skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on what scope of time you're looking at.

Let's take a $5B growth fund. Let's say over 7 years they deployed all $5B of that fund into 100 companies. When you say collapse what do you mean? Do you mean all 100 companies are worthless to acquirers? In what time range? In those 7 years, a16z would have earned 2% revenue ($100M) per year to cover operations. If there fund failed to produce ANY return, they just wouldn't get any 20% carry and their investors money would be completely be lost. For example Stanford's endowment fund would have a minor dent in it for those 7 years.

PE/VC funds rarely collapse. They usually fail to produce returns, people leave, and then they cease to raise their next fund.
Stolen Angkorian crown jewellery resurfaces in London
What meditation practices do you use?
> that I should watch out because there are lots of lay offs happening.

As expected. They will all attempt to drive down salaries. It will probably work
Living in Singapore for 10 years I talked to quite a few people from India living in Singapore.

It seems that it’s an older generation thing. The younger ones don’t care about caste at all but if their parents ask about their friends they will lie, because their parents care a lot about caste.

And while caste is illegal in India. It’s such a big country it’s difficult to enforce. So it’s still rampant outside of the big cities.

I used to donate to a charity which builds wells in India for small villages to ensure they have safe clean drinking water. They supply the materials but everyone in the village must contribute to building it and everyone must have access regardless of caste. If the village does not agree they won’t help.

I can’t remember what the charity was called :(
In the absence of a system to correct for historical and ongoing injustice, you get the English system where 73% of all government jobs are held by people with the generational wealth to attend elite high schools (who are otherwise only 7% of the population). And then you end up with the horrible mess of class-anxious governance by mediocre-but-born-rich folks that is the current disaster England is living through.

I'm not sure why people would aspire to that.
As an Aristotelean the thought that I need to understand the Platonean idea of a caste system seems vain.

I think it is distracting.

What we should talk about, and what we can talk about, is the inacceptable behavior of (some) people, in this case (some) Indians in the US work place.
Think of the fractal images, when you zoom in, you see more fractals (discrimination). Discrimination happens even within sub groups that are being discriminated against. It is rarely one-way.

A common example is women discriminating against women co-workers by gossiping and backstabbing them in the social aspect of the workplace. We may not see that it is discrimination (on the basis of gender) because it's women doing their thing.

In the Deaf community, we experience discrimination every day from those who are hearing. Then there is a big one against people who identify as "D" deaf [those who identify with the Deaf community as an identity] and those who identify as "d" deaf [those who identify as having an impairment]. Those within the deaf community additionally discriminate those who aren't "deaf" enough, and then in turn, even discriminate against deaf who are mentally handicapped.
Reminds me of the movie 'A Beautiful Mind' - https://youtu.be/GmlSSSN7C78?t=14
> Not eating meat however is a strong signal though

I also personally know several counter-examples to this rule.

If meat/no-meat is the only signal people are using, there must be a lot of false positives and negatives. Or my sample of the population is somehow atypical.
This has existed in tech for a long time. We call it the “Pet Project”.
Don’t you ? Nearly all what i (need to) eat, drink, travel, work is based on oil in a way or another. While this, others headlines promisses cheap oil sand extraction, co2 capture, oceans cleanup and so many VC bait. Want to bait with them on our kids future ?
I'd rather say genetically biological changes would change human emotions more so than AI. We do see some effects through social media but it's still the same base emotions being amplified. However, imagine wholly new emotions arising from genetic germ cell engineering.
Any perceived critique of affirmative action will rustle jimmies. Especially one suggesting affirmative action may be motivated by voter demographics rather than by morality, in spite of the intense focus on voter files in US politics.
This is laughable and absurd. Eating meat has nothing to do with caste. Please don't make assumptions based on some shitty article. It clearly has an agenda.

Now, let me tell you what Indians do make fun of. If you are a hardcore vegetarian, meat eating Indians will make fun of you calling you "Grass Eater" as a joke among friends. But that is not too different than American culture as well. Even the legendary Arnold Schewarnegger in the movie "Escape Plan" said "You hit like a vegetarian".
Isn't it better than having humans do it instead individually. Yes, it will have bias, but it will all be biased the same from 1 models perspective. The data could then be adjusted for bias.

Humans doing it would instead create bias in many different directions. An AI attempting it is a good starting point.
Plastic is just too good a material for too many use cases.

On a side note, I had a shower thought the other day. Isn't plastic one form of carbon sequestration? It doesn't decompose easily and holds carbon in place. If plastic is land filed then it will remain out of the atmosphere. I know this is an overly simplistic view, but given plastic is a byproduct of oil refinement, I don't see too much to hate.
It's how America got slavery: importing Europeans.
Probably depends on the product. My local butcher sells most things wrapped in paper, but sausages come in a plastic bag (I have no idea why).
???

> "the vast majority of high paying jobs are still in the hands of the top three castes."
Yes, sometimes not everyone's communication style works for every culture or group of people.

That's just how it works. Humans are messy like that.
How complex is it to understand that the higher supposed castes treat the lower castes poorly. It is as clear as black and white.
Show HN: OpenAI ChatBot, The AI stream their reply like ChatGPT
Ask HN: People who learnt to program during the pandemic what are you doing now?
Question to people who finally decided to learn programming during the lockdown or pandemic years (2020 onwards), what resource did you pick to get started? Can you describe your learning process and journey in a bit detail?
Which other resources did you find helpful?

What are you doing now? What language are you using?
Someone in the comments had a good point - they provide a USB cable with the debug probe.

I wonder if it would be cheaper to use a USB-C connector, and _not_ provide a cable. It's not like the RP2040 is pushing any sort of high data transfer rates.

Oh well, I'm sure the people at the RPi foundation already had this discussion quite a few times.
This is a discussion on VC investment strategy. So the question is more like: if you invested in Spotify series A or B and exited at IPO did you have a good RoI? The answer is yes, you had an extremely good ROI.
https://www.builderonline.com/money/economics/80-percent-of-...
This is an unnecessary degree of sneering and disdain directed at someone sharing an an anecdote.
I could say the same thing about people wanting to have kids. I'm sure that _was_ impacted by economic, social and cultural forces, see: tax credits, deductions, school taxes, etc.
Disney's retellings of classics often no longer resemble the original story much anyway. Then they became dated bad retellings.

Disney gives us content that is often two or three generations of "thoughtful people who would never expose children to that" over and over. That was Walt's idea of "acculturating America."

https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2015/septemberoctober/iq/walt...

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/disney-accused-of-whitew...

https://www.panmacmillan.com/blogs/general/original-disney-s...
> American Indian

American Indians are Native Americans. You're an Indian American.
hey i just wanted to say thank you for writing this - it gives a really interesting insight into a set of complicated social/cultural practices. It's so easy to proclaim "i am above this" or "i would never", but I appreciate the vulnerability and honest self-reflection here.
Reading about Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, who led reforms against casteism and wrote the equivalent of affirmative action into the Indian Constitution is probably a good start. He was the Indian equivalent of Dr. Martin Luther King.

His writings are mostly in English and present a deep study of the subject, especially given that it affected him personally.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._R._Ambedkar
Maybe that's considered "racist" in the US or something.
Speaking as someone with a hefty dose of ADHD and anxiety, I can only dream of wasting a mere two hours per month. It blows me away to think of two hours being a major distraction for anyone. Count yourselves lucky!
Related to this would be Nagel's paper, "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" We can't say what sort of echolocation sensation a bat has anymore than Mary can say what a color looks like before she leaves the black and white room. We're in the same position when it comes to bird vision. We can't say what the world would look like with four primary colors. What does that fourth primary color look like? We don't have a word for it because we don't see that color.

Or for that matter, what would the rest of the EM spectrum look like if we could see it all? What would a scientific theory that could answer these sorts of questions look like?

Saying physicalism is false because it can't answer the questions above is not to say naturalism is false. There's no magic or supernatural stuff here. It just means our scientific description of the world lacks the subjective. There is a fundamental epistemological limit to our ability to know how to combine the two. It doesn't mean the world itself has such a division. We just can't cognate how to reconcile the two.
The reason you see a large number of Indians overseas is because we are literally the most populous nation on earth.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/4ax3bw/nimby-marc-andreessen...
From quick searching it seems their total membership size is under 30 million.

How could they sustain 50+ castes/sub-castes?
Outcome: students feed essays into Bing/Sydney and ask, "Hey Sydney, can you correct this essay for me?"
FWIW, women tend to do even worse in double-blind hiring processes. Figuring out how to get more women in tech is a tough nut to crack. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-30/bilnd-recruitment-tri...
I really hope when people have kids they don't look at them as an asset or a liability, aside from when considering the financial impact. They're not a great fit for our lifestyle, but if my wife and I did end up having a kid I wouldn't think of them as a liability.
Tell HN: Buy a CO2 monitor (not necessarily just a CO monitor)
It's simply insane just how much high CO2 levels effect our brain's efficacy. I recently bought one and it's night and day. I thought it was weird why I was having headaches until I saw that my CO2 monitor was reporting something like 10,000 ppm which apparently reduces brain function by more than 15%.
I think you know best what you want to build yourself. :-)

If you separate the abstract interface for sending/receiving game states and its implementation, you can rely on an external service like hushfile to get started, and then switch to running a similar service yourself afterwards. Saves you from having to deploy and maintain the server initially.

Running a VPS wouldn't cost more than $5/mo.

Since nobody mentioned it, you may want to consider:

https://boardgame.io/

It is a service specifically for managing JSON game state.

But it comes with its own ideas, so your mileage may vary.
Ok so... it's not shutdown?
NYC is a whole city of five boroughs with different densities, Hollywood and K-town are neighborhoods. Manhattan which is what most think of as NYC is 70k+/sqmi
> I see this tendency that people of non Indian origin throw the keyword "caste" without really knowing what it is.

Shouldn't we be talking about it then? Openly? Educating others.

> I hate the caste system

This is where being tight lipped doesn't make sense. It falls under the "it's our problem so you can't talk about it". If it's a bad system then let it be just that, why defend it by not talking about it?

A similar analogy would be police doing brutal/illegal things and defending each other. If you're a cop and you hate that, then being tight lipped about the "internal problems and complexities" only keeps the problems going.

> All women in QA. So what ?... Sure, some of it may be cultural but tieing to casteism is a stretch.

There should be equal ratios of women in Dev vs QA for all races. Sure maybe saying casteism is the root cause is too much, but denying it is also wrong. It's like saying racism is never a factor. It's not 100% the factor, but it's definitely a portion of a problem.

I guess... we should talk about it and learn - and not be afraid.
The devil is in the details, you absolutely NEED to go to the providers SKU listing for each VM family and find what CPU model you will be renting.

You will have to wade through piles and piles of fucking ancient chips from 2015 and 2016 skylake/haswell/broadwell lines.

Even after you've found which machine type has the newest cpu you'll still find it's about 2 to 4 years behind the consumer market which is huge given the performance leaps in the past few generations.

Additionally, some machine families are literally a lottery which will hand out a random cpu modle from a pool of old as fuck chips with one newer chip in the mix to make it interesting.

Last time I looked the best you can do on aws is the M6i (Xeon Ice Lake 8375C from 2020) and M6a (AMD EPYC 7R13 Zen3 from 2021)

But save yourself the time ans just use Equinix spot metal for their Rocketlake chips.
k let's assume that's the case, what would you propose as the solution to mop up the 12 trillion in excess M1?
I don't think we can count it as carbon sequestration, at least not in a useful sense: we burn lots of energy to pump it out of the ground (i.e., where it actually is sequestered) and to refine it and mold it into shapes. Throwing it into a dump is probably better than burning it, but the best thing of all would be to only extract the bare minimum we need.
By "exceptions" I meant "people". Not actual rules written in a book.
I didn't say All women seek jobs with lower barrier to entry. I am talking about QA and why it tends to attract mostly women in India. Plenty of women go into other fields including Engineering.

QA has ALL women is not same as All Women do QA.
Ask HN: What Meta AI tools to make engineers productive
Here is a citation from Marc Zuckerberg, where he said, “We’re working on flattening our org structure and removing some layers of middle management to make decisions faster, as well as deploying AI tools to help our engineers to be more productive,”
https://nypost.com/2023/02/08/zuckerbergs-meta-to-flatten-middle-managers-in-cost-cutting-push-report/

People familiar with the situation, please share what tools he is referring to?
Thanks for your voice, too often Indian discussions on HN are feverishly dominated by a group of people drowning out all other voices.
> Understanding how a system "really works" is also not really a goal of physics - the science is about predicting physical phenomena

I have to point out the above is a rather strong and debatable claim. I think most people who study science do want to understand how things really work.

Even if we accept that physicists only want to predict phenomena as opposed to understanding them, the same can't be said of other sciences (let's say astronomy, or molecular genetics). Mathematicians seek almost exclusively to understand things rather than predict them. So the claim attributes a certain lack of curiosity specifically to physicists, that doesn't apply to biologists, mathematicians, etc. To me, that makes it even more peculiar. So I'm skeptical.
Periodic Table of Thermoplastics [pdf]
> GP's comment is extremely reckless and dangerous

Unless sitkack thumbed their comment into an iPhone while simultaneously driving drunk and having unprotected sex with a prostitute, "extremely reckless and dangerous" is an awfully weird commentary on their post.
Do you have the original citation for that statistic? I haven't been able to trace it back to its source.
> Americans liquidated more than $1 trillion of “excess” savings in 2022, eliminating more than half of the surplus accumulated since the pandemic began.

Sounds like the problem is solving itself then?
I don't say this to defend the practice, but shunning is not modern. Shunning was advocated by Paul the Apostle (or whoever wrote those letters to the Corinthians) about two thousand years ago. Banishment and social exclusion has also been observed in many social animals besides humans.
Over the past couple of years, I have come across numerous articles on CSS-Tricks that discuss other related technologies such as (semantic) HTML, SVG, Canvas, WebGL, UI libraries (e.g. Tailwind), and tools like Saas and PostCSS. So I think when starting a green-field project, it may be more appropriate to use a broader term like "style" or "look", than specifically using the keyword "CSS" (just an idea).

If the license at https://css-tricks.com/license/ is valid, anyone can scrape and rebuild a FOSS version of CSS-Tricks, ideally with a sustainable funding model to support its ongoing development. However, without an editor like Geoff, I am unsure whether it would maintain the same level of quality as CSS-Tricks.
Laying down in a box (of course made of locally sourced wood) makes it very easy to stay still. Sometimes I still feel the urge to move so to prevent this a wooden cover is place and nailed to the top.
I think his analysis also ignores demand and supply.
I can’t figure out level 10 after 2 hours.
The hex thing is the only breakthrough that I have. Any tips?
"This is what diversity looks like." and why many oppose it.
Yeah - it's nice not to have to care about and be scared about stuff that is no longer relevant.
Does it involve sending an email?
US faces new threat from Canadian super pig
Power BI Desktop is free and handles JSON files as a data source.
Super Successful People Who Never Graduated College
The reservation system needs tweaking and excluding privileged people from taking advantage would be a good start. There's already the creamy-layer criteria for OBC reservation, the same can be applied for all categories.

The fact that a small minority is able to corner the benefits of reservation when the overwhelming majority is left out is not a pursuasive argument that reservations are no longer necessary.
Brahmins of Bengal are the biggest fish eaters after Japanese. And they eat mutton like crazy.
Hopefully the pythons will eat them.
> How can I learn more about which names belong to which class?

Any name that is overtly Sanskrit in origin and invokes some Hindu god(dess) is a tell-tale of upper-caste origin. Sometimes the name embeds the caste itself. This rule works across the North-South divide in India.

North Indian examples: Dwi/Tri/Chaturvedi, Bharadvaj, Mukherji, Chatterji, Bandhopadhyay, Bhattacharya

South Indian examples: Iyer, Iyengar, Rao, Murthy, Murali, Srinivasan, Vasudevan, etc.
Not an option for many people in the US when the nearest grocery store is too far and you need to shop for a family.
Is it getting big usability improvements? Consistency improvements? Stop-fucking-up-and-making-everything-terrible improvements? Because I'd like those more than performance improvements.

It's genuinely amazing how some of the richest companies in the world can't manage to make a chat program or video conferencing program worth a damn, in 2023. We were supposed to have flying cars like two decades ago, but we can't even share video and text over residential internet connections faster than some ISPs' backbones used to be, on computers the size of your hand with more processing power than old supercomputers.
It feels cathartic to read this. On blind (the anonymous workplace app) the way some Indians speak about the west/women I find super backwards to the point where I’m not sure if it’s real.

Edit: replace lethargic with cathartic
That’s will do the job for you, not your kids. Not an expert but pretty sure most of our plastics degrades pretty quickly with by the UV, wind and rain.

Also the article is focused on PET, I don’t think your shower is made from this crap.
My experience mirrors yours. In my large groups of Indian coworkers, family and friends, mention or discussion of caste comes up zero times.

It's so bizarre to read HN articles and comments on caste and they feel surreal. I think there is a certain section of HN'ers who make a big deal of this and upvote nonsense posts so it helps them compete against Indian Americans for promotions to managerial positions.

For disclosure, I am not a high caste Indian, and both sides of my family eat meat.
1. Any book recommendations to improve communication skills?

2. for an experienced software developer (10+ years) transitioning to strategic roles (i.e. TL of multiple business areas)?

3. for someone looking to be less head-on and instead more diplomatic in conversation style.
Do you really think paper is more sustainable? In my place they burn the rubbish and paper even if recycled is more questionable.
Out of that list updating brew is about the only thing I regularly encounter and even then I can just it run while I do something else.
Showcasing the work of Rajiv Malhotra who has dedicated around 40 years (working full-time) to researching this topic...

https://youtu.be/5iD9-dIypl4
I’m not as plugged into local politics as you seem to be, but I’ve lived in Redmond and now live in Seattle. I have never felt unsafe, or like things were “very bad.” There seems to be a lot of pearl clutching because some homeless people exist in a large city. A city that has grown significantly in the last decade (and the decade before that). I’d like for those folks to be thrown a ladder as much as anyone.

Credit where credit is due, the east side has way nicer roads. Money helps, I suppose.
> The biggest challenge many people don’t realize is that even nature has no solution for the amount of energy we use.

Good thing we split the atom.
> E.g. the fact that a Pythagorean theorem does not explain anything about the natural world to a slug does not make Pythagorean theorem any less sciency.

In fact it does! Math is not science! There is a reason it is STEM and not S
Ah Microsoft - the hypocritical company where they moralize to you every year at their conference that you should write modern apps (this year’s menu: WinUI 3 and MAUI), while their Teams, Office, and Visual Studio groups all refuse to use any of the frameworks made in the last decade.
“They did agile wrong” always, when I hear it, makes me chuckle as if someone said “russia did communism wrong, it wasn’t the real…”

Agile is middle / project managers doing cultish makework for themselves, to codependent-ly distract from feelings of life-cycle imposter syndrome.
I was indeed responding to this meaning. I was commenting that it's perfectly possible for a community to be Brahmin and yet be meat eating. Just that it's not mainstream. In India, the very first assumption one makes the moment they hear Brahmin/Jain is that they must be pure vegetarians.