited about this because I hope it increases demand for induction stoves so that they fix useability issues like this, and make more. Right now you're lucky to go to Best Buy or Home Depot and find a single induction stove.
consider Amazon for example

they have whole departments consisting exclusively of Indians and i believe their biggest non-US office is actually in India

a manager may know somebody on their team who can tell your caste or maybe suggest your caste based on the region you were from

this is as far i understood it
Multiphoton is the only true form of printing inside of a substance
28 years to go. So starting today it is only 35 thousand a year...

And with the launch window being 26 month apart... Some people will have fun sitting in orbit for quite a while waiting for their go ahead... I hope they get chance to reconsider after first week.
Often, the surname is enough.
They’re obviously referring to particulate matter, not gasses.
I don't know what it's like now, but in the old days, Googlers invited speakers to give "tech talks" on whatever subjects they liked. Sometimes they were only tangentially related to tech. Also, there were often authors who stopped in on their book tours. I don't think they had to be technical books at all. It was quite a fun benefit at the time, making it a bit more like college.

I first learned about effective altruism when GiveWell did a tech talk.

Also, in 2008, all the major presidential candidates stopped in Mountain View to give a campaign speech. And then there was the time OK Go gave a concert, due to the YouTube connection I presume.

Those were different times. That was mostly before the anti-tech backlash, when Google could seemingly do no wrong.

Even in the early days there were frequently minor controversies, but things got much more fraught by 2015 or so.
Taking the complaint at face value, mentioning that some Hindus discriminate against other Hindus makes non-Hindus feel negatively toward Hindus.
Yes I have.

I have a couple of Campag equipped bikes and that’s not my experience.

Mechanical Campag is not as reliable as Di2 or Campag EPS IMHO.

There’s not a huge amount of tuning required but it is definitely still needed and you still need to replace the cable outers as they ware.

They don’t stretch by the way, that’s a myth. The force required to stretch a woven cable is massive. It’s just ferrels shifting on the cut ends of the outers.
I am one and I have never seen anything casteist in the US, for what it's worth. I have been friends with and worked closely with dozens of people with Indian bosses all the way up to CEOs, who would have mentioned or confided such discrimination, and have come across exactly zero instances of caste being an issue. In fact, no one even discusses someone's else caste and most of the time no one knows others' caste, except some guesses from last names or whether someone is vegetarian or not. Many lower caste people in India converted to Christianity and they've been treated really well(as friends, coworkers, being hired by other Indians) as far I as can tell. Same with Muslim Indians who are also quite a sizeable number both back home and here.

The only time it ever came up for discussion is in the context of someone's parents in India preferring their own caste folks as brides/grooms for arranged marriages back home(similar to the very high rates of race discrimination in dating in the US) and even that has trended down a lot recently with everyone becoming more progressive. My sense is that there are isolated cases here and there, and that it's not systemic, and that it's also rapidly getting better with time both back home and with 2nd generation immigrants in the US.
downside: doesn't seem to care much for boolean ("-keyword") search terms, instead opting for the modern thing of "let's actually search for that keyword, too!" v______v
In this case what do you mean by "open source intelligence"? Like what would your actual steps be to go from my IP to actually knowing my name/address? A whois lookup would get you the ISP, a maxmind lookup would get you a guess at a city, but besides that what can you do?
https://medium.com/who-is-the-american-hindu/why-do-we-say-n... is one example (this is the refutation, the actual article by the lecturer is linked there). Another is a lecture titled "Why Savarnas rape", as a reaction to the series of rapes in Uttar Pradesh in 2020. Savarnas are basically the opposite of Dalit, namely members of the upper caste.

I find it very interesting that the group in power is trying very hard to suppress any criticism, basically silencing the disadvantaged minority (within the Indian diaspora).
Can buy now, pay later survive the cost of living crisis?
Tech jobs encompasses CS grads in roles beyond just engineer. Amazon experiences attrition rates of 30% per year plus a 5% rate of "top grading" mandated every six months. So right away, we're looking at tens of thousands of roles to fill if there is zero growth.

I don't know why you think these numbers are so wildly impossible if you look at the number of tech roles and Amazon's growth rates pre pandemic.
Yesterday's story ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31593799 ) made me understand one thing I thought was bonkers.

Working a bit with one Indian company, I was puzzled by their mandated usernames of the form FirstnameInitialDigit, e.g. johns1 if you're John Smith.

It was sad learning that people had to give up using family names for practical reasons.
You really don't. Well unless you intend to work at a company obsessed with trendy frameworks.
> I tend to install only open source (I don't trust apps much.) FOSS apps are easier to downgrade.

Yeah, I do the same these days. It's amazing how freeing it is to be able to trust the app you're running, and not have to constantly be on the look out for dark patterns, "integrations" you didn't ask for, sneaky updates, change of ownership due to an "incredible journey" with a FAANG/MAGA company or a Chinese equivalent. I'll take the more limited choice and the general lack of UI polish any day, for these benefits.
Never seen so many HN’ers so willing to defend so very opposite the meritocracy they’re always dreaming of.
I was able to deduce what “steel man” meant. “Argument reconstruction” isn’t a descriptive name - it’s philosophy jargon.
Surnames are a direct indication and to a lesser extent place of birth I believe.
> "If he can make passionate statements about Google’s (diversity equity and inclusion) commitments in the wake of George Floyd, he absolutely should be making those same commitments to the context he comes from where he is someone of privilege," she added.
Echoes of Microsoft's Tay, the little bot that could (offend everyone).

Maybe my prompts were boring - I got some profanity back, but nothing too outrageous - but it does highlight, I suppose, how easily these platforms can be abused.
I guess her test has worked
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The usual argument would be that this isn't profitable or contributing to the bottom line, and would serve only to inflame tensions/unrest etc...
Thereby it's so disruptive it's antithetical to getting things done.

Two options arise out of it:

Hire someone else not prone to or going through this societal conflict at the moment ($$$), or forbid the topic and risk losin conscientious objectors amongst workers/leadership.

The executive case with a shareholder value tilt would be avoid and reject the conversation, sink the risk, evaluate fallout, and hire replacements as necessary. You've still done your fiduciary duty, but damn those meddlesome cats.

The Stakeholder value executive prioritizing social change would likely engage with the topic, seeing it as an opportunity to raise awareness, get free press, attract talent, etc.

I can only really see a case for suppressing it if it were something you couldn't afford to not have.
> the 10% that think it's a big problem get the biggest platforms.

Don't you think this might have something to do with the representation of low caste Indians in the US, and that they have to be their own advocates? Minorities have to make disproportional noise to get issues that affect them to be heard to the same degree as others. That's just how it is, otherwise our systems would always only advocate for the majority and every single minority would group would be systemically disadvantaged.
According to their website (https://www.seattle.gov/police/police-jobs/salary-and-benefi...) the starting pay is about 84k, but does go up to six figures after a few years. Alternatively, you could go to a nearby town like Bellevue and make a few thousand less, but the job would be much safer and more pleasant https://bellevuewa.gov/city-government/departments/police/ab...
As you've read in the replies, most of the credentials are not worth the paper they're no longer printed on.

But that being said, judging whether athletes are exploited by the characteristics of those who make it all the way to becoming professionals is a little like judging where to put the armour according to the holes in the planes that come back from bombing missions.

The road to becoming a professional athlete is one of filter after filter after filter, with those who get injured cast aside like fruit that has been squeezed. COllege athletes, for example, make millions for the system but are prohibited by university rules from receiving pay or other compensation.

Only a few of them make it to becoming professionals every year. The rest have to go get ordinary jobs, and if they have a bum knee, cognitive issues from concussions, or any other problems, well, too bad for them.

This is especially acute in a country where health care is tied to employment and not part of the social safety net.
You can play AI Dungeon if you like.
Maybe this will be the thing that works.
> are hard for me (an Anglo-American) to judge, seeing as if it were happening (either way) there's little chance I would have noticed it.

That's an interesting comment. "little chance I would have noticed it." . I found this NYT article that pointed out we've long had our own caste system that we don't seem to notice. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/magazine/isabel-wilkerson...

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a caste system with ancient rules and assumptions that made such a horror possible, that held each actor in that scene in its grip. Off camera, two other men in uniform, who looked like the lighter man, were holding down the darker man from the other side of the police car as dusk approached in Minneapolis. Yet another man in uniform, of Asian descent and thus not in the dominant caste, stood near, watching, immobilized, it seemed, at a remove from his own humanity and potential common cause, as the darker man slipped out of consciousness. We soon learned that the man on the ground, George Floyd, had been accused of trying to pass a counterfeit $20 bill, and, like uncountable Black men over the centuries, lost his life over what might have been a mere citation for people in the dominant caste.
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There’s no enforcement so it will never work.
UI is orthogonal to the heat source.
Electronic shifting, while nice, is inferior to continuously variable transmission.

It's that nobody has managed to get that done cheap and reliably - and it'd have to be inside a gear hub too.

It's been done reliably, just not cheap. Mitsubishi with its v-belt has probably the cheapest somewhat reliable version, others less reliable based on expanding chain.
Enviolo also makes one of these groupsets.

Very new tech in bikes though, if used at all.
Ancient tech everywhere else, and can be done even better than these attempts.
> But you can become efficient anyway, and for a task where printing is not enough, you can always spin up the heavy tools.

this exactly.

Print based debugging is a great way to verify all sorts of assumptions, and it gives a wonderful order based view of execution very quickly.

If that turns out not to be enough - by all means, break out the real debugging tools, but I'd wager 95% of the time, print based debugging will lead you to the answer more quickly and easily than spinning up gdb or inspect-brk or visual-studio or any of the other heavy weight tools.

Not that those tools aren't incredible (I mean that so literally) - it's just that they're like bringing a back-hoe in to plant your tulip bulbs... it's complete overkill for answering questions like "Did this code even run?" or "how many times is this function getting called" or "is function a called before function b" and SO many other useful basic tests for my assumptions.
I agree, I've mostly made peace with what Go is and I still enjoy using it.

It just tantalizes me because of how close it is to my ideal general-purpose programming language. There is a large middle ground between the minutes-long compile times of Rust and the seconds-long compile times of Go.
How do extensions make money? Subscriptions or selling data?
The problem is that now people think the concept didn't exist before hearing the word "steelman", and can't lookup any preexisting literature about it.

Although if you think that term is hard to understand, I'm sorry to inform you about literally anything written by Europeans, which is more or less made to be impossible to understand on purpose.
> Do you mean "time to solution" or "time to inference"?

I meant time to a real solution that works well enough to put into a product.

> There are also very public examples of this e.g. Google's data center cooling [0] and competitive sailing [1].

DeepMind really needed DRL wins on real problems.

McKinsy has a strong incentive to be able to say "we know all about the AI RL magic" (and all the better that it's in the context of an oligarchy's entry in a Rich Person Sport... such C-suite/investor class cred!)

In both cases, DRL was used because it was the right tool for the job. But, in both cases, proving DRL can be useful was the job! Go is a better example, but of course wasn't solving a real problem.

If you throw enough engineering time and compute at DRL, it can usually work well enough. (There is a real benefit to "just hack at it long enough" over "know the right bits of control theory".)
From what I’ve been told by Indian friends, someone’s last name is usually a strong indicator of what caste they’re in.
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No, they have sympathetic owners.
> The usual argument would be that this isn't profitable or contributing to the bottom line

This is the same company that makes and throws away products and apps continuously?
I can't speak for all the ways, but one way that I do know would be name: a Sikh guru in the 17th Century mandated that all of his followers change their surnames (males to Singh, females to Kaur) to try and get rid of caste discrimination among his followers.
I believe this is known among some as the concept of striving to be less...wrong...
I would be interested to see a caste breakdown of that poll, and a more recent poll. Nine years is an eternity in tech. One specific to tech workers would help too.
> A senior manager at Google, named Tanuja Gupta, resigned from the company on Wednesday, 1 June, after a Dalit rights activist was not allowed to give a presentation on caste following emails by employees calling her "anti-Hindu."

This doesn't provide any context. Was Gupta resigning because she was for the presentation, or was she involved in blocking it?

The recent WP article explains this much better:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/02/google-...

> Tanuja Gupta, a senior manager at Google News who invited Soundararajan to speak, resigned over the incident, according to a copy of her goodbye email posted internally Wednesday and viewed by The Washington Post.
These days, "Hinduphobic" has become code for "not a supporter of right-wing, fundamentalist Indian politics". Don't read too much into it.
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Things remain overcomplicated as long as there's no high level enough interface to make them simple. No exceptions.
> for us Westerners Indians are Indians

Maybe US Westerners…
It leaks into everything and having spent a lot of time on there all the way from 2007 you’re wrong if you tell me otherwise.
It is linked right at the top of the article: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/S4104
I think its fine to use print in some cases, e.g. quick debug. Google cloud function logging actually even translates it to an info record if I am not mistaking.
I think the way many people get schadenfreude watching crypto crash, I get equally watching startups crash. So many people were loudly proclaiming what geniuses they were for understanding that all the mattered were network effects and hyper growth and that cashflow was for suckers. And it's not that there aren't cases where that's a valid model but it was used in so many obviously stupid cases. So, just honestly kind of enjoyable to watch it crash and burn.
Anecdotally, I hear about it all the time from my Indian friends.
Tech companies
Don't understand why this was downvoted. The induction stoves I've used all had a touchpad controls, for some reason. They take one second to change the power output 10%, with hotkeys for 100% and 40%.

It would be trivial to add a dial with some simple fail-safe.

They're incredibly responsive, though, more so than the gas stoves I've used. Never tried the following with gas, I'm guessing it would work, but you can easily turn down the power as a pot of pasta has started boiling over, and it'll stop before the foam pours over the top of the pot.
Is iPhone private? Apple says it is. Yet Apple also has the keys to user iCloud data. I agree that with proper metaphor the distinction becomes very clear, but in the open I’m not so sure if this distinction is well-defined, well-used, or well-understood.
You left out the best part: I believe there was some kind of attack where attempting to send them could drain your wallet if you weren't careful.
is it only in the US or do Indian employees face same challenges in other parts of the world too?
Just curious, for your personal experience do you know the caste distribution of your indian friends? I too haven't seen much of anything casteist at work or among my friends, but I'm not discounting that it exists and potentially at larger scale than I've personally experienced especially since almost all my friends are brahmins or the caste right below that. You'd have to have a large enough sample of low-caste friends to really understand the experience of low-caste individuals.
Wow that sucks if true. Python is such a great introduction to programming and is a great tool to have installed by default on Linux and Mac.... is there any logical reason why it's being removed?
There was a ton of friction trying to use pip. Same with ruby gems. So a lot of tutorials for web development put you in a pickle quickly.
If I were starting a Mittelstand today, yes one great option would be to take YC's funding, take little to no additional capital, and exit as a Mittelstand with most of your equity.

But having gone through YC in W15, they're definitely not built for Mittelstands. YC pushes you to keep iterating and changing your pitch and product until you're targeting a multi-billion dollar market.

I do believe there's room for a YC for Mittelstands:

Be like Paul Graham circa 2005 – find people who others didn’t think could be founders and coach them from the very beginning to control their companies.