skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apart from some very common surnames like Tripathi, Dwivedi, Gowda, Reddy, etc. it's going to be very hard to learn to associate names with castes. Each state and each region has its own traits, which don't translate across that region. For example, my state, Karnataka, has a handful of regions of its own. I can sometimes tell that a person is from south coastal KA or north KA, but as for caste, I'd have no clue.

Here's a list of Members of Parliament: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_17th_Lo... The ones with names like Yadav and Singh are pretty obvious. But scroll to southern states, and the exercise gets practically impossible.
Yeah, he mentions his orchestrator in this documentary on Empire Strikes Back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT4_ERNVx3Q

Given the time constraints on getting the film scored it makes a ton of sense to have help in that department.
How does it compare to dolt?

https://github.com/dolthub/dolt
So the reason there are fewer women in CS in the US is because women enjoy gender equality here? That's so twisted!
>Last month my current customer announced they're tracking everything said on teams to threaten who to fire, so now even less people use it now for fear of layoffs. Hooray for big brother!

This doesn't sound like a problem with Teams so much as a problem with that company's management. However, look at the bright side: this company has loudly told their employers that they should start looking for a new job now instead of waiting for the axe to drop later.
rot13 partial spoilers for level 10

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Norfolk Southern carrying hazardous chemicals derails – In Georgia (2019)
I don't remember this one making a lot of headlines...
I had a chance to preview/test this upcoming release. Its a major positive improvement. It doesn't change the UI but improves the performance to the point that Teams becomes like early version of Slack from 2019
On an aside, I've always loved the idea of a computer game where your character's primary sense is smell.

But how could you really convey it to a human, except visually? Although maybe something like Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice's audio hallucinations could be a way, whispering voices that tell you the scent blows stronger this way.
I mean, you’re really not being civil by any description of it I’d recognize. Accusing me of being okay with arson? ‘Mind-diarrhea’?

Are you at all open to discussion?

I’m projecting my own views a lot here, but I am pretty sure you’re not going to be swaying anyone even remotely left of center (most of whom would never engage in the acts you’re listing - and many of whom _are_ uneasy about many of the changes to Dahl’s works that sparked this discussion) in your direction by projecting such an angry, abrasive demeanor.

I really worry about the state of online discourse. I’d be willing to bet that if we were to sit down and discuss this over a beverage in real life this isn’t how the discussion would go.
I completely disagree. Yes, using git blame and getting support from your senior engineers is expected of junior engineers. However, it sounds like there was pretty much no growth in ability to work independently after two years as a full-time developer on the team.

I can't judge further without knowing the details—perhaps they were not getting the mentoring they needed to be independent, and the senior members of the team are responsible for that. But in any case, this is not "where they should have been".
Dansk and the Promise of a Simple Scandinavian Life
If I were Intuit, I'd charge 100x to sell TurboTax to the US Government.
Anecdote: I asked ChatGPT whether it created a ChatGPT created poem (not generated by me) and it answered yes. I asked it about one it didn't create and it answered no. I repeated this several times and it was accurate in all those cases. Of course, it may give the wrong answer any time.

The best solution will be for ChatGPT to have a way to verify that certain creations are not generated. Just like identifying duplicate content using tools like Copyscape. Of course, there are issues like user privacy which will need to be taken into consideration, but that seems to be the only fool-proof way.
What does an "investor" consider comfortable? And more importantly, how much CO₂ does such an investor's lifestyle produce? My bet is that it's neither sustainable nor really necessary. It could well be an advertisement to put your money into the financial system so that investor can life more comfortable with it than you.
Reliable, but biased. The survey was run on Bloomberg Terminal owners (and some portion from their online news subscribers).
>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.

What are you talking about?

I use Facebook Messenger's video chat regularly, and it works great. I've also used Zoom many times, and it also works great. Both of these are on Linux, BTW (FBM is through the browser).

Just because Microsoft's offering is a dumpster fire (as usual) doesn't mean everything else is too.
I use the Apple Magic Trackpad on my Linux desktop and it works very well out of the box. Works both over Bluetooth and over USB. The acceleration is different from macOS, but it isn't any worse. I can see that it's been supported for a long time in mainline Linux: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/hid/hi...
For anyone like you (and me) who says being laid off doesn't mean bad performance you have someone else saying it's good that Meta, Twitter, etc. are cleaning house, getting rid of all the slackers. Those are the folks calling it a red flag later.

The thing, is we want to believe that a company makes careful decisions about whom to lay off. We know it doesn't quite work like that but as you said yourself there can be a bunch of reasons. And with that context you're still looking at the reality that the company didn't deem the laid off workers important enough to keep.

I don't agree with what happened to the candidate here and we are all at risk of being laid off after all, but at the same time we cannot just assume the companies didn't have reasons to select one person over the other. And being overpaid itself might be a red flag for some hiring managers.

What I mean is, we cannot have it both ways, saying RIFed doesn't mean anything while at the same time assuming that companies follow a rational decision process and don't just play roulette.
Once they have kids, almost everyone who can afford it chooses a home in the quietest and safest neighborhood they can get into.

Apartments are fun when you are young and want to live downtown and enjoy the restaurants and the night life. When you get older and want your home to be a refuge and raise a family, apartments really suck.
As a personal Fedora Gnome user, I have zero customisation I have to do which leads to absolutely zero monthly maintenance. And my personal projects are much easier to just get on with.

My work Mac requires constant TLC, although that's mostly because they want a container based workflow which is obviously not native to MacOS and there is always something going wrong that requires a couple of hours tweaking to get healthy again each month.

It also doesn't help that my Mac feels more responsive but also feels much slower. Again it's probably the container based workflow, or all the crappy AV and management software scanning each other but compiling code feels like it takes forever compared to my several year old Linux laptop.
Methane can be exchanged for goods and services
Why language models need not get worse
Yes sounds right - I remember in the deep dark past somehow getting Steam to show the contents of C:\Program Files\ in the Store window. This was obviously back when Steam was Windows only and before it used embedded Chrome.
We don't _have_ to. But it can be a bit of work to do it yourself if your taxes are remotely complicated.

I spend about 6 hours a year on it.

Yes, it's stupid.
You're not the author.
It sounds like your problem is not really about housing at all. This is a rant against the entire society.

I used to think the NIMBYs were full of it -- they say their opponents wanted to force everyone into high-density living arrangements, everyone must live in a communist tower block dystopia, people's yards and green spaces would be taken from them, huge buildings would tower over neighborhoods and block out all the light, etc. I thought that was a pretty bad strawman representation of their opponents.

Now I realize that some people really do want those things, after seeing quite a lot of unreasonable people on HN and a few other places, who really do seem to believe the insane ideas the NIMBYs ascribe to them.

You wrote "But at one point decisions around parking minimums, height restrictions, endless ability of localities to object to building development, and other whining from people who would rather have their yard than replace that with a larger public park.."

Do you really think it's ok to build a public park right in someone's yard? Do you really, truly believe that our society should operate that way? Because if you do, the NIMBYs are right!
That is a pretty good argument for having a will, indeed.

For me personally, I am not attached to the concept of cash/assets enough to really care what happens with excess assets after I am gone.
It is something entirely different if you have offspring, and want to pass accumulated assets to them, I get that. However, given how much money was printed recently, all the cash I leave behind might as well be burnt, I really dont care either way. If I have friends in need, I might as well pass some of it on to them before I go.
Your own link refutes you.

The oldest is the French film industry (Gaumont still exists & is the oldest studio still in operation), closely followed by the British film industry (notably Ealing Studios, still the oldest continuously working film facility too).

Hell, the earliest American film industry was in Brooklyn. Hollywood happened initially due to it fleeing to the west coast to avoid patents (ironically) and later the cheaper land.
It's lying but it's a lie that is backed up by your history when they search your previous jobs
Most plastic is not consumer but business use. As much as you think your veggies wrapped in plastic is bad, everything in the supply chain leading to your veggies was wrapped in plastic: the pallet they came on, every part that went into making the truck that shipped it (multiple times, as the truck in various states of manufacture made its way around several different geographically dispersed factories), the soil and fertilizer and pesticides that grew it, the hose that watered it, etc
That being said, it does provide some recourse for those who can show they’ve been discriminated because of their caste against the perpetrator. It doesn’t fix the root of the issue, and cases might be difficult to prove, but seems like a net good to add this protection. Might force discrimination on these grounds to be more subtle, but that means blatant discrimination would have consequences. Which again, seems better than the status quo.
Interesting and I believe valuable observation.

Stories are entertaining when they raise the expectations of the reader or viewer and make them wonder how a difficult situation could possibly resolve. Entertaining means you keep on reading because you are curious about what will happen next.

But language-models just produce an average over the many texts they have been trained on. While each story they read had their own "expectation loop", when you average over many such stories the expectation-raising disappears, like multiple waves interfering and disrupting each other.

The output of ChatGPT is bland, because there is no single author behind its output, who could "feel" whether the story was entertaining enough to be published. ChatGPT of course can not "feel" anything. It can not evaluate its own output as to will it raise curiosity in its readers. ChaptGPT has its model of language and texts, but not a model of what its texts MEAN and thus no model of how readers might react to it.
I read your post, then I we back to again read the original post.

To quote:

The biggest one to me is the sex discrimination across dev and qa, with a women making up the vast majority of qa even though they graduated with the same degrees as the men from the same Indian universities.

No where in that sentence does it say anything about casteism. (Yes, I know the original post was discussing both casteism and sex discrimination.)

Also, you wrote:

Nothing to do with casteism.

Yes, in this particular case. Casteism results in lower human development for low caste people. As a result, they are likely to perform worse in the workplace due to multiple reasons, including education, confidence, etc.

It is not casteism. It is cultural.

Why do you think that they are separate? Any university-level sociology professor would tell you that they are clearly intertwined. Sexism is also cultural.

About "extremely reckless and dangerous": On HN, each time casteism is the topic, it evokes strong, emotionally defensive responses from Indian-descent people (both nationals and the diaspora). Something that I often see repeated: "Oh, you just don't understand." "Oh, you cannot understand this ${thing} in our ancient culture." It's hard to understand if you don't ask. Yes, you may perceive their asking as a slight, but in many cases they are making an effort to learn more about this complex social issue. I see similar reactions during discussions about transgender rights and Black Lives Matter _in the United States_. There seems to be a small, vocal minority that wants to deny these are real, very serious, and important social issues that need our attention.

When a non-Indian descent person sees what they perceive as casteism or sex discrimination towards Indian descent people, how would you like them to raise the issue with you?
>Eating meat has nothing to do with caste

That's simply incorrect. Meat consumption correlates strongly with caste and the traditional reason is that it's a signifier of high social and religious purity. The American equivalent to this is teetotalling which is more prevalent among high social status Protestants. (essentially the US Brahmin class).

And even today of course vegetarianism has the same function. Vegetarians in the WWest as well as India are still more affluent and educated and it's a sign of civilized behavior, self-discipline, moral status etc. Arnold, as a bodybuilder (derogatory term "meathead" is no accident) may be rich but as an actor isn't a traditional upper class member.
>what you're forced to write in school

What you were forced to write in school. I readily admit that I had an quality of education several SDs higher than usual, but the trite "5 paragraph" nonsense is neither universal or (more importantly) inevitable.
discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34810758
Didn’t they drop linux support recently?

One step forward, two backwards?
Magic doesn't work that way
The temporary containers Addon has helped me with this, you can assign/exclude patterns or subdomais
besides the unusual redirect dance when doing some SAML auth on a new app it works fine
Maybe better to keep people a bit fearful, is what I'm saying.
the only real issue with alpine is there aren’t nvidia drivers yet.

i run alpine on my laptop and arch on my desktop. i wish it was alpine on both.

while there are minor differences moving from glibc to musl, and the odd failure to compile, it’s vastly overblown.
I've lived here almost 40 years. In the past 15 years homelessness has risen by 50% but so has population. Rent has doubled, but crime is falling.

In fact, we're seeing record low property and violent crime rates. The last couple years have seen some uptick from the record lows of the 2010s, but Seattle is much safer than it was at basically any time in it's past.

The statistics just don't back up your story.
Legally that would be the same as being fired. There's quite a few stipulations for a company to conduct a legitimate and recognized layoff.
I have never met a company that was able to reliably gauge performance. And would not put that against anyone unless they were intentionally fired and we're evasive about it.
>I think you need a different explanation for why worker-owners would value equity if they can't expect to be able to sell it for a profit

Because you believe what you are doing is more important than maximizing how much money you can make
MS teams is the only electron app on my computer that feels slow. Microsoft has done an almost uniquely bad job.

Native desktop apps probably aren’t coming back. Typescript is a vastly better language than C++ and Python which the current gui frameworks support.
What’s your dart?

Mine used to be $3-5M. FAANG adventures have led me to understand why people retire, now I’m claiming $400K is enough to go back home and take a couple years off
Dolthub is more about versioning structured SQL data tables. Oxen handles more large unstructured sets of images, video, audio, text, and DataFrame (parquet, csv, arrow, etc) files
The distinction in my mind was that a variable is something where mutation is allowed naturally without being explicit e.g. var a = 1; a = 2. In Scheme you have to opt in to the mutation by using a ! function set! which in scheme's world is like, in C++, const_cast-ing away the const from a pointer, or, in Java, using reflection to make a final field accessible and modify it. All possible using the languages as specified, but semantically not something you're normally encouraged to do.
> one might be spending $2500/month for a 1bd apartment. Even returns on $1m should comfortably cover that cost, without even any drawdown

The number I've historically heard for "safe rate of withdrawal" is 4%, but a lot of people are saying 3% these days. 3% of $1M is $30k, which is exactly $2500/month * 12 months. My risk tolerance is too high to consider that to be comfortable.

Another issue is that here in the states we don't have health care guaranteed by the government, and the likelihood that you'll have some kind of condition that incurs more costs increases as you get older (up to and including something like memory care, which is very expensive).
Human tetrachromats do exist, but it’s X recessive. They can differentiate some hues that others can’t.
Not the same fuel but as far as "energy shortage", just a reminder we allow the fracking industry to burn-off $100 Million of natural gas into the atmosphere every day in the USA

Simply so they can get to the more profitable oil.

Absolutely ridiculous waste and damage.
I mean, I just threw "write me a song that britney spears would sing." into chatGPT and the result could have fooled me. I won't bore you with the result. Even included some rhymes without prompting that.
HIV, in rich countries at least, is a managed condition these days. I'd imagine the only issues would be any sort of interactions between the don't-get-AIDS cocktail and the cancer drugs.

Perhaps the matching system has more data in Germany, or perhaps they really are just writing up happy accidents in which they discover that the patient lucked into a CCR5 donor and also already had low enough levels of HIV that the operation made a difference.
Teams is a good argument for anti monopoly laws. We have so many superb messaging apps and yet we all have to use one that is only just considered usable.
That's a good point but these days kids are exposed to so much mis- and disinformation that we have to train them on working in a malicious information environment rather than hoping they never find themselves in one.
It's a bit interesting that you had that disclaimer, not commenting on it but just noticing it myself.

I am honestly not sure why Indians would not become managers. A lot of Indian managers have existed in the companies I've been at.
"Owning a car is a bit like watching TV vs. YT/VoD: it's partially driven by habits"

This.

Thank you, 50+, living in Germany, never owned a car (have a drivers license), never going to own a car.

When friends say "we need a car" they mean that they moved outside the city in a big house but want to go to the city every day and drive their children to a sports club every second day. Sure they "need a car". It's like I go diving and I "need an oxygen tank". Yes, sure, if you go diving.
What I'm missing from cmd.Cmd is colored input and vim-style autocomplete. Maybe there is a readline replacement that is unbuffered and erases the line with \r characters to print an ansi colored interpretation of the line every time a key is pressed.
This is what future jobs will look like. Instead of having articled clerks do all the work but for which partners are responsible, we will have AI for which we are responsible.

Therefore we need the skills of management. This is probably a superset of doing the work yourself - except you needn't acquire proficiency; and there will be many basic aspects that don't need checking. In short, it's easier to criticise than create (fun, too).

This isn't fundamentally different to other automation. For example, in computational fluid dynamics, it used to be important to be about writing the software. Now, it's half understanding the theory and half using the software.
This cohort is less likely to engage in the crudest forms of racism but that does not mean that the problem is exactly solved.
What is Redmond or the rest of the Eastside doing to help homeless people that Seattle has failed to do?
That's not how you measure efficiency
Because you get to set the pace for whatever you are doing as a group instead of someone else setting the pace for you

That's the difference

Do you want to work for the desires of wall street or do you want to work for the desires of your friends and community around you?

You can't do both and have investors unfortunately.
Slavery existed among Native Americans before Europeans already.
Michael Levin is doing that. He's researching morphogenesis, but he also found that cancer is related to that. Basically, all cells communicate with each other with electric potentials to work towards a common goal, like forming an organ or a limb. Cancer happens when that communication is disrupted. It disappears when it's restored.
It only happens on the quantum level, when you stop being able to measure things and they become wave-like. Humans can't do that
I think I would need 1.2 million to retire, assuming I planned to not have a full-time job for 30 years afterwards. This is based on my annual spend being roughly ~$40,000, with interest and inflation (hopefully) cancelling each other out.

I don't see myself retiring unless I become unable to work in tech. Unless I somehow got rich.
> Makes me wonder how many great men of the past were actually their wives alter egos.

Interesting thought. I know JK Rowling is "JK" because her publisher wanted to obscure her gender. This sort of thing is probably common.
Something I always miss in articles about the importance of communication is the lack of resources on how to improve it. That is, of course, assuming this something that can be learned if it doesn’t come naturally
> There are people who don't want a society that is just but they can't say it in the open (as much) any more, so they come up with euphemisms.

There are also reasonable and good people who have legitimate disagreements about what a just society looks like and don't appreciate the "you're either with us or against us" attitude you're projecting.

For example, I can be 100% on board with treating everyone respectfully and equally under the law while still thinking it's harmful to try to erase the contributions of good people from centuries past on the grounds that they weren't good enough by our modern standards. That's the kind of thing that I label "woke cancellation", and you'll never persuade me that judging a historical figure based on our modern values is just.