skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On one hand, change is good - there are certainly going to be conversations as social progress is made, and those conversations will not always be nice. Friction is a sign that things are actually moving along and the changes aren't superficial.

grabs popcorn

On the other hand, it is so satisfying to see these entitled progressives ripping into their own ranks with such viciousness. From the leaked HuffPo transcripts:

> Person B: the diversity efforts here are nothing but lip service. Let’s hire more tokens we can put in their place!!!!!

If someone spoke in this ridiculous way at work in a public group chat to my boss, they would be instantly reprimanded if not fired. Later on in the chat the editor responds, though, and how gentle and receptive he is!

> Person M [an editor on the masthead]: Hey all, a lot of smart thoughts here and just wanted you to know I am following along. Definitely worth more discussion. (I’m running into a 3 pm meeting but will be checking back later.)

What Person B doesn't realize is that the Editor is on the same team as them. It legitimately feels to me that Person B has never encountered someone who is Not On the Same Team. Otherwise they might have a little more appreciation...
Onstar remains connected (but paywalled) even when you don’t pay.
> as trucks have gotten bigger, they've also gotten "meaner"[1].

Or to be more precise: a current trend in automotive fashion is a larger grille, and some blogger framed that tendentiously for clicks.
He also says

> “The right-wing Hindu movement in India has historically not been associated with people from underprivileged castes, and those people have generally been less supportive of the movement“

My understanding is that BJP has come to power under an OBC wave, both in UP in 2022, and in the North 2019.
As I mentioned in my edit, it does seem to be the case that it's a more complicated formula, but we can still determine whether there's a proliferation of vehicles that are close to the boundary of that formula, or not.

I'm not saying that the article's theory is wrong, just that it is empirically testable if anyone cares enough to do some math (another day, I'd be up to the challenge myself. It would be a neat blog post).
Yes, absolutely. I know firsthand.

Instead of hiring developers to do a 2-month project to build us a suite of admin tools, I built them myself in Retool over the course of a couple of days.

For a non-developer, maybe we're still far away from disruption. Excel seems to be the programming platform of choice for most people anyway.

But for developers, these things turn you into RoboCop. It's amazing how much I can get done now that I don't have to worry about UI, build pipelines, etc.
Not a Podman or Docker-specific question/complaint, but is anyone working on a solution around UID/GID remapping between container and host? Not the "solution" offered by user namespaces, because those can only do a 1:1 remap, but an "anything any user writes inside the container is owned by the host user".

In other words, if host UID 1000 runs a container that has UID 100, 101, 102 and they all write files to a mounted volume, it would be great if all file writes were attributed to the host UID of 1000.

Instead, if user namespaces are configured correctly they would attribute to UID 1000, 1001, 1002 on host.
Our path to full-stack development with WebAssembly
Basically no because California kept the same limits and it's easier for the manufacturers to just go with that.

The underlying problem of all this is it's nearly impossible for a new manufacturer to get off the ground (that's the most amazing thing about TSLA - not that they made electric cars, but that they made anything).

So the only way to get a new "vehicle type" on the road is to get an existing manufacturer to build it.
There must be something that could be tapped before the power amp section
You're trading programs for taxes. All those free benefits of society have to get money from somewhere.
> Your position: Giving everyone the choice to not pick growth is bad. You must pick growth because I said so.

This isn’t even close to what I said — in fact, it’s the complete opposite.

You can re-read my original comment, which is about others forcing their choices onto me.
> Regrettably radical polish right is dumb enough to pick this up and call for cooperation with Russia

What?!!! While I agree with your comment, this sentence makes no sense. Which radical Polish right? Is there at least one member of the Polish Parliament who would formulate such absurd suggestion aloud? I saw this kind of stupidity on Russian TV only. It makes no sense on literally any level.
... and the class action lawsuit is already underway - at least judging from what I see on my Facebook feed.
I love that they fell down this rabbit hole while trying to choose colors for data visualizations. It supports my belief that 80% of all color science research is the result of extreme bikeshedding!
> The Google spokesperson told The New Yorker, "We made the decision not to move forward with this proposed talk which was pulling employees apart rather than bringing our community together and raising awareness."

If the talk was standard DEI fare (shitting on white men) I'm sure any complaints would have been ignored.
Yeah, that's one of the many benefits of living in New Hampshire. But what boggles my mind is why people in other states are willing to put up with sales tax at all. You're already being taxed on income. Its just the government double-dipping at that point.
I have Google Fiber, and I can honestly say that gigabit speeds are largely useless, most websites you connect to and download from are going to bottleneck you at way lower speeds with their upload throttling. It's exciting when I actually get to download things at unrestricted speeds.

So why do I stick with a $70/mo service that I can barely utilize over "good enough" speeds that I wouldn't notice the difference of for $10-20 less per month?
Reliability, and a good business model. I had my internet go out overnight when I wasn't using it and didn't even know I had an outage for 5 hours. My bill is how I found out I lost service. Google Fiber will automatically stop charging you and discount your bill if an outage is caused by their end. No other ISP does that that I know of. You're paying for "speeds up to XXmbps", including speeds less than, and no service at all. I have never once had to call or contact their support. I don't even know what number to call, or off the top of my head where to find that number, and I don't have to, I can actually drive to a Google Fiber physical store and talk to someone in person, not some level 1 tech support agent in India reading verbatim off a script in an internal wiki. Granted, I can also call or email them, but I've never once in over six years of service, had a need to do that. Another thing is, you can cancel and reactivate your service on the go. Going on vacation for a few weeks? Disable your service before you go, turn it on when you get back home, save money, and they don't care. You can shut it off every night before bed and turn it back on when you get home. They allow you to do this. You'll only pay for the service you are actively being provided.

They created a business model that is so polar opposite of what other ISPs are, to push other ISPs to fix their craptastic infrastructure or get left in the dust by competition.

I personally will always choose a fiber connection over cable because I don't know of a single Cable ISP that people don't regard as "a horrible company with equally horrible service and customer service".
Did you not really read the comment in your haste to blame the commenter for tailgating?

They didn't refer to any vehicle at all in front of them.

Tailgating is a big problem, though.
A geographic region where the local culture heavily identifies with a cuisine that's heavily focused on the various cooking methods that use live fire and smoke to cook the food?
The danger of Calvinism.
I'm hoping for this as well. It's probably going to be way more expensive than normal though, considering how efficient car manufacturing is and how hard it is for new players to get into (and the loss of revenue for not having "smart" features)
A truck isn't carrying 8 people though. In the US I'd say the majority of the time it's carrying 1.
We need to stop calling this a "caste-bias problem" and call it what it is: racism. Just because they're not a distinct ethnicity doesn't mean it's not racism, and the people looking down on others because of their caste are no different than the white guy yelling the n word in traffic. Neither should be tolerated, and if you find yourself working with one, they should be fired. It is antithetical to an open society.
No code is still code! https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/11/no-code-is-code/
My previous car was an MX-5, so maybe I’m predisposed to picking light vehicles (current is a Suzuki Swift Sport).
Turned it off as soon as it came out.
The reason this is significant, besides being an enormous loss of difficult to replace aircraft, is that it was so far from the front lines. Russia has been fumbling in the last month to adjust to western HIMAR weapons that have been precisely targeting ammo depots, hqs, and other high value targets far behind the front lines. Russian logistics is largely train based. They ship everything by train and unpack it to a nearby warehouse, then rely on trucks for the last mile. The HIMARs have been destroying the warehouses, meaning Russia is now needing to use trucks for much much more than the last mile because they can't unpack everything near the front. This new strike is even longer range than the weapon specs Ukraine was believed to have. And it was 2 very precise explosions. How this was achieved is not clear, but if Ukraine now has frequent precise missile capabilities for 200-300km strikes, that means Russia may need to scramble their logistics all over again.

Right now the most important location in the war is Kherson, occupied by Russia. It's the only truly valuable asset that Russia has seized, and recent Ukranian advances have made Russia pull 20-30k troops off of other front lines to reinforce this area. It's a very difficult position for Russia. There's just a couple bridges leading into Kherson from the south (Russia / Crimea side) and Ukraine has been blowing them up. Logistics of supplying those 30k troops is going to be really tough. And now Crimea, the main logistics hub for those troops, is appearing very vulnerable.

Ukraine's goal here is to make the defense of Kherson extremely resource intensive, meaning Russia has to either lose the territory or weaken up on other fronts.
My gripe is more so the outdated/insecure browser/webview, PDF viewer, and Tor daemon.
> take a few steps back and look at mental health and psychiatry as a whole.

Indeed.

Consider, for example, the diagnostic criteria for bipolar. There seems to be half-a-dozen conditions wrapped up in that term, not all of which have poles. Not all people with bipolar are psychotic (that is really important; if you're dealing with someone with bipolar, it makes a huge difference if they are subject to delusions or paranoia).

I believe (might be wrong) that "schizophrenia" is now a discredited diagnosis. Even depression is a fuzzy target. How do you distinguish ordinary sadness from depressive illness? Anti-depressant pills seem to work on both. And there's no "chemical imbalance" theory of depression that hasn't been discredited.

My sense is that we haven't progressed much in understanding mental illness since Victorian times, with their diagnoses of "melancholy".
Nice.

Yes, "we don't do that here" can work in many situations.
OBC stands for "Other backward classes". It is a caste classification created by the Indian government based on certain criteria of people who are economically/educationally backward but who do not fall under the main backward class group (Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes - SC/ST).
To be specific they can’t go beyond the fenders as tires will kick up rocks and other debris. Has nothing to do with appearance.
> My modern diesel

Thank goodness you drive a diesel.

Can somebody explain why people tend to prefer petrol engines for trucks America?

Doesn't diesels haul better, because of all that torque from a lower RPM, from a smaller engine?
Native may also mean the software may not exist, because it’s too expensive, which is more sustainable.
Deer don't avoid cars because their visual system shorts out when they see a light source shining directly in their eyes[1]. You could make the truck look exactly like a mountain lion and it probably wouldn't save any deer.

[1] https://www.scienceabc.com/nature/animals/why-do-deer-get-tr...
What? Disney+ surpassed Netflix in subscribers.

https://www.axios.com/2022/08/10/disney-surpasses-netflix-gl...
"I'm ready to sign! So how long can I expect this truck to serve me?"

"National average is about 12 years"

"Great so $1500 for 3 years is $6000, that's the stealth price hike. Take it off or give me a $6,000 discount."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Lawrence_Carr
Their expectation was that if they tried to invade Japan there would be way more casualties on both sides than were killed at Nagasaki [1].

I think you may be underestimating the scope of WWII in the Pacific. The battles to retake islands had often been extremely bloody. The battle for Okinawa for example cost 14k Allied soldiers and 77k Japanese soldiers, and well over 100k civilians. I don't think any other island came close in total numbers, but only because they didn't have high populations.

Any reasonable extrapolation of those invasions to an invasion of mainland Japan would have far more civilian deaths than using both atomic bombs, even if you projected lower casualty rates than there had been in the island campaigns.

A blockade instead of an invasion might have worked, but that too would likely have a very large number of civilian casualties. Blockades work by either making it so bad that the civilians rise up and force a change in policy, or so many civilians die that the government runs out of people to draft into the army. The last to actually personally feel the effects of a blockade are the people in power.

Even after the second bomb there were highly placed military offices who were so determined to continue the war that they attempted a coup to stop the Emperor from surrendering [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Downfall

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ky%C5%ABj%C5%8D_incident
Wait you live in a state with state income tax? I’m not sure why you’re willing to put up with that. You’re just being double taxed on your income.
So long as the server doing that continues to exist.
That could just be because your inputs are very small
Autism and related disorders may in some (possibly most cases) be factors that turn an otherwise good employee into an incompetent manager. This would be one of many factors that a company might want to take into account when promoting to or hiring managers.

If someone is hired into a manager position they cannot perform well for such reasons, a healthy organization should either modify their role or let them find another job.

People with such conditions MAY also be able to learn about their own limitations, and avoid seeing such positions in the first place.

Then there are those who can be quite successful as managers, despite such challenges, either due to side-effects of their systems-oriented thinking or for unrelated reasons. Such people may be difficult to be around, and may require some quite robust people as direct reports, but if the value they generate is sufficient, it may still be good for the company.
I'd guess the issue isn't so much peak consumption but idle.
I've also heard rumors about discrimination by Indian managers against non-Indian employees at the largest employers in my city. I'm inclined to believe this is true as I've heard from multiple people who worked there that most of engineering management consists of upper caste Indians now but that group represents a relatively small minority of engineering as a whole.

I wonder if these two things are connected. In some cases is this going beyond just caste discrimination and becoming something like a recreation of a caste system within the company itself? And why are we incapable of even discussing whether or not these things are happening despite them being blatantly illegal?
You probably live in the USA, because 200w 24/7 would cost me about 600€/year which is definitely significant.
If this is true, then were epicycle models physics? How about the luminiferous aether?
Devices marked tested working are ones I have myself. But all devices receive the same monthly updates. If you're buying a device I recommend a Pixel 6/6a with GrapheneOS instead however.
The higher hood is required by newer European pedestrian impact safety regulations, intended to reduce head injuries.

So the reality is 180 degrees opposite to what your claim is.
Airbag unit itself, module, and the calibration for it. They need to smash a bunch of vehicles to do calibration. It’s not really worth it in the case of vehicles where development was shut down a long time ago.
First thing I thought when I saw the screenshots. I played a lot of Creeper World and I will at least play a bit of Mindustry.
'The Sacrifice Zone': Myanmar bears cost of green energy
If you haven't experienced something, and think someone else claiming that they experienced it is stupid, I really don't know who is stupid.

If person A slaps person B and person C goes "I didn't experience anything. There are no slaps in this company", does that sound reasonable?
Immune cells acquire genomic scars in a lifetime defending against infection
The EU doesn't have a sales tax. They have a VAT which is a tax on net income not sales.
Surely seeing photographic identification would be a better way of detecting fraud than seeing someone's room?
That would actually make sense, fits the role of the weapon more than an anti-ship missile, I wasn't familiar with Grim.
You don't have to put up with it. Lots of great companies great out there that create a safe space for normal adults like you and I.

Vote with your feet and leave.
Why did you completely ignore the capital part I talked about?

Instead of raising $10M for a business through a CEO (either their own money or through road shows), there is nothing stopping a company of 100 employees from ponying up $100,000 of their own money and reaping a share of the rewards (or losing it all).

Are you really that surprised that workers prefer a risk-free salary instead?

I mean I have the option of taking cash or equity at my company and I turn down the equity every time. I don't begrudge the ones who take the risk and make 10x what I do.

I'll be honest, you don't seem to understand how businesses work today - you're working from a flawed understanding.
I just wish the creator of Rust had said "I'm going to add a native compilation target and the minimal new syntax to support borrow checking to TypeScript and make interop extremely easy".

Imagine that! We would have one syntax that can potentially be used for everything. A Rust-like syntax will never be used to write web apps.

Then you have simplicity with opt-in designed complexity when needed. It's like the separation of beginner vs expert features in design.
There's also the up-sell - when you're looking at $x a month for a two door short bed, and it's only $y a month more for the crew cab long bed, and you might want to go somewhere with the family at times ...

Smaller car sellers should make a deal either with the dealers or with U-Haul or something - buy the small 4 seater car, get X days free truck rental per year.

My "dream vehicle" would be something like a cab-over minivan that was short as possible while still having towing capabilities; most "pickup uses" can be replicated by a trailer for those times.
A friend once showed me the internal Google meme page and it was so safe and PG that it was unintentionally funny as hell in how lame it was. But I understand it has to be this way in any large company

Just like I can't blast my music tastes on others, not everyone should be subjected to insane Eric Andre humor
I have been to Japan, I know people who are Japanese, and I know people who have successfully and unsuccessfully immigrated to Japan. This is all anecdotal, but they will all laugh and tell me in private that yeah, Japanese people (especially older generations) are extremely racist.

Even the UN says Japan is racist!! https://web.archive.org/web/20070329065052/http://www.unic.o...
>The only other member of the company is a CEO and shareholder, who decides how much to keep for himself and how much to pay the employees, but, importantly, does none of the actual work himself.

What is actual work?

The coding or the graphics or perhaps the music? What about the QA?

The way your comment is formatted, I guess you don't mean the accounting, parole, shipping and receiving.

On this forum, I often see developers lamenting how much unrelated work, overhead and meetings they have to do and how saying how they could be more productive if they could just be allowed to sit down and code.

How much more "actual work" can you and others like you do when you have to meet with lawyers, file trademarks, order hardware/software while staying in a budget. Or perhaps, the CEO does some of those tasks so you can do the "actual work".
Which is what every entrenched group of racists claims is the reason for their control over an entity. The 'other' is lazy and we're hard workers. Nope, no bigotry involved, just our innate superiority over other groups.
fact is we live in a tiered society. no matter how many times we repeat to ourselves that "we are all equal" (before the law).

as I see it, such phrases are a goal, an intention, more than they are a reality.

we need to keep working perpetually in pursuit of such an ideal goal, but just pretending we do not live in a caste (or tiered) society does not really do anything to achieve this goal.

this is the my point: to pretend that tiers (or castes) do not exist does not move us any closer to the stated ideal goal.

the more direct action I can think of is to dissasociate what somebody does to earn a living from their social status.
“What it is” and“What it does” thinking
> car manufacturers would simply put folding seats in the trunk

Fair enough, but then we could decide the relevant ratio is one human / GVW.
But supposedly the problem also exists in the United States because many people who work in America come from India.
Because they are employees of American companies and they deserve the same opportunities as every other employee.
Feels very, very much like a clumsy attempt at a gotcha attack on Obama.

The truth, of course, is that ALL car and truck sizes in the US have been rapidly increasing for several decades now, and Obama had absolutely nothing to do with that. Pickup-truck culture had a lot to do with it, but isn't entirely to blame: look at the current Honda Civic vs. a 1980 model or a 1990 model.
There is a difference as you might not need to compromise your ethics or your conscience if you just break the law.
That sounds anti-social. Perhaps a "polluting vehicle tax "or a "unsafe vehicle tax" will change your mind.

(The above is satire, but analogous statements are frequently made in earnest.)
I wonder if anti-bias training for Indian hiring managers have would any effect? Or would taking the hiring of Indians need to be made by non-Indians in order to avoid this bias?

Additionally, there is some selection-bias as well. In other words, do we measure against the Indian pop in the US (or Canada, etc) or against the proportions in India itself and when doing so raw numbers, or number of graduates or graduates from the IITs?
Does the link to gold still hold true in todays world? There are much diverse asset classes available now and perhaps the root cause of inflationary economy is our inability to accommodate these.