skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't tiptoe around the topic. By class you mean caste. As a white guy who has worked in tech for 25+ years and has made many Indian friends, I continue to be astounded by how fixated many (obviously not all) of them are on caste. In particular, how much time and effort gets spent trying to suss out each others' caste by asking questions like you noted. Every time we get a new Indian team member and the existing ones start asking him where his parents are from and I see him start to uncomfortably evade answering while all of the other non_Indians in the room have no idea what is happening, it starts to make ME feel uncomfortable.
The DMCA is American law, so the parent comment can only be referring to America. Obviously doesn't apply outside there.

> I don't think any Linux distros have faced legal trouble over distributing VLC, even if they are American in nature.

That's because they generally don't distribute libdvdcss, which is the illegal part.

> Many Linux distributions do not contain libdvdcss (for example, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and openSUSE) due to fears of running afoul of DMCA-style laws, but they often provide the tools to let the user install it themselves. For example, it used to be available in Ubuntu through Medibuntu, which is no longer available.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libdvdcss#Distribution
I am not really on board with this study's interpretation of common sense - it seems to measure how close the things that I think are to the average. Which is a very literal take on 'common' sense. Considering the tests have a ton of questions about spirituality, and advanced technologies, for me the exercise devolved into trying to guess what others would think of it (which turned out to be the point after all).

And the author's person seems really concerning. She is someone, who, by her own admission struggles with grade school math such as fractions, yet proclaims her intellectual superiority over people who think 'obviously' silly things, like Ivermectin curing covid.

The idea of horse medicine curing Covid makes about as much sense as heart medicine helping with erections.

Although, somewhat amusingly, she seems to score below average on the common sense test.

The very cynical take of journalists being both substandard critical thinkers, and unwilling consider alternative viewpoints seems to be true in this case.
This is called freedom
First Obama got the Peace Prize Nobel, now Demis Hassabis gets the Chemistry Nobel. I expect at a minimum the Nobel Prize in Literature to be Donald E. Knuth.
We are suffering from some kind of crisis of measurable competency across the board. The appearance of contributing to achieving something is more important than actually achieving it. It may be related to the preceding extremely long ZIRP period.
I mean he took the risk and founded DeepMind?
> Like it or not, it is the dominant culture especially in professional environments.

At least sometimes it's not, which is why the OP feels so excluded and is asking for tips on how to navigate the clearly unfamiliar feeling of not being able to just "fit in" as part of the dominant culture.

The reality is that the US is a melting pot with a lot of subcultures, and you should learn to navigate those subcultures instead of demanding that they conform to some mythical default.

Maybe next time the OP should show some curiosity about what their coworkers are joking about, and shyly ask for a seat at the table. I have done it plenty of times.
the marco civil da internet has provisions to take illegal content published in sites or social media via court order..
When Margaret Hamilton developed the Apollo guidance systems, she ran three teams which all wrote completely independent guidance systems. She then wrote herself a program to arbitrate between them when they disagreed.
Here's 8 densely printed pages of contributors to a discovery that lead to a Nobel prize:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1207.7214#page=26

Guess how many of them were included in the prize. It's a shame that the Nobel committee shies away from awarding it to institutions, but the AlphaFold prize doesn't even make the top 10 in a list of most controversial omissions from a Nobel prize. It's a simple case of lab director gets the most credit.
Alpha* is not LLM-based, it's Q-learning based
The paper represents the work which lead to the prize.

if A=B and A=C, then A=C
>That’s not their job. Their job is to sell stuff (or make it more likely to be bought anyway).

Huh? What are you talking about? Marketing is the job of Marketers, which in most companies (certainly small to mid companies) includes the content on the marketing web-page.

>You’d think that at some level the ‘faster websites sell more’ speech gets through to them

The technical aspect of how a web-site works, or how it is deployed or how quickly it is rendered, is NOT their job. Optimizing render speed of a given web-page is not part of their skillset - nor should it be. There are folks who specialize in that, typically software engineers. It is also not reasonable to expect marketing folks to create html/css/javascript and deploy via git. You really do want those folks to be independent and create the necessary content without needing an engineer anytime they want to add a new sub-section or fix a spelling mistake.

One "problem" is that most small/mid size businesses are not willing to hire technical folks or use engineering resources to do the technical part of this work. Another problem is that there should not be a tension between ease-of-use by editor and page rendering speed. Maybe WP is a bad product, and if so, what is the alternative that covers both use cases?
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Haha, wrote the exact same.
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I've been looking into Stride[0] for a bit and it seems to meet most of your requirements. I'm not sure at all about embedded support but it does seem to treat Linux as a first class citizen for once.

the main up/downside is that it's a C# engine. So it won't necessarily be as hyper-optimal as c++ without some discipline on what parts of the language you use (hint: avoid LINQ at all costs in the hot loop, and look at the newer ways in C# on how to utilize unmanaged collections).

0: https://www.stride3d.net/
It's mac-only with seemingly no plans to port it to other platforms, so not really a viable alternative.
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It may feel satisfying, but it risks escalating tensions and fostering more division rather than solving the core issue.
Combine this with the Physics prize, I now have hope to receive a Nobel prize in any area.
Seriously, from now on, I won't mention Nobel prizes anywhere anymore.
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>> non-Hispanic white Americans are not native to the US

Then to where is it native? Don't deny a culture its existence just because it isn't the first culture to arise within a particular area. Example: Mormon culture and religion is "native" the US despite certainly not being the first culture in the area.
Have you been on the receiving end of DEI? The same way a minority has been on the receiving end of racism?

We can all wax lyrical and paint pretty pictures about the noble goals of DEI. But till we get an equal and fair world, the ugly picture is that DEI starts by dividing the pie into smaller parts, and taking from one to give to another, instead of making the pie bigger for everyone.

And if history is anything to go by, most "DEI"-like efforts never ever reach that end-goal. They perpetuate indefinitely until they create yet another oppressed or previously-disadvantaged class, and the cycle will just repeat.
Sometimes gatekeeping is necessary. None of the AI driven "make a game with a prompt" projects I've seen posted here (which would be the AI equivalent of a "game engine") have been capable of making a game worth playing, despite technically being "games", so I'll have to disagree with you on at least that point for now.
Both Rosetta and DeepMind have made contributions outside of protein structure prediction that are far more important for drug discovery.
> Non-Hispanic white Americans are not native to the US,

Weird exclusion; Hispanic white Americans aren't native to the US either; their ancestors came from Spain.
>Somebody has to pay the compute bill and ads are mechanism to get some €€ back.

From the parent comment:
"If you don't like that, then don't send people free web pages when they make HTTP requests. Make your web server return 402 Payment Required instead"
Article 4 from the constitution talk about international relations.. not sure how that would apply here..
How is this discrimination manifested? How do these managers know your country of origin?
Where is the part, where this is "careful"? This is just how scopes work. I don't see what is special about the inner functions using things in the scope of the outer functions.
I'm not sure what your point is. "You can't talk about your problem because I have a problem as well" seems to be all you're saying.

A better question would be how to prevent people from excluding each other based on group membership.
thank you so much for your feedback - will work on the UI!
And further down: ” Contributions

J.J. and D.H. led the research. J.J., R.E., A. Pritzel, M.F., O.R., R.B., A. Potapenko, S.A.A.K., B.R.-P., J.A., M.P., T. Berghammer and O.V. developed the neural network architecture and training. T.G., A.Ž., K.T., R.B., A.B., R.E., A.J.B., A.C., S.N., R.J., D.R., M.Z. and S.B. developed the data, analytics and inference systems. D.H., K.K., P.K., C.M. and E.C. managed the research. T.G. led the technical platform. P.K., A.W.S., K.K., O.V., D.S., S.P. and T. Back contributed technical advice and ideas. M.S. created the BFD genomics database and provided technical assistance on HHBlits. D.H., R.E., A.W.S. and K.K. conceived the AlphaFold project. J.J., R.E. and A.W.S. conceived the end-to-end approach. J.J., A. Pritzel, O.R., A. Potapenko, R.E., M.F., T.G., K.T., C.M. and D.H. wrote the paper.”
How come the Mormon, Republican state of Utah is so queer? Essays
Electron apps are probably responsible for multiple Gigawatt-hours of wasted energy annually.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Nine#Primordial_black_h...

Personally, I'm not very optimistic.

Regarding the primordial black hole:
"Konstantin Batygin commented on this, saying while it is possible for Planet Nine to be a primordial black hole, there is currently not enough evidence to make this idea more plausible than any other alternative."

Regarding planet 9 in general:
"Further skepticism about the Planet Nine hypothesis arose in 2020, based on results from the Outer Solar System Origins Survey and the Dark Energy Survey, with the OSSOS documenting over 800 trans-Neptunian objects and the DES discovering 316 new ones.[94] Both surveys adjusted for observational bias and concluded that of the objects observed there was no evidence for clustering.[95] The authors go further to explain that practically all objects' orbits can be explained by physical phenomena rather than a ninth planet as proposed by Brown and Batygin.[96] An author of one of the studies, Samantha Lawler, said the hypothesis of Planet Nine proposed by Brown and Batygin "does not hold up to detailed observations" pointing out the much larger sample size of 800 objects compared to the much smaller 14 and that conclusive studies based on said objects were "premature". She went further to explain the phenomenon of these extreme orbits could be due to gravitational occultation from Neptune when it migrated outwards earlier in the Solar System's history.[97]"
You could perhaps assume idealism in 2020. Four years later it is clear that DEI is used as a wedge to displace those you do not like and replace them with unskilled believers.
thank you so much for your support!
> if A=B and A=C, then A=C

Technically true, but you might still want to double check your logic.
Can't tiptoe around words I don't know :P I did say 'casual observer'! Thank you for sharing, reading to do. Seems related to my frustrations as a low-born but now well-made American.

edit: I say 'seems' here lightly; a system is conveniently reinforced by depriving participants words and the ability (or even desire) to identify. Time and time again the gut feeling is a well-established thing.
To play the monster's advocate: There could be a hypothetical version of advertising that benefits society, the companies and the customers simultaneously. A sort of match-making between people having problems/searching for something and the solutions to them that are cost-efficient and in their interest. The thing that people do casually when someone mentions a problem/wanting a book or whatever and someone else recommending a solution, but more professional in that it also helps them picking somewhere between the cheapest and luxury options that they'll want.

But even if such a thing existed (independent product review agencies are the closest I guess) and they reaped a significant fraction of the gains from trade there'd still be the question how those gains would then end up funding other free content.
I don't know how they do it in the US, but in the UK it works like this:

* Rent a house near the office that the contract is in. Transport costs are zero because staff can walk to the office.

* Put 5-8 people in the house. So rent is 1/5th of what it would be for the locals

* Arrange communal food where someone cooks a meal for everyone, so food costs are significantly reduced.

* House is fully furnished. Including everything in the kitchen, TVs, etc. So there is no need to go and buy 'stuff'.

* It gets a bit exploitative, but heating costs can also be drastically (and uncomfortably) reduced.

Given the right assistance (housing, food, etc) and being prepared to have a miserable time (not going out, no travel to big cities, no weekend breaks, bland food, crowded living) it is possible to live frugally. This gives significant local competitiveness while being able to save in a home currency.
What do you think the difference is between those?
> Remind me to never fly on a plane piloted by an Indian flight crew.

(Protip: If you can't stand up to your captain, your plane is going down.)

Not sure if you're joking, but this is actually cited as one of the reasons behind one crash.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_India_Express_Flight_134...
> Motivating Workers to Exert Effort (in the NBER wp)

Squad Leader (Avalon Hill) is the only game, board or otherwise, I've run across where "motivating [grunts] to exert effort" is an explicit part of the gameplay. Are there any others?

EDIT: also, I think whoever tested the teenaged Winston Smith and put him in the Outer Party did well: his adult allocation of confidants to revolutionary cells does not reflect well, neither on his CFIT, nor on his AG.
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Why NextJS? I'm genuinely curious? Would it not be better if the output was backend agnostic?
Nobel peace prize has countless times been awarded to a group of people or institution. It is differently controlled but the idea is not unprecedented.
Alas, this can be reconfigured without anyone noticing, assuming compromise on both sides.

A diode / photosensor can't.
For what tasks is this better than the longstanding TheyWorkForYou [1]?

> every publicly accessible document, audio recording or transcript we could get our hands on

It doesn't seem like it. If I search for something e.g. "small boats" without quotes, I get no results for Parliament Wow [2], but 4000 from TheyWorkForYou [3]. If I add quotes, I get 4 matching "past sessions" on Parliament Wow [4], with no indication of which part of them is relevant to my query; TheyWorkForYou gives 2000 results [5].

[1]: https://www.theyworkforyou.com/

[2]: https://parliament-wow.threepointone.workers.dev/?search=sma...

[3]: https://www.theyworkforyou.com/search/?q=small+boats

[4]: https://parliament-wow.threepointone.workers.dev/?search=%22...

[5]: https://www.theyworkforyou.com/search/?q=%22small+boats%22
These hurdles only exist for the 0.0001% of people who deliberately hampered their own web experience in an attempt to reduce ads or tracking.
Wait, isn't that just Doublethink from 1984? Holding two opposing thoughts is a sign that your mental model of the world is wrong and that it needs to be fixed. Where have you heard that maxim?
As Jerry says, with fruit the consumer takes the risk.

I say, if you are buying bad fruit it is time to move on to a new grocer (and not a supermarket).
> It's crazy that we ended up with this powering most of the web.

What's crazy is your wilful ignorance of _why_ WP is so popular. One important reason is that it allows writers to avoid people like you, who hold them in disdain without even the slightest attempt to understand their needs.
With respect, it can be hard to see the nuance in this if you're from the US (a country that is so racist even the government openly practices it, but sanctimonious enough to pretend it is instead free).
How is it any good for eBay? They lost someone who made a lot of money for them.

These crazy human hostile implementations of various regulations are a net loss for big businesses.

eBay is doing what nowadays all big fucking corps do, shit on UX and gut punch actual users in the name of compliance.

You got a few hundred dollars from your friend on your Venmo/Revolut/Wise/whatever app and our AML/KYC/CYA/compliance department flagged it? Okay, instantly block your account, tell the users nothing, and demand that they submit paperwork proving who they are, where's the money from, what's the purpose of the transfer, etc... in the most fucked up adversarial byzantine way possible.

The problem is that there's no sane way for these companies to do the good cop / bad cop transition. This is a pure chilling effect on this kind of economic activity.

Banks and these money middlemen ought to be our agents (broker! mediator!) instead they are turned into paranoid bureaucrats resembling the idiots at the NRC (NRC is the nuclear regulatory commission, where the prevailing doctrine is to get risks as low as possible - ALARA, which led to nuclear energy priced out of the fucking market).
I've often heard this claim touted - that people hired via DEI initiatives are incompetent or cannot do their job - do you have any statistics showing it? It always sounded to me like an "obvious conclusion" that was never proven, just assumed to be true, but I'm interested to see how the numbers play out, if any exist.
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The dominant culture of Google and Microsoft when they were founded was [...]. Now they have Indian CEOs and companies like Cognizant bring in H1B visas from India.

There is nothing organic about that.

Personally I have no experience with Indian co-workers, but I do know that Black and Hispanic people do not exclude whites at all. I have only great experiences with them.
Nobel committee is all in on the AI hype this year!
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Thats a typical western mentality. If you do it then it is a problem but if I do the same thing it is somehow justifiable!
That's a phd dissertation with hundreds of pages, wrong link maybe?
No relation to neuroscience whatsoever.
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> It's expected that an NVL72 GB200 machine with 72 B200 graphics processor will consume and dissipate around 120 kW of power

If we're doubling the amount of power used for AI every couple of years, we're soon going to run out of nuclear plants to run them. Perhaps the doubling will be called Altman's law, or the Altman Huang law.
Sounds like a huge opportunity for improvements.

A simple approach would identify basic blocks in the code and translate them to an IR for an optimizing compiler back-end like LLVM.

Of course, you have to be careful with self-modifying code.
I was thinking of doing something similar. But I was thinking of starting on a virtual machine or shell account before trying to install on real hardware. I don't know much about OpenBSD but my guess is that finding a laptop that runs OpenBSD flawlessly is not easy. So odds are you're going to be spending a lot of time troubleshooting and debugging. If that's ok with you, then that's great.

ThinkPads might be your best bet.
Someone here has cataloged their experience with OpenBSD on laptops:
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>Non-Hispanic white Americans are not native to the US...

The word Hispanic comes from Hispania meaning "Iberian Peninsula", which, I have news for you, is in Europe. They are hardly native to the USA either.
He is a chemist now.
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It is well known around here that Baker does very, very little of the work. He is extremely good at putting his name on his students' work though (this is par for the course in academia)... and removing theirs (this is the bad part). At least he bribes them with lots of happy hours!
> Nevermind that "race" as a concept did not exist in the modern sense in Western cultures prior to colonization despite the exposure to other peoples with other skin tones from other parts of the world.

https://x.com/MohabMo5102/status/1494070281731809281?mx=2

Also someone please tell me why were harems in Mamlukian and Ottoman courts largely filled with Slavic and Circassian men and women?
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Supermarkets also use ethylene to ripen many fruits (such as bananas) just before they put it out. It is so they can be picked green (unripe) to ship.
then.. what, someone learned punching? from what's in that book? The text punched matches exactly..

Or is that some secret "code" to open gates of XYZ?

p.s. it is a rabbit hole :)
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An Indian person can spot a Pakistani (and vice versa) easily. There’s a good bit of historical enmity between the two nations.