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North America has a caste system, though. We just don't call it that. The laws written to protect our lower castes aren't written to cover the Indian caste system, and caste discrimination is happening here. Hence, the effort to pass laws to cover it.

> Is there going to be people that now will openly admit they are low caste in an effort to be a protected class?

This is asinine. People who belong to lower castes should be protected from discrimination, whether or not they openly admit it. Do people point out that they belong to a protected class in order to fight cases of discrimination? Yes. That's why the law exists.
I feel similarly toward Patrick Rothfuss, since I absolutely love his few books and I've re-read them a few times, but it seems like there's no end to the series he created in sight still. Early into his creation he promised not to be like other fantasy authors who let their series stretch into decades, often unfinished, but after some time it became pretty evident that he had fallen into the same hole they had.

So on one hand I appreciate that creative writing is tough, and meeting the rising expectations of your fans is very difficult. But on the other hand we feel a little teased with no meaningful climax, and often you hear the creator assure you that things will be coming to a close soon, but left with nothing. That's maybe the only thing I might have to be a little angry about, but the stakes are low enough that I can't really get worked up about it without feeling pretty silly.
Difference being that discrimination by race is already illegal and therefore banning white supremacy amounts to limiting speech. Banning white supremacy would be equivalent to banning support of caste discrimination, which is different from banning caste discrimination itself.
caste has no direct analog in U.S. or European culture.

I mean, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Brahmin as one of many, many examples.
It appears that the South Asian community in California is angry that the bill would mean that caste discrimination exists, and there seems to be the implication that many in that community want to bring that aspect of their culture with them to America.

The actual bill: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
I have no personal experience with this phenomenon, but looking at it from the outside I do see one potential benefit: formalizing class distinctions in that manner must make it a lot harder to 'manufacture consent' when there's a conflict between the best interests of different classes. In Western culture there's a lot of ability to move between social classes by historical standards, and that's probably a good thing, but there are a number of downsides. The tendency to not acknowledge class differences at all can lead to a lot of doublespeak about what would benefit the least fortunate classes, and a lot of extra energy spent by the downwardly mobile wealthy to exclude lower classes in roundabout ways.

Formal divisions between social classes would make it a lot harder to confuse the less wealthy when their interests aren't aligned with the more wealthy. In India for example, my understanding is that the 'shopkeeper' class used to be quite low in the hierarchy, but with the change in global economics, an awful lot of important institutions are now being run by 'shopkeepers', who I presume would have seen those opportunities in a collective way and helped each other capitalize on them, rather than see themselves as no different from the incumbent warrior or priest classes when they arose.
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Purchasing drugs on the dark web is a perfectly fine use for crypto, but it seems to be the only use case crypto has found.
I think this article's mention of Windows NT alongside Chicago and Cairo is a bit of a timeline error. NT first released in 1993 but development started in the late 80s, well before either of those projects.

When I was working at MS it wasn't uncommon to see 1989 copyright dates in NT kernel source.
I don't believe that S3 Bucket Policies are deprecated. They are powerful, effective, and consistent with almost everything else at AWS (Resource Policy). Perhaps you are thinking of ACLs?
Sublime is not a real alternative though if you rely on VSCode's remote extensions.
This is a great takeaway from the article-- "programming languages are the better authoring model for cloud infrastructure". I was surprised by the simplicity of the "complex" terraform example the author offered, I have seen much thornier Terraform. The title, while appropriate for an article inspired by Terraform, I think misses the benefits DSLs have paricularly in LISP-derived ecosystems. A much better title for the article would definitely be "Terraform(ing) is a Waste of Time"
I might do that. I have Cherry MX Browns. I bought case foam and pcb foam for dampening. Could only install the pcb foam since it wouldn’t close with both. It didn’t make much of a difference. I do have a desk pad but I tent the keeb
> What's mentioned in the article is that as caste is a primarily SE Asian phenomenon, this is a bill that targets SE Asians. People tend not to like being singled out on the basis of their race.

That seems weak.

One should not (and legally may not) discriminate on the basis of being Indian, which is a South Asian phenomenon. One should not discriminate on the basis of having Native Hawaiian ancestry, which is a Hawaiian phenomenon. And one should not discriminate on the basis of how many of someone’s ancestors happen to have been slaves in America, which is an American phenomenon (although there are surely analogues elsewhere).

edit: SE -> South.
History is functionally infinite, history class time very finite.

I don't think analogies to the caste clarify complex race issues in the US.
Mercedes is taking legal liability for all actions of the car while it is in L3 autonomous mode, which Mercedes calls "Drive Pilot." That feels like more than a marketing gimmick, especially since no other automakers have assumed liability like this (that I know of). I am in stop-and-go traffic on the highway all the time during rush hour, it would still be beneficial to just read a book or work on my laptop while the car drives, even in that limited circumstance.
"To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim." -- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Dimitrov has had an incredible career too. They hyped him, "Baby Fed" - and maybe he didn't live up to that (one of the greatest ever), but Grigor has been as high as 3 in the world and has been in the top 30 for over a decade. Every time he's dipped he's come back in better shape and got better results. He's won a Masters 1000 and while its not a grand slam, still an incredible achievement in the big 3 era.

I got love for G, but you are right, I wish he peaked higher too. I always thought when he saw Thiem win the US Open he got motivated to try and get one himself. But now Alcaraz and a bunch of others that are just too strong. Definitely think he missed his window.
I sometimes dream of a situation where we seek status through virtuous behaviour. Unfortunately there’s no religion with sufficient authority at the moment to gather a big enough community where this would take place, at least none that I could see myself joining. And at the same time consumerism is quite aggressive when you decide to opt out of it. It becomes hard to socialize when you publicly state that most of the available work contributes to worsening the environmental conditions and earns you money that you can’t spend on something else than consumerism.
This is not an open and free CPU. It just implements the open and free RISC-V instruction set. Judging by the SiFive business model they will in the future inevitably add proprietary extensions.
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The new law that is being passed will not solve your personal issues with socializing. The law is designed to protect you from unfair discrimination by your employer, i.e. being fired due to your caste.
I get that argument but have no sympathy for it whatsoever
Impossible to prove tho. You can always just claim you don't like the person for other reasons. That's why this whole 'banning caste' stuff is mostly performative imo. People will just be hostile to each other but not be open with the reason.
Currently, none. ISA-L might use some, I'm not sure. I have also tried to accelerate some crucial algorithms with SIMD and my trial and errors are still inside the src/benchmarks subfolder. But, in all of those cases, a simple std::string_view::find, std::transform, or lookup tables turned out to be equally fast or faster and, of course, is more portable. Even the CRC32 algorithm uses "simple" lookup tables (slice-by-16) and avoids any SIMD while still achieving ~4.5 GB/s per core. However, there is some Intel Whitepaper [0] showing how to use PCLMULQDQ for CRC32, which might not be much faster but it would reduce cache pressure. AVX-512 even has a VPCLMULQDQ.

[0] https://www.intel.com/content/dam/develop/external/us/en/doc...
This company is an ISP, was a telephone company once upon a time, and has a lot of underlying business systems that it takes to run it. My team writes the vendor integrations and custom software you can't buy off a shelf unique to this particular company.

A good chunk of our world is Microsoft .NET, so we have legacy C# applications lying around. Several years ago we wrote some new systems in Haskell and really enjoyed the FP experience but not the ecosystem. F# moves us closer to the business world while maintaining the FP experience we enjoy.
In the US you can ride along at almost any fire department or private EMS company for a 12 hour day shift. They won't let you ride over night, but you can come back for multiple ride-alongs.

If you're more interested in the fire side, you can get on an engine. You'll respond to structure fires, car accidents, lightning strikes, and all sorts of well-being checks for people who just need help getting up off the floor.

If you're interested in medical stuff, you can get on an ambulance. You'll run 911 calls and get some real exposure to the human condition. It's a great way to learn about pre-hospital and emergency department care. It's also a great way to get a reality check on how the US healthcare system works, and how it helps or hinders the people who need care the most.

In many parts of the country fire and EMS are part of the same service and system, so you'll get exposure to a little bit of everything. I'd highly recommend fire and EMS as an alternative career path for anyone who is looking for something different, other than tech.
Well, to be fair, he has broken multiple promises (for the release date of WindsOfWinter alone). I don't hate him for it, but he's not trustworthy in that I doubt he has any idea when any book will be released and should know better than to opine since he's been wrong so many times before. Of course fans beg him for comments so... whatever.
Does it?

I couldn't find details in the article (I just skimmed it though), but what if a non-Indian with almost no understanding of the caste system wakes up and decides they want to take their bigotry to the next level and starts discriminating based on caste just for the hell of it? Wouldn't they still be guilty under this law?
Agreed. Shame on the editor
I think the main point being made is that 'closest' doesn't necessarily imply 'close'; that the closest living relative is still reasonably distant.
I mean, it could also be beheadings, revenge porn, doxxing, etc. Lots of clear-cut violations that are more serious than illegally streamed soccer matches.

But the true answer is probably "all of the above".
As opposed to fine-tuning or in-context learning. It really is normal training.
For sure, which to me says that the targeting issue wasn't actually the real problem, which of course it wasn't.

Discrimination based on ancestry shouldn't be allowed regardless of whether it's on a short timeframe (caste) or a long timeframe (race).

What we're seeing now is what happens when people in positions of nonzero power who are used to getting to discriminate, are told not to. We saw the same thing in the American south when people were told they had to stop discriminating against people of African ancestry.
Also the vast array of managed services. Managed databases, message queues, infinite storage, data warehouses, caches , etc etc. Many of which are very complicated to host well yourself and operationize (failovers, monitoring , backups etc)

This idea that you can build a DC that competes on cost for rented cloud compute - it might be technically true but it’s mostly missing the point of why modern shops prefer the cloud.
It takes some truly impressive mental gymnastics to go from “pretty much every executive team of every major tech company is dominated by people from the Indian subcontinent” to “we are being culturally oppressed.”
ARM seems to be half-way moving in this direction. They allowed "royalty free" licenses to educational institutions for some of their low end M0/3/4 cores. But yeah, I think you're right. The cool thing about RISC-V is you can just pick up the ISA and run with it. I'm pretty sure the Rocket core generator is released under a BSD license. SiFive sort of makes sense if you want to integrate proprietary IP with open IP, and some people do actually want to do that. I don't know if there's enough demand for that, though.

But yeah. Even though we have compilers, it's not like you can spin up support for a new ISA in the drop of a hat. If you launched a project with a StarFive part and then decided you wanted to use SiFive IP, you should be able to use the same tooling. The impact of that shouldn't be under-estimated.
https://archive.ph/VPcRo
You could absolutely accuse or convict a non-Indian of caste discrimination. It might be unlikely, but not impossible. For example, I doubt most non-Indian Americans could competently discriminate on the basis of caste, but there is moderately compelling evidence that quite a few Californian companies do so.
To me, it seems that they are very closely related.
Your concerns are absolutely valid. Without casting any judgement on this project, the process of taking, modifying, and redistributing is hard to do in a trustworthy way. Big companies go to extreme lengths to ensure a chain of trust of the software they build, and app distribution platforms[^1] go to extreme lengths to ensure a full chain of trust end-to-end[^2] from developer to apps running on users devices.

There's basically no way to do this without trusting the redistributor in addition to the original publisher, but some things can reduce the amount of trust. Having a verifiable build process, that checks signing keys and hashes, that re-signs, etc, that all helps. If end-users can theoretically produce exactly the same build themselves it's easier to trust it.

The best option however is for the source project to produce unbranded builds themselves, and potentially for a project like VSCodium to become "config only" for things like disabling telemetry, and therefore not requiring re-signing. The Chromium project distributes its own Chromium binaries which lack the Google-specific stuff for example.

[^1]: Mostly thinking of app stores, but the same is basically true of things like Debian package repositories.

[^2]: App stores typically re-sign in the middle, so you do have to trust the store, but see (1), these companies go to great lengths to ensure trustworthiness there.
AI booster Paul Graham complains of rise in web content that's 'AI SEO bait'
Most cuisine-based cookbooks have a bunch of chapters on ingredients, technique, equipment, and storage that easily get overlooked. Since it's difficult to share those things in a recipe format (but often come up in videos of preparation) I'm not surprised most people are finding them on YouTube.

I find cookbooks completely ignore is "kitchen management"--preparing a meal with entree and sides being cooked concurrently so they come to the table at the same time or reusing leftovers into new meals and meal prep. Thankfully, there's a bit of this on YouTube (mostly meal prep).

Like you mentioned knife skills are a giant ignored thing. I'm a huge proponent of sharpening your knifes (because odds are they've never done it) and taking a knife skills class. It pays dividends almost every time you cook, cuts prep time at least in half, and reduces frustration and friction to cooking.
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The title is misleading This model is not "SOTA for the size", there are smaller models that do 10-18% better in absolute score. The text says it's SOTA "among similar models" where they probably compare with other models with permissive licensing.
Nintendo has never installed root kits on customer computers without informing or gaining consent at least.
Imagine migrating to one of the more open nation-states and bringing your backward-ass practice there.

Even in this very thread there are people going "But maybe it's nuanced!" No. It's not. Imagine thinking that someone having to flick water at you to purify you just because you got touched by an untouchable is a nuanced issue and not blatant idiocy.

(Before any of you start Reeeing, I'm Indian).
that’s mentally negligent.

the only people that have to identify problems and solutions are founders that are grifting for capital or customers. and that’s sad.

the rest of rational actors can see a false dilemmas from afar without knowing what the third and fourth and fifth possibilities are.

in this case its pretty obvious that “privacy for hosts, or not via FAANG Oauth and an unaccountable change in the terms of service to further distance from privacy” is a false dilemma while also not preventing anonymous CSAM rooms on their service.
I got a lot of great responses with tips to this. Thanks everyone! Will definitely check them out!
Interesting, thanks for the link! I had a vague sense that Central / South America had a more complicated understanding of race than the white/black dichotomy, and this is helpful.

I think that Americans are very familiar with systematic discrimination based on race or skin color. The distinction that I think confuses people not from SE Asia is that caste discrimination is between different classes of people who appear to be the same race and ethnicity from the outside.

Perhaps discrimination against Irish and Italian immigrants would be analogous, though that faded so long ago that even my Irish NY grandparents knew that it happened but just kinda thought it was funny.
I dont trust any benchmarks for any LLM thats not coming from FB, Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, or Microsoft. These models are so dynamic, the simple benchmark numbers never tell the whole story of the quality of the model. Take for instance, a recent posting by anyscale, claiming their fine tuning of Llama 2 was competitive with OpenAI's model. The reality being their fined tuned model is basically worthless, and was competitive along a single metric/very narrow commoditized task. Its a great way to get clicks by posting these metrics though
It's both. I'd also done the same with multis but kept a "casuals" multi for the defaults + populars, and it had been declining in quality for a while - but it genuinely fell off a sharp cliff with the Great Purge, even my multireddits now feel like the frontpage. Cacophonous shallow dreck.
You don't, unless you build it yourself.

That's the key value of open-source projects. You don't have to release a binary, just source code and a build guide. It's also one of the reasons why I have such high respect for OS distributions like BSDs and Slackware. They give you a good base that you can build upon if you know what you're doing.

The problem is, many PC users don't really know what they're doing.
‘California Forever’ website touts the city tech billionaires trying to build
>A vague website attempts to justify building a new city near San Francisco with pretty pictures and promises of a better life.

Edit: the website itself:

https://californiaforever.com/
A tiny fish is reintroduced to the river where it disappeared 50 years ago
Half of it came during my academic phase though!
Yeah, I understood that argument. I don't want people who I feel contempt for to have any human rights, was a pretty obvious argument against it. But I didn't think I needed to specify that I was only interested in arguments against it that are both sane and ethical.

I don't want to give up my monopoly on power and privilege is what I was assuming it was. I was asking if there's some other aspect or argument that I'm missing that's not a toxic bigoted fallacy?
It sounds like a really bad idea for a Stage IV cancer patient to fast. In later stages they frequently already have substantial weight loss... and in the last few weeks, people actually stop eating entirely as the body starts to shutdown. Death usually occurs when the weight loss reaches 30-40%.

Encouraging them to stop eating seems like it would just accelerate death.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5114624/
Yes DSLs have been a terrible failure in the infrastructure space. But that's just because DSLs are suited to a class of problem where the language of the domain is well-defined and changes infrequently. What we've seen with devops is an ecosystem that changes even more rapidly than frontend software development (in other words, a brakeneck pace). DSLs are great in any area where you want to allow less-technical or untechnical users generate some simple rules. So think finance teams using Microsoft Excel, or video game story writers using in-house DSLs to define game events.
Maybe caste discrimination in the US is primarily a SE-Asian phenomenon, but there's plenty examples of caste systems in African nations as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste_systems_in_Africa?useski...
This is a nice reminder of the importance of having your software be a "user-agent"!
It would have been nice to think that we could have improved since the dawn of history. Or at least not actively do it to ourselves.
This person thinks this is a good use of their time.

Why do we care what you think? You clearly don't care what person putting in the hard work thinks.
> In any way that violates any applicable national, federal, state, local or international law or regulation;

Darn! Foiled again! I was planning on breaking some federal laws, but the license says that I can't ;( \s

Open-RAIL license has the be the worst license in existence claiming to be "open".

> You shall undertake reasonable efforts to use the latest version of the Model.

Plea to folks releasing models: Please stop using this user-hostile and deranged license
Becuase the repo uses github actions to pull changes and build the binary

https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/blob/master/.github/wor...
I'd be interested to know more about this
> It must be an absolutely horrible of a mix in the US for this to be 8:10.

The US is quite large so this is a YMMV thing. I solve this issue by just not associating very much with my ex-countrymen. I get enough of them when I go to visit my parents, I don't need to constantly mingle with more Indians. I have a solid set of diverse friends (one or two are Indian).

It helps that in my workplace I tend not to think of anyone as a 'friend' and just keep my interactions professional.