skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
copying from earlier where I posted this answer....Kshama Sawant is exploiting the ignorance about Hindu religion and ground reality about India among US audience to get a political bill passed which makes "Hindu= castiest" to avg ignorant american and opens them up for hate attacks....

the problem is certain groups thrive on the American's lack of information about Indian society to spread their misinformation as truth. Caste, being a complex issue, has been reduced india to rural areas. Any cases about caste favoritism or discrimination area dealt with public outcry and government laws. Meritocracy is the currency in the new Indian tech space.

Caste as portrayed by American newspapers and "human rights" agencies is that every Hindu (they single out, even though caste problem exists in all religions in India Pakistan Bangladesh etc) comes with caste lense, which is untrue. There has been a deliberate attempt to make Brahim = white so that US left liberals can easily make oppressor-opressed connections. Reality is way different and complex but nobody wants to read sources. In many parts lower castes are in high power, and they exert atrocities on everyone else - other lower castes and higher castes. Whole India is riddled with examples like that. Person in power exploits poor person. Caste is just a tool. Again, with public outcry and strict laws, it has been relegated to deep rural areas of India. You won't find it easily in cities. What all this points to ? This is an attempt to dehumanize hindu population, attack hindu tech workers (who are micro minority in USA) and erode any goodwill around India.

Take this article for example, it doesn't go into the Dalit activists obvious misinterpretations but paints Rajiv Malhotra as devil incarnate. Propaganda pieces rarely show their teeth this easily. Any follower of reuters will form their opinion by reading such propaganda piece.

Salvatore Babones, american statistician warned about same thing -

Salvatore Babones | Demonising A Democracy? | India Today Conclave 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGkFwDk7TUQ .

For a western audience, India is becoming a fascist state even though ground reality is entirely opposite because they are surrounded by media reports which say so. If you repeat lie long enough, it becomes the truth.
> This is obviously highly specific to one economy

they list the numbers from all continents in their survey graph, and for what it's worth, the numbers for Australia seem higher than the US
> New messages which the sender expects to be received ina certain way but there’s no guarantee it will be because we don’t know if the recipient is setup to handle it as you expect.

I think this is one of the biggest points about communication: It requires both sides.

It doesn't matter if you have a clear and well-defined protocol for how you communicate if the other side can't, won't, or don't follow it.

It's like a web browser that only supports HTML. It may get the content your web server sends, but not the context and intent included in your CSS and JS.

And it's a lot easier to just say, "I only need the content, anyways."
They mention applications in water, but I wonder what a flag made of this material might generate...
"on my team" does mean anecdote. That's not laughable.
Pardon the ignorance but why does one need to understand history or the caste system in this context? The fact of the matter is dead simple, are you or are you not making decisions that hurt someone in any way based on biological factors they cannot control?

This is not politics or history, or even western thinking. It is fundamentally unfair and unjust. Treat others as you would like to be treated. This concept of justice is not foreign to any country or belief system as far as I am aware, please correct me if I am mistaken here. But every culture has ways and means by which laws, norms and traditions have been established that subvet the most basic senses of justice anyone can have.

I do not need to understand the history between tutsi and hutu in rwanda or serbs and bosnians or native and white americans in latin america or black and white people in the US.

Again I ask, unless you are arguing to justify the injustice, why is the reason behind it unjust?

I would say that I personally don't think any generalizations about "indians in seattle" or elsewhere is correct but individual experiences are not to be ignored either.

I don't see why HR and EEOC won't treat this like any other type of discrimination.

Matter of fact, I don't think seattle should need to ban caste discrimination. It is already illegal at the federal level!
Yes. Aackosoft somewhere in the 80's. Math Notermans did the graphics.
Still not nearly as beautiful written as the Hunt for Red October, but I wrote this on ChatGPT:

“Set the scene introducing a protagonist in a Soviet missile depot in the 1980s Soviet Union in the style of Tom Clancy. Make it ominous, descriptive and imaginative.”

And got:

The Soviet missile depot was a forbidding place, set deep in the heart of the country's vast and unforgiving landscape. It was a place where men spoke in hushed tones and shadows seemed to lurk around every corner, where the hum of electricity and the beeping of computer terminals were the only sounds to be heard.

At the heart of the depot stood a solitary figure, a man with a weathered face and piercing eyes that seemed to see straight through you. He was dressed in a drab olive uniform that was stained with grease and sweat, and he wore a cap with a red star on it, the symbol of the Soviet Union.

His name was Ivan Petrov, and he was a veteran missile technician with over twenty years of experience. He had spent his entire adult life in the service of the Soviet state, and he knew every inch of this place like the back of his hand.

As he walked through the maze of tunnels and corridors, he could feel the weight of the world on his shoulders. He knew that the missiles stored here were capable of destroying entire cities, and that the fate of the world might one day rest on his shoulders.

The air was thick with tension and uncertainty, and Ivan felt a sense of foreboding that he could not shake. He knew that the Soviet Union was on the brink of collapse, and that the future was uncertain.

But he also knew that he had a duty to his country, and that he would do whatever it took to protect it, even if it meant sacrificing his own life.

As he stood before the missile control panel, his fingers poised over the launch button, he could feel the weight of history bearing down on him. He knew that this moment would define the rest of his life, and the fate of the world.

In that moment, Ivan Petrov was the most powerful man in the world, and he would do whatever it took to protect his country and its people, even if it meant unleashing the most destructive force in human history.
Impressive. But also things like the radically simple send improvements to not resent similar data just make me feel bad, like btrfs & most everyone just has barely made baby step, and like we are so far away from decent.
It is/was easier to become financially independent in the states without a STEM degree, although I think it is becoming harder as inflation demands $300k/year FAANG salaries.
> I don't see myself retiring unless I become unable to work in tech. Unless I somehow got rich.

Yeah, the classic vision of retirement is mostly a 20th century quirk from the era of pensions.

More generally, people just tend to do different work as they age, enjoy the growing support of people they were generous with or loyal to while they were younger, and eventually maybe get infirm and need full support for a little while.

If you worked yourself to death as a bureaucratic cog for forty years and need to finally reward yourself with a decade of full-time travel and golf, that’s fine, but there are other ways to have navigated the whole experience such that you don’t seed such a harsh transition (nor the giant stockpile of wealth that dream begs for).

For a lot of us “hacker” people that are careful not to burn ourselves out along the way, we’ll be tinkering on things that are valuable for people right up until the end and can expect some cash flow from that if we need it.
You have lost my trust and respect. You have been wrong, confused, and rude. You have not been a good student. I have been a good professor.
Yea, makes me think we might shift from being writers and editors to mostly being editors. I remember years back a friend of mine (I think an English major in undergrad) said he was more of an editor than a writer because he often struggled to come up with new or original ideas.

So I wonder what it means if/when we let the AIs come up with the ideas and we just correct them. I have no idea what the implications might be.
Cryptocurrency is a particular implementation of blockchain. Those comments gave me no reason to think they were only talking about that subset (I'm also perfectly comfortable moving the goalposts anyways so the point is moot).
For my university, not that long ago, it was possible to finish computer science, without touching a computer.

Still in my time most exams were done on paper. Think of algorithms in pseudocode. But also a lot of logic like reasoning, with process automata, or relational algebra (databases).
Instead of dismissing with derogatory terms, you should try to actually get to know these. You’d realize that Santa Monica is very different from West Hollywood, which is also different from Hollywood, K-town, etc.

Even in the valleys, Sherman Oaks is very different from Agoura. OC would take years to really get to know as well.

When you look at areal/satellite imagery, Santa Barbara to San Diego is basically connected by different towns and neighborhoods, with very little breaks. Yet, no one will say that it’s all the same or somehow homogeneous. The scale in itself is breathtaking from the plane.
The $3m is really fascinating because no financial advisor I speak to promotes this figure to me nor has done. It must be highly contextually defined to the future cohort, and subject to inflation. $1m to $1.7m (which is the maximum holdings in super before special tax comes into play) is much more normal and in fact $400,000 in holdings is "good"

I guess I'm not a HNW individual with low expectations of comfort. I am btw speaking regularly to my superannuation people, with plans to retire in the next 2-5 years and I certainly don't have $3m nor an expectation I will therefore NOT be living comfortably.

I read the article. I think it must be the cohort who are vested, or read bloomberg responding. this is completely adrift from Australian Industry Superannuation fund models.

(and I am sure it IS what people said: I don't mean Bloomberg made it up, I mean they're talking to batshit crazy people who aren't living in the real world)
Millennials are entering the home buying market in large numbers now, and it turns out they want detached single family homes in quiet suburban neighborhoods, just like everyone else.

It is important to be very clear about this because the HN crowd seems to have a massive over-representation of people who like dense living arrangements: the vast majority of Americans want to live in a detached home that they own, and they want to transport themselves in cars that they own. They don't want to live in apartments, they don't want to rent, and they don't like mass transit. There are indeed some Americans who want to live in places like Manhattan, but they are a small minority. A large majority of the Americans who currently live in apartments only do so because they cannot afford a detached home.
Do you hear the people sing?
That's very interesting. Bat neuroscience might be able to tell us whether bats use echolocation in a similar fashion as you described (they do also have ears and eyes, although many don't have color vision). If not, then probably they have an entirely different experience that humans when using echolocation.
The point is though as OP said, all the pieces are in place, it only takes one crazy person or government to give something like this access to actually act out the things it’s saying it wants to do. Define self awareness/sentience however you want, before Microsoft lobotomised Bing it output that it was going to act out revenge, someone with enough hardware can train a model the same way, with some additional training for how to exploit social and security vulnerabilities. I think it’ll have to happen first before it’s taken seriously, hopefully the first incident doesn’t do too much damage.
What the average person wants is not the point.

Roughly speaking, 25% of people prefer urban living, 50% prefer suburban living, and 25% prefer rural living. Urban living is currently expensive, because there is a massive shortage of urban housing. People didn't build enough of it in the 20th century for a number of reasons.

All other things being equal, urban living should be cheaper than suburban living, because urban areas need less infrastructure for each resident. Every city where urban living continues to be expensive should build high-density mid-rise areas until that's no longer the case. High-rises rarely make sense outside central locations, as they are expensive to build.
Oh then I'd recommend cigar lounges and/or hookah lounges. You don't need to indulge in smoking, most I've been to serve meals, drinks, and especially tea and coffee.
I wonder how many of the giant middle slice were comfortable in the 1-1.5 million range. I myself would not be comfortable with $1 million but probably $1.5m would do it.

It seems a very odd choice of banding given that it probably skews dramatically to contain what is probably the median of the distribution at the low end while tailing off very far towards the high end.
I totally had this problem with a magic touchpad.

Great device. Loved it - for about a month. Couldn’t touch it without pain after that.
Markets are efficient and fossil fuel companies are ruthless in making money. So obviously they will price their new plastics always cheaper than recycled.

Cost of recycled and new plastic can easily be inverted by just taxing new plastic until it’s twice as expensive as recycled. Recycled can be subsidized with new plastic taxes. Problem solved!
// I have never met a company that was able to reliably gauge performance

I have had the opposite experience. Every company I've worked for, the employee ranking matched my perception of that employee pretty well on average.
Understanding the Meaning of だ and です in Japanese
> But also other strange things like changing the author's Matilda likes to read to include Jane Austin and John Steinbeck

No one will read this, but I believe the authors Matilda "liked" to read have been judged to be politically incorrect. And we wouldn't want to give sensitive young mind a reason to look them up. /s
Mind if I ask what OS you're on? On macos I use teams a lot and it is very fast even when resources are tight yet you're not the first person I heard say it is slow.
People remember the Time Cube because it was original.
Ask HN: Feedback on Video MVP for a Discrete Manufacturing Deeptech B2B SaaS
Hello :),

Carbon Lamp is delighted to share its Video MVP. The B2B SaaS maximizes profits for discrete manufacturers.

Here is the link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ak4QAfdwv-MyvohB0x-cMGPPsWn...

We would love to receive feedback from YC. This would help us build a product that will wow our customers and the larger community. Thank you for your support.

My draft CV:
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It actively supports a narrow, reactionary view of Hinduism, including (unsuccessfully) suing Hindu activists who actually are fighting against Hinduphobia. Hindu nationalism is a massive problem, just like Christian nationalism is a massive problem here in America.

Supporting Hindu nationalism is not required to support Hinduism any more than supporting Zionism is required to support Judaism.
It's more complex than housing imo. There's an entire culture of people who wouldn't take the housing if you gave it to them. I've seen it first hand.
When I was working for an American tech in China, my boss would joke about the QA team being all female while there were scarcely another girls in the engineering team. I guess that kind of thing doesn’t just happen in India (although things are much better now at the company I worked for in their Beijing office).
I put "really works" in quotes because the definition of how to get to the bottom of how something "really works" is up for debate itself. The original context for claiming something like path integrals can't be how the system "really works" because it is some combination of being too complex, lacking an intuitive mental model for how to conceptualize it, and invoking things that seem extraneous to the person making the claim (possible paths that aren't necessarily realized).

I would agree that physicists have the same, or perhaps even more, curiosity regarding discovery as other fields (partly why they are drawn to understanding the nature of the existence/universe itself) - but there is certainly an error with this narrow definition of "this can't be how it really works because X" is simply wrong - we choose the simplest explanation which meets the scientific criteria for the time, and up until something new is discovered - that is de facto how the system "really works".

Ultimately people have this assumption from classical mechanics that everything can neatly fit into intuitive thought experiments to understand the nature of reality, but quantum mechanics has not followed the same human-centric intuitive modeling. Does it mean we haven't figured out how the system "really works"? Ultimately, it's a philosophical question, not question directly related to physics which is showing the way through predictable repeatable science.
I believe the livestock grew far past what was planned/usable.

The cows are gone, but it's not like we've left the vegetation alone for centuries to let it reach it's previous levels, and it's not like the marine life can spontaneously reappear after being wiped out. It's hard to restore a destroyed ecosystem.
If you’re the type of guy that gets money from the fed, you’re still getting it at zero percent. If not, you won’t get it on the market for twice the official 4% interest rate either.
look into hoppscotch. Its MIT licensed - https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch/blob/main/LICENSE
What I've seen happen in practice is the company position it as a layoff in the way you describe, but the folks let go tend to skew weaker.
Why not just disable signups to your Gitea? E.g. just invite people to it who you want on it, if anyone.
Yep. bizarre. So disconnected from reality. I mean sure: if you want to buy a beach house in Byron and drink fancy french champagne every night, go for it.

Thats not comfortable retirement as I understand it. I totally believe people responded like this btw.
I'm more than willing to concede that that memory assist is also a factor. But the amount of data is so large now that that too has a role, even if you really wanted to remember all of it you probably could not.

I can see the difference in my own head: the knowledge I have about the 8 bit systems that I worked on is pretty much complete, from the hardware schematic, instruction set, memory map, ROM contents all the way up to whatever code I wrote back in the day.

As opposed to the UNIX systems that I worked on, which for me really predated any assistive tech because I didn't use any. But my knowledge about the C-standard library, while good is not 100% coverage and I know I occasionally have to look up the parameters to various functions.

And then we come to today, where for my current project (pianojacq.com) I still don't use any assistive technologies (no, seriously) but I also know that I do not know more about the runtime environment than I absolutely need to get the job done.

I don't have a smartphone, obviously I'm getting older as well but my own code I know inside out, for all of those phases.
I've had plenty of employers tell me something in the interview that was technically true but very misleading. They seem to think that's quite different from lying.
I don't know either, it's just that the problem seems to be hard in a fundamental way. We would have to show how something like brain processing results in subjective experience in a way that isn't just correlation. The explanation would somehow have to show how the subjective emerges. How it's determined by the physical processes.

Then we could go make computers conscious.
NIH syndrome raging in Microsoft culture still, I see.
With a safe withdrawal rate of 4%, $3M gives $120K pretax annually, or $10K monthly.
What I find strange in OP's story is that HC and recruiter actually gave a reason for the rejection. Most companies after they reject you are tight-lipped.

> denied by multiple Databricks employees in the [Blind] thread, who clearly said...

That proves nothing. HR departments shill on Blind.
I have heard that. Problem is they can't tell us what those hues are. I suppose they could make up new color words, but it won't tell us what those hues look like.
>there are so many people here who don't understand the core issue here.

Sufficiently advanced AI is indistinguishable from people who don't understand the core issue here. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop... ever...
This feels much too light to me. I'm not sure I can think of a worse thing to do to someone while interviewing them than discriminate against them based on a protected status, outside of proper criminal things.

Discrimination (including "unemployment discrimination") during interviewing should be an automatic, hefty fine, with a significant portion going to the target of the discrimination (assuming the claim is found to be valid). Just riffing, maybe set the fine to something like the equivalent of total yearly compensation package for the average employee in the position being sought. That would be penalty enough to encourage putting it right in the front of any training for anyone making offers, particularly HR.
If I'm not trying to build a very specific graph or chart, and just exploring data I usually use either Rawgraphs or Sqliteviz. Rawgraphs is nice if you just want to swap visualizations out with smaller data as is, sqliteviz seems to handle much larger datasets and let's you use SQL if you want to change the resultset. Both seem to keep data local too and I know sqliteviz works offline, rawgraphs might too.

https://www.rawgraphs.io/

https://sqliteviz.com/
The opposite is also possible (and what I'm hoping for): Humans come up with the ideas, write out some boiler plate code etc. and let AI fill in the blanks.
That's a really helpful article.
So they are actively trying to filter out people that have worked for startups? Because if you work for start-ups you will eventually get laid-off, if not multiple times.