skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, once you can generate the content -- good content -- cheaply enough, no one will pay for it.
I’m not sure why you are getting downvoted for expressing the issue in clear terms. This is a real issue in India.
I just use docker compose at home for about 15 containers and it works great.
Tax credits is often another way of saying environmental pollution.

They are appropriate in the short term IF they cause sufficient innovation or economies of scale to kick in.

Often they cause more waste, because tax credits often benefit less efficient and more polluting solutions. Without a very deep and very careful analysis, your best proxy for measuring environmental harm is simply the amount spent.

For example: corn subsidies for ethanol production are significantly harmful for carbon dioxide pollution (via indirect effects like fertilizer production).
for the nyc one, you can claim remedy yourself in civil court.

walk them right into small claims for 25k
I can see we need to define terms, here. I apologize for any previous misunderstanding.

I use advertising in this context to mean: paid signage (physical, digital, mailed, etc) where the business pays a fee with the explicit and unary intent to drive business.

Listings, whether in a maps app or a phone book, do not qualify (most times - paying for preferential treatment in these places is a travesty deleterious to the integrity of the source - and why Google sucks now).

I've found salons by seeking them out on my own - in places they did not pay for preferential treatment - because that spend is either

a) detracting from spending that would make the business and service actually better

and/or

b) covering for a shortcoming in said business / service

If you're using the term advertising to mean other things, then we are speaking two different languages, or perhaps I'm simply not using the most correct term, for which I apologize.

hope that clears things up.
Everything about that article is ridiculous. It's not just the Dalit that eat meat. McKFCburgers are everywhere in India. Asking if someone eats meat has nothing to do with castes or oppression.
That diversity stuff OUSD really working out great. We now have a diverse set of problems, not just all of the original problems too. How wonderful that when we imported India, we also got the diversity of India problems.

No, guys, it’s fine. This OSS a great thing to have all kinds of diverse problems of all the different cultures from everywhere all at the same time.
5 Reasons I’m worried about a future with AI like ChatGPT, GPT-3.5, etc.
Yeah, it would likely be a step change in quality at that point. I doubt the current architecture and training regime would take it in that direction. GPT essentially is a collection of personas to ideally mimic the widely different contexts in its training set. A singular sentient identity is counter-productive to modeling these varying contexts. Now if they could synthesize a large corpus of interactive chats and train on that, that may push it in the direction of a singular identity. Even then, I strongly suspect that some kind of recursive/recurrent architecture is necessary for sentience. Purely feedforward computation doesn't seem like it has the resources to result in the kind of tight unity of experience needed for sentience.
> The only thing eating meat proves is you are not a Brahmin

Does it? I personally know several exceptions to this "rule" - and they are pretty open about it. It's not some closeted meat-eating thing.
http://www.keithstanovich.com/Site/Research_on_Reasoning_fil...

Here’s a link to the full study.
The context of the question isn’t about how it’s related to the caste policy. Maybe I missed something?

Not addressing the homeless and crime issues is a kick in the face to us tax payers in her district. Not to knock on the caste system policy but there’s biggest issues to tackle before anything else. Just my .02
> seem to get a pass.

I don’t think there’s anything wrong in being able to identify certain groups. The issue is when the identification is followed by a different behavior.

I can identify different breeds of cats but it doesn’t mean I will mistreat bengals.
The civil rights act covers faith based discrimination in employment, housing, public accommodation, etc. The constitution here prohibits the establishment(or preferential treatment) of a religion by government.
>The homeless/drug problem is very bad

I just came back from attending a conference in the US. I stopped by san francisco to visit a friend before going to DC for the conference. I hadn't been in DC before but visited California 10 years ago. I was surprised by how pervasive homelessness and drug use was in both places too, especially San Francisco where it definitely felt like things took a turn for the worse. Even in DC there were guys just collapsed on the sidewalk, not sure from drug use or whatever (there were people there who called an ambulance). People also just didn't seem very happy in general, although I could be imagining that since I was only there for a few days. In any case it was very surprising and not quite what I expected.
But diet isn't the only data point here, pretty sure diet plus home state/region (maybe discernable from accent and/or surname) is likely enough to determine it
This is great, but if you have a history of risky behavior or literally having HIV you shouldn't be able to donate blood.
Follow up question then: why?

This isn’t meant to come off as judgmental, but a real question. Plan 9 looks pretty neat but I would think that the lack of driver support alone would make it pretty difficult to run for anything.
> Have reusable bags for groceries that last many years

There is another way. After you’ve paid for the items, put them back into the shopping cart. This is very easy at self checkout. Take the cart to your car and unload the items into one or more plastic bins (typically used to store stuff long-term and come with lids). Carry the bins into the kitchen when you arrive home and unload.

I can fit all groceries into one or two large bins. It makes unpacking items really easy once at home. I don’t have 15 bags to carry , reusable or plastic.
They aren’t, those people are just benefiting from starlink which will make most money through enterprise and government programs.
I don’t think ChatGPT is AGI nor do I think LLMs can be AGI but I don’t see why any person with any sort of reasonable value system and understanding of reality would think we need AGI; of course I’m not convinced it’s possible a Turing Machine framework. Someone else said “it’s just another type of automation. No, it’s fundamentally different than other kind of automation. It would eliminate economics of knowledge work if left unchecked and probably many other areas of work. I don’t think plumbers would be called the “rich” anymore if that sort of work is all that’s left. I’m fact, it could be much worse than that. This would have a profoundly deleterious effect on society. Economic conditions that cause unrest and violence outside of the West would probably be the case throughout the world. Sone people that is called something like “post scarcity”, I think that is the new version “perpetual motion”.
Yes, it's somewhat similar but much higher resolution. 16-byte "granules" instead of multi-KB/MB/GB pages. Also - instead of having the OS determine how to handle paging, the CPU can tell whether it should fail the load/store based on the color of the access and the color of the granule.
https://biztoc.com/ is a good, generic dashboard.
>...and routinely spent the entire day talking together in Chinese and excluding me from like regular work convos high impact projects and general progress early in my career.

Outside the US, I've seen companies with a diverse work force implement "english only" policies in the office.
Unless that barrel is a higher value to you than the energy required to create the barrel would otherwise be.
I don't understand the problem. You have to pay your own salary with the grants you get?

[In my case the university pays the salary, and we use the grants to buy stuff (a computer, air conditioner, travel, ...)]
The comment you are replying too never said they were dependent on it. You’ve pivoted the discussion. The poster said Europe doesn’t have rural people by American standards. Revenue wasn’t mentioned.
It’s not an issue of “genuine”, it’s just crap. But to determine it’s crap someone needs to read it and that’s not scalable when you can generate hundreds of crappy submissions in an instant.
SES has been fine for us, but our use case is basically limited to raw text notification emails.

I use Mailjet for my personal projects very happily but have never crossed over the free threshold of 6,000 monthly emails.
Great overview. I would love to see a section added about Shift_JIS (SJIS) art.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift_JIS_art
http://text-mode.org/?tag=sjis-art
Walmart is most famous for shrink-flation per unit sold. Costco sells bulk units. IME, from a household perspective Costco incentivizes getting more than you need and Walmart on getting the least you're willing to accept. Both are trying to maximize profits, yet by taking different tacts.
A lot of Americans say this and don’t realize their Indian coworkers all belong to the same couple groups and that it’s actually pretty insular
The British saw a highly fragmented society with fragmented territories, and realized that all the Divide and Conquer work they had to do was essentially already done.

They just had to get the ball rolling by making each group fight each other.

Good job! You did over 50% of their colonization work for free.

Stop discriminating each other :-)
Interesting thread, wonder if that was the internal backdrop for the decision to deploy their biggest deal ever in Adam Newman's new venture (which has several folks scratching their heads).
I used to do this with Matlab. Haven’t in a long time, but if you speak that lingua franca, it’s a great way to go. Every kind of chart, lots of flexibility, customizable, etc. but I think everyone has moved to Python or R now.
>woke cancellation

This really isn't in the spirit of HN.

"Woke" is just the latest term for social justice. 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. The previous was "politically correct."
Pretty much all Brahmins I know eat meat at their households. But this isn't the first time I have heard such a tale.
The no code/low code poster child is Excel.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/office-excel-why-its-microsoft...

And there are many would-be Excels that do parts of what it does better.

Even if those contenders don't have a flight simulator yet.

https://excelunusual.com/a-first-flight-simulator-model-in-e...
Hey if you want to say humans are also stupid, I’m not going to stop you.

But that’s not my opinion.
>what exactly happens to the billions in equity [...]

Same thing that happened with FTX/FTT, they sublimate.
The US Constitution sets out what our government can and can't do. And one of the things it can't do is discriminate based on religion. But there is almost nothing in our Constitution restricting the actions of private citizens; that is left for normal laws to take care of.
Having worked at the overseas operation of an American company that had a lot of American expats, no, not really, because those expats are not a random sampling of American society: they're overwhelmingly white and Asian, and the few that weren't were all upper class/highly educated and not viewed as threats.

You can see the same effect in the Indian diaspora in America as well. I'm having trouble finding stats on this, but by and large it's also highly educated, from the upper crust of society in India, overwhelmingly Brahmin and many groups (eg. Gujaratis) are statistically overrepresented compared to the Indian population at large.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/nri/us-canada-news/gujar...
Financially speaking, kids are an asset in non-industrialized societies, especially farming societies. But they are a liability in industrialized ones. I think that transition from asset to liability for nations undergoing industrialization might explain this phenomenon.
Just actually register the company. In my country you don't even need to register, you just do business as a contractor. As long as you're under certain revenue limits, there's no registration necessary.
But where is the room for ambition in a large company with flat staffing? If you, completely independently, build something adding $2 million of revenue at e.g. Google, you've increased the company revenue by 0.0007%. Even hundreds of millions of dollars remain but a decimal point. The company is simply so large that even if you achieve amazing things, they're going to be largely irrelevant. So the only real avenue for ambition is climbing the ladder of hierarchy. But when that ladder doesn't exist?

One could argue that social economic systems, at scale, are functionally similar to a massive corporation operating on a flat environment. And you end up with a similar issue there. "Company" ambition doesn't really have a viable path forward, and so the optimal solution is to just coast by - and direct your ambition towards your own personal stuff. Or even set the ambition aside, and just enjoy life. At least until the consequences of everybody operating under a similar system of demotivation kicks in.
Hurricane Island (2006)
By a watchmaker with terrible eyesight...
> On a mostly unrelated note, Seattle proper (as I mentioned, I live in a suburb which is an affluent one) has really gone downhill in the last 10 years. The homeless/drug problem is very bad and the local government seems so entirely incompetent to do anything other than woke signaling.

I don't mean to be unduly harsh (yet probably will come across that way anyway) but did we have to drag that into this conversation? I have lived in Seattle my entire life, was born in Ballard, and raised two kids here. It's getting kind of frustrating that every time my hometown comes up, someone inevitably mentions this without bringing up any of the complexities as to why. (For one, it would be nice if your suburb, nominally one of Seattle's regional partners in the King County Regional Homelessness Authority, would actually do their part and construct some social services for various groups.)

Our mayor, who lives half-time in Bellevue I hasten to point out, is busy saying it's all the Council's fault and the Council passes budget items and ordinances that the mayor simply ignores. Meanwhile, every city in the region is busy shoving everyone who looks like they earn less than $75,000 per year over to Seattle and then crying about how Seattle is "doing nothing".

The Council is attempting to do something good, so sure, let's bring up the massive social services crisis that's by no means unique to Seattle or Puget Sound, but probably looks like a Seattle-specific problem from a perch on the Eastside.
Oh, so that's why the British American Foundation is fighting this law instead of the Hindu American Foundation.
LFS is slow (copies files during checkout, downloads/uploads files independently), inefficient (no de-duplication or delta encoding, contrary to base Git), error-prone (needs manual setup, and rewriting history if anyone gets it wrong), and otherwise not well integrated (it relies on smudge filter and other hooks, so some Git commands are aware of it and others not. You will often see the `version ... oid ...` content of the actual blob rather than the large file).
I think it's like saying if you learn how to maintain a submarine, have you become a good swimmer? Or, if you know how to maintain a submarine do you understand fluid mechanics?
Wow. You weren’t kidding.

I tried apt install ffmpeg in a debian:sid docker container on two different docker hosts: one with slow IO (a cheap VPS with slow, contentious storage); and one with much faster, less over subscribed IO.

Fast IO: 27s -> 26s with eatmydata. Basically the same.

Slow IO: 280s -> 140s with eatmydata. Literally twice as fast.
It doesn't fool anyone.
The real question Ive heard being asked is "Veg or Non veg?" This in many places is used to ask the caste question without explicitly asking for caste.

The other question I've heard being asked of Indians is "what is your full name?" as most upper caste Indians indicate their caste in their surname/family name. If your surname isn't upper caste, you are likely to be silently dropped in many social situations.

So someone who eats meat and doesn't have an uppercaste name is a lower caste. However since some upper castes do eat meat the surname question gets them through.

The color of your skin is the third SELECT. At some point all of it seems like a DB query.

In many localities and apartment complexes across India you will find it difficult to get houses because of these simple questions. A brief stint in Bangalore was eye opening with real estate agents being super frank about caste specificity.
They have a boatload of patents, too.
Interviews are all lies.

Sure, some people would claim "It's just about putting your best foot forward and presenting yourself in the best possible light," but those people are such liars they lie about lying. Lying by admission is still lying.
Seems to me like every improvement in medical science will be accompanied by a corresponding decrease in individual responsibility. Just like hardware and software.

I've heard young people basically say 'HIV isn't a big deal nowadays so no need to worry'.
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What you quoted does not support your point. “have a low risk of subsequent virological failure"

Low risk is not zero risk. Also the actual population of people who durably achieved undetectability is effectively a true Scotsman argument in that you reject people who seemed to achieve it who then became detectable again. We don’t have long term data saying all people who are undetectable for N years are undetectable for 40 years because the treatments aren’t that old. All we can do is extrapolate and people who are undetectable for even 4 years have become detectable.

Newer treatments look promising but they have even less long term data to extrapolate from. And of course things look even worse when people stop taking treatment for various reasons.
Not necessarily: foreign workers are a not at all representative of the country they come from, there's huge selection bias at play. For a real-world case, the vast majority of Russian co-workers I've met over the course of my software career are very much against the invasion of Ukraine versus ~70% of the Russian populace as a whole. I don't think this is preference falsification, given that they're open about other things like opposition to NATO expansion. This disparity exists even inside of Russia, professionals support the war less than average, but I bet among people who choose to work abroad there's greater degree of cosmopolitanism [1]. And for discrimination, I bet foreign workers are more empathetic about discrimination being a minority themselves in a different country. Of course every company should be vigilant against discrimination, regardless of the demographics of their workforce.

1. I don't mean to lean into any negative connotations of the term, quite the contrary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmopolitanism
Finding an optimal donor match (via HLA typing) rarely returns many "perfect" matches. Perhaps there are systems that record both the CCR5 mutation and HLA typing, but I'd expect most donor matches, found via registries like https://bethematch.org/, will not have that information available.

I haven't dug into the weeds here (and, for personal emotional reasons, I will not), but I find it hard to believe the medical staffs would have seriously considered "can we find a donor that matches AND will possibly cure the HIV". The diagnosis-to-death timeline for many blood cancers is fast when other treatments don't work. Delaying a transplant by 2 weeks in order to find a slightly more optimal donor seems crazy. (Though I suppose the after-transplant care for someone with HIV might be trickier than those without HIV. But patients will be immune-compromised for at least months post-transplant, so maybe HIV isn't that big of a deal.)
The oppression of the caste-less was not new: it is described in both Dharmasutras and Manusmriti. The English exploited it, certainly, but they didn't need to invent it.

We wouldn't have all the saints of the Warkari tradition, who fought against caste oppression, without caste oppression to fight against.
While many will share your hanger, it’s important to keep cold head while comparing to others countries and culture.

Negative caste discrimination is banned by law since 1948 in India while US was in a sad era regarding Human egality, even legally.

Edit:typo
This is exactly why I wish you and HN would have a lighter hand with title editing. The original title is meaningful and conveys importance from the story, the automated edit makes the original title sound nefarious where it’s not, and your choice to use the subtitle strips all conveyed meaning entirely.

“How Two Jewish Kids in 1930s Cleveland Altered the Course of American Pop Culture” isn’t only “baity”, there’s an incredible wealth of context in the title that gets lost if you edit it. Granted your manual edit is less obviously harmful, but it’s definitely not better than the actual title either.
FWIW, Peter Naur (N of BNF) said CS ought have been named Datalogy.
This may sound crude, but I think is pretty close to reality. This is Indian activists trying to muscle in on the massive DEI industry in the US, from which they are currently excluded.

There is zero evidence that caste is a causal factor in the US, in the sense that those of lower castes can have signigicant discrimination imposed on them by upper castes. Of course there will be many casteist Indians in the US. There are many in India, so moving to the US will not make their numbers zero. But their ability to impose casteist discrimination in the US is pretty close to zero.

I moved to the US 40 years ago, have dozens of Indian friends, but have never heard of even a single significant case. There is a grand total of one case (the Cisco one) in court, and that's still to be decided.
Do 1:1 calls work in Firefox there?
I can’t speak to the specifics of a16z’s funds so take this a very broad generalisation, not a direct answer to your specific question.

When a VC firm says they have a “$500M fund”, what that often means is they have $500M of funds at call. The LPs (investors in the fund) don’t immediately put all that money into a pot that sits there waiting to be deployed. They just agree to make it available as called. In previous downturns those commitments have suddenly become a lot less committed when the fund tries to call them in. So, again generally speaking, there is no pot of cash lying around to be returned. They only called it when it was needed to close a deal at which point it was immediately spent.

As for “assets under management”, you’d probably want to try and read some fine print in how it’s calculated. A fund might try a slight of hand to include the previous “committed” number to pad it and make it look larger than it is. If so, see previous point re returning that. The rest is going to be the current valuation of deployed capital. But that’s a questionable number even in the best of times, and we are not in the best of times. It’s mostly tied up in illiquid private companies and so what there is to return depends on if, when, and for how much they can exit those positions.
I'm interpreting it as that the issue of caste discrimination being perpetuated by immigrants in America is, by definition, not being dealt with by India. India has to deal with the issue of caste discrimination being perpetuated in India.
Man, nobody planned this.
Useless. You can't force this change. There are tons of ways around it.

You have to attack it at the root and get these people to change themselves, and that's basically also impossible.