skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Language is expression and offense is subjective. Forcing people to change their language is bordering on totalitarian control and is usually followed by compounding changes and eventually physical force. This is a single software project but it's the same when scaled up to an entire state.

There are a million terms that have negative connotations but are used in technical jargon. It would be endless to account for them all in case someone somewhere finds it disagreeable.

It's much more logical to ask why 0.1% of people are taking offense and seem to draw such stretched interpretations rather than asking 99.9% of people to change for them.
Enjoy another four years of Trump - that's what all these public purity tests and struggle sessions are bringing you towards. Unless you finally manage to get rid of private elections, that is. At this point, it wouldn't surprise me.
Hi all! The maker (if you can call me that for this simple URL reformatter tool) of Click to Retweet.

I came up with this quick online tool since I kept formatting the URL format / structure for Twitter's Retweet URL.

I've been working on a lot of projects and having the ability for someone to "click to retweet" has simplified my ability to add tweet amplification to launches.

(and yes, I know the name is really close to another brand but I needed something straightforward that I could remember)
From the article:

> Amazon similarly sued Philip Moyer, a former Amazon Web Services sales executive, after he took a job with Google Cloud last year. A judge ultimately agreed to limit some aspects of Moyer’s role at Google for the term of the agreement.

IIRC they've also won others in the past, yes.

I also imagine it's not just about actually winning but also about the fact that even if they lose every suit, it would still discourage employees from making the switch if they suspect they will have a legal fight ahead of them (even if the employee knows they'll win).
deny has 4 letters, while allow and block have 5. Having the same number of letters for the variable component(s) of a set of interface names is quite convenient.
It is really easy to deal with moisture retention, weeds, and pests. Check out back to Eden and companion planting. It works.

I'm an experienced hydroponic grower and outdoor gardener that had given up for the same reasons. Hydroponics is an excessive amount of labor though it yeilds well and is good indoors.

Back to Eden was a revelation (more like Duh!!) for me and outdoor gardening has been much easier and much more profitable.
Yes I’m familiar. The inability to replicate findings. With faulty data, tests, experiments I’m especially skeptical of most of the BS posted on blogs. Excuse me for not trusting “all the statistics”
It's the transcription, I think this kind of site should allow you to fall back to listening to the audio. Even with high accuracy, if there's no human curation, there will be pretty awkward mistakes every once in a while in the text.
I have also seen people going to local farms to pick their own fruits and vegetables. This is because of the lack of workers who were not allowed to travel during the harvest season because of border restrictions in Germany. Not sure if that's good for the workers in the long run.
I agree, Apple is not an advertising company, and free search engines business model seems to be ad related
For python 2/3, it was because the BDFL made a wrong call. But we are past that now, and we collectively learnt something from the debacle, including the BDFL himself:

> As for "Machiavellian Python maintainers", that's real. There have been explicit attempts to apply pain to Python 2.7 users. This has decreased since von Rossum got stuck maintaining Python 2.7 code at Dropbox as his day job.

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13020680)

For java 8/9, it was because Brian Goetz still has a boss. We can just compare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y5Pv4yN0b0 to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHoRBvt3U6o. Hopefully some lessons were learnt as well.
There is a chance that some people with a history worth sharing might not be, and never be, in a position to talk.

I personally think that non-compete agreements are a strange beast. On one side, you want to avoid people "switching sides" and bring important secrets with them, possibly the reason why they've been hired by a competitor.

On the other side, you want a competitive job market, so that people would get the salary they deserve and the position they deserve.
Uncle Bob used to blame it on the doubling of developer counts every 5 years. Which means half of us have less than 5 years experience. Which makes democratic decisions a little awkward.
And you post this without and hint of irony that Liberals were the ones calling dismantling the second amendment “common sense gun control” and continually classifying more and more regular speech as “hate speech”.

Words have implications - but it’s not just one side that manipulates them. Everyone does.

I actually agree though, master/slave is worth moving away from. We can care about small things without losing track of the big ones.
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Which is why I'm highly disagreeing with the concept that such drugs should be widely or anywhere near universally taken. You'll likely have a significant subset of people who shouldn't be taking this medication, either due to being related to someone with a psychotic or dissociative disorder, or having one themselves. I also worry about people whose existing schizotypal traits are within normal bounds but may be exaggerated by psychedelics to a negative outcome.
As a mere suggestion, Vitaly Vitaliev writes beautifully in English.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitali_Vitaliev

I'd recommend "Borders Up," ostensibly about drinking culture around the world. Good fun, but rather more than that somehow.
Its intellectually hazardous to anthropomorphize chaos, like ascribing a purpose to evolution.
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You start by thinking: "I feel as if I'm being honest and my intentions are pure, so for the sake of being able to continue doing this, I need to believe that the vast majority are also honest with pure intentions, but I do recognize just how messed up it is and how very easy it would be to abuse."

Then you pick numbers that justify your position.

Then you get your friends to vouch for your numbers that they helped you come to even though they can't admit that because then they can't independently vouch for them.
That's what those little diagonal lines in the corner are indicating.
Current U.S./Europe academia seems unable to change from within. It lives on government money which it itself controls and distributes to those who "play ball" - the others are pushed away. The only way a change can happen here if academia-independent people control and distribute money to individuals who showed talent/potential/results in the past. It will take massive outside interference to fix or supplant the corrupt system.
Ah! How silly!

Then I apologize; by the time I came by, the title was complete, and the comment sounded exactly like someone who expects Yellowstone is ready to erupt tomorrow.
I honestly think treating every company except R&D or startups like this makes sense. I've been playing firefighter at F&I orgs who've stood up k8s recently, and it's insane the amount of debt they've taken on in such a small amount of time. The infra spend is magnitudes greater than it would be if they had physical boxes, because getting approval for physical boxes is hard. But for some reason budget on AWS, GCP or Azure is easy.
The source repo to feeds.talonvoice.com includes a test ingestor that scrapes your calls API and uploads the src/dst info with the transcription, I haven't tested it live though.
I tell everyone that The Core is the science community's most derided movie, and yet it is in fact an excellent science movie for an important reason, which is simply that it puts science and scientists on a world-saving pedestal. The fact that just about everything that is in the film is in fact unscientific doesn't detract for a moment for the deep implicit respect for the value of science to humanity that the film promotes. This script would likely never have been given the kind of budget it got when it was made and so we need to count ourselves lucky that something so entertaining also offers so much to those looking for a scientific stick with which to beat the Hollywood studio system.
I doubt google would do the same with a pro-life ad, if you have seen any reply to me with the link please
I created a series to help me learn about systems. I didn't tell anyone I knew I was working on this and just posted on HN (thanks for the support!) that first year. I put a paid option that I hid on a secondary page. Revenue is very small (in the hundreds) but soon I'll focus on building it into a business. Now that I talk about it with people, around 90% have encouraged me to monetize, but I am figuring out how.
https://unintendedconsequenc.es/
You have to remember how academia works both in terms of jobs and funding. His funding depended on his advisor. His future job prospects in academia and to a large extent outside of academia depended on his advisor. Because of this extreme multi-year power imbalance, and near indentured servitude at the hands of most advisors who are borderline abusive to students, senior authors control the publication process. It's true that any author could have stopped publication in theory.. but that doesn't mean anything.
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Dummest thing I've ever heard.
There are animal rights advocates offended by usage of the terms master and owner when referring to an animal's guardian--their preferred term.
Yahoo isn't a search engine and hasn't been for years. Just check the "Powered by Bing™" at the bottom of every search result. That leaves just two search engines, Google and Bing. Not counting non-US search engines that may have significant market share in their respective countries.
"why would it make sense for browsers to prioritize MIDI above all else?"

Who said above all else? That's pretty black and white. You could make the same argument if Firefox didn't support, say, microphone or camera. If you don't happen to use them (say, you don't use video chat as many didn't prior to 2020), you could ask why they are so important.

It's just one thing that Chromium does (and has done for year), that Firefox doesn't.

>And I highly doubt your six year old would refuse to use native apps, given the chance.

Which native app? The one she uses only works in a browser, and wouldn't work natively because it uses other things a native app can't use (such as YouTube interaction/synchronization). Also the graphics are far superior to anything I've seen not done in a browser, because it taps into other things that would be immensely difficult if the browser didn't make them available at a pretty high level.

https://youtu.be/64PkqQuE9h8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV6rdmdZnkA

And that app works on her Chromebook, as well as on my Windows and Mac machines.

I get that you like Firefox, but I don't see "you can just do that with a native app" as a great advertisement for it.
No it’s not. No reason to buy duck duck go if you’re not going to use the name. If they want Apple branded Bing search they could just work something out with Microsoft directly.
When there are only 3 companies that compete in a given space, how can job hopping not possibly violate a non-compete? Tech companies should stop using non-competes. Trade secret laws already cover the theft of IP and it just makes the rank-and-file support breaking up big companies.
Reebok cuts ties with CrossFit after CEO's tweets about George Floyd
I wonder if such a project could be funded by companies that use similar stacks. Like Kickstarter, with stretch goals to add tooling that is less important like CI/CD.
Slightly off topic, but a few years back there was a group that gained access to PRNewswire’s servers and was able to read announcements of earnings, mergers, etc earlier than the public. PRNewswire had a scheduled announcement function that allowed precomposed announcements to be made public at a specified future time. The group used this information to make stock and option trades and was pursued by the government for both the hacking and insider trading. Today, the obvious target for this type of attack would be xoom.
> bring important secrets with them

BS. That's what NDAs are for.
I'd imagine it was about object recognition in videos transmitted over a 5G network.
Does Partisanship Shape Investor Beliefs? Evidence from the Covid-19 Pandemic [pdf]
You could conceivably do this using the text to speech recognition on a Mac using Loopback to capture the stream to a microphone input.

https://rogueamoeba.com/loopback/

Someone clever enough could create containers to run the software locally and have many loops running off many streams to many instances of the audio to text feature.
To be fair, the minimum viable product for avionics is more complex than anything most of us have written, so it's not implicitly wrong.
Agreed. I'm generally uncomfortable with noncompetes and especially with Amazon's practice of making every employee sign one. Unless it's a really special case where a team is working on something truly groundbreaking and secret, I don't see what Amazon is really afraid of if some random developer leaves and goes to a competitor.

However, I do have to say that their argument as stated in this article does seem like a valid case for a noncompete. From the article:

>“Virtually every day, Hall worked with Amazon’s most senior cloud executives to create and execute those plans. As a result, he was entrusted with an unusually broad view into Amazon’s cloud product plans; its priorities; and its competitive strategy.”
NYU study: Facebook's content moderation efforts are 'grossly inadequate'
For me k8s kinda extends what you can do with ansible.

For example, if you use just kubelet (the main daemon) without the api, drop some static yaml files (ala unit files) under /etc/kubernetes it will be something like systemd is. No big deal so far, but using the kubernetes api (just another daemon) it allows you to run the all the things anywhere.

I mean, you terminate one computer, k8s will figure out that the program should be running and it will be started in another computer. (Including moving detaching/attaching the block device from/into computers, this kind of things)

There is no much secret.

For me it really feels like an (well designed/integrated) API on top of standard Linux technology (ipvs, netfilter, mount, process mgmt, virtual ip, etc) via yaml running your stuff in 1..N computers but you manage it as one big computer :)

EDIT: added more context within "()"
Geez... how about seeing it as them wanting to remove references to slavery in general?
This isn't true at all. In AI, ML, NLP and Computer Vision, for example, conferences tend to be double blind. In robotics they tend to be single blind. Most people are not putting their work up on arxiv before publication, so you can't find that out either.
It's always possible it was something else, but lack of (testable) antibodies does not rule out COVID-19 infection, as they are not always developed and/or expressed after some time. Seems like that may even be common.

Since T-cell immunity is rather hard to test, you may never know.
I wasn't there for this decision, but I assume cronjobs were being treated as "cloud functions" -- and to be fair, the k8s documentation kind of makes it seem that you could technically do that, but fails miserably if you try to do so in practice.
We should definitely be beginning to examine the mental health toll the lockdowns are having on people. Changing our behaviour for the sole purpose of extending our life expectancies as long as possible is not living at all.
I wish they would correlate the two datasets: Of those who tested positive how many also had antibodies.

This would answer the question on if antibodies are a valid way to check for prior exposure.
I cut out caffeine (drink green tea now) - this has cut my urination times. I also don't drink much liquids in the evenings.

I also have a daily exercise regimen (road biking) which has - somewhat counter-intuitively - led to a decrease in asthmatic symptoms (I still take meds, just a lot less frequently).
(Almost) No-one is really offended by any of this. This is a purity test - it's about easily being able to identify people who still have any semblance of personal agency so they can be isolated and ostracized.
FWIW I think most if not all of the antibody tests are done on blood
Conventional speech recognition will not have very good accuracy for this sort of task out of the box. You will basically need to do local (as in, based on map location) language modeling, and should probably do custom acoustic modeling as well (training a neural network on what radio speech sounds like).
If you're arguing it may not be possible to colonise space at all, that may be true but isn't germane to this discussion. The idea of Fermi paradox and the "great filter" presupposes that it is possible, and that there is some other, civilisation-ending event that stops it.

My argument is that, within the context of a debate that accepts the precepts of the Fermi paradox and great filter, the likelihood of where the great filter can be placed is constrained by probability. Within that context, even a limited colonisation of our own solar system would be sufficient to drastically reduce the likelihood of a single event to wipe out humanity entirely.
The VR gaming centers of the future may not survive the crisis of today
It's npn, as I said, because there was a positively charged iron sulfur cluster between two negatively charged iron sulfur clusters. In a row. Like literally it could not be a pnp element. And not all switches are computers. You wouldn't call your wall lightswitch a computer, because in the general case, the current running through it is not meaningfully carrying data.

I don't really recommend 'learning' molecular biology. There really is no substitute for designing a molecular biology experiment, starting with dna synthesis, through cloning, and seeing it through to its biochemical outcome. It's not terribly time consuming, I had an intern that I took through the steps in 3 months, starting from no lab experience he completed 50 mutations on the enzyme, tested half of them, and got a paper out of it.
Real "The Millionaire Next Door." The basics are 1) get a decent job, 2) live below your means, 3) save and invest (mostly in low cost index funds or ETFs.) Do this for a couple of decades.

Finding three solid about-to-IPO companies would be like winning the lottery. You'll need more luck than you think. Take the luck out of the equation.
Mind sharing what you currently consume in your breakfast shake?
Definitely. And "blacklist"/"whitelist" is used for a lot of contexts outside computing that have, to my understanding, not even a historic relation to racism:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklisting#Origins_of_the_...

What's next, blackboards and whiteboards? What about red-black trees? Do we really need to shuffle around well established non-offensive terms just because they have a color in their names?

If there was some truly offensive embedding in our nomenclature im all for removing it but this seems like a silly PR stunt. We're turning completely benign ideas into something offensive.
Not sure how easy/difficult this would be from am implementation perspective, but perhaps transcription could be provided as a pay-as-you-go service. Ie, users could pay into a pool for live transcription of a stream for a certain period of time or to retroactively transcribe specific streams.

I'd have to imagine that stream listening follows some sort of power (or otherwise 80/20) law, so hopefully that would help with the expense?
According to a May 25, 2020, WSJ article (https://www.wsj.com/articles/together-review-all-the-lonely-... of Americans felt lonely during the Covid-19 crisis.
While this percentage is higher than normal, the issue is not new. 2-3 years ago President Trump brought on a "loneliness" advisor (not for himself, for Americans), and since at least 2018 the UK has a Minister of Loneliness. This is becoming a global issue, including in China, where children are not spending time with their elderly parents the way their previous generations did.
An NDA is practically unenforceable in this situation, which is the entire point a noncompete is a thing. Who is going to snitch on them for revealing AWS secrets to Google and violating the NDA? Another Google exec?
Racism implies motive, discrimination implies action (of which racism is one motive e.g. mysogyny, agism). One of these is easier to prove and prosecute.
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Hey Blatoni, big fan, and software engineer here.
Any way you could add Rochester, NY (Monroe County Sheriff, and RPD) to the list of supported calls?
I have an RTL SDR, but haven't been able to spend the time figuring out how to decrypt the Phase II trunking.
I didn't think the antibody tests were reliable enough yet to be taken very seriously?
Tell me a joke!
Good point! In fact, the author himself calls this new document a "font proof."
I'm a former Apache Aurora maintainer. Aurora has been (and continues to be) awesome for us and I'm so happy to hear other folks are still using it and it's working out for them.

Funny that you mention the configuration part. At the most recent KubeCon in San Diego, CA, the folks at Reddit gave a talk in which they said they got sick and tired of dealing with yaml. They accidentally went on to recreate Pystachio as the remedy so I think you're right on the money with your statement.

When the Project Management Committee (PMC) voted to put Aurora in the attic we were all super bummed but we just ran out of interested developers :(.

The PMC agreed to kick off an "official" fork but so far it's just me maintaining it: https://github.com/aurora-scheduler/aurora
I can't read it ...

Reading the comments here feels like when I was a kid and I listen to the TV's neighbour and tried to imagine what about the movie was
Maybe the absolutely worst are the 0.01% (or more likely, 1%). But the problem is more broad. There are different ways of corruption, making up word salads and fake results on one hand, or engaging in low effort repetitions with little to no questioning of the prevalent methodologies/theories of du jour, to fixing language in grant proposals/reports to get more money. When all these add up, I think 0.01% is likely the portion of the completely honest hard-working people in academia.
I mean, if Javascript is eternally stuck in a state of "still maturing" or it's environment make maturation take much longer than other ecosystems, then wouldn't that make it just a bad ecosystem?
It's interesting to learn more about the history here. When UO came out and used the shards concept I just assumed it was a callback to 1988's Ultima 5 and the shards of Mondain's gem. Linguistic history sure is blurry and organic!
He should have moved to a California first. Quite easy with covid19 and remote work being required.
Well, when I first found HN I thought the people here would be a bit smarter. But even the cesspool-dwellers of the Internet can be found here...

I bloody give up.
On the other hand, stuff like the NPM leftpad issue can't easily happen as the package maintainer "middle man" usually inspects any upstream updates for general sanity. And even if it got in to Fedora for example, it would most likely break only the integration rolling release called Rawhide, where it would be quickly discovered and fixed, never reaching the overwhelming majority of users that are on Fedora stable releases.

Now in comparison people using NPM just blindly pulled random stuff directly from upstream without anyone doing any sanity checking at all - no wonder one package vanishing made the whole thing fall over, often directly in production.