skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> While valid, the problem being pointed out still requires a representative to do so, and I was just making the point that if the representative has experiences or behaviors that are inconsistent with the essence of the problem they're trying to address, it ought to be brought up

this entire statement is the exact opposite of true: anyone can raise awareness of the problem regardless of who they are, it doesn't make them a "representative" of anything (just imagine them reading an anonymous comment card they pulled out of a box) and any inconsistency you see between them and the problem is irrelevant, and is a distraction if brought up

that is why tu quoque, what you are describing, is a fallacy

> For an individual wearing a lanyard with the problem statement being, "there are too many lanyards in the world", you are well above your means to inquire on his participation within the problem firsthand, and how they're contributing to it (or lack thereof).

you would be engaging in the logical fallacy of whataboutism, because your questioning of him doesn't address the problem, and is in fact counterproductive in solving the problem, because you are attacking an ally in solving the problem

this illustrates why tu quoque is a fallacy when trying to solve the problem

put another way, because their identity is irrelevant, a 100% equally valid question would be for him to ask you what are you are doing to solve the problem

the analogy is bad anyways, because in this real life topic, the whataboutism user is wrongly conflating two different actions, as well as ascribing actions to people who didn't do them. All the people who responded here pointing out that they don't, in fact, sell private data, were conveniently ignored by the original tu quoque perpetrator
You wouldn’t necessarily unless you were looking for it
Yes, because history showed us that equal societies, compared to centemporary pears, fare muchuch worse than those discriminating. Or rather not.
Agreed I've never had a problem with LG monitors. Samsung, on the other hand, have been a grab bag of razors and needles.

I even went as far as to buy one of those "weird" [0] LG screens that have 4096 horizontal resolution all the timings and such worked perfectly.

[0] https://www.lg.com/us/business/download/resources/BT00001837...
Not with a normal kind of screen, at best you could blow the image up or increase the contrast or change the colors to help people are colorblind.

Maybe a light field or holographic display could make the light rays converge just like they would from something very close or far away to correct nearsighted or farsightedness but talk about speculative technology...
Reservation is necessary for 2-3 generations to uplift, anything further than that is just the reverse of casteism.

Tell that to my OBC friends who paid 5% of our school fees while they were dropped in Audis.
Read this: 'Indian View from Outside: Quotas, Rational & Moral?' : https://www.newindianexpress.com/opinions/2015/sep/11/Indian...
I expected no less from this massive propaganda of psychiatric killing that is ongoing. Your comment is a tiny hope in the hell they have created, wish you the best.
> Because your ISP is probably selling your browsing history to the highest bidder

That is unlikely in the EU. It would be a gross GDPR violation.
Two blocks by one block. So, interesting and impressive. Perhaps 'giant' is hyperbole.

I'm mostly struck by how perfect it looks. No dirt, no dents, no scratches, no rain-streaked windows, no rust. Not like any place I've ever been.
I'd consider it a Linux bug if the kernel drivers don't transparently hide high color depths and refresh rates that aren't supported by the display/cable/GPU's maximum supported DP data rate.
This HN post on the retirement announcement is how I learned VS for Mac exists.
Small crossovers (CUVs) like the RAV4 are literally hatchbacks that are lifted. How does this beat a hatchback in any way? An equivalent volume hatchback has all of the exact same utility, and has better driving dynamics and is safer due to a lower center of gravity.

The main reason people like driving crossovers is that it raises their seating and viewing height relative to other vehicles on the road because we're in one of the dumbest arms races ever with vehicle height, where anybody who buys a sensible car loses.
Who did J Dilla and Pete Rock sample and loop? Who did any of them sample and loop? The fact that you can't answer means that you're in the wrong genre, bro. Where are their chopped vocals?

I would love to hear you tell Daniel Boone that he's not a pioneer because some skeleton turned up. LOL.
No, but they do have a plan to lock down use, make people pay for it in ever-increasing subscriptions, and retain a perpetual license to all outputs.
Very interesting. Wiki also says it's not needed for most uses now since that background radiation has greatly reduced since we stopped blowing up bombs in the atmosphere.

"... background radiation has decreased to very near natural levels ... low-background steel no longer necessary for most radiation-sensitive applications,... However, some demand remains for the most radiation-sensitive applications, such as Geiger counters and sensing equipment aboard spacecraft. For the most demanding applications even low-background steel can be too radioactive and other materials like high purity copper may be used."
Caveat to most of the answers so far - you can read Javascript books until you're blue in the face, you need to build stuff as much as possible.
I would guess there are a ton of ways to tell what caste someone is. Where they are from, accent, one article I remember reading mentioned a person was Buddhist not Hindu and keeping that secret to avoid caste discrimination https://www.wired.com/story/trapped-in-silicon-valleys-hidde...
If google really cared about the environment, they wouldn't have mandated return to office. Anything they say from then on regarding the environment is null and void.
Exciting! I do a lot of FPV drone racing and it always felt ripe for an AI control to take over. Because the video system is so low quality the course is intentionally very high contrast and almost perfect for a vision system. Along with the relatively limited and constant inputs available.

I will say, flying indoors on a relatively simple track like theirs is a lot easier than flying outdoors on more real world tracks.

It's a bummer that they didn't fly the standardized 2023 multiGP global qualifier track. Then we could rank their AI against every pilot more objectively.
You can see that track design here: https://www.multigp.com/global-qualifier/
Canada has a "revenue neutral" model. It is in quotes because it simply doesn't work as advertised. There's cost increases everywhere. Our homeless population has exploded.

Then there is interest. Money today is better than money tomorrow and certainly better than money in a year. This is especially true for the poor. Then there's what happens when you give an average poor person a check (This isn't an insult. It's perfectly understandable that a person being beat down by life would be interested in spending money on something or someone instead of food.)

Our healthcare costs also need to be considered. The solution for people to handle inflation caused partially by the carbon tax is to eat less expensive food. This means cutting out fresh fruit and veggies, meats, fish, and other nutrient dense food.

Carbon tax is solving nothing at an extraordinary cost. We still have people driving to the corner store, tossing out two full ass garbage bags every week with recycling bins mismatched and full of food crusted paper, unrecyclable materials, food itself, and much more.

Other problems exist too. Think about the average IQ in North America. It's reported in some places as 93-95. Many people simply are not capable of doing this without significant help.

Discussion of climate change on HN is quite the experience. Suggestions outside of the approved methods get downvote love. While having the view that a tax will solve anything is applauded. We will get precisely nowhere on climate change because every damn person thinks it will cost them nothing.

Nobody(ish) will do anything before they are told to either. Anything unpopular will never be brought up as a rule.

Put more simply: We're living in our mess and will do so until the mess falls over and we get stuck underneath without a soul to call for help.

--edit-- I don't use garbage collection. I don't recycle, I reduce and reuse. I don't drive.
This sounds like someone who has no idea about India.

Being vegetarian tells you nothing about somoene's caste at all, either by choice or birth. You might make a wild guess but it has very less chance of being correct. Vegetarianism permeates throughout society in both upper and lower classes.

Asking someone's village name to know anything is laughable. There are about a million villages in India, and most villages have mixed caste populations, so this is just so laughably absurd. Even if you meet someone in a local city, you will not get to know their caste by their village name, let alone meeting someone in a big Indian city or the US. Asking someone's village gives you same amount of information as doing Math.random(1e6).

> see if the person is wearing a Juneau

This is something that has almost stopped and at this point almost nobody wears it since it involves a lot of extra effort. It would be very very long ago when the % of peopling wearing it was high enough.

> Higher-caste Indians will also search social media accounts to ascertain a job candidate’s religious views or diet.

This again sounds like a handway statement that is somehow intended to show how one can easily find someone else's caste.
I wasn't even aware of my caste (ST) until I joined intermediate(equivalent to 11-12 grade). I feel like I'm lucky that I didn't face any sort of caste discrimination. I guess it depends on which part of India you live in.
I also wrote a blog post with video about the project: https://erikschluntz.com/software/2023/08/26/compressing-my-...

This has been one of the rare side projects that has actually saved me more time than I've put in :)
> Paying for the service might be harder to manage without complicated apps. I mean, I can’t picture companies or utilities doling out power without a way to manage or bill drivers.

Isn't that precisely a major point of the apps and the rest of the faff involved? Of course the systems are overengineered if you ignore that requirement.
Finally, by far, most people hate Scrum with passion.

I got so tired of hating Scrum with passion, that I pulled a 179 and wrote a comic book about it.

In your honor for your courage and honesty, adrianmsmith, it's free, today only. All enjoy!

https://eddiots.com/1700
Yeah, that makes sense. I think the value of this particular text is that it teaches some of the underlying architectural principles, but truthfully, you probably won't be making those sorts of decisions until later in your career (unless you end up working at a really small shop).

For now, just focusing on the basics of HTML/CSS and especially JS will get you going well enough, and those will all be applicable in web work no matter what specialization you choose.

Those are what we normally consider frontend technologies (though JS can also be used on the backend). If you also want to learn the backend side, having some frontend knowledge still never hurts, if only so you can work with the frontend people better.

This text might be worth circling back to later in your career, once you start considering architectural patterns. But for now you have a lot of other great suggestions :)
No offense to the author but that's just ridiculous. If the only charging infrastructure we deploy is single-phase AC power, electric cars are doomed. When your roadtrip involves stopping every 250-300 miles to charge for 8 hours, you just aren't using it. Not to mention he's essentially stealing power since he rolled into an RV park and by his own description didn't actually PAY the RV park for the electricity he used.

There are a lot of issues with charging in the US, but that's more a matter of immaturity than anything else. We need far more L3 DC fast chargers, and we need the folks building the charging stations to be more tightly integrated with car mfg's so they can actively test fast charging before new cars hit the market to work out bugs BEFORE the first time someone wants to charge a new model.

If you're going to downvote, at least have the decency to respond. I assume folks that don't like the response don't own an electric vehicle. If you've ever taken a road trip in one, you'd immediately know how ridiculous it is to advocate for deploying NEMA 14-50 outlets across the US as a solution to charging... it would be an absolute waste of US taxpayer dollars for endless reasons, not the least of which the charging speeds are so slow as to be borderline useless unless it's a destination you were already planning on spending an overnight trip at. At which point you'd be better served by an L2 charger which have none of the communication issues that sometimes exist with DC fast charging.
> I worked in 3 different companies (Hyderabad, Bangalore) in South India and did not see any evidence of caste discrimination

Are you of a member of a discriminated-against caste? If not, it may simply be it wasn't visible to you.
While the author rightfully decries the bloating of the Rav4, it's pretty close to a perfect size for a couple who consistently travels outdoors. Our '14 Subie crosstrek just shit its transmission out and we migrated to a used pre-facelift Rav out of necessity, being in a small city with little pub transport and poor infrastructure.

I just really, really wish a carmaker would make something that size, and put it on a real 4x4 platform. AWD is okay, but if you're really gettin' out there, sometimes you just need that extra capability. As of right now, there's basically no true 4x4 out there that has decent cargo space and isn't absolutely gigantic. New Jeeps are as big as old Hummers (which used to be considered massive), the Bronco has piss-poor cargo space for just how bloated the thing is. The 4Runner is getting bigger almost every year.

There simply are no worthwhile new, small, capable vehicles for sale. A Rav4 or Outback sized body-on-frame 4x4, with an 8 speed auto or 6-spd manual, good suspension, cupholders that fit a Hydroflask, and some sturdy roof rails and a hitch to hold a bike rack is the ideal outdoor vehicle, imo. Toss in the new niceties like wireless phone charger, CarPlay/Android Auto, and blind spot detection, adaptive CC, etc. to make paved driving a bit nicer, and you're golden.
The numbers could be right, but you couldn’t exactly argue discrimination tbh.

27% seats are reserved for OBC students in IITs

There is a similar quota for people in OBC categories in govt jobs (which IIT professors are). Maybe there are plenty of OBC professors, but not in CS? Or that they don’t openly identify as OBC? Or maybe, people just don’t qualify/apply to the position?
> My sister is in that boat of not making finances work. Her job pays too well for her to leave the work force.

But her finances arent the problem here. Its how high expenses are. Her job could pay 150k/yr or 20k/yr but the situation is the same when she quits. Its good that she at least makes enough money that it justifies working if she wants to.
We've been waiting over a decade for regulation to come to the social media space. Why do you think the government will be any different with AI?
Noob Q: If I have 25000$ can I buy some GPUs and support the effort for supporting GPU Poor? Like is there a DIYer's guide to do this?

I don't want to donate the cash but instead set up a handful of GPUs(Somehow?) and let people pay at cost to use them.
Because they're finding it's easier to give people a monthly bill credit for 24 months. They're not ending the discount, they're ending the way it's marketed.
Paper: http://petereliaskraft.net/res/p2732-kraft.pdf
Also the most surprising part of doing this was seeing that abbreviating super short words like "the" -> "t" actually saves far more characters overall than abbreviating long words and phrases that are less common, like "what do you think" -> "wdytk".
You can't make this generalization for a franchise business.
It's a consequence of freedom. If companies aren't allowed to make the decision, then you're saying the government should make the decision instead. It's one or the other.

There is no functional world where no one is allowed to moderate abuse, because in that world the Internet ceases to function. You don't have to like the results, but someone has to do it.
China also had, and still has, a child limit policy that violates human rights.

Not to mention the genocide currently in progress. Genocides don’t help fertility, I’m guessing.
This is absolutely a thing and I have witnessed it. And I'm not even Indian.
This dude talks about directly punishing people for not meeting deadlines and monetary rewards for completing tasks. This is weird, patronizing, de-motivating. I would run from him as fast as possible.

> She already knows what she is working for, and she is motivated enough. When she finishes on time, organize a meeting and give her a $500 check in front of everybody. This is what a good manager uses meetings for.
I agree. A large contingent of women want to be mothers without the stress and distraction of workplaces, but it is increasingly uneconomical to do so. So instead we resort to daycare, but with how expensive that is there is a natural cap on having more than 1-2 kids during your most fertile years. No surprise the fertility rate is less than 2.

Regarding benefits - I don't know about South Korea, but where I grew up in Hawaii some of my peers or their parents purposefully had kids out of wedlock to collect the additional welfare payments that single parents were eligible for, even though they otherwise were still partnered and even living together. However, with less practical need to maintain a family over the long run, parenting quality and outcomes suffered and atomization increased. A "Great Society" era benefit intended to help those caught in tragic edge cases ended up being a perverse incentive for those in the next generation who may have avoided that situation otherwise.

While doing payments for married mothers instead may have been a net-outcome better design in retrospect, there is an opposite possibility of perverse incentives for toxic families to stay intact. I don't know if marriage-agnostic UBI for parents is the best answer, though it would at least balance the currently misplaced incentives. In an ideal world it would be better to first resolve current inflated costs by making it easier and cheaper on the supply side to provide housing, healthcare, and education.
Ancestor comments think it's already pretty shit.

Google's stuff could be more shit, but also a lot less.
"If you are not currently experiencing a disaster, please remain on the line and one will be created in your immediate vicinity as soon as possible."
All of which the competitor also has to pay, on top of losing money on each customer.
People throwing around labels like "bipolar" or "schizophrenic" without factual scientific evidence of what those labels really are is the real problem in the pursuit for scientific truth.
Watch this space for news on my hip new Colorado startup which fires psilocybe spores into space in the hopes of freaking the aliens right the fuck out. Monetization strategies are still unclear but I think we've got something here.
It was native! Which makes it all the more surprising. Personally I think it had a lot of potential, but perhaps they just decided they didn’t have sufficient focus/resources to compete with Rider.
> It would be useful to know if PyTorch runs faster or slower than their methods using their sparsified matrix techniques.

Probably not an easy feat. Sparse support in pytorch is minimal.
I'm not even sure in that case...
I think Microsoft depends on what market you are looking at. As far as creating a "Microsoft" ecosystem they are doing pretty bad and seem to be trying to force it to happen for their benefit instead of it being a thing that actually gives the user something in return, like you tend to get in Apple's ecosystem.

However, if you look at Gaming Microsoft has actually done a pretty good job with this. With their "play anywhere" initiative to buy a game once and it works on Xbox and PC (ignoring that publisher support of it has been hit or miss but thats a different story). Game saves, friend list, etc all being synced between PC and Xbox.
Just as India is large and complex, so is everyone's experience. 59.5% of IIT seats are reserved for backward castes - that is HUGE in a nation full of students competing for the 40% seats available for the general category. The entrance exam score gap between reserved and general is massive (numbers are public) and it shows in their relative academic performance. One could make an argument that the Indian Government should step in earlier (early - middle school up to high school) by funding better education to reduce the academic gap between students from backward castes and the rest. The author here if anything points to the effect of poverty/poor education in one's early years as opposed to there being a systematic campaign to exclude backward castes in academia esp in the west where hardly anybody understands the caste system. I can't speak much to academia in India though.
Hard disagree (edit for clarity - on it being "just" ending a subscription service).

Presumably, the benefit of such a bundling service is that the cost of the subscription + upgrade path is more beneficial than the separate cost of the services + a carrier subsidized phone / other separate phone payment plan. Ending this so close to the 2 year mark means that you lose out on being able to do a similar phone trade-in plan. You also get stuck with a phone that potentially has a shorter EOL span (security updates) than another phone that you could have purchased. This is also not considering users who made a service choice (or switch), for example, using Google Music over Spotify. You are now 2 years into being embedded into the Google ecosystem and the switching costs are much higher (effectively a form of vendor lock-in). To me, this is a massive rug pull and actually worse than the article paints.
At my job we have

* pre-planning - 30m
* planning - 30m
* refinement - 90m
* ultra refinement - 90m
* retro - 60m

Combine that with daily standup, a once-weekly meeting to just hang out for 30m or so, check-in with manager, team meetings (meetings for everyone under a particular manager), multiple demos per week from various areas of the company (technically optional, I don't go to most of them), all-staff meetings, ad-hoc meetings with people from other areas of the company for specific work when they're a dependency or stakeholder, etc.

It's laughable.
> So the HGV is not paying anything like enough to compensate for the extra road wear.

Do your road repair money not come from fuel tax on hundreds of liters of diesel per fill?

I can see this becoming an issue for EV's but that can be fixed by taxing mileage and weight. Though the mileage part is tricky as its going to be a cat and mouse game of fraud and privacy concern.
I am not getting your point, if you were making any. Regardless of what history shows, almost everyone will agree that we must have equal opportunities for all people, for a humane society.