skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't underestimate the value of batching even for personal use. You can get MUCH better results from a language model if you sample a couple outputs and choose the best to continue.

This kind of usage isn't especially economical for hosted use-- but for personal use it would mostly be using idle resources and you can get extra samples almost for free.

A bunch of people getting multiple completions and choosing which one they'd prefer to continue might make for some really useful training data too.
I spent some time in SE Asia. Plastic consumption is rampant there, with styrofoam trays, plastic wrap, and plastic bags used for most items in stores. Street food vendors put their food in plastic. Straws and hard plastic cups are commonplace. Litter is common and waste management is nonexistent in many areas.

One problem I’ve noticed there is the high volume of single-use plastic water bottles in use to deliver potable water. Most water is not drinkable from the tap, so this is the solution.

Ensuring country-wide safe drinking water from the tap is no small feat, so this is incredibly discouraging.
To answer some :

1. Indian legal and governance systems maintain a list of recognized castes , these exists for reservation for government jobs, loans, elected seats[4] university admissions or promotions in government companies/departments - there are many problems with the list (outdated, lot of politically influenced changes ... )

2. Caste is hereditary, caste originated from family profession , somewhat akin to occupational surnames in some western countries like Smith [1]. Indian surnames also can indicate caste, the Self-Respect Movement from last century in the South evolved to drop surnames to reduce discrimination [2], and many people in parts of the country ended up use mononymous names.

3. Switching castes while occasionally practically possible was extremely hard, in the traditional orthodox system caste can be lost but not switched, typically lost when the parents are from different castes marry. In practice changing your profession or your son's profession would be the way to switch.

Education and vocational training however was denied back in olden days to keep it hereditary if you couldn't prove your caste background [3] you wouldn't be able to get a teacher or be apprenticed under a master. If you could get away by lying about it or someone from that caste vouched for you then yeah it could be changed.

4. Caste based registrations are a thing in India, mainly used to claim affirmative action in government

5. There is case law in Indian Juriprudence albeit in a different framework. Legal affirmative action frameworks(not the same as anti discriminatory approach in U.S law) are fraught with problems - Indian law has tons of problems of enforcing equitably.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Occupational_surnames

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Respect_Movement

[3] A poignant story on this topic from mythology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekalavya

[4] Election candidates in some areas are reserved to specific caste categories to represent the population better.
Yes, you put my point much more concisely – thank you!
I read it like "Artificial Intelligence could mean either of two things:

a) Intelligence that is produced "artificially, meaning by computer programming

b) Intelligence which is not intelligence but artificial so, thus not "real" intelligence.
It's a solid argument, since there's no theoretical upper limit in sophistication for such algorithms.
Housing has gotten more expensive and there's been a huge wave of immigration to the region. I've lived here 35 years, the resistance from single family homeowners on any push to improve is staggering.
Are they going to fix how the misery of threads in public channels compared to private chats costs the economy cumulatively billions of dollars in communications overhead?

It baffles my mind how many times we’ve lost good explanations, duplicated debugging work, and made information impossible to search for others because it’s more pleasant to put it in a private chat with 8 people than deal with the misery of the motherfucking auto-collapsing threads in regular rooms.
For example, with containers on AWS ECS:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/userguide/task-...
Using Teams on Windows is also a nightmare.

Slow as molasses, highjacking global keyboard shortcuts, bugs galore, and bad UX.
Likely 80% of people though do not understand it and think it is somehow wolfram alpha but smarter.
Caste discrimination is strong in male Indian immigrants to the USA. The higher the caste, the stronger the discrimination. Just as you ["...you don't understand the complexity and roots of this practice."], most will defend their Indian society's attitudes. They certainly won't accept lower castes as equals.

I have no experience regarding Indian womens' attitudes.
I can't think, let alone create, or even copulate, in silence.

I need that constant thrum to block out so I can focus and really put out the good stuff.

Maybe you're not everyone and should shut the f up while the rest of us enjoy the non-negative noise all around us.
I'm pretty sure detailed enough differential brain imaging of bats echolocating and not in different circumstances would eventually reveal the secrets of bat echolocation processing.
You Need at Least $3M in Savings to Live Comfortably in Retirement
I have this theory that caste discrimination is more common in the US for some of the reasons you told. First of all India banned caste discrimination a long time ago and has an affirmative-action-like law that discriminates in the other direction against upper castes for things like university placement. Caste discrimination (upper caste against lower) is still a thing there but I wasn't really aware of it being seen as a pressing issue in India and it gets merged into religious and ethnic conflict.

My friend is Brahmin but non practicing. For her it's just something she is proud of and a lot of upper caste Indians end up going to the US for school because they didn't get into IIT. There are big differences between the older and younger generations but I wonder if maybe the immigrants from India come here with kind of their own distinct culture where caste is a part of identity so not having that caste makes you an outsider here. idk =/
How is vscode buggy for you on Linux? The only problem I've had with it is that it (and chrome itself) take tens of seconds to show anything when I log into my account using i3wm on Ubuntu.
As an Indian, I kind of hate this generalization. It is absolutely our responsibility to explain and also to root out caste discrimination. Just because we had millennia long history with it (through foreigners, no less) does not mean we must not extricate it whence it currently stays.
thanks for the explanation.

> . I woke up to hundreds of emails from various blogs and other sites asking me to confirm my email.

but if i don't approve the comments, then the emails won't go. right? or the mails will still go even if i don't approve them just to confirm from your side?
To work it will likely have to be attached to a unique identity in costly ways. i.e. some form of ID verification such as Driver's license/Utility Bills/Bank statement/passport/etc...
> But fresh vegetables/fruits (95% of these are not covered in plastic)

That's nice but most of the plastic waste probably happens before you even buy it. If you really wanna reduce your waste in this area you should try to stick to what's in season[0] and grows locally. Also grow your own greens. They're easy to grow and the amount of waste produced and energy consumed just to get these leaves to stay green by the time they get to a customer is pretty shocking

[0] https://www.seasonalfoodguide.org/
If children can not deal with the reality of the words, fat, ugly, white, black, girls and boys, then we how will they deal with the world around them? Scary to think that we are erasing the ability of teaching children to discern and cope. Hiding the ugly doesn't make it go away.
I didn't state a position on that. I only said my butcher uses both.
Totally an option when you choose a place to live.

“Hey I NEED that plane trip to visit my family 2000km from where I moved last year”
>What a difference a few kilometres make.

Well, that or finding a company looking for applicants on TN visas. Remember, it's a 30% raise at the same published dollar value.
Based on various published conversations with Sydney, it seems AI may have already achieved this level of thought.
When I visited a few McDonald’s in south India they didn’t serve chicken or beef, just paneer. At the time I assumed paneer just meant chicken. I soon was sad to learn I was mistaken.
If we just shrug our shoulders about that then that opens the door to all kinds of discrimination. People generally find it easier to commuicate with people from the same culture, for example.
Teams is adequate, gets the job done, but it is not great. You use it because you have to not because you love it.

The dichotomy between Chat and Teams seems arbitrary.

The biggest miss is search. So much data is trapped inside Teams. If Teams had instant search that worked as well as the Search box at the bottom of Hacker News that would be a killer feature.
Humans beat ChatGPT to the crap content game, though. Remember the Time Cube guy?
CTF Field Guide – Trail of Bits
Eastside also buses homeless folks out (or at least used to). They very much care about the facade of cleanliness on the Eastside but not about people nearly as much.

And yeah, agree with you and the parent poster - the issue isn't unique to Seattle, local areas aren't doing enough, and housing has not met demand.
And how would that processing tell us what sort of sensation that bat has when using echolocation? Do you think doing this for birds would reveal what the fourth primary color looks like? If the answer is it wouldn't look like anything (for us), then there's something science can't tell us.
At least credit the man who said it: Emo Phillips
There's a very vocal group of such people, sadly. Thank you for saying no to them as long as you did. Makes it a little less likely the rest of us will encounter them in our open source projects.
Paleotsunami Detectives Hunt for Ancient Disasters
I'm a very senior person (20+ years) industry experience in India in companies like Msft, Goog etc.

In all these kinds of Multinational companies and even more so in startups (new or old) never see any 'caste' aspect being played out.

If it is there it may be happening in more bottom of the rung companies where meritocracy is not really thing during hiring and then when planning for growth of the employees. In these places one would also typically see 'company veterans' who have minimal tech skills but hold power positions.

Also, the article is not factually correct - being non-vegetarian does not indicate that one is from lower caste. Infact in eastern part of India people from 'higher caste' eat meat and fish.

India also has substantial population of non-vegetarian, only 19% are vegetarian https://twitter.com/Stats_of_India/status/158333113506020556...
>OP is making sweeping generalizations. Another example: All women in QA. So what ? May be because women find it easier to start with QA (lower barrier to entry) and has less demanding work. Sure, some of it may be cultural but tieing to casteism is a stretch.

It isn't a generalization to point out that there's something strange when the distribution is skewed that strongly considering that men and women are generally equal. Some slight bias is understandable, but the larger the deviation gets, the more unrealistic it is. There is nothing inherent about being a woman that would lead to them unanimously choosing to go with a lower barrier to entry and similarly there is nothing inherent about being a man that would lead to them not choosing said lower barrier and easier work.
My Web site is designed and programmed and runs as intended. I was delayed by independent events, beat those back, and now am collecting some initial data.

But from the original post (OP) about "Four Ways" here, apparently I made a really big mistake, nope several biggies: I wrote the software using Windows 7 Professional, Visual Basic .NET, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, and SQL Server. What a user receives is old HTML and some CSS with little, maybe no, JavaScript. I didn't write any JavaScript at all, but ASP.NET wrote a little for me.

At one point, I wanted a key-value store so used two instances of one of the .NET collection classes instead of Redis. That was a biggie mistake?

So, apparently my work is none of the "Four Ways" of the OP. Biggie mistakes, right???

I don't get it: Looks to me like for some decades now, all around the world, people have been able to build (program, develop, etc.) Web sites using Windows 7, .NET, SQL Server.

E.g., as I recall, Markus Frind developed a Web site using those tools, had the usage grow, ..., and sold the site for $500+ million. He did something wrong?

Now there are some rules I don't know about, rules that say I must just junk my code, 100,000 lines of typing, and start over?????

Those "Four Ways", they include something for my use of collection classes as simple versions of Redis? Or they include Redis?

Oh, at it's core, my Web site has some original applied math -- those "Four Ways" have that already?

I didn't get the memo that I can't use Windows 7, .NET, and SQL Server!!!

What am I supposed to do, use better than Windows 7 Professional, .NET, SQL Server, and my applied math code????
I'm wondering if part of the push to those electron apps is because more young developers know how to use HTML/CSS and JavaScript than there are people who know how to use GDI+, Qt, and so on. Maybe cross-platform support is actually an afterthought.
Even with five boroughs, I'm still surprised NYC is this low.

In addition to the obvious Staten Island, apparently Queens "only" has 22,125! I always thought it would be close to Brooklyn etc.
Considering they're trying to make apps for teams happen, I doubt MAUI was ever an option. All the "app" thingies are web anyway so they'd be littering WebViews all over the place (which is arguably worse than one big WebView).
Show HN: Simple OpenAI Library with Caching
I found a lot of my experiments / tests ended up calling the OpenAI API service with the same content over and over again, which can be time consuming - particularly for longer completions.

This is a very simple thing but if you need something like this in your C# project and don't feel like building it yourself, you may find it useful. This library also doesn't have any dependencies which is kind of nice imo.
In which it will just hallucinate more non-facts? Facts aren't it's strong suite?
Why don't you just bring your bags inside the store? Then you can put your groceries in your bags and don't need to worry about a cart
Off-topic, but try https://old.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/
This article is about just the opposite.

> My bootstrapped mobile gaming company achieved success…

He was specifically talking about a company not getting VC funding and “growing profitably”. In the last decade or so, I can’t think of one tech company that was profitable before it IPOd.
I am from Punjab, & certainly there are more than 2% of vegetarians in Punjab (maybe more people drink alcohol & but not eat meat). A google search says 33% of Punjabis are vegetarian. Stereotype is typical Punjabi eats chicken, saag, butter, liquor.

Wikipedia links says 20 to 39 percent of Indians are vegetarian. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism_by_country#Dem...

Another complexity is, different levels of vegetarians. One who eat egg only. One who eat fish only. Or chicken only, no mutton. Or no pork. Or never beef. Or any combination. Or depends on season, day, weather, people. People might be secretly eating meat without telling parents or family.

Although your statement may be completely true, less than 2% vegi, (stereotypes) for South Indian states, Bengal, Orissa etc.

Yes, Punjabis are very caste aware in USA, Jatt & such, and that absolutely come into play here in California while making social connections, gathering, groups. At works, retail locations, hiring, Punjabi owners care less about caste & more about cost.
Eliminalia
> My experience has been that even beyond caste, huge tech companies get these weird race/ethnicity based fiefdoms embedded within them.

I've had the same experience. It's very weird when you realize you've been hired into such an ethnic enclave in which you aren't that ethnicity, and then learning that your boss's boss is looking for a way to trade you to another team without ever meeting you, mere days after you joined. Thankfully that trade went through and I ended up on a less racist team..
This is an American problem too. I've worked with a lot of women in QA who have CS degrees, and lots of male programmers who were shocked to discover that the testers they were working with had exactly the same qualifications they did.

In America companies, women who struggle to find software engineering roles due to discrimination are often able to get lower-paid roles in QA where they are less likely to be pre-judged for not looking like what people think engineers look like. The result is that 38.8% of American QA testers are women, compared to 14% of software engineers.
Your comment sounds exactly like the sentiment you see on stack overflow and is a big part of the problem the OP is complaining about. It’s abrasive, unhelpful, and if that’s all you have to say on this topic, better left unsaid.
Building a Scalable (KPop Image) Scraper
> Lisp environments on Sun workstations were able to outperform Lisp machines

I think it was just that it became clear the projects didn't deliver anything very useful. You can't keep the hype up very long if it can't be backed up by real applications.

But some good stuff that got started then prevailed, like speech understanding and language translation. But it didn't come usable overnight.

Classic AI was a reasonable research program, but research takes time. Think of nuclear fusion.
Is it off topic? It's a direct commentary on the precise changes being made? What constitutes off topic in this case?

I mean... it's weird that they (the publishers, or possibly the estate) think it's okay to retroactively edit these books at all, but the specific edits they have made make it all the more bizarre.

It's really very strange to take a view that weight is sacred, but teeth, noses, and other aspects of general appearance are not.
No, its just plain text. no urls as I can check the comments.
I used to be pretty pessimistic about the team. While it had some solid heads in it, I thought things would take much longer than they have. Given their current progress/speed I wouldn't be surprised if most of these are functional enough for upstream by the end of the year, with iterative progress towards M2.
Those polices are flagrantly ignored.
> I started to run into challenges sourcing several replacement parts for a 8-9 year old bike that had 10 speed Shimano group set

I can't say I've had any problems with getting maintenance parts for my 2004 (19 years old) Shimano XTR mountain bike.
> the east side has way nicer roads

Someone have never driven down Avondale or West Lake Sammamish.
This is the type of toxicity I experienced at most companies in a top third world country (that shall not be named).

I worked there for about 3-4 years and people would try to make you feel bad or guilty for all kinds of things. Sharing you got laid off was an automatic disqualification from any interview. Lying your way through was the only way. Now I think it could have been systemic or cultural.

My advice to OP, you really dodged a bullet. This isn’t a healthy workplace culture that values you as a human being. Pat yourself on the back and move onwards and upwards.
Some people think, "he says he was consulting, whatever, he's got the skills and seems like a good guy". Are they really fooled? Or do they just not care?

The real question is, will "consulting" fool the people who would reject you for a resume gap?
thanks, this is a perfect encapsulation of what's happening, I'm surprised there are so many people here who don't understand the core issue here.
Also because American companies take advantage of the H1B process to legally discriminate on the basis of gender.

While hiring in America must provide equal opportunities, there is no requirement that American companies not discriminate when sponsoring visas.
That is a good way to put it as well, thanks for sharing.
Dietary supplementation of clinically utilized PI3K p110α inhibitor extends the lifespan of male and female mice https://www.nature.com/articles/s43587-022-00349-y

In mice. Increases lifespan, strength, and balance but decreases bone density and glucose control.
> It is absolutely our responsibility to explain and also to root out caste discrimination.

Well, I am trying – what about you?

Go add some more history sources to mine in the comment below that's asking for them!
I bought a couple dozen 24GB K80s for like $40 each.
Paper comes from trees that extract carbon from air. Trees have a lifecycle wayyyyyy shorter that oil so when you use paper you’re on a ~50y removable scale which is more human manageable that the oil one.
Automatic looms are programmed with designs by designers who are paid to make them. AI takes the designs from the designers who make them.
I've lived in Seattle for almost 40 years. The homeless issue is not really unique to our city, and there's a hugely complex systemic set of issues causing it. (Not least of which is the incredibly high median income driving up home prices, due in part to tech immigration).

The city council has been trying to fix the issue, but had been stalled by the mayor, stalled by other cities in the region, and stalled in how they can build systemic fixes.
Have you actually lived in Seattle? Or is that your opinion from visiting?
Veg or non veg will get different answers from my family. Dad eats meat because liquor. Mum doesn't because she never did. We siblings are split half & half.

This question may get different answers based on season, day, time, or even people around, or even meat options. Navratre no mean, no meat on sundays, Tuesday, Saturday, or such. No meat in front of parents or relatives. No meat if preparing for some big exam. No meat if it is pork or beef. Chicken, egg, fish ok.
https://archive.vn/0qT8O

I presume they mean savings beyond your home equity (no mortgage).
Millions of active WebSockets with Node.js
> systems were quickly relabeled to not be AI. Like, win at chess.

Right, some things came out of it but progress was slow in the more general areas. Still there was progress but hyper had to die, it was time to come back to the planet and do some database-stuff.
You do not compete with tech workers, you compete with developers.

More specifically, you compete with developers at your level of exp.

More specifically, you compete with developers at your level of exp and field of expertise.

Those layoff are meaningless.
An Op-Ed in the nytimes is no different than a blog on geocities. Not. Real. Fact.
Thanks. TLDR:

"women in countries with higher gender inequality are simply seeking the clearest possible path to financial freedom. And typically, that path leads through STEM professions."
Move to another country?

Lots of jobs in Japan..
There are a lot of false positives and negatives, which is why this is a broken system in cities and places where you couldn't possibly know their caste from their diet or their surname.
Nothing short of explicitly asking for their caste would let you know 100%, people are just really good at generalizing.
I lived in the city proper for a long time and only moved out (Tacoma - I wonder what your opinion is of here?) post-pandemic, and honestly the city was never that bad for the most part. Now, there are tougher parts, sure. But I think a lot of the city is fine. You may see someone doing drugs in broad daylight but that is never actually dangerous to me in my experience.