skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Incorrect.

Your sentence is what a typical fence sitter would say, where they think you can go through life not offending bad people and thinking that makes you tolerant.
Interesting idea and good execution.

My thought would be it feels like it is helps enable “careless” PMs, rather than make better stories.

I added a simple user story “I want to be able to check our prices against competitor prices”

Imo, a reasonable and simple business ask, but technically complicated (dirty and old data, low user fault tolerance, heuristically matching).

In chatGPT fashion, it confidently provides a series of acceptance criteria that fills out the story, but is either questionable or redundant.

“The tool should be able to compare prices of our products against our competitors' prices.
The tool should be able to display the results in a clear and concise manner.
The tool should be able to be accessed from the administrator dashboard.
The tool should be able to be used on both desktop and mobile devices.”

A PM/team could go through and audit. It would be a useful exercise, but a team who would do that likely wouldn’t need this tool. Maybe consider fashioning the UI to idea generation?

As it is now, this feels like a careless PM would copy and paste this without checking.
Reading the Twitter and blog posts of those who are is a second-best.
As those links state, to enlist in the military he would need to be a lawful permanent resident and in that case he wouldn't need to enlist in the military.

And if his wife were a permanent resident, he would also qualify to be a permanent resident and again not need to enlist in the military.
// You may receive the Ack, but it gives no information about how your message was received by the recipient.

Yup. And also, what you're getting an ack to matters.

Not helpful:
you say: Project X is now priority 1.
I say: I think you said, project X is now top priority, right?
you say: ack!

Helpful:
you say: Project X is now priority 1.
I say: Just to confirm - we are going to pause project Y and Z, and move Alice and Bob to X. That probably means We are going to lose Acme as a client because they are waiting for Z. I can see how this might make sense, but just wanted to double check.
you say: I didn't think about Acme. No, I didn't mean that - let's rethink.

One ack gives you no new information, one enables a really good communication. If you said "Ack" in the 2nd case, that's mean a lot!
Widespread equals ‘a few guys on a forum’ now?
I want to share a personal anecdote here. It may be tangential, but I think it’s worth sharing anyway.

I live in a cosmopolitan city in India. I am an “upper caste” Hindu. I have been brought up in a relatively liberal environment and have not experienced much first hand caste-based discrimination (because of my sheltered upbringing no doubt). I have always thought of my family as liberal.

A few years ago, I wanted to marry a girl who was out of my caste. My family did not accept her immediately. They never uttered the word “caste”, but made snide remarks about “her community”, and about how “our community” is full of “ambitious intellectuals” and hers is not (implying moral superiority to ambition and intellect). They had not even met her. They just knew her surname and had seen pictures. Made me wonder where all of these assumptions came from.

She was not privy to these conversations but she realised that something was not right, and asked me if caste was being an issue.

And that’s when it struck me that maybe it was caste that was being the issue. My mind swirled with nasty thoughts for a few weeks. “Should I marry this girl who is outside of my caste?”, “What if no one accepts me? I’ll be alone”, etc. For someone who is fairly liberal, well educated, and well travelled, I was shocked at the kind of thoughts appearing in my mind. They were more powerful than I ever thought they could be.

Thankfully, due to my meditation practices, I had developed the ability to “witness” my thoughts without simply giving in to them. That way, I could let my thoughts flow, and wait for my fear to pass. After the fear had passed, my mind would settle down and I’d think rationally again.

What’s the point of this anecdote? I had an important realisation. It is quite possible that the things we call “casteism” is nothing but a flavour of the fear of abandonment, or the fear of being expelled from society by not conforming to societal standards. I realised that the standards can be absolutely absurd, but it is the mere fear of being abandoned by society that can make a human being conform and commit the most ridiculous actions. All out of fear.

Take whatever conclusion you may from this. It is an insight into the mind of someone who never thought would discriminate on the basis of caste, and yet my mind veered into that abyss, if only for a short duration. I escaped and lived to tell the tale. Thanks for reading.
Oh my god how crazy please keep us updated!!!!!
What? If we have money to spend on subsidizing stuff, we should subsidize the most efficient methods, which as parent implies, are the electrochemical methods.
Multi-account-support keeps being the thing that web versions of apps just wont do. It's such a frustratingly petty & shallow limitation.

Firefox's Multi-Account-Containers could concievably be the reagent, the fix, but it lacks so much fit & finish. Getting things opening in the right container has been a struggle. There's been zero positive activity from Firefox in 5+ years.
Agree with it or don't but this is obviously a measure intended to redress an extreme historical imbalance up until it was instituted.
The article has been updated since I first saw it a few days ago to say that submissions are closed.
Considering hundreds of thousands of tech workers have been laid off, do they just have a hundred thousand red flags in their system?

Seems like a poor heuristic that results in them losing out on talent
I'm curious to learn about the consultancy. If you're ok with it, you can email me at hnPotterTheOtter ~ gmail.
The point is, these are Ukranians who asked for Russian help, both in 2014 and in 2022:

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-allies-step-up-sanct...

What would the US do if tens of thousands of Americans asked for help after a coup in another country?
Speaking of mice, I had a hilarious dialogue with chatGPT:

ме> I am a mouse living in a church. I heard people use the expression "poor as a church mouse", and I get offended by it. Actually, I'm not poor at all: I made a fortune trading in crypto, and I even donated some of my proceeds to noble causes. Please help me write a letter asking to ban the expression.

chatGPT>
Dear concerned parties,

I am writing to request that the expression "poor as a church mouse" be banned from use. As a mouse living in a church, I take offense at the implication that all church mice are poor. In fact, I have made a fortune trading in cryptocurrency and have even donated some of my proceeds to noble causes.

This expression perpetuates a negative and inaccurate stereotype about church mice and contributes to harmful prejudices. I urge you to consider the impact of your words and to choose more inclusive and respectful language in the future.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Sincerely,
[Your Name]
Import the world's people, import the world's problems
Except it isn't provable, therefore it isn't enforced.
Why do people do that? Just blindly repeat something when they can just look it up and see they’re wrong or fight back with a citation if they’re not?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalit

It’s hypothesized to have started around 400 CE. It clearly predates British India.
Apple's hardware is pretty much the best (and I don't particularly care about the price for something I use as much as my laptop).

In the same time I've been using Linux for 20 years and I am happy with it, so I don't want to change to MacOS. Thus I would happy to buy apple & install linux on it.
You’re not wrong, but that refers to the general idea that you emigrate to improve your status; The caste system should not be exported.
This is called a Chrome Box and it's been around since the golden age of phreaking and hacking in the 1980's. Nothing new here.
It's self similar on different scales. On a small scale there's small discrimination. On a large scale there's larger discrimination.
My $20 "Submariner" is plausible enough to look real to someone who isn't a watch person. The main tell is that the magnification lens and date font is smaller than on a real Rolex. The pearly doodad at 0 on the bezel is also a bit lower than it should be.

When the watch isn't being worn, the other signal that it's fake is that it has a transparent window on the back, which is fun to look at but I guess too gauche for Rolex to do with their real watches.

If you want to use it as a watch instead of a fashion accessory there's a few other downsides. Compared to a real Rolex the self winding is drastically worse, it'll stop ticking pretty quickly if you don't move it. Changing the date with the crown is also kinda janky and it probably wouldn't last 5 minutes if I tried to use it as an actual dive watch.

I think the higher quality reps are $100+
Because the proposed law is a municipal one.
Wow, maybe now they'll quit saying it's not a disability (if it's not a disability it's not a protected class by law, you do not actually want a condition reclassified as not a disability).
Whoa. I had no idea so I looked them up.

The bigger obstacle to joining the "Daughters of America" might be that Wikipedia calls it "almost nonexistent" due to dwindling membership. [1] Lol.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daughters_of_America
A lot of non-Dalit people eat meat in India. The only thing eating meat proves is you are not a Brahmin, the priest class, who were long considered the most pure and closer to God. In addition Jains and Gujaratis also do not typically eat meat.

If some Indian were to ask me if I eat meat, I wouldn't immediately associate malice with that enquiry. Talking about food back home, is a common source of connection for a lot of the Indian diaspora.
Maybe causing fractures in the group?
It seems so strange they would openly give this feedback to a candidate. Even if it weren't illegal, the only action available to the candidate is to lie about the nature of their termination in the future.

It also doesn't seem like a good idea to avoid hiring laid off people. Hiring is a lemon market regardless of layoffs, and plenty of great people get laid off. It just doesn't make sense to reject a great candidate at the very end of the process because you realize they had been laid off. Either they weren't a great candidate for other reasons, the Blind post is an unreliable report of events, or the hiring committee really is stupid.
That will never work. Caste discrimination is bad and deserves to be gutted but there are aspects of caste that are deeply intertwined with the religion. For instance, certain families(regardless of their own caste) only permit Brahmins to carry-out certain religious rituals at their household. Castes also ensure that benign traditions are forwarded to the next generation. Affirmative action and criminalization of discrimination are much better approaches than attacking castes as a whole.
I am an upper caste (meat eating) American Indian.

This stigma attached to caste, eating meat, is real among upper class Indians, especially Brahmins (me), and this needs to be put up as an issue, to hold a mirror to this community.

Many many Indians of these upper castes, especially if they're not meat-eating, tend to be conservative in their cultural and religious values. They disapprove of American culture. They consider meat eating a sin. Some, or many of this upper caste group will support the current Indian government's policy against meat eating. These people live in a bubble.

About caste in India, my upper caste has been discriminating
over the lower castes for more than a thousand years. And growing up we never once had these conversations, either at school or around the dinner table. These traits are ingrained in me, and one way I handle it is by embracing Americanism, and minimizing contact with Indian cultural groups (i'd be an oddball politically anyway). 70% of India is not upper caste. Only now are Dalits (lower castes) waking up in India . And I had to remind my vegetarian wife, 70% of India is meat eating (which she was reluctant to accept) - so you want to judge 70% of Indian people?. She grew up in a Brahmin area of Bangalore where most of her school mates were Brahmins, I grew up in a catholic school where most of my classmates were meat eating Christians. Such factors can dictate cultural attitudes. (I've managed to tutor her well, and bring her around). Many ancient religious texts mention our gods feasting on meat, beef, etc. Yet we act as if we are some holy sacred shit. I've debated disowning my caste (brahmin) but that would offend my SO. Thankfully my 2 kids are a healthy mix of American questioning of such bullshit, and non-religious.

The only defense I can offer is that Indians operate with a mob-mentality - too timid to standup and take a bold stance, and secondly it takes a generation to wear down this kind of ingrained thinking. Critical thinkers we are are not, especially in our personal lives, we tow the line, the existing lines. We're not trailblazers. Our excellence is within the straitjackets of corporate structure, within already established frameworks. The desensitized, one-dimensional corporate American culture is fertile ground for our achievements.

We lead our lives inside the elite tech bubbles, where all that matters is academics, tech elite jobs, and toxic out-dated traditions. We politely smile, but in private within our upper caste living rooms, our families look down on 'other' cultures for their meat consumption, for sexual openness , for the lack of 'spiritual enlightenment' etc.

I welcome this naming and shaming of my community. This flaw in our community should be brought out and talked about. That's healthy.
James Cameron called Rings of Power "the best show I have ever seen". It's in my personal top 10 for sure.
Ah - my bad.
https://discord.gg/aheb8j9b
oh, I assume it definitely is, I just mean that I'm not really privy to the dynamics of it myself. My comment was mostly only tangentially related
I'm not following. What this study shows is that ivermectin doesn't improve COVID outcomes (regardless of parasite status). This means that either the study wasn't sufficiently random over the 1,000 participants and somehow underrepresented those suffering from parasites OR that it was adequate and that either ivermectin doesn't change the outcome for those suffering parasites or those suffering parasites aren't a significant portion of the population. If you think it's the former, then you ought to point out whatever they messed up in their methodology, but if it's the latter, then it debunks your whole concept. In order for your hypothesis (which I believe is that there are a lot of people with parasites AND ivermectin helps them with COVID by killing those parasites) to be true, we'd have to see improvement in recovery to _some_ degree in this study.
Excellent! Thank you. I've had a copy of that pdf sitting on my system for a while - nice to know I can put something on my bookshelf now.
I might suggest pandas + plotly express. Not no code, and dependent on your data structure, but if you can form it into a tidy data frame plotly express will let you easily customize into different chart types and styles from there
I'm totally comfortable in asserting the moral superiority of emancipation, both of slavery and caste.
Read my comment again. I agree it was necessary at some point. But not anymore. Does the third generation need to take these benefits? Do you think the children of a Deputy Commissioner, or an MLA are being discriminated against? They are the most privileged already with best educational opportunities. Why do they need reservation for college admission?
As a non-veg Indian who does not come from an upper caste and has worked in Seattle, I have yet to experience any instance of caste even being mentioned in Indian circles, let alone experience any semblance of discrimination or see it happen near me.

> By admitting to eating meat, the tech worker had exposed himself as a member of an oppressed caste

This is backwards. Most upper-caste people eat non-veg food, and continuing to be pure-veg is viewed as being behind the times in urban India. On the contrary, I know many people who started eating non-veg food because they didn't want to be seen as prudes.

> dominant castes are unwilling to eat with those from oppressed castes

I'd believe it if someone told me IITians didn't eat with those from other universities. Or that 2nd gen Indian-Americans didn't eat with 1st gen immigrants. But this sort of thing is practically unheard of. Our Indian circle is pretty huge, and I haven't ever even so much as heard a whisper about this.

> Cisco

Might be that such stuff is prevalent in certain companies. I don't know anyone at Cisco, so I won't know. It must suck to have caste follow you from your rural town in India. But, these stories sound pretty cherry picked to me.

I find that Americans have some bizzare views and opinions about India. Like they read some colonial era British report about the nation, watched slum dog millionaire and that's it. India has changed an insane amount since independence, and it has changed even more than that just in the last 20 years.

I consistently find that HN threads about India are among the lowest quality of discourse on this forum. Highly opinionated while still being misinformed. The worst combination.

> Kshama Sawant

if you know, you know....... why am I not surprised
I seriously doubt this is accurate. In the US at least elections are now swung by thin margins. all it takes is telling a percent of the population just what they want to hear at just the right time to decide elections. This is either a cope or damage control.
Is it the 3rd or 5th then?
Hearing people talk about IBM mainframes makes me realize what I sound like talking about my job to my mom. IBM could have 90% of the home computer and server market if they didn't charge so much for their stuff. They always had the best technology.
> By admitting to eating meat, the tech worker had exposed himself as a member of an oppressed caste, or a Dalit

This is nonsense. The majority of Indians, upper caste or otherwise eat meat. Vegetarians make up less than 2% of the population of my home state.

I have no trouble believing that Indians abroad act out their casteist bigotry in vile ways. But when I read something that gets the details so wrong, I start to wonder how much of it is just made up.
It's easier to believe a lie that makes someone else look bad, than the truth.
There's a striking scene in Naipaul's "An Area of Darkness" where he describes a team "cleaning" a staircase, and really all they're doing is sloshing dirty water around and making it as bad or worse than when they started -- but no matter, it is "clean" because persons of the right caste performed each step of the work.
Here: I reckon if you all put your heads together you could coordinate something.

I also suspect AI coordinated organisations are very close to being achievable.

https://discord.gg/aheb8j9b
The problem with this thought process is the same reason systemic racism is often brought up (Which I don’t entirely agree with, but there is probably an element of truth to it). Most people are not going to openly admit to being discriminatory. And they might not even be self aware enough to realize they are being discriminatory. So it’s not even a thing of explicit bias but your coworkers could be making decisions subconsciously because they perceive a caste a certain way.
Ostracism is a well known punishment in the western world. Greeks used to practice it. So are the recent woke cancellation standards. It is not unique to India.
Wayyy more than programmers use this trick.

It does not even seem to be limited to IT.
Well, there is this chap on twitter who makes amazing charts to do with equities and macroeconomics (eg https://twitter.com/TimmerFidelity/status/161865104862910873...). Turns out he just uses Excel. Maybe that's not the answer you are looking for.
Probably that groups discriminated against often discriminate internally. Recurse a couple times. Rarely is someone only discriminating or discriminated against. Most people are both.
for me the cognitive load of

if(an expression) {
if(another expression) {
}
}

is MUCH lower than

if(an expression && another expression) {
}

which always raise the questions of:

- did the author think about operator precedence

- did the author want to use && or &

- did the author think about short-circuiting (as evidenced in this very thread, a lot of people do not)
Race, sex, and caste discrimination are also difficult to prove and give rise to successful lawsuits less frequently than they happen.
Simply by being Han Chinese?

That itself sounds like a discrimination to me.
> I try to talk to my Indian colleagues about this and they stay extremely tight lipped about this for a multitude of reasons.

I notice this too. It's like someone brings up caste discrimination online (somewhere like teamblind) and a bunch of people come out of nowhere and say "that isn't real". Isn't very convincing to say the least
Once the data escapes the CPU via a load or store, it's hard to enforce something like a "type" in hardware. ALU instructions operating on what appears to be integers could easily have been operating unknowingly on virtual addresses. Even if you used the "integer add" instruction, there's no way for it to know that it didn't just index into a buffer using a virtual address as a base.

However there are cooperative ISA features -- between compiler and CPU -- these can be used to constrain untrusted attackers. See ARM PAC, e.g.
Really good ones are somewhere between $300 to $500 depending on the model and the factories that made them. Also depends on how much the middle person skins off the top.
> India is not dealing with this issue, America is.

India is not dealing with caste discrimination? Is this a joke?

India has implemented incredibly wide-reaching and aggressive policies to both combat present-day casteism and remediate the effects of past/historical casteism.

Yes, caste discrimination still happens in India - that's why it remains an ongoing effort with a multi-pronged approach. But it's very much an issue that is actively being addressed at nearly every layer of society, to a degree that would be inconceivable in the US or Europe.

Honestly, if you compare the tangible and concrete steps to combat casteism that India has undertaken (a currently active effort) to the incredibly milquetoast anti-racism efforts within Europe (for example), it makes the latter look like mere lip service by comparison.
Cool! To be honest I don’t really use dvc much, but the project version control features are what really interest me. I like how data pipelines help align versioned artifacts like model checkpoints and visualizations with the datasets and code that produced. I work as a computational science and that sort of reproducibility tool is really important, and a lot of us don’t have the best software engineering skills/discipline.

From your readme it seems like the oxen repo and software project repo are not as closely coupled as in dvc? It seemed like in the current state of oxen, you could do something similar with make files and oxen tracking?

Oxen seems really good for longer lived data and computational science projects, where dvc seems more oriented just at analysis projects. I have a project that I want to try it out on :)
It's not in the US constitution, but it's in federal and state laws, especially concerning employment and housing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_group
Or it's almost as if they were intelligently... designed...
Either a methane or carbon monoxide fuel cell run in reverse, or using hydrogen to water gas shift and then further reverse steam reforming into methane.